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Straus lieutenant proposes $2 billion from rainy day fund for water project loans
The House's chief natural-resources policy writer has proposed to draw down $2 billion of rainy-day dollars to create a revolving loan fund for water-supply, conservation and reuse projects.
Doubling the amount of state savings that Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst tentatively has proposed to tap for the same purpose, Rep. Allan Ritter, R-Nederland, filed bills Thursday that he said would finally put the state's wallet behind its long-time talk of securing new water supplies to serve a burgeoning population amid drought.
"Our projections show that $2 billion would fully implement the State Water Plan as it exists today," he said. "With that one-time capital investment, we could provide adequate, meaningful funding to the plan and achieve the state's goals of supporting local entities in the implementation of projects."
For months, Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, has said lawmakers must make water a priority.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI — As the recognition of Founders Brewing Co. has grown over the past decade, the company has been approached multiple times by breweries interested in collaborating on a special brew.
Founders has turned them all down. Until now.
In May, Founders and Green Flash Brewing Co. of San Diego, Calif., will debut a limited release craft brew called Linchpin White India Pale Ale, which was developed by the brewmasters at each company.
"It's a brewery that we really respect," said Dave Engbers, Founders vice president and co-founder. "They brew great beer and tend to have a very similar brewing philosophy."
"It felt right."
The beer will be released on May 1 at the Craft Brewers Conference in San Diego and will then be available in limited supply through Green Flash's distribution network in 22-ounce bottles and by the keg for special release events nationally in May and June.
Green Flash brewmaster, Chuck Silva and Founders brewmaster Jeremy Kosmicki met in San Diego in March to develop the recipe.
"We give Jeremy an extremely long leash," said Engbers. "He's great at what he does."
Silva said the beer is brewed with "two yeast strains, copious amounts of wheat malt, and a big focus on 'C' hops to deliver a citrus explosion." Its alcohol by volume content is 7 percent.
"This golden beer pours with beautiful, frothy white beer foam that lasts due to bottle conditioning. Gently rousing the yeast that settles in the bottle will result in a fuller texture and a more cloudy white appearance. The citrus aromas that jump from the glass are largely tangerine up front with other types of citrus notes that mingle with the Belgian yeast esters. Hop flavors of bitter orange zest dominate the brew and linger to the finish with a nice play of American and Belgian yeast combo."
Engbers said the collaboration spark took place last year at a beer event in Cleveland where he met Green Flash brewery members. Since the furthest west Founders is distributed is Kansas City, Mo., the Linchpin collaboration is the only way for Californians to buy a Founders brew.
Engbers said Founders is not getting any direct cut of sales from the Linchpin collaboration.
"This is just for the art of the brewing," he said. "This is just a way for us do to something that's fun and innovative and creates a better product."
The craft beer industry is somewhat of an anomaly in the business world, Engbers said. "We're product driven. It's all about the beer."
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Social Media for Moms 101: Avoid Online Monkey MindKatie Allison
There's a concept in Buddhism called "monkey mind," and translated roughly, it sounds a bit like some kind of philosophical ADHD. Here's one definition of monkey mind that I found (online, of course): "The monkey mind (kapicitta) is a term sometimes used by the Buddha to describe the agitated, easily distracted and incessantly moving behaviour of ordinary human consciousness…the Buddha said that a person with uncontrolled craving jumps from here to there like a monkey searching for fruit in the forest'"
When it comes to blogging and building a social media brand (yes, I use the word "brand" unapologetically when talking about my online work around my personal blog), monkey mind refers to the tendency to fire off in too many directions, and to become too easily distracted by the latest bright shiny social media platform or activity.
In order to conquer social media monkey mind when you are getting started as a blogger, here's your mantra: first things first. In other words, when it comes to building an engaged (that's social media-speak which in the simplest terms means how regularly people comment on/about what you write) audience for your blogging and other social media activity, do one thing, and do it REALLY well before even CONSIDERING doing a single other thing. The reason I bring this issue up is that I see a lot of start-up/early stage mombloggers who are firing off in too many directions to get full benefit of any of them.
Let's use an imaginary mommyblogger as our case study. We'll call her Blogger X.
So Blogger X is in the first year or so of blogging, and she's set a goal for herself to be chosen as one of Babble's Top 50 Mombloggers for the year ahead, and to be able to pitch her blog to paying sponsors soon after that. Thus, she wants to be sure that potential readers, other bloggers and advertisers notice her and her blog in a positive way. So far, she isn't getting much traffic to her blog, and even among the readers she has, not many of them are commenting on her posts. She's frustrated, and decides to take action.
First, she adds a message board community functionality to her blog, something like BlogFrog, that she thinks might encourage readers to stick around and talk about her content. She also launches a Facebook fan page and Twitter feed, and she's updating both as often as possible in an effort to drive traffic and conversation back to her actual blog. She's also working a blog-branded You Tube channel and a Flickr feed,and she's checking in at Foursquare many times each week.
But after a few months, she notices that she's so busy trying to do all of these different things online that she doesn't have enough time to actually blog. And the less she blogs, the fewer comments she gets on her blog posts. Plus, remember that message board she set up on her blog for people to talk about her writing and to each other? Well, it's deader than a doornail. Nada, nuthin'
This, my bloggy pals, is what social media monkey mind looks like. With all the best intentions in the world, Blogger X is actually working against her goal of growing her readership and engagement rate from readers because instead of focusing on the fundamentals first, she's got so many things going on that she isn't getting the full benefit of any of them.
In comparison to the monkey mind approach that newbie Blogger X is attempting, consider how Heather Armstrong (AKA Dooce) does things. If you take a look at where Heather is active online, you will notice that she doesn't appear to be too worried about being present and active on every single social media platform that exists. In Heather's case, she clearly devotes most of her time and energy to creating great content for her own social media platform – her blog – through both the blog posts she writes and also those she creates through her distinctive photography. And while there are definitely some specific things that bloggers can do to encourage readers to leave a comments on their blog posts (look for me to address that topic in an upcoming post here at MomCrunch), the simple fact is that the number one way to make people want to comment on a blog post is for that blog post to be so well written or provocative or funny or fascinating that readers are just compelled to say something about it. So the very first thing Blogger X needs to focus on – before anything else – is writing the kinds of blog posts that people notice simply by virtue of their quality. If trying to spread herself too thin across all kinds of other online spaces is preventing her from having the time to create that kind of content, then she's working against her own best interests.
