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By Coty Dolores Miranda
Tim Hovik has been an Arizona State University Sun Devil fan since he was a youngster growing up in Washington State and came to campus to visit his two older brothers.
Now the owner/general manager of San Tan Ford in Gilbert, the Ahwatukee man was in eighth grade when he caught Sun Devil fever, and determined at that first visit that he, too, would follow his brothers' footsteps and enroll in ASU.
Even after leaving ASU, Hovik remained an avid fan, and as he's advanced in his career, he worked to ensure his alma mater was a recipient of his support.
As a chair for the Arizona Ford Dealer's Association, he advocated for the university, ensuring the group was on board for providing partnerships with Sun Devil Athletics that, according to ASU, were "worth north of seven figures" in dollars.
In acknowledgment of his support, Hovik was presented with the Alumni Appreciation Award at ASU's 2017 Homecoming several months ago.
Making the honor even more amazing, Hovik said, is that he hasn't yet graduated from Arizona State.
"I changed majors (from business to political science), and actually have more credits than I need to graduate," he said. "I've lectured at their business school, and I think of myself as an alum. The homecoming kinda spurred me to knock off those remaining credits, and get my degree."
As an upperclassman, Hovik had planned to take a gap year while earning money as a car salesman working with Tex Earnhardt.
"I knew people who'd made money at it and I thought I'd do it for a little while, and pop back to school and finish. The very first month, I led in sales. I came out of the gate hot," said Hovik.
He stayed with Earnhardt for 13 years, rising to general manager.
In 2007, he was offered a partnership at a Las Vegas Ford franchise.
"I went to Vegas right when the recession hit, and it was a hard time for a lot of businesses," said Hovik who stayed the course three years. "I'd kept my home in Ahwatukee, and San Tan Ford had just opened, and after a couple months, they asked me to come over and I finally agreed."
In the ensuing years, Hovik and the firm's parent company, The Richardson Group, continue to grow. The parent firm owns five Ford franchises in California, New Mexico and Texas.
San Tan Ford, the group's only dealership in Arizona, is now among the top 40 largest Ford dealerships in the world.
"I'd like to move into the top 20," said Hovik, who follows former Ford CEO Alan Mulally's example of referring to the franchises as "stores" rather than "dealerships" because Mulally thought the latter word carried a negative connotation.
His San Tan Ford store at 1429 E. Motorplex Loop in Gilbert has grown from 70 employees eight years ago when he arrived to more than 230.
One of them is his oldest brother, Steve, who is sales manager. Sales at San Tan Ford have skyrocketed from approximately $49 million in 2009 to more than $200 million in 2017.
Even with demands of owning a major business entity and his ASU Alumni Association and Sun Devil Athletics involvement, Hovik is an active member of several area chambers of commerce.
In the Gilbert Chamber, he's a board member; for the Chandler Chamber, he was the presenting sponsor of this year's Charity Golf Tournament; he's also on the board of his hometown's Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce.
Hovik says he's strongly driven to give back to the communities in which he works and lives, as well as ASU, which he said was "great to me, and taught him so many lessons."
"I don't give back to the community or ASU either of my time or resources to get a lot of 'atta boy's,'" he said. "But when they recognize you like the Alumni Association did with this award, they make you feel like you've achieved something."
And those achievements are why ASU Alumni Association president and CEO Christine K. Wilkinson said Hovik was honored.
"With the Alumni Appreciation Award, the ASU Alumni Association has the opportunity to recognize an individual who positively impacts Arizona State University, and Tim Hovik generously supports the Sun Devil community," said Wilkinson, who is also senior vice president and secretary of the university.
In addition to owning and operating San Tan Ford, Hovik has also chaired the Arizona Ford Dealers Association, and currently sits on Ford's National Dealer Council as the Southwestern United Sates representative to Ford Motor company.
What keeps this 51-year-old involved in a multitude of activities? What drives him to continually accomplish more?
"I think by nature, I'm pretty competitive, and competitive with myself. You strive to succeed, but you always want to balance that drive. At San Tan we take care of each other. If there's a little league game an employee's kid is playing in, we try and arrange schedules so they can go," he said. "We want to be supportive, and help the next generation."

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Sunnycove Flood Retarding Structure (FRS) is an earthen dam that collects stormwater from Sunnycove Wash and conveys it to the Hassayampa River via the 30-inch Sunset/Sunnycove Pipeline. The structure is 714 linear feet in length with a height of 48.5 feet with no permanent storage capacity. The emergency spillway is a 100-foot wide earthen channel located on the north side of the dam. This structure works in conjunction with the Sunset FRS. The dam was constructed with sponsorship from the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, now the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). The District and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service were cost share partners on this project.Operation and Maintenance: Flood Control District
Authorization: Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act Public Law 566
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One of the nice things about working at JPL is once in a while I get interesting stuff in my e-mail.
Interesting stuff like this image of Saturn taken by Cassini just as the spacecraft was crossing the plane of Saturn's rings.
Prince Caspian is Jane's favorite Narnia book, but The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is mine. I remember reading it for the first time, sitting in a little blue folding chair on the back porch. What's odd is that I have no idea why I was sitting on the back porch; it wasn't a very pleasant place for sitting (it still isn't), and I don't remember doing such a thing at any other time. Out on the front patio, sure, but the back porch never.
But I digress.
I just finished reading it to my two boys, and while I'm not sure how much of the ending they really got, I enjoyed it thoroughly. It's one of those books that deepens each time I read it. The boys, for their part, were considerably amused by the Dufflepuds.
I've just uploaded a new version of Notebook to the Notebook Wiki.
I finished this book almost two weeks ago, and I've been sitting on it instead of writing a review...mostly because I'm not sure what I think about it. It's an Amelia Peabody novel, but with a difference. Heretofor, every book in the series has represented a chronological advance. In this case, Peters has jumped back to the years prior to the first World War--which is to say, back to those years when Ramses was still stressing over whether to tell Nefret how he felt. Not a time period I was with child to revisit.
And then, it's a direct sequel to Peters' homage to H. Rider Haggard, the very odd The Last Camel Died At Noon. It's been about ten years, and the Emersons and sundry go back to the Lost Oasis and the lands beyond. There's bluster, derring do, adventures, arch comments, surly villains, and all manner of colorful atmosphere--all very promising.
But it takes a long time to get started. And though there were bad guys galore, there was never any great sense of danger. And the denoument seemed both too simple and a little contrived.
I dunno. I suspect Peters had fun writing it, and I found it mildly entertaining, but she's capable of better than this.
This is the morning of the second day of our re-plumbing job; we have no water in the kitchen or in the kids' bathroom, but the master bathroom is complete. We've got bright clean copper pipes running into the house in place of the rotten old congested galvanized we used to have, which means that the water runs more smoothly and more quietly, and I'm betting more expansively as well, which is not entirely a good thing. But it made for a nice shower this morning.
