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Following are opinions from Mille Lacs County Times sports editor Gary Larson, former Princeton Union-Eagle editor and sports columnist Luther Dorr, former Times intern Logan Marxhausen and sports fan Ben Johnson. Note: This feature is written on Monday each week.
•Question: The Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers played to a 26-26 overtime tie Sunday in Green Bay. What are your thoughts on the game?
-Dorr: Use any word you want to describe another fouirth-quarter performance by the defense – horrendous, brutal or horrible. But perhaps the best words to describe another failure are "not surprising." Handed a 16-point lead, with a Packer fourth-string quarterback playing who was waived by Seattle in 2012 and hapless Oakland this year, the Minnesota defense gave up scores on four straight possessions and a tie resulted. It was the 4th fourth-quarter collapse by the defense this year and the result is a 2-8-1 record in a division where 6-5 would be pretty good. You can also point to a drop of a long pass in the final quarter, and another that would have resulted in a first down in overtime at midfield. But it was mainly the defense that cost that game. Adrian Peterson, except for his fumble, played well, as did Toby Gerhart and Christian Ponder. And that means the offensive line was good. But the porous defense has ruined what could have been a decent season. Maybe all we need to know about this season and this team are the words of former Viking Greg Coleman, part of the Minnesota radio team. He CONGRATULATED the head coach for the tie when they talked after the game.
-Marxhausen: Well the last outcome I thought would happen was a tie. It is kind of satisfying to say that Green Bay without Aaron Rodgers is equal with the Vikings. So once the Vikings find their own "Aaron Rodgers" they will be NFC North contenders. Both teams played hard and ended with similar statistics. It was nice to see Adrian Peterson getting some good blocking in his 32 rushes for 146 yards, with a touchdown, and back-up Toby Gerhart broke some tackles in the fourth quarter to put up 91 yards on eight carries. In the end it was a battle for field goals and it resulted in a tie. That tie could come back to haunt/help the Green Bay Packers come playoff time and it could do the same for the Vikings in the draft order.
-Larson: My wife lost interest in the Vikings about a month ago but she knows the team's history very well. When I told her the Vikings had a 20-7 lead heading into the fourth quarter she shrugged and quietly said, "they'll lose," before getting back to a cooking channel. Once again, the defense stunk and wasted a surprising performance by the offense.
And, when is the NFL going to scrap its stupid overtime format and adopt a format similar to what colleges and high schools use, where there are no ties and both teams get equal opportunities to win?
-Johnson: The parts of the game I watched Sunday made the game appear like a college game. With the frigid temperatures, everything looked much slower. Players were running slower, not making quick cuts, and the quarterbacks didn't have much zip on their ball. Then again, I am talking about Christian Ponder and Matt Flynn. I can't knock Ponder too much this week because he actually played fairly well. He protected the football and, with the help of Adrian Peterson, he managed the game well. Letting Green Bay back into the game in the fourth quarter was an embarrassment to the defense. It's troubling the defense couldn't come up with some big plays against the very "green" Green Bay quarterback Matt Flynn. I'll be optimistic, noting that a tie is better than a loss.
•Question: The University of Minnesota football team lost to Wisconsin 20-7 Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium. What are your thoughts on the game?
-Dorr: I didn't think Minnesota would beat Wisconsin. In fact, I thought there was a possibility the Gophers could lose by 30 points or more. But when the Gophers led 7-3 and had picked up three first downs to move to the Wisconsin 35 with about seven minutes left in the first half, there was actually hope for an upset. But a false-start penalty, much discussed by the officials, slowed that drive and three plays later Wisconsin recovered a Minnesota fumble when quarterback Philip Nelson was hit from behind. The game changed dramatically after that, the Badgers driving quickly for a touchdown and a 10-7 lead. The Gophers had a few chances on offense after that, dropping a couple passes and Nelson missing a wide-open Maxx Williams in the fourth quarter when there was still time for a comeback. But Wisconsin, despite a good performance by the Minnesota defense, stayed in control, its second-half touchdown helped by a pass interference call on a 83-yard drive that took the wind out of Minnesota's sails. All in all, it was a decent performance by Minnesota against what might be an underrated Wisconsin team. A loss is still a loss but there were some bright spots.
-Marxhausen: The Gophers put up a valiant fight on defense, but the offense struggled as the Gophers fell to the No. 19-ranked Badgers. The Gopher defense put up fantastic numbers, including holding the Badger offense to 20 points when it was averaging 36.8 points a game. The defense also returned an interception for a touchdown and recorded the only Gopher touchdown. The Gophers couldn't get the ground game moving more than an inch as a time and the passing game was even worse. No offense plus three fumbles will not win a game against a ranked team. If Minnesota does the same thing against Michigan State next week the result will be worse than the result against Wisconsin.
-Larson: Wisconsin won by about the point spread it was favored by. The Gophers didn't embarrass themselves, as has often been the case during the Badgers' 10-game winning streak in the series. The Minnesota defense held Wisconsin's touted running game to 197 yards, its second lowest total of the season, but the Gopher offense didn't manage a point. And points will be even harder to come by this week at Michigan State.
