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This is the very first blog I'm writing for SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL. I know I said that I wouldn't do it but hell, I can change my mind. This essentially replaces the monthly newsletter I'd be sending out via our website, to be more current and amongst the "in crowd".but it will still be sent for the next month or so to reflect changes on the website.
Just in case you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/ is the UK's premier website for those lovers of the crime and thriller genre, and well-respected throughout the community. The site, on average, has 1500 hits per day and growing. It primarily covers the UK publishing scene although we do feature authors and books published around the world. 2007 sees the ezene enter its 6th year. So without further ado let me get on with it.
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Angelina's Hiccups - Angelina and her friends are preparing to go onstage for a performance when Angelina comes down with a bad case of the hiccups. Through a series of comical events, her friends do everything to try to help cure her! Angelina and the Must Have Bag - When all her friends have an "Eva the Diva" bag, Angelina desperately wants one too. After working hard to earn enough money for one, she discovers that being original and creative is much more exciting than following the crowd!. D
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Talmud Celebration
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A religious celebration of the Talmud drew tens of thousands of people to MetLife Stadium for prayers and song.
The event Wednesday night celebrated the completion of the reading of the book of Jewish laws and traditions. It is 2,711 pages long and takes about seven and a half years to finish.
Organizers held the program to mark the start of the 13th cycle of study and reading. MetLife Stadium was transformed into what organizers called the world's largest synagogue. It cost about $4 million.
The five-hour program included speeches, prayers and songs in both Hebrew and English. Though upbeat and joyous, portions of it were somber. It was dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.


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Math and Physics Alumni Kickoff Homecoming Weekendby Steve Charles • October 6, 2006 Share:
Time — both surviving it and traveling through it—was the theme at Goodrich Hall Friday, as Wabash's mathematics and physics departments hosted alumni for noon-hour presentations.
Jim Daniel '62, Director of Actuarial Science at the University of Texas at Austin, returned to campus to speak with students about actuarial mathematics—what actuaries do, where they work, and what it takes to become one. He also met later with students interested in pursuing a career as an actuary.
Daniel, who was also awarded on honorary degree at Wabash in 1987, intimated that it was around that time that he altered his career trajectory
"I believe people thought at that time that I a rising star in college administration," Daniel said. "But at some point, I actually turned into a teacher, and those years have been the highlight of my career.
"In a way, for the past 17 years I've been repaying my Wabash faculty who devoted themselves to teaching and really caring about their students and what they have gone on to do," Daniel observed.
For the physics department, Indiana State University professor Joe West '88 updated faculty and students on his latest ideas regarding special relativity and a hypothetical clock which could track those traveling through time.
Professor West noted the topic was one that has "haunted" his brain since he began studying physics as a Wabash freshman with Professor Vern Easterling.


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Was it a Holiday Miracle?
My brother, who lives in Penn sylvania, called to tell me of an experience he had, which still has him puzzled. He has been quite ill for some time and finds it difficult to do anything physical.
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Tennessee State University fans can now purchase the "Back to the Hole" T-Shirts from the TSU Ticket Office for $10.
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Feb. 18, 2008
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons first trip to USC Upstate will be one they will won't to put out of their memories.
On Jan. 21 the Lady Bisons beat USC Upstate 82-47 at Allen Arena. Upstate earned a level of revenge Monday night with a 69-53 win over the Lady Bisons in an Atlantic Sun game at the G.B Hodge Center.
The first half was close with the Lady Bisons taking a 21-20 lead with 2:49 left before intermission on a lay-up by freshman forward Cree Nix.
USC Upstate, however, led 26-24 at the half.
In the second half the Lady Bisons led 40-38 with 11:30 left to play when Nix once again scored on a lay-up.
But USC Upstate went on a 26-4 run to lead 64-44 with 2:19 remaining and sealed the victory.
Nix led the Lady Bisons with 14 points, her second game in a row to score that total and the third time this season. She hit six-of-12 from the field and two-of-two from the free throw line.
Also scoring in double figures for the Lady Bisons were junior center Katie Rollins with 11, hitting five-of-10 from the field. She also added two blocks.
The Lady Bisons held a 41-31 edge on the boards with Rollins and senior guard Dana Carrigan each grabbing six rebounds each.
Guard Courtney Hawkins scored a game-high 26 points for USC Upstate. Forward Shanea Wyant added 20 and Jessica McGlothlen tossed in 11.
Ebony Johnson hauled down a game-high 10 rebounds.
The Lady Bisons are 6-21 overall, 4-9 in the A-Sun. USC Upstate won its first A-Sun game to raise its record to 1-12, 5-21 overall.