Today they are going to get the kitchen hooked up, and then they can get our pantry put back together so we can move the cans and bottles and bags out of our livingroom.
...are greatly exaggerated.
But gosh, it has been a while since I last posted anything, so I figured I'd jot down a few notes about what's been going on.
Mostly, what's been going on is work. Two weeks ago, I finished up a project I'd been working on for about seven years. I started on it as one of the developers, and ended up managing the darn thing (there's glory for you--I don't think). Now it's over, and I'm a manager no longer (for which God be thanked) and I've started on a new project altogether. I've actually been transitioning on to it for the last six weeks or so, but I've only really clicked into high gear during the last two weeks.
I don't know how your job works, but in my job my backbrain does most of the heavy lifting. It grinds away at problems while I'm eating and sleeping and driving and so forth, and it presents me with solutions when I need them. And sometimes my backbrain gets so caught up in what it's doing that there's no capacity left over anything else creative. So I've been doing a lot of reading over the last two weeks, I've played a game or two, and written almost nothing.
This weekend is a bit of a respite; given that it's a three-day weekend I made sure I didn't start anything today that I couldn't finish. Otherwise my backbrain would chew on it all weekend. My backbrain is rather like a large puppy when it's working hard; it chews and chews and every so often it barks and says "Come play with me!" And it won't quit! So I took pains to let it go to sleep toward the end of the afternoon.
It's bound to be an interesting weekend anyway; we're getting our house replumbed. It'd be a great weekend go to somewhere special, except of course for everyone else doing the same thing. We'll see how it goes.
But I digress. (Or do I? It's hard to say.) I should have some time to blog this afternoon, and in particular I've got a stack of books awaiting review which I hope to get to. So watch this space!
I am not a historian, not even an amateur historian. What I am is a reader, and since I was little what I've liked to read is tales of the odd, the strange, the exotic, the interesting. Science fiction; fantasy; mysteries; this should come as no surprise to anyone who's read this blog for even a couple of weeks.
Quite a long while ago now, though well after I completed my formal schooling, it struck me that the past contained thousands of times and places which are as odd, strange, exotic, and interesting as anything in literature. You'd think that this would lead me straight to historical fiction; perhaps surprisingly, it didn't. Instead, it led me to "popular history"--the real stuff, packaged up for the layman.
I went to the public library, and checked out a copy of the first volume of Will Durant's Story of Civilization, Our Oriental Heritage. Durant takes a great deal of abuse these days; apparently his books are just chock full of errors and inaccuracies. I wouldn't know. I was after the general picture.
I don't remember whether it was The Life of Greece (Durant's second volume) or Caesar and Christ (the third) that our golden retriever devoured while Jane and I were out one evening. I do know that we caught him in the act, and that he was never again foolish enough to set tooth to page. Jane went to the library to pay the fine; "The dog ate it," she said. The librarian didn't believe it until Jane opened the bag and showed her the remains.
Just about that time the Book-of-the-Month Club had a promotion in Smithsonian Magazine--they'd send you Durant's complete series if you signed up. They'd been doing this for ages, but usually you had to promise to by four more books in the next year. That particular month, though, they waived the four book requirement. I jumped at it, got my set of books, and canceled my membership. (The requirement was back the next month, as it happens; clearly I wasn't the only one to take advantage.)
After I tired of Durant (I gave up at the Enlightenment) I discovered Barbara Tuchman; I also read quite a bit about the Roman Empire. It was only after that that I discovered historical fiction--Patrick O'Brian, George MacDonald Fraser, Dorothy Dunnett. The former two led me to the history of the British Empire, and Fraser in particular to Central Asia and China. From there, my reading spread all over the place.
I owe it all to Durant and Tuchman; without them, or other writers like them, I'd never have gotten so far.
Kevin at Collected Miscellany has a nice post in reference to a snotty diatribe against "popular history" that appeared in Slate. Here's what I had to say in the comments:
A good popular history can tell a story without becoming historical fiction; and telling history as a story is essential makes it much, much easier for the reader to build the conceptual framework on which more sophisticated reading depends.
For example, what point is there in reading an argument over what did or didn't happen at the battle of Hattin if you don't know that the battle of Hattin was a major defeat for the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and and you don't know that the Kingdom of Jerusalem was established by the Crusaders, and you don't know why the Crusaders were in the Middle East to begin with, and you don't know anything about the rise of Islam or Christianity, or the later history of the Roman/Byzantine Empire, etc., etc.
Popular history helps you start building that skeleton, and gives you badly needed context. The little details may be inaccurate or "insufficiently nuanced", but you're not reading it for the little details; you're reading it for the big ones.
Once you've got the broad sweep of things under your hat, then you can dig deeper into anything that interests you. But without that broad sweep you're lost.
More to the point, while everyone would benefit from a general knowledge of history (and the republic not least) it's absurd to think that the average citizen should act like a serious historical scholar. We have other things to be doing--and without those things, our culture wouldn't be able to support the serious historical scholars we do have.
This is simply too cool for words.
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft is in orbit around Mars. The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft is in orbit around Mars. The two spacecraft are usually so close together (from the point of view of Earth) that they get tracked at the same time by the same DSN antenna--a relatively new capability, and one that was implemented precisely because of the number of spacecraft now in orbit around Mars.
So a few days ago, Mars Global Surveyor took a picture of Mars Odyssey--the first time one extraterrestrial orbiter has taken a picture of another. And here it is. In fact, there are two images of Mars Odyssey in the one picture, because of how MGS' camera works and how the two spacecraft were moving. You can read about it on the picture page.
From the title, you'd think that this was a book about the "Great Game" that I've mentioned several times over the last month or so--the Anglo-Russian cold war of the 19th century. And it is, sort of, in an alternate-history sort of way; but not really.
What it really is, is the story of our Harry Flashman caught smack in the middle of the Sepoy Mutiny. The Mutiny was the watershed event in the history of British India. Prior to the Mutiny, India was "ruled" by the East India Company; after the Mutiny the British Government stepped in, Queen Victoria became the Empress of India, and the classic Raj was born.
The Company had subdued the Indian subcontinent with a little scheming, a little bribery, and the help of the Royal Army; but it had its own armies as well, which but for a small corps of British officers were composed entirely of native troops, both hindus and muslims. It was these troops that mutinied, and horrible atrocities were committed upon British men, women, and children all over India. These led to fierce reprisals and counter atrocities, and eventually the Mutiny was put down.
The origins of the Mutiny are murky. There had been signs of unrest for some months before the Mutiny began; indeed, these signs are the reason Flashman is sent to India in the present book. Rumors had spread that the British were going to require native troops to use gunpower cartridges greased with cow or pig fat. This was untrue, but it was a potent rumor nonetheless--anything related to pigs is anathema to muslims, and cow fat was even more dangerous to devout hindus, as touching it could break your caste.
