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Alzheimer Society Research Program
What is the "ASRP"?
The Alzheimer Society Research Program is a collaborative initiative of the provincial Alzheimer Societies, the Alzheimer Society of Canada, partners, and our valuable donors who support research directed at both eliminating dementia and improving the lives of those affected by it.
The Alzheimer Society Research Program (ASRP) has funded $53 million in grants and awards since its inception in 1989.
The ASRP targets two types of research:
What we have to offer:
Type of funding
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$51,500/year (MD)
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Impact of Research funded through the ASRP:
- Identifying potential new drugs for Alzheimer's disease
- Using neuroimaging techniques to distinguish different forms of dementia
- Studying how diet and other lifestyle choices may delay the disease
- Developing technology to enhance quality of life, care and safety for people affected
- Improving care delivery in the community and in long-term care settings
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In 2016, an estimated 564,000 people are living with dementia in Canada. This is why the Alzheimer Society Research Program remains committed to funding innovative research that will bring us closer to a future without Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
It is important that we report back to our stakeholders and celebrate the success of ASRP-funded research. We do so by providing research updates, sharing publications resulting from these projects, webinars and community events which engage researchers with the community.

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One issue that has been bugging some users for a while now is the inability to delete temporary files on their Windows Phone 8 devices. Nokia got around this by building in their Storage Check app and even Huawei is reportedly making an app to do the same.
Now, after reports of the GDR2 (and firmware) update rolling out for unbranded HTC 8X owners today, the ability to delete temporary files is evidently built right into the OS.
We're not sure if this is a Microsoft fix or an HTC one. We can say our Nokia Lumia 925, with GDR2, does not have this on board, but perhaps that is because it would be redundant. Therefore, this may either be an optional configuration for all OEMs or HTC did some fixing here to enable this feature.
The option reportedly works by heading into your Settings > Phone Storage area and tapping the storage progress bar. A new area, called "temporary files" is now revealed along with a "tap to clear" option, allowing users to regain some space. It's unclear is the will have an affect on "other storage" or is just for temporary files, akin to the earlier mentioned app Shrink Storage.
Certainly a nifty feature and one we look forward to finding on other Windows Phones.
Update: The trick to enable this feature is you must also have the "Make More Space" app by HTC installed. Thanks, @TuanDesomerChu, for the tip!
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Federal investigators say one propeller of a small plane that fatally crashed in central Pennsylvania, killing a Seal Beach executive, apparently wasn't working at the time of a crash.
A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says Brian Robertson's Cessna 441 crashed nearly nose-first when it went down Dec. 22 near York Airport after a cross-country flight.
The Huntington Beach resident was the only person aboard. He had departed from Long Beach Airport earlier in the day, bound for York.
NTSB officials said it will take 12 or 18 months to complete a final report with a cause for the crash.
Robertson, 38, was chief executive of Amonix Inc., a solar company based in Seal Beach.
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The Huffington Post is reporting that Glenn Beck and Fox News are splitting.
Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that Beck will "transition off of his daily program" later this year.
Beck's production company, Mercury Radio Arts, will instead work with Fox News to produce programs for the channel.
In a joint news release, Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Beck's production company, said that they will "work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News' digital properties."
Beck, the statement said, would "transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year." It is not clear what the programs will be, or how many of them there will be.
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News 12 First at Five / Monday, March 5, 2012
EVANS, Ga. -- Breast-feeding in public is a hot topic around the country and on Monday, dozens of women in Columbia County took their concerns straight to the courthouse steps.
They're hosting their very own "nurse-in," fighting for change and more protection when it comes to feeding their children in public.
Heather Comprosky proudly breast-fed her son, Wyatt.
"This is our right and actually, our children's right," she said.
But Comprosky says there's a stigma when it comes to breast-feeding in public.
"Most of us do get glares, we get looks, or we get sighs and we're tired of it," Comprosky explained.
And now, these women and their tiny bundles took action with a "nurse-in" on the lawn of the Columbia County courthouse.
"This is just kind of a way to rally all of the moms together to tell Georgia that we need to implement new changes into our Georgia law," Comprosky said.
Organizers want a more specific law that excludes nursing mothers from indecency laws.
"We want to show that breast-feeding is not indecent. We can be out here and be in public and it's not anything indecent or anything to be ashamed of," explained "nurse-in" organizer Andrea McPherson.
"What we're doing is just feeding our children. Most of us don't show anything and if we do, it's not because we want to show our breast to you, it's just that we're trying to feed our children the best way that we have been told to do," Comprosky said.
In Georgia, mothers can breast-feed anywhere they physically have permission to be, like stores and parks, but the groups doing this all across the state say not all places abide by that law.
They're also hoping to punish people or businesses that harass or discriminate against breast-feeding in public.
"The American Academy of Pediatric, The Surgeon General ... I mean everyone is saying breast-feed, breast-feed, breast-feed but we go out in public and do it and we're getting harassed, so, it's a double standard and women are getting caught in the middle," McPherson said.
The idea for the "nurse-in" came from a south Georgia mother who was kicked out of her church for breast-feeding and then told she could be arrested.
Organizers expected about 50 women to stop by the event in Evans. There were also "nurse-ins" held in Atlanta and Savannah as well.
And it appears they're turning heads after all. Late Monday afternoon they announced the Breast-feeding Protection Act now has a bill number, a sponsor and several co-sponsors.


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Lancôme's Daria Werbowy Collection is Available Now at Sephora Online
Lancôme's Daria Werbowy Collection is finally available online at Sephora. The three-piece makeup collection has earthy brown, natural nude and warm gold colors. Check out my previous post for more details about this collection.
I have been intrigued by light nude beiges for lips. Hopefully, this collection will be available at Sephora stores near me, so I can try it on. Have you tried any of these from the collection yet?
