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Paper Flower and Button Frame
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Embellish a wood picture frame with cheerful punch-out paper flowers and matching buttons. This picture frame craft from Tiffany Windsor of Inspired at Home makes a great birthday gift, girlfriend present or hostess gift.
- Wood frame
- Fine sandpaper (optional)
- Acrylic paint: color of your choice to complement floral colors
- Brush - ½" flat
- Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue™
- Buttons
K & Company Punch Out Paper Flowers
If needed, sand frame to smooth edges. Paint front and back and set aside to dry.
Punch out 4 different sizes and colors of paper flowers. To add dimension, bend along fold lines. Glue layers together. Glue button on top.
Glue buttons on frame. Glue flower on frame.
Tiffany's Designer Tip: If you would like to add a touch of shine to your paper flower, brush on a coat of Aleene's Paper Glaze to each layer before gluing together.
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I have 2 profiles, offline and online. I only use my online profile for downloading DLC, it has zero achievement. So if I play a game before it released on store, strictly on my offline profile, next time when I go online with my other profile, will microsoft scan all the game I have played including the one i played on my offline profile?
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I would assume they can see everything on your hard drive. My "offline" profiles used for testing and such are stored on a usb stick, or immediately erased when done with the game, prior to going back onto xbox live. Especially with unreleased games or anything modded, ie, the leaked mortal kombat complete edition!
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ARLINGTON (AP) - The Rangers can start setting their playoff rotation.
Led by Todd Zeile's grand slam and seven strong innings from John Burkett, the Rangers guaranteed themselves at least a share of the AL West title with a victory over second-place Oakland.
Texas, which had lost four straight before beating the Athletics 12-4 Friday night, needs only one win or an Oakland loss in the last week to seal its third division title in four years.
Both could come Sunday when the teams meet for the series finale. If the Rangers lose, they could still clinch with a win Monday night at home against Seattle. Oakland is off Monday.
"I don't think there's any special feeling right now," said Zeile, whose second slam this month capped an eight-run second inning. "We want to wrap things up this weekend because it would be a nice statement to do it against this team and at home. But we're only two-thirds of the way done."
While the Rangers celebrated this victory little differently than any others, the A's couldn't help but mourn their third straight loss.
Oakland is virtually out of the division race and is close to being eliminated from the wild-card race. Boston, which beat Baltimore 4-1 Saturday, has a magic number of three for sealing the fourth playoff spot.
"The odds are against us," A's manager Art Howe said.
Oakland catcher Mike Macfarlane gave what sounded like a concession speech.
"We've had a pretty good year," he said. "Do I feel a lack of intensity? No. But do I feel the wind is out of the sail? Yeah."
The A's knew the importance of the game mentally as well as for the standings. And they got off to a good start by building a 3-0 first-inning lead for Kevin Appier, whom they acquired at the trading deadline to pitch crucial games like these.
Instead, Appier (15-14) lived down to the expectations of Texas scouts who told their bosses not to trade for him as he allowed nine runs in 1 2/3 innings.
"I couldn't hit any of my spots," said Appier, who blew the lead before getting the first out of the second inning and was pulled after 10 of the 15 batters he faced reached.
He gave up seven hits - four with two strikes - and walked three, one of them intentionally. He also had two wild pitches in what was easily his worst start of the year.
Texas scored one in the first on a Mark McLemore leadoff homer, then had the big second inning behind a two-run single by Tom Goodwin, a wild pitch, an RBI single by Rusty Greer and Zeile's slam.
With nine runs in the first two innings, the Rangers picked up where they left off Friday night when they scored 12 runs over the last four innings.
"The most interesting and exciting thing is the way we've played the last two nights," Texas manager Johnny Oates said. "Our guys have responded. That's the way it's supposed to be in late September and October."
Greer's single was notable because it was his first in eight at-bats since being drilled in the eye by a thrown ball in batting practice Sept. 13. It also ended an 0-for-28 skid against Oakland this year.
Greer added a solo homer in the seventh, his 20th, which gave the Rangers six players with at least that many. This is only the seventh time in major league history that's happened.
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Cramer's office didn't offer any explanation for the switch, and Congressional Quarterly couldn't find one either, saying only that the situation was "touchy."
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The Jewish holiday of Purim begins this Saturday at sundown. Many Jewish synagogues are celebrating the festive holiday this weekend, which commemorates the story of Esther and the deliverance of the Jews from Haman.
Traditionally, synagogues begin the holiday with a reading of the Book of Esther. Each year the holiday is celebrated with much revelry and many temples host carnivals.
"The holiday is described in a way, as the Jewish Halloween, but with meaning and significance," said Rabbi Howard Siegel of Congregation Beth Shalom.
Purim is also known as the Jewish Feast of Lots, commemorating Esther's deliverance of the Jews in Persia from a massacre plotted by Haman.
Beth Shalom is celebrating Purim with a megillah reading tonight at 7:30 p.m. and a carnival Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The carnival will feature games, traditional Purim food, a rock wall, bounce house, pony rides and music. Attendees are encouraged to attend in costume.
Costume wearing plays a major role in the celebration of Purim. For many years Jews dressed as characters from the story. Now attendees dress in costumes of every kind.
Temple Beth Ami is hosting its annual Purim carnival Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. With the megillah reading tonight at 7 p.m. Each year the synagogue features a different theme and attendees come dressed accordingly, such as Willy Wonka characters or dressed from the 1970s. The carnival also features food, games, music, prizes and food.
"We celebrate the elements of the day," said Rabbi Mark Blazer. "It is all based on the origin of the holiday. We take a scary situation and turn it into a day of celebration. We continue the tradition of how disaster was turned to fun."
In line with Purim, Temple Beth Ami also planned a group trip to the UCLA Fowler Museum on March 3. UCLA is hosting a special exhibit focusing on the Persian and Jewish communities 2,500 years ago. The trip offers a guided tour and focuses on the Jewish and Persian narrative which also tells the story of Purim.
"When we think of how close the Jews came to being destroyed and how the hero did the right thing," Siegel said. "Esther wasn't a strong Jew, but at the right time she did the right thing."
Purim is also a celebration of life and to look toward a time of renewal with the coming of the spring. Blazer emphasizes the importance of focusing on renewal and positive things.
"It's easy to focus on sad things," Blazer said. "Often times it's just a matter of perspective. With this celebration we focus on the side of life that brings us light."
Purim celebrations are open to the public and free of charge. Temple Beth Ami is located at 23023 Hilse Lane. For more information call 661-255-6410. Congregation Beth Shalom is located at 21430 Centre Pointe Parkway, for more information call 661-254-2411.


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I love these crazy translations... Some of the marketing slogans on the kit we had at my old job were brilliant too...
"Economy and convenience for being used, wise choice!" was one on a card reader that I'll always remember. Snappy!
Hilarious!! I recently bought a chinese made cruddy ipod lookie-likey to replace my real ipod that broke far too quickly for my liking, the translation in the manual is just pure genious, it says rubbish like "pressing the button for activation", or in other words the on/off switch!!
Bet it does the same job as an ipod but at 1/10th the price!
You said it, never needed 40GB worth of music at my finger tips like that personally anyway, im happy with the £15 2GB lookie-likey that I only ever use in the gym so happy with a few albums worth of dance tunes to get me going! Its not that I cant see the point of the ipod, its very good, but you have to want to listen to music 24-7 to really get the benefit of it.
