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Computer-assisted fishing
Question: In the regs it states, "It is unlawful to take or assist in the taking of any fish in or from this state, by computer-assisted remote fishing." However, I have heard that you can use a remote-controlled boat to tow a line and or bait out as long as the bait and hook are connected to a rod and reel and not to the boat. Is there any truth to this?
—Toby M.
Answer: Most of these remote-controlled boats that people talk about are not powered by computers. They are battery-powered. Only remote computer-assisted fishing is prohibited. Even though the remote controls may employ some computer technology, this law does not prohibit their use as long as the person in control is present at the site. Thus, these types of boats are legal to use as long as the angler maintains control of the hook and line via a fishing rod. Remote-controlled boats are most often used to take hook and line out farther or into tight places that the angler cannot easily reach by regular casting.
Remember that a legal number of hooks must be used, and in inland waters you are limited to either three hooks or three artificial lures with a maximum of three hooks on each lure (California Code of Regulations Title 14, section 2.00).
Archery season
Question: My dad and I often hunt together. During archery season and squirrel season, I hunt deer with a bow and he always comes along with me. We were wondering if it's OK for him to hunt squirrels with a .22 rifle while I hunt deer.
—William H.
Answer: During an archery only deer season, you are prohibited from carrying, or having under your control, any firearm (Fish and Game Code, section 4370). The exception is if you are a peace officer. However, if your dad is not hunting deer, this provision would not apply to him.
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Question: I have family in Mexico who have given me a parrot and some love birds which I would like to bring to California. I have been searching the Web and have been directed here. Any information on this subject would be greatly appreciated.
—Bob S.
Answer: Some species of "love birds," such as Quaker or monk parakeets, are prohibited under restricted species law (found in CCR Title 14, section 671(c)(1)). If the species you are inquiring about are not restricted species, provisions to import them can be found by consulting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. For a complete list of restricted species, please check http://bit.ly/174Xitr.
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Answer: A kayak is generally considered a boat/vessel, so regulations that apply to boats also apply to kayaks when angling. Unless you are fishing for a few species such as rockfish, lingcod, cabezon, greenling or salmon north of Point Conception (Santa Barbara County), there are no boat-specific limits on rods for boats fishing in the ocean. A landing net with an opening of not less than 18 inches is required for boats (and kayaks). The reason is for assistance in landing undersize fish of species having minimum size limits (CCR Title 14, section 28.65(d)).
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Four Seasons Resort NevisP.O. Box 565, Pinney's Beach, 0000 Charlestown (Show map) This resort features 3 infinity pools, spa facilities and a golf course on site. Each night the resort there is a night show and Wi-Fi connection is free of charge. At the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, the rooms and houses are air-conditioned and have TVs with DVD players and telephone lines. The private bathrooms are marble and come equipped with a hairdryer. Some of the villas and homes feature a private pool, plus views of the sea or mountains. The Four Seasons has 4 on-site restaurants, from breakfast buffets, to Italian-style dinners. There is also a library bar. Other types of cuisines available are seafood-like, West-Indian fusion and steak-style. This property earned the AAA Five Diamond Award. The spa services include massages and rejuvenating body treatments. There are also salon services available. Other activities that can be performed at the Four Seasons are sailing courses, hikes and diving. Charlestown is 2 miles from the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, and the Nevis Vance Amory International Airport is 5 miles away. Hotel Rooms: 196, Hotel Chain: Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. The most recent booking for this property was made on Dec 6 at 5:51 PM from Canada.
OutdoorsGrounds, Terrace, Outdoor Pool (All Year) ActivitiesNewspapers, Fitness Center, Golf Course (within 2 miles), Fishing, Spa, Massage, Playground, Library, Diving, Snorkeling, Entertainment Staff Food & DrinkBar, Restaurant With Dining Menu, Snack Bar InternetFree! Wi-Fi is available in all areas and is free of charge. ParkingFree! Free private parking is available on site (reservation is not needed). Services24-Hour Front Desk, Room Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Airport Shuttle, Business Center, Laundry, VIP Room Facilities, Ironing Service, Currency Exchange, On-Site ATM, Concierge Service GeneralSafe, Stores in Hotel Check-inFrom 3:00 PM Check-outUntil 12:00 PM Cancellation/
Nisbet Plantation Beach ClubIn a beautiful setting on Nisbet Beach and next to Newcastle Bay, Nisbet Plantation Beach Club features an outdoor swimming pool with Caribbean Sea views.
