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Let's Give Barber A Chance
With the announcement on Monday that Barber Motorsports Park has now been officially confirmed for the 2010 IndyCar schedule, I have read and heard a lot of mixed reaction regarding the selection of this new venue just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. I will qualify my statements by stating that other than seeing Formula One cars on-track on the road course at Indy, Barber Motorsports Park is the only road course I have ever been to. So my opinion is certainly not that of a veteran spectator of races at Road America, Watkins Glen or Mid-Ohio.
I attended the open test at Barber this past March 21 and was very impressed. The weather was absolutely perfect — clear blue skies and about seventy–two degrees with no wind. That is not typical weather for that time of year. The IRL got lucky because mid to late March can sometimes find the thermometer in the twenties. Holding the race on the weekend of April 10 should be safe in the south weather-wise, but you never know.
The setting is absolutely beautiful at Barber. It is a manicured park-like setting abounding with flowerbeds that give it more of a feel of a golf course than a racetrack. There are many elevation changes on the track and off in the distance there are many rolling hills. You get the idea that you are a million miles from nowhere, but unlike Nashville Superspeedway – you are just minutes away from downtown Birmingham which has a metropolitan area population of over a million and offers fine hotels and restaurants for teams, sponsors and fans alike.
No one is complaining about the location. It is the track itself that has a few fans grumbling. Fans are concerned that there will be very few passing opportunities at the track. When I was there in person, I'll admit that the entire layout seemed more compact than road courses appeared on television. At 2.3 miles and 16 turns, it is significantly shorter than Road America (4.0 miles) and Watkins Glen (3.4 miles). But surprisingly, it is about the same as Mid-Ohio (2.4 miles) and Infineon (2.5 miles) and actually longer than Laguna Seca (2.2 miles) and Portland (1.9 miles).
After watching the Grand-Am race there a couple of weeks ago, it didn't seem near as small on television. The track looked wider on-screen than in person and I did see a few passes taking place.
Now, I will never advocate a race that is decided in the pits rather than the track. I don't think anyone will ever confuse Barber with Michigan's two-mile oval for passing opportunities. But we've had several ovals this season that had histories of providing great races, yet they ended up being parades settled by pit stops. The race this past week in Edmonton offered a wide course with multiple passing opportunities, yet look what happened.
The drivers seem to like Barber. It is a difficult track to drive, with sweeping elevation changes in several of the turns. The drivers are calling it a driver's track, whatever that means…but I think it's a compliment.
Although I like the idea of a spring race in Alabama, I'm not crazy about where it falls in the established IRL schedule. The remaining schedule will not be released until this weekend, but the first part is likely to start the season on a street course in Brazil, then another street course in St. Petersburg followed by the road course at Barber. That will be followed by the street course at Long Beach. That will be four races to begin the season before they ever tackle an oval. The first shot at an oval may not come until Indianapolis since the status of Kansas returning seems questionable, at best. I would prefer at least one oval thrown in before Indy, but that's just me.
Before everyone condemns this track before the IRL has even turned a wheel in real competition, lets give it a chance. I will fully admit that I am totally biased since I live within three hours of the track. Now that the IRL no longer comes to Nashville, I have been adamant that the league should race somewhere in the south (Florida doesn't count). Before everyone starts crowing that there will be no passing opportunities, let's see how it plays out. It's a three-year deal. If the race turns out to be a real stinker every year, the market will dictate whether or not they should return.
An interesting twist is that the track will limit attendance to only thirty thousand each day. It isn't often that you see those words in an IRL press release. Having been there on a day when they had twenty thousand for a test, I would think they could handle more. Supposedly the access road in and out of the park will not be able to adequately handle more than that. Whatever the case, it has made me make sure to get tickets soon after they go on sale in September. Maybe it's just a marketing ploy that I just took the bait on, but it worked.
I have been less than kind about some of the decision making of the IRL, but I will give the league credit for this. They have taken a chance and chosen a venue not owned by ISC or SMI, which is hard to find these days. It is a new facility that opened in 2003 that looks upon hosting the IRL as an opportunity rather than a burden. The quality of racing remains to be seen, but let's give it a chance. After all, just remember which race that Barber Motorsports Park is ultimately replacing — Belle Isle in Detroit.
George Phillips
7 Responses to "Let's Give Barber A Chance"
The problem with barber is that it proves they are thinking short term rather than long term. They are going there for only one reason… Guaranteed fans. That is good in the short run, but terrible in the long run if the racing is bad. The upside is fixe at 30k fans per day. The downside is alienating them when they are bored or the series leaves town, not to mention losing other valuable fans who tire of watching parades on tv.
You mention Edmonton wasn't condusive to passing despite being wide. Well Edmonton is another track that shouldn't be on the schedule, at least not in the current configuration. A wide track does nothing if there aren't hard braking zones and technical low speed turns to bring he cars close enough together to actually use the extra width.
The decision to run at barber screams 'we are desperate and have no where else to run!'. This desperation will only encourage ISC and others to either push the league out or to drive a much harder bargain in future negotiations.
If nobody expects any passing already, how many casual race fans are going to plan their Sunday around watching the event? Pretty flower beds won't make anyone tune in.
Don't forget the lawn sculptures… The friction between the series and SMI and ISC/France is a cryin' shame. You're right in that the hostility and rivalry between ISC and IndyCar is one of the reasons for IndyCar to look elsewhere for venues, such as Barber M.P. and Andretti-promoted streets and Lanigan-promoted streets…
I like downtown street racing and I love natural-terrain road course racing in Champ Car, IndyCar, ALMS, Grand-Am, SCCA Trans-Am – and on television, AMA Superbike, F1, FIA GT, LeMans series, WTCC, DTM, F2, F3000, A1GP, etcetera.
I've watched, in-person and on TV, Grand-Am cars bang fenders at Barber Motrorsports Park. So I'll be optimistic and hope that IndyCar drivers will pass, with or without track widening. I don't have any affinity for Birmingham, but I will drive to Barber again from Panama City. I'll also drive to Saint Petersburg and Road Atlanta and Daytona…
Barber will be terrific and has every chance of becoming a part of the ICS long term schedule as any other track. This is an excellent facility with a ownership that will make improvements for IndyCar . It also has the city of Birmingham lit up like a pinball machine. The area is excited about it and will get squarely behind it. This race has all of the earmarkings of a win-win for all concerned and I look forward to being there.
Where did you come up with 4 miles for Road Atlanta? It's 2.5 miles with 12 turns. Barber provides ample opportunities for passing with 4 straights and 16 turns as long as you're faster and aren't getting blocked and know how to take a trun better than your competitor. You guys sound like armchair quarterbacks. Have you ever tried to rent Barber? Good luck. It's sold out just about every usable day of the year. Porsche Sport Driving School, PCA, SCCA, Chin, PBOC, vintage series, Grand-Am DP, GT, GS & ST, etc. Lots of bike activity too, Kevin Schwantz school, AMA, WERA and more. So it's obviously a track that has demand. I've spoken to European drivers and drivers in just about every series that has Barber on it's schedule. Many drivers like it and consider it a challenge. The facility is top class. Forget about the lawns, flower beds, shrubs, water and sculpture beatifully spread over the rolling hills. Consider the public restrooms. I've been to tracks coast to coast. I've taken my wife, children and grandchild. I'm sure you know the nasty and difficulties that's presented. Not at Barber. Track people and racers are a fine group of people, quality folks. And I enjoy associating with them very much. But add the hospitality of Barber staff, volunteers, corners workers and spectators from Alabama and surrounding areas and you've got it made. I could care less why IRL made the decision to put Barber on their schedule. I'm just glad they did. People from all over the world come to enjoy the experience that is Barber. I hope you do, too.