On a side note but ipod related, I saw a club dj once with an ipod plugged into his laptop plugged into the clubs music system. The ipod held the music library & the laptop was running a music mixer program to mix the 2 songs the "dj" selected together. A clever use of technology it might of been but seriously lazy in my opinion! My mum could be a club dj if thats all you need these days!!!


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I love "poke" cakes during the hot Texas summers. This sounds cool and refreshing. Found on the back of Betty Crocker Super Moist Lemon cake mix. Cook time includes chilling time. Update, I made this today and boy is it cool and refreshing since the temp. here in Texas was 96 today. I had a can of regular frosting and had some Cool-Whip left over from another time so I combined and made a nice creamy frosting.
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- 1 (18 ounce) box lemon cake mix
- 1 1⁄4 cups water
- 1⁄3 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup frozen lemonade concentrate, thawed
- 3⁄4 cup powdered sugar
- 16 ounces whipped fluffy white frosting mix or 16 ounces lemon frosting
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- Heat oven to 350 (325 for dark or nonstick pan). Make cake as directed for 13 x 9-inch pan; cool 15 minutes.
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A dashing gentleman came in to glassybaby last week...why? He had heard a KUOW radio feature on glassybaby while traveling home to his wife and five whopping children. Although it was late, 8ish, he turned off the car and listened to the radio piece in his driveway until its completion. KUOW host John Moe chose to feature glassybaby on his weekly business show called "The Works." We aired with him on November 14. Check out the interview with streaming radio. We queued third in his three features and the great news is...people are listening to their local radio programs.
Many store anecdotes streamed from the piece on glassybaby. In one case, a dula visited us, she was new to the product. However, having heard the KUOW piece, she purchased a "Rudolph" glassybaby. She explained it will be a focus of strength for
her clients, something visual with power and soul to help them through labor. We find glassybaby interwoven in lives in so many ways.
Susan Spezza, presents yet another great tale of interweaving. She decided marvelously to throw a pre-knee surprise party for her pre-op hubby, who was to receive double knee replacement surgery. Julie envisioned and realized an evening where her husband came home to faraway dear friends (who had made the miles to surround the surprise table.) Dinner was prepared by the genius of Mistral chefs. And glassybaby adorned the table, alternating between glasses in wine flight formation... they had a magical evening and graciously sent us this photo by Jamie Pflughoeft of Cowbelly Pet Photography.
In this week of Thanksgiving....it is simple...we thank you...you are our heartbeat...a father listening to our story in his driveway, a dula discovering the power of color in a simple vessel, a husband and wife celebrating knee strength...we give Thanks.
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The First Decade of Bandon Dunes
Can it be a decade since Mike Keiser opened his Bandon Dunes Golf Resort with one course and an outrageous, if quixotic, dream of making European golf available to Americans? "No one really thought it would work," he said recently. "Including me."
This week signals the opening of the fourth course - Old Macdonald - in an industry where more courses are closing than opening. "I wasn't sure how many avid American golfers there really were," continued Keiser. "We found out there were quite a few."
His three acclaimed courses - Bandon Dunes, Pacific Dunes and Bandon Trails - did a combined 120,000 rounds a year during much of the past decade. A good case can be made for Bandon offering the best collection of public-access golf courses in the world.
The resort did all those rounds despite Bandon's isolated location on the southern Oregon coast, Keiser's refusal to let the authenticity of the links courses be compromised by carts and cart paths, and green fees that are now more than $200 a round.
Along the way, Keiser seemed to make every right decision, especially his choice of golf architects, from unknown Scot David McLay Kidd doing the first course, iconoclast Tom Doak doing the second and the highly-respected Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw doing the third.
"I didn't want a best course or a worse course like there is at Pebble Beach or Whistling Straits,'" said Keiser. "I wanted there to be genuine debate."
The debate is on already among those who have played Old Macdonald, a different, massive layout that was designed by Doak and Jim Urbina based on the principals of Keiser's favorite architect, the late C.B. Macdonald.
My sense is that the course will prove very popular, but not winner of the "if I had only one round left to play" quiz. Pacific Dunes is one of the great courses in the world, and Bandon enjoys large doses of playability and beautiful ocean views.
Still, as a wonderful change of pace, the average players will like Old Mac because it is easier than the others - with wide, wide fairways, while good players will like it because it is more difficult. Try making birdie on a green that might be 100 yards long.
Keiser seems to have a sense of when to go for it, and when to back away. Despite rumors to the contrary, he didn't build a convention center or a spa, or allow the building of homes or condos on the property. He says as long as he owns and runs the resort, there will be no real estate component at Bandon.
There will be at least 12 more holes, however. Keiser asked Coore to design 12 par-3 holes in the rugged dunes west of the first hole at Bandon Trails. Construction will begin in the fall. It will be called the "Conservation Course" and a portion of the $100 green fees will be donated to saving the Oregon dunes. Keiser wants Coore to design par-3s like he did at Bandon Trails. The owner wants his clients to play 36 holes a day, but realizes some would rather have a par-3 experience after lunch.
Keiser played down the possibility that the fabled Bally Bandon Sheep Ranch would be the fifth full-size course. Owned by his partner, Phil Friedmann, the Sheep Ranch is located on 300 acres north of Pacific Dunes. Friedmann had Doak design and build 12 greens but not provide a route of play. Those who spend a day there get to design their own layout.
Although visible from the resort, Keiser said the 15-minute drive to the sheep ranch may keep it from being an integral part of the Bandon Dunes complex.
Keiser, who made his money recycling paper for greeting cards, said he would like to build two more courses in Oregon, courses not connected with the resort but on the coast and open to the public.
With the economic recession, rounds are off at Bandon. But Keiser said he has done better than the industry average. "Our goal wasn't to woo corporations with tournaments and convention centers," he said. "We focused instead on what I call the 'retail' golfer. And they haven't lost interest in what we are doing."
Blaine Newnham has covered golf for 50 years. He still cherishes the memory of following Ben Hogan for 18 holes during the first round of the 1966 U.S. Open at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. He worked then for the Oakland Tribune, where he covered the Oakland Raiders during the first three seasons of head coach John Madden. Blaine moved on to Eugene, Ore., in 1971 as sports editor and columnist, covering the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. He covered five Olympics all together - Mexico City, Munich, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Athens - before retiring in early 2005 from the Seattle Times. He covered his first Masters in 1987 when Larry Mize chipped in to beat Greg Norman, and his last in 2005 when Tiger Woods chip dramatically teetered on the lip at No. 16 and rolled in. He saw Woods' four straight major wins in 2000 and 2001, and Payne Stewart's birdie putt to win the U.S. Open at Pinehurst. Blaine now plays golf at Wing Point Golf and Country Club on Bainbridge Island, Wash., where his current index is 12.6. In 2005, Blaine received the Northwest Golf Media Association's Distinguished Service Award. He and his wife, Joanna, live in Indianola, Wash., where the Dungeness crabs outnumber the people.
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Mary Ceruti
Stuart Alan Levy
Richard Oldenburg
Samuel Sachs II
Richard Schwartz
Patterson Sims
Ronald D. Spencer, Esq.
