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Top 10 Best Non-Violent iPhone Games
Here is my Top 10 List of favourite non violent video games for the iPhone. I compiled this list because, while there is a huge variety of different types of video games, the testosterone driven, shoot em up style tends to dominate discussions about "serious gaming" and can feel exclusionary and alienating to a lot of other people who may be interested in exploring alternative forms of gaming. Plus these games are loads of fun to play!
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It's no secret that the gaming industry is still unfortunately a very male dominated, male centric place (from the developers to the storylines to the in-game characters).
So it's important to note that "realistic-looking" first-person shooters and other games that employ graphic violence and sexist imagery are not the only games out there even though they do tend to get most of the attention when it comes to talk of "serious" gaming.
Because I'm often frustrated with the male dominated, blood and guts, testosterone driven shoot em up games that seem to dominate the xbox and ps3 platforms, it's refreshing to see so many games on Apple's iOS that focuses on puzzle solving and creative storytelling.
iOS is the shorthand for Apple computer's mobile operating system which is used on their iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices.
Even with (or perhaps because of) its limited graphics and processor capabilities the iOS platform has managed to expand the scope of what gaming can be. We've seen a flood of highly imaginative and engaging games that borrow from 80's era classics as well as breaking new ground with simple and innovative gameplay.
Having so many creative, simple, intuitive and non-traditional games available right in our pockets has really helped bring gaming to a wider range of people (including to more women) who may never have considered themselves gamers before.
These are some of the reasons why I find myself playing games on my phone much more than I do on the more traditional gaming platforms. My iPhone is always there for me when I'm waiting in a long line, riding the subway, or sitting in a boring meetng.
With somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 games currently available for iOS it's not an easy task to pick out the best of the best. So for this particular top ten list I decided to narrow the field a bit. While I really love games like Angry Birds and Plants vs Zombies, I'm reserving this list for games that are based on non violent problem solving. Of course I recognize that Angry Birds uses an adorable and comical form of cartoon violence – plus those damn pigs really do deserve it!
I want to make absolutely clear that I am in no way saying that games that involve violence are always bad or have no value.
What I am saying is, at their best video games can promote problem solving skills, critical thinking, creative mathematics and confidence building.
One of the things many feminist movements have advocated for over the decades is non-violent conflict resolution and creative ways to solve both domestic and international disputes – so while these games might not be explicitly feminist per se, they do focus on problem solving.
So with that, here's my top 10 favorite (mostly) non-violent games for the iPhone that don't involve beating anything to death with a stick.
Tiny Wings is an adorable game about a little bird whose wings are too small to fly. It's a simple one touch button but don't be deceived by its simplicity, getting that little bird to fly can be tricky.
World of Goo was originally created for a PC platform and was formatted to fit the iPhone and I've got to say, it was an incredibly fun game on the computer but it's even more compelling on the iPhone which is touch screen. This physics based puzzle game involves building bridges, towers and other structures to move the goo balls from one place to another.
Groove Coaster is an audio/visual game that tests your rhythm. You have to tap on the screen every time a bubble appears on the track, which corresponds to the beats of the music. It's not that complex but the combination of the geometric visuals and rhythmic music make the experience compelling and engaging.
Cut the Rope is a physics based puzzle game where you have to feed a piece of candy to a frog, in addition to the main goal you have three stars to acquire before feeding the frog in order to get a high score. And you really want to pass each level because he looks so sad when you don't feed him.
Whale Trail is a whimsical and simple game where you help Willow the Whale fly through the rainbow sky dodging the Thunder Brothers, collecting bubbles and making friends.
Bumpy Road is a cute cartoony game that follows a family traveling through their car along the bumpy road while collecting things on the way. You control the movement of the car by manipulating the bumps in the road.
drop7 is a number puzzle game that at first seems simple but gets complex during game play. You drop numbered discs into rows and columns to match the number of discs in that row or column or a disc with that number in the row or column, and you have to clear out discs before the board maxes out.
Flight Control is a simple and compelling game where you have land different aircrafts without crashing into each other. However it's a questionable inclusion on a Feminist Frequency list because of it's sexism. While the game play only includes planes and helicopters, the menu exploits a retro sexist style image of a woman dressed up in various costumes.
Edge Extended is a puzzle game that involves rolling a cube around a maze as quickly as possible. But to reach the end of each level you have to avoid falling off the edge as well as traveling along moving floors and walls.
Contre Jour is a stunningly beautiful physics game where you have to manipulate the world around the hero Petit as opposed to moving the hero himself. To move Petit to the objective you have to nudge the ground and manipulate various environmental elements. Plus, fun fact, the protagonist is named after the classic french children's book Le Petit Prince.
Just like television, movies and music, video games are part of our pop culture landscape and as such play a role in the way that we come to understand and engage with the world around us. They are a part of our social development and at their best they can do more than entertain (though they do that too).
Some of these games are also available on Google's Android as well as other mobile operating systems, so go play them, have fun and be sure to tell me what your favourite games are!
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Thanks for posting this. You often say things that I feel, but have a hard time expressing myself. As a child I loved playing video games on rainy days with other boys and girls on my street. My favorites were Pac-Man, Tetris, Super Mario, and the uber-colorful Sonic the Hedgehog. There was something satisfying in solving a puzzle, or in the case of Sonic the Hedgehog, playing a level over and over until my hands had a memory for it. The first video game I didn't like was Golden Eye, a first person shooter. My best friends in the neighborhood (boys) all loved it, and I didn't. I found other things to do. Games that followed were along the same lines and I found them uninteresting as well. After awhile, I told people that I didn't like video games anymore. I assumed it was because I had out grown them, not that the gaming industry had abandoned me.
"We've seen a flood of highly imaginative and engaging games that borrow from 80′s era classics as well as breaking new ground with simple and innovative game play."
I'm not saying that all women will have experiences similar to mine, I'm just glad there are games now that embrace the things I originally loved about gaming.
And thanks for the suggestions, I'll be sure to check them out.
Let me just say that I agree with you big time on one point: the depcition of women in games is deplorable. When games aren't simply not featuring any female characters, it's not very often we get to see women being either turned into cheap stereotypes or into hyper sexualized oggle fodder. Yes there are some games that do it right. Beyond Good and Evil, The Clock Tower series, The Longest Journey games, & The American McGee's Alice games just to name a few. Still, there are far too few, and that needs to be rectified NOW. Games cater far too much to males, which is woefully unfair when you consider how many female gamers are out there.
