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Americans set their clocks back one hour last Sunday. But in the state of Mississippi, voters go to the polls today with the option to turn back the clock to the state's ugly days of poll taxes and literacy tests meant to stop African-Americans from voting.
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Since WFC's office is the first structure you see upon entering La Verne, CA, the plan was to design a custom building that would act as a gateway into the city. This was accomplished through a contemporary tilt-up modular layout with large storefront windows and varying colors that create a visual stacking pattern. Besides the office space, WFC Inc.'s corporate headquarters includes a warehouse, a "Building B" (featuring company amenities), and a large parking lot.
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In a theatre in Babadogo 10 girls from all over Nairobi are meeting up to learn how they can prepare for the challenges they will be facing later in life. Mary was chosen to be a part of the Braintrust program as a volunteer from the Kib-era girl Guide Centre. All the girls participating in the program are representing different girl groups from all around the city in the sun. Eliza-beth Okinda, one of the assistants in the program can mention some: Binti Pamoja, Kwen Serious and Heshima Kanya are some of the girl groups.
A great network . Susan Adhiambo is one of the main coordinators working with the Braintrust program. - The main purpose of Braintrust is giving the girls knowl-edge they wouldn`t get elsewhere, in their schools for example, she explains. – This program is a result of a great working network, Susan contin-ues and can mention the Nike foundation to be one of the head funders, supporting their project. - Normally we would be three times as many girls here today and our great goal is to eventually reach out to two million girls, with the growth of the program the coming years.
Learning to believe in themselves. Each of the girl groups taking part in Braintrust will be attending for a period of six months, meeting with their coordinators two Saturdays each month. - During these sessions we learn a lot. Among the topics our coordinators teach us I can mention financial education, the reproductive system and life skills, Mary explains. - The life skills is a big one covering thing such as communicative skills, assertiveness and having confidence in yourself. After the six months period is over the girls will have an exam to make sure they are worthy of the Braintrust certificate. - This certificate will open many doors for me, with it it will be easier to get into college and later getting a good job, I really hope I will pass.
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During the past twelve weeks they have gained great amounts of knowledge, knowledge they never thought they would possess.
Two curious girls. Jacinter Adhiambo and Eddah Awino were designated as the two girls who had stood out the most, as interested students with dedication and willingness to learn. After having a talk with these young ladies about their experiences with Mrembo, and what they had learned, there was not a question to that designation. - For girls, especially us lining in the slum it is very hard to know how to handle many things. Kidnappings occur often in the slum, we even have to be careful just going to school, Eddah tells me. - Mrembo has thought us how to han-dle issues like dangerous men, rape cases and pregnancy. How the mother should handle all the stages of the pregnancy process, Jacinter compliments.
An uncomfortable topic. An important part of the Mrembo program is teaching the girls about their menstruation. What it is and how to handle it. A big problem for girls in the slum is that they don`t learn about this anywhere, therefore thinks something might be wrong with them, doesn`t tell anyone and skip school for the period. If a girl stays away from school every time she is menstruating, she will lose a lot of teaching in a year.
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A grand Graduation. - This has been a really nice graduation, Clementine can gladly ascertain. – Many, many girls were attending and they all looked really happy. I also found the com-ments of their male teacher very motivating, nice to hear a man`s view on a pro-gram like this. The teacher took the girls through all of the learning objectives on the certificate, making sure every girl knew the importance of every point.
Potential funder. After seeing the good work of the Mrembo program and VAP in general, Clementine hopes to assist the Mrembo program in searching for new funding within the Dutch government.
Some of the girls got the honor of receiving their certificate from Clementine Klijberg, Women Win.
talk to their parents about this, especially if they are a little bit shy, Eddah thinks. Every month, the girls are given pads and sanitary towels by Mrembo, but this isn`t enough. - Fortunately for me, I have talked to my mum about this and she can buy the pads for me, but this isn`t the case for many girls, Jacinter says.
Saving up for marriage. Both Eddah and Jacinter wants to keep their virginity until marriage. - This is extra hard when you are living in the slum, and next year I will be starting High School. In High School the pressure will increase as the boys are getting more mature. Eddah can also tell me that if you are living in the slum it is extra important to stay away from sex as the chances of getting pregnant, getting HIV and other STIs.
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I agree. I think I am just trying to squash the "Franzen can't hold a candle to Perry" argument. They are both about equal all things considered. Perry has youth while Franzen has a track record of performance.
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American Airlines Sets the Table for Spring and Summer European Travel From Boston
BOSTON, May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- What a time to fly to London or Paris on American Airlines! Beginning May 1, American, a founding member of the oneworld® Alliance, is adding a third daily nonstop flight to London from Logan Airport, plus the resumption of its seasonal service to Paris.
And that's not all - a 25,000 to 50,000 AAdvantage bonus mile offer is available, plus an AAdvantage double elite-status qualifying miles offer.
-- Until June 30, AAdvantage members who complete round-trip travel between the United States and the UK on an eligible First Class or Business Class ticket will earn 50,000 bonus miles. Members traveling on select Economy Class fares will earn 25,000 bonus miles. With 25,000 bonus miles for qualifying tickets in Economy Class, AAdvantage members will have enough miles for a free* round-trip MileSAAver® award in Economy Class within the Continental U.S. and Canada. With 50,000 bonus miles for travel in First or Business Class, customers can book a free* round-trip MileSAAver award for travel in Economy Class from North America to Europe. -- Customers can also earn double elite-status qualifying miles when they book travel, and fly on American Airlines, American Eagle, and AmericanConnection through June 15. That puts customers on the fast track to reaching AAdvantage Gold®, AAdvantage Platinum®, or AAdvantage Executive Platinum® status. The benefits of elite status include mileage bonuses, upgrade privileges and various other perks, depending on a customer's elite status level.
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When the first edition of this book appeared in 1960, it filled a definite need, for little had been written about the prevention and treatment of surgical complications. That book is a standard reference and the second edition is a substantial improvement over the first edition.
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In the new edition, 16 chapters were discarded while the remaining ones were expanded; several chapters were combined and shortened; and one entirely new subject was added ("Common Errors in the Management of Hand Injuries"). Of the book's 39 chapters, 18 are either new or are thoroughly rewritten; the remaining sections are brought up to
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Iquique lies within easy reach of many inland sights. Just half an hour away, Humberstone and Santa Laura are perhaps the most haunting of all the nitrate ghost towns. South of here, close to the Panamericana, Cerro Pintados features a dense collection of geoglyphs, among the most impressive in Chile. East of Pintados sits the pretty oasis village of Pica, with a lovely thermal pool, while Mamiña, further north, is the Norte Grande's hot-springs town par excellence. You can also visit La Tirana, an important pilgrimage centre, famous for its colourful festival in July. Public transport around this area is sporadic but manageable.