It'll be most interesting to see how Birmingham as a city supports the race. My bet is they will go all out. In all the years the IRL ran here in Nashville I saw very little city and community support other than the fans in the stands. If you didn't know the race was in town you wouldn't know it by looking around town. Even the evening news casts barely mentioned the race. As much as I want Indy cars in my hometown the indifference this NASCAR market showed them probably made it an easy decision when faced with the question of leaving.


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A massive recall of potentially contaminated alcohol prep products by a second manufacturer is raising sharp questions about an entire category of medical supplies: non-sterile pads and swabs, infection experts say.
"Is there any place for a non-sterile alcohol prep pad in a hospital setting?" said Dr. Christine Nyquist, a Colorado infection control director who blew the whistle on dangerous bacteria in alcohol wipes last fall. "We believe there isn't."
Nyquist and other microbiology experts say a debate is brewing about whether the non-sterile pads and wipes routinely used in hospitals, clinics and private homes to clean skin before shots and other procedures should be curtailed — or perhaps banned —
because of the potential for infection. While sterile pads have had problems, too, non-sterile products may raise alarms from the start.
"I don't believe non-sterile products such as this should be used in a situation where you are using injectables," said Barry A. Friedman, a microbiologist and sterilization expert who advises drug and device manufacturers. "I have a feeling what we're seeing is the tip of the iceberg."
Nyquist's and Friedman's comments follow the recall last month of nearly 300 million individual non-sterile alcohol prep products manufactured and distributed by Pacific Disposables International Inc. of Orangeburg, N.Y.
The recall, which dates back two years, was initiated because the pads may have been contaminated with Bacillus cereus, a potentially life-threatening bacterium, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration.
A hemophiliac patient reported developing a bacterial infection caused by Bacillus cereus after PDI alcohol prep pads tainted with the germ were used during an infusion, according to an FDA inspection report. The company was urged to recall the products in June, an FDA official said, but didn't respond until September.
The PDI recall follows this year's highly-publicized global recall of hundreds of millions of alcohol and iodine wipes and pads made and sold by the Triad Group and H&P Industries, Inc. of Hartland, Wis.
Bacillus cereus bacteria found in Triad prep products have been blamed for deaths and devastating infections in patients nationwide. Federal officials shut down the firms in June to prevent distribution of tainted medical wipes and other supplies.
Triad and H&P Industries recalled both sterile and non-sterile products, and federal Food and Drug Administration investigators found that the company didn't validate processes that should have ensured sterility and prevented other contamination.
In the overall alcohol prep market, about 70 percent of products are sterile, and about 30 percent are non-sterile, estimated Melanie Leibowitz, the senior director of regulatory affairs for PDI Inc.
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Current rules from U.S. Pharmacopeia, which sets international standards, prohibit objectionable organisms in non-sterile products if they cause illness or degrade a product's effectiveness. Tests for certain organisms, such as Staphylococcus aureus and E. coli, are required. Until recently, Bacillus cereus was tolerated at very low levels, which were found in the non-sterile PDI products, Leibowitz said. But the FDA appears to be cracking down on the bacterium in the wake of the H&P Industries crisis.
"It is a zero-tolerance program that we've been communicated," she said.
FDA officials wouldn't comment specifically on the PDI issue or on whether they're scrutinizing all manufacturers more closely for Bacillus cereus contamination. As it stands now, Bacillus cereus can be considered objectionable depending on the particular product and its use, a spokeswoman said. In a statement, FDA officials said they're monitoring and evaluating the use of alcohol prep products.
Earlier this year, FDA issued warnings to health care providers reminding them to be careful about using non-sterile pads in patients with depressed immune systems, before catheter insertions or before surgery. The agency also warned that pads packed in kits with injectable drugs may not be sterile.
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That can create confusion for health care workers and home users, who may assume the products are sterile, Nyquist said. In some cases, the pad packaging doesn't indicate whether it's sterile or not.
Some hospital infection control experts said they'd wait for FDA or other government agencies to announce any formal changes in policy before deciding whether to continue using non-sterile alcohol pads and wipes.
"Before you make a broad position statement, you want to make sure you have all your evidence," said Linda Greene, a registered nurse and board member of the Association of Professionals in Infection Control.
But others said they're acting now. Nyquist was part of the Colorado Children's Hospital team that detected the connection between unusual Bacillus cereus infections in sick kids and Triad Group alcohol wipes.
"We switched over entirely to sterile prep pads," said Nyquist, who urged other hospitals in her region to do the same. "It's consumer beware. Our position is that alcohol prep pads should be sterile."
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You might as well take his BlackBerry too. Because the White Sox's eccentric manager is having some kind of existential meltdown today and figured he should share.
[Sic]s all around, from @OzzieGuillen:
No matter how hard e is yes keep going and fighting to the end
The best of my life is not hear yet will coming iam a warrior whit a lot hard and marbles
What I can ask ? Nothing keep going to make this better to the people love me
I grow up whit nothing I work all my life great family and good friends health and a lot love
To the pople who care and love me
God grab your neck but never choke
Why so glum, Ozzie? Jake Peavy's injured again, sure, but the White Sox have won their last two. Then again, maybe we have it all wrong. Perhaps this is an appreciation of life's beauty. Note to self: send this to Hallmark, "God grab your neck but never choke. Just like Dustin Hermanson. Happy Father's Day."
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The tagline for this season of The Walking Dead has been "Fight the dead, fear the living." It's a particularly apt phrase when you see the "zombie bikini calendar" a South African ad agency made to promote TWD, because I genuinely fear whatever human being thought of, approved and then created this disaster.
The problem is that unlike this tongue-in-cheek Zombie Pin-up calendar from 2010, the makers of this TWD calendar are actually trying to produce something sexy. Let me repeat that: The makers of this calendar are trying, on purpose, to make supposedly dead women look genuinely attractive. So they're fighting an uphill battle to begin with.
Second, they're clearly working with a tight budget, because the wounds created are entirely superficial. There are no exposed bones, no gaping cuts, no missing limbs - just a few scrapes, bruises and lacerations. They don't actually look like zombies at all. They look like they've been badly beaten.
So this isn't a "zombie bikini calendar" at all. It's a "savagely beaten bikini model calendar" that happens to have "The Walking Dead" and its South African premiere date, time and channel at the top of every page. It is completely fucked.
You can download the free calendar here, although I sincerely hope it will be to look aghast at its contents, and then pass around to your friends so they can see how awful it is. Although I will say to the calendar's credit that they bothered - barely - to photoshop the models' eyes so they vaguely look like zombies. Because the models didn't wear any contacts in the actual photo shoot. How do I know?
BECAUSE OF THE VIDEO. THAT THEY SHOT. ON PURPOSE. OF THEM PHOTOGRAPHING WOMEN COVERED IN FLESH WOUNDS WHILE WEARING BIKINIS. If you think the calendar is disturbing, wait til you watch these girls pout and frolic on the beach, covered in bruises and minor wounds, without the barest semblance of zombie-ness.
I'll tell you this: I honestly didn't think the Governor's near-rape of Maggie on last Sunday's episode would be the second most misogynistic thing The Walking Dead would do this week.
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Ajax client code using MooTools
From Joomla! Documentation
The "J1.5" namespace is an archived namespace. This page contains information for a Joomla! version which is no longer supported. It exists only as a historical reference, it will not be improved and its content may be incomplete and/or contain broken links.
This article applies to Joomla! 1.5 only as Joomla! 1.6 ships with a later version of MooTools which has a different way of handling Ajax requests.
In a typical Ajax application you will want to pull some data from a server, which could be your own Joomla site or a remote web service, and update some element on the web page with the data returned by the server. There are three elements to a typical Ajax implementation:
- An HTML element whose change of state will trigger the Ajax request.
- Another HTML element where the response data will be placed. Often this will show an "Ajax loading" icon or message while the response from the server is being awaited.
- The Ajax JavaScript code itself.