That being said, I did have two points that I wanted to raise. First, while there are far more non-violent games that I love than violent ones, I see no real problem with violent titles. many violent games do have compelling narratives, and many of them are also challenging, fun and even intellectually stimulating. And, one point that I would love to hold in Jack Thompson's face, the violence isn't real. It's fictional. It isn't real. In practice, in my day-to-day life, I'm a non-violent man. Real world violence actually digusts me, in fact it makes me a ill, but when I can make the distinction of something being not real, it no longer bothers me, and I feel that as long as one can make the distinction between fiction and reality and between right and wrong, there's nothing wrong with violence in a game. Also, and while I'm sure that this wasn't your intention, it sounds to me like like you're saying men are inherently violent, or only men are violent or that only men enjoy violent games and stories. Plenty of women enjoy violent stories and games and other forms of media that contain violence. For example, I've been a fan of professional wrestling for 20 years now, specifically the WWE (formerly the WWF). Recently, the WWE put out statistics showing that nearly 48% of their audience, which totals in the tens of millions, are women. So, what of the women that enjoy this sort of
game? Even though I dislike the games, I was dragged to the midnight release of *ugh* Modern Warfare 3 by a friend, and waht seemed like nearly half the people in attendance were women who were purchasing the game for themsleves. So again, what of the women who enjoy this content?
Having gone back and re watched your video, I must offer my apologies. I've had this sort of arguement before, in which I was essentailly attacked. Much of what I said, IE, "Also, and while I'm sure that this wasn't your intention, it sounds to me like like you're saying men are inherently violent, or only men are violent or that only men enjoy violent games and stories". I did not mean to be so defensive; I guess I'm just so used to basically being verbally attacked on this issue that I have become paranoid. Please accept my apologies for my neurotic, rambling, and bloated comment. I stand by what I said in the first paragraph, but the second was just…not well considered. Again, I am sorry. Thank you for the video, it was very informative.
I'm kind of starting to feel like a broken record… but I never said men are inherently violent, and I never said women don't enjoy and play violent video games. And I did explicitly state in the video for this very reason, that I'm not in anyway saying all violence in video games is bad.
A few games I enjoy on my iPhone and iPad are Trainyard, Crayon Physics, and Carcassonne. In Trainyard, you have to configure the train tracks to get the trains to the appropriate places without crashing – a lot harder than it sounds! Carcassonne is a version of the board game where you build towns, roads, and fields to score points. Crayon Physics involves drawing simple shapes and using physics to catch a star.
Great post as always.
I just wanted to comment to thank you for always providing a transcript with your videos. So much content online has gone to video only that it's often frustrating to someone who, at times, simply prefers reading an article rather than watching it.
Thanks again.
Like I said, I went back and re-watched the video, and I understand were I was wrong. Again, please accept my apologies.
Love this post. I'm a gamer myself, but I'm always frustrated at the lack of a variety of games to choose from. I rarely play on a traditional platform (my Wii) unless I'm playing the new Zelda game (which even then…when will Zelda save her own kingdom for once?).
So I do find myself playing on my iPhone or iPad. My favorites are Muddled, Fruit Ninja, and Spider. Most recently, when Bjork came out with her new album, she also made an App, where you can visualize and experience each song within an individualized game. It's really neat. Apple has also been coming out with the Myst games on both devices, which I'm enjoying playing again after so many years.
I love your suggestions, though. The Contre Jour game in particular sounds right up my alley. Thanks! And I love your videos!😀
Thanks for this; I enjoyed your list. When I had the iphone I also played a game that I believe was called "Cat Physics." It was similar to "Cut the Rope" where you use physics to get an object (maybe it was a cat treat?) from one side of the screen to the cat on the other side. I've always enjoyed the problem-solving games with entertaining graphics.
I also wanted to comment on your description of violent video games as being "testosterone driven." I believe that the connection between testosterone and aggression is largely inconclusive in research, although it is certainly perpetuated in cultural lore. I think we need to go beyond the testosterone=aggression/estrogen=nurture dichotomy as descriptions for what we associate with women and men.
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This is a great post. I grew up playing games on my friends' Atari 2600s, segued into my own NES, then SNES, then Playstation and X-Box (I sorta stopped there), with PC games being the constant in the background. I've certainly played the hyper-masculine violent FPS games, though it takes a particularly well-crafted entry in that genre to stir me to play. Despite the budgets and artistry and craft in most of the Modern Warfare or Battlefield or Gears of War or God of War or Warfield of Wargods of War IV: WARTIME, the games themselves are of little interest to me.
That said, I've still been guilty of dismissing puzzle games as "casual" or "not serious" or, in my embarrassing teen-aged years, as "girl games." That's right, I'll own up to it. My male gaming friends and I had disdain for puzzle games. Not because they weren't violent, but because they didn't involve narratives, and because they were the type of game that attracted non-gamers (a term which — to us at the time — loosely meant anybody that wasn't a boy between the ages of 9 and 18). I hope I've advanced my critique since then, but I figure I might as well admit to the fact. Particularly, since implicit in the label "girl games" is the assumption that all other games are somehow "boy games" or that an "everybody game" is still male-normative.
Anyway, I think it's important for so many reasons to highlight games which do not fall into the category of these 14-year-old-adolescent-boy-fantasy-of-destruction-and-misogyny games. Be they violent or non-violent. From the point of view of male, today's young men and boys have many more games to choose from than I did at their age, but the biggest and brightest stars are all entries featuring muscle-bound soldiers shooting ish up. Overshadowed are the quest games with rich stories and storytelling, which were essentially puzzle games, but with the puzzles contextualized. Or the RPGs that centered not on slaying monsters (though that was definitely a part) or rescuing princesses, but on moral choices and virtue. These games were a huge influence on my world view as a kid, and I can't imagine that Gears of War won't be an influence on 10-year-old boys today, and how they interact with women.
I love your videos, they're always poignant and sometimes they challenge me, reminding me that as a dude, I don't just get to carry a "feminist card" and stop working at this stuff. Thanks for doing these.
Thanks for your recommendations. I knew about half of the games you mentioned and I'm already checking out the rest.
In case you don't know it yet (maybe you do but it didn't make the cut to TOP10), my all-time favorite non-violent iOS game is Halcyon.
Halcyon's premise is simple: you're given some harp cords, "currents" (i.e. arrows) appear and you must link them by color. It starts off very easy but the difficulty ramps up quite a bit, so expect a challenge.
No Crayon Physics (http://crayonphysics.com) or Katamari Damacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy)?! For shame!
Osmos is another great physics one.
I adored World of Goo but I have to say the 'beauty school' section with the female goos was just insulting (in terms of themes not gameplay, which was as awesome as ever). I'm really amazed that no one ever mentions this at all, it's like I'm the only person who saw those levels or something They seem pretty blatantly terrible to me.


