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Bad Trainer?
I hired a trainer to do some one on one and I'm curious if she set me and my dog down the wrong path. I'll give some details and then my concerns:
Facts -
1. I hired this person in June to get my dog (who was born 1/6/2012) trained in basic obedience with the end result being the AKC Good Citizen Certification at the end of six weeks.
2. The classes were at my house and were one hour classes per week.
3. The first few classes were great but after that it seemed as though we were repeating things. Not because he needed it but because the trainer forgot that we had already done these things.
4. The last two classes she came with another dog and handler that she was training...which kind of blew the one on one thing out of the water.
5. After the six weeks were up she never tested him and there were things he still needed to learn.
Opinions -
I feel that he's been trained in the wrong way. His behavior is hit or miss and he's constantly testing me. He won't listen to commands unless I have a toy or treat in my hand, he's on a leash, or close enough that he can't run away.
I feel the he performs his commands because he feels that he has to, not because he wants to.
Training methods -
What I was taught to use is a pinch collar for corrections and treats for rewards. Once he learned something the instruction was if there is hesitation to give a quick firm correction, if he did what he was supposed to give him a treat but only if he did it the first time. It seemed as though there was more emphasis on the negative than the positive though.
I would be certain you are consistent in your training, because you are with your dog 24/7 not the trainer.
#1 CGC shouldn't be a goal with a very young pup..AKC STAR would be a better beginning. Personally I don't think dogs under a year should be given a CGC certificate.
#2 A one hour class for a young pup is way too long, unless you are changing up what you are working on and a young pup cannot absorb enough when you change it up like that!
#3 repeating/proofing is part of training, even what the dog learned 2 years ago, you refresh and keep on with consistency.
#4 I'd rather have a distraction while training, when you go out in the big world if your dog doesn't have this to work through, you'll lose him right off. Training through distractions is wonderful....you need to keep the focus on you and not the dogs/people that are in the surroundings.
#5 keep on training, six weeks is nothing in a dogs(pups) life....they are forever learning.
Maybe try using a ball or tug mixed with the treats for rewards, I bet you'll see a different dog! Good luck!!
Have you read what is expected in testing for CGC? Have you watched other dogs take the test so you have an idea of what CGC looks like?
Doing those simple things will aid you in deciding if your trainer is leading you in the direction of your goal.
Your dog is about 10 months old now? This is the teenage years, remember how you were? Unless you have an exceptional dog, it will probably not be totally focused at this age.
Did your trainer give you homework, and did you follow his/her instructions?
Was the 2nd dog and trainer there for training with distractions? Was there any practice with hand off, letting another person besides you have possession of your dog and it remain calm?
Is your dog having fun?
The prong and treat training worked well for our dog, but this was over a longer period of time when she was a bit older. At 6 months of age (your training in June) all my pup wanted to do was play and I would not expect her to do a CGC.
2. this makes sense, although perhaps it makes more sense for you trainer to help you in a different environment, and you train the dog at home.
3. repetition for emphasis. I dont know your trainer, or what he/she was like during the sessions, but I would be quite shocked if a trainer came into my house and asked me to teach my dog 100 different commands, without working through commands the dog knows.
4. Distractions are very important. One on One time in my opinion is for a handler and his/her dog, this may be different when an owner needs proper tuition in training methods, but I think one of the best parts of obedience class is that your dog gets to spend time with other dogs, as well as strange people. The trainer will also give extra help where it is needed. I dont think the trainer was trying to get out of giving you the "one on one" time, only to help your dog with socialisation.
5. What sort of test are you wanting to do with your dog? or rather a better question may be, what sort of test do you expect your dog to pass, after only 6 hours of training? Dogs are CONSTANTLY learning, and will continue to learn right throughout their life, it is our job as handlers to make that experience rewarding and fun, so that the dog WANTS to learn and WANTS to accomplish the tasks that you give them. 6 weeks is not enough time for any dog to learn anything more than the basic commands and START to learn to enjoy training.
His behavior is hit or miss.
I would expect it to be. again, 6 hours of training is not enough to achieve perfect obedience. this is especially true of a puppy. If I were you I would enroll into a training class, one per week, and keep it up until you are at a point that you are happy with your dogs behaviour. Try not to think of it as a course that ends at a specific date in the future, rather an exercise in which you endevor to help your dog be the best that it can be, regardless of how long it takes.
He wont listen unless I have a toy or treat in my hand
Positive re-inforcement is an exellent training tool and just because you need to use these tools for your dog to obey you, does not mean that the training has not worked. Try to focus on the positive aspects of his training, he WILL obey you if you have these things, this ultimately teaches the dog that if he obeys you, good things will happen. But again this is a long process and should not be rushed.
I feel the he performs his commands because he feels that he has to, not because he wants to.
What he wants is to do what he enjoys, whether that be sniffing around in the grass, getting into mischief or anything else, I can tell you right now, he does not want to obey someone for the joy of it lol. If you make his training fun and REWARDING (this can be treats, toys, or just fun games in general) he will come to you LOOKING to learn. but again this takes time and a lot of effort on your part. Please dont just expect him to obey you because he has had 6 obedience lessons.
It seemed as though there was more emphasis on the negative than the positive though.
Different things work better for different dogs, maybe your trainer thought your dog responded better to negative stimulus, maybe it was just a negative trainer. Now that the trainer is not around, it is YOUR job, as your dogs owner and handler to find out what stimulus works best for your dog, be it positive only, or a mixture of positive and negative.
I hope these comments help. Please try not to expect too much from your dog, he sounds like a normal dog :)
I'll try to address everyone's questions here. I'm being vague on some things because I'm not sure if my trainer is on here and I want to get some outside opinion without offending anyone.
CGC - When I was searching for a dog trainer I told her that my end goal was to get him CGC certified. I said he had no training as of yet and I wanted to do whatever would put me on the path to getting their. Her plan was 6 one on one sessions (1 hour each) and at the end he would be ready to pass. If he didn't pass she would give me two more classes and retest.
Repeating - When I say things were being repeated I don't mean training commands or actions I mean she would bring over paperwork and homework that she had given me two weeks before or tell me "OK, today we're going to learn X" and we had already started that. When I told her we had already started that she would seem confused then say, "OH, we did???". I don't want this repeating to be confused with repetition, sorry about that.
Distraction (the other handler and dog) - I should have given more details on this. The second handler and dog wasn't a distraction..it wasn't another trainder...it was another student, who was further behind in the training than we were.
Expectations - I agree with you all 100% as far as where he should be and that 6 weeks is not enough time to expect this or that out of him. Right now he walks great on a leash. He will recall 75% of the time, knows sit, down, and stay and will perform them 70% of the time. Distraction...he has A.D.D. but he's a puppy, I get that. I think I let this trainer fill me head with false expectations and that's why I was looking at it the way I was.
About the CGC, I'm not sure what to tell you there, I've been training different parts of it but she's too young in my opinion to take the test. How much did you work with him outside of training? That will have a big impact on how ready he is. I find that most of my training sessions is training me and giving me tips on handling my pup and then I apply it between sessions.