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Sometimes we think we're doing everything right, yet we fail to achieve our goals. If you've noticed that your investment returns are falling short of your expectations, it might not be the market's fault. One of these four reasons could be the true culprit.
Paying Yourself Last
If you don't make saving and investing a priority, your account balance will never grow. Paying yourself first means that once a month, or each time you get a paycheck, you set aside a portion of that money for your own savings before you pay any bills or buy anything.
But what if you only have a limited amount of money coming in each month and still have bills to pay? Regardless of when you set aside money for savings, there's only so much you can set aside, right? How can paying yourself first possibly work if you're strapped for cash?
It sounds crazy, but paying yourself first works. The money disappears from your account almost before you know it's there, and once the money's gone, you can't spend it. Whatever frivolous expense you might have wasted the money on, you'll no longer have the option to purchase. You might have to be creative with the money you have, in order to scrape by until your next paycheck, but you'll be surprised at what you can come up with when you have to.
Clearly, it doesn't make sense to pay yourself first if you have to default on a credit card payment or incur another expensive consequence to do it. Your pay-yourself-first amount needs to be an amount you can afford every month. If that amount is too small to help you meet your investing goals, then any time you get extra money, put a small percentage into savings before you're allowed to spend anything.
The best way to accomplish paying yourself first is to automate it - set up the transfer so your bank does it each month or each paycheck, with no further action required on your part. Also, transfer the money to a place where it's hard to cash out. Don't just transfer the money to a savings account at the same bank where you have a checking account; it's too easy to move that money back into checking the moment you feel like you need it. Transfer the money into your retirement account or into a certificate of deposit. This way, you'll have to pay a penalty to get the money back and you'll be more likely to keep it in savings, where it belongs.
Not Maxing out Tax-Advantaged Accounts
Taxes take a significant chunk out of your investment gains when you invest through regular, taxable accounts. When you invest through tax-advantaged accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s, your gains grow tax free. Because of the power of compound growth, your investments can grow dramatically faster in tax-free accounts. If you're not maxing out these accounts and you're putting some of your money in taxable accounts, shift some or all of those investment funds to the tax-advantaged accounts and watch your money grow faster.
Suppose you currently have $10,000 invested in a stock index fund and you're contributing $250 a month. After 30 years at an 8% rate of growth, you'd have $280,233 if you invested in a regular, taxable account; but you'd have $452,764 if you invested in a tax-advantaged account. Use an online calculator like Bankrate's Investment Goals Calculator to see how much your investments could earn under different circumstances.
Paying Too Many Investment Fees
Depending on the types of investments you choose and the brokerage through which you buy, sell and hold those investments, you could pay next to nothing in investment fees or enough to seriously drag down your returns. Here are two common places where fees could be eating into your returns:
401(k) accounts - 401(k)s often have limited investment options and those options sometimes have higher fees than what you'd pay for a comparable investment, if you could shop around. If this is the case with your 401(k), you may want to contribute the minimum amount to get your employer's match (if any) and stash the rest of your savings in a Roth IRA, where you'll have full control over your investment fees. Within your 401(k), choose the lowest-fee options that match your investing goals. Remember that you can achieve diversification across a number of accounts, so if the 401(k) only has a high-fee international fund option, skip it and invest in an international fund through your Roth.
Frequent trading - For many investments, you have to pay a commission each time you buy and each time you sell. Buying and selling frequently, instead of buying and holding, can get expensive, even if you're only paying $8 per trade. Before you place a trade, look at what percentage of your investment you're losing from the commission. If you're paying $8 to sell $80 in stock, you're taking a 10% loss. Is it worth it?
One way to minimize your fees is to open an account with a brokerage, like Fidelity or Vanguard, that offers a wide range of investment options with no commissions and low fees.
Buying High and Selling Low
If you want to meet your investment goals, you need to take emotion out of the process. It's incredibly tempting to buy an investment when it's on the upswing and everyone is excited about how well it's performing. However, if you buy at times like this, you're likely to overpay. If you're still holding your investment when the party stops, you lose, especially if you sell rather than waiting for a rebound. Think of these swings in the stock market like the housing bubble – would you rather have bought in 2005 or in 2012?
There are two good ways to counteract these emotional tendencies. One is to buy a diversified index fund or exchange-traded fund (with low fees and no commissions, of course) periodically throughout the year, so that you're not strongly affected by high and low points in the market. Another is to learn the art of value investing, which preaches the evaluation of a stock's fundamentals and buying when a stock is trading at two-thirds or less of its fundamental value – in other words, when it's unpopular, but the underlying company is still a good bet.
The Bottom Line
It's easy to blame the market for an underperforming portfolio - and sometimes the market truly is to blame - but a series of small human errors based on bad habits, inattention or emotion can also preclude achieving your goals. Even if you think these four concepts are firmly ingrained, examine your portfolio statements and make sure you're not accidentally putting these bad behaviors into practice. If these concepts are new to you, you may have found some easy solutions to a seemingly mysterious problem.


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We arrived at the hotel in the early afternoon, which worked out perfectly. There was only a 20 minute wait for our room to be ready, the buffet was still open for lunch, and it was still sunny and hot. We changed our clothes, grabbed a drink, and found a couple of poolside loungers to relax in.
When we got to our room we were shocked to find out that we'd been upgraded to a VIP room. Hammock on the balcony, baby! And a free bottle of rum to take home. All I had mentioned to the girl at reception was that we were return guests and could we have a second floor room - I didn't expect that at all.
Since this was our second trip to the same place we didn't have any plans to go on excursions off the resort. The week was all about relaxing. Usually I over-plan our days so I only get around to reading maybe half a book, but this week I read the two books I brought with me and started re-reading another one that I'd brought specifically to leave behind. We brought about 10 paperbacks with us that we didn't want anymore, to leave on the bookshelf in the lobby. It was hilarious to spot our books later in the week being read by other guests.
We spent our mornings hanging out on the beach, and our afternoons by the pool. We also walked down the beach several times to another hotel to exchange money at the bank. The rate was much better than at hotel reception and we needed the exercise anyway. The buildings at the other hotel were prettier than ours, but their beach wasn't much to speak of, so I'm glad we chose the one we did.
While at the other hotel we wandered through the marketplace and Tom was fixated on buying one of these wooden scorpions.
I think they're disgusting. Lovely workmanship, but the subject? Yuck. He settled on buying a wooden crab instead and plans to hide it in his co-worker's drawer to scare him. Boys!
Part of the fun of vacation is having your room straightened for you each day and trying to guess what towel animal will be waiting for you when you come back from the beach. Our housekeeper favoured swans, but she found a different way to display them every day.
(Side note: on a cruise a few years ago our cabin steward left a towel dog one day and then a towel monkey suspended from a hanger the next. Tom thought it was the dog again and said, "What kind of sick person would hang a dog by its paws?!" It still makes me laugh.)
We managed to go horseback riding twice during the week - once for an hour with a couple who had never ridden before, and then again on our last day for a longer two-hour ride. We rode along the road, down some trails, and then along the beach. I think Tom got the same horse both days because he (the horse) would just suddenly wander off the path and start eating leaves. And each time he would get scolded by the trail guide, but I swear that horse had a smirk afterwards.
On the first ride, after stripping off the leaves, he even carried the branch with him for the rest of the ride - like a proud puppy. And my horse kept walking along leaning his head on Tom's leg - because he would scratch behind the horse's ears. I think we need to get horses!
The nightly entertainment didn't start until 9:45 each evening and we were only able to stay awake a couple of times. Such oldsters. One of the best nights was "Cuban night" when they told the history of Cuban art through dance. The dancers were so good! And the costumes were gorgeous. Tom decided he needs one of those flamenco jackets.
It was so great to re-unite with staff from last year, and to make new friends - Hi, Maria! - that we can't wait to go back again. Is it bad that I'm already checking out prices?


