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WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2002 Homeland Security Adviser Tom Ridge said today the strategy for the president's smallpox vaccination plan is to immunize frontline troops who serve in high-threat areas and domestic emergency responders.
Ridge spoke at a briefing in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building following President Bush's announcement of his plan to protect Americans in the event of a bio- terrorist attack.
Joining him to help explain the different aspects of the plan were Tommy Thompson, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services; Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs; and other top federal health officials.
Ridge said the president's smallpox plan was brought about after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 revealed the nation's need for a better security plan, and brought to light the nation's vulnerability to a terrorist attack.
"Clearly from Day 1, we've been concerned about weapons of mass destruction ... and one of the highest priorities involved smallpox because of its destructive consequences as an agent. It's one of the agents that any country should fear," Ridge said.
Thompson said he is working with state and local governments to draft plans to create smallpox response teams made up of volunteer emergency health and medical personnel. He called the teams critical to the plan to provide critical care and services immediately following a smallpox attack. He said the vaccine and the vaccinations would be made available on a voluntary basis to team members.
"This program centers on these smallpox response teams and first responders for a strategic reason," Thompson said. "Since a smallpox release is possible, we must prepare by offering to those most likely needed to respond. By preparing our emergency responders, we are better able to protect the American people, and this has to our highest priority."
He said the initial stage of the program, which has been in the planning stage for the past year, will not be offered to the general public at this time, even though the United States has enough vaccine to immunize every person in the country. Thompson did say the government would take measures to accommodate citizens who want to have the vaccination done now.
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Marion County School Board Elections
Just as the school year is right around the corner, so is the election that will affect student's education.
Running for seat two is current school board member Steve Hering who has held the position for eight years.
Running against him is Jackie Porter an established business woman of twenty five years and Bernard Lecorn, a former teacher at Central Florida Community College.
Marion County's primary school board election is on August 26th.
Bernard Lecorn says,
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Supernanny 's sixth season kicked off this fall on ABC and -- thanks to Jo Frost and her super parenting know-how -- it's still the must-see show for moms and dads everywhere. But who is the real Supernanny? She's a down-to-earth woman who has learned from hard lessons in life, including the early death of her own mother. Frost talked to WebMD Magazine about these issues -- and how they shaped her thoughts on parenting, child development, family values, and health -- plus why she's never met a kid challenge she can't handle.
Everyone knows you as a TV star, thanks to your hit reality show, Supernanny. Less well known is the fact that your mother passed away from breast cancer when you were in your early 20s and she was only 43. How has that changed your outlook on life and health?
My mom was 39 when she was diagnosed, and I'm going to be her age this year. Because my mom died so young I go every year and have mammograms and ultrasounds. I want young women to become more aware of how they can do self-exams, recognizing that it's not an "old" thing to do. This is not something just your grandma and your mother do. Young women in their mid-20s should get into the habit of having self-exams, feeling for those bumps and knowing what's always there and not. We need to make it fresh and young and hip. My mother found her own breast cancer through a self-exam, and was in remission for four years before it became very aggressive. It's something I feel very passionate about, because losing her was the most devastating thing that's ever happened in my life.
We've all seen you work miracles for families time and again on TV. As you kick off your new season, what is your guiding philosophy of child rearing and has it changed in any way?
It's about bridging the gap between parents and children, so that we have more of an understanding of their development as they grow. Parenting has changed over the years. For a time it was about good, strong values and parents who weren't complacent to discipline when necessary. But the ability to articulate and express and communicate with children wasn't forthcoming. Then there was an overabundance of emotion and expressing yourself and the values were slipping. I find myself as that metronome in the middle, balancing left and right. I want to make parents more conscious of the parents that they want to be, what choices they're making, and how they want to raise their children.


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Hope you all had a happy New Year. Since Christmas obligations kept me from writing a roundup last week I thought I'd do my best to give you a double dose of gaming goodness this week. After being relatively quiet for a while Digital Chocolate is back with what looks to be a real time strategy game called Army Attack. It's free with IAP options, and it also requires an internet connection in order to be able to play. Stone Blade Entertainment released SolForge, a demo of a new trading card game coming from the creators of Magic The Gathering. The current offering is an offline pass and play experience only, but given the pedigree I would expect some pretty good things to come. And of course you should check out the extras at the bottom of this post. Now on to the main attraction…
Unsurprisingly, as we get closer to the Christmas holidays, the App Store has been seeing a ton of price drops on quality apps and games. Chillingo, one of the biggest publishers on the platform, is celebrating the holiday season with 15 iOS games you can download for free. Leading the way is ORC: Vengeance, an awesome action RPG that was recently named in Apple's Best of 2012 under the "Showpiece Games" category. Others in the list include Endless Road, Pony Trails and Spice Bandits, a superb Tower Defense and one of my favorites in the genre [read about the making of Spice Bandits here]. The complete list of free Chillingo games after the break.
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GemCraft is an interesting tower defense game that has been played online more than 90 million times.
Your aim in this addictive title is pretty much the same as it is in every other TD in the genre: build defensive obelisks and prevent waves of invading monsters from reaching your base (a mana crystal, on this occasion). In GemCraft, you do this using eight magical jewels that all have special abilities. You can combine these gems and craft new multi-coloured crystals that boast even more potent powers.
