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Pretty good episode for a series clearly in rapid decline. By this
point, the 5th season, Roger Moore has left, Robert Colbert (Brent
Maverick) has proved inadequate, and of course Jim Garner has long
departed, though his name still appears in the opening credits! This
last is puzzling since I can't find where he appeared any time during
this 5th year. Maybe it was a contractual loophole and the producers
were hoping.
Pity poor Jack Kelly. He does look tired and no wonder since he's now carrying every episode. The plot here is an involving one that includes the deliciously arch Jack Cassidy as an oily popinjay who tricks Bart into indentured servitude in the home of a wealthy friend (Westerfield). Now Bart's stuck with polishing silverware so he won't go to jail for non- payment of a gambling debt. Of course, it helps that the household includes a pretty daughter (an unfortunately inept Dawson), and you just know Bart will get back at the obnoxious Cassidy-- but how, since Cassidy holds all the cards. Then again, it's their wits that gets the Mavericks by.
Clever use of The Mona Lisa as a plot gimmick, producing several neat twists. Also, this may be the only TV Western to allow a fat Wagnerian opera singer to break glass in millions of unsuspecting homes with shrieks loud enough to shatter the windows. Whew!-- So be prepared. The show benefits from an inventive story that stays indoors instead of moving into the backlot with the phony shootouts among the faux boulders that mar too many episodes, especially these later ones. Too bad, the show didn't sign Cassidy as a recurring character he had just the right kind of devious charm. This may not manage classic Maverick, but it's still an entertaining entry with a particularly satisfying finale.
When slick Jack Cassidy reneges on his promise to back Bart in a poker game, Bart becomes a servant to pay off his debt. Tycoon Sutton faces bankruptcy but owns what he thinks is the stolen Mona Lisa. Bart discovers that an art dealer is selling fake Mona Lisas to Sutton's associates. When Cassidy tries to have Bart Shanghaied, he gets Shanghaied. No one says "Shanghaied" anymore. I suppose it would be considered politically incorrect. Maverick has been called the thinking man's western, and that is what it is. It's plots demonstrate a world-class knowledge. Sometimes the plots are so intricate that it is better to let go.
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A century on, she is home again.
As we know, RMS Titanic was on her ill-fated maiden voyage a century ago this week. Less well-known: the tender ship to Titanic and her sister Olympic was the SS Nomadic. The ship was built on Slipway No. 1 of Harland and Wolff Shipyards alongside the liners (Olympic and Titanic were built on slipways 2 and 3, respectively). The massive liners -- each nearly nine hundred feet long and measuring some 45,000 tons -- were too large to dock at Cherbourg, so Nomadic was used to ferry mail, passengers and cargo aboard at Cherbourg, the liners' last port of call before crossing the Atlantic. She saw service in both world wars, as a troop carrier in WWI and again as a troop transport, minelayer and coastal patrol vessel in WWII. After the second war, she returned to service as a tender for Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Decommissioned in 1968, Nomadic was converted into a floating restaurant in Paris. When the business failed around the turn of the century, her superstructure was torn down so she could be towed out to Le Havre. After her owner's death in 2005, she seemed destined for the scrapyard until a group of maritime history enthusiasts began raising funds to buy and restore her. The Northern Ireland government's Department for Social Development purchased the ship and brought her home to Belfast on a barge for restoration at Harland and Wolff, a company now mostly devoted to offshore renewable energy. And thus it is that century after Titanic and for almost certainly the last time ever, a White Star vessel is at the Harland and Wolff shipyards. [more inside]
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Conference Quick Cuts
SXSW Film + Interactive
Fri., March 16, 2012
Man vs. Algorithm: Online Video Curation Face-OffFriday, March 9, Austin Convention Center
The title's "face-off" suggested a debate between its two co-panelists, Marc Hustvedt (of Chill/co-founder of the Streamy Awards) and Neetzan Zimmerman (of the Daily What). But the panel ran more like Q & A on how manual and automated curation solve what Hustvedt described as the "unarticulated want" of online viewers. "They know they want to be entertained," said Hustvedt, "but they don't know by what." (Cue cats!)
Hustvedt introduced the panel by outlining why we need machines' help. "Just last year, the number everyone quoted was 48 hours," he said. "Now 60 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every single minute. That's 3,600 minutes of video, which if we do some rough, back-of-the-napkin math, if we say there is three minutes per video, that's 1,200 videos per minute – impossible for anyone to watch all of them." While that much video presents a daunting task to any person, computers lack human fatigue and provide ever-improving curation at an ever-lowering cost. But how? Hustvedt identified two primary ways for computers to extract the Rebecca Black "Friday" music videos from the truly pedestrian sing-alongs: content data (tags, titles, etc.) and user activity, which he categorized as either explicit (thumbs-ups, views, channel follows) or implicit (user engagement, like time on video). Point: machines.
Not to worry. Through Hustvedt and the audience's questions, Zimmerman defended human curation, identifying several ways in which computers just can't compete. Two themes ran through all his examples: comedy and creativity.
"Machines have no sense of humor," said Zimmerman. "If we figure that piece out, AI is complete and the computers have won." He offered the example of the OMG Cat, a cat with lockjaw that seems surprised. "Can a computer look at a cat – a diseased cat at that – and know this will make people laugh?" Point: humans. He further argued that online curation amounts to more than simply identifying good videos. It means facilitating the creation of new ones through remixes. "[Computers] can't predict human creativity," said Zimmerman. "My goal is to show videos, have people take that seed of an idea, and then grow it." – Ashley Moreno
Rewards! Emotions! Design With the Brain in MindSaturday, March 10, Austin Convention Center
This panel, like so many others presented during South by Southwest Interactive, is about maximizing. This one in particular, explained by the tag team of neuroscience researchers Carlos Velasco and Alejandro Salgado, was about maximizing the precise use of "core evolutionary emotions" that drive compelling character development and narrative in film or games.
If you're a successful storyteller or even just a longtime and considerate consumer of other people's tales, you know pretty much what works, what sort of gambits to use in hooking an audience and forcing (albeit subtly, if you do it right) appreciation for the creation. Velasco and Salgado of the company Neurosketch are all about removing that "pretty much," about using controlled scientific research to pinpoint exactly the sort of details and surroundings that are most effective on the physical brain and consequently the person. You know: You show a subject a series of film clips and track where the eyes dart and linger; you note, with functional magnetic resonance imaging technology and so on, what portions of the old gray matter get excited by which images or combinations of effects; and you follow this up with research outside the lab, making sure you have an anecdotal, crowdsourced perspective from which to further winnow out the variables. Well, except where variables themselves would impart a positive influence on the narrative/character/whatever you're using to engage the audience.
Velasco and Salgado, trading spokesman duties, using projected slides and animations and film to enhance their speech, building the talk with a few of the methods – "hedonic forecasting" – they represented, did a fine job of explicating their work and pimping its advantages. The two of them fielded frequent audience questions, gave substantial replies, and were not afraid to say, when necessary, "Well, we don't know yet, that's part of what we're looking into" instead of offering vaporous bullshit. Well done, boys.
But, still: What all this research boils down to ... what the presentation's subject and the presentation itself gave evidence to ... what all this highly scientific brain-based jiggery-pokery serves to validate is merely what one of They Might Be Giants' two Johns said more than a decade ago: "If you do interesting things, people will be interested."