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Bike racing is not a genteel pastime. Ergo, it is not for gentlemen. It's a brutal sport and extremes are common. That said, some who engage this hobby need tender care in order to survive and thrive. This is where the Mad Alchemy Gentleman's Blend Warming Embrocation comes to the rescue.
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I want to eat my legs
Smells like rosemary. Tasty. This is a mild blend- I have used the medium embro from Mad Alchemy with delight, so I figured I would try something for a warmer temperature. This is great for those days when there may be a slight chill in the air, but on the way to warming up. Highly suggested. *It smells great, and you may want to eat your legs- but please do not ingest the embro.
Gentle mans blend
I just received my gentleman's blend. All I can say is that even in drug stores I do have a hard time finding a product that that warms me nicely. This is just another one of those for me. I guess I should have gone with a stronger product.
A mild embrocation
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This was the first embrocation I ever used. It took several rides for me to figure out the right amount to use - at first, I didn't use enough to feel any warming effect. But once I got it right, I liked it. There is no burning sensation and it has a pleasant aroma.
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I've slathered various moisturizers, oils, and sunscreens on my legs before but never a real embrocation, particularly one with warming properties. I'm hooked. Love the look and feel. Only downside so far is how the embro holds road dirt, insects, etc. Perhaps not applying the product to my shins would solve this issue. Any thoughts?
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Coming from FL originally I wasn't too familiar with the whole Embrocation thing. When I started to ride in the Utah spring weather I quickly found out that all warming balms are not created equal. After trying out something that felt like it was melting off my skin in order to warm the muscles beneath I discovered the Mad Alchemy products. The first time I used Gentlemen's Blend I knew that my search for the right Embrocation was over. It smells great, warms well, & doesn't feel like acid scalding my skin? what a great combo!
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No one likes Embro that feels like you've just put bacon grease on and asked the sun to fry your skin to a nice Gucci purse patina. Alchemy got it right with the gentleman's blend. Sure, I'm a gentlelady, but who doesn't enjoy the scent of Texas white cedar and Rosemary oil?


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The explosion of data, its users, and its analytics demands have put significant stress on business intelligence (BI), data warehousing (DW), data integration, and analytics systems. Users must find high –performance tools, platforms, and features to handle this vast amount of information while increasing performance.
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DENVER – The Denver Nuggets routed the surging Clippers 107-92 Thursday night, riding 21 points from Ty Lawson and 20 from Danilo Gallinari to their 12th straight home win.
Seven Nuggets scored in double figures as Denver won its seventh straight overall and improved to 27-3 at home, tied with the Miami Heat for best in the NBA.
Despite 19 points from Matt Barnes and 17 from Blake Griffin, the Clippers saw their five-game road winning streak come to an end.
More importantly, they lost the season series to the Nuggets 2-1, a tiebreaker that could come into play if Denver can catch them for the third seed in the Western Conference playoffs. Right now, the Nuggets are in fifth, behind Memphis.
Before tip-off, Nuggets coach George Karl was asked about facing one of his favorite players, Chauncey Billups, his former point guard who was dragged into the Carmelo Anthony trade a couple years ago.
"I hope he has a good game," Karl said, "and I hope we win."
The Nuggets, who last won a dozen straight at home in 2005, got the best of Billups in his latest homecoming. He scored eight points.
Karl also said his goal was three-fold: "I'd like to win the turnover game, I'd like Chris Paul to be just good and not great and at the end of the night we have the same amount of 3-pointers as they do."
Both teams had 11 turnovers, Denver outscored Los Angeles by a dozen points from long range and Paul was good, not great, scoring 16 points and dishing out 10 assists, one fewer than Lawson had.
A bucket by Griffin, who was coming off his third career triple-double, gave the Clippers a 60-59 lead before the Nuggets scored 20 of the next 24 points to grab control.
Andre Iguodala's wide-open 3-pointer from the right elbow put Denver ahead 67-60. He added another 3, then fed Danilo Gallinari for a shot from the exact spot on the right side. A drive by Lawson and an alley-oop dunk by Gallinari made it 77-64 and forced a timeout.
The Clippers pulled to 85-75 heading into the fourth quarter but never got closer than eight before the Nuggets turned up the heat, outscoring them 13-2 on the fast break in the second half and stretching their lead to 18.
Jamal Crawford, who had a game-high 22 points in the Clippers' win over Denver on Christmas Day, sat out with a sore left ankle that he injured Wednesday night in L.A.'s 117-101 win over Milwaukee in which he scored 25 points.
"His ankle is pretty swollen, pretty sore after the flight last night with the back-to-backs," Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro said.
Del Negro said the Nuggets could withstand the loss of Crawford because none of his players logged extensive minutes against the Bucks, and sure enough, the Clippers were every bit as fresh as the Nuggets, matching them on fast-break points at six each in the first half, which ended in a 49-49 tie.
Of any Nuggets opponent, the Clippers can counter Denver's break-neck style. But the Nuggets began to beat them on the break in the second half.


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Sir Elton John has signed a deal to publish "the very personal story" of how AIDS affected his life.
The book, which will be called Love Is The Cure: Ending The Global AIDS Epidemic, will include his memories of friends including Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (pictured) who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991.
Sir Elton said: "This is a disease that must be cured not by a miraculous vaccine, but by changing hearts and minds, and through a collective effort to break down social barriers and to build bridges of compassion.
"Why are we not doing more? This is a question I have thought deeply about, and wish to answer - and to help change - by writing this book."
Money raised by sales of the book will go to his charity AIDS foundation which has raised millions of pounds since it was set up in 1992.
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Current Law Students / Re: Outbreak of Flagrant Sexism :: Law Professor and Student Body« on: February 23, 2008, 01:21:11 PM »
Women enter with identical grades to their male counterparts but leave with lower ones; experience a greater negative shift in their desire to use their degrees in the public interest; and are especially alienated by the teaching methods, particularly Socratic teaching, at law school. What becomes apparent is a poignant story about the insidious effects of gendered stratification in law school "socialization" -- the educational strategies of law school sustain hierarchy, legitimate inequity in the name of merit, and yield serious, adverse consequences for many women. Legal education assaults you as a woman. Other women are assaulted but do not even know it, and there are still others, be they women law students or women legal academics, who actually help to bolster the battery of other women.
Please explain. Your intriguing hypothesis begs for support by means of example, or at least further rhetoric. I don't see how law school treats women differently than men.
How can you be so blind? It is so OBVIOUS, if you have a vagina, and your professor puts you on the spot in front of the class or if you don't score as well as your peers, then it just plain hurts worse. Whereas if you have a penis, you are invincible to the meritocracy of law school. Get a clue!


