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The art of adventure
The tried-and-true Legend of Zelda formula has been delighting fans for decades, but even cleverly crafted puzzles and new enemies can feel a bit too familiar to long-time Hyrule heroes. A Link Between Worlds is not only a Zelda title, it's the sequel to one of the most beloved and highly regarded games of all time - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Could this new age outing possibly live up to the nostalgia-inducing quest of the SNES era? Kick back and warm-up some left overs, it's time for a Lazy Sunday review.
- Extremely well thought out puzzles that make you feel like a mastermind when you solve them on the fly. They're not too difficult, but there are enough head-scratchers to make every dungeon a nice challenge.
- Becoming a drawing. You would think turning into a "Hyruleglyphic" (Why won't you coin my phrase, Miyamoto?!) wouldn't add much to puzzles or combat, but this ability single-handedly adds a whole new dimension to overall gameplay.
- A new take on classic Hyrule. It's like they added a shiny new coat of paint to your childhood... and it's great!
- Non-linear questing. The feeling of "do what you want next" is slightly scary at first, but being able to choose your own path means players can mix it up in repeat outings.
- Item renting. Being able to pick up almost any weapon right off the bat can certainly be overwhelming, but it also means you can play around with each item (bar one) and test it out on enemies and envirnoments before you put it to good use.
- Surviving. While dying is terrible, due to weapon loss, the thrill of making it through dungeons and castles without biting the dust is made all the more enjoyable.
- The Magic Meter. No need to collect bombs, arrows, or other power-ups as the newest weapon system condenses them all into one little bar of power. It's nice to have what is essentially an unlimited arsenal of projectiles.
- Creative boss battles. Some are new, some are old, and all of these masterful encounters put a nice new spin on taking down big baddies.
- Dat box art. Mmm mmm mmm.
- Last minute plot twist that may have you reeling.
- The art style and character design. They all seemed a little lifeless compred to past Zelda titles, though they both grew on me over time. Wind Waker or Twilight Princess this is not, but it works well enough to make it stand out (in a cutesy sort of way).
- Depth perception. As someone who rarely plays with his 3D turned up there were some time when it was hard to make out were exactly I was going to land or if enemies were within range of my sword. Only an occasional annoyance.
- Occasional off-putting jaggies (When lines on the screen that should be straight become staggered and jagged).
- The feeling of despair when Link dies and you lose all your rented items (Curse you and your policies, Ravio!)
It's hard to keep a series like the Legend of Zelda fresh year after year, but Nintendo has done an amazing job with A Link Between Worlds. The game somehow seamlessly walks the fine line between new and old as it brings a classic Hyrule back to life with some much needed surprises. The non-linear exploration and weapon renting are certainly game changing elements, but the rest of the adventure is so solid that it's hard to put your 3DS down. Far from a cheap imitation, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is truly a masterpiece - worthy of any gamers collection.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds was reviewed using a digital copy included with the special edition Zelda 3DS XL, purchased it at Best Buy. Follow GiantBoyDetective on Twitter for more gaming goodness @SuperBentendo


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Tips for using the Post-9/11 GI Bill: get ready for some paperwork!
One of the key factors to pursing your educational goals is to decide how you will pay for your education. Military spouses have several opportunities to help offset the cost of school, including private scholarship programs, federal loans and grants, MyCAA, and transferability of the Post-9/11 GI bill.
When I decided to pursue a graduate degree, my active duty service member decided to transfer a portion of his Post-9/11 GI bill to me. As of August 1, 2009, service members who have served in the Armed Forces for six years and agree to serve an additional four years, are eligible to transfer their benefit to a spouse. My spouse was eligible to receive 100% of this benefit. In my situation, the benefit pays full tuition and fees directly to the public in-state school I attend. I also receive a yearly book stipend of up to $1,000, prorated based on the number of credits I take. I am not eligible to receive a monthly housing allowance because I'm using the benefit while my husband is on active duty and he currently receives a housing allowance for our family. (Private school tuition and fees are capped at a national maximum rate. For the 2012 – 2013 academic year the private school cap is $18,077.50.) But these are my circumstances – how can you make the Post-9/11 GI Bill work for you?
Transferring the Post-9/11 GI bill takes time. Be prepared to work with your spouse to complete quite a bit of paperwork. While your spouse is on active duty, he or she may apply to transfer their benefit to a spouse, child, or children. Your spouse must submit a Transfer Educational Benefit request for Service approval. This may take several weeks to process. Once approved, the family member using the transferred benefit must apply to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) by using form 22-1990e found on the Veterans On-Line Application (VONAPP) website. The VONAPP website is a bit clunky to use. After you create a username and password, you'll need several important pieces of information to complete this form including: your educational history, name, address, degree program for the school you've selected, and bank account information (for direct deposit for the book stipend and/or living allowance).
I waited (patiently) for about five weeks before I received a "certificate of eligibility." At the same time my husband received a letter notifying him that the VA had received the Transfer of Entitlement (TOE) application and that by applying for TOE he revoked his eligibility for other GI bill programs, such as the Montgomery GI Bill.
I then submitted a copy of my certificate of eligibility to my school's VA-certifying official. Next, I registered for classes and then the VA-certifying official certified my enrollment with the VA. Certifying enrollment was about a four week process. Your school will only receive funds after your enrollment (which really means registration) has been certified. You may have fees added to your account if you do not pay your tuition by the tuition due date. My school was familiar with the VA's process and waived all extra fees on my account.
I did drop one class during the add-drop period. Even though I was within my school's add-drop period, the VA had already sent my tuition to the school based on the classes I was registered to take. About six weeks after my semester started I received a letter from the VA stating they had overpaid my benefits and I was now responsible for the debt. I sent this letter to my school's VA-certifying official and my school will send the funds back to the VA. If there is an over-payment you are responsible to repay this debt to the VA.
My tips for effective use of the Post-9/11 GI bill are:
- Apply for the benefit early – it takes several weeks to process.
- Bookmark the www.gibill.va.gov website. Contact information and the FAQ section are especially helpful.
- Get to know your school's VA-certifying official (your school may have a designated VA office).
The ability to transfer the Post-9/11 GI bill has afforded me the opportunity to attend school. I plan to be a good steward of this benefit and am looking forward (in the distant future) to completing my Master's degree!
Are you using the Post-9/11 GI bill? What advice would you give to military families on how best to use this benefit?
Keep in mind that rules are not the same when transferring a benefit to a spouse vs. to a child. Please see www.gibill.va.gov for official information and details specific to your situation.
Posted by Katie Savant, Government Relations Information Manager at the National Military Family Association and USC Sol Price MPA candidate
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From all the corners of the globe, we here at Inhabitat would like to wish you and all your loved ones a very happy holiday! Our writers and editors are certainly getting into the holiday spirit this year, celebrating the days in both the sun and snow, spending their time baking, skiing and even in one case surfing! Read on for our seasons greetings and share your own holiday stories with us below! Happy holidays!
Jill Fehrenbacher, Editor-in-Chief: This Christmas I'm laying low in my apartment in New York City with my husband and son and our little potted, LED-festooned Christmas tree. We don't enjoy the holiday travel hecticness, so we're relaxing in Manhattan, baking delicious vegan cookies, spending plenty of time on Skype talking to our relatives on the west coast, and having some friends over for a vegan Christmas dinner tonight. Merry Christmas everyone!
Mike Chino, Managing Editor: This Christmas I'm headed back home to Southern California to spend the holiday with my family and close friends. I'll be wrapping up gifts in recycled paper (brown paper packages tied up with string) and I'm going to encourage my family to seek out a christmas tree recycling program once the holidays winds down. In between sustained bouts of feasting and celebrating I'm also hoping to fit in some surfing!
