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Let�s get one thing straight right from the start: Nobody �makes� a bed � only the company that sold it to you in the first place.
The best the rest of us who get involved in this boring daily household chore can say is that we straighten it up in such a way that it doesn�t appear to be still occupied. Ours often still does. Let me explain why.
Most men probably don�t mess with this task, unless they live by themselves. I�m the bed straightener in our little menage because of a careless remark I made when we wed 10 years ago next month, both of us for the second time. I suggested to my bride that whichever of us gets up in the morning last should do the honors. I thought this arrangement would motivate me to get out of bed early. I didn�t realize then how much of a natural stayabed I really am.
If I had it all to do over again, I�d make sure to include a clause on care of the bed in my prenuptial agreement.
As it stands under our present arrangement, on probably 300 days of the year, I�m the bed guy. My late mother must be laughing her head off at this turn of events in her heavenly habitat.
There�s an art to what they call �making� a bed. Once a week, when a wonderful lady comes by to help us with things around the house, I watch her do it. She not only does it in jigtime, but she leaves the bed looking like a photo shoot for House Beautiful, with the sheets perfectly cornered, the pillows perfectly puffed and nary a wrinkle in anything, even the comforter.
My own work is, shall we say, less presentable. Sometimes I close the bedroom door so that no unannounced visitor is tempted to turn me in to the bed-making Gestapo. They might even call 911 and report a kidnapping. From across the room, it often appears that I�m holding small hostages under the covers.
I don�t really understand the way we describe a lot of common household chores anyway.Take the dishes in the kitchen. �I still have to �do� the dishes,� my spouse sometimes tells me. How do you �do� dishes? Don�t you just wash them, either by hand like the hand-painted wine glasses, or in the automatic dishwasher, clearly one of the world�s greatest inventions. Same thing with the laundry. You don�t �do� it, you just wash it.
Another one is �dust.� Nobody really dusts. Except maybe the snooze fairy, and we don�t need one in our home with the way we snooze. What they do is remove dust. Dedust, if you will. And still another one is �vacuum,� which is really dedusting with a powerful engine that costs hundreds of dollars rather than a plain old rag, which you get for free just by cutting up an old shirt you outgrew in 1982.
No word that has two �u�s� back to back should ever become a household word, except maybe in a crossword puzzle.
I never see anybody ironing anymore. Good thing, too. I tried to iron out some wrinkles in a pair of slacks one time and wound up with a picture of an iron on one leg. I thought briefly of burning one into the other leg to match, but finally threw them in with some other stuff headed for the Salvation Army.
When I think of my pitiful record in ironing, I always marvel that when I got a job as a newspaper reporter, they actually gave me my own press card.
Sorry about that, but making puns comes easier to me than �making� the bed.
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ATLANTA, May 21 (UPI) -- Diabetes and pre-diabetes in U.S. children ages 12-19 more than doubled from 9 percent in 2000 to 23 percent in 2008, health officials say.
Lead author Ashleigh May, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues examined health data on about 3,400 adolescents ages 12-19 from 1999 to 2008 participating in the CDC's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The survey included a detailed physical examination.
About one-third of adolescents were overweight or obese, which increases their risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and other health issues, May said.
The study published in the journal Pediatrics also found overall, half of overweight teens and nearly two-thirds of obese adolescents have one or more risk factors for heart disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure or high levels of low-density lipoprotein, or the "bad" cholesterol. One-third of normal-weight adolescents had at least one risk factor for heart disease.

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Automakers are gearing up for mass-market production of hydrogen-powered cars starting in 2015, but the fuel cell technology has plenty of skeptics, including President Obama.
After being championed by former President George W. Bush as a pollution-free solution for weaning America off its dependence on foreign oil, the vehicles are in danger of losing research and development funding under the Obama administration, which argues that plug-in electric cars are a more practical bet.
However, major automakers and other proponents of hydrogen-fueled cars managed to thwart similar attempts to cut funding for programs for fuel-cell research in 2009 and hope to do so again.
Nevertheless, they're worried about the signal the Obama administration's stance is sending to the marketplace and to investors about the vehicles, which create electric power from hydrogen and emit nothing but clean water from their tailpipes.
"We're prepared to make thousands of these cars," says Mike O'Brien, vice president of product planning at Hyundai Motor America. "But it really comes down to how many fuel stations there are at that point. It's a chicken and egg story for us."
Energy Secretary Steven Chu maintains that hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles need technological miracles too distant to warrant funding when electric cars are a far more promising near-term prospect to give American consumers an alternative to the roughly 230 million gas-guzzlers on the road.
Automakers, who have pumped billions of dollars into hydrogen technology, say Chu's assessment is out of date and doesn't reflect breakthroughs and developments that are dramatically bringing down costs.
Several automakers already have hydrogen-powered cars on the road, including the FCX Clarity, a make that Hondaleases to roughly 20 customers in Southern California.
Critics say the car, early iterations of which cost more than a million dollars each to build, shows the technology is too expensive.
Stephen Ellis, manager of fuel cell marketing for American Honda Motor Co., says that thinking is flawed.
"If we made the Honda Odyssey in these quantities, they would be $1 million vehicles," says Ellis. "When we have a dedicated assembly line and we calculate with scale in 2015 to 2020, what the price will be then is what's relevant."
When the FCX Clarity initially revs up production for the mass market, it will likely be sold at luxury-car prices, says Ellis. "But we're not going down a path that has some dead end. Every environmental vehicle we put on the road to date has had an incremental cost reduction."
With production costs falling, the major remaining roadblock to large-scale production of fuel-cell vehicles is finding a cost-effective way to build a network of hydrogen fueling stations.
Shortly after becoming governor of California in 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger pledged to build a "hydrogen highway" of as many as 200 fueling stations by 2010. To date, however, only a handful of stations have been built and they are mainly clustered around Los Angeles.
Tom Sullivan, an entrepreneur who hoped to build a similar hydrogen highway on the East Coast from Maine to Miami, put the brakes on his plan in the spring; he now plans a slow. limited roll out of station clusters in Connecticut, Washington, New York and Boston until demand picks up.
The 51-year-old founder of Lumber Liquidators isn't sure he'll ever make money on the investment. Even he has doubts that hydrogen-fueled cars will ever make it into mass-market production.
"I'm not counting on this for retirement," he says. "I'm just as happy if technology comes up with something different to eliminate the country's dependence on foreign oil. Until that comes along, I think hydrogen makes the most sense. Instead of importing a billion dollars worth of oil a day, the United States could export the equivalent in hydrogen technology."
Automakers say they're puzzled why the Obama administration is picking winners and losers when they believe all options need to be on the table if the country wants to be a leader in clean technology.
Oliver Hazimeh, head of the global e-mobility practice at consulting firm PRTM, says electric cars will probably cost less than $35,000 by 2015, while hydrogen-powered cars might have a price tag of $50,000 or more.
"Commercialization readiness is not the same as tech readiness," he says. "For electric cars, the time horizon is much more visible."
By 2020, he expects electric plug-in cars to account for 10 percent of car sales and 2 percent to 2.5 percent of all cars on the road.
Hydrogen-fueled vehicles, meanwhile, would probably only get to a half-percent of car sales, but demand could get a boost starting in 2020, particularly with significant technological breakthroughs, he says.
