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Wow, the Young Americans for Liberty chapter at the University of Central Florida has been busy this spring semester! YAL@UCF started the semester by attending our university's "Spring Club Showcase" where more than 200 clubs tabled to showcase themselves to new and returning students.
We decided to use the classic YAL political quiz to help start a conversation about liberty and YAL. We got over 40 sign-ups by the end of the event.
During the last week in January, YAL @ UCF joined thousands of other organizations to celebrate National School Choice Week. For our event, we brought awareness to other students about the alternatives to public education. We took pictures of other students stating why they support school choice. Below are some of their answers.
We all had a blast with this event and had a lot of interest in YAL and "School Choice."
In February, YAL@UCF welcomed back Mark Schmidter who is a local liberty/FIJA activist in Orlando. Mark came by to discuss (Common Law) Grand Juries. We learned how, in theory, the grand jury should act as a check on the government — the people's watchdog against arbitrary and malevolent prosecutions.
During the last week of February, a couple of YAL@UCF members made the trek to CPAC where we had a great time "Standing with Rand," meeting Gary Johnson and watching him in the Marijuana legalization debate, watching Judge Napolitano debate the Constitutionality of the NSA and it's tactics, and many other things.
Lastly, a couple of YAL@UCF members attended the Alabama YAL State Convention where we had a lot of fun learning about Melony Armstrong's journey to renovate archaic and restrictive government regulations to open her own hair braiding salon; Bill Frezza's story of dealing with regulatory reform, crony capitalism, tax policy, and ways to restore US economy; and Tom Woods' talk that went over 45 topics in 45 minutes. It was also great to meet and get to know other YAL chapters in the state of Florida.
These are just some of thing things YAL@UCF has been up to this spring semester. Expect to here more about our chapter's activism as we head into the last leg of the semester.
Middle Tennessee State University Young Americans for Liberty recently held their first major event of the semester. They event dealt with one of our most fundamental rights in the Constitution, the Second Amendment
The National Rifle Association worked with our chapter to host a NRA University. The purpose of the event was to get students informed on and off campus about their rights. The event focused on learning more about the NRA, the Second Amendment, gun safety, legislative threats to gun rights and the gun control debate.
All students who attended received a free one year associate membership to the NRA, as well as entry to the NRA Annual Meeting and Youth Conference to be held in Nashville April 10-12, 2015. We had around 24 students in attendance which is great for a Monday afternoon. Some had to leave early, yet we still had 18 students fill out memberships to the NRA.
This event was a great success for our YAL chapter. We hope to see some of you at the NRA Conference in Nashville.
Last Wednesday at the University of Virginia we hosted Rebiya Kadeer. Ms. Kadeer is a native Uyghur from the East Turkestan region of China, also known as the Xinjiang autonomous region.
She was a successful entrepreneur and businesswoman before speaking out against the human rights abuses of the Chinese government, which resulted in her arrest and imprisonment for nearly six years—two of which were in solitary confinement. She negotiated her transfer to the United States and has since been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Through translator and confidant Alim Seytoff, Ms. Kadeer described systematic human rights abuses against the Uyghur people to around 60 students, staff, and community members. She said that East Turkestan "is a police state" with tanks, armored cars, and heavily armed soldiers patrolling at all hours. Ms. Kadeer also explained that China tests many of its nuclear and chemical weapons above ground in East Turkestan, leaving many Uyghur deformed and diseased.
Ms. Kadeer was a polarizing figure on the school grounds. Several UVA students from her region of China attended the event and were very excited to see her. They took pictures afterwards and talked with her at length.
But several UVA students from other regions of China also attended the event and attempted to discredit Ms. Kadeer. They asked questions implying that she was linked to terrorist groups and drilled her on the historical precedence of the land. One student in particular made a prolonged statement about terrorism before Mr. Seytoff interrupted and diffused the situation. The room was tense for much of the question and answer portion.
During her speech Ms. Kadeer and Mr. Seytoff explained that the Chinese government uses terrorism as a justification for its human rights abuses in the region. Chinese propaganda promotes the idea that the Uyghur harbor terrorists from the Middle East, but Ms. Kadeer believes that the Chinese government is exploiting her Muslim faith and its association with terrorism.
She told us that before 9/11, the Chinese narrative against East Turkestan was similar to its narrative against Tibet, but afterwards, the narrative was aimed more specifically at religion, language, and ethnicity. We asked her what it feels like to be called a terrorist and she answered that it happens everywhere she goes. It seems like she has become numb to the term.
At dinner she told us she cannot fault the Chinese students who do not believe her story because they are essentially brainwashed by the Chinese government's propaganda. Although the FBI has been involved, the Chinese embassy continues to harass Ms. Kadeer in the United States. Chinese agents follow her around and take pictures, and on two occasions, cars rented by the Chinese Embassy have crashed into her car.
While Ms. Kadeer's struggle is very similar to that of the Dalai Lama, her story is not well known. I encourage you all to visit her website, uyghuramerican.org, to read the documents and reports that Ms. Kadeer and the Uyghur American Association have released to dispute Chinese propaganda. I would also recommend you read the book about her life story entitled, Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace With China.
Co-Authored by Sam Teixeira and Grace Charlton
At the beginning of the spring semester at St Cloud State University in St Cloud, Minnesota, our YAL chapter participated in "Side Street," the student organizations fair. It was a great success for our chapter, we managed to get 5 new dedicated dues paying members as well as over 50 additional sign-ups.
We also managed to pass out every single pocket constitution given to us by YAL in the Recruitment Drive kit. Our chapter looks forward to doing more activism events in the future, our next one being Incarceration Nation.
LATTC YAL chapter kicked off the year 2015 at Los Angeles Trade Tech College implementing the ideas of liberty on campus.
We had a chance to table for Spirit Week in February and got our students excited about our Young Americans for Liberty club at LATTC. We wanted to challenge ourselves to get as many sign-ups as possible.