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The best-preserved ghost town in Chile, HUMBERSTONE is a nitrate oficina that was abandoned in 1960 and today appeals especially to lovers of industrial architecture. It sits some 45km inland from Iquique, by Ruta 16 just before it meets the Panamericana. The town began life in 1862 as Oficina La Palma, but was renamed in 1925 in honour of its British manager, James "Santiago" Humberstone, an important nitrate entrepreneur famous for introducing the "Shanks" ore-refining system to the industry. In its time it was one of the busiest oficinas on the pampas; today it is an eerie, empty ghost town, slowly crumbling beneath the desert sun.
What sets Humberstone apart from the other ghost towns is that just about all of it is still standing – from the white, terraced workers' houses (now in total disrepair) and the plaza with its bandstand, to the theatre, church and company store. The theatre, in particular, is highly evocative, with its rows of dusty seats staring at the stage. You should also seek out the hotel, and walk through to the back where you'll find a huge, empty swimming pool with a diving board – curiously the pool is made from the sections of a ship's iron hull. Located a short distance from the town are the sheds and workshops, with old tools and bits of machinery lying around, and invoices and order forms littering the floors.
Santa Laura
Santa Laura
At SANTA LAURA, about 2km down the road and clearly visible from Humberstone, you'll see only a couple of remaining houses, but the processing plant is amazing, seeming to loom into the air like a rusty old dinosaur. As you walk around the site, listening to the endless clanging of machinery banging in the wind, the sense of abandonment is nigh-on overwhelming.
Cerro Pintados geoglyphs
Cerro Pintados geoglyphs
About 20km south of the junction between Ruta 16 and the Panamericana, the latter passes through the Reserva Nacional Pampa del Tamarugal, an extensive plantation of wispy, bush-like tamarugo trees. These are native to the region and are especially adapted to saline soils, with roots that are long enough to tap underground water supplies. While the tamarugos aren't really interesting enough to merit a special trip, you can take a look at them on your way to the far more impressive Cerro Pintados, with the largest collection of geoglyphs in South America, situated within the reserve's boundaries.
Extending 4km along a hillside, the Cerro Pintados site features approximately four hundred images (not all of them visible from the ground) of animals, birds, humans and geometric patterns, etched on the surface or formed by a mosaic of little stones around the year 1000 AD. The felines, birds, snakes and flocks of llamas and vicuñas scratched into the rock are thought to have been indicators for livestock farmers. The circles, squares, dotted lines and human figures are more enigmatic, however, and may have had something to do with rituals, perhaps even sacrifices.
As you cross the vast, desert pampa, the neighbouring oases of Pica and Matilla first appear as an improbable green smudge on the hazy horizon. As you get nearer, it becomes apparent that this is not a mirage and you are, indeed, approaching cultivated fields and trees. It's a remarkable sight, and anyone who has not seen a desert oasis should make a special effort to visit. By far the larger of the two oases, PICA is a sleepy little town overflowing with lemon and lime trees, bougainvilleas and jasmine.
It's the largest supplier of fruits to Iquique – limas de Pica are famous throughout the country – and one of the treats of visiting is drinking the delicious jugos naturales – orange, mango, pear, guava and grapefruit juices – freshly squeezed in front of you in the little streetside kiosks. The tidy plaza, by the entrance to town, is overlooked by a beautiful, pale-coloured church dedicated to St Andrew. It has a grand Neoclassical facade and was built in 1880.
Pica's real selling point is the Cocha Resbaladero, a gorgeous hot-springs pool carved into a rocky hollow with two caves at one end. It's quite a walk from the main part of town, but there are several places to stay up here if you want to be close to the waters. To enjoy the waters in peace, arrive early before the buses of day-trippers start arriving at midday.
A paved road branches east from the Panamericana at Pozo Almonte and climbs gently through the desert to MAMIÑA, 125km – a two-and-a-half-hour drive – northeast of Iquique. First impressions are not encouraging; huddled on a hillside overlooking a valley, its narrow streets and crumbling stone houses seem to belong to a forgotten town, left to the mercy of the heat and dust. Continue down the valley, however, and its charms become more apparent as you come upon the fertile terraces emerald with alfalfa, and the little stream running through the gorge (quebrada).
The real lure of Mamiña, though, is the hot springs for which the town is famous throughout Chile; the delicious bottled mineral water from here is on sale in the region only, as production is small. Unlike Pica, Mamiña doesn't have just one hot spring, but many, and their waters are piped to every house in the village.
Furthermore, these waters are not merely hot, but are reputed to cure all manner of afflictions, from eczema and psoriasis to respiratory problems and anxiety. Indeed, the town is named in honour of an Incan princess whose blindness was reputedly cured here. Whatever their medicinal value, there's no doubt that the waters are supremely relaxing to bathe in. This you can do in any of the village's hotels or residenciales, usually in your own private tina, or bathtub.
The nitrate boom
The nitrate boom
Looking around the desert pampa, it's hard to believe that this scorched, lifeless wasteland was once so highly prized that a war was fought over it – and still more difficult to imagine it alive with smoking chimneys, grinding machinery, offices, houses and a massive workforce. But less than a century ago, the Far North of Chile was the scene of a thriving industry built on its vast nitrate deposits, heavily in demand in Europe and North America as a fertilizer. Nitrates were first exploited in the Atacama Desert in the 1860s, when the region belonged to Bolivia (around Antofagasta) and Peru (around Iquique and Arica). From the early stages, however, the Chilean presence was very strong, both in terms of capital and labour.
The War of the Pacific
When in 1878 the Bolivian government violated an official agreement by raising export taxes on nitrate (hitting Chilean shareholders, including several prominent politicians), Chile protested by sending troops into Antofagasta. Two weeks later, Chile and Bolivia were at war, with Peru joining in (on the Bolivian side) within a couple of months. The War of the Pacific went on for five years, and resulted in Chile taking over all of the nitrate grounds.
The boom years
With the return of political stability after the war, the nitrate industry began to boom in earnest, bringing in enormous export revenues for Chile, and a trail of processing plants, known as oficinas, sprang up all over the pampa. Each oficina sat in the centre of its prescribed land, from where the raw nitrate ore was blasted using gunpowder. The chunks of ore, known as caliche, were then boiled in large copper vats, releasing a nitrate solution which was crystallized in the sun before being sent down to the ports to be shipped abroad. The plants themselves were grimy, noisy places. It was a hard life for the labourers, who worked long hours in dangerous conditions, and were housed in squalid shacks, often without running water and sewerage. The (mostly British) managers, meanwhile, lived in grand residences, dined on imported delicacies and enjoyed a whirl of elegant social activities. Nitrate provided more than half of the Chilean government's revenues until 1920, by which time the boom was over and the industry in decline.
