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Think about a time when someone asked for your help. Maybe a friend needed an ear after a bad break-up, or someone in class asked you to explain a concept that she didn't understand when the professor taught it. Maybe you were asked to run an errand for someone or to volunteer your time for a good cause. Under what circumstances did you help out? When would you not help someone out?
For years, social psychologists have studied the causes of prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior is any action that is meant to help others. Psychologists study prosocial behavior to try to understand why people help others.
But there's not a consensus on the answer; some psychologists believe that helping is essentially a selfish act, while others believe that sometimes people help out of the goodness of their hearts. This disagreement is often summarized as social exchange theory vs. the empathy-altruism hypothesis. Let's look closer at both sides.
Social exchange theory is the belief that people will help others only when the benefits to themselves outweigh the costs of helping. The basic idea behind social exchange theory is that most of our behavior comes from a desire to maximize our rewards and minimize our costs.
Let's look at an example. Imagine that someone in your class asks you to help her by explaining a concept that she didn't understand. The concept is pretty simple and will only take a couple of minutes after class to explain, and you know that you might need her to explain something else to you later in the semester. Do you help her?
Now consider this: The concept she needs help with is pretty complex and will take a while to explain. Not only that, but she asks you to explain it in the middle of the professor's lecture. If you stop to help her, you might miss something important. Do you still help her?
In the example above, social exchange theory says that you're more likely to help in the first scenario. The cost (of your time) is not high, and the reward (that she might help you later on) is pretty good. In the second scenario, the cost is higher (it will take more time and the time is valuable since you might miss something the professor says). So, according to social exchange theory, the first scenario is more likely to produce prosocial behavior.
There are three major ways that helping is usually rewarded. First, it increases the chance that the helper will receive help in the future, such as when you decide you might need your classmate's help on another concept.
Second, helping can decrease the personal distress of the helper. If you see a homeless person begging for money and that makes you feel sad, you might give him a dollar to make yourself feel better.
The third way that helping can be rewarded is through increased self-worth and/or social approval. Let's say that you're on a date, and you see a kid whose kite is stuck in a tree. You might help the kid with her kite in order to impress your date.
Likewise, helping can be costly in many different ways. Time, money and energy are just a few ways that prosocial behavior can be costly. But according to social exchange theory, if the benefits outweigh the costs, you are likely to offer help.
You might have noticed that social exchange theory sounds a little cold. It assumes that people only help if they can get something in return. Do people ever help just to help?
According to C. Daniel Batson, the answer is yes. Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis states that social exchange theory only comes into play if we do not feel empathy for the person. If we do have empathy, or understanding, for a person and their situation, then we will help out of altruism. Altruism is the motivation to help based purely on helping and not on getting a reward.
The empathy-altruism hypothesis is one possible explanation for why people are more likely to help people who are similar to them. If someone belongs to the same group as me, say because they are the same gender or nationality or religion as me, I am more likely to help them. This is called in-group helping, and the empathy-altruism hypothesis could explain this phenomenon. After all, we're more likely to feel empathy for someone if they are similar to us.
Some psychologists have criticized Batson's empathy-altruism hypothesis. If you feel empathy for someone and do not help them, you might feel guilty. Your helping them then, might not be altruistic because you might be helping to alleviate your negative feelings. Some psychologists argue that the empathy-altruism hypothesis can therefore be explained by the social exchange theory.
Whether you believe Batson or believe that empathy simply falls under the social exchange theory, there is plenty of evidence that the more empathy you feel for someone, the more likely you are to help them out.
Social psychologists disagree on what situations predict prosocial behavior. On one hand, social exchange theory posits that people will help only when the benefits of helping outweigh the costs. On the other hand, the empathy-altruism hypothesis says that people are altruistically motivated to help others for whom they feel empathy. Since there is evidence for both theories, the debate is still on-going.
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apparently are the new *in* accessory this season according to someone in the know on the radio earlier. So, who's going to get one? And more importantly, where can I get my mitts on one?
Just grow a fanny beard and you'll fit right in.
I would grow one but I lack the testosterone.
that picture screams ....
It's a fanny-scrub
Kind of had one for a while now...
Not planning on losing it.
I'm currently bearded
someone at work said I looked like "a religious farmer" today :(
They're obviously a fool
you're ahead of fashion!
I used to have one
See here:
But now I'm sporting a fuzzy growth all over the face. It actually looks pretty damn good.
Did I say 'it'? I mean *me*.
I wanted to have a moustache on its own when I got rid of the MASSIVE beard, but it turns out that my moustache is actually blonde. Not just slightly - very blonde. It doesn't show when there's a beard all over the place, since the whole ensemble is essentially tabby, but I have properly black black hair and a blonde moustache with that looks ridiculous.
Still, I look great at the moment.
couldn't grow a beard if I tried... And I have. At 24, I've given up hope of ever being hirsute, and will just have to live with 17 year olds outbearding me, even when I'm 50. Manhood is harsh.