With regards the cgc I agree with most that its unrealistic (at best) to expect 6 weeks to have your dog able to complete the test, I dont even think ceaser millan could manage that. I dont know how the cgc works, but dont you have to book the test and actually take your dog to it? if so, did you do this, and if it failed, did you take the trainer up on the 2 free lessons?
Getting confused about what the dog has done, is a little unprofessional, especially for one on one lessons, my trainer teaches a class of between 5 and 10 and has a good idea of where each dog is upto (granted it wont be perfect knowledge, but you get the idea).
again even if the other person, was not a handler, I agree with gaia_bear, its still a great distraction. When I train my dog Maya in the house, she is fantastic, she does every command she knows within 1 or 2 attempts, and she learns new commands quickly. However, When I took her to class on monday (and you can see the thread in this forum) she did not listen to me in the slightest, due to all the distractions, I think I managed to get about 3 commands out of her.
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Elspeth Callender sips a huckleberry shake and joins the Idaho townsfolk celebrating a tiny haven of eccentricity.
Wallace, Idaho, is the centre of the universe. Until someone can scientifically disprove it, the 784 residents will continue to annually celebrate the fact around the manhole at the main intersection of town. "We're all odd ducks here," the Prime Minister tells me on my first evening in town. "If we were normal, we'd be somewhere else."
It's September and mild enough to dine on the footpath near the smokehouse's southern-style barbecue. The forested valley walls rise steeply around us and, after a long slow dusk, downtown Wallace begins to glitter and glow.
Prime Minister Rick Shaffer is a tall, energetic blond in his mid-50s. We are joined by a wan young man fresh from the neighbouring state of Washington and a messy divorce who is obsessed with yoghurt-covered pretzels - another odd duck. Over a pulled-pork dish, Philadelphia-born Shaffer tells us everything he knows about this town he's called home for 20 years. In 1884, a Colonel Wallace, who wasn't actually a colonel, staked his claim and built a cabin in the swampy cedar forest and called it Placer Centre. His wife became the first postmistress in a town of 14, soon renamed Wallace. Coeur d'Alene was on its way to becoming the world's richest silver district. Before long the town of Wallace had a saloon, school, narrow-gauge railroad, plank footpaths, banditry, shoot-outs, bordellos and roving card sharps such Wyatt Earp.
In 1890 a fire started in the flue of the Central Hotel and the whole business district - all wooden buildings - and pretty much the rest of town burnt down.
Rebuilding was consciously done in brick and in 1910, when a huge forest fire swept through this narrow valley, only a third of the town was lost. Shaffer cites Lana Turner's birth in the local hospital in 1921, then jumps forward more than half a century to the building of the country's longest highway stretching 5000 kilometres, from Boston to Seattle. I wonder why he thinks we want to hear about some old road, then realise he's leading up to Wallace's second significant act of resistance, and one that has forged the town's collective consciousness.
Wallace fought construction of the Interstate 90 through its centre by placing the entire downtown on the National Register of Historic Places. After holding up completion of the I-90 for 17 years a compromise was finally reached, but in the meantime Wallace got on a roll. Now virtually the whole town is on that register and any new shop-front business must comply with a strict set of aesthetic rules. "There will never be a Starbucks or a McDonald's here," Shaffer says, waving to some locals chugging down the main street on quad bikes, which the council allows and even advertises on its list of 89-plus things to do here (in winter it's snowmobiles). I'm beginning to notice that Wallace makes delicious mincemeat of the numerous stereotypes we hold about modern America. There are no police here, just a county sheriff. This town is so darned sweet, even the port-a-loos are branded Honey Bucket. "It's so weird," the man from Washington says. "It's like everyone who lives here has found home." He looks like he can't wait for that to happen to him, too, as we get up to leave.
The following morning I've got time before meeting Shaffer for a walking tour of town and stop into Angie's Hub at Vintage Games. While Angie makes me a huckleberry shake, I ask if she was born here. "Nope," she tells me, looking happy, "I actively went in search of 'small town America' and just kept coming back to Wallace."
Shaffer meets me at the universe's midpoint and we go from there. Sitting in the town's spaceship, I ask how he became PM and he tells me it began as a joke to a tour group back in 1993. Introducing himself as the US's only prime minister got such a good response he just kept using it. Twelve years later the council made it official and awarded him the city charter. He grins at me across the capsule: "In Wallace, anyone can be anything."
Getting there United Airlines flies direct from Sydney to San Francisco with connections to Spokane, Washington. Hire a car from the airport to drive the final 126 kilometres on the I-90 East.
Staying there Stardust Motel is on the cheap and cheerful end from $US60 ($57.70) a night, 410 Pine Street, +1 208 752 1213, stardustmotelidaho.com. Alternatively, Beale House B&B is a charming historic home that isn't into children, from $US170/night, 107 Cedar Street, +1 208 752 7151, wallace-id.com/bealehouse.html.
Touring there Rick Shaffer leads walking tours, driving tours, biking, hiking, ziplining and will even collect you from the airport. Price to be negotiated on booking, +1 800 643 2386, firstname.lastname@example.com.
While there
Oasis Bordello Museum is a now-disused brothel frozen in time, 605 Cedar Street, +1 208 753 0801, $US5.
Hire a bike and cycle the Idaho-Montana back-country Route of the Hiawatha. See ridethehiawatha.com.
Cheer the hero, boo the villain and throw popcorn at a Sixth Street Theatre melodrama, 212 Sixth Street. See sixthstreetmelodrama.com.
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2012 prices look good, but don't mean much these days.
by Dennis Halladay, Hoard's Dairyman Western Editor
There's a cruel irony to what has been one of the most destructive financial years that dairying has ever seen: The Class III milk price average in 2012 is likely to be the third highest in history.
November's price won't be out for another month and December's won't be announced until January, but futures trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for those months had been around $21 and $20, respectively, for weeks. This gives us good confidence in predicting that the average price for 2012 will be about $17.57 per hundredweight.
Relatively speaking, $17 is a huge number. It was jaw-dropping the first month it ever happened (December 1998) and as a year-long average it still looks good on paper. But that is a mirage.
Seventeen dollar milk isn't even close to what it used to be. Neither is $18, $19 or $20 milk. That's because the new reality of production costs doesn't include $2 corn, $4 wheat, $100 hay or any of the other now-extinct prices that made it possible for decades to feed cows for just half the milk check.
Even if something so wildly bad happens to November and December prices that it pushes the 2012 average below 2008, the result will still be the same: All four of the highest annual Class III averages in history will have happened in the last six years. But instead of producing big profits and rock-like financial stability for dairies, this period has been a bust. Not since the Great Depression in the 1930s have losses been bigger, debt loads heavier, or producer hardships greater.
Understanding about the new reality of making milk is taking hold. Bigger herd size might not be better if it means taking on a lot of new debt. Leverage isn't a lottery ticket, but a loaded gun. There's no such thing as too much equity. Production per cow remains a performance yardstick, but margin measures survival. Wheeling and dealing feed was exciting, but self-sufficiency means staying in the game.
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Myoda, who has taught at Brown since 2006, is best known for a memorial he co-created to mark the September 11 attacks. He and collaborator Julian LaVerdiere had been artists in residence in a 91st-floor studio in the World Trade Center's north tower until just weeks before the attack. Afterward, seeing floodlights used by rescue workers illuminating smoke billowing from the wreckage, they conceived the Tribute in Light, which has become an annual memorial featuring columns of light beamed into the sky from the World Trade Center site. The lights seem like phantom towers, beacons, or lasers of doom from an alien invasion flick like Independence Day.