Yuka Yoneda, Senior Editor: This year, I'll be spending my holiday with my family at my mom's apartment in Queens, New York. I think my green Christmas sentiments can best be expressed by this poem created by the holiday poem generator found here:
Christmas at the Yonedas
No tree or decorations, but enough food and booze for 10 (we are a family of 3, but we have large stomachs)
Stuff baking
People saying "Thank you. It's exactly what I wanted!" when presented with practical gifts that they actually need like shampoo
Lasagna probably, but not sure yet
Regifting is eco-friendly and not frowned upon (don't get why people hate it so much)
Christmas at the Yonedas
The above picture includes the stuff that I bought for my sister. This year, instead of buying my family eco-friendly, recycled or green gifts that they might not use, I'm just giving them bundles of things they need on a daily basis – they'll never go to waste!
Rebecca Paul, Communications Manager: This year I will be spending the holidays in Florida with my sister and her family. I plan on letting all of my peeps back in NYC know how they should be jealous of me for not being cold. A month ago I wasn't ready for 2010 to be over, but now that it's right around the corner, I'm just really excited for 2011 to begin – I think it's going to be a great year! I hope everybody has a great holiday and a very happy new year.
Diane Pham, Architecture and Design Editor: This Christmas I decided to stay in New York. A seemingly lonely move – as most my family lives in Southern California – it's actually not uncommon for people to stick around for the holiday here in the city. Thankfully a number of my roommates have found themselves in our Brooklyn sanctuary this weekend, and apart for basking in the glow of our LED-lit Christmas tree (to be recycled), we plan on hosting our very own bake off, festive dinner and hopefully a screening of Home Alone – the first release, of course!
Bridgette Meinhold, Architecture Editor: With the snow falling in feet and not just inches this winter, I'll be getting a free workout in the snow shoveling gym at our house. To take advantage of all this wonderful snow I'm also buying myself a Christmas present this year – a new pair of all mountain powder skis from Bluehouse Skis, a Salt Lake City (Read: local) ski manufacturer that makes some awesome skis with bamboo cores. I'll be riding in style and shreddin' some pow this holiday season, and apart from that, I'll be enjoying friends, parties, cooking, eating and all the beautiful holiday fair that can only happen in Park City.
Andrew Michler, Green Building Writer: Happy holidays and solstice from Colorado's Ponderosa pine forests. Our family is coming from west coast to enjoy a season with the evergreens. We decorated a small tree in the forest with a garland from my Aunt Mill who came to America in 1910 and decorated her first tree with it. We are grateful to have all of our family here, even if only in spirit.
Timon Singh, Contributing Writer: Dear Inhabitat readers, Merry Christmas from the UK! My festive plans are of the traditional kind – Christmas at home, eating my body weight in food and watching The Muppet Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life. However, we are, as you'd expect, quite environmentally conscious in the Singh household. As well as saving wrapping paper, one trick I've always done is keep old Christmas Cards so that next year I can cut them down to size and turn them into gift labels. It's a small but easy tip and it saves on throwing them all in the recycling, which can be pretty heartbreaking.
We also have all our Christmas lights on a timer, so they only come on in the evening. However, I'll admit I have been having them on for most of the day since I finished for the holidays… Happy holidays and I will see you all in 2011!
Lea Bogdan, Contributing Writer: Christmas going to be low key this year, as I relax with my wonderful boyfriend and our lovable dog who can't get enough time playing out in the snow. Our tiny, tabletop evergreen is adorned with the family photo ornaments we have made, and twinkling LED lights, but there will not be many packages underneath it this year. We decided that we did not want to buy each other more "stuff" we didn't really need for the holidays. Instead we chose that our gift to each other is a vacation we will take in February. If anyone knows winters in Chicago, a vacation to somewhere warm is the best gift anyone can receive!
I have also continued my annual tradition of reallocating the funds that would be spent on sending paper greetings to my friends, colleagues, and relatives. Instead, I make a donation on their behalf to a non-profit, and send out virtual holiday greetings. This year I was inspired by the work of the Organic School Project and their mission to "transform U.S. school-aged children into healthy, more mindful eaters, one school and one child at a time." I love what this group is doing for educating children, and it makes me so thankful to have grown up gardening and cooking with a wonderful mentor – my mom. Here's wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday, and all the best in the New Year.
Starre Vartan, Contributing Writer:
I'm planning on making a big vegetarian feast and watching The Sound of Music at home in Connecticut and staying near my Christmas tree. After an amazing, complicated and incredibly blessed year I'm keeping it simple and close to home.
Beth Shea, Senior Editor of Inhabitots:
We traveled to a family owned local farm in Portland, OR to cut down our tree. At the end of the holiday, we will make a donation to the Boy Scouts of America, to pick up our tree and recycle it into wood chips to be used at a local playground. We'll also be wrapping gifts in our toddler's artwork!
Hazel Saunderson, Contributing Writer:
This year the long sunny summer days turned very quickly into short snowy winter days and transformed Scotland into a beautiful winter wonderland in early December. This gave me a healthy dose of festive spirit earlier this month, which was topped up by receiving some wonderful handmade Christmas gifts from friends: a Christmas tree shaped advent calendar (made from recycled felt and packed with homemade chocolates), a beautiful screen printed Christmas card and a golden Christmas reef made from natures finest. These gifts refreshed my beliefs that things that have stories, added value or emotions attached to them have a much higher potential for lasting longer and becoming less throwaway. I hope that all Inhabitat readers have a fantastic Christmas and also manage to keep throwaway gifts to a minimum.
Brit Liggett, New York Editor:
This holiday I'll be spending time with my family in rural Massachusetts. We'll be eating a delicious local feast, enjoying each other's company and taking walks through the snowy back woods of the east coast. I decided this season to show my family my appreciation for their place in my life by handcrafting each of their presents. I spent the year collecting unwanted vintage books and have created a series of photo frames — like the one above for my brother, a photo of us on my first week on earth — personalized for each of them. I hope all of our readers spend this holiday season appreciating the great people in their lives and I wish for all of us a great green new year.
Moe Beitiks, Contributing Writer:
This year I went from the steamy heat of Cancun to the chilly valley of Yosemite for the holidays. It's a bit surreal to go from a tropical paradise and a climate change conference to a place where there should be snow, but isn't. A storm passed through Yosemite this month, leaving us with days on end of torrential rain. There was at least one day of perfect, soft, powdery snow, but the next day it was melting off the trees in torrents. This is my second year out here, and it never fails to impress upon me the grandness and preciousness of nature. Oh, and all the valley shuttles are diesel hybrids. Which is pretty nice.


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Printer jams can be furiously annoying, unless, of course, you turn it into an electronic music beat.
Continuing our series of posts about machines making music (which has previously featured an HP scanner doing a cover of Gotye's Somebody that I used to know), we found this great video called "Printer Jam" by electronic music producer Mistabishi.
It made us appreciate the unconventional noises that printers make, and got us scheming to connect all of our old printers to subwoofers!
Oh, and if you like printers and printer jams even more than us, or perhaps you even run a company that sells printers, how 'bout getting yourself a printer jam domain name? A quick check in our domain registry showed that these domains are still available:


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California Military Records
This entry was originally written by Dwight A. Radford, Thelma Berkey Walsmith, and Nell Sachse Woodard for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
The California State Archives has become the state's official repository for service records of Californians from the Indian Wars through the World Wars, including National Guard records. Among the archives collections are organizational papers, correspondence, election of officers, muster rolls, loyalty oaths, and material relating to independent militia units. Some of these collections are on microfilm at the National Archives. Some are also on microfilm at the FHL.