Automakers and industry observers say the road has room for both technologies, but that hydrogen-powered cars offer some key advantages, including speedy refueling times, as well as the ability to go longer distances and power SUV-sized vehicles.
John DeCicco, a faculty fellow at the University of Michigan's Energy Institute, isn't optimistic that sales for either type of vehicle will take off.
"I don't think there's a way to short circuit this other than legislation that sets a legal limit on carbon emissions," he says. "There has to be a consequence. Then automakers and oil companies will figure it out."


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Woolf's first legal book dealt with the law on adulteration of food (1874). He afterward wrote, in collaboration with Middleton, on the law and practise of compensation, as well as on the liquidation of business firms by the court. He was active as a communal worker, was one of the principal supporters of the Westminster Jews' Free School; and served as warden and as council member of the Berkeley Street Synagogue. He was a member also of the council of the Anglo-Jewish Association.
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Or...don't give me a free game AND PATCH OUT THE STUPIDTARDED DRM.
You can't just "patch out" a quarter of the games features...
The game itself isn't broken - it's just their servers. Or are you going to cry "broken game" every time an MMO is having a maintenance? No, you won't.
oh, you want bigger maps?
well, they interfere with your achievement leader boards, so they wont be put in.
unless of course you pay something like $15 for bigger maps in their DLC they will no doubt be revealing once people no longer give a shit.
OT: 'people started playing the game that we couldn't anticipate'
That is the whole fucking point of a BETA, you find bugs by doing everything you can possibly imagine.
but oh wait, forgot, Beta tests are not actual tests anymore, just the ability to play games a few weeks early.
there is a difference between a MMO's maintenance and a broke ass game.
Age of Conan? that was maintenance.
Darkfall? broke ass game.
World of Warcraft was borderline broke, but they were quick to fix the more notorious issues.
this bullshit? all of this could of been avoided had they an actual alpha or beta test instead of just letting a select few people [whom from what I have seen were a majority of journalists to begin with] play for a few minutes each day.
It could of been avoided or at the least been buffed out more than what it is now had they any actual interest in the game's survival, which they dont.
Yes you can patch that out when you know 50% of your audience just wanted a single player game anyway.
Wouldn't the irony be delicious though? They worry about people getting their game for free, break the game in a hamhanded effort to prevent that, and as a result end up giving out games for free for EVERY SINGLE SALE they made.
They just gave themselves a 100% piracy rate!
The public beta was BS, but the journalists got a "pre-release version", which they could play as much as they wanted that that worked. Mostly because the server had only to handle like 50 people or so.
Still, if you manage to get on a server, the game works perfectly fine. It isn't broken.
Those eligible for the free game will probably find that, following some exciting cross publisher talks, the game they are getting is Alien Colonial Marines
The opinion of the 1500+ people who gave it negative scores are, to you, invalid because... there's a lot of them?
The fact that the game requires servers at all means it's broken.
So, we had the Diablo 3 disaster due to always-online DRM, and now we have the SimCity disaster due to always-online DRM. If the next game with always-online DRM makes major pre-order and release-day sales, all I can say is gamers deserve every bit of mistreatment they get from these companies cause they're just not learning to keep their wallets closed. Repeatedly shitty games, increasingly bad policies, and intrusive, broken DRM, and, yet, gamers continue to throw money at these same companies every time the next new shiny is released, only to restart the cycle anew. Just stop buying it, people.
[capcha: makes wallets happy.]
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I highly doubt that 50% is even remotely an accurate figure. Remember: "built to run on your dad's PC". That quote didn't come out of nowhere, it literally meant "YOUR DAD'S PC".
Read: most people don't care if it's online or offline. And many of them enjoy the social aspect of it. Some are even able to say play with their kids who are in college, since SimCity is really meant to bridge a generation gap.
Their marketing and branding from the very beginning has made it clear that this is supposed to be an all-family type game, not just focused on the teen/young adult generation. Since I am currently in the vicinity of late young-adulthood, I appreciate that. The way they structured it technologically emphasized this: they put as much of the processor load onto their own servers (which had the well-illustrated consequences) and built the game as an online experience, not a mere offline title.
That's fine, that's a design decision, and I personally think it adds value and longevity to the title. Then again, I am playing in a pretty awesome region.
Always remember when reading forums that you are reading the opinions of a vocal minority, regardless of whether it's praise or criticism. That does not mean that people weren't outraged - I doubt ANYONE was happy with their server load fuckup, but I highly doubt the broad majority of the audience objects to the game not being a single player title.
In fact, a multiplayer Sim City has been that many people called for and wanted for a long time - don't forget that.
Metacritic user reviews are known to be such a good thing to base things off of and are generally written by level headed people who totally own the game.
So much for 'longevity' when EA eventually decides to turn the servers off.
So much for "earning back our trust"
You're contradicting yourself a bit here.
If a game requires the player to be connected to the servers to play, and the servers are "broken", then the game itself is, essentially, broken.
That doesn't mean the game can't be fixed. But when a key feature of a game makes the game unplayable, then the game is broken. How is that debatable?
Why is there this prevailing tendency among gamers today to excuse big companies of responsibility when a high-profile, big-game release goes horribly awry? (especially when it most certainly IS the fault of the companies involved)
Even more baffling are the people who're saying things along the lines of, "Well, I can play the game, and I have fun with it, so the tens or hundreds of thousands of gamers that can't are just crybabies. The game is great and well-made."
It's just...ugh, it shows a complete lack of perspective and objectivity amongst the gaming community. It's the whole Diablo 3 debacle all over again, only worse. Seems none of us; publishers NOR gamers; learned our lessons from Spore.
There's an enormous difference between desiring the ability to play a game online, and being forced to play it online.
It goes without saying that many SimCity fans have desired a robust multiplayer feature-set being added to the series. Some even desiring a social-oriented feature.
However, many of the same fans didn't want to be forced into playing in such a fashion; especially at the expense of the solo/offline experience. That's the issue in all of this.
It's good for you that you're one of the few who can play the game. Congratulations.
However, many, many, MANY more can not.
Those people bought the game in good faith. Paying good money for a product and service that just don't work. They were told...promised...by EA and Maxis that they were purchasing a product that would preform in a certain manner. The product did nothing of the sort. Those people were lied to.
The gamers willing to stick by the game in anticipation of the day (if) it is fixed are free to do so. However, the ones who who aren't and would prefer getting a refund should be given the opportunity to do so. They certainly shouldn't be chastised by EA nor their fellow gamers.
It's particularly appalling to see some telling those gamers that they need to calm down and keep it all in perspective. As if to say, "This is just how it is. Put up with it."
I know that some will view this as a cope out move by EA, but i for one am happy... this means i get the Sims 3 University for FREE!
YOu'd think they would've learned about this when it happened to Blizzard and that stupid Diablo 3 online thing.
It's a nice game but the AI is dumb as bricks.
There is no "Special engine" in the back. The characters just go shortest route, send 100% of your emergency vehicles to one incident instead of spreading them across incidents, and other things like this.
It's a bit like spore, lots of advertised features and none of them exist.
Hey, were not letting you play this game you paid for and want to play, in them eantime play some other shitty games you neither wnat or like.
