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The Auditory Research Group, led by Dr. Baldwin, is dedicated to research in all areas of Applied Auditory Cognition. This includes the design of auditory displays, (particularly collision avoidance and navigation systems for air and ground), communication systems, and strategies for improving speech intelligibility in adverse listening conditions and among those with hearing impairments. The laboratory includes two acoustically shielded chambers for recording and testing of auditory stimuli, a host of neurophysiological and physiological recording equipment and a suite of high quality sound generation, digital recording, analysis, and presentation equipment and software.
Our Driving Simulation facilities include high-fidelity, motion-based simulator, and several lower fidelity desk-top simulators for rapid-prototyping. The motion-based simulator is equipped with a digital dashboard and a touch screen ancillary display console for examining new visual display as well as two custom designed seat pans for presenting vibrotactile signals.
The Applied Performance Research Lab focuses on how human performance is helped or hindered by the design of tools that help us accomplish everyday tasks. Our current research falls into four categories: improving performance in the medical domain, the influence of interruptions on performance, multitasking and display performance, and the design and use of educational software to aid in performance. In the past, we have been involved in work on performance in aviation, cognitive workload, highway transportation, and software comprehension.
Drs. Parasuraman and Greenwood have long investigated how the aging process affects the mind and brain in the context of normal genetic variation. We have recently begun to investigate ways to ameliorate cognitive decline late in life. The ultimate goal of training in healthy older people is to improve cognitive functioning in daily life. We have shown such transfer of training in concert with changes in functional connectivity and white matter integrity in healthy older people. We are currently investigating the elements of successful training – working memory, attention, executive functioning – in young people. We also investigate use of non-invasive brain stimulation as a means of heightening effects of training on cognition, regional brain activation, functional connectivity, and white matter integrity.
Neuroergonomics research in the Arch Lab is associated with the Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition (CENTEC). The Center of Excellence in Neuroergonomics, Technology, and Cognition (CENTEC) was officially launched at George Mason University on July 15, 2010, with Raja Parasuraman as Director. CENTEC is funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) for a period of five years (July 15, 2010 - July 14, 2015).
MRES is a group of social and behavioral scientists dedicated to applying our methodological skills to real world problems. The MRES (pronounced mysteries) lab consults with government, educational, and private organizations as well as conducts independent research. Our collective interests cover most social and behavioral areas with primary focus on clinical, criminal justice, health, education, and science policy related concerns.
The Visual Attention and Cognition Lab, led by Dr. Matt Peterson, is concerned with how attention, working memory, and eye movements interact to affect cognition and perception in both well-controlled laboratory settings and more complex environments. Topics of interest include how environmental factors capture attention, how memory guides visual search, how attention affects scene perception, and how working memory is affected by eye movements. Our lab uses a variety of methods to study cognition, including psychophysical methods, high-speed eye tracking, EEG, brain-computer interfaces that utilize machine-learning algorithms to match patterns in ERP signals, transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS), and salivary cortisol measures of stress.
The goals of the Cerebral Hemodynamics Lab are 1) to create a better understanding of how we utilize and maintain cognitive resources in order to reduce accidents in professions that require system monitoring, and 2) to investigate the use of new displays and automation for military systems.
This research group is focused on human-automation interaction and the effects of different levels and types of automation (Parasuraman, Sheridan, & Wickens, 2000) on human operator attention, decision-making, and other aspects of cognition. We are also examining how adaptive automation can be designed effectively so as to be sensitive to changes in operational context and human operator workload. Of particular interest is the development of delegation interfaces (Miller & Parasuraman, 2007) as a form of adaptable automation.
The TRUMAN Lab, led by Dr. Ewart de Visser and Dr. Tyler Shaw, is concerned with how different automated agents interact with humans and the ways in which these agents may affect performance, trust, reliance, and compliance during a task. Topics of interest include adaptive aiding, calibrated trust, human-robot interaction, trust cues, human performance and complacency during nonoptimal conditions, performance within supervisory control human-machine systems, effects of imperfect automation on human trust, individual differences in trust, how varying levels of risk affects trust, and ways to create extreme trust calibration using trust cues.
The ability to see how other people move is essential for many aspects of daily life - from things as simple as avoiding collisions to detecting suspicious behavior or recognizing someone else's emotions. The research efforts of the Perception & Action Neuroscience Group (PANGlab) led by Dr. James Thompson are focused on examining how we recognize human movement and make sense of other peoples' actions, and how we code our own actions in relation to the external environment. We investigate these issues using a combination of behavioral paradigms, virtual reality, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and electroencephalography (EEG). The goal of the group's research is to further the understanding of how we see and act with others as part of everyday life, in specialized settings such as surveillance, and in conditions in which human movement recognition may be impaired.
Why do people make errors? How do people interact with robots? We collect data on how and why people make errors and how they interact with robots. We then build theoretical models of people making errors and people interacting with robots, not only so that we can understand people, but also so that we can help prevent errors and help people interact with robots better. Our theories are instantiated in ways that make predictions of what people will do in the future, and this information can then be used to change people's behavior.
The SREC Lab focuses on research in social attention and embodied cognition and its application to Social Robotics and Design Thinking. With regard to Social Robotics, the goal is to unravel what sort of information humans use when judging the degree of intentionality underlying the actions of social agents (i.e., robots) and how attributing a mind to others influences attention, perception and performance. With regard to Design Thinking, the SREC lab is interested in the role of embodied cognition involved in designing and in particular how perception and action processes interact during design thinking. In order to investigate these questions, we use behavioral measures, eye tracking and EEG.


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The "Fall is for Planting" adult horticulture program will be presented from 1-3 p.m. on Oct. 24 at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, 555 Funston, San Antonio. David Rodriguez, AgriLife Extension agent for horticulture in Bexar County, is the program presenter.
"After two years of drought, this fall will be an ideal time to restore and re-establish landscapes," Rodriguez said. "The cooler temperatures are more conducive to planting, and many trees and plants establish much better when planted in the fall as opposed to other times of the year."
He said the fall planting program would emphasize the use of colorful, low-maintenance native plant materials.
Earth-Kind methods combine the best of traditional and organic gardening and landscaping techniques, providing gardening enjoyment while also helping preserve and protect the environment, he added.
Rodriguez said the next Earth-Kind presentation to follow the Oct. 24 program would be his "Winter Landscape Color" program at the botanical garden from 1-3 p.m. on Nov. 22.
He said presentation would focus on planting seasonal landscape material to provide color during the wintertime.
"You can still get a lot of landscape color in the winter not only by planting pansies, cyclamids and other seasonal flowering or ornamental plants, but also by planting certain types of colorful vegetable plants," he said.
The thrust of the Earth-Kind Landscape series is to show methods of landscaping which encourage water and energy conservation, reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, and lower the amount of yard waste entering landfills, Rodriguez noted.
The fee for each series presentation is $20 and checks should be made payable to Bexar County Master Gardeners. Each program is limited to 30 attendees.


