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Lara's Damsel in Distress
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Sometimes, it's not about sexism, it's about bad writing.
It almost sounds to me like Sam represents us more than Lara, like this is how most people would 'realisticly' end up behaving in similar situations, instead of like Kratos the Archaeologist?
But, I haven't played the game, so I can't pretend to see the full picture on this.
Why is it that when one damsel/sexist/feminist thread gets locked another one pops up almost instantly? I'm smelling conspiracy here.
I am in almost 100% agreement with Shamus here. Those 'characters' have got to go! Or at least give the player the choice to let them die in exchange for helping a better character.
Nope just don't write them in the first place. Lazy writing hurts everyone.
To be fair Tomb Raider games have never been a bastion of epic story telling. I've played every single one of them and I can only give you a general outline of what was going on in some of the games. The others I can't even remember.
"Damsel in distress" is one relic that Lara should have left buried :P
Yeah, she really was a pointless character. Then again, I really didn't much care for any of the characters beyond Lara. Sure the beefy guy and her mentor were cool, but they didn't have any depth to them like Lara did.
There is an incredibly low bar for writing in video games. Perhaps the only reason this stands out here is because it is terrible writing within a fairly good game. Really though, have you closely examined the things in gaming that gets listed as "good" writing? There's a large group of people that would place MGS IV in that category whereas if that game were stripped of it's ten minutes of gameplay and released as a movie (basically all it is anyways), it would have a terrible reception. It's too long, over-dramatized with a plot so complex the majority of the game is spent explaining the plot to the audience. Assassin's Creed also seems to get a lot of attention for the story and those games are filled with entirely bland characters in the very essence of a trope conflict (ooh, secret societies vying for influence in the future of humankind).
I don't mind the idea of playing games for fun and ignoring the story. It's just that in those cases, the gameplay has to be able to entirely stand on it's own. Otherwise, I think we need to raise our standards on these things. This damsel in distress trope is egregious but it just underlines how bad game writing in general truly is.
Being reduced to a useless blubbering waste of space is a certain death sentence for a male fictional character, I don't see why a female character should be spared the same fate.
Would making Samantha a child have made her a better character? Praising Lara because she wants to grow up to be her, helpless because she hasn't learned any life skills, etc etc. I haven't actually played the game, I'm just asking.
Not to dismiss your point, as I often find myself yelling at characters who seem to be doing absolutely nothing to help themselves, but being paralysed by fear is a real and potent thing. I've seen people in much more minor crises be rendered completely helpless before - I remember one time when I split my head open, my (fellow adult) friend with me at the time freaked out and was utterly useless in the situation, apart from yellin for help. It happens more easily than we might think.
Hey look, yet another thing about this game that Uncharted did better. I don't like picking on this game, but when another series does the action platformer better than you, you should be trying to one-up them. Elena and Chloe in the Uncharted games are not damsels in distress, even in the beginning, and actually do a great job covering you when they're around. The only trope that is kinda annoying about them is they both naturally fall for Drake, though they both want to stay close to him for different reasons.
Hell in the third game, the big bad that's out to get Drake and cuts him short at every turn is an incredibly resourceful woman. Considering the whole thing is a modern take of a pulp adventure Indiana Jones story, they did a marvelous job keeping the story balanced and interesting. Only the big bads in the first two games really felt like cardboard cutout characters, and they were mostly used just to push Drake along... the story wasn't about them.
I could forgive some of her behavior as the paralyzed by fear/culture shock reaction but this game takes place over a couple of days and most people who have reactions lasting that long would be catatonic. The other problem is that Sam appears to be absolutely coherent otherwise. The first mistake of following a stranger off into the night while leaving a sleeping friend alone in unknown territory may be forgiven, but the subsequent mistakes and lack self-motivation just makes you want to scream. Making the character a child might have helped or implying that she had been drugged, but none of that was done.
Back to the original point, over a shorter timespan her apparent apathy/complacency could have held up. But given the time covered in game she should have been working more actively to help herself by the last few sections of the story.
Man, the last time I saw a Tomb Raider game it was about using glowing green alien Excalibur to fight an angry goth chick and her smoke monsters while a large supporting cast of people Lara knows and the player doesn't appear and disappear seemingly at random. What happened? I mean, at least that ended up being funny.
[I'm not counting 'Guardian of Light' because its plot was 'Hey remember that Tezcatlipoca story line from Spriggan? This is that'.]
The "Kraken of gender politics" should have been the final boss in that game.
EDIT: I feel I should contribute something more to this discussion but... I just didn't like the new Tomb Raider. I didn't think it was a good story nor a particularly outstanding game. The franchise as a whole has slipped into the "meh" zone for me. Such a shame.
Samsonite or whatsherface reminds me a lot of Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse 5. Except I felt sorry for Billy Pilgrim for being so pathetic and miserable and weak, and I hate Samwhines just from her description.
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Did you... actually PLAY the game?
Tomb Raider does platforming as well as Uncharted (from my experience, it's actually even better).
Also, unlike Elena and Chloe, LARA CROFT is the lead of the game, is not a damsel in distress, and saves the day despite lacking the Y-chromosome Drake has. Also, you didn't mention Reyes, the tough mom of the group who just as easily guns down masses of zombie samurai and raving islanders as Lara does, without a hint of hesitation, fear, or remorse. That's already two women that are more active and helpful than Elena and Chloe were.
Also, SURPRISE, the true main antagonist of Tomb Raider, the big bad, is Himiko, a WOMAN, and the one causing everyone, islanders and survivors alike, to suffer and get stuck there. The whole lore of the game, the history, the threat, is because of one insane, powerful woman.
Also, on topic and to counter Shamus, I'll admit I wasn't a big fan of Sam in the game... but I didn't dislike her either. The article cherry picks the worst moments with Sam while entirely ignoring the GOOD moments.
I'd say that, for starters, both times Sam is kidnapped it's by people she trusts (she hadn't yet realized the island had cultists when she meets Matthias, and nobody thought Whitman was THAT crazy that he'd kidnap her later on), and she likely was muzzled or knocked out when it happened.
Secondly, Sam WAS shown to be resourceful. She states outright she stole a radio off the guard, attempted to contact someone, anyone, with it to let them know what was going on and how to find her, and then, when Lara saves her for the first time, she has a gun and USES it, killing several armed islanders herself and FIGHTING her way to freedom with the rest of her crew.
Also, she, herself, while being Lara's close friend, has MANY journals and narrations talking about her love for history, film, and her connection to Himiko. She DOES have a life outside of Lara, but Lara's the one with the instinct, talent, and drive to get stuff done, and it's unfair to ignore the many thing she doesn't say about Lara while ignoring the many things the OTHERS say about her, because they all DO have an opinion of Lara, some of them quite negative.
And the finale, of "battered" Lara carrying "fit" Sam back down... Sam just had her very SOUL sucked out of her body, her very life and being nearly destroyed, her body consumed whole and everything that makes her a living person stamped out. I don't think it's that unreasonable to assume she's more half-dead after that than Lara was.
I don't think Sam is the best character in the game, by any means, but she's FAR from as useless and docile as the article makes her sound. In two playthroughs, I very clearly see her struggling, I see her fighting, I see her killing, I see her being resourceful, I see her grabbing guns, acting at times reckless, defiantly standing up to the villains, and fleeing for her life. I also see her being petrified with fear, I see her being freaked out and confused, I see her being weak and human... and, ultimately, she is NOT as capable, or brave, or strong, or smart, or resourceful as Lara is.
Even then, if Sam, who isn't THAT bad of a character (even if she serves as the plot mcguffin), is the worst element of Tomb Raider, I think the game did very well, all things considered. It's simply that characters like Lara, Jonah, Roth, and the others were just more interesting, active, and charismatic.
I thought about the same... some time on the ship could have been used to build up a connection to her. That way, players would probably see more reasons to actually look for her and protect her. With her being smaller than an adult, there could have also been a scene where she just gets pulled along after her kidnappers or she might hide between some mangrove roots or something...
Overall, it would also explain why, as Shamus put it, she gets rescued and 30 seconds later gets cut off by fire from you again... children sometimes are very fickle in their attention span and their decisions don't always necessarily make sense.