The beginning of the end
It was World War I that dealt the first serious blow to the nitrate companies, when the suspension of sales to Germany – Chile's major European buyer – forced almost half the oficinas to close down. The final death knell was sounded when Germany, forced to seek alternative fertilizers, developed cheap synthetic nitrates which quickly displaced Chile's natural nitrates from their dominant role in the world market. Most of what was left of the industry was killed off by the World Depression in the 1930s, and today just one oficina – María Elena – remains in operation.


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The doctor who caused the death of a patient at the Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus by removing the wrong lung some 10 years ago -- and then tried to cover it up -- is practicing surgery again; this time at Hoboken University Medical Center, according to a story in tomorrow's Jersey Journal by reporter Amy Sara Clark.
Following a six-month "active" suspension of his medical license and a fine of more than $80,000, Dr. Santusht Perera was granted privileges to practice surgery at HUMC on July 22, Clark writes.
Meadowlands Hospital and the Jersey City Medical Center, both part of the LibertyHealth network, denied Perera privileges to conduct surgeries at their institutions, hospital spokesmen told Clark.
But CEO Spiros Hatiras defended HUMC's decision to give Perera privileges to Clark, saying that once the medical license was reinstated, the hospital "had little choice" but to reinstate him, or risk a lawsuit; especially since Perera had privileges at the hospital before the suspension.
Edith Bickoff, the long-term girlfriend Richard Flagg, the Jersey City resident who died on Sept. 8, 2003 at 63 -- three years after Perera removed his right lung instead of a cancerous left lung -- was less understanding.
"It doesn't surprise me that the butcher is back," Bickoff said about Perera.
"They (Perera and the hospital) got a little, little, little slap on the wrist," Bickoff said to Clark. "And Richie suffered, that last year he suffered. He was in the hospital more than he was out, and then he drowned in his own blood."
Perera, a resident of Kinnelon, didn't return several phone calls seeking comment.
Flagg was admitted at Meadowlands Hospital on Aug. 29, 2000 to have a cancerous tumor from his left lung removed. But instead, the lower and middle lobe of his right lung was removed.
When he woke up, Perera told him that he had an even larger tumor in his right lung, and that he, Perera, saved his life by removing it, according to according to a 2005 complaint filed by the state.
But after several months, Flagg picked up his hospital records, and at the top of the folder was the pathology report that showed there was no evidence of a tumor in the removed portion, said Flagg's older brother, Kenneth Flagg.
"He called me up and said, 'Kenny, they just killed me,'" Flagg said.
The state complaint said the removal of large portions of the right lung then made it impossible to remove the cancerous left lung.
The state Board of Medical Examiners eventually fined Perera more than $80,000 and suspended his medical license from June 6 to Dec. 6, 2008. Perera was then placed on probation, but allowed to practice medicine for the period Dec. 7, 2008 to June 6, 2010.
The board also found him guilty of lying to Flagg and altering records to make it appear that he had intended all along to operate on the right lung.
In granting Perera privileges to conduct surgeries at HUMC, the hospital's Medical Executive Committee required Perera to be monitored for six months, along with his surgeries on at least 10 patients to be sure he is complying with all quality standards, HUMC spokeswoman Joan Quigley wrote to Clark in an e-mail.
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Return of the Ogre: Why the Tactics Ogre Rebuild is Great News
Matsuno's return is just one reason to be excited about revisiting the war-torn kingdom of Valeria.
By Jeremy Parish Jul 21, 2010 8:04PM PSTTags: PSP Final Fantasy Tactics (PS1) Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PS1) Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen (SNES) Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (PSP)
Square Enix has just announced a PSP remake of Super NES classic Tactics Ogre, coming to the U.S. under its original subtitle, Let Us Cling Together. As the second remake of the game -- it originally came to the U.S. on PlayStation in 1998, courtesy of Atlus -- on a machine that's inundated with ports and remakes, this might not seem like such a big deal at first glance. But in fact, it is.
For starters, it's great that Square is doing something with the Ogre franchise, which is a first; despite acquiring the series' original developer, Quest, more than a decade ago, there's yet to be a single Ogre title released under the Square banner. Between this and the DS remake of Lufia II, it looks like Japan's biggest RPG publisher is finally starting to make use of the expansive back catalog of properties it's accumulated through a long string of acquisitions and mergers. The Ogre titles just might be the strongest contender for "cult classic" in its extensive stable of brands -- a franchise for hardcore RPG fans in a way that Dragon Quest very definitely isn't. Exciting as it is to see the Square name on western properties like Dungeon Siege and Deus Ex, there's something about seeing the publisher dredge up such a beloved niche brand that warms the older gamer's heart cockles.
But even more than that, the best part about Tactics Ogre's return is that it also means Square has gotten the band back together: The new remake is being spearheaded by the core Quest team. That means character design by Akihiko Yoshida, art design and direction by Hiroshi Minagawa, music by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata, and above all, game design and planning by Yasumi Matsuno. This is the same group who crafted masterpieces like Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and (one assumes) the more cohesive parts of Final Fantasy XII. Matsuno has been almost complete missing in action for the past five years, so seeing his name attached prominently to this remake is intriguing.
According to Matsuno (via Famitsu), the game is a pretty liberal rendition of the original 16-bit title. It seems to incorporate a significant graphical upgrade, a heavy revamp of the story, and a mysterious system that gives the remake its Japanese subtitle, Wheel of Fate. Early speculation is that the idea behind the wheel is that it will allow players to experience every potential iteration of the plot. That sounds like a great addition. See, not only did Tactics Ogre have a powerful story, it had a branching story. In fact, every time someone argues that a game can't tell an interesting story and still offer player control over the outcome, Tactics Ogre is my go-to counter-example. Sure, these days we have BioWare's works and the Fallout series to show the potential of player input, but ten years ago the idea of a heavily story-driven RPG that allowed the player to determine its ultimate outcome was fairly novel.
In a lot of ways, Tactics Ogre was very much the rough draft for Final Fantasy Tactics. Heck, the story revolves around a trio of characters -- protagonist Denim Powell, his sister Kachua, and his friend turned rival Vice Bozeg -- whose relationship was carbon-copied by FFT's Ramza, Atma, and Delita. Combat played out with a rudimentary turn-based tactical battle system in which character speed and relative heights played major factors. There was even a job system, albeit a much simpler one than in FFT.