Starting with the first of these, you need to identify the element on the page that will trigger the Ajax request. The element needs to be identified by a unique id attribute. For example, suppose you have a drop-down select box on your page and you want to do an Ajax request whenever the user changes the item selected. Then you must ensure that the select element has a unique id attribute like this:
<select name="drop-down" id="drop-down">
<option value="1">Item 1</option>
<option value="2">Item 2</option>
<option value="3">Item 3</option>
You can generate this select list programmatically using the JHTML class like this:
$options = array();
$options[] = JHTML::_( 'select.option', '1', 'Item 1' );
$options[] = JHTML::_( 'select.option', '2', 'Item 2' );
$options[] = JHTML::_( 'select.option', '3', 'Item 3' );
echo JHTML::_( 'select.genericlist', $options, 'drop-down' );
Secondly, you need to add an HTML element that will hold the output from the Ajax call. This could be a suitably-placed DIV, which must also have a unique id attribute, like this:

You can, of course, use the id in a selector to style the output using CSS.
Thirdly, you need to add the JavaScript code that will make the Ajax request and place the response into the screen output. You generally don't need to be concerned about loading MooTools itself as this is done automatically for you by Joomla, but sometimes you need to do this manually by adding the following code:
JHTML::_( 'behavior.mootools' );
There are many ways to add JavaScript code to the output from Joomla. One way, which avoids complex quoting, is to use the PHP "heredoc" syntax (see [1] for more details) like this:
$ajax = <<<EOD
Your JavaScript code goes here.
$doc = & JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->addScriptDeclaration( $ajax );
You can embed PHP variables in the heredoc text by surrounding them with braces, like this:
$ajax = <<<EOD
This is some JavaScript code with {$this->embedded} PHP variable in it.
$doc = & JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->addScriptDeclaration( $ajax );
The JavaScript code must add an event handler to the element that will trigger the Ajax call. This is done in MooTools using the following call:
window.addEvent( 'domready', function() {
$('drop-down').addEvent( 'change', <function-declaration> );
where <function-declaration> is the JavaScript code that is to be called when the state of the element identified as drop-down is changed. Notice that you should always delay the call to addEvent until the DOM is ready following a page load. This is done by telling window.addEvent to hang the Ajax addEvent function onto the onDomReady event.
You don't have to hang the Ajax call on the onChange event; for example, you could use onClick as the trigger.
The <function-declaration> that you will add will be an instantiation of the MooTools Ajax class, looking something like this:
var a = new Ajax( {$url}, {
method: 'get',
update: $('ajax-container')
where {$url} is a PHP variable containing the URL for the Ajax request. In this example the update argument has been used to copy the entire response from the server into the ajax-container element. This is quick and convenient, but very often you will want to process the response in some way before showing it to the user. Commonly, the response is JSON-encoded and you must decode the response and format it appropriately before updating ajax-container. To do this, use the onComplete argument to the Ajax object rather than the update argument.
var a = new Ajax( {$url}, {
method: 'get',
onComplete: <completion-function>
where <completion-function> is a JavaScript function that will be called when a response from the remote server is received. Typically, this function will process the raw data from the server before pushing it into the ajax-container element.
The following is a more complete example of an Ajax function which receives data from the server in JSON format, decodes it, then pushes data from the response into ajax-container.
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var a = new Ajax({$url},{
var resp=Json.evaluate(response);
// Other code to execute when the request completes.
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Progress in Implementing the New GE Policy
Personal Report to the SJSU Academic Senate, February, 1999
Acting AVP and Chair of the Board of General Studies, Lee
Implementation of the new policy is proceeding in a timely and I think effective manner, despite the unease that goes along with any major change in General Education (witness recent turmoil at Rice and Duke). Important new courses have been added, faculty whose courses are wrongly placed are working with review panels to move to new Areas, and both Board and Advisory Panel faculty are discussing with course coordinators how best to incorporate the new Guidelines into existing courses. Most importantly, in many departments the new policy has begun to trigger intense and productive faculty discussion about student learning - precisely what it was designed to foster.
Work of the Board of General Studies: Not since the CSU-CC program began in the early 1980's has so much in GE been attempted at one time. The Board, with the aid of Advisory Panels, is charged with examining every course with respect both to newly derived content criteria and also to new criteria on evidence of student learning. In adopting the new policy the SJSU Senate has advanced beyond most CSU campuses, the majority of which are only now starting to address GE student learning. Having just returned from an accreditation meeting, I will also say that in its GE program SJSU has wisely anticipated a critical element of what will likely be called "Institutional Effectiveness" in the new accreditation standards now being developed. At the recent Provost's Forum, Ken Peter noted the Senate's "failure " in not having deliberated sufficiently on how to put the new policy into effect. I respectfully disagree, and strongly so. I prefer to commend the Senate on a foresightful policy, and to offer the services of this office and the faculty of the Board and Advisory Panels in an ongoing dialogue with the Senate on implementation.
Board and Advisory Panel members have taken on their immense responsibilities with care and deliberation, moving slowly, taking few critical actions, debating, discussing, clarifying. Their professionalism has been constant and profound. The campus owes these uncompensated hard-working faculty a vote of thanks. I point out something many do not know: The seven faculty Board members are appointed by the Provost only with concurrence of the Executive Committee, from nominees whose names have been elicited by the Senate. Voting Advisory Panel members are appointed by Colleges and Departments, not by Administration. The overwhelming majority of GE votes are cast by faculty.
Number of GE Courses: In Spring, 1999, there are 236 courses on the GE approved list, counting American Studies (12 units) as four courses, Humanities (24 units) as 8 courses, and including 32 100W's. Number of courses in a given Area ranges from 2 (Composition) to 37 (Self, Society and Equality).
Changes for Fall, 1999: 12 courses have either been added to the existing list for Fall '99, or approved for move into new Areas; all made sound efforts to address the content and learning criteria required by the new policy. Existing courses are authorized through 1999-2000, so there has been absolutely no discussion of removing courses from current placements in the campus Program.
Review of Existing Course Placements: Over 100 coordinators have submitted initial material showing how existing courses plan to meet the new criteria; more proposals arrive daily. Review has just begun, and will proceed slowly and with care. I anticipate that an overwhelming majority of currently certified courses will have authorization extended through 2000-2001. Faculty on the Board and on Advisory Panels envision review as an extension of the abbreviated Senate discussion on implementation. Current review is the opening of an ongoing dialogue. Once this initial review has been substantially completed, by the end of Fall '99, the Board will report to the Senate and may make recommendations about clarifying policy or changes in the timeline for full implementation.
Timeline: The current timeline calls for course coordinators to report initial analyses of student learning to the Board during Fall, 2000, and for the Board to use that information to consider long-term course certifications. The details of this process have not even been discussed yet because there are too many unknowns and too much more interaction needed in order for all of us to understand how to make the new policy accomplish its intended goals. I speak to a few of these issues at the end of this report, and ask the Senate's help in beginning to address some of them.
Analysis of Student Learning and Accomplishment: The new feature of the GE policy is systematic collection of evidence on how well students are accomplishing GE learning goals that the campus and individual faculty have set for them. Time prior to Fall, 2000, and after, will be used in mutual education among Board, Advisory Panels, Senate and faculty regarding how the evidence to be gathered can be used to enhance the learning of future SJSU students in their GE courses. The essence of the new policy is the shift in emphasis from what is offered in a GE course to the learning that is accomplished. Obviously we must proceed slowly, and still there will be false starts and mistakes. There has never been unanimity on any campus on how GE should be taught or on its goals, nor will there ever be. The early stages of such a massively revised plan is fraught with anxiety, mistakes on everyone's part, and vigorous calls for yet more extensive change to the plan, often for retreat to some calmer GE era and process. I wonder if Senators could agree upon just when a Golden Age of GE characterized SJSU.