In this game, it was about using flaming napalm arrows to fight an angry undead Japanese Empress and her zombie samurais while a large supporting cast of people Lara knows and the player just met appear and disappear at random.
I still don't know why some people feel that "out there" element of Tomb Raider is missing. Right around the time the vortex of souls was destroying the mountain while a 20 foot tall Oni is swinging a 500 lbs mace at my face while a zombie queen is merging her soul into the body of my best friend I thought "yeah, this is definitely Tomb Raider-levels of crazy. Awesome."
So it's now a requirement for every female character to be strong, skilled, and determined?
Because god forbid there is ever a woman completely unfit for roughness who would curl into a ball crying and then walk obediently to her own execution. Like that is not known to happen to people, man or woman. Don't forget she stole that radio though.
To fix her just make her more interesting in general. Not everyone has to be useful in a fight to be worth something.
I agree. You don't need everyone to turn into a superhero in your game. Tomb Raider was already filled with nearly EVERYONE doing this, and even Sam herself had moments of killing others and fighting back.
The problem happens when a character that is MEANT to be strong, skilled, determined, brave, rough and tough winds up curling into a ball crying for stupid reasons (I'll never forgive Metroid: Other M for what it did to Samus as a character).
There is also the problem that she seems to be the only weak character. I haven't played the game but in the article she is described as the only one being completely useless. She should at least be carving arrows, carry water, help the medic character or something...
Hmm...now that's an interesting idea. It would remove any expectation that she could save herself, and also serve to reemphasize that part of Lara's journey is one of adulthood - she starts off a child herself, but ends up an adult by the end of her adventure.
Yes, I think that would actually work - you just need a good reason for a child to be on the expedition in the first place. The obvious answer is that her parent is on board, but then it would be the parent's role to rescue her, not Lara's. So then by necessity you have to kill or otherwise incapacitate the parent - but even then, the focus is still going to be on that parent/child relationship. (But that affords some potential parallels with Lara's own broken relationship with her father.)
Interesting narrative idea!
Realistically, someone might act like that at first, but we tend to adapt rather quickly when our lives are on the line. Look at any extreme real life survival story and you'll see plenty of people do things they'd never think they'd do just to make it back home again. The reason why this character is annoying is that she doesn't seem to have any kind of natural survival inclination at all. She is like an object. :(
Sam is expected to act like a real person would act.
in order to meet such demands, she needs to either be more strong, skilled or determined in some form, or she needs to change in age or maturity to match her current actions in game. This is only in Sam's case. I can think of several cases where characters need less strength, determination or skill - Eragon comes to mind as the most immediate example, where he is too speshul to act like a real person, picking up skills on everything he does almost immediately after he encounters them to the point it breaks suspension of disbelief. A female example would be Molly Moon who went from just getting the power to hypnotize people to getting the power to stop time to getting the power to travel through time to getting the power to shape shift. It eventually stops being believable.
If they are going to make Sam weak and useless, I expect them to do it consciously, and use it to examine why it is done in the first place.
If the plot doesn't matter, then it doesn't matter if it changes such that Sam is not incompetent, and if a character must be depicted as weak and useless for the plot to function at all, then pick a different end goal in your supposedly irrelevant plot.
This isn't exactly a high bar.
I absolutely hate that sort of character, but... I've known people that stupid. Walking down the street and some freak comes out of an alley with a sick grin and his erect penis out, and her first reaction was to run TOWARDS the probable rapist. She just ran towards threats, unarmed and whimpering, whenever they appeared. More than once she was saved from a potentially dangerous situation by a friend who grabbed her and pulled her back.
If anything it's more realistic. People love to think they'll be the hero or the survivor in a hard situation based on the harshest thing they've been through is an insect sting or sports injury. In reality, look at Sam's situation: alone, tied up, surrounded by guys she doesn't know need her alive for a while and look more likely to kill her if she does anything funny and really no where to run to if she did get away. All that's enough to put most people out. Add in she's not a survivalist, but someone barely in their 20s filming what is essentially reality television and it suddenly sounds unreasonable to expect she'd craft a makeshift weapon and try to hack her own way away from her kidnappers. I think we sometimes forget how much plot armor main characters get and transpose similar expectations on the supporting cast. If Lara can hack through hundreds of cultists with a makeshift ax, bow, and stolen guns Sam should be able to do the same. But Lara gets away with it first as the main character and second as a video game character provided with ample tools, solutions, and enemies dumber than soup.
Not to say I didn't make most of the final run riffing about a lack of personal motivation to rescue this girl. She wasn't much more of flat lump of a character than the rest of the cast, but as awesome as the scenes were, I really didn't care if I saved Sam or not.
I think the plot could have been improved greatly if they'd just folded Sam together with a "funny-guy" role and only have her get captured once, towards the tail-end of the game. We have few enough funny female characters in games already.
Is there actually a section in the game (tutorial area?) where you get to know her a bit better and maybe get to actually like her?
From the game's premise the ship sounds like a perfect place for that with it being a confined space with not that much to do.
Thank you for filling in the blanks Shamus so conveniently left in his retelling of the story. My personal strongest memory of Sam was when she was running from the cultists during the escape from the castle, as she did her best to hold them off with her gun. Her actions weren't any less impressive than those of Jonah, Alex or Reyes, who at least had each other to rely on for backup. Not everyone can be Roth, Angus or Lara.
You basically get to know her through a couple of video clips and diary entries. I think that was sufficient, although I certainly wouldn't say no to more dialogue-oriented gameplay.
I'm glad to see someone gets the real problem. This trope is just lazy writing, as it is in just about every story where it is used. You need some reason for your main character to be doing whatever it is they are doing, so invent a reason for them to go to X. Of course giving more development to the damsel character would require more work and who wants to do that.
I also like how you pointed out that the role is typically given to women, but it's the lazy plot device that is the problem in the story. The fact that women usually occupy this role is a reflection of society, not something that contributes to gender equality.
Thanks for the great article Shamus.
When Sam is being led to the soul-sucky area, Matthias has more than his pokey spear. He has a pistol too. Lara even steals said pistol from him in their final confrontation. So even though he wasn't leading her up the mountain at gun point, he possibly made it clear to her that he had a gun and would shoot her in the knees and drag her painfully up the mountain if need be.
I didn't find Sam all that annoying to be honest. She could have been better written though.
Some characters are just plot devices. It's that simple. Not everyone is capable of defending themselves, not everyone has any chance of escape, not everyone keeps their integrity under stress, etc. but none of this even matters when you're dealing with a character whose sole purpose is designating a destination for the player. I honestly don't even know why we examine these characters as if they were meant to have integrity themselves. Although, while functionally she does just get dragged around, there are times when she IS reckless and fights to escape. She's not quite as hopeless as the article says. In the end...yes, it's lazy to just say "this is a character you care for, and you can't leave without them", but how many other good reasons are there when the protagonist is clearly putting themselves at unnecessary risk, repeatedly?
No, that's how they could fix Samantha to bring her in line with the other NPC's without making a whole new game.
I said exactly this in the article.
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Benicia, California, is an odd little town. It's finally found some solid success as a waterfront bedroom community, but for years, it tried and failed to be more than that. There was the yearlong stint as the Golden State's seat of government. There were the military camels. There was the "BENIC-AAAAAAAHHHH!" sign that stood for years on southbound 680 just north of town. But one of the coolest things about Benicia was the grand ferry Solano and her sister ship Contra Costa. They were two mammoth ferries designed to carry a full train across the Carquinez straits between the sleepy hamlet of Port Costa and the not-so-bustling non-metropolis named for General Vallejo's wife.
Nevertheless, whorehouses and drinking establishments abounded in the two burgs, and Jack London's escapades at Benicia's Lido are legendary. Once the railroad bridge opened up in 1930, things calmed down in Southern Solano, while drivers took the Carquinez Bridge from Vallejo to Crockett beginning in 1927. Nevertheless, the Solano and Contra Costa stand as grand achievements of Bay Area engineering awesome.