I can never see beards being in so drasticly
stubble probably
I've decided they're uncool
watch out, 2010. You will be the year of flares, buttoned up shirts and hairless faces.
^stuff of nightmares
apart from buttoned up shirts
Apert from the beards bit
it could be 1972 again!
i can't grow a beard.
every year i say to myself "this'll be the year when my face sprouts 4 times as much fur as it has already", but each year i am left bitterly disappointed. Now at 22, i think it's past my time - i shall remain beardless for eternity
I couldn't grow a beard until I was about 23/24
don't worry!
then that gives me approximately
1 year and 6 months. If by then i do not have more facial hair i shall hold you personally responsible
I am 22 and I am almost there - a drastic improvement in the last 3 months has
created the perfect undergrowth, and bit by bit the mustache is filling in. It has looked beardy for the last month or so, and now friends tell me a look weird with it shaved, plus I get IDed.
Alas, mine is Ginger though my hair is not. :S
i have some chin fluff
for sure, but not enough to make a beard. I could, however, grow a 'tache....but i don't want to
My goal is to look like Roddy Woomble
but still go to a respectable office job. I think I will be there by next year. Here's hoping.
I am currently sporting
the ginger version of said accessory.
Depends if "tramp" is in really...
yr beard is awesome and not ginger. mine is shit and a bit ginger. yeah! backslapping alround.
Try Russia
loads of people seem to have them there, if television is to be believed.
I currently have no beard, just a bit of stubble.
I've always had a thing
for bearded men. But not all men can carry it off, you need to have a certain 'look'. There's a guy in my local ethical 'sust' shop. HE knows how to wear a beard - it's quite Bamos like!
I've always had a thing for bearded ladies.
I got arrested the last time.
I thought that all da yoof
wore beards these days. And don't wash neither.
<3 beards.
hott hott
why can more people not think this?
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Petrolia Wraps Up Drilling of Haldimand No. 2 Well
The Haldimand Project Operator, Petrolia, has since provided Junex with a modified drillstem test report for DST #1 and the corrected information about gas flow rates and recoveries appears in the fourth paragraph.
Junex announced that the Haldimand Project Operator, Petrolia, has completed the drilling of the Haldimand No. 2 well at a total depth of 1,200 meters. According to the Operator of the project, light oil shows were observed in drill cuttings samples (fluorescence sometimes accompanied by oil shows) over the interval from 746 meters to the total depth of the well.
The Operator has carried out 4 drillstem tests (DST). In Junex's opinion, DST #3, from 909.9 to 944.1 metres, seems to have identified a hydrocarbon-bearing interval that may justify further testing. In view of these results, the project Operator has installed production casing down to the total depth of 1,200 meters. The Operator has indicated that it plans to mobilize a service rig in the near future to proceed with production testing at the well.
Junex has not financially participated in the drilling of the Haldimand No. 2 well but still holds a 35% interest in this project covering an area of 9 km2.
DST #1 from 715 to 763 meters recorded an initial gas flow of approximately 1 thousand cubic feet per day (mcf/d) (28.5 m3/d) after 20 minutes, a maximum flow rate of approximately 1.8 mcf/d (50.7 m3/d) after 40 minutes, decreasing to a gas flow rate of approximately 1.4 mcf/d (40.3 m3/d) after 90 minutes. A total of 8 meters of drilling fluid was recovered.
DST #2, carried out from 1,099.1 to 1,131.2 meters, recovered 23.5 meters of drilling mud without any notable presence of hydrocarbons.
During DST #3, from 909.9 to 944.1 meters, an initial gas flow rate of approximately 116 mcf/d (3,288 m3/d) after 5 minutes was recorded and a final gas flow rate of approximately 15 mcf/d (419.8 m3/d) after 60 minutes was observed. A total of 61.2 meters of slightly oil cut drilling mud was recovered. This interval also covered the cored interval from 923 to 932 meters, where an interval of thick sandstone, cut by 2 subvertical fractures, was observed. The project Operator has sent this core to a Calgary laboratory for analysis.
Finally, during DST #4, carried out between the depths of 848.6 to 882.9 meters, an initial gas flow rate of approximately 53 mcf/d (1,493 m3/d) was recorded and a final gas flow rate of approximately 2.4 mcf/d (67.3 m3/d) after 60 minutes was observed. A total of 29 meters of drilling mud was recovered.
- Lundin Spuds Zulu Prospect (Jan 20)
- Statoil's Tastaveden Well Turns out Water Wet (Feb 18)
- Petrolia: Estimates of 1 Tcf of Wet Natural Gas in Bourque (Apr 10)
Company: Junex Inc. more info
- Junex Wraps Up Seismic Gig at Anticosti Island (Sep 17)
- Junex Welcomes New COO (Oct 18)
- Junex Cites 48.34 Tcf in Place at St. Lawrence Lowlands (Apr 19)


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Tis' the season to be jolly... falalalaaaa lalala. The talented floggies (read: food bloggers) on the other side of the planet have been whipping up a storm of Christmas goodies in their kitchens and I'm getting a sugar high just reading & browsing the pics! And while they've also given me a flashback of the sweet memories from last year's winter xmas (in Germany with Andreas' family), the crazy crazy crazy work deadlines we had to rush these last two weeks (what with people clearing off year-end leave and goin on hols) haven't given me much time to do anything.