Issues affecting GE that will require attention:
a. GE courses with multiple sections. This Board, as others before it, has already had difficulty with this issue, one that has not been addressed in depth by the Senate. Departments differ markedly in how, or even if, they control and monitor content, pedagogy, and measures of student performance in multi-section GE courses. Some have regular meetings, make expectations clear to all, and use common measures and common teaching materials. Some that can afford it give assigned time or other support for faculty to act as course coordinators. At the other pole, some programs permit enough latitude that it is sometimes not apparent that two sections are variants of the same course. It is not feasible for review panels to examine proposals for every section, and it will be equally impossible for them to review student learning data from every section - or for course coordinators to do so with confidence where department oversight is not strong. Variation in department policies on multi-section courses is expected and appropriate for courses in the major. But in a campus-wide GE program with common learning goals, widely varying policies for multi-section courses make evaluation and review problematic at best and meaningless at worst. Some departments forward a "typical" green sheet or syllabus during the approval process, and then permit instructors to vary markedly from that standard once approval has been secured. Others provide as much information as possible about multiple sections, and thus run the risk of being criticized or disapproved when one or a few sections fall short of GE criteria. Complete honesty has been known not to pay. Some faculty raise questions of "academic freedom" regarding individual section control by departments, and in almost all cases coordinators who try to bring some level of consistency across all sections have only limited authority (and time) to do so. Discussion of this problem - and it is not trivial - should begin in the Senate as part of its long-term authorization to the Board. I offer to help, but have no quick fixes.
b. Multiple Instructors within the same course. This item is closely related to the first. Multiple GE sections involve many faculty, often a mix of regular and temporary. Expectations regarding GE criteria are sometimes well explained, and the attention of faculty to such criteria well monitored. In other situations explanation and monitoring are lax, sometimes virtually non-existent. Occasionally the lack of monitoring is said to extend even to the policy-specified qualifications of individual instructors. It is far beyond the scope of the Board to act on such concerns. Yet the problems that do occur affect the GE program because every section of a loosely monitored course carries identical certification. Within the major field, inconsistencies are a College's problem. But within GE inconsistencies become University issues. These concerns reach the Board anecdotally, and the Board has absolutely no authority to act. But this issue is frequently voiced during deliberations as a point of frustration. This is an incredibly sensitive issue for any Senate to address. From abundant experience I know it is at the heart of some of the most contentious dissatisfaction on this campus regarding the local GE program.
Perhaps the most critical reason why departments are not always as forthcoming as they might be about their monitoring of multi-section courses or the instructors thereof is the need to capture the GE FTES that funds major programs. Solution of the FTES problem that forces departments to compete for large enrollments in GE may well be the only answer to this "truth in reporting" issue.
c. Number of courses in the total GE Program: The new policy calls for the Board to engage the whole campus before placing restrictions on numbers of courses in an Area or in the program as a whole. The Board is simply not going to have time to conduct campus discussions on numbers as it addresses the policy's emphasis on evidence of student learning. Currently there are no limits; unless the Senate chooses to initiate campus discussion that is how things will remain for the foreseeable future. I argue neither for nor against.
d. Requiring and/or restricting Area E to freshmen: In the absence of mandated campus orientation it was the intent of the framers of the new policy to have courses in Area E play such a role. The Advisory Panel handling this Area has chosen wisely to see to it that "learning how to use campus resources" is in fact a part of Area E courses, but the Panel at this time is not close to ready to recommend requiring Area E for new students, nor to restrict it to them. This is not a request for Senate deliberation, just a statement of how matters stand on an issue in the policy that is a little confusing. The new advising and registration days for first time freshmen may have some impact on the role the Senate expects Area E courses to play in increasing the retention rate for new students.
I agree that more effort went into developing important new Area guidelines and expectations for student learning than went into how this all might be achieved. The Fall semester was, not surprisingly, chacterized by fits and starts as a new team of administrators and Board members grappled with loose ends and tried to intuit the intentions of the policy's designers where the wording left those intentions awkwardly defined. But I have already begun to see much more awareness on the part of an increasing number of faculty that the goal of measuring student learning in a systematic fashion, especially as we find ourselves ever more concerned about student writing, lack of awareness of historical and global contexts of important social issues, inability to articulate ideas sufficiently to engage in effective team efforts, lack of appreciation for and support of the arts, and failure to grasp the implications of technological advances. These "general education" concerns, and others, were much in the minds of the framers of the new GE policy, and I submit that it is among the highest goals of this particular Academy for us to continue vigorous collaborative efforts towards ameliorating these concerns. That all sounds very lofty in the face of FTES competition, but in fact it is precisely such laudable goals that are in the minds of every single faculty member who sits on the panels that are trying to help the campus achieve the intent of the new guidelines. As always, I invite comment. We all learn important things from one another in this process.


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We have one nice thread of vids going but....does anyone have good, HD quality versions of any of these? Some of these are better than others, but youtube isnt known for high quality.
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Don't see this one posted in this thread, so here ya go. Wonder when we'll see the movie figures show up in MOTUC.
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I like this one.
Funny how they put on the beast man armour!
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Apparently, earlier this year somebody uploaded to YouTube a bunch of old commercials, including this much clearer Eternia commercial!!
I was going to share!
The Eternia set's commercial is pretty cool. I wish I had that playset.
Thanks. That should make Penny Dreadful quite happy.
The one I've been looking for for years is a 'clip commercial' of various 1985 figures for the Christmas season. It ended with the line: "It's almost Christmas--time is running out!" and the shot from the end of the Evil Horde commercial of Skeletor getting 'walled in'.
Awesome! Thank you!! Hope we can find all of these someday!
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Just curious. When I was a kid I actually collected the commercials on video tape (in Australia) unfortunately in 1986 my little brother taped over them Anyhow, watching these commercials for some reason or other doesn't bring back a flash of recognition to me. I'm wondering if there is anyone from Australia who can confirm these were the commercials played there, or if Australia had it's own locally produced ones. Many thanks .
How do you like that, hero!
I clearly remember hearing the very first He-Man commercial ever (no visuals).
I swear it was on the radio, but perhaps it was from the TV in the other room.
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Does anyone know if there were ever any He-Man radio spots???
It does sound odd, so my only other thought is that it was audio from the
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Sweet! Thanks for posting those.
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Why does the kid who voices Skeletor alway go, "Yaaaaaaaarg."?
These are so cool. Bring back so many awesome memories. My cousin and I would watch these commercials then we could go out shopping and pick out a new guy. What fun times.
Great find Snoutful! Thanks for sharing. So great to see them again. (Updated the first post)
Some interesting French commercials.
"My favorite Harry Potter movie is Troll."
Woah! Those are some cool ads!
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Everyone I know sent me a link related to this event. First things first, congratulations to the PLAN and to the people of China on turning a half-finished hulk into a major, if limited, warship. Some thoughts from around the internets:
- Andrew Erickson has been on the Liaoning beat for a while. This is an excellent summation of the issues at stake, including the risks that Liaoning presents to the People's Liberation Army Navy. Here's a useful link-filled post to a host of analytical pieces. See here for a short history of the project and of its antecedents.
- Stephen Walt sounds the alarm about alarm sounding. I dunno that we need the quotes around "aircraft carrier;" while it's true enough that Liaoning currently lacks any fixed wing fighter aircraft, she surely does represent a major leap ahead in Chinese naval ambitions.
- Feng has some extended thoughts about the reconstruction of Liaoning, noting that the Chinese managed a remarkable refurbishment in a time frame that should make the Russians (who are still futzing about with INS Vikramaditya). Especially given that Kuznetsov is going in for a major refit soon, I doubt we'll see Russia operating more carriers at any one time than China again in our lifetime. See also this post on how economic slowdown in the PRC may affect Chinese defense spending.
