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In human behavior, denialism is exhibited by individuals choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid dealing with an uncomfortable truth.[1] Author Paul O'Shea remarks, "[It] is the refusal to accept an empirically verifiable reality. It is an essentially irrational action that withholds validation of a historical experience or event".[2]
In science, denialism has been defined as the rejection of basic concepts that are undisputed and well-supported parts of the scientific consensus on a topic in favor of ideas that are both radical and controversial.[3] It has been proposed that the various forms of denialism have the common feature of the rejection of overwhelming evidence and the generation of a controversy through attempts to deny that a consensus exists.[4][5] A common example is Young Earth creationism and its dispute with the evolutionary theory.[6]
The terms Holocaust denialism and AIDS denialism have been used,[7][8][9][10][11] and the term climate change denialists has been applied to those who argue against the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human activity is its primary cause.[12][13][14][15] Use of the word denialism in these contexts has been criticised, for example as a polemical propaganda tool to suppress non-mainstream views.[16] Similarly, in an essay discussing the general importance of skepticism, Clive James objected to the use of the word denialist to describe climate change skeptics, stating that it "calls up the spectacle of a fanatic denying the Holocaust."[17] Celia Farber has objected to the term AIDS denialists, arguing that it is unjustifiable to place this belief on the same moral level with the Nazi crimes against humanity.[18] However, Robert Gallo et al. defended this latter comparison, stating that AIDS denialism is similar to Holocaust denial since it is a form of pseudoscience that "contradicts an immense body of research."[19]
Several motivations and causes for denialism have been proposed, including religious beliefs and self-interest, or as a psychological defense mechanism against disturbing ideas.[20][21]
Anthropologist Didier Fassin distinguishes between denial, defined as "the empirical observation that reality and truth are being denied", and denialism, which he defines as "an ideological position whereby one systematically reacts by refusing reality and truth".[22]
Individuals or groups who reject propositions on which a scientific or scholarly consensus exists can engage in denialism when they use rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in actuality there is none.[5] Rick Stoff quoted Chris Hoofnagle—a senior staff attorney at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and a senior fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the UC Berkeley School of Law—as follows:
Then there are those who engage in denialist tactics because they are protecting some "overvalued idea" which is critical to their identity. Since legitimate dialogue is not a valid option for those who are interested in protecting bigoted or unreasonable ideas from scientific facts, their only recourse is to use these types of rhetorical tactics.[23]
In a 2003 newspaper article, Edwin Cameron—a senior South African judge who has AIDS—described the tactics used by those who deny the Holocaust and by those who deny that the AIDS pandemic is due to infection with HIV. He states that "For denialists, the facts are unacceptable. They engage in radical controversion, for ideological purposes, of facts that, by and large, are accepted by almost all experts and lay persons as having been established on the basis of overwhelming evidence".[24] To do this they employ "distortions, half-truths, misrepresentation of their opponents' positions and expedient shifts of premises and logic."[24] Edwin Cameron notes that a common tactic used by denialists is to "make great play of the inescapable indeterminacy of figures and statistics",[24] as scientific studies of many areas rely on probability analysis of sets of data, and in historical studies the precise numbers of victims and other facts may not be available in the primary sources.
Such "recourse to data debates and pseudo-scientific 'evidence'" has also been noted as a common feature of several types of denialism in a 2009 article published in the journal Globalization and Health.[25] This is an area which British historian Richard J. Evans mentioned as part of his analysis of the David Irving's work which he presented for the defence when Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt for libel:
Reputable and professional historians do not suppress parts of quotations from documents that go against their own case, but take them into account, and, if necessary, amend their own case, accordingly. They do not present, as genuine, documents which they know to be forged just because these forgeries happen to back up what they are saying. They do not invent ingenious, but implausible, and utterly unsupported reasons for distrusting genuine documents, because these documents run counter to their arguments; again, they amend their arguments, if this is the case, or, indeed, abandon them altogether. They do not consciously attribute their own conclusions to books and other sources, which, in fact, on closer inspection, actually say the opposite. They do not eagerly seek out the highest possible figures in a series of statistics, independently of their reliability, or otherwise, simply because they want, for whatever reason, to maximize the figure in question, but rather, they assess all the available figures, as impartially as possible, in order to arrive at a number that will withstand the critical scrutiny of others. They do not knowingly mistranslate sources in foreign languages in order to make them more serviceable to themselves. They do not willfully invent words, phrases, quotations, incidents and events, for which there is no historical evidence, in order to make their arguments more plausible.[26]
Mark Hoofnagle (brother of Chris Hoofnagle) has described denialism as "the employment of rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in actuality there is none."[4][5][27] It is a process that operates by employing one or more of the following five tactics in order to maintain the appearance of legitimate controversy:[28]
Tara Smith of the University of Iowa also stated that moving goalposts, conspiracy theories, and cherry-picking evidence are general characteristics of denialist arguments, but went on to note that these groups spend the "majority of their efforts critiquing the mainstream theory" in an apparent belief that if they manage to discredit the mainstream view, their own "unproven ideas will fill the void".[29]
In 2009 author Michael Specter defined group denialism as "when an entire segment of society, often struggling with the trauma of change, turns away from reality in favor of a more comfortable lie".[30]
If one party to a debate accuses the other of denialism they are framing the debate. This is because denialism is both prescriptive—it carries implications that there is a truth that the other side denies—and polemic—since the accuser usually goes on to explain how the other party is denying the asserted truth and as such the other party is in the wrong, which leads to an implied accusation that if the accused party persist with the denial despite the evidence their motives must be base.[22]
Edward Skidelsky, a lecturer in philosophy at Exeter University, has suggested that this is a new use for the word denial and it may have its origins in an old sense of "deny", akin to "disown" (as in the Apostle Peter denying Christ), but that its more immediate antecedence is from the Freudian sense of deny as a refusal to accept a painful or humiliating truth. He writes that "An accusation of 'denial' is serious, suggesting either deliberate dishonesty or self-deception. The thing being denied is, by implication, so obviously true that the denier must be driven by perversity, malice or wilful blindness." He suggests that, by the introduction of the denier tag into further areas of historical and scientific debate, "One of the great achievements of The Enlightenment—the liberation of historical and scientific enquiry from dogma—is quietly being reversed", and that this should worry liberal-minded people.[31]
AIDS denialism is the denial that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).[32] AIDS denialism has been described as being "among the most vocal anti-science denial movements".[33] Some denialists reject the existence of HIV, while others accept that the virus exists but say that it is a harmless passenger virus and not the cause of AIDS. Insofar as denialists acknowledge AIDS as a real disease, they attribute it to some combination of recreational drug use, malnutrition, poor sanitation, and side effects of antiretroviral medication, rather than infection with HIV. However, the evidence that HIV causes AIDS is scientifically conclusive[34][35] and the scientific community rejects and ignores AIDS-denialist claims as based on faulty reasoning, cherry picking, and misrepresentation of mainly outdated scientific data.[36] With the rejection of these arguments by the scientific community, AIDS-denialist material is now spread mainly through the Internet.[37]
Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa, embraced AIDS denialism, proclaiming that AIDS was primarily caused by poverty. About 365,000 people died from AIDS during his presidency; it is estimated that around 343,000 premature deaths could have been prevented if proper treatment had been available.[38][39]
Some international corporations, such as ExxonMobil, have contributed to "fake citizens' groups and bogus scientific bodies" that claim that the science of global warming is inconclusive, according to a criticism by George Monbiot.[21] ExxonMobil did not deny making the financial contributions, but its spokesman stated that the company's financial support for scientific reports did not mean it influenced the outcome of those studies. "The recycling of this type of discredited conspiracy theory diverts attention from the real challenge at hand: how to provide the energy needed to improve global living standards while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions."[40] Newsweek[41] and Mother Jones[42] have published articles stating corporations are funding the "denial industry".
