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5 Crucial Lessons Learned by Watching Kids Play Video Games
Watching my kids play video games is like watching a virgin fumble around with his first prostitute. You just want to put down the camera, strap on your dildo hat and say, "No, look, you do it like this." For a long time, I thought that they just sucked at gaming, and grounding them for in-game deaths obviously wasn't working.
But the more I analyze their suck, the more I'm realizing that it's not their fault. It's the games themselves. And watching how the kids play -- and what they refuse to put up with -- will tell you everything you need to know about the future of gaming.
They Don't Tolerate Losing, So Modern Games Just Let Them Win
Let's face it, in the video game universe, death isn't what it used to be. I remember when save points were a thing, forgetting to use them for a couple of hours meant your death would erase everything you just spent half a work day accomplishing. In older MMOs, dying meant a loss of experience points or levels.
Go back a few years before that, and you find NES games that didn't even have the ability to save. You die, you're back at the menu screen. There are people in this world who have played the first level of Super Mario Bros literally 10,000 times.
Welcome back, asshole!
Because of this (MMOs aside), I learned to pause my game frequently. If I had to take a piss, it got paused. Need a new Pepsi -- paused. Need 10 minutes to stalk the neighbor lady -- paused. Because if you didn't, you were absolutely guaranteed to come back to a corpse, and you'd spend the next hour trying to come up with a good story to explain the Nintendo-shaped hole in your bedroom wall.
In almost every modern game, death isn't shit. If you die in Fallout: New Vegas, you just pick up at your last auto-save, which happens every couple of minutes. Every time you enter or exit a building. Every new area. Every time you sleep. Because of that, death is not even something my kids take into consideration when running face-first into a herd of Radioactive Cock-Punching Punchcocks. I've seen them put down the controller and go swimming for an hour while their character stands, staring dumbfounded into the horizon.
In their universe, when God takes a crap, the whole world stops.
Why Do They Do It?
I'll come back to Fallout: New Vegas again because it has a perfect example. Just outside of the very first town, there is a road adorned with signs that basically say, "If you go past these signs, you will fucking die. No, this isn't a fake warning." And of course, if you just assume that their "not a fake warning" line is actually a fake warning, you find out very quickly that you were in error.
My kids barrel-ass in without weapons or knowledge of the game whatsoever ... because why not? The only thing keeping me on the safe side of those signs is my memory of what video game death used to be like. I've been conditioned to respect the idea of virtual death, and the thought of falling to it is beyond what I can accept as a player.
What Does it Mean?
There is no price for failure. When you die, you're put right back where you left off, fully healed and ready to try again. That's a radical fucking change considering if you missed a single jump during the final boss battle of Super Mario Bros., you may have to start the entire game from scratch. It'd be like if a game today was set to delete your save if you failed at the end. It's unthinkable.
Now, I'm not saying we should go back to such a drastic style of play by any means. And it sounds ridiculous to groan on about how much harder games were "back in my day" because, you know, they're just fucking video games. But still ... those of you who grew up with the old-school games, have you felt anything like the horrible tension you felt when you knew that you were on that last life, on that last level and that dying meant everything you had accomplished would be wiped out?
"Knock it OFF! If I die, you go to the orphanage."
The stakes were so high, and the feeling you got from winning was like you'd won the Super Bowl. Now, when I'm given a virtual God Mode from the very beginning as part of the game design, it just feels ... well, kind of wrong. But the new generation of gamers disagree with me, and the entire concept of getting stuck in a game is treated like a bug that gets squashed during play testing. So games have moved on to the "long interactive movie" concept, a progression from A to B where it's a foregone conclusion that you're going to win, and without any kind of real hardship along the way.
They Have No Tolerance for "Grinding"
"Grinding," if you've never heard the term, is the "work" part of a game. You reach some boss you're clearly not strong enough to beat, or you don't have the right weapons. Then you figure out that to get strong enough or to earn the weapons, you need to go repeat earlier levels (or in an RPG, wander around and kill a bunch of random animals).
OK, only 491 more rabbits, and I can move up to angry plants.
For somebody like me who got into RPGs with the '90s era Final Fantasy console games, you knew what you were in for: 1) doing a lot of reading, 2) adding a midi soundtrack to your nightmares and 3) grinding your ass off to out-level a bullshit random monster that was harder than the motherfucking end-boss.
No one "enjoyed" it, I don't think. On some level, we knew we were putting the storyline on hold in favor of making our characters powerful enough to see the next cut scene ("What's that? We need this amulet to destroy the dragon that is about to wipe out the kingdom? OK, wait while I kill 300 armadillos."). But it was what the game told us to do, so we did it. You didn't question that shit.
When my kids encounter a boss that requires grinding, they think the game is broken, or that they're just missing something. I've seen them spend up to two hours trying to kill a Deathclaw in Fallout: New Vegas because they don't consider the idea that they should come back when they're more powerful. It's there, so we should be able to kill it. What's the problem?
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"There it is! Quick, PUNCH IT!"
Why Do They Do It?
It's all they know. Once more, most games have come around to their way of doing it. Boss encounters in most games are designed to be beaten after about three tries. In some games, the enemies' level is adjusted to the players' level. In newer Nintendo games and in L.A. Noire, they give you the option to just skip a level if you fail too many times.
What Does it Mean?
I'm starting to think it means that the very idea of grinding was a bullshit trick to begin with in order to pad a game. When I was a kid, games were set up to make you grind the same tasks over and over because it would stretch out the play time. With the right amount of grinding spots at just the right intervals, a developer could easily -- and often did -- turn a 20-hour game into a 40-hour game. And that was a huge selling point to say, "Final Fantasy III has 40 hours of gameplay!"
Yep, and 30 of those hours were this.
Now, it's normal to expect the quest to be five to 10 hours long depending on the genre. If you want a long game, get a multiplayer game and go online. Congratulations, you have a game that never ends. Or, you get a sandbox game and spend the next six months in GTA trying to jump out of a helicopter and land in a swimming pool.
But it comes down to the fact that my kids can do what I never could at their age -- they recognize when a game is full of shit. They can do that because they have a lot of other titles to compare it to. And if what they're currently playing is trying to bullshit them, they simply put down the controller and go play outside ... and that means when Kill, Loot, Repeat 2 hits the shelves, they're going to say, "Fuck that" and buy $60 worth of ice cream instead.
They have no problem with repetition here.
If They Want to Read, They'll Buy a Fucking Book
Even in the age of cut scenes and professional video game voice actors (though most video game voices appear to be done by one guy), there is still a ton of reading to be done in video games. In RPGs, the quest-givers will still roll out their instructions across several paragraphs of backstory. Even supposedly "mindless fun" games like Dead Rising make you read the instructions given to you by the people you're trying to rescue. Then you have titles like the recent Metroid games and Alan Wake where collecting and reading text files fills in some mystery or other.
All that text to the left boils down to "talk to the guy behind me." That's not a joke.
And my kids will not tolerate that shit.
They will hammer the "skip" button as fast as they can to get to the part where they're doing the fun stuff. Even if they needed the character to tell them what exactly they were supposed to be killing or destroying or collecting. If you just blast through the text in any Fallout game, you will have no goddamned idea what you're supposed to be doing. It doesn't matter; to them, it's still not worth it. They'd rather just try to stumble across the objective on their own.