This has definitely been an interesting week for games. There was a lot to choose from, and I've tried to build a list that not only proves fun for me, but provides a nice diversity of game play for all the discerning gamers out there. The game that really took me by surprise this week was Coin Army. I've never really cared for coin pusher games – either physical or electronic – but the combination of amusing visuals, combat elements and power ups has caught my attention with this one. The other thing of real interest to me this week was the Square Enix Latin American Game Contest 2012. I've included two games from that competition, Run for Rum and Soul Savior, but there were a total of six finalists in the competition. They're all free, so download them all and then vote for the ones you like the best.
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This week provided a nice mix of genres for the diverse iOS gamer. Fans of crazy sports games could sink their time into Wonderputt, a new mini-golf game with some interesting course design. You actually get to see some of the holes being created, and it can be almost as fun to watch as to play. If you're looking for a different type of adventure try Escape The House: A 3D Sound Experience. This happens to be a promotional tool for an upcoming horror movie, and given the game play genre it actually makes interesting use of the features your iOS device has to offer. Pokemon and Final Fantasy fans can converge on Guardian Cross, the latest offering from Square Enix. This "collect and fight" style game has an incredible development pedigree, and apparently is completely playable without spending a penny.
My most eagerly anticipated game this week was One Tap Hero. I got to play this one a while back, and since then have been reall anxious to see it officially released on the App Store. The title that has really captured my time from this group, however, is The Lord Of The Roads. This RPG / scrolling shooter hybrid is unique and addictive as anything I've played in a while. And the game in this list that I haven't had the chance to try yet but am most looking forward to is Olly Low Poly And The Zombie Tower. Besides the odd yet amusing name, it looks fashionably different and of course I love me some zombie slaying or dodging or whatever it is you ultimately do with them in this game.
Okay, you're probably getting sick of reading about infinite running games right now. Unfortunately, they are sort of my genre-level addiction at the moment, so you'll just have to bear with me until the phase passes on. At least I'm just trying to share with you the quality titles, and there's no question that One Epic Knight falls under that category. Brought to us by the folks that designed the creative tower defense game Tiny Heroes the twisted humor of the developers carries on to this offshoot title. From the opening calisthenics to the nice dent you leave when you collide with a wall, One Epic Knight is all about being epic… epically funny that is.
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For me the big news this week was the release of Gamebook Adventure 8, the first tale of Judge Dredd. You can read about that below, however, so instead let me mention a couple games that didn't quite make the main list. Full Fat released its first freemium game in the form of Agent Dash. Yeah, it's another Temple Run-esque game in a genre that's starting to get overdone, but you have to love secret agents, and based on the game play trailer this looks like lots of fun. The latest offering from FDG is the physics puzzle game Chicken Raid. Instead of launching things to break other things, however, this game has you tapping breakable objects to cause chain reactions. The less interaction on your part, the higher your score. Megatroid looks like a Metroid / Mega Man style platform game. In this instance, though, you have a robotic cat for a sidekick and the levels are procedurally generated for a whole lot of replayability.
The App Store had a lot of good new games to offer this week, but casual arcade games seemed to be in particularly good supply. Chillingo unleashed Jelly Jumpers on us, and while it feels like a standard "climb from object to object as high as you can" style game, I still found myself becoming addicted to it. Daily challenges, plenty of achievements and a continually growing score multiplier are enough to keep me coming back. Follow The Rabbit is a cute, blocky puzzle game where you must collect coins, dodge enemies and ultimately keep sight of the elusive white rabbit. It also has the distinction of being the first Armor Games iOS release that is not a port from their existing library. Great Big War Game is the sequel to Great Little War Game, and it looks to continue the "lack of Advance Wars" fix that many of us mobile gamers need. With 50 single player missions and online capabilities, you should be fighting the good fight for quite some time.
Fieldrunners 2, the sequel to arguably the most celebrated tower defense game on iOS and one that ushered in a wave of TD games onto the plaform, has finally arrived on the iPhone. Developer Subatomic Studios spent the past several years creating Fieldrunners 2 and it clearly shows, with gamers treated to over 20 new levels and 20 unique, upgradable weapons, along with 3 different type of levels (Sudden Death, Time Trial, and Puzzle) and Retina Support to show off the gorgeous hand painted artwork. Currently, only the iPhone version is available ($2.99), with plans for an iPad release in the future. I've only logged about an hour or so thus far, but have already found it to be terribly addictive. Perhaps best of all, there are no IAPs to suck your iTunes credits dry; instead virtual currency can be earned in-game to buy items. Check out the extended gameplay video after the gap.
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All the Sad Young Men, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories, was published by Charles Scribner's Sons on 26 February 1926. Fitzgerald's previous book, The Great Gatsby, had appeared on 10 April 1925 and Sad should have followed more quickly, in accordance with Scribners' usual policy of issuing a short story collection hard on the heels of a novel by the same author. Fitzgerald's first two short story collections, Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) had followed this pattern; but the publication of Sad was delayed until "The Rich Boy", the opening story in the volume, had appeared in magazine form. Sad consisted of nine s…
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by Phillip Burkholder
First and foremost, Team Covenant deserves a round of applause for their commitment to The Spoils and their help in making this event so successful. With the cooperation of TC, what started as a free demo tournament evolved into The Spoils Free Pre-Constructed Day at The Covenant Store in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
At this event, anyone who arrived prior to the tournament and demoed The Spoils received a free pre-constructed deck to keep and use in the tournament if they preferred. Twenty-three people showed up to the demo and sixteen competed in the tournament.