Here the scale is more modest. "Taking cues from various bioluminescent animals and insects," Myoda writes, "these behaviors range from attraction to repulsion, camouflage to revelation, predictability to spontaneity." Borderline Personality Disorder #1 (2011) suggests a plastic, abstracted mounted deer head. A mechanical arm with a light on the end reaches in and out, projecting shadows of the piece's three, clear plastic sets of antlers — which on reflection look more like tree branches — across the wall. And then a light behind the thing flashes in your face, blinding you. There's something ominous and threatening in the way the robotic arms bend toward you and the lights beam at you. And the motions are unpredictable. Beware.
Also featured in "Illuminations" is Providence artist Stefanie Pender's installation Extramission. On each of four wood pedestals, facing in four different directions, she has set up a small spotlight that shines through a glass cast of her eye and then a convex lens. Onto the wall, they project the eyes, like ghost images tinted faintly blue or red. The eyes are open but have no irises. And the casts take advantage of the way glass can look like water to give the impression that the eyes are made of melting ice. All of this is promising, but the project seems like interesting technique in search of a substantial subject. The title apparently comes from the Greek philosopher Plato's (incorrect) idea that seeing involved rays of light projecting out from our eyes. So there's a theme about glasswork and eyes and lenses for Pender here, but it feels like the illustration of an idea, a diagram of it, rather than something that opens up into bigger thoughts.
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GREENSBORO-Sean Collins had five runs batted in to lead Weddington to a convincing 12-5 victory over D.H Conley on Friday night in the first game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 3-A baseball championship series at NewBridge Bank Park.
Collins got the Bulldogs off to a fast start with a three-run homer in the first in a game that saw Weddington bang out 14 hits and take advantage of eight walks issued by Conley pitching. He also had a pair of sacrifice flies.
Chris Simpson was a perfect three for three at the plate, including a triple, with three RBI and three runs scored, while Alex Bostic and Daniel Calabretta had two hits apiece for Weddington.
Weddington rolled up an 8-2 lead before the Vikings cut into the advantage with three in the fifth, scoring three times only one hit, a couple of walks and an error.
But then the Bulldogs put it away with three in the fifth, with Simpson getting an RBI single, Jeremy Schellhorn driving one in on a fielder's choice and then a run scoring on an error.
Thompson Brown and Aaron Martin had two hits apiece for Conley.
Collins was actually the starting pitcher for Weddington but came out after three innings. Josh Islam, who pitched three innings in relief, got the win while Michael Fuller was the losing pitcher.
Weddington is now 23-10 overall while Conley dropped to 27-4.
Game two of the best-of-three is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. This is the 97th year for baseball championships in the NCHSAA.
RALEIGH— Concord Jay Robinson came from behind with a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth to take a 4-2 extra-inning victory over Greenville D.H. Conley on Friday night in the first game of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 3-A softball championship series at Walnut Creek Softball Complex.
Robinson trailed 2-1 entering the seventh, but got a run to tie and then two in the eighth to record its 29th victory against just two losses. The Bulldogs managed only three hits off losing pitcher Rachel Weidner, who fanned 15.
Sophomore pitcher Keleigh Romine threw all eight innings for Jay Robinson, fanning four and yielding three hits. Tori Zavodny, who entered the finals batting .465, had a hit and scored twice for the Bulldogs.
There were seven errors in the game, four by Conley. The Vikings, who won the 2011 NCHSAA state championship, fell to 22-6 overall.
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Found this on the M14 forum:
The pope took a couple of days off to visit the rugged mountains of Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising around the campground in the Popemobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a "vote for Obama" hat and a Save the trees" tee shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically and thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly.
As the Pope watched in horror, a group of Republican loggers with "Go Sarah" tee shirts came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bears's chest. T he other two reached up and pulled the bleeding, semiconscious Democrat from the bear's grasp. Then, using long clubs, the three loggers finished off the bear and two of them threw it into the bed of their truck while the other tenderly placed the injured Democrat in the back seat.
As they prepared to leave, the Pope summoned them to come over. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions!" he told them. "I heard there was bitter hatred between Republican loggers and Democratic enviromental activists, but now I've seen with my own eyes that this is not true."
As the Pope drove off, one logger asked his buddies, "Who was that guy?"
"It was the Pope" another replied. "He's in direct contact with Heaven and has access to all wisdom."
"Well," the logger said, "he may have access to all wisdom but he doesn't know squat about bear hunting! By the way, is the bait still alive or do we need to go back to Massachusetts and get another one?"
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Jak and Daxter 4 returning the dynamic duo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The reason I made this, is because it had to be done and no one else would do it!! Naughty Dog needs to see this from the Fan's point of view!! Naughty Dog needs to wake up and know that the fans want Jak 4 more than any other game!!!!!!!! But I can't do this alone, we need to work together and tell Naughty Dog that we want Jak 4 on the PlayStation 3!! One of us is not enough to get Naughty Dog to make Jak 4 but if we all tell Naughty Dog to make Jak 4, they will listen and realize it's not all about the money, it's about making a good game that every one wants!! So let's stand together and tell Naughty Dog "MAKE JAK 4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
History and known future:
After finishing Crash Bandicoot for the PlayStation one, Naughty Dog released their first Jak and Daxter game in 2001. Then in 2003 they released Jak 2 which was completely different from its prequel. After that they released Jak 3 in 2004. The most resent Jak game they made was Jak X combat racing which was a racing spin-off, but was still a good game and made in 2005.
After the PlayStation 2, Naughty dog continued to the PlayStation 3 with their new series, Uncharted. The first uncharted game was released in 2007 one year after the PlayStation 3 was released (2006). After that in 2009, Naughty Dog released Uncharted 2 which received a large number of "game of the year" awards (50). It's been rumored that Naughty Dog has already stared Uncharted 3. Even though Uncharted 2 was praised for its "amazing" graphics, story, multi-player, and game play, most of Naughty Dogs fans are begging for Naughty dog to make Jak 4 over Uncharted 3.
There Have been three Jak and Daxter games that have been or will be made, but not by Naughty Dog. The first one was a spin-off called Daxter which had the main game play playing as Daxter. The game was made by Ready at Dawn studios, which is a game company that was formed by former Naughty dog members and former members of Blizzard Entertainment. The second Jak and Daxter game not made by Naughty Dog was called Jak and Daxter the Lost Frontier and was made by High Impact games and the game received negative reviews from the fans. High impact games, is company was formed by former members of Naughty dog and Insomniac games. The next Jak and Daxter game is call Heroes On the Move which has six of the top mascots from the PlayStation 2 (Jak, Daxter, Ratchet, Clank, Sly Cooper, and Bentley) all together in one game. This game will require a PlayStation move controller in order to be played and is being made by Nihilistic Software.