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Superfund Research Program News
ESE students win top three spots at toxicology poster competition
February 25, 2013 Nour Abdo, Julia Rager and Jessica Wignall, students at Gillings School of Global Public Health, captured the top three awards in a poster competition held at the spring meeting of the North Carolina regional chapter of the Society of Toxicology on Feb.21 at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offices in Research… Read more »
Journalists and science writers share expertise with SRPs from across the country
At the 2012 SRP annual meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina, the UNC Research Translation Core and Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting hosted a 4-hour science communication workshop to help SRP investigators tackle the challenges of communicating research findings to diverse audiences. The workshop featured current and former journalists and science writers , a… Read more »
Measuring changes in toxicity of oil spills over time
NASA Satellite Image of BP Oil Spill When the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, it caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The main toxic component of this crude oil was a class of compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH); exposure to PAHs… Read more »
Chemical once used in degreasing, dry cleaning classified as carcinogenic
November 06, 2012 Trichloroethylene (TCE), a chemical that was often used as a degreaser and in dry cleaning, has been reclassified from a cancer "hazard" to "carcinogenic to humans" during an evaluation by 18 international scientists, including Ivan Rusyn, MD, PhD. Dr. Ivan Rusyn Rusyn is professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the Gillings… Read more »
ESE student's practicum project aims to improve human health assessment
October 31, 2012 How do plasticizers, such as diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), cause cancer? Mary Kushman, MD, a Master of Public Health candidate in environmental sciences and engineering at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, asked the question in her role as a fellow with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Human Health Risk… Read more »
UNC SRP presents cutting-edge research to ATSDR
Recognizing a need for increased collaborative research, engagement, and translation between the Superfund Research Program (SRP) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), the two agencies held a joint meeting in August 2012 entitled Connecting Research and Practice: A Dialogue between ATSDR and the NIEHS Superfund Research Program. UNC SRP was… Read more »
UNC researchers collaborate with EPA CompTox Program
In May 2012, UNC SRP Deputy Director Ivan Rusyn, MD, PhD and Biostatistics Core Leader Fred Wright, PhD presented a workshop in California to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) staff , providing introductions to two software tools aimed at facilitating the work of public health officials charged with assessing… Read more »
Introducing teachers to emerging science
Dr. Rebecca Fry (left) with Research Translation Core staff, Dana Haine (right) and workshop participant In an effort to make SRP content relevant to North Carolina's high school biology curriculum, the RTC is developing outreach activities designed to help teachers address the topic of DNA structure and function in the context of environmental health by… Read more »
Determining how mother's exposure to toxins during pregnancy impacts baby's health
Dr. Rebeccca Fry, with graduate student Alison Sanders and Bhavesh Ahir, Post Doctoral Research Associate A research study led by UNC SRP researcher Rebecca Fry tested blood samples from more than 200 pregnant women in North Carolina for arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead. What the research team found was disconcerting: As reported in a March… Read more »
Sanders presents to General Assembly
As recipient of the 2011 UNC-Chapel Hill GEAB Impact Award, Allie Sanders, a PhD candidate in Dr. Rebecca Fry's laboratory, presented findings of her work on arsenic in North Carolina wells with State Legislators in Raleigh, NC in May 2012. Sanders' study provides public health officials and individual consumers with valuable information about arsenic… Read more »


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IOWA CITY, Iowa - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport is in bankruptcy.
Its headquarters will go on the auction block this spring. The bishop's home also is going to be sold, and the diocese has paid $9 million to resolve cases in which 37 men say they were sexually abused as boys by priests.
But for all the hardship the diocese is undergoing as result of molestation claims, bankruptcy may be better than what the church in Iowa could have faced - the civil trial of a former bishop from a neighboring diocese.
The case of retired Sioux City Bishop Lawrence Soens vividly illustrates the trade-offs at play when dioceses make decisions about handling the national abuse crisis, which is still spinning out five years after a Boston case became a flashpoint for the problem.
"When the bankruptcy was declared ... it was like hitting a brick wall for so many who were following the Soens case and looking for answers," said Dorothy Whiston, a coordinator of Concerned Catholics of the Davenport Diocese, a group of parishioners and priests focused on church reform. "And for laity, most of them just don't want to hear any more about priests or Bishop Soens."
Soens' legal troubles began in 2005 when the first of three sex abuse lawsuits was filed against him for his actions in the 1960s, when he was the principal of Regina High School in Iowa City, part of the Davenport Diocese.
Fifteen plaintiffs - all male - stepped forward.
Details of their claims are similar: Under the guise of discipline, Soens brought students into his office, where he rubbed and sometimes pinched their crotches, according to documents filed in the cases.
The students also accused him of frequently pinching and twisting their nipples, an activity described in court documents as "purpling."
Soens denies the charges, and a diocese internal investigation into a complaint filed in 2002 found that while Soens' behavior may have been inappropriate, it was not sexual in nature.
"Some actions may have occurred which would not have been appropriate," the report stated. "However, in looking at the definition of sexual abuse in the (policy), we questioned whether any of this conduct described would be for the adult's gratification."
Soens contends the lawsuits should be dismissed based on an Iowa law that shields school officials from liability five years after a student leaves the school.
A ruling is pending, but even if the lawsuits are dropped, his lawyer said Soens' clerical career has been ruined.
Soens voluntarily withdrew from public ministry more than a year ago, his name was removed from an award given annually to outstanding youth and he is rarely seen at church functions these days. He retired from the Sioux City Diocese in 1998.
"The damage has been done as far as his reputation and all the good he has done," said Timothy Bottaro, Soens' attorney.
"There have been a lot of testimonials given that talk about him being an entirely different person back in that time in Iowa City. But there are just as many people, former students, staff, secretaries ... who claim none of those things happened."
There also are no known allegations of sexual misconduct during Soens' 15-year career as bishop.
Yet the diocese's decision to file for Chapter 11 protection in October came just days before the first of Soens' trials was to begin. It led the case to be suspended indefinitely and freed the diocese as a defendant in the suit.
That upset parishioners and victims' advocates, who have written letters and publicly protested the absence of any disciplinary action against Soens.
In a letter published in the church newspaper in December, current Sioux City Bishop Walker Nickless said he was shocked by the nasty communication he's received about Soens. Nickless called for patience and compassion.
"Bishop Soens has suffered much because of the issues he has to deal with concerning the allegations made against him," Nickless wrote. "I think it is unfair to assume someone is guilty before they have had their day in court."
But, victims said, bankruptcy postponed that day in court - and the church is responsible for taking that step.
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October 29, 2009
By Douglas Wilson
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Psalm 102:1–14, 24–28
As Baptists in America, we are often under the false assumption that suffering is not God's will for His people. When we pray, it is often for physical aches and ailments, financial problems and pressures, family heartaches and hindrances. We want God to take away our suffering, but this is actually a foreign concept in Scripture. Jesus submitted Himself to the Father's will, though He understood the anguish and shame that would come with His death on the cross. Peter wrote that Christians may suffer according to the will of God (1 Pet. 3:17). Paul said our sufferings cannot compare to the future glory we will see (Rom. 8:18). In fact, he also expressed his own passion: "to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings" (Phil. 3:10). The psalmist understood the significance of suffering.
Suffering Is Real (1–11)
Over the past couple of years, my pastor has taught me a great deal about transparency. This has not come through the sermons he has delivered from the pulpit; rather he has been open about his life. He has demonstrated that personal loss and its accompanying grief are real and life is painful. He has taught me that false fronts are simply masks we wear to protect ourselves from further pain. The end result can be isolation and insulation. We end up numb and alone.
Psalm 102 reminds the worshiper of ancient Job. Not only was the psalmist in anguish but he also spoke truthfully about his pain. Whatever affliction he was facing, this psalm lyricist requested for God to listen to his prayer and respond immediately. The passage indicates that the suffering he endured was affecting every area of his life: "my days," "my bones," "my heart," "my food," "my groaning" and "my enemies." Like Job, the writer chose not to sugarcoat the reality of his desperation.