As for adding an online community or message board to her blog, well, I would advise Blogger X that this is something that only a few bloggers manage to turn into a real asset for their personal blogs. Creating an online community from scratch is a notoriously difficult feat, even for major brands paying big bucks to some digital agency to make it happen for them. So if Blogger X isn't yet getting very many comments on her actual blog posts, the solution isn't to dilute the conversation that IS taking place in her comments by sending potential commenters to some other area of her site to log in and talk amongst themselves. Again, using Heather Armstrong as an example, she does now have her own, very successful Dooce-branded online community as part of her blog, but she'd already been up and running for about eight years and had gazillions of dedicated, highly engaged readers when she took that big step.
As far as Twitter and Facebook go, I definitely believe that all bloggers hoping to build a strong audience of engaged readers need to be using one or the other of these two very different platforms on a regular basis. But in my observation, few bloggers do both equally well (Ree Drummond of Pioneer Woman is one of those who does). Heather Armstrong has well over 1 million Twitter followers, but she barely uses Facebook as part of her social media activity. Instead, she's focused on one platform over time, consistently using it in a smart, relevant way, and as a result she's getting full value (and then some) from Twitter.
In my own case, I actually do use both Facebook and Twitter in building readership for my blog. But I don't have a Facebook fan page. I just have a regular Facebook page, and I definitely use it to build my blog's audience, but I also use it just like non-bloggers use Facebook – to connect with friends and family. I am also active on Twitter, but I find myself primarily using Twitter to connect and network with other mombloggers and social media professionals (since I work in digital marketing for my actual job).
But back to Blogger X, at this point in her blog's development, I would advise Blogger X to pick either Facebook or Twitter, and really focus on building relationships and learning what works for her on whichever platform she chooses. I definitely would not launch a Facebook fan page for a blog that hasn't really gotten traction yet because, let's just be honest here, Blogger X's online brand and her blog don't yet have very many fans. While I've seen newer bloggers have success by focusing on Facebook, I think that Blogger X would find that focusing on Twitter would offer the best way for her to develop relationships with other mombloggers who will A – become her friends, and B – become the kinds of professional colleagues who help each other out by promoting one another's work. So I'd say Blogger X should further declutter her social media monkey mind by going with Twitter. She should ditch the Facebook fan page altogether at this point, and focus on meeting and connecting with the really successful mombloggers who are already using Twitter very effectively. She should watch what they do, and learn how "the pros" connect Twitter activity with blog success. Then she should jump in and give it a go herself.
As time goes on, and Blogger X's readership begins to grow and become more engaged, then she might consider adding other social media activity to the mix of what she's doing. In my own case, I've just started using You Tube regularly as part of my overall blogging mix in the past year, and I am sort of addicted to Instagram as of just the past few months. But any time I find that I am firing off in too many directions and leaving my blog itself to languish, I notice a drop in my blog traffic and comments, and it reminds me to quiet my monkey mind and get back to basics.
Got any questions about my point of view on this? Want to share what your own experience has been with social media monkey mind as you've tried to gain blog readers and comments? Tell me below. (Please be patient with me if I'm not able to respond to your comment in the same day. I try, but it doesn't always happen 😉 )


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Air Methods will pay $44 million for Sundance, in cash, and expects to close this acquisition on Dec. 31. The company recently advised that it would be adding a new loan facility to its existing credit line in order to facilitate a planned $7-a-share special dividend. The company did not clarify whether it would draw on either of these credit lines to help finance the Sundance acquisition.
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Expression analysis with oligonucleotide microarrays reveals that MYC regulates genes involved in growth, cell cycle, signaling, and adhesion
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|MYC affects normal and neoplastic cell proliferation by altering gene expression, but the precise pathways remain unclear. We used oligonucleotide microarray analysis of 6,416 genes and expressed sequence tags to determine changes in gene expression caused by activation of c-MYC in primary human fibroblasts. In these experiments, 27 genes were consistently induced, and 9 genes were repressed. The identity of the genes revealed that MYC may affect many aspects of cell physiology altered in transformed cells: cell growth, cell cycle, adhesion, and cytoskeletal organization. Identified targets possibly linked to MYC's effects on cell growth include the nucleolar proteins nucleolin and fibrillarin, as well as the eukaryotic initiation factor 5A. Among the cell cycle genes identified as targets, the G1 cyclin D2 and the cyclin-dependent kinase binding protein CksHs2 were induced whereas the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p21(Cip1) was repressed. A role for MYC in regulating cell adhesion and structure is suggested by repression of genes encoding the extracellular matrix proteins fibronectin and collagen, and the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin. A possible mechanism for MYC-mediated apoptosis was revealed by identification of the tumor necrosis factor receptor associated protein TRAP1 as a MYC target. Finally, two immunophilins, peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase F and FKBP52, the latter of which plays a role in cell division in Arabidopsis, were up-regulated by MYC. We also explored pattern-matching methods as an alternative approach for identifying MYC target genes. The genes that displayed an expression profile most similar to endogenous Myc in microarray-based expression profiling of myeloid differentiation models were highly enriched for MYC target genes.
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- 24 vanilla wafers
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- 3 eggs
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- Place vanilla wafers, flat side down, in paper-lined muffin cups; set aside. In a bowl, beat cream cheese, sour cream and sugar until smooth. Stir in cocoa, eggs and extract until blended.
- Fill muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 325° for 20-25 minutes or until tops are puffed. Cool on a wire rack. Cover and refrigerate until serving. Top each with a dollop of whipped topping and a spoonful of cherry pie filling or cherries. Yield: 2 dozen.
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California's highest court struck down the will of the people of California to ban same-sex marriage, Thursday.
The state's supreme court justices ruled 4-3 against a popular marriage act passed by voters in 2000. California voters overwhelmingly passed the Defense of Marriage Act, or Proposition 22, by more than 61 percent.
But the court's latest ruling overturns that voter-approved ban on same-sex unions, saying it was unconstitutional.
"It's terrible. I don't know what to say," said Debbie Cram, one of the more than 4.5 million Californians who voted for the ban. "I'm really upset that the court is overturning what the people voted on."
"I don't believe this is a discrimination issue. " California resident Marcus Cram said. "This is not a discrimination issue, it's a morality issue."
"The court of California is trying to legislate the morality of Californians who already voted against gay marriage," he added. "The people of California are wanting to go in a different direction, and that is clear from our voting procedure."
