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Wedding Day:
October 27, 2012
Her story:
Jackie Ennis, 30, grew up in the Ruxton area. She is a recruiter for Ultimate Staffing and lives in Towson. Her father, Dr. Len Ennis, is a cardiologist at Good Samaritan Hospital. Her mother, Celia Ennis, is a community volunteer.
His story:
Peter Obrecht, 29, grew up in Baltimore County. He is property manager for Obrecht Properties and lives in Towson. His father, George Obrecht, is a principal with Obrecht Properties. His mother, Suzanne Obrecht, is a community volunteer.
Their story:
Jackie tells the story.
"We knew each other in high school. I went to Garrison [Forest School] and he went to [The] Boys' Latin [School of Maryland]. So, I saw him out socially a fair amount. But, he was a year younger, so I didn't give him the time of day. It was exactly two years ago that I went to a Ravens pre-season game with a friend of mine and I ran into a guy I went to college with who was also a friend of Peter's from Boys' Latin. He was with Peter. And we just started talking. I really had not seen him in years, probably since high school. And that was really it. We didn't exchange any numbers or anything. He did send me a message on Facebook. And we went out the next night. We went to Red Star. It was good. At that time, I lived in Canton and he lived right down the street at the Crescent. We met at his place first. We gave each other a very awkward hug and I thought, 'This is awful.' We went upstairs to his apartment...It was this beautiful boy apartment; the most pristine clean boy apartment I've ever seen...He had this Ravens vending machine and he asked me if I wanted a beer. He gives me this beer. I opened it and it exploded. Here I've been in this beautiful, pristine apartment for 15 minutes and I've already exploded beer everywhere, including on myself...He cleaned it up, and he's like, 'So, you want to go walk and get a beer somewhere else?'"
The couple had a great night catching up at the Red Star, and started seeing each other every weekend. But, Jackie says, it still felt more like just hanging out.
"It wasn't until about three weeks in," she says. "He picked me up and took me to the Milton Inn, and that's when I felt that we were really dating." .
Jackie says they each realized the relationship was serious on a specific day about two months into dating.
"[Peter] randomly said, 'Hey, do you want to go to the beach for the day?' He had spent his summers going with his family to
, New Jersey," she says. "[And he told me], 'if you leave really early, it takes under three hours to get there. We can lie on the beach and walk on the boardwalk.' He's a big miniature golf player, as am I. We're both highly competitive, and I did beat him. I think it was the first time we spent a lot of time together. We were standing on the boardwalk after the day was over and we were watching a wedding going on the beach. We sat there and watched it, and he held my hand. It was nice. Even on the car ride back, we were laughing and enjoying each other. We had spent a whole 24 hours together and hadn't wanted to kill each other. And I thought, I can do this."
Peter agrees.
"I definitely think it was
," he says. "It was nice that I got to share that [experience] with her."
The couple says their relationship just grew naturally.
"We have so much in common, it was really easy," Peter says. "The way things were going, I never thought of wanting to take a step back." .
"We both work out a lot," says Jackie. "I do my yoga thing and he goes to the gym a lot and we're both respectful of each other; that we need that time. We're both pretty neat. We're both into fitness and being healthy. We're both stubborn and competitive. It's fun."
The proposal, December 5, 2011:
Peter and Jackie moved in together the summer of 2011. Peter says, even though they both knew that they would be getting married — sooner rather than later — Jackie agreed to let him decide when he would surprise her with the official proposal.
In the meantime, they had gone to Canton-based jewelry designer Dee Rosenberg.
"I wanted to make sure she had a ring that she actually really liked," Peter says.
Jackie picked out a round diamond, which would be framed by two smaller diamonds.
Peter says he had planned to propose when they went to her parents' vacation home in Florida in mid-December. But first he wanted to ask her parents' permission.
It was December 3, 2011.
"I went to her parents' house to watch the Ravens [on NFL] Wire," he says. "Her dad and I were watching the game in the living room. I was so nervous that I probably had six beers. And with each beer, it wasn't getting easier. It was getting harder and harder. I realized that beers weren't really helping, so I stopped. But I was probably there for a few hours and never asked. I was kicking myself afterwards...So, Jackie and I talked about it...She knew I was struggling about asking her parents...We were going out for her mom's birthday to Waterfront Kitchen, and that's when I was going to ask them. [Jackie] would go to the restroom and I would ask her parents," he says.
The plan worked. Jackie went to the restroom.
"And I finally asked if I could have their permission to marry their daughter," he says. "Her mom started crying. Her dad was looking at the drink list and looked up and went, 'Yeah, great. Great.' So, it was nice. Jackie came back to the table and there were congratulations all around."
However, Peter's plan for that Florida vacation proposal didn't quite pan out. The ring arrived December 5, and he found he couldn't wait.
"I think it was burning a hole in his pocket," Jackie says.
"Usually when I've given her flowers or a small present, I just put it on her night side table," he says. "This time, I put it under her pillow."
"I was kind of grumpy," Jackie says. "Peter had told his whole family and I felt everyone was celebrating our engagement, but it hadn't really happened yet. It was a weird emotion. Patience is not an attribute of mine."
That night she came home from work. They had dinner and watched some TV, before retiring.
"Peter wasn't that weird, maybe a little quiet, but nothing out of the ordinary," she says. "It was 10, 10:30. I moved the throw pillows off the bed and, 'Hmmmm, what's this?' I turned around and he was on his knee."
The wedding:
About 110 guests will attend the formal ceremony and reception at Baltimore Country Club in Roland Park. The ceremony will be officiated by Reverend Christa Fuller Burns from Faith Presbyterian Church.
Jackie's matron of honor and seven bridesmaids will be wearing dark eggplant silk chiffon cocktail length Jenny Yoo dresses from Garnish Boutique. They'll carry bouquets of purple hydrangeas — both her favorite color and favorite flower.
Jackie found her Lazaro gown in New York, but ordered it from Gamberdella Bridal Salon. She's keeping most of the details secret, except to say what it isn't.
"It's not what I expected that I wanted," she says. "It's a presence. It makes a statement. In all my clippings [of wedding dress photos from magazines], I wanted little cap sleeves, all-over lace and very flowing. It's completely the opposite of that."
Jackie found her glittery shoes at bhldn.com.
"They're by a company called Something Bleu," she says. "Every shoe they make, they put a little blue crystal under the arch of the shoe. That way, a bride's "something blue" is covered.
She's carrying white calla lilies.
"Just like my mom did," she says.
All the flowers are being done by The Floral Studio.
Peter's best man and eight groomsmen are all wearing black tuxedos and bow ties, rented from Tuxedo House. Peter bought his tux from J. Crew.
