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Java Code Geeks are proud to conduct another important giveaway for the Java community!
For this one we have teamed up with the Devoxx community and managed to get a ticket for the Devoxx UK 2013 London community conference going to take place on the 26th and 27th of March 2013.
That ticket is the prize for our next giveaway. A prize worth of £350!
Prior going into the specifics about our giveaway we would like to say a few words about the Devoxx UK community conferences.
The Devoxx non-profit community conferences have been very successfully run in Belgium and France. We enjoyed them so much that the London Java Community (LJC) decided to bring a version over to London (http://devoxx.co.uk)!
So we're bringing the who's who of the Java/JVM and Software Development including folks such as Milton Smith – head of Java security and Charlie Nutter – the inventor of JRuby, as well as showcasing talent from the local development community.
Tracks Include:
- Languages on the JVM
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We'd love to see you and members from your dev teams there as attendees (it's a non-profit conference by developers for developers). It's only £350 for the two days, so get in quick at http://reguk.devoxx.com
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Just send an email here using as subject "Devoxx UK 2013 London". An empty email will do, It's that simple! (Note: By entering the contest you will be automatically included in the forthcoming Java Code Geeks Newsletter.)
The contest will close on Friday 01 March 2013 PT. The winner will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address!
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- baths 2
- sleeps 6
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- rates (USD) $ 2,000 - $ 4,200 / month
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This home is all about living on the golf course with panoramic views. Our pristine golf front home is located on a cul-de-sac in a beautiful quiet community with winding streets lined with large oak trees. The grounds are landscaped with large trees, shrubs and flowering plants. The home is located on a knoll overlooking the Orange Blossom Hills Championship golf Course. The private raised deck has a "grandstand" look over the 16th green plus the view extends 3/4 of a mile straight down the fairway(see first photo). This is one of the best vistas in the 'Villages'.
The large kitchen and morning room have 7 windows facing directly onto the golf course. The kitchen is 12'x 13' and has 40 sq. ft. of counter space. Walking from the morning room onto the deck (200 sq. ft.) unveils a panoramic view. Dinner and drinks on the deck in the evening is a wonderful way to end the day. There is also a 300 sq. ft. Florida room on the side of the home with the same wonderful views. The main home itself has approx. 1400 sq. ft. of open living space. The large master bedroom, 14' x 19' has a queen size bed, walk-in closet and satellite TV. For your comfort, the large 7'x 14' master bathroom is equipped with a garden tub and an outdoor view. There is also a separate shower enclosure. The guest bedroom has a queen size bed. There is a dedicated laundry room with washer, dryer, cabinets and counter space.
The Florida Room is furnished with wicker chair and loveseat, a dining table with 4 chairs and a recliner for quiet times and reading. The deck has wraparound benches, 2 chaise lounges, a cocktail table.
Next to the house there is covered parking for two cars. The home includes a golf cart for your use. Guests can also use the executive golf courses, the swimming pools and all the other amenities the 'Villages' has to offer. Shopping, restaurants and entertainment are accessible by golf cart. It is a short 7 minute golf cart ride to the Spanish Springs Town Square. Orange Blossom Country Club is within walking distance. This club has the premier swimming facilities of all pools within the 'Villages' with a huge pool, whirlpool bath, water fall, tiki bar, cabanas, entertainment, games and food and drink being served pool-side.
This is a non-smoking home. No pets allowed. Violation will result in a $300 deduction from the security deposit.
house rental amenities
DISH Satellite in living room and master bedroom
WiFi Internet
DVD/ VCR player Stereo CD Player Music Library Video Library Books
Dishwasher Refrigerator Ice Maker Microwave Oven Stove
Kitchen Dishes Cooking Utensils
Washing Machine Clothes Dryer Air Conditioning Linens Provided
Deck / Patio Lanai Golf Course Front Golf Course View
activities and attractions in The Villages Central Florida
The Villages offers many amenities in addition to golf -Recreation Centers offer Swimming Tennis Racketball Pickleball Billiards Shuffleboard Basketball Horseshoes In The Villages area - Medical Services Kayaking Pier Fishing Equestrian Events Freshwater Fishing Hiking Sailing Hospital Groceries Theme Parks Botanical Garden Cinemas Live Theater Restaurants Health/Beauty Spa Miniature Golf Boating Wildlife Viewing Scenic Drives Sight Seeing Horseback Riding Antiquing ATM/Bank Shopping, 60 miles from theme parks, gulf coast, botanicalk gardens
vacation rental rates
Minimum Stay 14 nights
Jan. thru March....$4,200
May thru Oct.......$2,000 or $1,600/two weeks
Security deposit is $900
Cleaning fee is $100.
Taxes Not included. Before paying contact the owner to confirm payment details.

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The discussion of keywords always seems to begin any SEO chat. Whether you're new to SEO or a veteran in the field, keyword density in a piece of content will always be important. The keywords that you decide to target, which should sum up the content on a particular page, is what search engine bots will use to determine where to index your website. In other words, keywords work like little symbols for to help determine the topic of your content.
It's important to give the search engines this signal in order to help make sure your website is being put in front of the eyes of the right audience, but you don't want to overdo it. You want to avoid keyword stuffing because this seems unnatural to readers (thus bringing down the quality of your content). At the same time, you want to make sure that that the keywords you are targeting are prevalent enough so that a search engine will be able to index your content correctly. Therefore it's hard to avoid the inevitable question: What is the proper keyword density for SEO anyway?
What the Top Experts Are Saying About Keyword Density
Those who are familiar with SEO know that SEO never has a clear-cut answer. Unfortunately, keyword density also follows this pattern—there is no one right answer to this question. Back in December of last year, Matt Cutts gave this statement regarding keyword density:
"the first time you mention a word, you know, 'Hey, that's pretty interesting. It's about that word.' The next time you mention that word, 'oh, OK. It's still about that word.' And once you start to mention it a whole lot, it really doesn't help that much more. There's diminishing returns. It's just an incremental benefit, but it's really not that large."
Cutts continued to discuss the importance of making your keywords sound natural. However, although he may have given his usual vague answer, experts who have studied keyword density have come up with a few more concrete theories for business owners to consider:
- The Specific Search Engine Matters – Sean Si of SEO Hacker put a lot of emphasis on the idea that keyword density varies between search engines. He used pictures from gorank.com to determine that Yahoo recommends a keyword density of about 3% while Google seems to like sites that have a 1-2% keyword density. Below is an example of the chart he used to form this opinion:
- A Few Times Is Enough – Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz has come to the conclusion that putting your keyword in your content just a few times (in a "sensible way") is enough to get you an 80-90% on-page optimization value. He explained that links are far more important for competitive search results (who links to you, what do they say about you, where do they come from, etc.).
- Position Matters – Aaron Wall of SEOBook agrees with most experts that keyword density isn't the number one thing to worry about when trying to optimize a page. He explained that keyword presence is more important than keyword density. Two articles with the same keyword density could be filtered differently by Google simply because of the position of the keywords. If one article puts the keywords at the start of the title and their h1 tag, it will get filtered by Google better than an article that uses the same amount of keywords in odd spots of the content.
- It's Too Tough to Calculate – Matt Ridout of SEO Unique Blog statedthat worrying about keyword density is "like saying to an artist you have too much red on your canvas, use a calculator to work out how much more to add or subtract from the painting." Although keyword density matters, knowing the exact amount is irrelevant.