Gay advocate groups are claiming the ruling is a major victory for equal rights, despite the fact that less than one-third of Californian voters support the idea of same-sex marriage.
Keeping Up the Fight
More challenges to the court's decision are in the works.
Marriage defense groups are working on a ballot measure for constitutional marriage amendment, which would prevent judges from overturning voter will. The initiative is hoped to be put to a vote this fall.
Currently, more than 1.1 million signatures have been collected for the measure.
"Thanks to the more than 1 million Californians who signed petitions, these out-of-touch California judges will not have the last word on marriage," said Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage California. "California voters will."
"A state marriage amendment is the only way to put Prop 22 safely from the reach of activist judges who cannot tell the difference between marriage and bigotry," Brown said. "We call on gay marriage advocates to halt the divisive and intolerant rhetoric which cruelly and falsely labels millions of Californians as 'hate mongers' because we support marriage as the union of husband and wife."
Lawyers with the Alliance Defense Fund are also planning to ask for a stay of the court's decision until after the fall election, said Glen Lavey, senior counsel for the group.
California's Secretary of State is expected to rule by the end of June whether they have enough signatures to put the amendment on the ballot.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday that he "will not support an amendment to the constitution that would overturn this state Supreme Court ruling."
The high court ruling makes the Golden State the second state in the nation to allow same-sex couples to legally wed. Massachusetts adopted the practice in 2004.
Defending Marriage
When San Francisco officials in 2004 allowed gay couples in the city to marry, the ADF filed suit against the city for violating the Defense of Marriage act.
"The government should promote and encourage strong families," Lavy said. "The voters realize that defining marriage as one man and one woman is important because the government should not, by design, deny a child both a mother and father."
Gay rights advocates, however, argued the state was violating their civil rights by limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples.
As a result, the city of San Francisco, along with several gay and lesbian couples and gay rights groups, counter-sued to overturn state laws allowing only marriages between a man and a woman.
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"What happens in California, either way, will have a huge impact around the nation. It will set the tone," said Geoffrey Kors, executive director of the gay rights group Equality California.
Regardless of the ruling, it appears likely that an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court will occur. The nation's highest justices have never addressed the question of same-sex marriage.
Sources: The Associated Press, CNN, Alliance Defense Fund, National Organization for Marriage California
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On March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks and several other patriots from Boston protested the British curbing of civil liberties in their Massachusetts colony.
Thousands of black soldiers, both slave as well as free, from all 13 colonies fought in the Continental Army during America's war for independence from Great Britain. Many also served in state militias.
During the War of 1812, black soldiers served in both integrated regiments as well as in all-black regiments. Many black soldiers served with courage and distinction, both on land and at sea.
Many black soldiers fought in the Battle of New Orleans. Slaves, as well as free black soldiers, constructed forts around the city in preparation for the impending British invasion. Also, blacks comprised the majority of two battalions and three companies, collectively referred to as Free Men of Color, as well as serving in integrated Louisiana militia units.
When Union troops invaded Confederate states, thousands of black slaves flocked to Union camps for a chance to fight. Many of these men were unofficially allowed to enlist in the Union Army. After President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, black soldiers were officially allowed to participate in the war.
Frederick Douglass, best known as a black orator and abolitionist, helped to establish the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment of the Union Army. On Aug. 13, 1863, Douglass was directed by the Secretary of War to travel from his hometown of Rochester, N.Y., to Vicksburg, Miss., "to assist in recruiting colored troops."
After the Civil War, settlers moved westward in increasing numbers. When fighting broke out with Indians, the Army was often called in to quell the uprisings.
In 1866, Congress authorized the formation of regiments of black soldiers: the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and the 24th, 25th, 38th, 39th, 40th and 41st Infantry Regiments to deploy in the West to fight the Indians. The infantry regiments were later consolidated into the 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments.
Black soldiers fought so bravely and ferociously during a battle with Cheyenne warriors in 1867, that the Cheyenne nicknamed them "Wild Buffalo."
Over time, the term "Buffalo Soldiers" was used for all black soldiers who served during the Indian wars. Between battles, the "Buffalo Soldiers" built roads and telegraph lines, escorted supply trains and guarded stagecoach and mail routes.
In 1868, Cathay Williams became the first black female Buffalo Soldier - she disguised herself as a male.
Henry O. Flipper was the fifth African-American to be accepted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and in 1877 became the first African-American to graduate from the academy. He was the first African-American to be commissioned in the Army, or any other branch of the U.S. military. He also became the first African-American officer to command African-American soldiers in the Army when he assumed command of Troop A, 10th Calvary Regiment, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers, at Fort Sill, Okla. Before Flipper took command, all African-American units were commanded by white officers.
Black soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments and the 24th and 25th Infantry Regiments fought in the Spanish-American War. The four regiments comprised 12 percent of the total force during the invasion of Cuba.
Many of these soldiers were veterans of the Indian Wars and some were Civil War veterans. Another 2,000 served in the Navy - they comprised 7.6 percent of all sailors.
In 1917, the United States entered World War I. Despite knowing that freedom to serve their country did not in itself guarantee full participation in American society, thousands of black Americans answered the call to duty through service in the Army.
The Army operated under a policy of racial segregation and blacks were commonly relegated to supply and labor jobs. There were, however, active black combat units that made notable contributions.
In World War II, the U.S. war effort was determined to defeat fascism and to defend freedom. For black Americans, freedom in its fullest form was an ideal that was desired not only abroad, but on the homefront as well. Even though in the U.S., many blacks were treated as second-class citizens, black soldiers still served unyieldingly for their country.
On July 19, 1941, the U.S. Army Air Corps began training black pilots. The 926 members of the famed Tuskegee Airmen (comprised initially of the 99th Pursuit Squadron and later the 332nd Fighter Group) were trained for combat in World War II at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Known for their red-tailed P-51 Mustang fighters, the Tuskegee Airmen never lost an escorted plane to the enemy during the course of World War II, during which they carried out hundreds of escort missions.
New opportunities began to emerge for black soldiers while serving in the Korean War. In October 1951, the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment, which had served during the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the beginning of the Korean War, was disbanded. This eliminated the last lingering formal practice of segregation in the Army. Black soldiers now served in all combat service elements and were involved in all major combat operations, including the advance of United Nations Forces to the Chinese border.