After the ceremony, guests will enjoy a cocktail hour featuring the greyhound — the couple's favorite drink — as the signature cocktail. There will be passed hors d'oeuvres, and music provided by Chesapeake Strings, a trio which will also do the music during the ceremony. A seated dinner follows, with a crab cake and steak duo as the entree.
The triple-tiered cake from SugarBakers Cakes — with their initials on the middle tier — will have layers of carrot cake and dulce de leche.
"We actually don't like cake," says Jackie.
"So, I think my mom will have a little baby cartons of Ben and Jerry's ice cream for us," she says. "We'll be eating that when everybody's having cake."
The tables will feature centerpieces of Jackie's favorite blooms. "It'll be mostly a sea of hydrangeas; purple hydrangeas everywhere. And votives at every table," she says.
Their deejay — Rusty from Orlando Entertainment — will get the party going, including a surprise entrance for the couple when they're introduced as Mr. and Mrs.
Mike Butcher Photography will be doing all the wedding photos.
The couple is also using their wedding as a way to give back.
"We're donating to Susan G. Komen for the Cureand the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Both of our parents have had cancer, so we're doing that instead of wedding favors," Jackie says.
They'll be heading to Jumby Bay, Antigua, which they found in Condé Nast Traveler magazine.
"We wanted somewhere where we could park ourselves on the beach, that wasn't too far way so it wouldn't take too long to get there," Jackie says.


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So many thoughts about yesterday's Marc Jacobs show. Like the Marc By Marc Jacobs line, the fall 2013 Marc Jacobs collection looks back at the 1970s. But instead of buttoned-up Lily Tomlin secretary dresses, the styling you'll see here has a punk edge: The models wore Joan Jett-ish wigs and hit the runway looking like they'd just rolled out of bed: Sweaters and pajama tops worn with pants; hotpants worn without tops. A lot of the fabrics are very unforgiving, a lot of the models look like they were partying and then the drugs ran out. There are waitressy dresses and leather gloves and sequins, as though Pat Benetar starred in Velvet Goldmine. Or Nancy Spungen worked at the all-night diner to make heroin money. Fur stoles and sweaters are back-of-the-vintage-store chic; boxy mink coats have a Margot Tenenbaum vibe. The shimmery evening gowns were a bright spot in a slightly depressing drab-glam show. That said, some of this stuff would look fantastic on Solange. But she is literally the only person I can think of who could successfully rock these pajama hot pants on the red carpet.
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The tsunami was on my mind this week while I was in Tokyo on business. On the surface, Tokyo is the same as ever – an exciting, eclectic city, filled with wonderful people and the weird and wacky things that make Japan so unique. Taxi drivers with their white gloves and immaculate crocheted covered seats. Shops dedicated to making and selling just one thing: crackers, say, or egg omelettes. The tiny restaurants and cafes that serve completely fresh and seasonal food as a matter of course, their popularity measured by the long and patient lines of patrons waiting to be seated.
But deeply, fundamentally, something has changed in Japan. As one person described it to me, "Meaningful experiences matter more than ever, especially with our families. And making a difference for others has never been so important."
Making a difference was on my mind this week, too. The Twittersphere was full of a call to action; a communal gathering to comfort, to offer succour, to try and assuage another deep and fundamental wound. When Jennifer Perillo lost her husband suddenly and cruelly a few weeks ago, friends and strangers alike responded with the deep need to help make a devastating blow bearable in whatever way they could. From making peanut butter pies to launching a donation fund, to creating the most amazing online auctions, we've tried to gather Jennie in our arms. I'm sure you've read about this and, like me, have marvelled at the generosity of people.
I wanted to do my part to help, and with the perfect opportunity to pick up some wonderful Japanese products, I'm launching my own online auction for Jennie. Made in Japan features items you'll be able to bid on that have come with me direct from Tokyo this week, and represent a wide variety of Japanese goods to surprise, delight and enjoy.
Included in the Made in Japan auction:
Sugimoto, a company that has been making knives since the 1830s. The tiny shop at Tsukji Market is worth seeking out. I bought two knives from Sugimoto last year and am a big fan. The auction features a stainless steel Western style 6" general purpose knife and a 4" single edge honed traditional Japanese carbon blade, wood handled vegetable knife (for right handed cooks). Also from Sugimoto – a pair of fish tweezers for picking out the fine bones from your next salmon fillet.
Yagenbori, a company that has been in business since 1625. They make the delicious seven spice blend known as shichimi togarashi, which is blended to order with every purchase. This blend is the "medium" version; my favourite way to use it is in sautéed kale, and the set includes a wooden holder for the spice
The value of the auction items is $450. Bidding starts at $100. To bid,
leave a comment below with your bid amount. Bidding will end on Friday, September 2 at 11:59 pm Eastern time – just before the stroke of midnight. NEW: I will include shipping for anywhere in continental North America.
As the Japanese say, hito wa itawari atte ikite ikanakereba narimasen: people have to live by caring for each other. Bloggers Without Borders is still accepting donations to A Fund For Jennie, with the proceeds going directly to Jennie and her two girls. Click here to give whatever you can; every dollar counts and helps.
Arigatou gozaimasu – thank you very much, and good luck!


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Joe Carnahan hasn't had the best of luck in the past couple of years, what with Stretch disappearing off of Universal's release schedule and Daredevil going back to Marvel Studios just before he got to leave his mark on the character. We've seen what the reboot of the famed Marvel property (and infamous Ben Affleck feature) would have looked like, but now we have a little more information on the tone of the supposedly planned trilogy that Carnahan would have made for 20th Century Fox back in 2012.
MoviePilot's JabberTalky had an exclusive interview with the man himself to talk about many things, chiefly among them the plans for his Daredevil trilogy. The films were going to take place in 1973, 1979, and 1985; and according to Carnahan, each film was going to be influenced by the tone of the music that was popular at the time:
"I was going to do a kind of 'cultural libretto' and make the music of those eras a kind of thematic arc . So the first one would be Classic Rock, the second one would be Punk Rock and the third film would be 'New Wave.'"
It's surprising that Joe Carnahan says he wanted to go for a Classic Rock feel for the '73 entry, as we all remember the sizzle reel he released had a tone that evoked more of a 70's Funk vibe than a Classic Rock tone. Pulling from The Warriors, The Untouchables, and other vintage fare of the surrounding eras, it set the tone of a film that took itself seriously, but did so with the comic flare that films like The Amazing Spider-Man possess in the modern era.
Maybe something changed in the script phase, but either way Carnahan looked and sounded like he had a really good feel for the character, particularly Frank Miller's grittier R-rating friendly version. The concept of theming each film based of an era of popular music is a rather novel idea, with each installment having its own unique musical identity that would in turn influence its thematic content. Picture The Kingpin's thugs decked out in Punk, or even New Wave club clothes, all ready to take on "The Man Without Fear" against the sound of synthesizers and guitars.
