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- 1 (sudden movement) (no plural/sin plural) to make a dash for safety/shelter correr a ponerse a salvo/a cobijarse he made a dash for freedom intentó escaparse everyone made a dash for the exit todos se precipitaron hacia la salida to make a dash for it [colloquial/familiar] salir* a toda mecha [colloquial/familiar]More example sentences
- The new initiative comes just months after a defendant leapt over the dock at Southend court and made a dash for freedom.
- I made a dash for the door, and as I did I triggered the electronic video sensors at the store entrance, which wailed tumultuously as I broke out onto the street.
- I autographed some books, including McTeer's, posed for a few photos, and, running late for my plane, made a dash for the exit.
- 2 countable/numerable (small amount) poquito (masculine) a dash of vinegar un poquito or unas gotas de vinagre a dash of pepper una pizca de pimienta a dash of milk un chorrito de leche dark hair with a dash of grey pelo (masculine) entrecanoMore example sentences
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- Develop/wash in a flat-bottomed tray containing water with a dash of washing-up liquid added.
- The dip, composed of vinegar, a splash of soy sauce and a dash of red chili, could use a certain extra something to give it more of a zing, as the roll was in need of a little something to wake up the taste buds.
- A Mochatail for those daring enough to drink one is a dash of espresso coffee, sprinkled with chocolate cookie, topped with whipped cream.
- All that is charming about Australian wine, with a dash of sophistication.
- Like many a group before them, they had met at art school, and not surprisingly they added a dash of colour to both their image and music.
- The meet and the hunt provided a dash of colour in the lives of all during the otherwise drab British winter.
- 3 countable/numerable 3.1 (punctuation mark) guión (masculine) 3.2 (in Morse code) raya (feminine)More example sentences
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- Today, when we think of telegraphs we think of electric telegraphs, we think of wires and Morse code and dots and dashes and telegrams and that sort of thing.
- Both transmitted in simplified Morse code, one solely dots, the other solely dashes.
- Morse Code uses a series of dots and dashes to transmit and receive messages.
- This book's a success, it's true, even though it's about commas, apostrophes, colons, dashes and other marks.
- In less formal writing, the dash is often a catch-all mark to take the place of both colon and semicolon, obviating the need to distinguish them or think about more subtle kinds of punctuation.
- Their use of the dash in the letters seems consistent with its use in much nineteenth - century correspondence.
- 4 uncountable/no numerable (spirit, nerve) brío (masculine) to play/perform with dash tocar*/actuar* con brío to cut a dash (British English/inglés británico) ser* el centro de todas las miradas, llamar la atención, partir plaza (Mexico/México)More example sentences
- Brimming with this new dash of energy, Darteil just needed one more psychological push.
- It is these characteristics that give these Mozart performances, with the violinist doubling as soloist and director of the OAE, such dash and vitality.
- If the winners emerge with some dash in their style, they may also have to contend with being All-Ireland favourites.
- 5 countable/numerable [Sport/Deporte] carrera (feminine) (de poca distancia) the 100m dash los 100m planos or (Spain/España) lisos or (River Plate area/Río de la Plata) llanosMore example sentences
- He runs the fastest 40-yard dash of any defensive tackle, 4.85 seconds.
- Mornings can feel like a 50-yard dash, racing from the gym to the kids' school to the workplace.
- The country's leading sprinters kick off the heats with the 50m dash - a tough line-up to just make the semi-final among the men.
- 6 (splash) (no plural/sin plural) embate (masculine)
- 7 countable/numerable [Cars/Automovilismo] [colloquial/familiar] tablero (m) (de mandos), salpicadero (m) (Spain/España)More example sentences
- This is enlivened by Mondial blue flourishes on the dash, sports steering wheel and gearstick, and the same drilled aluminium pedals as the 172.
- Wash and polish the bodywork, clean and polish the wheels to get rid of any engrained brake dust, vacuum and shampoo the interior and give the dash and steering wheel a good buffing.
- The steering wheel and the dash are also made of the light and very strong material which has been used in Formula one since 1988.
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- 1 1.1 (hurl) she dashed the plate to pieces hizo añicos or trizas el plato the ship was dashed against the rocks el barco se estrelló contra las rocas 1.2 (splash) echar she dashed her face with water to refresh herself se echó agua en la cara para refrescarse
- 2 (disappoint) [hopes] (usually passive/normalmente en voz pasiva) defraudar, truncar* [literary/literario]More example sentences
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- Hopes have been dashed for all 38 employees of the ill-fated car dealership DC Cook with the announcement that they are being made redundant.
- Lauren, who has been dancing since she was just three years-old, hopes to become a professional dancer, but knows her hopes will be dashed if the course shuts.
- The year 2000 started out full of hope for all of us but, sadly, during the course of the past year for the farming community many of those hopes have already been dashed.
- This rather dashed me, though he doesn't know that I am a diarist, and is probably unaware that I am somewhat simple-minded.
- 1 (rush) I dashed to the rescue me lancé al rescate she dashed out salió disparada I'll just dash across the road for some milk voy en frente un minuto a comprar leche to dash into/across the room entrar en/atravesar* la habitación como una exhalación I can't stay long, I must dash [colloquial/familiar] me voy corriendo, que tengo prisa or (in Latin America also/en América Latina también) que estoy apuradaMore example sentences
- Other people could be seen on the streets now, hurrying animals that dashed in and out of store to cars or homes, getting what needed to be done, done.
- He quickly swept his daughter into his arms, grabbed his travel bag and dashed towards the open door and into the chaos of the ship.
- Drew and Seigi dashed out and hurried towards their fathers, calling and laughing as they ran.
- 2 (crash) [waves] romper*More example sentences
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- Ah, how the heady idealism of youth is dashed upon the rocks of the pragmatism of adulthood.
- Bearded vultures are the only living birds known to access bone marrow, which they do by dashing bones onto rocks from great heights.
- A predatory fish may eat it, or a strong current may dash it against a rock.
- It's a dirty old night out there, wind howling, rain dashing against the windows, not at all the kind of night to move far from the fireside.
- Not proper rain, not good rain - but a light, spitting rain that came dashing down from the peaks and was too cold to make the grass grow.
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After studying at the University of Paris and then completing a degree in art history from Sarah Lawrence College in 1971, Wang began her career in fashion at Vogue magazine as a sittings assistant. Within a year, she became the senior fashion director for the magazine (the youngest in the publication's history), and would go on to hold that title for the next fifteen years. After being passed over for the role of editor-in-chief in 1987, Vera finally left Vogue to begin a brief two-year stint as the design director for Ralph Lauren.