In the context of consumer protection, denialism has been defined as "the use of rhetorical techniques and predictable tactics to erect barriers to debate and consideration of any type of reform, regardless of the facts."[43] The Bush Administration's replacement of previous science advisers with industry experts or scientists tied to industry, and its refusal to submit the Kyoto Protocol for ratification due to uncertainties they asserted were present in the climate change issue, have been cited by the press as examples of politically motivated denialism.[41][44][45]
The term has been used with "Holocaust denialism" as "the refusal to accept an empirically verifiable reality. It is an essentially irrational action that withholds validation of a historical experience or event."[46] The general class of genocide denial, of which holocaust denial is a subset, is form of denialism for political reasons.[47]
Religious beliefs may prompt an individual to deny the validity of the scientific theory of evolution. Evolution remains an undisputed fact within the scientific community and in academia, where the level of support for evolution is essentially universal, yet this view is often met with opposition by biblical literalists.[48][49][50][51][52] The alternative view is often presented as a literal interpretation of the Book of Genesis's creation myth. Although no evidence for creationism exists,[53] many fundamentalist Christians teach it as if it were fact under the banners of creation science and intelligent design. Beliefs that typically coincide with creationism include the belief in the global flood myth, geocentrism, and the belief that the Earth is only 6,000-10,000 years old.[54] These beliefs are viewed as pseudoscience in the scientific community and are widely regarded as erroneous.[55]
AIDS denialism is one of several incarnations of denialism. All denialism is defined by rhetorical tactics designed to give the impression of a legitimate debate among experts when in fact there is none. Holocaust deniers claim that historians disagree about the evidence for Nazi mass gassings and systematic murder of Jews. Global warming denialists say that climatologists are torn by the evidence about climate change. 9/11 "Truth Seekers" , as clever a piece of branding as "pro-life", say the collapse of the Twin Towers resulted from controlled demolition. Vaccine hysterics tell us that the science is split on whether vaccinations cause autism. And AIDS denialists say that scientists are in disagreement about whether HIV causes AIDS.
…the evidence that HIV causes AIDS is scientifically conclusive.
To support their ideas, some AIDS denialists have also misappropriated a scientific review in Nature Medicine which opens with this reasonable statement: "Despite considerable advances in HIV science in the past 20 years, the reason why HIV-1 infection is pathogenic is still debated."
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Enjoy this recipe for lunch or a light dinner. Mussels are an inexpensive and highly nutritious shellfish that children usually come to enjoy because of their gentle taste. Giving children an opportunity to help clean the mussels piques their curiosity to eat them.
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- 1.00 cup(s) pearl barley
- 1.00 large carrot
- 1.00 medium turnip
- 1/2 bunch(es) fresh dill
- 1.00 pound(s) mussels
- 2.00 cup(s) vegetable or chicken broth
- 1.00 small red onion
- 1.00 medium apple, Golden Delicious preferably
- 1/4 cup(s) extra-virgin olive oil
- 1.00 tablespoon(s) apple cider vinegar
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- Smoked paprika
- Adult Fill a saucepan with 2 1/2 cups water and bring to boil. Add barley, reduce heat, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes, or until tender. Child While the barley is simmering, scrub the carrot and turnip.
- Adult Slice the unpeeled carrots crosswise into 2 sections. Slice each section in half lengthwise, and these halves lengthwise again. You will have 8 lengths of carrot. Child Line up 2 to 3 carrot lengths and slice them crosswise. Continue until the entire carrot is diced. Add to a large mixing bowl.
- Adult and Child Adult cuts the turnip into thin slices. Child cuts each turnip slice into thin strips, rotates the strips, and cuts them into a small, even dice. Add to the bowl. Child Snip the dill into the mixing bowl with kitchen shears.
- Adult Clean the mussels well, removing the barb or stringy part. Make sure they are closed or closing to ensure they have not perished before cooking. Place second saucepan over medium heat.
- Adult and Child Measure and pour broth into second saucepan. Carefully add the mussels and simmer over medium heat about 10 minutes, or until each mussel opens wide.
- Adult Dice the red onion finely and add to the mixing bowl. Peel the apple; core and cut, or use segmenter, into 8 segments. Child Slice the apple segments in half lengthwise, and then help slice each length into thin slices and add to the bowl.
- Adult When the barley is tender, drain and add to the veggies. Child Help measure the oil and vinegar. Add to the bowl. Mix well.
- Adult Remove cooled mussels from their shells and add to the barley mixture. Mix again gently. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve each portion with a dusting of smoked paprika.
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The October issue of School Reform News reports, despite 13 weeks of teachers union protests, North Carolina passed into law a state budget that makes thousands of poor children eligible for vouchers, eliminates K-12 tenure, ends automatic pay increases for master's degrees, and creates an A–F public school grading system.
Also in this issue:
- School districts across the country are digging through the details to see how the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, will affect their budgets starting January 1, 2014. The law's mandates are causing schools to fire employees, reduce employee hours, and otherwise slash education spending.
- So many students want Louisiana's "mini-vouchers" that state officials are scrambling to find additional money for them.
- Georgia drops national Common Core tests upon learning their costs.
- Regulations from the Obama administration have prompted more schools and districts to take the extraordinary step of dropping federal lunch subsidies.
- After adopting Common Core national education standards, which do not require students to learn cursive handwriting, several states have passed legislation requiring public schools to teach it
- Administrators earn outsized pensions at the expense of young teachers, according to a new study.