Why hasn't Naughty dog made Jak 4?:
To tell you the truth I had no idea why Naughty Dog didn't make Jak 4 for some time. They've hinted it in Uncharted one and two, they still own the rights to Jak and Daxter, in interviews, it seems to me that the team dose (or did) want to make Jak 4, and they've said that they have a story for a new Jak and Daxter!! Why didn't they make Jak 4 right after Uncharted one? I think Sony said "Hay Naughty Dog, if you make Uncharted two, well have it be the mascot for the PS3 slim!!" Naughty Dog took the bait and made Uncharted 2. This would make sense, because Naughty Dog might have been making a Jak and Daxter game but then put it on hold to make Uncharted 2!! Isn't it kind of weird that Uncharted one only got one "game of the year on the PS3" award, and Uncharted 2 got more than 50 game of the year awards? And the only big differences between them is the story and online multiplayer. So it would make sense that Sony tolled Naughty Dog to make Uncharted 2 before Jak 4 so that Sony could make Uncharted 2 famous to sell PS3 slims, and have Naughty Dog stuck with Uncharted. Because Uncharted 2 did come out about the same time the PS3 slim came out. Sony also made a bigger deal over Uncharted two then they did over Uncharted one!! I'm not saying this is true, I'm just saying that it's possible that this happened.
How making Jak 4 would benefit Naughty Dog:
A lot of people say "If Naughty Dog made Jak 4, It wouldn't sell as well as Uncharted 2" (Uncharted 2 sold 3.8 million copes as of 9-28-10). This however is a statement that has yet to be proven wrong. If Naughty Dog made Jak 4, it would bring back to old Jak and Daxter fans, and would also bring the Uncharted fans to Jak and Daxter. Jak 4 would be known as "From the creators of Uncharted 2, the game of the year of 2009, comes the return of two of the gratis heroes of all time!! Jak and Daxter!!" This would make it sell very well!! Jak 4 is also one of the most wanted games on the internet right now, which means that there is a high demand for it!! It would also give Naughty Dog a breath of fresh air because Naughty Dog worked on Uncharted for 4 years straight (as far as we know) when Uncharted 2 came out.
What to do with Uncharted during Jak 4:
Evan though I like Jak and Daxter more than Uncharted, we can't let Uncharted sit and rot for 4 years straight. When Naughty dog makes Jak 4, Ready at Dawn or someone else could make Uncharted on the PSP, that would keep the Uncharted fans happy. And have new map packs come out every now and then for Uncharted's online, that way Uncharted will always be new and exciting online.
Jak 4 game improvements:
There are many things that could improve Jak and Daxter games. For example, what if when you play as Daxter, have his game play be like Jak's game play from the first Jak and Daxter game, with Daxter able to power up with blue, red, yellow, and green eco. This would be good because it will remind us that you don't need guns for a game to be "bad **bleep**". It will also be like the old days when Naughty Dog made fun platformers that didn't have guns. O, and have Daxter have his own boss fights, and have him battle "Count Veger" (from Jak 3) because it would be so funny to hear Veger and Daxter arguing when Daxter's kicking his **bleep**!!
All of the Jak and Daxter games by Naughty Dog where very good but always had something missing. In Jak 2, it was a little too hard, and they didn't do the eco power up right, and the weapon selection was very small. But it still had a great story, and huge non linear game play. In Jak 3 the story wasn't as good as Jak 2's story, only a few of the characters had anything to do with the story, and the final boss battle wasn't as fun as the mettle head leader from Jak 2. But Jak 3 had way more things to do than Jak 2, like riding around in the desert, Light Jak was very fun, Dark Jak improved in so many ways, Jak 3 had a better selection of weapons, and the world was bigger than any game Naughty Dog ever made, and Jak 3 had the best selection of cheats I have ever seen!! If Naughty dog takes all the good things from the old Jak and Daxter games and puts them in Jak 4, then Jak 4 would be better than Uncharted could ever be!!
One new thing that could make Jak 4 better, is giving Jak a whole new arsenal of weapons that are even more bad **bleep** than Jak 3's arsenal of weapons. Let's also bring back the sky battle from Jak 3 when Jak attacks the flying war factory!! How about we have all the old places from Jak 2 and 3 (like Haven city, Sparges, and the waist land) but have them change dramatically, like keep what they looked like in Jak 2 and 3, but give them new sections, like a whole new aria in Haven city, a new island that will eventually connect to the waist land, and a new section of Sparges city. Also bring Kras city into the pitcher. And how about a new city that's bigger, more dangerous, and has it own problems that need to be fixed. And put in some references to Ratchet and Clank, that way it would be like old times on the PS2!! But most important of all, give Jak 4 a super good story, give it foreshadowing, plot twists, and have the story change dramatically not only affecting this game, but the entire series!! Have it have something to do with Jak being Mar!! Have Daxter have more to do with the story!! Give good humor with Daxter complaining, or Jak using logical humor toward his enemies!!
One other thing I would like to see from Jak 4 is to see giant dark Jak be one of the powers. (Form Jak 2) Or have Jak be powered up with enough dark eco at certain times of the game to turn into giant dark Jak!! It would be so cool to run around as a huge monster destroying everything in your path!! Or we could use this power to fight other monsters. (Like eco monsters for example) The thing I really want from Jak 4, is the ability to use blue, red, yellow, and green eco. This could work, because you could hold L2 and use the directional buttons to choose which eco power to use, but keep the dark and light Jak powers. Also, let Jak be able to customize the vehicles like in Jak X!! That would be sweet!! Also give Jak different races depending on what city he's in!! Like in Haven, have it be all about speed and not crashing, in Sparges have it be off-road muddy racing, and in Kras city have it be the most epic racing in the entire series!!
How Jak 4 would be better than Uncharted:
Many people think that Jak 4 could never be as good as or better than Uncharted, but there are reasons why Jak 4 WOULD be better than Uncharted. For example, Jak and Daxter games have almost no boundaries because Jak and Daxter is a fantasy game!! Uncharted has so many restrictions and can't go outside its boundaries, for example, Nate can't ride bad **bleep** vehicles in the dessert, but Jak can. If you think Uncharted is more fun and is better than Jak and Daxter consider this, can Nate (the main character from Uncharted) hold more than two weapons? Can Nate ride a Jet board? Can Nate use eco to beat the **bleep** out of his enemies? Was Nate chosen by the Precursors to be a hero? Can Nate fly a monk glider? Can Nate use powers to save the world? Can Nate drive a zoomer? Can Nate take on an entire army of Metal Heads without peeing in his pants and being eaten? Can Nate drive vehicles in the waist land? Can Nate send out his side-kick to do stuff? (He doesn't even have a side-kick) Can Nate even double jump!?!?!? NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nate can't do any of that stuff, and the only person that can do that and more is Jak!!!!!!!!!! How could Uncharted be better than Jak and Daxter when Jak can do all of this!?!? Which is why Uncharted could never be better than a Jak and Daxter game made by Naughty Dog!!
Hears why Uncharted is so restricted, all Uncharted dose is leap, shoot, puzzle, leap shoot puzzle!! Jak and Daxter is a free roaming plat former that doesn't force you to go one way, and one way only!! And the Jak and Daxter games have WAY better story's than Uncharted, because the Jak and Daxter story has time travel, and you can't beat time travel stories!! Uncharted's story could never have time travel!! Hell, you don't even have to play the first Uncharted to understand Uncharted 2!! Which is one of the big reasons why Uncharted 2 got game of the year!!!!!!! Because no one had to get the first one before the second one, and if they did, it wouldn't get game of the year because they are so similar!!!!!! If you think Uncharted is Naughty Dogs best work, image what they could do with Jak 4!!!!!!!!!!!!