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Nevena Milojković, Clément Béra, Mohammad Ghafari, and Oscar Nierstrasz. Mining Inline Cache Data to Order Inferred Types in Dynamic Languages. In Science of Computer Programming, Elsevier, Special Issue on Adv. Dynamic Languages, 2017. Details.
The lack of static type information in dynamically-typed languages often poses obstacles for developers. Type inference algorithms can help, but inferring precise type information requires complex algorithms that are often slow. A simple approach that considers only the locally used interface of variables can identify potential classes for variables, but popular interfaces can generate a large number of false positives. We propose an approach called inline-cache type inference (ICTI) to augment the precision of fast and simple type inference algorithms. ICTI uses type information available in the inline caches during multiple software runs, to provide a ranked list of possible classes that most likely represent a variable's type. We evaluate ICTI through a proof-of-concept that we implement in Pharo Smalltalk. The analysis of the top-n+2 inferred types (where n is the number of recorded run-time types for a variable) for 5486 variables from four different software systems shows that ICTI produces promising results for about 75% of the variables. For more than 90% of variables, the correct run-time type is present among first six inferred types. Our ordering shows a twofold improvement when compared with the unordered basic approach, i.e., for a significant number of variables for which the basic approach offered ambiguous results, ICTI was able to promote the correct type to the top of the list.


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We are at SCOPE New York this week and presenting the dynamic works of the de la Torre Brothers, Generic Art Solutions, Marc Burckhardt, Bonnie Marie Smith, Kurt Weiser, Sunkoo Yuh and James Kennedy.
The Mindy Solomon Gallery works hard to present thought-provoking, high-quality contemporary art works by emerging talent representing the best in sculptural forms, photography, painting and mixed media. (Learn more about G.A.S., James Kennedy, Kurt Weiser, Marc Burckhardt, the de la Torre Brothers).
Booth No. A11 will be on exhibit at SCOPE NY through Sunday, March 11. If you should need entry passes, please contact me or the gallery.
Back home, Meditative Journeys, presenting Korean painter Sungyee Kim and sculptor Kang Hyo Lee is open and on exhibit through March 31. See opening photos here.


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Denis Sukhodolsky, PhD
Associate Professor in the Child Study Center
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Child Study Center: Albert J. Solnit Integrated Training Program | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program | Developmental Disabilities Program | Tic Disorder & Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Program
Yale Medicine
Denis G. Sukhodolsky, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. His research concerns the efficacy and mechanisms of behavioral treatments for children with neurodevelopmental disorders including Tourette syndrome, autism, anxiety, and disruptive behavior disorders. His work has been supported with a career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health, as well as research awards from the Tourette Syndrome Association and the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation. Currently, he is a PI of an R01 study that uses cognitive-behavioral therapy to examine the neural circuitry of aggression in children across diagnostic categories. He has also been an investigator on the multi-site study of behavior therapy for tics in children with Tourette Syndrome and led efforts on studies of EEG biomarkers of tics in children with Tourette Syndrome. In the area of autism research, Dr. Sukhodolsky has served as an investigator in the RUPP Autism Network studies of risperidone with or without parent training in children with autism and of parent training for aggression in young children with autism. He also has a long-standing interest in anxiety in children with autism, and his lab is currently conducting a study of neural mechanisms of CBT for anxiety in autism. Dr. Sukhodolsky has authored and co-authored over 70 papers and book chapters. In addition to his research, Dr. Sukhodolsky is a licensed and board certified clinical psychologist working with children and their families at the Yale TS/OCD Clinic.
Education & Training
|Hofstra University (1997)
|Postdoctoral fellow
|Yale University
|Board Certification
|AB of Professional Psychology, Child Psychology (2013)
Honors & Recognition
K01 career development awardNational Institute of Mental Health (2008)
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation Research AwardObsessive Compulsive Foundation (2004)
Frank Andrews Memorial AwardUniversity of Michigan (2003)
Robert Vane Memorial ScholarshipHofstra University (2002)
Tourette Syndrome Association Research AwardTourette Syndrome Association (2001)
Professional Service
Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities (CPDD) Study Section (2014 - Present) Reviewer
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2013 - Present) Editorial Board
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (2004 - Present) Awards and Recognition Committee


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4. If you really want to start a general meet thread in the Lounge but are not a subscriptor, try asking somebody in #macintosh to start it for you.
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Here's a whole new kettle of fish for Mac users: running Windows on Intel Macs, with Apple's help and blessing. Questions about using Boot Camp in particular belong in Mac Achaia. Once you begin installing Windows on your Mac, all questions about installation and troubleshooting belong in either the Microsoft OS & Software Colloqium or NT, Win2K & XP Technical Mojo, depending on the issue. The implication is simple: questions about Windows—no matter what kind of hardware you're running it on—don't belong in the Achaia. That includes drivers for your Mac hardware, Apple-provided or otherwise.
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As the Mac is still strong in the audio-visual field, it's natural to expect a little crossover between the two. Use your best judgement as to whether your thread is Mac-specific or general enough to go in AV (i.e. what adapter do I need for connecting a monitor to my Mac vs what kind of monitor should I buy), and try not to get bent out of shape if one of us moves it for you. Same for threads on the iPod. As a rule, monitor selection/advice threads always belong in A/V Club.
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Same as above; items for sale or trade must be posted in the Agora, but can be linked up in the perpetual Mac stuff for sale thread. As always, any Agora threads also need to comply with the Agora Guidelines.
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All programming questions, without exception, belong in the Programmer's Symposium. That's why that particular forum is there.
You'd think this one would be obvious but it seems people still have a hard time with it. Understandably, there will be inevitable comparisons to Windows or Linux features, functions, and benefits that come up over the course of many a discussion in the Achaia, and that's fine, since we don't live in a vacuum. However, when it becomes the dominant focus of a thread, you can expect a warning or two, and following that, a lock.
