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- BSA Lifeguard
- Emergency Preparedness Award
- Historic Trails Award
- International Activity Badge
- Interpreter Strip
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- Leave No Trace Award
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- Religious Emblems
- Scuba BSA
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- Shooting Sports Outstanding Achievement
- William T. Hornaday Awards
- World Conservation Award
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DENVER - Unless the nose-diving Denver Nuggets can turn things around, they'll miss the playoff for the first time since 2003, when they got Carmelo Anthony after a 17-65 season.
Things have gotten so bad that the Nuggets had to resort to seldom-used reserve Jordan Hamilton running the point during a recent 39-point drubbing at Indiana.
Ty Lawson (rib), Nate Robinson (torn ACL) and even Randy Foye (banged knee) were all hurt, and Andre Miller hasn't been around the team since getting into a shouting match with first-year coach Brian Shaw on New Year's Day.
The Nuggets skidded into the All-Star break on a four-game losing streak, their 10-year playoff streak in serious jeopardy as they stand in 11th place in the Western Conference at 24-27, six games out of the eighth spot.
While Lawson is expected back soon, Danilo Gallinari won't be coming to the rescue.
The Italian sharpshooter who joined the Nuggets in the blockbuster trade that sent Anthony to New York a few years back, had a major setback in his recovery from a torn left ACL and recently required a second surgery that will sideline him until next season.
He blew out his left knee last April and his absence played a big role in another first-round playoff exit after a franchise-best 57-win regular season and the subsequent departure of long-time coach George Karl, part of an exodus that included Andre Iguodala and general manager Masai Ujiri, who was replaced by Tim Connelly.
Shaw's first season as an NBA head coach has been trying, as evidenced by his spat with Miller, who was initially suspended two games, a punishment that was revoked so he could continue to get paid but which failed to lead to a quick resolution.
Throw in the injuries and Shaw's had to juggle his depleted lineup.
"I've probably gotten 10 years of experience in this first half of the season," Shaw said. "... In a way, I like to kind of go through everything. There's a lot worse situations; we're just continuing to try to work through it. A lot of guys that wouldn't be getting opportunities are getting to play now because of the injuries. So it's allowing us to evaluate what we really have and discover who can get it done and who can't.
"I'm learning as I go. I'm learning our team as we go. I'm not going to make any excuses; it was the hand we were dealt and we just have to continue to work."
It's not just a matter of being short-handed, however.
"We haven't always just taken pride and gotten mad when our man is scoring. We worry more about how many shots we're getting and things that are happening on the offensive end, and I want us to have that same kind of excitement about what's going on on the defensive end," he said.
Lawson's return to the floor will go a long way in curing some of these ills.
"If I was Ty's agent I'd be smiling and feeling really good right now," Shaw said, "because it just shows how important he is to our team — not only the speed of our team and the ability to help us score, but just organizing things and giving the other guys confidence that they lack with him not being out there."
Miller figures to be gone by Thursday's trade deadline as there are plenty of contenders who could use a veteran point guard with a friendly contract, but the only leverage the Nuggets might gain would presumably be if multiple teams come calling.
Unless they reverse their recent slide, the Nuggets will be playing out the string for the first time in more than a decade.
J.J. Hickson said that turnaround starts on the defensive end.
"Offense is not the problem. We know we can score with whomever, even with Ty out," Hickson said. "That's a big loss for us, but we're the type of team that likes to get up and down, so we know that teams can't keep up with us and we like to put pressure on teams. But it all starts with defence. If you look at the top teams in the league, all of them are top five or top ten in defence, and that's not us right now."
AP Sports Writer Dave Campbell contributed.
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Aha1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
Noval is a Norwegian IT company. Our business is mainly a IT Operations consultancy. We need a logo that looks highly professional and we want the logo to represent our staff which is a highly qualified staff of IT specialists. But don´t be afraid to experiment with colors and the use of lowercase / uppercase letters.
We are mainly targeting small to medium size businesses with 10-50 employees. The area Noval operates in is highly populated with businesses within the Oil & Gas sector, but that doesn´t necessarily mean that we need to target only them. But it is natural that it is somewhat targeted towards them.
Noval needs a logo that can work on print as well as web.
The logo will be used on:
- homepage
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Please feel free to experiment with colors, but have in mind that it is a serious company that does business with a lot of large and recognized companies in Norway.
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|Concord, Mass.
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2017-18: Overall record: 28-31 … NFC record: 18-11 … finished 11th at The Big One Invitational (11/4). [INDIVIDUAL RESULTS]
2016-17: Was not a member of the team.
2015-16: Was not a member of the team.
2014-15: Was not a member of the team.
2013-14: Overall record: 27-21...NFC record: 17-8...tied for 31st at the NCAA Northeast Regional (3/9)...finished 12th at the New England Championship (2/22) after compiling a 6-4 mark in the "A" pool...ranked 21st at The Big One Invitational (11/2)...won 12 of his 13 in bouts in his NFC debut (11/16) by sweeping Boston University and Brandeis, defeating both of his opponents from UMass and New Hampshire, and posting a 2-1 mark against Sacred Heart...blanked Tufts and picked up wins over Boston College and Brown for a 5-7 total in the final NFC competition of the season (1/25)...turned in an 8-6 performance at the Eric Sollee Invitational (2/2) after recording 2-1 decisions against NJIT and NYU, defeating a pair of foes from Hunter, and adding victories over Stevens and Haverford...generated 2-1 marks against Duke and Air Force at the Duke Invitational (2/8)...went 2-1 versus Boston College at the Beanpot (2/12).
Off the Fencing Strip at MIT: Majoring in computer science … was an intern at Claritas Genomics.
High School: A 2013 graduate of Concord-Carlisle Regional High School...squad leader...captured first place in foil at the 2012 Massachusetts State High School Championship and was third in 2011...three-time varsity letterwinner in foil...finished first in junior foil and junior epee at the 2012 Bay State Games while also ranking second in senior foil and sixth in senior epee...was third in junior epee and junior foil in addition to fifth place in senior foil at the 2011 Bay State Games...was the champion of the 2011 Granite State Open and 2012 Middlebury Open...registered runner-up performances at the 2013 Beanpot, Middlebury, and Spring Opens...participated in the 2011 World Scholar Athletic Games and World Youth Peace Summit...two-time first team USA Fencing all-academic...competitive fencer with a "B" rating in foil and epee...rated fencing referee.
Club: Boston Fencing Club...coached by Edward Ballinger, a USFA Olympic Hall of Fame inductee.


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An Actual D&D Effect: Inspiring Kids To Become Writers
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It's funny, but despite the stories we occasionally write involving the classic roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, some of which I've written myself, I've never actually played the game. Maybe that's why, according to the folks who have tried to ban the game, I'm not a satanic axe-wielding, uber-murderer. Who knows; could be possible. And, truth be told, outside of the more broadly-accepted video game habit I have, I've never delved into much of the so-called nerd gaming culture, other than being completely addicted to Wil Wheaton's Table Top YouTube series. And, despite all of the historical controversy over these kinds of games, I really wish I'd gotten into them more now that some literary authors are claiming what a huge influence D&D-style games have had on their abilities as story-tellers.