-Johnson: The Gophers had opportunities to win on Saturday. The defense played OK but the Gophers couldn't get anything going on offense. The Badger defense completely shut down quarterback Philip Nelson and held running back David Cobb to just 68 yards. With the Badgers handling the time of possession, 35 minutes to the Gophers' 25 minutes, along with the Gophers turning the ball over three times, the score could have been much worse. Even so, the Gophers had their opportunities in the fourth quarter to get back into the game. Miscues and poor throws prevented the Gophers from coming back. Although it's been a successful season for the Gophers, it would be one of those seasons to remember if they can pull off an upset Saturday at Michigan State.
•Question: The Minnesota Timberwolves are 8-7 after losing to the Houston Rockets Saturday night in Houston. What are your thoughts on the Timberwolves' season thus far and do you feel the team can notch a playoff spot this season?
-Dorr: If this question had been posed two weeks ago, the answer might have been different. The potential is still there to make the playoffs but the 8-7 record at this point is a couple wins away from where it should be. Kevin Love and Kevin Martin have been very good, while Ricky Rubio has been inconsistent. Is the team deep enough to win some of the games it has been losing? We'll find out in the next couple weeks as the Wolves hit a tough part of the schedule. My guess is that the team will be a fun one to watch but also a frustrating team to watch.
-Marxhausen: Although the Timberwolves' record does not look overly impressive for the start of the season, they are better than what it appears. In their first seven losses, five were by four points or less. They are in nearly every game, but lack the ability to finish games out. The addition of Kevin Martin has been very exciting, filling in the void of the pure shooter that they have needed for years. With everyone healthy, the Timberwolves can play with anyone, including the Miami Heat. Minnesota is ranked third in points per game and sixth in rebounds and assists per game. It will steadily improve and be a force this season.
-Larson: A season record of .500 or slightly above is where the Timberwolves are headed. Inconsistency is and likely will be the problem. Minnesota has looked great in victories over Oklahoma City (100-81) and Dallas (116-108) but average at best in losses to poor teams like Cleveland and Washington. The Timberwolves lost three of their last four games heading into last Monday's game at Indiana. That game began what will be a telling stretch that continued at home against Denver Wednesday, followed by games at Dallas Saturday, at Oklahoma City Sunday, in Mexico City against San Antonio Dec. 4 and at home against Miami Dec. 7. The Timberwolves will get to show us what it's got during that grueling schedule.
-Johnson: Once the NFL winds down in January and the sports scene diminishes, I'll tune in to a few Timberwolves games. From the 10 minutes or so I have watched the Timberwolves this year I can see they have good team chemistry. Both Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love appear healthy and Nikola Pekovic seems to have a good feel for his role with the team. With the NBA finals still going on in June, I'm not going to get too excited about the NBA or Timberwolves just yet.
•Question: The Minnesota Wild is 15-5 and have 34 points after topping Winnipeg 3-2 in a shootout at Winnipeg Saturday. What are your thoughts on the team's season thus far and do you feel the Wild can notch a playoff spot this season?
-Dorr: The Wild have more points than 26 of the NHL's 30 teams at this point and that's surprising, especially given the injury problems they've had with goaltenders. They're in the middle of the pack among the 30 teams for goals against but still have a very good record. If injuries are held to a minimum, the Wild should have a good chance to make the playoffs now that there is scoring from a number of players.
-Marxhausen: Minnesota has done as well as a fan can hope for although it is only tied for third in the Central Division. Goalie Josh Harding has been tough to beat, with Ryan Suter and the defense helping by only allowing an average of 2.2 goals a game. The Wild has been improving on power plays, a problem in the past. Mikko Koivu, Zach Parise and Jason Pominville have accounted for 47 percent of the team's goals. If Minnesota can find more sources on offense, it will be truly dangerous and it will squeak into the playoffs.
-Larson: It's still early but so far, at 10 games over .500, Minnesota looks like a playoff contender. Coach Mike Yeo's team has better balance than last season and looks improved offensively and defensively. The signings of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter are paying dividends this season.
-Johnson: The Western Conference has found itself in a tight race in this young hockey season. The Wild is just two points out of first place. The best thing the NHL did just a few seasons ago was install the shootout in overtime, eliminating the possibility for ties. The shootout Saturday night in Winnipeg was fun to watch. I think the Wild will be a playoff contender. Minnesota has some explosive players like Zach Parise and Jason Pominville who could carry it this season. Its downfall may be its depth and consistency in its third and fourth lines. The better question in the NHL may be can anyone stop Chicago?
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By Robin Bougie
Vanessa Del Rio--a.k.a. "The Latin from Manhattan"--was an incendiary screen presence during the heyday of theatrically released porn films in the 1970s and early '80s.
As the jizz biz switched to home video two decades ago, Vanessa's stardom adapted accordingly and she became one of the adult skindustry's true legends--a gorgeous, sexually insatiable firecracker whose name on a box cover guaranteed sales for the studio and a wild viewing experience for the audience.
Vanessa remains a beloved porn icon despite not having made a film or video in some time. She spoke with MrSkin.com to bring her fans up to speed on her present whereabouts, as well as to shed light on some of the more obscure aspects of her career and to offer definitive advice on how to fellate numerous phalluses simultaneously.