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NORTHFIELD, Vt. – It was a record-breaking day for the Castleton football team as they earned their first-ever victory over Norwich and captured the Maple Sap Bucket Trophy with a 35-27 win on Saturday afternoon at Sabine Field.
The Spartans needed great performances on offense and defense, and boy did they get them. Offensively, senior quarterback Shane Brozowski (Rensselaer, N.Y.) and wide receiver Brandon Boyle (Springfield, Vt.) provided record-breaking efforts while the defense came up with three turnovers and three fourth-down stops in the red zone, including one with just 28 seconds remaining in the game.
Brozowski set a Spartan record with 499 passing yards and tossed five touchdown passes to lead the offense. He finished 33-for-47 with one interception while recording his third game this season with at least 400 yards passing and four touchdowns. His most frequent target on the afternoon was the junior Boyle. He caught 15 passes for a school-record 274 yards, highlighted by a program-record 92-yard touchdown strike in the fourth quarter. He finished the day with three receiving touchdowns, giving him eight TD's and 48 receptions through five games.
Defensively, Castleton gave up 553 yards of total offense, but made the plays when it needed to, holding the Cadets to just 4-for-13 on third down and 2-for-5 on fourth down. The Spartans also forced two fumbles and picked off a pass at their own ten-yard line to frustrate the Norwich offense. Todd Carr (Ticonderoga, N.Y.) led all tacklers with 15, including ten of the solo variety.
The Spartans struck first on Saturday after an empty possession from each team to start the contest. After a punt, Castleton got the ball on its own 14-yard line. Eight plays later the Spartans had moved up to the 49. On a 3rd-and-16 from the 49, Brozowski lofted a pass to Boyle, which he caught and took to the house untouched.
Norwich started its next drive at the 34-yard line; however, two plays later Cadet running back Danny Triplett fumbled the ball and it was recovered by Cameron Laundry (Hartford, Vt.). The Spartans couldn't capitalize though and gave it up on downs.
Both teams' defenses held stout, as each team was forced to put on their next two possessions.
With 13:30 remaining in the first half, Castleton took control of the ball on its own 14-yard line. The Spartans used a pass-heavy attack to methodically march down the field and into the red zone. On the 15th play of the drive, Castleton was faced with 4th-and-goal from the seven. Norwich got through the line, but Brozowski tossed the ball to the back of the end zone for a leaping Denny Wilhelm (Glens Falls, N.Y.) who made the big catch. Dave Fox (Troy, N.Y.) added the extra point for the 14-0 advantage.
The Cadets responded with their first touchdown drive of the game, marching 67 yards in ten plays, the final a two-yard run by Triplett.
Castleton's next drive was just four plays, with Brozowski completing a pair of passes and running for two yards before tossing a 13-yard touchdown strike to Tyler Carpenter (Fort Edward, N.Y.). The score and extra point pushed the lead to 21-7 with just 1:29 left in the half.
Looking to score before halftime, Norwich marched down the field, going 71 yards in 11 plays before quarterback Kris Sabourin hit Derrick Pitts for a seven-yard score with just eight seconds remaining. The ensuring extra point no good and Castleton took at 21-13 lead into the break.
The Cadets received the ball to open the second half and advanced all the way down to the Castleton 20, before a pair of penalties pushed them back to the 34. On third down and long, freshman Peter Mancini (No. Smithfield, R.I.) picked off the ball at the Spartan 10-yard line.
Castleton took advantage of the turnover, going 90 yards in eight plays, with the final 22 coming on a touchdown pass from Brozowski to Boyle.
Norwich once again moved the ball down the field with relative ease until reaching the red zone. On a first and goal from six, the Cadets picked up four yards; however, two plays later Sabourin faced a 4th-and-goal from the four-yard line. His pass fell incomplete in the endzone as Castleton took over on downs.
The Spartans were unable to take advantage and were forced to put after just five offensive plays.
Norwich took possession at the 32-yard line and needed just six plays to move 58 yards to the Castleton 10. The Spartan defense came up big on fourth down again, holding the Cadets to a five-yard run on 4th-and-8 toregain possession as the third quarter came to a close.
On Castleton's third play of the fourth, Brozowski hit Boyle going across the middle around the 30-yard line and he eluded a few defenders before out-running the rest and taking the ball 92 yards to the house. The extra point made it 35-13 in favor of the Spartans.
Norwich then went 80 yards in just under two minutes to cut the lead to 35-21 with 9:32 remaining in the half. After an empty Castletonpossession, the Cadets again marched down the field, going 69 yards in ten plays to cut the Spartan lead to 35-27 with 5:11 left in the contest.
The final five minutes came down to defense after Castleton was forced to put with 3:59 remaining in the game. Norwich methodically moved down the field, earning a first down with under a minute to play at the Spartan eight-yard line. However, Castleton forced three straight incompletions to force a turn over on downs with 28 seconds left. Two kneel downs later victory was secured.
The Spartans improve to 3-2 overall and 2-0 in the Eastern Collegiate Football Conference. They are now tied atop the standing with Mt. Ida and Gallaudet. Norwich falls to 3-2 overall and 0-2 in the ECFC.
Castleton returns home next weekend for the program's first-ever game under the lights as the Spartans face Becker at 6 p.m.
Notes: The 499-yard performance marks the 10th 400-yard game of Brozowski's career … He also surpassed the 9,000 yard mark and now has 9,458 career yards, tops among all active players in Division III … Boyle's 274 yards surpasses his own record of 218 set in last year's season finale ... It also marked the third time in his career he has caught 15 or more passes … The 92-yard receiving touchdown is the longest play from scrimmage in Castleton history.