– Wayne Alan Brenner
Collaborations in Film: Writers & ProducersSaturday, March 10, Austin Convention Center
While any number of things can go wrong in the delicate process of steering a movie from concept to screen, one particularly important thing to get right is the chemistry between a writer and producer. The strength of this relationship, according to panelists at Saturday's discussion, can make or break a film. "When you find a producer able to allow you to let yourself into your writing," said writer/director Jeff Nichols, "you have to latch onto them." Nichols was joined onstage by two producers: Sarah Green (The Tree of Life) and Brunson Green (no relation), who produced The Help. Both got their starts in Austin, Brunson as a props intern ("mainly cleaning guns") and Sarah interning in "every department in the film studio" because, as she claimed, she wasn't good at anything – until she stumbled "by accident" into a PA gig. Sarah, who also produced Nichols' Take Shelter and forthcoming Mud, said, "You have to make sure you and the writer are making the same movie. That seems basic, but you can't imagine how often that doesn't happen." The key to successful collaboration – aside from communication – is in prioritizing relationships over other things (like, say, money). Sarah emphasized that taking a "lesser" position to work with "people you want to be involved with" is worth the sacrifice because "those relationships can carry you." Brunson pointed out that writer-producer relationships without a close creative chemistry can be tricky. He described watching writer-director Tate Taylor of The Help go through several iterations of rewrites with studio producers who unwittingly recommended fixes at one stage that merely undid fixes they'd recommended earlier. Without a cozy collaborative relationship, that process, said Nichols, can turn political. You have to decide which notes (edits) you can give in on, and use those to bargain against those that truly run counter to what your script is about. Nonetheless, he said, notes – at least "from the right people" – are essential to the creative process. So often, when filmmakers get successful, their work suffers, said Nichols, "I think it's because they're no longer getting notes." – Nora Ankrum
The Evolution of the Douchebag in Modern CinemaSaturday, March 10, Austin Convention Center
Miles Mander, Charles Foster Kane, Carlos the Jackal, Scarlet O'Hara: The douche is louche, a staple of filmmaking and the society it mirrors. "For our purposes," explained panel moderator Robyn Sklaren, "a douchebag is a character who is unlikable, arrogant, selfish, impolite, and unapologetic about all of it." From Thomas Edison, who looted Georges Méliès and hundreds of other filmmakers in his time, to James Spader's Steff in John Hughes' Pretty in Pink, the douchebag has been an integral part cinema since the very beginning. The four assembled panelists – moderator Sklaren, "failed academic" (but proven windbag) P.E. Oppenheim, Upright Citizen Eliza Skinner, and Slate and The New York Times Magazine cultural critic Dan Kois – proved themselves not only worthy of the task of discussing and indeed disseminating douchery but also able to perform remarkable feats of verbal douchery within a mostly empty Austin Convention Center hall. Oppenheim led with a rambling but edutainment-packed history of actual late 19th century douche-related inventions, including a practical device made to keep animal husbandry in the house where it belongs. "The last 10 years have demonstrated that the upper-crust douchebag," noted Kois, "is a viable and reliable hero in cinema. For people like me, it's been a long and difficult road for advocates of douchebags in the arts." But no more. "Once upon a time, as Doctor Oppenheim pointed out," continued Kois as moderator Sklaren checked her makeup and swizzle-sticked her drink, "douchebags in cinema were viewed as villains or buffoonish sidekicks. In the early days of the cinema – 1983, 1984 – douchebags might well have been cartoons. But for us, Pretty in Pink wasn't about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who sewed a really ugly dress. It was about [James Spader's] Steff, a wealthy, popular high school senior who's struggling to keep his group of socially appropriate friends together." At this point Skinner declared herself, winningly and whiningly, chilly and promptly zoned out apropos of everything, proving once and for all time that there's nothing like a witty faux panel made up of metadouches to kill an hour waiting for James Spader's career to resuscitate. – Marc Savlov
A Conversation With Seth MacFarlaneSunday, March 11, Vimeo Theater
Blame Janet Jackson's nipple for the poop humor missing from the second coming of television's Family Guy, show creator Seth MacFarlane says. Ever since her wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 Super Bowl, the FCC has cracked down. "We can't do a lot of the things we could do before," he told a packed South by Southwest panel on Sunday. "Particularly shit jokes. Somehow they translated Janet Jackson's breasts into shit."
That wasn't the case prior to the show's 2001 cancellation, MacFarlane said. The show's unlikely return to the airwaves in 2004 was all about Fox execs reacting to strong DVD sales for those early seasons. "You can write endless letters trying to bring back Party of Five, but they have to feel they'll be making some money," he said.
He brought surprise guest Mark Wahlberg to the panel as the pair tried to ramp up buzz for MacFarlane's feature-film directing debut, Ted, about a boy who wills his teddy bear to life and then must live with the bawdy creature as both age. The audience got an eight-minute sneak preview of the film, which is much in line with Family Guy's comedy stylings and is slated to hit theatres in July. MacFarlane voices the CGI stuffed bear, who sounds a whole lot like Family Guy's Peter Griffin.
Griffin's voice came from people MacFarlane encountered while studying animation at the Rhode Island School of Design. "They have one of the worst dialects on the planet," he said of Rhode Island. "What King of the Hill did for Texas I hope Family Guy does for Rhode Island."
He was 24, with a little stand-up comedy and writing for Hanna-Barbera cartoons under his belt, when MacFarlane sold Fox on Family Guy. He did many of the voices in the pilot himself to keep down expenses and now sees it as an advantage. "There's a certain freedom to writers being able to deliver their own stuff," he said, "and Family Guy is very delivery-based."
MacFarlane has also turned his attention to reviving the past. In 2011, he released an album of classic songs using Frank Sinatra's 1950s microphone from Capitol Records. He's an executive producer for Fox's revival of Carl Sagan's science series Cosmos. And he's at work on reviving The Flintstones franchise for Fox. "I want to stay true visually to what the show was," he said. "There's not much of it that needs to be changed. They invented the animation method we all still use." – Joe O'Connell
Unpacking the Myth of the IntuitiveSunday, March 11, Palmer Events Center
Matt Boch was a one-man myth-buster as he dug a grave for the overused and often misused term "intuitive." The man's résumé includes work on some of video gaming's most vexing interface hurdles as the project director at Harmonix and most recently as the designer for that studio's newest franchise, Dance Central. The rules of Dance Central are natural enough: Mimic the dance moves on the screen and the Xbox's motion sensor will score your accuracy. No instruction manual needed, right? But how do you choose the song? How does one scroll through and select from a list using only body language and gestures? The reviews of Dance Central almost universally praised the game's design.
Boch isn't comfortable with his work being called intuitive aside from the fact that many people misinterpret the concept altogether, à la "Once you get a feel for the controls, they are very intuitive." More than that, the idea that an interface is intuitive means that it is familiar and immediately understandable. What Boch created is different (and better), which can be seen as the opposite of intuitive.
Boch then debunked the idea that the iPhone was familiar and intuitive right out of the box, crediting its superlative marketing more than any mind-reading design. The simplicity of the iPhone's ads – 84 and counting – are striking, but what was clear after Boch pointed it out was that the spots were instruction manuals. The ads could be written for children: "This is an iPhone. This is how you open the App Store. This is how you check email." The campaign gave people the skills to interact with a new product before they even had one in hand. Once they did, they were amazed at how intuitive the controls were when in actuality they had been shown the way over and over again on TV.