God Is Forever (12–14)
The entire mood of the psalm changes with the words "but You, Lord." Is the pain immediately gone? No, it remains. Does the anxiety of possibly facing death suddenly dissipate? Obviously not. But the rest of the psalm acknowledges that the eternal God of the universe is on His throne. Once this is established in the song, everything else is seen in a new light. The Gentiles will come to fear God. The humble petitioner will be heard and exalted. The imprisoned will come to declare the freedom that comes through a covenant relationship with God. We have a choice. We can live in the light of our everyday circumstances. This will put us on an emotional roller coaster with thrilling loops, frightening turns and sickening drops. By contrast, we can order our lives with eternity in mind, trusting God at every loop, turn and drop. To quote an old hymn, "I want to live above the world / though Satan's darts at me are hurl'd / for faith has caught the joyful sound / the song of saints on higher ground." What is your choice?
Suffering Is Temporary (24–28)
When we look at life in light of eternity, our suffering is put into perspective. Our aches, pains, sorrows, woes and losses are temporary. The prejudices that my family faced as "gringos" living in Central America lasted only awhile. Injustices that you may face today are short term. Suffering is temporary. When we contrast our discomforts with the eternal torment that lost humanity will experience apart from God, we have nothing worthy of complaint.
As a middle-aged man, I understand the anxiety of the psalmist in verse 23: "He has broken my strength in midcourse; He has shortened my days." Our University of Mobile family watched as Mike Blaylock, vice president for campus affairs, bore witness of his faith in Christ to medical personnel, pharmaceutical companies, administrators, athletes and students. Even as cancer brought him more and more physical suffering, he pressed on faithfully until the Lord called him home. In our eyes, this vibrant man's life was cut short. In God's eyes, his work here was complete. His suffering is now over.


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Airlie Beach itself is a small, touristy town with one main street and few back streets. Its quite quaint and has a nice lagoon type pool located on the waterfront. The harbor is filled with every possible type of sailboat, all beautiful.
The big attraction of Airlie Beach is taking a trip out amongst the Whitsunday Islands on a sailboat, usually for a couple of nights
We had a terrific group of people on the boat, so that helped make things lots of fun. There were folks from Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ireland and even 3 Yanks (counting myself!). The crew were from Australia, England and Canada. It was great fun learning from one another and laughing with (at?) each othe over terrific food & drinks, scuba diving and island exploring.
I was able to do several dives from the boat. The coral was once again spectacular and there seemed to be more fish and turtles down here than I saw on the dive out of Cairns. The visibility was somewhat limited due to the weather, but it was all beautiful. We also did some nice beach walks and little bush hikes on some of the islands.
One of the best things was actually sleeping out on the water, with the gentle rocking of the boat at night. My little sleeping berth had a small porthole located right by my head and the breeze was lovely. You could even look at at the stars, which was great because that meant a clear sky!
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Is 8 mo. too young to introduce a bottle of organic cows milk? My milk has started to dry up and we are not wanting to do formula. Thanks!
Is 8 mo. too young to introduce a bottle of organic cows milk? My milk has started to dry up and we are not wanting to do formula. Thanks!
talk to your doctor about what to use...
In general, I think formula beats cow's milk (even organic cow's milk) when the baby is under 1 year. They do make organic formulas, from organic milk. However, perhaps you don't need either cow's milk or formula.
Are you sure your milk supply has dwindled? And, if so, how do you know? Are you pregnant, or have you started a hormonal birth control pill? The reason I ask is that a lot of moms get tricked into thinking that their milk supply is low when it is actually just fine. Occasionally a mom's milk supply really will go south, but there is usually a solution to the problem!
Thanks! What makes me think that my milk is drying is he seems to be really fussy at the breast. (I'm not pregnant & I do not use any form of BC) He will nurse for a few minutes (maybe 3) and then start tugging. All the while, I don't hear him swallowing much at all. It has also been a few days since I have felt my milk let down. He pulls and tugs and then eventually throws a big fit and lets go. He's eating mostly solid foods (rice cereal & baby food) so I was nursing like 3-4x during the day and once in the middle of the night. I haven't changed anything in that schedule...there might be a day where we miss a feeding, but nothing that would concern me. Like I said, it's just been in the last 3-4 days that I've noticed he's not really getting much. My middle of the night feeding usually just makes him more mad than anything else. I would LOVE to build my milk up and not have to worry about supplementing at all. I wanted to make it to a year old and it makes me upset that I might not reach that goal. Is it still possible to increase my milk? If so, how? Do I need to nurse him more frequently during the day? My husband and I would love to avoid the cost of formula (and yes, we would buy the organic formula). He just always seems to be hungry!!!!
4-5 times a day does not seem like enough for an 8 month old. I don't know where other moms are, but maybe you should try to add more feedings and maybe a pumping in between. This would help build up your supply. I'm sure there's other people who could give you better advice. My supply seemed to dwindle at about that age, too. I couldn't (and still can't) pump enough, but when he's with me all day, I have enough for him by nursing very often.
Mom of 1, AJ born 4/12/07
What does a typical day (24 hours) look like, as far as your feedings - both nursing and solids - look like? How many poops and pees are you seeing in a 24 hour perdiod. I agree in that your supply is problably fine .... THey change behaviours as they grow as does your bodies response to nursing... we'll work with you to reach your goal
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Part-Time, Non-Tenured UA Faculty Set to Protest
Improved pay, paths to promotion, multi-year contracts, smaller class sizes among their grievances.
Improved pay, paths to promotion, multi-year contracts, smaller class sizes among their grievances.
Lawmakers tell them universities could lose more than the $75 million in Ducey's budget proposal.
Legislators say universities could face cuts up to $100 million, much more than in governor's proposal.
Rabbi carrying out meticulous work: 'Restoration is not, simply, OK, I will patch it up.'
One UA student's story: Supporting family and getting by on less than $30 extra every two weeks.
How will higher-education institutions and students absorb $77M in state aid reductions?
'Defunding universities goes against state's goals of economic growth,' Regents president says.
Students show up en masse, ask for budgeting transparency, grad student 'living wage.'
State DNA Advocacy Project gets $935K federal grant for use by UA, ASU law schools.
Annual summer trips educate University of Arizona students about the culture, politics and daily life of an isolated island nation.
UA Scientists say private concerns are seeking ways to get there, but the practicality of it may be far-fetched.
Deal worth nearly $1B includes new operator rebuilding main UAMC hospital on Tucson campus by 2019.
UA nutritionists co-host events to share research on benefits of Mediterranean-style eating pattern.
Ducey proposes K-12, community college and university budgets see cuts
Proposal calls for $75 million cut in state funding to state's three public universities next fiscal year.
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It's that time of the year. Sixty bucks here. A special edition there. And perhaps a bank loan just for all the Borderlands 2 DLC. Sometimes the fall season seems to refer to bank account, but it doesn't have to be that way. There's a whole world of amazing games at your fingertips for only a couple of bucks.
Finding it is just the hard part.
Xbox Indie Game section presents some of the oddest, most unique, and sometimes, even the best gaming you can download straight to your console. Just recently, Indie Uprising III brought together some of these indie developers to show off their vision for the 360. For a change of pace, I asked the developers to recommend other games on the XBLIG marketplace that you should be playing now.
Toby from tricktale (Diehard Dungeon) picks Weapon of Choice: With big enemies and even bigger guns, this Dream. Build. Play third place winning title put Mommy's Best Games on the map. Imagine a Contra title with an art style taken to extreme limits and you'll come close to describing Weapon Of Choice. With Wilford Brimley calling the shots, you'll need to utilize the different weapons in order to survive. From a gun that can rocket you across the screen to one that lets you set up a series of lasers, each one feels different in their own right as you come face-to-face with these hand drawn monstrocities.
From the developer: It was one of the first XBLIGs I played. It's awesome, and is created by one very talented guy.