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In 1946 Pennington General Hospital was purchased by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, a religious community in Nazareth, Kentucky. The facility was given a new name - Marymount Our Lady of the Mountain. Planning for a new hospital began in the 1960's and the new facility opened in 1971. A $7.8 million construction and expansion of the hospital was completed in 1986 with the addition of a new patient tower. In 1993, a renovation / expansion project was completed that added more than 29,000 square feet of additional space to the existing facility. Since that time, millions of dollars have been spent to expand our emergency department, build additional catheterization labs and completely renovate our nursery and obstetric department.
For more than fifty years the Sisters of Charity owned and operated Marymount until it was realized that the changing health care environment would require greater resources to develop programs, structures and services in the next century. For these reasons, Marymount was consolidated with other Catholic health care facilities into Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) in September 1998. Today, CHI is a national non-profit health corporation based in Denver, Colorado. The CHI system includes 72 hospitals; 42 long-term care, assisted and independent living and residential facilities; and two community-based health organizations located in 19 states. Together, our facilities provided almost $480 million in community benefit in the 2007 fiscal year, including services for the poor, free clinics, education and research. With approximately 65,000 employees and annual revenues of $7.7 billion, Catholic Health Initiatives ranks as the second largest Catholic health system in the United States.
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Top 10 Best Stores for Fashion on a Budget
At some point in your life as a stylish college girl, you'll face an important choice: buying clothes, or buying books? Since books are non-negotiable in college, if you want to maximize your (few) leftover dollars, you need to know where to shop.
There are tons of discount clothing stores out there, but which ones are worth shopping at, and which aren't? Some discount stores are fabulous, but most are really just cheap! There are tons of stores, like Forever 21, that have low prices and cute stuff… you just need to know which ones to visit.
If you have champagne taste on a beer budget, dollar store clothing is not gonna cut it. You need to shop at the right places.
To help you out, here's the official College Fashion love list of the top 10 best stores for fashion on a college budget . Visit these stores, shop right, and no one will know that your outfit didn't cost a fortune!
10. Wet Seal
Coming in at number 10 on the list is discount fast-fashion retailer Wet Seal.
It's a staple of every mall in America, and a great place to shop for trendy tops to wear to parties, blingy jewelry, and cute accessories. It's like the less-chic, trashy club frequenting cousin of Forever 21 and Charlotte Russe.
To combat the tackiness and find the great pieces when you shop at Wet Seal, you need to develop a good "taste level" (as they say on Project Runway), the fashion know how to separate chic & adorable from tacky & awful. The pieces are all mixed together in this store, so it's important that you know the difference between what's trashy and what's not.
9. Urban Behavior
Urban Behavior makes it to number 9 because while I haven't shopped there, my little sister loves the store and recommended it to me. She's fabulous and dresses really well, so I'm betting they must have some good stuff in there!
If you've never heard of it, Urban Behavior is basically another Wet Seal, except less focused on clubwear, and with more casual basics.
When you visit an Urban Behavior store, you'll find simple tees in a rainbow of colors, preppy jackets, and trendy denim, all at prices well below what you'd pay at Abercrombie, J. Crew, or the GAP. What's not to love?
8. GoJane
GoJane is my favorite online store to buy dirt cheap sunglasses, jewelry, and designer knockoff shoes from.
If you haven't checked their website out yet, you don't know what you're missing!
A quick word of warning: just because their accessories rock, that doesn't mean their clothes do too! While GoJane carries a large selection of dresses, tops, and more, they just aren't as stylish or cute as they could be. Some are just trashy and gross.
The moral of this story: buy the sunglasses, jewelry, and cheap shoes! But skip (most of) their clothes.
7. TJ Maxx / Marshall's
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To start off, let me say that I know they aren't the same store, but they're owned by the same people and are very similar.
Okay, if you've ever stumbled into a T.J. Maxx and picked up a pair of Seven For All Mankind jeans for half price, then you know why the store made this list!
In case you don't know, T.J. Maxx and Marshall's are chain stores that sell name-brand clothes, shoes, and even furnishings at low, low prices. It's kind of like a treasure hunt whenever you go to one – you never know what you might find!
Check either store out if you're looking for some real designer names at slashed prices!
All the shoes you could ever want, most of them at great prices. What's not amazing about DSW?
If you have a shoe problem like I do, I'm sure you understand my love for this store. Hundreds and hundreds of incredible shoes all in one massive space!! So. Much. Fun.
Since DSW stands for Designer Shoe Warehouse, I have to comment on the prices: some are great, others are not so cheap. But as opposed to stores like Payless (which rock, don't get me wrong), DSW has a wider selection and more cute options. That's why it's on the list!
5. Charlotte Russe
It's my favorite discount store for girly dresses and trendy pieces, as well as the occasional accessory. Yes, I love me some Charlotte Russe.
In comparison to the other discount stores like Forever 21 and Wet Seal, Charlotte Russe isn't a whole lot different. Still, I have a certain affection for the store that I just can't explain.
Maybe it's all in my head, but I think Charlotte Russe is just classier than those other stores. With nicer pieces than Wet Seal, yet fewer designer knockoffs than Forever 21, it's a nice middle ground in the budget fashion world.
Very rarely do I see something at Charlotte Russe that I wouldn't wear in a million years, and that's really why I love it so much.
4. Forever 21
Inventor of the designer knockoff, and the ultimate source for "fast fashion", Forever 21 is one of the most popular discount clothing stores in America!
I shop at Forever 21 with two purposes in mind – to find trendy pieces that I might only wear a few times, and to buy the occasional designer knockoff.
Just like its cousin Wet Seal, Forever 21 does sometimes have some trashy, cheaply made clothing in stock. When you shop there, remember to keep yourself in check, look for quality fabrics, and don't buy anything you wouldn't think of getting at twice the price.
3. Vintage / Thrift Stores
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What budget fashion shopping list would be complete without a nod to vintage stores? They are the best place to find one of a kind pieces, fashion treasures, and unexpected style.. all at extremely low prices.
Thrift stores only made it to number three on the list, however, because shopping there can be dangerous to your wallet if you don't know what you're doing.
Some vintage stores simply sell nice designer clothes that are old – and the prices reflect that. While those are fabulous places to shop, you're not going to get much on a college budget. You want the real thrift stores.
When you shop at the real thrift stores, you need to be careful with your money. Know how to separate the amazing finds from the "I'm just buying this because it's cheap" stuff. Don't end up with a bunch of 80's tee shirts that you never wear, just because they were too cheap to pass up!
Vintage and thrift stores are amazing, and you should definitely shop at them if you can. Just be mindful of what you're spending your money on, and make sure to get things you love.
2. Target
You probably knew that Target would make the list. That's because it's the worst kept secret of stylish women on budgets everywhere.
If you haven't shopped at Target, you haven't lived!
While they are technically one of the huge discount megastores, Target is miles apart from Wal Mart or KMart when it comes to fashion!