Another collection of California military records is housed at the California State Military Museum, 1119 Second St., Sacramento, CA 95814 www.militarymuseum.org. Its collection housed at the Major General Walter P. Story Memorial Library and Research Center is among the best archives of Western Americana military history in the nation, including original unit rosters of early California militia units. The website has links to various websites on California military history.
Richard H. Orton, ed., Records of California Men in the War of Rebellion, 1861'1867 (Sacramento: State Printing Office, 1890) and J. Carlyle Parker, comp., A Personal Name Index to Orton's'¦, vol. 5 of Gale Genealogy and Local History Series (Detroit: Gale Research, 1978) provide printed sources for those serving in the Civil War. The National Archives' seven-roll microfilm index to compiled service records for California's Union Army Volunteers is available for research at the California State Library and through the FHL.
The California State Library also has the National Archives' seventeen-roll microfilm series of the California War History Committee's 'World War I Records of California Service Men.' The information in this collection was submitted voluntarily and therefore does not cover all California veterans, but includes birth date, parents, service records, and sometimes material such as educational background and newspaper clippings. The World War I Draft Registration Cards for California are available on microfilm from the National Archives with copies at the FHL.


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Windows Azure Use Case: Web Applications
This is one in a series of posts on when and where to use a distributed architecture design in your organization's computing needs. You can find the main post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2011/01/18/windows-azure-and-sql-azure-use-cases.aspx
Many applications have a requirement to be located outside of the organization's internal infrastructure control. For instance, the company website for a brick-and-mortar retail company may want to post not only static but interactive content to be available to their external customers, and not want the customers to have access inside the organization's firewall.
There are also cases of pure web applications used for a great many of the internal functions of the business. This allows for remote workers, shared customer/employee workloads and data and other advantages. Some firms choose to host these web servers internally, others choose to contract out the infrastructure to an "ASP" (Application Service Provider) or an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company.
In any case, the design of these applications often resembles the following:
In this design, a server (or perhaps more than one) hosts the presentation function (http or https) access to the application, and this same system may hold the computational aspects of the program. Authorization and Access is controlled programmatically, or is more open if this is a customer-facing application. Storage is either placed on the same or other servers, hosted within an RDBMS or NoSQL database, or a combination of the options, all coded into the application.
High-Availability within this scenario is often the responsibility of the architects of the application, and by purchasing more hosting resources which must be built, licensed and configured, and manually added as demand requires, although some IaaS providers have a partially automatic method to add nodes for scale-out, if the architecture of the application supports it. Disaster Recovery is the responsibility of the system architect as well.
In a Windows Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment, many of these architectural considerations are designed into the system.
The Azure "Fabric" (not to be confused with the Azure implementation of Application Fabric - more on that in a moment) is designed to provide scalability. Compute resources can be added and removed programmatically based on any number of factors. Balancers at the request-level of the Fabric automatically route http and https requests. The fabric also provides High-Availability for storage and other components. Disaster recovery is a shared responsibility between the facilities (which have the ability to restore in case of catastrophic failure) and your code, which should build in recovery.
In a Windows Azure-based web application, you have the ability to separate out the various functions and components. Presentation can be coded for multiple platforms like smart phones, tablets and PC's, while the computation can be a single entity shared between them. This makes the applications more resilient and more object-oriented, and lends itself to a SOA or Distributed Computing architecture.
It is true that you could code up a similar set of functionality in a traditional web-farm, but the difference here is that the components are built into the very design of the architecture. The API's and DLL's you call in a Windows Azure code base contains components as first-class citizens. For instance, if you need storage, it is simply called within the application as an object. Computation has multiple options and the ability to scale linearly.
You also gain another component that you would either have to write or bolt-in to a typical web-farm: the Application Fabric. This Windows Azure component provides communication between applications or even to on-premise systems. It provides authorization in either person-based or claims-based perspectives.
SQL Azure provides relational storage as another option, and can also be used or accessed from on-premise systems. It should be noted that you can use all or some of these components individually.
Design Strategies for Scalable Active Server Applications - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972349.aspx
Physical Tiers and Deployment - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee658120.aspx


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Jelly Bread is Tahoe's Band of the Year
Jelly Bread is rising.The Reno quartet solidified its lineup last spring, recorded an album and donned dapper, three-piece suits for a CD-release party."We wanted to make an impression," bandleader Dave Berry said. "We wanted to show up to a gig looking like we had a job."Jelly Bread has received plenty of job offers ever since, steadily performing at clubs and venues throughout the West. And today it adds an accolade to its rsum: Lake Tahoe Action 2012 Band of the Year.The band sounds like Tower of Power or Dumpstaphunk with a Southern drawl. It plays a combination of R&B, gospel, funk and pop with frolicsome instrumentation accouterments like a lap steel guitar and an organ talk box. Drummer Cliff Porter has a name for it: "feel-good music."Berry, a 35-year-old Reno native whose family is mostly from Oklahoma, plays guitar, dobro and lap steel guitar. A singer-songwriter with a Ben Harper bent, his Southern heritage is revealed in a down-home temperament and musical delivery.Porter and his uncle Brady Carthen, the bassist, have played together all their lives in church, but have different approaches."To me Jelly Bread is a gumbo pot," Porter said. "Even though me and Brady are related and grew up in the gospel field, he's more of a jazzy kind of guy and I'm more of an R&B to the funk side of stuff. Dave is a singer-songwriter, influenced by Ben Harper and John Mayer and all those kind of guys. And Eric (Matlock), he's just 'funk-tastic.' We just all bring in what we all do and we melt it all it all together and we feel good. I can describe it only as feel-good music."Like the 2011 Band of the Year the Dead Winter Carpenters, Jelly Bread has moved from playing in the Crystal Bay Casino Red Room to the larger Crown Room.It will play in the North Shore venue for the fifth time Dec. 16 when it opens for Dragon Smoke, an all-star collection of New Orleans players which only gets together once a year or so.Jelly Bread – not named after the Booker T and the MGs song – is musically delicious. Formed three and one-half years ago, the band coalesced in earnest with the addition of keyboard player Matlock in May. "Sometimes you need that one little ingredient to make it taste just right," Porter said. "And that's what (Matlock) did. His style of playing (is) very comfortable for me to play with because he's very percussive."Matlock is a former member of Lake Tahoe Action's 2010 Band of the Year, Mama's Cookin.' He since played with Subjektochange which morphed to Headphone Union. When the latter went on hiatus, Berry recruited Matlock, a North Shore resident."Once Eric became a free agent and he jumped on board, that is what really turned a corner for us," Berry said. "He was like the final piece of the puzzle the way he plays Hammond B3. He doesn't look like a Southern gospel cat, but man he gets on the keys and he's just so full of life, pure energy and he's a songwriter, too. When we got him in the band, everything just took off."Matlock modestly agreed."They were already a great band but they were always looking for a keyboardist that fit their style," he said. "When I came in I think we all just felt comfortable playing with each other. It just clicked."Matlock leans toward the funk, listing influences as Billy Preston, Ivan Neville, Richard Vogel from Galactic, Papa Gros (Funk), Orgone (Dan Hastie), Art "Papa Funk" Neville and talk box pioneer Roger Troutman."It's just so fun to bring that nasty groove," he said. "This band is funky and groovy. It appeals to such a wide range of people. I loved my last band but it was a niche of certain people were into and certain people were not into. But this band. If you like dancing, or you like music at all, then I don't see you not having a good time with us."Jelly Bread began with a jam.Reno natives Berry and Porter coincidentally relocated to their old home towns after stints in Southern California and Arizona, respectively.Porter heard there was an empty drum set on stage at Cantina Los Tres Hombres. He saw that Berry was playing – with his eyes closed – so he went behind the drums and joined into the music. When Berry opened his eyes, it was a happy reunion."He said, 'Man, I was looking for you,' and I said, 'I was looking for you,'" Porter said. "He and my older brother grew up together."That was on a Tuesday in 2009. They jammed at Porter's barbershop and by Friday were playing a gig. They recorded an eight-song CD to sell at shows, and last spring released "No Dress Code." Jelly Bread plans to return to the studio in January."We got a hand full of songs written and a plethora of ideas on other stuff," Berry said. "I'm always writing and have stuff to bring to the band. We have a lot of ground work for songs but have not had time to hash them out."All four of the members will bring ideas to the studio."This is really feeling expansive here," Matlock said. "It seems like things are snowballing really fast. It feels really cool to be in a band that seems like it has a good shot at getting out there to a lot of people. We've had some great festival successes and some great tours and the new management has helped us moved forward."Porter knows what success sounds like. He played are recorded with a decade-long gospel theater group and his family's band Four With God. He became interested in music when he was 5 when his uncle Little Joe Blue gave him a drum kit.Born Joseph Valery in Vicksberg, Miss., Little Joe Blue was a Chicago-style blues player who had a hit song, "Dirty Work Going On" on Checker records in 1966. He died in Reno in 1990.Jelly Bread might be a hit song away from becoming a national touring band."We are all humble guys and don't take anything for granted," Porter said. "We're very humbled by everything that is happening. All we want to do is just keep playing. We are very blessed and very happy it's starting to reach a lot more people. It's growing and were just riding it, man. We're just riding and enjoying it."