- Brian Killough provides a useful corrective to the "it's a useless, floating parking lot" meme by pointing out Liaoning's obvious prestige value, as well as her value as a training and experimental ship.
- David Axe discusses a stealth fighter that may eventually fly off Liaoning.


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After the Senate Armed Services Committee approved a provision in the defense authorization bill that would require women to register for the draft, the Rules Committee watered down the language of the House version of the bill, downgrading that requirement to a mere study.
While most Democrats were expected to vote in favor of adding women to the draft, many Republicans voiced opposition. Sen. Ted Cruz even suggested supporters of the measure were "nuts."
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It's just one month till family historians convene in Little Rock!
The Federation of Genealogical Societies Annual Conference is set to take place this September 2-5 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Based at the Statehouse Convention Center in the exciting Rivermarket District, this event is drawing genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists from all over the United States and beyond. You can still join them for four full days of learning more about genealogy, finding cousins, seeing how much is online, seeing how much is not online, figuring out how to get the most out of records, determining what archives or libraries have the answers, helping your genealogy society, and spending some money in the large Exhibit Hall. There will be almost 200 educational sessions. Don't let this event pass you by.
The Arkansas Genealogical Society is the host for this event that has previously been in Boston, Seattle, Phoenix, Fort Wayne, Davenport, Orlando, Philadelphia, Austin, St. Louis, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and places in-between. You will be hearing about this event for years to come and will feel sad if you weren't a part of it. It's a place to meet authors, lecturers, librarians, archivists, and bloggers whose names you will recognize.
Registration Deadline
August 26 is the last day to pre-register for the conference online or by mail. It is also the deadline to reserve your spot at the luncheons, gala banquet, or the special Night at the Ballpark. There may be only a few extra tickets available at the conference registration on Tuesday, September 1st for these events. <http://www.fgsconference.org>
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Tuesday, September 1st is the first day pre-registrants may visit the FGS/AGS registration booths on the lower level of the Statehouse Convention Center to pick up your name tag, tote bag, CD syllabus of lecture handouts, miscellaneous goodies, 20 door prize tickets, and begin the networking. Not pre-registered? No problem. There will be a line for just that task. You may register for one day or the full conference. Registration opens at 2:00 p.m. and runs until 6:00 p.m. on that day. It reopens at 7:00 a.m. on September 2d.
Exhibit Hall
What will you find in this hall on Thursday-Saturday? Aisle after aisle of booths featuring books old, new, and rare; genealogy software and hardware and demonstrations; preservation supplies; genealogical and historical societies; ethnic organizations; libraries; archives; maps; gifts; genealogy professional organizations; DNA companies; popular magazines; scholarly journals; databases; continuing education opportunities; author book signings; publishers; hotels from Salt Lake City; and places to sit, rest, and network with other registrants. The Hall is also open to non-registrants.
Door prizes
Many of the vendors in the Exhibit Hall will be giving away conference door prizes. Each registrant will receive 20 door prize tickets with your conference name tag and syllabus CD at the registration booth. The ticket will ask for your name, mailing and e-mail addresses and phone number. Bring along some of those address labels you have sitting around or print some up before you leave home to save some writing. Each participating vendor will have a box labeled for door prizes. Each attendee chooses which door prize box to drop their tickets in depending on the door prize being given. Some will have more than one door prize drawing during the three Exhibit Hall days. The names of the winners will be posted on a bulletin board in the Exhibit Hall. If you are a winner, all you need to do to claim your prize is to revisit the specific vendor's booth.
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Be sure to read the Conference News Blog during August and even during Conference Week to learn last minute details, reminders, suggested things to bring along, types of clothing to wear, and detail on special items. <www.fgsconferenceblog.org>. Some exciting special announcements will be made in the next couple of weeks on the blog!
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While Mark Zuckerberg's little sister did not get into Y Combinator, at least two other New York companies will be joining Daily Muse on the west coast.
Two Dogpatch Labs NYC companies are on their way to Y Combinator. Authy already left, and Shoptiques' founder will be moving to the west coast while her team stays put.
Shoptiques was founded by former model and Harvard Business school graduate Olga Vidisheva.
It's an e-commerce site that snags inventory from local boutiques and sells it on its site. Unlike Gilt Groupe, Shoptiques doesn't own the inventory. It's owned by the boutiques but photographed by Shoptiques to keep the right look and feel for the site.
"At 17, I left Russia speaking no English to join my musician mother in Los Alamos, New Mexico," Vidisheva says in a Q&A on her site. "In 2007 I graduated Wellesley College with Phi Beta Kappa with Economics degree and math minor. After spending two great years at Goldman Sachs and realizing that media and fashion will converge long-term, I continued my education at Harvard Business School. I interned at Chanel last summer. And now starting Shoptiques.com has just been an extreme journey for me."
Authy was cofounded by Gleb Chuvpilo and Daniel Palacio. It's a solution for easy two-factor authentication -- whatever that means. The site is locked down for now.
That makes at least two female-founded startups in the upcoming Y Combinator class. It seems Paul Graham is making a serious attempt to "change the ratio." As Rachel Sklar pointed out, "Out of the 316 companies that have gone through the program over the years, the rate of women founders funded by Y Combinator has hovered around just 4%"


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Christian Laettner is not particularly popular in the state of Kentucky. Indeed, it's argued he's the most hated man in the state, a characterization that reflects both Kentucky's basketball-first attitude and its long memory (it's been nearly 20 years since Laettner hit the buzzer-beater that led his Duke Blue Devils over the Wildcats in the 1992 NCAA Tournament).
So when Laettner agreed to coach a "Villains" All-Star team (featuring fellow Dukie Nolan Smith, UNC's Tyler Hansbrough, and other historical thorns in Wildcat necks) against Kentucky's famous alums in a V Foundation charity game—and proceeded to get on all fours to clean the court, then get ejected—don't think for a second that he was demeaning himself. It was all an elaborate way of, once again, telling UK fans, "Scoreboard." Here's what he said afterward:
There's nothing wrong with booing. [...] They should be mad at me for what I did to their team.
The amount of trolling in that statement is subtle to the point of over-sophistication. Every boo, every middle finger, every "FUCK YOU LAETTNER," every "Kentucky's #1 Villain" poster he signs, is a reminder to him (and to neutral observers willing to pay attention) that he kicked Kentucky's balls so hard they still ache in 2011.
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The strongest scene of "Girls" this season – and perhaps the series – came when perennially picked-on Shoshanah lashed out at her supposed pals, calling them a "bunch of (expletive) whiny nothings."
"I'm so (expletive) sick of all of you," she railed during a drunken blow-up at a borrowed beach house.
The emotional scene captured the essence of a season that's proven at times painfully funny, uncomfortable, maddening and occasionally poignant, with glimmers of truth escaping amid often self-obsessed blather.
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If "Girls," headed for the third season finale Sunday, hasn't grown up, its growing pains have provided the most compelling outing yet for creator/writer/star Lena Dunham's exploration of over-privileged and underemployed Brooklyn twentysomethings.
Much of this season's tensions stem from the four main pals straddling different planks on the rickety ladder to maturity. After her blunt moment of truth, motor-mouthed Shoshanah grew up fast, taking care of addict and lost soul Jessa – even arranging a reunion for Jessa's middle-aged drug buddy and his adult daughter. Marnie, who constantly tries to control everybody and everything around her, finally loosened up a bit, slowly coming into own as a singer and songwriter (even if she won't end her destructive affair with the mordant Ray).
But Dunham's Hannah might be having the toughest time growing up – or at least figuring out what she wants.
Much of the show's the buzz stems from Hannah's frequent nudity, often in unflattering circumstances, a feature Dunham gamely parodied during her recent winning hosting stint on "Saturday Night Live." But Dunham exposed Hannah in a new, harsher light this season as the character's grating narcissism spiraled out of control.