Gristmill Studios (Xenominer) picks They Breathe: In a world full of zombie games and shooters, They Breathe is a breath of fresh air for the indie marketplace. You explore the world with your little webbed feet. There's something creepy about the world as you dive through the murky pond water and hold on to every bit of oxygen before it all goes horribly wrong. They Breathe builds on this beautiful atmosphere of beautiful danger until… well, you need to play to find out.
From The Developer: What's inspiring about it is the whole game you are holding your breath in real life, and that anxiety of "I can't breathe" keeps running through the back of your mind. It's the exhilarating anxiety great horror games aspire to, and here it was brought out masterfully in this otherwise whimsically themed game.
Andreas Heydeck (Smooth Operators) picks Headshot 2: Simple yet visceral, this game from the Silver Dollar developers puts you behind the scope of a sniper rifle. Find your target and pull the trigger. Timing and quick reflexes are all you need to make it in this title. For those familiar with Silver Dollar Games, you know that this company throws about everything against the wall to see what sticks. You could spend hours just trying to find who's the father or trying to keep your cat away from a bowl of cereal. Say what you will, this two time Dream. Build. Play winning company knows how to keep putting out the titles that work.
From The Developer: It was the first game I played on the service, and still play it from time to time. It's probably the most addictive game on XBLIG.
Dave from Smudged Cat Games (Gateways) picks Miner Dig Deep: If there's ever a "just one more time" game, Miner Dig Deep fits the genre perfectly as you search for that mother lode. As your skills increase, you find the world open up around you as you dig a little deeper and carry just a little bit more. The game pits you against -- you. There's no monsters to bring you down, only your own stupidity as you dig a little deeper only to find yourself stuck in a hole. Miner Dig Deep isn't just tough to put down; it's nearly impossible.
From The Developer: It was the first game I played of that genre. Was it the first game, I'm kind of assuming it wasn't? I admire how it just transfixes you and makes you want to keep playing.
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Chris Zukowski (City Tuesday) picks PEW PEW PEW: Even how the game works is half the fun. In this side scrolling shooter, two players control one ship as one adjusts the pitch as the other mans the guns. Take your hands off those controllers. You're going to need two microphones to operate this vessel. As one player uses their voice to make the ship go up and down, the second player shoots by shouting "Pew Pew Pew" into the microphone.
From The Developer: I think the primary strength that XBLIG has is that for $99 we developers can hack this Xbox in ways that no other AAA studio that is burdened by share holders into creating another boring shooter would dare. That is why my favorite XBLIG game is PEW PEW PEW because it shows how if we just use a truckload of creativity we can do things like control a whole game using only our voice.
Matt from hermitgames (qrth-phyl) picks Hidden In Plain Sight: From this year's IndieCade comes a game about acting like a computer while obtaining your goal. In this multiplayer madness, you play as the hunter and hunted in a number of modes that put you in the middle of a crowd of AI controlled characters. Each mode requires you to do a certain task from touching statues to winning a race, but here's the kicker, other players are looking for you in this crowd of characters. Be cleaver and be quick if you want to win this game.
From The Developer: Best party game sinceBomberman. Asymmetrical multiplayer games of skill and cunning, scurrilous deceptive villainy, failure and triumph. It's ace.
Michael Hicks (Sententia) picks Blow: Deceptively challenging, Blow – not based on the Johnny Depp movie – puts you in charge of guiding bubbles to a flower and then into an exit. Simple, right? They're just bubbles. The challenges comes from having to figure out how to get them from one end to the next with the help of some fans and limited funds. You end the level by calling on the bubble king to run the course. As it turns out, this is second entry from Silver Dollar Games, a game that goes for the mind instead of the head.


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Hi, everybody! I'm so happy I did a doll! Not a portrait, a complete and full body doll, haha ^^
So... It's Merida, Disney's character
Oh, baseless, not adoptable
So... It's Merida, Disney's character
Oh, baseless, not adoptable
Wow, this is amazing! Do you mind if I put it on my page? I promise to credit you for it.
By the gods, she looks amazing! Love Merid and your art is just perfect!
meu. que talento é esse? ta perfeito!
Holy crap, I'm almost tempted to think that you took the original picture and edited it to look like pixel art.
Freaking gorgeous!
Really nice work. Beautiful rendition of her hair.
Heya, Merida!
Aiin, muito linda Laís :3 Eu falo que foi voce que inventou ela e ninguem acredita... huehuhuiuehue
Love it! Mostly her hair considering it actually looks like it's rounded and as if there's something back there without it looking flat.
On another topic: I love your icon of Patomon's armour digiegg
On another topic: I love your icon of Patomon's armour digiegg
Nice work!!
Wow! Everything literally is perfection in this doll.
This is amazing, and the fact it's completely pixeled just makes it even better
Great work!
This is great and looks so much like the real deal! Great job!
This is wonderful! I looooove the way you shaded her hair, dress, face... everything!
But I think you put it in wrong section. This should go to original base, not traced base
She's gorgeous! You captured her perfectly! Kudos for doing her hair so awesomely!!
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Demais, Laís! Ficou fantástica! Especialmente a pele e o cabelo. Também pensei que fosse uma ilustração ou doll em tool... Parabéns pela evolução!
Perfeito!! Legal reencontrar seu deviantart depois de anos e ver a sua evolução!! Muito bom!!
this is gorgeous! <33 uwu
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Madeleine A. BenoitJuly 22,2014
BARRE Madeleine A. (Pinard) Benoit, 90, a resident of Lincoln House for the past nine and a half years and formerly of 24 Brook St., Barre, died peacefully in the Central Vermont Medical Center Palliative Care Unit, surrounded by her family, on Saturday, July 19, 2014, following a brief illness.
Born in Montpelier on March 19, 1924, she was the daughter of French Canadian parents, the late Lucien and Bibianne (Blais) Pinard. Madeleine attended St. Michaels and St. Monicas elementary schools and was a proud pro merito graduate of Spaulding High School, class of 1941. Upon graduation she was employed as a bookkeeper-secretary for the Letter Granite Co., a telephone operator for New England Telephone and Telegraph Co., and part-time secretary for North Barre Granite Co., retiring in 1990.
On Feb. 1, 1947, she married Leonard V. Benoit at St. Monica Church in Barre. After their marriage, Madeleine dedicated her life to raising her seven children and spending time with her 20 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Madeleine was predeceased by her husband of 46 years and their two infant daughters, Marie and Anne Marie, as well as her parents and her sister Jeanne DArc (Pinard) Verrett, as well as many dear sisters- and brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews.
Her memberships included St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre for most of her life, Sodality, the Ladies of St. Anne, and the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court St. Monica 1181.
Mothers greatest joy was spending time with her family and extended family. Her beautiful smile, gentle spirit and warm heart made her loved by all who knew her. Her deep faith sustained her through every aspect of her life, and her rosary was her constant companion.
Survivors include her seven children: Andre Andy Benoit and his wife, Janice, of Hope Mills, North Carolina; Robert Benoit and his wife, Connie, of Dubuque, Iowa; Diane Noyes and her husband, Bill, of Barre; Denis Ben Benoit and his wife, Robin, of Mystic, Connecticut; Janet Connor and her husband, Stephen, of East Montpelier; Steven Benoit and his wife, Bonnie, of Barre; and James Jim Benoit and his wife, Stacey, of Graniteville. She is also survived by her 20 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren and her four brothers: Francis Pinard, of Barre, Richard Pinard, of Winooski, Father Paul Pinard, SSE, of Selma, Alabama, and the Rev. Raymond Pinard, of Galveston, Texas; her sister Marguerite Worthing, of Omaha, Nebraska; as well as many nieces and nephews.