Sadly, that's not the universe we live in. We live in the universe where Drew Goddard, a genre stalwart and creative talent in his own right, is at the head of a Netflix series based on the property. While it might not be the same as Joe Carnahan's proposed trilogy of films, there's a possibility that it will still be a no holds barred festival of ass kicking. Not likely, seeing as Marvel Studios will want to have a wide audience tuning in on a regular basis, but fans can surely dream.


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UPDATE: The victims were identified Sunday as the teen cousin of the driver and an owner of another race car.
A race car at the Marysville Raceway Park in Yuba County lost control and killed two people on pit row Saturday night, the Yuba County Sheriff's Department reported.
A 68-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy died after being hit by the spint car. They were both reportedly part of the crew of one of the teams in the race.
There were no other reported injuries.
Marysville is about 40 miles north of Sacramento.
A venue promoter told the Appeal-Democrat the car lost control, left the track and crashed into pit row. This happened during a warm up lap prior to the actual race. The car was reportedly going 90 mph and did not make a proper turn.
Track officials said on the Facebook page: "Our thoughts and deepest prayers go out to everyone. Out of respect we will not elaborate on details. We ask everyone to respect each other and the families."
Marysville Raceway Park was hosting Round 1 of the Hoosier Tire California Sprint Car Civil War Series this weekend.
The race was canceled after the crash.
The race is described as the "newest rendition of California's premier traveling body for winged 360 sprint cars is sure to be action packed with the best of west racing wheel to wheel and wing to wing throughout the golden state."
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Q: Sago Pondweed is taking over our pond! What can I do to get rid of it? – Sue of DePere, WI
A: We are hearing more and more customers having an issue with pondweeds that are taking over their ponds. One we hear a lot about so far this year is Sago Pondweed. The Texas AgriLife Extension Service describes Sago Pondweed as:
"[…] a perennial plant that arises from thickly matted rhizomes and has no floating leaves. The stems are thin, long and highly branching with leaves very thin and filament-like, about 1/16 of an inch wide and 2 to over 12 inches long tapering to a point. The leaves grow in thick layers and originate from a sheath. The fruit is nut-like 1/8 to 1/4 inches long and 1/10 to 1/8 inches wide."
There are a couple ways to treat Sago Pondweed. These solutions will not only treat Sago Pondweed but also a majority of other pondweeds as well.
For spot treatments, the best product to use is Ultra PondWeed Defense®. Its fast acting and works very well. One quart of Ultra Pondweed Defense® will treat up to 5,000 square feet of Sago PondWeed.
If Sago Pondweed is getting out of control, then the best product to use is Sonar™ A.S.. Sonar™ A.S. is a long-term solution and will treat the whole body of water. One 8 oz bottle will treat up to a 1/4 acre pond with an average depth of 4′.
After the Sago Pondweed has died off, it is very important to rake it out. If the dead vegetation stays on the bottom of the pond, over time it will break down into "muck" and create more food source for other algae and
pondweeds. The Easy to Use Pond & Beach Rake is a great tool to accomplish this.
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The E! network has been forced to apologise for the tasteless "fun fact" it posted during its live online coverage of the Golden Globes.
During the live streaming of the red carpet ceremony the broadcaster chose to include captions including one about Michael J Fox that caused outrage: "Fun Fact: Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991."
After a barrage of complaints on Twitter, E! issued a statement saying: "We regret the insensitive classification of Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's diagnosis during our Eonline [sic] live stream ... We understand the serious nature of the disease and sincerely apologize."
The gaffe gave rise to a string of satirical tweets offering alternative fun facts, such as "37 Cats Died During the Making of Inside Llewyn Davis".


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In Jackie After O, acclaimed author and journalist Tina Cassidy explores this prolific yet incredibly daunting year in the life of Jacqueline Onassis, including her part in the campaign to preserve Grand Central Terminal in New York City; her pursuit of a real career, in the editorial department of Viking Press; the death of her second husband and her fraught relationship with his surviving daughter; and the London bombing that almost took her own daughter's life. Cassidy has unearthed new information from archives and original interviews, and reveals intimate stories about the projects and interests of Jackie's earlier years that would lay the foundation for her life beginning in 1975, from an internship at Vogue to her meticulous restoration of the White House when she was First Lady.
Jackie After O is an exciting and original portrayal of the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through the lens of one remarkable year, a time of reinvention both personal and public, as she shook the world's expectations and pursued her dreams in middle age.
Springing from a lively, personal introduction in which Tina Cassidy describes her grandmother's, her mother's and her own experiences of giving birth, readers are taken on an astounding journey into the history of childbirth. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we are born the way we are.
Women have been giving birth for millennia but that's about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture—and every generation—seems to have its own ideas about the best way to get a baby born? This book explores the physical, anthropological, political and religious factors that have and will continue to influence how women bring new life into the world.


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Yesterday the husband closed on a house in another town (not Iowa City, though relatively nearby), which we will be moving into at some point. I've never owned a house before,1 which was, I thought, a pretty good reason not to be into outdoor plants, so now we're going to find out if I really think tropical plants are superior, or if I was only saying that because I couldn't have any temperate-zone plants.
Obviously the blog is going to suffer a little bit in the short term; although the husband has already rented a storage unit in said town, and has been moving stuff into it for about a month now (he's a glass-half-full kind of person; he's thought the deal was going to go through for a lot longer than I have), there's an awful lot to move, and of course I've been busy enough with work and the plants and the blog and whatever else it is I do, so my stuff is a lot less, er, dealt with than his.
Exactly how much the blog is going to suffer is yet to be determined; I'll let you know.
As for the gardening: as best as I can tell (I've only actually seen the place once, and that was at night), the yard is mostly sun. It's basically a long thin strip that extends west from the house. There's a tree at the far end, and there will be a fence on the north and south sides of the property, but there's not really anything else for shade.
I've already bought some plants for the yard (The glass is occasionally half-full for me, too -- particularly when optimism means I can buy plants): so far we have a whole flat of Portulaca grandiflora 'Tequila Mix' (moss rose), because it's the best annual ever,2 a Lantana camara 'Rose Glow Improved,' because I have positive associations with it now, a smallish pot of strawberries (Fragaria 'Fort Laramie'),3 a Sempervivum 'Red Beauty,'4 Lysimachia 'Goldilocks,' and I have some 'Quarterback' coleus5 from last spring that I kept as a houseplant, as well as brand-new-this-year 'Kingswood Torch,' 'Glennis,' 'Peter Wonder,' 'Splish Splash,' and possibly others I'm failing to remember. I like coleus. The coleus won't necessarily end up outside. In fact, I have no idea what I'm going to be doing with most of this stuff. To begin with, I'm just buying the plants I like, and we'll see how that goes, and we'll worry about having some kind of coherent plan next year. This year, we're just trying out the outdoor gardening thing to see if it's any fun. I've been told it is, but I remain skeptical.
