text: $7 million severe weather research lab building coming to UAH campus JUL 15, 2013 An artist's rendering of the new $7 million Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) at UAH. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (July 15, 2013) – The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) broke ground Monday on a new $7 million Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) to grow its education and research capabilities into severe weather and atmospheric science. The structure is being built through a state grant made possible by the efforts of Gov. Robert Bentley. "This is the fulfillment of another recommendation of the Tornado Recovery Action Council," Gov. Bentley said. "Alabama is no stranger to severe weather and it is important that we take proactive steps to protect and prepare for natural disasters. The establishment of this severe weather research institute at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will allow us to better prepare for severe weather through improved forecasting and detection. While it is not within our power to prevent severe weather, we still must search for methods to mitigate the impact." UAH President Robert Altenkirch noted that UAH's Earth System Science Center (ESSC) is one of the university's largest centers of research and is ranked among the top 10 in the nation in research activity, according to the National Science Foundation. The Atmospheric Science Department is also cited as being among the top 10 in the nation by the Chronicle of Higher Education based on scholarly productivity. "Atmospheric science is one of those areas where UAH demonstrates national leadership in education and research," Altenkirch said. "This is an area of our campus that has also been identified in our new strategic plan where we envision continued growth. This investment by Alabama will allow our campus to continue to expand this important program and provide quality research to help protect our citizens as well as produce graduates for the local workforce. We thank Gov. Bentley for his support of research and education." The establishment of this severe weather research institute at The University of Alabama in Huntsville will allow us to better prepare for severe weather through improved forecasting and detection. Gov. Robert Bentley SWIRLL builds on UAH's expanding reputation for severe weather and radar expertise through the UAH Department of Atmospheric Science, ESSC, the National Weather Service forecasting office, the NASA Earth Science research team and the Office of the Alabama State Climatologist. The building is designed to reflect its mission. "From the outside, the conical glass entrance, with its visible spiral staircase inside, mimics a tornado," said Dr. John Christy, Alabama state climatologist and director of the UAH ESSC. "When someone sees this building there will be no doubt that it houses researchers who study severe weather." A five-foot diameter globe will be mounted in the center of the lobby's staircase to serve as a dazzling teaching tool. The globe is a mini-theater on which will be projected images of the Earth as if the viewer were in space looking upon it. The globe will depict real-time weather patterns, rainfall, snow and ice, earthquakes, vegetation, lightning, drifting continents and more. It can even display the sky at night. Inside the SWIRLL facility, one main research group will study all types of severe weather and the other will investigate lightning. Both groups will build and test experimental sensors to better detect severe weather or lightning and understand the precursors of the events. They will deploy these instruments in planned and spontaneous programs to field-test the equipment and gather data. Dr. Kevin Knupp, a professor of atmospheric science who is the originator of the SWIRLL acronym, leads much of the UAH severe weather research into those types of weather that damage infrastructure such as tornadoes, hurricanes and strong thunderstorm winds. Dr. Hugh Christian, a principal research scientist with the ESSC, leads the UAH lightning group, which has been the world leader in detecting lightning from space. He led in the design, construction and operation of these space-based instruments as well in the follow-on scientific analysis of the data they observed. "With the computing power we have, they will analyze the many observational datasets to learn why events happen as they do," said Dr. Christy. "This then leads to earlier and better predictions." Michael Mercier | UAH Ground was broken Monday, July 15, 2013 for the Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) behind the Robert "Bud" Cramer Research Hall on the UAH campus. Left to right, Kevin Knupp, Dick McNider, Ron Poteat, Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle, UAH President Dr. Robert Altenkirch, Madison County Commission Chairman Dale Strong, UAH graduate student Ryan Wade and Hugh Christian break ground. The SWIRLL facility will house: A severe weather research campaign center to enable command-and-control direction of deployed mobile research assets in the midst of severe weather events; A conference room facility for research, graduate education, operational planning meetings for field campaigns, public outreach and media coverage; Office space and sustaining engineering labs for fabrication, maintenance and storage of mobile weather research instrumentation, including the MAX, M3V, and MIPS mobile research units; Development lab space for work on weather instruments, electronics and computers. "An important aspect of SWIRLL is that it is situated in the humid Southeast, a place with unique and challenging research issues because our severe weather is not like that of the Plains, where so much attention is directed," Dr. Christy said. "Our severe weather can be obscured by low cloudiness, rain shafts that hide tornadoes, rolling and forested hills that prevent visual detection and in a humid environment, many events occur at night. It is therefore so important to build instruments that can detect and warn the public when visual capability is lost." Alabama, with a higher population density than the Plains combined with the difficulties of detection in the humid environment, has experienced considerable damage and loss of life from tornado outbreaks in such years as 1932, 1974 and 2011. Alabama ranks sixth nationally in the number of persons struck by lightning, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "One point is clear," said Dr. Christy. "The state has made a significant investment in understanding some of the most serious threats that its residents face." 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BDS Director - Principal For A Day at Benson High School
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On Tuesday, BDS Director Paul Scarlett had the pleasure to partner with the Portland Schools Foundation and Portland Public Schools for "Principal For A Day". Principal for a Day invites business and civic leaders into to the schools to learn about and experience the challenges, responsibilities and daily decisions that principal's face.
The morning started out with an introduction ceremony at OMSI from Portland Schools Foundation Executive Director, Connie Van Brunt. This featured the newly appointed Portland Public Schools Superintendent, Carole Smith and a Comcast sponsor representative.
The Director was introduced to Ms. Van Brunt who expressed her excitement and support for the innovative ways BDS is engaging the youth (School to Work Program). She commended him for participating and taking the lead in ways to participate in the advancement of our youth.
The Director chose to spend the day at Benson Polytechnic High School with Principal Susan Schenk. Benson is a professional-technical magnet high school that offers a variety of professional technical majors or Career Pathways, such as: Automotive, Drafting Communication, Construction, Electronics, etc in addition to a rigorous academic curriculum. The school is also features one of the most diverse student enrollment of any Portland school.