The family would like to acknowledge and thank registered nurse Pam Heffernan and the staff of Lincoln House for their care and concern for our mother, and Dr. David Ospina, Dr. Paul Cameron and the staff of Central Vermont Medical Center. The family also extends special thanks to Madeleines longtime primary care physician Dr. Lucy Patti, for her care and compassion. The family also wishes to thank Sister Elizabeth Driscoll and Paul Plante for their spiritual support.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Thursday, July 24, at 11 a.m. at St. Monica Catholic Church in Barre. Family and friends may call at the Pruneau-Polli Funeral Home in Barre on Wednesday, July 23, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Interment will follow the Mass at Hope Cemetery in Barre.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Lincoln House Activity Fund, 120 Hill St., Barre, VT 05641, or the CVMC New Palliative Care Unit fund in care of Central Vermont Medical Center.
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10th December is a memorable day for us.
The day is be celebrated with special prayer
and activities that bring the community
together. A day to remember, a day to rejoice. Its a day that renews our spirit and binds us together in harmony.
Penitential Rite:
Lord have mercy//
Christ have mercy//
Lord have mercy//
Search me, O God, and know my heart today,
Try me O saviour, know my thoughts I pray,
See if there be some wicked way in me,
Cleanse me from every sin and set me free.
Lord take my life and make it wholly Thine,
Fill my poor heart with thy great love divine.
Take all my will, my passion, self and pride,
I now surrender Lord, in my abide
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Responsorial Psalm:
As the deer pants for the water,
So my soul longs after you.
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship you.
You alone are my strength, my shield,
To you alone may my spirit yield.
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship you
I want you more than gold or silver,
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You alone are the real joy-giver,
And the apple of my eye.
You're my friends and you are my brother,
Even though you are a king
I love you more than any other,
So much more than anything
Alleluia (Sung)
Prayers of Intercession:
Response: Lord graciously hear us.
God our loving Father, St Lucy in time of trial professed your faith and accepted martyrdom, obtain for us the grace to profess the truths of the gospel and to continue in faith according to teachings of your son Jesus. Lord hear us…
Lord God, we pray that our patron St Lucy be the light in our lives and model in every action, so that, after having imitated her in this world we may, with her, rejoice in the vision of god. Lord hear us…
Heavenly Father, through the intercession of St Lucy we place our country in your loving hands. May all people understand the need for reconciliation and peace. Obtain for us freedom from harm and danger, and may peace once again be restored. Lord hear us…
Father of mercy, we plead together with our patron St Lucy to touch those who are suffering from want of health in mind and body. Be their safeguard and consolation. Grant them your healing. Lord hear us…
Offertory Hymn:
All to Jesus I surrender
All to him I freely give
I will ever love and trust him,
In his presence daily live
I surrender all, I surrender all,
All to thee, my blessed saviour
I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender
Make me Jesus wholly thine.
Let me feel thy holy spirit,
Truly know that thou art mine.
Proclamation: (sung)
Christ has died,
Christ has risen,
Christ will come again.
Our Father (sung)
Our Father in heaven,
Holy be your name,
Your kingdom come,
Your will be done
On earth as in heaven
Give us today our daily bread
Forgive us our sins
As we forgive those who sin against us.
Do not bring us to the tes
But deliver us from evil.
Communion Hymn:
I need thee every hour
I need thee every hour most gracious lord,
No tender voice like thine can peace afford.
I need thee, O I need thee,
Every hour I need thee,
O bless me now my saviour,
I come to thee
I need thee every hour stay thou nearby,
Temptations lose power when thou art nigh.
I need thee every hour in joy or pain,
Come quickly and abide or life in vain
I need thee every hour most holy one
O make me thine indeed thou blessed son.
Father I place into your hands
Father I place into your hands
The things I cannot do,
Father I place into your hands
The times I have been through,
Father I place into your hands
The way I should go,
For I know I always can trust you.
Father I place into your hands
My friends and family,
Father I place into your hands
The things trouble me,
Father I place into your hands
The person I should be,
For I know I always can trust you.
Father I want to be with you
And do the things you do,
Father I want to speak the words
That you are speaking too,
Father I want to love the ones
That you will draw to you,
For I know that I am one with you
Post Communion Prayer
Blessing of the sick:
Let us pray:
O Lord, look upon your servants labouring under bodily weakness and cherish and revive our lives created by you; so that purified by these sufferings, we may soon find ourselves healed by your mercy and be able to thank you in your church through Christ our lord. Amen.
Final Blessing
May the Lord Jesus Christ be with you that he may defend you; within you that he may sustain you; before you that he may lead you; behind you that he may protect you; above you that he may bless, in the name of the father, and of the son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Act of Consecration through the Intercession of St Lucy
Graciously hear us O Lord God, light of the world, as we dedicate ourselves to you through your favoured daughter St Lucy whose very name signifies 'light,' who died a virgin and martyr, and has been proclaimed by the church as the Protectress of our eyes.
St Lucy, you are the saint of the sightless, the support and strength of the spiritually blind. Today, we consecrate our lives through you to our loving Father, God Almighty.
We honour and praise you as our patroness and protectress, and pray for your care and protection over all of us. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our lord. Amen.
Final Hymn: Hymn to St. Luc
O Holy Martyr, spotless dove,
With joy we celebrate thy day,
Thou dwellest now in bliss above,
Where tyrant over thee has no sway
Sweet Lucy, let thy pleading voice,
For us at mercy's throne be heard,
Sweet Lucy, let thy pleading voice,
At mercy's throne be heard.
Oh, pray that we may ever seek,
To be as free as thou from stain,
As constant, fervent, pure and meek,
Regardless of earth's fleeting pain.
And holy saint, be this thy prayer
That prizing not the world's renown,
Through trial it may be our care,
To strive but for heavenly crown
Litany of St. Lucy
Lord have mercy on us
Christ have mercy on us
Lord have mercy on us
Christ hear us
Christ graciously hear us
God the Father of heaven Have mercy on us
God the Son Redeemer of the world
God the Holy Spirit
Holy Trinity One God
Holy Mary Pray for us
Holy Virgin of Virgins
St Lucy, Virgin and Martyr
St Lucy, Lily of Purity
St Lucy, gifted with surpassing beauty and wisdom
St Lucy, an example of obedience
St Lucy, ornamental of the city of Syracuse
St Lucy, born of noble parents
St Lucy, who didst cure thy own mother
St Lucy, who didst consecrate thy virginity to God
St Lucy, who didst despise worldly honours
St Lucy, who didst refuse to sacrifice to the false gods
St Lucy, who didst adore the true god
St Lucy, heroic in sacrifice
St Lucy, who didst distribute thy wealth to the poor
St Lucy, courageous in thy answer to the pagan judge
St Lucy, strengthened by the grace of God
St Lucy, whose hands and feet were tied with cords
St Lucy, who was thrown into a fiery furnace
St Lucy, whose neck was cut asunder by the executioner
St Lucy, who didst prophesy the defeat of cruel tyrants
St Lucy, who didst offer thy life for God
St Lucy, martyred for the faith of Christ
St Lucy, who dost restore sight to the blind
St Lucy, who dost work many miracles
St Lucy, who didst win the Crown of Martyrdom
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world
Spare us, O Lord
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world
Graciously hear us, O Lord
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world
Have mercy on us
• Pray for us, St Lucy
• That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ
Let us pray
O Lord God, who didst protect thy servant St. Lucy, on earth and didst bestow on her the crown of martyrdom in heaven, grant us also thy protection here below, and bestow on us the crown of glory in heaven, through Christ Our Lord. Amen


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Skip to comments.'Largest petition ever' to Congress demands Benghazi probe (Live Feed)
Posted on 07/23/2013 9:23:29 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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Gohmert Speaks at Presser Asking for a House Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi
That Trayvon has gotten so much attention is a direct result OF Benghazi. The admitted foreign born twice unconstitutionally elected POTUS is doing everything he can to distract from Benghazi because he knows he's f**ked if the truth got out.