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With the WNBA playoffs set to begin Thursday night, here are five things to know:
CHAMPIONSHIP FAVORITE: The Phoenix Mercury secured home-court advantage throughout the playoffs by winning a WNBA-record 29 games this season. Still Diana Taurasi was quick to deflect any talk of who's the favorite to win the title, deferring to the league MVP Maya Moore and the Minnesota Lynx, who finished second in the West. Moore was named MVP on Thursday. "They're the defending champs, they're the best team in this league," said Taurasi.
FOND FAREWELLS: Indiana coach Lin Dunn and San Antonio player Becky Hammon will see their careers come to an end when the playoffs end. The two have meant so much to the league and both of their teams would love to send them out on top. "It definitely is a little extra for us," said Indiana's Tamika Catchings. "Coach has meant so much to the sport that it would be great to make one more run for her." While Dunn announced her retirement before the season started, Hammon waited until last month to make it official. She then made headlines a few weeks later when it was announced she would become the first full-time paid female assistant coach for an NBA team, joining the San Antonio Spurs.
HEALTHY SKY: No team was more decimated by injuries this season than the Sky and yet Chicago earned a playoff spot for the second straight season. Now that the Sky are completely healthy, they could be poised to make a run in the playoffs despite being the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference. "There's definitely glimpses where we see the whole team back together and things just really clicking," said Elena Delle Donne, who missed 18 games while recovering from a recurrence of Lyme disease. Chicago was also missing point guard Courtney Vandersloot for 16 games because of a knee injury. Center Sylvia Fowles missed the first part of the season because of offseason hip surgery. The Sky won the East last year but faltered in the playoffs, losing to Indiana in the first round. Delle Donne hopes for a different outcome this season. "Last year it felt like everything was going great and then we finally hit adversity in the playoffs and just obviously didn't pull through there," she said. "Hopefully now it's kind of been an opposite season for us."
ACE vs ICE: A key matchup in the Phoenix-LA series could be Candace Parker and Candice Dupree. Parker missed two of the Sparks' five losses to the Mercury this season, but was a big factor in the two games that Los Angeles lost by five points. She averaged 25 points and 9.5 boards in those games. Dupree had a stellar season averaging 14.5 points and 7.6 rebounds and provided a consistent scoring option.
DREAM VS REALITY: The Atlanta Dream have reached the WNBA finals in three of the past four seasons and were en route to one of the best seasons in franchise history before struggling down the stretch with losses in 10 of their final 14 games. Part of that coincided with coach Michael Cooper's leave of absence to deal with tongue cancer. Cooper's back, but star Angel McCoughtry has been bothered by tendinitis in her foot. To make it back to the championship round, the Dream will need a healthy McCoughtry.
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SHIFT @ Ryerson
SHIFT @ Ryerson stands for "Students Heading Into Full-Time at Ryerson."
Ryerson University is located in downtown Toronto. It is an urban campus situated right at Yonge-Dundas square – the heart of Toronto. Ryerson has about 35 000 undergraduate and graduate students. The student body is diverse, active, and vibrant.
SHIFT @ Ryerson is a new program that supports students with learning disabilities in making the transition to university life. The key concept is TRANSITIONS. Major transitions in life can be difficult and scary. Going to university is a very challenging but exciting time in a young person's life. Our aim is to help with this transition by connecting students from all across the Greater Toronto Area to the Ryerson community. We provide both academic and social support. SHIFT @ Ryerson offers an online course focused on learning strategies, a mentoring program, one-on-one support from staff, and lots of fun social events throughout the summer and school year.
We want our logo to appeal to both men and women who have finished high school and are starting their first year at university. Most students entering first year are between 18 and 22. They will be studying a broad range of subjects such as Business, Engineering, Architecture, and Design. Our target audience is very diverse in terms of culture, ability, sexuality, and socio-economic status. Our program values equal access for all and celebrates diversity.
We need a logo to represent SHIFT @ Ryerson. It will be the basis for branding our program and creating an identity on campus. The logo will be used on information pamphlets, posters, websites, and even large signs.
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Manson H. Whitlock, one of the country's longest-serving repairmen of the clattering keyboard contraptions known as typewriters, died Aug. 28 at his home in Bethany, Conn. He was 96.
The New Haven Register first reported his death. The cause was not disclosed, but Mr. Whitlock closed his shop in June, when he was hospitalized with a kidney ailment.
Once ubiquitous in offices and on the dorm-room desks of college students, typewriters have all but fallen into silence in recent years, as they have been replaced by computers. But Mr. Whitlock kept plugging along, as a dwindling number of customers hunted the streets of New Haven, Conn., and pecked at the door of his second-floor shop near the campus of Yale University.
He had been on the job since 1930, when he began working at his father's bookstore. Before long, he took charge of the typewriter department and sold thousands over the years. Customers returned to him for replacement parts and for repairs when the keys became stuck or the carriages wouldn't return on their Royals, Remingtons, Smith Coronas and Underwoods.
Mr. Whitlock was at his shop every day, seven days a week, invariably wearing a tweed jacket, V-neck sweater and necktie — looking like the Yale students and professors of yore. In dress, manner and occupation, he was a link to a long-gone world of the Ivy League and to a time when machines were operated by hand and built with an intricate structure of fitted metal parts.
When a manual typewriter broke down, it wasn't thrown in the trash and replaced by a newer model. It was taken to someone like Mr. Whitlock, who used special tools and decades of experience to put it back in working order. Soon enough, he could roll a sheet of paper around the platen and tap out, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," using all 26 letters of the keyboard.
The last two fingers of Mr. Whitlock's right hand were permanently curled from the countless hours he had gripped a screwdriver, working on many of the 300,000 typewriters that passed through his shop.
"I've never known anyone who works on typewriters that can match him in any way," historian and biographer William Manchester told the Register in 1990. "He's in a class by himself."
Mr. Whitlock's other customers included authors Robert Penn Warren, Archibald MacLeish and John Hersey, as well as A. Bartlett Giamatti, Yale president and baseball commissioner. A Yale classics professor named Erich Segal once bought a portable Royal typewriter from Mr. Whitlock and used it to write "Love Story," one of the top-selling books of the 1970s.
"The typewriter was essential in those days," Mr. Whitlock told the Yale Alumni Magazine in an interview in its January-February issue this year. "Every summer, students dropped off their typewriters to be serviced, cleaned and stored while they were home."
At one time, he had "a good-sized store," he said. "I had six assistants. We sold ribbons by the thousands."
Mr. Whitlock often visited pawnshops to search for spare parts, and in time hundreds of typewriters crowded his shelves, constituting a kind of private museum. He kept a bust in his shop of Mark Twain, the first author to submit a typed manuscript to a publisher.
In recent years, Mr. Whitlock sat alone at his desk, waiting for the occasional customer to climb the stairs. He remained fascinated by the mechanisms of the classic manual models, but as a concession to modern times, he began to repair electric typewriters as well.
He drew the line at computers, which he never learned to use. As he told the Christian Science Monitor in 2007, "You work a typewriter, a computer works you."
Manson Hale Whitlock was born Feb. 21, 1917, one of six sons of Clifford Everett Hale Whitlock, who opened a bookstore in New Haven in 1899. He began working at the store in high school.
"I just gravitated to the typewriter department," Mr. Whitlock said in 2007, "because I'd always been interested in things mechanical."
After a few years, he moved out of the bookstore and opened a shop dedicated to typewriters. In his way, Mr. Whitlock was a skilled artisan who made an intimate contribution to the intellectual life of the Yale student body and professoriate.
"I decided that if I couldn't go to Yale," he told the New York Times in 2009, "I'd have Yale come to me."
Mr. Whitlock revealed little about his early life, but he once told an interviewer that he "used to race sports cars." He sold his 1953 Jaguar to help pay the medical bills of his wife, Nancy, who had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He kept a painting of the car in his home. She died in 1996. A son, Gilbert Ward Whitlock, died in 2007. Survivors include a son, William Whitlock, and three grandchildren.
Mr. Whitlock lived long enough to see a revival of interest in vintage typewriters, if only as a kind of retro trend among literary-minded young people.
"They're becoming curiosities," he told the Register in 2010. "They're not tools of necessity anymore. Kids are buying them on the Internet — is that what it's called?"


