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You may have worked out from our editorial so far this week that it's Reading & Leeds Festival this weekend and we're rather excited about it.
So, in no particular order, here are the twenty acts DiS' editor is most looking forward to seeing this weekend.
Arctic Monkeys
Whilst it might seem blindingly obvious to start with one of the festival headliners, they're clearly topping the bill for a reason. Humbug in my opinion is one of the records of the year and this Reading set could finally shut up the doubters that think they're just some 'smindie' northerners. One question which you might hear whispered onsite is 'Will Reading veteran Josh Homme join them on stage?'. We certainly hope so.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's going to be odd watching Karen O and co in daylight but they really pulled it off at Glastonbury and with their finest, most main stage worthy album to date under their belts, it's likely this set will go down in Reading history. DiS Artist Profile
Crystal Castles
The marmite-rock, gameboy-toting post-hipsters have been one of the most exciting acts at Reading for the past few years. We have a feeling this set could finally be the time we see them with no 'technical difficulties' but then, it's more likely to end in Alice being arrested for acting like a an idiot...
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The Big Pink
Whilst this year has been the year of the solo female, The Big Pink have stumbled onto the music map with every indie-point winning credential but have yet to become the talk on indie-rock. Their shoegaze-soaked electro-goth may rub you up the wrong way on paper but fans of The Cure, Interpol and othersuch gloomy-thumpery should def' catch their set.
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The Horrors
With one of the most talked about albums of the year we fully expect them to 'do a Mars Volta' and play one song for twenty minutes and wander off-stage leaving everyone bemused. However, we do hope they dizzy up with strobes and convert the curious into kraut loving goths. We fully expect this to be one of the most blathered about sets of the weekend, which makes it all the more likely to go down in Reading history.
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Friendly Fires
If there was an award for band of the year they'd surely have won it already. Last year they bought Notting Hill Carnival to a half-full New Bands Tent, this year they'll be lazering the eyes off one of the biggest crowds of the weekend, at least 80% of whom will be dancing like they're at a wedding. This is no bad thing.
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The Maccabees
One of DiS' tips for 2006 and since then they've delivered two well-received albums, picked up a large loyal army of fans and strangely floated around the mainstream radar without ever truly becoming the biiig indie pop act they should probably be.
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The Temper Trap
These Aussies were my tip for 2009. Their humongous indie-rock sits somewhere between TV on the Radio, Kings of Leon and, er, U2, which may sound like an abortion to ardent lo-fi fans but to anyone who's not indier-than-thou they've been a little Stills-like revelation so far this year. Their show in the New Bands Tent may turn out to be 'one of those' Reading shows, which leads to the band coming back to a much-much bigger slot when their next album arrives.
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Bloc Party
DiS' love for these Londoners goes back to before they were even called Bloc Party. They found their band members on our boards and played some of their earliest shows beneath the DiS banner. After last year's technical hiccups and rumours of taking some time out, this is likely to be a hit-filled head-turner with moments of tearjerking nostalgia for those simpler days when artsy indie-pop was full of hope and promise.
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Their latest album Fantasies has marked Emily Haines' electro-rock crew out as one of the most exceptional popular bands of the Noughties. DiS is somewhat biased having released their previous album but then we only did so because we love them so.
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Kaiser Chiefs
Keeping things on a DiS Records related tip, these Leeds lads are bit good! :-)
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Aidan Moffat
The former Arab Strap drunk-poet will be treating Reading & Leeds to a very special spoken word set. If it's anything like Henry Rollins last year we're in for a real treat. It's likely to be as rude as it is funny.
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Jamie T
Always promises a set of great sing-a-long songs and it's safe to say about as many DiS readers will agree with this choice as disagree with it.
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The Living End
Back in '99 I caught this lot at the tail-end of my skate-punk obsession and their riotous Clash-like punk-rock had my head in a spin, following support from Steve Lamacq. They're always a great 'Reading band' and if you've never heard them, nip along and get your communist fist ready to jab the air.
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Everyone loves a silly punk cover version and Snuff are pretty much the masters of such fun-foolery.