Fraser works the Great Game in in two ways. First, the players of the Great Game often traveled through Central Asia in native guise, and though Flashman never gets anywhere near Central Asia in this particular book (unlike Flashman at the Charge), he does spend quite a bit of time in native guise. And second, Fraser feigns that the Mutiny and related uprisings were fomented by Russia, and in particular by the sinister Count Ignatiev, a Russian great-gamesman of note. And that's why I say this book is about the Great Game in an alternate-history sort of way--it's precisely the sort of thing the Russians would have done if they could have. By this time they'd already launched a couple of abortive strikes on India, never getting farther than Afghanistan, and in each case their plans had included a native uprising which, with the help of the Russian Army, would sweep the British out of India for ever.
But practically speaking, it's not at all clear that the Russians were involved in the run-up to actual event; and as for Count Ignatiev, genuine historical figure that he is, I believe he's included in the current book mostly as a bogey-man for Flashman, who had "met" him in Flashman at the Charge.
Anyway, this is a fascinating book, and worth reading...but I have to admit, it's not much fun--the Mutiny is just too grim a topic.
Sometimes ya just gotta return to your roots, ya know?
A really truly playable harpsichord, made entirely out of Lego (except for the wires, of course. I cannot help but be impressed. (But not appalled. I've got too many peculiar obsessions of my own to be appalled.)
...to note that today is Sir Arthur Sullivan's birthday. In his honor (or despite), I shall quote a few of W.S. Gilbert's lyrics:
The Pirates of Penzance, on discovering the Major-General's (yes, that Major-General) daughters on the beach:
Here's a first rate opportunity to get married with impunity
To indulge in the felicity of unbounded domesticity
You shall quickly be parsonified, conjugally matrimonified
By a doctor of divinity who is located in this vicinity.
The daughters, encouraging the constables in their duty (I love to sing this, which is unfortunate for those nearby....):
Go, ye heroes, go to glory
Though you die in combat gory
You shall live in song and story
Go to immortality!
Go to death, and go to slaughter.
Die, and every Cornish daughter
With her tears your grave shall water
Go ye heroes, go and die!
(Go ye heroes, go and die, go ye heroes, go and die.)
The constables reply,
Though it's very evident (taran-tara taran-tara)
These intentions are well-meant (taran-tara)
These expressions don't appear (taran-tara taran-tara)
Calculated men to cheer (taran-tara)
Who are going to meet their fate
In a highly nervous state
(Taran-tara taran-tara taran-tara)
I could go on and on, but I think this will do for tonight.
So my three-year-old daughter bounced into my lap the other day.
"I'm Piglet!" she cried cheerfully.
"You're Piglet?"
"You'll feel differently about that when you're older."
"No I won't."
Yes, I do believe she will.
I went to the doctor yesterday for my monthly checkup and weigh-in; I lost 8 pounds over the last month, which makes 34 pounds total since I started my diet three months ago. It might have been more than 8 pounds, but I was sick for a week a couple of weeks ago, and wasn't able to go for my daily walk for a couple of days; and when I started walking again, it took me a few days to build up to where I'd been. But I'm not complaining; 8 pounds is just spiffy.
34 pounds. My 14-month-old daughter weighs half that, and I really don't see how I could carry that much around with me and not notice. I certainly don't feel that much lighter on my feet.
But I've still got a long way to go.
Every so often I hear something I call a "Perfect Song"--though that's a woefully imprecise name for it. What I mean by a Perfect Song is a recording which is so perfectly itself that it couldn't possibly be altered without breaking it. The music and the singing mesh perfectly together, and the whole thing usually has a unique feel to it. Any other recording of the same song is going to have take an entirely different approach, because these recordings can't be beaten at their own game.
These aren't necessarily my favorite songs, mind you; just recordings whose perfection I've noticed over the years. Anyway, here are a few of them.
There are others, of course; these are just a handful that came to mind at the moment.
Limyaael's Rants is a collection of essays on the craft of writing fiction in general, and fantasy fiction in particular. One gathers that Limyaael has read far too much bad fiction, and wants to improve the output of would-be writers of fantasy.
I found this quite some time ago now, and forgot to post anything about it.
As I noted a while back, when I get sick I reach for old favorites like Watership Down or I reach for a not terribly deep series that I can chain-read. You get one guess which of those this is.
These are the first five books in Weber's "Honor Harrington" series. Honor Harrington is a starship captain in the navy of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. She's a skilled strategist, a brillant tactician, devoted to her duty, a natural leader, and nearly indestructible. Also, she has a knack for getting into difficult situations that require indomitable courage and steely resolve.
I've written about these before; click on Weber's name in the title for links to my earlier reviews. For the most part they held up pretty well on third (or is it fourth?) reading; on the other hand, a couple of them had sections that I simply skipped.
This is the fourth Flashman novel in the order of initial publication; I skipped the two intervening novels because this one brings us back to Central Asia and the lands of the Great Game.
The book begins with a lengthy explanation of how Flashman, always content to play the devil around London, is dragooned into going to the Crimea as a galloper for General Raglan. The Crimean War was one of the few times when the 19th century cold war between Russia and Great Britain actually turned hot, though the cause in this case wasn't the possibility of a Russian invasion of India, but of a Russian invasion of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire was still a "power" in those days; I use scare quotes because it was rather a senile and incompetent power, right on the verge of collapse. But nobody in Europe wanted to deal with the mess that would follow the breakup of the Ottoman Empire--and rightly so, it finally broke up with the first World War, and we're still picking up the pieces even today. Anyway, England want to war with Russia to prevent Russia invading Turkey, and much tragedy ensued.
It was an extremely bad day in Balaclava for our Harry; a determined coward, he was forced to participate in the Thin Red Line (when a thin line of British troops held off a Russian cavalry charge), the Charge of the Heavy Brigade (when a brigade of British cavalry charged a much larger force of Russians--uphill--and somehow survived the experience), and the famous Charge of the Light Brigade, Exhibit A in the annals of stupid military decisions, where for no good reason a brigade of British cavalry charged down a long, narrow valley lined with guns on both sides and the far end and were largely blown to bits.
Flashman survived, naturally, but was captured by the Russians. He later managed to escape, was captured near the Caspian Sea, and was imprisoned in the same cell as a rogue named Yakub Beg, leader of the armies of the city-state of Khokand. After their escape, Flashman is forced to help Yakub put paid to a Russian army which is trying to conquer Khokand and surrounding regions so as to pave a way to India.
Yakub Beg's an interesting character; Peter Hopkirk's book The Great Game doesn't have much to say about his earlier career, during which he would have met Flashman, but later on Yakub conquered the city-state of Kashgar, across the Pamir range from Khokand, and set up a little kingdom for himself there at the western end of what was then called Chinese Turkestan. As its ruler, he was to play a major role in the later period of the Great Game.
Anyway, "Flash Harry" is in his usual form throughout. He tells a good tale, but otherwise goodness has little to do with it.
It consists of Benedictine, Polish vodka, champagne, and a cherry.