There are perennials I like too (Lysimachia is supposed to be a perennial here.), but I don't know any of them terribly well, and most of the ones I do know somewhat and like okay are shade-lovers that I don't think will work that well for this situation. Shrubs I know basically not at all, and trees are not a good idea, I think, because we may want to put up a greenhouse in the back someday, and planting trees and shading the whole back yard could make a greenhouse kinda useless. Also it's not that big of a yard anyway.
I'd also really like to find something for the lawn besides grass. I mean, the grass that's there already is fine and all, but mowing, weeding, spraying, watering, etc. all seem like really dumb ways to spend one's time. I hear there are other things that can be used instead, but I've seen very little about what, specifically, or how one goes about replacing grass. Anybody know any good references?
Pictures of house and lawn to follow . . . when I get around to it. The husband reports that there are Hostas.
1 Technically, I still don't, since the whole deal has gone through under the husband's name, but I think he's going to let me live there anyway.
2 So long as the rabbits don't eat it, which Kim tells me they like to do. I believe her exact words were "rabbit candy." Worrisome, but I'm still going to try.
3 (We had NOID strawberries in the back yard when I was a kid. I went ahead and bought the 'Fort Laramies' already because it looked like we were in danger of selling out of strawberries before the house thing went through. Strawberries are all but flying out the door this year.)
4 My good grandmother had Sempervivums outside her front door. (Like some people, I had a good grandmother and an evil grandmother, both of whom were into plants. Evil grandma went for ornamentals, irises and clematis and snapdragons and tulips and so forth, with only a few vegetables. Good grandma had less time on her hands, so she went more for vegetables, with only a few ornamentals. Both of them had houseplants: evil grandma probably deserves most of the credit -- or blame -- for my interest in them. By most measures, I take more after evil grandma than after good grandma.)
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Houston man rescued from Big Bend-area mountain top
PRESIDIO, Texas - Authorities in West Texas say a Houston man is lucky to be alive after he suffered a broken leg hiking up a mountain in Texas' remote Big Bend area.
Border Patrol authorities said Sunday the man, identified only as from Houston, suffered a compound leg fracture on San Jacinto Mountain, a nearly 5,000-foot peak north of Presidio.
Agency spokesman Bill Brooks says agents and an emergency medical technician from Presidio spent Friday night on the mountain top after weather conditions blocked a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter from a rescue. A Border Patrol chopper was able to retrieve him later Saturday. He was taken to a hospital in Alpine and then transferred to El Paso.
The man's wife and two other hiking companions made it down safely.


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BTE TRYOUT THREAD #1You awaken feeling strangled, coughing and choking as you fall to your hands and knees. Your eyes open wearily - and you see nothing. Gasping for air, you glance about wildly, disoriented, and realize to your horror that you're in the middle of a vast, black emptiness. Terrified, you instinctively grasp at the void about you for something - anything - solid. You realize that despite the enveloping darkness, your arms glow with a strange light - suddenly you pause and rack your brain for any hint as to what's going on. The last you remember clearly is being sold to Tartarus Inc. You remember them strip-searching you, your last possessions taken away before the coarse-mannered guards threw you into an empty cell. Everything about it seems a struggle to recall - clouded and fogged as though a distant memory.
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Welcome, a cold, hard voice speaks. It's not the infamous SCAMPS of Tartarus - it's a woman's voice: cruel, hard, and utterly devoid of sympathy. You're wondering what you're doing here. Try not to trouble yourself about it.
A glow brightens to your right - in surprise and slight fear, you scoot back across the floor as you try to assess the new threat. A human form, dressed in a Tartarus jumpsuit, appears and crumples to the floor, choking and gasping for breath.
I'm so sorry, the voice says with an air that makes it clear her words are merely a formality. I understand that this experience is mentally agonizing. We're far from perfecting cryotech, you see, but you are here to help us correct that. You are our test subjects. If you ever want to awaken, both of you will cooperate. You've always cooperated with us before, so I have no doubt you'll do so now.
Your mind whirls. You vaguely remember being pulled from your isolation cell - you remember being marched down a hallway, blindfolded, cuffed and gagged - something injected into your arm. That's all you remember. Cryotech? That doesn't even exist...
Then it sinks in: You've always cooperated with us before. "Before???"
It's "brain maintenance," the voice explains in a resigned, curt tone, as though she's said it a hundred times. Cryotech has a tendency to leave one vegetative. Now, the both of you... make your decision, and we will begin.
The void hums, and shivers to life - six pale, golden hexagons of light appear pm the floor around you, spaced well apart. On each: a short paragraph of text.
You feel like you've done this before.
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This tile has the silhouette of a spaceship underneath the text.
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This tile has the silhouette of a spaceship underneath the text.
Terrorist attack
Walking through a busy town, you suddenly find yourself in the middle of a mass terrorist attack. Do you assist the terrorists, the townsfolk, or just walk away without choosing sides?
Black market
Deep inside an asteroid-based space station, a black market trading deal goes terribly wrong. If you intend to survive the ensuing shootout, you'll need your wits about you - and your guns.
This tile has the silhouette of a spaceship underneath the text.
Cultist counter
Charge into an unusual, half-biological space station to wipe out the cultists within. They seem to think they're going to summon some ancient god - which is of course nonsense. After their terroristic attacks on nearby settlements, however, nobody wants to have them around anymore.
This tile has the silhouette of a spaceship underneath the text.
Something different
You are thrown into a random mission without any idea of what you're up against. It may or may not suit your abilities and loadout.
A question mark dominates this particular hexagon.
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- This is canon, but your character does not necessarily need to remember it. You have the OOC option to have a mindwipe of the experience post-tryout/pre-campaign. Whether your teammate's character remembers the experience is up to them.
- This is VR. You know this, but your character does not necessarily know this. Whether your character can figure it out is up to your discretion.
- A spaceship silhouette means the mission is CASKET-based.
- Your mission selection is quasi-randomly assigned with a weighted algorithm that takes your personalities, stats, skills, and official loudout into account.
- On average, half your tryout points will come from the tryout mission itself. You are being judged from the moment the thread is posted.
- Each team will have their own tryout thread. Do not post in someone else's thread.
- Type in ((out of character parentheses)) in the tryout thread if you feel it necessary. No need to post elsewhere - it's your thread and no one else's, so you needn't feel bad about cluttering it up.