The vast majority of SEO experts, myself included, agree that keyword density is not something that should be overly important. Instead, a website should focus on where these keywords appear. Putting keywords in the Meta descriptions, title, and tags will give Google more than enough clues about the topic of the content.
Most importantly, content should be written for readers and not for search engines. It makes sense that an article about SEO will include the keyword "SEO" within the content.
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It's Time to Get Serious About Creativity in the Classroom
A few weeks back, I was engaged in a discussion with a group of teachers on how to better support the development of creative minds. I said something about the art room being a creative place when an elementary art teacher spoke up and said that it can be, depending on the teacher's approach.
When I asked for clarification, I was introduced to the term "freedom within a structure" -- in other words, making the assignment clear and focused, but allowing real freedom in how the tasks will be accomplished.
Autonomy Has Limits
The importance of this concept was explained this way: Let's say we bring a group of kids into the art room and tell them they can do whatever they want. Will they become creative? I always thought the answer to this was yes, but turns out the answer is no.
What the vast majority will tend to do is replicate earlier efforts for which they have been praised -- those efforts they have perceived as successful. In other words, people will do over what they have already done.
Are you really good at drawing horses? Look out -- here comes another horse. As a youngster, were you praised for successfully turning a bowl on the potter's wheel? Spin that baby up, and let's do it again! For me, it would probably be some sort of extension on the skill of drawing airplanes I mastered back in sixth grade.
I remember seeing the antithesis of this concept one time in an elementary school in northern Scotland. The kids all went off to art class, where they were shown a realistic plastic model of a pig. They were then each given a chunk of clay from which they were to make their own pigs.
So, of course, they set out to make the plastic pig's twin, and were critiqued by their teacher, who carried the model around for comparisons. Replication was the goal, and I worry that Picasso would have failed miserably. Good pig makers might be the result of this lesson, but not creative thinkers.
But what about a mathematics class, where the kids are taught a way, or the way, to solve a certain kind of problem? How different is this from the pig lesson described above? Doesn't that model imply that replication rather than innovation is the right way, and that this is clearly what teachers are looking for?
Let Some Freedom Ring
Now, of course, there are certain ways of solving specific types of problems that are worth learning, but this learning must be seen as a small piece of a much bigger picture. Though the smudging of chalk, or various types of weaves, are valuable skills for an artist, they do not in and of themselves make a creative artist.
So it is with mathematics. The ability to successfully resolve one problem does not make a creative mathematician. Rather, in both cases, it is only the application of these discrete skills in the context of a complex effort -- some traditional and some innovative -- that will support the development of a creative mind.
Skills are important, and I think the best teachers teach discrete skills in ways that allow diverse learners to become successful. That is one of the easy parts, if there are any, to classroom teaching.
More difficult is to provide the deeper learning activities in which real creativity is nurtured and developed. These are activities that ask students to make use of their new skills to accomplish complex tasks. And the very best activities ask them to be creative in the application of their new-found skills.
A Look Inside the Classroom
This is sort of like asking a student who has learned to use a tape measure, a saw, and a hammer while building bookcases for classrooms to build a chicken coop for a community farm.
"OK, I can measure accurately, cut a square end, and drive nails from 16 penny on down, but I think I better learn a bit about chickens and what that farm wants before I get started here" is what we would hope to hear our learners say. They have freedom to use their skills in any way they want, but they are asked to use them to complete an assigned task.
An art assignment that reflects this thinking is one done by friend and colleague Argy Nestor, visual and performing arts specialist at the Maine Department of Education, during her years teaching in a coastal Maine district. As I remember, the kids were asked to select a painting from a collection of the masters.
They then were asked to use a paint program to create their own digital copy of it and then select the medium of their choice to copy it nondigitally -- plenty of structure, plenty of freedom, and stunning results. There was ample evidence that the students had looked closely at their selected masterwork, and that using two very different ways to re-create it had given them insights into the art that can never come to the person who simply looks at it and writes down what they see.
So, you, like all teachers, teach skills. How do you go further than the skills to approach creativity? How do you provide your students with freedom within a structure? Do you ask them to get creative in a serious way, to use their skills to ferret out the Achilles' heel of the challenge you have set for them? Come on -- we can all use some more creative thinking and activities. What would you like to share?
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I had the fortune to work with an awesome art teacher. She always clearly state the criteria for any piece, but it left great latitude for the student's creativity. Everyone got exactly the same instruction, but the final products were amazing and unique. a purple sky, at least one green tree and an orange house. Th
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life"
Another word for creativity is courage"
"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it"
All quotes by albert Einstein...We learn so much from albert einsteins mathematical & scientific achievements...we should listen to his heart and social ideas more...
Thank you for posting this refreshing and interesting approach to allowing children learn through their own creativity and imagination. If more teachers do this there will be some massively incredible inventions in the future. casino en ligne
Hey Jim!
Thanks for a great article. Last Spring Cathy Melio from the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, ME and I (from Maine Department of Education) collaborated to bring a Visual Thinking Strategy workshop to Maine. We had almost 100 teachers participate, mostly visual arts, but many others as well. It was a fascinating training and really lends itself to giving young minds the opportunity to develop creativity, verbal skills, thinking skills and other skills. It is not about adults validating what students are saying and how they respond to art but the way kids personally react and building on the reactions of others. The program has the potential to teach creativity and for students to develop creativity! I suggest you check out the program at this website http://www.vtshome.org/
The workshop was such a success that we are planning how we can bring more Visual Thinking Strategy workshops to Maine. Yours in Arts Education!
I have been teaching a course for teachers at The University of Southern Maine called Creative Literacy: Building Literacy through the Arts and one of the comments that is repeated again and again is that the work is so powerful because there is "no wrong way to do it." I believe this echos your article in that I certainly set up rules and boxes for the assignments but I am very clear in saying that "if the boxes don't work for you please explode them." This simple choice of language allows for greater creativity when a student is attempting to define a character from a novel in three physical body images or a group is working together to present the most important elements of a printed text through movement or or visual art.
As you make clear in your article, when the arts are taught the right way they have the power to foster innovation, imagination, and creativity. This is why we must begin to support the integration of arts and non arts content areas so that comprehension and demonstration of understanding can be infused with a true sense of creativity. Yes, all schools should have master artists who teach in the arts! But they should be allowed to teach their own very important curriculum. But for students to receive the benefits associated with more time in the creation and appreciation of the arts we must support non arts teachers who want to use the arts and their creative potential in other content areas.
Wow, what a great article. I am a teacher at Gulfport High School on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I teach English and have found myself struggling with some learners who can read the assigned work, but not really understand what they read afterward. I have gone back to school to work on another degree. I have hoped to gain some knowledge and insight on alternative methods to reach my students and make my lessons more relavant for them. In the process of researching for a class I'm taking, I read an article in the December 2006 issue of The School Administrator. The article, entitled "Addressing Literacy Through Neuroscience," authors S. Miller and P. Tallal discuss how neuroscience has changed the way we educators should look at teaching literacy with our students. In short, neuroscience has discovered that the brain, once believed to do most of its developing in the first few years, is actually "plastic" and can be remolded and retaught by tapping into the visual processing the brain itself does. The article suggests that students can be helped to succeed more in reading by the use of lessons that incorporate visual and kinestetic learning with reading. With this in mind, visual art has a real place in the English classroom. "Artsy projects" aren't just something that should be in the elementary classroom. I have recently had great success with a project I did with my tenth grade students. While reading a novel, I had them create digital yearbook pages for the characters using PowerPoint. I let them get creative and artistic in the design of the pages, and even include music. I achieved my goal as the students made real strides in their understanding of direct and indirect characterization. They enjoyed the assignment and carried these new skills on to the next novel we read. I am so glad I didn't feel I had to stay in the conventional teaching arena.