Closing my last article for the mag and in the midst of massively clearing my work inbox, I was glad to have found something which had gotten lost in that labyrinth. This recipe was actually forwarded to me by a friend and had a truly intriguing title - "The World's Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake." I finally got around to trying it after dinner today - to surprisingly good results! Although it was made in the microwave, the cake was wonderfully moist & had a nice layer of melted choc (from the choc chips which sunk). Definitely a must-try especially for all those not-genius-bakers like moi!
5 minute Chocolate Cake (also known as The World's Most Dangerous Choc Cake)
(Serves 2)
4 tbsp flour
3 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
1 egg
3 tbsp milk
3 tbsp oil
A handful of chocolate chips (optional but highly recommended)
Small splash of vanilla essence
1. In a coffee mug, mix dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa). Add in egg and mix thoroughly with a fork.
2. Pour in milk and oil. Mix well again.
3. Add in chocolate chips and vanilla. Then fold it in.
4. Put mug in microwave and cook for 3 minutes on the HIGH setting (1000 watts).
5. If the cake rises over the top of your mug, don't be alarmed.
6. Allow it to cool a little and eat!
p/s: Penguin mini night-light is there to show how big this cup really is...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
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lol - definitely hv to try this out, cuz...i really love the label "the world's most dangerous choc cake"!
- December 24, 2008 at 10:35 PM
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UTeach is coming to CT to train 48 teachers in the UTeach CS Principles course. Stipends will be available to teachers. For additional information about this great opportunity, see the flyer and plan on joining the informational webinar on Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 3 pm. A registration link for the webinar can be found on the flyer. Please share this with others that you feel may be interested in learning more about this free training opportunity.
In Connecticut, our academic standards describe what we believe every student should know and be able to do by the time they exit the K-12 education system. Collectively, state standards define what Connecticut believes to be a well-rounded education. Connecticut is considering adopting the CSTA Computer Science Standards for K-12 Education (2017) https://www.csteachers.org/page/standards. As part of the adoption process the Connecticut State Department of Education (CSDE) would like your input regarding the quality of the standards. Please take a moment to review the standards and complete the survey https://sdect.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3UxfmCXMhIO6MtL by February 16, 2018.
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Open the door for your students to engineer spinoff technology and compete internationally within the world of NASA OPSPARC. Students are asked to use their imagination and creativity to identify NASA Spinoff technology in their everyday world. Items such as memory foam, invisible braces, firefighting equipment, artificial limbs, scratch-resistant lenses, aircraft anti-icing systems, shoe insoles, water filters/purification, cochlear implants, satellite television, and long-distance telecommunications were first developed for a NASA mission and then, re-worked to make everyday life easier.
NASA OPSPARC is just one of many NASA challenges and resources that will shared during this 45-minute webinar that will help you discover ways to build context for learning and use your classroom as a portal to current NASA missions. Sharon Bowers, Senior STEM Education Specialist at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) will share NASA and NIA engineering and design challenges and resources appropriate for Grades 3-12 during this session.
ITEEA and the Center for Integrative STEM Education (CISE) at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) celebrate their newly formed partnership. CISE at NIA is excited to share NASA and NIA resources with ITEEA members to add real-world context to EbD coursework, modules, and classrooms. NASA OPSPARC is one example of a NASA engineering design challenge that will push your students to research, think critically and creatively, and use an engineering design process to develop spinoff technology to solve a real-world problem. Join us for this webinar to learn more about NASA OPSPARC and other NASA and NIA challenges and resources.
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Sharon Bowers has been an K-8 educator for more than 30 years and her work with children earned her several honors, including recognition as a Secondary Science Presidential Award Winner for Virginia. She received her undergraduate degree in Biology and her Masters in Special Education, both from McDaniel College. Sharon recently completed her doctorate in Integrative STEM Education at Virginia Tech.
Sharon's work at the Center for Integrative STEM Education (CISE) at the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) focuses on developing resources that model best practice in the use of instructional technology to support STEM education. In this capacity, Sharon is the program manager for NASA InWorld OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge (NASA OPSPARC), an engineering design challenge for secondary school students within a multi-user, interactive, synchronous virtual world. Sharon also develops professional learning experiences for pre-service and in-service educators. She has designed and teaches graduate courses for McDaniel College that lead to a certificate in STEM instructional leadership.
There are two upcoming CS Fundamental workshops being offered in Connecticut. These are open to any K-5 Educator. To register:
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On a fair Saturday (many week's back), Ian C. and the Middling set out to playtest the skirmish game, Strange Aeons, by Uncle Mike's worldwide at Endgame in Oakland, CA. The game is a narrative skirmish game and pits secret government occult investigators, Threshold, against the forces of H.P. Lovecraft's cthulhu mythos, Lurkers. The game is fast playing and designed to be used in a campaign, via linked scenarios, which emphasize character/model advancement, injuries, and developing insanity!