Prior to this or any The Spoils events, the biggest contributing factor to success was advertisement and promotion. In light of that, I chose to write about how I try to sell The Spoils to new players. Also, this event took place on November 17th, 2012, so it seems less than relevant to speak about the event itself. Just know that it was a rousing success with lots of product flying off the shelf.
It was so successful, in fact, that the next week of drafts dried up the boosters and we had to start cracking Competition Packs.
At first glance, The Spoils should sell itself. It�s a game at the top of its class in flavor and mechanics, but there are many people out there that need to be sold before they start laying down cash for a new game.
There are a few types of people that we have to sell to: people that play card games, people that play other games, and people that don�t play games. The first category also needs to be subdivided into people that play LCGs and T/CCG�s. Let�s face it: The Spoils is a CCG living in what is becoming an LCG world.
For those of you that haven�t sold anything before, a large part of being successful isn�t necessarily knowing a lot about the product, but knowing a lot about the person you are selling to. Now I am not saying knowing the product isn�t important. It is very important. I am saying knowing the person is more important.
This is super easy and intuitive, and everyone can do it. The trick is to be prepared to give each person the exact same information regardless of what they say, but give it to them in a way that makes it seem like you get where they are coming from. This is sort of like the old adage, �don�t take no for an answer.� In our case we will call it the, �Great! Then you will love The Spoils� technique.
A good start is asking information-gathering questions. Never start by selling The Spoils. In my experience, people do not generally like to be sold to, but if you convince them that The Spoils came up organically, they are more inclined to respond favorably. This is much easier in an LGS setting, but still easy anywhere else.
An example I like to use for this comes from trying to sell one of my favorite comic books. I help out at a local comic shop and one of my goals is to get people to read what I read, thereby allowing that author to keep writing, so I can keep reading. This is exactly what we do with The Spoils.
Writer's Note: Unwritten is the greatest comic out right now and everyone should go buy it right away and read it. Go on. I�ll wait.
Terence's Note: It's pretty good, you should read it.
Okay, pretty amazing right? If you�re one of the very few that didn�t go get it immediately I will attempt to sell it to you. First, let me pretend that we are talking in a comic shop so I can assume you like comics. If they are in your LGS, don�t start by asking if they like to play games. The first question I always ask is, �Do you like Harry Potter?� A positive response garners a �sweet, then you will love this book. It�s sorta like Harry Potter, but it�s about a guy named Tommy Taylor and blah blah blah.�
If I am told that they dislike Harry Potter I say, �Great! I don�t either (this is true, don�t hate), which I why I think you�ll love this book. It�s about a guy named Tommy Taylor, who is the son of the guy that writes the Tommy Taylor books, who is sorta like their version of Harry Potter, but it�s a play on literature in general and yada yada yada.� My answer in both cases is positive for the comic and relates to their answer, but it�s basically the same information.
When I am attempting to sell The Spoils, my approach is the same. Instead of talking about Harry Potter, though, I explain either that The Spoils fixes whatever problems they have with the games they don�t like or it improves upon the aspects that they love.
Just look at flavor. If the person says they love the fantasy genre of Magic, I respond with how I think they will love The Spoils because it�s a great twist on the fantasy genre that brings a lot of humor not found in Magic but retains the elements of mystical beasts and mages. I don�t yet tell them it�s a bunch of 1337 speaking 31v35, dragons, and talking cats, but getting your foot in the door is all you need.
If they say they really don�t care about the flavor, but rather it�s the mechanics that really attracts them to Magic, my response is that the flavor of The Spoils turns fantasy on its head and embraces a humorous style not seen in other games that would really appeal to someone who doesn�t care for the fantasy genre. So if they like fantasy or don�t like fantasy they will still love The Spoils.
I sound like a broken record when I sell things I like because I use the same phrases over and over. When I am working at a local rock climbing gym, the other employees will sometimes mouth what I am saying while talking to a customer on the phone because they have heard my shtick so many times, but that�s what makes the sales pitch strong.
You need to sound confident. Confidence isn�t just loving the product and knowing everything about it. You need to be prepared for ANY question you are asked by a potential player.
Fact: consumers can smell uncertainty and have keen noses. If you are caught off-guard the customer will notice and it will cast doubt onto the game. Many gamers have been let down by companies in the past and it�s up to you to assuage their concerns. Practicing a little won�t hurt and can vastly improve the success rate of pitches.
Trying to crack a bunch of LCG players? One word: limited. Draft and sealed are the best formats in card gaming. No other format so greatly tests both deck building and piloting skill. Ask those players how they feel about the current meta of their particular card game. Now proceed the explain the nigh impossibility of net-decking in a limited event. Sure, there are small combos you can pull off, but it�s mostly head-to-head skill based.