The clothes at Target are way more stylish than you'd think – they often do collaborations with designers like Rogan, Erin Fetherston, and Isaac Mizrahi. Also, their new GO International line is fabulous, with $20 dresses that look like they cost $100.
Even if you don't have a Target in your area, don't worry – everything is available online, and ready to ship to your door. Just another reason to love them!
Ah, Hennes & Mauritz – in my mind, a true fashion paradise.
Right now, I bet at least a quarter of my wardrobe is from H&M, and I'm proud of that fact!
Whether you're looking to buy a trendy item to wear for the current season, or a classic piece that will last you years, H&M is a great place to start. They have EVERYTHING you might want – from cute tops and fabulous dresses to sparkly bangles, scarves, and even shoes!
The best thing about the store is that their pieces are truly stylish – they carry things that look like they could have been on a runway, not the empire-waist lycra tops you'd find at other budget fashion stores.
Bonus style points for H&M: They do amazing collaborations with celebrities and fashion designers – noteworthy collections include Madonna for H&M, and Roberto Cavalli for H&M!
One drawback: online shopping isn't available in the US, but hopefully it will be soon. If you don't have on of their stores near where you live, enlist a few stylish girlfriends & make the trip to check one out! It's well worth your time, I promise.
Your Thoughts?
Now that you know my top ten places to shop on the cheap, I want to see your lists! Which stores are your favorites, and what are your fave things to buy there?
Leave a comment & tell me your top ten budget stores!
Posted on on September 3, 2008 / Filed Under: Shopping / Tags: Charlotte Russe, DSW, Forever 21, H&M, Money, Shopping, Target, Urban Behavior, Vintage, Wet Seal


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The Nintendo Wii® is a popular way to be active at home so why not try it out at the office? It's easy to set up in a conference room and employees will be moving and laughing their way through the lunch hour.
Here are some tips to hold a successful Wii Party at work:
Get the Equipment. Purchase a Nintendo Wii Sports with an extra Wii Remote and Nun-chuck. Prices vary but range from around $300 - $400. Purchase additional remotes and nun-chucks to allow up to four players to participate at a time. You may be able to borrow a Wii from an employee before purchasing to test it out.
Advertise the Wii Party. Give employees a couple weeks advance notice that you will be having a Wii Party. Use email, flyers and personal invitations.
Make Room to Be Active. Clear out tables and extra chairs to avoid injury. Have seating available in the back of the room to keep observers safe from golf swings and tennis back hands.
Choose Games and Limit Times. Allow employees to select games that are shorter in length so more people will have the opportunity to participate. For example: In Tennis choose 3 games for a quick match or in Golf select 9 holes.
Sign Up for Fun. Create a sign up sheet so everyone can participate in the game of their choice. This will help keep things moving and allow more employees to participate. Round 1 Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Tennis Baseball Bowling Golf Boxing Play it Safe. Ask if anyone has shoulder, neck or back problems that would be aggravated by using the Wii. The Nintendo Wii is an active game that can cause injury. You may have participants sign a waiver, if necessary.


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A few years ago, the editors of Guitar World magazine compiled what we feel is the ultimate guide to the 100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time.
The list, which has been quoted by countless artists, websites and publications around the world, starts with Richie Sambora's work on Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive" (Number 100) and builds to a truly epic finish with Jimmy Page's solo on "Stairway to Heaven" (Number 1).
To quote our "Stairway to Heaven" story that ran with the list, "If Jimmy Page is the Steven Spielberg of guitarists, then 'Stairway' is his Close Encounters."
We've kicked off a summer blockbuster of our own — a no-holds-barred six-string shootout. We're pitting Guitar World's top 64 guitar solos against each other in an NCAA-style, 64-team single-elimination tournament. Every day, we will ask you to cast your vote in a different guitar-solo matchup as dictated by the 64-team-style bracket.
You can vote only once per matchup. The voting for each matchup ends as soon as the next matchup is posted (Basically, that's one poll per day during the first round of elimination, including weekends and holidays).
In some cases, genre will clash against genre; a thrash solo might compete against a Southern rock solo, for instance. But let's get real: They're all guitar solos, played on guitars, by guitarists, most of them in some subset of the umbrella genre of rock. When choosing, it might have to come down to, "Which solo is more original and creative? Which is more iconic? or Which one kicks a larger, more impressive assemblage of asses?"
Today, we go vintage as Eric Clapton's work on Cream's classic live recording of "Crossroads" (10) goes up against Joe Satriani's "Satch Boogie" (55). Get busy! You'll find the poll at the bottom of the story.
Yesterday's Results
Winner: "Mr. Crowley" (63.3 percent)
Loser: "Sweet Child O' Mine" (36.7 percent)
Round 1, Day 11: "Crossroads" Vs. "Satch Boogie"
10. "Crossroads"
Soloist: Eric Clapton
Album: Cream—Wheels of Fire (Polydor, 1968)
For more than three decades, Eric Clapton has been bemused by his fans' adulation of his solo on Cream's radical reworking of bluesman Robert Johnson's signature tune, "Crossroads."
"It's so funny, this," Clapton says. "I've always had that held up as like, 'This is one of the great landmarks of guitar playing.' But most of that solo is on the wrong beat. Instead of playing on the two and the four, I'm playing on the one and the three and thinking, That's the off beat. No wonder people think it's so good—because it's f---ing wrong." [laughs]
And what they played is what you hear; contrary to a persistent, widely held rumor, the solo on "Crossroads" was not edited down. "It's not edited and I've got an audience tape from the same show which verifies that," says Bill Levenson, who produced the Cream box set, Those Were the Days (Polydor). "That was a typical performance of the song. I've listened to a lot of tapes and all of the 'Crossroads' that I've heard come in at four minutes and change. They never seemed to expand it beyond that."
55. "Satch Boogie"
Soloist: Joe Satriani
Album: Surfing with the Alien (Epic, 1987)
"Satch Boogie," track 5 from Surfing with the Alien, is one of Joe Satriani's best-known songs. And if you're gonna have a boogie named after you, there's no boogie quite like this one, with its barrage of tapping, hammer-ons and pull-offs. Fun fact: Deep Purple performed "Satch Boogie" regularly during Satriani's brief time in the band.
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While attending SSJTI, students will stay at Colorado State University's beautiful mountain campus Pingree Park, approximately an hour and a half northeast of Fort Collins. Students will be provided with lodging on July 15, 16, and 17. Transportation from Colorado State University to Pingree Park and returning will be included. If students plan their stay to include the night of July 18, spaces in a university residence hall will be available for a discounted rate, which will be the responsibility of the student (TBD).
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The Diabolical Diabrotica
Some folks mistake the spotted cucumber beetle for a ladybug or lady beetle.