I'm confused. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) has introduced legislation (congressional resolution, H. Res. 36) to create a special select committee to investigate both the terrorist attack and subsequent actions by President Barack Obamas administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons State Department.
Yesterday they stated that Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) had submitted a "discharge petition" that would force a floor vote on the bill. The petition would need to be signed by 218 members of the House.
We were encouraged to contact your congressman to find out if they had signed the petiton. Now, I find that the petition hasn't been realeased. WTF over.
The Asian airlines crew names sums it up nicely:
Sum Ting Wong
Ho Lee Fuk
That should be on a bill board.
Thanks for the ping. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
I heard somewhere that they were forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement on threat of losing all retirement benefits.
In the meantime, we are encouraged to contact our congressman to make sure he supports the Wolf bill, and tell him to sign the discharge petition.
A big creepy ass petition like that for nuttin but a phony scandal? Ain nobody got time fa dat.
Commie Obamas talking points are smokescreen distractions for the products of Obamas first 4 years in office:
* Refusal to close US Southern Border to Mexican illegal alien invaders
* No known un-forged records of Citizenship, or Scholarship
* Benghazi Massacre
* Cover up of Benghazi Massacre
* Destruction of Seal Team Six
* IRS-Obamacare Commune Death Grip on Wealth and Health
* NSA-Gestapo Death Grip
* Destruction of the US Coal Industry
* Refusal to permit XL Pipeline construction
* Trillion Dollar a year Federal Overspending
* Monthly violations of the US Constitution by Obama
BTW, the best indicator of a PHONY ADMINISTRATION is the number of its REAL SCANDALS.
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Skip to comments.The Party that Obama Un-Built: Where is the next generation of Democrats?
Posted on 09/07/2012 11:21:03 PM PDT by iowamark
Julian Castro is no Barack Obama. And for that, Democrats have themselves to blame.
The focus of this week's Democratic convention was President Obama. Lost in the adulation was the diminished state to which he has brought his broader party. Today's Democrats are a shadow of 2008struggling for re-election, isolated to a handful of states, lacking reform ideas, bereft of a future political bench. It has been a stunning slide...
In 2006, Nancy Pelosi muzzled her liberal inclinations to recruit and elect her "Majority Makers"a crop of moderate and conservative Democrats who won Republican districts and delivered control of the House for the first time in 14 years...
By 2009, President Obama presided over what could fairly be called a big-tent coalition. The Blue Dog caucus had swelled to 51 members, representing plenty of conservative America. Democrats held the majority of governorships. Mr. Obama had won historic victories in Virginia and North Carolina. The prediction of liberal demographers John Judis and Ruy Teixeira's 2004 book, "The Emerging Democratic Majority"lasting progressive dominance...
While the party's most vulnerable members aren't in outright mutiny against Mr. Obama, more than two dozen didn't risk attending the convention. In contrast to last week's GOP celebration of reformist GOP governors, the Charlotte podium was largely dominated by activists (Sandra Fluke, Lilly Ledbetter), the liberal congressional faithful (Mrs. Pelosi, Harry Reid), and urban mayors from failing states (Los Angeles's Antonio Villaraigosa, Chicago's Rahm Emanuel).
While the GOP has feted its upcoming starsincluding minority governors like New Mexico's Susana Martinez and Louisiana's Bobby Jindalthe president has done little to nurture his down-ballot partners. Where is the next generation of Democrats?
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How has he unbuilt the party? Every dang party member is doubling down on worship, and any one of them is more qualified to lead than this twerp was. Hell, they're tens of millions deep on replacements for this ass.
Lest we get the idea the party is going to change, let's recall their lineup.
This is like one of those IQ test question where they ask you which number is next.
In this case it's 0, -5, -10, -15, -20, -25... now which number is next?
Osama Bin Laden is dead, so it's not as easy as one might think. Whoever it turns out to be, we can rest assured that the next figure will be a -30. It certainly isn't going to be a positive figure out of the blue.
"Where is the next generation of Democrats?"
They were fetuses. And now they're gone.
From the above post Dems won big by recruiting DINOs (Blue Dogs ) and then afterward slowly purging the few that survived the 2010 election.
With Boehner in the House and Obama in the WH Dems seem to have complete control of their members unlike Republicans.
This is interesting.
I didn't watch either convention in their entirety. But the parts I did watch, I noticed this.
The Pubs had a good mix of young, well spoken, ethnically mixed "up and coming" politicians.
Yeah, they threw McCain in the mix..whatever.
The Dems seemed to rely on their "old white guys and gals" with a few young angry non-politicians or "used to be politicians."
Although the audiences were very different...I can't help but wonder if the complexion of things might be changing.
This was a good article. The dems did throw all those blue dogs under the bus.
and why? Well, because of abortion of course.
It's abortion uber alles with these people and I can barely believe they are tripling down on it now.
Hey ladies! Which would you rather have, an abortion or a j.o.b.?
Its funny that this article emerged. I was thinking this same thing yesterday - where are the rising stars in the Democratic Party? All they had at the convention were has beens for the most part. And zero said it was like watching b&w tv with the Republicans - no, dear leader - its your party that is in the b&w mode.
There are plenty of young guns rising in the Republican party.
47 million foodstamp users
20 million illegals
30 million Obamacare participants coming
Sounds like a whole lot of loyal Dem voters to me.
I did listen to Castro.
He seemed to be the best they had to offer. Putting aside content, he gave a decent speech.
But, ya know what? It's a big stretch for a mayor of a city in a Republican state to go to national prominence.
Of course crazy things happen...but that would be a stretch, even in the monied world of politics.
You just put my fears in four short lines.
"Where is the next generation of Democrats?"
In a beer hall in Munich!
"They were fetuses. And now theyre gone."
Nonsense; they are the anchor babies being born in hospitals across this country, as well as being delivered by midwives down in Mexico, as we speak and post. We've been killing our babies for 40 years now, and the Dems are alive & kicking; if anything, the Repubs need to look at their birthrate issues - they are surrendering the country demographically.
They are also children of conservatives being brainwashed by public schools, TV, films and Pop-Music.
This article is a joke. After four years of miserable failure in just about everything, especially youth and young adult employment, Obama is easily still the choice of under-thirty voters by almost a 2-1 ratio. Obviously, the liberal-leftist Dem (or Dim) view of America still holds enormous appeal for America's yutes.
OMG.....sadly you are so right....they are DEAD....LITERALLY.
They've been aborted - and good riddance.
"They are also children of conservatives being brainwashed by public schools, TV, films and Pop-Music."
True; that's a good point.
Uhhhh, in dumpsters behind abortion clinics?
He'll have to follow the Henry Cisneros path: mayor, followed by appointments to federal posts in a Democrat administration.
Henry's done well for himself financially, but he hasn't been heard from in years.
Former San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros accepted a speaking engagement at a local state university campus during the early Nineties. I was in attendance and recall that he was accompanied by an attractive blonde. The woman was an Anglo.
Sometime later, I realized that the woman was the mayor's mistress when the scandal broke about Cisneros paying hush money to cover up his long term extramarital affair.
Sandra Fluke is the future of the Democrat Party.
The Next Generation, unlike the denizens of Star Trek fame, are here already. They are the babies that qualify mothers for WICs, they are the dependents that qualify them for SNAP. They qualify their parents, usually parent, for EITC, TANF, Section 8 and so on.
