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Not ever did I expect that. That Bingham team is such a good team — led by great coaches, led by a great pitcher and they've got great hitters — and never did I expect that. —Jentry Jo Johnson, Copper Hills head softball coach
TAYLORSVILLE — Copper Hills coach Jentry Jo Johnson was certain that if her team could hit the ball, it had a shot at playing for a state softball title.
But while she had tremendous confidence in her young team, she couldn't have imagined they'd earn 21 hits against the state's top-ranked perennial power — Bingham.
"Not ever did I expect that," said Johnson after the Grizzlies defeated Bingham 15-0 in Wednesday night's 5A semifinal game. "That Bingham team is such a good team — led by great coaches, led by a great pitcher and they've got great hitters — and never did I expect that."
The win means the unranked, second-seeded Grizzlies will play for the 5A state title Thursday at 5 p.m. Their opponent will be determined at 2:30 in the afternoon when Bingham faces Lehi, the team Copper Hills defeated in the first round of the playoffs.
"I am so proud," Johnson said. "Honestly, I knew it would come down to hitting, and through this state tournament we've done exactly that. We've executed the hits. We've done what we needed to do. We've put the hurtin' on them. We've done what we needed to do to put the pressure on our opponents."
The Grizzlies' first at-bats weren't indicative of what was to come with the Miners turning a spectacular double play that prevented Copper Hills from scoring.
"They got that double play in the first inning and their dugout erupted, and I just thought, 'We need to match that,'" Johnson said. "I wasn't nervous because it's a long game, but I thought, 'We need to match that intensity.'"
The Grizzlies did that when they held Bingham scoreless and then scored their first run.
"We scored in the second inning, and man, our foot never came off the gas," said Johnson. "To swing the bats like that, in a state championship game, against a team like that, is a good tribute to my young team."
The Grizzlies followed up that one run in the second with four in the third and three in the fourth. Bingham changed pitchers in the fourth after Emilee Sweet scored on a passed ball. Sweet went 4 of 5 with a triple, and she also scored four runs. Ashley Clayson was 3 of 5 with a double and she scored three runs. Riley Cleverly went 2 of 5 and earned five RBIs. Lacie Tulin was 3 of 5. And Ashlee Anderson was 2 of 4.
The Grizzlies' few returning players may have had a moment of deja vu as Copper Hills won this same game last season against the same team. Then Bingham lost to Weber and the Warriors beat Copper Hills twice to earn the 5A state title.
While many of the young players were not contributing starters on that team, the older players are making sure they understand that there is more work to be done.
"I have talked to them about 600 times about where our focus needs to be and where our intensity needs to be," said Johnson. "And they're two different places. We've talked about it, and they know it. ... They need to stay streamlined with a vision, and our intensity is what skyrockets, but the focus never leaves."
Clayson, Copper Hills' senior catcher, said she's seen the team grow over the course of the season and she isn't worried about how they'll manage the mixture of excitement and nerves Thursday evening.
"These pressure situations have really made everybody step up," said Clayson. "And they've come up and done a huge job. We can look to anyone to do their job. We have the best coaching staff in the state; they believe in us more than I've ever seen anyone believe in somebody else. They push us; they've prepared us; and they trust us and we trust them. We know that we're ready to fight against anybody and that we can put up a good game against anybody."
Clayson said Johnson has helped the Grizzlies focus on themselves and what they can control, rather than their ever-changing opponents, by asking them do what might seem insignificant.
"She is always talking about the little things," Clayson said. "Do the little things and it will make the biggest difference in the game. And it has. We've taken it to heart, and it's made the biggest difference."
Even freshman shortstop Ashlee Anderson said she's noticed changes in the team's energy as the season has progressed.
"I think we've become more of a team now," she said. "We're one family. ... We've just dedicated ourselves to the team, so we're all there — all for each other."
Adds Clayson: "If we can keep doing what we've been doing the last few days, it won't be the same as last year."
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Rusty Waters (nee Brooks): lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica
Dexter Prescott (Alfonse Dumfries): lead guitar, vocals
Henry Harold LaBouche: electric bass guitar, harpsichord, vocals
Brian Free (nee Todd): drums, vocals
The Scenario was a 1960s American rock 'n' roll group that recorded four albums and several singles between 1965 and 1968, after which a few of the members floundered with ill-conceived solo enterprises before fading into obscurity.
Like most bands of the day, their early singles were raw affairs, touching on garage rock and r&b. Rusty Waters came on as a slightly lustier Mick Jagger on these 45s, the best of which include "Pleadin' Heart" and their mod anthem, complete with harp feedback, "I'm Not Sure." An early B-side worth seeking out, "Shakespearespeak" finds the band incorporating harpsichord and hammered dulcimer, both played by classically-trained LaBouche, into their otherwise primitive wail.
Their debut album, "Hear It Is: The Scenario" collects early singles, token r&b covers ("Mercy Mercy," "Hitch Hike," etc.) and the first indications of sharpening compositional skills. While Waters sang most leads and was the de facto front man, the band took a democratic approach to songwriting, despite some members being more accomplished in this area than others. Nonetheless, the group could deliver the goods, filling their second album, "Intercontinental Breakfast" with gems like "Sidecar Sally" featuring Waters at his strutting best, the pensive "Glum-Go-Round," the nursery-rhyme-like "Mermaids 'n' Marmalade" as well as LaBouche's deft updating of Beethoven on the pretty-yet-peppy "Fur Lease." Even the minor writers in the group, Prescott and Free, held up their end on the sophomore effort, sweetening "Breakfast" with standout tracks like "The Evil Me" and "Smile, Smile, Smile," respectively.
When the Summer of Love hit, The Scenario were riding high with their psychedelic trophy, "Dr. Tangle." That #1 single (in Luxembourg) was the centerpiece of their '67 release, the double album, "Candcane Junglegym," which featured the group on the cover decked out in candy-striped suits frolicking on a similarly striped jungle gym flanked by a gaggle of go-go girls in red and white swimsuits. Nonetheless, the music contained within marked the band in their prime, ambitious and confident and just teetering on self-indulgence. "Dr. Tangle" was catchy singalong psychedelia, "Gatilaja" a successful attempt at Eastern-flavored raga-rock, "Besideways" a blueprint for some San Francisco-esque experimentation and "Mary Magpie" would've made McCartney proud. The album is not without its faults: "Brian Vs. The Banjo" parts 1, 2, and 3 along with "Banjo For Sale, Name Your Price" (one installment per side of the ongoing saga) is inessential piffle at best. In addition, the production throughout the album can be dated and/or heavy-handed, especially when the songs aren't up to snuff. Cases in point: the heavily-phased vocals on "Picorocos Locos" (aka "Crazy Fish") or the lengthy flanged wah-wah guitar freakout jam coda of "Sula Hama Manestra (Exodus)."
However, as Waters tumbled into heavy drug use and Prescott busied himself with outside projects related to his newfound spiritual endeavors, the band wound up with a dearth of good material for what would be their final LP. "Guards of the Ancients," released in the spring of 1968, is not entirely without merits: drummer Free turns in a solid vocal on the melodic "Let It Love," for instance, but the good vibes are resoundingly destroyed by Side Two's one-two punch of Waters' interminable, flat lust-funk jam "Midsummer Night's Cream" followed by Prescott's long-winded eleven-minute spoken-word opus, "So Saith The Lord."