John P. Stern
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Jennifer Lantzas
Barbara McLaughlin
The Park Avenue malls provide a unique opportunity to display works of art. Exhibitions are presented by The Sculpture Committee of The Fund for Park Avenue and the Public Art Program of the City of New York's Department of Parks & Recreation in collaboration with arts organizations and artists. See the link below for a list of past exhibitions.
"Looking Up," the 33.3 ft. tall stainless steel sculpture by American artist, Tom Friedman can be seen on Park Avenue (at 53rd Street) through mid-July 2016. This exhibition is presented by Luhring Augustine, New York and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London along with The Fund for Park Avenue Sculpture Advisory Committee and NYC Parks' Art in the Parks Program. Click here for video of the installation and an interview with art historian, Robert Hobbs.
Temporary Public Sculpture: Submission Guidelines and Information
Exhibition History & More Photos
Night Presence IV by Louise Nevelson is the only permanent installation on Park Avenue (at 93rd Street). The Citywide Monuments Conservation Program (CMCP) has recently restored this iconic piece.


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Performing Arts Residencies Announced at the Acadiana Center for the Arts
The Acadiana Center for the Arts is offering 2 Performing Arts Residencies for the 2012 -2013 season. The Performing Arts Residency at the Acadiana Center for the Arts gives performing arts companies from the eight-parish Acadiana region (Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Landry and Vermilion parishes) the opportunity to be selected for a one-week residency at the Acadiana Center for the Arts for the development, rehearsal, and performance of a play, dance performance or multi-media performance art piece.
During the residency the residency company will be required to engage in a community based education program by providing at least one of the following: a master class, an outreach activity, workshop or panel discussion etc. to the greater AcA community.
Companies will have access to the facilities free of charge. Companies will be responsible for set/lighting design, set and costume procurement, all talent and auditions, stage management and directing/choreography. Companies will be able to utilize the James Devin Moncus Theater for rehearsal days, a tech/dress rehearsal night and three performance dates.
Applications deadlines are August 10, 2012, 5:00 p.m. and November 9, 2012, 5 p.m.
Notification of Selected Performing Arts Residency is August 24, 2012 and November 23, 2012.
Rehearsals for 1st Residency will be September 10 - 13 (Rehearsal), September 14 - 16, 2012 (Performance). Rehearsals for the 2nd Residency will be Jan 7 - 10, 2013 (Rehearsal), Jan 11 - 13, 2013 (Performance).
Applications can be downloaded from AcadianaCenterfortheArts.org, or by calling 337-233-7060.
The Acadiana Center for the Arts (AcA), is a not-for-profit artist services organization that strives to create, facilitate, nurture and fund arts and cultural activities. The AcA works to enrich quality of life and place through the arts and education.


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Letters to the editor: Campaign funding really to blame
I mostly blame lack of campaign funding limits for the government shutdown and debt-limit crisis.
I think pressure to satisfy promises made to private interest groups is a bigger dilemma for these politicians than ideological or peer dissent. The organization that funded millions to a campaign probably gets more loyalty from that politician than simple public service motivation.
We need to put reasonable caps on campaign spending (e.g., less than $1 million for federal elections; less than $100,000 for state; less than $10,000 local), and politicians might start representing public best interests over private.
Who knows? Maybe such oversight might even attract some who are better suited to public office than today's breed of professional politician.
So what's stopping us? Oh, yeah, those who decide have the most to lose by the change. How's that for irony? Shooting down this idea is probably the one thing these people can unite on.
Deb Renzi/Erie
Cloth diapers are the answer
Oh my, are you going to hear from us older moms. Babies have been wetting since Cain and Abel were born and -- let's see, no I think it was quite a bit later that disposable diapers were invented. There are alternatives ("Little bodies, big costs," Erie Times-News, Oct. 8).
Some years ago, everyone used Birdseye cloth diapers. A package of 10 can be bought today for $13-$14. The $75 a month for Huggies would buy more than 50 of the cloth. They can be washed, reused again and again, passed on to the next child, and kept out of the landfills.
In fact, it has been more than 50 years since anyone in my family has worn diapers but, guess what? I am still using them as dust and cleaning cloths. They are wonderful.
Joyce Barteldt/Union City
Austin backed for County Council
Let me tell you why Lisa Austin -- the write-in candidate for Erie County Council's 2nd District seat -- deserves your vote on Nov. 5.
Austin, an Edinboro University of Pennsylvania professor, has been working on behalf of the Erie community through a number of grass-roots efforts for many years and long before she decided to run for County Council.
Austin co-founded Innovation Erie, a competition to help start new manufacturing businesses. She co-founded All Aboard Erie, a transportation group dedicated to improving our bike, bus and rail options. She also co-founded Preservation Erie and Civitas, grass-roots programs to preserve Erie's past where it make sense to do so, while honoring the needs of today.
Austin is the real deal. As a member of County Council, she will continue her work with groups such as the Neighborhood Watch Council to create safer neighborhoods through vehicles such as code enforcement, blighted home solutions and community building.
If you write Austin's name on Nov. 5, you will not regret it. This isn't a long shot. This is a sure thing. Please give her a chance to serve you in this capacity.
Tricia DeMarco/Erie
Diaper solution not expensive
No money to buy disposable diapers ("Little bodies, big costs," Erie Times-News, Oct. 8)?
Let's get going. I raised two children in the 1960s and '70s, and my children never had diaper rash. Why? Because I used cloth diapers that I made from a bolt of white flannel purchased at the Boston Store. I had to borrow a sewing machine, but I did it. My mother showed me how to make them. These diapers lasted through my two children.
So, no use complaining about not being able to put your baby in clean, dry diapers. Start using cloth, and you can always find a washing machine. I used Dreft for my diapers. It's a lot cheaper in the long run.
Karen L. Vomero/Erie
Kelly needs GOP challenger
Is U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, of Butler, R-3rd Dist., trying to position himself for being the next speaker of the house?
There isn't a day that he isn't on either radio or television. He does have a firm political understanding of vagueness. Fairness is his latest chant, and who could be against being fair? To some it's right there in the Declaration, "With Liberty and Fairness to all." Great on sound bites, poor on informative details. But "Speaker Kelly" does have the right ring to it.
Because of gerrymandering, the 3rd District is positioned in the Republican Party's favor. So the question is, who in the Republican Party from our area will run against Kelly? I'm calling for the Draft Tom Ridge for the House of Representatives to be established. If not Ridge, which local Republican will challenge Kelly?
Joe Cieslak Sr./McKean
Hasty demolition stopped salvage
Once again, a home on Millionaires Row is gone, just as the Reed Mansion before ("Historic house gone," Erie Times-News, Oct. 8).
The owner had the right to tear down the home, and I'm sure his English garden will be lovely. However, the company hired for the demolition made the choice to proceed at a time when it would be difficult if not impossible to try to attain a delay.
They have done this is the past. I wish the owners would have had the foresight to allow a salvage company to try to remove the architectural treasures first. It could have allowed pieces of history to live on. Now it's just a pile of rubble. Such a shame.
Ruth Balogh/Erie


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Kirk Roberts of Hamburger Heaven in Homewood was as surprised as anybody when Food Network celebrity chef Paul Deen paid a visit to his restaurant on Friday.
Deen was in Birmingham to help the United Way Community Food Bank unload a truckload of donated meat that will be distributed to more than 200 shelters and pantries in the eight-country area.
Later, she dropped by Hamburger Heaven.