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When celebrities began to take notice of Vera's approach to the wedding dress, her star rose quickly as the appeal of a modern wedding dress became apparent to both Hollywood and fashion-conscious brides everywhere. Through the 1990's and 2000's Vera's unique, elegant, and sophisticated wedding gowns appeared on the likes of Jennifer Lopez, Heidi Klum, Victoria Beckham, Chelsea Clinton, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Uma Thurman, Kate Hudson, Sharon Stone, and Ivanka Trump, just to name a few. She parlayed this success into creating made to order gowns for her non-famous well-to-do client base as well. Finally saw her business grow to include her now successful ready-to-wear line, which made its debut in 2000 at New York Fashion Week and has gained a large following including such prominent fans as First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Tech training is gateway to middle class
College should not be the only gateway to the middle class, writes Robert Reich, who was Bill Clinton's secretary of Labor, in Salon. Obsessed with bachelor's degrees, "we've allowed vocational and technical education to be downgraded and denigrated," he writes. But our economy needs skilled technicians.
As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.
Hospital technicians are needed to monitor ever more complex equipment that now fills medical centers; office technicians, to fix the hardware and software responsible for much of the work that used to be done by secretaries and clerks.
Automobile technicians are in demand to repair the software that now powers our cars; manufacturing technicians, to upgrade the numerically controlled machines and 3-D printers that have replaced assembly lines; laboratory technicians, to install and test complex equipment for measuring results; telecommunications technicians, to install, upgrade, and repair the digital systems linking us to one another.
Community colleges train technicians at "bargain" prices, but they're "systematically starved of funds," writes Reich. State legislators "direct most higher-education funding to four-year colleges and universities because that's what their middle-class constituents want for their kids."
Business "executives are usually the products of four-year liberal arts institutions and don't know the value of community colleges," he adds.
By contrast, Germany provides its students the alternative of a world-class technical education that's kept the German economy at the forefront of precision manufacturing and applied technology.
The skills taught are based on industry standards, and courses are designed by businesses that need the graduates. So when young Germans get their degrees, jobs are waiting for them.
Young Germans choose a technical or academic track by age 14, writes Reich. Americans wouldn't go for that.
But we could "combine the last year of high school with the first year of community college" to train technicians, writes Reich. Employers "would help design the courses and promise jobs" to graduates. Late bloomers could pursue associate or bachelor's degrees, if they choose.
North Carolina is adding five-year "early college" high schools, such as Wake Early College of Health and Sciences. Students can graduate with a two-year degree or health science certificate.
IBM helped design New York City's P-TECH, which adds two years of college-level job training to four years of high school. IBM will hire graduates who want to go directly to the workforce.
P-TECH in Brooklyn fields a robotics team.
What will I earn with a degree?
North Carolina is making it easier for students to predict the dollar value of college degrees, reports AP. A new state web site will provide median earnings, employment and post-degree education by major, degree and campus.
Five years after earning an associate degree in cardiovascular technology, community college graduates average $60,869. Other top-earning degrees are radiation therapy technology, fire protection technology, nuclear medicine technology and clinical trials research associate.
The median income for associate degree graduates in all subjects was $30,345 after five years. (The search function isn't fully operational for associate degrees and doesn't work at all for certificates.)
Nuclear engineering graduates average $89,537 a year five years after earning a bachelor's degree. Theater graduates average $10,400.
"Of course, there are many paths to success. So this is not a recommendation, it's just a way to arm students and families with good, useful information," said Peter Hans, who pushed for the project when he was chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, said North Carolina's program, inaugurated last week, is one of the best at showing the value of a degree. He expects college instructors to hate it. "They don't get up every day and think about getting somebody a job. They're teaching history or something, so this is news to them," Carnevale said.
All the top-paying degrees are in engineering and technology.
Maine also has launched a site with earnings information by degree for community college and state university graduates.
It pays to earn a 2-year degree
Earning an associate or bachelor's degree paid off for students who enrolled in North Carolina community colleges in 2002-03, concludes a working paper from the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE). The economic returns for health-care credentials such as nursing were "extremely high."
However, certificates did not produce strong economic benefits.
The recession did not erode the "substantial and consistent" gains from earning a two-year degree, the report found. "Even accumulating some college credits (but no degree) led to higher earnings for students."
Students who earned degrees in nursing, allied health fields, construction, mechanics and welding improved their earning significantly, reports Community College Daily. However, there were no economic returns for women who earned education or child care degrees; men in those fields actually did worse.
The CAPSEE review tracked incomes five years after initial enrollment for students enrolling between 2001 and 2008 and completing an associate degree. It found that the advantage conferred by a degree remained consistent — about $4,800 per year for women and $3,000 per year for men — despite the recession starting in late 2007.
Graduates were less likely to be unemployed, according to CAPSEE.
North Carolina sets college pathways
North Carolina has launched a four-year plan to improve student success, says Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College System.
New college students will enter a structured program, reports Community College Times. Even high school students in dual enrollment programs will be encouraged to enroll tuition-free in a pathway that leads to a technical or bachelor's degree.
The system also used research and analysis to identify and address "momentum loss points"—points where students become bogged down and too often pulled off course in their goals toward completion. In community colleges, that usually happens in a student's first semester or first academic year, particularly in developmental education programs.
"We found too many students entering developmental education without exiting, which is why we have completely redesigned our efforts in North Carolina," Ralls said.
The colleges tapped expert math and English faculty members across the state to re-engineer curriculum to shorten the length of courses and to develop modules to let students get the courses they need.
The state system also worked with high schools to align career and college readiness testing. Now students will know early whether they're on track to take college-level community college classes.
Eighty technical programs in in transportation, energy, manufacturing, environment and construction now offer "stackable" credentials. A student can earn a certificate, leave college for the workforce and return later to add an advanced credential.
Texas stacks energy credentials
Texas community colleges are creating stackable credentials for oilfield workers, reports Inside Higher Ed. Oil and gas workers can qualify for an entry-level job, then return to college for more training.
Community colleges are working hard to keep up with petrochemical companies' demand for workers. The jobs pay well, and many associate degree-holders earn $50,000 to $70,000 a year right out of college.
Students can start at one college, move to follow the jobs and enroll at a new college without losing credits.
Several community colleges have teamed up to create a central core of 36 credits toward a 60-credit associate degree aimed at oil and gas workers. Those courses, which include 15 credits' worth of accreditor-mandated general education requirements and 21 credits of specialized soft and mechanical skills training, are designed to transfer around the state.