The Director participated in various activities and visited several classrooms, which included drafting, electrical and construction classes. He also teamed up with the track coach, Leon McKenzie, to discuss one of his passions, track and field. He was constantly on the move walking from class to class and covering the entire campus. One of the most eventful opportunities was participating in a disciplinary action conference with a student who had skipped school. The Director asked the student his reasons for skipping school, explained the consequences of his actions and strongly encouraged the student to stay in school.
Overall, Mr. Scarlett described the day as exciting, informative and an eye opener to a very busy, important and tough job. It was a first hand account of Portland Public School's and staff at its finest. The hands on experience was very rewarding and he looks forward to participating for years to come.
In addition to the Director's participation, Customer Service Program Outreach Coordinator, Tiffani Penson, was Principal for a Day at Jefferson High School where she accompanied Maccari Traynham, Vice Principal of the Academy of Science and Technology. After meeting and receiving instruction from Principal Cynthia Harris, she hit the floor running, visiting classes, learning about the exciting programs offered such as the Academy of Arts and Technology, Young Men's Leadership Academy and all girls college prep academy Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy.
When she wasn't in classes, she was patrolling the halls making sure that students were on their way to class and talking with various students. "It was extremely educational and refreshing to see a school at work and the respect shown to the tough, no nonsense Ms. Traynham. It was invigorating to spend the day with the very educated and energetic students and staff," said Penson.
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The following hotels have special rates for Green Festival:
Holiday Inn Civic Center San Francisco
Distance to Event Center: 2.9 miles
Multi-million-dollar renovation completed June 2014 with upgraded interior and exterior + refreshed guest and bathrooms, public space and balconies. Situated in the flourishing SoMa district and on all of the major transportation lines. Ceretified Green Hotel and winner of IntercontinentalHotel Group Award for in house Green intimations.
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Distance to Event Center: 3 miles
This Historic Green Certified Hotel has direct Airport Service via BART and Van Service. All major transportation services are just out the Front door. It's a full service hotel with an excellent Restaurant and Lounge, The Market Street Grill.
Rate: $125.00 + tax 16.32% Single or Double 1 or 2 Beds
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Distance to Event Center: 0.7 mile
COMFORT INN BY THE BAY, a 138-room hotel ideally located within a five-block walk to Fisherman's Wharf and less than 10-minute drive to the Golden Gate Bridge. Lombard the "crookedest" street is only 3-blocks above the hotel.
FORT MASON, the site for this year's GREEN FESTIVAL is a short 10-miniute walk to Fort Mason via the Presidio compound located on the corner of Bay & Van Ness. It can also be reached by a quick hop on the SF MUNI BUS #30 on the corner of Van Ness & Chestnut, followed by a 2-block walk into Fort Mason.
We provide all guests, a complimentary hot breakfast buffet from 6:30 to 9:30 a.m. and also have free internet access.
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The Report Cardon November 17, 2010 at 12:00 am
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The whole cartoon genre of kids bringing home their report cards has lost a lot of it's 'oomph' now that they don't give out grades, and that the comments are randomly generated generic edu-speak. 'Your son/daughter is progressing satisfactorily'. Yes, but can she read?
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I'm not much of a fan of Milton Friedman, but he once offered a very
interesting suggestion to rid society of crime.
"The first and most obvious [way to reduce the amount of crime] is to
reduce the range of activities that are designated as illegal. Surely,
one reason for the growth in crime is that the number of activities that
are classified as such, has multiplied in recent decades."
Friedman, Milton. 1997. "Economics of Crime." The Journal of Economic
Perspectives , Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring): p. 194.
[This idea also has a history in Marxist criminology; it's called "labeling." —D&S]
Following Friedman's logic the Defense Department found a simple
strategy for evacuating the cities.
"On a map of Baghdad, the US Army's Forward Operating Base Falcon is
clearly within city limits. Except that Iraqi and American military
officials have decided it's not. As the June 30 deadline for US soldiers
to be out of Iraqi cities approaches, there are no plans to relocate the
roughly 3,000 American troops who help maintain security in south
Baghdad along what were the fault lines in the sectarian war. "We and
the Iraqis decided it wasn't in the city," says a US military official.
The base on the southern outskirts of Baghdad's Rasheed district is an
example of the fluidity of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) agreed
to late last year, which orders all US combat forces out of Iraqi
cities, towns, and villages by June 30."
Arraf, Jane. 2009. To Meet June Deadline, US and Iraqis Redraw City
Borders. Christian Science Monitor (19 May).
Here is my suggestion: just redefine Iraq to be the Green Zone. Declare
victory now that U.S. government has conquered the country. The rest
could be disputed territory, such as Israel defines the West Bank. The
United Nations, Iraq's neighbors, or even the Iraqi people could sort
out what to do with this disputed territory.
Republicans should be delighted to be able to claim that Bush's policy
is vindicated. Democrats could crow about how they achieved peace. And
the Defense Department could find a less dangerous land to bomb.


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- Does type of hospital ownership influence physicians' daily work schedules? : An observational real-time study in German hospital departments (2009)
- Background: During the last two decades the German hospital sector has been engaged in a constant process of transformation. One obvious sign of this is the growing amount of hospital privatization. To date, most research studies have focused on the effects of privatization regarding financial outcomes and quality of care, leaving important organizational issues unexplored. Yet little attention has been devoted to the effects of privatization on physicians' working routines. The aim of this observational real-time study is to deliver exact data about physicians' work at hospitals of different ownership. By analysing working hours, further impacts of hospital privatization can be assessed and areas of improvement identified. Methods: Observations were made by shadowing 100 physicians working in private, for-profit or non-profit as well as public hospital departments individually during whole weekday shifts in urban German settings. A total of 300 days of observations were conducted. All working activities were recorded, accurate to the second, by using a mobile personal computer. Results: Results have shown significant differences in physicians' working activities, depending on hospital ownership, concerning working hours and time spent on direct and indirect patient care. Conclusion: This is the first real-time analysis on differences in work activities depending on hospital ownership. The study provides an objective insight into physicians' daily work routines at hospitals of different ownership, with additional information on effects of hospital privatization.