How did you get into the line of work we all know and love you for?
My first was China Doll in October 1974. A friend invited me to go to Europe. Of course I wanted to go, but I needed to pay the rent before I left. Another friend asked me of I wanted to do a porn movie and I said sure, why not... how much does it pay? She said $150, exactly my half of the rent! The rest is my story.
You worked some projects with director Roger Watkins, who is now best known for his brutal horror movie Last House on Dead End Street. You were in some of his X-rated films, as well as his R-rated comedy Spittoon. What was he like as a porn director?
Oh Roger! I remember him well; we had a brief very hot affair during the making of Her Name Was Lisa. Spittoon was a blast to make, my first straight movie, and it was a silly horror! I had five kids, all of different ethnicity, and had cold cow guts on my chest from the scene where I am butchered.
I read a post on a graffiti message board once about a guy living in Prague asking who Vanessa Del Rio was because graffiti artists were spray painting her name all over the city in the 1990s. Did you hear about that? It must be strange when your celebrity allows your name to take on a life all its own.
I never heard of that one but that is way cool! Would love to see some of it if anyone took pics!
You played yourself on an episode of NYPD Blue. Was that fun?
Oh it certainly was, and I must say I was intimidated! There I was getting a 4 A.M. call and being taken to the makeup trailer. As I'm sitting getting my face done, in walks Dennis Franz form the left door and Jimmy Smits a few seconds later from the right door... the look on my face must have been priceless! They were all very nice.
I kept flubbing my lines and sounding like I had a grapefruit in my mouth. Kim Delaney (Picture: 1 - 2) was really nice to me and said, "Don't worry it happens to all of us." The next day, Jimmy could not get his line right and was hitting his head against the wall in a funny way. I felt ok after that.
Speaking of New York, Harlem was your original stomping grounds, right?
Yes, I was born in Harlem then moved to Da Bronx at fourteen. I still live in New York.
What is your earliest standout memory of seeing a sex/nude scene in a movie or magazine?
[Laughs] Funny you should ask! Tijuana Bibles, baby! Those little '20s cartoon characters and Donald Duck with a huge hard-on! I would rub myself against the corner of the sofa arm or the bathroom sink. They made me so horny; I wonder why I like comic art so much! Also, my parents had magazines of nudist camps under the bed that I found, just plain ole nudists doing nothing but sitting round the picnic table.
It was a different time, huh? You were a pretty sexual youngster I take it.
I started fucking when I was fourteen. My first boyfriend indoctrinated me to the wonders of fucking. We used to go to this porn movie house, and the manager didn't care if you were underaged if you paid the two bucks. We sat in the balcony and I jerked my boyfriend off all the time. They used to show triple features, and the types of films they showed were the kind with fucking in underwear and under covers. Not hardcore, but it was hot for the times.
I bet. What's your take on what a lot of the newer girls are expected to do in your average modern porn film? For instance, would you do a bukkake scene or a double anal penetration?
No! It's not sexy or sensual or even horny or nasty. It's just a gimmicky publicity stunt to best the last one... where will it stop? I don't think men really think it's sexy or any of the above, just fucking weird, shocking, and mindless and, in my opinion, it says a lot about what the girl thinks of herself.
A sex scene should have some sort of fantasy and/or reality element to it, and degrading yourself for the sake of besting someone else is strange to me.
As for two dicks up my ass, well one is just fine if I'm in the mood! Although one in the pussy and one in the ass is nice! I did a miniscule gang bang with seven men and that's the limit because it can stay intimate and within the realm of what a real liberated woman may fantasize about. And that's hot! Five hundred men? Well, it's boring and very painful, I would imagine.
There is a fine line between degrading yourself and keeping to being a freaky woman that knows what she likes and does what she likes. A face full of jizz from five hundred men? Ugh! Let's be real! Ha ha!
Is it true that you took up body building? Did that have anything to do with your clit growing? I noticed that in your later movies your clit seemed to have grown all freaky huge. In Beyond Desire it was massive! I know the wrestler Chyna is a body builder and her clit gets bigger than some cocks I've seen.
[Laughs] No comment!
Ha-ha, okay. Well, how was it working with porn directors Joe Davian and Anthony Spinelli?
Joe was a nice man as far as I was concerned and I did a few S&M films for him. He gave me motivation by whispering in my ear to act out in a prison scene where I had to whip the guards. I heard he "disappeared." I remember he had a concentration-camp tattoo on his arm.
Anthony Spinelli had to be the most professional director I have worked with. He would talk with you before and during the scenes to get the best he could in the shortest amount of time. I received an award for the film I did with him, The Dancers. He also directed me in Between the Sheets.
Was that you I saw getting fisted by Louis "Shortstud" DeJesus in an old 8MM loop? Not many people can claim they've been fisted by a dwarf!
Yes that was me, darling! And, yes, not many people can claim that I suppose! Many people have asked, "How could you work with a dwarf!?" And I say, "Why not? He's only shorter than most of us! Get a life!"
Who were the hottest co-stars you worked with in the '70s and '80s?