Soon after their breakup, Waters released a hapless solo album, "Israel Royale," an unappetizing mélange of Yiddish melodies and Tom Jones-like crooning, then delved into a junkie nightmare existence that lasted until the early 80s. Currently, a clean Waters runs a nightclub in Houston, Texas called "Karaoke Kafe" and his jukebox is said to contain one of the few hard-to-find original copies of the first Scenario single, "Cryin' Shame" b/w "All Day Long." Labouche turned mainly to production, overseeing the careers of chanteuse Maudie Lynne and the family vocal group, The Shermans. He released one solo album in 1975, "Axe of God," full of fussy art rock pomp and circumstance but short on substance. Prescott drifted into obscurity, forsaking popular music for religion but a bootleg album of his home demos of folksy spiritual material still floats around among collectors. A handful of the songs are occasionally catchy in their own right but time has most definitely not been kind to Prescott's leathery voice. Meanwhile, Free eventually settled in Los Angeles, becoming a popular late-night deejay spinning cult favorites from the early days of rock and roll to the present. He is superstitious about his former band and will only play one track by The Scenario per show, upon request, on Tuesdays only, and insists that interns physically handle the actual records. Reportedly, Free will also leave the room during broadcast. In addition, the final album in its entirety is strictly forbidden, and Free steadfastly refuses to sign copies of anything Scenario-related.


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BAREILLY: Bharatiya Janata Party would contest the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh on its own and form the next government in the state, said Union minister for minority affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
"BJP will contest the coming 2017 assembly elections on its own and even form its government," said Naqvi, who was in the city to attend a private function.
Giving a clean chit to Union finance minister Arun Jaitley in the DDCA controversy, Naqvi said, "He is an honest person. Aam Aadmi Party is indulging in an unnecessary drama by dragging the name of the minister in the issue. In fact, AAP, which believes in a hit-and-run formula, has itself been hit-wicket this time.
" Taking a swipe at Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's New Year jaunt to Europe, Naqvi quipped, "Everybody has the right to celebrate the new year anywhere in the world and maybe wisdom will dawn upon the Congress leader after inhaling a lungful of fresh air on foreign soil."
The minister, who was in the city to attend the last rites of his maternal aunt who passed away on Friday morning, accused the Congress of creating hurdles in the development of the country by stalling functioning of Parliament. "Congress has held the development of the country to ransom. The party is guided by an imperialist and feudal mindset, and this is why it is putting up roadblocks in the central government's development agenda," Naqvi said.
On the recent controversy surrounding a taped conversation allegedly involving former Chhattisgarh chief minister and Congress leader Ajit Jogi's son, Naqvi called the party "the mother of corruption". Courtesy:timesofindia


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Allison Butler; Massachusetts, United States; Co-President
Allison Butler is a lecturer-advisor and the director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches courses on cultural studies, critical media literacy, and representations of education in the media. Butler directs the grassroots organization Mass Media Literacy, where she develops legislation, teacher training, and curriculum for the inclusion of comprehensive media literacy in Massachusetts K-12 public schools. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from New York University. She is the author of numerous articles and two books on media literacy, Media Education Goes to School (Peter Lang, 2010) and Majoring in Change (Peter Lang, 2012).
Julie Frechette; Massachusetts, United States; Co-President
Julie Frechette, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA. Her book, Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace (Praeger Press, 2002), was among the first to explore the "new multiple literacies" approach for the digital age. She is the author of numerous articles on media literacy and feminism, and is co-author of the book Media In Society (Bedford/ St. Martin, 2014). With Rob Williams, Julie is co-editor of Media Education for a Digital Generation (Routledge, 2015).
Ben Boyington; New Hampshire, United States; Vice-President
Veteran high school teacher and consultant Ben Boyington, M.Ed., founded his high-school media studies work on the idea that skepticism and activism are essential to citizenship. He believes that depth of understanding comes from integration, design, and teaching others, and that heutagogy is more important than pedagogy. His research into the 1:1 screen initiative (wherein each student in a school is supplied with an Internet-enabled screen) is published in Media Education for a Digital Generation (Routledge, 2015).
Lori Bindig Yousman; Connecticut, United States; Secretary
Lori Bindig, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of communication in the Department of Communication and Media Studies, the creator of the Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program, and the director of the academic Performing Arts program at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. She earned her doctorate in communication and an Advanced Graduate Certificate in feminist theory from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research, presented widely and published in a variety of journals and textbooks, focuses on critical cultural studies and media literacy, particularly the construction and commodification of young femininity. Dr. Bindig is the author of Dawson's Creek: A Critical Understanding (Lexington Books, 2007) and coauthor of The O.C.: A Critical Understanding (Lexington Books, 2012).
Jacques Brodeur; Quebec, Canada
Jacques Brodeur lives in Quebec, Canada, the only North American jurisdiction where advertising to children is illegal. In 2003, he created the 10-Day Screen-Free Challenge, which was evaluated by parents, teachers, and students. The Challenge has been experienced in more than 100 schools in Canada and well over 200 schools in France. Brodeur helped found ACME in 2002, created Edupax in 2003, and created an ACME Quebec chapter in 2009. His publication history includes "Media Violence, Why It Is Used to Abuse Children, How to Oppose It and Win!" (Media Literacy: A Reader, Peter Lang, 2007) and "Promising Practices to Protect Children from the Increasing Power of Big Media" (Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006–07, Seven Stories Press). Brodeur has also organized media education conferences, including Impacts of Screen Overdose on Children's Health (Montréal, 2011) and Les enfants face aux écrans (Children Facing Screens) (Paris, 2014).
Gordon Glover; Vermont, United States
Gordon Glover is a critical multi-mediator who has taught students at every level from pre-kindergarten through graduate school. Formally schooled as a fine artist in film and animation, he has gravitated to memetics and media studies. He has been an Open Society Institute Fellow, founding board member of Wide Angle Community Media, and Pioneer of Media Activism at Towson University, Champlain College, and Burlington College.
Bill Yousman; Connecticut, United States
Bill Yousman, Ph.D., is the director of the Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program at Sacred Heart University and the former managing director of the Media Education Foundation. Yousman has published numerous journal articles and anthology chapters on media literacy and popular culture and is the author of Prime Time Prisons on U.S. Television: Representation of Incarceration (Peter Lang, 2009) and The Spike Lee Enigma: Challenge and Incorporation in Media Culture (Peter Lang, 2014). He earned his doctorate in media studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


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Well, with only sewing up the under arms and re-working the edging to go my tomten was rapidly approaching UFO status, but Tuesday morning I woke up and thought "Today is the last day that jacket is going to sit in the back of the closet!"
So, I pulled it out and decided that double stranding the yarn for the I-cord was the way to go. I think it's worked out quite nicely.
I used matress stitch to finish the under arms. I think it looks nicer on stockinette, but was still a vast improvement on the prior weak attempts at seaming.
The zipper is only partially sewn in at this point, but I should be able to finish that up this weekend, and hopefully soon spring will show it face and the Tomten will get a little use.


