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The PWA Reno World Cup Sylt Grand Slam fleet are getting registrations taken care of today and the event site is heating up as the stars of the PWA descend on Westerland beach in preparation for nine intense days of super grand slam action.
Volwater cruising - PWA Reno World Cup Sylt Grand Slam 2011
A gentle start to the 2011 VW PWA Reno World Cup in Sylt witnessed the world's finest windsurfers spend the day rigging and registering for the upcoming competition, whilst floods of spectators lined the seafront to meet their windsurfing idols. There is something for everyone on the event site from trying your first forward loop on the windsurfing simulator to relaxing with a glass of champagne in the sunshine.
The spectacular opening ceremony kicked the event off in style this afternoon with the sailors parading with their countries flags along the beach and being introduced on stage to an enormous crowd.
The atmosphere will be all the more charged tomorrow as things get serious when the competition starts; we took the opportunity to catch up with some of the competitors that have had a particularly successful year on tour and the PWA's head judge, to find out about their thoughts for the week ahead.
Sylt gets ready for a busy week - PWA Reno World Cup Sylt Grand Slam 2011
Dario Ojeda (Tabou / Simmer / Dakine / MFC) – currently sixth on the men's wave tour: 'I have been training really hard for this year and trying all the new maneuvers to get a good result. I am really happy with my third in Gran Canaria and Tenerife was ok, the conditions were really hard in Denmark and I finished ninth, but I am really pleased to be in sixth place overall. I am looking forward to the week ahead, and I hope some waves arrive.'
Nayra Alonso (Fanatic / Severne) – currently joint third on the women's wave tour: 'So far we have had great conditions on tour; the two competitions have been really windy. I hope the conditions get really good here so we have a decent competition. I will try to sail my best and get a great result here.'
Davy Scheffers (Tabou / Gaastra) – currently fifth on the men's freestyle tour: 'I have done really well this year and I am really happy but I am not done yet, there is a load more to come, I am going to really go for it this week.'
Ben Van Der Steen (Starboard / Loft / Mystic) – currently third on the men's slalom tour: 'I have had a great year and the top three places are already secure, but I am still going to go for it this week and will try to make it on to the podium again.'
Ben Van Der Steen - PWA Reno World Cup Sylt Grand Slam 2011
Duncan Coombs – Head PWA Judge: 'We will try open the competition up with some light wind racing, and on Monday there is certainly potential for a round of freestyle. We will see what the wind does the rest of the week, anything can happen here.'
There is a mixed forecast on its way for the next few days, ranging from light winds to super-windy on Monday, so make sure you keep your eyes on the PWA website for all the action. The skippers meeting for the wave and freestyle fleet is planned for 9am tomorrow morning, with the first possible start to competition at 9:30am. The skippers meeting for the slalom fleet will kick off at 10am with a first possible start at 10:30am.
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Cardiovascular disease is a contraction of arteries of the heart muscle and the body. It usually merges the two most general forms of heart disease – Coronary heart disease and Coronary artery disease. Such contraction can considerably limit the extent of blood which is moved by arteries and decline the extent of oxygen which is carried to the organs. As the coronary arteries get narrower, signs do not emerge until the greater part of the blood stream is unable to reach a space of one's heart. Then this process can cause discontinuous chest pain that grows stronger and more frequent over time. These kinds of crucial assault of the pain in the chest are called acute coronary syndrome.
Heart failures, also termed congestive heart failures, makes the heart less able to circulate blood, less capable to entirely fill and oust the chambers. Consequently, blood moves down into the hands, legs, liver and lungs and causes swelling, fatigue and dyspnea (when it is hard to breathe). Any successive harm to the heart may result in heart failure sooner or later; generally, it is because of coronary artery disease, hypertension or preceding heart attacks. In case the reason is momentary, heart failure can also be momentary.
Cardiomyopathy is a heart muscle anomaly. It can be inborn or it can be caused by stress situations or toxic stuff. One or even more heart chambers may dilate, causing an increase of one of heart chambers. In other situations, some of heart walls may grow thicker. Cardiomyopathy may be caused by decreased blood stream to the heart, by succeeded muscle problems, exposure to such chemicals as alcohol, cocaine and medications used to cure cancer, that damage the heart. It may also have no evident cause (idiopathic cardiomyopathy).
Myocarditis is in fact an inflaming of the heart muscle. It is frequently present with a severe attack of dyspnea or/and an disorderly heart beating and can develop fast. It is often caused by viral infections.
Pericardial disease is a sickness of the sac around the heart. The most common reasons: fungous or bacterial infections, traumas, cancer, or a preceding heart attack. Without any treatment pericardium infections may rapidly become serious. Pericardial disease may cause additional friction "rub" and the chest ache.
Endocarditis is an inflaming of the pellicle which divides the heart and the heart valves. It may be caused by microorganisms or by autoimmune processes.


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But if they would fight I hope it's not naruto using kyuubi mode (although if Tsunade would be able to defend against the speed it would make her less of a weak kage. And it would give us an idea about how characters can defeat superfast people (except deadly precision and AoE ofc)
But I hope that if they fight, they'll use summons. Then Tsunade would remember Jman and maybe even Jman and minato (when minato got trainend by him)


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Best Friends of Democracy
[This post is from Peter Hardie, executive director of the Campaign for Stronger Democracy]
No one admits to being an enemy of democracy. And we are everywhere.
How many parents have used the classic line, "This is not a democracy!" Herein may be the underlying logic that sets a minimum voting age; I probably don't want my seventeen year old son challenging my parental authority in a more public forum.
The minimum voting age is not sacrosanct, universal, nor entirely cogent; there are some brilliant kids with a keen sense of government out there (e.g. John Hunter on TED Talks).
There are a couple school districts in the U.S. where anyone with a child in the school system has a right to vote for school board members, citizen or not. That seems sound and sensible. It would be easy to extend that argument to a host of other constituency matters.
Parents aren't the real enemies of democracy. Our nation's history is marked by more reprehensible agents pushing (and legislating) against democracy. You should have heard of poll taxes, the suffragettes, the Fourteenth amendment, the Voting Rights Act. Democracy has never been a straightforward proposition, philosophical service notwithstanding. There is always a group that could not vote — slaves, former slaves, descendants of former slaves, women, or poor people.
But other barriers keep us out of the public square as well: intimidation, fear, inclusiveness, exclusion, the stress of making ends meet, keeping up with kids or getting an education or fulfilling your life's ambition. We are challenged to lower the historical barriers that prevent each and every voice from mattering and resonating. We are also challenged to remind each other that each and every voice matters, and to promote and encourage full participation. Communities, nations are not geographic entities—they are purposeful and intentional associations of people– in our case, in need of engaged and involved people of all ages.