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Rival Schools
One of the constants on the DiS boards is people talking about Jimmy Eat World, At the Drive-In and Rival Schools. That's mighty fine company for any modern rock band to find themselves in and I can't wait to catch them live for the first time in about a decade.
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Whilst many metallers are moaning that Reading has gone soft this year, who better to put up against Radiohead than the poster boys of Noughties British Rock. Whilst we're sure most DiS readers will be watching Radiohead, we do advise you catch a little of their set rather than shouting for 'Creep' between every song.
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Their set at Reading '98 is one of my fondest memories of Reading and with Chino's voice and all those riffs, this is likely to be one of the sets of the weekend.
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Kings of Leon
Rounding off our 'aren't all the headliners bloody brilliant this year' we offer ourselves up to your flack and suggest that this KoL will be the perfect set for your drunken body. Having said that, as the lords of Top Shop rock (i.e. everything that's wrong with music, for some people) I still expect them to get bottled, which is a shame.
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Plus, here's a mixtape featuring all the above...
20 Songs DiS Can't Wait to Hear at Reading '09
Arctic Monkeys '505'
Yeah Yeah Yeahs 'Zero'
Crystal Castles 'Vanished - Radio Edit'
Radiohead 'Idioteque'
The Big Pink 'Velvet'
The Horrors 'Scarlet Fields'
Friendly Fires 'Paris'
The Maccabees 'No Kind Words - Single Version'
Temper trap 'Sweet Disposition'
Bloc Party 'Banquet'
Metric 'Stadium Love'
Kaiser Chiefs 'Never Miss A Beat'
Aidan Moffat + The Best Ofs 'Big Blonde'
Jamie T 'Salvador'
The Living End 'West End Riot'
Snuff 'I Will Survive'
Rival Schools 'Used for Glue'
Lostprophets 'Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja'
Deftones 'My Own Summer (Shove It)'
Kings Of Leon 'Knocked Up'
Listen: 20 Songs DiS Can't Wait to Hear at Reading '09 on Spotify


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[Around Town] The first major exhibition of Mariko Mori's work for 14 years explores life and death through age-old cultures and cosmic movements
Summary: According to ancient calendars, the winter solstice in 2012 was to herald the end of the world and the birth of a new one, and Mariko Mori's works explore this circularity with references to the ancient cultures of Jomon Japan and the Celts in Europe.
The exhibition is bookended by two installations which sum up Mori's focus on death and renewal.
The first is entitled Tom Na H-iu II (2006) - a name derived from the Celtic word for sites which guided souls returning to earth - and takes the form of a large glass monolith lit from within by LED lights. The work is connected to a computer at the University of Tokyo which monitors neutrinos – the product of radioactive decay – in the atmosphere and the lights change colour according to the types of neutrinos detected.
WhileTom Na H-iu II focuses on death and decay, the exhibition's closing work, White Hole (2012), explores rebirth. The installation is approached through a dark curved corridor leading to a closed spaced with a single light source, alluding to the light patterns emitted at the rebirth of a star as it is released from the pull of a black hole.
Between these two installations are an assortment of drawings, paintings, sculptural work and installations which further explore Mori's preoccupations.
Highlights: Transcircle 1.1 (2004) is the most compelling of Mori's installations and consists of nine waist-height acrylic 'stones' arranged so as to evoke ancient stone circles. The forms symbolise the planets of the solar system and LED lights allow each to glow a different colour, based on the movements of the planets over a year.
You also get a preview of two of the six site-specific outdoor installations that Mori is working on, one in each of the habitable continents.
Primal Rhythm on Japan's Miyako Island consists of Sun Pillar, a plexiglass column built in 2011 on a rock cluster off the island, and Moonstone, a structure which will be installed in the sea between Sun Pillar and the bay. Moonstone will change colour according to the phase of the moon, while Sun Pillar will reflect the changing colour of the sea and sky and has been positioned so that at the winter solstice, its shadow intersects the Moonstone.
Another of Mori's installations – the aptly named Ring – is previewed at the exhibition and will eventually be suspended above a waterfall in the rainforest of Visconde de Mauá, Brazil.