Each credential "stacks" on the one before. "Courses for shorter-term certificates count toward degrees," notes Inside Higher Ed.
A "marketable skills achievement award," which takes 9 to 14 credits, leads to an entry-level job.
Next up is a "level one" certificate, which usually takes a year to complete. For example, a basic certificate in process technology at Brazosport is 15 credits. Others can be more involved, with 18 or more credits.
Level two certificates follow. They tend to be somewhat-specialized 30-credit programs. Eventually students can wrap up 60-credit associate degrees in production or processing technology.
That's not even the last step. Some community colleges have partnered with four-year institutions to create transitions to bachelor's programs for oil and gas workers. Brazosport, for example, has a transfer agreement with the nearby University of Houston at Victoria for a bachelor's in applied technology.
Large employers, such as Chevron and Dow Chemical, require an associate degree for new hires. But they'll hire interns who are working on a degree for as much as $22 an hour.
Texas colleges plan to create stackable credentials for other fields, such as allied health careers and information technology.
North Carolina's community colleges have created a "green jobs" pathway.
Associate degree pays off for transfers
Most entering community college students say they plan to earn a bachelor's degree, but few reach that goal. Earning an associate degree before transferring significantly boosts the odds of success, concludes a Community College Research Center study in North Carolina. "Relatively few students who transfer early ever complete a bachelor's degree and thus leave college with no credential."
. . . almost two thirds of students who start out in community college have no recognized credential up to nine years later; many transfer to another institution—either in the public, private, or for-profit sector—with the intention of earning a bachelor's degree but ultimately terminate their postsecondary education without earning any degree.
Community college students who complete an associate degree will earn more than those who never completed a credential, the study found.
N.C. students hope to make beer a career
Some students go to college to drink beer. At three North Carolina community colleges, students will learn how to make beer, reports the Halifax Media Group. Blue Ridge Community College, Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and Rockingham Community College plan to offer certificates and associate degrees in Brewing, Distillation and Fermentation, pending state approval, which is expected next week.
Craft breweries and wineries are thriving in Western North Carolina. It's like California's Napa Valley in the 1970s, says Chris English, dean of applied technology.
"I see a re-branding of ourselves in Henderson and Transylvania counties being something a little bit different," English said, "because forever we've been known for our apples and we'll continue to be known for our apples – that's a huge product in our area – but I also think now we have something else to offer. And I think it's a way to attract new industry to the area. We have the capability, especially with Sierra Nevada and Oskar Blues being here."
BRCC has piloted the program through the Oskar Blues Summer Brew School, a continuing education program run in partnership with the local craft brewery.
The degree program will teach the science of brewing plus hands-on manufacturing skills tied to the college's new mechatronics program, says English. Mechatronics training will qualify students for manufacturing as well as brewery jobs, says English.
North Carolina OKs readiness diplomas
In a few years, high school graduates in North Carolina will earn diplomas showing their readiness for university, community college or careers, reports the Raleigh News & Observer. Each seal requires a minimum 2.6 grade point average, basically a C+.
To earn the community college readiness seal, graduates must have completed Algebra II or integrated math III.
In February, the community college board decided graduates with a minimum 2.6 GPA can skip placement tests and start in college-level courses. The system's research showed that 20 percent of students placed in remedial courses could have succeeded at the college level. High school grades are the best predictor of college success, the study concluded.
To earn the career readiness seal, students must
take four career/technical courses, score well on ACT's WorkKeys exam, or have an industry-recognized credential, such a car repair certificate, Microsoft suite certification, or SAS programmer credentials.
Structured paths lead to success
Creating structured pathways to graduation will help more community college students achieve their goals, said presenters at the American Association of Community Colleges meeting in San Francisco.
Completion by Design, a Gates Foundation initiative, is working with community colleges on mandatory student advising and structured course sequences, reports the Chronicle of Higher Education. College leaders from North Carolina, Ohio and Florida discussed their efforts.
Jobs for the Future's completion campaign focuses on getting students into college-level classes as quickly as possible.
Many students who end up in remedial courses don't need to be there, but they don't realize the importance of the tests that colleges often use as the sole placement criterion, said Gretchen Schmidt, a program director at Jobs for the Future. "They didn't prepare, they had kids in the hall running around, or they rushed through the test to get back to work … and as a result they ended up two levels down" in developmental courses.
Students who start in remedial courses rarely earn a degree. Recent research has shown students placed in high-level developmental courses do just as well at the college level.
North Carolina now lets high school graduates with a 2.6 grade point average or better skip community college placement tests and start at the college level.
A new Connecticut law limits state funding for remedial education to a single course.
Florida may "cut off nearly all support for stand-alone remedial education," reports the Chronicle.
Lenore P. Rodicio, director of Miami Dade College's Completion by Design effort, worries that's going too far.
"Seventy percent of our students come in needing some kind of remedial education, many of them from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and this could close the door to them," she said.
Her college offers a one-week boot camp for students who place into remedial education to allow them to zero in on the skills they need to improve, and it's looking at other ways to get students into credit-bearing courses faster.
In another session, California Community Colleges chancellor Brice Harris discussed the state's new "student-success agenda," which includes encouraging students to develop a study plan, dropping reliance on a single remedial placement test and giving new students priority for registration over perennial students who aren't moving toward a credential.
Uncounted credits cost time, money
Credits that don't count cost transfer students time, money — and often the opportunity to complete a degree, according to the Hechinger Report.
"One of the most common complaints a legislator gets from a constituent about higher education is, 'My credits don't transfer,'" says Davis Jenkins, senior researcher at Teachers College, Columbia University, who has studied the issue.
"This is so common, but it's heart-rending," Jenkins says. "And it also pisses me off as a taxpayer."
A third of students transfer at least once, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center says. Most lose credits along the way. Full-time students average 3.8 years to earn a two-year degree and 4.7 years to get a four-year degree, according to Complete College America. An associate degree requires 60 credits, but the average graduate has earned 80, the advocacy group estimates. Bachelor's degree graduates average 136.5 credits for a degree that requires 120.
Part of the problem is that public universities are largely funded based on their enrollment, not on whether students actually graduate. So while an institution has a financial incentive to take transfer students to fill seats left vacant when other students drop out, it may not have a financial incentive to help them successfully finish college and move on.