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it is so important to let children express their imagination and creation in school .. that some new ideas like you describe in your article are just a fresh vision, thx ! depannage mac
Letting kids explore their creativity keeps them engaged and wanting to learn more. I all for more creative projects in the class room. Too many robots coming out of schools I say!! search for magician sites
I find talking about setting clear criteria is getting off topic. Fostering creativity requires going beyond setting clear criteria to providing an environment that engage learners on an emotional level. We need to create activities in which learners have ownership, where they are so motivated in a task that they become self-directed.
A summer learning experience pitted teams of students in a competition to design a vessel that could carry cargo down a river. Learners had a budget and could purchase items such balloons, tin trays, rubber bands. Effectiveness of the vessel was judged on how many pennies the vessels could carry, and which team could provide the most cost effective solution. During the activity the learners were so engaged they didn't notice the teacher who walked among them. In the end all learners were physically engaged, cheering, demonstrating the excitement they derived from the activity.
The real teaching/learning would occur after the winners were congratulated, recognized among their peers, given time to relish their accomplishment. The teacher would ask everyone to sit down, bring the level down to point where there could be a discussion. At this point the teacher could promote a discussion about the strategies that were employed by all teams, what were the problem solving solutions, what were the challenges that came up and what actions taken, and why did they decide to take them. In this way all could become learners of new solutions in problem solving that is relevant to all because they all shared in the same problem.
Fostering creativity occurs in experiences that apply skills in ways that elicit an emotional engagement. The sharing of strategies and problem solving solutions create child-centered environments.
I believe that setting a structured assignment with room or deviation and possible error encourages critical thinking. I'm a secondary science teacher and recently read an article on Argument Driven Inquiry. This is an approach to science experiments that allows students to be engaged in higher levels of thinking. It focuses on the word "design" which automatically encourages and emphasizes creativity. Students are to ask a question about what we are studying, make observations using their senses, create a hypothesis, plan an experiment to test the hypothesis, and eventually collect the data. There are various steps and after each new development, whether it is developing the hypothesis or experimental procedure, students collaborate with other students to critique each other's work. It seems like a great way for teachers to scaffold students in the right direction, while also allowing for creativity, student discussion, and critical thinking.
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The volunteer organization based in North Dakota will help its 300th farm family in the region by the end of the year.
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A second former co-owner of the California slaughterhouse involved in a recall of nearly 9 million pounds of meat was charged with knowingly processing and distributing meat from cancerous cows, court documents released this week say.
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The RCMP and the Canadian military have spent nearly $11.5 million in the last eight years on a national search-and-destroy mission for illicit marijuana crops.
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The state Department of Agriculture said Wednesday the county will join Hennepin, Houston, Ramsey and Winona counties in a state and federal quarantine to prevent the infestation from spreading.
Drought hits food supplies in Central America
Central America is having one of its worst droughts in decades, and experts are warning that major farm losses and the deaths of hundreds of cattle in the region could leave hundreds of thousands of families without food.
Statistics Canada says farmers won't reap records for most crops this year
The agency's July farm survey says farmers can expect production to return to more normal levels for wheat, canola and corn for grain after records last year.
California's drought stings bees, honey supplies
California's record drought hasn't been sweet to honeybees, and it's creating a sticky situation for beekeepers and honey buyers.
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A UK supermarket is to stock home-grown watermelons for the first time following a successful crop nurtured by a 19-year-old agriculture student.
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Three years of drought have Californians debating an end to the state's status as one of the last in the West with a pump-as-you-please policy for the vital underground sources that provide up to 65 percent of the state's water.
GMO labels cleared to be on Colorado ballot
Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Wednesday that backers of the proposal have collected enough valid signatures to place Proposition 105 on November's ballot.
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In this photo by Anupam Nath, a woman cooks inside her flooded house in Assam state in northeastern India.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture just published a new estimate of how much it costs to raise a child today.
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The candidates in Kentucky's U.S. Senate race are answering questions together for the first time amid a squabble over a bus rental.
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Idaho has its potatoes. Florida has its fresh fruits and juices. Vidalia is the name synonymous with the nation's most famous sweet onion.
Farmers hit by flooding, rail delays given more time to repay cash advances
Western farmers unable to market last fall's crop due to rail delays and other transportation issues due to flooding have been granted more time to repay their 2013 cash advances.
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TROY, N.Y. - The American Red Cross of Northeastern New York has aided 13 people after fire in Troy.
The fire damaged an apartment building late Wednesday afternoon on River Street, according to authorities.
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Today the new Hawks GM, Danny Ferry, was able to unload two of the franchise's most miserable contracts, Joe Johnson and Devin Harris, for a bunch of young talent, expiring contracts, Devin Harris, and a protected pick. In one day, Danny Ferry turned a mediocre, moribund franchise into a potential landing spot for CP3 AND Dwight Howard.
So on a day where we're discussing the news of giving a max contract to a 22 year old point guard, the former frontrunner for Rod Thorn's replacement just locked up Executive of the Year. Should we be surprised?
Well, yeah. I had to look back at some of the Danny Ferry articles posted when Ferry was up for the job a few weeks ago. Now of course, Ferry's track record in Cleveland was questionable, Ferry's only been in charge for 2 weeks, it's unclear how much Collins would allowed such wheeling and dealing, and Ferry took advantage of poor, pathetic Billy King. But hey, if misleading Monday Morning Quarterbacking is good enough for Aaron Sorkin (The Newsroom sucks), then gosh darn it it's good enough for us. Let's laugh at ourselves, shall we!!
Better than Rick Sund. (JuliusErrrrrrving)
First, let's give credit where credit's due. Ferry did in 2 weeks what Sund failed to do in 4 years. Genius Point for JuliusErrrrrrving!!
I'd rather have Lequan Glover as m GM (tst29)
Swing and a miss!
If this is true, any optimism that has built over the last two season is officially over – and I won't waste any time on rooting for this team any longer. (Toney2Turner)
Well, hopefully that optimism is still there. Should be shining bright once we bring in Kirk Heinrich to be our first guard off the bench!
I guess what I want from the new GM is the same thing I wanted from a new coach when they hired the Dougy instead: A different perspective. Original thinking. Flexibility. Creativity. An "I don't give a crap, I'm going to try stuff until I find what works" attitude. (dweebowitz)
I hope being able to grab two of the 5 best players in the NBA constitutes creativity.
How is it that you know Ferry is none of these things? Just curious. (JasonB)
Gotta side with Jason here.
Seriously, mostly I'm going on his track record in Cleveland, where there was never that "Wow!" move to get them over the top. It just sort of conjured images of Billy King...(dweebowitz)
Oh, the delicious irony...