The first scenario (of three played) was a "Fight" scenario, which logically featured a fight. . Strange Aeons has three different levels for Threshold agents, Characters (leaders), Agents (trained, second tier), and Civilians (untrained types).
The party of bold Threshold investigators here seen in front of their Vintage model-T (only the <oldest> transports for the government's finest). From left to right we have: Sister Peter Marie, gun-toting nun (a civilian), Father Seamus, Exorcist (a civilian), H. Webly Miner, an occult investigator (and the only character), Drake Jackson, Private Dick (an agent), reporter Walcott Johnson (a civilian), and Armitage Powers, adventurer (an agent).
Threshold agents are sent in to deal with a lurker threat, which can change from scenario to scenario.
For this scenario the Lurkers consisted of a Cult Leader and mess-load of cultists, seen below:
A birds-eye view of the battlefield pre-conflict, pre-deployment, and with a handy car for scale:
Threshold dismounts their model-T and readies to investigate the cultist's headquarters.
The cultists advance and take up positions behind the barricades, readying for the oncoming Threshold attack, with a lone cultist charging forward crazed and hungry to prove his loyalty to his dark god.
He is met by a brave nun – and she with ruler, and he with knife, set to melee…
…and old Sister Peter Marie is no match for the dark servant and is knocked out, her fate unknown…
Threshold is quick to respond, taking up around the assailant, laying into him with pistol fire, and ending his life.
But the moment of victory is brief as another knife wielding cultist bursts through the treeline…
…And kill the priest, Father Seamus, his heavy bible (club) no match for the cultist's ferocity! The religious and pious are not faring well thus far – perhaps Threshold needs to put its faith in good old fashion science, ingenuity, and technology…
And worse, another rampaging cultist has emerged from the tree-line to harass Threshold.
Meanwhile, the Lurker forces advance, sensing weakness in the government agent's ranks:
Yet, Threshold has true purpose and aim, dispatching one cultist with gunfire, and knocking down a second with still more skilled gunfire.
Still more cultists charge forward – setting upon ace-reporter, Walcott Johnson, whose inexperience with anything other than his Polaroid doesn't stop him from holding off the violence of the cult.
Walcott's heroics keep him alive, only to be set upon by another cultist, and another a few feet behind…
The Cult Leader and his trusted bodyguard look on, pleased with the sacrifices to their eldritch god…
H. Webly Miner, occult investigator and Drake Armitage, explorer are able to dispatch a cultist, while Walcott manages to hold off TWO cultist through more furious melee.
…Even going so far as dispatching one of the cultist – smashing his camera across the evil henchmen's face.
…and things begin to turn in Threshold's favor, as H. Webly Miner and Walcott Johson gang up and kill outright the second cultist.
Seeing his compatriots killed so effortlessly by Threshold, one of the cultists breaks from combat and runs back to join his leader and hope that courage (as well as stength) comes in numbers.
…the cultist runs frantically as Miner fires .45 shells after the fleeing Lurker.
But the cultist is crafty and makes it to cover and apparent safety…
…only to be gundown by Drake Jackson, P.I.
Armitage Powers continues the Threshold onslaught felling the Cult Leader's first bodyguard with expert pistoleering – and then the second with a rapid second shot!
Finally, seeing that a measured approach will not satisfy his Dark God's desires, the Cult Leader, a horribly mutated spawn of a man and some eldrich evil, launches forward and besets H. Webly Miner.
Their combat is fierce and terrifying – Miner is injured by a cruel swing of the Cult Leader's staff; Threshold has lost its leader! And the Lurker then turns on Armitage Powers… pitting his arcane staff against the explorer's torch, in deadly hand-to-hand….
…and dispatches him too! Threshold seems to need to improve their hand to hand training….
Is Threshold defeated? Can the Lurker's not be stopped?
They can! A skilled or (lucky) shot drops the cultist boss…dead.
Threshold has proven victorious, but at terrible cost! All but one of their rank, Drake Jackson, PI, has survived the scenario. Below we can see the casualties of the battle: all of the Lurkers and 5/6 Threshold operatives have been either injured or killed.
After rolls on the injury table, Father Seamus dies of his wounds, H. Webly Miner recovers fully, and Armitage Powers recieved a physical injury: Powers loses a point of dexterity (making him a poor shot – not that he hit much with a superior dexterity this scenario.)
Threshold is victorious, but they are in poor shape, and they need to retire to lick their wounds and recover before setting out again to pit themselves against the forces of the cthulhu mythos.
[Stay tuned for Episode 2, coming sometime in the…future!]


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Different moms have different way of mothering their child. Some of them are Sweet-Sugary type mother, some are passionate ad determined, some are disciplinary and some are short tempered. You can actually discover the type of mother that you have and that will help you decide on the type of words and actions that you need to choose while dealing with your mom. For having a healthy relationship with your mother it is necessary that you understand your mother in the best way. No matter what, one thing is clear that, whatever may be the underlying qualities of your mother, she will always love her children. Her maternal impulse is the strongest of all the impulses she may have.