You'd thing Blingzard would have leaed about this when it happened to Ubisoft and that stupid Assasins Creed 2 online thing 4 years ago.....
Credit where due, this is a good move. EA is still pretty terrible as a whole, but for a company that takes one step forward, 5 steps back, at LEAST acknowledge the steps forward. They should have seen this disaster coming, and they should have allowed offline play (EVEN THOUGH the multiplayer is an inspired move). But given the bed they have made for themselves, this is a good start...unless of course, the list of games is crappy. But if they include things like the new Red Alert or a Crysis, good job. And frankly, I'm almost more impressed that they actually came out and admitted that they screwed up. That's a respectable move too. It doesn't vindicate, but it does mitigate.
I edited my double post, and it triple posts? What is happening here?!
In all my years here, this is my first ever double post. I am shamed.
Because the user reviews on metacritic mean something. Metacritic is just where all the butthurt fans go to bomb the game, they mean nothing. Anyone that takes the metacritic user reviews seriously is an idiot, in my opinion.
Yeah. The opinion of disappointed fans don't count. Only the happy ones!
The opinion of disappointed fans count when they're being rational about it.
Allow me to quote you from the top six comments when I click over to the metacritic user reviews.
I'll stop there. They go on in much the same manner. Angry customers unhappy with a shoddy products, venting their opinion in the only place there they think it has some way to count for something. I'm not seeing many 'irrational' loonies here. Or maybe it's just easier for you to paint them with a wide brush to make yourself feel better about it.
And if you check the scores these people gave the game they're all 0's to 3's. I seriously doubt the game is that bad that it deserves a 1.6 overall score. Like I said, it's where all the butthurt fans go to review bomb the game. The scores these people have given the game have just confirmed what I said about metacritic user reviews. So yeah, as I said earlier, the opinion of disappointed fans count when they're being rational about it.
Why would they ask people to pull the advertisement for the game and then tell the consumers that if they buy the game before the 18th they will get a free game? why even bother with pulling the advertisement in the first place?
So... just stick your fingers in your ears and repeat yourself in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary? I must be on the internet!
Yes, thank you for providing me more evidence that user reviews on Metacritic are no more than irrational review bombings from butthurt customers. Because I'm sure this game deserved over 2000 negative reviews with scores of 0's to 3's. I have nothing more to say on it, you can pay attention to the Metacritic user reviews if you wish, see if I care.
While I agree that MetaCritic in general and it's user review in particular are pretty useless, when you've attracted so many negative reviews in such a short period of time, you must be doing something wrong. In this case making online play a requirement, not a desirable option and then underestimating the demand it would place on your servers.
If the game flat-out fails to function for most people, it deserves nothing more than a zero.
Doesn't matter if your game is the second coming of Christ, if people can't play it warrants nothing more than a big fat zero.
Online DRM's and server issues still aren't a reason to give a game a score of 0. Yes, online DRM's suck (well actually, I'm indifferent towards them. But I understand why people hate them), and obviously people are going to get pissed off about server issues. But rushing to metacritic to review bomb it with 0's is unfair. If someone went on and say, gave it a 5 out of 10, and then said something like "The game itself is pretty fun, but it's been simplified quite a bit from the old games. Also the always online requirement and the server issues ruin the experience" or something, then that's an acceptable reason for dislike with a fair score. It's the same with Mass Effect 3 which is sitting at a 4.6 user review score with over 2000 negative reviews, a lot of them complaining about the ending. They seem to ignore the fact that the rest of the game was brilliant.
DmC Devil May Cry, another game to be review bombed recently, a lot of people complaining about the new design on the characters. I'll be the first to admit that when DmC was released I hated what Ninja Theory did to the characters, and I still do. But I gave the game a chance, and when I played it I was pleasantly surprised. The gameplay was fun, the platforming was fun, the level design was great, the soundtrack was great. Overall it was a great addition to the series, but because of the character design the game got a bunch of 0's on metacritic.
One bad feature/part of a game does not warrant a 0 out of 10 review and an overall score of 1.something.
No it doesn't. Hey, I have an idea! Let's go and give almost every MMO ever a 0 out of 10 because they had server issues at launch.
Server issues can be fixed, and when they are, all the whiners will play the game and love it.
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Last week should have been a wake up call for the GOP. They received more positive press than they have in a very long time on the heels of Senator Rand Paul's 13 hour 'fillibuster' in which he ranted and raved against the vague policy of the use drones on American soil.
Standing with Senator Paul and lending their assistance to the filibuster were a couple of the newer members of the GOP Senate. Most notably Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Young Senators who seem unafraid to take on the establishment. The next day the 'establishment' was markedly upset and doing what they could to disparage the younger Senators stand against an administration who felt the need to not only not define a very dangerous policy, but who refused to answer simple questions regarding it when asked. I am of course speaking of Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
What, I asked, would drive 2 influential Senators such as McCain and Graham go on the offensive against members of their own party who had taken a very popular stance and received more positive press for the Republicans than they have had in a couple of years? Could it be jealousy? McCain and Graham were both at a dinner with President Obama at the time of the filibuster reportedly trying to iron out a compromise to end sequester spending cuts. Were the established GOP lead dogs upset that they were upstaged by their younger counterparts? Whatever the reason for their attacks and name calling the day following the filibuster one thing became clear. The old dogs need to retire to a shady spot under the porch if the GOP is to ever shed the "Old white man's party" perception that it has.
Youth and newness can be a good thing for a party that needs to do some serious reputation rebuilding after years of a war of rhetoric for the public perception that they have been losing and losing badly. I find it reprehensible for Senators with the clout within the party that McCain and Graham have to try and make illegitimate the best positive polling the party has had in recent memory. I have to wonder. Are they dumb, senile or so full of themselves that they feel the need to take shots at their own when the spotlight is shone elsewhere within the party?
Regardless of the reasoning for their name calling outbursts, what happened with the filibuster should serve as notice the the GOP leadership. There is a youthful movement within the party. That movement is part constitutionalist, part libertarian, part tea party and part conservative. If you don't come to grips with it and learn to embrace what it brings to the table in regards to helping erase the perception of the 'old white man's party' then be prepared to stare at the outside of the White House for a very long time.
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Israeli soldiers patrol during a military operation to search for three missing teenagers outside the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday 15 June 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)
Focus of the search for three missing settler teens has bounced from Hebron, Ramallah, Jenin and now Nablus, where last night 41 Palestinians were arrested. More than 200 Palestinians have been arrested since raids began early Friday morning, in addition to three serious injuries and one killed in a raid in al-Jalazone refugee camp, near Ramallah.
While Israeli forces maintain Hamas is responsible for the presumed abduction, Hamas has not claimed the act. According to the Associated Press, Hamas praised the act but did not accept responsibility. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using the opportunity to sway the opinion of the international community away from Hamas and its recent membership in the PLO.
"Instead of abiding by his international obligation to disarm Hamas, President Abbas has chosen to make Hamas his partner," said Netenyahu, according to the Associated Press. "I beleive that the dangers of that pact should now be abundantly clear to all."
Incidentally the presumed kidnappings have coincided with the 50th day of the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, sweeping up media attention from mass protest of Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons without charges.