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Outspoken But Not Outmaneuvered, Rep. Bachmann Manages Her Candor
She called for an expose to root out members of Congress who are "anti-America." She gave President George W. Bush a public hug and a kiss so famously awkward one paper called it the "death grip." She claimed to know of a secret plan to partition Iraq and carve out a "terrorist safe haven zone," and then backed off the statement.
And then she won re-election.
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has shown an uncanny knack for infuriating critics with sometimes off-the-wall behavior and comments, all the while advancing her own political career.
Minnesota politicos say the Republican congresswoman, having fended off perhaps her toughest challenge last year, could hold on to her seat indefinitely -- thanks in part to the conservative makeup of her district.
But Bachmann, a lightning rod of the left, also may be poised to run for governor or senator, according to the political chatter. Either way, the longer Bachmann stays in office, the more she seems to rile her opponents nationwide with a style some call genuine, but others call clueless.
"For what pisses off the Democrats, it really energizes that conservative base she has," said Lawrence Jacobs, a political professor at the University of Minnesota. "This is not a strategic politician. This is a movement conservative. She's a true believer."
Bachmann, 52, is a born-again Christian -- she has said God called her to go to law school and to run for Congress -- who cut her political teeth in the Minnesota Legislature pushing for an amendment to ban same-sex marriage. She won election to the U.S. Congress in 2006, going against the wave of Republicans forced out of office that year. Since then, she's concentrated more on tax and spending issues. She was in the spotlight this week as she questioned Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a hearing about federal intervention in the financial system.
Bachmann told FOXNews.com her ultimate goal in Congress is to overhaul and simplify the tax code, while fighting the efforts of the Obama administration to expand government and increase the tax burden. She said President Obama has gone on a spending "blitzkrieg," and she argued that the recent flap over AIG bonuses is just another sign that Washington needs an exit strategy for its financial intervention.
As for her re-election last year, she said it was just proof of her appeal.
"The fact that people knew that I am who I say I am and I'll vote the way that I vote and do so unapologetically, that's one thing people appreciate," she said. "You know, we're the state that voted in Jesse Ventura."
"The nation needs all the conservative fighters we can get in D.C.," she added.
Bachmann, while not exactly a household name, has built a national reputation over the past two years not on her economic positions, but through her off-the-cuff comments.
Last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference, she gave a shout-out to the Republican National Committee's first black chairman, Michael Steele, saying: "You be da man. You be da man."
It may have made viewers cringe, but it was hardly an unusual outburst to those who've watched Bachmann for years.
"She's defined herself by these incidents," said Blois Olson, a former Democratic operative in Minnesota who now works at the public affairs firm Tunheim Partners. "You will get an emotional reaction from anybody if you bring up her name."
Just ask Eva Young, who co-founded the colorful Web site Dump Bachmann, which serves as an online catalogue of Bachmann's porported fibs and flubs.
"She's a nut, she's a liar and she's a bigot -- and that summarizes her," Young said.
Young called Bachmann a "provocateur," pointing in particular to statements she's made about homosexuality.
Bachmann first earned attention in the state Senate for her campaign, ultimately unsuccessful, to pass an amendment banning same-sex marriage. She frequently warned about the grave consequences of gay marriage and was quoted calling it a threat to "Western civilization."
The campaign was riddled with peculiar incidents. Among them, Bachmann's lesbian stepsister showed up at the capital to speak out against the measure. Bachmann also reportedly had allies pray over the desks of lawmakers.
"This issue really defined her and got her statewide attention," said Monica Meyer, public policy director at gay advocacy group OutFront Minnesota, which opposed the amendment. But she said Bachmann's focus has drifted since.
"I'm not sure what her niche is yet," she said. "She comes off extreme in almost every issue she tries to talk about."
Another eyebrow-raiser came in a 2007 newspaper interview in which Bachmann talked about a plan to partition Iraq.
"Half of Iraq ... is going to be called the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I'm sorry, I don't have the official name, but it's meant to be the training ground for the terrorists," she said, according to an account in the Star Tribune. "They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone."
Bachmann later said she was "misconstrued."
Perhaps the most famous, or infamous, Bachmann moment came last October when she appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" and, to some viewers, seemed to tap into the rhetoric of '50s communist hunter Joe McCarthy.
Asked by host Chris Matthews whether she believed then-candidate Barack Obama harbored anti-American views, Bachmann answered: "Absolutely. Absolutely ... I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views."
When pressed, she suggested that the media do a "penetrating expose" and take a look at members of Congress to find out, "Are they pro-America or anti-America?"
Bachmann's Democratic opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, enjoyed a surge of fundraising support -- many donations came from outside Minnesota -- after the show aired. A few weeks later, Bachmann had held on and won by 3 percent.
Political analysts pointed to a few factors that gave her the victory: First, Minnesotans have a soft spot for third-party candidates, and Independence candidate Bob Anderson took 10 percent of the vote -- drawing away from the anti-Bachmann sentiment that Tinklenberg would have enjoyed.
Second, Tinklenberg's surge in fundraising came too late in the game.
Lastly, Bachmann simply may have just been the right fit for her district -- she used the backlash from "Hardball" to accuse the media of misconstruing her statements.
It was, to some analysts, an affirmation of her political skill and the friendly landscape of her district.
"Having won that re-election ... I don't know she'll ever have a challenger of strength. She can probably hold that seat forever," said Bob Meek, a commentator who used to work for Minnesota political icons Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale.
But Meek said he suspects Bachmann is looking to higher office in the near future.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty is talked about as a potential GOP candidate for president in 2012, and he could step down in 2010 to concentrate on a national campaign and avoid a potentially bruising re-election fight in Minnesota.
If that happens, "I don't know why [Bachmann] wouldn't run for governor," Meek said.
Though Bachmann would surely draw stiff opposition from Democrats, Meek said she could forge a path to the state capital if there's a third-party candidate in the race to split the vote, as in her last re-election campaign.
Meek and others also suggested she might challenge Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Bachmann, though, said she would "fully anticipate" running for re-election to the House.
"I really like what I'm doing right now and it's early to say what I'm going to do," she said.
Asked about the possibility of a Bachmann run for governor or senator, Minnesota GOP Chairman Ron Carey said it's not surprising that the congresswoman is earning buzz for higher office.
"Anybody's who's a strong political figure gets their name bantered around for higher office," he said. But he guessed Bachmann would stay in her House seat. "I think it's a little premature to jump to a conclusion that there's going to be an opening for her in 2010 there."
Carey said the criticism Bachmann draws from the left is merely a sign of her effectiveness, and that her base is unwavering. He recalled stopping by a meeting of campaign volunteers in her 2006 race -- held at 8 a.m. on a Saturday.
"There were 100 people there, ready to go out and do door-knocking for Michele Bachmann."
Carey gave her a pass for her sometimes agitating public comments.
"Anybody who is in the media day after day, occasionally they're going to say things that can be construed in a very unfavorable light. Look at the vice president," Carey said.
Bachmann sees herself as a "national spokesperson" for conservative ideas, Jacobs said. And he suggested that something bigger, and perhaps more profound, is at play in the whole Bachmann experience.