Democracy exposes contradictory opinions and views. It reminds us of our collective intelligence and our collective ignorance. We don't all like each other, and don't think we should have to act like we do. We don't have good practices for sharing airtime, though many of us work hard at it. Sometimes we simply don't have enough airtime. 300 million voices talking at once? You can see the problem. For some it is solved simply: elect representatives and let them make the decisions. How's that working for us? Not so well, I think.
If there is one lesson most organizers know, it is that democracy is a dual opportunity: to create representative and participatory structures and institutions on the one hand, and, to fully engage people's hands and voices on the other. The free-est and fairest elections, a proliferation of open public meetings and hearings, the strictest adherence to one- person-one-vote–these mean little if participation rates are low, and some communities are excluded or marginalized.
Democracy, in this wide angle, is a powerful force away from the two-party sport we mostly watch on television that exasperates and alienates. More importantly, it is one antidote to the fear, cynicism and hate prevalent in some (loud) corners of this nation. Thorough going democracy may be our shot as a nation at understanding and moving beyond our divides of race and class and gender.
We have organizations pulling people into the public arena (volunteering, voting, participating, working, playing); organizations ensuring some ever-widening common currency of information and knowledge; organizations shining a bright light on the people's business; and organizations ensuring the value and equal share of each voice in the public decision-making. These organizations, aligned in dialogue and action, and connected to broader swaths of the social landscape, can move the democracy dial.
Let's build a genuine grassroots and grasstops constituency for stronger democracy. We have some great ideas to do just that.
Stay tuned.
And never mind those remarks about parents.
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Thanks for this good reminder of the structural and real-life impediments to participatory democracy.
I think that one of the most important things we can do in the Campaign for Stronger Democracy is to be innovative about what it would mean to create an "infrastructure for democracy" that is vibrant, life-enhancing and compelling.
And in the meantime, we have to attend to the barriers — through collaboration, strategic planning and seriousness of purpose.


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President Barack Obama plays with a Petoskey stone as he talks on the phone in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Dec. 6, 2012.
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A few days ago, on the White House official photo feed, a picture surfaced of the president, sitting at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, a finger poised to tap at a shimmering, palm-sized Petoskey stone - Michigan's state stone. The stone actually is a fossilized tan-gray arrangement of colony coral that dates back about 350 million years.
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A steady stream of wannabe lottery winners stopped by Qmart at 2420 Calumet Drive on Tuesday afternoon for their chance at the record $500 million Powerball jackpot.
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BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan captain Salman Butt has revealed he expects Mohammad Yousuf to return to the side for the remaining two Tests against England.
Yousuf, recalled to the squad ahead of the second Test at Edgbaston, played no part in the nine-wicket defeat in Birmingham after only arriving in the country 18 hours earlier.
The 35-year-old had spent the days leading up to the second Test practising in Pakistan's national academy in Lahore.
Butt said it would have been unfair to expose him to England's in-form bowling attack under such rushed circumstances.
"The last 15 days there has been very heavy rain fall in Lahore and he didn't have a chance to practice," Butt told reporters.
"It would have been difficult to put him in and expect a lot from him."
Yousuf has scored 7,431 runs at an average of 53.07 in his 88 Test matches to date and his experience in the Pakistan upper-order is much-needed ahead of the third Test at The Oval.
On his last tour of England in 2006, Yousuf posted scores of 202 (Lord's), 192 (Headingley) and 128 (The Oval) as he tormented the home bowlers.
"We hope he gets runs for the side," Butt added ahead of the third Test, which starts on August 18. "We hope his experience proves invaluable for the team and I hope the youngsters can learn from him."
Butt also paid tribute to wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider, who marked his debut with 88 and shared an eighth-wicket stand of 115 with Saeed Ajmal to add respectability to the Edgbaston reverse.
"The way the boys played was really good and heartening and it didn't feel like both were playing their first games (Tests of the tour)."
Butt, who was the first wicket to fall as Pakistan were bowled out for 72 in the first-innings at Edgbaston, insisted he had no regrets about batting first in Birmingham.
The total was the tourists' lowest-ever against England, however Butt said his decision was influenced by his side's dire fielding display in the first Test at Trent Bridge.
"Fielding is something we need to work on," Butt said. "Maybe, we need to double the work we have done so far."
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All eight of the empty playground swings rock to and fro, unprovoked. Each pair moves in opposite directions, looking like pendulums from the end where Mira stands. Not a soul in sight but in the distance, a melodic laugh is heard. Distinct and childlike.
Whipping through mangled branches of an oak tree and then swooping over the open field, a high-pitched 'chirp' screeches across the amethyst sky with unnatural speed, making Mira jump. The tiny object is gone as fast as it had appeared into the tangle of trees on the other side of the playground.
A Bat.
In only a few short minutes, it will be too dark to see such small creatures anymore.
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Nikolai appears. His cherub-like face-young, round and impish-smiles playfully, but cannot be seen. His angelic and engaging features would appear harmless enough upon first glance.
Until you look closer at his eyes.
They couldn't be mistaken for a child's. They are piercing and wicked. They reveal nothing good. The worst parts of human nature are all you'll find if you have the misfortune of falling into such eyes. Their wickedness accumulating with each despicable deed he commits. And should Nikolai look into you, he will see all the bad and wicked things you've done as well.
To be stared at by him is unnerving, to say the very least. Most people drop their eyes immediately from his glare--but Mira, no she couldn't. At only five years old,that primal instinct, ingrained in all of us at birth, warned her. It told her that her survival depended on hernotlooking away from him at this moment. Just one glance; that's when he would strike.
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Nikolai crouched low in the moist lawn. His knees cracked at his sides and his elbows pointed up at the sky behind him, all limbs perched at weird angles to allow his belly to graze the pointy blades of grass beneath him. He dug his fingers into the dirt, gripping tightly, to propel himself forward at just the right moment.
"I'm over here," his voice called with pure and innocent tenure; a hint of having been said through a smile. Heissmiling. A knowing, iniquitous smile.
The children's laughter rings out as they run around, chasing only the sound of their footfalls in the grass while playing Hide and Seek in the dark. Excited and trill, their voices are all that give away their locations in the burgeoning night. Until they run away again. Hiding behind great oaks, camouflaged in the night, wearing black clothes, against black shadows and black shrubs. None of them could've discerned Nikolai's voice from the others. It blends flawlessly with their own.