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"[The margin of victory] gives me a mandate for change and they've made it explicit that the next mayor is going to have to be accountable," said Gallo. "I'm going in there in January with a plan and a dialogue that has already been established throughout the city to ensure that it will work."


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Some changes taking place in the wireless industry. Though they all have a ways to go, it's interesting to see this kind of change from T-Mobile.
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Newsarama: Jim, it's well known that you're a tabletop RPG enthusiast — what's your personal history with Pathfinder, specifically? Is it a game you had a lot of experience with prior to this writing gig?
Jim Zubkavich: It's true, I'm definitely an old school tabletop gamer. I've been playing RPGs since the original classic red box D&D set was given to my brother and I when I was only 8 years old.
cover by Erik Jones.I played Pathfinder when it was first released, and read quite a bit of the world material as it was coming out around that time. I've always been impressed with the Paizo staff and their ability to balance gameplay elements with strong plot. Getting a chance to develop the main characters of that same world and make it a solid introduction for people who have never experienced Pathfinder before is a real thrill for me.
Nrama: You're best known for Skullkickers, which obviously has some fun with familiar fantasy trappings. With Pathfinder, you're writing a straight example of the genre. What was that transition like for you?
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Parillo.Zubkavich: Although they're both fantasy-based comics, the style of storytelling is quite different. Skullkickers is a violent send-up of the genre that bulldozes past characterization and goes straight for ridiculous action and banter. Pathfinder is a character ensemble with a much more involved plot and stronger focus on the group and how they grow and change together. It's a classic approach to fantasy. I'm thoroughly enjoying having both fantasy writing outlets on the go at the same time.
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Scalera.Nrama: Speaking of Skullkickers, what will fans of that book recognize in what you're doing with Pathfinder?
Zubkavich: Just because I'm writing a more head-on fantasy story with Pathfinder, that doesn't mean we're not going to have fun with it. The personalities of the Pathfinder cast have been a real joy to develop. Putting them in tough spots and figuring out how they clash makes for some really entertaining scenes, both in terms of action and dialogue. If people like the way I build up scenes or the type of banter I've put in to Skullkickers or Street Fighter Legends, they'll enjoy this too.
Zubkavich: When I pitched my ideas for the comic to Dynamite and Paizo that was one of my absolutes — the comic had to be new reader friendly. When you write the words "issue #1" on the cover, I think that's a clear message to a buyer that they should start here, plain and simple. I didn't want to overwhelm them with reams of back story or unnecessary details. My goal was to create an engaging cast and fun adventure people would want to keep reading issue after issue. It was a challenge, but I feel very strongly that it's the right approach to take with this kind of licensed book. I want to make it an outlet for people to discover what makes Pathfinder so great.
Nrama: Andrew Huerta is illustrating the series. How has working with him been thus far? What's he bringing to the title that's unique?
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Tender is the Night
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Q. What is the result of Tommy and Albert's duel?
Tommy is shot
Albert is shot
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It never happens - neither party shows up
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I have been a Richmond resident for more than four decades, and I can't think of anything more disgusting than the news story in the Times about the Richmond Housing Authority.
My gosh, the people living in the housing are poor and probably don't have many resources. But the city of Richmond gets $26 million a year for this public housing. I thank the Lord every day that I don't have to live in one of those hellholes.
You would think Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, who I admire for her activism on the home foreclosure issue, would get monthly reports on the agencies that affect Richmond residents.
McLaughlin says she has no knowledge of the horrible situation with the city housing. However, it is her responsibility to demand that the people in charge, such as Housing Director Tim Jones, do the job they were hired for and be held accountable to her.
It's really unfortunate the Times had to do an expose. This is a total embarrassment for the city of Richmond.
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Thomas Sowell's Feb. 21 column links Sen. Ted Cruz with President Barack Obama and, for his tea party folks, he included Adolf Hitler.
Sowell says Cruz's recent stunts to embarrass fellow Republican lawmakers may be an attempt to weaken the Republican Party now, in hopes the party is stronger in the future. Sowell tries to maintain his scholarly credentials by telling us about the 1932 German elections and rise of the Nazi party.
His column continually criticizes the Obama administration and says Obamacare is a giant leap of the federal government's power over Americans' private lives. He ends his column by telling us Obama and Obamacare will transform us into Nazi Germany and our freedoms will be lost forever.
I'd appreciate a column by Sowell explaining why England, France, Italy, Germany and the Scandinavian countries all have socialized medical systems that make Obamacare look like what it is -- an idea from a right-wing think tank involving insurance companies. He should explain to those countries how their health care systems have taken away their freedoms and could produce another Hitler.
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This is regarding your article, "There's a chilling effect in the melting pot."
I was stunned to read Steve Kopff, who's making an uphill attempt to make a difference in his new low-income Oakland neighborhood, is being labeled a "gentrifier."
If Kopff were anything other than white, he probably would be praised. But he's not welcome and labeled a pushy colonizer with a "white settler mentality" and anti low income.
So, the goal in life is to have a low income? Is it because if one rises above a poverty-level income, he or she is no longer eligible to receive all the never-ending government handouts?
I hope people raising children there aren't teaching them to not rise to their greatest abilities. Generations of "people of color" have already been lost to the drug of government subsidy.
What's ironic is that our tax money is used to build subsidized, low-income housing, yet when a man wants to spend his own money to make a difference, he is treated like a pariah in those very neighborhoods. Who's running this circus?
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Keller is part of the problem
That was an interesting PR piece by BART board President Joel Keller in the Feb. 23 Times.
Let's see, he's been on the board for two decades. Now he is up for re-election and he wants arbitration and no strikes.
Keller is part of the problem and always has been. The BART board has been giving the farm away for 35 years and Keller has been a big part of it for two decades, as he so proudly states.
Why didn't he say "no" to the SEIU 20 years ago? He is the reason why the wage and benefit package is so way out of line.
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Bronxville Women's Club events
"Fashion in Fine Art" exhibit
Scarsdale resident Anna Marie Magagna Hyde is the featured artist for May at the Bronxville Women's Club, located at 135 Midland Ave, Bronxville.
The exhibit is open for viewing Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., excluding holidays throughout the month.
The exhibit is titled "Fashion in Fine Art." Anna Marie Magagna worked as a fashion illustrator for 40 years. Magagna went on to produce fashion art for other companies including Christian Dior, Jordan Marsh, Bloomingdales and Lord & Taylor, among many others.
Anna Marie Magagna has also worked as an illustrator for books, including Pearl S. Buck's "Christmas Miniature" and "Little Men and Little Women."