- Scoliosis : density-equalizing mapping and scientometric analysis (2009)
- Background: Publications related to scoliosis have increased enormously. A differentiation between publications of major and minor importance has become difficult even for experts. Scientometric data on developments and tendencies in scoliosis research has not been available to date. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the scientific efforts of scoliosis research both quantitatively and qualitatively. Methods: Large-scale data analysis, density-equalizing algorithms and scientometric methods were used to evaluate both the quantity and quality of research achievements of scientists studying scoliosis. Density-equalizing algorithms were applied to data retrieved from ISI-Web. Results: From 1904 to 2007, 8,186 items pertaining to scoliosis were published and included in the database. The studies were published in 76 countries: the USA, the U.K. and Canada being the most productive centers. The Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri) was identified as the most prolific institution during that period, and orthopedics represented by far the most productive medical discipline. "BRADFORD, DS" is the most productive author (146 items), and "DANSEREAU, J" is the author with the highest scientific impact (h-index of 27). Conclusion: Our results suggest that currently established measures of research output (i.e. impact factor, h-index) should be evaluated critically because phenomena, such as self-citation and co-authorship, distort the results and limit the value of the conclusions that may be drawn from these measures. Qualitative statements are just tractable by the comparison of the parameters with respect to multiple linkages. In order to obtain more objective evaluation tools, new measurements need to be developed.


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There's a world empty and void of NO's. A place where I'll succeed because I never knew that I couldn't. But.... I have to run ahead of the crowd or live in the outlands in order not to hear them. A happy toothless woman in the back country of the Appalachians was asked by a photographer who found her shanty cabin one day. Why are you not depressed about your poverty? Her reply "What is poverty?"
I think of the thousands of runners and walkers participating in the Cooper River Bridge Run annually, particularly about the first person and the last to cross it. The first knew it made them a winner, the last knew they weren't, but that same finish line was there for the last to cross as well as the first.
So what inspires us as individuals? What motivates me? Motivational books, cd's? I've had my share. I could toss them all and never miss them with the exception of the one that inspires me the most, the ~Red Letter Edition~ Obvious flaws indicate that I am still working on that one as well.
My favorite motivational speakers have always been self-effacing with a rags to riches story. But Anthony Robbins, seriously bro? Mind control to walk over hot coals? The only time that worked was in the Old Testament and I'm not Shadrach, Meshach or Abednego.
When I finish, It's not going to be because I followed a guide book to the letter, I am going to look like I have been in the race. I am going to have scars from hitting every wall all the way ~UP~ and be questioned about the burns that look like I spent some time in Hell, which I will have to admit emphatically "Yes" to.
Yet, painfully so. My predictable motivator is ~NO~
I just refuse to get off the bus early. On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. I believe there is another controversial section on that bus, it's the pull cord, the stop button that tells the driver to pull over. The button that makes you get off the bus too early, because someone told you that you couldn't get to your destination from there. If you let them, every person who says you can't is your new bus driver.
The best things that have ever happened to me have been because of a "NO." And, my biggest regrets in life have been because I pulled that bus cord early. I saw a quote this week on social media and was amazed at how many "Likes" it had. It went like this "I'd rather regret the things I did, than the things that I haven't done." Really? I'm all about living out loud, but their regrets must have been akin to getting a Big Mac instead of a pack of sliced apples at Mc D's. My regrets are HUGE! I don't want anymore. Like I said, follow the leader.
Here's a life example of what happens when a NO becomes a YES. My granny was in the hospital. Bad heart. The year, 1977. I dolled up my little 2 1/2 month old daughter to go meet her great granny. It was late when I got to the hospital. I missed visiting hours by ten minutes and was turned down at the nurses station. The nurse doing her job. "No Maam...you can't visit now. You will have to come back tomorrow." I pleaded "But, I can't come back tomorrow, I know it's past time, I promise I won't be but a minute" She just shook her head no.
In exasperation, I went the down the wrong hall, following a different exit sign. I passed a long hall that had the room numbers that included the one my granny was on. I eventually found another set of elevators. The doors opened and I pushed the button for ground floor. Which was where my heart was at the moment. I got to the bottom floor and looked at my sweet little baby's face grinning up at me. I unzipped my short little coat, slipped her inside. I played peek a boo with her for a minute and then hit the elevator button for the floor I just left.
I got off that floor and scurried down the hall with my baby zipped up in my coat. I reached her room safely out of view of the nurses station. I opened the door quietly. The lights were off except for a dimly lit bathroom light, Granny was in her silky jammies. She was easing back onto her bed. Her eyes got so wide when she saw me. I pushed my fingers to my lips and unzipped my jacket. I pulled my baby out and sat on the bed by her. We ooohhhed and ahhhed over her for minutes and then babies do what they do, they giggle, they laugh, they make noises. A nurse cracks open the door, she see's us and my granny holds a finger up in warning. The nurse holds up three warning fingers back at her and mouth's, three minutes. We kiss and hug and I leave. I never saw my granny again. She left for Davis, NC shortly after. She died four months later Feb, 26th 1978. No regrets.
"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." Pope Paul VI, born on September 26, 1897.
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The regular standing program is for students who have a bachelor's degree in a field other than social work. This program involves a total of 62 graduate credit hours, which includes two field practicum placements in the community.
The courses for this program begin in fall of the year the student is accepted; the full-time option typically takes two years to complete versus four years for the part-time option. The regular standing full-time option is currently only available on the Springfield campus.
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Liberal Suffering and Confusion
The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example, with equal pay for equal work. I've often watched "Lockup," a show that features California supermax prisons, including Pelican Bay and Corcoran. Often, a recalcitrant prisoner must be extracted from his cell through brute force. I've never seen female guards remove a prisoner. If they are part of the process at all, it's to videotape the extraction for legal purposes. It's my bet that female guards receive the same salaries as male guards while not having to risk injury. Along the same lines, women on aircraft carriers earn as much as their male counterparts, but I have yet to see women hefting a hernia bar to attach a 500- or 1,000-pound bomb to a fighter jet wing. All of this suggests that liberals are for equal pay for unequal work. Or could it be sex discrimination whereby equally qualified women are denied the opportunity to extract beastly inmates from their cells and load heavy bombs on fighter planes?