Unsuspectingly, and excited to find the first 'hider', the little girl, Mira, runs toward him first.
The deceit is what makes the game so much more enthralling for Nikolai. Tricking his prey directly into his trap, their unquestioning nature leading them right into his clutches; oh, sweet anticipation. He finds the saliva, gathering at the tops of his sharp teeth, savory in its saltiness. To get them before their fear can sour their quintessence is paramount to his ambition.
Nikolai giggles this time. The irresistible chime erupts, giving the little girl another hint as to his location. She corrects her trajectory and is now coming straight for him. He hunches nearer to the ground, unwavering, as she gets closer and closer.
Undaunted, Mira giggles in response, andfollows the playful sound coming from somewhere in front of her while flicking her flashlight on and then off again. She's unaware that the other voices, the familiar ones, are becoming more distant.
Lights in windows of the housessurrounding the playground slowly switch off, one by one. Fewer and fewer of their yellow squares, like beacons guiding the children home,speckle the edges of the tree line. With supper hour well passed by now, and the older folks are winding down for the night.
"Mira! Where'd you go?" they call out for their sister--her siblings; laughing and chasing.
Their flashlights shine on, and then dash off, their happy faces appearing and then disappearing as they tease one another. Two older brothers, one nine years old and the other twelve; and one younger than she, about four years old, run amok over the rolling curve of the field.
Like a train, they follow one another around a small fenced-in prairie, then around a lone pine tree's rounded bottom, then behind the thick, mature width of an oak's trunk, and finally, back up the lawn's gentle slope.
The streetlamps shine bright with artificial orange alongside the lone narrow street, backlighting all objects that lay before them into black silhouettes. It's just enough light in one's peripheral to conceal anything that stretches beyond the field in a swathe of night.
"Mira! Come over here and get us!" the eldest boy calls again, laughing still, but falling wayside from the chase, and unwittingly flicks his flashlight in Nikolai's direction.The beam is too weak to illuminate the distance between them, but it is enough to catch the backs of Nikolai's pupils, which flare like silver mirrors in a desolate black sea for only a second.
"Hisssssssssssss! Kitty, kitty!" the boy whispers noisily when he the two tiny dots in the distance flash back at him.
He wasn't able to make out the creature's shape, but recognizes the iridescent way light reflects off an animal's eyes when he sees it. He figures it's either a raccoon or a cat. Most likely the latter.
The hiss grabs the attention of the two younger brothers. They change direction, bringing their banter with them as they head in the direction of their older brother, who is busy trying to capture the pair of dots with his flashlight again, with no success.
"I got you!"
"No you didn't! It didn't touch me! You have to touch me and you're too far away!" the little boy teases the youngest.
"Kitty, kitty, kitty," the older boy coos again. This time a sinister disposition fills his voice when he summons the animal.
The younger boys' recognize their older brother's mischievous change of tone. Whatever's going to happen next, it promises to be fun, when and if he catches this elusive kitty cat.
As they get closer to where the boy saw the reflective eyes, the wet sound of chewing snaps and squishes in the quietness. Like a dog with a rawhide bone, or a squirrel with twigs, perhaps.
"Sounds like Sonny when he's eating!" the nine year old laughs, referring to their beloved family pet; a black Lab that's still more puppy than dog.
"Kitty found a snack?" the eldest jibes, meandering closer to the sound.
"I bet he got a bat!" the four year old offers.
"Don't be stupid. Cats can't jump that high," the nine year old quibbles.
The older boy's flashlight catches something purple and red against the grass.
Shiny, glistening, black grass.
"Found you, Mira!" the four year old announces proudly when he recognizes his sister's jacket.
As the boys approach, the girl's purple jacket lay there empty, shredded, and saturated with blood. A tangle of matted brown hair, an eyeball, a tiny finger, a shoelace and a white, globular item with brighter red flecks upon it, all sits there in a pile upon the grass. The sopping, glossy, red pile, wrapped in Mira's clothing.
The twelve year old stops in his tracks, and holds an arm out for the other two to stop with him. He runs the shaking orb of light over the gruesome mass slowly, until he comes upon the girl's shoe, still attached to a small leg that disappears under the remains of the purple jacket.
"Mira?" he says, his small and insignificant voice scratches against his dry throat in the deafening quiet.
"Mira?" the four year old's shrill scream squelches after him.
Dozens of chirps whip through the air as a mass of black, fluttering shadows thrash across the sky from out of the large oak's warped branches. The bats, in their unpredictable and lightning fast flight, exchange from one tree to the next. The urgent sound of their thin wings beating the airpierce the night in a torrent of noise one minute--and then…there is only absolute quiet.
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Kinda like a feeding frenzy but less blood and more paint.
Too hot today for Hubby to go to archery so I ignored the fact that he was hanging around the house and put the aircon on in the girlcave and got out the paints.
Despite the fact that I originally had no intention of doing any work at home on the current class "colour field" project, I had had a thought about one and decided to have a play.
This one has gone from this,
to this
and now finally this.
I say finally, because I am calling it. I am bored with it and I just want it done.
To be completely honest, the topic of this term's classes (colour field painting/abstracts) has underwhelmed me and I really just want to get it over and done with.
I still have two small abstracts left to fiddle with at class on Tuesday but I can't see it taking more than half the class before I have finished those too.
I might need to take one of these two to work on while the others finish theirs.
The beach scene is progressing slowly. More work on the water and wave line today but still a long way to go before this one is finished.
Rather than rush it, I decided to give it some drying time and pulled out this colourful oldie.
Started when we were looking at the Fauves in class last year, it lost momentum and never got finished.
I like the composition still, despite the fact that the colours are just not doing it for me, so I decided to rebirth it in more realistic colours.
Still a long way from being finished but already much better than what was before, I think.
Quiet Saturday night planned for Hubby and I. (Me and Hubby, whatever is grammatically correct…)
Kids are both out having a better social life than their parents so we are indulging in fish and chips and whatever is on the tv. (could be the Olympics maybe)
You never know, this slacker might even get her blog reading done…
Shopping for art supplies with my favorite girl tomorrow when the weather is expected to be much cooler.
But right now, it appears to be wine o'clock.
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Knock out two New Year's resolutions in one hour: Save money and send out thank-you notes. One trip to the art-supply store and a quick rummage through your baking supplies and you're all set to take on this craft. These chic ombré thank-you cards are made using food coloring (yes, food coloring!). They're non-toxic, leave minimal stains (the coloring will wash off in one day if it gets on your hands) and they take all of about 60 seconds to dry.