Headliner: Dragon Smoke (Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk, Stanton Moore and Robert Mercurio of Galactic and Eric Lindell)Opener: Jelly Bread, Lake Tahoe Action's Band of the YearWhen: 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16Tickets: $17 in advance or $20 on the day of the show.
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For the first time in history, the topic of women's abuse is being majorly addressed in the Middle East. The ads were published in Lebanon's biggest women's magazine. And for this region in a very controversial way.
Advertising Agency (Name, City, Country): Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai, UAE
Executive Creative Director: Till Hohmann
Creative Director: Dalbir Singh
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Connections Equine Therapy
Through its partnership with horses, Connections Equine Therapy Program assists individuals with disabilities from children to adults, provides equine assisted psychotherapy to improve mental health and wellbeing and equine assisted learning to promote healthy communication, team-building, and conflict resolution skills.
We currently offer the follwing programs:
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• Equine Assisted Programs for Veterans
Connections is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Cornville, Arizona which provides therapeutic riding classes, equine assisted learning, and equine assisted therapy. It was founded by Andrea Baldwin in 2000.
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Information about prices is a key mechanism for optimizing the acquisition process, reduces information asymmetry between buyers and suppliers, and making the supply system more transparent. It has a direct impact on the financing, availability and supply of essential medicines. In this context, this manual's objective is to circulate a self-applying methodology for evaluating the process of price negotiations of anti-retroviral medicines in countries in the sub-region of Latin American and the Caribbean. The present methodology was developed by NAF/Fiocruz, a Collaborating Center of the WHO and PAHO for Pharmaceutical Policies, in the framework of the Project of Anti-retrovirals Financing Strategies, whose institutional counterparts include UNAIDS, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


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Lohse efficient, but homers sting in loss
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MILWAUKEE -- Kyle Lohse was very good in his season debut, but the way 23-year-old Braves left-hander Alex Wood baffled the Brewers with his funky delivery on Tuesday night, Lohse needed to be closer to perfect.
Wood cruised for seven innings after Carlos Gomez hit his very first pitch for a leadoff home run, and Lohse worked seven efficient innings of his own, but was undone by a pair of home runs in the Brewers' 5-2 loss to the Braves at Miller Park.
"Overall, seven innings, three runs, we should be able to handle that OK with our offense," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said, referring to Lohse's pitching line. "We feel like we're going to score runs, and we didn't do a good job of that tonight."
Braves right fielder Jason Heyward's two-run home run in the fifth snapped the Brewers' 22-inning shutout streak against the Braves and erased what had been a 1-0 Milwaukee lead. First baseman Freddie Freeman provided insurance with a solo shot in the sixth inning and another in the eighth to help Wood win his first-ever Major League start in April.
The Atlanta runs were a long time coming. The Braves were held scoreless in each of their last two games against the Brewers, including Lohse's two-hit shutout at Turner Field on Sept. 25 -- a game just as memorable for Gomez's home-plate confrontation with then-Braves catcher Brian McCann.
McCann moved on in free agency, but Gomez is still around, and announced as much on Tuesday night by hitting Wood's first pitch -- a 90-mph fastball -- for the Brewers' first 2014 home run. Gomez was just installed as Milwaukee's leadoff man at the end of Spring Training, and is 2-for-2 so far in his first at-bat of the day.
Gomez finished the night 1-for-2 with two walks and two runs scored, and Aramis Ramirez continued his hot start with two more hits and an RBI, but the Brewers were limited to six hits by three Braves pitchers. After Wood, reliever David Carpenter surrendered a run in the eighth inning and Craig Kimbrel blew away Khris Davis, Rickie Weeks and Mark Reynolds on swinging strikeouts in the ninth for the save.
The Brewers had chances to pad their early lead, but stranded a pair of men on base in the first inning and saw the speedy Gomez ground into a rare double play after Lohse bunted a third-strike foul in the second. Wood, coming off a spring in which he led the Grapefruit League with a 0.45 ERA, was stronger after that, allowing only two more singles and no more runners past first base through the end of the seventh.
In all, Wood allowed one run on five hits over seven innings.
"There were a couple of situations where we had chances," Roenicke said.
Lohse admitted he squandered one of them with his missed bunt. Had he executed, Gomez would have been batting with runners at second and third and one out with the Brewers leading, 1-0.
"For me, it's weird. It's hard for me to bunt lefties, especially when they're kind of herky jerky," Lohse said. "I don't see it. I don't pick it up. That was another big, fundamental thing. I didn't get the job done. We could have really put some pressure on him out there."
Unprompted, Wood agreed.
"After Lohse struck out trying to bunt, that was probably the game-changer for me," Wood said. "It kind of shot me through the rest of the way."
On the mound, Lohse struck out eight batters -- only the 14th time he'd reached that level in 364 regular-season starts -- while allowing three runs on five hits and two walks in seven innings.
Both of the Braves home runs off Lohse followed subtle mistakes.
In the fifth inning, Lohse made the inside fastball to Heyward he was aiming for, though he could have been a bit more up on Heyward's hands. The problem, Lohse said, came two batters earlier, when he issued a one-out walk to the No. 8 hitter, Andrelton Simmons, that gave Heyward the opportunity to bat with two outs in the first place.
"I don't have to catch the top of the lineup if I do my job there," Lohse said.
An inning later, Lohse had just missed with a backdoor slider and tried to come back with the same pitch, but it leaked into Freeman's hot zone.
"It came back [over] way too much of the plate," Lohse said.
Besides those small mistakes?
"It was good besides that," Lohse said. "That's the way this game goes. Every time you miss, there's a chance something like that could happen."