We tabled in the morning for students to sign up for the YAL LATTC weekly update email. We gave out free coffee cakes and drinks as a good morning breakfast meal. The LATTC students all seemed to be happy with their free morning meals.
We wanted to show the students that we want their attention on Liberty by offering them free candy, waters, books, and Reason magazines. Students learned about the Constitution and I talked with some students about the tenth amendment of the constitution. The tenth amendment is what most Libertarians focus on.
We stressed everyday for the students to implement these ideals in the local community college area. We want to thank Ms. Bianca, currently the chapter historian, for giving her full energy to Young Americans for Liberty.
Finally, I painted the Young Americans for Liberty meeting flyer at LATTC. We got at least five active Los Angeles Trade Tech students to become official YAL officers.
In the meantime, I shall see all of the west regional young americans for liberty at the California State Convention on April 25, 2015.
Thank you, YALers and Nathan Fatal for making all of these events possible. I Hope to meet all of the Young Americans for Liberty leaders at the California State Convention this month.
On March 10, 2015 Young Americans for Liberty at San Francisco State University held our first official debate. The topics were income inequality, the deficit, and free speech. We finally finished editing the first debate. We uploaded it on YouTube, so check out our Facebook page at YAL SFSU.
We hope to inspire other YAL chapters to participate in recorded sessions like ours. This is the fourth debate our members have participated in. So we decided to represent YAL to the max.
For liberty!
On Wednesday, March 25, Bill Nye "The Science Guy" spoke at the State University of New York at Albany promoting his new book Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation. The speech began well, with Nye speaking about his debate on evolution recently with Ken Ham but quickly transitioned to preaching for a Carbon Tax in order to "redistribute wealth".
Thankfully, some students for the SUNY Albany Young Americans for Liberty chapter were in the audience and knew exactly what to do in such a circumstance, they began to film. After the event, the YAL members submitted a tip along with the video to Campus Reform and the next day Campus Reform picked up the story and it has since received viral attention.
What turned out to be a politically charged event was funded and sponsored by the Student Association at the University, the student government which is funded by a $100 per semester fee on all undergraduate students. Thankfully, YAL was on the watch.
Read the full article here: http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6397
"What bothered me most in this traditional way of doing business was the lack of connection I had with the customers. Then I went deeper into the philosophy of my way of thinking and asked 'why don't I charge...my daughter to fix her boots? Why is it free for her? Why is it free for friends, family, loved ones? Why do I charge to strangers, to customers?"
Raphie arrived at the answer which seems intuitive to the contemplative layman: man is a selfish creature, who does not make great sacrifices for others unless he stands something to gain. Profit exists solely as a motivator for some to do good for others. But man willingly makes sacrifices for loved ones out of compassion.
Why then is it not possible to regard everyone on Earth as your "loved one," and make sacrifices for the neediest among them, without expecting anything in return? Without a meaningful answer, Raphie concluded that money, interest, wages, private ownership, and profit could be done away with, without a tear shed, if only we humans weren't so greedy.
To see why the invisible hand wags its finger at Raphie's conclusion, let us first consider one model that economist Ludwig von Mises uses in Human Action, called the "Evenly Rotating Economy" model. In this purely hypothetical construction of the economy, all needs are continually being satisfied, and these needs do not change from one "rotation" to the next. Thus, there is perfect certainty about which goods need to be produced, in what quantities, and which people will consume them.
Let us contrast this with a real economy. We live in a world of unlimited desires but limited resources. There is no formal distinction between "want" and "need," and everyone prefers more goods to fewer. To produce goods, we need to expend time and energy—time and energy that could be spent doing other things.
Given all these facts of reality, we need some convenient way both to discover and to communicate among our seven billion brethren whose desires are most worthwhile trying to satisfy. Without this information, worldwide cooperation is impractical to impossible.
This is the role of the price system. It allows us to communicate in standardized terms (money) which desires are most urgent to satisfy. Because we live in a world of uncertainty where desires change based on circumstance, we need to make educated guesses about what to produce. The entrepreneur assumes this task.
If an entrepreneur's predictions about what, how much, and for whom to produce are correct, that information is recorded in terms of profit. If his predictions are incorrect, the corresponding loss is noted. Financial markets exist to make this information known quickly, for all to see, so its participants can direct money resources into the lines of production that are most profitable (satisfy the most desires).
In the linked video, Stefan Molyneux makes this point, albeit vaguely, with the example of a banana producer. His point is that no matter how altruistic the banana producer may be, no matter how motivated by compassion he is to produce, he cannot serve his fellow man effectively without the sort of information that the price system provides.
Today, Raphie does not charge a standard price to his customers. For a year, he has allowed his patrons to offer whatever price they can afford. He has not given up money for barter however, and he still buys from his suppliers at prices determined by supply and demand. Like a good father should, he continues to fix his daughter's shoes for free. He is able to provide for her because of the prosperity he inherited from a system where worldwide cooperation becomes ever more possible—the system we call capitalism.
After a few weeks of waiting, YAL at George Washington University is finally starting to take off. Today we received word that our application to gain official recognition by the university and become a listed student organization was accepted! We're all so excited to get things started and host our Incarceration Nation event, which is tentatively scheduled for Tax Day 2015!
Aside from all of this great news we received today, I also participated in our first event on campus today. It was pretty informal, and I was joined by John Nagle of the AU chapter of YAL and Emily Larsen of the Leadership Institute. Thank you guys so much for your help today, all of us here at GW are looking forward to working closely with both of you in the future. Stay posted as we continue to grow as an organization on campus!
Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/YALGW