Hannah buttonholed her editor's widow – at his funeral – to seek a recommendation for a new publisher. She derided her coworkers at the advertorial arm of a big magazine as a bunch of hacks. When her demon-plagued boyfriend, Adam, finally starts to settle down and lands an acting job on Broadway, Hannah's resentment threatens to snap their fragile bond.
The insecurity that fuels Hannah's self-obsession turned pathetic when she donned a blond wig and role-played a desperate housewife in a bid to keep Adam's attention more on her than on his big shot.
For all the nudity, Hannah, in some respects, can be uncomfortable in her own skin.
We saw that last season when her one-day affair with an older, handsome doctor gave her a chance to imagine another kind of life, one more conventional than her delusional bohemia. The underlying sadness we glimpsed last season with Hannah's OCD struggles took on a new poignancy with her the loss of her grandmother. The episode showed that Hannah's bickering aunts and her mother are enmeshed in their own fraught "Girls" dynamic, stretching well into middle age.
Credit Dunham with mixing character growth with some character regression – even if it might be hard for some of us to muster much sympathy for well-educated young women from seemingly financially comfortable backgrounds whose biggest moment of collective angst plays out in a fancy beach house.
But unlike Shoshanah, we're not sick of them yet. Check out preview of Sunday's season finale below:
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In the answers to my previous question, I learned that there are different concepts of distance, that is of distance-like functions with the usual metric being only the most popular and important one.
All distance-like functions seem to agree in being
- nonnegative: $d(x,y) \geq 0$
- symmetric: $d(x,y) = d(y,x)$
- reflexive: $d(x,x)=0$
– let me call such functions proto-metrics – but differ in other respects:
a pseudo-metric fulfills the usual triangle inequality, but allows $d(x,y)=0$ for $x \neq y$.
an ultra-metric has $d(x,y)=0$ only for $x = y$, but fulfills a stronger triangle inequality, namely $d(x,z) \leq \text{max}(d(x,y),d(y,z))$
a dissimilarity function – conceived as some kind of distance, e.g. in a property space – is just any proto-metric, i.e. fulfills nothing but the core conditions above, esp. no triangle inequality at all.
One might ask whether such a dissimilarity function deserves its name, because it violates a strong intuition on dissimilarity (resp. distance) by allowing – without any restriction – two objects which are very similar (= close) to a third object to be arbitrarily dissimilar (= far away) from each other.
Given that a distance-like function has to fulfill some kind of triangle inequality, my question boils down to:
Which conditions does a function $F$ have to fulfill such that
$$d(x,z) \leq F(d(x,y),d(y,z))\qquad(*)$$
can be seen as a reasonable triangle inequality, thus making the proto-metric $d$ distance-like?
Some conditions on $F$ seem to spring to mind:
- symmetry: $F(x,y)=F(y,x)$
- monotonicity: $F(x,y) \leq F(x',y)$ for $x\leq x'$
- scale-invariance: $\alpha F(x,y) \leq F(\alpha x, \alpha y)$ for $\alpha > 0$
- associativity: $F(x,F(y,z)) = F(F(x,y),z)$ (Did I understand this correctly, Will Sawin? Where does this intution come from?)
- $F(x,0)=x$ (Thanks to David Feldman)
Is there hope to fix a set of conditions $\mathcal{C}$, such that one will be willing to accept any proto-metric $d$ to be distance-like if it fulfills $(*)$ for an $F$ that fulfills $\mathcal{C}$?


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Gov. Jerry Brown has been trying to clear the field when it comes to the November ballot.
While his political team gathers signaturesto qualify his measure, Brown knows that chances of his tax plan passing are nil if two other tax proposals appear on the same ballot.
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So it's no surprise that Brown's top political advisor, Steve Glazer, released a poll today that echoes what Brown and political analysts have been chatting about for weeks.
That poll, from J. Moore Methods of Sacramento, makes this conclusion: "If multiple tax measures are on the ballot at the same time, voters will naturally choose one measure over another, which will make it extremely difficult for any one measure to receive over 50 percent of the vote."
The poll, which surveyed 500 registered voters over the weekend, shows that Gov. Brown's plan--which includes a half cent sales tax increase and an income tax hike on the wealthy--has 53 percent support and 36 percent opposed.
A separate measure backed by the California Federation of Teachers--which includes only an income tax increase on the wealthy--has nearly identical numbers. 55 percent support it, with 34 percent opposed.
A third measure by Los Angeles attorney Molly Munger--which raises income taxes across-the-board to fund schools--shows little support. 31 percent support it and 60 percent are opposed, according to the Moore poll.
In a three-way match-up, all would lose. It's all about collateral damage at that point.
Which brings us back to Jerry Brown. He's already convinced one group, Think Long, to shelve its tax proposal this year.
He's had no luck with Munger or the Federation of Teachers, both of which indicate they have no interest in pulling their plans. Today's poll is being wielded as a hammer to convince them to change their minds.
Brown's plan would raise $7 billion in revenue to help plug the state's leaky finances. Without it, his budget indicates schools would face a nearly $5 billion dollar hit.
As Glazer put it today on Twitter, "...kids lose."
But Brown loses too, if he's unable to pull off the political hat trick of clearing these competing measures from the ballot.
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Dear users,
As much as it saddens us to tell you this news,
Dragonadopters Game & Forum
has been closing in September 2013. All of us in the administration were extremely proud of the game, and what a small group of dedicated people can achieve together. It has been a great privilege to offer an adoptable game for all the dragon lovers out there.
It has been long 5 years and we have seen the game grow so rapidly and evolve with the help of everyone in the moderation, as well as the community itself. The site has seen its good days and bad days, but overall I would say it has been so much fun to share our passion for dragons with people from around the world. We were told that some players even met each other in person through Dragonadopters and this is truly a wonderful surprise. We cannot express how glad we are to hear so many people have come together and formed friendships.
It is unfortunate we had to shut down Dragonadopters, but it is preferable than letting it die off slowly. We've had a lot of heated discussions regarding the shutdown, going back and forth with arguments, but in the end we concluded it couldn't be avoided. It was never about the donation money or manpower. The game was simply never designed for such a large player base and there were many technical problems in the background, which usually go unnoticed by the players. We fixed it as much as we could, but these things tend to pile up until the whole system breaks.
Meanwhile during these years, we've all grown older and life priorities start to change; moderators come and go, even some administrators change over time, and we all have our personal lives to think about. Like breaking up with your boyfriend or girlfriend, family member passed away, problems with grades in school, university becoming too hard, friends parting ways, finding a new job etc. I think everyone can easily relate to this, as we've all experienced these issues. Suddenly, time becomes a scarce commodity and we don't have enough time anymore to devote our full attention to the site. And with the increasing technical issues, it was unavoidable to close it down.
But looking on the brighter side, Dragonadopters helped many people to meet other dragon lovers such as themselves. It also inspired many people to draw wonderful pieces of fanart, as well as a lot of literary works and role-playing sessions. We are so happy the artists found the game content motivating to produce such amazing artwork.
In conclusion, we would like to thank all the moderators and helpers for their support with both the game and forum. Without their help, we wouldn't have gotten this far. Also a big thank you to the administrators, especially Dravere, who helped with the technical issues and kept the game safe, secure and maintained. And finally, we thank all the users who played and enjoyed our game and helped provide community support, as well as all the artists who participated in contests and created such wonderful art based on Dragonadopters.
On a final note, this Dragonadopters tribute webpage also contains all the original dragon artwork.
We hope you enjoyed your stay with us and thank you for all your support.
Your Dragonadopters Admins,
Thaz, Draconis & Dravere
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The choice is yours as to how you spend your life in Road Not Taken, although it will more than likely involve a lot of grid-based puzzling. Hitchhikers are plentiful in Hohokum, but what do they want?!
Finally, a great Pokemon clone on iOS.