Why Do They Do It?
Just to be clear, my point isn't that "this next generation hates to read!" Because that's not the case with my kids at all. Both of my boys could fill Prince's sequined thong closet with their recreational reading. But even if they were dyslexic, the Fallout example wouldn't make much sense, as often those NPCs actually do speak their lines along with the on-screen text. It has more to do with the fact that they want their games to be games, and their books to be books. Combining the two doesn't really make sense to them. And maybe they're right.
"We must hurry ... but first, let me tell you about his origin and history."
I'm patient with game text because, well, I remember an era when text was all you had to tell the game's story. In 1993, I didn't have games where the king would walk up to you and start talking in Patrick Stewart's voice. But my kids see the text as a ridiculous, archaic intrusion. They prefer games built more like Modern Warfare, where the next objective is shouted at you mid-battle.
"Ramirez! I'll wait here, you go re-capture the White House."
It's less "here's the entire history of the opposing faction" and more "here's a gun -- go."
What Does it Mean?
You can already see games coming around. When World of Warcraft first came out, doing quests meant plowing through a metric fuckload of text. You talked to a quest-giver and actually had to pay attention to their sob story to figure out where to go. The guy's speech would boil down to "kill 20 Disembodied Asses and I'll give you a prize," but if you didn't pay close attention to his spiel, you could find yourself wasting an hour, killing the wrong thing. Like Embodied Asses or something.
Six years and countless updates later, it's now set up so that as soon as you accept a quest, they put a marker on your map that shows exactly what to do, where to go and how many of whatever to kill, collect or discover. Gone is all the character and backstory of the NPCs living in that universe. They basically turned an MMORPG into an MMOG.
"Wait, why am I killing 50 snakes, again?" "Just kill the fucking snakes, asshole."
In other words, I don't think you can write off the "hate to read" demographic as just the younger kids who can't sit still. As they've grown up, this hasn't changed, and I can see gaming coming around to their way. Taking control away from the player and forcing them to stop and read is being treated more and more like a flaw in the design.
As somebody who writes for a living, I like the idea of future games that are full of rich characters and plot, but I'm getting the sense that the next generation of gamers will have no patience for that shit. And if you think that the answer is just dressing up that story in flashy cut scenes, well ...


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The singer, 33, married manager Tim Weatherspoon in an intimate ceremony during their island getaway. The couple kept things simple, hosting the festivities in two private residences and forgoing bridesmaids and groomsmen, a source tells PEOPLE.
About 30 guests attended the wedding. Destiny's Child BFFs Beyoncé and Michelle Williams made the trip, along with Beyoncé's sister Solange and her boyfriend. But Jay Z – whose post-Met Gala elevator fight with Solange has gone viral – stayed home with daughter Blue Ivy.
"Kelly was really happy, Tim was happy, and it was a great break for everybody from the normal grind, but now they're all going back to work," the source says.
She certainly stuck to her word: Rowland previously told PEOPLE that she wanted low-key wedding plans.
"I think we really just want it to be us and our pastor. That's it," she said in December. "I mean, we are the only two that [are] going to be in the marriage."
Rumors of Rowland's quiet nuptials surfaced earlier this week, when she and her former bandmates were spotted arriving in Costa Rica for vacation.
Back in December, Rowland channeled lifelong friend Beyoncé when announcing her engagement, quoting "Single Ladies."
"He put a ring on it," she said on The Queen Latifah Show.
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MARTINSBURG - Darkness comes a little earlier these days. Fog rolls in, and falling leaves lend an eeriness to the air, rustling or swirling in the night chill. If one is venturing out into the darkness, beware of the night sounds. Was that a hoot owl? Falling leaves, or some otherworldly creature following in one's footsteps? Be careful walking down Martin Street. Now is the time for Apolloween at the Apollo Civic Theatre. Everyone likes a good haunted house around Halloween. The Apollo's own real ghost, George, may make an appearance.
Organizer Jen Roberts said the Haunted Theatre is different every year.
"We have different horror movie themes and any themes we do recycle have a different room layout and storyline," she said.
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The skits are scripted, but it is a suggested script. Improvisation is encouraged. Evoking an emotion from the audience with live action is what they know how to do. In fact, Roberts said the Youth Summer Theater Workshop cast rewrote the opening scene script. The Apolloween cast ranges in age from 7 to 65 years old.
Four separate events with multiple nights comprise Apolloween. Scares and spooks jump out in live-action vignettes at the Apollo Haunted Theatre; there are selected horror flicks at midnight on the weekends, the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and Trick or Treat for youngsters and adults on Mischief Night, all at the Apollo.
The entire theater is used for Apolloween, Roberts said, from the stage area, ballroom, third floor, to the makeup and green rooms.
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What: Apolloween
Where: Apollo Civic Theatre, 128 E. Martin St.
When: Haunted Theatre: 7 to 11 p.m. Fridays & Saturdays through Oct. 27 Midnight Classic Horror Films, Fridays and Saturdays. "Rocky Horror Picture Show," Oct. 20 and 27 at midnight.
Admission: Haunted Theatre, $10. Horror films, $5. "Rocky Horror," $15. Audience Participation Packs $3. Tickets on sale at door. Trick or treat 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 28 Free/donations accepted. Includes lighted tour of Haunted Theatre.
Information: 263-6766, email@example.com, www.apollo-theatre.org.
The many volunteers have been preparing for Apolloween since January. Props take all year to design and build. Most costuming is done by hand.
The Apollo Civic Theatre is a nonprofit organization. The expenditures are great, and the shows and other activities that go on at the theater do not generate enough money to sustain the regular operation. Fundraisers are held throughout the year to offset costs for expenses like utilities. Patron and business membership support also helps.
Apolloween is one of the major annual fundraisers.
The Youth Summer Theater Workshop will handle concessions to offset its production costs. Day care is provided. Children 13 and under need to be accompanied by an adult.
The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is held on two nights, Oct. 20 and 27, accompanied by a shadow cast. Children 17 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
The movies at midnight are at the Apollo this year, not Berkeley Plaza 7. The concession stand will be open. Movies begin Friday, with 1931's "Dracula." Renfield enters Castle Dracula in Eastern Europe to finalize the transfer of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who actually is a vampire. Renfield is turned into one of his thralls. Dracula turns his attention to Lucy Weston and Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward. Dr. Seward calls in Dr. Van Helsing to diagnose Mina Seward's deterioration in health. They have to save Mina.
Saturday, it's "Little Shop of Horrors" starring Jack Nicholson, from 1960. Seymour works in a flower shop and creates a carnivorous plant that needs to feed on human flesh.
On Oct. 12, the thriller is "The House on Haunted Hill" from 1959 and starring Vincent Price. Playboy Frederick Loren hosts a party for fourth wife Annabelle at the house, which was the location of seven murders. Frederick invites five guests. He offers each of them $10,000 to spend the night. At midnight, the doors are locked and the terror begins.
On Oct. 13, it's the 1922 silent film "Nosferatu." Count Orlok's moved to Wisburg and brings the plague. This reveals his connection to Thomas Hutter, and the Count's obsession with Hutter's wife Ellen, who is the only one who can end the evil.