The 1960s marked a transformation of the realities of discrimination and political equality for blacks with the passing of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act (1964 and 1965, respectively). The 1960s also marked the full engagement of the United States in the war in Vietnam. In support of this campaign, black soldiers continued the tradition of serving the Army with distinction.
Brigadier General Hazel W. Johnson-Brown became the first black woman general officer and the first black Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
The Persian Gulf War developed out of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990. The international armed intervention followed in January 1991. Black soldiers - making up about 22 percent of the total Army - followed a rich tradition of honorably serving in the U.S. Forces.
Since the Armed Forces were integrated in 1948, the Army has been committed to racial diversity and equal opportunity to all soldiers. In the past several years, the Army has become even more proactive to recruit and train a diverse force since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In 2003, there were approximately 254,000 blacks serving the Army as an Active-Duty, Reserves or National Guard soldier, or as an Army Civilian, according to the U.S. Office of Army Demographics. This was 20.3 percent of the total Army. In the general U.S. population, 12.7 percent of 18 to 55-year-olds are black.
As of 2012, across all services, the U.S. military was comprised of 16.4% African-Americans. African-Americans continue to serve their country with honor and dignity.
On Jan. 29, 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. As president, Obama also is commander in chief of all U.S. forces.
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Vincent R. Stewart, who is expected to be promoted to lieutenant general, will be the first Marine Corps officer to lead the Defense Intelligence Agency when he takes command later this month, a Pentagon spokesman said. Story
As the Defense Department honored African-Americans for their service and contributions to the U.S. military, a senior DOD official reaffirmed the department's commitment to promoting diversity. Story
African-American officers serving during the Vietnam War era faced a particularly challenging time, but very little has been documented of their experiences, Isaac Hampton II, a scholar who has studied the black officer corps during this period, told a Pentagon Auditorium audience as part of the Defense Department's History Speaker Series celebrating African-American History Month. Story
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno promoted Lt. Gen. Robert S. Ferrell, the first African-American to become the Army's chief information officer and G-6, to three stars, following his confirmation to the position and rank by the U.S. Senate. Story
As the nation marks 50 years since the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Air Force retraces the road to equality for African-Americans starting two decades earlier with a program that became the ultimate opportunity for young African-Americans with a dream to fly. Story
The Marine Corps Recruiting Command urged students to take advantage of the Frederick C. Branch Scholarship, a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship named for the first African-American Marine officer, which offers a stipend, full tuition and uniforms. Story
This year's National African-American History Month observance celebrates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and offers an opportunity to recognize the contributions African-Americans have made to national defense, a senior Defense Department official said. Story
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U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Michelle J. Howard is poised to become the service's first woman and the military's first African-American woman to achieve four-star rank. Howard is currently the deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy, and will be assigned as the vice chief of naval operations. More
Army Master Sgt. Latisha Turner received the U.S. Army's Federally Employed Women Meritorious Service Award, which honors leaders who have made significant contributions to diversity, equality and the advancement of women in their organizations. More
Air Force Maj. Marc Fulson leads a mentorship group of African American Air Force Academy graduates, and is passionate about eliminating barriers based on race, color, gender, national origin and religion in the Air Force, DOD, the United States and around the world. More
Ricky Peer is a two-time recipient of the Commander's Award for Civilian Service, recognized for developing the Command's first Student Career Experience program with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions. More
Jacqueline A. Toussaint is recognized for her leadership of highly successful workforce solutions for the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in science and engineering. More
Vice Adm. Howard is a 1978 graduate of Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. She graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1982 and from the Army's Command and General Staff College in 1998, with a Masters in Military Arts and Sciences.
Howard's initial sea tours were aboard USS Hunley (AS 31) and USS Lexington (AVT 16). While serving on board Lexington, she received the secretary of the Navy/Navy League Captain Winifred Collins award in May 1987. This award is given to one woman officer a year for outstanding leadership. She reported to USS Mount Hood (AE 29) as chief engineer in 1990 and served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. She assumed duties as first lieutenant on board the USS Flint (AE 32) in July 1992. In January 1996, she became the executive officer of USS Tortuga (LSD 46) and deployed to the Adriatic in support of Operation Joint Endeavor, a peacekeeping effort in the former Republic of Yugoslavia. Sixty days after returning from the Mediterranean deployment, Tortuga departed on a West African training cruise, where the ship's Sailors, with embarked Marines and U.S. Coast Guard detachment, operated with the naval services of seven African nations.
She took command of USS Rushmore (LSD 47) on March 12, 1999, becoming the first African American woman to command a ship in the U.S. Navy. Howard was the commander of Amphibious Squadron Seven from May 2004 to September 2005. Deploying with Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 5, operations included tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia and maritime security operations in the North Arabian Gulf. She commanded Expeditionary Strike Group Two from April 2009 to July 2010. In 2009, she deployed to CENTCOM theater, where she commanded Task Force 151, Multi-national Counter-piracy effort, and Task Force 51, Expeditionary Forces. In 2010, she was the Maritime Task Force commander for BALTOPS, under 6th Fleet.
Her shore assignments include: J-3, Global Operations, Readiness and executive assistant to the Joint Staff director of Operations; deputy director N3 on the OPNAV staff; deputy director, Expeditionary Warfare Division, OPNAV staff; senior military assistant to the secretary of the Navy; Chief of Staff to the director for Strategic Plans and Policy, J-5, Joint Staff, and deputy commander, US Fleet Forces Command.
She currently serves as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans & Strategy (N3/N5)
NAME: Latisha L. Turner, Master Sergeant, USA
DUTY TITLE: Area II Lead Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) at Yongsan Army Base, Korea. As the Area II SARC, MSG Turner serves as the primary point of contact for Area II SHARP Program Executive Agent and Area Senior Responsible Officer (SRO). She executes overall management of sexual harassment and assault awareness, prevention, and training for Area II. MSG Turner also executes all tasks in implementing and assessing the effectiveness of the SHARP program.
EDUCATION: Warrior Leader Course, Advanced Senior Leader Course, Senior Leader Course, First Sergeant Course, Contracting Officer's Representative Course, Level 1 Acquisition Certified by the Defense Acquisition University, Phase I of Battle Staff Course, Combat Lifesaver, Field Sanitation, EOR Course, EOA Course, EEOC Counselors Course, Special Emphasis Program Manager's Course, Equal Opportunity Specialist Course, Justice Center of Atlanta Mediation Course and the SHARP Certification Course. Formal education includes: Associates Degree in Criminal Justice; Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice; Masters Degree in Human Relations and Criminal Justice. She is also pursuing a doctorate degree in Organizational Development and Leadership.