– James Renovitch
Marvel: House of IdeasSunday, March 11, Palmer Events Center
The heaving floor of the ScreenBurn Arcade may not have seemed ideal for a major product rollout, but Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso may have made the right choice: You know that you're with hardcore comic fans when they yell out that their favorite characters are the Sentry and Squirrel Girl, not Captain America or Thor. Sunday's big announcement from the house of ideas was a new deal with Aurasma, the same smartphone app that has been bringing the Chronicle's South by Southwest covers to animated life. The bonus content will start appearing in this summer's Avengers vs. X-Men crossover, and the Aurasma developers got to show off what the software can do. A poster of Iron Man launched a video of Tony Stark's high-tech alter ego; a page of art was stripped down through the color layers, down to the inks; and the cover of the first AvX issue activated a full flash trailer for the series. Alonso explained, "This is our way to build out DVD and Blu-ray extras into comics." Aurasma is just one part of the Marvel revolution, where it starts deliberately designing comics for tablets instead of print. Yet Marvel Digital Media Senior Vice President/General Manager Peter Phillips argued that this is not a case of Marvel falling prey to the "shiny penny syndrome." The firm already has a proven track record with digital subscriptions with and starting in June, all its top-selling comics will come with a free download code. As for Aurasma, Marvel looked at other interactive technology, including QR codes, "but we want something that actually enhances the experience of reading a comic," said Phillips. But isn't this just free content? "If this comic line sells the way that we hope it will, and augmented reality will be a big part of that, then it's going to pay for itself." – Richard Whittaker


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Interactive games use academic content in game-like situations to supplement traditional lectures. The use of interactive games is said to increase student's interest, motivation, and information retention as well as improve reasoning skills and higher order thinking. In addition to strengthening students academic skills, interactive games also benefit students by building and encouraging social skills. The use of interactive games provides shy students with opportunities to express themselves in a non-threatening and less intimidating environment as students are able to work together in small groups. Games can also promote competition in a healthy, fair manner and teach good sportsmanship. While there are critics who perceive games as "time fillers" in a classroom, when used correctly they are able to give students, and teachers, more benefits than lectures, worksheets and repetition.
Play is a very serious matter....It is an expression of our creativity; and creativity is at the very root of our ability to learn, to cope, and to become whatever we may be. (Rogers & Sharapan, 1994, p.1)
Depending on the subject matter, and the age of the students, teachers may try a variety of games in order to find those that best accommodate their class. Teachers will find that many games cross multiple classifications and can be adapted to various subjects. Games are classified into numerous, often overlapping, categories. A sampling includes: adventure games, simulation games, competition games, cooperation games, and puzzle games (Jacobs & Dempsey, 1993)
Adventure Games
An adventure game is a game that is focused on storytelling and problem-solving instead of physical challenges. A good example of an adventure game for a history lesson would be eLECTIONSby ciconline. In this game students assume the role of a presidential candidate and learn about how the election process works. In this game students see, read, hear and interact with multimedia content from CNN Student News, C-SPAN and History™.
Subject: History, Social Studies
Simulation Games
A simulation game attempts to recreate "real-life" scenarios typically for the purpose training or prediction. Simulation games are frequently used by the military to prepare Air Force pilots for potential aerial "dog fights" and by NASA to prepare astronauts for a shuttle launch. The simulation game Classroom Pilot is a very fun game to aid in the learning of geography. In this game students fly simulated paper airplanes across the world and must pass quizzes about the geographical area in which they land before moving on to the next country.
Subject: Geography, History
Competition Games
Competition games in the classroom is a controversial topic. The supporters of competition games claim that healthy competition is good for students and builds confidence and good sportsmanship but critics claim that competition is unhealthy for a child's psyche and can damage their self-confidence and willingness to attempt new experiences. Competition games are best when they are not individualized but rather teams games; consider for example The Invisible Man. In this competition game teams compete in a spelling bee and erase a portion of the opposing team's drawn stick figure every time they spell a word correctly until only one figure remains.
Subject: Spelling, English, Language Arts (can be adapted to any subject)
Cooperation Games
A cooperation game is a game where groups of players engage in cooperative behavior, hence the game is a competition between teams of players, rather than between individual players. Cooperation games may be between teams of players engaging in competition (see competition games) or a game in which players must cooperate together to achieve a common goal. Trolley Walk is a great cooperative game in which students must learn to communicate, listen, and coordinate with others to achieve a common goal.
Subject: Physical Education
Puzzle Games
Puzzle games are games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles to be solved can test many problem solving skills including logic, strategy, pattern recognition, sequence solving, and word completion. In the puzzle game Weather Storms students use word play and puzzle clues to solve weather science related puzzles. This would be an especially applicable puzzle game during Florida's hurricane season to help students retain knowledge pertaining to hurricane science.
Subject: All, as adapted
|These students are enjoying an interactive game of Jeopardy!
Dr. Robert Marzano has been involved in over 60 studies researching the effects of interactive games in the classroom and their impact on student development. These studies by Dr. Marzano have indicated that, "on average, using academic games in the classroom is associated with a 20 percentile point gain in student achievement." In his studies, Dr. Marzano found that children relate best to games with which they have some familarity. Based on this information Dr. Marzano recommends adaptations of games such as Jeopardy, Family Feud and $100,000 Pyramid which allow teachers to build questions based on difficulty from least difficult (low money / point value) to most difficult (high money / point value).
Regardless of the type of game chosen for the classroom activity Dr. Marzano has identified four key components which should be present in order to achieve the best results.
Those four key components are:
- Inconsequential competition - Using points as a form of measurement in a competition game helps to track the "winners" but Dr. Marzano urges teachers not to allow the points earned to influence a student's overall class grade. Points should be added up and the top 3-5 point earners should be awarded something fun, but inconsequential, like tokens to trade in for an extra 5-minutes of recess or a snack. The game, and the reward, should be viewed as a small break for class routine and the standard grading process.
- Target the essential academic content - Dr. Marzano's research indicates that games should focus on the most important academic content. "The most efficient way to maintain an academic focus is to organize games around important terms and phrases. Questions and answers would involve information important to terms and phrases." (Marzano, 2010)
- Debrief after the game- The point of interactive, academic games, is to build knowledge and understanding of a topic in a fun and exciting format. Dr. Marzano urges teachers not to add up points and move on to the next unit but rather to "debrief" students by reviewing the game, discussing which questions were easy and which were more difficult. The debriefing time allows students to reflect on the material and build a deeper understanding of the academic content.
- Revise their notes- "When a game has ended and the class has discussed difficult terms and concepts related to the content, the teacher should give students time to revise their notes." (Marzano, 2010) The games help students develop a better understanding of the class material and Dr. Marzano suggets that teachers allow students to modify their notes to add tips to help them recall this newly developed comprehension. Marzano's research studies do indicate that games help students learn new content but the follow-up is critical to helping students remember the new content.
This page was created and authored by Ashley LaMar from Group 1; thanks for reading.
Jacobs, J. W., & Dempsey, J. V. (1993). Simulation and gaming: Fidelity, feedback, and motivation. In J. V. Dempsey & G. C. Sales (Eds.), Interactive instruction and feedback (pp. 197-227). Englewood Hills, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Rogers, F., & Sharapan, H. (1994). How children use play. Education Digest, 59(8), 13-16.
International TEFL and TESOL Training. (2010) Games in the Classroom. http://www.tesolonline.com/tesol-articles/games-in-the-classroom/
Marzano, Robert J. Meeting Students Where They Are. Using Games to Enhance Student Achievement (66)5, 71-72
Robert J. Marzano, "Using Games to Enhance Student Achievement, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, February 2010
Pytel, B. (2010). Educational Games in the Classroom. Educational Issues http://barbara-pytel.suite101.com/educational-games-in-the-classroom-a210262


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Evan Vucci, AP
The following editorial appeared recently in the Dallas Morning News:
Mitt Romney had the political stage to himself Thursday night. And the Republican presidential nominee used the spotlight to his advantage.
The former Massachusetts governor had not been the first choice of many at the GOP convention. But delegates in Tampa cheered when he made it clear that a Romney administration would create jobs and control the debt. The roar let the White House know that the game is on.