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A San Diego man who held up a convenience store dressed in a Gumby costume and his non-costumed accomplice pleaded guilty to their crimes. No, they weren't guilty of being adorable.
19-year-old Jacob Kiss and 20-year-old Jason Giramma each pleaded guilty to misdemeanor burglary charges and received three years of probation as their sentence.
The attempted robbery took place back in September at a 7-11 store. Kiss tried to rob the store in his costume, but the bulky hands prevented him from holding a weapon or picking up his loot. The clerk actually told police that he thought the whole incident was a joke, and claimed he couldn't even tell it was Gumby who was robbing him. (Maybe the criminals should have gone with a more current pop culture costume.)
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Holdingford, Becker, Annandale Football Play in State Quarters
The State tournament quarterfinals begin tonight in high school football at various locations throughout the state. Holdingford plays tonight at 7pm at St. Cloud State's Husky Stadium against BOLD in Class 2-A. Becker plays in Class 4-A Friday night against DeLaSalle at Hopkins High School at 7pm Friday night.
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Boston police officer accused of raping woman
Henderson Parker placed on paid leave
A Boston police officer has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Roslindale.
Police were called to a home at about 11 p.m. Sunday and spoke with a woman who said she was assaulted by Officer Henderson Parker.
Parker, an 18-year veteran, later surrendered and was charged with indecent assault and battery and rape. He pleaded not guilty in court Monday.
Parker has been suspended with pay, and his firearm has been confiscated. The Boston Police Internal Affairs Unit is also investigating the incident.
In 2002, Parker was suspended for 30 days following "a physical confrontation of a domestic nature that resulted in injuries," the Boston Globe reported.


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1 lb chicken wings – middle section (I used the entire wing and made 4.5 lbs of them)
1 Tablespoon honey
1 Tablespoon soy sauce (I used Tamari – wheat free/low sodium which made this recipe gluten free!)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/8 teaspoon chili powder
2 inches ginger (skin peeled)
Prepare the ginger by peeling it and pounding with a mortar and pestle or grinding with small food processor (I used the processor). Extract the juice by squeezing with your hand and discard the ginger pulp. I wrapped the ground pulp in cheese cloth first. Sssqqquuueeezzzeee! (Man, I really need some sun.)
I prepped the wings simply by cutting off the little flappy thing. What is that thing called? I think next time, I'll take the extra five minutes to separate the wings into drumette type pieces. For hubby man, I'll prepare boneless breast pieces. He needed LOTS of wings. He's a big guy. He likes big food. He doesn't like to have bones of any kind on his plate. *sigh* You won't hear him complain though. That fact alone propels me to next time make him food without bones. That and the fact that he ate all the green beans on his plate to set an example for his kids. Well done, my man. And yes, each sprout ate the solitary green bean I placed on their plates. Back to the wings ...
Now you see the flappy thing.
In comes the kitchen shears. Do you love your kitchen shears? I love my shears.
No more flappy thing.
Marinate the chicken wings with the ginger juice and all the seasonings above for 1 – 2 hours (I did 2.5 hours). Grill or bake them in an oven (at 375 degrees F) for 20-25 minutes until cooked or golden brown.Note: I added 2 Tablespoons of oil to the marinade. I also baked mine on two sheet pans, and switched pan positions 1/2 way through. Here are the flapless wings heading into the oven.