AWARDS: Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean, Defense Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, NCO Professional Development Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon and the NATO Medal. She is the 2007 and 2008 Army Materiel Command's Equal Opportunity Advisor of the Year. She also the recipient of the 2013 Federal Employed Women's Meritorious Award and 2013 Blacks in Government Award.
PERSONAL/PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION: MSG Turner joined the Army Jan. 26, 1994 in Richmond, VA, as a 92A, Automated Logistical Specialist. Her assignments include PLL Clerk/ Shop Office NCOIC at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; Warehouse NCOIC at Ft. Stewart, Ga.; Warehouse NCOIC/Material Management NCO at Camp Humphreys, Korea; Platoon Sergeant at Ft. Campbell, Ky.; Equal Opportunity Advisor with the Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island, Ill; First Sergeant at Ft. Hood, Texas and Equal Opportunity Instructor at Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. She has completed a combat tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and a tour in Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. MSG Turner enjoys spending time with her family and traveling in her free time.
Major Marc Fulson is the Deputy Chief, Independent Readiness Review Team, Engineering Directorate, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA. He is in charge of independent technical assessments of 14 programs including satellites, launch vehicles and ground systems that support military and civilian space launches. He reports his findings directly to the Program Executive Officer for Space and provides a go/no-go recommendation prior to launch and Operational Acceptance tests. His efforts enabled the successful launch and commanding of two critical communications and navigation satellites valued at more than $4B that directly support our frontline troops.
Fulson completed his Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Liberty University in March 2013 with a grade point average of 3.75. During this award period he completed a 760-hour internship program at the Las Vegas Renewing Life Counseling Center serving predominately low-income Hispanic and African American populations. As a counselor he helped 41 individuals and their families work through extremely challenging times in their lives such and divorce, drug addiction, and homelessness. Specifically, Fulson helped three suicidal clients find coping methods to get them through difficult times and prejudices they may encounter in the future.
Fulson is a Chief Coordinator for a mentorship group that connects, mentors and mobilizes 248 African American Air Force Academy graduates. The organization is committed to character and leadership development, mentorship and community outreach. As the Chief Coordinator, Fulson actively connects cadets and new officers with potential mentors. In 2012, 145 cadets and new officers were connected with mentors. In addition, he led the group's effort to spread awareness by hosting an annual conference and initiated the use of social media for inter-member communications. Lastly, Fulson led the group's charitable giving effort. In 2012, the group raised and donated approximately $159,000 to various organizations such as local places of worship, NAACP, Big Brothers Big Sisters, 100 Black Men Inc, Habitat for Humanity, Alpha Phi Alpha, Omega Psi Phi and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternities.
In addition to being a leader in a mentorship group, Fulson is passionate about eliminating barriers based on race, color, gender, national origin and religion in the Air Force, DOD, the United States and around the world. He mentored a new female officer and taught her about the Flight Test Engineer career field and the advanced education opportunities such as the Naval Flight Test short courses and the one year Air Force Test Pilot School. He convinced his senior staff to select her for one of two Flight Test Engineer positions in a squadron of 15 handpicked talented officers. His mentorship and support encouraged the female officer to apply to the Air Force Test Pilot School. Fulson's advocacy has given the squadron its first female flight test engineer in four years, doubled the number of female flight test engineers in the unit and fostered an organizational culture that removes barriers and gives equal opportunities for all sexes and races.
Fulson's dedication to promoting African Americans within the government has been widely recognized. This includes capturing Air Force Space Command's nomination for the prestigious 2013 NAACP Roy Wilkins Renown Service award.
Ricky Peer has served as the Chief of the Ammo Depot Automation Project Management Office at the US Army Joint Munitions Command since Sep 2007. Mr. Peer supervises a unique and diverse team whose mission it is to facilitate and guide the collaborative integration of automation and enabling technologies into the ammunition logistics lifecycle business processes.
Peer began his career with the Federal Government as a Student Trainee in 1980. His previous assignments include Chief of the Accountability / Storage Division, Supervisory Industrial Base Manager, Environmental Scientist, Environmental Protection Specialist and Industrial Specialist. He graduated from the University of Arkansas – Pine Bluff with a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Technology in 1981. He is Level II certified in the acquisition field of Production, Quality, and Manufacturing, is Level I certified in Program Management, and is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps.
Peer earned a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and has completed numerous logistics, leadership and executive courses of study, most notably the Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Training in Aug 02. He is a two-time recipient of the Commander's Award for Civilian Service (Feb 04 and Jun 04) having been recognized for developing the Command's first Student Career Experience program with Historically Black Colleges/Universities and Hispanic Serving Institutions, and for his outstanding contributions to the Equal Employment Opportunity and Minority College Relations Programs. Peer was recognized as AMC's 2009 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Roy Wilkins Renown Award nominee. He also received two Special Act Awards in July 2010 and September 2011.
Jacqueline A. Toussaint distinguished herself as Chief, Commander's Action Group, Director of Staff Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, from 1 June 2012 to 30 May 2013.
Toussaint is recognized for her leadership of highly successful workforce solutions for the recruitment and retention of women and minorities in science and engineering. She continues to support the Diversity in Research Initiative, which she founded several years ago. This program encompasses research with universities and creates strategic partnerships. As the program manager for the widely acclaimed Minority Leaders Program, she continues to introduce Historically Black Colleges/Minority Institutions to Air Force research opportunities. Toussaint continued to facilitate the summer internship program, and significantly increased the number of women and minorities throughout the organization. Through her leadership, the Laboratory participated in numerous national and regional technology-recruiting events. At Air Force Week 2012 in New York City, she led a 25 member team to provide technology demonstrations to thousands of visitors. The distinctive accomplishments of Toussaint reflect credit upon herself and the United States Air Force.


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When they were initiated in the 1930s, farm subsidy programs were designed to insulate producers from fluctuations in market prices and raise farm household incomes. Under such a system, however, producers base their planting decisions for the subsidized commodities not only on expected market prices and production costs, but also on government payments. To reduce the market distortions associated with government subsidies, efforts to decouple farm income support from planting decisions began in the 1980s, but the most sweeping changes were introduced in farm legislation in 1996 and 2002. Rather than basing payments on current market prices or production levels, production flexibility contract (PFC) payments created in 1996 provide lump-sum payments on eligible acres, with payments based on historical plantings of program crops and yields. As a result, these "decoupled" payments change the income and wealth of a household without distorting relative commodity prices.