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Oct. 19's terror is "Carnival of Souls" (1962). While driving her car with two girlfriends, a woman is challenged to a drag race and drives off a bridge into a river. It seems the girls have drowned. But Mary gets out of the water. Two days later, she drives to another town to work in a church, despite not being a religious person. While driving, she has visions of weird people. She's haunted by spirits and frequently drawn to an abandoned carnival.
The final flick is Oct. 26, with 1968's "Night of the Living Dead," where the dead come back to life to eat the living. Hordes of zombies terrorize while people barricade themselves inside a country house.
On Mischief Night, there is a lighted tour of the theater from 4 to 7 p.m., and trick or treat for children 13 and under with adults. Other nights have an admission charge, but this night is donation only. It includes a lights-on tour of the Haunted Theatre.
No photography is permitted. In the haunted theater portion, visitors may experience intense audio and lighting, extremely low visibility, strobe lights, fog, damp or wet condition, and a physically demanding environment. Those who are physically challenged, pregnant, in a cast or using a crutch, have claustrophobia, are prone to seizures, or have heart or respiratory problems may not want to participate. Ask upon admission.


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When is free speech really 'hate speech?'
December 22, 2012
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceabl......
Uh, I have the 'right' to hate you if I choose. Stupid liberal lunatics.
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How can we choose one right over another? Does the right of free speach supercede, the right of peacful assembly, or the right to practice religious cerimony? Aren't those the issues here? Do we have the right to disrupt the practice of one right in order to pactice another?
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Sleeping with someone can be scary.
Just last Saturday, shortly after midnight, I was on that sweet edge of oblivion, the moment of no return when you feel yourself slipping under. At that instant Widdle Baby--already sound asleep—sat bolt upright, bobbed his head sharply and let out a blood-curdling scream. Then, still sound asleep, he flopped back down into his pillow.
Every wife will understand my reaction, which was to A) Wet the bed and B) Run to the kitchen for a bread knife. I didn't stab him, of course. I love my husband and also I'm still on probation. Just kidding, Mom!
The next morning we were groggily heading to church when Widdle asked, "Did I jump up in bed last night?"
"Did you ever," I replied dully, inspecting my split ends. (I really do feel sorry for the people who see me at the 8:30 a.m. service.)
He smacked the steering wheel. "I remember! I dreamed I was being attacked by a gang! They had my arms and legs pinned--all I could do was head butt. So I did!"
"So brave," I mumbled.
"It's not funny. I was fighting for my life like Bruce Willis," he said. "Yippie ki yay!"
Sleep scientists say the older you get, the more important it is to get quality sleep. Not more sleep, necessarily, but better sleep. The kind of deep slumber that lets you wake up refreshed and ready to tackle the day. Good sleep is a vital factor in functioning well.
If that's true, Widdle and I are dysfunctional. Nonfunctional, even. In fact, we are zombies.
Some back story: I prefer sleeping single. I slept with my sister 'til I was 12, and then snoozed alone until marriage at 26. Eleven years later I was once again blissfully solo, splayed out like a starfish in my queen-sized bed.
When Widdle Baby and I first wed, my sleeping subconscious threw a fit. I thrashed around like a gator in a death roll every night. Somehow, he dodged my elbows and stuck it out until we became compatible bedfellows.
This bliss lasted until our true colors emerged.
You see, as newlyweds I didn't snore and he didn't fight monsters. But today (after surgery that, ironically, improved my breathing), I gulp and gargle in my sleep. And he twists, turns, groans and punches. All. Night. Long.
Now, dreams don't mean much to me. I've had the same one for 40 years: A young woman in a white dress is grating nutmeg in a darkened kitchen on a sweltering summer day. It's a peaceful, soothing dream. But Widdle goes all Jackie Chan in REM.
Then there's that demon, insomnia. I went through a stressful period, years ago, when I literally slept two hours a night. I know it was two hours because for the other 22 I was working, shopping, cleaning, reading, grooming the dogs, sanding and repainting cabinets, running at 4 a.m., hanging wallpaper, baking compulsively and addressing Christmas cards in June.
Finally I went to my doctor and said, "I'm not… uh, kumquats?" He looked at my sunken eyes and shaking hands and said, "Here. Take this pill 30 minutes before bedtime." I did, and slept 13 hours.
That was in 1998, and that same pill works to this day. Or night. It's a blessing. When I take my magic pill, I'm going to be asleep in 30 minutes.
Unless somebody starts street fighting six inches away.
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Harman has a tradition of holding a square dance on the Saturday before deer season kicks off - "The Deer Hunter's Ball."
It is a tradition that will resume this year, as part of a schedule of dances coordinated with the Mountain Dance Trail, a project of the Augusta Heritage Center.
"It's a natural gathering time for many former area residents who have come back for deer hunting season," said Gerry Milnes, folk art coordinator of the Augusta Heritage Center.
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Before the hunting season kicks off, the town of Harman invites hunters to the Deer Hunter's Ball square dance. Dancing, music and refreshments will fill the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall beginning at 7 p.m.
This year's Deer Hunter's Ball square dance will be held on Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $2 for students. Refreshments will be provided by the Harman VFW Ladies Auxiliary.
Providing live old-time music will be Jack Hedrick on fiddle, Alan Crossland on guitar and Judith Lazier on upright bass and several others will join them. Delmis Evans will be hollering out mountain circle square dance figures as he dances on the floor. All square dances are beginner friendly. Other local square dance callers are encouraged to attend and call dances as well. Participants can come out to dance or to listen.
Ron Mullennex, graduate of Harman High School in 1967, remembers the whole community coming out to square dance.
"People of all ages, kids too young to court, some that very much had courting on their mind, and married people married who had kids that were courting," he said. Square dances are "part of the area, part of the culture."
The Mountain Dance Trail has been working with local residents to organize square dances two other dances were held in April and June. "We had a great turnout at previous dances," said Rebecca Hill, AmeriCorps member working on the project, "and we hope to continue to do so."
The Mountain Dance Trail is a heritage tourism project of Augusta Heritage Center of Davis and Elkins College. The project preserves and promotes local square dances from the Virginia Line to the Ohio border.
On Saturday, the square dance in Harman wraps up the 2012 season. The 2013 Mountain Dance Trail season is planned to run from January to November.
Harman square dances will be part of the season, along with 14 other communities. The brochure with schedule will be available in December and may be seen online at www.mountaindancetrail.org. Information is also available by calling the Mountain Dance Trail coordinator at 304-637-1349.


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A brief look at EFFEN vodka: Based out of Holland, this smooth spirit was actually designed for the "club scene," thus a younger audience. The rubber non-slip grip is definitely a plus for those busy bartenders around town. In addition, the rubber sleeve helps with the insulation of the vodka. In terms of the taste itself, it goes down smooth and perfect for either a mixed drink or a simple vodka shot at a party.
Below were some of the drinks I tried during the event:
6th and Main - EFFEN Black Cherry, Prosecco, St. Germain
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quote: wow what is windows7?
quote: Microsoft gets sued for the most idiotic things. I remember when they were getting sued for including their web browser in their own operating system.
quote: Still don't see what the integration bought them. Firefox is much better than IE.
quote: Has Mozilla used information that the EU squeezed out of MS?