What to do before Jak 4:
To tell you the truth, it's been to long since Jak 3 to have Jak 4 come out this soon without reminding people about Jak and Daxter!! How about they make a Jak and Daxter collection, so that people will understand Jak 4 when it comes out. Plus, it would remind people how GOOD Jak and Daxter is!! That way people will see why Jak and Daxter is better than Uncharted!! And if they make a Jak and Daxter collection, it means that Naughty Dog will probably go back to Jak and Daxter!! Naughty Dog, If you've already started Uncharted 3, don't stop, finish it but then make Jak 4, because that will give Sony some time to find someone that could make a Jak and Daxter collection.
Is Naughty Dog making Jak 4?:
There is a lot of evidence that Naughty Dog is making Uncharted 3, for example, the co-game designer of Uncharted 2 said that there will be a sequel to Uncharted 2. Also, the voce actor for Nate said he will take the role of Nate for the next Uncharted game. The voce actor for Alana, said on her twitter account that she worked on Uncharted. These are all saying an Uncharted game is being made, but there still is the possibility that Naughty Dog is Making Jak 4!! Ready at Dawn could be making an Uncharted on the PSP!! Or maybe they are working on a big update for Uncharted 2!! And if Uncharted 3 isn't Naughty Dogs next game, it doesn't mean that Naughty Dog won't continue Uncharted!! I want Uncharted 3, I really do, but Jak 4 is what needs to be made more than any other game Naughty Dog could make!!
Naughty Dog has made amazing games on PS1, the PS2, And the PS3, but Naughty Dog needs to realize that Jak 4 is what we want!! We are tired of shooters, we are tired of rip-off, we are tired of not getting platformer games, and we are tired of bloody and violent games!!!!!! We want creative, plat forming, nonlinear, video games!!!!!!!! You Naughty Dog are the only video game company that can make Jak 4!!!!!! High Impact games couldn't do it, no one else can do it and the only company that can do it is YOU Naughty Dog!!!!!!!!!! If it wasn't for Jak and Daxter, I wouldn't even know you ever existed!!!!!!!!!! This is the same case for many other gamers!!!!!!!!! So make it happen and prove to use that you disserve your fans and that you don't need a game to be super violent in order to be bad **bleep**!!!!!!!!!! Naughty Dog, WHAT ARE YOU WATING FOR!?!?!?!? MAKE JAK 4 AND YOU WILL MAKE THE BEST GAME FOR THE PLAYSTATION 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And if you are making it right now Naughty Dog, thank you.
Also please get the original voice actors, it will make the game so much more better that way! AND PLEASE don't go a step back like most compies do when they make a new game to a series, that is just the worst to see when your waiting for a game that took forever to come out. Your my favorite video game compant so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SHOW US THAT YOU GUYS KNOW HOW TO MAKE VIDEO GAMES THE RIGHT WAY ( unlike other companies ) Thanks for reading ^_^
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Actually i would much rather another Uncharted or Uncharted like game. I wouldnt buy Jak and Daxter 4 not my style of game.
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To be honest out of all 326 of my ps3 games NONE of them compare to the J&D trilogy unless you count the re-membered J&D I have for ps3 I would pay nearly $200 for a game like Jak 4 I have played every naughty dog game that has ever come out and my 2 favorites are Crash Bandicoot Warped and Jak and Daxter Precursor Legacy sure Jak 2 and 3 had guns but I liked beating my enemys to death or finding some yellow eco to blow the crap out of them but this new game uncharted has ranked the LOWEST out of all my games its just so boring compared to their other games.
In short Uncharted sucks compared to ND's older games.
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them uncharted fans are mad that naughty dog has abandon the UC series
UC is nothing compare to the Jak and Daxter franchise.
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The United States has maintained a commodity market focus. But by studying New Zealand's Fonterra Cooperative, we see that entering the value-added market could provide combined advantages.
by Bill Dobson
The author is an emeritus professor in the department of agricultural and applied economics and former agribusiness economist with the Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
According to the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC), exports accounted for 13.3 percent of total milk solids produced in the U.S. in 2011. Figures reported at the 2012 Minnesota-Wisconsin Dairy Policy Conference show that exports added $2 to $4 per hundredweight to U.S. producers' milk checks in recent years. If American dairy farm and industry incomes are to grow over the longer run, then presumably exports will need to continue to expand.
USDEC saw it coming
The U.S. industry's growing dependency on foreign markets has unfolded much as Tom Suber, then president of USDEC, predicted more than a dozen years ago. Suber described the future of the U.S. dairy industry at a 1999 conference as one where real costs of milk production are declining, domestic demand is growing modestly and the role of government is declining. He argued that, in this environment, ". . . we compete internationally or we shrink as an industry."
Fonterra Cooperative Group, Ltd., of New Zealand and its predecessors have long needed to be competitive dairy exporters and foreign direct investors in order to stay in business. The firms became proficient at selling in foreign markets because New Zealand's small domestic market (about 4.4 million people in 2011) cannot absorb more than 5 to 10 percent of the country's production. Also, New Zealand has no government dairy price support program. Hence, New Zealand's dairy industry must sell dairy products in international markets or shrink.
Fonterra, now the world's largest milk processor, was the dominant survivor of a massive consolidation of New Zealand's dairy processing industry which included 168 dairy processing companies four decades earlier in 1961. The cooperative recorded revenues of NZ$19.9 billion (U.S.$16.5 billion) in 2011. Before merging with Fonterra in 2001, the New Zealand Dairy Board (NZDB) was the single-desk (monopoly) exporter for New Zealand dairy products. New Zealand's parliament stripped the monopoly exporting privilege from the merged organization.
Value-added changed New Zealand
A strategic turning point for New Zealand's dairy industry occurred in 1989 when NZDB officials announced the industry would seek to grow the 30 to 40 percent of products sold as value-added (differentiated) to 100 percent as rapidly as possible.
Producers of differentiated products need not compete exclusively on the basis of price and can survive without being a low-cost producer. But rapid expansion of New Zealand's milk production (production more than doubled from the early 1990s to 2011) made it impossible for the country to meet this goal. But by getting part way to the target (by one measure to about 57 percent of the total in 2010) carried economic benefits.
The payoffs of being a low-cost producer and a value-added manufacturer and exporter are additive. If U.S. dairy exporters can superimpose a product differentiation strategy on top of being a low-cost producer, it would help to make them formidable international competitors.
New Zealand's processor-exporters initially achieved low costs mainly by gaining access to low-cost milk produced on New Zealand's pasture-based farms. Higher fertilizer and other input prices have since raised farm milk production costs. New Zealand's milk production costs also have risen in recent years because higher returns from dairy exports have been capitalized into higher farmland prices. This run-up in farmland prices probably will reduce New Zealand's competitiveness in international dairy markets over the longer run.
In recent years, Fonterra reduced processing costs by constructing some of the world's largest milk powder processing plants. For example, Fonterra claims that Drier 4 at its Edendale plant in Southland is the most efficient milk powder processing plant in the world. Fonterra reports Drier 4's operating costs are 30 percent below the cooperative's older nearby milk powder processing plants.