However, unlike the beneficial ladybug, which devours aphids and other soft-bodied insects, the spotted cucumber beetle is a major agricultural pest. The adults, yellowish-green with black spots, feed on the leaves of cucumbers, melons, cotton, beans and ornamentals and can spread viruses. The larvae stunt the roots of corn and other plants.
Its name is a mouthful: Diabrotica undecimpunctata (which has probably appeared on national spelling bees). True to its name, Diabrotica can be rather diabolical in your vegetable garden or flower bed.
Insect photographers often like to focus on its color and character.
But look closely and you'll also see its path of destruction.
Spotted cucumber beetle and its path of destruction. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of the spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It's All About the Community
If you like community gardens, then you'll want to visit the Avant Garden at the corner of First and D streets in Benicia.
The Benicia Community Garden (BCG) signed a lease agreement in the fall of 2010 with Estey Real Estate to establish a downtown community garden. The land is for sale, but until it's sold, it's a community garden.
The mission of Benicia Community Gardens? "To encourage and enable local citizens to establish and care for gardens throughout the city that provide ongoing sources of healthful food, fellowship, beauty and discovery."
According to their website, the Avante garden is called that because "it represents an experiment not only to provide wider opportunity for more people to observe and practice organic urban farming, but also, because BCG will be making private, undeveloped property in the heart of our historic commercial district productively used for growing food."
Residents lease individual plots and grow such foods as tomatoes, peppers, kale and cabbage. Ornamental flowers line the fence. Signs warn guests not to reap the benefits of what other have sown.
We stopped by there last Sunday afternoon and were amazed that despite the colder weather settling in, insects abound. We saw such pollinators as honey bees, a yellow-faced bumble bee, a hover fly, a carpenter bee and a green metallic sweat bee, as well as a pest, the spotted cucumber beetle. Assorted cabbage white butterfles, also pests, fluttered around the cucurbits.
What a treasure! A good place to spend part of a Sunday.
A yellow-faced bumble bee on a zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A hover fly, aka flower fly or syrphid fly, soaking up sunshine. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A spotted cucumber beetle and a green metallic sweat bee sharing a cosmos. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of a male green metallic sweat bee. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Imposter
'Tis the season for the return of the insects.
Many a honey bee foraged in the flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa) last weekend. But wait, what's that? A spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata) tucked inside a blossom.
Spotted cucumber beetles, which overwinter as adults, are major agricultural pests. The beetle is so named because of its preference for cucumbers (cucurbits), but just about anything will do before, during and after the cucumber crop. True, it gravitates toward other members of the cucurbits family, including squashes, gourds, pumpkins and melons, but it also goes after beans, peas, corn, potatoes, beets, tomatoes, eggplants, cabbage, and assorted ornamentals, such as roses and dahlias.
The yellowish-green beetle with black spots may look pretty tucked inside a flowering quince, but looks are deceiving.
Very deceiving.
Spotted cucumber beetle inside flowering quince blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee inside flowering quince blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's in the Sunflowers?
So you're walking through a sunflower field and you're seeing lots of honey bees foraging on the flowers.
But wait, look over there. Are those beetles?
They are.
Melyrid or blister beetles (Melyridae family) and spotted cucumber beetles (family Chrysomelidae) are frequently found on sunflowers.
The spotted cucumber beetle is known as a major agricultural pest, as it eats or damages the leaves of such crops as cucumbers, cotton, soybeans and beans.
Are the melyrid beetles pests of sunflowers? "Yes, in the sense that they are pollen eaters," says Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at UC Davis.
However, beetles can also be pollinators. And there's a word for that.
Beetle pollination is called cantharophily. And cantharophily "may be the oldest form of insect pollination," say emeritus professors Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston of the Department of Entomology, University of California, Davis, in their textbook, The Insects, an Outline of Entomology.
As they point out in their book: "Beetles mostly visit flowers for pollen, although nutritive tissue or easily accessible nectar may be utilized and the plant's ovaries usually are well-protected from the biting mouthparts of their pollinators." They mention several families of beetles that can be pollinators--among them Cantharidae (soldier beetles), Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles), and Cleridae (checkered beetles).
And they mention Melyridae, the soft-winged flower beetles, as being pollinators, too.
Cantharophily in the sunflower field.
Melyrid beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Spotted cucumber beetle on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Pomegranate Kind of Day
It was a pomegranate kind of day. Red, bright and wonderful.
The papery-thin reddish blossoms in our yard draw both beneficial and pestiferous insects. Honey bees are there for the pollen and nectar; ladybugs are there for the pesky aphids. Occasionally we see another pest, the spotted cucumber beetle (which prefers cucurbits).
The pomegranate, an ancient fruit native to Persia (what is now Iran), is a long-lived tree. Indeed, some pomegranate trees in Europe are more than 200 years old. One in our yard spans 85 years.
Spanish settlers introduced the pomegranate into California in 1769, and today, the state leads the nation in the production of pomegranates. Agricultural statistics show that in 2010, California's San Joaquin Valley alone blossomed with an estimated 22,000 acres of pomegranates. That's about 200 trees per acre.
One of the primary pomegranate varieties is "Wonderful." The honey bees and ladybugs think so, too!
Honey bee nearly collides with a ladybug, aka ladybeetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A pest, a spotted cucumber beetle. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging in pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)


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A fresh coat for Jim James
Written by SHAUN SMITH Saturday, February 09, 2013 08:27 am
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Jim James reaches new electronic heights on his solo debut "Regions of Light and Sound of God."
James has served as lead singer, guitarist and chief songwriter with the progressive indie folk band My Morning Jacket for the past 15 years. On his first solo album released Feb. 5 on ATO Records, James branches out further into the realms of acoustic, electronic, funk and psychedelia. The audience should expect nothing less from an album which was influenced by the 1929 graphic novel "God's Man," by Lynd Ward.
My Morning Jacket has always let its intuition lead the band into creative territories while staying close to its rock roots. With the band, James provided clear and passionate vocals for six albums that have ranged in tone from wildly psychedelic to digging deep in the southern rock sound.
In 2009 James joined Monsters of Folk, which included Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes and singer-songwriter M. Ward. In the same year, he released "Tribute To," a 6-track reel-to-reel recording of George Harrison songs released under the pseudonym Yim Yames. The same name appears on "New Multitudes," a collaborative album of new music recorded with Woody Guthrie lyrics to commemorate the folk hero's 100th birthday. James also sang a memorable cover of "Going to Acapulco," by Bob Dylan in the film "I'm Not There," loosely based on Dylan's life.
On his latest album, James utilizes all the skills in his repertoire throughout the nine tracks. He displays guitar chops on "Dear One" also includes an entirely acoustic instrumental, "Exploding." There is also some beautiful guitar work at play in the background melody on "Of the Mother Again."