The word "mother" indeed has become synonymous to love and care!! When we talk about mother, it's a general notion that we think of our biological mother but the phenomenon of being a mother is much more than that. Some mothers though have not given birth to the child but take up the duty in the best possible way. There are step-mothers, mother-in-laws and various other forms of motherly figures.
The world is full of various types of mother!! And on mother's day there's this chance to celebrate the silent efforts of all the mothers out there, who have, made your life a celebration. Depending on the type of mother you have, you can plan out gifts for your mother on Mother's day. Same as, different individuals we have different tastes and different ways of perceiving things, different types of mothers have different taste of gifts and celebrations. Here we are going to discuss few types of mothers to help you out in choosing a gift for your mother on Mothers' day.
A guardian mother may or may not be your biological mother but she will love you more than your real mother. A guardian mother's existence revolves around love and affection. Indubitably, there's no substitute to the pleasure of having a mother. The eternity and the special intimate bond that we share with our mother enable us to feel complete. A Guardian mom has an extraordinary sense of responsibility. This type of moms is really trustworthy and you can share all your secrets with them. Their strong sense of analysing situations, meticulously make them hard to deal with. But the best thing is that, you will end up growing into a perfect individual if brought under the shelter of such mothers. One of the perfect examples of a guardian mother is Queen Victoria.
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The main show "Life's Journey" was excellent with many outstanding books of all sorts. One of my favourites was Caitlin Sheedy's "The 199" on loan from the SLQ collection. Helen Cole has made a great selection from their vast collection (including two books by my new BAO friend Helen Malone) to which Noreen Grahame added work from Grahame Galleries + Editions. The range and display of the work was a credit to the curators Emma Bain from Redland Art Galleryand Anna Thurgood from Mackay Art Space.
The "Mind Mapping" exhibition went well, lots of people showed interest in an aspect of my work hitherto kept hidden. I realise it's not necessarily everyone's cup of tea and I was a bit reticent to show at first, but now I'm glad I did. It was great catching up with lots of friends I hadn't seen for years but as usual didn't get much time to chat. There were many expert bookmakers and printmakers who were all very supportive.But
it's always a relief when the "Opening" has passed and the show can hang by itself for us to visit and explore.
I promised some photos but haven't taken any yet much too crowded and not really possible or appropriate at the opening. I will go back and take some when it's quiet and make a little album in flickr. In the mean time, a friend contacted me and sent me some shots she took with her phone. She has given me permission to give you access to her blog at http://heyharriet.blogspot.com.au/ This might give you some little idea of the exhibition. The installation team under Emma Bain's expert direction have done an outstanding job. I feel so lucky to be part of it all.


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Purdue Boilermakers (1-5) vs. Wisconsin Badgers (4-2)
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The Purdue Boilermakers and Wisconsin Badgers square off Saturday at Camp Randall Stadium.
The Purdue Boilermakers could use a big road victory to snap a four-game losing streak. David Blough is completing 53.5 percent of his passes for 694 yards, four touchdowns and five interceptions. Blough has thrown four picks in his last two games. DeAngelo Yancey and Danny Anthrop have combined for 543 receiving yards and three touchdowns while Cameron Posey has 10 receptions. The Purdue Boilermakers ground game is averaging 148.1 yards per contest, and Markell Jones leads the way with 412 yards and five touchdowns. Defensively, Purdue is allowing 34.3 points and 429.2 yards per game. Ja'Whaun Bentley leads the Boilermakers with 49 tackles, Antoine Miles has four sacks and Leroy Clark has five pass deflections. Austin Appleby and Wyatt Cook are questionable.
The Wisconsin Badgers look to improve to 5-2 on the season and remain in the Big Ten West race. Joel Stave is completing 59.4 percent of his passes for 1,386 yards, eight touchdowns and four interceptions. Stave has just one touchdown pass in his last two games. Alex Erickson and Robert Wheelwright have combined for 724 receiving yards and four touchdowns while Austin Traylor has 10 receptions. The Wisconsin Badgers ground game is averaging 164.3 yards per contest, and Dare Ogunbowale leads the way with 426 yards and three touchdowns. Defensively, Wisky is allowing 11.5 points and 285.8 yards per game. Joe Schobert leads the Badgers with 40 tackles, Vince Biegel has three sacks and Leo Musso has two interceptions. Hayden Biegel and Taiwan Deal are questionable.
The Boilermakers are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 games in October and 2-7-1 ATS in their last 10 games overall. The Badgers are 5-1 ATS vs. a team with a losing record and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 games in October. The Boilermakers are 0-4 ATS in their last 4 meetings in Wisconsin and 1-11 ATS in their last 12 meetings overall.