In addition to capitalizing on the media frenzy to incite further anti-Hamas sentiment abroad, Israel's actions in response to the presumed abduction seem to be punitive towards Hamas and areas where Hamas is believed to have substantial support.
"We've begun an effort in which Hamas is paying a heavy price," said Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in a press conference yesterday.
Israeli forces are prepared for a more extensive campaign than a simple search and rescue mission. According to the Jerusalem post, Netenyahu has said the search operation for the teens is "complex" and will "take time."
"We will bring about a situation in which Hamas people will become a nuisance for the Palestinian population, and that their presence in Judea and Samaria will cause harm everywhere," said Economy Minister Naftali Bennet, according to Ynet News.
Hebron, the largest city in the occupied West Bank, remains under siege for the third consecutive day. Israeli authorities are preventing all males of Hebron aged 16-50 from crossing to Jordan. Travel to Israel for Palestinians with work permits has also been frozen, according to leading Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. The group labeled Israel's restrictions a form of "collective punishment" in a press release issued earlier today.
Israeli forces have intensified raids in Nablus, calling it the terror capital of the West Bank. The Israeli army reported on Tuesday they found handguns, grenades, and other explosives in the Nablus raids. A paintball gun was pictured among the confiscated weapons pictured on the IDF blog, drawing ridicule from activists on Twitter.
The three teens, Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Nafrali Frenkel, 16, are all Yeshiva students in Israeli settlements on the occupied West Bank. They were reportedly hitchhiking the night they went missing.
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Many, Many Examples Of Essential Questions
Decisions, Actions, and Consequences
What is the relationship between decisions and consequences?
How do we know how to make good decisions?
How can a person's decisions and actions change his/her life?
How do the decisions and actions of characters reveal their personalities?
How do decisions, actions, and consequences vary depending on the different perspectives of the people involved?
Social Justice
What is social justice?
To what extent does power or the lack of power affect individuals?
What is oppression and what are the root causes?
How are prejudice and bias created? How do we overcome them?
What are the responsibilities of the individual in regard to issues of social justice?
How can literature serve as a vehicle for social change?
When should an individual take a stand against what he/she believes to be an injustice? What are the most effective ways to do this?
What are the factors that create an imbalance of power within a culture?
What does power have to do with fairness and justice?
When is it necessary to question the status quo? Who decides?
What are the benefits and consequences of questioning / challenging social order?
How do stereotypes influence how we look at and understand the world?
What does it mean to be invisible? (context: minorities)
In what ways can a minority keep their issues on the larger culture's "radar screen?"
What creates prejudice, and what can an individual overcome it?
What are the causes and consequences of prejudice and injustice, and how does an individual's response to them reveal his/her true character?
What allows some individuals to take a stand against prejudice/oppression while others choose to participate in it?
What are the causes and consequences of prejudice and how does an individual's response to it reveal his/her morals, ethics, and values?
Culture: Values, Beliefs & Rituals
How do individuals develop values and beliefs?
What factors shape our values and beliefs?
How do values and beliefs change over time?
How does family play a role in shaping our values and beliefs?
Why do we need beliefs and values?
What happens when belief systems of societies and individuals come into conflict?
When should an individual take a stand in opposition to an individual or larger group?
When is it appropriate to challenge the beliefs or values of society?
To what extent do belief systems shape and/or reflect culture and society?
How are belief systems represented and reproduced through history, literature, art, and music?
How do beliefs, ethics, or values influence different people's behavior?
How do individuals reconcile competing belief systems within a given society (e.g., moral beliefs conflicting with legal codes)?
When a person's individual choices are in direct conflict with his/her society, what are the consequences?
What is morality and what are the factors that have an impact on the development of our morality?
What role or purpose does religion / spirituality serve in a culture?
What purpose or function do ethics / philosophy have in governing technological advances?
How do our values and beliefs shape who we are as individuals and influence our behavior?
Adversity, Conflict, and Change
How does conflict lead to change?
What problem-solving strategies can individuals use to manage conflict and change?
How does an individual's point of view affect the way they deal with conflict?
What personal qualities have helped you to deal with conflict and change?
How might if feel to live through a conflict that disrupts your way of life?
How does conflict influence an individual's decisions and actions?
How are people transformed through their relationships with others?
What is community and what are the individual's responsibility to the community as well as the community's responsibility to the individual?
Utopia and Dystopia
How would we define a utopian society?
How has the concept of utopia changed over time and/or across cultures or societies?
What are the ideals (e.g., freedom, responsibility, justice, community, etc.) that should be honored in a utopian society?
Why do people continue to pursue the concept of a utopian society?
How do competing notions of what a utopian society should look like lead to conflict?
What are the purposes and/or consequence of creating and/or maintaining a dystopian society?
What is the relationship between differences and utopia?
Chaos and Order
What is the importance of civilization and what factors support or destroy its fabric?
What are the positive and negative aspects of both chaos and order?
What are the responsibilities and consequences of this new world order described as "global"?
What role does chaos play in the creative process?
What are the politics and consequences of war, and how do these vary based on an individual or cultural perspective?
Constructing Identities
How do we form and shape our identities?
In a culture where we are bombarded with ideas and images of "what we should be,"
How does one form an identity that remains true and authentic for her/himself?
What turning points determine our individual pathways to adulthood?
In a culture where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us, how do we make decisions for ourselves?
What is creativity and what is its importance for the individual / the culture?
What is art and its function in our lives?
What are the limits, if any, of freedom of speech?
Freedom and Responsibility
What is freedom?
What is the relationship between freedom and responsibility?
What are the essential liberties?
What is the relationship between privacy, freedom, and security?
When does government have the right to restrict the freedoms of people?
When is the restriction of freedom a good thing?
Good and Evil in the World
Is humankind inherently good or evil?
Have the forces of good and evil changed over time and if so, how?
How do different cultures shape the definitions of good and evil?
Heroes and "She-roes"
Do the attributes of a hero remain the same over time?
When does a positive personality trait become a tragic flaw?
What is the role of a hero or "she-roe" (coined by Maya Angelou) in a culture?
How do various cultures reward / recognize their heroes and "she-roes"?
Why is it important for people and cultures to construct narratives about their experience?
What is the relevance of studying multicultural texts?
How does the media shape our view of the world and ourselves?
In a culture where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us, how do we make decisions for ourselves?
The Human Condition / Spirit
In the face of adversity, what causes some individuals to prevail while others fail?
What is the meaning of life, and does that shape our beliefs regarding death?
Illusion vs. Reality
What is reality and how is it constructed?
What tools can the individual use to judge the difference, or draw a line between, illusion and reality?
Language & Literature
How is our understanding of culture and society constructed through and by language?
How can language be powerful?
How can you use language to empower yourself?
How is language used to manipulate us?
In what ways are language and power inseparable?
What is the relationship between thinking and language? How close or far are they apart?
How does language influence the way we think, act, and perceive the world?
How do authors use the resources of language to impact an audience?
How is literature like life?
What is literature supposed to do?
What influences a writer to create?
What is the purpose and function of art in our culture?
How does literature reveal the values of a given culture or time period?
How does the study of fiction and nonfiction texts help individuals construct their understanding of reality?
In what ways are all narratives influenced by bias and perspective?
Where does the meaning of a text reside? Within the text, within the reader, or in the transaction that occurs between them?