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How about linking the Agora to the perpetual Mac crap for sale thread?
well, after being told i am a not following standard operating procedures for not emailing "email@example.com" with concerns -- and seeing others constantly chided for the same -- i finally tried to email that address today.
i'm no header guru -- and i know chris is no longer of this world -- but does the bounceback mean no one at ars got it because all "mods" email goes to that account? or does it mean that there is a list of mod recipients, one of which (chris) didn't get it? looking at the headers there is no indication that anyone at ars received it. please advise.
having read the email again, i would soften the word "plainly."
No, all of us got the email. It's just chrisale's individual mailbox it got bounced from.
Chrisale isn't dead by the way, I got e-mail from him maybe a month or two ago.
I think you mean "Grizzly Adams." Now if I only could remember what the theme music for the show was'¦ That or find me a grizzy bear.
And, chrisale, if that's you in those photos with your little girl, then it's good to know someone else waited pretty late to have kids. (We've got a six-month going on seven-month at home, and I'm about to face the big four-oh next month. But, it could be just the gray hair.
There seems to be an exemption to this rule with respect to 'Perpetual...' threads.
Is this a <wink><wink> situation or an oversight by mods?
As far as I`m concerned, this is why they are called "Perpetual" threads, so the 30-day limit doesn`t necessarily apply. Other mods may feel differently however.
This thread is rather out of date at this point, and needs to be combined with a proper FAQ.
Whatever did happen to the revamping of the FAQs that was supposed to take place with the ars site updates/upgrades?
It fell onto the back burner.
And by back burner, I mean a burner on a stove in an entirely different house that you don't have a key to.
The links to the perpetual threads are not working, FYI.
They're working now.
Minor quibble...
It's not in the forum description anymore
I'm leaving it there as a reminder to myself how much we suck for not having rewritten these since 2003.
With the seemingly unending stream of, "When will there be an update to [foo]?" threads lately, may I humbly propose starting a new Mac Buyer's Guide perpetual thread where we can house related information, advice, and speculation? The one linked in the OP is really of no use.
Any chance we can have an official Ars Wiki, or at least a link covering the wiki?
This one needs a rethink given that some categories of post (e.g. the OP in meet threads, Agora-type sales threads) need to be updated to reflect changing information.
If Eric disagrees then he surely must ban himself given how many times he's edited the OP in this two-and-a-half year old thread.
I guess this thread is as good a place as any to archive this link.
I believe Kennedye's lock on the "Apple market share strategy: Convergence with a KISS" thread was ill advised.
All right, I know we haven't really touched this thread in a long time, but I promise we'll clean it up and modernize it all out by the end of the summer.
Let me preface the following with this comment;
Can we add a list of good and bad other mac fora to the FAQ? As least it will prevent newbies from stepping into the pile of shit that is rixstep. No, I won't link, but here is the stunt they tried to pull as described by John C. Welch. The Achaia has had more encounters here and here.
Can we get a link to the unofficial Ars wiki?
At the moment I write this, 34 out of 49 topics are on the iPhone. Isn't the iPhone more at home in the Mobile Computing Outpost? In other words: give me back my Macintoshian Achaia!
As above, please can the iphone threads be relocated? this is a Macintosh sub-forum, not apple products generally.
Actually this forum is Apple products generally, it always has been, probably always will be, and we're fine with the name still saying "Mac".
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Actually this forum is Apple products generally, it always has been, probably always will be, and we're fine with the name still saying "Mac".
This has bugged me for a long, long time.
Then you should adjust your own guidelines and, yes, change the name of this forum. i find it a bizarre policy to have iphones / ipods / apple tvs in a mac forum when there are clearly other fora more suitable for this.
Or just make a Microsoft, Google, Apple, Intel, other corporations, thread and be done with it. Now Apple is being treated as a universe in itself under the pretense of a macintosh platform forum. I love many of Apple's products but find this a shameful attitude not belonging to a site which i assume holds itself to a higher - i would hope independent and unbiased - standard.
How does Achaia relate to Apple or Macs?
It doesn't, it relates to Ars Technica. Meaning we're about classical antiquity.
Not sure were to post this, but are you going to take measures to avoid the flood of spam threads?
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Not sure were to post this, but are you going to take measures to avoid the flood of spam threads?
See armwt's message on behalf of all of us mods here. In short: We're aware of the spam problem, and it's something that has vexed various Fora on Ars on and off over the last year. They're unbelievably tenacious; the more obstacles the Tech Team throws in their way, the harder they work to post their nonsense.
We apologize for the mess it's causing in the Ach in particular, and new counter-measures are in the works.
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Not sure were to post this, but are you going to take measures to avoid the flood of spam threads?
See armwt's message on behalf of all of us mods here. In short: We're aware of the spam problem, and it's something that has vexed various Fora on Ars on and off over the last year. They're unbelievably tenacious; the more obstacles the Tech Team throws in their way, the harder they work to post their nonsense.
We apologize for the mess it's causing in the Ach in particular, and new counter-measures are in the works.
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About 7 years ago, FanBox was started as a laboratory "sandbox". It has served as a place where interested parties could comfortably experiment, try and even fail as many times as needed, to eventually successfully democratize social media.
The objective of the experiment was to invent all the technological elements needed to empower billions of people to lift themselves out of poverty.
Did you know? Half the world's population lives on $2 or less per day. Empowering these people to rapidly become productive in a thriving economy, right from where they are, was precisely the goal.
...that with the help of over a thousand employees, hundreds of success coaches and 100,000 dedicated test alpha users, the experiment is coming to its logical conclusion and end.
Together we invented the concept of social networking applications, virtual currency, transactions within apps, and even transactions over mobile devices.
To review some of the hundreds of inventions and patents that resulted from this experiment, visit Google's Patent Search Tool.