Most LCG players know of at least one person that cannot pilot a deck to save their life, but someone else put such great effort at the drawing board that he needn�t have any piloting skill of his own. A lot of these players, even if they don�t completely buy-in to The Spoils, will play a limited event once or twice a month for the thrill of it all.
People that don�t play games are a harder sell, but just remember to relate The Spoils to something about them. Talk about what they like to do and keep them talking until they say something you can relate back to table gaming in general. If the person says they like to read, talk to them about the story line of The Spoils and how wonderfully ridiculous it is. If they play video games, talk about how much better face-to-face interaction is. You can�t go grab a beer with someone sitting at their house in another state and the local community is a great way to meet people to go out and do other things they like.
It is also very important that they have a good impression of the types of people that play games. Pop culture has not been kind to gamers. The Big Bang Theory is the bane of my selling existence when it comes to comics and gaming. Let them know that gaming is becoming huge. Soon, someone saying they don�t play games will be as weird as someone saying they don�t watch TV (this includes Hulu and Netflix) and they don�t want to be that guy. Make sure they know the flavor is more suitable for an older crowd, which usually appeals to non-gamers.
The last thing you will always want to do to sell successfully is always be in the position to demo the game or show cards. Currently, I am sitting in my lab at school. If a student came in and asked me what I was writing about I would start pitching immediately and, if they wanted, I could grab a binder of nearly every card and two starter decks from the trunk of my car. Carrying two starter decks in your backpack, briefcase, or purse takes up almost no space and makes quick demos possible.
Well, that�s the way I try to sell The Spoils. I wish you all luck in growing this great community!


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Joni Ernst has been elected as the next U.S. Senator from Iowa. The Republican, a state Senator from Red Oak, defeated Democrat U.S. Representative Bruce Braley in one of the nation's closest watched elections.
Ernst will fill the seat currently occupied by Senator Tom Harkin. Harkin, who has served in the U.S. Senate since 1985, announced in January 2013 that he would retire at the end of his term in January 2015.
Recent polls had shown Ernst pulling ahead, a poll released by the Des Moines Register this weekend showed her with a seven point lead. A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday showed the race was tied at 47%.
Ernst will be sworn in to the Senate in January.
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In 1989, a teenage college student from Iowa completed an agricultural exchange on a family farm in the Soviet state of Ukraine. Not surprisingly, as Joni Ernst retells it, the experience gave her a profound new appreciation for her home country — one that has colored her career choices to this day.
"It was just such a difference between the United States and the opportunity we had and what that family had in Ukraine," she told RealClearPolitics, citing the farm's lack of basic utilities such as a telephone and running water. (Residents had to use an outhouse behind the chicken coop, and the family shared a single bicycle in the absence of a car. Farm work was done through manual labor, supported by horses and wagons.) "That made such an impression on me when I came back to the United States and it was a matter of 'Oh, I love my country.'"
[…]Ernst's campaign is putting its focus on the candidate's varied life experiences, including 21 years in the U.S. Army Reserves and the Iowa Army National Guard and being a mother of three and grandmother of six. Indeed, Romney's endorsement highlighted her history as a "mother, soldier and proven conservative."
A company commander in Kuwait and southern Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 (and now a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard), Ernst says the grim realities she witnessed in Ukraine long ago sparked her interest in giving back to and supporting her own country.
"I felt that the military was a great way for me to do that, to defend the freedoms and opportunities that we have here in the United States," she explained. "I've loved it."
Nonetheless, Ernst recounts the hardships of serving in the Iraqi desert, including driving convoys in 142-degree temperatures and sandstorms that would sweep over the region. The situation was "just [a] pretty difficult environment, but you just adapt and you just roll with it," she recalled. "It was the greatest of experiences and it was the worst of experiences."
Those experiences are what drew some of Ernst's supporters to her side. Ruben Garza, an officer in the Iowa Army National Guard, said he sees the candidate's service as apt preparation for the U.S. Senate. "When you're a military leader, your actions and your words are highly scrutinized and you're expected to do what you say. I would expect, [if] Senator Ernst says she's going to achieve something, she's going to put 110 percent effort into achieving that."
Her personal story goes far beyond the Iraqi desert, of course. It can be traced back to the cornfields of Stanton, a farming town of about 700 in southwestern Iowa. The town's premier landmark is a water tower modeled after a traditional Swedish coffeepot, complete with a colorful floral design, handle and spout. Erected during Stanton's centennial in 1970, the tower is both a nod to the town's 19th-century Swedish immigrant heritage and a tribute to native daughter Virginia Christine, an actress featured in 1960s television commercials for Folgers Coffee.
Joni Culver, the second daughter of a farming couple, was born the same year the water tower was erected. Ernst and her campaign like to highlight her roots as a farmer's daughter, and she cited this aspect of her life when arguing for reduced government spending during a debate with other Republican candidates for the Senate: "As a farmer's daughter, who grew up in southwest Iowa castrating hogs with her dad, I can go to Washington and cut pork," she said to cheers from the audience.