What can a reader know about an author's intentions based only on a reading of the text?
What are enduring questions and conflicts that writers (and their cultures) grappled with hundreds of years ago and are still relevant today?
How do we gauge the optimism or pessimism of a particular time period or particular group of writers?
Why are there universal themes in literature–that is, themes that are of interest or concern to all cultures and societies?
What are the characteristics or elements that cause a piece of literature to endure?
What distinguishes a good read from great literature?
Who decides the criteria for judging whether or not a book is any good?
What is the purpose of: science fiction? satire? historical novels, etc.?
Love & Sacrifice
If any, what are the boundaries of love and sacrifice, and where does one draw the line between them?
What are the factors that move individuals / communities / nations to great sacrifice and what are the consequences?
Nature in the Balance
What are the responsibilities of the individual / society / superpowers in regard to the health of the environment? (local, regional, national or international context can be used)
What are the consequences of being unconcerned with nature's balance/harmony?
Our View of the World and Ourselves
How do we know what we know?
What is changeable within ourselves?
How does what we know about the world shape the way we view ourselves?
How do our personal experiences shape our view of others?
What does it mean to be an insider or an outsider?
What does it mean to "grow up"?
Where do our definitions of good and evil come from?
What is the relevance of studying multicultural texts?
How does the media shape our view of the world and ourselves?
In a culture where we are bombarded with other people trying to define us, how do we make decisions for ourselves?
What turning points determine our individual pathways to adulthood?
Past, Present, and Future
Why do we bother to study/examine the past, present or future?
What are the recurrent motifs of history and in what ways have they changed or remained the same?
The Pursuit of Happiness
What is happiness, and what is the degree of importance in one's life?
To what extent does a culture / society / subculture shape an individual's understanding or concept of happiness?
Relationships and Community
What are the elements that build a strong friendship?
How do friendships change over time?
What impact does family have during different stages of our lives?
What can we learn from different generations?
How is conflict an inevitable part of relationships?
How do you know if a relationship is healthy or hurtful?
What personal qualities help or hinder the formation of relationships?
How are people transformed through their relationships with others?
What is community and what are the individual's responsibilities to the community as well as the community's responsibilities to the individual?
Shades of Truth
Who defines "truth"?
How does perspective shape or alter truth?
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The company has decided to test the use of messaging to manage its proposed B2B applications. The plan calls for a small test that will allow a user from outside the firewall to place an order and track its status. The order needs to be booked into the main system. Then, depending on the location of the customer, the order is routed to the nearest region for shipping.
Eventually, the company intends to expand beyond its current in-house distribution system to a system that will allow other businesses to provide the shipping. Therefore, the messages sent between the businesses must also travel over HTTP and be in a self-contained format. XML is the perfect format for the message, and both the Advanced Queueing Servlet and Oracle Internet Directory provide the appropriate routing between the queues.
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SANTA CLARA - Among all that's been said or written about Sunday's much-anticipated 49ers-Seahawks interface, I have not yet seen this sentiment:
It should be a hella fun football game.
The usual rivalry stuff will be afoot, including two emotional coaches and adrenaline-gorged teams. But a true highlight should be another matchup of two ascending, young NFL quarterbacks: Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers and Russell Wilson of Seattle. Given each man's skill set, we could be witnessing the early exploits in a long-running series of classic confrontations, the future version of Brady vs. Manning. That's especially fun to contemplate.
Of course, with Kaepernick and Wilson, one of the two seems to be having far more fun, period.
"Seems" could be the key word here. For all I know, Kaepernick goes home from work every night and laughs it up by exchanging knock-knock jokes with his neighbors over hot cocoa and graham crackers. But you'd never know it from his weekly sessions with the 49ers media contingent, when Kaepernick is invariably polite but relentlessly terse - and just the opposite of Seattle's Wilson.
Example? The other day, both men were asked to comment on each other's talents and whether they had similar playing styles. Both answers were transcribed in their entirety.
This was Kaepernick on Wilson: "I haven't watched enough of him to really say. But he goes out, he makes plays for his team."
This was Wilson on Kaepernick: "Well, Colin is a tremendous person and player. First of all, he's a great athlete. He can make all the throws. He can run extremely well. He's a smart kid, too. It's one of those things where, I hope to play against him for a long time. Hopefully, I'm playing for the Seahawks for a really long time, and hopefully he's playing for the 49ers for a really long time. I have a lot of respect for his game."
Now, the NFL is an athletic competition, not a better-quotes contest. But when there's such a contrast in that department between Kaepernick and not just Wilson but nearly every other starting quarterback in the league well, that's not something to be totally ignored, either.
When video of these exchanges pops up on local television, I often hear from friends or 49ers fans. They ask if Kaepernick is as big of a "jerk" as he comes across on camera and whether he is a sullen individual.
EXTRAS: What are some of the weird ways that San Francisco and Seattle are hyping their Sunday showdown?
No, I tell them. Kaepernick, from all I know, is a good guy and sensitive friend. In casual locker room moments, I've seen him smile and tease teammates. He does wonderful stuff for charities. He has never been rude to anyone in public, at least in any manner that's been brought to my attention.
Here is what Colt McCoy, the 49ers' backup quarterback, says of Kaepernick: "He has a great personality. I really like our time in the quarterbacks meeting room with him, me and (quarterbacks coach) Geep Chryst. We have a good time together."
So. What you see with Kaepernick on camera or during interviews is clearly not what others see the rest of the time. He simply chooses not to embrace the media stuff. In fact, Kaepernick often appears to be working extra hard to not embrace it. When he's asked a question, you can sense him pausing half a beat to think (or over-think) exactly how minimal and short his response can be.
At those moments, it reminds me a bit of how Kaepernick has performed on the field this season, when he's dropped back and occasionally paused an extra half beat to think (or over-think) where the ball should go or what his next move should be, rather than letting the game flow and trusting his instincts. The end result is often a sack or an incompletion.
Is that analogy a stretch? Perhaps. Regardless, the sound-bite awkwardness won't be changing soon.
"I signed a contract to play football," Kaepernick reiterated this week. "The media is just something I have the obligation to do."
No crime there. Kaepernick is allowed to have that attitude. Many young players do, until they figure out the bigger picture.
It's interesting that Seattle's Wilson has already learned this. At age 25, he's a year younger than Kaepernick. But in Wilson's telephone interview with Bay Area media this week, he described his weekly process of game preparation, offered his thoughts about the 49ers defensive line and apologized for initially using the word "war" to describe Sunday's game. None of the remarks were earth-shattering. But they did provide helpful insight.
Winning games is task one in pro football. But there are other elements involved, too. Fans of the 49ers really want to like Colin Kaepernick. They will enjoy it if he beats the Seahawks. They will enjoy it even more if he lets them come along for the ride.
It's OK to admit that you're having fun at your job and open up about that. I predict that one day, Kaepernick will. Maybe this Sunday. Because it should be hella fun.


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One of the pieces I've been eagerly anticipating all season is Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks, which will be played this Friday and Saturday at the Majestic Theatre. Stravinsky used Bach's Brandenberg Concertos as the inspiration for the chamber orchestra piece. Its only 12 minutes long, but it is delightful. It was commissioned by former U.S. diplomat Robert Woods Bills and his wife Mildred Barnes for their 30th wedding anniversary in 1937. Dumbarton Oaks is an estate in the Georgetown area of Washington, D. C. that features 10 acres of gardens and a Federal-style mansion with a large art collection and music room. In 1940 the estate was donated to Harvard University. The estate was also a source of inspiration to Stravinsky, who visited it before composing the work.