The exhibition will include more than 20 original fashion illustrations, which were used in many publications, including the New York Times. Magagna's fashion illustrations changed the look of Bendel from cool, elegant and sophisticated to the savvy, smart and edgy elegance.
Her works are beautifully framed and are for sale. Many of these pieces were featured in an exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York in 2013.
After a successful career in illustration, Magagna is now changing her focus to portrait and conceptual mood pieces.
The Bronxville Women's Club will exhibit those works in September.
The Bronxville Women's Club and host Sal Casabianca invite the public to the next Coffeehouse event at the club on Friday, May 16, beginning at 8 p.m.
The club's Loggia and art gallery is transformed into a sophisticated coffee house with subdued lighting and great art work surrounding wonderful musicians as they play.
Performing this month will be Duo Essence—Rebecca Kuehl on flute and Chris Funke on guitar. It'll be a toe-tapping, finger-snapping evening of styles from choro, samba, tango and Celtic to American folk music.
Also appearing that evening will be Peter C. North, performing standards from the '30s, '40s and '50s.
$5 admission; donations for performers accepted. BYOB, or ours for purchase.
For more information call 914-337-3252 or visit bronxvillewomensclub.org.
New Westchester Symphony Orchestra
Featuring works by American composers Copland, Berlin, Porter and Ungar, plus Beethoven, Bach and Mozart conducted by Benjamin Niemczyk.
Location: Tuckahoe Library, Community Center
Date: Saturday, June 7
Time: 2 p.m.
To register: 914-961-2121
Westchester Italian Cultural Center events
Present day Italy
Friday, May 9, at 6:30 p.m.
Financial crisis, falling population, third world immigration, these are some of the issues Professor Louis Leonini will address in his lecture.
Must register in advance and prepay.
Members $15, non-members $25.
Cooking with the author
Wednesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m.
Share your love and passion for cooking with Fr. Matthew Mauriello, who will present and demonstrate recipes from the culinary book "From A Rectory Kitchen," which he wrote with Franca Bosio Bertoli. A taste of the featured recipes will be served to participants.
A book signing will conclude the event.
Must register in advance and prepay.
Members $20, member's guests $30.
Lions 89th annual dinner dance
On Saturday May 31, the Tuckahoe-Eastchester Lions Club will hold their 89th annual dinner dance to honor local residents who have made significant contributions to our
This year's honorees are Susan Ciamarra, Anthony J. Lore, Sr., past president Lion David Zimmerman and the Melvin Jones Fellow Award will be given to Lion Anthony Pirro.
The dance will be held at The Riverview,
1 Warburton Avenue, Hastings-on-Hudson.
Cocktail hour will begin at 6 p.m.
Dinner and dancing will be from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Tickets are $80 per person and all net proceeds are donated to local charities.
For more information and to obtain a journal ad blank, please visit tuckahoeeastchesterlions.org or contact Phil Raffiani at 914-337-8569 or email@example.com
Lions Clubs International is the largest service club organization in the world. Its 1.35 million members in more than 46,000 clubs are serving communities in 207 countries and geographical areas around the globe. Since 1917, Lions clubs have aided the blind and visually impaired, championed youth initiatives and strengthened local communities through hands-on service and humanitarian projects.
For more information about Lions Clubs International, visit lionsclubs.org.
Community Fund golf outing
The Community Fund's 28th annual golf outing will be held on Monday, May 12 at Leewood Golf Club, in Eastchester.
Registration begins at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch and a 12:15 p.m. shotgun start. There will be cocktails and a buffet dinner with an auction and raffle beginning at 5 p.m.
The auction and raffle have historically included such prizes as a day of golf at a premier golf club, dinners at top restaurants, vintage wines and other luxury items.
Proceeds from last year's golf outing helped make it possible for the Community Fund to grant $533,140 to 26 social service agencies and community programs with the dollars directly serving the residents of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe.
The Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe is an organization of neighbors helping neighbors, organized to support agencies and programs serving the health education and welfare needs of the community. Through its volunteer board and dedicated staff, the Community Fund identifies the needs in the community, evaluates each service agency candidate and assures the accountability of all agencies it supports to ensure the grants are allocated wisely.
To learn more about the Community Fund and the golf outing you can log onto their website at thecommunityfund.org or call the office at 914-337-8808.
Events at the Lutheran Church
Prayer services
Held regularly on the last Saturday of the month. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., following the regular Saturday service, these brief moments for meditation and prayer offer personal prayers at the altar and the ancient tradition of anointing with oil.
Chapel School golf outing
Monday, June 9, at the Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester.
Registration begins at 9:30 a.m., shotgun start is at 10:30 a.m.
Entry fee: $200 per player, $750 per group of four. Price includes 18 holes, golf cart, cocktails and dinner at Mickey Spillane's from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Counseling Center lecture series
Bronxville school psychologist Joyce Vastola will give a lecture titled "Positive parenting: Creating mindfulness, positivity and happiness in the home" on Thursday, June 5, at 1 p.m.
The lecture is $20 per person and includes a light lunch.
This event will be held at the Reformed Church of Bronxville in the Edwards Room.
RSVP by May 30.
For more information, visit counselingcenter.org or call 914-793-3388.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank Monday evening, November 8, 1943 Summary
- Anne says that she's feeling depressed. She's easily terrified.
- A ring at the door while Bep is there reminds Anne once again of the constant danger they live in.
- In bed at night, Anne imagines the Secret Annex burning, or being alone in a jail.


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Trump Towers is the new Pune code. That is, after years of speculation whether to set up shop in India, the Donald Trump-led Trump Organization has brokered a deal with the Pune-based Panchshil Realty to set up a project in the country's self-proclaimed Oxford of the east. Last month, the Pune-based Panchshil Realty made headlines by announcing a branding tie-up with the New York-headquartered Trump Organization for Trump Towers. Business tycoon Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., Executive Vice-President-Development and Acquisitions, played a pivotal role in ensuring the deal went through.
Responding over email, Trump Jr. explains, "I have had the privilege of visiting India many times and just over a year ago, I met with Panchshil Realty. I visited many of their projects and was drawn by their attention to detail, commitment to quality and love of real estate, similar to our core values at the Trump Organization. As the developer of Trump Tower Pune, Panchshil Realty plans to deliver a project that is second to none and truly will elevate the standard of the luxury in this region."