Wisconsin has simply beat up Purdue over the years, and the Boilermakers haven't put up much of a fight in a lot of those contests. It's hard to expect much of anything different here. Purdue was just clobbered by Minnesota at home. A trip to Camp Randall will be just as ugly.


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Why the Pope is right to purge modern music
Telegraph.co.uk | By Damian Thompson
For decades, the standard of singing in St Peter's basilica has struggled to match that of a Gilbert and Sullivan society.
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The Pope, who last year appointed a new choir director of St Peter's, wants Gregorian chant, polyphony and baroque masterpieces to dominate the repertoire in the basilica and the Sistine chapel. And, by making his preferences clear, he is sending out a message to the whole Catholic Church.
We are moving into an era of liturgical revolution. Benedict detests the feeble "folk Masses" that have remained the staple fare of Catholic worship long after they went out of musical fashion.
He wants the Church to rediscover the treasure of its heritage - and that includes Gregorian chant as well as the pre-1970 Latin Mass that can now be celebrated without the permission of bishops.
The old guard of trendy choir directors and composers (many of whom have signed lucrative contracts with dioceses) will fight his reforms every inch of the way, egged on by philistine bishops.
But younger church musicians, like young priests, are conservative in their tastes.
The next generation of choir directors have been charged by the Pope with the task of reintroducing beautiful music into church. If they succeed, then at long last the pews may begin to fill up again.
Damian Thompson is editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald
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The Edo State Government has warned persons masquerading as Vehicle Inspection Officers and extorting money from unsuspecting motorists to desist from such acts or face the wrath of the law.
The Commissioner for Information, Louis Odion, who said this after the weekly State Executive Council meeting, on Tuesday, recalled that few weeks ago, some men in "Pink T-Shirts, who had been harassing motorists", were stopped by the state government.
In a statement in Benin, he said the SEC observed that whereas there was a clear directive two weeks ago that men wearing pink uniforms should desist from harassing motorists on the roads, there had been a proliferation of men wearing white and black uniforms on the roads in the past few days, purporting to be VIOs or agents or volunteers working with the VIO unit.
While stressing that the council strongly condemned the illegal activity and considered it unacceptable, Odion added that the Commissioner for Transport, Orobosa Omo-Ojo, had been directed to communicate with the VIO unit of the ministry, withdrawing such unit and formations from the road and halting their activities on the streets or highways.
The statement read, "By this announcement, the special enforcement unit, set up by the government, has also been mandated to, beginning from tomorrow (Wednesday), commence patrol on our roads and anyone found wearing uniforms, purporting to be VIOs, would be apprehended and made to face the full wrath of the law.
"This applies to other forms of extortion in the state either on behalf of any of the ministries, departments or agencies.
"Apart from the Special Enforcement Unit, which is to begin a patrol of our roads to ensure strict compliance with this resolution, members of the public are also encouraged to apprehend anyone found extorting money purportedly on behalf of the government or behalf of anybody or any ministry."


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Big Rigs Podcast: Episode 2
IN THIS episode we cross to the Truckies' Reunion in Alice Springs, and hear the latest in Trucking News from the Big Rigs Newsroom.
We also speak with Kiwi Facebook sensation Robbie Gooserooter whose videos attack political correctness and give Kenworth drivers a bit of a tickle-up.
Queensland President of the Livestock and Rural Transporters Association, Ian Wilde, discusses the effect recent abattoir closures would have on road transport.
A report from the Lowood Truck Show, and we hear from a truck driving show man and the acts of skill behind his stunt drivers and riders.
Finally, Bruce Honeywill remembers the days when he was a driver with Bagley Transport.