The work is also used as the music for ballet. Here is a video of the first movement:
The entire Symphony program this weekend features works on an intimate scale. This will be quite a contrast to the upcoming Tchaikovsky Festival. The concerts focus on baroque music and "The American Four Seasons" by Philip Glass, which is inspired by Vivaldi's "Four Seasons."
Jack Fishman
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ALLIANCE, Ohio--Sophomore Jeremy Murray (Martins Ferry/Martins Ferry) rushed for 183 yards and No. 2 ranked Mount Union rushed for a season-high 309 yards as the Purple Raiders advanced to the NCAA Quarterfinals for a 19th consecutive season beating Delaware Valley (Pa.), 31-3 in the second round of the NCAA Division III Football Playoffs.
Mount Union (12-0) takes on Alfred (N.Y.), a 34-20 upset winner over No. 20 ranked Cortland State (N.Y.), next Saturday at noon in Alliance.
After forcing a Delaware Valley (9-3) punt on the game's opening possesion, Murray ripped off an 81-yard touchdown run on the Raiders first offensive play and staked Mount Union to an early 7-0 lead.
The game stayed at that score until Delaware Valley faced with a 4th-and-goal from the Mount Union 4-yard line and Jake Sobchak kicked a 21-yard field goal to close the gap to 7-3 with 2:09 left in the half.
Chaz Jordan (Medina/Medina Buckeye) then returned the ensuing kickoff 37 yards to give the Raiders the football at the Delaware Valley 33-yard line. Four plays later quarterback Neal Seaman (Lousiville/Louisville) hit wide receiver Cecil Shorts III (Cleveland/Collinwood) across the middle and he dashed 20 yards for a score to make it 14-3 with 42 seconds left before halftime.
Mount Union then took the opening possesion of the second half and Seaman hit Shorts on passes of 23 and 13 yards to set up a two-yard Murrary touchdown plunge to extend the lead to 21-3.
In the fourth quarter, the Raiders would then get a 26-yard field goal from Tyler Almeida (Elyria/Elyria) and Shorts would run in a score from five yards out of the "wildcat" formation for the 31-3 final.
Shorts finished with 81 yards rushing with a score on seven carries and had 112 receiving on 10 catches with a touchdown and Seaman was 14-of-19 passing for 160 yards.
The Mount Union defense held an Aggie offense that was averaging 195.5 yards rushing and 426.9 yards of total offense to just 53 yards rushing and 277 total yards.
Linebacker Sam Kershaw (West Jefferson/West Jefferson) and defensive end Lambert Budzinski (Canton/Massillon Jackson) each had a team-best eight stops. Budzinski had two of Mount Union's five sacks to make him the Raiders' new single season leader with 17.0.
Delware Valley quarterback Mark Hatty was 21-of-38 for 212 yards passing, wide receiver Dan Heiland had five catches for 52 yards, running back Matt Cook had seven carries for 18 yards to lead the offense, while Rob Eagles had a game-high 12 tackles on defense.


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Athabasca Basin and beyondNovember 15th, 2014
Uranium news from Saskatchewan and elsewhere to November 14, 2014
by Greg Klein
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Kivalliq's Nunavut property reveals new drill priority
Heralding its "most advanced, drill-ready target outside of the Lac 50 trend," Kivalliq Energy TSXV:KIV announced the Angilak project's Dipole target on November 12. The new area came to light after a 1,335-line-kilometre VTEM survey and 1,514 soil samples south of the 111,476-hectare property's Lac 50 deposit in Nunavut.
Preliminary analysis confirms geophysical targets at Dipole and the RIB area, Kivalliq stated. The company expects final VTEM data shortly to further define targets south of Lac 50.
Enzyme leach soil samples showed 379 anomalous uranium results, about a quarter of the total, ranging from 6 ppb up to 285 ppb uranium, placing the results in the 75th percentile. Out of that group, 77 samples made the 95th percentile. The sampling has "significantly upgraded" drill targets in the Hot and KU areas, as well as Dipole.
Kivalliq describes the latter area, 27 kilometres southwest of Lac 50, as "a distinct, two-kilometre-long geophysical anomaly having a coincident boulder assay of 2.24% U3O8, now confirmed by an anomalous uranium-in-soil trend over 3.4 kilometres of strike length" with anomalous copper, molybdenum and silver.
This year's work also confirmed a conductor in the RIB area, which has "geological similarities with both Dipole and Lac 50," the company added. Soil samples showed a 3.6-kilometre-long geochemical trend with uranium values ranging from 6 ppb to 61.9 ppb.
Historic 1970s drilling at RIB found shallow mineralization up to 0.19% U3O8 over 9.3 metres (including 0.52% over 2.6 metres) and 1.61% over 0.7 metres.
Lac 50's January 2013 inferred resource used a 0.2% cutoff to show 2.83 million tonnes averaging 0.69% for 43.3 million pounds U3O8. The inferred category also shows 1.88 million ounces silver, 10.4 million pounds molybdenum and 15.6 million pounds copper.
In late October Kivalliq announced a 1,914-hectare addition to its Genesis project in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where Roughrider Exploration TSXV:REL funds exploration through an 85% earn-in.
A big piece of Strateco brings Toro Energy to Canada
An ASX-listed uranium company would gain a substantial portion of Strateco Resources TSX:RSC under an agreement announced November 3. Toro Energy would issue shares to obtain a chunk of the Sentient Group's holdings in Strateco and SeqUr Exploration, a Strateco subsidiary. As a result, Toro would hold 19.8% of Strateco shares, $14.1 million of secured convertible notes receivable in Strateco, a $3-million senior secured first ranking loan receivable in Strateco and five million SeqUr shares, representing 25% of the subsidiary.
Sentient's interest in Strateco would drop from 27.13% to about 8%. Sentient would also hold 800 convertible notes representing $800,000 secured by Strateco assets.
Toro's Wiluna project is "set to become Western Australia's first-ever uranium mine," according to Strateco. "Toro has shown clear interest in the Matoush project, as well as in SeqUr's uranium projects in Saskatchewan. Toro's experience … permitting the Wiluna project, in an area formerly under moratorium, will certainly be an asset for Strateco." The latter company's Matoush project in Quebec has been stalled by a moratorium while a provincial inquiry into uranium takes place.
The transaction is part of a wider deal that includes Sentient's AU$10-million placement into Toro, with another AU$10 million to fund the Wiluna flagship. Sentient now holds 18.9% of Toro, in which Oz Minerals holds 21.9% and Mega Uranium TSX:MGA 21.5%.
Toro anticipates closing the deals by mid-December.
Hook Lake JV proposes $2.9-million 2015 budget, Purepoint announces
Hook Lake partners will be on the hook for $2.9 million worth of exploration next year, if the joint venture committee's proposals go through. Purepoint Uranium TSXV:PTU announced November 11 that a final decision on the budget, which would cover 4,200 metres of drilling, would follow geophysical results and a detailed drill plan. An airborne magnetic and VTEM-plus survey finished last month north of the project's Spitfire zone. Beginning soon will be a ground EM survey to pinpoint drill targets on the 28,683-hectare property five kilometres northeast of Fission Uranium's (TSX:FCU) Patterson Lake South discovery.