Here's another bit of liberal confusion. Liberals deny that raising labor cost through minimum wages reduces incentives to hire. But if you asked a liberal for advice on how to stop rich people from shirking their tax obligations, they'd say raise the penalty. Ask low-information Harvard University doctors what should be done to stem gun violence and they answer that government should institute "a new, substantial national tax on all firearms and ammunition." Ask Illinois' Cook County Board of Commissioners President Toni Preckwinkle how to reduce purchases of bullets and guns. She'd say levy a nickel tax on each bullet and a $25 tax on each gun. Liberals demonstrate they understand the law of demand — that raising the cost of something lessens the amount taken — but they deny that it applies to labor. That's as ludicrous as suggesting that the law of gravity applies to everything in the universe except cute creatures, such as pandas and puppies.
Liberals love political correctness that conceals information. For example, how does one know whether the "chair" of a board of directors or the chair of a city council is a man or woman? This issue arose during my (1995-2001) chairmanship of George Mason University's distinguished economics department. At a chairman's meeting or gathering, I was referred to as department chair. I told the speaker that I am a chairman and that I have empirical evidence as proof. Needless to say, it didn't go over well, but academics don't like the terms chairwoman or chairperson, either, but puzzlingly, God forbid that people refer to their idol as Chair Mao instead of Chairman Mao.
How liberals identify black people must be confusing to whites. Having been around for 77 years, I have been through a number of names. Among the more polite ones are colored, Negro, Afro-American, black and, more recently, African-American. Among those names, African-American is probably the most unintelligent. Let's look at it. To identify their races, suppose I told you that I had a European-American friend, a South America-American friend and a North America-American friend. You'd probably say, "Williams, that's stupid. Europe, South America and North America are continents and home to different races, ethnicities and nationalities." You might suggest that my friend is a German-American instead of European-American. My friend from Brazil is a Brazilian-American rather than a South America-American, and my friend from Canada is a Canadian-American instead of a North America-American. So wouldn't the same apply to people whose heritage lies on the African continent? For example, instead of claiming that President Barack Obama is the first African-American president, he's the first partially Kenyan-American president. Obama is lucky; he knows his national heritage. The closest thing to a national identity for most black Americans is some country along Africa's Gold Coast. Adding to the confusion, what would you call a white American of Afrikaner or Egyptian descent? Is he an African-American?
Liberals suffer confusion and cognitive dissonance because the rest of us don't help explain things to them.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Holy Cross women's 200 medley relay team started the night off with a victory, but it wasn't enough as the Holy Cross men's and women's swimming and diving teams fell to Army on Wednesday night. The men's team fell to Army, 162-131, dropping to an overall record of 0-4 (0-2 Patriot League). The women's team fell to Army, 166-134, and now falls to 1-4 (0-2 Patriot League).
The women's 200 yard medley relay, comprised of Gael Carter (Tampa, Fla.), Maggie Gousman (Fanwood, N.J.), Annie O'Shea (Washington, D.C.) and Alisha Carrazza (Boonton Township, N.J), started the evening off with a first place finish. The Crusaders touched the wall in 1:55.06, almost a minute quicker than second place finisher Army. Gousman also finished first for the Crusaders in the 100 yard breaststroke (1:08.66) and the 200 yard breaststroke (2:31.85).
The men's team was led by season best times from multiple swimmers including Joseph McShane (Chatham, N.J.) in the 200 yard freestyle (1:53.12), Brian Hendrickson (West Hartford, Conn.) in the 100 yard backstroke (1:01.96), Dan Kennedy (Bolton, Conn.) in the 50 yard freestyle (23.17), Aidan McGrath (Quincy, Mass.) in the 200 yard backstroke (2:08.25) and Sean Hager (Westfield, N.J.) and Ryan Boate (Pleasantville, N.Y.) both in the 500 yard freestyle.
The Crusaders return to action at the Terrier Invitational on November 21-23 in Boston, Mass.


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Why is Bible engagement down in the digital age? Bible Gateway's Rachel Barach shares some insight.
Matthew 17:24–27 "Go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel" (v. 27).
Continuing His march southward to Jerusalem, Jesus returns to Capernaum, the home base for much of His ministry (Matt. 17:24; see 4:12–17). Here our Lord will give the fourth of His five major discourses (in chapter 18). Before Jesus does this, however, He discusses the temple tax.
Today's passage likely takes place in Peter's house, which is in Capernaum (8:5–17). We assume this to be the case because "the collectors of the half-shekel tax" approach the apostle outside the home to inquire of Jesus (17:24). First-century Jews felt it improper to approach another person's guest directly, it was polite to speak instead with the visitor's host.
When God revealed the plans for the tabernacle to Moses, He established a half-shekel tax on all Israelite males aged twenty and older as a ransom to redeem their lives and pay for the upkeep of the sanctuary (Ex. 30:11–16). Scholars are unsure whether this tax was to be collected annually, but by the first century, many devout Jewish men paid the tax once a year even though the religious authorities required it only once in a lifetime, at the age of twenty. Even then, certain priests and rabbis were exempt.
Interestingly, Matthew is the only evangelist to record this episode, which is fitting because a tax collector would be interested in such records. In any case, Jesus' teaching on this occasion reveals that He and His followers are free from the requirement. Earthly kings do not tax their own families; similarly, Jesus and His disciples need not pay the temple tax because they are sons of God, who is king over all, including the temple (17:25–27). Christ, who is greater than the temple and fulfills its intent, has come (12:6). Worship of the Creator will be centered around Him, not Mount Zion; thus, there is no more need to pay the tax.
Yet Jesus pays the tax because He does not want to offend others unnecessarily and create a barrier to the Gospel where one may not otherwise exist (17:27). This is the principle of Christian liberty that Paul later explains in more depth (Rom. 14). In Christ we are free to do a great many things, but we must never use our freedom in a way that makes less mature Christians stumble.
In Paul's day there were some who were weak in the faith and would eat only vegetables because meat was often sacrificed to idols. These weaker brothers were not to denigrate the meat-eaters. At the same time, the stronger brothers who ate meat were advised to refrain in the presence of those whose consciences would be offended (Rom. 14). Clearly, we must live in a way that does not cause undue offense to other Christians. Does your life reflect this principle?