In some ways, Tactics Ogre was a more compelling game than its successor. The player-driven story had a lot to do with that, because the plot branched several times at significant moments in the story. Players had to make tough choices -- choices that were taken out of their hands in FFT. At the end of Ogre's first chapter, for instance, Denim is forced to choose between obeying an order to kill innocents or going rogue. The plot is rigged so that Vice will always oppose your decision, but the action you choose there radically changes the story and battles you experience in subsequent chapters. Imagine if the end of FFT's first chapter forced you to choose between helping Delita's sister or teaming up with Algus/Argath to fight alongside the nobles, and you begin to understand how affecting Tactics Ogre dynamic story can be.
The game also offered much more demanding battles than FFT. Where the latter's battles topped out at around 14-15 characters at the absolute maximum -- only five of whom could ever be player-controlled -- Tactics Ogre let you go ten-on-ten. One could argue that FFT didn't need such large battles, since the Job system allowed more varied multiclassing, giving a party of five the same breadth of skills available for a ten-member team in Tactics Ogre, but the resulting scope of combat made for an experience that's still unique among tactical RPGs. Amazingly, the "rebuild" looks to up this, with as many as 30 combatants on the field at once. That won't be the only improvement for this adaptation; it'll also include new characters, music, and story elements. Despite the developers' decision to mimic the visual style of the 16-bit original, this new take on Tactics Ogre offers a lot of niceties introduced by its successors, such as true 3D battlefields. The team claims its goal is to create a version of the game that would resemble "how TACTICS OGRE would be if it was developed and played now."
There's plenty of room for other improvements here, to be honest. Groundbreaking and influential as Tactics Ogre was, it was also a wildly lopsided videogame. Much has been made of its legendary difficulty level, but the problem with the game wasn't so much that it was hard as that its challenge scaled in an uneven way that made the immense size of the player's party a liability. Enemies in all battles leveled up alongside Denim, whereas in FFT enemies were at fixed levels in all story battles. This made every fight a challenge, to be sure... but it also put everyone who wasn't Denim at a severe disadvantage. Since Denim participated in every battle, he leveled up quickly... and the other nine participants tended to lag behind him, leaving them wildly underpowered next to the enemies. In a game where a single experience level is a significant advantage, a party of warriors five levels below the enemy rabble tended not to last long without extensive training between story fights. I certainly wouldn't complain if they could even that out a bit without compromising the game's innate spirit of overwhelming odds.
However it ultimately plays out, I'm genuinely excited to see one of the greatest RPGs ever made receiving such a comprehensive overhaul courtesy of the original developers. Unlike the PS1 port of Tactics Ogre and even FFT's PSP remake, I'm pretty confident this release won't suffer from slapdash porting shortcuts. And maybe if it does well enough, we'll finally see the Ogre series expanded on with a fresh sequel by its core team. Here's hoping, anyway.
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I'm Very Excited...Posted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by marliemellow
Because I have enormous confidence in the "rebuild" concept, the sterling example being War of the Lions. I feel that the strength of the remake came with the improved script, coherence, and polish. If Tactics Ogre receives the same treatment, I will be overjoyed.
FIGHT IT OUT!Posted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by walter_mellin
i'm super excited. srpg's are my favorite genre. I actually started playing Tactics Ogre early this year on my psp (yay for piracy!) but i stopped playing because it got too grindy (without the job/skill variety of FFTactics that made JP grinding awesome) and Infinite Space occupied my time. This announcement has got me invested in beating my chaotic alignment play through. and boy howdy, i will rock out this remake when it hits. Time to rock out to Queen's Teo Toriatte!
Almost make me want to buy a PSP.Posted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by TornConflict
I had an original back in the day but stuff like this and the Persona games make me wish I hadn't sold it.
DittoPosted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by psychronic
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Can't WaitPosted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by halochief_90
The original graphics seem almost as good as FF Tactics, so a modern overhall could make this look stunning. The branching story as well gets me even more excited. I'm also glad the unfortunate subtitle Wheel of Fortune turned out to be a translation error of some sort.
Best news I've heard all year!Posted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by sexyboomerman
So what was the GBA version(The Knight of Lodis) in relation to the original?A remake,side-story or sequel?The GBA version was great so I imagine the original and PS1 version is even better.
Prequel.Posted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by vicariousexp
But that's a spoiler, so.
Very nicely and professionally written article. Thank you, Toastyfrog.
color me excited :PPosted: Jul 21, 2010 12:00AM PST by TheSilentMan
I never played any of the Ogre Battle series. I have the two Ogre Battle games on my Wii. I'm happy that they are releasing this on the psp, it needs more games like this. good to see matsuno is still alive. Can't wait for the u.s. release! :)
Site is upPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by vicariousexp
Square Enix has put up the site for the remake, and the art is beautiful.
I'm at peace with the world now.
What aboutPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Milkman
The Sega Saturn (Japanz-only) port of Tactics Ogre? Was it just as sloppy? I recall it fondly.
I never played that versionPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by jparish
But, I would assume it's better than the PS1 port. The main problem with the game on PS1 was that the data didn't fit into the RAM, so it would pause to load for every... damn... thing. You chose an action, there would be a pause, and the attack animation would load. Pause. Target's death cry would load and play. Pause. Next character. Killed the pacing.
Nah.Posted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by vicariousexp
Actually, it was pretty neat.
It was fully voice acted, for one. :P
Let Us Binge TogetherPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Demiath
I can't escape the feeling that S(J)RPG is a brilliant concept in desperate search of a mouse-based control system to fulfill its dreams of becoming an actual, viable subgenre. Not to mention a camera system which actually works. And a speed-up button which makes those ten-on-ten turns a little less endless.
That said, a TO remake seems like a perfect fit for the PSP. I bought FFT, after all (and it sure looks nice on my shelf, when viewed from a safe distance), so I might as well get this one too...
regarding a mousePosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by walter_mellin
a mouse is unnecessary when navigating a grid like in the vast majority of the genre, but in srpg's not confined to squares such as Phantom Brave and Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, a mouse would be nice. NIS eventually ported Phantom Brave to the wii, so there you go. As for speed up, Infinite Space and Front Mission give you the opportunity to skip attack sequences, which is really helpful in FM5 since you have battles 6 vs 24.
Along the same linesPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Phoderpants
On a related not. I really hope this could lead to a remake of the PSP War of the Lions. Unplayable with that slowdown, that thing was...