Naturally, Romney spoke about issues besides the economy. He needed to define himself as a more likable figure, and he did just that — particularly in the introductory film about his life before politics and with anecdotes about family, such as his parents worrying more about what kind of person he would become than what he would do for a living.
But, like Paul Ryan and Chris Christie before him, Romney scored best when focusing on economic growth and the $16 trillion debt.
He rightly explained how the economy had not rejuvenated under President Barack Obama and that the debt had ramped up under him. "This is when our nation was supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits," he said of the last four years.
By contrast, Romney promised jobs, growth and the debt would be priorities. He pledged 12 million new jobs and a reduced deficit so "investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece."
It was refreshing last week to watch Republicans push the theme that they are prepared to lead and make tough choices. Politicians know that voters can get nervous when they start talking about reforming entitlement programs. But from Romney to Ryan to Christie, the convention's major speakers didn't shy away from the unpleasant truth that the government cannot sustain itself at current levels of spending.
But here's another unpleasant truth: The tax-and-spending plans crafted in the House by Ryan, the vice presidential nominee, won't balance the budget for about 20 years. That's too long. And the plan would cut spending too deeply in some areas, such as programs benefiting the most vulnerable Americans.
As the campaign progresses, the GOP ticket needs to signal that Republicans will make tradeoffs, either in how they would reform the tax code or in the free pass they've given the Pentagon on budget cuts. This newspaper likes that Christie started down that road when he talked about principled compromise.
The other unpleasant reality is that Republicans should worry about alienating voters who don't share the GOP's increasingly hard-right social agenda.
The GOP is clearly leaving Florida with a message to sell: We will lead. We will make tough choices. "Now is the moment when we can do something," Romney said.
We like the take-charge spirit. The question now is, will Democrats meet this leadership challenge?
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COLLEGE STATION -- State bragging rights will be on the line as the 20th-ranked Texas A&M women's basketball team (16-6, 4-4) hosts Texas (15-7, 3-5) in the first installment of the State Farm Lone Star Showdown between the two storied rivals at Reed Arena.
Tipoff between the Aggies and Longhorns is scheduled for 11 a.m. as the game will be televised nationally on Fox Sports Net. The winner will earn a half point toward the Lone Star Showdown standings. A&M seeks its fourth-straight win in Big 12 Conference play after evening its league record to 4-4 with a 17-point victory over Texas Tech (63-46) on Feb. 2. The Aggies enjoyed a bye week to fine tune and prepare for the eight games remaining in regular season play.
The Longhorns are also fresh off a six-day layoff between games and are looking to erase a winless streak in College Station over the last two years. A&M has won 27 of its last 29 home games at the friendly confines of Reed Arena. The time is now for the defending Big 12 champions to make a big push and capitalize on the added advantage of playing five of its last eight contests of the season at home.
However, the road to success will be a difficult task with Big 12 South foes looming ahead. A&M will face UT, Oklahoma and Texas Tech twice along with Baylor and Oklahoma State in the final home stretch of the conference race.
A&M will host the "Ultimate Aggie Sports Camp" in conjunction with National Girls and Women In Sports Day on Saturday morning prior to tipoff with the Longhorns. The camp will be held from 8:30-10:00 a.m. on the concourse of Reed Arena. Many of A&M's student-athletes and coaches will be on hand to interact with fans and to participate in drills. The camp is free and open to all boys and girls in the Bryan-College Station area. In addition, each participating child will receive a free ticket to the game. Individual game tickets range from $16-10 and can be purchased by calling the 12th Man Foundation Ticket Office at 1-888-99-AGGIE.
Texas is looking to get back in the win column after suffering back-to-back losses against Big 12 South opponents in No. 6 Baylor (61-60) on Jan. 30 and No. 10 Oklahoma (74-58) on Feb. 3. The Longhorns have yet to win on the road in league play (0-3). Three of their conference games have been decided by three points or less including a 77-74 overtime loss to Kansas State on Jan. 13. Two players are averaging double figures including leading scorer Brittainey Raven (15.5 ppg) and center Ashley Lindsey (11.7 ppg). First-year head coach Gail Goestenkors replaced legendary Women's Basketball Hall of Famer Jody Conradt on April 3, 2007, in hopes of returning UT to its former glory. The 12-time National Coach of the Year guided a young Texas squad through a tricky non-conference slate with the likes of defending national champion Tennessee, Arizona State and DePaul which resulted in a 12-2 record. UT currently ranks 20th nationally in blocked shots per game (5.0) behind a 2.8 average by Lindsey who ranks second to Oklahoma's Courtney Paris in the category.
Texas A&M will appear on the television tube a school-record eight times during the 2007-08 season including Saturday's State Farm Lone Star Showdown which will mark the second of five broadcasts on FSN this year. Brian Anderson (play-by-play) and Debbie Antonelli (color analyst) will call the action live from Reed Arena on FSN Arizona, FSN Bay Area, FSN Detroit, FSN Florida, FSN Midwest, FSN Northwest, FSN Rocky Mountain, FSN South, FSN Southwest, Comcast Chicago and Comcast New England. Check your local listings. Delayed broadcasts will be aired on FSN North (3 a.m.), FSN Pittsburgh (6 p.m.), FSN West (3 p.m.) and FSN Wisconsin (2 a.m.).
No. Name 2007-08 Stats
10 A'Quonesia Franklin, G, 5-3, Sr. 7.6 ppg, 4.7 apg
3 Takia Starks, G, 5-8, Jr. 17.6 ppg, 4.5 rpg
55 Danielle Gant, G/F, 5-11, Jr. 14.3 ppg, 7.5 rpg
24 Patrice Reado, F, 6-0, Sr. 8.1 ppg, 4.6 rpg
12 La Toya Micheaux, C, 6-3, Jr. 3.8 ppg, 5.8 rpg
No. Name 2007-08 Stats
3 Carla Cortijo, G, 5-7, So. 9.5 ppg, 2.9 rpg
10 Brittainey Raven, G, 6-0, So. 15.5 ppg, 4.9 rpg
20 Erneisha Bailey, G, 5-9, Sr. 7.5 ppg, 4.8 rpg
00 Earnesia Williams, F, 6-1, So. 8.1 ppg, 4.1 rpg
35 Ashley Lindsey, C, 6-4, Jr. 11.7 ppg, 7.0 rpg
2007-08 Category TAMU UT
Overall Record 16-6 15-7
Conference Record 4-4 3-5
Points Per Game 65.4 73.4
Scoring Margin +9.7 +13.8
Rebounds Per Game 38.5 43.2
Rebounding Margin +2.7 +5.8
Field Goal Percentage 40.5 42.5
Field Goal% Defense 38.9 36.4
Three-Point FG% 30.7 32.0
Free Throw Percentage 67.4 72.7
Turnovers Per Game 16.4 17.3
Assists Per Game 12.9 14.8
Blocks Per Game 4.5 5.0
Steals Per Game 10.6 10.8
Texas may command a 58-13 lead in the all-time series between the two in-state rivals, but A&M has won the last three out of four contests by an average margin of 13 points. The Aggies are 5-17 all-time versus the Longhorns in Big 12 regular season play. They have met each other twice in the postseason (1-1) since the inception of the league in 1996-97. Seven of A&M's 13 victories in the series have been won at home. Saturday's game will mark the first time a non Jody Conradt-coached UT squad will face A&M since the 1975-76 season. Only four A&M games in 71 all-time meetings with the Longhorns have not been coached on the opposite sidelines by Conradt.