They call it a Ratzlinger.
(Heard in e-mail....)
Here's a post Jane found, about what fathers contribute to their families. It certainly tallies with my experience.


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Cleverman (Character)
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Created by: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner and James Vanderbilt
1st appearance: Cleverman Episode 1 (June 1, 2016)
Portrayed by: Hunter Page-Lochard
Nationality: Australian
Team Affiliations: None
Legal Status: Unknown
Height: 5'7 Weight: 150 lbs
Eyes: Originally brown, now one is light blue Hair: Black
Relatives: Unknown
Skills and Abilities: Proficient electrical engineer.
Powers: As the new Cleverman he is the conduit between the present and the Dreaming
Healing factor allowing him to recover from injuries at an accelerated rate. He once had his finger ripped off and by holding the finger together after it had been separated it healed within minutes. He also cut his forearm open and had it heal in seconds.
Tactile based Telepathy and Empathy- He is a able through touch to tell what has happened in someones immediate past and understand their feelings and emotions.
Visions: Through touch he can also see into a persons past and future.
Summoning: The clever man is able to summon creatures and spirits from the dreaming into the corporeal world.
Reanimation: One Cleverman was shown bringing the recently deceased back to life.
He was subjected to ridicule and hatred as a child. He is Waruu's half-brother, who owns a pub named 'The Couch' with friends Blair and Ash. He keeps his business afloat by giving up Hairypeople to the CA for rewards by tricking them with a false safe house setup. His actions inadvertently lead to the death of Jyra, causing doubt within himself.
Koen then becomes the titular, yet initially reluctant Cleverman, after the passing of his uncle, who was the previous Cleverman. Koen gains abilities such as healing, the left eye of the Cleverman, the ability to see visions when touching others or from the dreaming, along with the war club 'The Nulla Nulla'. He has a toxic relationship with his half brother Waruu, as they share the same father, but different mothers, with Koen's being labeled the 'white whore' due to an affair between their father and his mother. He was abused by Waruu for most of his childhood 'til he ran away from the Zone and was found by Blair, where they become friends. He has a secret affair with Blair's girlfriend, Ash, which causes a rift in their friendship later, when McIntyre kills her trying to capture Kora and Koen. Over the course of the series he begins to gradually accept his role as Cleverman, finding redemption in his previous actions – even fighting Waruu to prove his worth during a fist fight when Waruu could not accept him as the Cleverman. At the end of season 1 Koen returns to the Zone, whereafter Waruu unsuccessfully tries to kill the spirit 'namorrodor'. Koen defeats it with the Nulla Nulla and beings to lead the Hairypeople against the advancing CA.


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Tyre electronics (like the microchip contained in the Cyber Tyre, which allows to monitor changing road surface conditions by sending the vehicle key information for stability and safe driving), represent a path for Pirelli's premium innovation strategy.
The Tyre System project represents one of the most technologically advanced and innovative programmes at Pirelli, as well as the entire tyre industry and beyond (wireless sensor field).
Industrial research activity relies on the contribution of specialised knowledge from both the academic and industrial communities during the development phase.
In collaboration with the Turin Polytechnic, Pirelli has set up a Tyre System research laboratory. Initially located in an area provided by the Turin Polytechnic and now the permanent home of the Pirelli Technological Centre in Settimo Torinese, this joint effort aims to maximise the development of know-how and effectiveness of development activities. The Centre is staffed with personnel from Pirelli, the Turing Polytechnic and other resources (suppliers, visiting scientists and students) who have different but extremely interdependent expertise and offer synergies. Finally, the JOINT LABS agreement between Pirelli and the Milan Polytechnic also focuses on the intelligent tyre (Cyber Tyre), with the development of mathematical models which allow the chip contained in the Cyber Tyre to "interpret" different road surface conditions.
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Welcome to the walkthrough for Candleman. This is a platform Indie game that was released in 2017 that is of a similar style to Unravel.
Candleman is a fairly short game that revolves around the hero, a candle. Your sole aim is to progress through the increasingly difficult levels lighting various amounts of hidden candles, the difficulty is you can only light your candle for a maximum of 10 seconds before your wax runs out and you die.
Do not worry though, using this walkthrough hopefully I can help you obtain all 10 achievements with the minimal of fuss and time. I have included both written explanations and a video for each level.
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There is a crisis-level shortage of math and science teachers.
As more current teachers retire and fewer new teachers enter the profession, the nation faces a decreasing supply of high quality teachers. This is especially true in STEM fields and high-needs schools, where 40% or more of students qualify for free or reduced lunch. According to the US Department of Education, there has been a documented shortage of math and science teachers in California every year since 2010. In recognition of this crisis, California's colleges and universities have created initiatives to address the teacher shortage: the Math and Science Teacher Initiative (CSU), and CalTeach (UC). Despite these efforts, enrollment in teacher credentialing programs in California colleges and universities dropped by more than 40% since 2007, and more than 50% since 2001.
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Working in parallel with CSU's and UC's efforts to recruit college students to the teaching profession, EnCorps is dedicated to recruiting mid-career STEM professionals to become math, science, engineering and technology teachers.
The demand for high quality math and science teachers continues to go unmet; it is currently estimated that about 3,000 new math and science teachers are needed in California alone every year. Across the United States, 25,000 new teachers are needed each year, but fewer than 9,000 high school graduates who would be "highly qualified" said that they would be interested in teaching (opportunityculture.org, 2014).
The demand for quality math and science teachers is so high that teachers often teach outside of their areas of expertise. We know that students need to be exposed to challenging and engaging content by teachers with deep subject matter knowledge, yet only 30% of 8th grade math teachers have an undergraduate math degree and only 55% of 8th grade science teachers have an undergraduate science degree. This expertise gap grows wider in secondary education:
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In a 2012 international study of 15-year-olds in 65 countries,
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Friday, January 26, 2007
The Motivation of Friendships
That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choice, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object.
For years I have been fascinated with "intention" and "motivation." That which causes us to do something; the initial impetus that spurs us to action. When it all comes down to it, everything we do has a motivation behind it. Even if I don't think I can explain why I do something (or choose not to do something) often when I think about it, there is some explanation behind it. I had something in mind which guided me to take the first step, make the first inquiry, even if I just thought it would make me a happier person.
But what has really made me think about this has come from my interactions with others. Why is someone kind to me? Why does someone choose to contact me? Why do they make the effort to make friends with me, to call me, to email me and discuss issues that interest me? Do they do so because they expect something in return? Do they stay in contact with me because they feel wonderful when they are in contact with me, because they appreciate who I am, because they enjoy spending time with me, because our discussions inspire them?
And all of the same questions vice versa from my side!