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A 50-year-old Clarence man drove drunk to State Police headquarters Saturday night to report that he was concerned that he could not get in touch with his 19-year-old daughter, police said today. The daughter, it turned out, was fine, police said. She was at her Grand Island home with a broken phone.
The man however, was charged with aggravated drunk driving.
When state police gave Ronald Baron a Breathalyzer test they found his Blood Alcohol level was .24 - three times the legal limit to drink and drive, police said.
Baron, of Xavier Road, about a half mile from the Main Street State Police headquarters, drove to the police station at about 9:30 p.m. to report he had not been able to get in touch with his daughter since she left his home earlier that night to drive to her home on Grand Island, police said. Baron was concerned about her safety, police said.
At Baron's request, State Police sent a police car to the young woman's Grand Island home, and found she was safe but that her phone was not working, according to police. Police, meanwhile, had determined that Baron was drunk when he drove to police headquarters. He was charged with drunk driving, then released to a relative. He is to appear in Clarence Town Court at a later date to answer the drunk driving charge. email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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OCAD University Graduate Conference
March 14-15, 2013
Toronto, ON
Gaėtane Verna, Director of The Power Plant
When writing about what he called the "topology of contemporary art" critic Boris Groys made the important observation that the cultural production of the current age "privileges the present with respect to the future and to the past." Taking such to be true, and mindful of the obligations of the study of historical change, the study of contemporary art and the cultural implications of what is often called contemporaniety, turns on the question of whether it is possible to study the present while simultaneously existing within it. At the heart of this experiential, observational and temporal concern is that of the role and perhaps necessity of distance in the critical study of cultural production. Too Soon invites exploration of this rolling spatial and temporal phenomenon through the lenses of history, theory, criticism, artistic practice, curation, design, media studies and their various combinations.
The Contemporary Art, New Media and Design Histories program at OCAD University invites submissions from graduate students of all levels and disciplines, as well as independent scholars and artists. Themes and subjects are limited to the period from 1980 to the present. Conference presentations will be 15-20 minutes in length.
Submissions should include:
- a 250-word abstract detailing the proposed paper/presentation.
- a brief biography
- a one-page CV
- your contact information
- whether you would like to be considered as a moderator for a session during the conference
Submissions are due by 5:00 pm on Friday, November 30th. Please send all submissions and queries to email@example.com.


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Yes Kerry, the world is coming to an end, all because someone said the Vikings were historical and no longer in existance. Eric the Red is coming back with a band of Vikings and obliterating the world, or at least Tomahawk.Originally posted by Kerry Tobin:
Is the world coming to an end?
No I haven't but thanks for the site. I think I shall visit it with my grandson. He really likes that period of time. I have seen various Viking relics in Ireland.Originally posted by aphephilia:
Have you ever been here Nell?
Aphephilia is absolutely right. I have several patients who have black skin and are from Africa but they are not black or African American. They are caucasian. They are from Ethiopia but way back when the Vikings ruled they had migrated to Africa from the Caucasus region of Europe. They are insulted when they are referred to as blacks or African American. There has been a lot of news stories locally about this issue. African Americans are those people whose ancestors came here as slaves. Recent African immigrants do not want to be called African American. We call people from Somali Somalis, those from Nigeria Nigerians, etc. That is their preference.Many people assume my younger son is African American, he is not, he is Afro Colombian.Originally posted by aphephilia:
Rayne, it may surprise you to know that all "African Americans" are "black" but not all "blacks" are "African Americans". So why would we call them all "African Americans"?
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UNIVERSITY PARK - Penn State fans got their first closeup look at Christian Hackenberg, although not the other quarterback vying for the starting job, Tyler Ferguson, and the Nittany Lions raised a record sum of money during the 11th annual Lift for Life on Friday.
Hackenberg took part in the fundraising workout as fans watched from nearby bleachers and the surrounding area near PSU's lacrosse field. He and the rest of his teammates then signed autographs after the event, which raised about $116,000 for Kidney Cancer Association.
"It's amazing what we've been able to do in the past five years on and off the field," senior offensive lineman Eric Shrive, who personally has raised more than $100,000, said of his work with PSU's Uplifting Athletes chapter.
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Several Penn State players compete in a tug of war during the Lift for Life event Friday in University Park.
While Hackenberg was on hand, Ferguson missed the event as he's back home in California visiting his family. There has been speculation that Ferguson is so homesick that he might not return to Penn State to compete for the starting quarterback job, although coach Bill O'Brien and the rest of the team do expect him to return to school.
O'Brien wasn't at Lift for Life, but strength coach Craig Fitzgerald was asked about Ferguson.
"Tyler Ferguson is at home," Fitzgerald said. "He has spent time with his family, and good for him. The guys that are here at Lift for Life, really proud of them, too."
Fitzgerald also was asked if he's confident Ferguson is doing what he needs to physically during his time away from the team to stay in competitive shape.
"I'm happy he is home with his family, spending time with them," was all Fitzgerald would say. "I'm excited when he comes back."
One player who was back working out Friday, somewhat surprisingly, was running back Zach Zwinak. He suffered a left wrist injury during the Blue-White Game, and while he had the wrist heavily taped, he did take part in the grueling workout.
"Zwinak is a warrior," Fitzgerald said. "He got into that rehab with Wes Sanz, our assistant athletic trainer, Tim Bream, Scotty Campbell. All the time he is in there. He's working his hand and wrist. It's no surprise that he is ahead of schedule. That all has to do with him. If you asked me a month ago if he could do this, I'd say let's be cautious and not do this. But he said, 'I'm doing it.' It's exciting. He's ready to go."
Numerous PSU players typically are made available to the media at Lift for Life, which serves as an opportunity for them to talk about their excitement for the upcoming season. But Friday's event was different as O'Brien decided that only three members of the team would be able to speak to the media.
Shrive and two fellow Uplifting Athletes officers, center Ty Howle and right tackle Adam Gress, were the only players available to comment about the event and the upcoming season. All three expressed pride in the enormous amount of money - now more than $800,000 - raised by Lift for Life since its inception in 2003.
"It's important to our team, it's important for the fan base," Gress said. "It's for a great cause. I think it not only helps raise money for something, it helps everybody in the community come together."
Shrive has personally been responsible for a large chunk of the money raised by Lift for Life over the years. He also has personal experience with kidney cancer as his uncle, Marty King, battled the rare disease about two years ago.
Shrive said his uncle is "doing real well" now, and he was scheduled to be on hand for Friday's Lift for Life.
"It was something that was found by accident," Shrive said of his uncle's diagnosis. "That's the effect that this disease has on people that sometimes they don't find it because it's not a prominent disease, it's not a prominent cancer and the funding is not there. So they don't find it a lot. When they do find it, sometimes it's too late."
Shrive already had been working with Uplifting Athletes to raise money to fight kidney cancer, but seeing his uncle battle it served as even more motivation.
"I saw what he went through, and it pushed me to raise more money," Shrive said.
Lift for Life not only raises money for a good cause, it also serves as a good workout competition for the players.