Karen Hernandez started at St. John's University in New York and transferred after a year and a half to Nassau Community College, with 27 of the 36 credits she'd earned and paid for. After another year and a half, she received an associate's degree. Then she transferred to Columbia University with 55 of her 63 credits. After three years in college, she faces another three years to complete a bachelor's degree in art history and human rights. (And, if she graduates, she'll have a hard time finding a job and paying off her college loans with an art history and human rights degree.)
University faculty often question the quality of courses taught at other institutions.
"Everybody feels that the way they do it is the right way," says Janet L. Marling, director of the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students at the University of North Georgia. "To admit that somebody else does it equally well can chip away at their foothold."
Sometimes students are told their credits will transfer, but don't realize they won't count toward their major. They end up with too many electives credits that don't help them complete a degree. Others don't learn if their credits transfer for a semester or more.
Some states have passed laws to guarantee associate degree graduates can transfer all their credits to a state university. But it's a slow process.
It took Florida 10 years to bring its universities and colleges into line on transfer credits, for example. An analysis by a technical college in North Carolina found that only one of its English courses was accepted for core credit by all 16 of that state's public universities. And some legislative efforts to make universities fix the transfer process have slammed up against the culture of competition.
Almost three years after California legislators demanded that anyone who earns an associate's degrees at a community college be guaranteed transfer into the California State University system, for instance, students in two-thirds of all majors still don't qualify, college and university officials there concede.
As more students take online courses, getting credits counted will become even more important. I predict that learning assessment will boom in the coming years as universities come under heavy political pressure to raise graduation rates by crediting what students have learned at other institutions, online, on the job, in the military or whatever.


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True Blue
from Ellis Kell
Argus/Dispatch blues columnist
March 2007
from Ellis Kell
Watermelon Slim & The Workers new CD "The Wheel Man," on the Canadian NorthernBlues label, is a fresh take on an earthy and soulful roots sound. Bill Homans, a.k.a. Watermelon Slim, is a Vietnam veteran. He is also the only Vietnam vet to have recorded a full length album during the war. The new CD features guests Magic Slim and Dave Maxwell. These tracks just sizzle, and Slim's seasoned vocals are the real deal. Favorite tracks off this new disk include the title cut "Wheel Man," "Newspaper Reporter," and "Sawmill Holler." There's no weak links in this chain of true blue tunes. After a stint as an industrial waste hauler, Slim returned to the music he loves, and hit the highway with his band in tow. His debut on NorthernBlues, "Watermelon Slim & The Workers," received six Blues Music Award nominations, Mojo Magazine's 'Best Blues Album of the Year', among other awards. Legendary Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler says "Watermelon Slim incarnates the deepest and truest roots of American music," and delares Slim "a one-of-a-kind pickin' 'n' singin' Okie dynamo." We second those emotions. We're also thrilled to tell you that none other than Watermelon Slim himself will be featured on Sat., June 30 at 8:30 pm, on the tent stage, at this year's IH Mississippi Valley Blues Festival! (Note: This CD is due for release and distribution on April 17, 2007.)
"Slide to Freedom" from Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt, also on the NorthernBlues label, blazes a new blue trail with the fusion of Indian and blues music. This unique new collection combines instrumention of the 19-stringed mohan veena (V.M. Bhatt), tabla (Ramkumar Mishra), the 20-stringed Satvik veena (Salil Bhatt), and blues slide guitar (Doug Cox). The pairing of blues, rock and Indian music has been experimented with many times before, as with the Beatles and Rolling Stones use of Indian instrumentation and tonalities in their music. However, this new collection from Doug Cox & Salil Bhatt is a very unique blend of the sponaneity of the blues and the intricacy of Indian phrasings and tonality. The shared drone tones (also common to Celtic music) serve to deepen the mystical quality inherent in the blues already. The combination is an interesting mix of new world blues for the soul.
(For more information on all Canadian releases from the NorthernBlues label, visit www.northernblues.com on the web.)
"Summertime," Jono Manson (Independent Release) If you saw the Kevin Costner film "The Postman," you may remember the tattered folk rock ensemble featured in that film. Jono Manson was the rag-tag front man on guitar, and also composed some of the music for the film. It has been too long since we've heard from Jono here at True Blue, but his newest independent release, "Summertime" let us know that he sure hasn't been idle since we saw him last. The truth is no moss will ever grow on this rolling stone, as he jumps back and forth across the big pond between US and European tours. With a devoted following in Italy, Jono continues to draw new fans to the fold wherever his travels take him. The new release features Jono's signature blend of folk, rock, blues and soul, with infectious grooves of "Jr. Walker Drove the Bus" and "Please Stop Playing That Didgeridoo," culminating in the almost hypnotic strains of the closer "Summertime's Almost Over". Jono Manson continues to deliver his own road-tested and proven brand of soulful roots music in this new collection. We hope to see Jono come our way soon for a live date!
(For more information on ordering Jono Manson music, tour dates and other updates, visit www.jonomanson.net . )
I can hear my mama cryin', and I can smell some chicken fryin'... and I can't make up my mind which way to run. You'll just have to get your own heapin' helpin' of these new true blue tracks. I guarantee it will do your soul good. Peace, love and blessings to all and, until we meet again at this crossroads...
Blues to 'ya!
Local musician Ellis Kell writes about blues music both local and national in .True Blue., running the first Sunday of each month in Entertainment. He also serves as a consultant for River Music Experience, a not-for-profit center dedicated to preservation, education and celebration of American Roots music.
Local musician Ellis Kell writes about blues music both local and national in 'True Blue', running the first Sunday of each month in Entertainment. He also serves as a consultant for River Music Experience, a not-for-profit center dedicated to preservation, education and celebration of American Roots music.


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It was a big day for the Great Falls Police Department who just unveiled a new squad car for their citizens volunteer program. After one successful year the Great Falls Volunteers in Police Service program or VIPS for short, are proud to announce a brand new patrol car of their very own.
"The GFPD launched a volunteer program last March to augment the officers and to have community members be ambassadors to Great Falls from the department," explains Volunteer Coordinator, Samantha Huffman.
Similar to the relationship of a hall monitor and a school teacher; these volunteers actually help by informing Police Officers of crime and can actually have your car towed as well.
"Primarily they're our eyes and ears out and they are additionally involved in our abandon vehicle program, out identifying vehicles and taking care of sticking some of those. this program is going to expand but we are going to start slow and then build accordingly," says Police Chief Bowen.
Police Chief David Bowen says these volunteers are an immense help when it comes to keeping our community safe.