There have been times when I misunderstood pure motivations from someone and consequently failed to follow through with a potential friendship. There have been times when someone made friends with me because they wanted me to do something for them or they were trying to get something via contact with me. And even times when a supposed friendship was a one way street - I was supposed to offer support and listen and be friendly but when I wanted support and someone to listen to me, I was brushed aside. Unfortunately, I usually don't realize these situations until after the fact and I end up feeling very used and hurt and withdraw again into my private shell where no one can hurt me. As with traumatic episodes in general, these are hard to forget and difficult to recover from.
It is hard to know the true motivations of others so I end up just doing my best by trying to pick up on clues that are available. The tone of voice, the purpose for the conversation, the choice of words and the intonation. These all start to form a picture of the person with whom I am having contact (and I assume they do the same with me). Sometimes we walk around one another, taking time to understand the other. Other times we just jump in, take the plunge, open our hearts and minds and souls with the pure hope that the other will protect us as we travel along in our budding friendship.
I will continue to contemplate motivation and its role in my life. And I will continue to allow others into my world, taking the chance that they have ulteror motives but assuming that they have only pure intentions (unless it is proven otherwise). And I will continue to keep my heart open and my spirit full and to offer my friendship fully. I know I run a bit of a risk here but my hope is that others will take as much responsibility for their motives as I am of mine.
Ironically, I have found the most understanding connections and support from people I have never met in person! I sometimes wonder if this is a sign that something is wrong with me - too shy, insecure or self conscious? And I have been known to fall into a sort of love with someone's words, their ability to describe things so exactly and perfectly. Words can be a kind of drug: sweet, heavy, all-consuming and obsessive - always wanting more. Concepts, ideas and perceptions revolve my world: observations, contemplations, discussions. And friendships based on this can be formed via email or telephone or IM in our technologically swollen world.
Thus, until I have proof that I have some kind of personality disorder, I prefer to believe that I have found friendships across continents via cyberspace because finding others who can share in and appreciate my unique idiosyncrasies is hard. Others who wish to communicate with me on all levels sometimes just can't be found in my neighborhood or even in the city where I live. Sometimes it takes a place as big as our world to find others who can understand us well enough to keep us just a little bit more sane.
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- Juliet said...
This is my honest answer about my motivations and intentions for any firndship. I want to open my heart up to new people. People that can enrich my life and my world. People that I may or may not share a common bond with. Friendships are about sharing happiness, sadness and everything in between. That is all that I want or expect from a friend. No more, no less.
I don't know you very well yet, but I am looking forward to getting to know you better. Now you know why. I hope this eases you worries, at least when it comes to me.
- January 27, 2007 at 6:55 PM
- Corey said...
Juliet: You are a true sweetheart! This topic on motivation has been on my mind ever since I was young and I am always grappling with understanding it better. I probably need to see if there are any research studies out there about it, I am sure there must be! I am just very fascinated by what motivates us, on many levels. I remember in school, how children, who were actually very kind individuals, ended up bing cruel to someone because of peer pressure (to fit in and be "cool"). These kinds of situations make me wonder what it is physiologically that motivates us in one direction or the other. There are so many levels to this issue, I have never seemed to have been able to work through them all.
I don't think I ever told you but when I received your beautiful hand-written Chinese characters in the mail (intended for our coloring book which we still haven't completed), my heart melted. At that moment I knew you were an extremely kind-hearted person. In fact, I still have them with me. They will forever be a testament to the kindness of strangers - the true meaning of "random acts of kindness" which I see everywhere on bumper stickers here in Seattle. It is wonderful that we are no longer completely strangers anymore. (((HUG)))
- January 27, 2007 at 11:11 PM
- Alice in Austria said...
well, about friendship, what totally fascinates me with our friendship, for instance, is the way you are always able to accurately reflect thoughts and feelings that I have as well (though am half as good as putting them into words) - like this post!! As I read through it I was just nodding, nodding, nodding, yeah, YESS!! right, 100%, absolutely, she hits the nail on the head .. hey, it's like someone's spying into my own brain .. ;) - See, so here we have an answer: birds of a feather flock together! Especially in cyberspace! And the crucial question that you also hint at: would we have the courage to talk like this/ share these feelings/thoughts with our next-door neighbor? I don't think so. We hardly ever get beyond talking about the weather...
I agree with Juliet that whenever we meet people that interest us it's always worth it to open one's heart and go for friendship. That makes us vulnerable also, and sure, we get rejected and hurt but like big players in life we have a lot to win that makes it all worth it...
- January 28, 2007 at 11:21 AM
- Corey said...
Alice: Our friendship is just so special to me and I am always amazed with how often you express the exact thoughts that are on my mind. (Also makes working with you on Multilingual Living Magazine so easy and fun and delightful.) And thank goodness you have that spunk to keep me in line when I go wild and crazy with my million and one ideas or my emotional tangents. Your kind honesty makes me trust you even more! Hugs to you... this journey so far has been the ride of my life! Two more years and we'll be on Oprah with our printed magazine, right? :-)
- January 29, 2007 at 7:45 PM
- Lilian said...
Yay to us being in Oprah with the printed magazine!!
That's not what I want to write about, though. The timing for this post is so perfect! I just spent the weekend with two of our most cherished friends in the world and it was very interesting to share with them this fascinating "phenomenon" of our online friendships. In my case, blogging and the friendships or even the acquaintances that it brought me did literally change my life as I've written about in my blog. And, incidentally, made me a better friend to my "real life," longtime friends, particularly because these friends are far away and I can only interact with them once every year or twice if I'm lucky.
I feel blessed that I haven't experienced many disappointments, though. Some of these were actually resolved later and I became closer to my friends again.
Well, that's enough and I should go to bed already!
- January 29, 2007 at 8:23 PM
- Sarah said...
A lot of what you have to say here resonates with me....in fact, I met my husband online, which turned out to have been a fantastic way to bypass the small talk.
- February 1, 2007 at 9:36 PM
- Corey said...
Lilian: Yes, Oprah, here we come! ;-)
Yes, I find the same about having the chance to actually get closer via blogging and emailing. There is something about being able to write in my "inner voice" that allows me to better say what is on my mind. In person or on the phone I often am so focused on the conversation that I forget what the heck I am even saying. Arghhh! I loved reading your blog about spending time with your friends!
Sarah: that is awesome! I hear that more and more now how couples first meet online and then decide to go from there. I mean, if you think about it, it is an ideal way to deal with the initial small talk (which in person is sometimes more difficult) and the opportunity to share what is really important (without scaring them off immediately).
- February 2, 2007 at 8:32 AM
- christina said...
This is a great post and I've been meaning to comment for a while. Where we live I've found it extremely difficult to find people I have anything in common with or people who "get" me. I've often had to change who I am to fit in, and that's not a good feeling. On the other hand, I've met some of my very best friends on the internet. Some I have actually been lucky enough to meet in person, others I've been corresponding with for years.
- February 6, 2007 at 12:01 PM
- Corey said...