"The larger party infrastructure is about winning elections, and Michele Bachmann is about saving America," he said.
"Michele Bachmann is a microcosm of the tension between the Republican Party that wants to win elections and conservatives who want to fight and win policy battles. That is the core of it."


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Poor Nicole. Despite of all her efforts and promising promo deals, she never really evolved from 'the ex-Pussycat Doll frontwoman' into a full-fledged solo star. Her 2011's debut LP (which wasn't even released in the States) was very flamboyant and screamed 'I've arrived' on top of Nicole's lungs but was a bit too Eurovisiony to really cement her status. And even though her best solo single so far was called 'Don't Hold Your Breath', I did hold my breath for a proper 'Nicole The Solo Artist' moment: she surely has the voice, the moves and the looks of a potential pop slayer. Well, not this time for sure: with 'Big Fat Lie' she's going for more 'mature' sound which means that we're getting tons of medtempo tunes which is the least thing we'd expect or want from a girl who made a name for herself as the voice behind 'Don't Cha' and 'Buttons'.
Perhaps the personal approach to the album would work better if it had a big power ballad or two, but it's nowhere to be seen as well. 'Run' and 'On The rocks' are both strong and emotional songs but they lack the spark that made Nicole such a fantastic performer in the past. Overall it's questionable if there really were a lot of people in Nicole's fanbase who craved a moody (even if well-produced) record from her. There is a cute little 'it's tough being a popstar' moment in the form of the album's title track and stripping all the layers seems to be the ongoing theme on the record but let's be honest: Nicole was way more fun when she stuck to the actual stripping.
The big fat truth here is that the album's quite solid: the production is consistent and multi-layered and the 90s influences are spot. It's just hard to believe it will find its audience as Nicole never developed a steady fanbase with all her scrapped releases, failed international strategies and horrible time management. And the idea that in some happier alternative universe we could've gotten 5 years' worth of The Pussycat Dolls bangers instead of this depressed little collection certainly doesn't help.


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At last I hear you all hark. Yes, I've finally gone and done a Prometheus class!
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What are scientists doing with all these data ? How are the results of these large simulation programs and campaigns used ? These are very relevant and recurrent questions ATLAS physicist are trying to address in a growing set of blog entries.
Let's assume that a theory or model predicts that such and such particles can be created in proton-proton collisions, with such and such energy and angular characteristics. As these are most probably unstable, the model also has to say how they will decay into other particles, which will decay again... until it ends up with only stable ones. The so called "generator program" builds what is called "events": each of them contains the list of produced particles and their characteristics at the emission point. The next step is to predict how such event will look like in our detector ? We do know every detail of the ATLAS detector and how particles behave when they cross it. The simulation program contains all the geometrical description, all the interaction probabilities and is able to simulate, step by step, the fate of each particle attached to the "event". We are ready to see what known and new physics will look like...
- "Defending our lives" : an ATLAS blog entries by one of the experts of the field, divided in Part 1 (generation), Part 2 (simulation), Part 3 (pileup)
- A video illustrates the level of ATLAS detector details we need to describe in the simulation program.
- The underlying program used for this is a research project in itself called GEANT 4
This step is common to simulated and real data. Sensor labels correspond to positions in space, digits are converted back into energy using a long set of calibration constants. Advanced algorithms allow to reconstruct trajectories and total energies, and then identify the type of particle (electron, photon, proton, neutron, muon and even neutrinos via missing energy).
- Three ATLAS blog entries on reconstruction and data treatment
- The clickable particle propagation and identification pie is a part of the Master Class program presented later in this site.
- Want to know more and play with data ? CERN has just released some of them, the news is here, the web portal there
All the ingredients are available to compare the type and characteristics of the simulated events with real data, and finally tell if the theory or model hypotheses are validated or not ! Of course, the ability to draw a conclusion depends on the precision and knowledge of the detector (this is called systematic uncertainty) and on the number of events (which drives the statistical uncertainty).
- An ATLAS blog entry on analysis
- Getting your results approved ? A PhD student reports about Top down : reflections on a long and sleepless journey
- Getting to a conference ... a postdoc blogs about her Arrival at EPS
- Combining results : an assistant professor gives A view inside the Higgs combination in 2011, i.e. on the way to the discovery
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President Trump won a minor victory yesterday in a surprising venue. The liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court injunction and allowed the administration to begin enforcement of the president's latest order restricting immigration from six countries that are hotbeds of radical Islamic terrorism: Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
The Trump Administration is right to get control of our immigration system. Here's something most Americans probably don't know: From 2007 to 2016 -- under Presidents Bush and Obama -- the government issued nearly 30,000 visas to individuals coming from Iran, Sudan and Syria. These nations have been designated by the government as "state sponsors of terrorism."
In other legal news, the Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear a critical case challenging California's so-called "Reproductive FACT Act." That radical law requires pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to promote abortion. Hawaii and Illinois have passed similar laws.
Between this case and one being argued next month, the Supreme Court is once again wading into the culture wars with potentially far-reaching consequences for free speech and religious liberty.
This is not a time for complacency, my friends. Men and women of faith must be engaged in the public policy process in defense of our cherished freedoms and values. The 2016 elections were a crucial battle, but the war is far from over.
FBI & Planned Parenthood
You no doubt recall the disturbing undercover videos that emerged in 2015 from the Center for Medical Progress. Those videos captured executives at Planned Parenthood attempting to illegally sell body parts and tissue obtained from its abortion business. These shocking revelations triggered hearings in the House and the Senate.
As a result of those investigations, a House select committee issued more than a dozen criminal and regulatory referrals last year. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also made a criminal referral against Planned Parenthood after a thorough investigation.
I am pleased to report that there has finally been some action regarding those criminal referrals.
News broke late yesterday afternoon that the FBI is requesting documents and information compiled by the Senate Judiciary Committee related to its investigation of Planned Parenthood. If true, it suggests that the Trump Administration may be launching a formal criminal investigation into Planned Parenthood's trafficking in aborted baby parts. We will keep you posted.
Speaking Of Investigations. . .
The Atlantic yesterday published what it thought was a bombshell report, entitled, "The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks." Reacting to this report, Donald Trump, Jr., published that "secret correspondence" with Julian Assange in a series of tweets, which included his three responses.
They reveal nothing criminal by Donald Trump, Jr. That said, there is evidence of a crime here. He spoke to congressional investigators several weeks ago, and strongly believes that someone on Capitol Hill leaked his emails to The Atlantic, which published them.
Once again, this shows the willingness of the left to use any and every tool of the government to break ethical and legal standards about the handling of sensitive information.
Don't forget that James Comey admitted under oath that he leaked government memos to a liberal professor so the liberal professor could leak them to the liberal media to increase the pressure for the appointment of a special prosecutor. And we know that Hillary Clinton was grossly negligent and extremely careless in handling the classified information in her care.
The entire left-wing establishment -- the Clintons, progressive politicians in Congress, Deep State bureaucrats and the media -- should be on the hot seat for how it has mishandled secret information, yet no reporter is putting that together.
Thankfully, it seems the Justice Department may be getting its act together. Attorney General Jeff Sessions told members of Congress that his department has "27 active leak investigations open today."