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Noting right wingers consistent ability to screw up the US economy is important information. It will help avoid future depressions and explosions of US debt. Further noting that Teabag people are especially dangerous is also useful.
Urban Dictionary: teabag www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabag
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1) To insert one's **** into the mouth of another (of either gender),
BTW,tea bag is two words. Learn the english languge before posting.
Tea bag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_bag
A tea bag is a small, porous sealed bag containing tea leaves and used for brewing tea, or herbs or spices for brewing tisanes.
TEA Party movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movementCached - Similar
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According to the New York Times, "The Tea Party agenda is not well defined, though it is anti-government, anti-spending, anti-immigration and anti- compromise
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CHEF JEFF — ONE BYTE AT A TIME: Mixed Herb Angel Hair Pasta
This dish takes only a minute to cook and will pair well with a number of foods.By: Herald Staff Report,
This dish takes only a minute to cook and will pair well with a number of foods.
Mixed Herb Angel Hair Pasta
¼ pound fresh angel hair pasta
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1 cup chopped fresh basil
½ cup snipped fresh chives
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Fill large saucepan with water and bring to a boil. Add pasta and stir. Boil 1 minute. (If using dried angel hair pasta, boil 3 to 4 minutes.) Drain. Place in bowl or back in saucepan and add oil and balsamic vinegar. Toss well. Add basil, chives and salt and pepper to taste. Toss again.
Yield: Serves 2.
Approximate nutritional analysis per serving: 259 calories, 19 percent of calories from fat, 5.5 grams fat (0.8 grams saturated, 3.5 grams monounsaturated), no cholesterol, 8.2 grams protein, 43.4 grams carbohydrates, 2.4 grams fiber, 4 milligrams sodium.
Grab more food tidbits at the Chef Jeff blog at GrandForksHerald.com.
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SPIRIT Among Us/2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-10 & HEBREWS 12:1-13
Deadly crashes
accidents that topple our lives
crushing them into the ground.
Ambulances screaming and racing
as if a special eulogy has begun to sound wild.
Death is in the bones we need
and death is in the air we breathe.
Death is in the shattered glass.
Death is in our blood stained past.
A mother lie crying
wailing for her child.
A father lie sighing
perplexed and wretchedly beguiled.
Frightened eyes searching for focus
how to see through all the locusts.
Flames once thought to be scary
now help point the safe way out.
Water now consumes a timeless drought.
Frantically running
some appear to be insanely mad.
Worshipers and believers kneeling
their hearts hearing the GOOD NEWS fast.
Their weeping patience and FAITH
IN the LORD GOD SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST
has helped them through their mirrored past.
Some have sat or slept awake
for so long and long and long.
They new a door would miraculously appear to be rung
for a DIVINE window was prophesied long ago to come.
Not to worry
confusion will all too soon be ceased.
Prepare yourself a supper
for TODAY you live
so with your appetite please now shall you feast.
FOREVER and ETERNAL EYES
watch over all and through.
Angels are walking among us.
Angels are coming back for us.
The INVISIBLE shall now be seen FOREVER more.
Randall Paul Prazuch
Copyright © 2010
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I made some mini quilts for the shop, they are in there right now! The sun was so bright here today it has washed out the pictures, so I will have to try and sort that over the next couple of days. Ho hum!!! (a photographer I am most certainl not!)
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We want Topshop in Portugal !
We love Portugal. We love fashion. We love Topshop. And we want this all together, so 'We want Topshop in Portugal !' We are sick of seeing fashion bloggers with topshop clothes and accessories and the Kate Moss for Topshop collection that we can't buy unless we go to London or other far away city. We (portuguese people) deserve a Topshop in our country and we suggest the Oporto city or Lisbon. Sign this petition if you LOVE topshop and you want it in Portugal.
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Didier Reynders confirms that human rights are a priority for Belgium
Following the international Human Rights Day that took place on 10 December, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders confirmed that human rights are more than ever a priority within his policy. These are values that form an integral part of our democratic society.
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Didier Reynders pleased with the World Trade Organisation agreement in Bali
Didier Reynders, the Deputy Prime and Minister for Foreign Affairs, is pleased with the outcome of the ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Bali. The agreement that was reached is a historic step forwards for the multilateral trading system. A number of measures within the agreement promote the integration of least developed countries in international trade. They are a response to the pleas from those countries to guarantee food security for rural and urban dwellers. The agreement also opens the way for a reduction in administrative obligations required for importing and exporting goods, which should boost international trade and help developing countries. Our companies will also benefit from the advantages of this move.