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text: The Washington girls basketball team definitely earned their day off Monday. The undefeated Panthers capped off an incredible week by handing Elkhart Memorial its first loss, 70-54, Saturday night. Washington went 5-0 in a grueling eight-day stretch to run its season mark to 14-0. The No. 2 Panthers, the area's lone unbeaten girls squad, host NIC foe Marian tonight. "It was a long and tough week and you have to be smart,'' said Washington coach Maurice Scott about the day off from practice Monday. "You have to give them time to rest.'' Scott, in his first season as head coach, saw his squad persevere versus several outstanding teams in a brutal run of games. The Panthers won at home Dec. 27 and then claimed the T-Mobile Invitational title in Muncie with a pair of wins last Monday and Tuesday before road victories Friday night over Gary West (in a game played at Hammond) and Saturday against Memorial. "I knew the girls had it in them and they learned they did too,'' Scott said of the grueling week. "We got better as a team last week. All of our kids got better too with the competition we played.'' Washington, 90-6 and a Class 4-A state finalist the past three years, has just seven regular-season games left. Scott is just worried about the next one. "My thing is just to take one game at a time,'' said Scott. "I don't look at being undefeated. I want to win every game. I'm so competitive I don't want to lose. Every game motivates me. I don't need losing as motivation for us.'' Washington superstar Skylar Diggins proved to be a difference maker again Saturday with 30 points and a very smart all-around game. The smooth senior southpaw is averaging 30.3 ppg. and now ranks sixth all-time with 2,430 career points. On Saturday, Diggins passed former North Judson star Debbie Bolen (2,421). Next up at No. 5 is Katie Gearlds at 2,521. The state record is 3,085 by former Wawasee star Shanna Zolman. "Skylar is very crafty and understands what has to be done,'' said Scott. "She made adjustments Saturday and took what they gave her. For her, it's all about a W (win).'' Stellar setting in Elkhart The atmosphere was something else in North Side Gym Saturday. Some 4,500 fans created an electric setting as Washington prevailed. "The crowd was great and that was Indiana basketball at its best,'' said Scott. "It was huge for the girls game. It shows where the game has evolved too.'' Conference clashes on tap A couple of key conference clashes highlight the schedule this week. Penn plays at Clay Thursday in a clash of NIC unbeatens. The Kingsmen, 11-2 overall and 4-0 in league play, are led by seniors Kelsey Reynolds and Lily Svete. Clay looks to snap a four-game losing streak. The Colonials, who lost 71-42 to Westfield and 79-62 to Noblesville Saturday, are 7-4 overall and 5-0 in the NIC (tied with Washington). Twin juniors Ariel and Asia Easton pace Clay. Plymouth, defending Class 3-A state champion, plays at Elkhart Memorial Saturday afternoon. The Pilgrims (8-3) and Memorial (11-1) are tied with Wawasee and Northridge atop the NLC at 2-0. The Pilgrims are led by seniors Lyzz Smith and Alex Starr. The Chargers, who won the NLC last season, boast the 1-2 punch of sophomore Akyah Taylor and junior Jada Buggs.


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Written by Tom DeFalco, Art by Paul Ryan, Inks by Ivy & Kryssing
As an admitted former Marvel Zombie who bought both an actual copy and an audiobook version of Marvel: The Untold Story (which I recommend to anyone who has any interest in Marvel or comic book history), I have complicated feelings about Tom DeFalco. On the one hand, he was the Editor in Chief during one of the worst periods in Marvel history, when the "tail started wagging the dog" as the marketing department took over and started selling gimmicks to an America bamboozled into thinking comics would all be worth something if you hoarded enough of them. His actual writing was noted for being extremely backwards-looking, with a clear Stan Lee influence in his dialogue and the dense melodrama he'd throw into his stories. I know I should hate him for that, but it turns out I kind of like "back to basics" approaches (look out for my review of Kurt Busiek's Untold Tales of Spider-Man). As a kid, I also loved frequent collaborator Ron Frenz's art, which seemed to be cleaner, prettier versions of Ditko and Kirby. I really enjoyed the first 50 or so issues of Spider-Girl, even if they're pretty much a 90's/early 2000's update of Lee/Ditko/Romita era Spider-Man, almost villain-for-villain. But enough preamble: let's get to the ACTION!
|I want to know what all these heroes are saying. Especially Hercules.
We begin our story as Reed Richards communicates with the X-Men, inviting them to a meeting at the FF headquarters. Sue questions what's so important that Reed hasn't shared it with his own teammates, but Reed says there's no time to explain, because it's "imperative" that he invite Alpha Flight and the New Warriors. Sue storms off (no pun intended), saying how Reed has been "rude" and "cold," and not at all himself. She suddenly remembers an encephalizer went off last issue, and that Reed claimed it was just a malfunction. Sue thinks that Reed always makes failsafes, but this time she beat him to the punch, getting Tony Stark to create a failsafe based on "just a feeling." This marriage may have some trust issues. Sue watches something on her failsafe, before thinking "The Fantastic Four-- the entire universe-- could be in grave jeopardy!" I think she may be exaggerating just a tad, personally.
Meanwhile The Thing and Sharon Ventura have coffee at a diner. Sharon recently returned, in human form, after being "cured" of her She-Thing persona by Dr. Doom. Even though the two had been dating for some time, Ben doesn't trust her apparent connection to Doom, and also is unwilling to admit that he might have feelings for Alicia, who had recently returned to earth after being impersonated by a Skrull for at least a year. Their awkward coffee is interrupted when Ben sees the Puppet Master, Alicia's uncle, watching in a trenchcoat. As Ben goes to confront the Puppet Master, Sharon pulls out a walkie-talkie and says to inform "the master" that she's made contact.
|Sure Ben, just throw your cigar anywhere.
Ben confronts Puppet Master, but is surprised to learn he doesn't have any scheme, he just loves Alicia, and feels that Ben is somehow betraying her by having coffee with his somewhat estranged and possibly evil girlfriend. Suddenly, an evil doppleganger of The Thing materializes, sporting his recently lost "scaly" look, and starts a brawl with the Thing. During the course of the fight, the doppleganger drops the line "I know you are not as ignorant as you attempt to appear! You hold many advanced degrees in engineering!" I always like when the Thing is presented as being a smart guy who plays dumb, but "many"? That's pushing it. Ben insists he mainly majored in "lunch, dames, and football." Awesome.
|Everybody knows engineering degrees are for jocks and slackers.