For certain writers, especially those raised in the 1970s and '80s, all that time spent in basements has paid off. D&D helped jump-start their creative lives. As [writer Junot] Díaz said, "It's been a formative narrative media for all sorts of writers."It's an impressive list, but it also makes a certain kind of sense. There's a certain sandbox-esque element to creating a low-tech story-based gaming environment centered around roleplaying with friends. As someone who has written fiction, I can tell you that one of the most important aspects of telling a story is being able to get inside the heads of the characters in your tale. That's essentially roleplaying, no matter how you look at it. The other half of the story equation is the setting, which is something roleplaying players also must engage in creatively.
The league of ex-gamer writers also includes the "weird fiction" author China Miéville ("The City & the City"); Brent Hartinger (author of "Geography Club," a novel about gay and bisexual teenagers); the sci-fi and young adult author Cory Doctorow; the poet and fiction writer Sherman Alexie; the comedian Stephen Colbert; George R. R. Martin, author of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" series (who still enjoys role-playing games). Others who have been influenced are television and film storytellers and entertainers like Robin Williams, Matt Groening ("The Simpsons"), Dan Harmon ("Community") and Chris Weitz ("American Pie").
The Dungeon Master must create a believable world with a back story, adventures the players might encounter and options for plot twists. That requires skills as varied as a theater director, researcher and psychologist — all traits integral to writing. (Mr. Díaz said his boyhood gaming group was "more like an improv group with some dice.")Now, some of this might read like an advertisement for pen-and-paper or tabletop games as a creativity booster such that the modern-day video games can't match, but that's almost certainly a mistake. You can make that argument against some of the mindless games out there, but you could do likewise with poorly constructed D&D games as set up by the people playing them. As games become more story-driven, as they are able to portray plot and characters with more granularity than ever before, and as player choice becomes interwoven into the story, the player is creating their own story to some degree, just like they do in a classic roleplaying game.
Sharyn McCrumb, 66, who writes the Ballad Novels series set in Appalachia, was similarly influenced, and in her comic novel "Bimbos of the Death Sun" D&D even helps solve a murder.
"I always, always wanted to be the Dungeon Master because that's where the creativity lies — in thinking up places, characters and situations," Ms. McCrumb said. "If done well, a game can be a novel in itself."
The larger lesson, of course, is that all the moral panics we hear tend to focus on an overblown fear and ignore any net-positive that might exist. Generations of speculative fiction authors and other creative folks were influenced positively by Dungeons & Dragons, despite the fervor by some against the games themselves. I'd lay money down that we'll hear similar stories about modern-day gaming as well.
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Liquid Lapdance necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 197 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
We're a small company started by five fun female strippers. We invented a product that makes lapdances better... MUCH better. It's a fun, sexy, clean product, and we need an artist to help us with our logo design, website design, packaging design, and business card design. This first contest is for our logo design. Once we find an artist who gets us, we'll ask her/him to do more work with us.
We sell our product in strip clubs and boutiques. Our target customer is female, young, edgy, and funky (like us... wild, artistic, rockstars). Guys buy our products too, so our logo can't be too girly... but we don't care too much if guys like it... We're girls and we want to love it ourselves!!!
Our parent company is called bella6. We think it would be cool to have bella6 written in fancy letters and liquid lapdance written in very simple letters (like the attached package design for bristol's nippies product).
Check out our website at http://liquidlapdance.com. This is a temporary logo we put up just for fun. Once we have a logo we're planning to redo the website design.
Be creative! We're looking for art.
We love the design of a company called Bristols6. Their website is http://www.bristols6.com/
Their products are totally different than ours, but their style is similar and their target market is the same... so if our stuff looks kinda like theirs it would be great.
Please check out bristols6 and get a feel for their design before submitting!
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The Dell UltraSharp U2412M is a feature-rich 24-inch monitor offering beautiful color reproduction and great off-angle viewing but its dark grayscale performance falls a bit short.
Dell UltraSharp monitors have a reputation for offering solid color performance with a generous, business friendly feature set, and the UltraSharp U2412M ($369 direct) lives up to that reputation. Based on In-Plane Switching (IPS) technology, this reasonably priced 24-inch display delivers rich, wide-gamut colors and a spacious viewing range, and it boasts an impressive feature list, including a multi-adjustable stand and a four port USB hub. It does suffer from a few minor performance flaws, however; grayscale performance, while good, could have been stronger at the low end of the scale, and some small fonts were a bit muddled.
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As with the NEC EA232WMi, the UltraSharp U2412M uses the latest e-IPS technology, which is cheaper to manufacture than previous IPS technologies but still offers good color quality and wide viewing angles. The 24-inch panel has a matte coating and is framed by thin 0.60-inch matte black bezels. A small polished Dell logo is fastened to the lower bezel and five small buttons are mounted on the right hand bezel.
A black and silver Dell badge is affixed to the rear of the cabinet, and below that are the I/O ports, including DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA video inputs, an upstream USB ports for connecting to a PC, two downstream USB ports, the main power jack, and a power jack for an optional Dell AY511 SoundBar ($54.99 direct). The matte black and brushed aluminum stand is highly adjustable; it provides 4.5-inches of height adjustability, enables swivel and tilt, and lets you rotate the panel 90-degrees so you can alternate between portrait and landscape mode. The U2412M doesn't support auto-rotation so you'll have to change the screen orientation in your graphics card's control panel.
The function buttons aren't marked but they don't need to be; pressing any button launches an on-screen label that corresponds to each button, showing what the button does. I'm a big fan of this approach as it takes the guesswork out of navigating the OSD (on-screen display). Picture setting are plentiful. There are five picture presets (Standard, Movie, Multimedia, Game, Text) and a Color Temperature slider with adjustments from 5000k to 10,000k so you can make the picture cooler or warmer. In addition to Brightness and Contrast you can select an input source, toggle between RGB (computer) and YPbPr (component) color spaces, set gamma for use with a PC or a Mac, and adjust sharpness, clock and phase settings. Hue and saturation adjustments are available when operating in Movie or Game modes, and there's a dynamic dimming feature that when enabled will automatically reduce the brightness level according to white content on the screen.
Dell backs the U2412M with a three year parts, labor, and backlighting warranty which includes an Advanced Exchange policy that guarantees that a replacement will be shipped out the next business day (after a phone consultation). You can upgrade to 4 year plan for an additional $39 or move to a 5 year plan for $59 more.
The U2412M has a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 and a 16:10 aspect ratio. The IPS panel delivered rich colors with very good gradation on the DisplayMate Color Scales test and showed no evidence of tinting in the grayscale. Light grays were well defined all the way up to the very brightest shade, but the two darkest shades of gray were indistinguishable. That said, dark grayscale performance was still significantly better than what you get from a Twisted Nematic+ (TN+) panel.