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College and Crisis Management: Mental Illness in Postsecondary Programs
Second in a series of articles on mental health.
A knife to the back reportedly brought Matthew Finnigan out of the fantasy world of his beloved video game and into a devastating reality. The 26-year-old Monterey Peninsula College student died in the fall of 2010 after a friend allegedly stabbed him with a knife that he had taken from the kitchen and hidden up his sleeve.
The 21-year-old alleged killer, James Torrey Hill, later told a police officer that he had "a general desire to kill someone" since he was young and had struggled with the fantasy throughout his life, according to reports in the Monterey Herald and the California State University student publication Scene Magazine. Hill is currently awaiting trial in California. (Editor's note: Since this article was original published, the trial has been delayed for the fourth time.)
The young men, both video game enthusiasts, met through College Living Experience (CLE), a private college support program that provides services for young adults with special needs, such as autism and ADHD. Hill does not have autism, but may have a mental illness. Finnigan had a history of schizophrenia, but his ASD may have been what made him particularly vulnerable.
Finnigan's mother Patricia told Scene last year that her son was bullied growing up for being socially awkward. He believed people were out to get him. He may not have been able to distinguish when he was truly in danger. He mentioned online that he thought somebody wanted to kill him, but it is not clear if he reported any specific concerns about Hill to anybody. The Finnigans have elected on the advice of their attorney to wait to talk further with Autism After 16 until the conclusion of impending criminal and civil suits, but Patricia told Scene that she thought allowing Hill into the CLE program was "like putting a wolf in with sheep."
There are college support programs sprinkled throughout the country that serve students with autism. These programs have the potential to improve the futures of young adults who might otherwise fall by the wayside. Indeed, more than a third of young adults with an autism spectrum disorder lack employment or education in their first six years after high school, according to a study by researchers at Washington University, SRI International and Vanderbilt University.
But each college support program offers a different level of supervision and support. Some programs expect students to avail themselves of services and to be fairly independent. Others heavily coordinate and monitor students' actions. While CLE employs Resident Assistants as resources for students as well as psychologists to oversee social/emotional success (but not to provide therapy), students are not supervised on a 24-hour basis. Students are expected to have a high level of independent functioning and to attend nearby colleges or vocational schools much as typical students do, but with extra academic support.
This type of support model, however, may present problems for some students with ASD. It is not uncommon for young adults with autism to develop comorbid mental health conditions that may become more pronounced during college years. In addition, students with autism may be more vulnerable to bullying and violence—even in adulthood—than their non-autistic peers. So the Monterey incident, albeit the first homicide in the program's history, raises the questions: With the possibility of comorbidity in people with autism, how can parents trust a particular program to detect when mental illness is emerging? And how can a vulnerable student be expected to report if a fellow student is showing signs of an emerging mental illness?
This question is particularly pressing following the Connecticut massacre. Adam Lanza, a bright 20-year-old who may have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, likely had a psychotic break before he killed his mother, then shot his way into an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults. He had reportedly attended Western Connecticut State University a few years ago, where he struggled to fit in. The few classmates who remember him reported that he was extremely quiet and shied away from social situations. There is no way of telling if the tragedy would have occurred had he received better support in college. What would seem to be clear, however, is that attention needs to be paid—both by parents and by professionals—to symptoms of emerging mental illness (distinguishing between ASD-related behaviors and those which may be linked to mental illness) and to helping young adults access mental health care when needed.
College is stressful for everyone and there is no way to predict how any student will react to the pressure. But, for students with autism, it can be especially overwhelming. Such students are used to a much higher level of support than are neurotypical students entering college. And they are not used to being expected to ask for help when they need it.
"Students with autism don't learn how to self-monitor or self-regulate on their own," said Sarita Freedman, a clinical psychologist and author of the book "Developing College Skills in Students with Autism & Asperger's Syndrome." "Parents have to look at the services a program is offering and whether it expects students to independently take advantage of counseling and other supports. You can't assume a student will have the initiative to participate on his own."
Recognizing Risks and Preparing for Potential Problems
Challenges a student with autism may face in college can range from simple misunderstandings to serious situations that may put him or others in danger, Freedman said.
For example, she said, a student with Asperger's syndrome who is characteristically rigid when it comes to rules may tattle on his roommate if he spies alcohol in the dorm fridge. A more socially acceptable choice may be to first discuss his concerns with his roommate or mentor.
A student jumped to conclusions and learned this lesson the hard way while enrolled in The College Support Program for Students with Asperger Syndrome at the West Virginia Autism Training Center at Marshall University in Huntington.
"The student called the police because he knew it was 'illegal' to have beer in the dorm," said program coordinator Rebecca Hansen. "But they were root beer bottles that looked like beer bottles. We try to encourage students to go to their roommate or mentor first if they think something inappropriate is happening."
On a more serious note, the onset of many mental health disorders occurs when students may already be in college. If a student shows mild signs of anxiety or another mental health challenge, Hansen said, a program may first try reducing the number of classes a student attends and increasing his instructional accommodations, such as breaking down assignments into manageable chunks.
But some college support programs may not be equipped to handle escalating symptoms of mental illness in their students with autism.
"We had a student who began to suffer such severe social anxiety, he started to talk about harming himself," Hansen said. "That was out of our realm of expertise, so we recognized it would be better for him to get back to his home environment where there were more mental health providers and he would not have the stress of school on top of everything else."
Hansen and her colleagues were able to identify the student's struggles early before he hurt himself because he often came into the center to talk despite the program's not having any residential support, she said. Another student may have isolated himself and the program may not have recognized anything was wrong until he accumulated absences or someone found that he'd harmed himself or someone else.
It is unclear what CLE staff knew regarding the extent of alleged killer Hill's purported mental illness, but Finnigan had reportedly posted concerns online that he thought someone wanted to kill him. (In an email response to AA16's request for information, CLE president Stephanie Martin responded, "There is a pending criminal trial which involves a former CLE student and CLE does not want to interfere with the justice process by making any comment. We are saddened by the tragic loss of Matthew Finnigan, which continues to affect the CLE community, but CLE remains committed to its mission of assisting students with unique learning needs pursue their goals." ) The Herald reported testimony that "Two acquaintances told police disturbing stories about those preceding weeks. One of the men said he was watching television with Hill when Hill suddenly began choking him and asked him if he was ready to die. The man said he began to black out before Hill stopped. The other witness said Hill had told him he could kill Finnigan any time he wanted and get away with it." Often students with autism may not report their concerns to anyone.
"One of the biggest issues in people with autism is they have a lack of awareness about when to ask for help," Freedman said. "They need to be taught to ask for help when they start to feel different or are confused about a situation." Over the years, Freedman has worked with students who have gone hungry and gone without medication because they did not think to ask when their college cafeteria was open or know how to take and refill their medication without their parents' direction. Programs may not notice something like that is going on until a student falls into a deep depression and isolates himself. Medication missteps are not uncommon among students with autism, Freedman said. Yet college support programs usually expect students to be able to medicate independently.
Staff members at Marshall University's program help students develop visual schedules to aid in keeping track of their medications. UA-ACTS helps monitor students' medication use, working closely with on-campus psychiatrists.
But many youths have to be taught a step-by-step routine to take and refill their medication before entering college, Freedman said, because they often lack the initiative and instinct to carry out such basic necessities on their own.
"Parents have to teach their child to take his medication every day at a set time and develop routines for filling his pill boxes and calling in refills," Freedman said. "The student should learn that when he has a week or so left of medication, he has to call the pharmacy to get a refill."