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A key prerequisite for effective team collaboration concerns the team members' knowledge about their different backgrounds, skills and experiences. While face‑to‑face interaction provides multiple opportunities for learning about these vital personal elements informally, a computer‑mediated communication setting may make knowledge sharing about team members and their specific backgrounds more difficult. This knowledge sharing, however, may be crucial and should thus be supported also in remote settings. In this paper, we present the design and results of a controlled experiment in which participants needed to share information and make decisions with team members online, in a simulated project kick‑off meeting. Five experimental groups collaborated in a three‑dimensional Virtual Environment (3D CVE), five control groups in text chat sessions. Opposing these two media, we were able to extrapolate the essential characteristics of 3D CVE. The experiment yields first results proving improved retention when collaborating with avatars in 3D environments and provides insights about the value of this media as a collaboration tool.
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Let $D=[-2,2]$ and $f:D\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be $f(x)=4-x^2$. Sketch this function.Using the definition of a concave function prove that it is concave (do not use derivative).
Attempt: $f(x)=4-x^2$ is a down-facing parabola with origin at $(0,4)$. I know that. But what $D=[-2,2]$ is given for. Is it domain or a point?
Then, how do I prove that $f(x)$ is concave using the definition of a concave function? I got the inequality which should hold for $f(x)$ to be concave:
For two distinct non-negative values of $x (u$ and $v$)
$f(u)=4-u^2$ and $f(v)=4-v^2$
Condition of a concave function:
$ \lambda(4-u^2)+(1-\lambda)(4-v^2)\leq4-[(\lambda u+(1-\lambda)v]^2$
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Skin Condition Forces Ocean Township to Forfeit Football Game
Ocean Township High School will forfeit its football game against Neptune Saturday after it was discovered this week that members of the football team were diagnosed with impetigo.
Athletic Director H. Rusty Todd said that any team members with suspicious skin irritations were sent to their doctor and not permitted to return to school without medical clearance. In addition they were advised that they would not be allowed to participate in football until Friday and all facilities and equipment were thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.
Ocean Township School Superintendent John Lysko in an email wrote that "48 JV and varsity players, 6 have been diagnosed."
Todd said since there is no other week that both teams are open the game can't be made up and thus Ocean has to forfeit the game.
The Spartans next scheduled game is September 21 when they host Matawan. Lysko expects to be able to play the game but it will depend on the recovery rate.
Lysko added that the decision to postpone has his full support. "In an effort to reduce the spread of infection, practices were cancelled this week. We did not want to field a team that was not in top condition to play. We wanted to reduce the risk of any injury to our students. This decision was made by Coach Klein in consultation with the athletic trainer and the AD. Coach Klein is to be commended for his action."
According to the MayoClinic website, impetigo is a highly contagious skin infection that mainly affects infants and children. Impetigo usually appears as red sores on the face, especially around a child's nose and mouth. Although it commonly occurs when bacteria enter the skin through cuts or insect bites, it can also develop in skin that's perfectly healthy. It is not considered to be a serious condition but can lead to other complications in those affected.


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Owning an Apple device is a luxurious and prestigious gesture for almost everyone around the globe. The company continues to lead the smartphone and tablet market because of the high quality products that they make. Even though, competitors are tagging behind, the sheer number of free iPhone apps and total app count on the app store is far ahead. It's growing at a rapid pace, designed to offer excellent choices for its users.
Simplifying Your Search
Consumers will sometimes find it difficult to browse through the sea of apps available on the official store which is when third party websites become integral. They pick and sort out the best available ones in a user friendly interface. All you have to do is browse through the categories, available, know more about the particular application, see screenshots, read description and finally head to the app store to download them. The advantage of free iPhone apps is that they can be downloaded instantly for free without any mandatory credit card requirements or payments. After the new iPhone 5 was introduced with a bigger screen, users now have the advantage of being able to experience apps and games in their authenticity with better screen space. Sports titles, arcade and action games look more vivid now with excellent graphics on the 4″inch screen provided in the latest iPhone version.
Popular Categories
There's an app for almost everything on the dedicated app store. The most popular among them include social networking, lifestyle, games, utilities, news, books, music, photos, travel and many more. Every category will list the most popular free iPhone apps so that you can pick what you love and download it instantly to your phone. There are specific educational games available for free. These titles are designed to help young children learn numbers, alphabets besides being entertained with a slew of thought provoking mini games. It looks extremely colourful, vibrant level designs and will latch the young children onto the phone for hours at stretch. But, when they are learning new stuff through apps, you hardly have a reason to say no to them!
Productive Apps
Compared to what you know, the application ecosystem on iOS platform is constantly developing. Besides, free iPhone apps it also comprises of games made specifically to suit the larger screen iPad and its 2K resolution. Productive apps are very helpful in allowing you to plan ahead with time planner, weather reports, mobile wifi hotspot generator, PDF reader, file scanner and much more. They are ideal to use in both official as well as personal environment.
When using an iPhone, you can be assured that you are going to be bombarded with entertaining apps and games. The app store offers music, video players, image editors, book readers and much more to keep users of all age groups stuck to their amazing gadget. The free iPhone apps easily comprise of book readers that are compatible to read both.epub files as well as comics. People who enjoy reading novels will find these apps extremely convenient because they can just download any free or paid title from the store to start reading it instantly. Similarly, comic fans will find the interactive comic app readers useful to experience their most favourite superheroes come to life. Constant updates and patches are released to make sure the apps work as intended besides adding new features to it for enhanced performance.
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The dedicated website provides you all the information you need related to free iPhone apps and latest arrivals in the app store. Everything about new games and apps will reach your social networking address or e-mail address in no time. All you have to do is visit the website to know more about the application and download it immediately to your device. The free apps and free games offered by the app store allow users to enjoy them without paying. Besides, even the most popular titles will be offered for free with limited time period. You will be notified about all updates, latest news and app release. Know more about free iPhone apps and enjoy owning an iPhone in all its glory.
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YES THE RAVEN Appearing Sat Dec 27th 2014 at 8:00pm
$12 in advance /
$15 at the door
'Yes the Raven' (AKA Alyn Mearns) is a guitar virtuoso embodied with charismatic vocals, hauntingly poetic lyrics that create a moving and spell-binding experience that is hard to forget. John Tosco of Tosco Music Party cited Yes the Raven's "performances draw you in to a place where music becomes magic."
"One of the most brilliant, moving and musical records I have ever been involved with....a supremely gifted guitarist and singer..." -----Rick Beato, Producer (Trey Anastasio, Needtobreathe, Shinedown, Charlie Mars)
Alyn Mearns was born and raised in the troubled streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, the second son of an itinerant preacher. Alyn is now residing in Hickory, North Carolina after attending ASU as a Fletcher Scholarship winner. Back in Northern Ireland, his teenage years were spent inside a guitar, absorbing every musical style within earshot. Eventually, his skill would land him in America on a music scholarship. After a couple of band incarnations, down playing his playing for a more minimal, post-punk aesthetic, he found himself alone again with his guitar. He explains, "I found myself falling in love with the guitar again, not in the traditional 'lead guitarist' sense, but in a way that could accompany my songs and provide a satisfying emotional landscape. My guitar became a kind of miniature band, a miniature cathedral." This music is not merely a sum of its parts though. Alyn's body seems to have grown a guitar and his guitar seems to be inhabited by a voice, a haunted ship on the sea of song. The lyrics are truly lyre-ic, forming out of the melody, which in turn is birthed from plucked harmony. Audiences are left spell-bound by something that seems to have absorbed modern pop and folk music, but is, at its heart much more ancient, something Orphean, Homeric, Davidian. Alyn also returns to his Irish roots along side fellow Belfastman and poet Adrian Rice to form the duo The Belfast Boys. The Belfast Boys have performed several times at White Horse and have become real crowd favorites.