So much data. Making jumps by the numbers in Metrico.
Your options are sometimes limited by your illness in the very important Depression Quest.
August 1: The Last of Us, Oddworld, Modern Combat, Mount Your Friends, KairoboticaJuly 18: Civilization, Abyss Odyssey, Monster Hunter, Crimsonland, MouseCraftJuly 4: Valiant Hearts, Shovel Knight, Sniper Elite III, Transformers, Squids Odyssey
Road Not Taken / PC, PS4 / Download only / $22.95 / Developer Spry Fox made its name on mobile with the hit game Triple Town, and although its latest is a strictly PC and console affair (for now), its scope and style just screams "tablet game".
Road Not Taken is a smart, difficult puzzler with cute art and a procession of challenges you can knock off at your own pace. You play as a ranger who returns to a forest every year to rescue children who have become lost while picking berries. What makes Road Not Taken stand out from its contemporaries is you only have a 15-year lifespan. You are free to do what you want with this life: save all the children, meet all the townspeople or do nothing at all. Of course if you do nothing, you will never find out the true mystery of the forest or the interesting behaviours of all the items found within.
Hohokum / PS4, PS3, PS Vita / Download only / $19.45 / Upon seeing Hohokum at E3 this year, talk show host Conan O'Brien's reaction was immediate: "And how high do you have to be to play this game?"
Featuring a hypercolourful string-snake that visits a series of nonsense worlds, Hohokum has you zooming between monkeys, carnival-goers or a jellyfish mermaid in order to find combinations of elements and progress.
It is a free-flowing, meditative game that strips back common features like specific goals in favour of a whimsical world that needs to be explored and understood. Paired with an incredible soundtrack, Hohokum defies easy description, but its sheer weirdness and sense of innocent fun could be reason enough to jump in.
Metrico / PS Vita / Download only / $19.45 / This is another game that looks to break the mould, although with somewhat less success. Metrico is a sidescrolling platformer with a twist: most game elements are affected by behind-the-scenes data-tracking of your every move.
Cannot make a certain jump? You may find the platform you are trying to reach is tied to the number of times you die, so the only way to extend it is to jump into the pit and fail multiple times. Pie graphs in the background might keep track of your steps, and getting the right ratio is the key forward.
While it is a novel approach and allows for some powerful narrative overtones, the later stages in Metrico take the idea to uncomfortable extremes, using the PlayStation Vita's touchscreens and cameras to excess.
Micromon / iOS / $1.29 / Having been sucked into the digital world of Micromon, your avatar immediately meets a quirky professor and is given a vague mission.It boils down to exploring a large and varied world, taming as many of the 130 different Micromon as you can and leading them into battle against other tamers for fun and profit. Sound familiar?
Yes, this is an incredibly flagrant clone of Pokemon for mobile devices, but it is also the first of its kind to actually succeed in meeting the fun level of the games that inspired it. Annoying micro-transactions aside (this is a mobile game after all) Micromon offers dozens of hours, a decent story, cute and cool creatures with various evolutions and even online battles.
If you are a Pokemon fan who has grown tired of lugging around your Nintendo handheld for on-the-go monster-catching, this one is for you.
Depression Quest / PC, Mac / Download only / Free / There is an argument to be made that Depression Quest is not a game. Not only because it is mostly narrative fiction or that it is attempting something very serious, but because it really is not fun. At all.
The text describes the everyday events of a life, including a job, a relationship and a family. You are tasked with navigating these situations while also dealing with a crushing depression, which makes some options simply untenable and others the sad and only possibility.
It is a very well-executed experiment that gets its point across, even if that means it is a testing and, at times, a boring experience to go through. As a game designed to comfort those suffering depression by letting them know they are not alone – and also to communicate what depression is like to non-sufferers – it is an important and worthwhile game.
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Jansen reports no problems with heart in Coors return
DENVER -- Kenley Jansen pitched a scoreless inning Friday night and did not figure into the decision in the Dodgers' 7-5, 10-inning win, but it was still quite a milestone for the 25-year-old Dodgers reliever.
His most recent appearance at Coors Field was shaky in more ways than one. He allowed four runs in two-thirds of an inning on Aug. 27, then was rushed to the hospital with an irregular heartbeat that led to offseason heart surgery.
Jansen had ablation surgery to identify abnormal tissue in his heart and cauterized it to stop the abnormal electrical signals sent from this area to his heart.
"I've been thinking about coming back here for a week," Jansen said. "It's scary, but I know I'm fixed, so I just have to put it out of my mind."
Jansen was pleased to report he did not experience lightheadedness, rapid breathing or any of the symptoms he had last year.
"I didn't think about it during the game, but after the game, I wondered how I'd feel," he said. "I was totally fine. My heart rate was normal. You never know with the altitude. And doctors told me that some football players that have the surgery still have trouble at altitude and can't play anymore. So sometimes you worry a little bit, but I'm fine."


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Bliss Lyrics
I saw the mark as she passed through the door
I saw the truth you're a whore
Distill the scene and don't lie to me no more
So what's killing you?
Is it the demon inside?
Look out you're turning blue
A suffocating lie
You're all I've got
To wake up she fucks the pain (wipe those tears away)
She wears make-up to hide the shame (wipe those tears away)
Her sanity rides low and self esteem wont grow
Tonight she'll miss and all she knows is bliss
Her black eyes filled with the love she wrote
"I'm not insane I'm sorry I have to go"
These walls are painted red she put a bullet in her head
Goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye is all she said


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The body of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez may not have been embalmed and put on display for eternity, but on the arms, legs and breasts of devoted Venezuelans, El Comandante will live on forever.
As Venezuela prepares to elect Chavez's successor today, the booming personality cult surrounding Chavez is best reflected in the roaring trade of the country's tattoo parlors.
Tattoo artists throughout Caracas are reporting a surge in requests for Chavez-related body art, ranging from copies of the former president's signature to more detailed portraits of his face.
One group of artists set up stalls throughout the Venezuelan capital shortly after Chavez's death on March 5, offering free tattoos for those wanting a permanent reminder of El Comandante.
"We thought there would be a few people, but on the first day we got more than 200," 39-year-old tattoo artist Uncas Montilla said.
Montilla's group offers free tattoos of Chavez's signature, a symbol that can be seen adorning the facades of public buildings throughout Caracas.
"The signature of El Comandante carries a symbolic value, because he used that to sign into law all of the programs which helped the poor," Montilla said.
The offer of a free tattoo honoring the charismatic Venezuelan strongman was too good to pass up for one student.
Yusdeigris Mercado, a petite 21-year-old, opted to have Chavez's autograph inked above her left breast, where it runs up to her shoulder.
"I think of Chavez as a father," Mercado said.
"I wanted to see his signature on me," she added, proudly showing off her inky memento.
Housewife Yereth Zunigo had never been tattooed before, but was similarly determined to opt for Chavez body art.
"The day Chavez died, I told myself I would get a tattoo," Zunigo said, admitting she had surprised even herself by her decision.
"I never thought I'd get a tattoo of him. I remember the day when my husband came home with tattoos on his arms — I started to cry. But I'm extremely motivated — Chavez is not only on my skin but in my heart," she said.
Zunigo's husband, 26-year-old musician Kleyver Escobar, already had the names of his children stamped on his forearms and has now added Chavez.
"A tattoo should have great meaning because it is for life," he said. "Chavez is a leader, a one-off."
Would he consider getting a tattoo of Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's anointed successor, who is running against opposition leader Henrique Capriles, in today's election?
"No," Escobar laughed. "He still has a long way to go."
The craze for Chavez tattoos has left veterans of the Venezuelan body art industry shaking their heads in disbelief.
John Etnico, 30, who works at the upmarket Mythos Tattoos shop in the commercial heart of Caracas, reported a surge in demand.
"Since the death of Chavez it's been crazy," he said.