Among those familiar with Ernst during those early years is her sixth-grade teacher and campaign supporter, Rick Gustafson. He compares the candidate's upbringing to "Little House on the Prairie," where Mrs. Culver would sew young Joni's and her older sister's clothes. (He still has a pillow Ernst's mother gave him, embroidered with the names of all 23 students in his class.) Moreover, Gustafson remembers his former pupil's strong work ethic and that she learned to drive her father's tractor, as well as being a model student in class.
"Joni was one of those rare students that had high intellect, very, very good academic ability, and also had a high integrity in terms of doing the right things," Gustafson told RCP. "She had all those and showed all those qualities at that time, even though she was still in those formative years."
Ernst first expressed that love by joining the Army Reserves and the National Guard, and she hopes to express it further by serving in the U.S. Senate. What makes her ambition especially noteworthy is that, should she win the GOP primary on June 3 and the general election in November, Ernst would become the first woman from Iowa to serve in Congress. Given the state's long track record of moderate, independent-minded politics, one might be astonished to learn that only Iowa and Mississippi have yet to elect a woman to federal office or governor.
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After being rejected by Emily Maynard on The Bachelorette, Chris packed his bags and moved from Chicago to Virginia so he could open a restaurant / bar called Bracket Room. Talk about an entrepreneur! With guests like RGIII (sportsball player for the Washington Redskins) and other super athletes, we bet he's knee deep in celebs. Plus, his baby just won a major award! After being open for less than a year, his place has already scooped the "Best Sports Bar in D.C." award from In The Capital. We'd call that a hole-in-one/nothing but net/goal/swoosh/sports term!
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MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - For some, an injury sustained in practice or in competition might be reason for sitting back and shifting to idle mode in recovery efforts.
For cross country redshirt senior Jessica O'Connell, the opposite is true in that not even a vehicle-pedestrian accident and resulting injury could keep the Alberta, Canada native from training.
She remembers the date well: October 13, 2010. While out on a training run during her redshirt season last year, O'Connell was blindsided by a left-turning vehicle and sustained a dislocated shoulder and other bumps and bruises from the collision. With an arm in a brace for a few weeks, O'Connell continued to find ways to stay in shape, cross-training when possible and trying to recover as quickly as possible.
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Interestingly enough, running wasn't always a favorite for O'Connell, who transferred to WVU from the University of Calgary in 2009. She enjoyed Irish dancing in her childhood and didn't get involved with track or competitive running until her junior year of high school.
"Irish dancing was my first love, and I enjoyed competing in both individual and team competitions," she said. "A friend got me involved with it and I took it from there."
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Ever knock on wood, cross your fingers, or carry around a lucky charm? If you have done one of these it's likely that you are superstitious, other wise you probably know someone who believes in superstition. As it turns out though, humans aren't the only ones prone to superstition; psychologist B.F Skinner performed a study where food deprived pigeons showed superstitious behavior.
In his study the pigeons were put in a Skinner box where food was delivered as reinforcement every 15 seconds no matter what the pigeons did. As the study continued Skinner observed the pigeons having strange behavior. Some birds did a couple of turns between reinforcements; others would thrust their head into the upper corners of the cage. The pigeons acted this way because they thought that there was a connection between their behavior and the reinforcements. However there was absolutely no connection since the reinforcements would come regardless of what the pigeons were doing. Since the pigeons didn't know this though, the reinforcements strengthened each time it worked.
This became known as superstitious conditioning, even though it is actually accidental operant conditioning. I find this idea about superstition extremely interesting, especially since I am a big believer in knocking on wood and many other superstitions. I always knew that knocking on wood probably would do absolutely nothing, yet I still always did it. I think that superstition falls in the same realm as ESP, apophenia, and pareidolia. As humans we sometimes need a little extra assurance or ways to explain why things are the way they are.


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Washington — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit to Algeria reaffirmed the cooperation between Algiers and Washington on counterterrorism measures, particularly in West Africa's troubled Sahel region and Algeria's neighbor Mali.
In remarks following her October 29 meeting with President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Clinton said the two had discussed Mali's internal insecurity and "the terrorist and drug trafficking threat that is posed to the region and beyond."
Clinton said she appreciated Bouteflika's analysis and observations concerning the situation in Mali, and the two agreed to "continue with in-depth expert discussions, to work together bilaterally and with the region -- along with the United Nations, and the African Union, and [the Economic Community of West African States] -- to determine the most effective approaches that we should be taking."
Mali's government was toppled by a coup in March, and two-thirds of the country is currently controlled by Islamic extremists who have allowed the terrorist group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) to operate inside the country.
A senior State Department official who asked not to be identified told reporters October 29 that counterterrorism cooperation and the situation in Mali had dominated the meeting, and that both Clinton and Bouteflika agreed that the United States and Algeria need to "work together against the problems that are being exported from Mali and to help Bamako and ECOWAS with the AU and the U.N. support as well [as] deal with the security threats inside of Mali."
They also agreed that the political process inside Mali needs to address the legitimate grievances of moderate Tuaregs, an ethnic Berber people who inhabit parts of Mali and other nations in the Sahara region, so that "they see their future as lying within a democratic, unitary Mali and to reduce the space for extremists to act," the official said.