The panel had no trouble displaying fonts set to 6 points on the Scaled Fonts test but when I lowered the font size to 5.3 points some of the fonts lost definition. For example, the top of the lower case e was filled in. The text was still quite legible but not as crisp what I saw with the HP ZR2440w ($425 list, 4 stars).
The U2412M used 16-watts of power while running in Standard mode, which has a preset brightness of 20-percent. I found this setting to be a tad too dim and bumped the brightness up to 40-percent, which in turn bumped power usage up to 20-watts. This kind of energy efficient is right up there with the 16-watt Lenovo LS2421P Wide ($219.99 direct, 4 stars) and 19-watt Samsung SyncMaster S23A550H ($259.99 list, 3.5 stars) and earns the U2412M our Greentech stamp of approval.
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Japanese (jăp´ənēz´), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and Brazil. Japanese appears to be unrelated to any other language; however, some scholars see a kinship with the Korean tongue because the grammars of the two are very similar. Some linguists also link both Japanese and Korean to the Altaic languages. Japanese exhibits a degree of agglutination. In an agglutinative language, different linguistic elements, each of which exists separately and has a fixed meaning, are often joined to form one word. Japanese lacks tones, but has a musical accent and usually stresses all syllables equally. There is no declension for nouns and pronouns, whose grammatical relationships are shown by particles that follow them. Verbs are inflected and generally are placed at the end of a sentence. Extensive use of honorific forms is especially characteristic of Japanese; varying constructions are used to indicate differences in the social status among the individual speaking, the individual addressed, and the individual spoken about.
In the 3d and 4th cent. AD, the Japanese borrowed the Chinese writing system of ideographic characters. Since Chinese is not inflected and since Chinese writing is ideographic rather than phonetic, the Chinese characters do not completely fill the needs of the inflected Japanese language in the sphere of writing. In the 8th cent. AD, two phonetic syllabaries, or kana, were therefore devised for the recording of the Japanese language. They are used along with the ideographic characters (or kanji characters) to indicate the syllables that form suffixes and particles. The direction of writing is usually from top to bottom in vertical columns and from right to left. In scientific texts horizontal writing from left to right is sometimes employed. The Roman alphabet has also been used increasingly to transcribe Japanese. Since several thousand characters and two sets of kana are necessary for reading Japanese literature and periodicals, a need for simplification was felt when universal literacy became a national goal. Thus, after World War II, many kanji characters were simplified, and the number generally used was limited to about 2,000. Through another reform, phonetic kana characters are now used to correspond more closely to modern pronunciation than previously was the case. The large number of its speakers and the high level of cultural, economic, and political development of the Japanese people make Japanese one of the leading languages of the world.
See P. G. O'Neill and S. Yanada, An Introduction to Written Japanese (1963); R. A. Miller, The Japanese Language (1967); S. Ono, The Origins of the Japanese Language (1970); H. A. Okamoto, Rule for Conversational Rituals in Japanese (1988).


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James Kasting discusses "Mysteries of Mars" at April 10 Research Unplugged
James Kasting discusses "Mysteries of Mars" at April 10 Research Unplugged
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- James Kasting, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, will present "4th Rock From The Sun: Exploring The Mysteries Of Mars," at 12:30 p.m. on April 10 at Schlow Centre Region Library as part of the Research Unplugged series.
Research Unplugged brings together Penn State researchers and the State College community for lively public discussions.
Kasting's topic is thematically tied to this year's Centre County Reads focus on Mary Roach's book, Packing For Mars. He will discuss the myths, misconceptions and realities relating to Mars, our solar system's fourth planet from the sun. A question and answer session will be part of the program.
Kasting is an internationally renowned expert in geophysical history and status of the Earth, with an emphasis on atmospherics. He has published widely on the habitability criteria of other stellar systems and planets. He has served NASA at the Ames Research Center in various capacities, including as a member of the scientific working group for the Terrestrial Planet Finder.
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Veteran bat Beltran, Yankees an ideal match
Carlos Beltran is a perfect fit for the Yankees, and not just because he makes that lineup significantly better. He's the prototype of what the Yankees want their players to be.
First, he'll be a huge presence in the middle of the lineup. Go ahead and write down 30 doubles, 24 home runs and an .830 on-base-plus-slugging. That's what Carlos Beltran brings to the table.
Carlos Beltran is a perfect fit for the Yankees, and not just because he makes that lineup significantly better. He's the prototype of what the Yankees want their players to be.
First, he'll be a huge presence in the middle of the lineup. Go ahead and write down 30 doubles, 24 home runs and an .830 on-base-plus-slugging. That's what Carlos Beltran brings to the table.
He's also a consummate professional who'll be a great influence in the clubhouse and a good citizen of the community. If Yankees fans are nervous about his turning 37 years old next April, they shouldn't be. No player in baseball works harder at conditioning and staying healthy.
That's no guarantee of anything. But there are no perfect free agents. If $45 million over three years seems high, what were the alternatives? The Yankees missed the playoffs in 2013 for just the second time in 19 seasons, and with no immediate help in the farm system, free agency was the road back to the postseason.
They've had a great week, too, despite losing Robinson Cano to the Mariners. To add Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and Beltran, and to bring back righty Hiroki Kuroda, pushes the Bombers back toward another postseason appearance.
The Yankees have all kinds of question marks. From starting pitchers CC Sabathia and Michael Pineda to infielders Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez, there's going to be a large unknown quantity about this club.
Look at them from one angle, and it's easy to predict them being no more than average. But if they catch a break in terms of health, if their veterans can be close to what they've always been, the Yankees have a chance to compete.
As happy as the Yankees are to have Beltran, here's guessing he's even happier about the opportunity to wear the pinstripes. He has had his eye on the Yankees at other points in his career, but for various reasons, it never worked out.
There may have been a time in 2009 and 2010 when Beltran seemed to be a player in decline. Injuries limited him to 145 games in those two seasons, and no one could have predicted he'd still be able to play the way he has the last four seasons (26 home runs, 88 RBIs, .860 OPS).
Beltran's done New York, having spent six-plus seasons with the Mets from 2005-2011, hitting 149 homers and driving in 559 runs over 839 games. He will not blink on the game's biggest stage, either. He has been at his best when the lights are brightest, hitting .333 in 51 postseason games.
He also has some experience replacing another club's star.
Two years ago, when Albert Pujols left the Cardinals to sign with the Angels, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak needed about 20 minutes to decide Beltran was the perfect guy to replace his star slugger.
Beltran responded nicely, putting together two solid seasons and helping the Cardinals make the postseason twice. So as Yankees manager Joe Girardi plays around with his new lineup pieces, he'll probably pencil in Beltran as his No. 3 hitter.