Fonterra also maintains milk production and processing facilities in foreign countries to supplement the New Zealand-based production. This action permits the cooperative to function as a reliable supplier for foreign customers when droughts or other developments curtail New Zealand's milk production. Global sourcing and processing also permits Fonterra to serve markets restricted by tariff and nontariff barriers. In 2010, Fonterra's sourced milk in Australia, the U.S., South America, Sri Lanka, Thailand and China was equivalent to nearly 50 percent of New Zealand's domestic milk production.
New Zealanders have long acquired foreign companies to serve as distribution or processing companies for their products. Frequently, the NZDB used a sequential risk control process to acquire the foreign companies. First, the NZDB worked through an agent to make sales in a foreign country. Next, the agent and NZDB might form a joint venture company to expand sales. Finally, if the risks and rewards looked appropriate, the NZDB would acquire the joint venture business. The sequential process permitted the NZDB to experiment with working relationships and markets before acquiring major equity interests in foreign companies. Expansion-minded U.S. exporters and foreign direct investors wanting to develop similar strategies will need to expedite the process to avoid being a late mover.
The NZDB identified early mover advantages in dairy exporting in the mid-1990s. A NZDB official reported that initial entrants into a market gain, on average, a 15 percent advantage over second entrants. Third-place entrants into a given market tend to break even. Entering fourth or later is a strategy for losing money.
It was not all positive
One of Fonterra's biggest missteps occurred in connection with the firm's acquisition of a 43 percent equity interest in San Lu Dairy in China in 2006. Fonterra's experience with joint ventures and alliances in foreign countries should have produced a profitable partnership.
But, San Lu Dairy, a major producer of infant formula, became embroiled in the 2008 melamine milk poisoning scandal in China that killed six children and sickened up to 300,000 other people. Fonterra came under scathing criticism when San Lu's infant formula was found to be contaminated with melamine. San Lu Dairy ultimately went bankrupt. Fonterra found it necessary to take a NZ$139 million (U.S.$95 million) financial impairment charge as a result of problems at San Lu Dairy.
Fonterra's experience with San Lu Dairy reminds U.S. dairy companies that even big international players find China is a difficult place to do business.
This article appears on page 639 of the October 10, 2012 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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Dolores Jean "Dee" (Morgan) Herman
Dolores Jean "Dee" (Morgan) Herman
Grandville, Mich.
Dolores Jean "Dee" (Morgan) Herman, 80, of Grandville, Mich., was called to her heavenly home on Sunday, April 28, 2013, and was reunited with her husband, Robert; sons-in-law, Bill Gayle and Thomas Forsyth; siblings, Betty, Marlys, Janet, Garald and Mavis Morgan; and her parents, Clarence and Mabel Morgan.
Dee was humorous and fun loving with a determined spirit. She loved her family and was always supportive of all their activities. Dee was an American Legion Auxiliary Member of Post No. 258, active in the Red Cross and the PTA for many years. She loved the outdoors, especially hunting and fishing. As a gifted artist, she painted many beautiful pictures and ceramics.
She will be lovingly remembered by her children, Janet Gayle and Larry Mullennix, Russell and Laurie Herman, Garald Herman and Darla Forsyth; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; siblings, Harold and Roberta Morgan, Duane Herman, Joan and Allen Ward, and Diane Herman; and several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
Funeral services were held Thursday, May 2, at Matthysse-Kuiper-DeGraaf (Grandville, Mich.) with Dr. David Lee Smith officiating. Interment was at Grandville Cemetery. Those who wish may make memorial contributions to Hospice of Michigan, 989 Spaulding Ave. S.E., Ada, MI 49301-3701.


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Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Plaster and acrylic polymer, polyeurethane rigid foam
210 x 69 x 65 cm
"The process shows me something about my body or form and the end result is always a surprise. For Down, I used the same sized box and amount of clay as in Up, but dug downwards from the top. I don't really plan how I'll carry out the tasks that I set myself and I thought I might dig like a dog, but discovered my body doesn't work like that: I had to sit in the hole I was making and scoop around myself, lowering myself feet first into this space. As I got deeper I found myself using rock climbing techniques to suspend myself inside the clay. The spiral formation emerged through the subconscious movement of working in a circular way. You can see all the impressions of my knees, feet, and elbows. I cast this form in plaster, it's one of the most readily available materials, historically so linked to sculpture and it's important to me that it's organic and non-toxic. The object isn't solid but still very heavy; it's installed as if it defies gravity."
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we'll be in the penalty soon.
They need to stop with the double teams I'll live with the 2's but the 3's are killing us.
another bs call? wtf bro they're beating us down they don't need any help refs
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Does anyone else find it weird that Amare has 3 fouls and a tech in only 15 minutes?
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These alphabet bricks are painted in a special way. A is on one
brick, B on two bricks, and so on. How many bricks will be painted
by the time they have got to other letters of the alphabet?
I have forgotten the number of the combination of the lock on my
briefcase. I did have a method for remembering it...
Sam sets up displays of cat food in his shop in triangular stacks.
If Felix buys some, then how can Sam arrange the remaining cans in
triangular stacks?
Sam stacks cans in his shop in triangular stacks, one can deep,
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Jennifer from the Mount School York warned Sam that stacks of
cans like this are very likely to fall over. It's better to stack
in a pyramid: for example. $P_4$ has $16$ on the base, then $9$
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Wireless Telephone FAQ for Drivers Under the Age of 18
Q: Am I allowed to use my wireless telephone hands-free?
A: NO. Drivers under the age of 18 may not use a wireless telephone, pager, laptop or any other electronic communication or mobile services device to speak or text while driving in any manner, even hands free. EXCEPTION: Permitted in emergency situations to call police, fire or medical authorities. (VC §23124).
Q: Why is the law stricter for provisional drivers?
A: Statistics show that teen drivers are more likely than older drivers to be involved in crashes because they lack driving experience and tend to take greater risks. Teen drivers are vulnerable to driving distractions such as talking with passengers, eating or drinking, and talking or texting on wireless phones, which increase the chance of getting involved in serious vehicle crashes.
Q: Can my parents give me permission to allow me to use my wireless telephone while driving?
A: NO. The only exception is an emergency situation that requires you to call a law enforcement agency, a health care provider, the fire department or other emergency agency entity.
Q: Does the law apply to me if I'm an emancipated minor?
A: Yes. The restriction applies to all licensed drivers who are under the age of 18.
Q: If I have my parent(s) or someone age 25 years or older in the car with me, may I use my wireless telephone while driving?
A: NO. You may only use your wireless telephone in an emergency situation.
Q: Will the restriction appear on my provisional license?
A: No
Q: May I use the hands-free feature while driving if my car has the feature built in?
A: NO. The law prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from using any type of wireless device while driving, except in an emergency situation.
Q: Can a law enforcement officer stop me for using my hands-free device while driving?
A: No. For drivers under the age of 18, this is considered a SECONDARY violation meaning that a law enforcement officer may cite you for using a hands-free wireless phone if you were pulled over for another violation. However, the prohibition against using a handheld wireless telephone while driving is a PRIMARY violation for which a law enforcement officer can pull you over.