Algeria and the United States are also working against extremist efforts to kidnap people and hold them for ransom, which has been "one of the most prevalent means of financing terror, and its links to organized crime, to drug cartels." The official said the Algerians have established a regular set of meetings with their neighbors in the Maghreb to look at "the nexus between terrorism and terror financing through drugs and through trafficking, and what we can do against them."
The official said Clinton also commended Algeria for its parliamentary elections in May, which saw more women gain seats in the legislature.
Speaking while en route to Algiers October 28, a senior State Department official who asked not to be identified said Algeria has been undertaking political reforms in the wake of the 2011 protests that toppled governments in neighboring Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.
"They finally canceled the 19 years of the emergency order in 2011. They broadened women's engagement, women's participation in the political scene so that ... the requirement is for 30 percent of women to be elected. They reduced and eliminated a lot of the restrictions on the broadcast media," the official said.
The country faces the problem of youth unemployment, with the effective rate believed to be 20 percent to 25 percent, compared to Algeria's overall unemployment rate of 10 percent. The official said Algerian officials have increased the salaries of those working for the government, which is "by far" the country's largest employer.
The official said the Obama administration has focused on English language training for both children and postgraduate-level students. He noted that Algeria has one of the world's largest gas reserves, but that its overall economic revenues are unbalanced.
"About 60 percent of the budget revenues come from the oil and gas sector. So there's a lot that can be done in terms of opening up the economy for foreign direct investment and the kinds of things that will actually bring jobs for all of the kids that need jobs," the official said.


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Our location guide for Sinah provides some basic essentials for the more adventurous visitor. A simple location map is provided but also a detailed topography map that shows the location of the nearest places where you can surf, ski or mountain climb (if they are close by). Of course some of these will be at long distances from Sinah and those far flung spots are provided on the 'nearest' tables. If you are traveling to other cities or towns near Sinah you will also find weather forecasts for those locations below.
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If you are in Sinah and would like to go mountain climbing, hiking, skiing or surfing, click below for detailed forecasts.
Ski Resorts close to Sinah:
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|Bitlis (Turkey)
|150 km NW
|Second closest ski resort2
|Mt Palandoken (Turkey)
|355 km NW
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|Sarikamis (Turkey)
|357 km N
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|Tsakhkadzor (Armenia)
|418 km NNE
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|Vanadzor (Armenia)
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Mountains close to Sinah:
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|Mount Judi (Turkey)
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|Mount Alfaf (Turkey)
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|Sharat Kovakab (Turkey)
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|Nemrut Dagi (Turkey)
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|Suphan Dagi (Turkey)
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These days green buildings are an important option among different building systems. Green building technology, also known as "sustainable building" or "green construction", is a process of building based upon water and energy efficiency, and the use of eco-friendly building materials.
Growing number of Indianapolis green homes is a perfect basement for joining the green building societies of the United States. Also, the Indiana Home Builders Association announced its plans on "going green".
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Among the main goals of green building are environmental protection, water and energy usage reduction, and healthy environments for home residents. Practices and technologies employed in the process of green building may vary from region to region, but the fundamental principles, used to build Indianapolis green homes too, remain the same: Energy Efficiency, Water Efficiency, Materials Efficiency, Sustainable Indoor and Outdoor Design, and Waste and Toxin Reduction.
Green Homes may also be described as Zero-energy Homes, if they are designed with self-energy systems. To reduce energy consumption and waste, several different types of insulation and energy-saving devices are used. The most common method of energy conservation is to use renewable energy sources: solar power, wind power, hydro power or biomass.
Indianapolis Green Homes are now widely featured at the Indianapolis Home Show and other local building exhibitions. There you can also find custom homes, timber frame structures and much more.
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After cutting my trip to Khon Kaen from seven days, to just over 40 hours, it was back to Disneyland (AKA Pattaya).
My first time back there for eight months, and it looked very quite compared to other trips. Regardless, I think if you can't have fun in Pattaya, you need to be on life support.
First stop was a regular watering hole on Soi 8. Only one girl remaining from my last trip, but not a spectacular choice in any case. A girl called Nut came and gave me the rubdown with a wet towel. She had a fair figure, and nice legs and spoke a bit of English. Her face was a cross between Cher and Barbra Streisand, but unfortunately she had the worst features of both. She wasn't that bad, but I would not want you to think I was misleading you. She was aged 36 and had a couple of kids, but as I found out later, lacked the battle-scars to prove it.
Kept her on for a couple of days, during which time we visited the Beer Garden a couple of times. This is one of my favourite spots in Pattaya, and in my opinion, continues to improve every time I come to Patts. Now whenever I go there, I never fail to see a couple of lookers that really catch the eye.
On my second night at the PBG, I just happened to look over my shoulder and noticed a girl going to the "ladies" with a "Marilyn Monroe Walk". I waited for her to come back, and she looked like a Walking St, FL type. We exchanged smiles, so I thought maybe "game on". I sent Nut to the 7/11 to get cigs, and had a quick chat with her. Being very well presented, and almost as tall as me, I shook hands with her as part of the "ladyboy" test, but was pretty sure this was all woman. She passed. She was actually only 5'5" (1.67 metres) but was wearing six-inch heels, to add to the illusion. An exchange of tel no's and she was a replacement for Nut the following night.