With Ellsbury and Jeter probably hitting in front of him, Beltran should be in a nice spot to be productive. Playing for the Yankees is a unique experience, but it's one Beltran appears to have wanted.
There's always an unknown factor when a club brings in a player from the outside. Beltran's gifts are easily measurable, and as good as he is on the field, he's equally good in terms of being a good teammate and caring only about the bottom line. As perfect marriages go, this is about as close as it gets.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


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This story illustrates how DuPont Pioneer is working alongside local equipment manufacturers and regional officials to bring corn farming mechanization to local farmers in China, helping them increase their yields. .
Our story follows a corn farmer, and we see firsthand the ease of precision seeding technology using the Pioneer® brand hybrid seed and mechanized corn planting. We hear from the farmer's son, who grew up on the farm, but was able to go to college in Beijing because of the success of his father's farm.
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These are the notes from the The 257th Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
- One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.
Short announcements and events
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Let's buy more Noisebridge T-shirts. We are currently out, except for a handful of women's sizes. It would be great to have a bunch before the fund-raiser party on the 30th. I (Mitch) am happy to front the money if there are no objections -- to be paid back to me upon consensus (to ensure that we can have the T-shirts before the fund-raiser). All of our T-shirts have previously been printed locally at East Bay Screenprint. The last time we got T-shirts, we got 200 of them at $7.41 each (including shipping) -- total = $1,481.63. If we buy 50 T-shirts, the cost is $8.74 each (indluding shipping) -- total = $437.00. (I've never bought 100 before, but the price will be somewhere in between.) -- Mitch.
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On February 12th, a portion of the ticket sales to the 7pm showing of "Just Go With It" (starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston) at CinemaWorld, 4345 West New Haven Avenue in West Melbourne will be donated to The Heart Center at Holmes Regional Medical Center.
Movie-goers will receive an automatic entry into a raffle drawing for prizes such as gift certificates to local businesses, and other fun items. They will also be able to take advantage of a special discount of snacks for the movie.
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Marta Full of Grace
Head on over to Elizabeta's place on the western edge of Bohan, on San Quentin Avenue. When you arrive, she'll be all alone in her apartment (with her assistant), drunkenly wielding a pistol and heavily hitting the bottle. She and Johnny will have a back and forth, and surprisingly, you learn a lot more about her and her past in this conversation than you ever did during Niko's interactions with her during GTAIV's main quest. Nonetheless, after the conversation concludes, Elizabeta will send you on your way. She wants you to head over to Francis International Airport to pick up her drug mule friend.
You likely know where Francis International Airport is, but if you don't, simply keep reading. The airport dominates the eastern edge of the island that makes up Dukes and Broker. It's technically in Dukes, but you can take all sorts of routes through either borough to ultimately arrive at your destination. However, because you'll be travelling from Bohan, you'll almost certainly head south over the Dukes Bay Bridge, and use Dukes Boulevard to get to your destination.
When you arrive at the airport, you're immediately going to find trouble. Marta, Elizabeta's friend who you're supposed to pick up from the airport, has been caught by federal authorities. She rants in Spanish, but the federal officer detaining her can't understand her. Nonetheless, when Johnny intervenes, the federal officer clearly has no idea what he's in for. After verifying that Marta is who she says she is (in English, nonetheless), he incapacitates that officer and runs off. We have to gun our way out of here.
As usual, you'll begin this dangerous section of the mission automatically tucked behind some cover. So, for the time being, you're covered. Now, there are plenty of cops in the area to take care of, and in order to leave, you have to eliminate all cops and feds in the area, as represented by red dots on your HUD. This doesn't include the roving helicopter overhead, though if you have an RPG handy, you could easily take out the chopper before doing anything else. As for the cops, equip your heaviest weaponry and go to town on them, while being sure to use cover. Also, watch your flank, since the LCPD loves nothing more than sneaking up on unsuspecting criminals. If you have leftover explosives from the van destruction mission, use them. Use your heaviest weapons, and go all out here.
When the police threat is eliminated at the airport, it's time to jack a car (preferably a Buffalo, one of the feds' dope cars), pick up Marta, and get out of dodge. The carnage at Francis International has given you at least a three star wanted level, so it's going to take some time and effort to get away from the cops here. Nonetheless, you're so far from your ultimate destination in Bohan, that you can place a marker on San Quentin Avenue and drive towards it while losing the cops; thus, you kill two birds with one stone. When you finally arrive back at Elizabeta's, drop off Marta to successfully complete the mission.
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People don't like advertising almost as a general rule; Advertising is simply The Way It Is. People who make content learn to like it, because they want to make content, and they also want to eat food and sleep under a roof, and the opportunity to do both at the same time seems like a pretty good idea.
After the "dot com bubble," we ran the site entirely on donations for over a year. The word crowdfunding hadn't been invented yet; back then, people simply called it "begging," but I think it's clear that those days are long past. We look back on that period with incredible fondness, and I don't think we're the only ones. It was just two of us then, not the juggernaut that it is now; we have mouths to feed, as it were. I think we had assumed it wasn't possible to do it that way anymore - to operate a site at this scale without advertising dollars - but it occurred to us that we'd never actually asked. People often want to know how they can support the site in a way that doesn't involve t-shirts or looking at advertising, and I think we may have a way. What I'm saying is that we want to sell out, and we would love to sell out to you.
How Do You Intend To Do That
By doing this.
That's for the amount you see on the right. If it turns out to be something people want to see, or not see as the case may be, we'll add stretch goals to restore old services we used to offer, convert the entire site to a Creative Commons license, and ultimately remove every ad from the site for an entire year. We intend to be a company that succeeds by making things, specifically things for you, and are orienting ourselves toward that goal.
So, we're turning to you. Would scouring ads from Penny Arcade, with everything that entails, be something you'd be willing to reach into your pocket for? The more we considered it, the more we agreed it might just be. Not only would you no longer have to look at advertising when browsing Penny Arcade, but not having ads would create a chain reaction that would lead to a bunch of other interesting stuff. Without the almighty "pageview" to consider, why not populate the RSS with full comics and posts? Why not enable and even encourage apps, first and third party, for people to read it however they damn well please?
That seems pretty compelling to us, but in keeping with Kickstarter tradition we've greased the wheels with a buffet of backer rewards and stretch goals. This is an amazing experiment in our opinion. If it doesn't work Penny Arcade will be fine. We'll keep going just like before with no interruption in service and nothing will change. But if it did work, I mean, wow.
That would be something.
One of the things that excited us most about the idea of trying an ad-free model was the amount of time it would give us to actually make comics. Currently, we do all kinds of creative services projects that are part of the existing model, but in their absence, that's all time we can put to work for you. We have a ton of weird settings, and ideas for more, that are simply not possible with the schedule the current system imposes. What we're talking about would be new projects, in settings you already like, that run ALONGSIDE the week's comics, not in their place. Like, oh, I don't know... THIS?!?
We have quite a year planned, if you're game.