"We have a lot of fun with it," Gress said. "It's competitive, but in a fun manor. It's not, say, as competitive as a game would be, but it's a lot of fun because we go offensive line versus defensive line, defensive backs versus wide receivers, and it really allows us to have some competition, trash talk each other a little bit and have some fun with it."
Gress promised beforehand that the offense would win the competition, but in the end the defense prevailed with a score of 220-152.
"All week long, our guys have been excited about it," Fitzgerald said. "We've been telling them it's going to be a like a game atmosphere out here and to just cut it loose like they do when they play the game.
"They've been working really, really hard all summer. That gets to be a little bit of grind. Something like Lift for Life is great for our guys. It gives them a chance to go out, relax, show what they can do. It's for points. They are having a blast. It's fun for our players. It's great for the fans with their support here for the players, and more important, for the cause."


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Three Mount Pleasant youth baseball teams are headed to the Cal Ripken Southeast Regional championships next week.
The 10U, 11U and 12U Mount Pleasant all-stars each won state championships last week in Aiken to qualify for the regional tournaments. The three Mount Pleasant teams lost just one of 12 games, combining to outscore their opponents 111-34 through the three-day state tournament.
Mount Pleasant opened in the 10U tournament with a 19-0 win over hosting Aiken on Friday. After a narrow 4-3 loss to James Island Saturday morning, the all-stars rebounded with a 13-2 win over North Augusta later that afternoon. In a rematch with James Island in the championship game, Mount Pleasant ran away with an 11-3 win for the state title.
The 11U all-stars defeated Aiken, 11-5, in the opening round Friday. They knocked off West Ashley, 11-4, and North Augusta, 8-6, Saturday before pulling out a 4-3 win over Aiken on Sunday.
The 12U all-stars turned in the weekends most dominant performance, winning three of four games by at least 10 runs. The all-stars took a 12-2 win over Aiken Friday. They beat Goose Creek, 7-0, and North Augusta, 15-5, Saturday before shutting out Goose Creek, 11-0, in the state championship game Sunday.
The regional tournaments run July 23-27. The 10U all-stars will play in Matthews, North Carolina, the 11U all-stars in Altamonte Springs, Florida and the 12U in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
Mount Pleasant finished second in the 9U tournament, falling 4-3 in the state championship game to Aiken.
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What's up with Kirby Drive?
Swamplot captured the moving trucks this week at the Brio Tuscan Grille. The chain has two other Houston-area restaurants, one at CityCentre and another at the Woodlands Mall.
CultureMap reports that Saint Genevieve, the upscale bar in the upscale West Ave complex has been shuttered.
These announcements come on the heels of the closings of sister properties Hendrick's Pub, OTC and Roak to make way for a new mixed-use development.
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Over 600 miles lie in between Goose Creek High School and its first football opponent this season.
The Gators make a 10-hour trip to Dayton, Ohio to tangle with Pickerington Central as part of the inaugural Backyard Blitz event on Saturday at 4 p.m.
We are excited to have the opportunity to see how we match up with a team from another part of the country, GCHS coach Chuck Reedy said. This will be a great experience for our players and we are anxious to see how they respond to the challenge.
The Gators have successfully handled 38 of the last 39 challenges on the field including one against a squad that reminds Reedy of Pickerington Central.
He compared the Tigers to defending Class AAAA Div. I state champion Dutch Fork. The Gators defeated Dutch Fork 35-21 during the regular season last fall.
They are similar, he said. They want to run the ball and play-action pass off of that. Their starting quarterback is returning. They have a big offensive line and very good running back.
The Tigers were 8-3 last season and are the eight-time defending Ohio Capital Conference Ohio division champions. They won 11 games in 2010 and 2011.
With just over 1,100 enrollment, Pickerington Central would be a Class AAA team in South Carolina.
The Gators are coming off a 27-8 victory over West Ashley in a two-quarter scrimmage on the first night of the Sertoma Classic last week.
Goose Creek was 12-1 last season, losing in the second round of the Class AAAA Div. II playoffs.
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FAIRFAX, Va. - With the recent reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program, coupled with rising temperatures that are melting the remains of the last big snowstorm, now is the perfect time for homeowners to think about how to prevent potentially expensive water damage.
By signing the bill, President Obama extends the national flood insurance program's authority to write flood insurance until March 28.
The NFIP offer these guidelines for protecting your home when winter gives way to warmer conditions:
In addition to meltdown preparedness, consumers should consider flood insurance for the spring thaw. Many think only those living in coastal areas or near large bodies of water should have flood insurance, but that's not necessarily the case. In fact, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reports that 25 percent of all claims paid by the National Flood Insurance Program are for policies in low- to moderate-risk communities.
Flood insurance is mandatory for anyone in an area designated as a Special Flood Hazard Area. However, owners of property outside of these zones should still consider flood insurance.
"It's important to remember flooding can strike in various forms, from small, localized flooding, to a major catastrophe," said Dave Prendergast, field vice president for the Capital Region of Allstate Insurance. "We hear a lot about floods triggered by severe weather, but the truth is flooding occurs throughout the country as a result of thunderstorms, sudden thaw and other forces of nature."
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According to FEMA, the average premium for an NFIP flood insurance policy is $400 per year - or $1.37 per day - for approximately $100,000 worth of building coverage. The maximum coverage amounts are $250,000 for a single-family home and $100,000 for its contents.
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LEWISTOWN - A new stoneware crock marking the 110th anniversary of The Sentinel will be available for purchase by September.
The new commemorative piece is similar to the crocks produced in 2003 for The Sentinel's 100th anniversary, with different artwork. The 100th anniversary crock featured a rendering of The Sentinel's former building on Dorcas Street in Lewistown, while the new crock bears a sketch of The Sentinel's present building in Pleasant Acres.
"This is the 110th year that The Sentinel has been keeping an eye on the Juniata Valley," Sentinel publisher Ruth Eddy said. "These crocks symbolize that commitment to news and the recording of history that the publication provides for the area."
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Shipping is not available. Crocks must be picked up at The Sentinel office at 352 Sixth St., Pleasant Acres, Lewistown.
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Susie dropped her pencil on the floor during school and, thanking Sweet Jesus for her pedexterity, slipped her foot out of her flip-flop and picked it up with her toes.
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Career: First All-American in Stetson fastpitch history ... Played in 184 games ... Four-time Atlantic Sun All-Conference selection (twice as pitcher, twice as utility) ... Three-time A-Sun Academic All-Conference selection ... Three-time A-Sun All-Tournament Team performer ... Finished her Stetson career ranking first in appearances (139) and saves (7), third in wins (71), strikeouts (576) and batters faced (3,160), fourth in shutouts (24), complete games (88), and innings pitched (756.2) and fifth in games started (103) ... Offensively ranked second in sacrifice flies (9) and intentional walks (9), third in home runs (33), fourth in total bases (274), fifth in RBI (112), slugging pct. (.551) and walks (75), 10th in on-base percentage (.399), and 14th in batting average (.304) ... One of two players in A-Sun history with over 70 wins and over 30 home runs.