Parents also should keep in mind that not every program offers mental health services, Freedman said, so they may need to connect their child with a new psychiatrist near campus if he is going away to college and already has a mental health diagnosis.
"Part of therapy is learning coping strategies," she said. "Students also have to learn how to tell if their medication is not working. I recommend a family meet with a new mental health professional a couple of weeks before school starts because it's very hard for people with autism to meet new people and go somewhere new. They're more likely to go alone if they've already met the person with their family."
Navigating the Admissions Process
Many programs accept students who have comorbid mental health disorders, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Very often these programs expect the mental illness to be managed at the time of enrollment. However, it can be difficult to predict how the stress of college classes and independent living might impact a mental health condition.
Such programs often examine an aspiring student's latest evaluations and transcripts to determine the level of support the student needs and if that level matches what they can provide. They usually also interview the student and his parents and seek permission to speak with past clinicians. And they typically administer rating scales. They collect information from all of these sources to help them determine the student's current independence level and ability to use coping, problem-solving, and organization skills.
"We also look at students' level of motivation," said Sarah Ryan, program director at the University of Alabama Autism Spectrum Disorders College Transition and Support Program (UA-ACTS). "There needs to be some kind of motivation toward a goal, such as completing a particular degree. Their parents may want them there, but students have to want to show up because we can't knock on their door every day and drag them to class."
The problem is parents sometimes omit or misrepresent information about the mental health of a student with autism during the application process. This can happen intentionally or inadvertently. So individual college support programs have to ask the right questions.
"I may look at a parent's answer in a questionnaire saying that her child had no anger management issues, but then see in other records that he had been expelled for hitting another student," said Maggi Sanderson, national admissions coordinator at the College Internship Program, a postsecondary program with multiple locations nationwide. "I may find out it was because another student was bullying him, but then I'd want to look at whether it was an isolated incident or something that happens all the time."
Many students with autism also do not want to accept that they need support to succeed in college, Freedman said.
"A lot of times they will say that they are so glad they graduated from high school and don't have to have special services anymore," she said. "There is a real lack of self-awareness. They say, 'My parents wanted it for me, but I never needed it.'"
Weighing Programs' Available Supports
Some students may hit snags as they enter college if they were included in regular education classrooms most of their time in primary and secondary school, Freedman said. Students may not have received much life skills training, depending on the conscientiousness of their high school team. So college support programs that offer such activities may help retain students in college.
Some programs provide housing support for students. CIP students, for example, live in apartments rather than dorms, but interact on a daily basis with residential staff. Staff members do not usher a student through every minute of the day, but they do check in with him regularly to ensure he is following his routine, including going to classes. They also promote roommate relations.
For example, if a student with autism notices his roommate has drunk the last of the milk he bought at the grocery store, he may blow up, or he may internalize it, believing his roommate is taking advantage of him, Sanderson said. A staff member may remind the student that people make mistakes and similar things happen occasionally when you reside with others. He may also emphasize the importance of communication with his roommate about boundaries.
Some college support programs have students with autism live in traditional dorm rooms with nondisabled peers or in single rooms. Participants can often choose if they want to disclose their autism to their roommates and others. They may pair up with mentors who meet with them a few times a week. Mentors at UA-ACTS, for example, are psychology graduate students who can offer advice if personal or academic concerns are overwhelming a student. They may help the student seek accommodations from professors and regularly review their progress.
"The support tapers off over the four years the student participates in the program," she said. "The ultimate goal is to step down services because they are not going to be going into the workplace with him. Our preference is to help the student address situations by himself."
Programs differ in how often they communicate with parents about their youth's progress. UA-ACTS, for example, begins by updating parents weekly, eventually tapering off and encouraging students to periodically update their parents. CIP sends home a few progress reports throughout the year.
"We let parents know their child is coming to us as an adult and needs to learn how to live independently," Sanderson said. "Every student has an advisor who can be a point-person for parents to get in touch with, but we don't want parents to be too intrusive with their children. They have to begin the process of individuation."
Some college support programs also promote group activities to build the life skills of students with autism. UA-ACTS, for example, facilitates informal outings, such as movie nights, Ryan said. It also brings students together to discuss practical issues, such as self-advocacy and job applications. "We might discuss what strengths and challenges are associated with their diagnoses and how they may affect them in different situations," she said.
Celebrating Student Successes
There is no way to tell if Hill could have been stopped before he stabbed Finnigan if their college support program offered heavier supervision or more accountability for use of support services. Finnigan reportedly claimed online that someone wanted to kill him, but it is unclear from available information if he told anyone close to him. Regardless of the steps parents and a program take to buoy a student in a college atmosphere, there will always be a degree of risk, as there is with any young adult at that age.
"I think sometimes these things happen and we can't necessarily see them coming," Ryan said. "I would hope with all of the supports we have in place, though, that we'd catch that sort of thing earlier rather than later."
Indeed, when a mental health disorder is discovered early in a student and he receives appropriate intervention, the results can be inspiring, Sanderson said. A CIP student with Asperger syndrome developed severe anxiety and depression shortly after starting college because he was unable to connect with his peers and was so far away from his family. The program paired up the student with a mentor to help him work on his social skills and coping mechanisms while he was recovering at home so that he could more easily return to the program after his condition stabilized.
"We had to make sure he was stable because the situation was terrible for him," she said. "But he is with us now and is doing beautifully."
Next: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for People with Autism and Mental Health Challenges
Full Disclosure Notice: The editor of this publication is a former CLE employee and was employed by the company at the time of Finnigan's death, although not at the center at which the incident occurred.


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After the meeting, the Connecticut senator did not discuss what he and Reid talked about, but said, "The election is over, and I completely agree with President-elect [Barack] Obama that we must now unite to get our economy going again and to keep the American people safe.
"That is exactly what I intend to do with my colleagues here in the Senate in support of our new president," he said. "And those are the standards I will use in considering the options that I have before me."
Reid said in a statement that no decisions had been made during their meeting.
"While I understand that Sen. Lieberman has voted with Democrats a majority of the time, his comments and actions have raised serious concerns among many in our caucus," said Reid, D-Nevada.
"I expect there to be additional discussions in the days to come, and Sen. Lieberman and I will speak to our caucus in two weeks to discuss further steps," he said.
Lieberman, the Democrat turned independent who backed Republican Sen. John McCain for president, angered many Democrats -- including Reid -- when he attacked Obama during the presidential campaign. Watch Lieberman call for Americans to unite »
Reid was especially irked by Lieberman's prime-time speech at the Republican National Convention this summer.
During the speech in St. Paul, Minnesota, Lieberman said, "Sen. Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who I think can do great things for our country in the years ahead, but, my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record, not in these tough times for America."
After his speech, Obama adviser Robert Gibbs said that "Joe Lieberman ought to be ashamed of himself for some of the things he said tonight, not as a Democrat but as an American."
At stake is Lieberman's chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and possibly his other committee assignments.
Reid could also ask Lieberman to leave the Democratic caucus altogether.
Reid was reluctant to act against Lieberman earlier because Democratic control of the Senate relied on Lieberman's decision to organize with Democrats. But after picking up multiple Democratic seats on Election Day, Reid is politically empowered to strip Lieberman of the coveted chairmanship if he chooses.
The full Democratic caucus would have to approve any action Reid takes when it meets on Capitol Hill in two weeks.
Reid has not been shy in the past about expressing his frustration with Lieberman, who just eight years ago was the Democrats' nominee for vice president.