Back at FF headquarters, Sue programs a giant robot to protect Franklin, but as she leaves the room, his eyes glow ominously. Sue then goes to check on some monitors, wondering what evil Reed is planning, when she notices an extremely off-model Wolverine sneaking around, wearing a trenchcoat over his costume. Where do all these heroes get these trenchcoats?
The Thing and doppleganger Thing continue their brawl, destroying a construction site as evil Thing slams good Thing through 20 feet of earth and onto a subway platform. Puppet Master thinks that even though he never liked Ben Grimm, this new guy is much worse. He pulls out the clay sculpture of Thing he carries around at all times, and starts sculpting it to look like the doppleganger. The evil Thing lets slip that he intends to impersonate Ben and kill everyone he cares about, especially a certain blind girl. Puppet Master throws the clay sculpture into the third rail, and a moment later, Ben slugs the evil Thing into the third rail, causing him to explode out of existence.
|Actually a pretty good burn!
Sue meets with the rest of the team and confirms that they aren't, in fact, evil, before going over to meet with the other heroes. We can all rest easy, because the New Warriors are there, along with the X-Men, X-Factor, and the Avengers. But where's Alpha Flight?! Evil Reed starts giving a speech about imposters, but Wolverine cuts him off, saying that Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic are the imposters! This causes everyone to fight everyone for no apparent reason, as U.S. Agent will apparently use any excuse to punch Gambit in the mouth. Reed pleads for Susan to help him, but she reveals she knows he's evil. Undaunted, he stretches his way into activating a hidden "gamma bomb," announcing that he's won. He gives Susan a final insult, and then we end with the top floors of the FF building dramatically exploding, followed by a "to be continued?!" Nope, I'm pretty sure every hero was killed in that blast (except the Hulk), so half of Marvel's catalog will be immediately canceled.
This issue is an "Infinity War" crossover, according to the cover, and ends up being at least somewhat important, since it gets all the heroes together. Infinity War is a pretty dumb crossover, and it caused virtually every tie-in to have a "hero fights his double" story. It's probably still better than "Secret Invasion," though. I like how the issue makes Sue out to be competent, although it's a mystery how Reed acting coldly is somehow the giveaway that something's wrong. Ben's battle with his double is a well-executed, old-school fight scene. It's not re-inventing the wheel to have the villain get KO'ed by a third rail, but I enjoyed it. It's also pretty cool to see dozens of heroes in cameo appearances, as Darkhawk, U.S. Agent, and Silhouette of the New Warriors are just a few of the minor characters that pop up in the final scene. We also keep a few sub-plots running, as Thing tries to sort things out with Sharon (who is obviously now in Doom's pocket), and tries to sort out his feelings for Alicia. I love evil Reed's final put-down of Sue, too. It really hearkens back to Reed's Silver-Age misogyny.
Paul Ryan's art is simple and generally pretty good, although he seems to have some issues with faces this month (especially Wolverine, who is turning into a caveman). I like his action layouts, but this issue looks a bit rushed. He does a solid job drawing big crowd scenes at the end, though.
All in all, this is a good issue. It definitely makes me want to read the follow-up, as I'd still want to see how the team (and everyone else) got out of this jam. This is how you do a tie-in book: focus on your characters, tell a good story that only marginally furthers the big crossover, and throw in plenty of fun cameos.
General Miscellany:
The last coolometer! For those that don't remember/never heard of this, every month in Marvel's hype page they'd have a "coolometer" that would rank random pop culture from the late 80's/early 90's to Marvel characters on a coolness scale. It was pretty much the best! My favorite part of this month's coolometer? "Cool World" being almost as uncool as coolometers and slightly less cool than Calvin Coolidge. Bring back the coolometer, Marvel!
Look I'm not saying we have to have nostalgia for everything, but this game was legit awesome.


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1. I love that I keeping finding gift cards from past birthdays and holidays - HAPPY DAY TO ME!! This past weekend, I went on an organization spree around our house and found a lot of gift cards. Two days later, I have enjoyed downloading a few new albums on I-Tunes (Gift Card), ordering a couple of books on Amazon (GIFT Card), and stocking up on kitchen hand soap and decorative soap holders (Gift Cards). Its like a mini-Christmas.
2. I love that I finally spotted a possible choice for my new car. Actually, Matt drove me by the dealership on Sunday, and it was the first time, in a long time, that I actually liked what I saw. I am sooo picky with cars, and even though we are a few months away from purchasing, I now have a viable option.
4. I love that I keep thinking about seeing Buffett at Riverbend. I really really really want to go to Cincinnati this August to see Jimmy Buffett. (This is my plea to my hubby, who I know reads my blog. LOL!!)
6. I love that our fridge is stocked with lots of delicious and healthy goodies! AND, that I have already worked out everyday this week!!
7. I love that I got to catch up with so many friends and close family on the phone this past weekend!! Its been a long time since I've had so much phone time, and it feels so nice to catch up with everyone!!
Happy Wednesday!!