Purepoint announced the Spitfire zone last March and released additional drill results in May.
The Hook Lake JV consists of Cameco Corp TSX:CCO (39.5%), AREVA Resources Canada (39.5%) and Purepoint (21%). The latter company's share of the budget would come to about $310,000.
Western Athabasca Syndicate, Aben, Alpha update Preston, Mann Lake and Carpenter Lake
A recent analysis of airborne geophysics confirms existing drill targets at the 246,643-hectare Preston property, the Western Athabasca Syndicate reported November 13. The four-company group has further geophysical and geochemical work planned for early 2015, along with land- and lake-based drilling.
Some $3.75 million worth of expenditures so far have identified 15 target areas on the southwestern Athabasca Basin PLS-proximal property. In July the companies released results from Preston's initial drill campaign of nine holes totalling 1,902 metres.
Skyharbour Resources TSXV:SYH currently acts as project operator for partners Athabasca Nuclear TSXV:ASC, Noka Resources TSXV:NX and Lucky Strike Resources TSXV:LKY.
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Israel is an incredibly difficult country to understand – historically, politically, religiously, socially, geographically and in every other way. What we lack in physical space, we make up for by layers of complexity deposited over almost 4,000 years, through cycles of destruction and restoration, including the Zionist miracle.
While Israelis live with and debate this complex reality every day, many pundits and Jewish advice-givers simplify our difficult situation into a few sound bites followed by very simplistic and unrealistic solutions. They also apply analogies taken from other places and contexts, (such as the American civil rights movement and South African apartheid) and try to force-fit them to Israel's unique situation.
But there is no other case of a people exiled from its homeland in ancient times, dispersed to the four corners of the earth while maintaining its identity and coherence, and then returning to re-establish a sovereign modern nation as its neighbours try to wipe it out.
For example, when I hear or read Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist, and Peter Beinart, another U.S.-based Jewish journalist, I'm struck by the confidence with which they present their solutions, as seen from half a world away.
Beinart, the author of The Crisis of Zionism, is a particularly harsh critic whose influence is reflected in columns in the New York Times and as a speaker in many Jewish community events.
In his book, Beinart, like others only more so, describes the settlements that began after the 1967 war as the source of the "crisis," and fervently believes that Israel alone has the power to bring peace by ending the "occupation." For him, the West Bank is not part of a disputed homeland (Judea and Samaria), or a base for mass terror if the peace process goes bad again, but "a territory where Jewish power runs wild."
Beinart couches his argument in the idealistic language of human rights, harshly attacking Israelis and American Jewish leaders for ignoring "accounts of Palestinian suffering." In this patronizing vision, Palestinians are portrayed as passive victims, incapable of moral judgment or reaching an equitable agreement with Israel. To buttress his arguments, he quotes from political NGOs whose credibility is problematic, at best.
Many complications, such as the 1948 Arab invasion, then-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser's 1967 threat to "drive the Jews into the sea," the "three nos" of the Arab League in Khartoum, numerous Israeli peace proposals that were rejected, the refugee myths, and daily incitement are glossed over as, at best, footnotes of no significance. Instead, on behalf of the "younger Americans" and Jewish students who are Beinart's primary target audience, the reference point is that for "44 years, twice a college student's life span, they have seen Israel control territory in which millions of Palestinians lack citizenship."
These easy-to-digest versions of Israel's situation and history aren't the exception. They're the norm for many journalists and academics, a large number of them Jewish. In this manner, the complex issues related to the 20 per cent Israeli-Arab minority are reduced to entirely misleading concepts such as "discrimination" and "racism," and ignore the central impact of the wider Arab-Israel conflict. The clearly stated and repeated calls by many Israeli Arab leaders for the replacement of Israel with a so-called "state of all its citizens," which would mark the end of Zionism, are also missing from the easy-reader versions of history.
The dumbing down of Israel's complex realities extends to the treatment of efforts to create a somewhat unified Jewish framework in a society composed of dozens of groups with their own traditions and sense of right and wrong. It's far too easy for Diaspora Jews, whose understanding of these issues is limited, to criticize Israel for not being like them and continuing to grapple with issues such as the role of rabbis in politics, or army exemptions granted 64 years ago to 400 yeshiva students that have expanded to more than 100,000.
It's one thing to engage with Israel, including offering constructive criticism, but first, a little humility and some more complexity, please.
Young Jews, particularly in North America, shouldn't be deprived of the right to learn about Israeli realities beyond the sound bites and simplistic formulae.
This column appears in the August 9 print issue of The CJN


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A pair of titles will be on the line in May at Cage Warriors 54.
Middleweight champion Jesse Taylor (24-9) will put his belt up against John Phillips (16-5), and two-division champ Conor McGregor will defend his lightweight title against an opponent to be named.
Cage Warriors 54 takes place May 4 at Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff, Wales. Broadcast plans for the event are expected to be finalized soon.
Taylor, a veteran of the UFC, Strikeforce and DREAM who trains at Team Quest in California, won the 185-pound belt at Cage Warriors 51 this past December when he stopped Chris Fields with a second-round rear-naked choke. That win gave him four straight, and five of his past six victories have come by way of choke-out submission.
Phillips, from Wales, should have the home crowd on his side. He'll be returning from a hand injury that kept him out the latter part of 2012. All 16 of his wins have come by stoppage with 13 knockouts and three submissions. In July, he submitted Chris Fields at Cage Warriors 48. That got him a shot at the 185-pound belt, but an injury from the Fields fight kept him out of a bout with Pavel Kusch.
Cage Warriors 54 will also featured the return of Conor McGregor, the first two-division champion in Cage Warriors history. The owner of both the lightweight and featherweight titles will put his 155-pound belt on the line against an opponent that will be announced soon.
McGregor captured the lightweight title at Cage Warriors 51 with a knockout victory over Ivan Buchinger. He won the featherweight belt at Cage Warriors 47.
For the latest on Cage Warriors 54, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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It's really pretty amazing what Nikon is able to offer on the Coolpix L110. For the same MSRP as 2009's L100 ($279.95), Nikon retains that model's wide-angle lens with 15x zoom and sensor-shift image stabilization, but increases the camera resolution from 10 to 12 megapixels and the 3-inch LCD resolution from 230K dots to 460K; added a 720p movie mode, a built-in stereo microphone, and HDMI output; added use of the optical zoom and autofocus while shooting video; and includes four AA lithium batteries for 840 shots or 7 hours of video out of the box.