But he's also repeatedly said he values Lieberman's membership in the caucus because on most issues, Lieberman votes with Democrats.
CNN's Scott J. Anderson contributed to this report.
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Every Sunday, worshipers belonging to the oldest Catholic parish in the United States file into the St. Augustine Cathedral Basilica, where mass has been celebrated in some form or fashion for nearly 450 years. As timeless as this sturdy building may appear to the visitor, however, its history bears witness to many instances of warfare, disaster, and change that have shaped the city of St. Augustine.
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Wi-Fi is supposed to provide pervasive internet access, so you can pick up your tablet, laptop or phone and browse from any place you fancy in your home. Sadly, it doesn't alway work like that.
In the far end of my apartment, in an armchair in the bedroom, my Wi-Fi is patchy at best. It probably works about 50 percent of the time. That probably has something to do with the fact that the signal has to battle its way through the entire length of the place including the kitchen—and all the appliances in there, including a washing machine which is inline—to get there.
More embarrassingly, there is zero Wi-FI reception on my toilet. I know I can fix all this—I just never get round to it—but I'm keen to know: where are your Wi-Fi dead spots?
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If you aren't chocolated out by Cadbury Eggs, I have the perfect solution.
Milk Chocolate Banana IceBox Cake.
Hop to it.
(from Martha Stewart Magazine)
15 ounces milk chocolate, chopped (I had 2 of those LARGE Hershey Bars with Almonds...which were 16 ounces, but oh well.)
5 large egg yolks
3 cups heavy cream
20 graham crackers
4-5 ripe bananas, sliced
Garnish: whipped cream and chocolate shavingsPlace chocolate in a heat-proof bowl.
Place yolks and a pinch of salt in another heat-proof bowl.
Bring cream to a simmer in a medium saucepan. (simmer, NOT boil)
Slowly pour cream into bowl with yolks, whisking constantly.
Return to saucepan over low heat.
Cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is thickened, about 8 minutes. (Mixture should not boil.)
Immediately strain through a fine sieve set over chocolate.
Stir until chocolate melts and is smooth. (Whisking works best.)
Refrigerate until thick, about 4 hours.
Line a 5-by-10-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap.
Spread 1 cup chocolate mixture evenly into bottom of loaf pan.
Top with a layer of 4 graham crackers, trimmed to fit.
Spread 1/2 cup chocolate over tops, and cover with some bananas.
Spread 1/2 cup chocolate over bananas, and top with a layer of 4 trimmed graham crackers.
Repeat with remaining chocolate, bananas, and graham crackers until the pan is filled.
Finish with graham crackers.
Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate OVERNIGHT.
Uncover, and turn out onto a serving platter.
Remove plastic wrap.
Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.
Cut into slices to serve. (Serves 8 to 10)
**NOTE**I didn't measure my layers of chocolate pudding exactly and didn't need all 20 graham crackers and only had one layer of bananas (about 2 whole bananas). I have presented the ingredients exactly as stated in the magazine, but you may need to alter them if you wing it like I did.


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Navy Criminal Investigative Service officials are looking to the public for help to solve the death of a former Penthouse model whose body was found in an restricted piece of Camp Pendleton beach.
Anneka Vasta, known as Anneka Di Lorenzo in the 1970s, was found with a broken neck and back on the base on January 4.
Vasta was known for being the 1975 Penthouse Pet of the Year and appeared in the 1979 movie "Caligula," which was co-produced by the late Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione – a man she later sued and won a case against for sexual harassment, according to the New York Times.
Back in January, joggers reportedly found Vasta's body washed-up along a beach where Marines train.
Vasta, 58, was raising a daughter and working as a nursing assistant in Los Angeles just before her death, according to NCIS. An autopsy showed she drowned, however her family and NCIS investigators are now asking for public's help in closing the case.
Investigators reportedly do not know if she committed suicide or may have met with foul play around New Year's Eve.
Had she jumped off the roughly 60-foot sea cliff, investigators don't believe her body would have ended up in the water.
Vasta was born Marjorie Thoreson and left her home at the age of 14 for Los Angeles where she later established herself. In 1990 she won a lawsuit against Guccione for sexual harassment and was awarded more than $4 million in 1990 by a New York judge.
Vasta was divorced at the time of her death and reportedly in and out of jobs.
According to the San Diego Union Tribune she lived with her sister in Sherman Oaks and took a Lithium-based drug for a mood disorder and Xanax for anxiety.
NCIS investigators determined Vasta left Los Angeles on January 2 just before 6 a.m. and later got a room at the Motel 6 on Raintree Drive, near South Carlsbad State Beach.
The Union-Tribune reported that she never checked out, and there's no evidence she ever used the room.
Vasta's cellphone records show she drove around until about 8:30 a.m., making calls to family and friends. The last call was placed from the vicinity of the I-5 vista parking area.
When investigators discovered the car, her phone and purse were still in it. So were Vatsa's leopard-print blouse and a sports bra, stained with blood and wrapped in a plastic bag.
A bloody steak knife was also found on the passenger floorboard. The blood was matched to Vasta, according to officials.
Along with the broken neck and back, an autopsy showed shallow cuts on Vasta's wrists and two stab wounds to her chest, none of which would have caused her death.
Anyone who saw the youthful-looking blonde in the area on Jan. 2, or her car, was asked call the NCIS office at (760) 725-5150. Cellphone tips can be texted to 274637.


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I'll just say it. My children are driving me nuts- each and every single one of them for very different reasons. Even though there are only three of them, it feels like there are at least 86 children running around here. It is snow day number seventy eleven for our school district today and I'm about to call God and the superintendent and scream, "Enough Already. You are KILLING me!!!"
Yesterday started out okay but quicky went south. Sadie had a friend over to keep her company, which usually keeps all the kids occupied all day long. But not yesterday. Sadie still complained every 23 seconds that she was bored. There isn't anything to do. We never have any good food. She never gets to have any fun. Everybody else's mom takes them to the movies and Chuck E. Cheese's on snow days, blah, blah, blah. At first I ignored it. Then I got real mature and yelled, "Poor pitiful you! You got the worst mom ever! Maybe you can put an ad in the paper and get a new mom who is better than me." Oh Lord. I swore I'd never be that passive aggressive make your daughter feel guilty mom and I totally went there. Next thing you know she'll be 50 and I'll be in a nursing home trying to guilt her into coming to visit. Perhaps I'll go on and on to her about how bored I am. About how all the other daughters bring their moms chocolate and come and take them to the movies on Sunday afternoon. Yep- I can give as good as I get. Oy Vey.
And then there's Miles. Miles and the mother flippin' snow is enough to drive someone to a mental institution. The other kids got on all their snow gear and went outside to play for a while. Miles stared at them out the window and kicked and hit and yelled at me to take him outside. I was like, "DUDE! Chill out! You hate the snow and it's really cold out there." I tried to remind him what happened the last time he went out in the snow but he could not be reasoned with. So I put on his snow gear and my snow gear and we walked out the front door. For about 3 minutes, he was okay. He slid down the hill with the other kids once or twice, then realized he was miserable. Then the screaming started. He screamed until I brought him in. He got so discombobulated about being cold for the 300 seconds he was outside that he then screamed for a solid hour and a half. It was the kind of screaming that you are certain will lead to puking or hyperventilation. I tried all of our therapy techniques to no avail. I finally tried to regulate him by taking him up to his room and putting him in his pack and play until he could calm down. It only served to give him enough privacy to strip down naked and do strange things with body fluids. After that, every single thing that happened yesterday sent the boy into a tailspin and unfortunately I did not have my big girl panties on so I was also in a tailspin.