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Steve Brown
President, GW YAL
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With no end in sight to political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, borrowers from the region will find it costlier to roll over maturing debt this year but are unlikely to default.
Hundreds of people have been killed in Bahrain and Libya in anti-government protests inspired by upheavals that just weeks ago dislodged decades-old regimes in Egypt and Tunisia.
The turmoil has not only put on hold bond issuance plans from the region, it has also sparked a jump in the cost of debt insurance. Higher credit default swaps inevitably spell higher borrowing costs.
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Need reliable purple and chartreuse varieties.
I am going to an out of state nursery on my way back from a trip in a week. I want to replace some heuchera that have died (or are about to), and I'd like recommendations for truly bulletproof varieties in two colors: something purple/burgundy and something yellow green. I have a shade bed that is all about foliage color contrast: and the ones that have died have really left a hole in my color scheme, as well as a hole in the ground.
Need tried and true, not the latest novelty, but not Palace Purple either.
Plum Pudding is available everywhere, but I can't keep that one alive.
Knock on wood, my Blackouts are doing very well, despite being moved several times. They aren't a true purple, but read close enough in the garden.
Yesterday, I purchased Crimson Curls (a very nice, fancy purple) and Dolce Key Lime Pie. The KLPs seem a bit weak, but I'm hoping they firm up in the garden. They are a lovely chartruese, no dark veining as of yet.
I grow four varieties of the chartreuse:
Lime Rickey
Dolce Key Lime Pie
as well as several golds:
Amber Waves
Ginger Ale
By far the hardiest of the chartreuse group IMHO( in this garden) is Pistache. Citronelle leaves burn if they get a tad too much sun. Dolce Key Lime Pie is sometimes wimpy ( I've lost a few of them)etc. Caramel and Amber Waves do very well in that color range.
Purples- I like Obsidian -its a black purple, along with Amethyst Myst.
I don't have a lot of the purple coral bells... (I hadn't realized, until I considered your question, that I tend to gravitate toward the peach/ginger heuchera.) But some of the very dark purples that have been strong performers for me are obsidian and midnight rose.
In my garden, the most reliable of the chartreuse heuchera has been lime marmalade. He's a good sized clump this year--24" across and 15" tall--and that's after I removed several starts from the crown earlier this spring to start new plants.
Frosted Violet is very purple and large / strong and likes shade. New garden visitors always comment on this one.
Stormy Seas is purple brown, very strong and can take a lot of sun.
Beaujolais is more of a wine colour and again large / strong. This one looks really good next to caramel as the rose colour on the underside and leaf centers of caramel pick up the colour in beaujolais.
Connie May
Thanks! I am growing 4 Obsidian in full sun, and they look great. I have been very impressed. But since they are doing SO well, in full sun, I figure they might not do as well in the shady bed where I need more purples. Does anyone know?
I think I would like something of a richer purple, too. In the shady spot I need to fill I think Obsidian would look too black. So maybe Amethyst Myst and Frosted Violet are good choices.
I bought a half a dozen Dolce's a few years back: only one is still alive (a Key Lime Pie). And the others died FAST. So I'm not going to buy anything with that prefix.
I've read (somewhere on here) that varieties with villosa genes are hardier. But I don�t know how to tell which ones do.
Oops, sorry, I got Beaujolis mixed up with Kassandra. Kassandra is the one that more in the gold family. I love MIDNIGHT ROSE but ( although there are still two here) it hasn't been overly hardy for me.
Not sure you'd consider Midnight Claret in the purple family but it has been very hardy here.
( Quilter's Joy on left, Midnight Claret on right)
I was going to suggest Amethyst Myst too. I also have a BIG purple heuchera in full shade, but no idea what it is!
Villosa are the hardiest, yep. As for the chartreuse ones, the last I bought was Citronelle which burns a bit for me in part shade. I assume anything newer than Citronelle in the Villosa/chartreuse family would be even hardier.
There are new lime and chartreuse varieties suitable for the north - 'Apple crisp' and 'Pear Crisp'. Both look lovely.
I am a little puzzled why you guys are thinking that villosa Heucheras are more hardy. While villosa parentage adds overall vigor to Heucheras, it is more suitable for heat and humidity, not for very cold temperatures. Take a look at the map of different Heuchera species in the Heuchera section of Terra Nova catalog (thanks Buyorsell!). You will see that villosa is native on the East and on the South of US and hence performs better in similar conditions.
BTW, the table with Heucheras in this catalog is really helpful. Also, all Heuchera pictures are marked with abbreviated symbols for usage. Really cool. I finally found a couple of RUFFLED varieties without H.micrantha in the parentage, so they would work for our hot and humid climate.
alina, villosa may be breed for heat but they also are tough enough to take a dry hot Northern Summer so it makes them stronger to handle the cold and brutal weather also in my gardens. This is my 8 years experience. Also........
I recommend Villosa because of a online nursery owner recommended them because it is what they said survive their Michigan winters and it was recommended to me from my local nursery.
I generally do not buy Terra Nova until they have been out for awhile because they seem to be developing them and not fully tested for viability outside of the greenhouse. JMO
I did a co-op of Terra Nova Heuchera and had very little survival, purchased many of the new ones at my local nursery and had a low survival rate. That has been my experience.
linnea56 there is a list of the villosa that many of us have tried in one of the post last month. Let me see if I can find it. I know I listed the ones that have survived good in my gardens.
H.villosa was not breed. It is not a hybrid. It is a species plant:
Native Distribution: VA to IN, s. to AL & AR
Native Habitat: Moist, shaded rock ledges & cliffs
USDA Native Status: L48(Native to the continental United States )
Check out Primrose Path Nursery. You do not have to buy from them but at least when you see the ones that Primrose Path has created you know they have been tested under the cold, snow, conditions. That is GARDEN TESTED. I do not have any connection to them but I know they are developing plants that survive.
The other thing you can look for is if they say it is a Villosa. I have good luck with those.
Also found this post.
Posted by buyorsell888 Zone 8 Portland OR (My Page) on
Thu, May 24, 12 at 18:18
I just happen to have Dan Heim's book handy. These were all listed as Huechera villosa cultivars:
H. v. 'Autumn Bride', 'Biddulph Brown', 'Chantilly', 'Creme de la Creme', 'Discolor', 'Emperor's Cloak', 'Melkweg', f.purpurea 'Bronze Wave', f.p. 'Palace Purple', f.p. 'Royal Red'
Here is a link that might be useful: Primrose Path