I could be wrong. I hope I am. Maybe Ferry's got chops we didn't get to see in Cleveland. Maybe it was the owner's fault (he is kinda nutty, to be fair). Maybe it was LeBron's fault. (dweebowitz)
No one would claim that Ferry did a good job in Cleveland. But was he a bad GM? I don't know. He just made a lot of moves for veterans that just didn't work out. It's better than Rod Thorn (inactivity) or Otis Smith (incompetence). He may have been pressured into some bad moves by the ownership or Lebron's people. We'll never know.
So to sum up, we're still screwed! Passion, Intense, Pride!! (I think that's how it goes)


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When we start talking about $5 to $7 million salaries and super plush training facilities, it makes me very uncomfortable. UCLA is, first and foremost, a great university. I do acknowledge that sports is an important part, and for many of us the glue. And for us old geezers who live and die blue and gold every weekend, it is our most intimate continuing connection with a great university. But our primary mission is to educate people, and that includes a lot more than athletics.


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Opinion by Sam Ackerman
If you're a league fan, you love the shoulder charge. It's an instrumental part of the game's folklore, it turns players into legends and puts bums on seats.
Sonny Bill Williams may be known as an international code hopper these days but it was his lethal shoulder than first put him on his trajectory to stardom.
David Kidwell had a sensational career but is best known for letting his shoulder do the talking and put down big Willie Mason at Mt Smart.
The list of memorable moments from the spectacular looking tackle goes on and on.
The decision from the NRL's independent commission to recommend outlawing shoulder charges across all competitions has been met with plenty of fire and brimstone from fans, commentators, former and current players alike.
The bottom line is officials couldn't ignore the medical advice. All 16 NRL doctors condemned the practice and called for it to be rubbed out of the game.
It's been deemed an unacceptable injury risk, and in a time where concussion among athletes is under the spotlight, this can be looked at as enlightened step.
But when they talk about unacceptable risk, they're also talking about the legal aspect.
It's only a matter of time before someone gets badly hurt in a mistimed shoulder charge and it ends up in the courts.
Take what happened with Jarrod McCracken when he took legal action for a spear tackle.
If a shoulder charge that caused serious injury went before a judge or jury, the medical evidence that the ARLC would have overlooked would have left them wide open for punishment.
That's seen as the common sense view. But every sport comes with its risks.
Can you imagine Formula One drivers being given a speed limit because there's fear someone could get hurt in a crash at the current speeds?
Or cliff divers being told the platforms had to be lowered? X-Games athletes told to make their tricks less death-defying?
Every sport comes with its risks. Anyone entering into professional rugby league does so willingly and with the knowledge that an accidental collision or misjudged tackle could happen.
The findings of the report in shoulder charges showed they made up 0.05 per cent of tackles made in this years NRL – 17 per cent of which made contact with the head. That's not an epidemic.
But player safety deserves to be high on the agenda. Even if they don't want protection, is it up to officials to make things as safe as possible?
The move's already been banned in all New Zealand domestic competitions, and NZRL officials are glowing in their praise of the positive impact it's had on player well-being.
Rugby League will survive without the shoulder charge. But I don't mind saying, I'll miss that 0.05% of the game.
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In case you don't have the stomach to watch Soulja Boy's expletive-laden, nearly eight-minutes-long despite edits response to Ice-T saying he ruined hip-hop forevermore, let me sum up its two major arguments. No. 1: "YAHHH OLD YAHHH." (That's a paraphrase.) No. 2: "How are you gonna make a song called 'Fuck Da Police,' then 35 years later, your ass is playing the police on TV?" (That's a direct quote. Personally, I think a youuuuuuuu would have sufficed.) P.S.: This should go without saying on any YouTube clip, but seriously, if you want to retain your faith in the future of this planet, don't read the comments. [YouTube; ht PTW / Earlier]
Soulja Boy Fires Back At Ice-T The Only Way He Knows How: Wikipedia Citations
What's worse: if you're actually dense enough to think Soulja Boy Tell Em is hip-hop, you need to take your thoughts on a long stroll down a dusty Brooklyn street and get your mind right. Soulja Boy is a pop star who uses rap music as his vehicle to pop stardom, period.
I don't know which is dumber: calling Soulja Boy Tell Em hip-hop or Ice-T trying to put himself in the same category as Soulja Boy.
Um. I didn't go look it up or anything, but wasn't "Fuck da Police" by NWA? My parents don't get Ice Cube and Ice T confused.
@skweetis: He also talks about Ice-T claiming to be from the West Coast, so you can see he's pretty confused.
@skweetis: beat me too it. But yeah, I kinda don't see Solja Boy and Ice-T in the same genre just like I don't exactly see, oh, Low and Slayer in the same genre. One could argue they're both playing rock, but there's miles of difference there. Same with these two. Both rap, but there's oceans of difference between "Crank Dat" and "6 in the Morning."
(Maybe not so much with L.G.B.N.A.F. though. hee hee hee)
I'm glad Soulja Boy is alive because without him I wouldn't have anybody to loathe.
It's officially "eat a dick" week here on Idolator!
Dick — It's what's for dinner.
I'm confused, am I supposed to step like THIS or like THAT to be a soulja girl
Ice T was already playing cops when he sang Cop Killer.
Which has more in common with Slayer. Than Soulja Boy.
I'd have thought Ice-T did as much to kill hip hop as Soulja Boy did. Except Ice-T's been making mediocre music for 25 years as opposed to Soulja Boy's 2.


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I don't believe that it is fair for us as Bears fans to be judging Kyle Orton on his play this year. The bears have nothing, let me repeat that, nothing on offense other then Matt Forte and the tight ends. They have a makeshift offensive line and a receiving core that wouldn't be good on a high school team. I believe that Kyle Orton can be a successful QB in this league and there are a few things the bears NEED to do before they can properly evaluate Orton.
I don't think it is legitimate for us to expect the bears to fill every hole this year, so here is what I propose:
Continue to improve along the offensive line. Chris Williams should be the starting LT next year and if he can play like some of the other tackles in his draft class he will be an immediate upgrade at the most important position on the offensive line. At the LG position I'm looking for an open competition between guys the bears already have, mainly, Josh Beekman, Terrence Metcalf, Dan Buenning, John St. Clair and possibly a mid-round draft pick. Between those guys you should be able to find a solid guard to play next to Williams. Despite his declining play, I believe in Olin Kreutz will remain our starting Center, his leadership abilities make him a valuable player on this team and I believe with more talent around him his decline won't seem so drastic. Roberto Garza will remain the starting RG next year, he isn't spectacular but he is solid and he is still a player the bears can rely on. RT is where the Bears need to make a splash with a player outside of the current roster, John Tait is gone. Marc Colombo and Jordon Gross would both be very solid options and the Bears should do everything possible to sign one of those two players. I also fully expect them to use one of their first three picks on a young offensive lineman to throw into the mix. These moves will allow the Bears offensive line to make a large jump and will help ensure that Matt Forte avoids a soph. slump.