About the CD 'Love is Covered in Dust'
'Yes The Raven' (aka Alyn Mearns) arrives on the scene as an unusual triple threat artist. Remarkably gifted as an instrumentalist, lyricist and song crafter: his new release "Love is Covered in Dust" will appeal to a broad audience, from fans of Dylan, Cohen and Neil Young, to followers of more recent artists such as Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Rufus Wainwright. Although most of the album consists of only a guitar and voice, the effect is full, moving and sometimes symphonic. This is in large part due to Mearns's mastery of the guitar. He deploys an impressive arsenal of "how did he do that?" fingerpicking techniques to accompany his soft, soulful voice. There is a subtle thread of outlaw-cowboy undergirding tracks like 'Josephine', 'Breathe' and 'Wineglass Song'. In fact, 'Josephine' is reminiscent of what Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings might sound like if they were melded into one body. The opening track 'Breathe' also has an air of Zeppelin-esque mystery. With its mixture of outlaw delivery and Bach-like cascading harmonies, Mearns sounds like a wanted man stuck in a dystopian dreamscape. 'Wineglass Song' is performed with a wineglass acting as a slide. The curve of the glass steers clear of the supporting bass strings allowing Alyn to croon in harmony with this siren-like partner. He also "let's it fly" here with an intense slide guitar solo which eventually rises into the fretless stratosphere. The genuine emotion of this track elevates it beyond the realm of guitar gimmickry. In fact, that is something one notices throughout the entire album.


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Savannah (Georgia), USA – The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) announces its most artistically diverse lineup to date for the upcoming 2009 festival, including several commissioned works and a wealth of original productions showcasing a wide variety of American and international musical traditions.
Committed to enhancing the cultural landscape of Savannah, SMF programs combine elegance and soul in a way that mirrors the history and culture of the remarkable city. The unique musical arts event is one of the highlights of springtime on the southeastern U.S. coast and a distinctive destination for cultural travelers.
The 2009 festival takes place between March 19 and April 5 in historic downtown Savannah and features more than 100 musical performances in intimate settings.
Original Productions & Other Highlights
• Long Time Travelin', a celebration of American folksong traditions: Rayna Gellert of Uncle Earl with Patrick Sauber, old-time balladeer Tim Eriksen, National Heritage Fellow Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, the Tatnall River Shapenote Singers, and host Jim Lauderdale, an acclaimed Nashville singer-songwriter
• Jazz Now and Forever, a series of jazz greats including Dianne Reeves, Chick Corea & John McLaughlin's Five Peace Band featuring Christian McBride, Kenny Garrett and Brian Blade, and The Clayton Brothers
• The Gershwin Songbook, jazz pianist Marcus Roberts and classical pianist Sebastian Knauer performing the greatest compositions of this masterful American composer
• The Blues was Born Here, an authentic southern blues review showcasing Piedmont blues masters Cephas & Wiggins on a one-time only bill with Georgia's own Beverly "Guitar" Watkins
• Resplendent Recitals, a series highlighting the world's finest recitalists including tenor Ian Bostridge, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Marc-Andre Hamelin and Sebastian Knauer
• Big World of Music, leading international artists such as fado star Mariza, Mike Marshall & Darol Anger with Väsen, Bela Fleck's Africa Project featuring virtuosos Toumani Diabate, Vusi Mahlasela, and D'Gary, and Indian maestros Zakir Hussain & Shiv Kumar Sharma.
• The 16th annual American Traditions Competition, some of the nation's most talented aspiring vocalists competing for more than $30,000 in prize monies
• The three-night Savannah Jazz Party featuring Bucky Pizzarelli, Howard Alden, Howard Paul and Ken Peplowski; the Ellis Marsalis Quartet; and the 2009 Piano Showdown with solos and duos by pianists Eddie Palmieri, Henry Butler, Aaron Goldberg and Bob Seeley
• The Complete Brandenburg Concertos performed by the Academy of Ancient Music with Richard Egarr
• Organ Stops, a six-concert series featuring such internationally acclaimed organists as Janette Fishell
• Everybody Dance Now, a three-concert series of dance parties featuring Eddie Palmieri & La Perfecta II, Zydeco great Cedric Watson, and the rising young Cajun ensemble, Feufollet
• Georgia On My Mind, a four-concert series including Savannah's own Bobby Lee Rodgers & Friends in a one-time only event, as well as the Marcus Printup Quartet, Caroline Herring, and Sacred Harp Singing with Tim Eriksen
• Swing Central, a three-day high school jazz band and competition capped off by Battle Royale, the closing night finale concert featuring a cutting contest with trumpeters, saxophonists, trombonists and rhythm sections. Featured performers: Marcus Roberts Trio, The Clayton Brothers, Wycliffe Gordon, Terrell Stafford, Scotty Barnhart and others
• Roots & Twang, a varied series featuring Neko Case with Crooked Fingers, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile, The Infamous Stringdusters and The Lovell Sisters, and The Blues was Born Here
• Tap master Savion Glover, combining two different projects on a Savannah stage
Tickets go on sale at 9 am EST on November 13 and are available online at www.savannahmusicfestival.org or by phone at 912-525-5050.
Author: World Music Central News Department
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — It's a stellar record by the numbers: Nine out of 10 major terrorism cases tried in U.S. federal courts over the past decade have been successful. But they may not tell the whole story of the government's war on terror.
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Of the nearly 200 most serious terrorism cases brought to court since the September 11 attacks, some 178 have ended in convictions, either through a guilty plea or a jury's decision, according to an Associated Press review of government documents and interviews with prosecutors and defense attorneys.
The AP compiled a list of 345 defendants in what the Justice Department considers its most serious terrorism cases since 9/11. The figures vary from other analyses that may include lesser offenses or charges that were never formally filed.
The conviction rate is about the same as for drug dealers or bank robbers, with one key difference: The goal is to stop terrorists before they attack, not punish them afterward.
"The criminal justice system has proved itself capable of handling even the most difficult and challenging terrorism cases in a manner that has produced just and credible results," said James Benjamin, a former federal prosecutor and author of a 2008 study on such cases.
Critics say the conviction rate is boosted by the Justice Department's overly broad definition of terrorism, as well as reluctance by jurors to acquit on such serious charges, and defendants' acceptance of plea bargains because of fear of going to trial.Story: Rightly or wrongly, thousands convicted of terrorism post-9/11
"There is now a massive, self-perpetuating counterterrorism machine in the United States," said Jonathan Turley, a Georgetown University law professor who defended alleged jihadist Ali Al-Timimi in northern Virginia. "They'll take a conventional case and they will turn it into some grotesque overexaggerated claim of terrorism."
A 2007 report by the Justice Department's Inspector General concluded that the agency's collecting and reporting of terrorism statistics was haphazard and decentralized, and that many statistics contained inaccuracies. The report criticized the government for tagging cases under terrorism but not changing that designation if no evidence for it was found.
Many of the cases AP reviewed allege violations of the government's main anti-terror law, which bans providing "material support" to terrorist groups. Critics say the law is vague and punishes free speech and legitimate charitable aid, but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality last year.
"The breadth of the statute makes it easy to prosecute people," said Georgetown University law professor David Cole. "But it also makes it difficult to know whether many of the individuals who were prosecuted were actual threats, were actually engaged in supporting terrorism as opposed to something else."
Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said it pursues all terrorism charges "aggressively and lawfully" based on the facts of the case, the evidence and the law.
The 196 cases are among 345 terrorism cases the U.S. has brought since 9/11 and defined as the most serious under Justice Department guidelines.
They include Yemeni-Americans in Buffalo accused of visiting terrorist camps in Afghanistan; U.S. citizens plotting jihad in Oregon; Muslim converts in Raleigh, N.C., alleged to be plotting overseas jihad; leftist rebels accused of kidnapping Americans in Colombia; Somali immigrants in Minneapolis accused of supporting terrorists at home in Somalia; fundraisers tied to Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tigers and alleged supporters of Hezbollah in Philadelphia.
Among other findings from the AP analysis:
- About eight dozen defendants are still awaiting trial.
- More than 50 defendants are fugitives overseas or being held by other countries awaiting extradition.
- Eight people charged with major terrorism crimes have been reported killed overseas.
- Eighty-one cases were in New York City, 45 in Florida, 28 in Texas and 19 in Virginia.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Dates: May 11-13, 2012
Site: PGA Golf Club, Port St. Lucie, Fla.