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I'm using xtable to generate tables to put in Latex, and was wondering if there's a way to have conditional formatting of cells so that all significant p-values are in grey? I'm using Knitr in TexShop.
Here's an example using the
diamonds data in ggplot2, and running a TukeyHSD test to predict
carat from
summary(data.aov <- aov(carat~cut, data = diamonds))
I can then get
data.hsd.result into xtable format with:
In Latex, the output looks like this:
diff lwr upr p.adj
Good-Fair -0.19695197 -0.23342631 -0.16047764 0.000000e+00
Very Good-Fair -0.23975525 -0.27344709 -0.20606342 0.000000e+00
Premium-Fair -0.15418175 -0.18762721 -0.12073628 0.000000e+00
Ideal-Fair -0.34329965 -0.37610961 -0.31048970 0.000000e+00
Very Good-Good -0.04280328 -0.06430194 -0.02130461 5.585171e-07
Premium-Good 0.04277023 0.02165976 0.06388070 3.256208e-07
Ideal-Good -0.14634768 -0.16643613 -0.12625923 0.000000e+00
Premium-Very Good 0.08557350 0.06974902 0.10139799 0.000000e+00
Ideal-Very Good -0.10354440 -0.11797729 -0.08911151 0.000000e+00
Ideal-Premium -0.18911791 -0.20296592 -0.17526989 0.000000e+00
It it possible to have any p-values < 0.05 to have a grey coloured background automatically or highlighted in some way? Obviously, for this set it would be the whole column, but I'm hoping for something that works with all my data.