The second and most glaring hole on the Bears roster is the WR position. There are only three players on the Bears that I would bring back for the 2009 season, Devin Hester, Brandon Lloyd, and Earl Bennett. If Marty Booker wants to keep playing football I would also consider bringing him back because he will be very cheap and still has the ability to make some catches and would be a very solid fourth or fifth option. Due to his draft position Earl Bennet will be on the roster, even though the coaching staff obviously has almost no confidence in him. The Bears have also committed to Devin Hester and I expect him to continue to be a major part of the offense. I would bring back Brandon Lloyd because he will be another cheap option and can make some amazing catches and big plays. The problem with Brandon Lloyd is that the Bears came into the season relying on him to play well, I think that he can be a surprisingly good third of fourth option for the Bears, but, he can't be relied on to perform every Sunday. The remaining guys on the roster should be cut out right, Rashied Davis is not an NFL WR, Mike Haas and Brandon Ridaeu have had their chance the past few years and the coaching staff obviously has not seen anything to justify putting them on the field, they can be brought back only as depth on the practice squad. This leaves us with three maybe four WR's coming back, leaving us one or two open spots for WR's outside the current roster. First off, the bears will spend a first or second round pick on a WR no matter what they do with FA's or Trades. Here is what I propose, Anquan Boldin, the bears will have to trade their first round pick in order to get him, and they should do so without hesitation. This would leave them a second round pick for another WR to throw into the mix. If they are unable to trade for Anquan Boldin then they HAVE to sign T.J. Houshmandzadeh and use their first round pick on a WR. This gives the Bears a legitimate offensive threat at the WR position and will help open things up for Devin Hester. They would also have two high potential early draft picks in Earl Bennet and their 2009 FIRST DAY SELECTION. Plus, one or two veterans who can still play, but shouldn't be relied as number on targes, in Brandon Lloyd and Marty Booker. The addition of a legit number one WR (Boldin or Housh) will do a great deal for the offense as a unit. Devin Hester will no longer be the focal point of the offensive, which in my opinion will make him more of a threat and will allow him to stretch the field and take advantage or more single coverage. The middle of the field will be more open for Greg Olsen and Desmond Clark to continue to make plays, they will also find themselves covered by more LB's and Safeties. The threat of a legit passing game will also open up more holes for Matt Forte and if one or two of the remaining three or four WR's (Bennett, Booker, Loyld and a first day draft pick) can be counted on to step up and make some plays as the third or fourth WR option the Bears will have a much improved offense.
In closing our offense should look something like this:
QB - Kyle Orton
RB - Matt Forte
FB - Jason McKie
WR - Boldin or Houshmandzadeh, Earl Bennett, Marty Booker (Maybe)
WR - Devin Hester, 2009 First or Second Round Draft Pick, Brandon Lloyd
TE - Greg Olsen & Desmond Clark
LT - Chris Williams
LG - Beekman or St. Clair or Buenning or Metcalf or 2009 Draft Pick
C - Olin Kruetz
RG - Roberto Garza
RT - Jordon Gross or Marc Colombo or 2009 First Day Draft Pick
I think after next if we are still questioning Kyle Orton's ability then and only then should we start to look for his replacement. I think it is completely unfair to judge him based on what he has done this year because of the lack of reliable players around him. Like I mentioned earlier, I think it is unreasonable for us to believe that the Bears will address all of their holes, but, if they plug the holes I mentioned I think they will be a much better offense next year and it will give us a much more accurate picture of who Kyle Orton is as a QB.


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LinkedIn hooks up with 'influencers'
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — LinkedIn is adding more expert advice to its website and making it easier for its users to find their pearls of wisdom.
The online professional networking service hopes the proffered tips and advice will help it extend its clout beyond the help-wanted market.
The new feature added Tuesday will encourage LinkedIn's more than 175 million members to sign up to follow the musings of "influencers" — a 150-person panel that includes President Barack Obama, business moguls, Internet bloggers, self-help gurus and entrepreneurs.
LinkedIn Corp plans to anoint other people as influencers, but only after screening candidates in order to ensure they are qualified to dispense helpful advice.
Besides Obama, LinkedIn recruited his Republican Party challenger, Mitt Romney, to be among its initial group of influencers. Virgin Group Richard Branson also has agreed to share his thoughts, along with oil mogul T Boone Pickens, serial entrepreneur James Caan and Craig Newmark, the founder of online classified service Craigslist.
Other LinkedIn influencers, such as chef Marcus Samuelsson and Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos Cosgrove, are expected to cater to people interested in specific fields. LinkedIn's CEO, Jeff Weiner, and executive chairman, Reid Hoffman, are also on the list.
LinkedIn, which is based in Mountain View, California, is counting on its influencers to share their tips in short essays, video and photos. It's similar to the sharing that occurs billions of times per day on Twitter and Facebook, where users see information posted from other accounts that they have chosen to follow.
The concept represents something different for LinkedIn, whose system requires users to send requests to establish a connection. The tie-in doesn't occur until both people agree to it.
LinkedIn members will just have to click on a "follow" button to track what any of the influencers are sharing. The feature is part of LinkedIn Today, a daily news section unveiled last year as part of the company's attempt to build its website into something more than a digital rolodex that unites people looking for a better job with talent-hungry employers.
If the news section and the addition of the influencers pans out the way LinkedIn envisions, people will have more reasons to check into the website more frequently and perhaps stick around longer. That, in turn, would help LinkedIn sell more advertising.
One of Facebook's biggest advantages in the Internet market is the habit-forming nature of its website, where its users post photos, status updates and links to other interesting stories on the Internet. More than half of Facebook's 955 million users visit the website at least once a day.
Although LinkedIn is smaller and less addictive than Facebook, it has fared better on Wall Street. LinkedIn's stock has more than doubled from its May 2011 IPO price of US$45 while Facebook's stock has dropped by more than 40 per cent from its initial public offering price of US$38 in May of this year.
LinkedIn shares fell one cent to US$117.93 in Tuesday's afternoon trading, while Facebook's stock rose two cents to US$22.01.
Investors have become enamored with LinkedIn because the company appears to be well-positioned for years of steady growth as it changes the way employers find new workers. LinkedIn generates two-thirds of its revenue from fees that it charges companies, recruiting services and other people to gain additional access to the website's members.
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Recursive nested menu
16 June 2008 at 5:26am Last edited: 16 June 2008 5:28am
Hi everyone!
I'm currently working on a project with Silverstripe where the client wants to be able to have a nested menu that works for all menu levels, i.e. it doesn't matter if there are 2 or 9 or n levels, they will all be displayed (the design allows for a fairly good amount of levels). All I've seen on the forums or the current themes are hard-coded menus of a fixed maximum depth.
I've tried this:
<% control Menu(1) %>
<!-- here the code for the lists, links etc... -->
<% include SubNav %>
<% end_control %>
<% if Children %>
<% control Children %>
<!-- here the code for the lists, links etc... -->
<% if Children %>
<% include SubNav %>
<% end_if %>
<% end_control %>
<% end_if %>
The text in bold is supposed to get the SubNav file to include itself until there are no more children. The problem is that I get an exceeded memory error message. Obviously, the include statements are executed regardless of the ifs, resulting in an endless loop, as stated in this topic: http://silverstripe.com/site-builders-forum/flat/37299
Does anyone have the same problem, or maybe an idea on how to resolve this? Thank you very much in advance!
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Re: Recursive nested menu
16 June 2008 at 6:41am
What you will have to do until the flaw int the templating system is fixed is to do an implementation in php, and put it in Page.php. For example make a new function TreeMenu() and then call that from the template to get a nested tree of the pages. It's a bit ugly, but you could probably use the existing functions for controlling menus, and only use php to make it conditionally recursive.