"I knew that if we opened up the department and allowed people in the community to come join us and help make a difference in the community that we would see some tremendous results and this is part of that and I really think this is wonderful," says Chief Bowen
And today with some financial assistance from the community VIPS have a new patrol car just like our badge officers to help become more recognized around town.
"Well this is our new patrol vehicle so you'll see that around. Through Neighbor Works and Boys and Girls Club of Cascade County we were able to fund this and we think it looks pretty slick," says Huffman.
The Great Falls Volunteers in Police Service currently have 46 volunteers, with this more recognizable vehicle they hope to meet a goal of 75 volunteers by the end of the year. If you are interested in joining up with the volunteers in Police service program you must be 18 years or older and able to pass a background check. You can ask for application through messaging the Great Falls PD Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/gfpolice.


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Integrity Moments - Feb. 5, 2013
Unequally Yoked – Part II
By: Rick Boxx
February 5, 2013
Occasionally I'm asked by an employee of an unbeliever if I think they should quit their job because they're "unequally yoked."
This stretches the concept beyond what the Apostle Paul intended. To be yoked with someone means you're involved in a covenantal or contractual relationship.
An employer/employee relationship is one in which you have the ability to leave should you feel your values are undermined. This is difficult in a contractual relationship.
In 1 Corinthians 5, Paul teaches us not to associate with believers who are immoral. He goes on to say, "Not at all meaning the people of this worldwho are immoral... In that case you would have to leave this world."
There are unique cases, but being unequally yoked is rarely an excuse for leaving your employer.
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More mirthful back-and-forth between Boeing and EADS.
Boeing today fired off a rebuttal ad to the EADS "Get Real" ad published right after it got back into the KC-X tanker competition.
Boeing also posted this message on its website:
More mirthful back-and-forth between Boeing and EADS.
Boeing today fired off a rebuttal ad to the EADS "Get Real" ad published right after it got back into the KC-X tanker competition.
Boeing also posted this message on its website:
Get the story here.
A second aerospace analyst has weighed in with the opinion that Boeing is likely to choose a replacement for the 737 rather than a re-engine solution.
Heidi Wood of Morgan Stanley published this note today, as Boeing's investors' day begins.
The bottom line – Another New Plane Ahead – BA's Going To Do A New Single Aisle: We believe Boeing will be announcing a new narrowbody replacement to the well-worn and highly popular 737 instead of the less costly, but inferior solution of re-engining.
This means a $13B-type R&D effort ahead in lieu of a possible $2-3B R&D for re-engining, which was previously in our model. We are now lowering outyear estimates to reflect a projected new narrowbody 2012 launch and 2017-2018 entry into service (EIS, first delivery). We believe consensus earningsexpectations will be revised down significantly on higher R&D.
Why An All New Plane? We expect Airbus to announce an A320 re-engining sometime before yearend; BA will likely announce its plans around the same time. It is not generally known, but on a re-engine to re-engine equivalent basis, we believe the Airbus A320 ends up w/ a 8-10% better fuel burn than the 737, rendering the $3B R&D cost to re-engine largely ineffective. The 737 has been refreshed three times already since its first inception in 1967. And with 5 low end single aisle competitors ~mid-decade, we think BA is prudent to be pre-emptive with an all-new airplane.
Joe Nadol of JP Morgan and Joe Campbell disagree, thinking a re-engine is more likely.
So does Boeing rival Airbus, where COO-Customers John Leahy suggests all the talk about a replacement 737 is Boeing disinformation aimed at muddying Airbus' waters.
Update, May 19: With all the references in Comments about the GAO ruling, we are linking the 150+ page report here, courtesy of Sgt. Mac: GAO KC-X 2008 Protest
Update, May 17, 4:30PM PDT: Reuters has this story that Boeing will bid for the tanker "despite concerns."
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We had been planning to write a column about whether Boeing may be in danger of being hoisted on its own petard when two news items appeared Friday (May 14) that accelerated this column.
The first appeared in Army Times/Defense News (sister publications), quoting an unidentified Boeing executive as saying Boeing might night bid on the KC-X because officials feared it could not win the contest because EADS would be able to undercut the price due to subsidies at Airbus. (This also would explain the question we raised in our post, Why aren't they talking about the airplane?)
The second story appeared in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer refuting the Defense News piece.
In the previous post, we talk about the WTO issue being pursued by Boeing and its supporters. In this post we ask, "Why aren't they talking about their airplane?"
This is about the strangest marketing campaign we've ever seen, and one of the things we do is marketing. Boeing has a product–but it's nowhere to be seen in the public relations campaign.
Isn't the KC-767 worth talking about?
The renewed effort by Boeing and its supporters to focus on the WTO ruling against Airbus on illegal subsidies in the KC-X competition (see preceding post) is playing with fire.
The hyperbole by Washington State's Members of Congress is particularly shrill.
The Reuters article linked in the preceding post reports some key issues that need to be remembered: there remains a pending ruling on the EU complaint that Boeing received illegal subsidies; both sides can appeal; and if the US unilaterally imposes penalties, which a Congressional law mandating consideration of the ruling would amount to, this violated WTO rules.
Update, May 13:
DOD refuses to give award date
In case anybody wonders, the effort to force DOD to add $5bn (the amount found Airbus illegally benefited on the A330-200) to the KC-X contract price equals $28m per airplane.
11:00 AM PDT: We just received this statement from EADS North America:
"The Boeing Bill is one more attempt to avoid competing on the merits of the tanker. Unlike EADS North America, Boeing doesn't have a tanker that meets requirements, it faces tremendous technical risk in producing one and is therefore determined to take away the warfighter's right to choose. We believe our fighting men and women deserve the most capable system—and they deserve the right to select it."
4:00 PM: More from the "So's your old man" department, this one also from EADS North America:
1. All reimbursable launch investment loans for A330-200 aircraft development have been repaid – with interest. In fact, since 1992 Airbus and EADS has averaged repaying $1.40 for every dollar received in reimbursable launch investment (this figure covers more than the A330-200). Boeing has received over $16 billion in federal grants, $6 billion in state and local subsidies and over $2 billion in anti-competitive export subsidies already declared to be illegal by the WTO ($1 billion of which came after the WTO ruling) (Editor's note: this refethis relates to a previous WTO ruling that Boeing illegally benefited from Foreign Sales Corporation [FSC] tax breaks). In fact Boeing is the only company that has been formally sanctioned by the WTO for illegal export subsidies—including illegal support for the 767. (Editor's Note: FSC and the expectation that the 767 will also be a part of the pending WTO ruling against Boeing, due next month.) No Boeing subsidies have been repaid and all should be considered in the context of Boeing bill introduced today.