Update #2: $325k Stretchgoal
Additional Revelations!
We're just revealing things right and left around here. It would be our great pleasure to acquaint you with Automata: Silverside in lieu of our typical "creative services" work. The first of these projects unlocks at $325,000, and we're chomping at the bit. Or champing at it; I can never remember if you chomp or champ. In any case, there won't be anything left of this bit by the time we're done. We're going crazy on it!
Update #4: Penny Arcade Leaderboard Stretch Goal Unlocked! Stretchgoals up to $999k revealed.
It's unbelievable, but the campaign has reached our first funding goal of $250k in four days. We've been blown away by the support thus far, and the interest from people outside the industry makes us think we might be on to something here.
As promised, we are revealing the stretch goals up to $999k ... behold! (check out the updated list up top!) The new goals we've revealed are:
- Jerry Cosplay: Jerry has agreed to Cosplay as the character of the community's choice (by vote) for one day at both PAX East 2013 and PAX Prime 2013.
- Strip Search Web Show: Discussed in a flurry of tweets, Penny Arcade: The Series Season 4 will be our version of America's Next Top Webcomic titled... STRIP SEARCH. This incredibly ambitious and expensive production will bring together over 10 up and coming webcomic hopefuls for a week of grueling challenges and horrifying social experiments, hosted by Mike and Jerry. For what? A considerable cash prize and integration into the Penny Arcade offices for one year.
- Twisp & Catsby Children's Book (free online): Mike and Jerry will create and publish online (for free) a Twisp & Catsby Children's Book.
- Original Tabletop Adventure: Mike and Jerry will write a completely original tabletop adventure, not tied to any particular system, to be released for free.
- Free PA Comic Reader developed for iOS and Android
- PA Blanks/Creative Common License: We will release, with each Monday, Wednesday and Friday strip, a blank version of the comic (art without word balloons) for your editing and remixing enjoyment. In addition, we will open the ENTIRE PA archive to a Creative Common License under CC BY-NC-SA.
Update #5: Automata Project Unlocked, More Lookouts Info, Comic Sketch Reward and Additional Q&As!
We've just crossed the $325,000 mark, meaning the Automata strip for 2013 is LOCKED IN. As a teaser, Mike created this image to give you an idea of what's in in store:
Our next goal is to make Jerry cosplay as whatever you want him to, which for those in the office is VERY EXCITING. If that goal is met, we'll first open submissions via an online survey, and then select the top 5 choices by raw #s. From there, we'll have another online vote-off.
Looking down a bit further on the stretch goal list, Jerry also wrote this piece to go along with a new sketch by Mike for the Lookouts, Daughters of Eyrewood:
daughter, daughter,
killed her father
look at what her
blood has bought her
New Reward - Original Comic Pencil Sketch
This isn't a reward you'll find on the right side but is actually one that applies to ANYONE that contributes more than $2,500. You will receive in the mail, one of the original pencil sketches from the Penny Arcade archives (and for those donating $5k, you'll receive two, and so on).
These sketches are what are scanned in and digitally inked, so each online strip has ONE pencil sketch associated with it. These are the ORIGINALS. (please note, the strip you receive will be at random) Since Mike no longer does the pencil sketches ahead of time, this part in the process no longer exists making these extra rare.
We've also updated the FAQ with some additional questions. Please check them out below!
Update #6: $350k reached, new rewards added!
We crossed the $350,000 mark over the weekend, so it looks like this thing has some legs. After listening to a ton of feedback, we have a few more rewards that may interest you!
Precipice Promotional 1 GB Flash Drives - $250 (30 available)
When we made Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1, we had manufactured 50 USB Credit Card drives (seen here) for media kits, etc. With this reward level you'll receive this Flash Drive in the mail filled with the digital versions of Books 1 and 2 and the remastered Jerry tracks! We have two versions of the drive (Gabe and Tycho) – which you receive will be picked at random. Add $10 for International addresses.
1 lb of Jerry's Coffee Roast - $300 (10 available)
Jerry will ship to you a one pound bag of his signature coffee beans that he roasts himself. Add $10 for International addresses.
Logo Design by PA Design - $1500 (10 available)
Give Kiko and Erika the name of your company and a synopsis of what exactly it is you do, and delivered to you will be the one-colour AI/PDF/PSD files for your further manipulation. This is the team that designed the PAX Logo, the Trenches Logo, the Child's Play logo, etc.
Brew with Jerry - $2500 (4 available)
It's no secret Jerry loves brewing, and this reward gives you the opportunity to brew with Jerry in Seattle. You only need to handle your transportation, and Jerry will take care of the rest. Must be 21 or older.
Ping Pong. Your Team vs. Team Inferno - $5000 (1 available)
Invite you and up to 9 of your friends for an officially sanctioned match against Team Inferno in Seattle, WA. The most expensive pizza you have ever purchased will be included. You just need to handle transportation.
PA will crash your birthday party - $5000 (1 available)
Mike and Jerry and possibly some other people will crash your party and totally eat all of your food and drink everything in your fridge. Must be in the Seattle area.
Khoo will plan your bachelor party - $7500 (1 available)
This is for planning and day-of execution only. Robert Khoo will take whatever your pre-determined budget is and plan a… uh… experience for you and your friends. A more detailed description to this reward would be against the code. See PA:TS S02E28 for reference.
Mike and Jerry DM - $8000 (1 available)
Mike and Jerry will be your DM for you and 3 of your friends, running an adventure just for you. You just need to handle transportation to Seattle.
We've also been getting some really interesting ideas for stretchgoals from readers – if you want to suggest some before we announce our next set of them, send an email to email@example.com. Thanks!
Update #8: The Final Cosplay Vote + More details on Strip Search
(Note: Skipped #7 since it was just the initial cosplay vote)
We've crossed the $375k mark, meaning Jerry is on the hook for cosplaying as the character of your choice. We did open submissions in Update #7, and after over 15,000 suggestions, here are the top 5 to vote on:
1. Bayonetta
2. Sailor Moon
3. The Fruit Fucker
4. Tycho
5. Yummy Chan
Honorable mentions go to Strawberry Shortcake and Lollipop Chainsaw. ;)
Alright, vote here!
Gabe also just posted an update on Penny Arcade about Strip Search, but you can read it here as well:
I admit to being a huge fan of reality tv style game shows. I love shows like So You Think You Can Dance, Hell's Kitchen, and Master Chef. I even watch shows like Ink Master and Shear Genius. It doesn't matter if it's singers, chefs, fashion designers or gardeners. I love watching groups of people pushed together to compete at something they are good at. I don't know a thing about cooking or dancing but I can't get enough of these game shows. I'm always amazed when the challenge is something like "make a fruit tart" and one guy says "shit I've never made a fruit tart before" and then he proceeds to make a fucking fruit tart. I could never do that and maybe that's why I love watching it so much. Could you pull a theme out of a hat and then write and draw a comic strip about it? Probably not, but I'm guessing you might like to watch people who can.