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Hey, thank you for your answer! I guess I will just write 5 or 6 navigation template files for now, and create that PHP function when I have time...
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text: In 1998, I wasn't sure what Orgy was but they sounded fresh and appealing. With their 98 debut, Orgy may not have been totally pop-friendly but is surprisingly effective. All of this music flows on an electronic surface.It is interesting to realize that Orgy's roots are more diverse than most. They hit hard but consistent like a modern day depeche mode, but rather than drawing from the 70's, Orgy takes their lessons from the early 80's. Musical cues were taken from David Bowie's Let's Dance and Tonight era, Gary Numan, and Duran Duran. This is more evident with the notion that Candyass' biggest single was "Blue Monday", a clever and fanciful remake of New Order's famous early 80's hit. In addition, Orgy makes for a group of clever songwriters. This is always a plus. While most bands choose rhyme over reason to describe themselves, Orgy generally prefers the latter. To some, Candyass is purely a bunch of noise, but the hooks are at least obvious, even if distorted and the messages are visceral, even if not discernible in what they achieve. To most Candyass is merely an industrial metal rehash but for those who approach it with an open mind, Candyass could be considered a debut masterpiece.


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Pioli says agreement isn't finalized.
Pioli seems to think the compensation is up in the air yet. I know almost everyone can't stand hearing this guys name but you have to think if anyone has good sources inside the Chiefs its Pioli because some of the people he worked with and had a good relationship with are still there. This is good news.


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Get ready for a lot of talk this fall and winter about how the National League is the better of the two leagues. It's already started: Jeff Gordon says we've, "heard lots of pro-American League blather in recent years," but "it's time to chill that chatter." Pat Caputo, in the middle of an article about what a great season the Tigers had, interrupted himself to say, "[T]he National League was better than the American League overall [in 2012], as well." Zach Stoloff seemed to say the AL is still the better league, but later called the NL "the supposedly inferior league," and claimed that the World Series is a different game, presumably one favoring more athletic, less powerful teams whose pitchers have practice hitting.
This is the tip of the iceberg. You can almost hear it coming if you take a look at this page or this page. Having dropped eight of the 13 World Series matchups from the post-strike year of 1995 through 2007, the NL has won three in a row and four of the past five; likewise, after losing an incredible 12 All-Star Games in a row (with one miserable tie) from 1997 through 2009, the NL has won three straight of those, too. The Series haven't been close, either, with one seven-game series in the bunch; since 2008, the team the postseason process has declared the NL's best has beat its AL counterpart by a total of 16 wins to nine, and outscored them 134-95.
That's still just 25 games, though (28 if you count the three straight All-Star Games, but are those even "games," really?). After the first 25 games of 2012, the Dodgers were 17-8, on pace to win 110 games (they went 69-68 the rest of the way). It's a big mistake to read much into that. Stoloff doubles down on it, noting the NL's 11-3 record at home since 2008 and calling it "a lopsided figure that clearly can't be accounted for by home field advantage." Perhaps not, but it certainly can be explained by a combination of home-field advantage and random variation.
We know we can't look at those 25 games and determine that the NL is better. For one thing, it's now less likely than ever that the best team in either league will make the Series; this year featured the NL's third-best team against the AL's seventh-best (though to be fair, the AL team had the better record in 2008, 2009 and 2011). Even if it were a large enough sample of games, it's not clear what those games are measuring, since it's so rarely the best against the best.
This is the point where we turn to the MLB-wide interleague records. After a bit of back-and-forth when interleague play began in 1997 -- including the NL dominating two of the first three years and winning four of the first seven -- the AL has won the league-wide interleague "series" with the NL in each of the last nine seasons. The disparity reached its peak in 2006, when the AL won 154 of the 252 games between the leagues. They also went 149-103 two years later. After that, the leagues seemed to be gradually leveling out -- the AL won 138 in 2009, then 134 in 2010, and was just 131-121 in 2011. This year, though, was the worst for the NL since 2008; the AL went 142-110 against the NL. That's a huge advantage for the AL. If you want to add in the World Series games from the last five years, the AL's advantage since 2008 shrinks from 695-567 all the way to 704-583 -- so the average AL team, if it got to play 162 games against the average NL team, even including the World Series beatdown, would be expected to go 89-73.
The raw interleague records aren't necessarily determinative; they can be skewed by a few very good or very bad teams (for a while, NL apologists would sometimes try to claim that the Yankees by themselves, then the Yankees and Red Sox, caused the imbalance). In 2012, the five AL playoff teams went 59-31 in interleague play; the five NL playoff teams went 40-41. The five worst NL teams went 34-59; the five worst AL teams, 45-45. From top to bottom, given their relative station within their own leagues, the AL teams performed much better than the NL teams.
The AL is still roughly as dominant as ever in the regular season, and I can't find any reason to think the NL would be better in the postseason: Skoloff's assertion that pitchers hitting gives the NL an advantage would also show up in regular-season interleague games (they get to play half those games at home, too), and his assertion that more athletic, less powerful teams have an advantage in October would carry more weight if recent (but pre-2008) history were not littered with big, slow, powerful AL teams winning World Series.
No matter what you hear over the next few months, the AL has still been the better league, and it hasn't been close. I do think there are reasons to think that advantage will be disappearing though, and quickly. For one thing, the transition to the AL of the NL's worst team -- the Astros, of course, who went 6-9 against the AL and 49-98 against the NL -- will by itself go a long way to balance things out, at least for the next two or three years, when the Astros figure to continue being terrible.
My other reason is more of a hunch: aside from Mike Trout, how many AL players aged 25 or under can you think of that you expect as much from as you do from Bryce Harper, Stephen Strasburg, Giancarlo Stanton, Jason Heyward, or Justin Upton (who I know has been around forever and has had some disappointments, but is still a stunningly talented 25)? I can't think of many. Then add the likes of Starlin Castro, Yasmani Grandal, Brandon Belt, and Anthony Rizzo to the pile, and it seems to me that the NL has a stronger group of good young players that figure to continue getting better.
So, the AL's advantage might be coming to an end, but there's been no sign of it yet. And when the big changeover does come, it won't be heralded by four to seven games in October.
Bill Parker is one of SBN's Designated Columnists and one of the creators of The Platoon Advantage. Follow him at @Bill_TPA.


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( The Ventura County Star chose this story for their recent article on the accreditation problems for Oxnard, Ventura, and Moorpark.)
I don't have much to say about the local Community College district risking their accreditation because of what appears to be the actions of one member. If you haven't followed the issue read this article.
What I find shocking is that his supporters demanded that he gets promoted. They want to promote to a higher position of influence the man that has been identified as a major cause of the accreditation problem.
If you read a few of the articles on the consequences of his actions you will notice that he is often unavailable for comment. I would like to read his full explanation to being blamed for the Accreditation issue.
Art Hernandez, all of our community colleges are important. It is your duty to serve the students of all of the campuses.


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HMGS-PSW Fall Campaign October Surprise!
Thanks to hard work by some of our rank and file members our Fall convention, October Surprise! will be held on Saturday, October 20, 2012 at the National Guard Armory located at 1351 W. Sierra Madre Ave., Azusa, CA. 91702. Doors will open at 8 AM for set-up, games will run from 9 AM to 9 PM, take-down and clean-up until 10 PM.