Underneath all the features, though, is still an entry-level point-and-shoot camera. Shooting options are geared for automatic use. Photos taken with plenty of light are generally nice, but noticeably worsen in low-light conditions. And the shooting performance is best for still subjects, not fast-moving children, pets, and athletes.
|Key specs
|Nikon Coolpix L110
|Price (MSRP)
|Dimensions (WHD)
|4.3 x 3 x 3.1 inches
|Weight (with battery and media)
|14.4 ounces
|Megapixels, image sensor size, type
|12 megapixels, 1/2.3-inch CCD
|LCD size, resolution/viewfinder
|3-inch LCD, 460K dots/None
|Lens (zoom, aperture, focal length)
|15x, f3.5-5.4, 28-420mm (35mm equivalent)
|File format (still/video)
|Highest resolution size (still/video)
|4,000x3,000 pixels/ 1,280x720 at 30fps
|Image stabilization type
|Mechanical and digital
|Battery type, CIPA rated life
|AA size (4 lithium included), 840 shots
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The controls and menu system are fairly uncomplicated, so out-of-the-box shooting shouldn't be a problem. The menu system is broken into three tabs: Shooting, Movie, and Set up. The layout keeps you from doing too much hunting through settings, not that there's all that much to adjust. (For example, you can't even turn off the digital zoom.) That's not to say it won't take a little effort to get the most from this camera, but the basics of shooting a photo or movie are easy and Nikon includes a full paper manual if you do need help.
As for controls, on top at the front of the hand grip is the shutter release surrounded by a zoom ring; the power button is behind it and though it's flush with the body, it is easy to find without looking. Down the right side of the LCD on back are the remaining controls. At the top, squeezed between the large thumb rest and the screen, is a record button for movies. (There is no Movie mode you have to enter, though it does take a couple seconds to start recording once you've pressed the button.) Below that is a shooting mode button labeled "Scene" with a playback button to its right; a four-way control pad with a select button in its center; and then Menu and Delete buttons at the very bottom. The control pad is used for menu and image navigation as well as setting the 10-second self-timer (there are no other options), adjusting flash and exposure compensation, and turning on macro focus. All in all, it's a pretty standard digital camera arrangement.
There is no viewfinder. You'll have to rely on the LCD for framing shots, which can make steadying the zoom lens a little frustrating. The LCD is bright enough for use in direct sunlight, however, and the high resolution helps sharpen images and text. If you use a flash at all, the one on the L110 has to be raised manually. The raising part isn't the issue, though; unlike most point-and-shoot cameras, the L110 won't tell you when to use the flash unless it is raised. Considering its entry-level positioning, it seems unusual to make the user decide when to raise the flash.
On the bottom is a locking door covering the SD/SDHC card slot and batteries. The camera uses four AA-size batteries. You can use alkaline, NiMH rechargeables, or lithium. Most manufacturers include alkaline batteries, which would only last about 270 shots; Nikon includes lithium cells that should last three times as long. NiMH is rated for up to 500 shots. On the right side of the body is a small DC input for an optional AC adapter. The left side has a covered panel with Mini-HDMI port and Micro-USB/AV ports.
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|Nikon Coolpix L110
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Its design might lead you to believe that this camera would have advanced shooting modes, but the L110 is very much a point-and-shoot. There are two Auto modes on this camera. One is Easy Auto, which uses scene recognition (Nikon calls it Scene Auto Selector) and adjusts settings appropriately based on six common scene types. If the scene doesn't match any of those, it defaults to a general-use Auto. Then there is an Auto mode, which is similar to the program AE modes on other point-and-shoots, giving you a modicum of control over your end results. You can change ISO, white balance, and exposure compensation as well as color, flash, and continuous shooting modes. Light metering is locked to multipattern unless you're using the digital zoom, and the focus area is fixed to the center of the frame.
If you're able to decipher the type of scene you're shooting, it may correspond to one of the camera's 13 selectable scene modes. All of the scenes are standards like Portrait and Landscape, and there is a Panorama Assist for lining up a series of shots that can be stitched together with the bundled software.
Nikon's Smart Portrait System gets its own spot in the shooting-mode menu. Basically, it combines a Blink Warning, Smile Shutter, In-Camera Red Eye Fix, and Face Priority AF (autofocus) features into one mode. The System works well, in particular for self-portraits, allowing you to take pictures without pressing the shutter release or setting a timer.
Also in the shooting modes is a Sport Continuous option for capturing up to 20 photos at approximately 11 frames per second. In order to do this, the maximum resolution is reduced to 3 megapixels; the focus, exposure, and white balance are fixed at the first picture in the series; and the ISO is set to a range of 640-3,200. These things aren't unusual for burst modes on low-end (or even some high-end) cameras, but that doesn't make the results any more useable. You'll capture something, although you won't be able to do much with them beyond Web sharing.


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In 1984, after years of intense persecution, Dumitru Duduman, a Romanian Pastor and the founder of the Hand of Help orphanage, was thrown out of his country for smuggling Bibles into Romania and Russia. With the help of the American Consulate, Dumitru and his family came to America. Feeling abandoned and discouraged, Dumitru asked God why he had brought him to America. God began to show Dumitru that he was brought to America to deliver a warning about impending judgment upon the country. Hand of Help would like to offer the Body of Christ the writings of Dumitru Duduman as a message of hope to all those who will stop sinning and turn to God.
Ever since this work begun, more often than not, it seems we've been moving mountains by faith. Looking back on all the years, all the trials, all the setbacks and all the obstacles there is only one conclusion I can rightly come to, that if not for the grace of God, if not for His mighty hand keeping us and strengthening us, we would merely be a long forgotten work that met its end before it even begun. It is humbling to look back and consciously underscore all the instances wherein God intervened, and all the situations through which we came unscathed as if by miracle or divine providence. Read More...
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Series: Bad Boys of Crystal Lake #2
Genres: Contemporary
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Reviewed by Miranda
His best gift this holiday is her. In the small town of Crystal Lake, Christmas is a time for sledding, hot chocolate, and cozying up to the fire. For Jake Edwards, it shouldn't be a time to give in to the feelings he's always had for Raine--especially since she's his brother's widow. No one annoys Raine quite like her brother-in-law does. But when Jake brings home a tall blond thing from the city who's bad news, Raine needs to stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life. Does Raine want this woman to leave Crystal Lake because she's all wrong for Jake? Or is it because she wants him for herself...?
It's been a year and a half since Jesse Edwards died a hero's death. Since then those he loved have suffered greatly. His twin brother, Jake, has finally come home to Crystal Lake to try and honor his brother and move on. Unfortunately, keeping his brother's promise to take care of his wife is more complicated than Jake ever imagined.
Raine Edwards is a shadow of her former self. The death of her husband and the abandonment by Jake has left her alone and empty. When Jake returns and turns away from her, anger and depression rule until hope—and a little holiday spirit— awaken the fighter inside her.
Will Jake and Raine find a happily-ever-after this Christmas? Find out in the latest Bad Boys of Crystal Lake novel.
Juliana Stone has struck gold with The Christmas He Loved Her. This story is one of the most powerful I've ever read. The amount of emotion ranging from heartbreaking to heart aching, the highest of highs and the lowest of lows make this read an unforgettable experience.
Ms. Stone lays out the darkest of emotions and creates a story with a 'real' feel and takes her reader on a remarkable journey. The characters are written with a deft unwavering pen. Their hearts and souls laid out for all to see, giving us a couple to root for.
Jake and Raine have been dealt a rough hand. They don't know exactly how to deal with all the feelings they have and that is what makes this so special. We get to go on this path with them.
Stone's holiday romance will rip your heart out and put it back together in under 400 pages. Prepare for heady emotions and the urge to hug all the people you love after enjoying The Christmas He Loved Her.