"She came in with her husband, Michael, and several others," Roberts said. "I'm so proud that she chose to eat at Hamburger Heaven today while she was in Birmingham.
"She said that she loved the food, and I believe the shakes were her favorite."
Hamburger Heaven has five locations in Birmingham. The Homewood restaurant is at 180 Oxmoor Blvd.


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Moving outside the norm for this site, we'll put the Indians aside for a moment to talk about an alternative to fantasy baseball. Many baseball fans (and blog readers) spend considerable time evaluating, drafting and playing fantasy baseball throughout the entire season just to be completely out of the running by the All-Star break. Rather than dropping all of your players in an effort to cause as much chaos as possible, there is another option.
AthleteXchange.com is a fantasy stock market based website where, rather than draft a team of players for each position, you are given a set amount of money to begin, then are allowed to buy shares of whatever baseball players you want. If you would like to buy every single Indian, go for it (you can also short all the Yankees). Players are given prices based on their preseason expectations and are IPOd prior to the regular season. As the players are bought and sold (or shorted and covered) their price will change based on market pressures. As the season goes on, players earn money based on their performances during the year (like $1.00 per RBI). The equation is actually very similar to Burning River Baseball's Player of the Game stat. When the season ends, these two numbers (their price based on market movements and their earnings) are reconciled and the difference is paid out to the traders who own the players.
What this scoring system means is that not everyone would want to have Albert Pujols on his team (portfolio). Instead, it is much better to have an underrated player who excels. This is great for Indians fans as there are rarely any overrated players on the team so it is easy for the players to make their price.
There are two major reasons why people would want to switch from fantasy baseball to AX. First, there is no limit on how many people can buy each individual player (or team stocks, which are also available). This means that everyone can buy Jason Kipnis, even if there are 3,000 people who want to buy him. If your fantasy leagues have been anything like mine, there is always at least one person who picks a homer early in the draft, offsetting everything. Because anyone can buy any player, at any time you can sell any player and buy a new one if someone isn't performing up to expectations. You will never be stuck with any player you don't want or kept away from one you do.
The other major reason to get into AthleteXchange is that the season doesn't end in October. First, you can continue to buy and sell players during the playoffs as they will continue to earn based on their stats until they are done playing. After that, the money you made during baseball season can be used to buy football, NCAA football, basketball, NCAA basketball and hockey stocks. Each season ends with with a delistment day as all the stocks for that sport are removed from the market and traders are able to switch over to other sports.
There are no winners on AX, although there is a spirited competition to be the best trader on the site (there are also competitions during the season where there are individual winners). If you need a reason to play outside of love of the game (and it is a great game), there are prizes. Since the site started in 2009 AthleteXchange has given out over $80,000 worth of prizes, mostly consisting of gift cards and tvs. Every week there are auctions for gift cards while a TV can be purchased any time you hit a set dollar amount.
In addition to the actual game itself, there is also a very active forum where you can keep track of daily earnings and the stock advice of long term veterans. There is also a lot of random sports talk as well and sometimes contests made up by other players of the game. There is no better game on the internet than AthleteXchange and I highly recommend it for everyone to try. Play it for a week or so until you get a hang of things and you'll never want to play fantasy baseball again.
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Firefighters were called to a vacant Oklahoma City home blaze about 4 a.m. Tuesday. Neighbors, near South Durland Avenue and Southeast 48th Street, spotted the flames shooting out of the house that they say had been vacant for about three months.
Despite being vacant, there was still electrical service going to the house and firefighters believe the fire started in the kitchen area.
Battalion Chief Chris Black says they still don't know what caused this fire, but added, "It's common for homeless to squat inside a vacant home and start a small fire to keep warm, when it gets out of control they run off." Black says the house is about 75 percent burned.


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I rise early in the morning and go down late in the evening. My desire between waking and sleeping is to make things pretty or make pretty things! I have been in secondary education for twenty ...
I rise early in the morning and go down late in the evening. My desire between waking and sleeping is to make things pretty or make pretty things! I have been in secondary education for twenty years teaching high school art, helping young adults recognize their creative nature or trying to help them develop one. I thought I had given up sewing when my little ones grew too big to applique their clothes and make cutesy clothes for them. I rediscovered that love of creative sewing one summer two or three summers back when I wandered into a quilt shop with my sister (the queen bee of quilting) and saw a little clutch purse pattern that looked too simple not to make. I was hooked! The rest of the summer I was designing purses and have been doing so every since.Read More » View all patterns by designer (43) »
A fun design for all ages but especially appealing to the budding artists. The roomy pencil & supply bag is big enough for all of your supplies but small enough to carry easily. Load it with pencils, scissors, glue sticks and a surprise treat of some kind. Tuck a little love note inside as your little ones head off to school! You are sure to see happy smiles when they see you at the end of their day.
Each side has a similar but different design available. Print it directly onto your prepared fabric through your inkjet printer or print it on paper and trace onto lighter colored fabric with a fabric marker. No matter which way you do it is a sure hit.
An easy-to-follow;easy-to-do PDF file is available for download. It is so fast to make I can get home from work at 5 PM, make several before bedtime,have a meal prepared for my hunger hubby and still get a good nights sleep.
A fun gift idea for a carry with you supply bag or a back to school supply bag for all ages or make them for your guests filled with party favors for your next child's party. You may find yourself wanting one to tuck inside your own purse. I did!


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I really enjoy trivia posts and had a lot of fun researching facts to include on my fifty fun facts about bank failures [3] post, so I thought I'd bring it back. This time I wanted to cut out all the other stuff, like FDIC insurance facts and "first bank failure" type facts, and just look at the list of failures themselves.
The statistics were calculated from the FDIC's list of failed banks [4] and we used data going back to 2000.
More Bank Failure Facts
- The greatest number of failed banks in one day was nine on October 30th, 2009. San Diego National Bank in San Diego CA, Bank USA in Phoenix AZ, Park National Bank in Chicago IL, Madisonville State Bank in Madisonville TZ, North Houston Bank in Houston TX, Citizens National Bank in Teague TX, Pacific National Bank in San Francisco CA, COmmunity Bank of Lemont in Lemont IL, and California National Bank in Los Angeles CA.
- Which state has had the most number of failures? Georgia (40) edges out Illinois (36) with Florida (29) and California (28) battling hard for fourth and fifth place.
- Which city has had the most number of bank failures? It's a shared honor – seven in Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL.
- Four of the Chicago bank failures occurred on the same day – April 23, 2010. The FDIC seized seven banks that day, all of which were in Illinois.
- Less surprising is that the second most number of bank failures in a city is four – Alpharetta, GA, Los Angeles, CA, and Phoenix, AZ.
- There are seven states without a failed bank – Alaska, Delaware, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota and Vermont.
- 1006 – that's the lowest FDIC certificate number of a failed bank since 2000, belonging to Citizens State Bank in New Baltimore, MI. Citizens was formed on June 2nd, 1922. It failed on December 18th, 2009.
- Recently, the FDIC has been seizing banks on a Friday but that hasn't always been the case. 92.4% of closures were done on a Friday, though 6.4% saw a closing on Thursday. Monday, Saturday, and Wednesday saw just one closure each (our of 265). The FDIC must be sharpening their pitchforks on Tuesdays as they didn't close a single bank in the last ten years on that day. And we assume that most Sundays they're busy readying the bank to be reopened on Monday.