2. Boeing also receives significant subsidies from foreign governments. In fact, Boeing has moved the design and manufacturing of major components overseas to secure foreign government subsidies. To date, Boeing has taken at least $1.5 billion from Japan and more than $500 million from Italy to put manufacturing jobs in those countries.
3. A very important issue is that this bill would put the US in the position of violating the WTO agreement. It is illegal under the terms of the WTO treaty to act punitively before the WTO process is completed (it's called "self help" in the treaty). This is clearly a case of prematurely using WTO findings to justify punitive actions. Article 23 of the Treaty forbids such action and the US could be found to be a treaty violator and subject to sanctions-all for the benefit of Boeing.
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Boeing has gone to its supporters in Congress to introduce a bill to force the Pentagon to take into consideration the adverse WTO ruling in the Airbus subsidy case, according to this Reuters report.
Read the report carefully: there are several key points in it, among them:
Day 2 summary after the jump.
We're at the Airbus Innovation Days and here are some highlights:
Aviation Week has a good piece entitled "Embraer at Crossroads," that discusses how the company evolved from nothingness to a major player in the industry. Faced with a threat from Bombardier's CSeries and emerging competition from China and elsewhere, Embraer has to decide what it is going to do.
Although Bombardier's CSeries continues to faces challenges, AvWeek makes it clear that the CSeries and Pratt & Whitney's GTF engine are influencing decisions pending by Airbus, Boeing, Embraer and airlines.
Boeing is leaning toward a new airplane to replace the 737 rather than proceeding with a re-engining program, an aerospace analyst wrote in a report issued today.
Richard Safran of the boutique Buckingham Research came away from Boeing Capital Corp's annual investor's update with an analysis that is a potentially paradigm-shifting conclusion that Boeing will forget about the widely-assumed plan to re-engine the 737 to meet an expected decision by Airbus to re-engine the A320 family–itself a decision largely driven by competition from Bombardier's CSeries.


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Gift Ideas for Linux Geeks
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The holiday season is approaching fast, but there is still time to buy a nice gift for the Linux geek in your life. Not sure what to give? Here are a couple of gift ideas.
Nothing makes a geek happier than hardware which is designed to run Linux. This year, you might consider TonidoPlug -- a tiny and inexpensive Linux server that runs a slimmed-down version of Ubuntu and the Tonido application suite. The Tonido apps are top-notch, and the fact that you can access and tweak TonidoPlug via SSH is guaranteed to make your Linux partner ecstatic. Kingston V series solid-state disks are not designed specifically for Linux, but they make a great gift anyway. One of the most affordable SSDs on the market, the Kingston V series SSD is an excellent replacement for a traditional hard disk. This particular model is available as a notebook kit bundle which includes an external enclosure that turns the replaced hard disk into an external hard drive. Speaking of notebooks, a spare notebook battery is a welcome addition to any notebook-toting Linux geek. If your budget allows it, purchase an original battery from a reputable dealer. A notebook bag is another gift many mobile Linux users will most likely appreciate. There are dozens of places on the Web where you can buy a decent notebook bag or rucksack, but my favorite right now is the one from Yanko designs. A Victorinox CyberTool Swiss Army Knife makes a perfect gift for a Linux geek with a penchant for DIY. This knife contains 29 (yes, that's twenty-nine) tools for upgrading computers and dismantling hardware for fun. Finally, if you are on a tight budget, consider stickers and clothing. Canonical store offers a wide selection of Ubuntu-branded merchandise, and you can find a few neat items at Think Geek (I particularly like the lightweight recycled Tux jacket).
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Cher will launch her "Dressed to Kill" North American tour in Phoenix next spring, her publicists said Monday.
Her concert in the Valley is set for March 22 at the U.S. Airways Center, the first stop on her 49 city swing.
Cher's previous tour "The Farewell Tour" later dubbed "The Never Can Say Goodbye Tour" was one of the most successful tours ever by a solo artist and played for a record-breaking 325 dates and seen by over 5.5 million people.
American Express Cardmembers can purchase their tickets to select cities before the general public beginning Monday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m. through Thursday, Oct. 3 at 10 p.m.
For all online tickets purchased (presale and general public), ticketholders will receive a free copy of Cher's new album Closer To The Truth, due out Sept. 24 on Warner Bros Records.
Cher is in New York this week celebrating the album's release with an upcoming appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman Tuesday.
Ticket information is available at Cher.com.
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Introducing West Elm Kids
Did you hear the news? One of our favorite home furnishing retailers - West Elm - has introduced a kids line. Sort of.
I was browsing the West Elm site last night and came across a new-to-me category of kids furniture. So far they've got a Parsons-style table sized for children and to go with it, children's chairs that can be personalized. We're hoping that for now it's just a toe in the water, but that in the future West Elm will be introducing more furnishings and accessories for kiddos. To check out what they've got so far, visit West Elm.
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My 5 year old played at this table the other night at the new west elm on Beverly...it was perfect! Luv it!
I've only been into West Elm a handful of times so I'm not 100% sure what their 'look' is but these both look like Ikea to me.
Aw dude, no, it's West Elm, does not look like Ikea. Check the website.
My jaw dropped when I saw the price of the play table ($199)! Especially b/c it's basically a slightly bigger version of the Ikea Lack ($12.99)
I love these pieces but wish the price point was a little lower. The West Elm chairs are more expensive than the comparable Little Jake Chairs at Room & Board...kind of crazy. That said it is pretty cute that they can be personalized.
Cute, but agree that if this is the look u want, do it for way less at Ikea.
I agree with some of the others. I am in the market for a new table for my daughter, but this one, as cute as it is, simply does not seem worth the money. it really does look too much like a lack table (and yes, I am staring at a lack table right now, it is in the corner of my family room tucked in between a couple of couches, it really does look a lot alike, finish snazzy finish aside), obviously bigger, but also 20 times the price...
ikea really needs to get into the play table business (and I know they have a couple, but not enough).
I have a set in my living room that looks exactly like this but in dark brown. Lack table ($8) and 2 little chairs from Target ($12.50 each). Probably not as well made, but frankly my kid is going to wreck whatever she has, so who cares? Sorry, West Elm, I will shop at your store as soon as I win the lottery, but probably not before that. :(


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New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was linked to rumors that he "hated" former Denver Broncos and New York Jets quarterback/personal punt protector Tim Tebow, but the mystery man stepped up today to discredit any of those reports. Today, Belichick spoke with the media and commented on the situation.