Competitors: Teams and players (.pdf)
Facts & Format: General information (.pdf)
Last Year: Relive the 2011 tournament
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Sunday: Texas-Pan American, Bethune-Cookman and Fayetteville State capture team titles
Drama ruled the day on Sunday as Texas-Pan American rallied to win the Men's Division I title for the fifth time. Bethune-Cookman claimed its record ninth team title in the Women's Division, while Fayetteville State University ran away with the Men's Division II honors. Justin Watkins of Central Oklahoma won the Men's Independent crown, while Ariel McNair of Xavier captured the Women's Independent title.
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Saturday: Tennessee State surges to front, Bethune-Cookman holds strong
With strong winds playing a big factor for the second consecutive day, Tennessee State University stormed into the lead in Men's Division I, while Bethune-Cookman University continued to lead the Women's Division. In Division II, Fayetteville State University extended its lead to 25 strokes.
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Friday: Texas-Pan American and Bethune-Cookman grab first-round lead
On a blustery Friday at PGA Golf Club, the University of Texas-Pan American used a team effort to move out front in Men's Division I, while Bethune-Cookman University took the lead in the Women's Division. In Men's Division II, Fayetteville State University built a 13-stroke advantage.
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Scholarship recipients announced at Welcome Dinner
The Welcome Dinner provided more than a memorable meal for several participants. Ten students were named to receive a PGA/State Farm Insurance Scholarship, while the winners of the John Cash, Cliff Wallace and Earnie Ellison scholarships also were announced.
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--See the Welcome Dinner photo gallery
Virginia State looks to defend its D-II title in return to PGA Golf Club
Virginia State University men's golf coach Jeff Hamilton waited almost six years for a national championship in his team's favorite event. In 2011, his vision became a reality and the Trojans return this year with two holdovers and three newcomers eager to defend their treasured title.
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Annual Career Fair to showcase possibilities throughout golf industry
The PGA of America will host its annual Business of Golf Career Expo. Set for May 10, the expo will feature golf industry associations and companies that enable student-athletes to learn about employment opportunities in manufacturing, media, trade, course management and governing bodies.
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Anderson, now at LPGA, looks back fondly on her tournament experience
When Ashleigh Anderson looks back on her PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship experience, it brings a smile to her face. Anderson, who competed in both 2007 and 2008, is excited to see how much the Championship has grown as she returns to participate in a panel discussion of industry professionals.
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Contestants must be students of a university or college, and who have met all the academic requirements of their respective institution governing participation in intercollegiate athletics.
Celebrating its 26th year, the PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship presented by Brown Capital Management originated in November 1986 and has elevated golf in minority colleges and universities by providing opportunities to more players to compete in a national championship.
The 1986 organizational meeting brought together a significant group of founders: the late Dr. Herschel Cochrane, Dr. Joe D. Saunders of the National Negro Golf Association; Jackson State University Golf Coach Eddie Payton; Rose Harper-Elder of the Sports Management Institute; and William (Bill) Dickey, founder of the Bill Dickey Scholarship Association and recipient of the 1999 PGA Distinguished Service Award. The founders' goal was to provide a national stage for players from minority schools after being denied opportunities to compete in NCAA collegiate golf events.
The inaugural Championship was conducted in the spring of 1987 at Highland Park Golf Course in Cleveland, Ohio. Since 1998, PGA Golf Club has been host to the Championship, and in 2006, The PGA of America was granted complete ownership and management of the Championship by the National Minority College Golf Scholarship Fund.
In 1990, a Career Fair was introduced to provide corporate sponsors the opportunity to interview and recruit outstanding college students for future employment. As a result, the Career Fair has developed into an invaluable resource to assist students in gaining internships and full-time positions within the golf industry.


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During this morning's iPad mini event, Apple unveiled the brand new, redesigned iMac. The new model is super-thin, just 5mm thin at the edges, constructed using something called "friction stir welding" to fuse together the aluminum pieces. The display is laminated to the glass, similar to what you find on iOS devices. You get the same screen sizes, with the iMac coming in at 21.5-inch 1080p and 27-inch 2,560 x 1,400 models. Apple also announced a new Apple Fusion drive option, which is basically a hybrid drive that OS X manages for you. The OS and apps live on the flash storage portion, and all your documents and other apps get loaded onto the HDD portion. As you use and launch them, things get moved to the faster SSD portion on the fly.
The 21.5-inch model will ship in November for $1,299 with a 2.7GHz Core i5 processor, 8 GB RAM, and with a 1TB hard drive. The 27-inch model starts at $1,799 for a 2.9GHz Core i5, and that one won't ship until December.
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Carven, a French heritage house founded in 1945 and relaunched in 2009, continues to expand on the democratic and innovative vision of founder Carmen de Tommaso. Creative directors Alexis Martial and Adrien Caillaudaud's menswear makes artful forays into Parisian-inspired streetwear, with graphic t-shirts and sweatshirts in modern prints styled with dressed-up button-down shirts, tailored chinos, colorful and futuristic sneakers, classic ankle boots, and dress shoes.
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2008 Adventurers of the Year Sarah and Eric McNair-Landry knocked off another Arctic first in 2011: They kiteskied the Inside Passage. Growing up on Baffin Island to famed polar explorers, it really is all in the family for these two.
This winter Sarah is doing something much warmer—paddling the Sea of Cortez with kayakers Erik Boomer (current Adventurer of the Year) and Tyler Bradt. Stay tuned for coverage.


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Department of Revenue News Release
November 16, 2010Dept. of Revenue Announces New Agent for Gallatin License Office
JEFFERSON CITY - Heather Stephenson will be the new agent for the Gallatin Motor Vehicle and License Office. The winning proposal was chosen as part of a competitive bidding process for all of Missouri's local license offices.
The winning bid was one of two submitted for the office. Stephenson is the current agent for the Milan License Office. The Gallatin License Office will continue to be at 400 N. Main St., Suite 1, when it reopens, and Stephenson will announce the opening date for the office.
The Gallatin office has been closed since early August after the contract with the former agent, Julie Vyrostek, was canceled.
During the remaining days before the new office opens, all motor vehicle-related business - such as getting a driver license, obtaining or renewing license plates, or other transactions such as paying sales tax on a motor vehicle or obtaining a motor vehicle title - can be conducted at other area license offices. The closest offices to Gallatin, their addresses, phone numbers and hours of operation are:
Bethany - 3105 Miller, (660) 425-3117, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; last Saturday of the month, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.; last two business days of the month, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Cameron - 217 N. Chestnut, (816) 632-4830, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon.
Chillicothe - 730 S. Washington, (660) 646-5418, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; last four business days of the month, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Kingston - 49 E. Main St., (816) 586-3851, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; closed for lunch, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Maysville - 104 W. Main St., (816) 449-5252, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; closed for lunch (Monday through Friday), Noon to 1 p.m.
Trenton - 617 Main St., (660) 359-4324, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
A listing of all 183 license offices, contact information and driving directions can be accessed at http://dor.mo.gov/offloc/.
According to figures from Fiscal Year 2010, there were an estimated 12,195 transactions conducted at the Gallatin office, and it generated about $40,396 in agent processing fees.
Gov. Jay Nixon authorized the Missouri Department of Revenue to implement the new bidding system in January of 2009; it became state law in the summer of 2009 with broad bi-partisan support.
Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said she was pleased the Gallatin office would be reopening.
"A new agent means a fresh start for the Gallatin License Office," she said. "I'm confident that citizens in the Gallatin and Daviess County area will be pleased with the office's new service."
All local license offices provide services that are overseen by the Department of Revenue, but each office is operated by an independent agent.
The Missouri Department of Revenue is now on Twitter! To follow the Department on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/MoRevenue.


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Dean Takahashi, the longtime senior director of the Yale Investments Office, will spearhead a new multidisciplinary Yale laboratory, based at F&E, which will develop and support innovative solutions to the challenge of climate change.
Rwanda has become a global leader in sustainability and environmental stewardship. A new reciprocal partnership between Yale and the African nation will create opportunities for collaborative teaching and research, foster an exchange of resources, and allow Yale students to study, intern, and conduct research in Rwanda.
The Environmental Research & Education Foundation awarded the 2017 Ice River Springs Master's Scholarship for Sustainability to James Souder '18 M.E.M.
As new manager at Yale Myers Forest, Shannon Murray '14 M.E.M. certainly has had her hands full. But despite some challenges, including a devastating fire in May, she says it's been an enjoyable summer at Yale Myers — and that the camp will be ready for summer MODs.