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Who am I talking about? The most important behind-the-scenes people in horse racing— government-appointed racing officials. They're the stewards who patrol the backstretch and scrutinize all racing, and the two top officials of the Manitoba Horse Racing Commission, which sets the rules and the tone for what the stewards do.
They're all brand-new appointments. They've only been on the job for a month. And, if everything goes the way they want it to go, this is the last you'll hear about them for a long time — unlike their predecessors, who had knack for getting a whack of bad publicity, some of which you read about here.
The former racing stewards left under a cloud of having screwed up the finish in a race last August, causing the track to pay out on the wrong order of finish for six minutes before their mistake was discovered. That's about as serious a no-no as you'll see in racing. And there was the case of a new jockey who had been slapped with a $500 abusive riding penalty without having been told what the riding rules are in Manitoba. (It was overturned upon appeal.) And the leading trainer, Shelley Brown, saying that a steward told her that if she didn't like what they were doing, she should go somewhere else.
And the most celebrated case was a former jockey, Rocco Bowen, being fined $300 for standing in his irons and pumping the air just before the wire when he won a stakes race. The stewards called it "grandstanding." The horse's trainer and owners helped the jockey pay that fine.
No more of that. Tom Goodman, the new chair of the racing commission, a lawyer who adjudicated human rights and labour code cases, said the mandatory fining schedule had been scrapped and the new policy will be one of "educating" errant jockeys rather than throwing the book at them.
He also said there is an awareness that jockeys don't make a lot of money, so fines, when necessary, will not be overly punitive.
The other three race officials also have a lot of backstretch and fan respect. The commission vice-chair is easygoing Brian Billeck, a horseman since 1970.
The two new stewards are Brian Palaniuk, a former trainer at the Downs and at Woodbine in Toronto, and Grant Buckoski, a former gym teacher, horseplayer and horse owner.
And if I don't write one more word about them during this race season, they'll likely love it. Because that essentially means they are quietly, fairly, uncontroversially doing their jobs.
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This second edition of An Environmental History of the World continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but also in a destructive manner. This book investigates the ways in which environmental changes, often the result of human actions, have caused historical trends in human societies. This process has happened in every historical period and in every part of the inhabited earth. The book is organized into ten chapters. The main chapters follow a chronological path through the history of mankind, in relationship to ecosystems around the world. The first explains what environmental history is, and argues for its importance in understanding the present state of the world's ecological problems. Chapters two through eight form the core of the historical analysis, each concentrating on a major period of human history (pre-civilized, early civilizations, classical, medieval, early modern, early and later twentieth century, and contemporary) that has been characterized by large-scale changes in the relationship between human societies and the biosphere, and each gives several case studies that illustrate significant patterns occurring at that time. The chapters covering contemporary times discuss the physical impacts of the huge growth in population and technology, and the human responses to these problems. Our moral obligations to nature and how we can achieve a sustainable balance between technology and the environment are also considered. This revised second edition takes account of new research and the course of history containing new sections on global warming, the response of New Orleans to the hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the experience of the Dutch people in protecting their low-lying lands against the encroachments of rivers, lakes, and the North Sea. New material is also offered on the Pacific Islands, including the famous case of Easter Island. This is an original work that reaches further than other environmental histories. Rather than looking at humans and the environment as separate entities, this book places humans within the community of life. The relationship between environmental thought and actions, and their evolution, is discussed throughout. Little environmental or historical knowledge is assumed from the reader in this introduction to environmental history. We cannot reach a useful understanding of modern environmental problems without the aid of perspective provided by environmental history, with its illustrations of the ways in which past decisions helped or hindered the interaction between nature and culture. This book will be influential and timely to all interested in or researching the world in which we live.
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In an era where humans affect virtually all of the earth's processes, questions arise about whether we have sufficient knowledge of human-environment interactions. How can we sustain the Earth's ecosystems to prevent collapses and what roles should practitioners and scientists play in this process? These are the issues central to the concept of environmental literacy. This unique book provides a comprehensive review and analysis of environmental literacy within the context of environmental science and sustainable development. Approaching the topic from multiple perspectives, it explores the development of human understanding of the environment and human-environment interactions in the fields of biology, psychology, sociology, economics and industrial ecology. The discussion emphasises the importance of knowledge integration and transdisciplinary processes as key strategies for understanding complex human-environment systems (HES). In addition, the author defines the HES framework as a template for investigating sustainably coupled human-environment systems in the 21st century.
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tag:destructoid.com,2006:blogdjnealb's Blog :: DESTRUCTOIDhttp://www.destructoid.com/ul/user/4/43295-14c53-50.jpgdjnealbhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/djnealb2012-04-11T16:07:12Ztag:destructoid.com,2008:278283Dtoid Southwest NARP is July 26th, FINAL REMINDER!2014-07-17T09:42:57Z2014-07-17T09:42:57ZThis is the final reminder for the first ever Dtoid Southwest NARP which is happening next Saturday, July 26th. You can check out the Facebook page for the event here. You can also get in on the conversation about the NARP over on the forum thread. Or you can tell me over on Twitter (@djnealb) if youll be coming. I hope to see as many people as possible show up.