We took all our learnings, inventions and tools and incorporated them into a new platform called empowr.
empowr's mission: To empower people, by enabling opportunity, hope and influence.
empowr's goal: To help half the world's population (4 billion people) earn an average of $25/day by the year 2025.
To learn all about empowr, simply visit http://www.empowr.com
Visit empowr.com or download the iPhone or Android mobile app. We hope you will be pleased.
Got a FanBox account? You can have your FanBox account, and everything in it, automatically imported into your empowr account, by signing into your FanBox account and following the simple instructions.
It's been a long and often difficult road. Together we tried many different things, many of which worked well, and some of which failed to create the desired results.
Through all these trials and tribulations, many of you stayed with us.... believing, pushing and giving us the confidence and energy to keep on keeping on.
You did everything so selflessly, without fanfare, fuss or even asking for credit.
Without you, this experiment would have long failed.
Without people like you, we wonder if anything big and positive would ever happen for the world.


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TOTAL QUALITY in the way the company is managed, striving for excellence in all areas.
The importance of developing our activities with respect to the ENVIRONMENT and within the context of continuous improvement and pollution prevention.
That the management of SAFETY AND HEALTH has strategic priority for the benefit of the members of our team and for the continued success of the business.
To achieve these objectives:
We put the customer at the center of our activities and direct all our processes to meet their needs in terms of product quality, service and pricing.
We commit to:
Maintain an Environmental Management System (EMS) which involves periodic assessment of the magnitude and impacts of our activities, products and services, as well as establish a periodic review of our environmental objectives and targets for the fulfillment of this policy.
Comply with applicable legal requirements related to the environmental aspects of the Environmental Management System as well as any other requirements subscribed to by ORBEA.
Communicate this policy to all persons working for the organization and on behalf of it, and to keep it available to stakeholders in the Environmental Management System.
The management believes that ORBEA IS AN ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE, so it assumes the need to design, develop, maintain, review and continuously improve a Management System of Occupational Health and Safety with these ultimate goals:
To achieve a high level of safety and health at work for all members of the organization by preventing injuries, illnesses, diseases and work-related incidents.
To promote health among all members of the organization.
To promote employee involvement in the prevention of injury or loss of life when using production equipment and materials.
Other goals for our Management System of Occupational Health and Safety will be:
To ensure compliance with current legislation on the prevention of occupational risks and with the internal regulations of our Joint Prevention System.
To ensure that all employees and their representatives are consulted, trained and encouraged to actively participate in its development.
To be transparent, with clear objectives that are quantified and communicated directly.
To pursue continuous improvement in labor, health, and safety performance.
ORBEA, S.COOP management is committed to integrate the management of occupational health and safety at all levels of the organization. It will define responsibilities as needed and will provide adequate resources and training to be performed in order to guarantee success.
Management efforts are directed to extend this vision throughout the organization and thus ensure that our customers perceive us as having a significant competitive advantage. We are convinced that this is the only way we can ensure their loyalty and consequently the survival of our company over time.


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Rapper The Game has offered to pay fines for the first five people who are caught wearing saggy pants in an area of New Jersey where the trend has been banned.
The hip-hop star is fuming over plans to crack down on anyone who is seen wearing pants that drop three inches below the hips, or show skin or underwear, on the boardwalk in the city of Wildwood.
Officials can hit offenders with fines ranging from $25 to $200, as well as community service punishments, and The Game is adamant the new rule, passed by the local council on Wednesday, is unfair.
The star has also offered to step in and pay the fines for the first few people caught out by the new ruling as part of a protest against the scheme.
He tells TMZ.com, "N— should sag down to their socks out there. They (are) trying to get people to not sag, please. (They) can't tell people how to wear their f— clothes. What time are we in? This ain't the f— slave days. F— that … I am with the sagging movement. First five people to get fines, I will pay their tickets … I will go there and sag cause I am a sagging Sagittarius."
Other stars to wade into the saggy pants debate include Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Bizzy Bone, who called the plan "ridiculous."
Wildwood Mayor Ernest Troiano Jr. says in defense of the plan, "This is just adding a little bit of decency to our town. … The city is not going to be out hunting these kids down. We're not going to be out there with a tape measure. But we know what's right and not right. If we don't make an attempt to clean our town up, who's going to?"
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1 dead in wreck with 18-wheeler on U.S. 59
A passenger died Sunday morning when a car clipped a tractor trailer on the Eastex Freeway.
Shortly after 6 a.m., a white Cadillac Deville driving northbound on U.S. 59 near the Highway 288 interchange crossed the median into incoming traffic, said Houston Police Department Spokesman Kese Smith. The car was hit by a tractor trailer, causing it to spin and slam against a shoulder wall.
passenger was dead in the rear seat when authorities arrived at the
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"Based on evidence recovered at the scene, alcohol may have been a factor," Smith said.
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Gales Ferry, Conn. -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth equestrian team took third place on Saturday afternoon at the Zone 1 Region 1 IHSA show.
Freshman Sarah Kieran (Plympton, Mass.) finished first in her open over fences and open flat class. Kieran also received high point rider of the show after winning the ride off. Senior Captain Kathryn Gardner (Concord, Mass.) placed 4th in intermediate flat and 6th in novice over fences, while junior Rachel Pacheco (Fall River, Mass.) placed 6th in novice over fences. Sophomore Colleen Waclawk (Rochester, Mass.) placed 5th and 3rd in novice on the flat.
Junior Captain Sarah Murray (Sharon, Mass.) took 3rd in advanced walk trot canter. Sophomore Alexandra Koury (Holden, Mass.) won her advanced walk trot canter class, while Jillian Ruyffelaert (Northampton, Mass.) finished 2nd in beginner walk trot canter.
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"Delicate task wipers" has always sounded strange to me, but I suppose the distinction is necessary to avoid confusing Kimwipes with Kleenex tissues or ordinary tissue paper. But that's essentially what Kimwipes are – sheets of high quality low-lint tissue paper.