John Leslie, Jamie Gillis, George Payne, and Jerry Butler. Women, I would have to say Samantha Fox (Picture: 1) and Nina Hartley (Picture: 1).
Was there anyone from your past that wanted to put butter on your tits?
Is he still around? Shawn Costello, a.k.a. Armanda Barton! The naked director! Where is he? Would love to talk with him, what fun it was to work with him!
Ha-ha, he put me up to that when I told him I was interviewing you tonight. Let's talk about something deep, like cocks going into bumholes! What's your take on anal?
I was known in the business as a good anal type. I like it. It's easy if the guy is doing it in the correct position. However, once in a while one guy would come along who didn't handle you right and you go flying--painfully.
Jamie Gillis did that to me once. OUCH! I flew across the room.
The best position for me is doggy style. My head has to be low and my rear has to be pointed up. I have had to do it in the missionary position, and that is the hardest position to do anal sex in. When I first tried it like that, it hurt unbelievably.
Speaking of sex technique, one of my message board pals, Scott Favarille, desperately wants to know what your technique for sucking multiple cocks at once is.
Open wide!
images of Vanessa Del Rio courtesy of www.VanessaDelRio.com


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The widespread manipulation of capital markets by the Federal Reserve, the legislature, and government agencies has continued to distort the balance between risk and reward. Previous efforts to soften the pain of recessions or stimulate economic activity in certain sectors (e.g. housing under Greenspan and Bush) have ended in complete disaster. Unable to learn from past mistakes, our current leaders fail to realize that distorting interest rates, housing incentives, and consumer demand causes sub-optimal economic outcomes with potentially devastating long run consequences. It is futile, however, to expect that policy makers will make the difficult decisions that lead to short term pain, but will ultimately lead to a stronger and more stable economy. They will inevitably pander to the demands of the populace who care only about their own interests rather than that of society as a whole.
Case in point is the entire premise of quantitative easing. Buying treasuries with the intent of artificially suppressing long term interest rates to encourage consumption will only lead to rampant inflation and a prolonged recession. Edward Chancellor published a piece in the Financial Times reports on the UK government's efforts to suppress interest rates by acquiring a significant percentage of outstanding Gilts.
"Economists applauded. Their reactions are mistaken. Quantitative easing, as it is called, poses a grave danger to Britain's creditors. It is a perilous policy that threatens further disruption to the financial system at some future date.
On Thursday March 5, the Bank of England said it would acquire up to £75bn of gilts over the following three months. A further £75bn of Bank purchases have been earmarked. Relative to the size of the British economy, these are vast sums. The combined figure is roughly three times the stock of notes and coins in circulation and twice the country's monetary base. It is also equal to almost a third of the stock of outstanding gilts. Put another way, the Bank is set to finance the largest peacetime deficit in British history.
Yet long-term bondholders have nothing to celebrate. The aim of quantitative easing, after all, is to dispel deflation and achieve the Bank's 2 per cent annual inflation target. There is no question that a determined central bank can get rid of deflation. It is simply a question of printing enough money. Economists have another term to describe the monetisation of government debt. The history of "seigniorage" goes back to the debasement of the coinage under the Roman emperors. Seigniorage is really a tax on holders of money and government debt which is paid via inflation. When carried to excess, it leads to hyperinflation.
The exponents of quantitative easing dismiss such fears. They claim that liquidity can easily be removed at some stage in the future. But what confidence should we place in the authorities to act in a timely fashion? After all, this crisis is largely the consequence of the Federal Reserve's easy money policy at the beginning of the decade that fuelled the global housing bubble. If the economy remains stagnant, the Bank will probably be slow to remove the liquidity. In which case, there will be inflation.
An early experiment with quantitative easing occurred in Japan in 1932. At the time, the Bank of Japan financed a large fiscal expansion by printing money. In no time, Japan went from a severe deflation to near double-digit inflation. This monetary easing was never reversed and inflation escalated throughout the decade. After the second world war, the Fed likewise printed money to buy bonds. As a result, a mild deflation in 1949 was followed by inflation of about 10 per cent a couple of years later. Owners of Treasury bonds suffered heavy losses.
Still, there is a possibility the Bank will react to incipient inflation and reverse its quantitative easing policy in good time. But what will happen then? For a start, the bond market would likely crash as the central bank rapidly disposes of its pile of accumulated bonds. Furthermore, the apparent gains of quantitative easing may be reversed. Unless any recovery is robust, the reduction of central bank liquidity would hurt the securities markets and the real economy. This happened in 1937 after the Fed responded to rising inflation fears by removing excess reserves from the banking system. The US stock market was cut in half and the economy nosedived.
Central banks in Switzerland, Japan and the US are set to follow Britain's lead on quantitative easing. Bondholders everywhere are anticipating windfall gains, as the owners of gilts have enjoyed. They should not be fooled. In the years to come, owners of government debt will be the chief victims of this great monetary experiment."


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It is around 9:45, and I am perched on the edge of a bus seat, two fellow passengers to my left and three to my right. Thushan and I are on a "chicken bus"—an exciting term for what actually amounts to a yellow school bus that occasionally also transports live chicken, but even then, usually on the roof—headed to Guatemala City from Panajachel, a lake town that has volcanoes like New Zealand has sheep.