2014: NFCA Third-Team All-America ... Atlantic Sun Championship Most Valuable Player ... NFCA First Team All-Region ... Atlantic Sun First Team All-Conference (P) and Second Team All-Conference (DP) ... Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference Team ... Three-Time A-Sun Pitcher of the Week ... USA Softball National Player of the Week ... Second Team All-America (CollegeSportsMadness) ... Stetson Jarrard Award Recipient ... Hammer Strength All-American Athlete ... Stetson Lead-Off Classic and Stetson Classic All-Tournament Team ... Atlantic Sun Conference Scholar ... Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team ... Was the only player in the NCAA to reach 25 wins in the circle and 15 home runs at the plate ... Led the Atlantic Sun in wins (27), ERA (1.26), innings pitched (222.1), appearances (41), complete games (25), and shutouts (10, tied for first) ... Her 27 wins tied a school single-season record ... Ranked eighth in the NCAA in ERA, ninth in fewest walks, 12th in shutouts and 17th in wins ... Also ranked third in the A-Sun in opponents batting average (.205) and third in strikeouts (194) ... Was dominant from start to finish in the A-Sun Tournament, going 4-0 with a 0.50 ERA, allowing just two runs on 14 hits while pitching all 28 innings ... Picked up the win in Stetson's first-ever NCAA tournament victory, 6-4 vs. UCF ... Earned 13 wins in conference, including the only two victories vs. league-leader USC Upstate ... Pitched seven-inning complete game shutouts vs. Lipscomb (RPI 33) and UCF (RPI 25) ... Tossed one-hit shutouts vs. Memphis, Northern Kentucky, and Kennesaw State ... Pitched all 13 innings in a 4-3 win over Lipscomb, holding the opponent to 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position and successfully pitching out of second-and-third situations in the 11th, 12th, and 13th innings ... Owned the lowest ERA in the NCAA from Apr. 19-26 ... Offensively, started all 53 games, 23 as a designated player ... Led the team with 15 home runs and a .711 slugging pct. ... Had 25 extra base hits (10-0-15) ... Ranked among the A-Sun leaders in slugging pct. (third), on-base pct. (fourth), RBI (sixth), home runs (third), total bases (fourth), walks (first, tied), and sac flies (second, tied) ... Ranked 39th in the NCAA in home runs (15) ... Batted .500 with a three-run home run in the A-Sun tournament ... Scored the championship clinching run after being walked intentionally to start the inning ... Went 2-for-3 with a home run in Stetson's NCAA Tournament win vs. UCF ... Batted .365 with eight home runs and 23 RBI in A-Sun play ... Reached base safely in 48 games and hit safely in 38 games ... 11 multi-hit games and 11 multi-RBI games ... Hit two home runs and drove in five in an 11-0 win at Kennesaw State (Apr. 13) … Hit a game-tying, two-out, two-strike RBI single to tie Lipscomb in the bottom of the 10th in game Stetson later won in 13 innings (Apr. 19).
2013: Second-Team All-Conference (P) ... Second-Team All-Conference (DP) ... Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference Team ... Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team ... Three-time A-Sun Pitcher of the Week ... Started 52 games ... Led the team in batting (.319), home runs (11), and RBI (37) ... Became the first Hatter since Andrea Migliori in 2009 to hit 10+ home runs in a season (Demi Meza also later hit 10 in 2013) ... Hit eight of her 11 home runs against conference opponents ... Batted .333 in the A-Sun regular season ... Hit safely in 32 games and reached base safely in 41 games ... Ranked ninth in the A-Sun in OBP (.426), eighth in RBI (37), eighth in home runs (11), and eighth in walks (26) ... Hit a grand slam against Valparaiso in a 4-3 Stetson win ... Went 4-for-6 with a HR in a doubleheader vs. Kennesaw State ... Went 2-for-4 with a double, a home run, and an A-Sun tournament record-tying five RBI in Stetson's 14-6 win vs. FGCU (May 8) ... Recorded 12 multi-hit games and nine multi-RBI games ... Was the only Atlantic Sun player and one of just 11 players in the NCAA with 20+ wins (pitching) and 10+ home runs (hitting) ... Is the first A-Sun player with 20 wins/10 HR since 2004 (Blake Hoorelbeke, Stetson) ... Was the winning pitcher in 22 of the team's 31 victories ... Ranked second in the A-Sun with 22 wins ... Led the league in innings pitched (207.2) and complete games (27) ... Ranked second in shutouts (7), third in ERA (1.96), third in strikeouts (155), third in appearances (37), third in games started (29), fourth in opponents avg. (.215), and fourth in saves (3) ... Won nine straight games from Apr. 10-Apr. 28 ... Helped Stetson rally from a 3-9 A-Sun mark to a 13-13 record and a A-Sun tournament berth ... Ranked second in the NCAA in fewest walks per seven innings (0.67), 35th in shutouts (7), 44th in victories (22), and 74th in ERA (1.96) ... Posted a streak of 52 consecutive innings and 198 consecutive batters faced without allowing a walk ... Won all four of Stetson's games in the Hatter Classic en route to all-tournament honors ... Went 3-0 with one save to earn MVP honors in the Stetson Classic ... Picked up a huge win at Jacksonville on Apr. 10, allowing three hits and striking out 11 in eight innings ... Pitched a one-hit shutout vs. Kennesaw State on Apr. 13 ... Shutout ETSU twice on the same day (Apr. 20), becoming the first Stetson pitcher in 16 years to toss two CG shutouts in one day ... Pitched all 21 innings in the series sweep over ETSU ... Won her 20th game of the season at Jacksonville (Apr. 24) ... First Stetson 20-game winner since Amanda Lindsey in 2010 ... Also won at Lipscomb (Apr. 28) to help clinch a postseason berth.
2012: Atlantic Sun All-Tournament Team ... Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference Team ... Atlantic Sun Conference Scholar Award recipient ... Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team ... NFCA All-American Scholar-Athlete ... Started all 48 games ... Made 24 starts and 14 relief appearances in the circle with 24 starts at designated player ... Offensively, led the Hatters in batting average (.311) and doubles (10) ... Ranked second on the team with six home runs and 25 RBI ... Slugged .497 and recorded a .369 on-base percentage ... Went 15-11 with 2.35 ERA and 143 strikeouts in 187.1 innings pitched ... Tossed five shutouts and notched two saves ... Recorded 12 multi-hit games ... Hit two doubles and a home run against South Dakota on opening weekend ... Singled, doubled, and homered in Feb. 19 win over Bethune-Cookman ... Posted a 10-game hitting streak from April 7 through April 22 ... Hit two home runs in April 22 win at USC Upstate ... Opened her pitching season with eight strikeouts in a shutout of South Dakota (Feb. 11) ... Fanned a career-high 11 vs. Penn (March 3) ... Recorded a two-hit shutout with seven strikeouts to beat Northern Colorado (March 9) ... Tossed a four-hit shutout over eight innings to beat Lipscomb (April 7) ... Also notched A-Sun shutout wins over ETSU (April 21) and Jackosnville (May 3) ... Earned her first career save March 24 vs. Savannah State.
2011: Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team ... Went 7-14 with a 2.46 ERA and 84 strikeouts in a team-high 139.1 innings pitched as a freshman ... Hit first career home run Feb. 27 vs. Charleston Southern ... Pitched complete game shutout wins over South Dakota State (six-hitter for first career victory, Feb. 19) and Tennessee State (two-hitter with season-high nine strikeouts, March 5) ... Made six appearances without allowing an earned run.