Choose an array of food coloring colors (we LOVE McCormick's underrated neon packs!) and stock up on blank paper and envelopes. Carve out a few feet of counter space and let the dip-dyeing begin! Recipients will be in awe of your timeliness and craftiness. Click through for materials and how-to.
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Blank flat or folded cards (heavy stock) and envelopes (make sure your cards will fit in your envelopes!)
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Pour about 4 cups of hot water into a glass or heat-proof bowl. Drop 10-20 drops of food coloring into your dye bath (depending on how light or dark you want your coloring to be). Mix and match to create fun colors! Stir with a spoon.
Carefully dip one end of your blank note card or envelope into the bath — you may want to experiment with a piece of scrap paper to determine hold times. If you want to achieve two tones, hold for 30 seconds then submerge your card deeper and hold for another 30.
Blot gently with a paper towel, and let dry for two to five minutes. This can be done on a line with clothespins or simply resting on the paper towel — the dye tends to stay put even if a bit wet. If slight wrinkling occurs, place cards between two heavy books for an hour or two once dry.
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CHP Motorcycle Officer Killed in Crash With Truck
Officer Down: Dean Beattie - [San Diego, California]
|By Joe Hughes, The San Diego Union-Tribune
Dean Beattie, 46, died of massive head injuries hours after being taken to Sharp Memorial Hospital after the crash at 12:55 p.m. near Genesee Avenue in San Diego.
CHP Commissioner Dwight Helmick, who flew to San Diego yesterday, said Beattie "was a good rider, an experienced rider," who had spent much of his 24-year CHP career in San Diego County. Beattie lived with his family in Ramona.
"He loved the job and he cared about people," Helmick said.
The death was the first of a CHP officer in San Diego County since Stephen Linen was killed by a drunken driver in August 2001 on Interstate 5 in Leucadia. Two motorcycle officers with the San Diego Police Department were killed in separate incidents earlier this year.
Authorities said yesterday's crash happened when Beattie, who had been following the truck in the far right lane of the freeway, struck the slow-moving vehicle.
The truck was traveling about 40 mph, the CHP said. Beattie had just turned on his amber emergency lights and accelerated to about 60 mph when he hit the truck.
"Maybe he was trying to make an enforcement stop. We don't know," CHP Officer Mark Gregg said.
The motorcycle struck the truck near the right rear wheel well. The impact spun the motorcycle, throwing Beattie to the pavement, where he struck his head. His gear, including his flashlight and other equipment, was scattered over several lanes.
Several other vehicles narrowly avoided striking the officer. The truck driver was questioned. Witnesses said it did not appear to them that he did anything wrong. The name of the driver was not released yesterday.
The truck, owned by Ware Disposal Co. of Santa Ana, was impounded. Ware Disposal representatives who knew of the crash could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Gregg said investigators will listen to dispatch tapes to see if there was any communication between Beattie and dispatchers in the moments before the crash.
The CHP closed the northbound lanes at Interstate 8 shortly after the crash. Investigators checked the northbound lanes for anything that could have caused Beattie to lose control of his motorcycle.
The closure forced thousands of motorists to seek alternative routes, and they crammed local streets and other freeways as the rush hour began. Two northbound lanes were reopened by 6 p.m. The other lanes were reopened about 7:30 p.m.
The investigation proceeded as officers were trying to control their emotions.
"This is very hard to deal with," said Gregg, who was visibly shaken. Yesterday marked the third time this year a motorcycle officer in San Diego County suffered fatal injuries while on duty.
San Diego police Officer Gerald Griffin, a member of the department for 17 years, was fatally injured April 15 when he was struck by a car while clocking motorists in Pacific Beach. He died 10 days later at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla after being taken off life support.
A woman has been charged with misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in connection with the accident.
Veteran San Diego Police motorcycle Officer Terry Bennett was killed June 26 while trying to catch a man who stole a flatbed pickup truck from a construction site in downtown San Diego. In Encanto, the man abruptly made a U-turn and drove directly at Bennett, who tried to get off his motorcycle and avoid the truck but could not. He was struck and thrown against a wall, suffering fatal injuries.
The man accused of killing Bennett has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial and has been sent to a state mental hospital.
San Diego police Detective Barry Eldridge, a 24-year veteran of the force, was killed Aug. 16 on his way to work when his motorcycle collided with a big rig on Miramar Road. Eldridge died at the scene.
Linen, the CHP officer, died after a drunken driver slammed into the back of his parked cruiser at 85 mph on Interstate 5 in Leucadia and then hit Linen.
That happened 10 months after CHP Officer Sean Nava was killed by a drunken driver in October 2000 on I-5 in Carlsbad.
Both drivers were sent to prison.
Staff writer Gregory Alan Gross contributed to this report.


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A couple weeks ago, we brought you a sneak peak at The Little Book of Shocking Global Facts, a slim but striking volume filled with illustrations of unbelievable facts.
This October, the publisher, Fiell, is releasing a successor: The Little Book of Shocking Eco Facts, by Mark Crundwell and Cameron Dunn, with illustrations by Barnbrook Design. We've got an exclusive preview of what the book will look like; here's a taste:
Up top: In the mountain forests of the Colombian Andes, 1/3 of bird species have gone extinct in the last 80 years.
Raw rain forest, if it's simply stripped and converted to pasture, is worth about $150 per hectare per year. But if it's used instead for sustainable uses, that figure rises to $1175:
Singapore is a microcosm of ecological collapse: Since it was first colonized, it has lost 99.8% of its forest cover, and 26% of its natural species:
Light bulbs account for 25% of all the electricity we use; 75% of that could be saved by switching from incandescent bulbs to CFLs:
Methane concentration in the atmosphere has gone up by 148% since 1750, and methane, as a greenhouse gas, has been shown to be 21 times more harmful carbon dioxide:
11 of the 18 species of penguin are suffering population declines; seven are classified as vulnerable; and four are endangered:
The ocean absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the air. As a result, since 1800, the ocean's pH has dropped to from 8.2 to 8.1—and the ocean's life is extraordinarily fine tuned to water acidity. If current trends continue, the ocean's pH will be 7.8 by 2070:
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I'd pose the same argument I did for the other post FC had for the Little Book of Shocking Global Facts - these are not infographics. Yes, they're graphic but they do little to illuminate us or aid in demonstrating relationships in the data. A perfect example is the light bulb illustration on this page. It's difficult to read and I can "get" the same information if I merely read the factoid set in 12 point Helvetica.
This isn't information. As Edward Tufte would say, it's chartoonery.