Most fans will find comfort in the use of echoes and funky bass lines that were familiar on My Morning Jacket albums, but the album takes on a much more heavy and modern tone than we have heard from the artist previously right from the first track, "State of the Art - A.E.I.O.U.".
"A New Life," is one of the standout songs on this album. It begins with James singing over an acoustic guitar then builds a warm, upbeat tempo. It shifts gears when the vibraphone kicks and somewhere near the third act develops a full-on Motown feel that is so great it makes me forget how much I like the opening.
One of my favorite moments on the album is when the funky beat on "Know Til Now," fully kicks in on the first bridge. The song itself is driven by the bass line and the synthesizer then closes with a melodic saxophone solo played over a distorted layer of instrumentation that gives it a ragtime jazz feel.
This was one of those albums that is enhanced by a good set of headphones and I enjoyed it more with each subsequent listen. "Regions of Light and Sound of God" is a solid album from start to finish and will positively impact the direction of My Morning Jacket when James rejoins the band.
James played "A New Life,"with the Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Monday, Feb. 4 which you can watch below. He'll be playing a sold out show Monday, Feb. 18 at Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia.
"Regions of Light and Sound of God" can be purchased in digital download, CD and vinyl LP at the Jim James online store, streamed on Spotify, and through the usual online platforms.
What's your favorite song on Jim James' debut solo album? Comment on Twitter @DBCurrent #TheHighNote
Read the High Note with Shaun Smith every Saturday on www.shorenewstoday.com.


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The passenger transport strategy was developed using a highly collaborative approach, involving a broad range of representatives from government, industry and the community. More importantly, consultative workshops were held in both rural and urban locations with a range of interest groups. All people involved appreciated the challenges at hand and expressed their desire to be involved in developing the strategy.A split version of the passenger transport strategy is also available:
The Queensland Government signalled its commitment to deliver safe and sustainable transport to Queenslanders with the release of the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009–2031 and the South East Queensland Infrastructure Plan and Program 2008–2026. The passenger transport strategy aligns with these planning documents and is also closely linked to the Transport Coordination Plan for Queensland 2008-2018 and the department's strategic plan. These and other links are recognised in the passenger transport strategy.
The Passenger Transport Strategy provides strategic direction which underpins initiatives such as qconnect, safety and security initiatives such as NightLink, security cameras on buses and taxis and information technology initiatives such as the electronic transaction card system for the (previously paper-based) taxi subsidy scheme.
The strategy is about planning for people and their transport needs. It will provide direction to the department and our partners for planning future business. Industry is enthusiastic because it provides an insight into government's future direction for transport and enhances their ability to plan business activities.
The success of the strategy will be assessed according to whether we create and deliver sustainable people-focused transport options across Queensland during the life of the strategy.
Creating a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable Queensland is a significant challenge through to 2017. There are significant challenges facing Queensland, such as our rapidly growing and aging population, changing family sizes and households, increasing vehicle kilometres travelled, peak oil and climate change issues.


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B.A., Mathematics, 2009 "As a Senior Operations Support Specialist for Fairport Savings Bank, I serve as the Project Manager on various critical projects throughout the bank including product development and assessment. I'm the primary contact for check and ACH processing, mobile and online banking, debit and ATM card networks and bill pay services. I generate and write reports from the core processing systems and supplementary programs test, and I train staff for new software, subsequent software releases and enhancements." |
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B.A., Mathematics, 2010 "My school year has been very busy, and I really enjoy my class each year. This is my third year in fifth grade, but I'm sort of feeling like a new teacher all over again. We switched from a middle school model to an elementary model, so instead of having all 80 fifth graders for Math, I'm keeping my own kids all day and teaching all subjects. It's quite a change, but I think I will really enjoy it as soon as I get used to all of the planning! I absolutely love teaching fifth grade, and I always feel very lucky that I enjoy my work so much every day. I've been taking graduate classes part-time for the past year and a half. I have just a few classes left to complete my masters degree in Literacy. I'm really glad that I chose Literacy and I've learned a lot, but it's definitely a nice feeling to be almost done!" |
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B.A., Mathematics, 2007 "My current position requires me to collect, understand, and analyze large amounts of data to provide insight on what is happening in the different groups that comprise Risk Management. We provide support for most reporting needs for the entire department, which includes everything from preventative credit risk to our collections department as well as our operational risk departments. This requires a comprehensive understanding of the company as a whole as well as the flow of financial transactions. We are constantly working to identify trends and provide important decision-making information to the appropriate leaders within the company." |


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In a 3-2 loss to Simpson University, Valeria Martinez (Madera South) recorded 20 kills to lead the Bobcats.
We have known for a long time now — at least two presidencies — that the American infrastructure is in need of repair.
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Karen Bridges of Robertson-Wesley reflects on her experience at this year's Congregations Project.
The Spiritual Arts Collective
The experience at the ISM Congregational Projects Seminar has left a deep imprint on our Spiritual Arts Collective project, on our ministry here at RWUC and on my life. I remember the first day we gathered and Martin Jean, the director of the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale, said "We are so glad you chose to participate in this gathering." I remember thinking are you kidding me? I'm so grateful you chose our project and that you have invested in our team and our congregation.
The people who participated in the Seminar consisted of 9 church teams (a minister, a musician, and a lay person) from across America and this year Canada; some of the great minds of the theological world, the music world, and the liturgy world; the faculty and staff at ISM; some of the students; and some past participants. What I realized on our last day together is that the Congregational Projects Seminar is in itself a spiritual collective.
A collective is a process that allows a group of individuals to tell their stories using all forms of expression and gifts brought with them to the collective process based on a particular theme or question. This year the gathered group of participants engaged the theme, "Hark the Glad Sound: Inviting New and Returning Christians to Worship" leading us to explore the challenge of engaging people who do not attend church — people who live beyond the walls of the church. We were asked to consider, by Dorothy Bass, how we engage the following practices: hospitality to strangers, testimony or witness, and ritual engagement and how these practices will propel us forward in our mission lived out in our various congregational projects.
We began the collective process by telling our stories through music, storytelling, imagery, dance, and art or to put this in spiritual terms we engaged the practice of testimony or witness. As we listened to how the spirit of God is moving amongst us through ministry and mission we began to sketch a metaphorical picture, a connect the dots picture, where each story was a dot which would eventually create a full picture once connected. What stands out for me in this time of witness was how the various stories touched and connected with people within the large group. Commonalities began to emerge as we basked in the rich diversity of experience and artistic gifts amongst the participants in the seminar.