That's a good start, but it may not be enough. According to the Daily Caller, "A July Senate report found that there were at least 125 news articles based on classified information during Trump's first 126 days in office."
In yesterday's report, I joked that Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour and failed quarterback Colin Kaepernick should start dating. Hollywood would swoon over the radical couple.
Apparently, they talk frequently. Check out Linda Sarsour's tribute in GQ's story declaring Kaepernick "Citizen of the Year:"
"I always tell Colin: 'You are an American hero. You may not feel like a hero right now, but one day, people will realize the sacrifices that you made for so many others.' There might even be a day when we'll be walking down Colin Kaepernick Boulevard and people will remember what Colin Kaepernick did, just like we remember Muhammad Ali."
Colin Kaepernick claims to be fighting against oppression. Has he ever considered the association of Islam with slavery?
It is beyond disgusting that cop-hating, America-hating, Castro-loving Colin Kaepernick is held up as a role model for America's youth and considered anyone's "Citizen of the Year."
But it is not at all surprising that he is regularly consulting with an anti-Semitic Sharia-apologist who attempted to exploit a hurricane in order to raise funds for her radical allies.
Hate Rising
The FBI has released its latest update on hate crimes statistics. The figures are not encouraging. Hate is on the rise.
According to the FBI report, hate crimes rose five percent from 2015 to 2016. Crimes committed based on religious bias accounted for more than 20% of all hate crimes.
And even though Jews make up only two percent of the U.S. population, 54% of religiously-motivated hate crimes were anti-Semitic. Anti-Islamic crimes accounted for 24.5% of religiously-motivated hate crimes.
So for all the hype about rampant Islamophobia in America, Jews were twice as likely to be victims of religiously-motivated hate crimes than Muslims.
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The ideal of evolutionary biology is that parents would value the survival and betterment of their children above their own. In reality, however, parents vacillate between their own individual self-interests and those of their children, often resulting in either negotiated compromises or authoritarian dictates. Government central planners have legalized intergenerational parasitism through the mechanizations of taxation and welfare state subsidies in order to encourage senior citizens to directly feed off the productivity of the current workforce, thereby balkanizing the young and the elderly against each other.
Two concepts are helpful for analyzing the political topic of Social Security. The Hegelian Dialectic shows how the pattern of "problem-reaction-solution" is used by Leviathan to further solidify its power, yet, Hanlon's razor says that malice should never be attributed to that which can be satisfactorily explained by stupidity. These two ideas will be used during this examination of the history, legalities, economics, and the privacy implications of social insurance in order to measure its compatibility with human liberty.


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I was chatting with my research assistant today who was concerned about his mounting student loan debt which he feared would delay his ability to attend a Ph.D. graduate program ("How can I go further in to debt for an uncertain future?"). He mentioned hearing that the hockey coach is the highest paid person in the USNH (University System of New Hampshire) and posed this question: "Is it unethical for colleges and universities to have competitive sports team?" He went on to ask, "Why should so much money go to sports teams when they have nothing to do with education, which is the mission of colleges and universities?" And one more quote: "If a young person wants to be a professional baseball player, let him go and play baseball elsewhere, rather than pass on his training costs to other college students."
In this time of drastic belt tightening on college campuses, these questions are going to become increasingly salient. Money does seem to be a "zero sum game" and I'm sure that students like my research assistant would rather funds move toward people like himself...who have high academic aspirations, rather than individuals who have non-academic aspirations.
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Diana - posted on 09/19/2012 ( 13 moms have responded )
Where to start. Well, its not so much the training part that's an issue. Our 3 yr old son is potty trained and knows what to do on the potty. Our issue is that he has chosen to stop going on the potty unless he has to poop. It doesn't bother him when he pees in his pants. To frustrate the situation, I have to send him to daycare in pull-ups b/c our daycare person won't allow him to come in underwear since he's decided to stop using the potty. At this point, any suggestions would be welcomed. I can put him in underwear at home but the moment he gets a pull-up on he stops using the potty again. It seems like we keep going in a circle.


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However bad things got, both before and after, I will never forget our road trip to my favorite place on this planet. Our trip to Scotland. Despite the fact that the relationship itself would turn out to be fake in the end, nothing can touch my memories from those days. They are frozen in time.
If narcissists can be real and love someone, even for just one moment in a lifetime, I think that place and time, and what we shared, must be it. Or at the very least, it's a good candidate for the title The One Moment that the Narc Felt Love.
–You see, it's not all bad, all the time. Then we'd have to be real crazy to stick around, wouldn't we. I think that's one of the major draws for us, that make us go back for more. Cause there are certain times, that you feel; This can't be only an act. There must be some shrivel of feeling, inside the other person. However fleeting that moment is. —
We travelled around the whole country by car. We saw amazing places; Mountain landscapes, absolutely still lakes, like mirrors. We visited small villages with friendly locals and cozy pubs. One time we ran through a field, in the pouring rain, no people around, just silent mountains. We reached an old castle ruin. Time rushed back a thousand years, and the world grew still.
If I were an artist, a painter, I wouldn't live anywhere else in the world but there. The light, playing over the mountain slopes is breathtaking! It is like God made this place his personal canvas and paints it anew, every day.
We drove around, pressing on like lunatics, to see everything. Staying at campsites and inexpensive lodgings. We joked and laughed, explored all the magic little places, like children who run away from home, for just a day of adventure. We made a hillwalk and laughed at this crazy, posh girl, who had brought her very feminine and posh shoes, to walk up the hill. We advised her not to go in those on the slippery trail. She didn't listen. We never found out how that turned out for her.
We didn't care about our looks, we wore sturdy shoes, soft clothes, we were wild and ragged and free. I remember thinking that I would never wish for anything else, if I could just keep this happiness, store it in a little jar.
The nights.. The nights. Traces of the ashes of them, still linger in my soul. We were the only people left in the world. In retrospect, I still can not fathom that a person could have acted his way, through all of that.
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe this too was all a charade. But, no, I refuse to believe that. Please, just let me keep this one. Only this one…
I will never know, now. Not for sure. But in my mind, I will keep those days locked away inside. Like precious diamonds, they shall last forever.


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Just went last night hoping to have dinner. Lights off, locked and a sign on the door referring to reposession. Have seen on another board that it might be the TK team behind a new venture on NW corner of Gerrard and Carlaw.
My experience had been good, although like many diners, small plates were pricey and servers often too busy loving themselves to be hospitable and effective.
Anyone know anything?
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Fellowship Hall on the Lower Level, Main Campus
3 year olds (by 09-01-16) - 5th grade
The children meet in the Children's Area of the West Campus.
The West Campus is located on the corner of Highways 31 and 98. A convenient road between our two properties is accessed through the lower level parking lot behind the Sanctuary.