For further study:
Exodus 20:2
The Bible in a year:
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In the wee hours of an early December morning in 1975, I was on a mission. My college town of Stockton, California, had played host to the American Freedom Train for three days, and the train was being moved to its next gig in Oakland. It was drawn by a restored steam locomotive and part of its route paralleled a lengthy stretch of rural highway. I was one of the railroad enthusiasts who drove alongside the train on this road, pacing it for miles in an informal motorcade. I reveled in the spectacle of the great engine, illuminated with on-board floodlights, pounding along at forty miles per hour in the first visit of a steam locomotive to this line since the last revenue operation of steam a generation before. The highway and the rails eventually parted; the train rolled on towards the Bay Area's sleeping suburbs, and her euphoric escorts began to disperse, bound for daytime obligations of workplace and classroom.
The memory of that night remains one of my fondest. But along with the memory, there abides a lasting regret. The American Freedom Train was a traveling museum, assembled to tour the nation in celebration of our bicentennial in 1976. Artifacts on display included George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the original Louisiana Purchase, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King's pulpit and vestments. But I never took advantage of the opportunity to see, or even rightly know or appreciate, these treasures and what they represented. I only cared about witnessing the passage of this great locomotive in the night, not the legacy of freedom aboard its train.
Ask yourself this Independence Day, and always: "Are you as free as you once were?" The answer is clearly, no. In everything from what you eat to what you can do with your property to your health to your travel, your freedom is being eroded. But far too many of us are of the mentality I had in 1975: We are too distracted by passing pleasures, be they steam locomotives rolling through the night or what have you, to truly appreciate the precious and fleeting nature of our freedom.
I pulled off the road where it veered away from the tracks to watch as the train rushed on into the night. The roar of the engine and the rattle of cars bearing the icons of freedom quickly faded into silence and the deep whistle became fainter with each increasingly distant road crossing. The white plume of exhaust lingered overhead in the calm sky, then slowly dissipated into the dark, leaving only memories of the now-vanished glory and lost opportunity.
So it is with our liberty. Freedom is won only at great price; but, taken for granted, it is very easily lost, vanishing like that train and its exhaust into tyranny's night until all that is left is sorrowful memories of what we could have known. If we continue to be distracted by the engines of our pleasures, then, like me long ago, we miss the train of freedom's treasures.
Thomas Berry, for the Children of Liberty, www.meetup.com/The-children-of-liberty.
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Letters to the editor
New Mexico drivers need more than books
As a newcomer to the Land of Enchantment, one thing I can say is the Land of Enchantment doesn't extend to its drivers. I totally agree with Dana Bowley's column on the driving habits of our compatriots in our adopted state.
Book learning is one thing, manners are another. The low incidence of using turn signals, which my husband and I used frequently in Washington state, is most likely a cause-effect relationship.
If a person turns on his or her signal to move into another lane, the effect is that the driver in the next lane considers it (usually) his duty to speed up to prevent a successful merge into the lane he is occupying. If signals are not used for this purpose, one can catch the guy by surprise, thereby successfully getting into the desired lane before it has exited onto another freeway.
When we got our new licenses and registered our cars in New Mexico, we almost had to present our first-born son at the MVD to prove we weren't illegal aliens; they had our utility bills, our Social Security cards, our old vehicle registration, our odometer reading, our VIN number, and so on and so on.
For a whole day, we were dragging documents out of safety deposit for their perusal, and opening our cars so they could dig around for whatever the heck they were looking for. I mentioned that only one thing was missing — teaching the citizens how to drive.
Book learning just gets you through the test so you can go out there and do whatever the heck you want.
The people we meet in the stores and on the streets are wonderful, smiling, friendly folks until they get behind the wheel of a car. Then they want to be where they were going yesterday.
We live near N.M. 47, and witness daily the race to get ahead of the car in front, even if you both pull up at the same stoplight less than a second apart.
We have thanked the sheriff's deputy who stopped a guy who was intent on "biting the big one' by passing at 70 miles an hour on N.M. 47 with an oncoming car in the other lane; we invited the deputy to come back any time — as often as possible. Should be a good money maker for the county. However, the deputies are probably trying to stop the carnage somewhere else.
We are trying to start a new courtesy move by letting cars in when they are faced by a hopelessly long line of cars streaming by. Who knows? It could catch on.
Judy Bechtol
Los Lunas
County ordinance is bad for local businesses
On May 22, the News-Bulletin published an article regarding the county commission adopting new mandatory trash pickup for the unincorporated areas of the county.
While I agree with the idea behind the ordinance, I do not agree with the exclusive contract. The ordinance lists one operator to service the entire county. A small, local business owner in the waste disposal service myself, I feel as though they are pushing the small business owners out.
At the beginning of this year, I started doing curb-side pickup for the residents of Valencia County with the green light from the county to do so. Now, this new ordinance is stating that only one operator will be able to service the whole county. What will this do to the few of us already providing service to residents?
While the county will be issuing a request for proposals, I can think of only one company that will be able to handle the amount of residents that are in Valencia County, and that particular company is not local.
While I can handle some of the business, as a small business owner, I cannot afford to purchase the equipment to even submit the proposal to gain the county contract. What will this do the hundreds of residents that have now contracted our company to service them? Why should they be punished with a mandatory operator whom they may be paying more to service them?
The residents of Valencia County should have the option to choose their provider. Right now, we are charging our customers $15 per month, plus tax. Other companies are charging around $20 per month for the same service that we are providing.
For example, say I am going to the grocery store to buy hamburger meat. I am going to check the newspaper ads to see where the hamburger meat is cheaper. Why should I have to go to one store if another store is cheaper?
Our company keeps our business and gross receipt taxes local. Politicians are always talking about "keeping business local." So why are they trying to put us out of business?
The residents need to speak out and let the commissioners know if they disagree with having an excusive contractor providing the mandatory curb-side pickup. They need to speak up if they disagree with the new county ordinance in general.
If the residents of Valencia County agree, they need to contact the county commission.
Charles Montoya
AC Disposal Services, Inc.