I personally had a moving moment after we share the story of Robertson-Wesley United Church. Another participant felt compelled to share with me how much our presentation moved them, and how they felt a connection with our ministry in reaching out to people with different abilities. A sense of trust and mutuality was forming in the group. The practice of hospitality was hard at work as we ate together and continued our conversations. It was such a delight to be in a place where we heard stories of new growth and possibility in ministry. Not once did I hear the words "the church is dying…what can we do?" We were being told the Good News of Jesus Christ at work in the world.
Within the stories we heard, we began to collect the gathered wisdom of the group, we began to share the gifts that God had given each one of us, some as storytellers, some as pastoral presence, some in their ability to engage others in movement and music. As we sang together our voices mingled, the spirit stirred and the breath of God was felt. I heard stories about students in Universities who are seeking and engaging a life of faith, I heard about congregations who are living out of a great richness of tradition and legacy, but who aren't feeling trapped or held back from transforming. I heard about places and spaces where God was at work in all people, all ages and all cultures, where together the faithful followers of Christ are seeking out ways to engage each other and the world with authenticity and openness.
What gathered us and grounded us each day of the seminar was God expressed and experienced in worship. Each day we entered a practice of discernment as each congregation shared their project and then invited the group to share their questions, their ideas, their wisdom and their reflections. We weren't afraid to ask the hard questions. We were challenged by the group to remember the people we serve and the people we long to connect with. Each time we left one of the presentations about a congregational project I felt my spirit soaring. God had filled my cup and it was overflowing.
Each project that was presented challenged our team to think about how we could be deepening our own practices in the Congregation. For example, how can we use the space in our narthex more effectively, how are we meeting the needs of people who walk through our doors when they speak a different language, how can we be connecting with our government and other social agencies to meet the needs of the oppressed? How can we infuse our worship so that people have an experience of God that brings them hope, that leads towards healing and reconciliation, that causes them to express and engage their faith stories. As we worshipped together I witnessed the spirit moving people to be moulded into reflections of the scriptures, I witnessed people being moved by the beauty of dance, the harmonies of voices.
One morning as we walked the labyrinth together and I witnessed people walking together, following each other's footsteps, moments were we stood together in solidarity, times when we were moving in different directions but with the knowledge that our paths would cross again, times when we touched and connected physically, all the while being held in prayer. In the silence God's voice proclaimed, "You are loved, and you are a blessing, I am calling you to use your God given gifts to reach out to others."
The collective wisdom of the group was stirring, was creating, and was moving us all to dance with freedom and compassion in the kindom of God. As we lifted each other and all whom we serve in prayer, and as ThomasTroeger lifted up the wisdom of the group in our final penary time, we were affirmed, we were empowered, and we were commissioned to go out into the world and proclaim the Good News!
In the words of Thomas Troger, our spiritual collective created a tapestry of deep understanding and appreciation of "what the living Christ displays" for we know "we are fashioned by God's hand for a life that sings God's praise". We have been called we have been chosen and we leave knowing that we are not alone. Thanks be to God!


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The Willow Spring man locked in a months-long dispute with his neighbors over shooting on his property was charged last week with violating the county's new noise ordinance.
James Whitlock III, 31, of 121 Oak Ridge Drive., was arrested Nov. 26 and charged with several violations of the county's noise and firearms ordinances. According to sheriff's reports, Whitlock violated the noise ordinance — passed earlier this year — by firing a firearm "continuously" in a manner that was "loud and unreasonably disturbing to the community."
He was charged also with violating the county's firearms ordinance by firing his weapons carelessly, although the report did not specify how.


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We recently saw a musical about people who kill presidents. Now we have a musical about people who kill anyone who gets in the way of what they want. It's being done by New Line Theatre. They've already done the presidential one three times. This musical is "Bonnie and Clyde," about the curiously fascinating pair of young Depression-era outlaws.
The rock musical "Rent" is an unflinching, uncompromising look at the struggles of a community of young artists in New York City late in the twentieth century. At its heart, it's a coming of age tale, and New Line Theatre takes this broad concept and distills it into an intimate, emotionally charged production filled with memorable performances. The show isn't always pretty and the situations not easily packaged, but there's an honest, hard-earned integrity that reveals an underlying hopefulness.
What's that crashing against your screen door? Well, if it were mid-summer it would, of course, be all those June-bugs. But in October it's got to be that annual infestation of zombies. There's no escape! They're out there, everywhere! And they will get you!
For twenty-two years Scott Miller and his New Line company have been zapping the St. Louis musical theatre scene with bolts of energy. Off-beat, eccentric, sometimes dark, often hilarious, occasionally outrageous and always fresh, New Line productions are for folks who have accepted the fact that Rogers and Hammerstein are actually dead.
Mention "Musical Theatre" to the average Joe, and I think it's a fair bet that what will be brought to mind is a story in which True Love conquers all, and you leave the theatre whistling something bright and breezy about raindrops on roses, love across a crowded room, or a sun that will come out tomorrow. This is not the case, however, with New Line Theatre's current production of "Next to Normal," a musical that explores the depths of a battered psyche that foments little but anger and despair.
High fidelity (noun): the reproduction of an effect (as sound or an image) that is very faithful to the original.
Life is a construct. So the good folks at New Line Theatre suggest with their current offering, Passing Strange. It's the autobiographical Alice in Wonderland story of a real-life musician Stew, reflecting on his most formative years. A privileged, angst-ridden would-be artist seeks identity through sex, drugs, and deconstructionist European ideology. You know, same old.
After 15 years together, New York-based band Fountains of Wayne has proven it has what it takes to withstand the test of time. Bassist and songwriter Adam Schlesinger attributes the band's longevity to maintaining personal space and doing what feels right at the time.
Bare makes me feel old. Young people seem to find the musical moving and exciting. Even some people approaching my state of decrepitude have said good things about it, comparing it to Spring Awakening.
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Bemidji 15th Street Bridge to reopen later today
Bridge has been closed since July 13
BEMIDJI, Minn. – The 15th Street Bridge over Hwy 2 in Bemidji will reopen later today according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. "Crews have nearly finished preparing the bridge for traffic," said Roger Hille, district bridge engineer. "They should have it all wrapped up and open to the public by this evening."
Motorists will encounter lane delineators and concrete barriers shifting the lanes towards the north side of the bridge.
The bridge will reopen with size and weight restrictions. The weight restrictions will not affect school bus traffic.
A MnDOT engineering evaluation indicates the bridge can safely support traffic on 15th Street with vehicles routed along the north side of the bridge.
Four of the six bridge beams sustained damage and will be replaced next year. The damaged beams have been encased with a protective barrier to ensure that no loose concrete falls onto Hwy 2.