- Dwelling House Savings and Loan Association [5] has the longest name of any failed bank.
- The shortest name? ebank [6].
Bank failures aren't fun, but their facts can be!
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The S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) was hot today. The index rallied -- breaking the 1,700 mark for the first time ever -- as European Central Bank President Mario Draghi echoed the Federal Reserve's tone of preserving a low-interest rate environment. While the S&P finished at an all-time closing high after adding 1.3%, and ending at 1,706, not all of its individual components were so lucky. In fact, some of them performed rather horrendously.
Cosmetic powerhouse Avon Products (NYSE: AVP ) fell 3.7% today after reporting quarterly profits that beat -- yes, beat -- expectations. Of course, that isn't the whole story: The company also revealed that regulators rejected Avon's $12-million offer to settle allegations of bribery in foreign markets. The investigation is proving to be an ongoing headache for the company and its shareholders; Avon first started looking into the matter back in 2008.
Meanwhile, Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK ) , which makes computer-aided design, or CAD, software, lost 3.2%, as Wall Street reacts to recent disappointments in the 3-D printing and innovative manufacturing arenas. CAD applications can be used to help users model and design the end product when using 3-D printers, and with one of 3-D printing's leaders, 3D Systems, disappointing on earnings Tuesday, that market may not be growing as quickly as Autodesk investors expected.
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TEAMThink 12-21-2012Executive Summary
- I explain the circumstances that have driven the recent, and significant, decline in client portfolios.
- All of the major positions we've maintained have been punished severely over the past month, as investors engaged in an explosive rush into risk assets and gold/miners have declined.
- Market conditions have progressed to a level of instability that is very rare, as certain extremes have gone to levels we did not anticipate. However, moving to further extremes and enduring for longer than we thought possible, only increases the degree to which we expect markets to adjust to normalize the extremes.
- We recognize that the scope of portfolio declines our investors have suffered over the past month is beyond their expectations and comfort levels. Like risk markets suffered in the fall of 2008, our strategy has experienced a "perfect storm" of sorts. Panicking from most risk assets during the fall of 2008 proved to be a poor long term decision. We believe sticking with our discipline and strategy during this difficult period will ultimately prove to be profitable.
Our Own Personal Fall 2008
I had initially intended to write a post regarding the Fiscal Cliff, but given the events in markets and our portfolios over the past two weeks, I believe there are more pressing matters to discuss. I've included a relatively brief section on the Fiscal Cliff at the end.
The past 4 weeks have resulted in our strategy suffering its own version of the fall of 2008. While things can always be worse, in almost all respects we've experienced a "perfect storm" for how we've been positioned. Given the size of the decline in the portfolios we manage, both separate accounts and our fund, it is self evident that we were ill prepared for the scope of the recent market move. My goal in today's post is to explain what has driven this "perfect storm," its impact on how we've been positioned, and what we are doing going forward. The extent of the declines our investors have experienced have naturally created a lot of anxiety and concern, so I hope this provides some context.
The reason I label the recent market environment as a "perfect storm" for us is that practically every major intermediate and long term tactical and strategic positioning that we've maintained moved violently against us over the past month. I read one blogger this week who used the phrase "Belief Bubble" to describe the recent market environment, and I think that is an apt characterization. As I described in the prior blog post on 12/7/2012, one of the factors we try to assess and consider within our analytical framework is how investors will collectively render judgment on the market Rorschach test. Our judgement in this regard has been woeful over the past month, as investors have progressed into a flurry of risk taking that we thought to be extremely unlikely, and we have clearly been wrong.
The four charts I am sharing today all come courtesy of www.sentimentrader.com. The first is an index which is a composite of various measures of risk taking across markets. It incorporates things like equity and foreign exchange volatility, credit spreads, relative performance between more aggressive stock market sectors like Industrials versus more defensive sectors like consumer staples. As you can see from the chart immediately above, the index has reached its highest level since early 2010. You'll also see that the November low did not develop off of any kind of major spike in risk aversion, as compared to the big trading lows from August 2011 and June this year. We have been positioned with the belief that "bear market rally" would develop once markets showed a greater degree of fear, but that did not occur. After just a modest spike in risk aversion, investors came flooding back into taking risk. The result was risk markets exploding higher and our hedges/shorts getting hit very hard.
next chart helps explain the other side of why our portfolios have been
hit so hard in recent weeks. It shows a survey of gold newsletter
writers and their aggregate recommended allocation to gold. The drop
over the past eight weeks has been significant, as sentiment towards
gold and related mining stocks has turned quite sour. This chart is only
through last week, so I'd expect the updated chart to drop below the
zero line given the hard hit gold and the miners suffered this week.
Sentiment tends to follow prices, so the drop in bullishness in
gold/miners reflects the sharp drop in prices they've experienced. The
result has been our largest investment area getting hit hard at the same
time our hedges/shorts have been hit hard.
This next chart is one I shared a while back and it shows the amount of VIX futures contracts commercial hedgers are long versus speculators being short. The VIX is an indicator that provides insight into the relative cost of buying put options - i.e. insurance. This chart shows the VIX for US large cap stocks, and you can see that the degree to which speculators have sold VIX futures has gone from unusually large to what I would deem crazy. This "selling of volatility" creates buying pressure on markets as long as it endures. However, it also serves to exponentially increase market risks, as when/if a market decline begins to unfold with momentum, the degree to which speculators have sold volatility may cause a cascade of forced selling. With the already unprecedented level of "short volatility" present as markets declined into the November low, we were too complacent in adjusting once markets began to rally. This proved to be a costly decision in the short term.
The next chart is similar to the VIX chart above, only it compares the relative positioning of commercial hedgers versus speculators in the Australian dollar. The first chart at the top of this post includes volatility levels in foreign exchange, and the volatility selling in "risk currencies" like the Australian dollar has been epic. In a low/no yield world, one favorite trade by speculators is to borrow in low/no yield currencies like the US dollar, and move the borrowed money into a higher yielding currency like the Aussie, and then harvest the "carry." This "carry" is the difference in the yield between the two currencies. It appears that such carry trades have once again approached the kind of levels which preceded the 2008 crisis, with the added dose of massive volatility being sold for speculators try to squeeze even more income out of the low/no yield world. When the carry trade imploded in 2008, the US dollar rallied over 35% versus the Australian dollar over a 15 week period.
What Reason is there for Optimism?
In each of these instances, we've identified what we believe to be inherently unstable situations whose degree of criticality was already at extreme levels a month ago. The conditions have now progressed to a degree to which we believe markets are currently extremely unstable. We've been the skunk at the garden party over the past month and payed a significant price, as markets have moved against nearly all of our positions. However, the underlying drivers for our positioning have only become more overwhelming. While the decline we've suffered in client portfolios has been far more severe than I expected, I also believe that size of the current disconnect provides the opportunity to recoup recent losses (and then some) in a rapid fashion.
The result is of this is a dichotomy which is very challenging. How do we sustain positioning which we have an extremely high conviction level, while also trying to make "temporary" losses at a level which are recoverable. The nature of the rally off the November low has stretched us to our very limit in this regard. While we obviously did not anticipate the flood into risk assets over the past month, our analytical process is constructed to account for such a scenario. The momentum peaks reached this week in the vast majority of risk markets across the world, should be "terminal" if our outlook is to prove accurate from here going forward.