- There are no maps. As this is VR, it uses "fluid space" as REKT VR traditionally has - that is to say, if you imagine something is there, it may well be there (unless I say it isn't). In a forest and need cover? Say there's a tree next to you and duck behind it. This will probably work. Want a bigger weapon? Say you pick up your death ray from behind the counter - but don't be surprised if I say there's nothing there. Use common sense and don't try to cheat the system - and above all, ignore nothing that I say.
- To activate your choice, both of you must stand on your golden hexagon.
- If you die, that's okay. If you die within the first turn or two, that's not okay.
- Don't be surprised if I cut the mission short. I almost certainly will. These are not meant to be full missions - it is merely a sample to judge from.
- Asking for ideas from other people is completely permitted. Offering ideas is completely permitted as well - as long as you don't do it in someone else's thread.
- Poor performance of your teammate does not mean you do any more poorly in the tryout. You are judged separately.
- I will be judging a number of things, but can't give specifics without compromising the judging process.
- Have fun! If it's not fun for you, let me know, and I'll try to switch things around.


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A Practical Approach to Getting Started with Service Catalog
Know you need a service catalog, but not ready for a full IT service management (ITSM) program? This webinar will present a practical approach to "reverse engineer" the core elements of a service catalog. ITSM practitioner Greg Sanker will explain how every organization has 'services' whether they know it or not. He will show how to identify your services and create plain-language service descriptions, which help create clarity and form the basis of a functional service catalog.
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One year ago, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden turned the world on its head after classified documents he provided to media organizations revealed a widespread surveillance program.
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An encrypted future
Google released code Tuesday for a new "end-to-end" encryption tool for its users. Demand has been high for e-mail that's coded to allow only authorized parties to read it from popular providers like Google and Microsoft, and increased after Snowden spoke at SXSW in March.
End-to-end encryption means that each e-mail is encrypted from the time it leaves the owner's Web browser until the receiver gets the e-mail and decodes it. An e-mail sent with this technology cannot be intercepted in transit or gathered from an Internet provider with a court order. A third party would have to hack into the individual's computer to access the communication.
End-to-end encrypted e-mail has existed for some time, but only from lesser-known companies. At SXSW, Snowden said end-to-end encryption should be available to every user and considered a "basic protection," not something that's just understood and used by the tech-savvy.
It's not only software that's being developed. Silent Circle, a company that specializes in encrypted communications, received a $30 million investment in May to develop an encrypted smartphone called "Blackphone."
Changing the debate
Love him or hate him, there is no doubt that Snowden's leaks changed the public debate. The ongoing discussion over privacy, how far the government should be able to go in the name of security and how changing technology factors into all this is, in large part, a direct result of the firestorm set off by Snowden.
And it's a debate that's likely not going away anytime soon, as the 2014 midterm elections heat up and, soon after, the 2016 presidential campaign begins to take shape.
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Strained relations
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Reports surfaced that the United States had sought to monitor Merkel's phone calls as far back as 2002. It was reported that President Obama had been unaware that the program of surveillance against world leaders included allies.
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UMBC will celebrate the careers of a program-record 11 seniors in the final regular season home contest versus Vermont on Saturday, Nov. 1.
The regular season concludes at Stony Brook on Wednesday, Nov. 5, prior to the six-team America East Championship, which commences on Saturday, Nov. 8.
"Each year, the conference has gotten stronger and stronger," Caringi said. "We have had a great run in the last couple of years, but there is not one easy game. We are proud of what we have accomplished, but are very aware of how strong the league is in general."
UMBC will face five squads (Maryland, William & Mary, George Mason, Delaware, Navy) which earned trips to the 2013 NCAA Tournament… The Retrievers will take on Appalachian State and Cal State-Fullerton in first meetings in 2014…UMBC has not played NEC members Long Island and Sacred Heart since the Retrievers departed that conference in 2002… They will face both in the Doubletree BWI Classic to open the 2014 campaign.


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Smale proves the higher dimensional Poincaré conjecture for n > 4, namely that any closed n-dimensional manifold which is homotopy equivalent to the n-sphere must be the n-sphere.
Jacobson publishes his classic text Lie algebras.
Sobolev publishes Applications of Functional Analysis in Mathematical Physics.
John Thompson and Feit publish Solvability of Groups of Odd Order which proves that all nonabelian finite simple groups are of even order. Their paper requires 250 pages to prove the theorem.
Cohen proves the independence of the axiom of choice and of the continuum hypothesis.
Hironaka solves a major problem concerning the resolution of singularities on an algebraic variety.
Sergi Novikov's work on differential topology, in particular in calculating stable homotopy groups and classifying smooth simply-connected manifolds, leads him to make the "Novikov Conjecture".
Bombieri uses his improved large sieve method to prove what is now called "Bombieri's mean value theorem", which concerns the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions.
Tukey and Cooley publish a paper introducing the "Fast Fourier Transform" algorithm.
Selten publishes important work on distinguishing between reasonable and unreasonable decisions in predicting the outcome of games. It will lead to the award of a Nobel Prize in 1994.
Grothendieck receives a Fields Medal for his work on geometry, number theory, topology and complex analysis. His theory of schemes allows certain of Weil's number theory conjectures to be solved. His theory of topoi is highly relevant to mathematical logic, he had given an algebraic proof of the Riemann-Roch theorem, and provided an algebraic definition of the fundamental group of a curve.
Lander and Parkin use a computer to find a counterexample to Euler's Conjecture. They find 275 + 845 + 1105 + 1335 = 1445.
Alan Baker proves "Gelfond's Conjecture" about the linear independence of algebraic numbers over the rational numbers.
Atiyah publishes K-theory which details his work on K-theory and the index theorem which led to the award of a Fields Medal in 1966.
Novikov and Adian jointly publish a proof that the Burnside group B(d, n) is infinite for every d > 1 and every n > 4380.
Conway publishes details of his discovery of new sporadic finite simple groups.
Alan Baker is awarded a Fields Medal for his work on Diophantine equations.
Matiyasevich shows that "Hilbert's tenth problem" is unsolvable, namely that there is no general method for determining when polynomial equations have a solution in whole numbers.
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Seems like just about everyone's had it up to here with patent trolls, up to and including certain members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ars Technica reports that Oregonian Democrat Peter DeFazio has introduced a bill torturously named "Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes" Act, designed to put a stop to the most blatant instances.
You can call it the SHEILD Act. No, it does not come with either Samuel L. Jackson or an Agent Coulson. Sorry.