On many of my trips to Walmart, I see three generations of them. Baby, no-baby-daddy, Momma (who nearly always could stand to lose 50 lbs) and dear old grandma (not really old because she had her youngun at 15-16 like her momma did). Grandma is there with the SS cash to buy the liquor and cigarettes....
In my little county of north Georgia, the towns and country roads are littered with the hundreds, maybe a thousands or so, of rental trailers (you can tell them by the dozens of Georgia Rental Inspection Decals affixed to them). Most of these 'residents' are the current 'Generation' raising the next.
Hey ladies! Which would you rather have, an abortion or a j.o.b.?
It's funny but this comment just hit me like a lightening bolt. With today's economy of Government Entitlements. You don't need a J.O.B. all you need is to have kids out of wedlock and you'll be raking in the Dough, EBT Cards, Section 8 Housing, Cash, Free Medical, etc.
That means you you don't want or need abortion because you need the kids for the Bennies.
On the OTHER hand if you have the J.O.B. you might need the abortions because you can barely afford to feed/cloth/shelter yourself on what is left over after the Government takes their "Fair Share" of your life, (Time/Money/Blood/Sweat/Toil).
"Julian Castro is no Barack Obama."
Really? They were both reared by Communist parents. Both are Affirmative Action Harvard products. Both believe that government should provide "social justice," which being interpreted means, "Make Whitey pay for his sins." They could be twins....or triplets, since Julian already has a twin who is running for office in Texas.
This bunch of slick, toothy Leftists needs to be defeated at every turn, because their mutual goal is to see if Communism will succeed in the USA after it has failed everywhere else.
Julian Castro is no Barack Obama.
"Really? They were both reared by Communist parents. Both are Affirmative Action Harvard products. Both believe that government should provide social justice, which being interpreted means, Make Whitey pay for his sins. They could be twins....or triplets, since Julian already has a twin who is running for office in Texas.
This bunch of slick, toothy Leftists needs to be defeated at every turn, because their mutual goal is to see if Communism will succeed in the USA after it has failed everywhere else."
Absolutely correct, IMO
The rare pro-abortion freeper.
"Obviously, the liberal-leftist Dem (or Dim) view of America still holds enormous appeal for Americas yutes."
That is because they have been brainwashed by the Marxist moron mill that is America's public re-education system.
The 10th plank of the communist manifesto calls for free public "education".
"There are plenty of young guns rising in the Republican party."
Yes, indeed. In the 2010 election, more than 700 patriots and conservatives were elected to state legislatures. They are capable of taking on and defeating the rats. Wisconsin is one example.
These young guns will be moving on to the US Congress and replacing the weak RINO traitors. That task has already started.
We have a very good farm team of patriots and constitutionalists. I believe that Ryan is one of these. Unlike some people here, I'm optimistic for the future.
Elected Democrats are one wing of the party, the con men. The other wing were represented by the delegates, the dupes. Those are your choices, if you want to be a Democrat.
What I wonder is that the dem party has gone ALL gay and ALL muslim.
Talk about popcorn time!
Extenuating circumstances.
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With the 2012 MLB draft fast approaching, now is a good time to take a look at some of the talented prospects available this year. While the draft may not be as strong as the 2011 draft, there is certainly talent to be had with the 21st pick.
This article previews four players that may be around when it is time for the Atlanta Braves to make their pick. These players may or may not be selected by the front office, but they are guys that I feel would be a good fit for the organization.


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Exploring France in Toulouse and Rennes
Natalie DeGeorge ('10)
Living in France for a year was something that I had never seriously considered. Studying abroad for a semester was an easy enough commitment, but consecrating an entire academic year to another country, culture and language seemed to me an entirely different story.
My nine-month stay in France was split between two very different cities: Toulouse in the southwest, steeped in Occitan influence, and Rennes in the northwest, swelling with Breton pride.
During the fall, I studied with the School for International Training (SIT) in Toulouse, where I spent my mornings in a Français Langue Étrangère (FLE- the French equivalent of ESL classes) program with other aspiring Francophones, and my afternoons in highly specialized seminars whose topics ranged from French economics to the roots of French identity.
My spring semester was spent in Rennes, the capital of Brittany, with the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) where I was enrolled in yet more FLE-type classes as well as other courses of my choice.
The latter of the two programs was more similar to a typical college schedule, punctuated by a period of midterm and final exams. The former program, however, was comprised of one-timeonly lecture-based seminars; it also included a 10-day village study coupled with various excursions, and culminated in the preparing and subsequent presentation of an extensive research paper conducted and written entirely in French.
Even more striking than the different formats that structured each program were the differences between the cities of Toulouse and Rennes. Toulouse, la ville rose as it is called, is home to the current rugby champions of France, demonstrates a regional cuisine and architecture colored with Mediterranean influences and, along with the rest of the south of France, is characterized by a laidback approach to life. Walking the ever-busy streets of Toulouse, I explored countless shops and boutiques and bought savory ham and cheese crêpes from street vendors. I learned that the back wall of my current school was built over the ancient, fortified ramparts that used to encircle Toulouse when it was just a fledging Roman city. During one of our many excursions, I saw the residence of José Bové, the farmer who led to the highly publicized dismantling of a McDonald's restaurant in Aveyron. I spoke with shepherds in the Pyrénées Mountains about the dangers and consequences of the French government's initiative to reintroduce Slovenian bears to the area in an effort to bolster the dwindling native population.
After three months in the Rose City, I developed a surprisingly strong affinity for Toulouse and the south of France as a whole, a sentiment that I was quick to express when I arrived in Rennes for spring semester.
The first time I shared my love of savory crêpes with a Rennais, I was met with a look of skepticism. Home to galettes, the buckwheat flour equivalent of savory crêpes, Rennes is the last place I should have expected such an opinion to be unquestionably accepted. I even encountered doubts concerning the very existence of my beloved "crêpes salées." Hard cider always accompanied a meal of galettes, and the combination of the two was always heralded as a "true" Breton meal by my host family. I was immediately made aware of the strong sense of community that existed in the much smaller and more compact city of Rennes.
The deeply ingrained regional patriotism challenged my newly found southern pride, and while I have not lost my inexplicable feeling of hailing from the south of France, I ended my experience being considerably more comfortable in Rennes. Much to my delight, my host parents informed me that I did not have an American accent, but had the singsong rhythm of southern French and sported some unidentifiable "European" accent. I also witnessed the college students at the University of Rennes 2 (the campus where my program was hosted) stage a "blocage", which consists of emptying all the chairs and tables of the ground floor classrooms and piling them in the doorways of every academic building to prevent classes from taking place. While it was amusing for the first week, we quickly tired of the constant protesting and blocked entrances, wishing fervently the student union and administration would resolve their issues.


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Objectives: In children younger than 2 years of age, a diagnosis of celiac disease (CD) is difficult to make because anti-endomysium (anti-EMA)/anti-tissue transglutaminase 2 (anti-TG2) antibodies are less sensitive than in older children. The aim of our study was to evaluate how many children younger than 2 years of age and diagnosed with CD, were negative for serum anti-TG2 antibodies and to test the hypothesis that in these patients, TG2-specific IgA deposits could instead be present at mucosal level.
Patients and Methods: A total of 104 children younger than 2 years of age and 179 children older than 2 years, all of whom had been diagnosed with CD, were investigated for serum CD-associated antibodies (anti-gliadin [AGA] IgA and IgG, EMA-IgA, anti-TG2–IgA). The presence of intestinal anti-TG2 extracellular IgA deposits was searched by using double immunofluorescence in 56 of the patients younger than 2 years of age and in 40 of those who were older than 2 years.