 tag:destructoid.com,2008:277446Dtoid Southwest NARP is less than a month away!2014-07-02T07:46:11Z2014-07-02T07:46:11ZThe first ever (I think) Dtoid Southwest NARP is on Saturday, July 26th! Holy shit that's less than a month away. I'm crazy excited to be doing this, but I'm still kinda guessing as to how many people will actually be showing up. Therefore, I've gone ahead and made a Facebook page for the NARP. You can see it here. If you plan on going, then add yourself to the guest list (you may have to add me as a friend first, which is totally okay). If you don't have Facebook and you don't want to make a Facebook account, but you still want to go to the NARP, then you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know that you'll be coming. You can also send me a PM on twitter if you have that. My twitter is @djnealb. The more people that tell me they're coming the better I can plan stuff like food and drinks and whatnot. Plus, if we get enough people, then maybe I can plan for us to go somewhere other than just my house (I can plan that a little closer to the date if need be). If you want to help with some of the planning or talk about the NARP, then check out the Dtoid Southwest NARP forum thread over in the Destructoid Forums (we have them). Anywho, I hope to see as many of y'all as possible, and as always...

 tag:destructoid.com,2008:275660Dtoid Southwest NARP is July 26th!2014-05-30T09:49:57Z2014-05-30T09:49:57Z