"I wouldn't get into the probability of us pursuing any free agent," Belichick told former NFL Spin Zone writer and ESPN Boston's Field Yates. "Every single player has strengths and weaknesses but regardless of that, for anyone to have represented that is the way I feel about Tim Tebow is completely untrue, baseless and irresponsible. It is unfortunate that something so inaccurate was reported."
Yates used to work under Belichick with the Patriots, so it says something that "The Hoody" was willing to open up to him.
While this may not be the 100 percent truth, which nothing with Belichick ever is, you should definitely read in to these comments and consider them as legit as you can get. With Belichick, that is quite the accomplishment.


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The Bernal Jazz Quartet explores familiar standards and fresh new compositions, from bop to blues to ballads and more. An unusual front-line pairing of vibraphone (Jim Zimmerman) and sax (Michael Gold) combines with a creative supportive rhythm section of bass (Ken Lenga) and drums (Curt Moore).
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Fairtrade is very important to small farmers. Not only because they are getting the (Fairtrade) premium, but it is very important because you are taking care of the environment
Athanasio Massenha, General Manager at Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union (KNCU), was featured in a recent film on the impact of Fairtrade at Tanzania's oldest coffee cooperative. Watch the full video here.


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Social service have been called to assess Octomum's kids due to neglect claims.
- Using a chair to lock children in the bedroom;- Interior and exterior walls covered in graffiti;- Kids going to the toilet outside;- One working toilet;- Near-empty rooms with unmade beds; and- Bedrooms covered in dirty laundry
I cannot imagine coping with that. I have 2, my place often looks like it's been ransacked. I hope the kids are OK or get the help they need because one Mum is not enough for those kids.
I have 9 kids, 8 at home 3 with special needs. It's easy to get buried especially if you have an 'unwell' day where you don't function at optimum level. She needs structure, routine and organisation and definitely humility to ask for help. However from what I read, as she did this on purpose not with wisdom, people are not too kind. The kids should be first regardless of her behavior. They are the innocent victims. Let's hope when they are all in school she uses those hours wisely.
14 children is actually too difficult to imagine, particularly when 8 of them are all the same age.
She needs help!
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|Ah yes! I know Lady Luck quite well. She is not a stranger to me... or my bed.
Some see luck as being too unpredictable or even non-existent. Others see luck as a potent ally, simply waiting to be directed by skillful hands. These wielders of luck are called Gamblers. They play a game every time they step out the door.
Gamblers are tricksters and con-artists by trade. They traverse the dungeon and pub with the same gait, applying the same card-up-the-sleeve tactics to every aspect of their life.
Rogues and Bards and Sorcerers find themselves naturally attracted to this lifestyle. Even some civilized rangers can find manipulation of luck beneficial. Although rare, clerics and chaotic paladins devoted to morally ambiguous deities can see the benefit of this class. The more martial classes would find it difficult to embrace this change of career.
- Alignment: any Chaotic
- Base Attack Bonus: +2
- Ability: 12 Charisma
- Skills: Bluff 7 ranks, Sleight of Hand 7 ranks, Craft (Alchemy) 7 ranks
- Special: You must learn about both sides of luck, the good and the bad. Find another Gambler and gamble with him once every night for one week. On the seventh and last night of gambling, you must gamble with at least 500 gold pieces worth of money or things at stake. Whether you win or lose, through your interactions with the Gambler, he will teach you how to improve your luck and how to craft specialized cards and dice.
|Saving Throws
|Beginner's Luck
|+1 spellcasting class level
|Loaded Dice
|+1 spellcasting class level
|Lady Luck's Kiss
|+1 spellcasting class level
|Miss Fortune
|+1 spellcasting class level
|My Lucky Day
|+1 spellcasting class level
Class Skills (6 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level)
Class Features[edit]
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Gamblers gain proficiency with dice and playing cards. Gamblers gain no other armor, weapon, or shield proficiencies.
Spellcasting: At each level you gain new spells per day and an increase in caster level (and spells known, if applicable) as if you had also gained a level in a spellcasting class to which you belonged before adding the prestige class level. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If you had more than one arcane or divine spellcasting class before becoming a Gambler, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining spells per day, caster level, and spells known.
Sneak Attack: This is exactly like the rogue ability of the same name. The extra damage dealt increases by +1d6 every other level (1st, 3rd, 5th). If a Gambler gets a sneak attack bonus from another source the bonuses on damage stack.
Beginner's luck: At level 1, the Gambler is able to modify his luck, for good or bad. Every day, the Gambler gains Beginner's Luck charges equal to 2 charges/Gambler level. As an immediate action, at the cost of 1 Beginner's Luck charge, the Gambler is able to add his Gambler class level as a luck bonus/penalty to a single skill check, ability check, save, caster level check, attack roll or damage roll. If a damage roll would be reduced to below 0, it simply deals 0 damage. However there's only a 51% percent chance that the number will be positive. Roll a d100, 1-49 means negative, 50-90 means positive, 91-100 means positive at double the bonus. If it is negative, you suffer only half the penalty rounded down to a minimum of -1 (+Bonus=-Penalty: +1=-1, +2=-1, +3=-1, +4=-2, +5=-2).
After you get the result, you can repeat this process until you run out of Beginner's Luck charges. At level 5, if you expend all your Beginner's Luck charges on one roll, if you don't roll a 91-100, then the most bad luck you can get is -20 and the most good luck is +50.
Loaded Dice: At level 2, the Gambler is a master of subterfuge and underhanded and even deadly manuevers. The Gambler can turn simple dice and cards into simple weapons. The gambler is able to create combat ready cards that can be imbued with spells and dice that can be filled with alchemical concoctions.
An alchemy check (DC=15) is required to create Loaded Dice, with reservoirs inside their cores that can be filled with different alchemical liquids, such as alchemists fire or acid. The Loaded Dice's reservoir contains nondimensional space: Its inside is larger than its outside dimensions and it can hold up to 1lb of alchemical liquid. The dice detect as faint conjuration. The materials cost a total of 10 gold to make a set of twenty dice. Adding the masterwork quality costs 6 gp per single unit of ammunition; for adding magical enhancements refer to the crafting Magic Weapons.
An alchemy check (DC=17) is required to create a Deck of Sharpened Cards, which are ordinary-looking cards with razor edges. The materials needed cost 30 gold total to create a total of 60 cards. Adding the masterwork quality costs 6 gp per single unit of ammunition; for adding magical enhancements refer to the crafting Magic Weapons.