A'Quonesia Franklin made four free throws in the final minute and scored a career-high 27 points to lead No. 14 Texas A&M to a 67-60 win over Texas to earn a share of the Big 12 Conference title on Feb. 28, 2007. It marked the first time in school history that the Aggies won a conference title. Brittainey Raven scored a career-high 19 points and Tiffany Jackson added 19 for Texas. A&M led 61-58 before Texas was forced to foul Franklin, who made both free throws with 33.5 seconds left. Jackson's three-point attempt at the other end bounced off the rim and Texas fouled Franklin again with 19 seconds remaining. Franklin responded by hitting two more free throws to put the game out of reach. The Aggies led by seven before four quick points by Texas, capped by a fastbreak layup by Erneisha Bailey, pulled the Longhorns to 61-58 with 1:48 remaining. UT never led in the second half, but got within one point once and hung around until Texas A&M put the game away in the final seconds. The win gave the Aggies their 18th straight at home and an undefeated 16-0 mark at Reed Arena, their first undefeated home record in school history. Takia Starks added 18 points, while La Toya Micheaux recorded a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds for A&M. The Aggies led by as many as eight points in the first half and were ahead 34-29 at halftime.
• Head coach Gary Blair is 3-7 all-time versus Texas in his 23 years as a Division I head coach. All three wins have occurred during his five-year A&M career. He and Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors, formerly at Duke, were one of four finalists for the prestigious Naismith Women's College Coach of the Year Award last season along with Connecticut's Geno Auriemma and Tennessee's Pat Summitt.
• The Lone Star State's finest will be on hand as the Texas A&M and Texas rosters are loaded with in-state talent. The Aggies boast 10 players from the state of Texas, while the Longhorns have eight. Additionally, A&M and UT both have a former Gatorade Player of the Year from the state of Missouri on its roster including Texas A&M's Tyra White out of Kansas City's Hickman Mills High School in 2007 and Texas' Erneisha Bailey out of Kansas City's Pembroke Hill High School in 2004.
• Talk about a household divided. This weekend, freshman back-up point guard Sydney Colson (Houston, Texas) will reunite with her older brother, Simmie IV, and sister, Simone, who both attend rival UT in Austin. Colson was rated the 29th overall prospect in the Class of 2007 out of Westside High School. She is averaging 11.5 minutes per game and is one of three A&M players to play in all 22 games of the season.
• Three players on last year's inaugural Big 12 All-Defensive Team will take to the court on Saturday. Texas A&M's Danielle Gant and La Toya Micheaux combine for 33 percent of the team's rebounding production, while Texas' Erneisha Bailey is third on the team in steals (38). Gant currently ranks third in the league in steals (2.5), eighth in rebounding (7.5), sixth in field-goal percentage (52.3) and second in offensive rebounds (4.1) through all games played.
THE G.B. vs. G.G. SERIES BEGINS …
The Gary Blair vs. Gail Goestenkors series begins and should offer plenty of excitement on the sidelines of one of the nation's most heated college rivalries. Both have compiled 900 career wins in 39 years of coaching expertise combined. Blair and Goestenkors have met outside of the Big 12 stage on three occasions with G.B.'s Lady Razorbacks going 1-2 against Coach G's Dukies. His 1998 Arkansas squad upset the eighth-ranked Blue Devils (77-72) in the NCAA West Regional for a spot in the 1998 Final Four in Kansas City, Mo. Three years later, Blair's 2001 squad lost to the fifth-ranked Blue Devils in the second round (75-54) of the NCAA Tournament held in Durham, N.C. Both coaches' last meeting came in the St. John Division championship game of the 2002 Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Top-ranked Duke prevailed 74-72 as the game was decided in the last seconds of overtime with former Duke All-American Alana Beard sinking two key free throws with 1.1 seconds remaining in regulation. Ironically, Beard attended the same high school as senior combination guard/forward Morenike Atunrase who is also a proud alum of Southwood High School in Shreveport, La. For Goestenkors, Saturday's showdown will mark the second time she will face Texas A&M next to then No. 16-ranked Duke's 83-73 setback to the Candi Harvey-coached Aggies on Nov. 17, 1995 in the Women's National Invitation Tournament in Amarillo, Texas.
The second month of the year has proven successful for Texas A&M over the last two seasons under Blair. The Aggies have compiled a 14-4 record (.778) in the month of February including a 6-3 mark in 2005-06, a 7-1 mark in 2006-07 and a current 1-0 mark in 2007-08. Last year, Iowa State was the only team to get past the Aggies on Valentine's Day in Ames, Iowa.
A&M has made a drastic improvement in the rebounding department with consecutive 40-rebound games against Missouri and Texas Tech. In all, the Aggies have turned in nine games with 40-or-more boards including a season-high 49 versus New Orleans on Dec. 9. Junior center La Toya Micheaux (Missouri City, Texas) notched back-to-back double-digit boards in A&M's current three-game win streak including a career-high 14 against the Lady Raiders. She also grabbed 10 versus the Tigers. Micheaux along with teammates Danielle Gant, Patrice Reado and Takia Starks account for 55 percent of the team's board production this season. Gant is averaging a team-leading 7.5 rebounds per game followed by Micheaux (5.8 rpg), Reado (4.6 rpg) and Starks (4.5 rpg). Micheaux recently became the 18th player in school history to gain entrance into A&M's 500-Rebound Club with 520 to date. Gant already surpassed the 500 career rebound mark earlier this season (581) and ranks ninth all-time in the A&M record books. She is two rebounds away from moving into seventh. Reado also looks to gain entrance into the elite club with 479 to date.
The attraction of universities which support the growth of women's basketball, packed arenas and tough competition year-in and year-out have lured some of the best coaches in the nation to the Big 12. Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair is one of three current Big 12 coaches to have left a successful program in a top-rated women's basketball conference over the last five years. Blair previously led Arkansas to a 198-120 record over 10 campaigns in the SEC which included five NCAA Tournament appearances and a Final Four berth in 1998. Texas head coach Gail Goestenkors previously led ACC powerhouse Duke to 13 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances including four Final Four appearances and two trips to the national championship game. Texas Tech head coach Kristy Curry previously coached Purdue for seven seasons in the Big Ten and became the first coach in NCAA history to inherit a national championship-winning team. In fact, Goestenkors and Baylor's Kim Mulkey are among three coaches in the women's game who have a guaranteed annual salary of $1 million.
Former players Lisa Langston, Michelle Tatum and Jenni Edgar are the only A&M trio in school history to have reached the 1,000 career-point plateau during the same season (1984-85). No Aggie squad has ever produced the elusive four which only 11 known teams have accomplished in NCAA women's basketball history. Senior point guard A'Quonesia Franklin (Tyler, Texas) looks to join fellow teammates Morenike Atunrase (1,145) and Takia Starks (1,205) as the second trio to do so as she is 12 points shy of 1,000 career points (988). Franklin would become only the third player in school history to record 1,000 career points and 500 career assists (557) next to All-American Lisa Branch (1992-96) and Toccara Williams (2000-04). She also ranks third all-time in three-pointers made (137) and three-pointers attempted (420).
Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair is closing in on his 500th career victory with 497 wins to date. He currently ranks second all-time among A&M women's basketball coaches with 89 victories behind former head coach Lynn Hickey (154). The 2007 Big 12 Coach of the Year has led the Aggies to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances, their first-ever conference title and the program's highest national ranking (No. 10) in school history. Blair holds the distinction of being one of only five active Division I women's basketball coaches to lead three different schools to a top 25 ranking next to Rutgers' C. Vivian Stringer, Ohio State's Jim Foster, Mississippi State's Sharon Fanning and Arkansas' Tom Collen.