Results: In children with CD who were younger than 2 years of age, high levels of AGA-IgA were found in 93/104 (89%) and 98/104 (94%) were found of have high levels of AGA-IgG. In children older than the age of 2 years with CD, 120/179 (67%) had high levels of AGA-IgA and 151/179 (84%) had high levels of AGA-IgG. Serum EMA were present in 92/104 (88%) in the younger group and in 176/179 (98%) of the older group. Ninety-one of 104 children (87%) younger and 172/179 (96%) older than 2 years showed high serum levels of anti-TG2. Finally, 41/56 (73%) children younger than 2 years and all of the 40 children (100%) older than 2 years of age showed mucosal anti-TG2–IgA deposits.
Conclusions: EMA and anti-TG2–antibody measurements show higher sensitivity for the diagnosis of CD in children older than 2 years compared with younger children. The search for mucosal deposits of anti-TG2–IgA does not improve the diagnostic performance.
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This small device was designed to hold up to 12 AAA batteries and 10 AA batteries that are tested for the remaining power. This way, you'll always know which batteries are still good to use and which have to be thrown away, plus that you won't lose batteries anymore, having them in one place when you need them.
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FORT MEADE, Md. The Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history pleaded guilty to 10 charges Thursday and offered an impassioned defense of his actions, arguing that he sought to spark a national debate about what he described as the nation's obsession with "killing and capturing people."
The testimony marked Pfc. Bradley Manning's first detailed account of his disclosure of a trove of U.S. diplomatic cables and military documents in 2010 to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization he said he approached after he was unable to entice The Washington Post and the New York Times.
"We were risking so much for people who seemed unwilling to cooperate with us," the 25-year-old said. It was spawning "frustration and hatred on both sides," he said, adding: "I became depressed."
Manning said that WikiLeaks never pressured him to turn over documents and that he came to see the group led by Australian Julian Assange as the best vehicle to expose the war logs and cables to the public.
"I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information . . . this could spark a domestic debate over the role of the military and our foreign policy in general," Manning said in a statement he read while seated next to his attorneys in a packed courtroom at Fort Meade.
U.S. officials have said the leaked information exposed intelligence sources and embarrassed key officials of foreign governments. Intelligence assessments of the damage will not be presented until the sentencing phase of Manning's court martial.
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I think I might have nailed down one of the big reasons that Japanese games and anime appeal to me quite so much. It's actually a relatively obvious conclusion, now that I think about it, but watching several different types of anime and playing several different types of Japanese game recently has pretty much confirmed what I suspected.
The thing I find most appealing about these forms of media is that they consciously and obviously divorce themselves from reality while retaining just enough that is relatable to make it still feel "relevant" to the viewer. I'm not just talking about the obviously outlandish storylines of titles like JRPGs and My Girlfriend is the President here, I'm talking about the heavily stylised way in which characters are represented, emotions are depicted visually and how character traits are often exaggerated to make individual cast members obviously distinctive from one another.
As I gradually get deeper in to the world of anime in particular, a lot of conventions are starting to make themselves apparent. One of the most obvious breaks from reality is the use of "emoticons" to depict how characters are feeling. (There may be a proper name for them, but I'm not sure what it is, if so.) Things like the throbbing red "vein" when someone's angry; the physically-impossible shadow being cast over someone's face when they're disappointed or scared; characters who literally catch fire or become engulfed in dark mists when they're feeling particularly strongly about something; the fact that anyone having pervy thoughts immediately gets a nosebleed. They're crazy and completely physically implausible, of course, but they create a handy visual shorthand for emotional reactions that might be otherwise difficult to depict in the relatively simplistic imagery of animation. For as much as anime characters (particularly of the moe variety) are designed to elicit emotional responses from the viewer, there's only so much you can do when you're not working with a real person who doesn't have all those muscles in their face to work with.
Actually, that's not true at all — when you're dealing with a drawing of someone, you can do absolutely anything with them, even things that are physically impossible. What you can't really do quite so easily, though, is show subtle nuances of emotion, which may account for the fact that an awful lot of anime features not only heavily-exaggerated characters, but also strongly-exaggerated emotional responses to situations too. Everything from the embarrassed "arm-flap" of a teenage girl having her crush revealed to a heroic protagonist running towards his rival engulfed in flames — these exaggerated, symbolic responses make it abundantly clear to the viewer what these characters are thinking and feeling.
At the same time, as I said at the start, they divorce the work from reality. They make a statement — this is not real — and encourage the viewer to suspend their disbelief. And that, for me, is one of the more appealing things about this type of media. I indulge in video games and watching anime as a means of escaping from the doldrums of everyday life which is, let's face it, rather tedious and dull at the best of times. At the same time, though, I like to maintain a connection to something relatable — usually characters — and I've found that anime and Japanese games have often provided a good balance between those two considerations for my tastes.
Obviously I don't expect everyone to agree with me — it'd be easy to see anime's exaggerated reactions as overly-comic, silly or childish, for example, sometimes making light of serious situations — but it works for me. Perhaps I just like having emotional responses clearly telegraphed to me rather than being expected to read the often-inscrutable faces of real human beings.
As a vaguely-related contrast to this, we went to see the Lion King stage show last night in Bristol. I did not enjoy it that much, and while I was sitting there a bit bored I found myself wondering exactly why I could suspend my disbelief for an anime about schoolgirls who have perverted fantasies about their classmates (and subsequent nosebleeds) every time they take their glasses off, but not for a bunch of people dressed as savannah animals leaping and cavorting around on stage. I found this a particularly interesting question to ponder given that I normally have a lot of patience for musicals.
The conclusion I came to is somewhat difficult to describe, but it's largely the fact that I found The Lion King difficult to relate to. I enjoyed the original Disney movie, but the stage show focused, for me, far too much on visual spectacle rather than making the characters relatable in any way. I didn't give a toss about young Simba (who was not portrayed particularly well by the child actor, which didn't help) and was painfully aware that these were just people wearing masks and weird costumes throughout. I couldn't suspend my disbelief and think of them as their characters. It went too far off the edge of reality and deep into the realm of "this is pretentious arty wank" for me, not helped by the amount of frankly unnecessary prancing around from certain members of the cast.
I was somewhat in the minority, though, as the show got a standing ovation at the end. Oh well. This certainly isn't the first time something with mainstream popularity has left me somewhat cold, as this blog will attest on a number of occasions!


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The San Francisco 49ers will almost assuredly be drafting a wide receiver or cornerback early in the 2014 NFL draft. There is really no question as to need. The question, then, is which players will be available when the 49ers draft, and who they would have to move up to get. That's a tougher problem to solve.
Mock drafts can be hard to parse, sometimes. You see one expert guaranteeing a player is a top-10 selection, while another questions whether the same player will even crack the first round. The odds that any expert will nail a pick precisely are very low. The most accurate draft around last season only hit 12 out of 32 first-round picks right.
Therefore, the best way to use mock drafts is in bulk. If a consensus develops around a player in a certain range, then you can feel fairly confident that they'll be drafted somewhere around that slot. Maybe the precise team and position combination won't be right, but you'll at least have a gist of where a player is going.
With that in mind, I looked at 20 mock drafts, from CBS, ESPN, NFL.com, Sporting News, Rotoworld and Sports Illustrated. From there, I found the average draft position for the top players in the draft.
With this information, we can have a rough consensus ranking for the top players in the draft and also a clearer picture of who might fall to the 49ers, who they might have to trade up for and how far they might need to go to do so.
In this article, we'll look at the potential first-round wide receivers.