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A Hitch in crime (or why you should read crime fiction and not the news)
The author is Christopher Hitchens, the book is his essay collection Arguably, and the passage I have in mind is from the book's introduction, in which Hitchens recounts his support and admiration for real revolutionaries in the Middle East and contrasts these with, among others, "the baroque corruption of the `Palestinian Authority.'"
"It was clear," Hitchens writes, "that a good number of the audience (including, I regret to say, most of the Americans) regarded me as some kind of stooge. For them, revolutionary authenticity belonged to groups like Hamas or Hezbollah, resolute opponents of the global colossus and tireless fighters against Zionism."
Last week I wrote about my eye-opening chat in Tel Aviv about crime fiction in Israel. My informant was decidedly a man of the left, forthright and rueful about, among other things, the Israeli army's bulldozing of houses in Hebron. Yet he was equally forthright about calling Hamas terrorists. And he recounted a naval patrol from his own military service, when he marveled at the white sand beaches of Gaza and at the equally white luxury villas belonging to the Palestinian Authority elite that loomed above, built, presumably, with PA money that did not find its way into Swiss bank accounts.
Like the Israeli Arab driver who shuttled me to Hebron and Bethlehem on the same trip, that informant offered a more nuanced view of Israeli and Palestinian affairs than one is likely to get in America, where Palestinians are good and Israelis bad, or vice versa. And this, in turn, reminded me of Matt Rees' decision to turn to crime writing when he found a story "too good for Time magazine," and of the corruption of Palestinian officialdom that forms an important subtext in his novels but not of media and popular discussion of the Middle East, at least not in the United States.
And what about the Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra, who once told an interviewer
"Algerian readers like me a lot. They read me in French because I am not translated into Arabic. I am translated into Indonesian, Japanese, Malayalam, in the majority of the languages, except in Arabic. But that has nothing to do with the Arab peoples. It is the leaders who seek, as always, to dissociate the people from the elites so they can continue to reign and cultivate clanism and mediocrity."There's another sentiment you'll likely not read in the American media, unless the reporters make themselves hip by affixing to it a fatuous social-media-related tag.
And now, readers, a question: "Crime stories reflect reality better than do the media." Do you agree? Disagree? Discuss.
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If alzheimers is like death, then why can't they euthanize patients that opt for that when they still have a sound mind? I guess that would be a sin...
I wonder what he would have told a woman who wanted to divorce her husband.
If Pat Robertson didn't say stupid things once in a while, we would forget about his existence. Marriage vows get ignored a lot of the time anyway, but maybe they should be changed to "In sickness and in health, except alzheimers...".
Robertson is either deluded, demented, or dishonest - possibly all three. I worry about his followers more than I worry about him. Are there really enough stupid people in the world to keep him rich and on the air?
There are lots of things that are "a kind" of death. That guy is the father of all assholes.
It kinda sucks that I live less than 5 miles from this looney's college...but at least he does not teach there, from him we have nothing to learn but how to be a horrible human being.
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OCZ has announced that it won't be able to file its quarterly report with the SEC on time, leading to doubts about its cash position.
The struggling SSD and PCIe flash card vendor appears perhaps to have loosed off a shot or two into the vicinity of its foot by expanding too fast, failing to secure reliable NAND chip supplies, and reportedly mishandling its relationship with Seagate during rumoured acquisition talks, which collectively led to the ousting of CEO Ryan Petersen.
Under brand new CEO Ralph Schmitt, OCZ has disclosed it still cannot file its 10-Q quarterly report to the SEC:
It was unable to file its Form 10-Q for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 (Q2'13), which ended on August 31, 2012, on time as the Company's financial statements are still under review. … While we are hopeful that the review will be completed in the near future, we cannot currently estimate the exact date. Thus we are also unable to estimate the filing date of the Form 10-Q.
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Author Kristie Wolferman will continue Lindenwood University's 2008-09 Speaker Series with an appearance at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 18, in the Butler Library on Lindenwood's main campus.
Wolferman will discuss her book, "The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley," which tells the story of the life of Lindenwood's founder, who started the school in 1827 in a log cabin on the site of the current Lindenwood campus. The event will be held in conjunction with Lindenwood's Homecoming celebration.
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Wolferman is a native of Kansas City. She has a bachelor's degree in history from Middlebury College and a master's in history from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She taught for 20 years at Pembroke High School, in Kansas City and is currently a teacher and tutor of middle and high school students at the O'Neal School in Pinehurst, N.C.
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We're definitely cycling fans here at the Performance Bicycle home office, so we're always excited for another weekend of pro cycling action. Yes, we know that there's already been drama this year with the Alberto Contador case, but we still love watching the pros do battle out on the road – it inspires us to go out and push ourselves when we ride! And this weekend kicks off a flurry of pro racing, starting with some great European events.
First up, on Saturday, is the Strade Bianche in Italy. Last year Phillipe Gilbert won (and started his amazing season) this relatively new race that races across the fabled "white roads" of Tuscany and finishes in the hill-town of Siena. This race feels like a "new classic", since it was inspired by the famous l'Eroica bike race – an amateur Gran Fondo-style event where participants ride vintage bikes and gear. Although the pros ride their 21st century technology, the Strade Bianche still has a fantastic combination of beautiful Italian countryside, a tricky climb to a finish on the main square of Siena (the same place where the Palio horse race is contested), and those infamous "white roads", which are treacherous whether wet or dry! Gilbert will be back to defend his title this year, bringing along teammates Alessandro Ballan, Greg Van Avermaet, Cadel Evans and George Hincapie, while the likes of Fabian Cancellara, Christian Vande Velde, Johan Vansummeren, Dan Martin, Peter Sagan and Vincenzo Nibali round out a star-studded field of "all-rounder" riders. Check out the highlights from last year:
Is stage racing more your style? Then you can settle in to watch Paris-Nice, which starts on this Sunday and ends the following Sunday. Nicknamed the "Race to the sun", Paris-Nice starts near Paris and then winds its way south through the French countryside to the French Riviera (not a bad way to spend a week, if you've got the time). The first true stage-race test in Europe, Paris-Nice offers up a solid mix of rolling stages, mountains and time-trialling to find out who's got good early-season form. Tony Martin will be back to defend his title, but his new teammate Levi Leipheimer will also be there to back him up. They'll face a tough lineup of Grand Tour contenders, such as Frank and Andy Schleck, Andrea Kloden, Bradley Wiggins, Janez Brajkovic, Damiano Cunego, Christian Vandevelde (in back to back races), Denis Menchov, Ivan Basso, and Tejay Van Garderen. Check out highlights from Stage 5 of last year's race:
Interested in more of a Spanish flavor for your stage-racing action? Then you'll want to check out the Vuelta a Murcia, a short stage race that features a climbing stage on Saturday and an individual time trial on Sunday. Spanish favorites Juan Jose Cobo and Samuel Sanchez will be lining up to challenge for the title, but last year's champ, Alberto Contador, will not be back to dominate like he did in the highlights below (although this result was wiped out as part of his suspension):
Finally, if mountain bike racing is more your style, then we've got you covered there too! The Mellow Johnny's Classic will take place this weekend on a ranch outside of Austin, Texas. The first race of the USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Cross Country Tour, the Mellow Johnny's race will be the first test for the array of racers battling it out for spots on this summer's Olympic Mountain Bike teams. Contenders on the women's side include Heather Irmiger, Emily Batty, Katie Compton, World Champion Catharine Pendrel, and defending champ Georgia Gould . On the men's side, last year's winner Max Plaxton will battle Todd Wells, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Jeremiah Bishop, among others. You can check out highlights of the 2011 race on Cycling Dirt.
Phew, kind of a busy weekend – just don't forget to get outside and ride your own bike!


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From the Evil of Child Molesters?
I've been spending some time at home lately because of some physical things I'm going through, so I find I'm watching TV which I generally don't do very much. Well today I found myself watching this show called American Justice, that has episodes of real criminal cases that were unresolved. Anyway, one of the stories was this person who liked young children to have sex with. And to avoid being caught, he would kill these helpless children that had their whole lives ahead of them all because he wants to have sex. Oh just the thought hurts my stomach and while I was watching this program, I found myself thinking there's absolutely nothing wrong with the death penalty for this type of crime.
I've heard people say over the years that there is basically no rehabilitation for perpetrators of these types of crimes. Life in prison without the possibility of parole is yet another option. But I just can't get my head around the concept of how anyone could look at a young beautiful child full of life, jumping, running, playing with toys or playmates and conceive the tiniest of thoughts that they are a sexual object.
How can we better protect our children? If the government were to approve the insertion of Microchips that you would place under the skin permanently that acted as a tracking device, would you approve of such a method to be administered without the consent of the parents?
When I was a young child, I remember the day we had our series of shots that you are suppose to get that prevent you from getting diseases. The wa a decree Mandated by our Government's Health Department. Parents didn't have a choice about this, if your child was to go to school, then he/she had to submit to these shots.
Well I'm wondering if inserting these Tracking Chips into the skin should be mandatory as well? We are not doing enough to protect our children and reasoning with these horrible people isn't working. As long as there are men on the Planet, there will be men who harm women and men that harm children and men that harm animals. These are the things that men do ... sadly, all the pleading is not going to change a thing. People that kill have absolutely no consideration for life and the pain that ensues afterward for the family of the victims. They are pure evil and I am beginning to believe there's no place on the Planet for people like this. I remember learning of a situation just a few months ago of a man in Texas that was finally caught after it was discovered he had brutally killed seven young girls. According to the report, they all suffered painful deaths. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection and his family started a petition to prevent this from happening because according to them, death by injection was painful and inhuman.
Once again you begin to see that the rights of the perpetrators is seemingly more important than the rights of the victims. It didn't matter how brutal he was to his victims, he didn't want to feel any pain. Now maybe this is my anger thinking but there was someone who suggested we go back to Death by Hanging in a public venue. I thought about this and wondered what the outcome of such a condition would be?
If the United States implemented Execution by Hanging would that deter people from committing these crimes? Do we feeling we could see a dramatic drop in the amount of killings because these guys wouldn't want to suffer this type of punishment? Or as one suggested, we might see an increase in these killings because a person would want to make certain their victim couldn't finger them.
My question is this, should we mandate the insertion of tracking chips in our children so they can be located if the parents feel they are lost?