Four players scored in double figures as No. 23 Texas A&M knocked off Texas Tech for only its third-ever road victory in Lubbock, 63-46, before a crowd of 11,352 at United Spirit Arena on Feb. 2. Takia Starks registered a game-high 22 points on 10-of-21 shooting, while Morenike Atunrase added 13 and Patrice Reado had 10. Danielle Gant paced the Aggies on both ends of the floor with 12 points and 10 rebounds for her 10th career double-double. Down by one at halftime, A&M used a second-half surge to cap a 22-0 run which ended with a three-pointer by Texas Tech's Jordan Murphree with 1:23 remaining in regulation. Over the final 12 minutes, A&M outscored the Lady Raiders, 26-5. The Aggies outhustled the Lady Raiders on the boards, 40-26 behind a career-high 14 rebound effort from junior La Toya Micheaux which included 13 on the defensive end. It marked a season-low for Texas Tech which was 20 rebounds below their league-leading average (46.0). Tech's top two scorers, Dominic Seals and Erin Myrick, were also limited by A&M's defensive pressure inside which held the duo to nine and six points respectively. Murphree was the only Lady Raider to score in double figures with 12.
The "Think Pink" national campaign set forth by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) is an initiative to raise breast cancer awareness in women's basketball, on campuses and in communities. More than 750 schools nationwide will participate in "Think Pink" week which begins on Feb. 8 and concludes on Feb. 17. Texas A&M will participate in back-to-back "Think Pink" games on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at Oklahoma and on Sunday, Feb. 17 against Texas Tech in College Station. The Aggies will host the second-annual "Beat the Hell Outta Breast Cancer" game versus the Lady Raiders at 3 p.m. at Reed Arena. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2. A&M's goal is to raise $35,000 that will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is the world's largest and most progressive grass roots network of breast cancer survivors and activists. A "BTHO Breast Cancer" 5K Fun Run sponsored by Chevron will be held in conjunction with the game and T-shirts will also be sold for $5 at various locations. For more information on the "BTHO Breast Cancer" game and its surrounding festivities, please visit the event's special website at www.AggieAthletics.com.
Frontrunner Baylor (8-1) holds a one-game lead over Kansas State (7-1) in the latest Big 12 Conference standings with both of the Oklahoma schools tied for third with 6-2 marks in league play. Nebraska (6-3) and A&M (4-4) are situated in the top half of the Big 12 in fifth-and sixth-place respectively. Texas and Iowa State are tied for seventh at 3-5, while Texas Tech and Kansas are tied for ninth at 2-6. Colorado (2-7) and Missouri (1-8) round out the field.
1. Baylor (20-2, 8-1)
2. Kansas State (15-6, 7-1)
3T. Oklahoma State (18-3, 6-2)
3T. Oklahoma (16-4, 6-2)
5. Nebraska (17-6, 6-3)
6. Texas A&M (16-6, 4-4)
7T. Texas (15-7, 3-5)
7T. Iowa State (14-7, 3-5)
9T. Texas Tech (14-8, 2-6)
9T. Kansas (13-8, 2-6)
11. Colorado (13-9, 2-7)
12. Missouri (8-14, 1-8)
All Texas A&M women's basketball games can be heard via a radio broadcast on the Texas A&M Sports Network. Play-by-play announcer Tom Turbiville will call the action live from Reed Arena alongside Tap Bentz on KZNE 1150 AM. A live audio feed will also be available on www.AggieAthletics.com.
Texas A&M is currently rated No. 15 in the latest RPI index according to CollegeRPI.com as of Feb. 7. The Aggies boast the nation's eighth toughest schedule with 15 of their opponents advancing to postseason play a year ago. Upcoming opponents Texas and Oklahoma are rated No. 34 and No. 8 respectively. Seven of A&M's last eight games of the season will come against teams with an RPI rating of 35 or better.
A&M made its way back into the latest Associated Press Top 25 Poll with a No. 21 national ranking on Monday and climbed three spots to No. 20 in the latest USA TODAY/ESPN Coaches Top 25 Poll released on Tuesday. The Aggies have appeared a program-best 34-straight weeks in the Coaches Poll since the 2005-06 season. A&M is one of five Big 12 schools ranked in the national polls next to No. 5 Baylor, No. 10 Oklahoma, No. 17/16 Oklahoma State and No. 18 Kansas State.
1. Connecticut (21-0)
2. Tennessee (20-1)
3. North Carolina (19-2)
4. Maryland (23-2)
5. Baylor (20-1)
6. Stanford (19-3)
7. Rutgers (18-3)
9. California (19-3)
10. Oklahoma (15-4)
11. Duke (16-5)
12. West Virginia (18-3)
13. Old Dominion (18-3)
14. George Washington (18-4)
15. Pittsburgh (17-4)
16. Notre Dame (17-5)
17. Oklahoma State (17-3)
18. Kansas State (15-6)
19. Ohio State (17-5)
20. Utah (18-3)
21. Texas A&M (16-6)
22. Wyoming (18-3)
23. Syracuse (17-4)
24. Georgia (16-6)
25. DePaul (16-5)
1. Connecticut (21-0)
2. Tennessee (20-1)
3. North Carolina (20-2)
4. Maryland (24-2)
5. Baylor (20-1)
6. Stanford (19-3)
7. Rutgers (18-3)
9. California (19-3)
10. Oklahoma (15-4)
11. West Virginia (18-3)
12. Duke (16-6)
13. George Washington (18-4)
14. Old Dominion (18-3)
15. Pittsburgh (17-4)
16. Oklahoma State (17-3)
17. Notre Dame (17-5)
18. Kansas State (15-6)
19. Ohio State (17-5)
20. Texas A&M (16-6)
21. Georgia (16-6)
22. Wyoming (18-3)
23. Utah (18-3)
24. Syracuse (17-4)
25. DePaul (16-5)


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Arts Arts in America
Andy Warhol: pop goes the easel.
—Terrestrial radio's popularity wanes. The interweband the rampant, nefarious Clear Channelization of the airwavesis to blame, if we may speculate. "The amount of time people tune into radio over the course of a week has fallen by 14 percent over the last decade, according to Arbitron ratings,â reports the New York Times.
—Nonesuch Records marks American minimalist composer Steve Reich's 70th birthday with a 5-CD boxed set titled Phases: A Nonesuch Retrospective. Further commemoration comes in the form of festivals in New York and London.
—Cuddly, adorable corporation Universal Music Group is fixin' to get litigious with YouTube and MySpace. Your freewheeling days of copyright larceny are numbered, y'all. From the AP: "We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars," Universal Music CEO Doug Morris told investors Wednesday at a conference in Pasadena. "How we deal with these companies will be revealed shortly."
—Andy Warhol gets yet another 15 minutesor, rather, 240of celluloid fame with Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns.
—"Operation Tunesâ offers sonic succor to U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and to wounded soldiers in America, thanks to the Rock Ridge Music label.
—Finally, Brendan Kiley advises you to make some room in your busy schedule for the Meat Purveyors tonight.
The Meat Purveyors
(PUNK-ROCK BLUEGRASS) I first saw the Meat Purveyors five years ago in a ramshackle house in Chicago's warehouse district that had been converted into an urban juke joint. The band was smart and funny, banged the holy hell out of their instruments (guitar, mandolin, standup bass), played originals and covers (ABBA, Ratt, Bill Monroe), and drank (beer, whiskey). I fell in love. Tonight is your last chance to see themit's their second-to-last show. Don't miss it. (Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave NW, 789-3599. 9 pm, $13.) BRENDAN KILEY


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CSBC Says Profit May Fall on Low-Margin Taiwan Orders
CSBC Corp., Taiwan's biggest shipbuilder, said profit may fall this year as it works through low-margin orders placed by government-owned companies during the global recession.