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Kidd class destroyer
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USS Kidd (DDG-993)
|Class overview
|Kidd class destroyer
|Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
| United States Navy
Republic of China Navy (as Kee Lung class)
|Preceded by:
|Spruance-class destroyer
|Succeeded by:
|Arleigh Burke class destroyer
|In commission:
|General characteristics
|Light: 7,289 t (7,174 long tons; 8,035 short tons)
Full: 9,783 t (9,628 long tons; 10,784 short tons)
Dead Weight: 2,494 t (2,455 long tons; 2,749 short tons)
|563 ft (172 m)
|55 ft (17 m)
|32.8 ft (10.0 m)
|4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp (60 MW)
|33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
|6,000 nautical miles (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
3,300 nautical miles (6,100 km; 3,800 mi) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
|Sensors and
processing systems:
|• SPS-48E Air Search Radar
• SPG-60 Gun Fire Control Radar
• SPS-55 Surface Search Radar
• SPQ-9A Gun Fire Control Radar
• SQS-53 Sonar
|Electronic warfare
and decoys:
|AN/SLQ-32(V)3 OUTBOARD II EW Suite
|• 2× 5-inch (127mm) 54 calibre Mark 45 dual purpose guns
• 2× Mk 26 launchers for RIM-66 Standard Missile
• 2× 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Mark 15 cannons (Varies from ship to ship, Block 0/1/1A/1B)
• 2× MK 141 quadruple Harpoon missile canisters
• 2× Mark 32 triple 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (Mk46 torpedoes)
|Aircraft carried:
|2 SH-60B/S-70C(M)-1/2 LAMPS III helicopters
|Aviation facilities:
|Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopters
The Kidd class guided missile destroyers (DDGs) were a series of four warships based on the hull of the Spruance class destroyers. These ships were originally ordered by the last Shah (king) of Iran for service in the Persian Gulf, in an air defence role. The Shah was overthrown in the Iranian revolution, prior to Iran accepting delivery of the ships, causing the United States Navy to integrate the vessels into its own fleet. Each ship in the class was named after a U.S. Navy Admiral who had died in combat in the Pacific in World War II:
- USS Kidd (DDG-993) was named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship, the USS Arizona (BB-39), during the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
- USS Callaghan (DDG-994) was named after Rear Admiral Daniel Callaghan, who was killed during a surface action at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, 13 November 1942, aboard the USS San Francisco (CA-38).
- USS Scott (DDG-995) was named after Rear Admiral Norman Scott, who was killed during the same surface action that killed Admiral Callaghan at the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, aboard the USS Atlanta (CL-51).
- USS Chandler (DDG-996) was named after Rear Admiral Theodore Chandler, who died on 7 January 1945, as a result of burns received from a kamikaze crashing into his flagship, the USS Louisville (CA-28), the previous day.
Originally built for the former Imperial Iranian Navy, the contracts were canceled when the 1979 Iranian Revolution began, and the ships were completed for the U.S. Navy. Because they were equipped with heavy-duty air conditioning and other features that made them suitable in hot climates, they tended to be used in the Middle East, specifically the Persian Gulf itself. During their service with the U.S. Navy, the ships were popularly known as the "Ayatollah" or "dead admiral" class.
All four ships were decommissioned from the U.S. Navy in the late 1990s, and were initially offered for sale to Australia in 1997 for A$30 million each.[1] In 1999, the offer was rejected, based on extensive problems the Royal Australian Navy had encountered during the acquisition of two surplus Newport class tank landing ships from the U.S. Navy in 1994.[1] After the Australian refusal, the four ships were offered to Greece, which also refused.[1]
Sale and reactivation
In 2001, the US authorized the reactivation and sale of all four ships to Taiwan. All four have been transferred to the Republic of China (Taiwan) Navy under the Kuang Hua VII program. They were sold for a total price of US$732 million with upgraded hardware, overhaul, activation, and training, included a reduced missile loadout of 148 SM-2 Block IIIA and 32 RGM-84L Block II Harpoon anti-ship missiles.[2] The reactivation was done in Charleston, South Carolina, by VSE/BAV.[3]
Kee Lung class destroyers
The first two ships, ex-Scott and ex-Callaghan, arrived at Su-ao, a military port in eastern Taiwan, in December 2005, and were named Kee Lung (DDG-1801) and Su Ao (DDG-1802) in a commissioning ceremony on 17 December 2005. Following the tradition of ship class naming, ROCN has referred these vessels as Kee Lung class destroyers. The remaining two units, ex-Kidd and ex-Chandler, were delivered in 2006, and named Tso Ying (DDG-1803) and Ma Kong (DDG-1805), respectively.
The opposition-led Legislature Yuan originally allocated only enough money to purchase half of the SM-2 missiles that the destroyers can carry; a further purchase of 100 supplemental SM-2MRs was included in the 2007 annual budget to ensure all four ships had a full load of SM-2.
By end of 2008, DDG-1802 Su Ao was spotted to have eight HF-3 AShMs installed in place of eight Harpoon AShMs.[4]
Ships in class
- Original name: USS Kidd (DDG-993)
- Tentative Iranian name: Kouroush
- Present name: Tso Ying (左營, DDG-1803); was to be Tung Teh (同德); commissioned on 3 November 2006
- Original name: USS Callaghan (DDG-994)
- Tentative Iranian name: Daryush
- Present name: Su Ao (蘇澳, DDG-1802); was to be Ming Teh (明德); commissioned on 17 December 2005
- Original name: USS Scott (DDG-995)
- Tentative Iranian name: Nader
- Present name: Kee Lung (基隆, DDG-1801); was to be Chi Teh (紀德); commissioned on 17 December 2005
- Original name: USS Chandler (DDG-996)
- Tentative Iranian name: Anoshirvan
- Present name: Ma Kong (馬公, DDG-1805); was to be Wu Teh (武德); commissioned on 3 November 2006
- ^ a b c McPhedran, Ian (5 Nov. 1999). "Navy told US ships too risky". Herald Sun (News Corporation): p. 26.
- ^ "DDG-993 KIDD-class". GlobalSecurity.Org. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/ddg-993.htm. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
- ^ "Vsebav completes reactivation of ex-Kidd class guided missle destroyers". PR Newswire. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vsebav-completes-reactivation-of-ex-kidd-class-guided-missile-destroyers-57109157.html. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
- ^ Photo of ship-mounted Hsiung Feng-III Anti-ship missiles taken at Su Ao Harbour
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kidd class destroyers
- Kee Lung (Kidd) Class Destroyers
- Kidd-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation
- "World Navies Today: Taiwan (Republic of China)", Haze Gray & Underway.
- "DDG-993 KIDD-class"


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The speculation surrounding the eventual destination of Cuban star Yoenis Cespedes has been swirling for months. Most scouts agree that Cespedes is a five tool dynamo that will probably have an immediate impact in the big leagues. Cespedes has been described as "boasting tremendous power," and a "powerful throwing arm." Yet, because of the level of competition he has faced, it is difficult to project where he would eventually fit in the major league landscape.