Hello again!

You may remember that a few months ago I posted a Cblog announcing the first ever (I think) Dtoid Southwest NARP. If you don't remember, then go check it out here. Don't worry, I'll wait...

Did you read it? Awesome. So, it's been a few months and I've gotten a bit of feedback over in the forums (WE HAVE THEM!), but now that it's almost June, I figure it's time that I start really laying some plans down.

So here's the deal. If you're reading this, and you really like the community at Destructoid, AND you just so happen to live in the American Southwest, I want you to come to my house on July 26th. We'll definitely hang at my place, play some games and all that good stuff, but, the way I see it, the more people that come, the more stuff we can do. Austin, Texas has no shortage of really cool shit for people to do. Not that far from my house is Pinballz Arcade, The Goodnight (awesome restaurant/bar/bowling alley with a retro feel), and some other pretty cool places that I'm probably just not thinking of.

There are plenty of ways to let me know that you'll be coming (or that you're thinking of coming, but just not 100% sure yet). You can send me a private message over in the Destructoid Forums, or you can message me on either Facebook or twitter. Also, feel free to hop into the discussion on the Dtoid Southwest NARP thread in the forums if you have any ideas for the NARP that you'd like to share. I'm welcome to any and all ideas.

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and I hope to see y'all real soon.tag:destructoid.com,2008:272245Dtoid Southwest NARP2014-03-20T10:06:56Z2014-03-20T10:06:56ZSo what originally started as trying to get a few Texans together for a monthly gaming thing (Juegos Rancheros for those interested) ended up involving a few people from Arizona as well. One thing led to another and now I am eagerly anticipating on holding another NARP. But this time, instead of restricting it to only Austin or Texas in general, I'm including everybody, but specifically the American Southwest.

 What does this mean for you? Well, if you have the cognitive capacity to read and understand the words that I'm typing, and you live in one of the states colored in in the above pic, then it means that I'm inviting you to my house on Saturday, July 26th. Really, any and every Dtoider is invited if you think you can make it.

 There is more planning that I'll have to do, but I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew about it and kept it on their radars. Any and all suggestions/ideas/letting me know you'll be there are greatly appreciated. Feel free to post something here, on my twitter (@djnealb), or you can email me (email@example.com). You can also help with some of the planning/ideas by talking about it in the forum thread here. In the meantime...

 ...and I hope to see y'all real soon.tag:destructoid.com,2008:225691Thanks to an awesome Dtoider2012-04-11T18:31:02Z2012-04-11T18:31:02ZSo there I was, working in my office. Well, "working" would probably be more appropriate, but I'm sure some actual work was also getting done as well. Anyway, a student of the major university that I work for walks in for his scheduled appointment with an advisor. The student takes a seat just happens to notice several of the gaming paraphernalia that I have on my desk, including one spectacular bobblehead at the corner.