As I step down off the soapbox, I'll say that FC mostly has fantastic examples of information graphics but these are merely eye candy.


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Our Thought World
WE are all of us absolute monarchs and govern each an empire compared with which old Rome or the modern Greater Britain are, in their extent, as a country parish. Every man's house, we say, is his castle ; but his mind is a world. It is hardly an extravagance of Jean Paul Richter's that " a new universe is created every time a child is born." All our life is a thinking. According to the quality of our thought is the quality of our being. Our humdrum and bourgeois age has dulled its taste for real pleasure. It might take lessons from those old Greek philosophers who, instead of blocking themselves with expensive arrangements, reduced their physical wants to a minimum in order to enjoy, day by day, untrammelled, the luxury of their own thoughts. For, as they had discovered, our thought world is our real world. It should surely be our first consideration to explore this realm, of which we so strangely find ourselves in possession ; to trace its boundaries, to under-stand its laws, to unearth its hid treasures, to investigate the Beyond of which it gives such wonderful hints.
We have just said that our thought world is our real world, and it may be worth while. at the beginning to show that the statement is more than a phrase. Some of us have a confused enough notion of reality. Nothing, for instance, seems more certain to us than the solid "outside of things," with which we are constantly in contact. Dogmas and doctrines may be illusion, but the earth we tread on, the wall we run against, the cloud that rains on us, the sun that shines, are, at any rate, a piece of solid fact which nobody can dispute. This "solid fact" of the visible and touchable, say some aggressive disputants, is indeed all we do know. The invisibles about which metaphysicians and theologians discourse are mere doctrinal ghosts. When we talk of the things we see and handle we at least know where we are.
Yet a moment's reflection should show us the shallowness of this view. The outside world is nothing to us but a series of thoughts. Our mind really constructs it for us. We talk of the world's colours, its scents, its sounds, but there would be no such things as colours, scents, or sounds apart from a mind which can be affected in these particular ways. The fact of one set of vibrations producing in us a sensation we call "sound," and another set a sensation we call " sight," is a mystery first and most of all of the perceiving mind. That the external world can be in any sense the same thing as the image of it formed in our brain, is a notion which the crudest thinker, as soon as the problem is fairly before him, must dismiss as impossible. That the " something outside " which affects us in these myriad ways is a reality, and that our relations with it are truly represented by the reports of our senses, is a thing of which we have and can have no logical proof. The world's very first demand of us-to believe, namely, that it is such a world as our thought presents is a sheer act of faith.
That things are thus with us, that our thought world, far more than any external, is the one we know, will appear more plainly when we consider the mental laws and the way they work in constructing our world for us.
Have we ever considered what happens when we "see " an object, say, a boat moving on a river? Light rays, propagated by vibrations of inconceivable velocity, falling upon the retina have produced there an image. Upon this retina-picture the mind now begins its marvellous work. By one act it gathers all the colour and form impressions it has received into a single unity ; by another act it classifies this unity, separating its individual qualities from its common ones, and by virtue of these latter placing the object into the category called "boat " ; another act gives to the boat's motion a cause, either the action of rowers, or perhaps of a steam propeller. Vastly more are the mental actions and laws concerned than these, but enough are here to show that our boat on the river, as known at least to us, is a work, a very large proportion of which belongs to our own brain. The sense perception; the acts by which we unify and classify it ; the placing of it in space and time ; and that strange last act by which we are irresistibly led to attribute its motion to a cause, are all the products, not so much of the material object as of the marvellous laws within us. The external world, before it reaches us, has
we see, become a manufactured article, and the machinery is in ourselves. The wonder of it all and the awe of it grow upon us as we realise that these laws are none of our making; they were here, we perceive, in all the minds that were before us ; are in all the minds around us ; and the very world itself is built and framed in accordance with them.
Indeed, from whatever aspect we view this inner kingdom of ours, the mystery of it deepens. What are called clever people are apt to be vain sometimes of their mental achievements. They would be less so if they remembered that most of these achievements are carried on by a power that, while within them, is yet outside their own will and even their own consciousness. Our thought world carries on its operations largely without consulting us. The real creator in us is the Unconscious. In that abysmal depth, lying somewhere beneath our formulated thought, the operations are going on which, by-and-by, emerge on our view as completed ideas. Every thinker, for instance, knows precisely the experience which Stevenson thus hits off about his own work: " Unconscious thought, there is the only method; macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in and there your stuff is, good or bad." An excellent prescription for the young writer, but the very terms of it show that, instead of having been the performers ourselves, we are mainly spectators, waiting on the operations of another, who in mysterious ways and in obscure depths beneath the surface, is doing the thinking for us. "Is this my idea P " we say as it flashes into our mind. Why, no one is more surprised at it than ourselves. It is as much ours as the sunshine reflected on our lens. The illuminated lens is ours, but the light has travelled from afar.
But the fact that our thought world is, to so large an extent, worked for us rather than by as, must not blind us as to our share in the operations. Over a large part of its surface our will reigns supreme, and can make of it either a desolation or a paradise. Our thoughts are our companions, which we cannot get rid of. We may shake off every other society, but not this. It is the merest common-sense, therefore, to make it as good as possible. But there is no royal road. A man may buy his way nowadays into all manner of social circles, but his coin is not current in this domain.
Nor will rank serve. The son of Louis XIV., the Dauphin, had for instructors Bossuet and Huet. The one wrote for him "The Discourse cm Universal History" ; the other edited for him " The Delphine Classics." After he had outgrown his schooldays the object of these cares never touched a book, and about the only thing recorded of him is that he was fond of killing weasels in a barn. The lad was heir to a throne, and this was his inner empire ! Of all the waste that goes on in our extravagant world the waste of our thought possibilities is the worst. Lords of this inner realm, we might stretch its boundaries till they touch the illimitable; could make every inch of its surface rich with flower and fruit ; could populate it with the noblest minds; could open it to highest inspirations, to the very breath and prospect of the Infinite. Instead, most of us are content to run up a log hut on its border, to scratch its surface for a few kitchen vegetables, and to leave the rest as barren as Sahara.
With a well-tended thought world all his own, no man need call himself poor or fettered. Moneybags may voyage in his yacht to southern seas and be very much bored over the business.
The worker at his bench, if he know his inner privilege, can voyage to fairer realms and feel no fatigue. Let no man think his taskwork a, monotony, though it be pin-making, or trench-digging, while his mind-realm is his own. There, as he hammers or digs, he may call up what scenery or what action he wills. It is here that thought life surpasses experience. In experience we take what comes, the rough with the smooth. In our inner world we can choose. And surely this is enough to give zest to the commonest career that, at will, we can live over again our choicest moments, recall those elect days when we touched life's best, and make our whole interior radiant with that reflected glory.