Late for our connecting bus to El Salvador, we're somewhere in the mountains north of the city and it's foggy, or maybe cloudy. Either way, there is about three feet of visibility, and our driver decides to pull one of the usual bus driver moves here: passing in a no passing zone. Even under normal conditions, this can be quite nerve wracking, given that it's usually done at unsafe speeds on mountain cliffs, but I generally give them the benefit of the doubt since they act like they know what they are doing. In this case, however, I truly think I might die.
I glance back at Thushan, who has moved from one row behind me to the very middle of the bus. In a discussion about dangerous bus rides a few days before, he had argued that the best safety strategy was to position yourself with as many human bodies between you and the most likely impact sites, the front and the back, thus giving you the most padding should an accident occur. The glance he shoots back at me is one of sincere concern.
I count the rows. I was in row four, which didn't leave very much human padding. As we continued to lurch ahead through the ever-thickening cloud, even some of the local passengers were beginning to look worried (or perhaps awe inspired?) by the brazen disregard for death that our driver was exhibiting. Things got quiet.
Then, sounds from the radio enter my conscience. The clunky beat, which has at this point forever been seared into my head thanks entirely to repetition, is unmistakable: Umbrella. And today I'm in luck, because it's the remix, which means both Jay-Z and Chris Brown join Rihanna in her ode to…keeping dry. It was as if the song gods had felt my discomfort, put their heads together, and, with the limited power they possessed, came up with this song as an offering to me as I awaited death on this bus.
Jay-Z utters his final line—"Little Miss Sunshine, Rihanna where you at…"—and I am thinking the same. A little sunshine would at least mean avoiding a deadly freefall off the side of this mountain. The song seems to be spurring the driver on and I begin to recalculate the logistics of a move to the middle. It would require scraping my way past three rows of passengers and convincing two currently comfy riders to squeeze in to give me a spot.
Umbrella fades right into the Sean Kinston hit "Beautiful Girls," an appropriately morbid tune thanks to the chorus, in which he cries out "suicidal" several times, seemingly urging the bus driver on. Without forgetting the direness of the situation, I manage a smile as the bus attempts and fails, for the second time, to pass another bus uphill in the wrong lane.
One of the joys of travel is the constant mixture of the familiar with the unfamiliar. Cultures all give and take from each other in different ways, and to witness these mixtures is both entertaining and kind of mind-blowing. In this case, as a native of the United States traveling in Central America, scraps of culture from our homeland can be found everywhere. Former yellow school buses from the U.S. transport rural peasants through the mountains of Guatemala, still sporting their Bluebird brand insignias. In San Salvador, we would come across a Mister Donut, a former American donut giant that now operates mainly in Asia. In parts of Mexico, teens don Metallica and Slipknot shirts, as metal music has become a popular symbol of rebellion.
But as these American icons move to other places, they become just as much theirs as they are or once were ours. Mister Donut is as foreign to me as any other restaurant chain in San Salvador, but to locals, it is the place to go for good coffee and a pastry. Just as a Mexican might laugh at what we call "Mexican food," my first metal concert in Mexico was rather amusing, but unbeknown to me, Mexicans had long ago taken American metal as a starting point and turned it into their own unique idea.
As my thoughts return to the present, I realize we have come to a stop. Perhaps today will not be the day I die riding in a vehicle that used to transport me to school in first grade. Perhaps, like the bus drivers of my youth who always placed the safety of the children first, this driver will discover an inner stillness and settle down. We entrust him with our lives, so he must me taking our well being into account. Right?
There is construction up ahead and a long line of cars, trucks and buses has formed, but instead of waiting in line, our driver thinks ahead: he pulls into the wrong lane, cutting the entire line until we are right at the front. It's a dirty move, and the bus driver sitting to our right gives a look that says, "Go ahead and try it."
As the traffic attendant wearily gives the go ahead, the race is on. Our driver quickly pops the bus from first to second to third gear, wielding the shifter like this is Formula 1, but to no avail. Too much cargo is our downfall as we fade behind our competitor, but we never give up the chase. We barrel headlong all the way into Guatemala City arriving early, which is a first for our Central America travels. Sure, I would have liked a bit less of the drama, but missing the connecting bus would have been disastrous, so for his efforts I was grateful.
As I drift off to sleep on our next ride, a plush charter bus, the trip fades from my mind. Another school bus ride to add to the memory banks, just as I remember them, just like first grade.
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|Video games are kind of a big deal
Personally, I credit/blame Wii. And maybe Farmville. And also Angry Birds. Oh, and gamers growing up and holding on to their favorite hobby, then passing it on to their own children.
These findings come from the ESA's 2011 Sales, Demographics and Data report, also known as the "Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry." These facts are apparently essential, folks, so pay attention.
The ESA brought Ipsos MediaCT on board for the stufy, surveying 1,200 U.S. households with either a gaming console or a computer. Given that stipulation, I'm actually a little surprised the number wasn't closer to, say, 100 percent. If the people own an Xbox or a PC, there's a pretty good chance they also play video games, yes?