That's the idea for our new show Strip Search. It is the next goal in our Kickstarter and It is a reality game show for web cartoonists. Like any of these other shows I mentioned it is about watching incredibly talented people face off in a competition with a reward that could change their life.
In the case of Strip Search we are talking about ten people. Each one of them a talented cartoonist. They will all live together in a house here in Seattle. They will compete in a series of challenges that will test their skills and we will slowly whittle them down until we are left with one winner. This cartoonist will win a cash prize along with integration into the Penny Arcade machine. That means a studio in our office but it also means access to our business people, our merchandising operation, our designers, and our ping pong table. The winner will get plugged into the Penny Arcade family for one year. We will not own any of their work, and there will be no evil contract to sign. We will just be there to support them and help grow their comic in a way that very few other organizations could.
Tycho and I will be the hosts and participate in the judging but we won't be alone. We are very lucky to have friends in every corner of the industry from syndicated newspaper comics to book publishers, and web comic pioneers. We'll be bringing these folks in as guest judges and mentors throughout the competition. You'll also see everyone here in the office working with these contestants. It's a huge undertaking for us but incredibly exciting I think.
There is something magical about watching a comic strip come together. I think Strip Search is a show that could appeal to a much bigger audience than anything we've done before on PATV. So if you could help us get the word out I'd appreciate it. Tell your friends who like reality TV and tell them to tell their friends. I'd love to see Strip Search get funded and if it does we are very close to the goal of all ads removed from the home page and our Daughters of the Eyrewood Lookouts comic.
Update #9: More Lookouts Art, a New Reward, FAQ Update, Jerry Cosplay
With 15 days left, we've raised almost $400,000, which is nearly a half-a-million dollars, which is basically a million! Right? Or...? Listen. We don't have time to thrill you with our incredible mathematics right now. It's time to reveal the terrifying revelations of Kickstarter Update 9!
More Lookouts!
Gabe drew more concept art for Daughters of the Eyrewood to further entice you:
I know this level seems out there, but we still have 15 days! We are also adding another reward level at $50 for a hi-resolution, 8.5" x 11" print of the above Lookouts image sent to your door. Please add $5 for international addresses. (this level also includes all previous rewards!)
Jerry Cosplay Poll Results!
I'll be honest, I'm actually a little shocked at the result. The winner is... the Fruit Fucker? I just feel like... that doesn't have a lot of shame-factor to it. This was an opportunity to really get some ridiculous photos of Jerry, and the community chose the Fruit Fucker? All right, we'll try to do something with it that will maximize embarrassment.
Oh! And I forgot to mention in the last update with honorable mentions that we also got a lot of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew suggestions, which would have also been really funny.
Update #10: Kickstarter Shirt Revealed!
We're less than $40k away from hitting our Strip Search stretchgoal, and we figured you would want to see the Exclusive Kickstarter T-Shirt commemorating the campaign!
This is at the $150 reward level and also includes The Dickstarter Print, Digital Versions of Books 1 and 2, Remastered Digital Singles of Jerry's PA musical works, an 8.5" x 11" print of the Lookouts image from Update #9, a copy of Rainslick 3, names for your band AND your pet by Jerry, thoughts of you during coitus from Mike, and of course, the glue that holds this whole campaign together, Mike chasing a duck around while he shouts your name.
Update #11: Strip Search UNLOCKED! Call for entries begins NOW.
We've just hit the $450k/Strip Search stretchgoal! We move fast, so it's time to get the process rolling. May I present to you, the initial call for entries.
As mentioned in previous updates, the winner will get office space (for free!) at Penny Arcade HQ in Seattle, WA AND access to all of our facilities and resources (Mike, Jerry, Biz Guys, Merch Guys, etc) for one year on top of a $15,000 cash prize.
The deadline to submit is midnight, 8/24/2012 (TWO WEEKS FROM NOW). What you're applying for is to be on our new reality show, Strip Search, later this year. The process to get to our final participants will be incredibly thorough, so please know this is only the first of many steps.
Some quick notes on the show:
There will be no cost to you, other than your time.
You will be asked to sign a video release.
You will be asked to sign an NDA.
You will NOT be asked to sign anything regarding the rights to your existing or future works.
You need to be 18 or older and legally be able to enter the United States.
You will need to take about two weeks of your life later this year for this and this alone.
If there are any other questions, please ask them below, and I'll get them answered. Thanks, and good luck!
Funding period
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To my wonderment, the Rothschild family controlled billions of dollars and literally had not only their fingers in every pie, but owned the bakeries, as well.
The influence wielded by the fecund Rothschild family was unrivaled. Through their grip on the purse strings of the governments of the world, they were able to manipulate peace and war to their own aggrandizement. As historian Niall Ferguson wrote in his book, The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild:
As we have seen, however, wars tended to hit the price of existing bonds by increasing the risk that a debtor state would fail to meet its interest payments in the event of defeat and losses of territory. By the middle of the 19th century, the Rothschilds had evolved from traders into fund managers, carefully tending to their own vast portfolio of government bonds. Now having made their money, they stood to lose more than they gained from conflict. The Rothschilds had decided the outcome of the Napoleonic Wars by putting their financial weight behind Britain. Now they would sit on the sidelines.
Remarkably, a recent article published in the Washington Times reveals that the power and influence of the Rothschilds has not diminished over the past 200 years. In the piece, it is asserted that the various programs promoted and established by George Soros are ultimately funded by the global wealth of this notorious family of financiers, the Rothschilds.
In a story entitled "Geneva Gnome's Global Dread," Arnaud de Borchgrave, the editor at large of the Washington Times and United Press International, identified the various golden Rothschild threads woven into the globalist tapestry held up as an ensign by George Soros.
The Gnomes of Zurich were derogatory caricatures of secretive, greedy, stiff Swiss-German bankers, pince-nez aquiver, who ruled over the land of secret numbered accounts for tax dodgers the world over. With the world's best financial intelligence service, they knew their stuff and seldom spoke, even in retirement.
Their Geneva counterparts in French-speaking Switzerland were more sophisticated, relaxed in the company of global wheeler-dealers, and weren't afraid to speak their minds, albeit off the record. Such was George C. Karlweis, the brain behind Banque Privee, owned by the late Baron Edmond de Rothschild. His biggest claim to fame: George Soros and the launch of his Quantum Fund in 1969.
An original $100,000 stake in Mr. Soros' fund was worth $150 million by 1994. Between 1970 and 2000, the return was 3,365 percent. (For 10 consecutive years, it did 42.6 percent per year.) In 1992, Mr. Soros bet billions against the British pound — and broke the Bank of England ("Black Wednesday").
Although himself a neocon of the first order and one to neither foment nor foster any Rothschild-centered conspiracy theory, de Borchgrave's analysis of the relationship between Soros and the Rothschilds is worthwhile and illustrative of the well-established growth of the mushroom of globalists conspirators in the accommodating lengthy shadow of the Rothschilds.