In theory, decoupled payments should not influence planting decisions. Nonetheless, questions about the payments' impact on the farm business and farm household well-being remain. ERS researchers used a household framework and household-level data to analyze these issues. They found that:
While the analyses of land, labor, and capital markets suggest that decoupled payments have the potential to indirectly influence farmers' decisions about resource allocation and productivity, the empirical results are mixed and the evidence of significant impacts is ambiguous. Decoupled payments are less distorting than coupled payments, but further study is warranted.
Decoupled Payments in a Changing Policy Setting, by Mary Burfisher and Jeffrey Hopkins, USDA, Economic Research Service, October 2004
Decoupled Payments: Household Income Transfers in Contemporary U.S. Agriculture, by Mary Burfisher and Jeffrey Hopkins, USDA, Economic Research Service, February 2003
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quote Chappy_112ive only listened 6 kiss and I thought it wasn't that bad. And I expected total dogshit seeing as people either love lil b or *bleep*ing despise him.You really think that lil b is good?
quote Cashishow can you really judge him without listening to an actual mixtape from him. I don't even love him or anything, i just enjoyed some tracks on 6 kiss.No i haven't listened to a full mixtape by him because if I think someone sounds shit or like a droning moron talking about nonsensical rubbish then i generally don't delve any further
quote Yicka rapper who has a *bleep*ing horrible rabid fanbase. he has notoriety for stupid tweets and acting like a retard in a somewhat lovable waySomeone needs to tell me who Lil B is...
quote ParadoxNo.how can you really judge him without listening to an actual mixtape from him. I don't even love him or anything, i just enjoyed some tracks on 6 kiss.
i mean thats like looking up a band on youtube and listening to 3 songs in 60kbps and deciding their shit.
quote Cashisdo you honestly think those tracks are actually serious? in the second video he isn't even trying to lip-sync hes just moving his mouth lol its hilarious. the title is 'wow this is most epic to date'.quote ParadoxNo.how can you really judge him without listening to an actual mixtape from him. I don't even love him or anything, i just enjoyed some tracks on 6 kiss.
i mean thats like looking up a band on youtube and listening to 3 songs in 60kbps and deciding their shit.
I have deduced that he is a moron from listening to a few of his shit songs whereby he doesn't actually rap, he just says words. Words that don't make any sense when put together.
For any of you reading this and wondering who this guy is:
or listen to this, he struggles to pronounce his bars properly ffs
quote Cashishes makes shit tunes because his fanbase thinks its funny and herald him as a critic of modern hip hop or somethingWhich other artists make 'ironic' and purposely shit tunes? What sort of logic is that?
quote Cashisof course it was to stir controversy. i havent listened to the mixtape but its apparently about staying positive in life or something like that but everyone knows it was just to attract attentionHe's a musical prostitute, he made a mixtape called "I'm Gay" for crying out, the little bitch would suck a dick for a bit of fame.
quote Cashiswhat you called 'okay' i enjoyed. i don't love the guy or anything all I said is that I enjoyed some of his tracks on one of his mixtapes. he isn't a excellent artist, or even a great artist, i'm just saying that I don't really hate him anymore after I listened to his mixtape.So we've established that he makes "purposely shit, ironic" music and occasionally a bit of "okay" music.
quote Cashiscemedy guldYour signature says it all.
quote Chappy_112I'm sort of surprised you didn't catch on sooner. Have you've seen the tweets he makes? You honestly tell me that you believed he was serious. Not to mention taking one look at his fanbase tells you that it's full of people who believe he's a troll and support him, think his tweets are funny, etc.So is that the whole thing with Lil B? He's shit, everyone knows he's shit but they pretend he's good because it's funny?
quote Chappy_112I just saw screencaps of his twitter posts a year ago and wondered who he was. i listened to his tracks and thought he was shit. then the grammy thing came along and he was winning by landslide and I saw his fanbase flip out when Steam powered giraffes won and thought it was hilarious.No I haven't seen anything to do with Lil B, I listened to his music, it was shite and that's the end of it. I don't follow him and if I ever seen anyone on my twitter say that he was good which I haven't I'd unfollow them.
I had no idea about his fanbase or what they do because he doesn't interest me, so it's not that I didn't catch on I just didn't know.
quote DemonfurbyWrong person.quote CTTR championSiren was alrightIt would be good if at one point he was like. Classic...Classic...This one? This one aint classic.
Don't *bleep* with him though, he's a real wrestler


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PLAINFIELD — Vermont State Police say an Essex Junction teen broke into a Plainfield home early Tuesday.
State police say Philip Hoeppner, 64, was at home on Cameron Road when he heard a noise inside his house. When Hoeppner yelled to see what the noise was, he heard a loud crash and the door to his residence opening. State police say a passer-by told Hoeppner a male juvenile had been seen running from the house into a wooded area.
Police say items had been tampered with and a piece of jewelry taken.
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The proposal to make a video, to give a personal view of the operas that plans to release the Gran Teatre del Liceu, was realized with the students of Audiovisual Communication in their second year of high school.
They got close (from a certain "strangeness" to the operatic phenomenon) to the operas L'elisir d'amore, Street Scene and Lohengrin, looking for those elements that could represent themselves: the issues, the ritual of going to opera, etc ...
In the case of Donizetti's opera, obviously the magic of love, the seduction, the "potion" was an element that attracted them and on which they worked from different approaches, both stylistic and technical.
On the other hand, the mythical world and the complexity of Wagner's Lohengrin resulted in proposals that were often hard to be specific about.
The results reflect their character of class exercise, constrained by the timing and conditions of our multidisciplinary workshop, and point in the expected, but not less rewarding, freshness of the young vision. A vision residing far from the operatic "etiquette".
Nil Ali, Magdalena Gómez and Ibai Gorriti focus on the whispers, the background sound evolving the characters of the opera Street Scene by Kurt Weil, in a clip dream and daring, with an expressionist style in its staging.


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How should we live? What gives our lives meaning and purpose? What should we believe, and how can we be confident that our beliefs are true? These are the questions that have occupied philosophers for centuries, and that occupy us as we live our lives. Philosophy seeks to give rigorous, well thought out answers to these questions, or, at least, to help us frame the right approaches in the search for truth. At Marquette, we pursue these and other perennial issues primarily through the study of Western philosophical traditions from their Greek origins to contemporary thought.