Kimwipes, made by Kimberly Clark Professional, are available in a variety of sizes and thicknesses. I mainly use the smallest size Kimwipes, product code 34155, which are 1-ply 4.4 x 8.4 inch sheets. Although the sheets are somewhat small, they're more than enough for most minor tasks. Plus, the dispenser box has an extremely small footprint, making it much more likely I'll keep them within reach.
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A couple of years back when I learned how to polish soft metallurgical samples (e.g. solder balls for microscopy), I was taught that Kimwipes are fine to use on softer samples that have been polished with up to 1200 grit abrasives. After that, a blast of dry nitrogen works better for scratch-free drying. I don't know whether this is one man's practice or standard convention, but the habit stuck with me when cleaning the extremely delicate surfaces.
I have no experience with other brands' disposable wipers, but have had no complaints with Kimwipes in the 10-years or so that I've been using them regularly. I typically order 1-2 boxes (280-count) at a time for ~$5 each including shipping (via Amazon).
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Retirement is full of flavors for 68-year-old Darlene Carlson. A retired occupational therapist turned gardener, Carlson enjoys making jam from produce she raises at Mockingbird Hill, her farm south of Lincolnville.
She enjoys selling her jam and other garden produce, such as fresh herbs, fruit, vegetables, and cut flowers at farmers markets in Hillsboro and Marion.
Carlson freezes or cans all the fruit from her orchards for later use, putting up a wide variety of produce including cherries, persimmons, apples, apricots, pears, peaches, plums, rhubarb, elderberries, strawberries, and just about any other kind of berry imaginable.
"One of my favorites is apple-quince," she said. "I especially like the different aroma and taste the quince gives the mix. I have just found I am very interested in different flavors this year."
Quince is a very tart fruit that grows on a tree similar to an apple, but instead of smooth skin has fuzz on the outside.
"Our apricots have an unusual tart flavor this year too," Carlson said. "I think the key to getting the intense flavor in jam is finding the right combination of tart and sweet."
Carlson said the secret to making good jam (which is thick and chunky, not clear like jelly) is using equal parts of fruit and sugar. She also believes in plenty of cooking time.
"I boil my jam for approximately six minutes," she said. "That is longer than most recipes recommend, but I think that enhances the flavor."
Another important aspect of making jam is understanding pectin, Carlson said.
"It's not necessarily that all have the same amount of pectin," she said. "Pectin in the fruit is what causes the mix to gel. You can buy it in a box and follow the recipe, but I like to make use of the natural pectin that each fruit has, which can get a little tricky sometimes."
Other interesting fruits and flavors Carlson worked with this growing season include persimmons, pawpaws, and tomatillos.
"A tomatillo is a fruit that grows like a tomato but it has a husk on the outside," she said. "I like to use those to make delicious salsa."
Though Carlson cannot sell her salsa at farmers markets because of regulations, she enjoys it fresh or canned at home. Her jam, however, is a marketable item, preserved by the heat and sugar used in its formation.
"We gave sample of the apricot jam last week," she said. "It really sold well and the customers seem to enjoy the unusual flavor as I do."


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Reading 3: Effects of the Battle of Oriskany
The retreat of General St. Leger returned the Mohawk Valley to an uneasy peace which would not last for long. In late August, General Benedict Arnold offered to pardon any Tories who turned themselves in and joined the Rebels saying:
Whereas a certain Barry St. Leger a Brigadiergeneral in the services of the -------- George of Great Britain, at the head of a banditti of robbers, murderers, and traitors, composed of savages of America, and more savage Britons (among whom is noted Sir John Johnson, John Butler, and Daniel Claus) have lately appeared in the frontiers of this State, and have threatened ruin and destruction to all the inhabitants of the United States. They have also, by artifice and misrepresentation, induced many ignorant and unwary subjects of these states, to forfeit their allegiance to the same, and join them in their crimes, and parties of treachery and parricide.¹
Pierre Van Cortland, writing to New York Governor George Clinton on August 25, 1777, was confident that the British strategy to capture New York was failing:
I have great reason to believe that Genl: Burgoyne will soon follow the example of St. Leger, and my greatest fear is that he will be equally fortunate in getting off without a second drubbing, as the militia do not turn out with that alacrity which might be expected. A proper spirit on this occasion would enable us totally to destroy the enemy in the quarter, and secure peace and safety to this part of the country. The enemy are in our power, could the militia only be prevailed on to believe it.²
Van Cortland was correct that the British force led by General Burgoyne would not succeed; on October 17, 1777, after failing to break through the Rebel lines protecting Albany, and suffering from lack of supplies, General Burgoyne surrendered his entire army at Saratoga. General Howe never committed his full army to the third thrust up the Hudson Valley, but instead attacked Philadelphia.
New York was no longer threatened by three British armies, but it continued to suffer the trauma of civil war. Sir John Johnson and Joseph Brant returned to the Mohawk Valley with their Tory forces repeatedly, raiding and destroying villages, crops, and livestock, and massacring enemies and innocents alike. The Rebels retaliated on Tory strongholds, most notably when General Sullivan led his troops through western New York destroying everything in his wake. When the Oneidas requested that neutral Onondaga villages be spared, their pleas were ignored and they were destroyed along with villages aligned with the Tories.
In 1783, the Treaty of Paris ended the war between the United States and Great Britain. It was followed in 1784 by the Treaty of Fort Stanwix which ended the war between the United States and the Iroquois Confederacy. The ancestral lands of the Oneida and Tuscarora Nations were preserved and protected by the federal government under the terms of this treaty, in recognition of their support during the American Revolution. However, the Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas were confined to a small reservation, punished for supporting the Tory cause.