Despite that fact, however, the survey only shows 72 percent of those taking part as being an active gaming household. That's about 80 million homes across the country. Reinforcing an old gaming wives' tale, the study also shows the average gamer being 37 years of age. Just over half of the total number is between the ages of 18 and 49, too.
Perhaps the coolest piece of information coming out of this study (or at least the only surprising statistic), is the fact that 42 percent of those total gamers are of the female persuasion. But sorry, gamer girls. Even though there are just about as many of you out there as there are gamer guys, the industry still refuses to believe you want anything more than casual titles and Cooking Mama.
Maybe this study will help change that?
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Favourite public space?
I really like Carlton Gardens. I don't have a garden and that's where I go. It's my backyard but it's so beautiful and looked after so well. Even if there are huge groups, you can still find a spot. I sit there with a book and it's really safe. I live in Fitzroy and my studio is in the city and … I don't leave that path very much. Sometimes I yearn for more green and to be around real things.
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It's 2006 and I'm doing a drawing with chalk in Fitzroy. I used to have short hair so it feels like a long time ago. The world has just kind of opened up to me. My whole life has changed since that picture. I don't think about the past so much because things keep getting better and bigger … so I look forward.
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Which building would you most like to transform?
On the corner of La Trobe and Elizabeth, the Argus building is derelict, with all the windows smashed out. In London there are some old churches where the roof isn't there and the structure has just been left - and it's like a park inside. Sometimes I look at that building and imagine it empty with the floors taken out and it becoming a public space.
Where do you like to unwind?
I like to spend time on my balcony because it gets the afternoon sun. It's pretty good when someone drops in and we have a beer on the balcony. I feel really lucky to watch the world go by up in my little nest … When I've got spare time I like to draw and paint.
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I love you very much, Beloved – so very much – and lots more today – yes, sir, because today I received four swell-elegant letters from my Wonderful One – you, Darling! The one written on April 30, I couldn't get a whole lot of because this is the first time any of your letters have been cut out by the censor; otherwise the three others were perfect. One even had a little insect sealed under the envelope flap – that little bug traveled a long way! Thanks, Sweetheart, for the check of $135.00 No. 1,026 – 53-393. I'll put it right into some bonds. Darling, I'm so glad and happy that you're feeling so well and happy too. Bet that Q______? bird stew was good. Is there anything that you might like to have sent to you? I'm right here to send it, and will be more than glad to do what I can. If you thought cookies might arrive in good condition, I'd love (I mean like) to bake some for you. Anyway, I still have all the love in the world left for you, Sweet.
Did our washing today. It was really a good day for it too, as the sun shone and it was very windy. After we finished that, we dug a flower bed and planted marigolds, petunias, zinnias, more Calif. flowers, and then a mixed package. We have lots of shrubbery in front of the house, and also did a lot of digging up around that; until the rain finally sent us indoors. I do enjoy working in the yard, but know how much more I would enjoy it too, if it were only yours and mine – our own home. Some day, our dreams will come true – and what happiness! We'll really appreciate everything too, and how I'll appreciate you, and never take you just for granted – I never have and don't ever expect to – for I love you too much.
We have some lovely iris in bloom on the side and in the back of the house. Our yard is very pretty with very green grass, shrubbery, and flowers. Did I tell you about the bird nest we have in our garage? It's just a sparrow's nest, but it is fun to go in there and hear the birds chirping and peeping. Guess there must be a whole family in there. The birds fly in thru a crack above the door, and believe they must be having a party to-night as noticed several going in.
Say, one really can get a lot on these V mails when typing. I'm almost running out of material. I want to tell you though that we do have a very lovely neighbor, Mrs. Johnson. Brought us a coffee cake the first day we moved in, and to-night brought us some biscuits; so I returned her dish with some chocolate pie I made today; explaining I'd like to return her favor. A neighbor like that is really a friend indeed. She has a son in the service.
Well, if it isn't raining again – must be raining here just about as much as where you are. – just so you change into dry clothes and keep yourself from getting chilly, Honey, I won't worry, and I know you do and will take good care of yourself. You're very alert and intelligent too and know how to protect yourself – but sometimes one can't be too careful. I do care so much for you and long for you day in and day out and miss you more than I can ever say.
With all my love,
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Naypyidaw: Myanmar's ghost city
At Naypyidaw's international airport, members of staff in stylish uniforms are at their posts behind ranks of check-in counters. The large departure hall is brightly lit and the air temperature pleasantly cooled. Two pilots and a glamorous young air hostess in traditional Burmese dress breeze across the polished marble floor of a terminal that would grace any European capital.
The only thing missing in this palace of modernity is passengers.
The airport was completed last December on the edge of a ghostly city that had itself not formally existed until November of 2005. After several years of construction, the generals who then ran Myanmar announced without warning that they had built a new capital in the interior of the country 200 miles north of Yangon. Government ministries were to relocate immediately.
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Another late-night Brussels meeting, though this one less shambolic than last week's. The eurogroup announced it had managed to add up some numbers on a spreadsheet that has been kicking around and agree a debt reduction deal for Greece.