Two of the more recent Cuban players to make the transition to the major leagues with strong success offer a contrast. Kendrys Morales and Alexei Ramirez have become big league stars, but have followed different paths in the United States. Morales was on his way to producing huge numbers before breaking his leg in a bizarre accident during a home plate celebration. He arrived in the U.S. in his early 20's and had over 1200 minor league at bats before taking off at the major league level.
Ramirez meanwhile joined the White Sox at age 26 without a minor league stay. He hit .290 with 21 home runs his first year in Chicago. Cespedes is also 26, so it is assumed that he would be more big league ready than Morales was.
Other Cuban position players to appear in the major leagues in recent years include Yunel Escobar, Brayan Pena and Dayan Viciedo. None have had the hype of Cespedes.
To evaluate Cespedes, we could look at his World Baseball Classic numbers as a decent indicator against international competition. In 2009 for Cuba in the WBC he was 11-24 (.458) with 2 homers and five RBI's in six games. But that's hardly a large sample and only two of those games were against a strong team, the eventual champion Japan. It is difficult to form an opinion based on competition. That's why most evaluations to this point have been based on his physical skill.
So, do the Tigers have a legitimate shot at landing Cespedes? Many scouts feel that the Tigers are definitely in the mix and have been rumored to have as good of a shot as any club scouting him. His physical tools would certainly fit nicely in the expansive outfield of Comerica Park. That is if his pockets are not weighed down by the bucket loads of cash it will take to get him signed. Estimates of up to $50MM to sign him have been floated. Apparently the Tigers haven't blinked. Dave Dombrowski has seen him play and the Tigers have certainly done their due diligence.
So while we wait for the paperwork making Cespedes an international free agent to be finalized, check out his showcase video. Unorthodox to say the least.


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Was there a cover up by the Obama regime regarding the attacks on our embassys and the killing of our people?
For days now the Obama regime has been outright lying about these attacks by islamic terrorists. Obama and people within the obama regime were claiming the attacks were in response to a video on YouTube. Obama regime officials were also confused. Some regime officials said it was the video and at the same time others were saying it was a terrorist attack. A perfect example that these people know not what they are doing. To top it all off. Obama spent $70,000 to run commercials trying to appease these militant savages. As of today the regime has taken no steps to take control of our embassys, tear down the black Al Queada flags, and burn them. What do you think?
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I see munster still hasn't got it yet lol. By the way munster, It looks like the left wing poofs over at the PMSNBC channel may not be on the air much longer.
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Hong Kong Office Space: Still the Most Expensive
Office rents in Hong Kong's central business district might have weakened, but they're still undeniably the most expensive in the world.
Apart from Central, the bustling city has two emerging business districts across the harbor, but demand from large banks, financial services institutions and Chinese companies for space in the prime commercial area helped it take the crown for the third straight year.
Occupying an office in Central cost an average of $235.23 per square foot annually as of March 31, a study issued by real-estate firm CBRE Group on Tuesday showed. That's almost double the $120.65 for New York City's midtown Manhattan, which took the 10th spot. London's West End came in second at $222.58 per square foot.
Companies with operations in Hong Kong have been looking to Kowloon for lower real estate costs, and demand for office space there helped West Kowloon take the sixth spot on the list with its 9% increase from a year earlier to $173.90.
"It all boils down to supply: it's really the key issue in Hong Kong," said Edward Farrelly, head of CBRE Research for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
"Even though occupiers can now get relatively decent rental deals on the market, in some areas they're reluctant to take up on that because they know in a few years' time rents will be higher."
While Hong Kong's CBD remained the most expensive in the world, the rent was down from $249 per square foot a year earlier, CBRE said, citing slowing economic growth and uncertainties in international financial markets.
But the decline might not last long.
The Hong Kong government increased commercial property taxes in February, which could prompt buyers to pass on the higher costs to tenants, while a study showed the city will face a shortage in office space.
"We don't have space to offer these companies–that's a worry for Hong Kong going forward," CBRE said.
The total amount of office space in Central hasn't changed in 10 years, a CBRE study showed, and a joint study by CBRE and Daiwa Capital Markets last year showed Hong Kong could face a 9 million square feet shortfall in office space by 2020.
Asia Pacific had 21 of the top 50 office occupancy costs globally, and cities in the region took six of the top 10 spots. But the region was also was home to the city that posted the sharpest decline.
Occupancy costs for offices in Singapore fell 16% from a year earlier to less than $100 per square foot annually, because of new buildings and cheaper secondary spaces.


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Supercomputers provide new insight into charge–parity violation
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An international team of scientists has, for the first time, simulated the decay process of a kaon into two pions with extreme precision, using some of the fastest supercomputers available today. This calculation could provide further insight into charge–parity (CP) violation and help to explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.
The new work, published this month in Physical Review Letters, involved researchers from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, Washington University and the University of Connecticut in the US; the University of Edinburgh and the University of Southampton in the UK; and the Max-Planck Institute in Germany. The calculation took 54 million processor hours on the IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer at the Argonne National Laboratory in the US.
Violated theories
CP symmetry dictates that a process involving a particle and a process involving the mirror image of its antiparticle should be identical – particles and their antiparticles should decay at exactly the same rate. This is tested either by creating the particles and watching them decay or seeing the process naturally occurring as certain particles decay into their antiparticles.
The kaon decay process has been explored since the 1960s – in fact, it won physicists James Cronin and Val Fitch the 1980 Nobel Prize for Physics for a 1964 experiment where they had set out to prove CP symmetry but instead found the first "indirect" experimental evidence for CP violation as a kaon decayed into two mesons.
Today, the Standard Model of particle physics is the most successful theory that describing how three of the four fundamental forces – the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces, but not gravity – affect subatomic particles. But certain underlying fundamental questions remain unanswered. One way is to test the model at large-scale particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Geneva. The other is to look at what one of the team members, physicist Chris Sachrajda from the University of Southampton, calls "rare processes", which very precisely test predictions of the Standard Model.
Super simulations
When kaons decay into pions, the constituent subparticles – quarks – are affected by the weak force, and as the quarks move apart, they exchange gluons. But one problem is the huge computing power that is required to simulate quark–gluon interactions. "It has taken several decades of theoretical developments and the arrival of very powerful supercomputers to enable physicists to control the interactions of quarks and gluons, the constituents of the elementary particles, with sufficient precision to explore the limits of the Standard Model and to test new theories," explains Sachrajda. "But we now have the computing power and advanced algorithms that are required to simulate these rare processes."