Fear+Misery+Exhaustion+Capitulation= Bottoms
In some respects, this topping process over the past three months has been a mirror image of the 2008-2009 bottoming process. Many global stock markets, currencies and commodities bottomed in October or November 2008, while the US stock market proceeded to make a significant new low into its final bottom. Despite fear and loathing reaching a new low in March 2009, the vast majority of global markets made a higher low at that time, which preceded the launch into the recovery markets enjoyed. This also coincided with the business cycle bottoming and the recession ending in June 2009.
The recent top developed with US markets peaking in September and suffering the correction down to the November low. Off the November low, many global stock markets and currencies proceeded to explode to levels above the spring 2012 or September 2012 peaks. The German DAX moved to a new cycle high this week, which has that index joining the US as the two major global stock markets which have exceeded the peaks hit in spring 2011.
Despite well over $10 trillion in money being printed by various central banks around the world, the 'advance/decline" line for global markets has not even come close to making a new cycle high this year. Risk appetite has made a new high, which is a negative divergence - just as the new high in fear in March 2009 was a positive divergence. The degree to which people holding positions like ours have capitulated appears to be very significant. Hedge funds are holding near record high exposure to global stocks. Volatility has been sold by speculators (like hedge funds) at level rarely if ever seen in the past. Retail and institutional investors have inhaled record amounts of low quality junk bonds. The chase for yield has also resulted in a massive global carry trade in currencies. The confluence of this kind of data suggest market conditions that have preceded most of the largest market declines in history, whether it is 1929-1932, 1973-1974, 1987 or 2007-2009.
Portfolio Positioning
I stated above, while we've certainly done a poor job
anticipating and/or responding to the market conditions over the past
month, our process does/did account for such a scenario within our
cyclical outlook. However, the rubber band has been stretched to such an
extent that is very rare and we expect to see markets respond in a very
significant way over the next 4-5 weeks. If they do not, then we may be
forced to reduce/alter the exposure we have, which has been oriented to
capitalize on the various extremes I mentioned above unwinding. The
response of markets Friday is an encouraging start.
Fiscal Cliff
Outside of a short term Rorschach test relative to investor psychology, I view the Fiscal Cliff as a question of how negative the outcome will be for the cyclical economic outlook. None of the proposals currently under debate even make a dent in the long term fiscal problems facing the US. Neither political party is willing to propose reducing entitlement benefits or increasing taxes on the middle class, which is where the vast majority of the budget resides. Every single proposal under consideration imposes some degree of shorter term austerity to the economy. The big uncertainty is to what extent taxes will be raised and spending cut.
Regardless of one's political views, increased taxes and/or spending cuts have a de facto negative impact on the economy short term. I believe the best case argument someone can make is that the US economy is at stall speed (we think it is already 4-5 months into recession), which means it is inherently vulnerable to shocks. Any tax increases or spending cuts will create some degree of shock and could accelerate an already unfolding recession. This is quite common within business cycle dynamics, as the vast majority of people assign causation to a shock for launching a recession, when in many cases they are accelerants that simply worsen the contraction. The financial crisis and Lehman Brothers was a good example of this in 2008, where some people still state that the collapse of Lehman caused the recession, when in fact the recession began in December 2007.
The broad consensus we read and hear is that any resolution of the Fiscal Cliff will unleash businesses and consumers, who have supposedly been holding back on economic activity due to uncertainty. While the incessant media coverage of the Fiscal Cliff has surely had an impact, various economic metrics have been progressing in a classic recessionary sequencing for over a year. The business cycle is what is driving these factors, and just as if Lehman Brothers hadn't of collapsed a recession would have still have occurred. The counter factual is always theoretical, so some other crisis could have still plunged the economy into recession in 2008 had it not been Lehman, just as some other crisis could do the same in 2013 even if the Fiscal Cliff is "resolved."
The most market friendly Fiscal Cliff deal, in my opinion, would be a continuation of the status quo - i.e.extend the tax cuts for all and eliminate any spending cuts. Of course, there appear to be no chance of that kind of deal occurring, so the question becomes how big of a fiscal drag will an eventual deal, or no deal at all, be on the economy? Every scenario we see as plausible will create some fiscal drag, which will inherently contribute to slower economic growth in the near term. In environment of recession and corporate profits contracting, any fiscal drag at all raises risks of a deeper and more prolonged recession - something for which equity markets are not pricing in at all - in my opinion.


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Rolling Over My 401(k) To Vanguard
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Today, I severed one of my last ties to my old job, my 401(k) plan. The process for rolling over my 401k to a Rollover IRA at Vanguard was fairly painless but there are several areas that you need to keep an eye out.
First, talk to the benefits department of your former employer to see if they have a specific process you have to follow. At my old employer, I really only had one option – get a check for the value of my assets sent to me (but made out to the IRA company, not to me; otherwise it would be subject to 20% withholding). But before I could get that check, I would have to setup a Rollover IRA account because you are required by law to deposit the rollover check within 60 days and I didn't want any hiccups messing everything up.
This meant that I needed to have opened a Rollover IRA account at Vanguard first. So, going to the Vanguard website, opening one up was easy until I reached Step 3 where I was presented with this question:
Check with either your former employer's benefits office, or the financial institution currently holding your assets, to find out which option best describes what you need Vanguard to do.
- Send my financial institution a written request. The financial institution holding the assets from my employer-sponsored plan requires a written request from Vanguard to initiate the rollover.
- Provide an account number only. I completed (or am in the process of completing) my termination paperwork (paperwork for the financial institution currently holding my assets) and instructed (or will instruct) the financial institution to send my assets to Vanguard. Before the financial institution will send these assets, I need to provide the account number for my new Vanguard IRA®.
- Complete and return my paperwork. My financial institution requires Vanguard to complete its termination paperwork, provide an account number, and return the termination paperwork per the instructions provided.
Based on what I know from my former employer's benefits office, I really just need to select option 2 – Vanguard does nothing, I just present the account number to my former employer to finish the process. (as an aside, I had to liquidate my self-direct investment option with Charles Schwab and transfer it into my core funds before I could initiate a rollover, so I sold 84 shares of Fortune Brands for $84.84 for a gain of 6.66%… how creepy is that?)
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Welcome from the PCAA Board President
Maggie McQuaid '75
I joined the Prescott College Alumni Association Board of Directors in 2010, and was elected President in 2012. It's something I never would've foreseen when I first came to the college as a 17-year-old freshman in 1969. But for me, like for so many others, Prescott College has been all about opening new windows, chewing on new ideas, challenging myself and challenging others. Along with a well-rounded liberal arts education, Prescott College simply taught me how to learn. It led me to jobs as diverse as public health promotion in Honduras as a Peace Corps Volunteer, doing social work in inner-city Phoenix, and being a legal investigator in Alaska. More importantly, it gave me deep and life-long friendships with people who have moved and changed the world.
Prescott College was my first experience with sustainable community, and it continues to be just that. Being a part of the alumni association has helped me keep in touch with old friends from the student and faculty communities, and more importantly, it has given me the opportunity to meet and work with remarkable people from all eras of the college. I have had the pleasure of seeing the college grow and change over the years, and being able to be a small part of that change. I've been very fortunate to be able to witness firsthand how Prescott College has become a stable, dynamic, and relevant institution under the leadership of College President Dr. Kristin Woolever.