Her name is Gita. She spoke reasonable English. Even though she looked like the better end of WS, she was delighted to accept 2k without any haggling. I get her back to the room, and we have a shower together. She has a great body, though the breasts are a bit on the small size (large A-cup or small B), but she has a very beautiful bum, and silky skin.
Our first night together is a bit of a disaster, as I have done my usual bit of drinking too much. "Why you not come? Why you not come?".
"Me old man. Me drink too much".
She goes straight into a BBBJ, and when she finishes, she says "You not old man now". I have to admit that I was feeling a lot younger after that. Ever since then, it has been twice a day, and she is now on day 6. I currently have no plans to trade her in, and next Saturday, I might even take her to BKK to finish my trip for the last five nights.
On day three, we were walking up Soi 7, and three "Indians" passed by. As they passed, I heard one of them (obviously the brains of the trio) say to the other two "Ladyboy". I felt like a little mischief and was going to ask them "How dare you call my wife a Ladyboy", but then I had second thoughts. I have often thought that if we had the gift to design our own woman, many of us would design something that had all the best attributes of a Ladyboy. I came to the conclusion that if she was that great looking that she could be mistaken for a Ladyboy, that she really is quite a looker.
Pix to follow.
Word of warning to anyone coming to LOS. Next Sat/Sun (2nd and 3rd) are "dry days"
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why is it that every god damn crappy ass punk band just has to cover a cure song... blink 182 is the crappiest band in the world.. and all of them should be disembowled with a wooden spoon and left to die in the woods!
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F4Us are supposedly put against 109E's all the time in World of Warplanes, or so the information they've provided suggests.
The whole concept of Warplanes vs each other is good on paper, but when you realize that pitting different handling aircraft against each other in a game that relies heavily on manuverability & engine power you will begin to understand very quickly that, in fact, pitting different era aircraft against each other is a disaster in the making.
Essentially, what I'm saying, is that World of Warplanes will have matchmaker issues FAR in excess of an issue than it ever was in World of Tanks pitting aircraft against other aircraft that just screams "unfair".
Currently, I've heard that german fighters dominate dogfights with power & manuverability where as Russian planes have issues with low altitude engine power & american planes are simply too damn heavy.
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Four Books Omar Kadar Recommended
Last week we had the pleasure of having Omar Kadar at Utah State. He discussed U.S. Foreign Policy since the Cold War. Here are a few of these books he used and mentioned during his visit to Utah State University.
1. What is Life Worth by Kenneth Feinberg
As head of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, Kenneth Feinberg was asked to do the impossible: calculate the dollar value of over 5,000 dead and injured as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
2. Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, by Stephen M. Walt
Dr. Kadar used this book for the majority of his common hour lecture. He argued that the United States needed to raise up leaders capable of managing the power of the United States.
3. How to Read a Book:The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading, by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
Using the methods he learned in this book, Dr. Kadar read Taming American Power.
4. Every book on terrorism anywhere, by various authors
After reading every book on terrorism anywhere (or at least claiming to), Dr. Kadar learned that no terrorist organization is in the business of nation building. Their focus is to bring countries down.
Omar Kader received his B.A. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. in International Relations from University of Southern California. He is the founder of Pal Tech, a government contracting firm specializing in training, instructional systems and program management. Pal Tech provides reliable e-learning services to various U.S. government agencies. During Mr. Kader's career in Washington, D.C., he has mentored and hired hundreds of interns from Utah schools at Pal Tech. He is also currently a member of the IOGP Advisory Board.
He is active in international affairs and previously served as the Executive Director of two non-governmental organizations in Washington D.C. – United Palestinian Appeal and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. He served as a member of the U.S. Delegation observing and monitoring democratic elections in Morocco, Yemen, Indonesia, Palestine, Pakistan and Afghanistan.


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February 18th, 2010 #1
"Perceptual shifts" during art education
I don't want to be spammy, but I posted this some time ago in the wrong (schools) forum, so no one seemed to give a damn. I wish I could delete that one. However, I think it may be something of quite some interest for a number of clueless people like I was a bit of time ago.
It is regarding some milestones along the path of art education, and it's both old news to anyone who already has a time-long art foundation, and yet something ignored by many art students and even professionals.
I recently began reading a very nice book by painter Ian Roberts called "Mastering Composition". From the very beginning of the book I noticed it was not promising magical solutions or 'try-my-infalible' methods to make astonishing art like lots of other art books I've read, but rather spoke quite frankly about how he was trying to cause in the reader subtely from beginning to end a "perceptual shift" regarding composition.
The term shocked me, since I had never read about it explicitly before, but yet it sounded very familiar. I had felt that "shift" before.
In fact, I exactly remember when. After a long period shading every pencil drawing that I did, very specially life models, one day in bed, before getting asleep, I suddenly felt -like some kind of divine revelation- that I understood about value contrasts and the meaning of 'lighting/color scheme'; a big chunk of what had me struggling every time I tried to make some painting and it looked so dull even though I'd stuff it with detail. By the next day, the leap in my freedom while doodling stuff had been huge, and it had all happened just inside of my brain. While in my case it was a sudden thing, it seems to happen a bit more gradually to a lot of people.