Low points: With the focus on the solstices, the movements of the tides and cosmic happenings, Mori's work can get a bit too 'new age' at times. The lowest points come just as you enter and leave the exhibition; a sound recording plays Mori's trace-like voice repeating esoteric sweet nothings: 'We are nature… We are one with everything… We came here to view peace… We are here, and we are still alive…' (it goes on). Does anyone take that stuff seriously?
Curator's comment: 'Mori's practice has been rooted in both traditional and contemporary Japanese culture, and between East and West. Her works juxtapose contrasting aesthetic languages that have ranged from traditional tea ceremonies to Manga and cyber culture, fusing Shintoism and Buddhism with the hard planes of science and technology.'
Final word: Worth seeing for the artist's bold use of colours, textures and space. As for much of the philosophy behind Mori's works, you can take it or leave it.
Mariko Mori: Rebirth
Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Until 17 February 2013
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Fri: 10am-10pm
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Newtown Hook and Ladder finds site for new station
NEWTOWN -- The Newtown Hook and Ladder Company No. 1's long search for a place to build a new station appears to be over.
First Selectman Pat Llodra announced Monday that the volunteer fire company has finalized a contract with Trinity Episcopoal Church to buy three acres off Church Hill Road behind the parish sanctuary, not far from the landmark flagpole.
"This is exciting news," Llodra said.
Fire Chief Rich Camejo also was pleased, but cautioned that until the land-use plans are approved, the deal is not done.
"We're not paying for it until we have all the approvals," Camejo said Wednesday.
The fire company has spent four years looking for a place to build a new station. Its present home in a 1930s-era building behind Edmond Town Hall that once served as town garage and jail is regarded as woefully inadequate, even unsafe in some sections. In the late 1990s, steel girders had to be installed to support the crumbling floor.
The company twice had promising prospects for new sites, only to watch both plans fall apart, Camejo said.
This latest proposal seems to be headed in a more positive direction, though Camejo said he hesitates to get too excited too soon. He said he is glad town leaders have voiced strong support for the endeavor, committing $1.5 million over a three-year period to help pay for so-far-undetermined construction costs.
"Pat's (Llodra) been behind this project 100 percent." Camejo said. "She's been awesome."
The purchase agreement will pay Trinity $500,000 for the land, Camejo said. The company is also working with Claris Construction, of Newtown, on the design of a 15,000-square-foot building with eight bays to house $2 million worth of fire equipment, including pumpers, a ladder truck, a rescue vehicle and a utility trailer.
Camejo praised Claris' commitment to working with the Fire Department.
"They've bent over backwards to help us," Camejo said.
If all does go as planned, and the company is able to meet all the land-use requirements, Camejo hopes for to break ground in the summer and move in within a year.
"They have a pretty aggressive timetable to move quite quickly," Llodra said.
Legislative Council Chairman Mary Ann Jacob welcomed the news.
"I think we owe them a place to operate because their current proper is unsuitable and the building is dangerous," she said. "I'm grateful to Trinity for making this work for them."
"It's long overdue," said Board of Fire Commissioners member Elisa Goosman. "I'm very happy."
Of the existing station, Goosman said, "Basically, it's held together with bailing wire and chewing gum.''
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Mellanox Technologies and Teranetics have teamed up to produce what they say is the first RJ-45 twisted wire-based interconnect for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBase-T) on motherboards.
The ConnectX ConnectX is a PCI Express 2.0 chip that can support standard 10GBase-T as well as Data Center Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and InfiniBand over Ethernet. It uses the standard Ethernet Media Access Control (MAC) and physical device interface (PHY) architectures. Each controller will have two ports.
"From the data-center manager's perspective, they don't have to buy adapters to have high-performance use," said TA Ramanujam, senior product marketing manager at Mellanox.
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Ramanujam expects motherboards with the new technology to hit the market by mid-2009.
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So, Dante really loves pizza. Who can blame him? Certainly not Let's go gamers, where the gif above was found. (If you know an original sourcing, let us know!)