@walter_mellin: Grid-LockedPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Demiath
The grid doesn't remove the inherent clunkiness of the mouse-less interface; it's simply there because there is no mouse in the first place. In the age of iPads and DSs one would expect this to be less of a problem going forward, but the PSP's controls are what they are, so...
exp gain ridiculousPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Bloodbathes
I hope they fix the leveling system. If you hit a guy at same lvl, you got next to 0xp. If you hit the guy one lvl above you, you gain a large number of xp. That was what annoy me in the original.
Alma, not AtmaPosted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by kidfenris
Alma is the girl in FFT, Atma is the weapon/monster in Final Fantasy. It's interesting that Kachua was split into Alma and Ovelia in FFT. Kachua's supportive, bland side became Alma, and her gloomy, lonesome, manipulated side became Ovelia. I even think Ovelia is the most like Kachua. Her name is a mix of (spoiler) Kachua's real name, BersaLIA OVEris, after all.
Glad to see Matsuno back...Posted: Jul 22, 2010 12:00AM PST by Jero
I never gave Tactics Ogre a chance back when it was first re-released for the PS. I had already played FFT at that point in time and whatever reason dismissed it so I am very excited to see this re-release. I might have to buckle down and get a PSP finally. Until then...*turns on DS and proceeds to play DQIX*
best part of thisPosted: Jul 23, 2010 12:00AM PST by HighWindXIX
The best part of this news story is that Matsuno is back! I'm glad to get to play Tactics Ogre finally since I've always somehow missed it. However, FFT, Vagrant Story, and FFXII easily rank as some of my favorite games of all time, and to know the team is back together makes me very happy and super excited for whatever they might do next! *fingers crossed*
And this my friends,Posted: Jul 24, 2010 12:00AM PST by chrisproto
Is why you NEVER, EVER sell a system. There will ALWAYS be something that will make you regret it.


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(NEW YORK) -- Are all cancer screenings equal? No, says Consumer Reports.
In its March issue, the magazine evaluated 11 cancer screenings and found that eight can be avoided -- unless you are at high risk. These include screenings for bladder, lung, oral, ovarian, prostate, pancreatic, skin and testicular cancers.
Consumer Reports says tests for cervical, colon and breast cancers are the most effective. But even with these screenings, age matters, as Dr. John Santa, the director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, points out.
"If you're not a high risk person, you don't need to worry about screening of the colon until you're 50," he says.
He adds, "The benefits of mammography, for women in their 40s, is small. There is a benefit, but it's small."
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Fundamentally we have to ask, what need does the bassoon fill in our musical society? what itch does it scratch? Why go to some much trouble to design, manufacture, learn and master this object? What ordained this mishaped collection of tubes?
The bassoon was developed in a culture that places value in
It's used in ensembles that may include a variety of other instruments, bowed, blown into, struck, scratched, etc... Importantly the bassoon was developed and came into prominence at a time that the bass in western music was changing from a fixed drone to a moving ground or root within a multi-voiced contrapuntal web. Non-western musics do employ bass instruments (or voices) primarily as an overtone generator (for instance, Tibetan monks, didjeridoo, or musical bow), but they aren't usually melodic instruments.
In culture marches through time the move is toward technical precision. The bassoon is precise, at least to a point. Maybe the march is continuing with electronic and computer instruments. There are really good bass sounds there.
Why would people play an instrument such as a bassoon? Arguably to participate in the social/musical institutions/situations that require the instrument; to participate in a culture they feel a part of, aspire to, or covet?
What kind of music is indigenous to the bassoon? This was sort of answered above - music with definite pitch, equal temperament, music with independent monophonic lines played alone or in tune and blended with other instruments. Of the bassoon may be the root of chords. Music where an individual usually of historic significance but almost always thought to possess competence in composition, orchestration and instrumentation dictates through notation a well regulated pattern in combination with other instruments of western culture.
What sort of people play this music? Symphonic and chamber musicians who play a repertoire of music notated between the 17th and 19th centuries in the main. There are presently a variety of studio musicians for movies and popular music. Here and there are rock and rollers or jazzers among the bassoon tribe. Bassoon are to be found in every country that has an orchestra or a marching band, which might be every country in the world.
Here is the problem that the Bassoon seems to be the answer to: how to be an agile instrument and play low pitches. The cello and contrabass also do this, but for certain leaps they have a pretty long fingering distance. The long distance is mitigated on the bassoon through all of the keys and through cheating by placing the keys at an angle. The bass has a relatively slow response time. Solo strings all in all lack the volume of a wind instrument.
The Bassoon is not in the least bit limited to the music described and doesn't necessarily do some of these things well. Playing equal tempered scales in tune and blended with other instruments is difficut and it requires a great deal of training and practice to accomplish. Making music with the bassoon requires some struggle. It also requires unlearning some other sounds that the bassoon can make.
The three open finger-holes beneath the second, third and fourth fingers of the left hand have bores at oblique angles in order to keep the fingers close enough together to move nimbly, yet provide adequate spacing for the whole tone distance along the tube. Likewise the first two open finger-holes beneath the right hand have such angles - the fourth finger must play a key that extends its reach, because at this lower pitch, the whole tone distance is too great even to compensate with an oblique bore. Pinkies and thumbs work the metal mechanisms - keys, springs, cork, pads - that cover the larger holes in the lowest register of the bassoon. These keys work down to the foot of the instrument (played by the right hand thumb and pinky), then upwards to the bell (all mastered by the left hand thumb and pinky).
These collected irregularities of angle, direction, and size make for an irregular instrument. They produce an unevenness of tone quality and pitch that the bassoonist diligently practices to overcome. The bassoon has a range of more than three octaves and each register is timbrally distinct. Like other wind instruments, the timbre is coupled with the pitch. As this bent, flaring column of air is covered by fingertips and padded keys, the formant character of the instrument likewise changes.
The lowest octave is more or less duplicated an octave higher with assistance of the whisper key. The highest octave is produced through a number of artificial fingerings that have their own unusual formant characteristics, and without proper breath support and a firm embouchure easily lapse into broken tones or multiphonics.
I contend that what makes the Bassoon such a valuable instrument is
that it is not entirely successful - even within its culture. It is a bottomless well of timbral delights and multiphonic variety.
Whatever improvements are made, the bassoon will continue to play a role in the a large repertoire of music, and the continuation of these genres and ensembles. They've now synthesized and sampled bassoons. But why should an electronic instrument aspire to be a bassoon. The bassoon can make sounds that put electronic sounds to shame. There are limitless varieties of reeds, embouchures, instruments, and fingerings that individuate in sounds that computer programs cannot begin to predict.