FEMA needs to learn about our history
I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of FEMA constantly bending all of us over and constantly requiring us to pay more and more for insurance.
Where in the world do they get their information from? How can they justify their findings?
Come on people, When, in recorded geological history of the Rio Grande Valley, has there ever been or has anybody witness a four-foot flood anywhere?
OK, I do admit that when the ditches break or become filled with trash (poor maintenance) that there are floods in some areas. But never to the extent to which FEMA says we will have flooding.
We are paying for the disasters in low lying areas of this country, and none of our representatives from the governor to local representatives have the guts to stand up and say no! Enough is enough!
What I say is for FEMA to justify their findings with truthful historical geological information. And justify the cost we have to pay.
One of the oldest buildings in Valencia County was just torn down, not because of flood damage, but because of an electrical fire. And never was there any flood damage recorded to this building.
Take accounting of all of the additional costs that go into building a home in the valley from bringing in dirt to plumbing to electrical and all the rest. It used to be that we built in the valley with a good solid foundation. Then it was two feet above grade. Now it is four feet above grade. What a crock of baloney.
Attention all representatives: Get off of your fannies and reduce our cost!
Antonio (Mark) Carrillo
Los Lunas
Big banks should learn a lesson
I think that many of us are so very disgusted that the big banks would be given so many of our tax dollars to save them, about $350 billion, but will not use that money to provide credit to local businesses.
Local and regional banks, however, are picking up that slack while being denied any of the remaining $359 billion TARP funds, if they even ask for them, which many have not!
We sit by helplessly as our legislators of all stripes are either unwilling or unable to do anything. This is a whole discussion. But there is something we can all do.
Whether conservative or liberal, we can choose our banks. It is a small thing individually, but it is an ethical move and, collectively, possibly even powerful. At very least, by closing our accounts at the large banks that accepted so much bailout money and moving our personal or business money to regional and local banks and credit unions that lend to our local businesses, at least our money will be helping our own communities and not leaving them to finance interests elsewhere.
I have done this recently, and I am surprised that these banks offer better customer service and better deals, like interest on checking and savings accounts, and all the on-line banking services of the large banks.
Maybe we can all only do a little to save our local businesses, help our country, reinvest in our own communities, and this is a good way!
And of course, buy locally as much as possible!
Shula Rothenberg
Los Lunas
Immigration reform is badly needed
In response to Livy J. Montano's letter regarding the new Arizona law in the June 9 News Bulletin: Why should the fact that other ethnic groups have suffered harassment and mistreatment in the past be a valid reason for continuing to harass and mistreat people of Hispanic ethnicity?
Many Hispanic people have ancestors who lived in Arizona long before it was acquired by the United States. Why should they and other Hispanic citizens and residents have to suffer the abuse of racial profiling and the harassment of having to prove their status?
Immigration reform is badly needed, but it has to be based on the moral and ethical values which this country cherishes.
Rosalind Ogawa


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We're working on a game called Smuggle Truck. It's an over the top physics-based driving game for iOS, Mac and PC, which was created to poke fun at the woefully inadequate legal immigration system in place in the United States. You can choose to wait 19 years for your visa in the "Legal Immigration Mode," or you can take the truck and try to deliver all passengers safely over the border. The main gameplay involves stunt driving, tilting, rocketing, catching babies, and collecting medals to unlock future levels.
Who's the greatest smuggler of all time? It's gotta be Han Solo, right?
Han Solo is high up in my list, but the greatest smuggler(s) of all time would go to the Greek delivery crew who dropped off the Trojan Horse. Pushing the Trojan Horse; that's a win in my book.
How did you or your company get started?
Myself and co-founder Yilmaz attended college together and had blabbed for a long while about making games together as a full-time endeavor. I was working at a salaried triple-A gig while Yilmaz was jumping around from contract to contract. The catalyst that kicked our asses into gear was the weekend prototype of Smuggle Truck, created at a Boston Indies game jam. With an idea to work off of and it being a prime opportunity in our careers, we decided to kick our jobs and form Owlchemy Labs together. Thus began the 60-plus hour work weeks, not due to publisher deadlines or external pressures, but for the passion of creating games.
Why did you want to make games?
Games are what come naturally to us. Having enjoyed all types of games growing up, we knew that we wanted to author our own game experiences and share them with others. It's kind of the gamer dream. When we decided that it was time to launch a startup, it wasn't a question of what market segment was showing the greatest margins. We knew exactly what our plan was: Make a living creating what we love. Any success over and above what would sustain us would just be icing on the cake.
Do you feel like you're making the game you always wanted to play?
When we were prototyping the game, we weren't thinking, "This shall embody the culmination of our life long goals and summarize all joy and happiness that exists in this world." We wanted to build something remarkable in the sense that we wanted something the world would 'remark' on and discuss. Once we had a working prototype, we did some play-testing and found out that we had stumbled upon a fun formula. The combination of the timing needed for the baby mechanic coupled with the jostling visual of the passengers in the truck while driving at breakneck speeds made for gameplay that we actually enjoyed playing. This was a great moment, and it gave us much needed validation that we had a prototype in our hands that was worth iterating over.
How long did it take you to create?
We began development by prototyping the game during a weekend. We started working full-time on the game in November, so it's about 5 months from prototype to a shippable v1.0.
What's next for you? Will you start a real-life smuggling service?
"Smuggle Truckin' Professional Smuggling Services" was too long of a name so we scrapped the idea. For reals, next up we'll be working with a local indie game developer to create a sequel to one of their popular games and bring it to new platforms. We view it less as a contract gig and more as a collaboration with awesome people, which is one of our major goals as a company; team up with great people and make cool stuff. After that, we'll probably revisit the trucking service again and see if it's become a more viable option.
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Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Company, owned by billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal, announced Tuesday plans to build the world's tallest buildings after signing a 4.6 billion Saudi riyal (around $1,23 billion) deal.
The tower, to be located in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, is to be more than 1,000-meter high, and will include a hotel and luxury offices and serviced apartments, the group said in a statement.