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Where Will All the Waste Go?: Utilizing Extended Producer Responsibility Framework Laws to Achieve Zero Waste
Anthony A. Austin
Lawyers Write Treaties, Engineers Build Dikes, Gods of Weather Ignore Both: Making Transboundary Waters Agreements Relevant, Flexible, and Resilient in a Time of Global Climate Chanage
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A Feasible Alternative: The Legal Implications of Aquaculture in the United States and the Promise of Sustainable Urban Aquaculture Systems
Garrett Wheeler
Derailing Powder River Basin Coal Exports: Legal Mechanisms to Regulate Fugitive Coal Dust From Rail Transportation
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Wales' Liam Williams misses Scarlets trip to Zebre amid move talk
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|PRO12: Zebre v Scarlets
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Wales full-back Liam Williams will miss Scarlets' Pro12 trip to Zebre with an ankle injury as the region refuse to admit defeat over his prospective move to Saracens.
Williams, 25, suffered the ankle injury during Wales' win over South Africa.
Reports have suggested Williams has agreed to join the European champions for the 2017-18 season.
"As soon as that decision is made 100%, we won't be holding it back," Scarlets head coach Wayne Pivac said.
"Liam is getting a rest this week, but in terms of contracting, no change.
"I'm just concerned about what Sanjay [Williams] tells me, and so I'm comfortable where things are at.
"I haven't thought down that line, but we do have [new Kiwi wing/full-back] Johnny McNicholl here."
Pivac is hopeful of having Williams back for the European Champions Cup double-header against Toulon on 11 and 18 December.
Internationals rested
Wales squad quartet Jonathan Davies, Gareth Davies, Samson Lee and Jake Ball are set to return to regional action, but centre Scott Williams and hooker Ken Owens will be rested.
Scotland flanker John Barclay is being assessed following his international spell and South African lock David Bulbring is out with shoulder trouble which may need an operation.
"There's three of the internationals that are having a bit of time off. The guys that have been here from the pre-season right the way through, with a lot of minutes [on the pitch] and a lot of loading through training," Pivac added.
"We've got to be smart, look at the games coming up and the best opportunities to have the odd break, a couple had breaks for Treviso and Dragons earlier in the season."
Wales prop Rob Evans is likely to play his first rugby of the season against Zebre following surgery on a wrist injury.
"He's chomping at the bit, he's an excitement machine around the building, he's full of energy and we've got to get him focused, but certainly he's in consideration for the trip," said Pivac.
"Rob's up for the challenge [of regaining his Scarlets and Wales jerseys], he knows it's going to be roll your sleeves up from day one."
Captains' contracts
The Scarlets are to step up contract talks with regional captain Owens and his regular stand-in as skipper, Kiwi centre Hadleigh Parkes.
"Ken is one we've left alone because he's [been] in the international camp, I'm sitting down with Ken next week to discuss what we do going forward, he's currently the captain of the side so we'd like to think he won't be going too far" Pivac explained.
"[Hadleigh] is the captain while Ken's away and we'd like to think he's not going too far either."


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28 Aug 2015, Tokyo, JapanStarting in September, Tokyo's venerable Hotel Okura is getting a remake. The main building will be closed for reconstruction on August 31. The complex will be composed of two buildings, with office space provided in the high-rise building. Read more.
28 Aug 2015, Melbourne, AustraliaA seven-year effort to get approval for two towers in West Melbourne has finally paid off after Victoria's Planning Tribunal gave them a green light, dismissing a Melbourne Council bid to reject the proposal. Read more.
27 Aug 2015, Sandton, South AfricaThe Illovo neighborhood of Sandton, which directly borders Johannesburg, will soon to be home to a 20-story luxury apartment building named The Beacon. The Art Deco-style building will include a combination of one- and two-bedroom apartments. Read more.
27 Aug 2015, New York City, United StatesAn underground leak has been discovered under the World Trade Center complex – and officials fear the seepage may be coming from the slurry wall that separates the newly rebuilt site from the Hudson River. Read more.
27 Aug 2015, London, United KingdomA letting at The Shard in London has broken price records for the South Bank and the City, as a German IT company has struck a deal to take the entire 26th floor of the tower for around $140 per square foot ($1,500 per square meter). Read more.
26 Aug 2015, Vladivostok, RussiaPlans are taking shape for a major new gambling and entertainment complex in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok. Investors hope the high-rise casino cluster will draw 10 million visitors a year from cities in China, Korea, and Japan. Read more.
26 Aug 2015, Ortigas, PhilippinesThe 40-story Jollibee Tower is expected to rise in the Ortigas central business district by 2018. After an agreement was signed with a local property developer, construction is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2015. Read more.
26 Aug 2015, New Orleans, United StatesA decade-old proposal to build a 26-story hotel and condo tower on Royal Street along the edge of the French Quarter in New Orleans returned to the City Planning Commission on August 25 to heavy criticism. Read more.
25 Aug 2015, Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesA new waterfront city is being built in Sharjah at the cost of around $5 billion that will accommodate 200,000 people in over 200 towers upon completion of 10 natural islands, which will be connected by bridges and canals. Read more.
25 Aug 2015, Toronto, CanadaEmerald Park Condos is closing in on completion, as residents and businesses replace construction workers in the 42- and 33-story condo towers at Yonge and Bogert in the North York area of Toronto. Read more.
25 Aug 2015, Rotterdam, NetherlandsThe Fenix Warehouse, located opposite Hotel New York and the Rijnhaven Bridge in Katendrecht, Rotterdam was completed in 1922. In 2013, a Dutch firm was awarded a contract to redevelop the warehouse into a mixed-use high-rise. Read more.
24 Aug 2015, Brisbane, AustraliaThe central business district of Brisbane could be set for its third building at the city's maximum allowable height, 270 meters, if Brisbane City Council gives a new proposal at 30 Albert Street the go-ahead. Read more.
24 Aug 2015, London, United KingdomA London-based design and architecture studio is reworking the interior of a 17-story block that forms part of London's Brutalist Barbican Estate, transforming it from a youth hostel into high-end apartments. Read more.
24 Aug 2015, Pittsburgh, United StatesDowntown Pittsburgh's newest skyscraper is set for an October 1 opening. The date for the opening of the $400 million Tower at PNC Plaza was announced in an invitation sent by PNC CEO William Demchak. Read more.
21 Aug 2015, Toronto, CanadaThe One, which will be Canada's tallest building upon completion, has undergone a number of design changes. Recent renderings reveal changes to the building's exterior façade. The new designs also improve ground-level interaction. Read more.
21 Aug 2015, London, United KingdomIt was supposed to be the tallest building in the City of London. Instead, the Pinnacle skyscraper grew to just nine floors before falling victim to financial wrangling. Now its days are numbered as it is being prepared for demolition. Read more.
21 Aug 2015, Sydney, AustraliaCrown Green Square, the $423 million residential project soon to be built in the Green Square Town Centre, was officially unveiled for international buyers at the Grand Hyatt Singapore the week of August 17. Read more.
20 Aug 2015, Shanghai, ChinaA new name has recently been announced for a Shanghai joint-venture formerly known as the Dazhongli project. Now known as HKRI Taikoo Hui, the complex comprises a retail mall, two office towers, and three hotels/serviced apartments. Read more.
20 Aug 2015, London, United KingdomConstruction of Dollar Bay in Canary Wharf has recently been announced. Named for the site's World War Two heritage, the premier residential tower will feature 121 residential apartments, each provided with an insulated winter garden. Read more.