Not only is the student a gamer, but he also happens to be a fellow Dtoider. We then start talking about games and what we've been playing. What we look for in games, what we're highly anticipating (as it happens we're both pretty stoked for Borderlands 2). We also started talking about older games and how we are both building up (or rebuilding, as it where) our classic games collections. I happened to mention offhand that I have been wanting to buy an N64 for a while now, but I can never justify it because every time I got to a used game store I remind myself that I'm trying to save money for a wedding and a honeymoon. If you just read that sentence in 7 seconds or less, then that is about the exact amount of time that I said it. As I said, it was an offhanded comment which I didn't even think twice about and we started talking about other favorite old game systems.

The student gets called into his appointment and leaves. I'm pretty happy because I don't actually get to talk about games very often at my job, and this was even better since it was with a fellow Dtoider. I begin "working" again and about 25 minutes later the same student stops back at my office. "Hey Neal," he says. "You said you were looking for an N64, right? Well, I've got one that you can have. Consider it an early wedding gift." I was definitely not expecting this, and was actually worried that I might get in trouble for accepting a gift from a student. This was on Friday, so I thought that he would be like a typical student (i.e. like I was back when I was a student) and probably just forget about it over the weekend.

Nope. When did college students actually start remembering the promises that they make to people that they only just met? He actually calls my office on Monday to make sure that I'll be there and that he'll drop it off before 5. So obviously I'm a bit worried again and go to talk to my supervisor. I explain the situation and my boss understands my trepidation, but he says that since I'm not really in a position to give him any sort of favorable treatment for anything, and since he's just giving it to me as a friend, then there's nothing wrong. So there we have it. I get an N64 (thanks for including Super Mario 64, btw), an new friend, and I'm not in trouble at work. Thanks JotGarden!tag:destructoid.com,2008:225672Dreaming: Legend of Dragoon2012-04-11T16:07:12Z2012-04-11T16:07:12ZFor those of you who may not know what Legend of Dragoon was, shame on you! Legend was a PS1 era JRPG developed by Sony. It was, arguably, one of the better RPGs of that generation and was criminally ignored by the masses. I have been dreaming of a continuation to the story (be it either a prequel or sequel) for a very long time. I'm not going to go into the whole "the story of Legend of Dragoon starts with..." thing. That's what Wikipedia is for. What I'd like to do is give my reasons for why I've been wanting a new LoD for so long. Oh, and there might be a few spoiler-y things here, so you've been warned.

The ending itself doesn't really beg for a sequel, though I'm pretty sure the right story tellers could definitely make one.. The story itself, however, practically demands a prequel. Through the course of LoD, you learn of an ancient war between the humans and Winglies (think of them as a sort of advance human with wings of light). The Winglies had practically every advantage conceivable over the humans. They were faster, stronger, and could fly, so to end he humans made a pact with some dragons to gain their powers (or something like that, it's been a while since I played). That's practically a game in itself. Just call it Legend of Dragoon: The Dragon Campaign (as it was called in the first game)

You also find out during the course of the game that Rose, the Black Dragoon, has been alive the whole time since the end of The Dragon Campaign and was known as The Black Monster for killing "the moon child" every 108 years. There could easily be an action game that delves into some of that history.

Anyway, this has been a dream of mine since I first finished Legend of Dragoon all those years ago. Especially more so since it's just been announced that it will finally be released on the PlayStation Network on May 1st (which just so happens to be the day before my birthday). I sincerely hope as many people will buy it as possible. It would literally be a dream come true if a sequel were to be made based on the amazing sales of this rereleased title.


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Washington, D.C. Today, Rep. Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel, the Committees Ranking Member, will introduce bipartisan sanctions legislation aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, and further increasing economic pressure on Iranian leaders as the regime develops its nuclear program and commits gross human rights violations.
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Chairman Royce said: Irans continued march toward nuclear weapons is the gravest threat facing the United States and our allies. This bipartisan legislation ramps up the pressure on Irans regime, especially targeting those brutalizing the many Iranians demanding their human rights. We must build on existing sanctions to maximize economic pressure and prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.
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The bill expands current sanctions against Iranian human rights violators, those who transfer to Iran certain technologies used to abuse human rights, those who engage in censorship and related activities against Iranian citizens, and corrupt officials who confiscate humanitarian goods. This includes the expansion of financial sanctions.
Specifically, the bill requires the Secretary of State to determine whether the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a foreign terrorist organization. If so, the IRGC would be subject to additional sanctions.
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