Prior to Stetson: 2010 graduate of Jackson (Miss.) Preparatory School ... Chose the Hatters over the likes of Baylor, LSU, and Lipscomb ... Set school records with 24 home runs and a .496 career batting average ... Posted a slugging average over 1.100 each of her final two seasons ... Tallied a 36-1 pitching record with 24 shutouts ... Led Jackson Prep to four state championships ... Named 2010 "Miss Softball" by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger ... Played travel ball for the Germantown (Tenn.) Red Devils, an organization that has produced Carolyn Boyd and Amanda Lindsey for Stetson and is led by former Hatters head coach Rose Kalisak.


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Undertow is a linear, pass-through skill shot.
- Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability.
- Spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness.
- slow for 1 second. will apply a 40%
- Spell shields will block the ability.
- This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall.
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- Undertow grants a brief instance of sight when it hits the ground.
- If Olaf attempts to cast Undertow below the minimum range, he will throw it the minimum distance units in the direction of cast.
- If Olaf attempts to cast Undertow beyond the maximum range, it will fall short at the maximum range in the direction of cast.
- Olaf cannot pick up an enemy Olaf's axe, unlike Draven.
- Neutral monsters hit by the axe will temporarily be ignored by unit collision. This is an invisible debuff and is intended to make it easier for Olaf to pick up his axes.
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Vicious Strikes is a self-targeted buff.
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- Vicious Strikes will increase all healing effects targeted at Olaf, including healing from other sources such as Soraka's Astral Infusion. This will stack multiplicatively with .
- Vicious Strikes has no cast time and it will not interrupt previous orders.
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Reckless Swing is a single target ability.
- Applies spell effects as a single target ability.
- Spell vamp is fully applied.
- slow for 1.5 seconds. will apply a 40%
- True damage ignores all forms of damage reduction, except invulnerability.
- Spell shields will block the ability.
Additional Information:
- This ability's cost is equal to 30% of the total damage. Olaf will pay the cost regardless if the ability deals any damage.
- As with all activated health-cost abilities, Reckless Swing can be cast at any health value but will not reduce Olaf's health below 1. This makes Reckless Swing effectively free-to-cast at 1 health.
- Health cost refund on the ability is considered a heal, therefore it is affected by increased healing from Olaf's Vicious Strikes and .
- Reckless Swing will cancel if Olaf loses sight of his target during the cast time, as with many of the game's older and non-updated champions.
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Ragnarok is a self-targeted ability that also passively grants a defensive buff.
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- Ragnarok can be cast while under the effects of any form of crowd control from enemies.
- Ragnarok will not remove or turn him immune to crowd controls from allies or him.
- For example, he will not break free or become immune to Fate's Call. or
- It is worth noting that while it can be activated while under the effects of airborne crowd control, Ragnarok will not remove them. However, it will ignore any further applications of it once active.
- Ragnarok will prevent the application of Bard's Tempered Fate, but will not allow him to break free from it.
- Ragnarok will not prevent the application of the Sejuani's "Frost" debuff, as it not a crowd control effect prior to being detonated by Permafrost.
- As of V3.13, all attack speed reduction is treated as a slow and will also be ignored.
- Abilities with conditional effects are usually composed of multiple debuffs, and ignoring the crowd control debuff will not ignore the conditional effects. For example, Olaf will still have his attack damage reduced by Mocking Shout and Chomp despite ignoring their slow components.


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who else likes Light from Death Note??? out of all my friends im the only one who likes Light Yagami aka Kira. all my friends seem to like L and i dont like him at all! little miss goody good! please tell me im not the only one who likes Light!!!
I think he had good intensions in making the word better. He just had a bad way of going about it and he was brilliant. In the anime he beat L. the live action movies were a little different but i though they were great too and Light was still my favorite."Prepare to be slaughtered."
i dont see what everyone likes so much about L he is so weird and light also looks so much better!Why did he have to die :(
~Mello's Girl~ i think L is ok looking but yeah Light is so cute! :) i cant wait for the day that all those sweets catch up to L and make him fat! it'll server him right! hahahaha!
yea i know hahaha
~that girl u hate~ lol :)
in the ending did light regret having the death note because it looked like he was about to cry or something or just looked sadbecause he saw himself as the school kid he use to be
LLLLL is mine!!!!
Light was my favorite, really smart, really talented, and a great idea, but L was defintely cuter!
Love... is just a different kind of pain.
i dnt like L as much really
<~~i cry just to here you tell me eveything will be alright~~>


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Contest Encourages Travelers to take a #DairylandRoadTrip
Contest Encourages Travelers to take a #DairylandRoadTrip
The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board has launched the Dairyland Road Trip Photo Contest, a summer-long Instagram™ contest to encourage travelers to share their photos from the road. Dairy lovers may enter the contest by posting a Wisconsin Dairy photo to Instagram with the hashtag #DairylandRoadTrip. Photos can include visits to a Wisconsin Cheese shop, creamery, or a favorite dish made with Wisconsin Dairy. Entries can be individual photos or photo collages.
The contest will run June 1 through Sept. 2, 2013. Three winners will be selected; each will win a $100 Cash Prize (Visa Gift Card) and a Wisconsin Cheese gift box.
WMMB recently released a new edition of "A Traveler's Guide to America's Dairyland," which is filled with inspiration for Dairyland Road Trips.
From first glance, the fold-out map's new design beautifully showcases the essence of Wisconsin's dairy industry – including lush, green grass and glowing, summer scenes. The Traveler's Guide highlights 161 tasty points of interest, including creameries and retail stores featuring Wisconsin's finest cheese, ice cream, butter, milk, yogurt and other REAL dairy products.
For complete contest rules, visit www.EatWisconsinCheese.com/mapcontest. To request or download a copy of the new "Traveler's Guide to America's Dairyland," visit www.EatWisconsinCheese.com/map.
Attached is a hi-res image of the map from "A Traveler's Guide to America's Dairyland." For more information about Wisconsin Cheese, contact Heather Porter Engwall, or visit EatWisconsinCheese.com.


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Epoxy Clay Artistry taught by Debbi Simon
Add trendy techniques to your jewelry tool kit with a versatile new material: epoxy clay. Mixed-media artist Debbi Simon shows you how to use it to create jewelry looks from faded to flashy.
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The Hamilton College Board of Trustees voted unanimously on March 6, 2010, to adopt a need-blind policy in admission, effective with the first-year class that enrolled the following fall. Colleges that are need-blind pledge to make admission decisions without considering an applicant's ability to pay. It is believed that there are only between three and four dozen U.S. colleges and universities that are need-blind and that meet the full demonstrated need of each admitted student. Hamilton will continue its long-standing policy of meeting the full demonstrated need of every student it admits. The College's annual financial aid budget has grown from about $25 million when the need-blind decision was announced to more than $36 million in 2015-16.
At a time when parents are beginning to question whether they can afford a college education for their children, Hamilton College has announced that it will make admission decisions without considering an applicant's ability to pay. More ...
In her semiannual letter to the Hamilton community, President Stewart described the College's desire to become need-blind in admission. More ...