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The centerpiece of the new brick and limestone home is a cozy outdoor terrace embraced by three main-floor rooms. It goes on the market today for $3.9 million. Take a photo tour. Read More
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A fireplace inglenook framed in birch, with bookshelves on the sides, set the tone for a complete renovation of this home, which is listed for $2.6 million. Take a photo tour. Read More
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Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, this home offers wooded surroundings, a racquetball court and more than 300 tons of limestone. It's up for auction. Take a photo tour. Read More
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Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is an infection caused by tuberculosis bacteria that have spread beyond the lungs. People from certain regions (such as southeast Asia), infants and very young children, and people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased risk of developing extrapulmonary TB.
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Lancers fall to 0-3 after loss to Syracuse - 11/24/13
(Rochester, NY) "5,169fans attended Saturdays match between the Rochester Lancers and the SyracuseSilver Knights at the Blue Cross Arena despite the first winter storm warningof the season. Rochesters Elliot Fauske tallied a pair of goals,but that couldnt stop the Rochester Lancers (0-3) from falling to the visitingSyracuse Silver Knights (3-0) by a score of 20-8. The Lancers will get a breakduring Thanksgiving week before hosting the expansion Pennsylvania Roar onFriday, December 6th.
LJPapaleo opened the scoring for the visitors less than five minutesinto the game. The Silver Knights would later double their lead when Kenardo Forbes headed home a Machel Millwood cross to make it 4-0Syracuse after one quarter of play.
Fauske responded for Rochester, scoring for the thirdstraight game to cut the Syracuse lead in half midway through the secondquarter. The Lancers tied things up when PedrinhoFranco set up Fauske for his second goal of the quarter to make thehalftime score 4-4.
The Silver Knights regained the lead when Nelson Santana dispossessed Lancersgoalkeeper Patrick Hannigan andscored from beyond the 3-point arc and into the empty Lancer goal. Santanawould then set up Nate Bourdeau fora goal that just snuck past Hannigan to give Syracuse their biggest lead at thatpoint of 9-4. The Lancers answered back when Joey Tavernese took a restart and set up Gary Boughton for the goal, before Syracuses Bozidar Jelovac scored just before the end of the quarter to givethe visitors an 11-6 lead heading into the final fifteen minutes of play.
SlavisaUbiparapovic struck first in the final stanza on a shot thatjust snuck inside the near post. With Edgarwearing the sixth attacker jersey for the Lancers, Forbes increased theSyracuse lead on the counter attack from just outside the
3-point arc to push the Silver Knights lead to 16-6. The Lancers hung tough getting on the boardin the final quarter when Boughton set up Pedrinho for the goal. With under twominutes left, Forbes set up Jelovac for the back post one timer to push theSyracuse lead back to ten points at 18-8. Syracuse added a late goal with 2.9seconds left to make the final score 20-8 for the Silver Knights.
The Lancers will return to action at Christopher J.Wilmot Field at the Blue Cross Arena on Friday, December 6th when they host thePennsylvania Roar at 7 pm. All matches can be heard live on the Lancersflagship station Fickle 93.3 FM with veteran broadcaster Joe Giuliano once again calling all of the action. In addition all MISL matches can be seen livevia webcast at www.MISLLive.com.
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Ravens coach John Harbaugh was smiling Thursday, but he was not thrilled. Naturally, Harbaugh had heard about Ravens safety Matt Elam calling Lions star receiver Calvin Johnson "pretty old." Trash-talking the Lions, even though Elam also complimented Johnson and said he meant no disrespect, was not something Harbaugh wanted prior to their Monday night matchup.
"I think everybody's old to Matt Elam," Harbaugh said. "Matt's pretty young, and hopefully he learns from his opportunity to speak with the media.
"I don't appreciate it. It doesn't help us. Get a guy like Calvin Johnson all fired up, that's really not the idea. It's Monday Night Football. They've deemed it a playoff game for them. They're going to be pretty juiced up I'm sure. The crowd's going to be fired up, the team's going to be fired up as they should be. I don't think they needed that to get fired up, but we didn't need to give it to them either."
Elam's teammates had various reactions to his comments. Joe Flacco, speaking on a conference call to Detroit reporters, felt like Harbaugh did.
"You just kind of look at him and say, 'Dude, what are you thinking?"' Flacco said. "It's Calvin Johnson."
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However, safety James Ihedigbo and cornerback Jimmy Smith offered Elam their support.
"He's a rookie, he's fired up about this game," Ihedigbo said. "Nothing that we'd ever not back him up on. We're going to let our game talk for us. Nothing really needs to be said about what Matt said."
Smith thought it was much ado about a small issue.
"Honestly, it doesn't bother me," Smith said. "Would you think that Calvin Johnson is not going to come to a Monday night game on national television and not play his best game anyway, because a rookie said something? If they're going to take it as 'That's poster board (material), we're going to take it even harder now,' then they don't have the right mentality coming to play a Monday night game anyway."
Johnson did a little verbal sniping of his own Thursday during a conference call, referring to the Ravens safety tandem of Elam and Ihedigbo, "nothing extraordinary." Asked for his response, Ihedigbo said he looked forward to Monday.
"He's a dominant player in this league," Ihedigbo said. "He's going to have that mindset. We have to make plays to win the game. It's going to be a good battle. Talking really doesn't do anything. The game is played on Monday. I'll be readyMonday night, as will he."


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ELIZABETHTON — Criminal Court Judge Robert Cupp handed down a 16-year sentence Wednesday for 21-year-old James Tennessee Vance, who had been convicted of two counts of aggravated robbery in Carter County and another count of aggravated robbery in Washington County.
Vance and his attorney, David Robbins, contended he was not a dangerous criminal, but had been driven to commit the robberies of the convenience stores because of drug addiction. Robbins said Vance's family attended the sentencing hearing and he has a lot of family support.
"He was motivated by his need to get more money to get more drugs to feed his addiction," Robbins said.
Assistant District Attorney General Melanie Sellers said Vance's actions were not those of a distressed drug abuser but of someone who was choosing a violent lifestyle.
"We have a defendant who chose to be a drug pusher. He chose to acquire a handgun. He chose to rob a convenience store in a more violent manner than was necessary ... He chose stores with a lady clerk ... he chose to put a gun to her face. ... That indicates something much, much more threatening than an addiction," Sellers said.