The IMF, which had been digging its heels over the need for the other two troika members to fill Greece's financing gap, professed itself satisfied, even though the Greek debt:GDP ratio was projected at 124% in 2020 rather than the 120% the Fund had apparently drawn as a line in the sand two weeks ago.
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The city put on a burst of speed this week in its plan to transform Vancouver into a two-wheelers' haven.
The Vision-Vancouver-dominated council approved plans Wednesday to launch a bike-share program by next spring, naming a Portland company, in conjunction with Montreal's Bixi bikes, as the likely private partner.
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And the recently released draft transportation plan envisions an even more aggressively bike-friendly city, where trips by car are reduced from the current 60 per cent to only 33 per cent by 2040. By then, there would be a comprehensive network of bike lanes, a focus on routes that link high-use locations and substantially improved bike facilities in high-rider areas such as Kitsilano and Commercial Drive, among other things.
But that day's not going to come without some uncomfortable adjustments, said Vision Councillor Geoff Meggs, as he voted on making the bike lanes permanent.
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That didn't bode well for two separate groups of businesses whose representatives came out Wednesday to voice their concerns.
One was private bike-rental companies worried that a new, city-supported bike-share program will destroy their operations. The other was downtown businesses, concerned about the impact the separated lanes – now destined to be permanent and with no driver-friendly adjustments – will have on nearby businesses.
Council rejected the idea of reintroducing right-hand turns off one of the bike-lane streets, Dunsmuir, onto two busy downtown blocks, despite a plea from Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association director Charles Gauthier.
Some councillors said any changes would endanger pedestrians, because sidewalks would have had to be narrowed to do that.
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You say 'pop,' I say 'soda'
- Jennifer Delahanty said it seemed normal to her as she grew up in Eau
Claire to hear sayings such as, "Do you want to come with?'' and "Come
here once.''
"You're not aware the way you talk is different,''
said the University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student in German
social linguistics. "But when I came to Madison and had contact with
students from other parts of the country, I realized that it was.''
who is both researcher and subject in a study of Wisconsin speech that
got under way this year, said those sentence structures are more common
in German than English.
It's just one of many peculiarities in
spoken English in the state that are part of the Wisconsin Englishes
Project study headed by Thomas Purnell, a UW-Madison assistant
professor of linguistics, and Joe Salmons, director of the school's
Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.
Although there
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homogeneous due to the impact of television, Salmons said, studies have
shown that regional U.S. dialects are thriving and evolving.
"People make a conscious decision on who to hang out with, dress like and talk like,'' he said.
said he grew up in North Carolina and his wife was from Wisconsin, and
the differences in speech between the two regions was much in evidence
at their wedding reception.
"It was not quite as different as
speaking Swahili and Japanese, but our families had some problem
understanding one another,'' he said.
Two rather distinct linguistic patterns are used in Wisconsin.
is called the northern cities shift, which is spoken by many from as
far east as Upstate New York. In Wisconsin, it is spoken primarily by
people in about the southeastern third of the state in an area bordered
by Lake Michigan on the east, Manitowoc or Green Bay on the north, to
as far west as the Madison area, Purnell said.
It is typified by changing the vowel in bad, bat, pad, pat to sound more like bed, bet, ped and pet, Salmons said.
other pattern in Wisconsin is called the low-back merger, which has
moved into the western counties, after starting in Pennsylvania and
migrating along a narrow band as far as California then heading back
eastward, the researchers say.
That speech pattern is typified by
such words as cot and caught being pronounced the same, as well as Don
and Dawn, rot and wrought, sot and sought and not and naught, Salmons
said, although how they are pronounced varies.
With those two
linguistic patterns headed toward one another, Wisconsin could become a
battleground in which state residents speak one or the other or a
hybrid evolves, Purnell said.
"Wisconsinites have a very strong
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identity in how we speak,'' he said.
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Erica Benson, a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire assistant English
professor who also is a researcher in the project, said it exists in
some parts of the state where the shift has not been seen and it may
just be a relic of longtime dialects used in those regions.
state is also split when it comes to describing carbonated soft drinks
as soda or pop. Soda generally is used in eastern Wisconsin but pop is
more common west of Madison, Salmons said.
Another unusual aspect
of Wisconsinites' vocabulary is using the term bubbler to describe what
people in most of the country call a drinking fountain or water
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said there is even disagreement within the state on whether the term
applies only to a drinking fountain in which the water constantly
bubbles or also applies to one in which the stream of water can be
turned off and on.
Purnell and Salmons said more study of spoken
language has been done in other parts of the country compared to the
Midwest, which prompted them to seek a grant of $2,000 from the
Wisconsin Humanities Council that they received to start their study
earlier this year.
Forums were held in Milwaukee, Madison and Eau
Claire this spring to talk about the subject which drew 180 people,
with many staying for an hour or more beyond the scheduled end, Salmons
"People love to talk about language,'' Benson said.