Christina: I know exactly what you mean about changing to fit in. It works for a while but eventually you just want to jump out of your skin and yell, "Leave me alone and let me be me!" But instead we turn on some emotional ballads and sob the night away. Ok, maybe it isn't that bad but you know what I mean. ;-) I totally agree with you about meeting friends via the internet. I still need to meet more to come up with a statistically accurate account of whether meeting them in person matches my hopes or not but so far, from having met Alice in person, I'm 1 for 1! Yippee! In the end, all I know is that I am a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH happier person than I was before I connected with people via the BBFN and the world wide web!
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Drossie was so unique and familiar, and she was my first lady. Maybe she influenced me to see the big ladies first before the other ones. So when I see a big lady, it is much easier for me to see her than any other lady, and again, I discovered that most men don't like fat ladies, so for me it is a disaster for the fat ladies, when they are in the community like any other person. (The Life and Times of Richard Onyango)
Richard Onyango's bodies are unsettling.
Art journalist Margaretta wa Gacheru mentions Onyango's "disturbingly fleshy forms," noting that she "was never a great fan of Drosie in Onyango's art." In a tiny mention, James Murua claims that Onyango's "most memorable works" feature his "fat lover Drosie." Frank Whalley describes Drosie as a "woman of mountainous proportions," writing, more generally of Onyango's work, "Our Hero has some difficulty with proportions, too. Unless painting women with bodies like elephant seals at the height of the rut, generally his heads are too small and the bodies too long." A young blogger wrestles with Onyango's mind-body negotiation.
Of the (very little) commentary I have found on Onyango's work, almost no one mentions his continual acts of self-portraiture. In fact, most of the so-called Drosie paintings depict Onyango with Drosie, and I find myself wondering about these critical acts of elision. What is it about Drosie that "disappears" Onyango? And what would it mean to read these two bodies together? What happens if, reading Whalley against the grain, we understand bodies in relation to Drosie? She is, Whalley suggests, the only one whose body is "proportional." Everyone else is somehow excessive—the heads are "too small" and the bodies "too long." Something interesting happens in these various readings of "excess," something about how we imagine bodies to look and act. What might Onyango's paintings make visible and imagine possible about bodies?
I find myself looking for Onyango in his paintings, intrigued by the multiple acts of self-portraiture that struggle against a critical desire to make him disappear. Often, he is overwhelmed by Drosie: cast in the shadow of a foreground she dominates or smothered under her during an intimate encounter. His lean body compels us to think about masculine vulnerability. There are other ways to think about his lean-ness: the power differentials produced by class and race and geography—Drosie is a doctor and Kenyan Indian and wealthy, at least much wealthier than Onyango who, when they meet, is a part time musician.
Drosie's desirability is never in question, even as it is variously tender and seductive, rapacious and overwhelming. This desirability makes a claim on the observer, a nagging claim that is difficult to engage. The obsessive nakedness of Onyango's desire unsettles us: it's always difficult to translate our desires for others, even and especially when those desires are non-normative. Those desires make claims on other people, soliciting, eliciting, inciting a range of responses—I am struck, again, by Whalley's and Gacheru's discomfort, especially Whalley's insistence that Onyango's women cannot be desirable.
Writers on Onyango's work find it difficult to frame his work, or, put otherwise, find it difficult to theorize his aesthetic. Obligatory references to Ruben and Lucian Freud are made; his works are described as "cartoonish." Whalley, in fine form, offers what I take to be the least generous assessment of Onyango's style: "What would be condemned in an academically trained artist as breathtaking incompetence, with Onyango passes as charming; the articulation of a personal vision, presented with tenderness and humour." (Here, I write "least generous" after several hours of wrestling with how to assess Whalley's assessments—I disagree with most everything he writes about art.)
Yet, I also find useful Whalley's term "charming," because it attempts to arrest what is disturbing about Onyango's work. What might words like "incompetence" mask? What assumptions about art and artists are at stake—the academically trained vs. the self-taught; the cosmopolitan visionary who knows enough to break the rules vs. the one who doesn't even know there are rules to break. One could multiply these.
But I want to return to the experience of standing in front of Onyango's Drosie paintings: to the sense of discomfort and shame that attends being invited (even compelled) to recognize and share in someone else's desire—I have not yet mastered/mustered the cosmopolitanism that allows me to look at nudes and nakedness easily, and I think this lack is useful. I want to suspend, for a moment, the ways I know how to talk about male artists and female subjects, to pay attention to how Onyango's insistent body forces me to another place I cannot yet name.
I want to put to the side the bodies I have learned to see through Gauguin, Rubens, Freud, Currin, Bourgeois, Walker, Mapplethorpe, Mutu, Nugent, even Soi, and work through and around the discomfiting presence (and pressure) of Onyango's bodies.
(This post has been enabled by ML's meditation on bodies.)
Edit: On further reflection, what I find disturbing about assessments of Onyango's work has to do with the relation between "seeing" and the "imagination": seeing is an act of the imagination. And those who fault Onyango–I am not claiming he cannot be faulted–often seem unwilling to think through, with, and around his imagination. I am interested in asking what his imagination extends and enables, to think of the world-building he expresses as it travels within his viewers' minds and bodies.


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Desa Petrov Morar was born in 1946 in Sefkerin, Serbia. She began her artistic career in 1964 and lives in Pancevo, Serbia. Her paintings have been exhibited in cities worldwide including Zurich, Rome, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Washington, New York, Paris, Nice and Tokyo.
Solo Exhibitions
1964 Community Cultural Center, Sefkerin
1984 Gallery of Naïve Art, Kovacica
1991 Small Gallery of Community Cultural Center, Pancevo
1993 Museum of Naïve Art, Jagodina
Group Exhibitions
1964 Community Cultural Center, Uzdin
Gallery of Self-taught Artists, Jagodina
1965 Walecheturn Gallery, Zurich
1967 National Museum, Pancevo
1968 Trade Union Center, Belgrade
1969 Museo Civico di Belle Arti, Lugano
El Taller Gallery, Buenos Aires
1971 Palazzo Pretoria, Prato
Isetan, Tokyo
1973 Gallery of Self-taught Artists, Jagodina
1978 Palais des Expositions, Nice, France
1984 Ethnographic Musuem, Belgrade
1988 Yugoslavian Cultural Center, Paris
1989 Helios Gallery, Timisoara
1990 Cvijeta Zuzoric Art Pavilion, Belgrade
1992 EXPO 92, Seville
1998 Musuem of Modern Art, Minsk
2000 Yugoslav Cultural Center, Prague
2001 Musuem of Naïve Art, Jagodina
2003 "The Naïve World", GINA Gallery of International Naïve Art, Tel Aviv
2005 "Shades of Contrasting Cultures", GINA Gallery of International Naïve Art, Tel Aviv
"The Key to Making Dreams Come True", Koviljka Smiljkovic, 1999, Novi Sad
"World Encyclopedia of Naïve Art", Oto Bihalji-Merin, 1984, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
"Naïve Art in Serbia", The Serbian Academy of Art and the Museum of Naïve Art, Jagodina
Catalogue of the 11th Biennial of Naive Art, Museum of Naïve Art, 2003, Jagodina


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Any possible gig venues in Holland and France for my band
Hi there people,
So I am looking for small cool clubs/bars to play shows at. We play exotic psychedelic instrumental music, and it's really quite good.
www.myspace.com/anemeraldcity to get an idea. So, yea, funky little places to make some noiseartlove. What say ye?