The concept is pretty simple (and the bill itself mercifully brief). Any company that files an infringement suit that the court determines is basically B.S. would be on the hook for the defendants' legal fees. In legalese:
"in an action disputing the validity or alleging the infringement of a computer hardware or software patent, upon making a determination that the party alleging the infringement of the patent did not have a reasonable likelihood of succeeding, the court may award the recovery of full costs to the prevailing party, including reasonable attorney's fees, other than the United States.
That would probably inspire some long, hard thought about whether that complaint is really legal.
In his statement introducing the bill, Mr. DeFazio sounds downright miffed at the existence of trolls:
"Patent trolls don't create new technology and they don't create American jobs," DeFazio said in a news release. "They pad their pockets by buying patents on products they didn't create and then suing the innovators who did the hard work and created the product."
Interestingly, as Ars points out, while the Act is limited to computer hardware and software patents, it doesn't seem to be limited to the most egregious offenders, the "non-practicing entities" that file suit based on technologies they aren't even using. We can't help but wonder how such a law would influence, let's say, the brutal battle currently raging between Apple and Samsung.


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Three San Diego police sergeants and a detective who were called to the scene when a drunk co-worker crashed an unmarked police car while off duty will not face criminal charges, the District Attorney's Office says.
A spokesman for District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said the decision was reached following a thorough review of the facts surrounding the crash of Det. Jeffrey Blackford, who drove his gang-unit vehicle into a roadside utility box in Allied Gardens in December.
Blackford pleaded guilty in April to misdemeanor drunk driving in a case prosecuted by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith's office. The city attorney referred issues about the police response to the case to the DA for possible charges.
"Our office can only file charges when we believe we can prove a crime was committed beyond a reasonable doubt, which is our legal and ethical burden," spokesman Steve Walker said in a statement.
A San Diego Police Department spokesman said the agency was pleased with the decision not to prosecute the four officers.
Blackford did not immediately report the incident, which occurred about 12:50 a.m., court papers say. Instead, he called two off-duty friends, Sgt. John Iammarino and Det. Daniel Caropreso. Iammarino summoned two other sergeants, William Brown and Christopher Tivanian, to the scene a short time later, court records say.
Even though officers were there, a formal investigation was not opened until two hours after the accident. Three hours after the collision, Blackford recorded a blood-alcohol level of 0.09 -- just over the 0.08 legal limit, court records say.
The city attorney's office sought to obtain results of an earlier alcohol screen administered by Blackford's friends, but was rebuffed by a judge.
The four officers who responded to the crash were placed on administrative duty after the accident. The detective has returned to duty but the sergeants remain on desk duty, Lt. Kevin Mayer said.
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Searching For Chiropractic Clinics Near You?
If you frequently deal with back pains, neck pains, spine, and sports injuries, you might be searching for the best chiropractic clinics near Mounds View Minnesota. Chiropractic care is considered a holistic and alternative treatment option that triggers the body's natural healing abilities. It is a non-invasive treatment option where millions of Americans are benefiting at the moment. The approach is shown to treat more than a dozen of different conditions. One of the best things about chiropractic care is that the method is 100% drug-free and helps heal your body naturally. The treatment option is effective in dealing with headaches, back pains, ear infections, neck pains, joint pains, arthritis, bowel irregularities, blood pressure, asthma, improved mental clarity, and a host of other conditions. With hundreds of chiropractic clinics near Mounds View, one should be cautious when selecting the best practitioner in the area. Here are important tips to consider when choosing the best chiropractic clinics nearby your location.
Despite the popularity of the treatment method, there are many misconceptions about the field of chiropractic care. Many patients are still confused when it comes to how the practice works and how chiropractic professionals are trained. In fact, most of the chiropractic programs incorporate an entire year of Ph.D.-level training in different subjects. Hence, a chiropractic doctor is a highly skilled and trained individual out there. Like with all other professions out there, there are many quacks operating in this industry too. That is why it is important that you perform extensive research before deciding to work with the right chiropractic doctor in your Mounds View area. Your homework is essential to choosing the best candidate for the job.
Chest Pain and Back Pain - Dealing With It
This article reveals one of the major hidden causes of back pain, particularly lower back pain. This problem is a common reason why pain keeps coming back, even after physical treatments such as physiotherapy, chiropractic and massage.
The underlying cause that I'm talking about is a little valve between the large and small intestine called the Ileocaecal Valve, or ICV. When this valve dysfunctions it causes a very important stabilizing muscle in the lower back called illiacus to become "switched off". This destabilizes the lumbar spine and causes the discs to be placed under strain.
When this happens we are very vulnerable to injury. It only takes the slightest twist, lift, strain or sudden movement in the wrong direction and we are in trouble. Often people with this problem even say "I didn't even do anything, my back just started hurting."
When those muscles are switched off it can also cause your back to feel very tired or fatigued after sitting for a long period.
There are two basic ways that the ICV can dysfunction- it can fail to open properly, in which case waste material is retained for a long time before it is passed (even though you may be regular); or it fail to close properly, in which case the bowel contents can come back up into the digestive system.
Either way, this causes the body to become toxic. One of the body's responses to this is to retain fluid, which can cause other problems, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, sciatica, and tingling or numbness in hands and feet. It can also cause headaches. However back pain is by far the most common symptom.
If you have recurring back pain, especially lower back pain, then it might be time to visit a chiropractor who specialises in Applied Kinesiology.
Most of the wellness and health benefits associated with chiropractic care are due to the chiropractic adjustments received by the patients. These adjustments are important to place your body in the proper position so that it can heal itself. In fact, chiropractic adjustments help reduce the stress placed on the patient's immune system. This will release energy that is vital for maintaining homeostasis and preventing diseases. The treatment option addresses the whole body of the individual thereby improving his or her ability to think and act more positively.
A professional Mounds View Minnesota chiropractor prides him/herself on taking a drug-free, natural approach to helping the patient improve his/her wellness and health in the long run. In fact, the entire principle is built on the basis that the body has an innate ability to heal itself under the right conditions. The chiropractic doctor will help create the right environment for the body to start healing itself. The practice focuses on keeping one's spine properly aligned at all times. The nervous system controls every organ and cell in the body. Hence, if the spine shifts out of its proper place, it should be brought back into alignment without delay to prevent issues in the nervous system which can manifest as various diseases in the body. That is where a professional and experienced chiropractic doctor comes in handy.
How Could My Digestive System Be Causing My Back Pain?
Having to bear lower back pain accompanied with stomach pain is an experience no one should ever have to go through. Scientists and doctors all over the world are groping around, mostly in the dark, trying to put their finger on the cause of lower back pain. So far as women are concerned doctors are sure that lower back pain accompanied with stomach pain is related to their menstrual cycles and this is something that can be dealt with a fair amount of ease.