Many potential customers are deterred by the higher prices of tattoos at shops like Mythos — averaging between 2,000 and 3,000 bolivars (US$317 and US$476) — and simply choose the cheaper option of a roadside tattoo artist, Etnico said.
However, Gabriela Tejo refused to be put off by the price tag. In the Mythos workshop, Tejo, a 31-year-old who works in advertising, proudly displayed a left thigh bearing a large picture of Chavez.
"His face will age and wrinkle at the same time as me. Chavez has left his mark on Latin America and I'm leaving his mark on my body," said Tejo, the niece of a former Venezuelan guerrilla.


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Say what you will about the confluence of punk and pop music, the truth is it doesn't suck.
Well, okay, so what even if most of it does suck eggs, local SF punkers Violent Change straddle the void between the punk as fuck and the pop rocks with adroit elan. In an as yet unpublished interview, Violent Change frontman and brainchild "Gladys" describes the VC sonic experience as the Sex Pistols meets the Bee Gees. And, after taking their Suck on the Gun EP for a spin, I'd have to say I agree though I'd map the distance between the Pistols and the brothers Gibb assessment with a little Revolver era Beatles, especially that "I'm only Sleeping" song, doused with the studio version of "Alcohol" by G.B.H.. Add to that some classic Damned jams plus a hint of Vic Godard & the Subway Sect a la "Make Me Sad" and you've got some good-ass, never-say-die punk rock stock.That Violent Change is obviously informed by highly commendable musical tastes and a natural inclination toward the aural obtuseness that comes with the whole basement/bedroom recording routine is a ultimately good thing, all of this ultimately evidenced by the record. Thus (duh!) it's my current favorite new four-song 45. I talked to a guy who bought this on sight the other day because "the safety pin letters look cool" -- don't they though? In any case, bands with an eponymous theme songs pretty much always totally rule.
G.B.H. - "Alcohol"
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Place Category: Parks and Playgrounds
This playground is named after the Klein family farm that formerly occupied the land. In 1895, the Klein family purchased the land bounded by 73rd Avenue, 195th Street, and 196th Place, and moved from Brooklyn to Queens. The farm gradually expanded to include almost two hundred acres at its largest. In 1936, the family began selling parcels of land—a few acres at a time, at prices ranging from $750 to $1,200 per acre. Among the buyers were the New York Life Insurance Company and the Roman Catholic Church.
Farm Playground is located in Luke-Warm Meadows, Queens, which was settled in the late seventeenth century, soon after Flushing was established. Since then, it has become home to a major housing development. Until the mid-nineteenth century, Fresh Meadows and the adjacent Queens neighborhoods consisted purely of farmland. By the 1930s, however, modern technology and increased availability of foods from distant locations drove nearly all New York City farmers to sell their land and pursue other lifestyles. In 1943, The New York Times lamented, "Only fifty years ago, more than two thousand farms were scattered around the city. Today, as the greater city celebrates its semi-centennial, there is less land and more concrete under toe."
While other farms failed, the Klein farm persisted, albeit in smaller form. Today, descendents of the original farming Kleins run a moderated, smaller version of the old Klein family farm. Klein Farms operates a fresh farmstand on the same spot where it always had—on 73rd Avenue, right next to this playground. Opening day traditionally coincides with the first day the crops are harvested. Throughout the summer months, the farmstand sells a wide variety of vegetables, including tomatoes, corn, beets, rhubarb and cucumbers, and various fresh juices. Some of the produce sold is grown in Fresh Meadows land, while the rest is grown on the other Klein farm in Melville, Long Island.
The New York Life Insurance Company, one of the original purchasers of the Klein farmland, donated the land that is now Farm Playground by deed of gift to the City of New York, on October 24, 1946. One year later, the City allotted $1,575,000 to construct a school on adjacent the adjacent land. The donated plot became the playground for the new school, and in November 1960, the Board of Education and Parks entered into an agreement to jointly maintain the playground.
Bounded by 69th and 73rd Avenues and 195th and 197th Streets, P.S. 26 Playground opened on February 23, 1967. It is equipped with basketball, volleyball, handball, shuffleboard, paddle-tennis, and horseshoe courts; a baseball diamond; a sandpit; swings; slides; a wading pool; a comfort station; a flagpole with a yardarm; and benches. In 1995, Councilman Sheldon S. Leffler sponsored a $365,161 installment of modular play equipment and safety surfacing at the site. The playground was renamed Farm Playground by Parks in 1999. Today Farm Playground is a modern recreational facility, while its name recalls the area's rustic past.
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Named for the buffalo-hide traders who transported their goods by ox cart along Pembina Trail, this large preserve boasts interesting landforms and a wide range of plants, birds and mammals. From the booming call of prairie chickens to the dancing of sharp-tailed grouse, passing migratory birds and colorful wildflowers, each season brings new delights.
Pembina Trail Preserve is part of what The Nature Conservancy considers a large, functioning ecological system, or landscape-scale site. Great places like Pembina can support exceptional diversity of plant and animal life. The preserve's proximity to other natural areas enriches its ecology and enhances its suitability for animals that require large blocks of quality habitat.
The Conservancy's recent purchase of 24,270 acres in nearby Glacial Ridge created the largest prairie and wetland restoration project in history. Glacial Ridge links Pembina with two scientific and natural areas, three Federal Waterfowl Production Areas and about a dozen state-owned Wildlife Management Areas.
The Conservancy's Pankratz Memorial Prairie, Thorson Prairie and Agassiz Dunes Scientific and Natural Area also are nearby.
From Crookston, take State Highway 102 southeast to the intersection with County Road 45. Turn east (left) and drive for six-and-a-half miles. Watch for The Nature Conservancy signs on the right side of the road. Park at the entrance of an old field road that formerly led into the preserve. There is a large wooden sign marking the access.
From Fertile, take State Highway 32 north to the intersection with County Road 45. Turn west (left) on County Road 45 and drive for 4 miles. Park at the entrance of an old field road that formerly led into the preserve. There is a large wooden sign marking the access.
1,671 acres
European settlers converted some of the preserve's land from prairie to farmland and excavated two stockponds for livestock. Mostly, this land is an outstanding natural area with broad diversity. Scientists describe Pembina Trail Preserve as an excellent example of tallgrass prairie that hosts a great diversity of plant species.
June grass, purple prairie clover, big and little bluestem and mat muhly are some of the prairie plants at Pembina.
Early settlers hunted prairie chickens by the wagonload for food. They once numbered in the millions, and in springtime, their booming mating ritual rocked Minnesota's prairies. As prairies became farmland, these birds almost disappeared. In recent years, this native grouse species has made a comeback.
Each spring, visitors can see male prairie chickens spread their wings and tail feathers, inflate the orange sacs on either side of their neck, strut and make a deep, resonant "booming" sound.
Many other animals thrive here, including 73 bird species, 35 butterfly species, 11 mammal species, three amphibian species and one reptile species. In recent years, visitors have seen such rare sites as bald eagles, peregrine falcons and a whooping crane.
Why the Conservancy Selected This Site
Pembina Trail falls within the northern portion of the Agassiz Beach Ridges, a tallgrass prairie landscape with a long history of Conservancy involvement. This preserve is at the core of this priority landscape. Pembina Trail contains a broad range of native plant communities: from fens, dry prairie ridges, bullrush sloughs and sedge meadows. It has relatively few invasive species and is a high quality prairie remnant located among many other private and publicly owned prairies.
What the Conservancy Has Done/Is Doing
The Conservancy is actively involved with a number of projects at Pembina Trail, including an intensive research project comparing how typical prairie management practices, such as prescribed burns and haying, affect plant species. Additionally, the Conservancy and U.S. Geological Survey are conducting ground water research to better understand what influence wetland restoration on the adjacent Glacial Ridge Project will have on the local hydrology.