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The Assassin's Creed franchise has achieved tremendous success on PCs and consoles over the last few years. Understandably so given their keen mix of sneaking and platforming alongside a fascinating historical storyline. For iOS, there's been a similar level of success with numerous games such as Assassin's Creed – Altair's Chronicles, Assassin's Creed Rearmed and Assassin's Creed II Discovery. This time round, it's an entirely different kind of experience with Assassin's Creed Recollection focusing on a mixture of a board game and card game with Real Time Strategy elements. It's an intriguing mix, one that takes some getting used to but it's worth taking that time.
Gameplay is a little complex to explain. Essentially, the player fights against the AI (or a friend) in order to gain territories. This is done through placing appropriate cards to gain points. Different cards mean different points and they also each offer different abilities that can be used to attack more effectively or provide boosts for friendly cards. Throughout all this, gameplay is slowed down by a timer that scrolls across the screen affecting when cards can come into play, similar to a system used in Lumines in the past.
This description is incredibly simplistic though. As the comprehensive tutorial explains, there's a lot of depth to explore here. To the point that once the tutorials are completed, it's a little overwhelming at times. There's so much to keep track of! While the steady stream of time isn't fast, there's seemingly no way of pausing action so the player has to have their wits about them at all times. Keeping track of point values and how the opposing player is doing is plenty to do without taking into account the different abilities some cards can offer.
It is very enjoyable once it all begins to click though. I'm not a huge card game player but I enjoyed figuring it all out and wanted to keep playing in order to collect more cards and progress through the story. As an Assassin's Creed fan, the fan service is exceptional with the artwork of every card oozing the quality I've come to expect from other games. There's a real touch of class to the general presentation with the likes of an art gallery section added for those wanting to browse what they've collected from previous games, as well as this one. There's also the addition of an animated short film Assassin's Creed Embers which provides the final chapter of Ezio Auditore's journey.
Put together, it's a great package for card game fans and Assassin's Creed fans alike. The story mode within Assassin's Creed Recollection promises 8-10 hours of fun and the online multiplayer will no doubt extend that. Throw in the time it'll take to collect all 280 cards/memories and there's a lot of gameplay to be had for fans of the franchise.
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Date of birth: 1974 Place of birth: GermanyBiography: Giulia Siegel is an actress, host, DJ and Model. She began her career in 1991 as a model and acting in commercials. In addition to her career as an actress and model, Siegal regularly performs as a DJ on weekends in various well known Munich clubs. In 2007 she released Dance, bother her first single and her first video. Giulia is better known for being the daughter of prominent German composer Ralph Sielgal. It was rumoured that Giulia was romantically linked to Legendary German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn.


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Neveen Abdel-Raouf1, Ibraheem B. M. Ibraheem2,‡, Sanaa Abdel-Tawab3, Yamna A. G. Naser4
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Volume 47, Issue 4, pages 955–962, August 2011
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Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science and Medical Studies, Women Students Medical Studies and Sciences Sections, King Saud University for Girls, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, 62511, Egypt
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Anabaena aequalis; antihyperlipidemic agent; antimicrobial activity; cyanobacteria; quercetin
This study aimed to isolate quercetin (for the first time) from Anabaena aequalisBorge, which inhabits soil surface of Wadi El-Alaqui Protectorate located in Aswan city, Egypt. The isolated compound showed significant antibacterial activity against the gram-positive bacteria Sarcina maximaand Micrococcus kristinae,the gram-negative bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae,as well as against the filamentous fungus Aspergillus flavus. The isolated compound was identified as quercetin using the structure elucidation based on UV, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESIMS), 1H and 13C NMR, proton–proton correlation spectroscopy (1H-1H COSY), distortionless enhancement by polarization transfer (DEPT), heteronuclear single quantum coherence (HSQC), and heteronuclear multiple bond correlations spectrum (HMBC). Medium lethal dose (LD50) of the isolated compound and its side effects against hyperlipidemia induced by ethanol intake in albino rats were carried out. No deaths were reported in rats within 72 h, which suggests that the isolated compound plays a beneficial role as an antihyperlipidemic agent in the treatment of alcohol-induced hepatic tissue damage, which can be described as one of the therapeutic values.
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Last week I saw this blog entry come through my RSS reader – Digital Learning Now Shows State Progress. If you aren't familiar with this, it is the annual ranking of how states are progressing in implementing the neo-liberals agenda of education and digital education. Believe it or not, that is the nice or politically correct description of the rankings.
The honest description is that it is a ranking of how easy companies can come in, set-up shop, get approval for sub-standard online programs, and then rape and pillage public education.
Either way, it isn't an actual ranking of how well states are doing with digital learning!
Now the actual report for 2013 is available at http://reportcard.digitallearningnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DLN_ReportCard_FINAL.pdf and the press release is available at http://www.digitallearningnow.com/press-release/2013-digital-learning-report-card-signals-progress-in-high-quality-digital-learning-options/.
The new state-by-state map isn't available yet, but you can access the 2012 one at http://www.digitallearningnow.com/reportcard/#grade0. It is interesting to actually look at individual state profiles.
I see that my current state, Connecticut, was dead last in 2012. I'm kind of proud of my new state for that fact. It is interesting to note some of the individual statements that each state is graded on.
2. All students must complete at least one online course to earn a high school diploma.
Limited research that is available indicates that learning at a distance in the K-12 environment has little, and even a negative, effect on their ability to learn at a distance later in life.
4. No school district may restrict student enrollment in full-time online school or in an individual online course through enrollment caps or geographic boundaries.
Research has shown that full-time online programs that have a managed growth and/or limited geographic reach have much greater success than those without either.
13. No additional burdens are placed on the approval and procurement processes for digital content beyond those for print content.
23. Online providers, including virtual charter schools, full-time online providers, and individual online course providers, are allowed to appeal decisions or revise and resubmit their applications after a denial.
24. multiple opportunities during the year are available for virtual charter schools, full-time online providers, and individual online course providers to apply for approval.
25. Approval of digital providers lasts for three or more years
History has shown that cyber charter providers have fought any additional regulations placed on them through initial and on-going approval. Yet, these criteria all run counter to a state's ability to manage this criteria:
29. As determined by outcomes-based student-performance data, these poor performing schools and courses must be closed: a. virtual charter schools. b. full-time online schools. c. individual online course providers.
If there is little to no oversight and if it is almost impossible to block programs that have been shown to be of poor quality, it makes it difficult to closed or prevent poor performing schools.
34. The same per-pupil funding with the same payment process is provided to all virtual charter schools, full-time online schools, and individual online course providers, regardless of whether the school is public, charter, not-for-profit, or for-profit.
Research and ideologically-based policy documents, including those published by neo-liberal think tanks, have said that full-time online learning costs less. This is an effort to maximize profits, plain and simple.
Just more examples of how the neo-liberal agenda for K-12 online learning runs counter to available research.