Anyway, that day I was shocked and didn't know if that was a common thing on art education, or if it might be kind of weird stuff I'd better shut up. Then, when some time later I readed the term "perceptual shift" in Roberts' book, it made a lot of sense. So basically, art education is not about attending classes and expecting to 'learn' in the most common sense of the word, but it is rather about having changes in the way we process information, and that is what teachers and exercises aim for. Is art education basically just a sucession of sudden shifts in our own frame of mind, then?
I've been recently very interested in discovering about that subject. If that is so, then there is one shift about value, one about projecting what we see into our 2D brain using composition, and about how many common 'shifts' are there? Do you feel your academic training is complete (fully consider yourself an artist) after going through all of them? Are they sudden or gradual, and most interestingly, what kind of art exercises lead to each one of them?
I guessed it could be a great help, specially for students here, to listen about that idea, and have people sharing their thoughts, or perhaps even seasoned professionals commenting their experiences or dissecting the changes in our way of "seeing" from the time we all suck at drawing to when one becomes a true master.
Any thoughts?
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I've done Art assignments several times more than I needed to just to see if there's really anything to learn from them, or what I can learn from them Even then, if I don't learn something from them while I'm awake, maybe I'll learn or get better at something while I sleep. and then a day or two later, I try the assignment again. Chances are I'm better at it. Have I Learned something ? maybe. Not in the form of facts. but doing.
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February 19th, 2010 #3
I think you are referring to what's also known as an epiphany: Reaching a moment where you gain new understanding that effects allot of what you thaught you knew.
It's awesome when that happens but they wear off after a day hehehe!!!
The mind integrates new understanding so quickly it's not such a big deal the next moment.
"Perceptual shift" might be something else though, it sounds like a more technical mental phenominae. Looking at negative spaces momentarily are seen as a mental shift from normal seeing, moving from 2D flat to 3D creative projection is also a cool shift to experience when you first get it.
The latest shift I had the other day is almost like negative spaces in 3D, or left side thinking in 3D where I intentionally draw my next line the way I'm not accustomed to(The road less travelled), this made my brain do some funny and surprisingly cool desired stuff like better placement and allighnment and orientation.
Perceptual habit and motor habit will stand in the way of learning better ways of doing things. Allways look for new perceptual angle's you have not taken/exercised before, they all add up.
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February 19th, 2010 #4
Well, from my own experience, it is more of a permanent switch in the way you process information. You pretty much stop seeing just 'objects' but start noticing volume contrasts between one mass (even if it is just part of the same object) and the one it has behind in a constant basis.
What's curious is that you might have listened that three thousand times from an art teacher and you'd go like "ok, mental note: must see volume contrasts" but you never really do it until that "shift" suddenly makes it a constant, unconscious processing of your visual stimuli.
I think the fact that my "heavenly experience" was sudden is mostly anecdotical, but that shift eventually happens -even if it is more of a gradual change- to most artists at some moment of their education, I believe. And there seem to be different 'perceptual shifts'.
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I call them "lightbulb moments".
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Lightbulb moments are great as it means you've shifted up a level.
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Makes me wonder how much time I've wasted just dragging the pencil around, instead of actually practicing. And I'm not talking doodling either.
I don't like the whole "pencil mileage = success" way of thinking. I think it would be more efficient to spend 2 hours a day fully comprehending and aware of every millimeter of line you put down, than to spend 6 hours just grinding down lead.
February 20th, 2010 #8
If anyone ever whatched a Villpu movie and wondere'd why he's almost commanding/demanding/asking his next move to have volume, sense of space etc..Who is he talking to?? It's almost like he's hitting his brain like a TV set untill it get's the right picture.
I figured out what I was doing that was so great. Just by going counter clock wise instead of clockwise around volume I ended up having a new sensation of pulling things in from their farthest corners. I was accustomed to work from the visible front face over arround and behind forms. It was so phenominal that I imagined nakid ladies all night long. Hehehehehe!!! Who needs 3D TV just try to latch on to the corners you don't see and pull the rest forward. Gave my porn, I mean refrerance a whole new dimention. LOL!!!
Damn... I was so desperate for a brainwave moment that I had to imagine having one. LOL!!
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February 20th, 2010 #9
This is why it's important to pay attention to everything that you can. This is why we, as individuals, can get two or three times better at art - even without touching pencil to paper, or pen to tablet. (Granted, not often, but still possible, and you still have to do art to prove it afterwards).
I remember aging from 15, to 18...and going back to art more seriously. I just understood more of the world, everything was so much easier to make sense of in a picture.
It pisses me off a little bit, though. The more I learn, the more I learn to accept some things that I used to be VERY drastically against.
And a lot of times, it's not even realizing that I was wrong before. Just that there's more to it than just being "right" about something, there's knowing why. And then discovering even more reasons as to why. And then eventually it gets to a point where your original point of view, while not wrong in its reasoning, is irrelevant. Because you're just on another plane of existence.
Very annoying. But still - humbling, and very worthwhile. An experience worthwhile as both an artist and a person.
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To give you a little background, I have been known to be a little over-protective but I'd rather be safe than sorry IMO. So my boyfriend, aka "Baby Daddy" (gqtm... see Baby...
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