20 Aug 2015, Jersey City, United StatesA rendering is now available for the first of two highly anticipated residential towers slated for a long-vacant lot near the Journal Square PATH station. Dubbed One Journal Square, the property was purchased earlier in 2015. Read more.
19 Aug 2015, Vijayawada, IndiaAn architecture studio has devised a modular façade system for a high-rise block in Vijayawada, India, that will allow residents to customize the appearance of the building with hanging gardens and balcony details. Read more.
19 Aug 2015, Glasgow, United KingdomAfter becoming a byword for the failure of high-rise housing, and following a proposal to blow them up on live television that caused an outcry, the remaining structures of the Red Road Flats will, at last, be demolished. Read more.
19 Aug 2015, Minneapolis, United StatesThe latest plans for a 28-story apartment tower in northeast Minneapolis were presented on August 18 for the third and final meeting of a Nicollet Island-East Bank Neighborhood Association task force. Read more.
18 Aug 2015, Mumbai, IndiaThree years after planning to import a new snorkel to combat high-rise fires, the Mumbai Fire Brigade unveiled the brand new 90-meter device. The hydraulic platform can scale up to 30 floors and has a turntable ladder. Read more.
18 Aug 2015, Adelaide, AustraliaA new four-star hotel is set to be built in downtown Adelaide in what would be the city's second-tallest building. The 30-story hotel and apartment development has been proposed for the old State Bank building. Read more.
18 Aug 2015, Los Angeles, United StatesAn application was filed the week of August 10 with the Department of City Planning for a condominium high-rise in the City West neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 24-story building would have 223 market-rate residences and 18 affordable units. Read more.


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There are plenty of legends in the world of video games whose names will fly off the tongues of casual fans. Nolan Bushnell. Trip Hawkins. Shigeru Miyamoto. Will Wright. Sid Meier. It's a shame, then, that so few can name another of the all-time greats, Danielle Bunten Berry.
Or, as she was known before 1992, Dan Bunten.
The designer born as Daniel Paul Bunten in 1949 is important to video games for any number of reasons, some trivial, some vital to the progression of the entire medium.
Her first game, 1978's Wheeler Dealers, was the first ever PC game to be sold in a printed box instead of a sleeve or plastic bag, a necessity born of the game's inclusion of a custom controller.
In 1983, Bunten's Ozark Softscape released one of the first games for Electronic Arts, and also one of the greatest cult hits in the history of the PC, MULE. A multiplayer... economic strategy... thing, MULE wasn't a big seller, but it was very influential amongst developers, and retains a fanbase and community site even to this day.
In 1984, Bunten released the amazing open-world title The Seven Cities of Gold, a game she only made when she wasn't allowed to make something very similar to what would become Sid Meier's Civilization. Which wasn't released until 1990.
In 1988 she designed Modem Wars, the world's first PC game that could be played across multiple computers in an online environment.
In 1992, Bunten designed Global Conquest, the world's first PC game from a major publisher that could be played across four computers online.
Then, sadly, things went a little off the rails. In the same year, Bunten's third marriage fell apart, and in November 1992 she did something she'd been contemplating for a while: she underwent sex reassignment surgery.
Now known as Danielle (or simply Dani) Bunten Berry, she would never maintain as high a profile as she had enjoyed while a male. While continuing in games development, and continuing to work on pioneering the online interactivity of players, she quickly grew to resent her decision to undergo surgery.
"Being my 'real self' could have included having a penis and including more femininity in whatever forms made sense", she would later write. "I didn't know that until too late and now I have to make the best of the life I've stumbled into. I just wish I would have tried more options before I jumped off the precipice."
In 1997, while working on a new, improved version of MULE for the internet age, Dani was diagnosed with lung cancer, and passed away a year later at the of 49.
Her work never made much money, with only Cities of Gold selling enough to be called a "hit". Wheeler Dealers sold 50 copies. MULE, as important as it was, only sold 30,000.
But Bunten's legacy hasn't been determined by sales. It can be measured in her influence on the industry and the developers who followed in her footsteps.
Nearly every game Bunten designed or worked on turned out to be well ahead of its time, especially when it came to the possibilities for bringing multiple people together in the same game. That kind of vision made her a star to other developers.
"That was something kind of visionary of his: that he kind of saw the day when games wouldn't just be for hardcore gamers," says Civilization creator Sid Meier, a friend of Bunten through thick and thin. "People would play more casual games - people playing together, people playing on networks, people cooperating instead of being competitive. He kind of saw this evolution of gaming that was still pretty far off in the future."
In 1998, just before she passed away, she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Computer Game Developers Association. In 2007, she was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
And perhaps most touching, when completing the blockbuster The Sims, designer Will Wright dedicated the game to Bunten.
Dani Bunten is survived by her three children (from previous marriages as Daniel Bunten), who now operate a company which trades under the name Ozark Softscape (Bunten's old development studio), and which "manages their father's intellectual property and digital legacy".
If you'd like to read more on Bunten, this recent Arkansas Times piece gives a great insight into not just her legacy, but her personal life as well.
Total Recall is a look back at the history of video games through their characters, franchises, developers and trends.


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The Library continues to enhance efforts for quality access to digitized collections, born digital collections, and the technology to access and support the use of these collections.
Clearly, Library collections will be a key component of the University's Sesquecentennial celebration in 2013. One way in which the Library is preparing for this is by digitizing some unique collections and titles about Boston College and contributing this content to the collections of the Open Content Alliance. The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that helps build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material. An archive of contributed material is available on the Internet Archive website and through Yahoo! and other search engines and sites.
Here are some examples of collections and titles that the libraries are sharing about the history of Boston College:
Sub Turri, the Boston College Yearbook, is now available online from 1913 – 1967. A title often requested at the reference desk is now made more accessible for all.
Some standard histories of Boston College have also been digitized and are available online:
History of Boston College from the beginnings to 1990 (Donovan)
A History of Boston College (Dunigan)
Crowned Hilltop: Boston College in its hundredth year (Frost)
Work will continue in this spirit, with one major initiative possibly being The Heights.
Sub Turri, the Boston College Yearbook, is now available online from 1913 – 1967. A title often requested at the reference desk is now made more accessible for all.
Some standard histories of Boston College have also been digitized and are available online:
History of Boston College from the beginnings to 1990 (Donovan)
A History of Boston College (Dunigan)
Crowned Hilltop: Boston College in its hundredth year (Frost)
Work will continue in this spirit, with one major initiative possibly being The Heights.
A recent major digitization project undertaken by the Library is the photography collection of Bobbie Hanvey. Hanvey's photographs comprise a comprehensive documentation of people and life in the North of Ireland beginning in the 1970's through circa 2007. Some photographs feature subjects photographed in various other locations in Ireland. The collection contains portraits, candid images (including weddings and other social events) as well as journalistic images covering public, paramilitary and political activity. Over 10,000 photographs of this collection have been scanned to date. All of the photos placed online can be accessed through DigiTool in which you are able to see all photos in each photo-shoot. A more limited selection of photos can be found through Flickr, with a selection of images taken from each photo-shoot. One of the benefits of using Flickr is that is allows for user commenting and tagging, giving us the opportunity to have a more thorough understanding of the context of these images, events, and people. Additionally, it provides a more widely accessible (and perhaps easier to navigate) method of viewing the photos, though it is a condensed version of the collection. Access to the DigiTool collection is also available via the Library's developing discovery tool, Holmes. Finally, there is also the main site for the Bobbie Hanvey Photographic Archives, which provides an overview of the project, how it is organized, where you can access photos, and information on Bobbie Hanvey. If you wander over to the current exhibit at the McMullen, you will see some samples of Hanvey's portraits (as well as a wonderful array of primary sources and artifacts from The Burns Library).