There once was a brainy baboon
A limerick will poke its fun in a variety of directions. One obvious target, symbolized by our fellow simian, is the notion of evolution. This goes along with the claim that enough monkeys, given enough time, and enough typewriters will eventually produce Shakespeare. (I think of the cover of the Mekons record album: The Quality of Mercy is Not Strnen.) Likewise given enough time, enough baboons, enough bassoons, et voila ... music.
This of course places man, and one of his masterpieces, the bassoon, on Parnassan heights looking down the baboon. Man knows what to do with that bassoon. But there is implied here, a certain ridulousness on the part of man and his bassoon. How could you look at that thing and expect to get music out of it? If we sent a bassoon on a raft to a South Sea Island, what kind of cargo cult would evolve around it? What if a bassoon were sent to the far reaches of the universe - would our extra-terrestial neighbors know it was for music? If so would they use it as we do?
This limerick also hits upon the ideal of the bassoon as a clownish instrument.
"Tears of a clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1967 - #1 on the charts in the fall of 1970) might be the most heard Bassoon in history. I've long wondered who played that bassoon. What does he or she think hearing that song played so many times? Because it's mass produced the bassoon is just part of a larger recorded web, it may not enter the popular consciousness too deeply. Presumably the arranger chose the bassoon because of its the "clown" of the orchestra. There are other mass moments for the bassoon: the carefree "59th Street Bridge Song" (Simon and Garfunkel's "Feeling Groovy") as performed by Harper's Bazaar (#13 in the Spring of 1967); the oompah bassoon of the New Vaudeville Band's "Winchester Cathedral" (#1 in the Fall of 1966).
A contemporary rock band Better Than Ezra took their name from three words supposedly chosen at random from Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast. Those three words continue:
... better than Ezra learning how to play the bassoonThis being Hemingway, then naturally the Ezra here is Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound was for a time a composer and music critic, but I do not know of him playing the bassoon. The context of this quotation is Hemingway sitting in Paris cafe perserving with his writing despite the incessant question of some wanna-be writer. Hemingway here wants to demonstrate his ability to concentrate on his writing labors despite the attempts of this hanger-on to engage him in meaningless conversation. After listening to this man prattle on is "better than Ezra learning to play the bassoon." The meaning here is not absolutely clear but may be an indictment of Pound's musicianship or the bassoon, or, more likely, the jarring result of their combination.
There is also that famous painting, L'orchestre l'Opera by Edgar Degas, of the mustachioed bassoonist in the front row of the pit orchestra. He seems misplaced at the front of the pit. We bassoonist are generally tucked in the back. But here, the bassoon and its player do provide a compelling image.
Coleridge - from "Rime of the Ancient Mariner""
The Wedding-guest here beat his breast
Wordsworth - from "The Female Vagrant"
The lanes I sought, and as the sun retired,
Tennyson - from "Maud"
All night have the roses heard
The bassoon of romantic poetry is an instrument of nature. Of course the outer appearance of polished, grained, brown wood leads one to that view. The family name woodwind helps these associations. The bassoon's place in pop songs like "Jennifer Juniper" by Donovan (#26 on the charts in Spring 1968), and "Fly Away" by John Denver (#13 on the charts in the Winter of 1975) show this attribute continuing to modern times.
But, on the contrary, could the bassoon be an instrument of menace? One stupid bassoon prank is to place the instrument over the shoulder in imitation of a bazooka.
(A musician in the army of Frederick the Great was) caught in the open by a cossack, who hunted him across a meadow.... At the last moment the musician turned about in desperation and presented the monstrous muzzle of his bassoon at the cossack, who promptly fled in terror
In Thackeray's Vanity Fair a disgruntled bassoonist smashes his instrument over a conductor head.
On a more sinister note our seemingly innocent bassoon provides the name for a thermonuclear weapon.
The first three state U.S. test, and probably the first three stage weapon test ever, was the Bassoon device detonated in the Redwing Zuni test (27 May 1956 GMT, Bikini Atoll, 3.5 Mt). ... A version of Bassoon called Bassoon Prime was tested in the dirty Tewa test... A dirty device derived from the Bassoon was weaponized to create the highest yield weapon the U.S. ever fielded, the 25 megaton Mk-41.
The bassoon blast took place 17:56:00.3 27 May 1956 (GMT) / 05:56.00.3 28 May 1956 (local) on Eninman (Tare) Island, Bikini Atoll
The Bassoon device fired in Zuni was the first test ever of a three stage thermonuclear design. Surprisingly, this substantial innovation was also the first successful thermonuclear device design ever fired by Lawrence Livermore (then known as UCRL, now LLNL). ... The Bassoon device was 39 inches in diameter, and 135.5 inches long. It weighed 12,158 lb. Crater dimensions were 2330 feet wide, 113 feet deep.
What warped mind at the Lawrence Livermore laboratory associated bassoons with world annihilation?
People continue playing bassoons. They do so largely because of the inertia of European classical and semi-classical music that has spread its reach across the globe. Factories continue manufacturing them. In some marsh, as you read this, someone is snipping some Arundo Donax. An nature's bounty will continue to produce Arundo Donax, at least we bassoonists hope thus. There is also a trans-national educational system that will recruit, train, and employ bassoonists. But there's more to the bassoon than they learn in school, or on the job. It's a wonderful repository for a variety of cultural associations and sonic possibilities.
Langwill, Lyndesay G. The Bassoon and the Contrabassoon. New York: W. W. Norton, 1965.
pp. 3-4
It will be obvious that with a tube of some 8 feet in length, the intervals between even the primary six holes are too great for the first three fingers of each hand to cover the holes. This is overcome by boring the holes obliquely / and \, and expedient which was adopted / in the earliest types of bassoon's tone is largely due. The finger-holes are relatively small and the passage of the air from the bore continues through a measurable thickness of the wood as shown in the cross-section. This does not occur in any other modern wind instrument. It would, of course, be quite possible to place the finger-holes at their rational position allowing the air to emerge freely and closing the holes by a system of keys and rods as used for the other notes on the instrument.
p. 29 Weigl, Johann Christoff. Musikalisches Theatrum. [1698]
When the organ, the regal, and the harpsichord are inadequate, and even the lowest notes of the double bass, then for the best reasons my preference is for the bassoon; such notes are produced from it, by steadily expelled breath and deft hand, that they rouse the listener to wonder and instil joy in his spirit, hitherto unmoved.
p. 34 Mattheson, Johann. Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre. (Hamburg, 1713), Pt.III, para. 9.
The stately bassoon is the usual bass, the foundation or accompaniment of the Hautbois. It should, of course, be easier to play than the oboe because it does not require the same finesse or manipulation . . . . He who would distinguish himself on the bassoon will find that elegance and speed especially in the high register tax his powers to the full.
p. 38 Schubart, C. F. D. Ideen zu einer Ästhetik der Tonkünst. (Vienna, 1806).