In the simulation, a technique known as lattice quantum chromodyamics (QCD) is used to carry out the computation. The parameters of the decay are input into a computer as a finite grid or lattice of space–time points. "Using lattice QCD was tricky, as the lattice box has a finite size and this means that the quarks cannot separate infinitely," says Sachrajda. He goes on to explain that the process the researchers considered involved the kaon decaying into two mesons with isospin 2 (a quantum number related to the strong interaction). "This isospin has a real and imaginary part – the real part has been predicted and experimentally verified, and our value was in good agreement with that. The imaginary part, on the other hand, is not known from experiment. This is the first time it has been experimentally determined," explains Sachrajda. He also explains that it was important to repeat this calculation using a second lattice spacing to eliminate any possible errors. The quantum fluctuations of the decay are calculated by a statistical approach called the "Monte Carlo" method, which outputs the most likely fluctuation.
Extreme scales
A novel feature of the computation is that the decay process was simulated over a vast scale. The researchers looked at the process from distances as minute as a 1000th of a femtometre, which allowed them to follow the decay of individual quarks and some other subatomic particles. They also looked at it from a few tenths of a femtometre, where the picture would be obscured by a sea of quark–antiquark pairs and a cloud of the gluons that holds them together. It is at this distance that the gluons begin to bind the quarks into the observed particles. So the actual kaon decay described by the calculation spans distance scales of nearly 18 orders of magnitude – this range is similar to a comparison of the size of a single bacterium and the size of our entire solar system. While the simulation reported here has determined the fundamental kaon decay process, it also marks the beginning of the next phase of the collaboration's work, which involves improving the precision of the computations and extending the range of physical quantities for which the effects of the strong nuclear force can be quantified. The researchers believe that lattice QCD will continue to be an important technique in these studies and that even more computing power will be required.
"What we are trying to do now is 'break' the Standard Model," explains Sachrajda "as that will be the only way to really understand the underlying physics."
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Luis Garden Acosta is a national voice for human rights in the context of community building. For the past 18 years he has led El Puente, an organization he founded, as both a neighborhood and national institution for holistic learning and development inextricably tied to the quest for peace and justice.
Spirited by a unique background as a graduate of St. Marys Seminary, Harvard Medical School and as a community development planner/organizer for New York Citys Office of the Mayor, Luis Garden Acosta has led the community medicine division of a hospital, has produced and hosted popular culture radio and television programs, created a university of the streets, directed a health oriented, statewide humanities program and was a principal organizer for national welfare rights.
Always a bridge builder, Luis Garden Acosta has contributed as panelist, board member or chapter leader to such diverse organizations as the National Science Foundation, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, the New York City Mission Society, the Parks Council, Food for Survival, the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform, and the Young Lords Party. CAFE,(the Community Alliance For the Environment), initiated and led by Luis, dramatically stopped the building of a 55 story incinerator at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.


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CREVE COUER -- Mamie A. Flowers, 63, died June 8, 2012.
Survivors include: three siblings, Janice Flowers-Davis of Hutto, Texas, Wilbur Flowers of O'Fallon, Ill., and Robbie Flowers-Alxander of Kansas City, Mo.; two aunts, Mozetta Henry of Wardell and Alberta Gardner of Columbus.
Visitation will be from 3-8 p.m. Friday at the Officer Funeral Home - Metro East Chapel in East St. Louis, Ill.
Visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until time of services at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Luke Memorial Baptist Church, 3619 Finney Ave., in St. Louis. The Rev. Jimmy L. Brown will officiate.
Burial will follow in Sunset Gardens of Memory Cemetery, 323 Cemetery Road, in Millstadt, Ill.
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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - I had the unique opportunity this weekend to experience my first balloon festival from a private plane, riding along with festival judge Shan Stuart and volunteer pilot Stan Bialek as they monitored the Downvalley Rat Race on Sept. 14.
I can't really speak from experience but I imagine viewing the race from above was a pretty different way to watch it. It was definitely a different view of the Roaring Fork Valley. One by one the hot air balloons that were competing dropped down low and touched the ground, some in open fields and backyards and one on top of a ridge in Basalt. We flew in circles above Toby Brown, who was explaining the best route for his crew to reach him by car. Once we had that straight we returned to the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, but Brown and his crew had a few more hours of work before they were done for the day. Balloonmeister Bruce Wood, who owns All About It ballooning company, ended up earning the Carter Award - named for Jim Carter, who passed away two years ago - for making it the farthest downvalley with a certain amount of fuel still left.
The next morning was the Snowmass Ascension, and I rode in Colorado High with pilot Pat Carter, Jim's son, and blogger Toni Dash from Boulder. With the calm winds that day, sometimes it didn't even feel like we were 1,000 feet off the ground.
Throughout the weekend, I met many ballooners, including many I had interviewed and others I hadn't that had been involved with the festival since the early years. And thanks to the Carter clan, I have been officially "initiated" as a ballooner. Stuart said the ballooners were a unique group of people - well, there's no arguing that.


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JAN 26, 2013 - MacRumors
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Following the premiere of Ashton Kutcher's new film Jobs at the Sundance Film Festival, a number of publications have posted reviews of the flick which is scheduled to arrive in theaters nationwide on April 19. The first video clip of the movie was released earlier this week. Cinema Blend: A biopic about a great man that's way too aware of his greatness, jOBS tells us a lot about the genius of Steve Jobs, but doesn't show us much of anything that actually reveals it.The Next Web But, overall, jOBS works. The lead actors are likable and appear to have put serious effort into getting the
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More About Oil and Gas Conference Lockdown
Feb 1st, 2013
From Tar Sands Blockade
Woodlands Waterway Marriott Hotel, The Woodlands, TX – 9 AM this morning, TransCanada executive Tom Hamilton's presentation of a Keystone XL case study at the Pipe Tech Americas 2013 conference was interrupted when a blockader chained himself to audio equipment and delivered a speech to the nearly 300 attendees. Hamilton, the Manager of Quality and Compliance for the Keystone Pipeline, was supposed to give a forty-minute talk about safety and regulations related to the southern portion of the KXL pipeline. Instead, Tar Sands Blockade organizer Ramsey Sprague gave an impassioned rebuttal highlighting TransCanada's poor safety record.