There are innumerable aspects of this theme which we pass over in order to touch, in closing, one on which the modern mind is painfully exercised ; the question, that is, of our thought world as related to a future life. Readers of Schopenhauer will remember how, in pursuit of his favourite doctrine of the priority and predominance of the will, both in man and the world, he seeks to belittle the intellect. Our consciousness, he declares, is the mere product and parasite of the brain ; grows with it, decays with it, dies with it. It is the old argument of the Epicureans, which their great poet Lucretius has expressed with unsurpassable force. But it all rests upon a fallacy which a schoolboy ought to perceive. For when we propose to make reason depend upon a brain we must extend our reference, and make the Universal Reason, the mind we discern everywhere at work in the cosmos, dependent upon a brain also; " which," as the logic books say, is absurd." True psychology is coming more and more to realise that the thought world within us uses the brain as an instrument rather than as a cause. The instrument is no more the creator of the thought than Beethoven's piano was the creator of his music. The instrument might wear out, but the music can be reproduced elsewhere.
The truer and higher our mind life becomes the more sure are we that our mind is fed, not by brain activities merely, but more, and chiefly, by Another Mind whose celestial ray streams into ours, and in whose Immortal Life we live. The fine thought of Plutarch concerning the daimon or guardian spirit of Socrates, that it was " the influence of a superior intelligence and a diviner soul operating on the soul of Socrates " can be taken as true of all the nobler thought life. Our bodies may wear out and our brains ; but the thought world which lies behind them is, as we have seen, a realm of its own, with laws of its own. By no possibility, as Tyndall himself confessed, can we find the nexus between muscular and nerve energy and a state of consciousness. They are a world apart. Death, which divides the two, destroys neither the one nor the other. An ancient word still expresses as much as we know. " Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
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Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood sharply criticised Israeli leaders on Tuesday over airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, accusing them of heating up the conflict to score political points ahead of elections.
The latest round of violence began on Saturday, with rocket attacks from Gaza militants and Israeli airstrikes that killed seven Palestinians. More than 100 rockets have exploded in Israel since the weekend. The exchanges appeared to die down on Tuesday.
Also, Israeli tanks struck a Syrian artillery launcher Monday after a mortar shell flew into Israel-held territory, fuelling concerns that Israel could be dragged into the Syrian civil war.
In its statement, the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party referred to Israel as a "Zionist occupier" and a "racist state," placing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on the "fringes" of the "far right."
"In the framework of elections that Israel is witnessing is a recent military escalation against occupied Gaza and the occupied Golan Heights," the statement said. Israel has set parliamentary elections for January 22.
The Brotherhood's party called on Arab and Muslim governments "to stop the Zionist war that is operating under electoral calculations for personal gain far from humanitarian calculations for peace, security and stability."
The Muslim Brotherhood itself released a separate statement shortly after its party's, sharpening the criticism and accusing Israel of following a policy that tries to appear opposite itself "and God knows they are liars."
"The killing of tens of our innocent Palestinian brothers is part of a link in a chain of oppression and Judaization that seeks to impose itself on the ground, and that will never materialise with God's will," it said.
The harsh pronouncements followed a small demonstration in Cairo Monday and open letter signed by several liberal parties and revolutionary groups denouncing the Israeli strikes on Gaza.
The statements by both the Brotherhood and its political party highlight decades of tensions between neighbours Israel and Egypt, despite a 1979 peace treaty. The Islamists, repressed in Egypt under the regime that was ousted last year, have emerged as the most powerful group since last year's popular uprising. They won parliamentary elections and the presidency.
Last month, the group's supreme leader, Mohammed Badie, released a fiery tirade against Jews, accusing them of spreading corruption, slaughtering Muslims and desecrating holy sites. The comments were denounced by Israeli officials and a leading anti-Semitic watchdog group.
Unlike his predecessor, the ousted Hosni Mubarak, President Mohammed Morsi has not met Israeli officials since his election in June. He has also not mentioned Israel by name in official statements, in line with longstanding Brotherhood policy.
But to secure investments and bolster the economy, Morsi recently met with US business executives from top American companies and vowed to respect his country's peace accord with Israel.
Since his election, Israel and Egypt have quietly cooperated over a military buildup in the Sinai Peninsula, where Islamist militants have been attacking Egyptian forces and launching attacks into Israel. The security coordination signals there is no significant shift in Cairo's policies toward Israel, despite the heated Brotherhood rhetoric.
Morsi has also indicated there will not be radical changes in policy anytime soon, even with Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, which rules the Gaza Strip,.
Morsi's government still tightly controls Palestinian movement through the Rafah border crossing with Gaza. Egypt's role in a blockade of Gaza, imposed by Israel after Hamas won elections and later overran the territory in 2007, is highly unpopular.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005 but controls its airspace, seacoast and most land crossings.
In a meeting in Cairo on Tuesday with Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Morsi expressed his "full support" for Palestinian plans to seek non-member state status at the United Nations.
Israel and the US oppose the move. - Sapa-AP
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The Netherlands' designated hitter Andruw Jones (25) slides into home plate in the second inning of a World Baseball Classic first-round game against South Korea at the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in Taichung, Taiwan, Saturday, March 2, 2013. / Wally Santana, AP
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Andruw Jones got two hits and Diegomar Markwell and Orlando Yntema combined for seven innings of four-hit ball to help the Netherlands upset South Korea 5-0 in the World Baseball Classic on Saturday.Roger Bernadina drove in two runs and Dutch shortstop Andrelton Simmons went 3-for-5, including two doubles.
Markwell (1-0) struck out two and allowed two hits in four innings.
South Korea's Sukmin Yoon (0-1) allowed four hits in 4 1-3 innings. The 2008 Olympic champions also made four errors, while seven pitchers combined to give up 10 hits.
Host Taiwan beat Australia 4-1 in the other Group B game earlier Saturday. The Netherlands and Taiwan face off Sunday. The top two teams in the group advance to the WBC's next round later this month in Tokyo.
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Potential jurors stood outside the jury hall waiting to be called. One of the main complaints of people who report for duty is the time spent waiting. / Photos By Michael Hayman, The Courier-Journal
Every year, Jefferson County sends out about 2,400 letters to residents who fail to show up for jury duty, warning them that they could be hauled before a judge if they don't show up.
But they never are.