The Philosophy Department has 27 regular full-time faculty, with a wide range of teaching and research interests. The department has a long tradition of research strengths in Medieval Philosophy and Continental Philosophy. During the past fifteen years, the department has greatly expanded teaching and research strength in ethics, social, and applied philosophy.
For undergraduates, the department offers a major with three specialization tracks: History of Philosophy; Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy; and Ethics and Values. For graduate students, we offer a Ph.D. that allows for specialization in all areas of the history of philosophy as well as many systematic areas. We also offer an M.A with specializations in the History of Philosophy and Social and Applied Philosophy.
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Alumna Kristin Schaupp awarded Grant
Alumna Kristin Schaupp has been awarded an NEH grant for her enduring questions course on happiness. Further details here.
Recent Graduate wins Award
Dr. Melissa Mosko (PhD, 2011) has been awarded the Dr. I Joan Lorch Award at Canisius College. Further details here.
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Alumni Jacob Held has been awarded the Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award at his university, The University of Central Arkansas.
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Four of our PhD students have been awarded fellowships for next year!
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Alum Ryan Knott serving in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps profiled one of our alumni, Ryan Knott, a German major with a minor in philosophy, on their website this month! This year there are 2 alumni from Marquette serving in JVC, and Ryan's profile shares just one of these stories. Ryan is serving in the International Program as a teacher at St. Peter Claver High School in Dodoma, Tanzania. Each Jesuit Volunteer brings their experiences, motivations, education, and inspiration to JVC, helping to bring a diverse richness of experience into the program and forming the community of JVC. See Ryan's profile here: jesuitvolunteers.org/jv-profiles/


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MAHWAH, N.J.—eDist Security, a wholesale distributor of surveillance and intrusion hardware based here, recently announced a new partnership with Monitronics, according to a news release.
FARMERS BRANCH, Texas—Construction of Monitronics' new campus, here, is scheduled to begin May 16, according to a report from the Dallas Business Journal. The campus will become home to 1,000 corporate employees, the report noted.
Good news for Ascent Capital, the parent holding company of Monitronics, according to a recent research report conducted by Imperial Capital's Jeff Kessler. The takeaway is that the monitoring company's Q1 2014 earnings—$484 million in revenue, EBITDA of $321 million—were consistent with estimates and the company is "not experiencing impact from the entrance of cable/telcos."
As a result, Imperial Capital is maintaining the outperform rating and one-year price target of $94, about 43 percent above the company's recent share prices, recorded in the report at $65.80.
The share price is being impacted currently by skittishness surrounding the big new market entrants, referred to as a "false negative perception about the competition from cable/telcos."
"We believe that Ascent remains fundamentally strong and is not seeing any slowdown as a result of cable/telcos entering the security space," the report says.
As far as the new competitive landscape, Kessler believes traditional security companies remain Monitronics' primary competitors. He also envisions something of a schism taking place between traditional large security companies and the newcomers who established themselves first in other industries.
The former, according to the report, will continue to command their share of business in the market for critical life safety systems, while the latter will bring to market more of a "home services," lifestyle-focused package. The report said that existing skepticism about the "commitment to service" of the cable/telcos could hinder their ability to gain share from the largest security providers.
Kessler's report was extremely thorough, full of many fascinating prognostications about not just Monitronics but the industry at large. Needless to say, a lone blog post can hardly do it justice. Here's a sample sentence from the report that certainly piqued my interest:
"We believe smaller, undercapitalized security companies who do not have the capital to install Alarm.com or iControl wireless interactive systems may face real competitive threats."
The report also touched on the implications of the enormous advertising budgets of the new market entrants, as well as the positive effects of Monitronics' acquisition last August of Security Networks.
Greater visibility, broader market acceptance and (for some central stations) more wholesale monitoring accounts are just some of the benefits often mentioned in connection with the entrance of cablecos and telecoms into security.
A recent Wholesale Monitoring study by the Barnes Associates (co-sponsored by the CSAA and SSN) largely attributed the 19 percent growth the segment enjoyed in 2013 to the influence of the new entrants. To be sure, there seems to be a prevailing belief that the rangy, big-money advertising campaigns of such companies can be the proverbial "rising tide that lifts all boats."
That's not to say there's no ambivalence. That was apparent enough in a recent SSN News Poll that dealt with the topic. A number of readers expressed concern about the long-term viability of smaller players in the home security space, given the influx of these major corporations who have already made inroads into the home through Internet and cable, and thus have that previously established "stickiness."
That ambivalence was also reflected in a recent analysis by Rajiv Bhatia on Seeking Alpha, a crowdsourced platform for investment-based ideas, who discussed what the new market players could mean for Ascent Capital, the holding company of Monitronics. Bhatia acknowledged that the company faces "increased competition" from the large new cableco/telecom entrants, which he says are gaining traction despite unsuccessful forays into the market in the past.
Regarding Monitronics' business model, Bhatia offered a mixture of encouraging and somewhat cautionary words:
"While management and sell-side analysts believe that Ascent is better insulated from competition via its dealer-only business model, Ascent faces upward pressure on the multiple it pays for its dealer contracts from competitors. Additionally, its growth through its internal channels is weakening."
Those multiples, he noted earlier, are based on an RMR multiple of 50. Ascent faces "upward pressure on the multiple it pays to acquire contracts," he said.
With more than 1 million subscribers, Monitronics trails only ADT in terms of marketshare in the alarm monitoring space. It will be interesting to watch what happens to the market presence of both companies as the cableco/telecom ads continue to appear on our television screens.
DALLAS—Monitronics International, a third-party central station based here, will relocate to a new three-story, 165,000-square-foot corporate campus in the middle of 2015, Bruce Mungiguerra, vice president of operations at Monitronics, told Security Systems News.
Highlighted by the marquee acquisition of Security Networks, 2013 was unquestionably a strong year for Monitronics. It appears 2014 is starting the upswing as well.
Monitronics turned in an impressive haul at the latest Stevie Awards, reeling in a pair of Bronze prizes at the eighth awards show for sales and customer service. For the second consecutive year the third-party central station won in the Contact Center of the Year category, according to a news release from the company. The company was also honored in the Front-Line Customer Service Team of the year category.
The awards were presented at a gala banquet at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the release noted.
On March 11, a pair of Monitronics leaders is slated to speak at the Piper, Jaffray Technology, Media & Telecommunications Conference held in at the Le Parker Meridien in New York.