Tribal foresters manage roughly 18 million acres of U.S. forestland spread across 305 reservations, often in the face of budgetary and staffing shortfalls. Despite these challenges, tribal leaders are working with Yale F&ES and other schools to develop the next generation of Native foresters.
James Albis '16 M.E.M. was a rookie Connecticut lawmaker when Hurricane Irene devastated his coastal district. The event drove home the threats of climate change and heightened his awareness of environmental issues — and eventually led him to F&ES.
As the F&ES community slides into cooler months, staff members are recalling the days of summer with a "let's ketchup" initiative inspired by an A Priarie Home Companion style raffle.
The Yale Corporation has approved the recommendation of Yale President Peter Salovey and Dean Peter Crane to appoint three members of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies faculty to prestigious endowed professorships in the School.
The F&ES Alumni Association recently won the Association of Yale Alumni Excellence Award for Outstanding Graduate & Professional Day of Service.
During the past three decades, Peter Seligmann '74 M.F.S. has transformed Conservation International into one of the world's most important environmental organizations by building partnerships that cross sectors — and by convincing companies that doing the right thing can be good for business.
Terry Tempest Williams, an acclaimed American author and conservationist, will speak at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on Thursday, Nov. 13 as part of a guest lecture for the course "Environmental Leadership and Biography."
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on Monday celebrated its 113th Commencement exercises.
When she was an intern with the Quivira Coalition, Avery Anderson Sponholtz '07 M.E.M. could tell the organization was practically obsessed multi-stakeholder collaboration. Now Quivira's executive director, she understands the stakes as well as anyone.
Back in the mid-1970s, Doug Peacock became a reluctant icon of the environmental movement. But 40 years later, Peacock is still fighting to save the western wilderness that he says saved his life.
An encounter with Indian corn during a chestnut festival years ago forever shattered Anthony Boutard's notion of corn as "an industrial grain." Boutard M.F. '89 now grows this nutritious and flavorful corn variety at his organic farm in northwestern Oregon.
Xizhou Zhou M.E.M. '06 has worked on both the regulatory and industry sides of energy issues. Now the director of a China-based research team for an international consultancy, he helps companies and governments make better-informed energy policy decisions.
As an Army pilot, Carina Roselli M.E.M. '14 had an aerial glimpse of the damage done to Iraq's fabled marshlands by decades of conflict and poor management. Now she's exploring how such war-torn places might one day be restored.
Since the late-1990s, Guido Rahr M.E.S. '94, head of the Wild Salmon Center, has helped craft new strategies to restore populations of the Pacific salmon, a species whose numbers plummeted during the 20th century.
The research produced by a group of F&ES students yielded the framework for the stormwater management component of Yale University's new sustainability plan.
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If you are a man with hereditary hair loss, there are products available to help you keep your hair. One option is finasteride (Propecia), a prescription medication that is in tablet form and taken orally.
How Finasteride Works
Finasteride was first developed to shrink enlarged prostate glands. Researchers noticed that it also helped grow hair, so a special lower-dose formulation—Propecia—was developed for hair loss.
Finasteride interferes with conversion of testosterone to another hormone called 5 alpha-dihydro-testosterone (or DHT). DHT reduces hair follicle activity. Over time and under the influence of DHT, follicles sprout thinner hairs until no hair regrows. When finasteride blocks DHT production, thinning of hair ceases and a more normal growth may possibly occur.
The Good News and the Bad News
A review of multiple trials including thousands of men and lasting up to 2 years found that taking finasteride was associated with improved hair growth and increased hair count, but that is also associated with erectile dysfunction and other sexual problems.
But, it is not only finasteride's ability to grow hair that interests some doctors. Finasteride may help men to stop losing the hair they have. So it appears that even if finasteride does not help you grow lots of new hair, it may allow you to keep what you have—at least for a while.
You must be patient, though, and be willing to take the drug once a day indefinitely. It may take 3-4 months before new hair is noticed. If you stop taking the drug, all of your newly grown hair will fall within a year. Also, taking the medication every day can be expensive.
Side Effects
Finasteride has some potentially unsettling side effects. The medication has been associated with breast tenderness, a reduced sex drive, problems with ejaculation, and orgasm disorders that continue even after you stop taking the drug. Male infertility and poor semen quality are also possible with finasteride, but these problems should improve after you stop taking the drug.
If you are taking the medication, be sure that your doctors knows. One effect of taking finasteride is that it will lower PSA, a compound produced by the body in the presence of a prostate cancer or just with increased age. Blood tests checking for PSA levels may be more difficult to interpret as a result of the medication being in your system. If you have both hair loss and symptoms of prostate enlargement (hesitancy in urinating or diminished urinary stream), you may find that these symptoms improve because the medication is also used to treat benign prostatic hypertrophy .
If you have hereditary hair loss, there are treatment options available. Talk to your doctor about whether you are a good candidate to take finasteride. Other options available include hair transplant surgery and the over-the-counter product minoxidil (Rogaine).
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10 Apartment Decorating Ideas For Men
10 Apartment Decorating Ideas For Men
If you are an individual that could use 10 apartment decorating ideas for men, then let this list rescue you from your domestic dilemma. With a little effort, and a few particular purchases, you can turn your apartment into a cool, comfortable haven for happiness. It will be an apartment that you look forward to coming home to. It also doesnt hurt to apply some decorating ideas that will make your love interests feel right at home.
- Choose some themes. What kind of apartment are you decorating here: the man cave, the romance hotel, the sports bar, the exotic arena, or just the peaceful sanctuary? It is necessary to choose either an over all theme for your entire apartment, or maybe for each room, but definitely have a concept for your living room, to inform your decisions about colors and ornaments so they make sense.
- Repaint the walls. One simple apartment decorating idea that men may be interested in is painting your dark walls lighter colors to give the illusion that the rooms are bigger. Paint the ceiling too to make it looker higher. Some light blues, sandy beiges, or lemon yellows can make the rooms in your apartment feel more inviting. Acrylic paints are cheaper and dont have that horrid smell.
- Funky furniture. After you have established a color scheme in your rooms, find furniture that compliments these colors, or that have fun patterns and fabrics. The idea is to decorate, but also be comfortable, so avoid couches that hog up your entire living room or a table too small to actually entertain more than yourself.
- Pictures and Posters. If you have favorite movies, countries, theater plays, painters, or artwork, get framed posters of it up on the walls. Your apartment walls will make you and your guests cry with boredom from just staring at plain paint. Jazz it up with some colorful and affordable portraits.
- Dont waste space. Conserving space by getting rid of excess junk and buying closet organizers to make more closet space are crucial decorating ideas. Giving your apartment some breathing room by ridding yourself of clutter could give you extra room that you didnt realize you had, and maybe make you some extra money on Ebay or a garage sale.
- Display your stuff. Dont hide your achievements and memorable souvenirs, hang them up or buy shelves to display them on. These can not only be great conversation pieces when you have a new lady friend visiting, but also they provide simple inspiration when you are sad or are feeling complacent and stuck in your life.
- Retro appliances. You can decorate your apartment with an immediate worldly style by seeking out antique appliances that have personal or cultural significance to your own ethnicity, or your favorite vacation spots. This way your apartment will have a stylish touch that is more personal than just buying the newest toaster or plate set from Target or Walmart, that everyone has.
- Beverage Bar. Unless you plan on being a completely lonely hermit, consider setting up a beverage bar to use to serve guests alcohol, or even just tea, coffee, soft drinks, or hot chocolate. It doesnt have to be huge, or to even have bar stools. It can be a cabinet stocked with various wine, liquor, a coffee maker, and an espresso machine.
- Bedroom Paradise. This room should be the most personalized, reflecting your interests and personality with posters, collectibles, favorite colors, and your awards and memorable pictures displayed. It should be like a comfortable museum that defines you, and makes you look forward to returning to after a long day out in the world. You can let loose with your ideas because not everyone will be going in your bedroom.
- Mood lighting. Invest in some lighting fixtures or lamps, but avoid harsh bulbs. The idea is to decorate your apartment with light that is relaxing, soothing possibly romantic, but not strong to the point of straining everyones eyes.