"There's no money to be made from these contracts," President Paul Tang said in an interview in his Taipei office yesterday. Orders for tankers from refiner CPC Corp. and for coal ships from Taiwan Power Co. did help the shipyard weather the economic slowdown and a global slump in order, he said.
An economic rebound has now revived demand with vessel prices rising at least 10 percent from the lowest point during the global recession, Tang said. Evergreen Group and Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., Asia's two largest container lines, both ordered new ships last month as U.S. and European retailers boost purchases of Asian-made toys, furniture and auto-parts.
"The container-shipping market is improving after having several bad years as the global economy recovers," said Michael On, president of Beyond Asset Management Co., who rates CSBC "neutral." "Orders for new vessels may increase."
Production at CSBC, as measured by steel work, bottomed in the first half, Tang said. The shipbuilder, which has a yard in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan and another in Keelung in the north, is fully booked through the first half of 2013, he said.
"It looks like the market had reached its lowest point," Tang, 64, said. "It'll be clear in late 2011 or 2012 if the recovery stands."
Shares Pare Gains
The shipyard climbed 3 percent to NT$27.85 at the 1:30 p.m. close of trading in Taipei, paring gains of as much as 5.7 percent. Taiwanese shipping stocks rose today after the Baltic Dry Index, a measure of commodity-shipping costs, jumped the most in more than two months yesterday, said Daniel Tzeng, an analyst at Fubon Securities Co. in Taipei.
CSBC made an unaudited net income of NT$878 million ($28 million) in the first seven months of the year, according to an Aug. 6 stock exchange filing. There was no year-earlier comparison. Sales fell 26 percent in the period.
Last year, annual profit more than doubled to NT$2.46 billion. Profit this year will likely decline, Tang said, without elaboration.
Container ships account for more than 70 percent of CSBC's output, Tang said. The company also builds bulk carriers and oil platforms, he said. Vessel prices fell at least 30 percent because of the global financial crisis, he said.
Neptune Orient ordered as many as 12 container vessels from Seoul-based Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. last month. The deal was valued at as much as $1.2 billion order.
Evergreen Group, based in Taipei, ordered 10 vessels from Samsung Heavy Industries Co. on July 2 as part of a plan to buy 100 ships. The line may order 12 container ships from CSBC, the Economic Daily News reported July 3. Tang declined to comment on the report, citing a confidentiality agreement between the two companies.


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Geochemistry of Middle Triassic radiolarian cherts from northern Thailand: Implication for depositional environment
- Hathaithip ThassanapakAffiliated withDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University
- , Mongkol UdchachonAffiliated withPalaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University Email author
- , Chongpan ChonglakmaniAffiliated withSchool of Geotechnology, Institute of Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology
- , Qinglai Feng冯庆来Affiliated withState Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences
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Geochemical analysis reveals that Middle Triassic radiolarian cherts from northern Thailand, including Chiang Dao, Lamphun and Den Chai, are of biogenic origin. These cherts present slightly high SiO2 content which was possibly modified by diagenetic alteration and migration processes as indicated by negative correlation between SiO2 and most of the other major elements. The relatively high content of Cr, Zr, Hf, Rb and Th and high positive correlation of these elements with Al and Ti from the majority of cherts suggest a close relation to terrigenous component. The Ce anomaly (Ce/Ce*) with geometric means ranging from 0.85 to 0.93 is compatible with that of continental margin composition (0.67–1.52) from Murray et al. (1990) which is also consistent with low Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu*, 0.91–0.94). Moreover, the slightly low ratios of La and Ce NASC normalized (Lan/Cen, 0.91–0.94) and the low LREE and HREE ratios in most of our samples (Lan/Ybn, 0.62–0.85) are in agreement with the continental margin. The result from Lan/Cen vs. Al2O3/(Al2O3+Fe2O3) discrimination diagrams also supports the continental margin (residual basin, s. str.) interpretation. These geochemical results are compatible with geological evidence, which suggest that during the Middle Triassic, radiolarian cherts were deposited within a deeper part of a residual basin in which an accommodation space was possibly controlled by faults under extensional regime subsequent to Late Variscan (Permian) orogeny. Paleogeographically, the main Paleotethys which closed during Late Triassic should be located further to the west of these study localities. This scenario is in agreement with the current view of the Tethys in this part of the world.
Key wordsTriassic geochemistry radiolarian chert depositional environment northern Thailand
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- Geochemistry of Middle Triassic radiolarian cherts from northern Thailand: Implication for depositional environment
- Journal
Journal of Earth Science
Volume 22, Issue 6 , pp 688-703
- Cover Date
- 2011-12
- 10.1007/s12583-011-0220-7
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- China University of Geosciences
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Triassic
- geochemistry
- radiolarian chert
- depositional environment
- northern Thailand
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Hathaithip Thassanapak (1)
- Mongkol Udchachon (2)
- Chongpan Chonglakmani (3)
- Qinglai Feng 冯庆来 (4)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, 44150, Thailand
- 2. Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, 44150, Thailand
- 3. School of Geotechnology, Institute of Engineering, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, 30000, Thailand
- 4. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China


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In HERCULES THE AVENGER, Reg Park returns as the mythological son of Jove who undertakes a journey into the nether regions battling zombies and monsters along the way to rescue his son. Then it's the fantastic HERCULES AND THE BLACK PIRATE, a weird time-travel adventure a la The Witch's Curse.
Hercules and Androcles (Ettore Manni), the King of Thebes, venture to Atlantis, where an evil queen (played by cult favorite Gay Spain) has hatched a diabolical plan for world domination in HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN. And Manni is reunited with Reg Park in HERCULES, PRISONER OF EVIL. Helmed by famed Euro-horror director Anthony Dawson (aka Antonio Margheriti), an evil sorceress seduces Hercules and turns him into a terrifying monster in this film that combines the best elements of both horror and Sword and Sandal genres.
Starring as Hercules in HERCULES AND THE PRINCESS OF TROY is Gordon Scott, who after appearing in several films as Tarzan, became one of the most popular and prolific of the Sword and Sandal stars. In the muscle-bound saga ATLAS IN THE LAND OF THE CYCLOPS, Gordon Mitchell (in his film debut) must battle an evil queen (the sexy Chelo Alonso) to save a baby descended from Ulysses.
This set also includes an extra-brawny bonus feature starring Richard Harrison: GIANTS OF ROME.


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ACCCE Coal Carolers scrubbed, scrapped and gone forever (I hope) [1]
Kevin Grandia [2] | December 12, 2008
By Kevin Grandia [2] • Friday, December 12, 2008 - 11:57
The other day I wrote a post titled, "Give the gift of Asthma and a Warmer Planet this Christmas" [3] on what might have to be the most blatant pro-coal marketing bafflegab in the history of the United States.
The campaign was run by the coal-industry front group the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricty (ACCCE) [4] and it featured little lumps of coal that sang distateful pro-coal renditions of classic Christmas carols, like this:
As I wrote at the time, "… this latest publicity stunt is absolutely absurd and shows just how far the coal lobby is willing to go to market their dirty product as somehow being clean.
A lot of other bloggers felt the same way:
Coal's Sacriligeous Caroling [5]
Clean Coal Carolers from an Industry Run By Morons [6]
Clean Coal Carolers? Christmas gone all wrong [7]
"Clean" Coal front groups hucks "frosty the coal man" and other brazen assaults on christmas spirit [9]
You won't believe your ears: Frosty the Coalman, Clean Coal Night, Deck the Halls with Clean Coal [10]
Well it looks like someone at ACCCE finally gave their head a shake and realized just how stupid their Clean Coal Carolers campaign actually was because the whole thing has been vaporized from the ACCCE website. [11]
Same for their Coal Carolers Facebook group.
Suddenly I feel a lot more Christmassy!