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Student Workshop: Evaluating Sources
Join the library at the Chess Center for our first student workshop of the year!
Ever wonder how you can know which websites to trust? What does your professor mean when they say to use 'scholarly articles'? Come to the Chess Center at 8 pm on Tuesday, October 6 to find out, and to ask a librarian questions about finding and evaluating good sources.
Planning to attend? RSVP on our facebook page!
Keep an eye out for our upcoming workshops:
Avoiding Plagiarism October 25th
Avoiding Plagiarism November 3rd
Citation: MLA November 1st
Citation: Chicago November 8th
Citation: APA November 15th
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I was always more of a ketchup gal when it came the condiment of choice. I don't think I ever had ranch dressing until middle school when one of my friends insisted I dip my In N' Out fries in the white goop. For some reason, it was the thing to do amongst my friends and this trend kept up through high school. Green onion and cheddar potato skins, cream-cheese filled jalapeno poppers, piles of crispy Walla Walla onion rings, crusty mushroom and black olive pizza; they just kind of call out for this creamy concoction, don't they? I had my suspicions, but after visiting numerous websites, I've confirmed that ranch dressing is now and has been the most popular salad dressing in the United States for almost 20 years.
When you think of ranch dressing, what it the first picture that comes to mind? For many it is probably this extremely popular bottle pictured left: Hidden Valley The Original Ranch Dressing. According to the Hidden Valley website, here is how they describe their premier product:
Our Original Ranch® recipes are made with wholesome ingredients and the perfect blend of herbs and spices. Enjoy the farm fresh taste of Hidden Valley® in our ranch dressing mixes, dips and salad toppings.
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Listening to Indigenous Voices
Beyond the Barricades stands in solidarity with indigenous communities fighting the theft and destruction of their lands and culture. The following account, originally posted by the ACAC19 Support Committee, describes a recent event organized by the committee. The event highlighted the stories, experiences, and songs of local and regional indigenous organizers engaged in struggle against land development and displacement as well as surveillance and policing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
On Tuesday February 19, the support committee of the Anti-Capitalist Anti Colonial 19 hosted "Decolonizing the New World Means Listening to Indigenous Voices" at the Holdout Social Center in Oakland. Local and regional indigenous leaders shared stories and information about their struggles to maintain control over their historical lands, which continue to be threatened by capitalist and colonial endeavors.
After an opening prayer by Corrina Gould, Desirae Harp from SNAG Magazine made it clear that in the struggle to protect sacred sites we must remember that everything is sacred, and that all land is indigenous land. This paradigm recurred throughout the evening, as all speakers emphasized the colonial project is antithetical to an ecologically sustainable society.
Michelle Steinberg's recent film titled "Buried Voices" highlighted how the East Bay Regional Park District is ignoring the efforts of Ohlone, Miwok and Yokut peoples to protect Brushy Peak, a sacred place that is a part of their origin stories. Despite ongoing demands by native people and allies, the park district continues to allow people to hike, bike and walk dogs throughout this sacred space. By labeling the native community a "special interest group," the district has imposed a racist construct of native communities, which has led to the destruction of mortars and has relegated their story to phony interpretative signage. Such a designation and unwillingness to place native needs at the forefront of land-use decisions reinforces the white supremacist narrative and shows the level of obfuscation and lies used to maintain state hegemony.
Wounded Knee DeOcampo and Corrina Gould also shared information about the struggle to protect other sacred spaces such as, Sogorea Te and Rattlesnake Island in the Greater Bay Area. They urged people to get involved and to support those struggles over native access to sacred ceremonial spaces.
The event then shifted to make space for voices from Diné and O'odham lands in Arizona. Norman Benally shared the stories of his elders on Black Mesa who have been fighting coal mining and its subsequent ecocide on the Diné community. Lastly, O'odham youth from their reservation along the Mexico-US border and the Phoenix area shared their ongoing organizing against the border patrol and Loop 202 freeway development. They highlighted the traitors within their nation who have created capitalist enterprises, which support the freeway development through the O'odham community. The use of bribes and other capitalist gimmicks to eliminate community autonomy over the land illustrates the immense challenges that come with struggles over land and resources.
But these tactics aren't new: For centuries, settler-colonists have used divide and conquer to assimilate native peoples into the mainstream capitalist consumption culture. Nonetheless, there are still those who resist and see through the hollow masquerade of capitalist glitz. At the end of the night, this was made clear as the native hip hop group Shining Soul demonstrated that the culture we create at the grassroots and nurture in resistance is much more compelling than the culture of capital.
The voices from the event show that solidarity with indigenous resistance is tantamount to anti-capitalist organizing in the Bay Area and beyond. Native lands are continually being swallowed by the state to make profit for the ruling class. The indigenous relationship to the land is in direct opposition to private property, and as such should be an example for those struggling to pre-figure a society without borders and profits.
The ACAC 19 support committee hopes that this event leads to a more organized solidarity network for indigenous resistance. Please come out for a follow-up discussion and meeting on Thursday, February 28 7:30pm, at the Holdout.