For several minutes before security disassembled the audio equipment and took him away, Sprague described shoddy welding practices and dangerous corner-cutting throughout TransCanada's operations as exposed by whistleblowers like Evan Vokes, a metallurgic engineer who came forward in May 2012, leading to an investigation by Canada's National Energy Board. Sprague reminded attendees that TransCanada's first Keystone pipeline has already leaked over 30 times and that other industry leaders such as Enbridge are similarly negligent, with over 800 spills since 1999. He derided TransCanada for routing the KXL pipeline through ecologically sensitive areas and through communities like the one in Douglass, TX, where construction crews are actively laying pipe within sight of the Douglass public school.
"TransCanada's safety record is beyond deplorable," said Ramsey Sprague, a lifelong Texan with roots in Gulf Coast communities directly impacted by industrial pollution and waste. "TransCanada's wanton disregard for the health of our communities is clear from it's reckless construction practices. I'm taking action today to set the record straight: TransCanada cannot be trusted. There is now clear evidence that Keystone XL is not safe, and I will not stand aside while a multinational corporation poisons Texas communities."
Sprague also described how activists who blockaded themselves inside the actual KXL pipe on December 3rd could see daylight through holes in welds connecting segments of pipe – and how Tar Sands Blockade has the pictures to prove it. That mile-long section of the pipe was laid in the ground on the same day; no additional welding or inspection occurred after the photos were taken.
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FUZE Debuts New Line of Teas, Juice Drinks
FUZE is introducing a new collection of teas and juice drinks. The new line-up features a blend of natural flavors, according to the company.
The launch kicks off this summer, with a full offering of fountain and bottle/can package options available by the end of the year. The 1-liter package is available now at convenience stores across the country. The new selections from FUZE include:
· Lemon Iced Tea
· Honey and Ginseng Green Tea
· Half Iced Tea & Half Lemonade
· Berry Punch Juice Drink
· Strawberry Lemonade Juice Drink
"Our fans expect vibrant tastes from FUZE and we are excited to add five new flavors to the FUZE family," said Chris Johnston, Tea Director, Coca-Cola North America. "We expect our new teas and juice drinks will both refresh people and accelerate our momentum in this growth segment."
FUZE beverages offer consumers a source of vitamins B6 and B12, available in all FUZE products except Honey & Ginseng Green Tea. They are currently available in 1-liter packages affordably priced at $.99 at participating retailers.
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Japan Box Office: 'Orange' Peels Away From Competition
Orange," a teen fantasy drama about a high school girl who receives a letter from her future self, topped the Japanese box office
Orange," a teen fantasy drama about a high school girl who receives a letter from her future self, topped the Japanese box office
Industry fears totalitarianism and nationalism as new law gives government ability to classify much as secret
After a gap of nearly two decades, Yamada Yoji is finally returning to comedy, the genre that made him famous.
Yoji Yamada delivers a passionless adaptation of Kyoko Nakajima's tale of adultery.
Guaranteed to vex Ozu devotees and bore mainstream auds, "Tokyo Family" is a bland and indigestible 146-minute "homage" to "Tokyo Story."
The Berlin festival has always had to work harder than the other elite festivals. It unspools in snowy February, so can't deliver the lovely weather of a Cannes or Venice or Toronto.
The Berlin Film Festival has introduced a Berlinale Classics showcase, presenting restored film classics and rediscovered works as part of its Retrospective sidebar.
The Berlin Film Festival is close to completing its vast lineup, announcing Tuesday that Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables" will unspool in its Berlinale Special showcase and two films featuring Berlinale…
Predicting an eclipse can be a dangerous business in "Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer," a 17th-century costumer about the man who rectified Japan's 800-year-old calendar.
Directing his 82nd feature in his 79th year, Yoji Yamada composes a sweet valentine to cinema in drama-docu hybrid "Kyoto Story."
With an official selection that's high on dramas and short on laughs, Berlin's Bear slopes into its 60th birthday party (Feb. 11-21) with serious -- repeat serious -- celebrating on its mind.


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Definition of frail in English:
1(Of a person) weak and delicate: a frail voice she looked frail and vulnerable
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- We are bombarded with images of elderly people being frail and sickly.
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weak, delicate, feeble, enfeebled, debilitated;
infirm, ill, ailing, unwell, sickly, poorly, in poor health
1.1Easily damaged or broken; fragile or insubstantial: the balcony is frail the frail Russian economy
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- With the numerous difficulties the country is experiencing due to the frail economy, Zambia has depended on such close allies to surmount her difficulties.
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fragile, breakable, easily damaged, delicate, flimsy, insubstantial, unsteady, unstable, rickety
formal frangible
1.2Weak in character or morals.
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- That's what public relations propaganda is all about - conning frail, vain humans.
- People are frail and make stupid mistakes and one kiss in a bar is not the end of the world, especially when she feels so bad about it.
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- Throughout his triumphs and scandals, and everything in between, he comes across as completely genuine and frailly human.
frailness noun
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- To those who met him from at least the 1960s onward, he already appeared a frail individual, but his frailness belied his determination and toughness.
- Amara studied the woman, her ancient yet wise face, the frailness of her limbs contradicting the underlying strength embedded in them.
- Taking a deep breath, he began, the frailness of his voice alarming him.
Middle English: from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis (see fragile).
fraction from Late Middle English:
Medieval mathematicians called numbers that were not whole numbers fractions. The name came from Latin frangere 'to break', also the root of fracture, fragile, and fragment (all LME), and ultimately of frail (Middle English). People who struggled to learn about fractions may not be surprised to learn that the word is also linked to fractious (early 18th century), or 'bad-tempered'.
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FEB 11, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times
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Chicago-based Boeing Co. said it will conduct more test flights of its grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner today, beginning about 12:30 p.m.
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BJP paid Rs 8 cr for alliance with AGP: Cong
AGP has not put up candidates as per the seat sharing agreement with BJP.
Guwahati: The ruling Congress in Assam on Tuesday alleged that BJP had paid Rs 8 crore to Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) for the alliance between the two parties in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Claiming that AGP had received the money from BJP for electioneering, Assam Health Minister and Congress Spokesman Himanta Biswas Sarma claimed he had "circumstantial evidence and video clippings" of the cash transaction between the AGP and the BJP and will "reveal everything and drop the atom bomb at an appropriate time."
"A sum of around Rs 8 crore was paid for the alliance for which AGP had to sacrifice the prestigious Guwahati and Mangaldoi seats to BJP," he told reporters.
The AGP has not put up candidates as per the seat sharing agreement with the BJP for the two seats.
"Let AGP admit it received the money from the BJP for electioneering," he said, adding that there was a tacit understanding between the AGP-BJP alliance and the Assam United Democratic Front (AUDF), a party of the minority community, on putting up candidates.
"This was proved when AUDF chief Badurrudin Ajmal went on record saying that the party will support AGP candidates in the election," he said.


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