In the area of support for undergraduate research and writing, the Library has been working with Eileen Donovan-Kranz from the English Department in providing online access to Fresh Ink: Essays from Boston College's First Year Writing Seminar. More work is envisioned here, from adding the back-file, to setting up the submission process, and working more on the page design. The Library was also key player in the development of Witness Online, a publication of the Pulse Program, along with the journal Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, the title featured in this newsletter's lead article.
On the support and access side, the Library now has in O'Neill Library two high-end video editing stations. This is in response to increased demand for this type of technology and the expanding multi-media components in student research. In fact, the technology demands on library staff are constantly expanding and this semester O'Neill Library initiated a student staffed technology support desk on Level 3. We are expanding the variety and number of technology tools that we circulate, e.g. power cords, AV connectors, headphones and soon laptops and iPads. The ERC makes available digital cameras and O'Neill circulates Flip cameras. Social Work circulates laptops to the Boston College Social Work community.
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Experimentation with technology is, in fact, a normal part of the way librarians now work. We will also be looking at different books scanners for public use, new technologies for the visually impaired, a touch-screen building directory, and we are currently testing a self-service circulation station. Mentioned earlier was our work with Holmes, the library's future discovery and delivery tool. There is great potential here as a place for students to begin their research and be presented with a variety of formats from which to choose. The system will integrate books, journal articles, and digital collections and incorporate a variety of social networking software.
We are seeing how text reference works in this community and still offer ways for patrons to chat online with reference staff and we wait to see what a Facebook presence will do for us. Currently, there are Facebook pages for the University Libraries, as well as individual ones for Social Work, Bapst, Burns, and the Theology and Ministry Library.
Last, but not least, the Library is aggressively working to make access to our services and collections available via your mobile device. Check our mobile services page and tell us what you think.
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North Coast Voices has some fun with Windsor's 'feral' jibe
Along with local politicians and media in the Clarence Valley, North Coast Voices had fun at Tony Windsor's expense with its feral edition:
Independent MP for New England Tony Windsor calls Clarence Valley residents 'feral' and Windsor labels Valley 'feral' ran headlines in both the mainstream media and blogosphere.
This was the swift response.....................
The Daily Examiner, 4 February 2011
Federal Labor MP for Page Janelle Saffin:"Well, too right we go feral because my view is they should just stop talking about an idea that's so stupid anyway; and it's not going to go anywhere. But we do go feral because everybody agrees that we cannot divert or dam the Clarence River.
NSW Nationals MP for Clarence Steve Cansdell: ..as far as damning and diverting the Clarence, I am happy to be classed as a 'feral'. I will always be against any such proposal.
Clarence Valley Mayor Richie Williamson: We do, and we will, go absolutely feral because a majority is clearly against the diversion or the damming of the Clarence River. We as a community are definitely against any damming of the Clarence River.
The Daily Examiner, 4 February 2011
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Boy the Wonder Cat: Tony Windsor doesn't know the meaning of 'feral' yet. If he keeps this dam nonsense up, one fine morning he will wake to find I've peed on his verandah posts, crapped on the front door mat, scared his hens eggless and bonked his dog so thoroughly that it won't come out from under the house for the next ten years.
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Germana Meléndrez Queso Choque, 65, was born in La Paz, Bolivia's Qhohnqho Likiliki community. Her mother died when she was 4, leaving Germana with her father and two brothers. The family had very little money, and Germana says she rarely had shoes. In this traditionally patriarchal society, it's more common for boys to finish their education, while girls?destined for futures of domestic duties?frequently drop out of school years before graduation. Throughout her childhood, Germana looked on as her father spent everything he made to put his sons through school and help them establish careers. The only female in the family, Germana kept the house clean, did laundry and cooked meals. Ultimately, it was Germana who took care of her father in his old age.
In her 20s, Germana met and married Santos, two years her senior. In their more than 40 years together, their family grew to include seven children. Their only son Benjamin, now 15 and in high school, is the only child still at home.
Germana and Santos' daughters moved to larger cities, where they work as butchers?an informal trade they are able to make
money with despite few years of schooling. It turns out that Germana's girls missed out on education, too. Germana explains that when her daughters were growing up, the closest school was too far away and, owing to their gender, making the trip wasn't high on the family's priority list. Tradition dies hard.
The winds of change are blowing, though, and the future looks bright in Qhohnqho Likiliki. In 2013, Germana and Santos joined a project funded by Heifer International and implemented by Practical Action. Through this project, 163 families are improving their nutrition and income with llamas. They're working with a new breed of llama, the Támphulli, a heartier animal that is more nutritious and brings a higher price at market.
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Now Germana and Santos spend their days taking care of their herd of llamas, currently 20-strong, and tending to their vegetable garden. The llamas provide wool, which is turned into yarn and fabric, and meat?a reliable source of protein.
No matter how improved a breed, animals won't be healthy without proper nutrition. So, Germana and Santos planted five varieties of fodder seed?barley, oatmeal, weeping grass, festuca alta, orchard grass?on almost 10 acres of land.
Santos used to make pottery, an activity he enjoyed very much. Since his recent hip replacement, however, work at the potter's wheel became challenging. He says it's nice to have new activities to focus on.
In addition to llamas, the family raises sheep and goats, which they sell to supplement their income. They also sell dairy
products, like cheese and vegetables?lima beans, turnips and potatoes. Their customers especially love chuño y tunta, a dehydrated potato snack. The money they make at market is used to pay for Benjamin's school fees and purchase groceries they don't grow, such as pasta, sugar and oil.
Germana said that plagues, a result of climate change, have attacked the community's crops and animals. Fortunately, they now have a remedy. "Thank God the project brought us vaccines so we can combat these things," she says.
Germana and Santos have learned much from the project's technical training on how to raise healthy animals and grow an abundance of nutritious food. They look forward to the day that they gift useful knowledge and healthy animals to another family through Passing on the Gift®.
Story by Napoleon Calcina, Technology and Communication Head, Heifer Bolivia
Photos courtesy of Heifer Bolivia


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My big plan worked! I'm super happy!
In other news, I made this new scrub to get rid of my self harm scars on my arm. Arm scars are harder to hide, hip and leg ones are easier. Anyway, I'm able to wear short sleeves again! If any one wants the recipe just say so in the comments. Its hella simple. I gotta visit some relatives tomorrow. We're gonna decorate a tree. I got a new strapless dress that i'm going to wear. Kinda why I needed to get rid of the scars on my arm. they aren't fully gone but nothing a little concealer can't cover up. I havent seen them since the summer and I'm not really looking forward to it. I hate talking to people I barely know. Maybe I'll make it through the night with out gouging my eyes out. We'll see.
Peace out, bitches! (Vulcan salute)