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Although Shuyak's wooded shores are quiet today, with no modern communities, the island was once an integral part of the Alutiiq nation. The Alutiiq people are the original residents of the Kodiak archipelago. Anthropologists believe they settled here more than 7,500 years ago, traveling by boat from the Alaskan mainland.
At least 30 archaeological sites record the prehistoric cultures of Shuyak. Like other regions of the archipelago, Shuyak sites date to three major cultural periods, each representing a unique way of living. Early sites in protected places like the shores of Big Bay date to the Ocean Bay tradition (ca. 7500 – 4000 years old) and likely represent the camps of families pursuing sea mammals and marine fish. By about 4,000 years ago, Native people began living in sod house villages and storing quantities of fish. Sites of this era, belong to the Kachemak tradition (ca. 4000 – 900 years old) on Shuyak. They have small single-roomed houses surrounded by deposits of ancient garbage. By 900 Alutiiqs lived in larger villages with multi-roomed houses. Koniag sites are the most common on Shuyak, reflecting growth of the regions population.
Historical records indicate that Shuyak was home to at least two Alutiiq communities when Russian traders arrived in the late eighteenth century. Russian entrepreneur Gregorii Shelikov established trading relations with the chief of one of these villages, although the Alutiiq settlements were soon destroyed or abandoned following conflicts with the traders.
In the twentieth century, Alutiiq families salted salmon on Shuyak for both human consumption and to produce animal food for the fox farming industry. In the 1930, fish processing expanded with the development of a cannery in Port William. Other enterprises, including mining, logging, and bear hunting are also part of Shuyak's more recent history. Cabin foundations, mineshafts, historic garbage, a shipwreck, and the remains of a World War II era air navigation facility are some of the historic features that document the island's recent past.
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Running Head: EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION 1 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL: A CASE STUDY OF SIX MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN ONE CALIFORNIA DISTRICT by Sandra Garcia A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDCUATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2013 Copyright 2013 Sandra Garcia
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|Running Head: EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION 1 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE ALLOCATION AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL: A CASE STUDY OF SIX MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN ONE CALIFORNIA DISTRICT by Sandra Garcia A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDCUATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2013 Copyright 2013 Sandra Garcia


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The dizzying news over the weekend of former CIA director and U.S. Army general David Petraeus's extramarital affair and subsequent resignation may have broader implications beyond the demise of one man's high-profile career.
While the American people are familiar with this routine—powerful man commits adultery with younger, admiring woman; fiercely intelligent wife is both pitied and scrutinized; media firestorm; career fallout—one aspect of this story cuts to the core of women's broader career success. Women need powerful mentors to succeed. The majority of powerful leaders continue to be men. Is there an inherent danger in younger women pursuing mentor relationships with older, high-profile men?
Petraeus, 60, met his mistress, Paula Broadwell, 40, six years ago after he gave a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was pursuing a master's degree. They developed what she called a mentor relationship before she began researching and writing his biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. They began the affair in 2011, shortly after he was named CIA director. He has been married to Holly Petraeus for 37 years, and they have two grown children. Broadwell is also married with two children.
It's not the first instance of an older, successful man falling for a younger woman he met on the job. Former CEO of General Electric Jack Welch, 76, met his wife Suzy, 53, when she came to interview him for the Harvard Business Review. The relationship quickly turned romantic, and she asked her editor to pull the article. Months later she resigned from the publication. Meanwhile, media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 81, met his wife Wendi Deng, 43, in 1997 when she was working for News Corp.'s Star TV in Asia; politico Newt Gingrich, 69, met his wife Calista, 46, when she was a clerk for the House Agriculture Committee; and the list goes on.
Helen Fisher, Ph.D., anthropology professor at Rutgers University, believes there is a strong evolutionary explanation for why powerful older men are attracted to younger women: "Fresh eggs. The strongest brain systems we have are for reproduction, and that brain circuitry can be triggered at any time. A younger woman, even if she's not trying to, is advertising health and fertility."
On the flip side, "women like men of rank," says Fisher. "For millions of years women needed to pass their DNA on with a partner who could provide."
What then of the power dynamics of the male mentor/female mentee relationship? "It's a Petri dish for problems," Fisher warns.