It demands the fullest breath and such a sound and masculine embouchure that only few people are fit physically to play it in a masterly manner. . . . The tone of the instrument is so companionable, so delightfully talkative, so attuned for every pure soul, that until the Day of Judgment the bassoon can never be dispensed with. It assumes all roles: it accompanies martial music with manly dignity; it is heard majestically in church; it sustains the opera: it reasons with wisdom in the concert hall, gives a swing to the dance and fulfils every requirement.
p. 145 Langwill
The player must acquire artistic virtuosity and adaptablility to the multifarious possibilities of breath-control and skill of fingers. Bassoon-playing demands unerring mastery of a chromatic sequence in temperament over three and a half octaves. In other words, some forty-two notes must be produced from a single wooden pipe and to do so eight fingers and two thumbs have to control eighteen tone or semi-tone holes as well as three harmonic holes.
p. 148 Langwill
It is therefore obvious that the tone-colour of the bassoon is actually different in the three octaves. It is precisely to this difference in tone-colour in the separate registers that the artist within living memory has accustomed himself and it has become the characteristic of bassoon-tone and constitutes its chief charm.
pp. 148-149 Professor Hague: Proceedings of Royal Music Assoc., LXXIII, pp. 67-83.
In his comments on the spectrum, Professor Hague describes the bassoon as "an acoustical phenomenon of great complexity, chiefly because of the form of its resonator which is long, slowly tapered and of narrow "scale". The oblique holes are not simple openings as in the case of the flute, oboe or clarinet, but are auxiliary tubes branching from the main resonator." [Taylor, J.B. "Broken tone from reed instruments" Physical Review, Vol. 17, 534-5 (1921). "Their influence on the resonance properties of the air-column is very marked and they are largely responsible for the exceedingly uneven character of the timbre at different parts of the compass. . . . The air column is confined within an almost rigid wall of wood" which has "certain natural frequencies of its own and to some extent of damping". With lateral holes, in which the air "has mass, 'elastance', and is in close dynamical connection both with the air column within the tube and with the atmosphere outside the tube, the bassoon possess certain selective frequency characteristics and behaves as an 'acoustic filter'". These factors of construction and configuration are constant and "harmonics falling within one or more ranges of pitch" become specially prominent and independent of the particular fundamental being generated. "Those fixed-pitch ranges of harmonics constitute a 'formant', a characteristic feature of a particular instrument and a determining factor of its timbre."
pp. 150-151 Langwill
[T]he following anecdote is recorded of Darwin, who, when studying earthworms, put them to a curious use. Earthworms are devoid of the sense of hearing, yet they move away from the footfall of birds and other enemies, and especially at the approach of their arch enemy, the mole.
Like the blind, they are intensely sensitive to vibrations. One day a physician called to see Charles Darwin. The great naturalist was in the library with an iron tray containing earthworms. The worms took no notice of the jingling of keys, the shrill note of a whistle, or similar sounds, but when Darwin's son played to them on a bassoon they the vibration and immediately began to wriggle.
Bland-Sutton, Sir John. Selected Lectures and Essays (London, 1920), p. 270.
p. 164-5
Measurements of sound levels made with the help of the Laboratory of Acoustics of the Netherlands Radio Union at Hilversum "allow a calculation of the sound output of the instruments in terms of energy produced." "Simultaneous measurements of mouth pressure and volume expired through the instrument" make it possible to extimate the approximate energy which the player expends on his instrument. "Such calculations allow an estimate of the efficiency of playing a wind instrument, i.e. of the ratio of the sound energy output and the input of mechanical energy. The mechanical efficiency varied from about 0.005 per cent to about 1 per cent in one professional bassoon-player, which means that for each 100 energy units the player expends on his instrument, the return in sound energy is less than 1 unit . . . . Of the total amount of energy generated by the player, less than 0,2 per cent is finally emitted as sound waves by the instrument . . . . Wind instrument playing is wasteful in terms of energy. . . . "
"Musicians may fell distressed to learn that their instruments are so inefficient as measured in prosaic mechanical terms, but they need to / be reminded that the spiritual joy of music cannot be measured quantitatively. Perhaps one should look upon the low mechanical efficiency of wind instrument playing as a physical and physiological expression of the sacrific the artist has to make, throught his life, to bring the joys of music to his fellow-man.
Bouhuys, Arend "Breathing and Blowing in Wind Instruments." Sonorum Speculum (12/1/1962).
In a subsequent letter to the author, Dr. Bouhuys remarked that he found no extremes of pressure in bassoon-players. A point which emerged from measurements of air-flow rate and pressure in a bassoonist was that when playing a note (at high or low pitch) first pp and then ff the pressures differed but little, which is contrary to findings in most other instruments.
Naylor, E. W. The Poets and Music. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1928.
We can pass over his [Coleridge's] curious mention, in the Ancient Mariner, of the "loud bassoon." It is possible he may have known the word "buzain," from which "posaun" (trombone) derives.
It is just as likely that he knew the word "bassoon," and connected it with
"buccina," one of the Roman army trumpets.
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The reason I call it the "Democrat" Party, and not the Democratic Party, is the same reason I oppose the Fairness Doctrine that's being talked about in Washington these days. It's a misnomer.
There's relatively little nowadays that's democratic about the Democrat Party. As a general rule, the leaders of that collection of special interests don't trust Americans people to govern themselves, preferring instead to rely on the judicial branch of government. Democrats often take offense to that moniker, but most conservatives take offense to the pejoratives that are tossed at them, as well. Big deal. Quid pro quo.
The Fairness Doctrine sounds pretty high-minded at first glance. Who could oppose fairness? Well, frankly, Democrats who support the so-called Fairness Doctrine are first in line to oppose fairness.
What is the Fairness Doctrine? It's a policy that was in play for years until it was repealed in the 1980s. In short, it required every radio station to offer differing points of view if it offered any at all. Because of that policy, music dominated the radio dial, because no political point was being made by singers and musicians.
Whoa! Wouldn't that be a welcome change?
To serve the community interest, cooking and craft shows, as well as various farm, business and sometimes a few religious programs, took up what broadcast hours remained.
Introduced by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., the bill, titled the Media Ownership Reform Act of 2007 (HR 4069) would affect only AM radio stations nationwide. It would require any news or current events program to include opposing viewpoints to any political discussion. As nearly everyone, including Congressman Hinchey knows, AM radio is dominated by conservative talk shows.