Q: What are the fines if I'm convicted?
A: The base fine for the FIRST offense is $20 and $50 for subsequent convictions. However, with the addition of penalty assessments, the total amount can be more than triple the base fine.
Q: Will I receive a point on my driver's license if I'm convicted for a violation of the wireless telephone law?
A: NO. The violation is a reportable offense: however, DMV will not assign a violation point.
Q: Will the conviction appear on my driving record?
A: Yes, but the violation point will not be added.
Q: Is there a grace period when motorists will only get a warning?
A: NO. The law went into effect July 1, 2008. Whether a citation is issued is always at the discretion of the officer based upon his or her determination of the most appropriate remedy for the situation.
Q: Are passengers affected by this law?
A: No. This law only applies to the person driving a motor vehicle.
Q: Do these laws apply to out-of-state drivers whose home states do not have such laws?
A: Yes
Q: Can I be pulled over by a law enforcement officer for using my handheld wireless telephone?
A: YES. A law enforcement officer can pull you over just for this infraction.
Q: What if my phone has a push-to-talk feature, can I use that?
A: No. As of July 1, 2011, the previously provided exception expired for those operating a commercial motor truck or truck tractor (excluding pickups), implements of husbandry, farm vehicle or tow truck, to use a two-way radio operated by a "push-to-talk" feature. However, a push-to-talk feature attached to a hands-free ear piece or other hands-free device is acceptable.
Q: What other exceptions are there?
A: Operators of an authorized emergency vehicle during the course of employment are exempt as are those motorists operating a vehicle on private property
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Willie Nelson Charged With Misdemeanor In Sierra Blanca Pot Bust
EL PASO, Texas - Country legend Willie Nelson has been charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession in connection with his arrest at a Sierra Blanca, Texas Border Patrol checkpoint Nov. 26, TMZ.com reported.
Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West said at the time of the arrest that Nelson had six ounces of marijuana on him, which could have resulted in a felony charge. But now, officials have determined it was less than four ounces, resulting in the misdemeanor charge, according to TMZ.com.
If convicted, Nelson will be fined, but not jailed.
Nelson's arrest did not sit well with legal expert Dick DeGuerin, a criminal defense lawyer.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, DeGuerin questioned the lawfulness of the search of Nelson's tour bus where the marijuana was found.
"It needs to be contested," DeGuerin said. "It's supposed to be a checkpoint only for aliens, and [agents] overstep their authority all the time. I've had several cases from that checkpoint and they just use the opportunity to check out anybody they want to. If you have long hair, if you're driving a van or it looks like you're from California or you look like a hippie, they do profiling."
Author-singer-political candidate Kinky Friedman told Rolling Stone he believes Border Patrol agents overstepped their boundaries and said it showed a lack of priorities because he claimed a drug cartel is taking over Hudspeth County, where Nelson's pot bust occurred.
Friedman joined Nelson on his tour bus for three days before the Thanksgiving break to work on a fiction book and said Nelson, "Rolls 24 hours a day. I couldn't take it - staying out all night, smoking dope. And I was the youngest person on the bus."
In January of this year, Nelson's tour bus was stopped at the Sierra Blanca Border Patrol check point for five hours and searched, according to a blog post by Nelson's daughter at the time of the incident. The group received one citation, but she did not say what it was for.
That same month, six of Nelson's band and crew members were busted in North Carolina for allegedly possessing moonshine and marijuana in a vehicle they were in. They were issued citations.
Authorities searched Nelson's tour bus back in 2006 in Louisiana and found about a pound-and-a-half of marijuana and mushrooms. Nelson was charged with a misdemeanor.


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One year ago today the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded off of the coast of Louisiana killing eleven men and igniting the largest oil disaster in U.S. history. As BP spreads its wealth to the GOP, we are spreading the message that the one-year anniversary is THE moment to remind the nation and the world that the Gulf oil disaster is not over and that fundamental change is still needed to ensure such a disaster never occurs again.
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|Day off for the B's
|10.31.08 at 9:07 am ET
Today is a day off for the B's after the team opted to fly home from Calgary this morning rather than hop on the red-eye right immediately after last night's game. With that in mind, here's some other assorted NHL goodies on a day when everybody deserves sugary treats rather than a trick or two. Happy Halloween from a guy who's being asked to dress up like Tony Romo — complete with a bandage for my right pinkie finger — to appease my Jessica Simpson-clad girlfriend. Good times.
The Bruins simply dug themselves too large of a hole after parading into the penalty box — and again exposing their PK issues at the same time — during the second period of Thursday night's game, but I take their unwillingness to give up in the third period as a big positive for this team.
Does the team need more offense on a consistent basis? Absolutely, but they should start scoring more on a regular basis once Patrice Bergeron and Marco Sturm start firing on all cylinders. Sturm is a guy that's approached 30 goals and potted 10 power play strikes in each of the last two seasons and clearly should have more than a goal and 4 assists in the first 11 games.
–Dallas Stars bad boy Sean Avery will be in town tomorrow, so it seems like an appropriate time to pimp his plans to turn his much-ballyooed summer internship with Vogue into Hollywood Gold. And he wants Ryan Gosling to play the lead role of the hockey bad boy wearing the black nail polish. That's gold, Jerry, Gold.
–In honor of All Hallows' Even and my affinity for all things Star Wars, a big salute to Ottawa Senators goaltender Martin Gerber and his "Darth Gerber" goalie mask. Gerber had taken to wearing an all black goalie mask last season and Sens fans began calling him Darth Gerber, and this season the 34-year-old goalie actually had Itech design a special Darth Vader-inspired goalie mask
that he's worn this season. Gerber obviously doesn't have the force with him this season, though, as he hasn't started since Oct. 22 and has gone 1-3-1 with a 3.39 goals against average in five games thus far this season.
–Learning something I didn't already know when I took a gander at Bruins defenseman Mark Stuart's blog with the The Hockey News: Stuey was apparently an English Major at Colorado College. Who knew? Something tells me we're going to have a kick-butt conversation about Beowulf in the near future. Stuart has undoubtadly been a solid calming presence along the blue line over the last two seasons, and while he isn't going to rack up any gaudy point totals — the guy is another defenseman along with Zdeno Chara and Aaron Ward that plays with some snarl and a real physical edge.


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It opens today with Brazilian directors Felipe Braganca and Marina Meliande's The Joy ( 2010 | 5:45 pm)
in which the ghost of a murdered youth seeks refuge with his teenaged cousin.
It screens along with Colombian director Oscar Ruiz Navia's Crab Trap (2009 | 8 pm), a
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A section of the Line of Kings prior to 2013 redisplay.
A section of the Line of Kings prior to 2013 redisplay.
An Historical Description of the Tower of London and its Curiosities, printed for Newberry and Carnan, London, 1768
Carved wooden head of Edward III. English, about 1688-90 (XVII.41)
Paint analysis of a carved wooden horse from the Line of Kings.( XVII.7)
From the earliest reference to the use of wooden horses in displays at the Tower of London in 1652 to the present day, these life-sized carved statues seem to have been a constant feature for over 360 years. There is evidence that new horse statues have been bought, that decayed ones have been disposed of, and that displays featuring carved horses have been arranged at various parts of the site. The horses were not intended as exhibits in their own right but merely as props to be used in the display of armour. They were formerly 'ridden' by figures in armour, many of which had wooden heads that were carved, in some cases, to represent kings of England. It is only within the past few decades that the surviving horses have become objects of interest in their own right.