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Summer Offensive an Unqualified Success!
"Hit the Beach", our Summer offensive was a great success. Held at the California National Guard Armory (thanks Sam!) in Manhattan Beach. The event was put together by Adam Hammer, Steve Reid, Harmon Ward (and cast of others). The games started at 9am and by 10am there were approximately 60 gamers in attendance. By the end of the day it was rumored that total attendance was 100!
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Of Kamikazes and Campaign Books (Part 1)
or Why I'm Always Playing the Same Game
Some of you may have noticed that for the last couple of years I seem to always be playing the same game, set in the same theater and time period. Here's the story.
Airplanes, particularly those from WW II, have always held a special fascination for me. Perhaps it's a result of growing up near Van Nuys Airport; the old T.V. series Baa Baa Black Sheep definitely had something to do with it. Back in the long, long ago it was the board game Dauntless (when it was published by Battleline, before being bought by Avalon Hill) that brought me into this wonderful hobby. Though I've gamed in many different historical eras over the years WW II has always been my favorite, with the aerial aspects of the war at the top of my list. Maybe it's because of the tremendous technological innovations (biplanes to jets in roughly five years), maybe it's because a Pratt & Whitney engine sounds so awesome, maybe it's just because the F4U Corsair is so cool! Whatever the reasons WW II aerial combat has always been my version of The Precious where the hobby is concerned.
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New Officers Elected
Elections were held at October Surprise! in Azusa on 20 October 2012. The Current HMGS-PSW officers are:
John Harrell – President
Steve Reid – Vice President
Tim Keennon – Secretary/Treasurer
October Surprise! 2012 PEL final version in .pdf
If you missed the recent HMGS/PSW "Winter Campaign" convention you missed a great convention! HMGS/PSW first attempt at having a convention at this time of the year was quite a success given the fairly short concept to execution time we had. For this convention0 returned to our old "digs" at the Glendale Boy Scouts facility near Los Angeles California. After a year of "floating our conventions around the Los Angeles / Orange county area we decided it was time to "gather the Clan" back in familiar territory and have some fun, and fun it was.
There were tons of familiar faces spread through out the convention as well as many new faces as we picked up almost a dozen new members! Friday was missed by me as luck would have it I was nursing a cold. The "infamous" HMGS/PSW games board left storage courtesy of the manpower provided by Steve Reid (and his truck), Steve Gausche, and Paul Petrov. Unloading and setup was handled by Convention Manager David Dandridge and un-named HMGS members, thanks guys.
The convention was wall to wall games from early Saturday morning to break down Sunday despite some prominent faces missing over the weekend. This reinforces the fact that if we all showed up and had one more vendor we would bust the seams at the current Boy Scouts facility! As it was we had the main hall with 8 full time games going, the conference room with several and also the basement awash in navel battles.
Many of you have heard that there was a bit of a flap with the scouts as on Tuesday I received a call from them informing me that they had "somehow doubled booked the hall on Sunday" and then asked if we could move out of the hall and use other rooms on Sunday! I told them that moving was out of the question as we would never fit and certainly dealers would not be able too or want to move. This hung in limbo with no solution until Friday where Dave informed me that they asked if we could be out by 3pm sharp on Sunday afternoon, they would wave the hall charge as recompense. We told them that this was acceptable and we would work with the "Boy Scout" group coming in as best we could. In the end it all worked out and we even made some friend within the scouting group as several of their "boys" came in and played while the parents where setting up a huge obstacle course in the parking lot. One boy even went home with a new copy of "wing of War" and I fully expect to see him back as a HMGS/PSW member in the future! Many of the Parents, Scouts, and family members came through the hall to check out the games and ask questions about what we were doing. We were also approached by some of the scout leaders about doing some demo games for their troops at a later date.
Many of you have heard time and time again about the "greying" of the hobby and to a point it is but there is hope as I can see more and more young gamers showing up at our conventions. Of course some have little choice like Clark who's father is Dave Dandridge our convention manager. Clark is already a veteran gamer and can take down gamers twice his size and 5 times his age easy since he has been gaming with the "Dogs of War since he was old enough to walk!
Next time you come to a con bring a nephew, son, grandson or any child you know and introduce them to miniatures gaming!
As I look over the PEL and think about what games were planned and what games actually came off I am glad that several were indeed canceled for one reason or another. We would just not have had the room! That's a good thing! It bodes well for our future plans to expand our convention into larger facilities. There were also many HMGS/PSW member who are normally at conventions who could not attend this one and with their absence and the games they put on attendance was diminished but once again if they HAD showed up where would they have played as there was no room and most of the games played had FULL participation already! Clearly we are reaching a critical mass in our plans to "move on up" to bigger "digs"
As I said Friday night was missed by me in a effort to save strength for Saturday / Sunday as well as presiding over the HMGS/PSW meeting Saturday night. There were at least 4-5 games planned and played ( AK-47 , Check Your Six, Flames Of War 20mm Race for Massina 1943, and once again pretty well attended for a Friday night!
Saturday Started of with a bang with a full house gaming by 9am! Several Civil War 15mm games were running, Jeff McArthur was demonstrating his ACW rules, "Death in the Boccage" 20mm WWII (Crossfire), So you want our Nuke?" (AK-47), "flying over Flanders" (Wings of War), Sweepers Man your Brooms" (Check your Six), "Stones River" ACW 15mm (Fire and Fury) with Jim Svette's award winning terrain! Because of late registration there were many other games that did not make the pel being played at this time that I saw, 1/2400 WWII navel with around 10 players, Doug Kendrick running his 28mm Samurai skirmish, and others….
Harmon, Skip Gardella, his wife, and several other volunteers manned the pans at noon whipping up a great lunch menu for hungry con goers! Hats off to these folks who not only keep us fed, happy, and at the gaming tables instead of wandering the mean streets of Glendale looking for some eats! This "volunteer effort does all that and puts some cash into the till at the end of the day!
After the feast the gaming raged on with the arrival of the much anticipated "Dogs of War" group and their Mega "Pirate" game! Just awesome and as always a crowd pleaser. The "Dogs of War" games are always a group effort and it shows wonderfully in all the ships and figures, many of the ships were scratch built or at least heavily modified with literally "boatloads of nicely painted figures. I was told the big Spanish Gallion had over one hundred figures itself. Chock up another "Centurion" award for the "Dogs of War"!A Clash of Empires Game (Macedonians vs. Greek city States in Revolt) was run in the "Board Room" as well as Mark Delidukas 20mm WWII game using Fire and Maneuver rules.
There were many other games run that you President just did not get around to seeing or remembering (we need a volunteer to do a con write up and take pictures)
The evening brought our HMGS/PSW meeting and elections. Elections saw the re-election of the current officers (unanimous) and discussions of the future expansion of the convention. Jim Svette was awarded a Centurion award for his American Civil War game setup (a giant folding suitcase!) and the also the "Dogs of War" were seen to pick up another one for Pirates!
A wise man once said a picture id worth a thousand words so no more words, just pictures!