Which brings me to Noah. About 70% of the time Noah has a voice so high and loud that only dogs can hear it. The word of the day yesterday was , "Mooooooooom!" all stretched out into 2 syllables. "Mom, get me a glass of water!" "Mom, Miles scratched me!" "Mom, Spongebob is on!" "Mom, did you know that stegosaurus has plates on his back?!" "Mom!" "Mom!" "Mom!!!!" I had to ask several times that he quit talking, but it didn't work. We tried playing the quiet game. That didn't work either. I tried to offer him money (I know, I'm ashamed) to be quiet and even that didn't work. I thought about leaving the crazy glue out in plain sight in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, he would glue his lips together, but I decided against it. With my luck, the children would have probably glued me to the floor and stomped on me for the rest of the afternoon.
Then finally it was time for Kamron to get home from work. Hallelujah! But really all that meant was that we had to run all over creation taking the rental car back and picking up my van out of the shop and moving car seats and kids back and forth between cars. Let me see... Since I'm on a roll, I wonder what else I can complain about? Oh yeah. Those mentholated breath rite strips that I thought were going to revolutionize my life have now given me a rainbow shaped line of zits across my nose. And I'm sick of eating healthy food and want someone to give me a giant slice of chocolate cake with a side of lard and preservatives, dammit!
Before bed last night, I got the text alert that school was cancelled again for today. I may have said a bad word. A really bad bad word. And my husband may have laughed at me. I'm going to go drown my sorrows with a stout Diet Pepsi.
*Amazingly, all this complaining made me feel a tiny bit better. Feel free to put your complaints in the comments. We can commiserate together.*
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Solana Beach appears closer to having more control over development in its own city than it ever has before. But the power it has been seeking for 12 years is still likely a year or two away.
The California Coastal Commission, meeting in Chula Vista on Wednesday, voted unanimously to approve a Local Coastal Program Land Use Plan for Solana Beach. The all-encompassing plan, which took four hours to deliberate, directs development in the city, while maintaining public access to beaches. The plan allows the city to decide on most proposals instead of them going through the Coastal Commission, in addition to the city.
The commission, however, retains its original jurisdiction, which is west of the city's most coastal roads, and north of several public streets closest to the San Elijo Lagoon, which borders the city to the north.
State law requires cities to develop Local Coastal Plans. The Solana Beach City Council is expected to discuss the document at a future meeting. If it approves the plan, Solana Beach will begin working on a Local Implementation Plan, which could take a year and must also be approved by the Coastal Commission. That document would show how the coastal plan would be put into effect.
Once that goes through, developers and Solana Beach residents should notice a change when they make proposals to the city. Essentially, every development that goes through the city now, including homes east of Interstate 5, must be approved by the City Council, and then the Coastal Commission, where guidelines differ. If the council passes the local coastal plan, only the most-coastal projects within the commission's original jurisdiction also would go to the state. Ott said that going through only the city could cut project approval times in half, from more than a year for the most controversial proposals to a matter of months. He estimated the city has spent about $500,000 on its Local Coastal Program since 2006.
It took Solana Beach years to get this part of the plan approved because the city's 1.4 mile coastline is dominated by homes and condominiums atop bluffs, many protected by sea walls. The county approved many of the developments before the city incorporated in 1986.
Sea walls are controversial because while they protect private property, they block erosion and cut off a source of sand for the beach. The Coastal Commission is asking the city to devise a fee within 18 months for sea-wall owners to help pay for maintaining the beaches. Owners now pay a one-time deposit of $1,000 per linear foot of sea wall.
Blufftop homeowners and environmentalists had negotiated a deal last year to remove the sea walls by 2081, but the Coastal Commission staffers opposed that. Instead, they decided to require sea wall permits be revisited every 20 years. Sea wall permits generally have to be justified by emergencies or proof of an impending threat to the property.
Jim Jaffee, of the Surfrider Foundation, said he was pleased with the commission's decision regarding sea walls and the 18-month deadline to come up with fees for property owners.
David Winkler, a Solana Beach blufftop homeowner, said the 20-year permit length was shorter than desired but said the bottom line is that residents will still be able to protect their property, a right spelled out in the Coastal Act.
Commission staffers made some modifications to the coastal plan before commissioners approved it Wednesday. One modification Solana Beach objected to was allowing short-term vacation rentals to be fewer than seven days. Solana Beach asked the Coastal Commission that be removed because it could create a "hotel-type atmosphere" in the city's residential neighborhoods. Commissioners agreed.
The coastal plan also could impose a $30,000 per-room fee on developers who wish to close hotels and convert them into something else. Under the approved plan, that fee, which would reach more than $2 million for each of the city's three hotels, can be waived if market conditions dictate lodging is not a viable option.


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Obituary: Grace Diane Hub
Grace Diane Hub, 77, passed peacefully at home on Nov. 21, 2012, with her family at her side. She was born in Portland, Oregon on March 24, 1935. A resident of Tahoe City since 1969, Diane loved traveling into the mountains on any means of conveyance, as long as it was powered by the heart and limbs. Her love of outdoor challenge was legendary among friends. She skied, mountain biked, road biked and hiked all over Lake Tahoe and the Eastern Sierra, as well as in Colorado, Oregon, and Europe. For 30 years she taught skiing at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort.
Diane was passionate about water. She gathered with friends every April in Maui to windsurf and bicycle. And she loved the sunlight of the mountains, which she captured in her plein air oil and watercolor paintings, collected widely by friends and art appreciators.
Diane is survived by her husband, Otto, and three children, Blake, Derek and Leslie, as well as by her grandchildren, Maggie, Rachel, Riley and Teeny, and her dogs, Vickie and Dolce.
A memorial will take place at Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area, 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 8.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area, the Human Society of Truckee-Tahoe or Eastern Sierra Land Trust.


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Andrew Donald necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
ROMAC is an organization involving all the Rotary Clubs of Australia and New Zealand which provides life-saving and dignity-restoring medical treatment for children that could otherwise not afford it. It assists children from developing countries to come to Australia and receive the help they need.
We need a one page un-coded site web design. We are looking for a clean, simple and timeless web design that is easy to read.
Desired Color Scheme:
Blue, red and yellow from http://www.romac.org.au/images/heart.gif
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Rotarians across Australia and New Zealand and around seventy of Australia's leading surgeons donate their services to treat ROMAC children. ROMAC has helped transform the lives of over three hundred and sixty children. The types of problems corrected have included herniated brains, severe burn contractures, bladders on the outside of bodies and other complicated congenital deformities.
We want to re-launch our website at http://www.romac.org.au, making it easier to use through content management, and to update it to better communicate with our stakeholders: the Rotarians and Surgeons that donate their services, government departments, donors and benefactors who assist with transportation and support, and the general public who want to know about us and who may support us in the future.
We have a site at http://www.hawthornrotary.org.au which is content-managed and which we wish to copy and repurpose. Our stakeholders are very comfortable with the way this site works, and it incorporates the elements we want to use for ROMAC. This means we are looking for a design that will have the same page layout and structure as the Hawthorn Rotary site, but contain new ROMAC-appropriate graphic elements.
Web Site Characteristics:
* Inspire Confidence
* Informative
* Secure
* Reputable
* Modern (we love the web.20 style but not designs that are way too trendy)
* We have had a preference for white or light website backgrounds that are readable and friendly for those with visual impairment.
Peers / Similar Organizations:
* Interplast: http://interplast.org/
Sites That Inspire Us:
* Childrens Aid Society: http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/