Bill Fitzgerald, chairman and CEO of Ascent Capital, the holding company that owns Monitronics, and Michael Meyers, CFO of Ascent and Monitronics, will speak at the conference. According to an Ascent Capital news release, management may make "observations regarding the financial performance and outlook of both Ascent and Monitronics."
In the wake of a big year for Monitronics, this presentation from management could be worth a listen. A live webcast of the presentation will be made available on the Ascent Capital investor relations website.
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via VG247.Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is heading to PSN this month. The game has been priced and dated by Konami. Don't worry, it's cheaper than buying a super-rare mint condition copy off eBay, rest assured.
The game will hit PSN on October 10th, priced £9.99. It's an absolutely brilliant Castlevania title that follows vampire Alucard as he tears around a grim castle full of enemies. It was also the game that birthed the 'Metroid-Vania' entries to the series.
Konami issued a statement along with the announcement:
"Regarded as one of the classic additions to the long-running Castlevania series, Symphony of the Night was the first to offer an open-world level design and RPG elements. Played within a 2D world, the user controls Alucard as he explores a sprawling castle in search of his vampiric nemesis, Dracula.
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Testosterone-deprived males
There are three types of males in Paris: the gay-looking homosexuals, the gay-looking heterosexuals, and men over fifty.
It is not easy being over fifty in Paris. Most men over fifty happen not to look gay, which screams that they are obviously one generation behind. They have no choice but to accept that situation for it is difficult to start looking gay after a few decades of looking straight.
Parisian males under fifty do not have such problems. They can happily look gay and have no one cast suspect that they are on the wrong side of the age hill. In Paris, gay men find themselves looking or acting gay and it is only fair. What is more surprising to the visitor is that the same pattern applies to the nongay Parisian male—who also finds himself looking and acting gay in most situations of life.
The first rule of a good Parisian male body is puniness. This objective is reached thanks to years of not exercising and not playing any sports at a competitive level. Add years of not drinking or eating in excess and the puniness grail can be reached. Check.
To cover their glorious bodies, Parisian males opt for clothes that rank somewhere between neutral and gay-looking. The beauty of a neutral piece of clothing on a puny body is that it immediately becomes gay-looking. Check. It is crucial to realize that, whether they choose to wear neutral or gay-looking clothes, heterosexual Parisian males do not have the intention to look gay. They look "bien, normal".
Acting gay follows a similar pattern. While some homosexual males act gay for understandable reasons, visitors might be astonished at how gay heterosexual Parisian males usually act. Acting gay is to some extent a recent French habit, inherited from three decades of institutionalization of a cotton-candied, pacified vision of the world and of humans as a species. But once again, Parisians take this to the next level: when most French males outside Paris act gay on certain topics only, Parisians choose to go all the way. Gayness pervades every thought, every action. The concept of being "a real man" is vastly looked down upon for displaying far too obviously characteristics that relate to a lack of intelligence and refinement: concepts like strength, masculinity, physical power, and strong opinions or values are therefore very preoccupying in Paris. They are viewed as an open door to brutality. Parisians all agree that "Excuse-moi, mais un vrai mec, c'est pas des gros muscles, c'est d'abord quelqu'un qui peut prendre ses responsabilités tu vois". May Parisians be fully reassured: we do voit.
At this point, one may feel compassion for the Parisian woman. Well, one should save his compassion for gay Parisian men. Gay Parisian men are probably the only people in Paris longing to see more testosterone around them. If anyone, they should be the subjects of one's compassion. Parisian men are happy to think of themselves as beyond activities and behaviors that attest of a form of masculinity. As far as they're concerned, Parisian women do not necessarily know any better. If their boyfriend looks gay, it is primarily because "c'est un mec hyper sympa, très fin, vraiment intelligent". Parisian women have grown so wise that they have overcome their natural inclinations. Masculine works in magazines and in movies, but in reallife, it is coarse and rough. End of the story. The idea that a male human could be masculine as well as being a refined person is not one la Parisienne is ready to embrace.
Indeed, examples of such phenomena in Paris are rare enough to assume that the rule of Paris is probably the rule of nature.
Useful tip: Do not be fooled: looking and acting gay does not equal being gay.
Sound like a Parisian: "J'suis allé faire un peu de shopping: un p'tit t-shirt col V, des p'tites lunettes Kenzo et des espadrilles. Tranquille, quoi, pour l'été"…
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On March 12th, a select group of special fans known as The Circle, who represent MANOWAR's worldwide fan base, were invited to a private pre-listening session of the forthcoming new Manowar album, as well as a tour of Wisseloord Studios, Netherlands where the album will be mixed and mastered.
A second preview of the new album has surfaced from the session. A sample of the track 'Expendable' can be heard below:
Pedro Serra (The Circle / Lusitanian Warriors Portugal) previously issued a studio report, which you can find at this location.
Bassist Joey DeMaio, and long-time collaborators Mixing Engineer Ronald Prent and Grammy award winning Mastering Engineer Darcy Proper provided insight into the making of a record, and the specific requirements in the production for a band that is world-renowned for a sound that is louder than any other band and yet equally clear and perfect.
Fans from all over the world were chosen to represent their countries and receive news and updates to share them with their fellow brothers and sisters, and listen to first songs from the new album that is set for release in June/July 2012.
"It was important to us that the fans should be the first to hear the new music. After all, it is all for them!" explained Joey DeMaio.
DeMaio promised that the story behind the song 'El Gringo', that could not yet be explained due to confidentiality clauses, will soon be revealed and asked the fans to stay tuned on Facebook. He did mention the word 'movie' after the song was played.
The new album will be "everything you've come to know and to love about Manowar; and more", DeMaio recently said in a press conference.
In the video below, members of The Circle listening to a preview of 'El Gringo' from the forthcoming new Manowar studio album:
Manowar will perform an exclusive show at Signal Iduna Park Stadium (aka Westfalenstadion) in Dortmund, Germany on July 9th. This will be the band's only show in Germany in 2012.
The band will celebrate the release of their new studio album and also the 10th anniversary of their hit album Warriors Of The World.
Bassist Joey DeMaio commented: "Germany is like a second home to us. After all, this is the country of Richard Wagner, the father of all heavy metal and the German fans are unique in their devotion for true metal! We can't wait to be back! We are calling all our warriors in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and from all over the world to join us and party louder than hell!"