Local court officials aren't eager to advertise it, but no one gets penalized for skipping jury duty in Jefferson County, even though Kentucky law says they could be fined or jailed if they don't.
"That should occur," acknowledged Chief Jefferson Circuit Court Judge James Shake.
The reason it doesn't, Shake said, is because it would be too expensive and take too much time to find and subpoena those who fail to show and then set court dates to bring them in for hearings.
The result, some court experts say, is juries that fail to represent the community and thereby contribute to Jefferson County's problems with having too few poor people and blacks on juries.
"Without our vote, we can't be part of the process," said community activist Christopher 2X, who has expressed concern that too many members of the black community aren't willing to accept jury duty.
"It's already a disproportionate number we are dealing with."
A Courier-Journal review of one year of jury data found that residents from Jefferson County's predominantly black ZIP codes were 26 percent less likely to serve in a jury pool than people from predominantly white ZIP codes.
The gap was more stark for residents in low-income ZIP codes, who were 37 percent less likely to serve than those living in high-income areas.
The exact number of people who ignore jury duty is impossible to determine. Jefferson officials send out a second notice 90 days after a resident misses jury duty, but they do not keep track of how many notices they send.
Melinda Wheeler, director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, said it would take a lot of time and money to determine which residents don't show up for legitimate reasons and which simply don't want to serve.
"And I don't know … if that's a viable process to keep up with that," she said.
Under Kentucky law, people who fail to appear for jury duty are supposed to be ordered to court to tell a judge why they didn't appear. If they don't have a legitimate reason, they can be held in contempt, resulting in possible fines or jail time.
Shake occasionally has issued court orders for people who have written back refusing jury duty, and he said contempt hearings should be held at least periodically to send a message to the community.
"It's not an option just to ignore it," Shake said. "It's not fair for some citizens to take their responsibilities seriously and others not to."
Jefferson hasn't alwayslet the no-shows slide
Jefferson County wasn't always lenient.
In 2001, then-Chief Circuit Judge Thomas Wine issued criminal summonses to hundreds of people who failed to show up for jury duty, saying the law required it.
Wine held several court hearings that year, ordering those who could be found to explain why they didn't show up -- and why they shouldn't be held in contempt of court.
On one of the first hearing dates, 72 people came before Wine, including 38 blacks and four Hispanics. Wine ordered almost all of them to serve but held none of them in contempt of court.
Circuit Judge Geoffrey Morris, the chief judge before Wine, said he held similar hearings every six months.
Many jurors told Wine that two weeks was too long to be away from their jobs. Others were ill or their family's sole provider or simply didn't trust the justice system. But the most common reason given was that they simply forgot.
Wine said one man told him that it's against his religion to judge others. When Wine asked him what religion that was, the man replied: "It was one of the 'C' religions." Wine ordered him to serve.
"We no longer have a good mix if you have a certain portion of the community opt out just because they don't want to serve," Wine said in an interview.
Some jury experts agree, noting that many of the people who skip jury duty typically are hourly workers whose employers won't pay them for the two weeks they must serve.
"So you get a jury skewed more towards people with more money," said Robert Boatright, a political science professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., who has written several articles and studies about jury selection.
"You want to have a representative jury. It's in the courts' interest to find out why people are not showing up."
Boredom and paltry payare keeping people away
Compared with other states, Kentucky doesn't provide many incentives to serve.
Kentucky pays jurors $12.50 a day, one of the lowest rates in the country, and the state doesn't require employers to pay workers while they serve.
Jury terms in Kentucky also tend to be longer than in some states, ranging from two weeks in Jefferson County to up to a year in other areas.
Boatright said it would help if counties improved jury conditions by adding computers to jury rooms, raising pay, improving meals and calling jurors in only if they will be used.
Lee Wales, a 63-year-old retired black man, had jury duty earlier this year but did not make it onto a panel. He described the task as boring.
"You're just sitting there waiting," he said.
He said he understands why some people don't show up for jury duty, since some employers won't pay their salaries.
"A lot of people just have to work," he said.
Louisville resident Joe Stuckenborg, who also had jury duty earlier this year, understands why people would want to skip, especially if their employers don't pay them. But he said "it's something that just has to be done" for the system to work.
"Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do," he said.
Some jurisdictions ensuresummonses aren't ignored
Although many courts "look the other way" when residents don't show up, some jurisdictions have stepped up enforcement, said Tom Munsterman of the National Center for State Courts.
In Pittsburgh, responses to summonses improved dramatically after a publicized crackdown on residents who ignored jury duty, said Ray Billotte, administrator for the court system in Allegheny County.
Now, he said, 80 percent show up, compared with 50 percent to 60 percent before.
"It's amazing what happens when word gets out: 'Hey, I can't ignore this anymore,' " Billotte said.
In Phoenix, a judge holds contempt court each month for residents who fail to show for jury duty, said Bob James, director of jury management in Maricopa County. The response rate has doubled since the enforcement policy began nearly two years ago, he said.
Jefferson Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Stengel said authorities have more important things to do than track down those not interested in serving.
"He's the last person I'd seat on a jury, somebody that would have to be arrested to be brought in," Stengel said.
Staff writer Kay Stewart contributed to this story.


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Seneca Valley marched its fast-paced, high-scoring offense into Newman Stadium on Friday looking to snap a 10-game losing streak to perennial power North Allegheny.
But the top-ranked Tigers (3-0, 2-0) proved they are still the class of the Quad North, as standout seniors Mack Leftwich and Alex DeCiantis powered the two-time defending WPIAL champions to yet another blowout win.
Leftwich threw touchdown passes to Gregg Garrity and Elijah Zeise, and DeCiantis rushed for two second-half scores, as North Allegheny cruised to a 45-3 win over the No. 5 Raiders (2-1, 2-1). The Tigers have won 17 straight WPIAL games.
"We heard a lot about how good their offense was," North Allegheny coach Art Walker Jr. said. "Our defense took it personally. It was a big conference win."
Leftwich, who entered the game with a WPIAL-leading 602 passing yards, put North Allegheny up, 14-3, when he connected with Garrity for an 8-yard touchdown pass late in the first half. The senior found Zeise on a 10-yard scoring pass to open the third quarter, and DeCiantis scored on runs of 7 and 26 yards to put the game out of reach.
After a slow first quarter in which the teams traded field goals, North Allegheny grabbed control when Kevin Edwards scooped a blocked punt at the Seneca Valley 5 and walked into the end zone for a 10-3 lead.
"That was huge," Seneca Valley's Don Holl said. "Our defense was really fighting in a 3-3 game. We were playing well and had a blown assignment on special teams."