So far, so good, right? What's the problem with opposing viewpoints on political talk shows? After all, conservatives really do rule the AM band. What's not said is that liberal slant owns the rest of the media; from newspapers and magazines to NPR and television network news. Conservatism's message is next to non-existent in the "lame-stream" media.
There's little argument that AM radio was drowning in a sea of red ink before the FCC lifted the original Fairness Doctrine in 1987. The introduction of the FM band, which offered less static and a clearer signal, was substantially better for music than AM ever would be. With no format to hang its hat on, AM was withering away and by now would have been stone cold dead.
Then along came Rush Limbaugh, the real target of Hinchey's bill. His effectiveness and phenomenal rise to prominence has spawned a host of imitators and wannabes, but most of all, it has riled those who want to shut him up (read Democrats). From an opening season of 56 stations to now more than 600 (including KGNC 710 AM in Amarillo), Limbaugh is the ultimate success story.
The effect of Hinchey's bill would be to make it unprofitable for stations to carry Limbaugh's, or any other political commentator's program. There would be a cadre of political operatives in every market to pounce on every statement, ready to sic the FCC on the offender, creating a gigantic pain in the backside for station program directors. Not to mention a serious retreat in revenue, taking the stations back to where they were in 1986, which was unprofitable and unviable.
The First Amendment is directed toward political speech. Those who wish to silence those with whom they disagree are treading on sacred ground - ground that won't be ceded without a fight.
Steve Holland, of Amarillo, is a truck parts sales representative and self-proclaimed "partisan Republican."
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GW Men's Basketball Back in the Top 25 After Six-Year Absence: No. 21 AP; No. 25 USA Today/Coaches Poll
Colonials Defeat Two Ranked Teams in 24 Hours at BB&T Classic
Dec. 6, 2004
WASHINGTON, DC -- The George Washington men's basketball is ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll for the first time since the week of Feb. 16, 1998 when the Colonials were 24th. GW received 423 votes and is the No. 21-ranked team in the lastest AP poll released Monday. GW rose as high as 17th during the 1997-98 season. All-time, it marks the 45th appearance for GW in the AP poll. GW also received 80 votes and is ranked No. 25 in the USA Today/Coaches Top 25 poll also released Monday.
GW shot into the Top 25 after defeating a pair of nationally ranked teams on consecutive days in the BB&T Classic at Washington's MCI Center. The Colonials defeated #11/9 Michigan State, 96-83, on Saturday and then dispatched #12/12 Maryland, 101-92, in the championship Sunday.
Both MSU (Tom Izzo) and UM (Gary Williams) are coached by men who have won national championships within the last five years.
GW's next game is at St. Francis (PA) on Saturday, Dec. 11 at 7:00 p.m.
For ticket information, visit http://gwired.gwu.edu/colonialstickets or contact the GW ticket office at 202-994-6050.


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Chumpon Wilasrusmee, MD, receives two awards of excellence
Syracuse resident Chumpon Wilasrusmee, M.D., a fellow in the transplant division of the Department of Surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University, working under the direction of Dilip Kittur, M.D., chief of transplant surgery, has received two awards of excellence for his research initiatives in the area of organ transplantation.
Wilasrusmee earned a Young Investigator Award at the 2002 American Transplant Congress (ATC), held in April in Washington, D.C. He was cited for his promising research into the effects of immunosuppressive drugs on endothelial cells (cells found in blood). Immunosuppressive drugs are used to prevent the body from rejecting a transplant.
The ATC is the Third Joint American Transplant meeting of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation.
The same research study also earned for Wilasrusmee the Best Basic Science award at the 2002 Transplant Fellows Conference, sponsored by Sangstat Medical Corp. Wilasrusmee presented his study, as well as another dealing with the physiological effects certain drugs have on the human body during transplantation, in abstract format. His abstracts were two of less than 30 selected from more than 200 submitted throughout the United States and abroad to be included in the conference.
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initiative on Early Childhool Care and Education
A large body of research has shown the following :
Children who participate in well-conceived ECCE programmes
tend to be more successful later in school, are more competent
socially and emotionally, and showhigher verbal and intellectual
development during early childhood than do children who are
not enrolled in high quality programmes.
Providing safe child care allows women the chance to continue
their education and learn new skills.
Children who are well nurtured during early years tend to
do better in school and stand a better chance of developing
the skills required to contribute productively to social and
economic development.
While global data on all aspects of ECCE are not available,
it is inadmissible that in the year 2000, more than 50 per
cent of children aged 3 to5 years had no access to pre-primary
education. The situation is particularly worrisome in sub-Saharan
Africa where the gross enrolment ratio (GER) in pre-primary
education is 18 per cent and, in half of the sub-Saharan African
countries, the GER is less than 4 per cent.
The flagship aims to:
Monitor progress towards the first goal in the Dakar Framework
for Action" of expanding and improving comprehensive
early childhood care and education, especially for the most
vulnerable and disadvantaged children".
Highlight attention to the importance of integrated early
childhood care by building/improving the knowledge base on
this issue, and its use in policy and programming.
Demonstrate the positive linkage between ECCE and broader
EFA goals (preparation of children for school, increase in
achievement and retention in primary school, especially for
Ensure that in five years, the influence and impact of ECCE
efforts on achieving EFA goals are more clearly understood
and articulated.
The main activities
centre on advocacy and knowledge-development to:
Provide updated information related to ECCE in the Dakar Framework
and information on countries that include Early Childhood
Development (ECD) in their national plans or to collect case
studies from these countries.
Collect and analyse studies demonstrating the positive impact
of ECCE on other EFA goals.
Pilot ECCE indicators and disseminate the results.
Identify opportunities to influence agenda-setting and modes
of work.
Identify processes for raising consciousness and promoting
new activities in integrated ECCE.
Promote mothers' participation in the labour market as a way
to ensure a better balance between family and work responsibilities.
Empower parents, especially mothers.
Partners include the Academy
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs through the Association for the
Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), the Working Group
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Gwinnett County police Cpl. Jake Smith says Martinez's blood alcohol level was 0.13 when he was arrested early Monday on Interstate 85. The legal limit in Georgia is 0.08 percent.
He also faces charges of impeding the flow of traffic and improper lane change.
Records show Martinez was booked at the Gwinnett County Detention Center at 4:24 a.m. and released at 10:41 a.m. after paying a bond of $1,627. The team didn't immediately comment.
He's the second Atlanta pitcher in less than a year to be arrested on DUI charges. Derek Lowe, who now pitches for the Cleveland Indians, was arrested for DUI in April 2011 in Atlanta, but charges were dropped a few weeks later.