Belgium any good?
- Le DNA, in Brussels :
18-20 Plattesteen
1000 Brussel (Vijfhoek) | Bruxelles (Pentagone)
Tel. 00 32-2-512.08.47
- Le Magasin 4, in Brussels,
- Soundstation, in Liège :
- Le Botanique, in Brussels:
- L'Ancienne Belgique, in Brussels,
- VK, in Brussels
- L'atelier 210, in Brussels,
- the Pit's, in Courtrai (not far from Lille, France)
- La Malterie, in Lille, France :
- Le Rêve d'Herbert, in Lille, Fr
Rêve d'Herbert - 19 rue d'Iéna - Lille
All quite old contacts so you'd need to check with them. The sites listed at the end give a load of contacts but are largely punk oriented - you'd need to check the type of bands that they actually put on. Wouldn't hurt to ask if they could recommend other promoters/venues anyway.
What kind of capacity are you looking for in Holland?
And any particular cities? I know Den Haag, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht pretty well.
If I can interject....
I'd be really interested in your dutch connections too :) Sounds like we're in a similar position to our Kiwi friend here! :D
A few to get you started...
Anything with 'Kleine Zaal' after it means you're best off going for the smaller of the two rooms.
Paradiso Kleine Zaal (300)
Absolutely beautiful venue, an old converted church.
Occii (200)
Describes itself as: "Small but nice trashy venue for punk-beats-experimental-noise and anything that suits the Occii. One of the few more underground scenes of Amsterdam."
Rotown (250)
Cool little venue- record shop downstairs and then old aeroplane seats on the floor upstairs.
Den Haag:
Paard van Troje Kleine Zaal (350)
EKKO Kleine Zaal (350)
Tivoli de Helling (425)
There are so many venues, it's difficult to know which to say. If you have any problems, let me know, and I'll try and help out.
Wherever love, I have only got as far as looking into amsterdam so far
and i find it hard to get off the beaten track on the web. I'm not very net savy. Yea just small places, no one will know us, so I guess places with a capacity of up to 3 or 4 hundred? I presume good venues have a good crowd that will come see some new foreign music without knowing toomuch about it. That's how it is at home. Thanks for the replys darlings. Have either of you had a quick listen to the tunes? I guess I gave the picture it's not pop songs anyway eh?
Hey Rocke
can you tell me about what connects those venues? you suggested them because they all small, or all a bit ...creative, or what?
Thanks again, this forum business is sweet. I been getting lost in the internet for the last few weeks.
We are a band from New Zealand and we are coming over to Germany for 6 months or so from may.
They'd all put on smaller bands
but vary in size quite a bit.
The situation in much of the rest of Europe is quite different to the UK in that a lot of venues receive public funding for providing a community service, so profit isn't quite as important for them. You shouldn't turn your nose up at all the squat venues in the links either. Can't vouch for all of them (obviously) but some are very organised, registered Associations (as the French call them) and receive grants.
Most associations don't receive any money
from the state or the town...
Didn't know that
A lot of the ones I went to did, but that was across Europe as a whole and back at the beginning of the decade.
interesting sound
can't help you out with any venues though...i do like your album artwork
Cheers ba
you should check the music vid too, it's suitably psychedelic!
(p.s. I mean ba as in short for babe, is that slang over there or do you have no idea what I'm on about?)
In Paris
it's more a promoter ( professionnal or association ) than a venue you have to search for.
Can't think of any into that kind of music but as there's a lot of gigs at the moment, could can probably find someone. You should search for a french band into that kind of music and ask them...
yea thanks lyle
our manager has been going hard trying to find a promoter for the last few months and I figured surely I can contact smaller venues myself. But if anyone knows of any bands, French or otherwise, with a similar sound/vibe I will definitely ask them about promoters.
Also if anyone knows of any small festivals
we might apply to... We have found all the big ones on the net(and some smaller ones)And the only one we have booked so far is zxwx in Tilburg in september.
Thanks for that list Rockefeller
server couldn't find the addresses for La Malterie or Le Botanique, and L'Ancienne looked abit massive,for other peoples info,
But I emailed the rest of them so thanks bro.
Also thanks Lyle for that label link, mailed them too, they have some cool sounds.....
The links work for me.
De Bliksem in Den Helder is awesome..
as is DBs in Utrecht..
both small and they'd happily give you a gig there, and give you food, beer, and accommodation no problem..
amsterdam paradiso- even the small room is quite a fair size, and it's prob hard to get a gig there i'd imagine.. i've played the main room, but was an industry showcase type thing.. awesome place though..
holland is a great place to play though, other good small venues i've played that you should try:
tilburg - cafe devil
venlo - perron55
groningen - vera (quite big)
alkmaar - atlantis/ or parkhof
Sweet bad mothers
Thanks heaps people,I just saw a big list for Netherlands pop up from ironclad-thanks heaps bro- and ta whipples, this is all fantastic.If any of you geezers like the tunes and would like to do a show together, or us to support you or whatever, let me know through this or myspace. Like I said we will be in Berlin, so if anyone wants a mission we should have a handle on that town by July so come visit for musical soundclashes.


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Witching Gadgets Mod 1.12.2 has been designed as an addon to Thaumcraft. This mod probably focuses on expanding to Thaumcraft and it also works as a crossover mod between Thaumcraft and various others. Additionally, the mod features a variety of items and blocks to make the game more attractive.
The original, Thaumcraft-inspired content of this mod is meant to be played alongside the main mod, so it ranges through all tech tiers.
For example, we have the Thaumic Stone Extruder, which is basically just a magical cobblegen?because really no magic mod adds one. x3
Or the Essentia Pump, which allows you to draw Essentia from a mirror and insert it back into a tube system!
Or maybe something more advanced, like the Arcane Terrestrial Reformer, which allows you to change the biome around you to six basic environments, by use of Essentia and Terra Vis!
It add 4 magically enhanced cloaks, 2 pauldrons and 2 vambraces, and a ring, each of them with effects not so commonly seen in other mods, like knockback resistance, fast ladder-climbing or a fortune+looting improvement!
Useful addition to the Thaumonomicon:
A search bar! You can now search for researches, and it will even find them based on the recipe outputs the research contains!
Talking about native Clusters, this mod adds quite a few! And it builds them dynamically, based on the ore dictionary. This means that it will analyse the ore-texture and create the cluster accordingly:
As you can see, it event differentiates Stone-,Netherrack- and Endstone-based ores. It supports all TCon ores, Metallurgy 4, Nickel (Ferrous) and Dark Iron from Factorization!