Although New York was enjoying true peace again, Tories of European and American Indian heritage were faced with a difficult decision, either to remain in the new United States and accept its government or to leave the country. While some Tories chose to stay in the United States, many moved. Some went to the British and Caribbean Islands, but the vast majority moved to Canada and settled there on lands granted by Great Britain. Today there are still large numbers of Canadians of European and Native American extraction who can trace their ancestry to the United States and the Revolutionary War. Descendants from the tribes that made up the Iroquois Confederacy have worked for years to restore their lost unity and relight the Central Council Fire.
Questions for Reading 3
1. Find out about Benedict Arnold's career. Re-read his address to the Tories of New York. Does it help you to understand his character better? If so, how?
2. How do you think the people in central New York reacted to news of the Battle of Oriskany? Consider each of the following groups in your answer: German, Dutch, European-American Tories, American Indian Tories, American Indian Rebels.
3. How did the battle affect life in central New York for the remainder of the war?
4. What do you think was the significance of the Battle of Oriskany to central New York? To the outcome of the Revolutionary War? To the fate of the Iroquois Confederacy? To world history? Why?
5. Which groups benefited the most from the Rebel victory and American independence in the short term? Explain your answer.
6. Which groups benefited the most from the Rebel victory and American independence in the long run? Explain your answer.
Reading 3 was adapted from Barbara Graymont, The Iroquois in the American Revolution (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1972); Isabel T. Kelsay, Joseph Brant, 1743-1807: Man of Two Worlds (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1984); Philip Ranlet, The New York Loyalists (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986); and W. Max Reid, The Mohawk Valley: Its Legends and its History, 1609-1780 (New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1901).¹ John Luzader, The Construction and Military History of Fort Stanwix (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969) 52.
²Pierre Van Cortland to Gov. George Clinton, August 25, 1777, Public Papers of George Clinton (Albany: State of New York, 1900) 253-254.


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To provide a basic grounding in creating and interpreting pie charts.
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Topic 1 - Creating a pie chart
In topic 1 we present the steps needed to design an effective pie chart. You will have the chance to design your own pie chart too.
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In this topic we practice interpreting data presented in the form of a pie chart, and consider percentages and how to interpret them.
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Who should do this course?
Anyone wanting to produce better pie charts.
What will I be expected to do?
The course is divided into two topics. Each topic builds on the previous one, so we recommend you work through the topics in order. There are activities throughout the course to help you reinforce your learning and let you practice the skills developed in the course. Each topic will take you about 30 minutes to work through. There is a design checklist in the useful resources section that you can download and print. It will help you ensure you always design graphs and charts that are useful and effective.
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Discussion in 'Computers and Stuff' started by cwhyu2, Jul 24, 2011.
Is this a good thing,or is it not worth the time to download it?
Yes it works good, You can run it from a CD or a USB drive.
I think the newest Version is 11.04
I have used it on 32 bit Windows machines. Never tried it on a MAC.
So how did it go ?
Did you do it ?
It is a good OS to know.
At the cost of a blank CD it is easy to test, without hosing your system.
Keep us updated ...
Have not done it yet to much going on at the moment.
Will let you know.
Thanks Don
I have been using ubuntu version of linux for years .It is great . It will partion your hard drive . You can chose Windows or Linux when you start up . I use Windows for my scanner and Magic jack and Linux for everything else .It is great for web because there are no viruses . Sometimes you see windows error message and you realize this is a web site pop up attempt to trick you .They never will.
I like it.
Do you do programming ?
Visual Studio 2010 is making my brain hurt. lol
No , I do not do any programming . I use it for downloading movies . Also use spread sheets for work . It can open and edit excel sheets . Word processor can open and save same formats as microsoft . Good for surfing web . Lots of free software . Think I might look at astronomy .
I have been running Debian for years. I will never go back to windows now.
It depends your purpose. If you just want to go surfing online, no need to use linux or ubuntu as the windows is convenient. The linux/ubuntu is free in some versons, it can be used as a server.
I first tried Linux Mint 8 (Ubuntu-based) for a while about fours years ago and was quite impressed. Most recently, however, I am now in the process of installing a Debian-based version of Mint. If anyone still running XP does not want to have to hand away your checkbook in trade for a new computer, take a look at this: http://solydxk.com/
Those are completely-free "rolling versions" (no end within sight) of Linux Mint Debian that are slightly different than mine and are very-well-maintained.
I have used Ubuntu for years on an old HP server. I love it and it is very stable (command line version). I also have an old computer with the GUI version on it. It is very good. Most of the programs are free, and will run circles around anything windows offers. It would be a hard choice between my mac and ubuntu though. I would of course option for both. Try it by running it off of the cd and see how you like it.
running **most** flavors of linux directly off the cd/dvd generally wont show how speedy linux/bsd is compared to windows.
maybe a usb3.0 thumb drive would give a better show?
if you're interested in trying out ubuntu or debian [which are both linux] i would advise going to http://unetbootin.sf.net
linux has some windows compatibility software called 'wine' for more advanced users if you required certain windows-only programs.
the macintosh operating system these days is based off of a cousin of linux called unix.
linux and bsd(unix) both are 'server quality' and can be expected to be extremely stable IN MOST CIRCUMSTANCES
windows is geared more towards consumers and has a higher level of consumer device compatibilty as most **cough** consumer device drivers are created with windows in mind.
is just a matter of my humble opinion.
i recommend linux to everyone, but to maintain compatibility in my workplace i have to use windows - or at least windows compatible software.
linux is in most everything these days: android is linux, some routers and modems run linux and macintosh's these days are unix-based (OSX).
you probably use linux and don't even know it
As far as stability goes, windows or MAC based operating systems would be a bit better. They tell you to make regular backups on Linux for a reason. That being said, it's free, and it is stylish. Once you get past the install, if you are careful, Linux is actually pretty good for a working environment. You can get a compiz add-on that allows you to customize your desktop environment quite heavily. There are plenty of development tools available for the OS... By default I believe it supports multiple virtual desktops. You can bind the desktops to hotkeys like an MMO and quick switch to a different screen. Like CTRL+SHIFT+1 would take you to screen 1 with all of your development windows. Screen 2 would contain IM programs, screen 3 some internet windows, etc. It's also quite stylish. Open Office is available for Linux as well so you will not have to worry about being able to open documents or presentation files.