She said drug abusers don't usually commit acts of violence to obtain money for drugs. She said they steal, commit forgery, shoplift and commit burglaries.
Cupp acknowledged Sellers' argument. Addressing Vance, the judge said "Your are one of the few I have seen who has taken in to this extreme level."
In a Sept. 28-29 trial, a Carter County Jury found Vance guilty of two counts of aggravated robbery. Both were armed robberies of the Quick Stop Market, 2404 W. Elk Ave. The first robbery took place around 2:20 a.m. Nov. 23, 2009. The second robbery was around 5:20 a.m. Nov. 25, 2009.
In both instances, the robber entered the store, held the pistol at the clerk's face and demanded she give him cash. In the second robbery, the man went around the counter and pointed the pistol at the clerk while she took the money from the cash register and gave it to him.
A third aggravated robbery conviction from the Roadrunner Convenience Store at 408 N. Broadway St., Johnson City, was also included in the sentencing hearing. Another aggravated robbery and rape charge from the Broadway Roadrunner was dismissed, Sellers said, because it was phony.
Vance said it was not really a robbery and the clerk had been his girlfriend. He said they had broken up on the day of the robbery, but carried through with the staged robbery. After taking the money, he said they had consensual sex in the store.
In reaching a decision on sentencing, Cupp said "you walked into a store and put a gun in someone's face. I don't know what else could get as close to taking a person's life."
He sentenced Vance to eight years on each robbery. He ordered the Washington County robbery and one of the Carter County robberies to run consecutively, for a 16-year sentence. The other sentence will run concurrently.


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One of the modules I study at NMMU is Public Resource Management, and what a relevant subject this spring! Of course in a country like South Africa, struggling with poverty, corruption and worsening unemployment, public spending is always highly relevant. However, both on local and national level, public spending has been given a lot of attention lately, for various reasons.
In local news, ANC's wish to spend R5 m on the 20 Years of Freedom Events stirred some pots. The opposition did not agree to R5 m, but they ended up reluctantly agreeing to R1.4 m. The following quote illustrates the clashing view of the opposition towards ANC's budget proposition for the events.
"We agreed on R1.4-million, no more. This is not only an irregular expenditure but, in my view, gross wasteful expenditure" - DA councillor Angelo Dashwood
On national level the budget has of course been an important headline. The national budget of South Africa, the budget speech as well as other documents related to it can be found on the National Treasury website. The budget has been described as pragmatic and poignant.
Other public expenditures are not so easily praised. I am guessing most of my readers have heard about the criticism president Zuma face after spending public funds on his private home. The Public Protector made stinging criticism of the president and ministers who have been involved, in her report (the Nkandla report is available on the Public Protector website). According to the Public Protector, the Nkandla project was handled in an 'appalling' manner, and 'state funds were abused'. Opposition parties have pressed criminal charges against the president and want to initiate impeachment.
Poems are also being written about this case. This one I stumbled across at the Times iLive page, written by a user called 'The Lone Groover ZA', titled 'My President'.
My president is a fool,
he has no understanding
of the difference
serve and rule.
My president is a liar,
he lines his pockets
and he lights the fire
over his objects
of desire.
My president is a thief,
rotten to the core
way beyond belief
living in the past
and thinking like a chief.
The election is coming up in May, so we have yet to see how this case will affect ANC turnout . Speculators say that ANC will win with a reduced majority, and in the meantime, there is a lot written about damage control and war of words inside the party.


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Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip - Nintendo Wii
Cracking control options, nicely designed visuals
Fairly short-lived story
While Nintendo's money spinning Wii Fit with balance board usually spends less time on the shop shelves than overpriced tat at a Next sale, titles making excellent use of the handy peripheral have been thin on the ground. In fact outside the fairly dull Family Ski there's practically bugger all outside all that tedious fitness stuff.
So here comes Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip to fill in this little gap for the holiday season. Unlike the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game which are poorly realised with dull gameplay mechanics and repetitive visuals, this Wii iteration - for once - shows a heck of a lot of promise right from the off.
Firstly there's the much hyped motion control. If you lack a balance board you can control your rider simply via the Wii Remote, but while that proves an adept handling system, it's missing out on a large portion of what makes Road Trip such an enjoyable little title.
Just like real life snowboarding it's all about weight distribution. Want to take off to ridiculous heights as you head down the slopes? Then lean back at the right moment and blast skywards. Want to force your rider to travel at breakneck speeds? Then crouch right down and feel the wind rush through your hair. Though not literally. Obviously.
Yes it's really blooming tricky at first, and you'll find yourself ploughing into drifts of snow more often than not on your first few tries. But give it a little time and you'll find yourself enjoying an incredibly intuitive and intriguing method of control that only the Wii can offer at the current time.
The single player story sees you tearing around the globe attempting to keep up with the titular Shaun White, a man who can't seem to stick in one location longer than a few minutes. Each of the five major locations has a handful of slopes to speedily head down, with completion opening up new features and areas.
To keep you hooked to this short-lived story, the higher you boost your respect meter via fantastic special moves and tricks, the more handy special abilities will be unlocked.
It's certainly not a new idea by any stretch of the imagination, but here it simply works. The addiction to nudging your score for each slope ever higher is one right up with any online FPS you can think of.
Despite the Wii's obvious lack of processing power, it can be argued that this is a much better looking title than the other console versions. While it may lack the detail, it packs nice chunky and colourful visuals that interact with each other with devilish accuracy. It's more about the cracking art design rather than pixel pushing power in this one.
The Balance Board support helps nudge this one right to must-have status for those with a Wii Fit gathering dust. A cracking control method rounds off a fantastic all round package that anyone with a penchant for fun will absolutely adore.
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In 2007, Phil served as a senior advisor to the Presidential campaign of Mitt Romney (R-MA), the campaigns of Governor Matt Blunt (R-MO) and Governor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) and he currently advises a variety of state and local leaders nationwide. Additionally, he was recently appointed Finance Co-Chairman of the Republican Governor's Association by Governor Haley Barbour (R-MS).
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