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Pope Returning to Rome After Mass for 1 Million in Africa
Posted: 03/23/2009 - Pope Benedict returns to Rome today after celebrating Mass for an estimated 1 million people in the capital of Angola.
Posted: 03/23/2009 - Pope Benedict returns to Rome today after celebrating Mass for an estimated 1 million people in the capital of Angola.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Amnesty International says authorities in Gambia have rounded up about 1,000 people and forced them to drink hallucinogens in a witch-hunting campaign that's terrorizing the West African nation.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - A priest has returned to the Roman Catholic ministry more than three years after his arrest in a southwest Ohio park.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard and his wife are heading to "Divorce Court" to tell people divorce is not the answer.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - A woman accused of taking more than $73,000 from the church where she was an administrative assistant blames the devil.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Members of a Connecticut legislative committee are officially killing a controversial bill that would have changed how Roman Catholic parish finances are handled.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Country music star Ronnie Milsap says that when he was born blind, his mother thought he was a curse from God.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Police in an Indian state where Hindu-Christian violence left dozens dead last year suspect Maoist rebels in the latest killing of a Hindu hard-liner.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Pope Benedict begins a visit today to Angola, where Portuguese missionaries baptized Africa's first Catholic convert in 1491.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - A Saudi man has filed a formal complaint against the Islamic kingdom's religious police.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - Zuhdi Jasser told the Congressional International Religious Freedom Caucus that true Islam should not seek to impose strict Islamic law on Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
Posted: 03/20/2009 - The demand for goat and lamb meat in the Wiregrass is on the rise.
Updated: 03/20/2009 - Help is on the way for low income individuals in need of prescription drugs.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - For a congregation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the monthly schedule is church-like, with parenting classes, guest speakers and small group meetings to hash out shared beliefs.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - A Philadelphia-area rabbi is in line to become the new executive vice president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - More than 35 years after playing the lead role in the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar," Ted Neeley is still playing the son of God on stage -- a role he's performed some 5,000 times.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - An Episcopal anti-poverty group is trying to harness the power of March Madness for the greater good.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - France, Germany and the U.N. agency charged with fighting AIDS all disagree with the pope's comment about condoms, saying they're an essential tool in preventing the spread of the HIV virus.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - The Florida Legislature is considering a bill that would require women seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says the Obama administration's move to repeal a conscience protection for medical professionals could lead to "despotism."
Posted: 03/19/2009 - A Roman Catholic bishop in northeastern Pennsylvania says he won't meet with officials from a Catholic university that hosted a visit by a gay-rights advocate.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - Residents of Chichester, New Hampshire, have launched a neighborhood watch program to monitor the home of a pastor who has taken in a paroled child-killer.
Posted: 03/19/2009 - Pope Benedict is telling Muslim leaders in Cameroon that true religion rejects violence.
Posted: 03/18/2009 - An Amish farmer has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after refusing to bring a pair of outhouses into compliance with Pennsylvania sewage laws.
Posted: 03/18/2009 - Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has testified in the case of two brothers who claim they were molested years ago by a parish priest.


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The city government of Makati spent almost P180 million in 2012 for the various programs it implemented for the benefit of its senior citizens.
Mayor Jejomar Erwin S. Binay Jr. said the amount represents the combined expenses for four popular programs for the city's elderly -- free movie entrance in all four cinema groups in the city; Harana ni Lolo at Lola, a cake-giving ceremony during birthdays and golden wedding anniversary; Lakbay Saya ni Lolo at Lola, travel and tour privileges within Metro Manila and other parts of the country; and BLU Card, which entitles cardholders to cash gifts twice a year and grants beneficiaries P3,000 in financial assistance upon their death.
"We believe these programs are but humble means to let our senior citizens feel how much we love and care for them. We cannot thank them enough for contributing richly to the betterment of the Makati community and of the entire country," Binay said.
The mayor also expressed gratitude to the city's partners in the private sector for their invaluable support to programs for the elderly through the years.
"We will always be grateful to our program partners for having consistently demonstrated their firm commitment to corporate social responsibility, largely ensuring the success of our programs," he said.
The city government paid around P18 million to four cinema owners in the city for its 25 percent subsidy share on free movie tickets availed of by senior citizens for the entire year. For the 51,031 birthday and golden wedding anniversary cakes personally delivered to the homes of senior citizens, the city spent a total of P9.9 million.
Meanwhile, its expenses for Lakbay Saya tours, which included a city wide trip for 570 seniors and a trip to Bagac, Bataan for 100 seniors, amounted to almost P600,000. For its monthly presentation of Aawitan Kita at University of Makati that catered to the elderly of Makati and neighboring cities, P4.5 million was spent.
Binay also said over P141 million went to the allowance given to elderly citizens, while around P3 million in financial assistance was given to the beneficiaries of 1,562 BLU cardholders who died last year. A total of nine resident-centenarians made up the first batchof recipients of the P100,000 centenary cash gift from the city government last December, after the City Council approved the latest incentive program for the city's elderly.
Last year, Mayor Binay was given the "Best of RADAR 2012" Award by the Philippine Retirement Authority in recognition of his "exemplary initiatives in leading the city as the 'Most Retirement-and Aging-friendly City' and for his "commitment and contribution to theretirement industry."


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Running Time: 90
Director: Bo Edwards
Company: Vivid Entertainment Group
Cast: Mario Rossi, Lezley Zen, Julie Robbins, Sky Taylor, Wendy Divine, Evan Stone, Mickey G., John Strong, Aria, Jordan Haze, Bobby Vitale, Lana Moore, Briana Banks
Critical Rating: AAA
Genre: Feature
Briana Banks' legion of fans.
The playful hook here revolves around simple blonde jokes - and mediocre ones at that. These jokes provide the set-ups for vignette-style sex scenes in which Briana Banks is the primary fuck toy. The tall and lean Banks performs in three scenes, but the performances would've been much hotter if the popular starlet would've taken off her tennis shoes or socks during the sex for fuck's sake. Banks accommodates Bobby Vitale in the opener and Evan Stone later, before a decent all-girl finale with Aria and Lezley Zen.
The other action entails a group scene with Julie Robbins and Sky Taylor, both taking it in the ass, and a threeway with Lana Moore, Jordan Haze and Mickey G. It would've been nice to see more of Moore; she's a nice surprise here with her hot looks and great ass. But the threeway comes off rather flat, even with the added dimension of Haze wearing a strap-on.


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Artist Mike Mahon will host a workshop from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday to Saturday at the Amarillo Art Institute, 3701 Plains Blvd., Suite 117.
Participants will learn about the painting process, from preparing for painting to critiquing work.
The workshop fee is $300.
An artist reception and demonstration event is set from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Amarillo Art Institute.
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Twice my Windows 7 PC with Firefox has been taken over by Bing and each time I have managed to fix it using instructions I found online. It has happened again but this time it didn't work. I am furious and frustrated. I don't want it, it is a grossly unwelcome intrusion. Can you propose an alternative way to remove it?
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This is a typical beer enjoyed in Mexico, Texas and the rest of the world.. A slice of lime and a dash of salt on the neck of the bottle are often served with Mexican beers, especially with light lagers such as Corona. Salud! Part of Menu #28661
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- 12 ounces beer, well chilled Mexican beer of choice like (Corona,Modelo,or Dos Equis.... )
- 1 lime slices or 1 lemon slice
- salt (optional) or lime salt (optional)
- Dust a tounch of salt into the beer add lime slice. Place thumb over opening and flip till lime reaches the bottom. Bring upright and enjoy.
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- Rub lime slice on rim of a beer mug. Pour beer into glass lightly sprinkle salt in and add lime slice.
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