Yours in Gaming,
Bill Witthans
President HMGS/PSW
Wargamerabbit (WR) has returned back to his warren from a successful HMGS-PSW convention. Hats off to the HMGS-PSW team which effectively created the convention from nothing to a full convention in one month (Bill, Harmon, Matt & David). Pictures and some quick game comments observed by WR:
Friday Night:
WR's first game was Friday night. Titled "Breaking the San Fratello line; Sicily 1943″. Over the years, WR has collected a large collection of 20mm (1/72) miniatures. Enjoying the popular Flames of war game system, WR has adapted 15mm FOW to the large miniature scale of 20mm. Full game details can be found in WR's blog site. Link & Link…. but here are some action pictures…. Read the rest of this entry »
Dear HMGS/PSW members,
It is not often that my association with miniatures brings me sadness but at this moment I feel a sadness and sense of loss hard to describe.. Most of you who have been around HMGS/PSW or the southern California miniature gaming scene for any amount of time have met, talked to, or been helped in some way by Alex Webster HMGS/PSW convention manager and member for as long as I can remember. On February 14th, 2011 Alex passed away from natural causes at his apartment in Lancaster California, a great loss to gaming and HMGS/PSW in particular.
As I sit here trying to formulate my thoughts about Alex I find it hard to find a place to start. To say that Alex was under appreciated, to say that there might not be an HMGS/PSW today if not for Alex, to say that Alex was the "Heart" of HMGS/PSW would be an understatement.
He was always ready to engage in conversation with old or new members upon any subject you might think of. He cared about HMGS/PSW in a way few of us care about anything, and he did it with out much praise. I can't remember every seeing him with out a smile. Alex was not a saint, he had faults like us all but he was quick to recognize his failures and always resolved to do better next time. He was a great help to me when I became HMGS/PSW's current president always there to bounce ideas off of or answer my questions about HMGS/PSW past and present. I have a tough time thinking about not having Alex there in the wings and how we will ever replace him. The fact is that we never will…. I wish I had taken more time to know him better.
Yes Alex was the Heart of HMGS/PSW, something you took for granted, hardly noticing, but sorely missed if he skipped a beat! He was always there maybe not always strong, but always steadily beating in the background. It was Alex who kept the doors of our conventions open for the last few years and closed them after we all left. I feel that we have all suffered a loss that we will only truly appreciate as time goes on.
Here's to you Alex! And may you get a soft seat at the Great gaming table.
Bill Witthans,
President HMGS/PSW
PS, I you have any thing you might like to share about Alex please leave a comment here or email me. I would like to assemble some thoughts on Alex to share at a future memorial service. I also have had many emails about Alex and I am going to paste the member messages here as a tribute to Alex. I hope the posters don't mind.
STRATEGICON gaming convention at the beautiful Sheraton LAX (well much better than the Radisson!) hotel Presidents Day Weekend Feb 18 – Feb 21. This is the springtime version of the convention we held our "Fall Campaign" at and I hope we can have a good showing there at this spring convention as well! Come pre-run you're HMGS/PSW games there! HMGS/PSW members get in for $10 with a valid / current HMGS/PSW membership card!
And by the way I am about to send out those much delayed cards to those I owe cards to! If you need to re-new please contact myself or our new Treasurer Matt Denny!
Yours in Gaming
Bill Witthans
President HMGS/PSW
PS, rumor has it that the "Kaiser" will return to his "roots" and run a 20mm WWII game ala 10+ years ago!


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A Rapid City woman charged with the rape of a 13-year-old boy will spend 10 years behind bars.
Through tears Monday, 29-year-old April Solles apologized to the court and her victim.
In August, she pled guilty but mentally ill to one count of sexual contact and two counts of fourth degree rape. In exchange for her plea, the state dropped the remaining counts which included a child pornography charge.
State prosecutor Tracey Decker called Solles a danger to children and requested intensive therapy as part of her sentence. Solles' attorney, Paul Winter said the case is a tragedy on many levels. He said his client's need for medication and therapy stem from early her sexualization because she was molested as a child.
Based on her pre-sentence mental and sex offender evaluations, Presiding Judge Jeff Davis said rehabilitation for Solles is "distant." He sentenced her to ten years for the sexual contact charge, and seven years for each of the fourth degree rape charges. All are to run concurrent or at the same time.
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WSJ: Oswaldo Payá – The Cuban dissident's moral example will outlive Castro
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Twice in the past year a popular and internationally recognized leader for democracy in Cuba has died in unusual circumstances.
On Sunday 60-year-old Oswaldo Payá died in a car crash in the eastern province of Granma, near the city of Bayamo. Fellow dissident Harold Cepero also died. Two foreigners—a lawyer and political activist from Madrid and a Swedish politician—were in the car but escaped with minor injuries.
Payá was a fervent Catholic and pacifist who devoted his life to resisting the Castro dictatorship. In 1988 he founded the Christian Liberation Movement, and his work on the Varela Project made him a global hero.
Varela collected 25,000 signatures in support of a national referendum on free elections, the release of political prisoners and the right to free assembly, free speech and freedom to run a business. That so many Cubans were willing to risk reprisals by signing their names was a testament to their belief in Payá's example. In 2002 he received the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for his bravery and moral leadership.
Payá's petition was lawful in Cuba at the time, and Fidel Castro responded by changing the law, declaring the socialist system irrevocable. In March 2003 the dictator rounded up 75 dissidents, journalists and writers, including some 40 Payá lieutenants who had worked on Varela, and sentenced them to long prison terms. Payá wasn't arrested and continued his denunciations of the dictatorship. His work always emphasized the need to rebuild Cuban spirituality and raise the population's awareness of its rights.
Payá's death comes nine months after the death of Laura Pollan, the leader of the Ladies in White, who won the Sakharov Prize in 2005. The Ladies had worked to win the release of imprisoned relatives, and Pollan later widened her human-rights work and expanded the organization. In October she came down with a mysterious illness and died after a week in a Cuban hospital. Her family never learned the details of her illness because her body was cremated within two hours of her death.
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Students at UL Lafayette began voting Monday via their portal student website U-Link on a new fee. The Student Accessed Fee could add $7.50 per credit hour, raising a student's tuition based on the amount of hours they are enrolled. The Student Government's Association put a cap at 15 credit hours.
"That's the most accurate picture of a full time student, so a student taking more hours, won't have to pay more money," says Ashley Mudd, President of the SGA.
The fee was first approved by the SGA, then approved by the UL System Board of Supervisors, and now it has moved to the students, for their chance to voice their opinions.
"It's sort of a checks and balances process," Mudd began, "so it has to go through all these channels to vote before it's implemented. I'm hopeful that the students vote 'yes' but ultimately I understand it is the students' decision and we are here to represent the students."
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"The (student) union that is currently being built is a student accessed fee that was voted in years ago. The improvements at Bourgeois Hall was a student accessed fee that was voted in years ago. This fee is strictly tied to the master plan," Mudd explained.
The Master Plan, created by Alumni and Architect Steve Oubre, outlines improvements for UL's campus. Improvements such as widening and covering sidewalks, adding cameras and more lights, and a new 2,000 vehicle parking garage.
Freshman Hunter Benoit said he's ok with the increase, especially with the positive changes it could bring to the campus.
"For a beneficial plan, I think it's reasonable and it's not a huge amount. In the end, it's all going to be worth it."
David Abshire, Senior, agreed, "There are a lot of things that we need, and that fee is going to help us grow and it's going to attract more students to our university."
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Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Mary Scherpe
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