The value of this tale to friends of liberty is found in the innumerable points of common purpose visible when one lays the story printed in the Washington Times over the story of the history of the founding of a one-world government through the efforts of socialist/communist/globalist operatives inside and outside the halls of government.
Furthermore, this same cadre of conspirators were ultimately responsible for the recent worldwide economic collapse as they were the creators of the central banking structure that enables such booms and busts through the manipulation of the world's currencies.
As one writer explained the cooperation between these monied interests:
That is not to say that every single person involved with the corruptions of central banking must intentionally be fomenting Marxism; no more than to say every Marxist is excited about finance. But there is mounting evidence of close associations over not only decades but centuries, associations not only of people but of their intentions.
Whether intentional or not, the de Borchgrave article painted the scene of world-wide financial distress in the following very broad strokes:
The financial crises that have been blowing up for years are speeding up, Mr. Karlweis says, because of expenditure exceeding income, "borrowing hand-over-fist, even for no good reason, on ever shakier fundamentals."
In a display of openness not likely appreciated by his Rothschild patrons, Karlweis attached the name of Hitler to the current currency collapse:
After turning their countries into Weimar Republics by printing more and more money "they will all need a currency commissioner like Hjalmar Schacht," a German banker who headed Reichsbank and became an early Hitler supporter, "to save them from hyperinflation. Let's just hope they don't turn their regimes into Third Reichs in the meantime."
Next, Karlweis mixes his metaphors and uses the demand for bread and circuses that bankrupted the Roman Empire as an analogy for the potential of similar reactions in the empires that cover the earth today.
"No one wants to predict the reactions of voters who constantly clamor for more bread and games to forget the looming disappointments that could give rise to black swans," adds the former giant gnome of Geneva.
Black swans are an aspect of the theory of the same name that was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Basically, the theory "refers only to unexpected events of large magnitude and consequence and their dominant role in history. Such events, considered extreme outliers, collectively play vastly larger roles than regular occurrences."
Naturally, no observer can resist placing the lion's share of blame for the world's financial distress at the feet of the government of the United States. Sadly, the placement is well and rightly placed there.
"Governments, public corporations, financial institutions, consumers — everyone is over their head in debt," Mr. Karlweis says. And "a huge part of the blame for the debacle of the past three years lies squarely with the U.S. By more or less shoving free trade down everyone's throat, America paved the way for globalization. This is what has destroyed jobs and driven down wages in the developed countries, hobbling economic growth and gouging tax revenues"'
Given the stretch and strength of the Rothschild web and the bottomless treasure chest at their disposal, George Soros and others determined to obliterate the Constitution are likely to continue their efforts for decades to come until the job is finished.


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MOUNT VERNON, Iowa - It was the closest Coe-Cornell game since 2007, but the Coe College football game continued the longest winning streak in the rivalry with a 34-14 win over the Rams Saturday.
Neither team could get much going on their first two drives, as all four drives resulted in punts. On Coe's third drive of the game, the offense started clicking.On first down at the Cornell 35, senior Jared McNutt (Warren, Ill./Warren) found juniorCarvin Thompson (Dallas, Texas/Life Charter) for a gain of 16 yards. On the next play, Thompson rushed for 15 yards. Two plays later, junior Gage Mohs (Fredericksburg, Iowa/Sumner-Fredericksburg) scored from five-yards out, his fourth touchdown of the season, to give Coe a 7-0 lead with 3:36 left in the opening quarter.
On Cornell's third play of the next possession, senior Nate Neuhaus (Manchester, Iowa/West Delaware) tipped a pass from Ram quarterback Juan Flores and made a diving catch for the interception. The Kohawks were able to score six-plays later as McNutt found senior Jacob Workman (Chadwick, Ill./Milledgeville) for a 17-yard touchdown, giving Coe a 14-0 lead with :30 left in the first quarter.
Cornell used three pass plays over 20 yards on the ensuing drive, capped by a 20-yard pass from Flores to Justin Cox, to cut Coe's lead to 14-7 with 12:02 left in the first half. The Kohawks ate up nearly four minutes of the lock on the next drive, but it ended on fourth down at the Cornell 12-yard line. On the next play, senior Frank Weymiller (New Albin, Iowa/Waukon) stripped Cornell running back D.J. Hall, as senior Alex Herink (Clutier, Iowa/North Tama) recovered the fumble. Coe would get inside the two-yard line, but again come up short on fourth down.
The Rams would drive 65-yards from their own two-yard line, but were forced to punt with just over a minute to go in the first half. Thompson rushed the ball for gains of eight and 11 before McNutt found senior Jared Kuehner (Center Point, Iowa/Center Point-Urbana) for a gain of 28 yards, moving into Cornell territory. After a timeout and incomplete pass, McNutt found Thompson for 15-yards before scrambling for 12 yards on the next play. During McNutt's run, he was hit late out of bounds, moving the ball to the five-yard line. Following a pair of timeouts, McNutt found Workman for a five-yard touchdown pass. The score gave Coe a 21-7 lead with :02 left in the half.
Coe's second drive of the second half resulted in another Kohawk touchdown, as they went 53 yards on seven plays. Coe was faced with just one third down on the drive, with that being the scoring play to end the drive when Mohs scored from three-yards out. The touchdown, Mohs' fifth of the season, gave Coe a 28-7 lead with 7:26 left in the third quarter.
Cornell was forced to punt on its next possession, as they gained just one yard in three plays. On the first play of the drive for the Kohawks, McNutt found Kuehner for a gain of 43-yards. A three-yard rush by Thompson moved the ball to the eight-yard line, where freshman Mark Atwater (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Linn-Mar) rushed up the middle for a touchdown. Atwater's score, the first of his career, gave Coe a 34-7 lead with 5:32 left in the third quarter, as the PAT was missed.
On Cornell's ensuing drive, they marched 69-yards on 10 plays to the Coe four-yard line before sophomore Dustin Elsbury(Byron, Ill./Byron) stripped Hall, with junior Mitch Montgomery (Lisbon, Iowa/Lisbon) recovering the fumble. Coe wasn't able to score off the turnover, but took more time off the clock.
The Rams' final scoring drive started with 9:47 to play, as they went 91-yards on nine plays in just 2:34. A 10-yard pass from Flores to Cox were the final points of the game. Cornell forced a late Coe punt, taking over at its own 11-yard line with 1:14 to go, trailing 34-14. The Rams went 64 yards on 12 plays, but a 42-yard field goal attempt by Anthony Bridges as time expired sailed wide left.
Mohs led the Kohawk rushing attack with 83 yards on 20 carries. He also scored two touchdowns on the ground. Thompson added 64 yards on 14 carries while Atwater had 35 yards on five carries, including a touchdown.
McNutt was 15-of-26 passing for 198 yards with two touchdowns. Kuehner finished with a team-high five receptions for 97 yards. Workman added four receptions for 35 yards and two touchdowns.