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Around Tropical North QueenslandThursday, January 21st, 2010
No that I can do a lot in my condition, with only three more weeks to go before our life changes completely and forever, but we're trying to show my parents as much of the region as we can. They are loving it!
We have always loved Port Douglas on a Sunday, when the markets are on. So one morning, after doing our weekly shopping in Rustys and making sure the rain was going to give us a break, we headed for this fantastic destination. First thing, as we always do when we get to Port Douglas, we went for a coffee and a muffin in our favourite cafe in town (I'm afraid we never remember the name of the place, but the muffins there are absolutely delicious). And then to the markets. This time there weren't as many stalls as usual, still we managed to see a few unusual things, at least for the Spanish eye: the bike producing cane sugar juice, funny faces made out of coconuts, a whole stall selling macadamia nuts with different flavours, exotic fruits, etc. It's always very interesting to wander through markets, since you never know what you can find.
Next stop, Four Mile Beach, where there were quite a few people enjoying the tropical waters. We didn't have a swimm, can you believe we had forgotten our swimming apparels at home? Lucky we have a swimming pool at home. Yes, I know, it isn't the same, is it?.
Another area we have taken my parents too is Steve's all time favourite: the Atherton Tablelands. The weather wasn't the best, so we had to give Granite Gorge a miss this time, which is where I really wanted to take them so they could hand feed wallabies. I don't think there are too many wallabies in Spain. However, we had plenty of time to do other things. First we visited one of the many tropical wineries in the area, where my parents bought coffee liqueur (by the way it is disappearing from the frigde, I have the feeling that it's very good, not that I have tried it). After that, a stop to drink a very tasty coffee, since the area is also well known for its coffee plantations. Being Spanish, they're a bit particular about their coffee and it seems the one we had at Skybury met their standards.
My mum was very surprised by the size of the termite mounds that we saw all the way along the road, so we took her to see the massive mounds that have been put together to create a very impressive avenue in the area. As you can see, some of them can be the size of a grown up person.
Another thing they are finding interesting is the amount of "Big Things" that you can find in Australia. So far, we have seen the Big Pineapple in the Sunshine Coast, the Big Captain Cook in Cairns, and the Big Fish and the Big Peanut, both in the Tablelands. There are still a few around the Cairns area we haven't seen, hopefully we will before they leave Australia. It's something we don't have in Spain and they seem to be very interested in.
We also had time to show them what Australian food tastes like at The Falls Teahouse, in Millaa Millaa, one of our favourite restaurants in the Cairns region. I'm not a very big fan of meat, in fact, I'm really struggling with the amount of meat that I have to eat during the pregnancy, but I always look forward to their meat pies, the best ones I have ever tried. I probably haven't been around too much to be able to talk about meat pies, but if the same afirmation comes from Steve, a meat lover, then it must be true. And since the Falls Teahouse restaurant is so close to some of the falls that belong to the very well known Falls Circuit, we also visited Millaa Millaa Falls, the best known of all of them, but definetely not the only one around. There are about 7 or 8 waterfalls, all of them beautiful and worth a visit. So if you have the time, go for it, 100% recommended.
And our last visit so far has been to Green Island, off the coast of Cairns. Finally I got to visit Melanesia Marineland, where Cassius lives, the biggest croc in cautivity. The sweet little thing measures only 5.5 metres and has such a kind face… I find crocs and snakes fascinating, so I never get tired of seeing them, although when they find a comfortable position they can remain quite for a very long time. It wasn't the case in one of the enclosures we saw. There were at least 9 small crocs in a few different ponds. The one that seemed like the boss run from one pond to another, where there was a smaller croc. This one jumped out of the pond towards us at a very high speed, and the three of us run away from the fence at the same speed. At the time, we didn't ever remember there was a fence between the crocodile and ourselves.
We also did a couple of tours on the island: one of them on a semi submersible and another one on a glass bottom boat. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, a semi submersible is a boat partly underwater with glass windows on both sides, so as the boat moves you see the different corals and marine life. And the glass bottom boat is somehow similar, but this time is the bottom of the boat what it's made of glass.
Thanks to both boats, we saw lots of different fish species, being our favourite ones the Clown Fish, best known these days as Nemo. I just love the anemonies moving and the Nemos coming in and out of them. We also saw a couple of massive turtles, giant trevallies and many other species, including a manta ray. This time we didn't see any sharks, unfortunately.
We're already planning a few things for the next few days, such a basketball game in Cairns or a visit to Paronella Park, but right now, we never know what we will be able to do. Junior is not here yet, not because I don't want to, but it seems he's very happy where he is right now. I hope he decides to meet us all soon, we're definetely getting "unpatient", as our lovely Flynn, Steve's nephew, says. I'm sure nobody is more impatient than I am right now.


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The Boulder City Council retreat continues 9 a.m. Monday at Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St. It is open to the public, though there is not an opportunity for public comment.
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Drivers, bus passengers and cyclists will move around Boulder with equal ease. There will be plenty of housing for people who work in Boulder. University Hill will have a diversity of businesses that appeal to residents, students and visitors.
Existing rules will be enforced to protect quality of life. City policies will provide an adequate social safety net for people who fall on hard times while discouraging certain behaviors associated with transients. City open space will be used more for agriculture, and parks will feature edible landscapes.
That was the vision for Boulder laid out Sunday during the first of two days of the City Council's annual retreat. The agenda called for the first part of the retreat to focus on big-picture goals and definitions of success and for Monday's discussion to delve more into policy proposals. A facilitator repeatedly pulled the debate back to the "what" as it kept drifting to the "how."
There was broad agreement on the "what." Social services/homelessness, housing, transportation, climate commitment, local food, the arts, open space and livability were identified as top priorities by the council members.
The "how" discussions that kept breaking out gave insight into the some of the policy debates to come.
Councilwoman Lisa Morzel said the city needs to reconsider its occupancy limits that prevent more than three unrelated people from living together in most areas. That could open the way for more housing options for seniors outside nursing homes and more cooperative housing for artists, writers and young professionals.
Councilman Andrew Shoemaker said lack of enforcement of the occupancy limit on the Hill means landlords willing to skirt the rules can price out families.
Councilman Macon Cowles said the city could look at ways to create two or three units within a larger home to allow more people to live in them while maintaining the limits.
On transportation issues, Councilwoman Suzanne Jones is a big supporter of a communitywide Eco Pass to promote more use of buses. Boulder Mayor Matt Appelbaum thinks Eco Pass is unlikely to be financially feasible.
Cowles wants to see parking placed under the umbrella of transportation and close attention paid to the way parking creates incentives to drive.
Councilman George Karakehian said providing adequate parking is a key part of revitalizing University Hill, just as it was downtown.
Shoemaker said the city needs to take more initiative in identifying sites that could be redeveloped for affordable and workforce housing.
Appelbaum said Boulder always will be an employment center, and that carries significant benefits for the city. The only way to reduce in-commuting is to have fewer jobs in Boulder, which wouldn't be a good thing.
There was broad agreement that regional connectivity, including bus rapid transit not only on U.S. 36 but also on the Diagonal Highway, and increased enforcement around quality of life issues, especially in densely populated areas like University Hill, were important to achieving the council's vision.
Appelbaum said council members should be careful not to take an idea that sounds good and assume that's the best solution.
"To me, the ifs are, 'Can you afford it? What are the trade-offs?'" he said. "I think sometimes we rush into picking the solution that feels right. That is what City Councils do. It gives us something to shoot for. But we need to be cautious about picking solutions."
City Council members also identified policy initiatives they would like to see happen this year, though they don't fall under specific goal categories.
Boulder needs to have a policy on trash storage that protects bears, Morzel said. The City Council is scheduled to discuss that issue at its Jan. 21 meeting.
Cowles wants to see smoking banned in all city parks and hard-surface open space. The city is currently taking public comment on a city manager's rule to ban smoking across the municipal campus, from Arapahoe Avenue to Canyon Boulevard and from Ninth Street to 13th Street.
Karakehian said the council needs to keep working to make meetings shorter. Meetings that go past midnight aren't fair to the staff or the public and don't lead to good decisions, he said.


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