The biggest loser is of course women, who are caught in a double bind. Multiple studies show that women are less likely to break into top jobs because they lack powerful "sponsors," defined as political allies who advocate for their advancement.
"One of the only things that helps close the gender gap is having a senior-level mentor," says Christine Silva, senior director of research at Catalyst, a nonprofit research organization advocating for women's advancement in leadership. "Men still hold the majority of senior positions, so it's really important for women to gain access to those leaders."
However, a 2011 study of over 4,000 professionals, conducted by nonprofit research organization The Center for Talent Innovation, discovered that most senior men (64%) avoid sponsoring junior women because they fear speculation of an affair.
"The younger woman is threatening to the man," says Fisher, "because he's scared she'll put the make on him or that the relationship will be misinterpreted. People in the office might start whispering."
The Petraeus affair proves that romantic entanglements can develop from professional relationships, but Catalyst's Silva believes it's the exception and not the rule. "It's important that we don't let fear prevent men from mentoring talented women, because it's so critical to their success," she says. "Senior men have a very important role to play in developing the next generation of leaders, and it's really important for organizations to create a culture of sponsorship where senior leaders are expected to mentor high-potential people, both men and women."
Fisher recommends both parties immediately draw red lines in the sand and consistently reinforce relationship boundaries. "Everybody needs to take responsibility," she says, "and then it can be a beautiful relationship."
Readers: Is there an inherent danger in younger women pursuing mentor relationships with powerful older men? Does that leave women in a double bind that hampers their advancement?
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Fifteen months ago, the Internet, and more specifically, reddit, gave us The Eternal War. Reddit user Lycerius had been playing the same game of Civ II for ten years, and he had been fighting the same nuclear war for 1,700 in-game years. But even after the puzzle was solved, Lycerius kept fighting.
When Lycerius originally posted about the game, it spawned its own subreddit, r/TheEternalWar, with an audience of thousands of redditors trying to solve Lycerius' frustrating and seemingly impassable military conflict with their own approaches. One redditor put together a solution only days after the original post, advising the construction of an army of Howitzers that would first take out the Vikings and then the Americans (once their alliance with the player dissolved).
Lycerius acknowledged the solution but also decided to continue playing the game on his own time. As he played on, the subreddit spawned new pursuits: r/theeternalwarstories was an early venture where players wrote fiction in the universe of the war's constant nuclear holocaust. Later, readers banded together to try to make an Eternal War RPG set in the same universe.
Once a year had passed, Lycerius checked in with his game's progress. Having seen how other redditors were able to effect peace, he wanted to explore the opportunities of yet more war. Thus, after 11 years of on-and-off play (and 1,900 years in the game), Lycerius's Celts are still embroiled in war.
"Rather than destroy the Vikings, my largest operation of the 41st century was a massive naval and land offensive to capture the new Viking capital of Piza," he wrote, hoping to instigate a Viking civil war. He keeps the war going to see if there's a case to be made for an Orwellian communist government; a regime that can survive in a perpetual state of war (True, Orwell's 1984 featured war with a made-up foe, but in the ironically reality-bound Civ II, there's no option to construct imaginary enemies).
Instead of descending into civil war, though, the Vikings ended up rebelling against him. In fact, Lycerius' attempt at putting up with more war for its own sake eventually resulted in his own culture staging a number of uprisings and rebellions.
Lycerius promises to check back into the subreddit, which just barely misses the cut for the top thousand subreddits (above r/HalfLife but below r/BeardPorn), by the end of the year. In the meantime, parties still interested in taking up the helm can fight on.


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U.S. Army Maj. and chaplain Jeff Struecker captivated Liberty University students in convocation on Friday, Oct. 29, with a riveting tale of fearlessness, bravery and discipleship, challenging them to "not be ordinary" and transform the world wherever they go.
In 1993 Struecker led a humanitarian aid mission in Mogadishu, the lawless capital of Somalia, which soon turned into a gruesome firefight that claimed the lives of several men in his unit. The battle is best known from the book "Black Hawk Down," which was published in 1999, and made into a movie in 2001.