Junior Antoine Allen-Jackson (Aurora, Ill./Oswego East) led the Kohawk defense with seven tackles. He had three for a loss, a forced fumble and two pass break-ups. Weymiller added six tackles, including two for a loss, a sack and a forced fumble. Senior Terrance Lockett Jr. (St. Louis, Mo./Desmet Jesuit), junior Dylan Youel (Traer, Iowa/North Tama) and Elsbury each added five tackles. Locket had a pass break-up, while Elsbury forced a fumble.
Senior Chase Cooling (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Xavier) punted five times for 178 yards. Four of his five punts were inside the 20-yard line. For the game, the Rams average starting field position was their own 21-yard line.
Coe outgained Cornell 431-378 in total offense. Coe rushed for 233 yards, while holding the Rams to just 20 yards on 25 carries.
This year's Kohawk seniors will have won all four games against the Rams, outscoring the longtime Linn County rival 214-35. The win gives Coe a 68-50-4 lead in the all-time series.
The Kohawks will step out of Iowa Conference competition for the final time next week. Coe will travel to Washington University in St. Louis for a 1 p.m. Kickoff Sept. 15. A link for live video can be found on the front of CoeAthletics.com.


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STOCKTON, Calif. - A scary moment turned into the right moment for the UC Santa Barbara baseball team on Friday night vs. Pacific.
Batting with two out in the ninth, Lance Roenicke took a two-strike pitch off the chin. Although he walked to the dugout under his own power, Roenicke was replaced at first by Joe Lent. Brandon Trinkwon then lined a triple down the right field line to score Lent from first and help the Gauchos to a 6-5 win. UCSB improved to 19-17 on the year and 5-5 in the Big West. Pacific falls to 11-25, 1-6.
Roenicke had a butterfly bandage on his chin after the game and was in good spirits, because he was not seriously hurt and especially because of the victory.
But his teammates could be equally thrilled with the way left-hander Kevin Gelinas pitched out of the bullpen.
Sidelined for much of the season, Gelinas pitched for the fourth time in fourth time in five games and was brilliant. He struck out six in 2.2 scoreless innings and kept the Pacific off balance throughout his outing.
Yet, as good as Gelinas looked in relief and as good as the win felt to UCSB, there was a tint of ugliness early in the game.The two teams combined for five errors and a couple of baserunning blunders, yet the miscues on the basepaths somehow ended up into runs.
Gaucho starter Andrew Vasquez had Brett Christopher picked off of first with two outs in the second. But when Daniel Johnston broke for home, first baseman Joey Wallace threw home. Catcher Joe Winterburn threw to third baseman Marc Venning, who swiped to tag Johnston, but the ball popped out of his mitt. Johnston scurried home to give UOP a 2-1 lead.
An inning later, Trinkwon and Marc Venning singled to open the frame and then tried to execute a double steal. The throw from catcher Jason Taasaas to third beat Trinkwon by a good five feet and Trinkwon threw on the brakes. Third baseman Dustin Torchio ran him back to second, but Trinkwon slid in under the throw and second baseman Curtis Gomez's throw to first skipped into the dugout, allowing Trinkwon to score. Venning ended up on third and scored on Mahle's sacrifice fly.
Andrew Vasquez struck out seven in his 6.0 innings pitched, but also walked four and hit three others. However, he allowed just four hits and two earned runs and left the game in line for the victory.
Matt Vedo relieved Vasquez and three of the four batters he faced reached base before he gave way to Gelinas. The senior lefty, though, struck out the first batter he faced with an out in the seventh before UOP had its only moment of glory against him.
Brett Christopher singled in a run to even up the game, 5-5, before Gelinas settled in and then started dominating.
He struck out two in the eighth and punched out two more in the ninth, including making Tyger Pedersen look silly with a knee-buckling curveball for the second out in the ninth. Gelinas then struck out Christopher to end the game.
Brett Vertigan missed a go-ahead home run by inches in the ninth when his deep fly ball was caught at the wall, yet the junior managed a pair of hits, two stolen bases and he reached base four times. Trinkwon had two hits and two RBI while Joey Wallace had a pair of hits and a stolen base.
UCSB continues its series at Pacific with a 6 p.m. game on Saturday and a 1 p.m. game on Sunday. Both games can be heard live online by clicking here with the pregame show starting a half-hour earlier.


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Uh, we're just going to go under the assumption that Jim Caple's "serialized novel" 24 College Avenue is the setup to a joke, and the "three times a week throughout the school year" is the punchline. You know, the kind of inappropriate joke that a boorish friend tells too loudly at a dinner party as everyone pretends to chuckle politely and then slowly ... slinks ... away.
We mean, we know Jim had a great time on his little college trips last year ... but seriously, they are kidding, right? RIGHT?!
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I just HAD to use the original bodice-ripper covers for these….
- Title: A Winter Ballad
- Author: Barbara Samuel
- Series: N/A
- Genre(s): Historical
- Publisher: HarperCollins, October 1994; self-published, October 2010
- Source: Amazon, 99¢ promo ($2.99 ebook)
- Length: 352 pages
- Trope(s): Knight, Damsel in Distress, Revenge, Evil Sibling, Angst, Tragic Past,
- Quick blurb: Knight on revenge mission tempted to forego his royal mandate to stay with the woman who saved his life.
- Quick review: Basically a stripped-down, but oh-so-romantic, version of Pillars of Earth
- Grade: B+
When he made to draw away, Anya caught his hand below the table. "You did not find me whole," she said, "and could not leave me less."
Dying knight, spiritually broken heroine, godless priests, evil and/or missing siblings, curses, plagues, assassination plots…. And smooching. Some really, really good smooching.
- Title: Heart of a Knight
- Author: Barbara Samuel
- Series: N/A
- Genre(s): Historical
- Publisher: HarperCollins, August 1997; self-published, October 2010
- Source: Amazon, 99¢
- Length: 368 pages
- Trope(s): Gentle Giant, Damsel in Distress, In Disguise
- Quick blurb: An errant knight mysteriously appears to help a beleaguered noblewoman save her castle
- Quick review: More of a predictable fairy tale than Bed of Spices, but definitely worth reading
- Grade: B
Better, she said, to remember it was with women that true power lay. A power quiet and subtle, to be sure, but never to be ignored.
The enigmatic hero is the main focus of the story, but Elizabeth is a really strong and compelling character. No TSTL or doormat heroines in Barbara Samuel's medieval world, THANK GOD.


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Montgomery and Selma were located in the Alabama Black Belt. According to Booker T. Washington, writing in his 1901 autobiography,
So far as I can learn, the term [Black Belt] was first used to designate a part of the country which was distinguished by the colour of the soil. The part of the country possessing this thick, dark, and naturally rich soil was, of course, the part of the South where the slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later . . . the term seems to be used wholly in a political sense—that is, to designate the counties where the black people outnumber the white.3
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