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DITC Celebrates Three Navy Milestones, 1 March, 2016
The CO delivered an illuminating history lesson to staff and students on the 1st of March, a day to remember and celebrate several milestones in our military's history, not the least of which was the Royal Australian Navy's 115th year! A close second was the establishment of RAAF Base Williams in 1925, Australia's third oldest RAAF base. Finally, came the creation of the RAN's new ensign in 1967... which was done in order to distinguish our own navy from the British during the conflict in Vietnam. Three major developments that we can all be proud of.


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Comfort Gaming
One of the things I always have trouble sorting out, is what game I plan on playing during the AggroChat podcast. Now there are casts that have a strict no gaming rule while talking, but I honestly think that would damage some of the discussion. Essentially we are hitting record on conversations that naturally happened already on our voice chat server. Part of that equation is the fact that we are talking while gaming, and for the last couple of weeks the game of choice has been Diablo 3. I think partially it is that I know the season is coming to an end, and as a result it is fresh in my mind again. The ultimate irony however is that I am not playing seasonal characters at all. While recording two shows ago I ended up pushing my non-seasonal monk to 70 and last night I started working on trying to get my non-seasonal warrior from 60 to 70. That would leave only my Wizard as being sub max level, which honestly…. I am considering giving another chance. I am not a huge fan of finger wigglers… but after running with a lot of wizards over these last couple of seasons… I have to say I see the charm. They can simply melt anything that they come up against, and there actually is a semi melee range option that I would probably be able to stomach.
The other thing that I tried my hand at this week was Path of Exile. I find it shocking that the game has been out this long and I have yet to even really give it a shot. The talent screen honestly scared me off a bit because it looked as complicated as the final fantasy x sphere grid. However for some time my friend Carthuun has been talking it up, pretty much anytime we brought up Diablo 3. It is entertaining and I feel like I could play it happily, but I have to say I was somewhat shocked how relatively difficult that it starts. I mean it is not super hard, but you can't simply mow through the mobs in quite the manner that you do in Diablo 3. All this really means is it makes me realize just how watered down the latest Diablo installment really was. The only disappointment was that there didn't seem to be any sort of a real "knight" light character with a sword and shield in the manner of the Crusader in D3. I ended up choosing the big brute character, and at some point I will probably try and go sword and shield. I am not sure exactly how I am building the character yet because I have yet to get terribly far.
Pre-Patch Farming
The majority of yesterdays game time was spent running around in The Division and attempting to farm crafting components. At the current moment I have a decent stash of materials, or at least am in a better position than I was before I knew the crafting changes were coming down. I am not super pumped about the patch, because it feels like it is taking the game in a less player friendly direction. However that said I am still slowly making progress towards the level cap. While running around yesterday I managed to ding 24, and encountered some areas that I had not seen yet. The strangest of course was this marijuana farm that was nestled deep inside a building. As the day goes on today my goal is to continue trying to level because I would really love to be able to participate in some of the big activities, but I am absolutely certain I will not hit the cap before the patch. I am somewhat frustrated that it sounds like gearing is going to be harder for me, than it was for the folks who rushed the leveling process. That however always seems to be the case… the first few you get to cap get easy epics, and those who level slowly have to struggle through the throttled drop rates.


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FWSA Chair Alison Phipps has recently been working with the NUS on their report 'Hidden Marks: a study of women students' experiences of harassment, stalking, violence and sexual assault'. The report is based on a survey of over 2000 women students, and found that 1 in 7 (14%) had been the victim of serious sexual assault or serious physical violence while at university or college. It also found that 12% had been stalked, and in 60% of cases of sexual assault or stalking, the perpetrator was a fellow student. Only 4% of women students who had been seriously sexually assaulted had reported it to their institution, and only 10% to the police.
The report can be downloaded at http://resource.nusonline.co.uk/media/resource/NUS_Hidden_Marks_web_1.pdf


text: DeeDee Halleck is a media activist and co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. Her first film, Children Make Movies (1961), was about a film-making project at the Lillian Wald Settlement in Lower Manhattan. Her film, Mural on Our Street was nominated for Academy Award in 1965. She has led media workshops with elementary school children, reform school youth and migrant farmers.


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Publication Date: 1990-Oct-19
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Teacher Collaboration: The Effects of Interdisciplinary Teaming on Teacher Interactions and Classroom Practices.
Meichtry, Yvonne J.
This research investigation focused on a middle school interdisciplinary team of teachers in an attempt to understand how such an arrangement, as an aspect of school organization, has the potential to influence teacher interactions and the classroom practices of teachers. Major sources of data were the interactions among participant teachers as observed during various times of the school day, observations of these teachers in their classrooms while teaching, and interviews. The findings revealed that classroom practices such as curriculum planning, delivery of instruction, evaluation of student performance, and behavior management were influenced by the collaborative nature of teacher interactions with one another. These findings were congruent with the theory base for the study that teachers' attitudes, cognitions, and beliefs are socially constructed and maintained through daily organizational life. Implications based on this analysis are offered for middle school organization, the implementation of teaming as school innovation, and teacher preparation programs. (Author)
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Hey All,
Here are the shots from the STUDENT SHOWCASE from April 18th at Centrepointe.
Hey All,
Here are the shots from the STUDENT SHOWCASE from April 18th at Centrepointe.
Thanks for clicking over, been a busy year, a really fun year. Thanks for being part of it. Maybe you've seen these, maybe some, maybe all, or none. Thought I'd single out a few that really meant a lot for various reason for me, be it where it was printed, the shoot itself, to the time surrounding it. I hope you enjoy.
Thank you all for giving me another year doing what I do.
Happy Friday!
Another year over…well almost. That time of year to recap what has been. Truthfully I should be processing not reminiscing about that past 12 months, but it is still early in the day, lots of time to get it all done.
I wanted to take some time and share a few of my favorite images that I got to be part of from this past year…2014.
Like any photographer I should probably be at least processing and not writing a blog.
But I am gonna make a bit of time today. Each day this week I am gonna try and post some different stuff I have shot recently and ways I shoot it and any other technical tidbits I can throw at ya.
We headed out a couple weeks back to shoot some promo stuff for Jeff Logan's new project. Who is Jeff Logan? Well I probably first really shot live images a few years ago of Jeff when he was playing Ottawa Bluesfest with Amanda Rheaume. I do know he plays with Country musician Brea Lawrenson. With that said, I also worked a bit on his charity event "Beards for Breast", Jeff is raising money for Babes 4 Breast that is coming up Sunday October 19th at Bassline Station. OK that may not have been the best bio but you are intrigued now you're so gonna look him up on Facebook, aren't ya?
Hey Everyone,
I am back at it again. Been really busy that last few months as I am sure those that follow me and occasionally read the blog post, have noticed that. Been a great few weeks, somethings have slipped thru the cracks, but we are back trying to get you all your images.