The Tigers offense methodically took the game over from there, keeping Seneca Valley's dynamic offensive trio of Forrest Barnes, Jordan Brown and Jon Dorogy off the scoreboard. Barnes, who accounted for four touchdowns in last week's 50-26 victory over Pine-Richland, was held to 22 yards on eight carries.
Leftwich completed 8 of 16 pass attempts for 137 yards, and DeCiantis rushed for 100 yards on 19 carries. Brown, last year's WPIAL passing leader, accounted for 191 yards, with 96 coming on the ground. But much of those yards came with the game out of reach.
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The Aggies are now 13-19 on the season while the Falcons moved to 7-24 overall.
NMSU took a 6-1 lead after scoring twice in the top of the first inning, once more in the second and three times in the top of the third, but the Aggie offense was shut out in the final six innings of the contest.
Falcon pitcher Trent Monaghan held NMSU to just two hits in the six scoreless innings to earn the win, while NMSU left-hander Trey Higginbotham took the loss in falling to 0-3 on the year after working 0.2 innings and allowing four runs. Junior lefty Robert Kraft started on the mound for the Aggies, going 2.1 innings and allowing three runs.
The Aggies tallied 11 hits on the afternoon with right fielder Michael Paulson leading the effort by going 2-for-4 at the dish with a run and three RBI. The Falcons had nine hits on the day and were also aided by six Aggie errors.
NMSU center fielder Michael Medina got things going for the Aggies with a lead-off walk before shortstop Kent Blackstone hit a single through the right side in the top of the first. Both base runners scored on a double by Paulson.
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The Aggies seemed to have opened things up, scoring three runs on five hits in the top of the third with Paulson and Wagner each coming up with an RBI. NMSU struggled to hit the rest of the game, reaching base nine more times on three walks, two errors and three hits.
Officials at the University of North Dakota have deemed Kraft Memorial Field unplayable after a recent storm dumped additional snow in Grand Forks, ND. In turn, this weekend's four-game series between New Mexico State and UND has been canceled with no make-up announced. The Aggies next scheduled game is April 17, for the start of a three-game home series against Seattle University.


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A CROCODILE is on the loose in the suburbs with rangers on its tail just days after a close call with a separate reptile in which two fishermen were lunged at, at a boat ramp.
Rangers spent last night trying to track down the rogue crocodile that nearly snapped up two local fisherman in the Bohle River on Wednesday and warned locals to be on the lookout.
But the Bohle croc is not the only one that has authorities and residents on edge.
Rangers have also set up a crocodile trap and warning signs at the crossing of Freshwater Lake and Oonoonba Rd.
Townsville Deputy Mayor Vern Veitch said the reptile had to be caught and relocated before it caused any harm.
"A croc has been sighted in Fairfield Lakes," he said. "It was spotted earlier this week.
"It's not huge I believe it's about 2.5m but we would be asking for a relocation regardless of its size. It's not the right place for a croc."
An Oonoonba resident told the Bulletin he saw the trap being installed on Tuesday and that he was not surprised to hear of crocs in the waterways.
"It's just a long trap with two floats either side," he said but asked for anonymity.
"I'm not surprised to hear they're tracking crocodiles there. There's no reason why they couldn't be there, it runs into all the creeks and it gets 4m tides there."
The increased crocodile activity, which has been put down to breeding on the back of a late wet season, did not deter the two fishermen from returning to their favourite spot yesterday afternoon.
Kevin O'Keefe and Gavin Rackley reported being lunged at by a 2.5m saltwater crocodile while fishing near the Bohle boat ramp on Wednesday.
As a crocodile reported to be over 2.5 metres long and displaying aggressive behaviour, the croc may qualify for removal under state guidelines.
They spent yesterday fielding questions from many locals and fellow fishers who wanted to know precisely where the run-in had occurred.
"Everyone's been messaging us and calling us – people want to know exactly where it happened,'' Mr O'Keefe said.
Mr Rackley, who on Wednesday had the crocodile lunge within a metre of him, said he would like to see the menace caught.
"It's pretty cool that they might try to trap it," he said.
"I'd like to see the thing that tried to catch me. You can't let them hang around if there's families and kids down there."
The Department of Environment and Heritage Protection spokesman said EHP rangers had also erected a recent crocodile warning sign in the Bohle Creek area and would conduct a spotlight survey of the Bohle River.
"The department investigates all crocodile reports it receives," he said.
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You guys really thought somebody would make a game about that show and then call it Chamber of Secrets? I, for one, clicked on this game thinking it was a mash-up of Harry Potter and the sequel to Robot Jox.
Looks like there may be some texture issues on the gun, stretching or UV problems near the bottom of the screen, closest to the camera. I know this is still a work in progress, so just keep up the good work.
Cool to see these guys finally come to life (if only to get decapitated). The green versus black knight... not sure if that was meant as a Monty Python reference, but that's great! Also for some reason I want to see an unlockable King piece with the big head from the Buger King commercials.
Just as a heads-up, unless you actually submitted footage to the ESRB, you may want to get rid of the ESRB rating on your box and just keep your generic warning. From Wikipedia: "To obtain a rating for a game, a publisher sends the ESRB videotaped footage of the most graphic and extreme content found in the game. The publisher also fills out a questionnaire describing the game's content and pays a fee based on the game's development cost." ($800 fee for development costs under US$250k).
Cool, but definitely a more Halo-ish vibe than your earlier concepts. First thing I saw was this and the ATV next to each other in the gallery, along with that "dot" you put in the center of the "o" in your logo, I thought this was a game somehow related to Halo...
A pusher... nice.
Super interesting concept!
Cool hut. It is always interesting to see the design process unfold. My only concern is that the size of the stairs (on the isometric views) seem to be quite large in comparison to the humans, more specifically the size of each step. The scale seems more reasonable in the colored thumbnail sketch.
I think it just needs some shadows underneath it to better anchor it to the environment. Otherwise, looks pretty cool.
Looks awesome, but perhaps the eye-scar is a bit too cliche? I've just seen a bunch of those around. I know it's like instant badass, and it works, but maybe a more unique facial scar could have the same effect and also give this guy a really distinctive look.
Whoa BlackBeta... bam-a-lam!
Are any of your maps complete enough for a video fly-through?
Gillz. He's in it for the thrillz! haha
Good luck though, hope to see plenty of new media in the near future...
Youtube.com Haha. Couldn't resist.
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This better not be one of your enemies. I'd rather quit the game than hurt a single leaf on its doey-eyed head.
You totally need one of those "Powered by Unreal Technology" intros.
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