Dice or cards that hits its target are destroyed or rendered useless, and if it misses, it has a 50% chance of being destroyed or lost.
The Gambler gains the ability to place an area spell or a touch spell upon a card. When the card is thrown, the spell's area is centered on where the card lands, even if the spell could normally be centered only on the caster. This ability allows the Gambler to use the card's range rather than the spell's range. It takes a standard action to cast the spell and throw the card. This provokes attacks of opportunity from every foe who threatens you at the time you make your ranged attack. The card must be thrown in the round the spell is cast, or the spell is wasted.
Alternatively, you can cast an area spell as an enchantment upon the card. The enchanted card holds the spell for 1 hour, after which the spell dissipates and the card returns to normal. If anyone other than you touches the card, the spell dissipates and the card returns to normal. You may drop or place the enchanted card on the ground, and as long as you are within 1 mile of the card, you can cause the spell to activate.
Lady Luck's Kiss: At level 3, the Lady of Fortune smiles on the Gambler even when he has bad luck. The Gambler gains a luck bonus equal to his charisma modifier to all of his saves. This bonus stacks with other bonuses.
Miss Fortune: At level 4, the gamblers luck improves greatly, for good or bad. The Gambler may choose to add his charisma modifier as a luck bonus/penalty to all rolls he makes. This bonus stacks with bonuses/penalties gained from Beginner's luck. This can be applied to rolls for skill checks, ability checks, saves, caster level checks, attack rolls, and damage rolls. If a damage roll would be reduced to below 0, it simply deals 0 damage. Attacks or spells that deal damage with multiple dice, you only add your bonus/penalty once, for example; a 6th level Sorcerer's fireball deals 6d6 fire damage, with Miss Fortune it becomes 6d6 + Miss Fortune bonus/penalty; a melee attack with a falchion deals 2d4 damage, with Miss Fortune it becomes 2d4 + Miss Fortune bonus/penalty. However there's only a 51% percent chance that the number will be positive. Roll a d100, 1-49 means negative, 50-90 means positive, 91-100 means positive at double the bonus. If it is negative, you suffer only half the penalty rounded down to a minimum of -1 (+Bonus=-Penalty: +1=-1, +2=-1, +3=-1, +4=-2, +5=-2, +6=-3, +7=-3, +8=-4, +9=-4, +10=-5).
My Lucky Day: At level 5, due to the Gambler's constant love affair with Lady Luck, his enemies are always unlucky. 2/week, the Gambler is able to reduce the 'luck' of one target and increase his own. The Gambler makes a ranged touch attack as a full round action with either one die or one card that receives a +5 enhancement to hit. If the attack successfully deals damage (0 damage is still damage), the target must then make a Will save (DC= 15 + Gambler level + charisma modifier). If the target fails the Will save, the target has a -5 luck penalty all attack rolls, saves, and caster level checks for 24 hours. In addition upon successfully reducing an enemy's luck, for 24 hours, when the Gambler uses Beginner's Luck or Miss Fortune, when he rolls a negative, it is treated as a reduced bonus instead of a penalty (+Bonus=+Bonus:+1=+1, +2=+1, +3=+1, +4=+2, +5=+2, +6=+3, +7=+3, +8=+4, +9=+4, +10=+5). The luck penalty to enemies can stack with itself, but not with any other luck penalties.
Equipment to help out the Gambler:[edit]
Deck of Cards:
|Simple Weapons
|Ranged Weapons
|Loaded Dice
|40 feet
|20 dice = 1 lb. Individually, N/A
|Deck of Sharpened Cards
|60 feet
|60 card deck = 1/2 lb. Individually, N/A
Helpful Notes on Thrown Ranged Weapons: When throwing dice or cards, a Gambler can draw dice or cards as a free action so long as the Gambler has at least one hand free. As a full round action, you can make iterative attacks with several thrown weapons (one per attack) if your base attack bonus allows. This provokes attacks of opportunity from every foe who threatens you at the time you make your ranged attack. The Rapid Shot feat can be used to get one more attack at your highest BAB, but both attacks suffers a -2 penalty to attack, and each successive attack suffers a cumulative -2 penalty to attack.
Dice and cards, as with any thrown weapon, you apply your Dexterity modifier to your attack roll and apply your Strength modifier to your damage roll if your attack hits.
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"I made it to state" is a phrase that will be used more than ever by Georgia's high school wrestlers this year.
Why is that? Due to the icy conditions last weekend, wrestling's sectional tournaments were cancelled. It was part of an emergency plan by the Georgia High School Association, which compensated by adding an extra bracket for this weekend's traditional state championships. In Class AAAAA-AA, the 16-man bracket has been expanded to 32. Class A will go from 8-man brackets to 16.
The three-day competition begins on Thursday at Gwinnett Arena, with the title matches scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday.
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February 17th, 2010
3:58 pm
#4 versus #1 in the first round still proves to be a likely win for the #1. those guys who are #1 seeds in 5a didn't get there with easy region wins, especially in regions 7 and 6. those are perhaps the toughest two regions in the state from top to bottom . guys who go into the loser's bracket in the second round may have to wrestle a truly great wrestler who got upset in round 2.
February 17th, 2010
5:16 pm
Beware of Zoe Castaneda…. 126 chick from Berkmar.. went 12 – 6 against the guys…
February 17th, 2010
5:51 pm
Couldn't you have 1vs32, 2vs31, 3vs30,4vs29,5vs28,6vs27, etc…?
February 18th, 2010
5:01 pm
watch out for cory canada at 145 from heritage
February 19th, 2010
6:52 pm
Wish more people cared about the coverage…like to see something like this all season.
February 20th, 2010
12:31 am
watch out for Dylan Tanner at 152 from Fayette County he went 60-2 this season and is ranked #1 in the state. he's going to go all the way. hahahahaha
February 20th, 2010
8:37 am
I'm OK with the fix for last weekend's weather. After all before Sectionals were implemented last year (a GOOD move, by the way) the tournament was a 32-man bracket. But, there should have been real seeding for State. The format used for Sectionals SHOULD put the best Region Champion against the worst region 4th placer. That should be the way they do State, too. This would only require they rank the placers; winning region would still put you against a region 4th place wrestler; if you have the best record among the 8 region champs, you should get to face the worst 4th place wrestler and would lessen the possibility of upsets in the critical first round.


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