After rescuing downed personnel and escaping a hailstorm of bullets, Struecker was ordered to go back into the city to rescue the Black Hawk pilots, who were surrounded by hostile fire. Feeling unprecedented fear, Struecker recalled Matthew 26:39 where Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane before his death, saying: "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me," and then, "Yet not as I will, but as You will." Struecker reasoned that he would either go home to be with his family or home to be with his heavenly Father. "In either case, I cannot lose," he thought, "because of what my Savior Jesus Christ has done for me."
It was that experience that cured his childhood fear of death and opened the door to military chaplaincy.
"What I saw the next morning changed my life forever. I would still be a sergeant Army ranger if it wasn't for what I saw the morning after," Struecker said, describing the many soldiers lined up to ask him about what happens in the hereafter, giving him a perfect opportunity to share Jesus Christ. "It was that moment that God started to show me he had something different for me."
Struecker joined the Army in 1987 at age 18. After attending Airborne School, he served in the 75th Ranger Regiment for 10 years out of Fort Benning, Ga. He has combat experience in Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Now a U.S. Army chaplain in the 82nd Airborne, Struecker still serves with some of the same men he fought alongside in Somalia.
In closing, he assured students, "There is only one force great enough to transform the world, and it is the Holy Spirit through the living God and his Son Jesus Christ."
After convocation, Struecker spoke with students and signed his book, "Blaze of Glory."


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- Written by Toren Heald
Who made it out to Sausage Fest at Redhook? Two thumbs pointing straight back, that's right, this guy! I had the opportunity to take my brother along, which is good because he likes a good wiener and beer.
We were invited to the pub an hour earlier than the opening of the gates for a little VIP time with some of the Redhook PR and management team. This translates to sampling some brews and doing a little Q&A (less talky, more samples please). This year I feel very privileged to be one of the first people to sample this year's Winterhook. None of the management or staff have even tried this new brew so honored I am, thanks Redhook. This is the 29th year of the Winterhook and for those that don't know, the recipe changes every year so there is always a lot of anticipation. I was told the release of Winterhook will be on September 30 so you will all have to wait.
The Winterhook definitely trumps last year's brew; this one appeased my love of the hop. It offers an affluent caramel body that has been dry hopped, making it a little naughty and especially nice. The handsome little bottle is all dressed up in a very stylish Nordic sweater for the holidays. I'm told that matching sweater cozies are coming to the retail shop soon. 6% ABV (Alcohol by Volume) and 45 IBUs (International Bitterness Unit).
After our stay with the other VIPs we were set free to explore the rest of Sausagefest. The first thing we did was get our sausage on! I had to try the French onion sausage, this thing was delicious. Eight inches of mild flavor wiener, oozing melted cheese and piled high with caramelized onions. Redhook, you need to put that on the pub menu. My brother tried something else and it looked good too, but I'm only here to tell the facts.
The grassy bowl was full of people grooving to some great local bands but what drew my attention was a giant game of beer pong. They had garbage cans painted to look like Red Solo Cups and played with rubber playground balls. This is a game that will have to be set up at one of my next big events. We played a few rounds of that before we decided it was time to head out for the day.
Good times and again Redhook, I appreciate you. If you missed it this year, try again next year and you too can be a Sausagefester!
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Swedish artist KJ Andersson pays a strangely powerful tribute to Ernest Kline's "When I was a Kid".
I say strange because, you know. For all the cheery retro graphics on display, cutting just those two lines out and sticking them front and centre reminds me a little too much of my own mortality.
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Retro Revival
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Occasional ramblings on games, generally retro related
When my parents brought home a ZX81 one day (complete with wobbly 16K RAM pack, of course) I discovered the joy of programming. But it wasn't until I got my hands on a ZX Spectrum that my obsession with games really began, which continued with the C64, Amiga, right through to this day. The 80s and early 90s were an amazing time for games, not just for the games themselves but for the fascinating people behind them - it was truly a time of pioneers and creativity.
I myself have spent the last (almost) 20 years working in the games industry on all manner of platforms, most recently iOS. Ziggurat Development Ltd is my company here in NZ that provides contract programming services.


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