Both windows 8.1 and Ubuntu boot fairly quickly. I would say Ubuntu is definitely worth a try if you've never used it before.
If you have used it before, and you don't like the current incarnation (and the usual gyrations you have to go through to customize window borders, mouse pointers, docks, etc.), you may want to give Extix a try. It has the Mint 16 type of dock (pain to install in Ubuntu) and it is a little easier to customize the window borders, etc. It's three downfalls is the PDF reader (same for most Linux distros) which don't print correctly if it was written in Adobe PDF, setting up network printers will necessitate going to a command line (sudo system-config-printer, iirc) and there is no screen saver. But I like it more than the last 4 Ubuntu versions and the last 3 Mint versions. Gnome3 hid a lot of the customization settings, so it will take a little more work to setup a machine to your liking.
I am a computer technician with 40 years experience. I will not use Windows to purchase anything on line. At work I use XP (now off-line - no internet access), W7 and W8. If I want to buy something on line I will boot up from Linux Live CD on SD card (home) or USB (work). I give all my friends who do on-line banking Linux Live CDs. Tails, Ubuntu, Mint, Extix, Gentoo, BSD, SUSE, RedHat, et. al. - any plain Linux is better than any Windows when it comes to on-line banking and on-line purchases; some secure distos, like Tails, may present problems to the end-server since the packets are scatter routed instead of in a one connection stream. For instance it may not take your credit card and security code. The trick is trying out a few distros until you find one that works flawlessly. You boot up on the CD or USB, start the internet browser, do your banking, close the browser, shutdown the computer (the distro will instruct you to remove the CD and hit the carriage return key; it will then power down the computer.)


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Sept. 3, 2007
Lipscomb opened the 2007 Cross Country season Friday night at the Belmont Opener.
The Bison women finished eighth out of sixteen teams, while the men finished fourth out of thirteen teams.
The men were led by a stellar effort from sophomore Ryan Chastain, who finished ninth overall with a time of 15:36 for the 5-K race. Also finishing in the Bison top five were Jordan Wilson (19th 15:51), David Wolfe (31st 16:13), Andrew Shankles (46th 16:38) and freshman Jeff Hoover (48th 16:43).
"Ryan Chastain looked terrific," said Lipscomb coach Bill Taylor. " He is getting close to taking that next step and being one of the elites.
" Jordan ran after a week of rehab in the pool, so I am very pleased with his performance. David improved his time 22 seconds over last year. With the course running an average of eight seconds slower than last year, that is very nice improvement. Likewise, Andrew improved by 17 seconds over last year, and Jeff was a surprise in our top five. He has not been training at that level yet. This race shows us that he is a capable runner who will make a big impact on the program."
Other finishers for the men included Clint Carter (58th 16:57), Jonathan Williams (60th 17:02), Jacob Nelson (63rd 17:06), Paul Wright (65th 17:12), Jared Carlson (67th 17:15), and Ryan Bell (72nd 17:26).
"The men looked very good today, especially in the early stages of the race," said Taylor. "Last year they finished sixth out of 11 teams.This year they moved up two spots in a larger field. That improvement was the result of being aggressive and a willingness to take some chances. Their effort was very impressive. It was a great start to the season, but it is only a start. We have a lot of work to do and every guy on this team can improve dramatically."
Full Results can be found at: http://www.cfpitiming.com/2007_Cross_Country_Season/Belmont_xc_opener_2007/Belmont_2007_xc_meet.htm
Both Bison teams next compete in two weeks at the Vanderbilt Commodore Classic. The September 15th race will be contested on the same Vaughn's Gap course, however the men will expand their race to 8K and the women will race the 5K distance.


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Larry Ellison wants you to know that his acquisition of Sun Microsystems isn't a bomb and the hardware isn't a dog, but a hugely profitable business that already paid for itself.
Ellison looks at his hardware business and sees Apple.
Oracle wanted Sun so it could "do the same thing for the data center that Apple did for the consumer, Ellison said while on stage today at AllThingsD's D10 conference.
The plan was to make data centers less complicated by letting companies buy everything they need from Oracle. No need to spend millions with lots of different vendors, each specializing in their own tech like storage, servers, operating systems, databases and networks.
"We said, we'll do all of that. We'll sell you this one building block," he says. "In fact it's the Apple model."
With an iPhone, Apple did the hardware, software, and associated online service, he says. "We're trying to do the same thing for the data center that Apple did for the consumer."
And he insists that it's working great.
"Sun has been, by far, our most profitable acquisition. Sun's already paid for itself. We're making so much money. Remember we only paid $5.5 billion dollars net, of cash, and it is enormously profitable already," Ellison says.
As for those shrinking revenue numbers? Those are part of the game plan.
"A lot of people said, oh but your hardware business is going down. Well yeah, the unprofitable part we're getting out of. We used to sell other people's disk drives. We used to bid on contracts where we lost money," he explained.
"The business has dropped maybe 20% in terms of top line but it's up by a factor of five in terms of profit," and he adds: "Our margins on our hardware business are probably the highest margins of anyone in the server business."
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Identity and Violence: Making Sense of Identity with Amartya Sen
Date: 5/23/2005; 57 minutes
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is widely recognized for his ability to join economics and philosophy, reflected in his work through ethics and a sense of common humanity. In this Hitchcock Lecture from UC Berkeley he explores identity and violence. (#9462)


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NEW YORK — The long wait is over. Racing finally has its 12th Triple Crown hero.