However, doctors have admitted that it is not an easy thing to pinpoint the cause of lower back pain accompanied with stomach pain. They insist that a patient who can keep a track of the symptoms and report them to the doctor will make the process of diagnosing the cause and arriving at a better and effective treatment an easier task.
Some of the causes of lower back pain accompanied with stomach pain are related to the more common urinary infections and kidney or bladder problems, then again you may have a serious bowel problem. Whatever the cause of your lower back pain and abdominal pain you will soon find that it is very difficult to pinpoint and even more difficult to treat effectively. Most treatments available will prove to be temporary in nature and the condition will recur frequently.
If you happen to have lower a bloated or swollen lower belly, this may be a warning flag for conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome. Notice fresh blood or tarry looking stools? This would need investigating as well.
Your pain may feel like it's coming from the womb or any other of your internal reproductive organs. This would mean you would experience the pain in the middle of the lower belly, just above the line of public hair about as far up as the navel. There might be more pain to one side than the other - usually an indication of an ovary being inflamed etc. If you have pain when you have sex, you would feel that deep in your pelvic area. The possible range of conditions is varied. You could be looking at pelvic inflammatory disease, ovarian cysts, fibroids or maybe even endometriosis. In any event, don't wait call your doctor immediately.
The American Chiropractic Association states that there are more than 70,000 chiropractic professionals operating in the United States alone. With so many to choose from, finding "any" chiropractic doctor is fairly easy. But you don't need "any" chiropractic when it comes to treating your condition. In fact, you want the "best" chiropractor in Mounds View to treat your specific condition. This is a bit trickier than finding just any chiropractic doctor in the area. There are many things to consider when choosing the right professional to treat your condition.
When provided by a highly skilled and experienced professional, chiropractic care is quite effective in healing a wide variety of conditions. The right professional should have a combination of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and experience. A personal referral from someone you trust is a great starting point when searching for any type of professional near Mounds View Minnesota. Ask your existing health care team, friends, family members or co-workers for recommendations in this regard. You may also hop online and read patient reviews and surveys on professional chiropractors operating in your area. Make sure you do the homework properly before scheduling your first appointment with the potential candidate.
Don't forget to check the credentials and experience of the potential candidate. Chiropractors are also known as doctors of chiropractic (DCs). They are highly trained professionals who have completed nationally accredited graduate-level programs. In addition to their 4-year undergraduate degree, a chiropractor should have a 4-year doctorate degree – similar to doctors of osteopathy (DOs) and medical doctors (MDs). Make sure the candidate you choose is licensed and a graduate of an accredited school of chiropractic. Evaluate his/her experience before you work with them. These are some of the most important things to look for when choosing the best chiropractic clinic in Mounds View Minnesota.


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I brought this up in January, but now know more and can be more precise.
I will have two questions.
How much of this is known?
If you don't know the answer to 1, then who does?
I invite all responses, but ask that you put a "reliability" measure on your answer. That will help immeasurably.
Now for the description of the above mentioned `this.'
The maps considered are planar, connected, cubic and with common restrictions that are easier to state in terms of the dual map. The dual map (which will be a triangulation) is required to have no closed paths of lengths 1 or 2 and all closed paths of length 3 are required to be boundaries of triangles. Many will recognize this hypothesis from a theorem of Whitney.
4-colorings of the regions of a given map are considered the same if a permutation of the colors makes the colorings the same. If two colorings fail this test, then they are considered different even if an automorphism of the map makes the colorings the same.
In our class of maps, we consider maps of $n$ regions. We let $m_1(n)$ be the largest integer that is the number of 4-colorings of a single map. We let $m_2(n)$ be the second largest integer that is the number of 4-colorings of a single map. We continue to $m_3(n)$ and $m_4(n)$.
It is known that counting all colorings of all maps is computationally hard. (Reference found in another MO discussion and available on request.) Note that I am only asking about the maps with large counts.
Further discussion requires the Jacobsthal numbers (A001045 in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences). They satisfy $$J(0)=0,\ J(1) = 1, \ J(n+1) = J(n)+2J(n-1).$$ Compute a few values to learn much about them.
Our observations about the $m_i(n)$ show they are heavily dependent on the parity of $n$. We record `conjectures' that use pairs $(e(n), \ o(n))$ where $e(n)$ gives the values for even $n$ and $o(n)$ gives the values for odd $n$.
The following seem to be true: $$ m_1(n) = (J(n-3)+1, \ J(n-3)), \ \ \ n\ge 5, $$ $$ m_2(n) = (m_1(n-1)+7, \ m_1(n-1)+4), \ \ \ n\ge 7, $$ $$ m_3(n) = (m_1(n-1)+0, \ m_1(n-1)+0), \ \ \ n\ge 7, $$ $$ m_4(n) = (m_1(n-1)-1, \ m_1(n-1)-3), \ \ \ n\ge 7. $$
(These were edited/corrected a couple of hours after the first post.)
The (seemingly unique) map that realizes $m_1(n)$ is very simple. Here is an attempt at a rendering.
The map shown has 10 regions, 8 in the rim of the wheel, the region with the label $a$, and the unbounded region. The generalization to $n$ regions should be obvious. Such maps do have $m_1(n)$ different 4-colorings with $m_1(n)$ as given above. (Note: 4-colorings include 3-colorings which accounts for the different treatment of odd and even $n$ for $m_1(n)$ and partly accounts for the difference in the other $m_i(n)$.)
Maps that realize the other values are (among perhaps others) minor variations of the map pictured above.
I have tried very hard to catch typos, especially in the formulas given above. Those that love to compute can see if any have slipped by.
Thank you for any information.


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Titan Studios
Fat Princess dev team founds Carbon Games
Former staff of recently-closed Fat Princess developer Titan Studios have formed a new team called Carbon Games.
Titan Studios headlines
Fat Princess to get free new map in patch release
Titan Studios has confirmed on the US PS Blog that they will release a free piece of DLC for Fat Princess, by releasing a free map entitled New Pork. Catchy. The map will be released with the release of patch 1.3. The devs also confirmed they will release a demo of the game alongside the […]
Titan Studios demos Fat Princess: New Pork at PAX
Sony has posted a video showing off a demo of New Pork – the new DLC coming for Fat Princess. We have it for you after the break, courtesy of the US PS Blog. More DLC is also planned for the title in the future, and while we have yet to play the game, we […]
Pirates and ninjas coming to Fat Princess?