The researchers are now preparing to apply for a federal grant to expand their study.
increasingly rely on automatic speech recognition devices in our
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Teachers have always been charged with the task of turning out the next generation of citizens—educated, healthy in mind, and healthy in body. The central question here is: how far should this responsibility extend? Just how much can we reasonably expect teachers to be responsible for? And just what should schools be responsible for? Obviously, teachers ought to be responsible for the fundamentals of learning, but should they be held accountable for what the children eat, or how they choose to behave, or for every single risk, direct or indirect, that could conceivably occur within the school grounds? These are precisely the kinds of expectation that have become part of educational life. Bit by bit, new forms of responsibility are being added to the site of the school and, more specifically, to the professional life of the teacher. The intention here is not necessarily to challenge any of these diverse changes, but rather to express concern about their cumulative effect on the ability of the school to do its primary job effectively.
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"The Message" by Ama Ata Aidoo (E-Reserve, the password is "worldlit" - follow the link to Achebe, "Dead Man's Path")
Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1947) was born a daughter of a chief in central Ghana; she went on to study at the University of Ghana where she produced her first play. She has since become an important African writer, producing plays, poems, short stories, and novels that explore questions of political and cultural autonomy as well as women's liberation. Though Ghana received independence in 1957, the period that followed was one of disillusionment. In "The Message," a story from No Sweetness Here (1970), Aidoo explores the challenging intersection between Western and African cultures with wit and insight.
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By Mary C. Tillotson | Watchdog.org
At least 600 Louisiana school children, possibly 1,300 more, will lose the opportunity to leave failing public schools for better ones, if a motion by the U.S. Department of Justice is successful.
Louisiana's school voucher program, which gives private-school scholarships to low-income students attending schools graded C, D, or F, violates the state's desegregation orders from the 1960s and 70s, the DOJ alleges.
More than 90 percent of voucher recipients are minorities, and more than 80 percent are assigned to D or F schools.
But the DOJ is trying to pull a fast one and hardly has a case, says Richard Komer, senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va.-based libertarian public interest law firm.
Resurrecting ancient history
The lawsuit, Brumfield v. Dodd, dates from the 1970s, when a parent sued the state of Louisiana and six school districts over a program that had been around since the 1920s allowing public funds for textbooks and transportation to all Louisiana students, in public or private schools.
The desegregation orders prompted swarms of white families to pull their children from public schools and send them to all-white private schools. Some public schools lost several hundred white students in a single year, Komer said. The lawsuit blamed the book-and-bus program for encouraging "white flight" and thus impeding the desegregation process.
In 1975, the federal judge on the case ruled that no state assistance, including textbooks and transportation, could go to racially discriminatory private schools. The case saw some minor activity in 1977, but since then, nothing has happened, though the case was never closed.
Louisiana's voucher program requires that participating private schools comply with the order and not discriminate against students based on race.
"There are schools in Louisiana that comply with this court order, and who from the time of the court order in 1975, have continued to receive textbooks and transportation for their private students, because they are in compliance with the court order," Komer said. "The voucher program mandates that for a private school to receive any students' vouchers from the state, they have to be in compliance with the case's court order."
The DOJ has not filed a new lawsuit, but has filed a motion in the old Brumfield case, claiming in at least 22 Louisiana parishes desegregation has yet to be achieved. The scholarship program, they claim, may hurt the process to further desegregate the schools.
Federal officials also claim the state must inspect the racial demographics before allowing students to use the vouchers. Students could leave public schools only if their leaving would shift the demographics away from segregation.
The 22 parishes are among the 34 still not complying with the desegregation orders – likely because districts still desegregating are eligible for federal money, said Clint Bolick, vice president of litigation at the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, which will represent some parents in the case.
"Even in the worst case scenario, the program would continue for a majority of the kids receiving scholarships," Bolick said.
But it's unrealistic to expect the state to complete all those inspections before the 2014-15 school year, and students in those parishes likely would not receive vouchers.
"For us, the bottom line is that is incredibly perverse. These kids are the intended beneficiaries of the desegregation decrees," Bolick said.
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Tue Greenfort's Bio-Works
Tue Greenfort is a Swedish artist who questions the changing nature of….nature. Sort of the timeless question of the human within this strange biosphere-sphere we call earth. I like the above piece, "enclosed biosphere" for its simplicity- reminds me of the mosquito-attracting never-clean the fishbowl "experiments" I did as a kid, much to the chagrin of my parents. I really love the "bio-morphic sausage" strata encased in glass, after the jump- sort of a delicious Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living riff? Anyways, be sure to check out the link, many of his works kind of require deeper explanation as far as exactly what's going on (yellow tape sweetened with sugar water that leads armies of ants through a museum, a Coca-Cola condensation cube, a contraption that uses frozen fruit juice to cool water brought up from the point from the gallery's infrastructure where it enters…..)
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Judy Fox creates these bizarre, and stunning life-like sculptures that re-create figures from ancient world mythology and historical depictions. Isolated from their typically mystical surroundings, they become somehow both more and less magical, if that is possible. What amazes me most about them is that Fox creates these entirely out of terra cotta(!)- sort of a fitting material, used to depict Osiris from Egypt, legions of warriors at Qin Shi Huang, Indian gods and goddesses- you get the idea. There is something universally biblical in their man-fashioned-from-clay likenesses…oh and then they are painted over in oils! Some process shots as well for the sculpture of a Satyr above below the jump- all kind of looking like relics from Indiana Jones.
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