American Pharoah defeated Frosted by several lengths late Saturday afternoon in the 147th Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to sweep the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the "Test of the Champion" since Affirmed in 1978.
He ran 1 1/2 miles in 2:26.65 at Belmont Park in his seventh consecutive victory, all in stakes, for trainer Bob Baffert and owner-breeder Ahmed Zayat. He paid $3.50, the shortest-priced Belmont winner and its first successful favorite since Afleet Alex in 2005.
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Keith Price, an area manager working with TRH Inc., reported on progress of proposed mining operations north of Monticello in the Hatch Wash area of Dry Valley. While this is not a formal announcement, what follows is a status report to the commission.
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I've had lots of non-science friends ask me clarifying questions about what they have been hearing and seeing through the media – too bad for them I wasn't an earth science teacher! I thought I would share some blog posts that have been helpful for me in trying to understand the what, why, and repercussions of the earthquake as well as a couple of posts from the New York Times that include lessons and activities.
You can also do a search in the Middle School Portal 2 Digital Library – you'll get back resources that right on track for middle school science students.
Please share additional information and resources that have been helpful to you and your students in the comment section.
Japan Struggles to Control Quake-Damaged Nuke Plant – from Wired Science
Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Explained – video from CNN
Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis – from NASA
Recent Earthquake Teachable Moments: Animations from IRIS – includes video
The Japan Earthquake and Tsunami – from NSTA – includes lessons and activities
Teaching Ideas: The Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – from New York Times Learning Network
20 Ways to Teach About the Disaster Across the Curriculum – from New York Times Learning Network
Building Quake-Resistant Structures in the Classroom – from Middle School Portal 2 blog


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Next: Property searches, Previous: Property syntax, Up: Properties and columns
Special properties provide an alternative access method to Org mode features, like the TODO state or the priority of an entry, discussed in the previous chapters. This interface exists so that you can include these states in a column view (see Column view), or to use them in queries. The following property names are special and should not be used as keys in the properties drawer:
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Michael Phelps says it's fair for USA Swimming to suspend him for three months, the latest fallout from a photo showing the Olympic great inhaling from a marijuana pipe. Phelps was back training at his regular pool Friday, a day after his suspension.
"It's not my decision. It's theirs," Phelps said of USA Swimming's decision. "I have nothing to say, but if that's they want to do, that's their choice. It's something that USA Swimming came up with. It's fair. Obviously, for a mistake you should get punished."
Phelps won a record eight gold medals in Beijing and returned to America as one of the world's most acclaimed athletes. He made headlines of a different kind, however, in the wake of the photo, published Sunday by News of the World, a British tabloid.
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"I'm taking it step by step, day by day. There's still a long way between now and then," he said. "But I'm back here, I'm training for who knows what yet. But I'm back in the water, doing the thing I love."
That's a welcome diversion from the attention he's getting outside the pool.
"From waking up to megaphones outside your house at 7:30 in the morning to still photographers out there every day for the last four days from 7:30 to when I left for a workout, I can just do what's normal for me," he said. "And right now that's me coming to the pool every day."
His coach, Bob Bowman, said the suspension will alter his plans for Phelps, who recently resumed serious training with the goal of qualifying for this summer's world championships in Rome.
"It takes away some options from our planning. You know, we had a plan of meets to kind of get us ready for the end of the summer and now we'll have to adjust that," Bowman said. "That kind of comes with this territory."
With the three-month suspension he won't be able to take on any rivals until early May, which would give him a little more than two months of competition before July's world championships in Rome.
The U.S. team for Rome will be chosen at the national championships July 7-11 in Indianapolis.
USA Swimming's decision to suspend Phelps didn't surprise Bowman.
"As a member of USA Swimming, I expected them to take action," Bowman said. "I think that we'll abide by it. I think it sends a very strong message to Michael and to others. I understand the disciplinary action."
The photo also cost Phelps a sponsor - Kellogg Co.
The company, which put Phelps' picture on several brands of its cereal, said Thursday it would not renew the deal that expires later this month.
Still, Phelps was thankful for those who have supported him.
"I've been getting messages on Facebook, both good and bad. E-mails, both good and bad. Text messages, all good," he said. "This is time when you need support. To have support from the majority of my sponsors, probably 90 percent, it means a lot. And it's something I'm very thankful for."
And what about his mother, Debbie Phelps?
"Mom wasn't happy," Phelps said. "She's been supportive through it, but wasn't happy."
AP correspondent Pete Kerzel contributed to this report.
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Taking all that into consideration... my choice would be the RX-78AL Atlas Gundam. The amphibious "Globe Joints" and water jet thrusters allow for underwater combat and the Sub-Legs equipped for high-altitude atmospheric combat gives it high versatility. It's got a solid weapon set and would be a force to be reckoned with in the right hands.
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We first caught wind that Ubisoft was planning on releasing a Windows Phone 8 specific version of Babel Rising 3D back during Casual Connect 2013. But the word on the street was that it wouldn't be Xbox enabled due to the lengthy certification process.
While we aren't sure what happened between then and now, Babel Rising 3D was released today and as an Xbox Windows Phone gaming title.
For those not familiar with Babel Rising 3D you play the role of a vengeful god with the task of preventing your worshippers from building the Tower of Babel. You use lightning bolts, earthquakes, floods and other nasty tools of your wrath to prevent the tower from being built.
Babel Rising 3D has fifteen missions in the single player campaign along with a survival mode that will test your godly stamina. Graphics look impressive and it will be interesting to see how the latest Xbox title shakes out. We'll get our Xbox Gaming Master Paul set up with Babel Rising 3D and get a full review on the site shortly.
The only obvious downside to Babel Rising 3D is that it lacks a trial version. The full version is currently running $2.99 and you can pick up Babel Rising for your Windows Phone 8 device here in the Windows Phone Store.
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