I hope that membership in the Alumni Association will prove as rewarding to all alumni. We can all be proud of the work we did as students, and we have all benefitted greatly from the sense of community and commonality we found here. I welcome you all to this page, and invite you to take your seat at our table.
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Every individual that has ever graduated from or attended classes at Prescott College (RDP, ADP, MAP) is considered an alumnus and has active membership status in the Prescott College Alumni Association (PCAA). Members of the PCAA enjoy benefits such as voting for the PCAA Board of Directors (and a chance to be a board member!), in addition to inclusion in the PCAA Alumni Directory.
Although we do not accept dues for membership into the Prescott College Alumni Association,we do encourage you to support the Annual Scholarship Fund. Your generosity will ensure that current students can benefit from the unique experience and expertise Prescott College offers. Your gift is dedicated to student scholarships. Last fiscal year, donors like you contributed approximately $250,000 towards helping students realize their dreams and goals. You can take pride in knowing you can touch someone's life and make a difference.


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DREAM COME TRUE: Nolan's genius fuels ingenious 'Inception'
July 18, 2010 - Ray Eckenrode
The film: "Inception"
Star time: ***** (out of five)
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
In a nutshell: While the rest of the movie industry is hard-pressed to come up with a single new idea ("Piranha 3D, anyone?), the beautiful mind of Christopher Nolan keeps pumping them out like child's play. In "Inception," Nolan makes us question if our mind is playing tricks on us, casting Leonardo DiCaprio cast as a dream-invading thief trying to pull off the most important job, professionally and personally, of his life. "Inception" is part caper film, part psychological thriller and all blockbuster.
The cast: DiCaprio is Dom Cobb, an Extractor, a thief who specializes in stealing ideas. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Arthur, his point man, who's responsible for researching dream team targets. Ellen Page is Ariadne, the team's Architect, responsible for constructing the mazelike dreamscapes. Tom Hardy is Eames, a Forger, who can impersonate important characters in the dream. Marion Cotillard is Mal, Cobb's late wife, a Shade who haunts his dreams. Deleep Rao is the Chemist, responsible for concocting the complex sedative mixes needed to allow dream crime. Ken Watanabe is Saito, the man who hires the team but becomes a Tourist on their mission. Cillian Murphy is Robert Fischer Jr., the Mark or target of the team's mission. Nolan staple Michael Caine, Pete Postlethwaite and an almost unrecognizable Tom Berenger have small but important roles.
End game: In an effort to keep this review spoiler free, we'll just say that the ending to "Inception" is inspiring – ahem – spirited debate online, with a current poll at EW.com drawing thousands of votes and showing audiences split almost 50-50 in their interpretation of the film's final scene. We'll save our interpretation for another blog and just observe that the idea behind "Inception" has been planted in a lot of brains (about $60 million worth Friday and Saturday) and seems to be spreading like a virus.
Review haiku:
Find your way back home
As the hero of your dreams
Take a leap of faith
The trailer: You can see it by clicking here.
Showing locally: For local showtimes, visit the Mirror's movie page here.


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Guest Column: Memories of an Atari Baby
Cover Story: How the 2600 shaped the life of one gamer before he could even pick up a controller.
may not have entirely understood what was going on when I first held an Atari controller in my hand back in 1983. I imagined I put it in my mouth first or shortly thereafter. While I quickly learned it wasn't for consumption, it would be much later that I realized the impact the console would have on me and how I interacted with my family.
I was too young to notice the couch was falling apart or I was half naked. The connection with the Atari 2600 was deep and real. The electronic beeps and boops were alive, reacting to whomever was controlling them. Though looking back, maybe it was those hypnotic effects that brought my family together.
I was thrilled to watch and learn about the games my six siblings liked, which in turn, taught me a bit about my siblings, too.
More than pure television, the video game "programs" were worth watching and cheering on. By extension, I was cheering on my brothers and sisters, too. The outcome of their games wasn't predetermined, and that made every time someone played a unique, suspenseful experience.
The suspense was unequivocal; sometimes, it was too much for me to even play. I was thrilled to watch and learn about the games my six siblings liked, which in turn, taught me a bit about my siblings, too. Pole Position allowed my would-be mechanic brother to burn some retro rubber, and my other brothers could enjoy some sibling rivalry via Joust.
But some of the games I recall most vividly were ones my oldest sister played. She often picked up the funky, circular paddle to play Circus Atari and Breakout, both of which appealed to the mathematician and scientist in her.
As she recalls, they were quite similar in their objective and thrill. Players bounce one another (Circus Atari) or a ball (Breakout) high into the air in the hopes of clearing shapes. Both the balls and the human seem to pick up speed, and catching them added to the intensity.
The Zen moments came when a ricochet effect took over, clearing piece after piece without ever coming back down. It was a marvelous thing to observe: this chain reaction of which my future Professor of Chemistry sister was the catalyst. Maybe I could do it, too, but it was satisfying enough just to see so much happen from one clever flick of the wrist.
She, like me, has enjoyed travel and adventure in her life and video games. Adventure was actually the name of another game she would play, too. The dragon that chased her and floated in and out of the dungeons was too spooky for me, but again, I could at least stomach it as a spectator.
I gradually watched less and played more as the years went by. Even before the next console hit our house (the NES), my sister left for college and then graduate school. She avoided purchasing a console for herself, as she barely had time for anything outside of school.
The roles didn't reverse too well, either. She wasn't much into watching me play video games on her vacation. To her defense, the games and the controllers after the Atari generation had evolved into something much more daunting.
My military dad somewhat assumed her role. As a retired Air Force man who worked on planes and electronics, he had an affinity for how games worked and those that involved the sky. He enjoyed the likes of Defender, Missile Command, and especially Space Invaders. As he described the lattermost, he was amazed that "there were over a hundred variations of the game within the one gaming cartridge."
My father also recalled enjoying "Ms. Packman" in a follow-up email. I don't blame him for misspelling that one, though I'm not sure what he thought she was packing. He was fond of Chun-Li and Morrigan in my versus fighter years, but that's for another story entirely.
He said Ms. Pac-Man was popular with everyone in the family. I only recalled my sisters playing it, though. I had no shame appreciating the speed bump the game received over Pac-Man. Moreover, the Pac series was one I joyfully, aggressively played, going after the altered ghosts often to my demise.
Ironically, neither my father nor my sister could recall Pitfall!'s name. He described it as "a jungle adventure that required one to jump to a vine and over crocodiles and beneath the surface." She also remembered it as one "where you swung on vines, and you could drop through a trap door and gather up scavenger prizes in the underground."
I think the trouble with remembering Pitfall!'s name is that it isn't about just avoiding pits. The snapping crocodiles, twitching rattlesnake, slowly creeping scorpion, and even the hanging vines are all images closely associated with the experience.
One interesting but terrifying element to me, even as I watch the videos of Pitfall II now, is that all of the enemies lingered, and some even chased the player. There was no defense or offense when it came to them; there was only avoidance -- lots of breath-taking near-pixel jumps, swings, and strokes through the stages.
I know I eventually tried Pitfall, but it must have been too intense and complex for me. I actually recall going from spectator to high score seeker most vividly with a fast-paced, albeit simpler, game called Frostbite. This single-screen platformer was all about hopping on all the floating icebergs before the igloo melts, while avoiding some arctic water creatures and a menacing polar bear.