Adopted just one year ago, the College's Strategic Plan identified four priorities, including "Financial aid that meets the demonstrated need of every student, and a long-term goal of being need-blind in admission." More ...
There are believed to be between three and four dozen U.S. colleges and universities that make admission decisions without considering an applicant's ability to pay and that meet the full demonstrated need of each accepted student. They include all of the colleges in the Ivy League, Duke, Georgetown and the University of Chicago, and liberal arts colleges such as Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Williams, Grinnell, Haverford, Pomona, the University of Richmond and Swarthmore, among others.
"I am very proud to be a Hamilton alum! [The College was] very generous to me when it was not a need-blind admissions. This just carries forth an inherent spirit of generosity. Well-done College Hill!"
— Noelle Short '05 (posted on The New York Times blog)
"What great news. I'm a former scholarship student and I'm going to increase my annual donation because of this!"
— Stew Stryker '81 (posted on Facebook)
"Could the Hamilton Board of Trustees have done anything more wonderful, especially at this moment of history? I am thrilled!"
— Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran
We invite you to share your thoughts on Hamilton's need-blind admission policy or a personal reflection on how financial aid made a difference in your life.


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The BLM is studying the concentrations of metals in fish and aquatic insects along the Kuskokwim River and several tributaries upstream and downstream of the Red Devil Mine. The study covers non-salmon species that make up a large portion of the diet of subsistence users in the area.
During the summer and fall of 2010 and 2011, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game collected fish tissue samples for the BLM from adult northern pike, sheefish, burbot (or lush), Dolly Varden, and arctic grayling in the lower stretches of the George and Holitna rivers, in addition to 73 miles of the Kuskokwim River from Stony River to Crooked Creek.
During the field sampling efforts, BLM fisheries staff also collected aquatic insects and juvenile fish, including Dolly Varden, arctic grayling, long-nosed sucker, and slimy sculpin, from eight small streams that flow into the Kuskokwim River. The farthest downstream tributary sampled as part of this study was an unnamed stream just below the George River. The most upstream tributary sampled was Vreeland Creek, which enters the Kuskokwim River just below Sleetmute.
In 2011 and 2012, the BLM received funding for a fish tracking project to determine the seasonal movements of northern pike, burbot, and arctic grayling in the middle Kuskokwim River. In 2011, several hundred transmitters were surgically implanted in pike and burbot by staff from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The tagged fish were also tissue sampled for future contaminants analysis. During the summer and fall of 2012, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game tagged additional pike, burbot, and nearly 200 arctic grayling in the study area, which was expanded north to include the Takotna River system.
The original study area established in 2010 covers approximately 15.5 million acres in the middle Kuskokwim River watershed. In 2012, the study area was expanded to include 15 million additional acres of the lower Kuskokwim River to track the movement of fish that travel beyond the middle section of the river. Since 2010, the BLM and ADF&G have collected tissue samples from over 1,200 fish from the Kuskokwim River and 17 of its tributaries. Of those sampled fish, nearly 570 were tagged with radio transmitters, and their movements will be tracked over the next 1-2 years. The movement data will show the amount of time fish spend in specific areas of the Kuskokwim Basin will allow us to identify areas that may contribute to the elevated metals in fish within the study area.
The latest interim report describing the results of this study is available below. This report will be updated in during spring/summer 2013 and periodically thereafter to include the analysis of fish tracking data.
Are you interested in becoming a fisheries intern for the BLM? The American Fisheries Society Hutton Scholar Program and the BLM have partnered together to offer internships to high school students who have an interest in fisheries management.
If you are interested in internship or volunteer opportunities, please contact Matthew Varner at 907-271-3348.
For more information about this project, please contact:
Mathew S. Varner, Fisheries Program Lead, 907-271-3348
Mike McCrum, Red Devil Mine Project Manager, 907-271-4426


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TIP # 6: Inventory the items you have decided to keep.
Inventory the items that remain.
I realize this seems like it might be a bit overboard, but hear me out. Creating an inventory will allow you to best select storage containers when you get to that step. The other reason to do this is so that you will have an inventory of your classroom items in the event of a fire, flood or other disaster. Should anything happen to your classroom, you will need this for insurance purposes. Make a copy of the list for your files (leave at home) and a copy that you can take with you when you are looking for storage containers (which we'll talk about soon).
How is your decluttering going? Have you been able to part with anything that you originally thought you should keep?
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TRUCKEE, Calif. - Award-winning local author Suzanne Roberts will give a reading from her new backpacking memoir "Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail" (University of Nebraska Press, 2012) at Hooligan's Bookshelf in Truckee on Friday, Oct. 26 at 6 p.m. The reading will be followed by a question and answer session and booksigning. The event is free and open to all.
Day One, and already she was lying in her journal. It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college. When her friend suggested they hike California's John Muir Trail, the adventure sounded like the perfect distraction from a difficult home life and thoughts about the future. But she never imagined the 28-day hike would change her life. Part memoir, part nature writing, part travelogue, "Almost Somewhere" is Roberts' account of that hike.
John Muir had written of the Sierra Nevada as a "vast range of light," and this was exactly what Roberts was looking for. But traveling with two girlfriends, one experienced and unflappable and the other inexperienced and bulimic, she quickly discovered she needed a new frame of reference. Her story of a month in the backcountry - confronting bears, snowy passes, broken equipment, injuries, and strange men - is as much about finding a woman's way into outdoor experience as it is about the natural world she so eloquently describes. Candid, funny and, finally, wise, "Almost Somewhere" is not just the whimsical coming-of-age story of a young woman ill-prepared for a month in the mountains but also the reflection of a distinctly feminine view of nature.
Michelle Schingler from ForeWord said in a recent review, "'Almost Somewhere' is, at all turns, a gratifying read. It is intimate and funny, sharp and pensive, and its readers - if not inspired to undertake their own adventures - will certainly be sad to leave Roberts at the trail's end."
In Booklist, Colleen Mondor said, "Roberts dares to combine a hiking adventure with a healthy dose of humor and female bonding in all its complicated and turbulent best ... An utterly refreshing outdoors memoir free of the seemingly manufactured drama so many similar titles contain. A delightful and quite literary diversion."
Suzanne Roberts is the author of the memoir "Almost Somewhere," as well as four collections of poetry, including "Shameless," "Nothing to You," "Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel," and "Plotting Temporality." She was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic's Traveler. She lives in South Lake Tahoe and teaches at Lake Tahoe Community College and for the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Sierra Nevada College.
The Bookshelf is located at 11310 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, (near the Safeway). Call 530-582-0515. Visit www.facebook.com/suzannerobertsalmostsomewhere.


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Welcome to TPF's first ever, April Fools Challenge. Members were invited to submit graphically altered images to be voted on by the group, and the winner will be our TPF site logo for the month of April and also be featured on a TShirt in The Puffer Store.
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quote: Should they ask you for your password so they can see the stuff that you deem private? Absolutely not.
quote: You're right, this bill shouldn't be necessary, but when companies/schools overstep what should be obvious boundaries without consequence, something needs to be done.
quote: Should we use the force of government to prevent them from asking for it? I contend no.
quote: That is a good question. I guess the answer best depends on whether the government is supposed to protect its citizens, and what from.