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NWSB Insider and Oregon State blogger Jonathan Irwin reports on this week's football matchup against the BYU Cougars in NCAA football week 7 action. Even while ranked No. 10 in the nation, the Oregon State Beavers have become the ultimate underdog. The Beavs enter LaVell Edwards Stadium with a junior who hasn't taken a snap since 2010. With repeat performances from Markus Wheaton and Jordan Poyer, the Beavers have a great shot.
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- Use of the euro
- Negotiations for membership in the EU
- Good-quality education and healthcare
- Small market
- Dependence on tourism, construction, and energy
- Electrical production relying largely on subsidised coal
- Inadequate road and electrical networks
- Structural unemployment (14%) and shortage of qualified workers
- Size of the ethnic vote and political impasse
- Mediocre business climate
- Large black-market economy (39% of GDP) and low labour market participation rate (54%)
Activity supported by investment
Although lower, growth is expected to remain comfortable in 2018, continuing to be driven by investment. Investment will be supported notably by the continued construction of the 41 km long first section (Podgorica – Mateševo) of the Bar-Boljare motorway project, which will eventually link the Port of Bar to Boljare, on the Serbian border. Foreign investment in tourism infrastructure is set to continue, further developing a sector that already contributes 10% to GDP. However, the construction of a second coal-fired power station in Pljevlja seems to be compromised by tighter European environmental standards. Consumption, both private and public, will contribute little to growth, in connection with the fiscal consolidation. The contribution of foreign trade will be negative due to the increase of imports related to the construction of the motorway.
Consolidation of public and foreign accounts linked to the completion of the motorway construction project
Although diminished, the public deficit will remain high, leading to a further increase in debt (78% of GDP at the end of 2016, 60% of GDP for its foreign portion alone). However, the consolidation of the budget will intensify. Indirect taxation, which already represents 67% of tax revenue, will be further increased. The ordinary VAT rate will thus increase from 19% to 21% in early 2018. Levies on tobacco, sodas, and alcohol will rise. Control will be facilitated by the widespread use of connected cash registers. The exceptional 2% increase of the tax on high incomes (single rate of 9%) is expected to be extended. The action on current expenditure (social benefits and salaries mainly), which is equivalent to 80% of total expenditure, will be smaller. Salaries of senior civil servants will be further cut, while the increase will not exceed 1% for others. Faced with this, the pension deficit borne by the State and mainly due to early retirement represents more than 3% of GDP. The tax cuts designed to attract foreign investments in tourism, such as the application of a reduced VAT rate of 7% for luxury hotels, are costly. However, the critical obstacle is the construction of the motorway, without which the budget would be balanced. The cost of the first segment represents one quarter of GDP. The construction by China Road & Bridge, 30% of which is local subcontracted, is 85% financed by a 20-year loan in dollars from Exim Bank at a rate of 2% with a grace period of six years. The country is responsible for the remaining cost. Construction should be completed in 2019, allowing the balance to become positive and the debt to fall quickly as of 2020. It seems certain that the construction of the remaining 136 km, for an equivalent cost, will not be possible without obtaining concessional funding. Nevertheless, subject to construction of the Serbian portion, this route would improve commercial and tourist trade with Europe through Serbia, as it would replace a dangerous road often closed in winter.
The current account deficit will remain substantial in 2018 due to the abyssal trade deficit in goods (45% of GDP). Exports, mainly metals (aluminium from Kombinat Aluminijuma in Podgorica and steel from the Toscelik steel mill in Nikšić) and electricity, which are very sensitive to international economic conditions and rainfall, are largely offset by imports of equipment for road infrastructure, but also by imports of food and oil products. Tourism generates a surplus representing 20% of GDP. Russians, who constitute one quarter of the summer arrivals, have not been sensitive to the country's alignment with the Western position on Ukraine or the country's accession to NATO. In the end, half of the current account deficit is financed by FDI, and the balance is financed by debt and undeclared capital inflows invested in secondary residences. Foreign debt represented 167% of GDP at the end of 2016. Its recent growth is due to the growth in its public share (one third), a consequence of the external financing of the public deficit and the disbursement of the Chinese loan for the motorway.
Frozen political scene
The Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) - formed from the former Communist party and dominators of the political scene since 1991 - came out on top in the October 2016 legislative elections, winning 36 out of 91 seats. Thanks to the withdrawal of the DPS's historic leader, Milo Djukanovic, and the parliamentary boycott by the opposition dominated by the Democratic Front (pro-Russian) – which still disputes the results –, Duško Marković, vice-prime minister in the previous government, took the lead of a coalition government uniting the DPS and the minority ethnic parties. The government has completed the NATO accession process and is working to obtain European Union (EU) membership. Corporate life is complicated by corruption, the politicisation of the legal system (harming the performance of contracts and the handling of insolvency), organised crime, an inaccurate land register, and slow administrative procedures. However, EU accession negotiations are leading to improvements in the business climate. In 2016, Montenegro was in 51st place out of 190 in the World Bank's Doing Business survey and 77th out of 138 in the Global Competitiveness Report.
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Faithless does not belong below purist. I can get more resources out of Drac or Tiki alone. I say
Warmonger/Hoarder: 5 pts
Purist/Faithless: 4 pts
Unstoppable/Parches: 3 pts
Ding! Max: 2 pts
Specialist/Cheeky: 1 pt
As for other possible scoring aspects (remember, the endscreen has extra stats):
1 pt per 5 bonus exp
-1 pt per 25 wasted tiles
-1 per used other potion
Also, we need some way to score the different random bosses.
Just a couple suggestions.


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Here at ARKive, we are in a truly unique position in that we get to work with the world's very best wildlife and environmental filmmakers and photographers. At this year's Wildphotos we had the chance to catch up with a few of our most famous and respected ARKive media donors to learn what inspires them to do what they do and discover the stories behind their awe-inspiring images.
Last time we heard from esteemed photographers Tui De Roy and Patricio Robles Gil. Now discover what (or who) inspired three more of the world's best wildlife photographers to pick up a camera and start taking photographs of the natural world.
Charlie Hamilton James
"I've been obsessed with kingfishers since I was a kid. I took up photography as a way of channelling that obsession. I then became very passionate about all forms of image making becoming a cameraman and photographer. Ultimately though it was the idea of spending a life watching animals in incredible places that inspired me."
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Mark Hamblin
"My passion for wildlife began 35 years ago, when, aged 11 I started birdwatching with my father around our home in Warwickshire. I have been captivated by wildlife and wild places ever since. I first began photographing as a way of recording some of the species I was seeing but this quickly became my main interest after being enthralled by the more intimate experience of watching birds, and later other wildlife, at such close quarters from photographic hides."
See all of Mark Hamblin's images on ARKive.
Laurie Campbell
"Having been fascinated by the natural world from a very young age, it wasn't until my early teens that I first picked up a camera to document what I had taken the trouble to see whilst out exploring the countryside close to home. This was primarily to share with my family and friends. The thought of making a career out of it came later, but I was very determined."
See all of Laurie Campbell's images displayed on ARKive.