I haven't played any Atari games for quite some time, but the memories rush back in only a few seconds thanks to online videos and photos. My dad still plays, though. He actually boasted about owning an anniversary edition of Atari that has ten games built in. Sure, I could explain emulation to him, but I don't think that would capture the same nostalgia.
Before my parents divorced, he remembers watching me play video games, more so at the arcades where some of the greatest Atari (and future) games originated. The flashy lights and big cabinets there felt familiar to him, but he wasn't much of a fan watching the newer console games. He certainly didn't want to try to learn how to play them.
When I talk with my father now, I don't even bother discussing the newest games, even though they are the backbone of my career. Nor do I ask him how are family of nine afforded an Atari on a military salary and food stamps. Seeing how it was one of the few times he could entertain seven kids (eight, if I include him), I realize it was a sound decision.
The complexities of life, and probably those more complex consoles, ultimately couldn't keep my family together. However, Atari was at the center of a happier time. It allowed me to indulge in my father's, brothers' and sisters' enjoyment, if only as a spectator. That to me, like each Atari game which filled my eyes, was real.
John Polson
John Polson contributes to Gamasutra and runs IndieGames.com: Two facts which very likely are not completely unrelated to his experiences with the Atari 2600.
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The Great Grandfather of Consoles...Too PersonalPosted: Mar 17, 2013 12:00AM PST by KENSHERMAN
The Great Grandfather of Consoles [notice no quotes this time] was the 1st real successful system, imo. I nearly broke the stick one time getting overexcited in trying to beat a game. (Sigh) I still have that console but if I can get new cables for it, I wonder if it'll still work. Plus, it took a lot of drops especially from my precocious female cousin at the time and half-brother but still worked (minus the loose or broken RF cable later). Anyway, my memory is mostly intact with this one as it is or was my 1st gaming console instead of Nintendo which was what I really wanted at the time. I think I had my Atari 2600 Jr. around Christmas of '88. Yes, that long ago! Right now it's sitting in a box in the Garage of Fame waiting to be fixed, sold or just curated. xD The only 2 games I remember playing on it right now are Defenders and Pac Man which are still there as well. Once upon a time, Atari was the face of games before the "N" era. But Atari remains a very precious memory or nostalgia of my childhood in a way that is almost too personal but am happy to share on 1UP's last days.
Nice WorkPosted: Sep 26, 2012 12:00AM PST by Maelgrim
Good personal intro/retrospective. I think that one of the more important aspects of video game culture is that we all have our own personal stories in which gaming plays a part. Sharing the human moments that helped to define us and expand (or sometimes narrow) our horizons is a part of what makes us a community and not just a bunch of nerds playing games.


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Adrenal outer cortex
Hormone: aldosterone
Target Organ: kidney, DCT
Effect: Increase Na+ reabsorption into bloodstream
Adrenal inner cortex
Hormone: androgens (testosterone and estrogen)
Target Organ: multiple sites in male&female
Effect: maintain secondary sex characteristics
Adrenal medulla
Hormone: epinephrine/nor-epinephrine
Target Organ: liver (glucose), heart (contractions), vessels (to gut, skin, kidney, periphery, heart, brain, skeletal muscles, bronchioles, pupils)
Effect: -Increase breakdown of glycogen, glucose, and fats
-Increase heart rate and contraction force
-Constrict: gut, skin, kidney, periphery
-Dilate: heart, brain, skeletal muscles
-Dilate: bronchioles, pupils
Thyroid (C cells)
Hormone: calcitronin
Target Organ: kidney, bone
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Hormone: PTH
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Kidney + Liver
Hormone: renin-angiotensin
Target Organs: bone marrow, adrenal, hypothalamus, peripheral vessels
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Pancreas (A cells)
Hormone: glucagon
Target Organ: liver, skeletal muscle cells
Effect: breakdown of glycogen (into glucose)
Pancreas (B cells)
Hormone: insulin
Target Organ: liver, body cells
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Pineal gland
Hormone: melatonin
Target Organ: ??? They DK
Effect: set circadian rythms, induce sleep, inhibit reproduction
Hormone: ANP
Target Organ: Kidney DCT, collecting ducts
Effect: Increase Na+ and H20 excretion
Stomach (G cells)
Hormone: gastrin
Target Organ: stomach chief cells, parietal cells, smooth muscles.
Effect: Increase gastric secretions (HCl) and motility
Stomach (D cells)
Hormone: Somatostatin (SST)
Target Organ: Stomach G cells
Effect: Inhibits gastric activity (opposite of gastrin effects)
Parathyroid + Kidney
Hormone: calcitriol
Target Organ: intestines
Effect: Increase Ca++ absorption from intestinal tract
Intestine interoendocrine
Hormones: GIP, CCK, secretin, and motilin
Target Organ: stomach, pancreas, gall bladder, intestineal smooth muscles.
Effects: *Look back at ch.24!
Releasing Hormone: TRH
Hormone: TSH
Target Gland: Thyroid-follicles
Hormone: _______?
Effects: Increase Cell metabolism
Releasing Hormone: CRH
Hormone: ACTH
Target Gland: adrenal-mid cortex
Effects: Increase glucose synthesis, Decrease inflammation (*anti-inflammatory), and increase glycogen formation.
Releasing Hormone: GHRH/GHIH
Hormone: GH
Target Gland: Liver
Effects: Increase protein synthesis & cell growth
Breakdown of lipids+glycogen
NON-Releasing Hormone: ______?
Target Gland: kidney, DCT, collecting ducts
Effects: Increase H20 reabsorption to blood
NON-Releasing Hormone: ________?
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the appendage also called the male genitals....commonly known as sphere or unit. Typical amongst males and occasionally she/he's
I held my "orb" in tuscany while naked at the dinner table to avoid embarrassment
por ted 16 de Agosto de 2004
A very shitty game
ORB Sucked, go buy HW2.
por Sean 29 de Outubro de 2003
a way to say what ever in the hood
(Jonny)say's, man i had 10 girls last night. (Michael's) say's, orb you aint get nothing!
por DONAL JACKSON 03 de Maio de 2008
eyeball and/or breast
She's got the most beautiful big brown orbs.
por Joe Boo 31 de Janeiro de 2006
fellatio, brains, dome, head; another term for oral sex performed on a male
Dude: Yo im just tryin to cop some orb...
por Handsome Joe 10 de Julho de 2005
"Guy just wucked out with a set of orbs and started flake junkin at the neighbors."
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Centenarys First Year Experience program provides a distinctive academic experience that introduces students to the liberal arts, those skills and habits of mind that allow one to approach complex problems from a variety of perspectives. The First Year Experience program is designed to highlight these diverse forms of inquiry and to cultivate the intellectual skills that enable successful participation in scholarly, professional, and public discourses.
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In recognition of the thoroughly multidisciplinary nature of this program, the teaching faculty is drawn from across Centenarys many academic departments.
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According to English newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Edinson Cavani is in France to complete a move to Paris Saint-Germain.
The Uruguayan is looking more and more likely to leave Napoli for the French capital for a fee rumoured to be around £55 million.
The signing of Cavani will lead to many questions about whether he can work together with Swedish International and current PSG talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Could the two of them work together? Will one of them have to play out of position at the club? Or could we see Ibrahimovic depart the club?
The biggest stumbling block for any club looking to sign the Swede would be his large wages, but there are still a few clubs with substantial funds who are looking for a striker.