The surviving horses are of interest for several reasons, including that they are works of art, each unique in their details, and that documentation for the commissioning of nineteen carved horses between 1685 and 1690 applies to many of them. In addition, some of the horses are recognisable in historic images of the Line of Kings and other displays. Since 2012 there has been new research including the use of paint analysis, X-radiography, endoscopic investigation and tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, in order to shed extra light on these fascinating objects.
In the present re-display of the historic Line of Kings thirteen wooden horses have been used. Eleven [XVII.7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 30] of these are thought to date from the late 17th century while two [XVII.13 and 20] are probably from the 19th century.
It has proved surprisingly problematic to associate particular horses with the six carvers – Grinling Gibbons, William Emmett, William Morgan, John Nost I, Thomas Quellin and Marmaduke Townson – whose workshops were documented as supplying the nineteen commissioned between 1685 and 1690. However, recent research has confirmed that many of the eleven horses share similar histories in terms of their layers of paint, whereas some differ markedly in their materials and construction methods. Internal examination by use of an endoscope showed that many of these horses were made from large baulks of oak, whereas there are a small number which used different woods and/or construction methods.
One of the horses, XVII.17 was the subject of tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, and some of the samples were matched with a dateable tree-ring sequence for oak from the eastern Baltic region consistent with the tree having been felled within the period 1675-91. Two of the horses, XVII.8 and 14, were completely X-rayed, revealing distinctive differences in aspects of their construction and decoration, such as the way in which detailing like the carved manes was executed. The X-radiography also revealed that the horses have been subject to damage and repairs, unsurprisingly given the length of time and variety of places within the Tower in which they have been used. Nevertheless, they are remarkable survivors, unlike any other sculptures in wood from late 17th century England.


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The Jewish vote consistently goes to Democrats, but Republicans have found a large and increasing source of campaign funds among wealthy, conservative Jewish Americans. Romney wants some of that gelt, and he's going after it in a big way. In October, he hired Noam Neusner, former–White House liaison to the Jewish community, as an adviser. And when Romney announced his 10 national finance co-chairs last week, one was former ambassador Mel Sembler — a mega-fundraiser from Florida and honorary chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
It's important that Romney is getting started on this task, says Bob Naboicheck, vice-chair of United Jewish Communities and head of Jewish outreach for Bush-Cheney 2004. "The game has started early." All of the major Republican candidates are already making calls for money, touting their support for Israel. "As far as the Jewish community, I think they are all in good standing," he says.
Naboicheck makes clear that, for GOP candidates, "Jewish outreach" differs from outreach to other ethnic and demographic groups; that was certainly true for the Bush-Cheney campaign. "Clearly the Jewish outreach had a fundraising component. You weren't fundraising from veterans and Native Americans," Naboicheck says.
Rich Jewish Republicans are especially up for grabs this year, since the political demise of Rick Santorum, the potential GOP presidential candidate considered by many to have the strongest support among that crowd — rivaled, perhaps, only by Newt Gingrich, who has not yet thrown his hat into the ring.
To stand out among the remaining candidates — McCain and Giuliani, in particular — Romney has made a point of attending high-profile Israel-related events since at least 2005, and of making statements sure to get attention among conservative Jewish voters — including his refusal to offer State Police protection for Mohammad Khatami, when the former Iranian president, who has been accused of issuing anti-Semitic public statements, made a September 2006 speech at Harvard.
Romney also recently blasted the Iraq Study Group's linkage of an Iraq solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which the group's report suggested underlies much of the regional violence. Many saw that as wrong-headedly blaming Israel for Sunni-Shi'ite tensions, and Romney echoed their concerns. He also got Zionist kudos for blasting the report's recommendation that the US open direct negotiations with Iran and Syria, which Romney has called "terrorist regimes." Romney recently told the National Review Online that it would be counter-productive to negotiate with Iran, which, he said, "sponsors Hezbollah, has nuclear ambitions, and has been clear in its intention to wipe our ally Israel off the map."
Romney landed a big fish when St. Louis investor Sam Fox, one of the biggest Jewish GOP donors, who was recently nominated to be US ambassador to Belgium, gave $100,000 to Romney's Iowa Commonwealth PAC in July. A few other big names in those circles gave lesser amounts to the Commonwealth PAC this past year, including Lewis Eisenberg, Marc Lipschultz, and Fred Zeidman.
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Patricia Trujillo and Lori Beth Rodriguez
UTSA students receive prestigious Ford fellowships
(May 16, 2005)--Patricia Trujillo, a second-year Ph.D. student in English at UTSA, has been awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship for fall 2005. Lori Beth Rodriguez, also a second-year Ph.D. student in English, was selected as alternate for the award.
Trujillo and Rodriguez are the first UTSA doctoral students in English to be selected for Ford Foundation fellowships.
Among the most competitive and prestigious fellowships in the country, the fellowship comes with a $17,000 annual stipend and additional funds provided to the student's department. The fellowship will fund three years of work toward Trujillo's Ph.D. degree.
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Bernadette Andrea, chair of the Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, said, "Trujillo's award represents a major step forward for our Ph.D. program. Her achievement puts us on the map as a department of choice for the best scholars in U.S. Latina/Latino studies."
Trujillo's proposal, "Surviving Spectacles: The Literature and Rhetoric of Community Performance in Northern New Mexico," outlines a dissertation project using her expertise in Chicana/Chicano and Native American literature, composition and rhetoric to study the languages of community spaces and literature, including La Fiesta de Santos and the Spanish and Indian markets in Northern New Mexico.
Additionally, she will examine the resistance cultures of ethnic Northern New Mexicans, reading the works of Sabine Ulibarri, Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz and others.
A native of Espanola, New Mexico, Trujillo grew up in Arroyo Seco, N.M. As an undergraduate student, she began a project to collect stories of women of color employed in World War II by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. As an M.A. student at the University of Nebraska (UNL), she studied American Indian women's activism. At Northern New Mexico Community College, she designed field-specific courses for the Writing Across the Curriculum program.
At UTSA, Trujillo served in 2004-2005 as the Women's Studies Institute program assistant under the supervision of Sonia Saldivar-Hull, director of the institute and professor of English, classics and philosophy. She served as a primary organizer of Women's History Month 2005. After earning her UTSA degree, she plans to teach at a four-year public university.
Lori Beth Rodriguez, a native of San Antonio, earned a B.A. degree from Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) and an M.A. degree in psychology from UTSA. At OLLU, she participated in the McNair Scholars Program and the University of Michigan Summer Research Opportunity Program. Her research focuses on Chicanas' perceptions of their bodies, particularly negative self-perceptions produced by mass media.
Established in fall 2002, the UTSA doctoral program in English prepares students to teach English language and culture in a culturally diverse, global society. The degree program has a dual concentration of rhetoric/composition and Latina/Latino literary and cultural studies.
For more information, contact Bill Mullen, UTSA professor of English, classics and philosophy, at (210) 458-5351.