Pirates and ninjas? On Titan Studios' website? What could this possibly mean? Could Fat Princess' already sublime recipe be adding a couple dashes of stealth and swashbuckling? Considering that one of the pictures is titled "FatPrincessPirates," we're going to say yes. Titan Studios, however, is saying nothing, so we're just going to let the evidence […]
Fat Princess patch headed to EU PSN later tonight
A patch for Fat Princess will be released tonight for the EU PSN. Hopefully this will fix some of the connection issues people have been experiencing. Some of the point balances and classes have been tweaked along with some changes to player ranks. You can view the rank changes over on the EU PS Blog.
Fat Princess fix live in US, hits Europe next week
Titan Studios has released a multiplayer fix for Fat Princess in North America. No more disconnects for you, apparently. The patch improves server stability, reduces lag, and fixes a few in-game bugs (broken hat machines, scoring exploits). Unfortunately Europe will have to wait until next week. While not very fair, at least the single-player should […]
Titan fixing "specific problem" with Fat Princess
Titan Studios has said it's found a "specific problem" as to why most people can't connect to a online game in Fat Princess, but insists it's working on it right now. "Players are sometimes experiencing significant lag in some games. Thanks to your feedback, we've identified a specific problem and already have a fix in […]
SCEA confirm worldwide Fat Princess release for Thursday
Sony Computer Entertainment America has confirmed that Fat Princess will finally a get a release worldwide this Thursday. Managing Producer for SCEA, Deborah Mars, made the announcement on the US PS Blog. "Without further ado, we're proud to announce that Fat Princess will make her royal appearance on the PlayStation Network this Thursday, July 30th for $14.99," said Mars. "Fat […]
GDC 09: PS Blog mixer hosting Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, Insomniac
The SCEA PS Blog mixer at GDC next week features tons of games, demos and whatnot. The list of developers attending was confirmed today. It's pretty damn cool. Tuesday – March 24 Sucker Punch will be on hand to to demo inFamous Wednesday – March 25 Titan Studios will be demoing Fat Princess Insomniac will […]
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What type of cardio exercise is best? My answer to this question is often, "Any exercise other than your current exercise obsession."
Runners develop meniscal tears and degenerative knees. Swimmers often develop tears in the rotator cuff muscles of the shoulder. Rowers can develop lower back issues. Avid cell phone texters develop tendonitis in the fingers (some teenagers have argued the case that texting is a form of exercise). People often want to know if their favorite cardio exercise is bad for them.
My answer is always yes. Any single activity done for long periods of time is going to have a negative effect on certain joints in your body. Runners, for example, will derive great cardiac benefit from running. The knees, however, take a veritable beating. This degenerative effect can be minimized in people who are comparatively light in weight, but the damage will still be present.
Muscles also tend to accommodate to a particular activity, which often results in an imbalance. People who exclusively run tend to develop too much strength in the hamstrings and hip flexors, while underutilizing the buttock muscles.
My advice to patients suffering from joint trauma caused by their favorite exercise is this: Find a few new favorite exercises and vary your routine. The elliptical machine used in many gym settings has been shown to have less of an impact on the knees than running does. Riding a bicycle is also much less traumatic on the knees. If you have joint pain from running four times a week, try cycling once a week, elliptical training once a week, weight training once a week, and running once a week instead. Your joints and muscles will likely thank you for the change.
As for our avid texting audience, if you send or receive more than three messages from the same friend in a short period of time, does this not constitute having an actual conversation? Call your friend instead. Activity variety is the key to keeping your joint and muscle health for the long haul.
How have you changed your habits to accommodate an injury? Please share your comments below.


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At first glance, this looks like a poster for Harry Potter, but is there something more going on? These posters illustrate famous stories with minimalist images, but hide a second story inside.
Using a technique that evokes the Rubin vase illusion, Colombian advertising agency Lowe/SSP3 created these images for the Colsubsidio Book Exchange. Come with Harry Potter, leave with The Iliad.
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Wow! I was out for HOW long?
Well, I really wasn't "out" but was sort of "out of it".
There may be big changes coming in my personal life and I am trying to sort through them in the next week or so.
However, I wanted to post this from Wallbuilders right away since it outlines a bit of the issues in the world today that a LOT of americans have no clue about.
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Following a red-eye flight that eventually arrived at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport early Wednesday morning and a short ride to the rental car agency to get my wheels for the week, I was off to Kalamazoo, Michigan - home of the 2002 Super Nationals (a.k.a. Super Nats at the Zoo). This was my first trip to the most heralded of all junior tournaments in the United States. Stowe Stadium, on the campus of Kalamazoo College, was the birthplace of legends such as McEnroe, Connors, Ashe and Laver.
Months of recruiting and evaluating boiled down to this main event as I joined collegiate coaches from all over the country. It was time to grind through the humidity for ten days of points, games and matches in search of the true, future Broncos.
The drive from Chi town to Kalamazoo was to be about 2-2 � hours. Following a short visit with a former intern (and SCU Women's Soccer alumnus, Kat Celio), as well as a home visit with a potential Bronco, I was bound for Michigan. Before hitting the highway, I grabbed a few necessities from the local supermarket and was wished "good luck" by a cashier who informed me that getting through Indiana in mid-afternoon could take forever. Well, I had to get there somehow and whether the trip was going to include good or bad commuter luck, I at least had some tunes to keep me company. Today's jukebox selections included hip-hop beats from Mace and Digital Underground, a little bit of country by Tim McGraw and a new favorite from the alternative/popish category, Pete Yorn. First stop, Ogden Dunes, Indiana.
My trip on Interstate 94 was rather interesting as I came to know a few things about the Midwest. First, your car better have a functional air conditioning system. Second, the majority of "big rigs" traveling in this country must originate in Chicago, as there seemed to be a never-ending convoy of eighteen-wheelers from the moment I merged onto the freeway. Third, covered overpasses inhabited by restaurants like the Cracker Barrel (a Sean Burns' favorite), Waffle House and Dairy Queen can definitely make the mouth salivate and force cars to make a quick drive-by for a snack. Fourth, trees, grass and water sure make a long journey seem short.
I arrived at the home of Bob & Bobbi Nelson (parents of Lars Nelson, former #1 Bronco tennis player and 2000 graduate) as this was going to be a good resting place before heading to the Zoo. The Nelson home, built by B&B back in the day, sits on a hill overlooking a sandy beach along Lake Michigan, as well as the Chicago skyline. Following a great dinner and evening of catch-up conversation with the Nelsons, it was off to bed for some rest. A coaches' open house of sorts was on tap for the following day at the Zoo that would give me the opportunity to meet and speak with many potential Broncos before the tournament began.
Life in the Midwest was simple and real - pretty much a "what you see is what you get" type thing. Very comfortable and peaceful, not to mention a bit different from the sunshine and beaches of California. Middle America was a breath of fresh air...even if the air was rather thick and made you sweat profusely for hours upon hours.
In the next edition: The Main Event - Postcards from the Courts