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Didier Reynders's reaction about the demise of President Mandela
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders has learned with great sadness of the demise of His Excellency, Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa.
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Didier Reynders and Annemie Turtelboom are pleased that Belgium is giving the International Criminal Court more criminal jurisdiction
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders and Minister of Justice Annemie Turtelboom are pleased that Belgium is giving the International Criminal Court in The Hague more criminal jurisdiction. Our country has implemented two amendments to the Rome Statute. It is on the basis of this Rome Statute that the International Criminal Court was established.
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Basic Generic Training - BGT - Call for applications
In the framework of the CSDP, the EU conducts since 2003 civilian crisis management missions (CCM) in various unstable or crisis area's on different continents. In order to conduct these missions, the EU is searching mainly for civilian experts in the area of justice (magistrates and judges) police and administration. Therefore, Belgium organizes at national level, twice a year, a training (BGT) as an integral part of the EU training policy to support the European civilian capability to implement CSDP missions. The next training will take place from 14 April till 25 April 2014 in Brussels.
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Stick these solar cells on your phone or whatever else
What if everything around you had the potential to generate small amounts of energy?
We've seen flexible, even stick-on photovoltaic cells before, but these decal-style solars are compact and fun.
In a recent article in Scientific Reports, Stanford University mechanical engineering assistant professor Xiaolin Zheng and colleagues describe thin-film solar cells that can be peeled and stuck anywhere.
The researchers manufactured them on a reusable silicon and silicon dioxide wafer and then stuck them on paper, plastic, and window glass.
The original cell efficiency of 7.5 percent was maintained, and the manufacturing uses existing processes and materials. That … Read more


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Voted "Best Vintage Clothing Store" on toronto.com's internet poll, Gadabout is an amazing repository for all that is vintage. Gadabout houses an extensive collection of vintage clothing, accessories, and fabrics including household textiles, blankets and rugs. In addition, the store carries ephemera, nostalgia and curios. Our Manly Man Corner is famous for its variety and oddities.
Clothing dates from the late 1800s through the 1970s (some 80s available but it's not vintage yet) and is in impeccable condition. (We don't carry any t-shirts or denim.) The store is a delight to the eye, a lift for the spirits and lots of fun. Visit often, new arrivals weekly.
Gadabout is not a consignment shop.
South of Queen St. East, one block east of Leslie.
For more information, see The Absolutely Vintage Website
Carefully collected from fabulous Ontario estates, this absolutely vintage sale features men's and women's clothing from the 1890s to the 1970s, antique jewellery, accessories, furnishings and textiles.
Gadabout (twice selected by Toronto.com readers as best vintage clothing store in Toronto), Angela McCool, and Eclectisaurus, have combined their considerable inventories to make this a not to be missed sale.


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When a band of Connecticut newspaper publishers prevailed on then-Governor Ella Grasso to pass Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act in 1975, they had two things going for them. One was the recent Watergate scandal. It not only forced President Richard M. Nixon to resign, it also created a backlash against official deception, and a new thirst for truth in government. The other asset was a young lawyer named Mitchell W. Pearlman.
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Winchester climate change campaigners have appointed another new patron.
Tim Jackson, principal of Sparsholt College, was appointed by Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC) at its AGM last Saturday.
Mr Jackson is an applied biologist who worked with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food before teaching and becoming principal at Sparsholt in 1998.
Sustainability is important to Sparsholt and he is keen to broaden the curriculum to include emerging occupations that are developing in environmentally sustainable technology.
WinACC director Chris Holloway said: "WinACC values its links with education and young people, and we try to base all our activities on solid intellectual foundations. So we are delighted that Tim is to join Joy Carter, vice chancellor of the University of Winchester, as a WinACC patron. We hope to work together to develop local skills in the green economy."
Mr Jackson said: "I am delighted to be invited to become a WinACC patron. I have attended several of their events and have been most impressed with their approach in considering the challenges facing our environment."
WinACC was founded in 2007 and aims to cut the carbon footprint of Winchester district by 30 per cent between 2004 and the end of 2015.
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With apologies to legendary arena announcer Michael Buffer, it's time to rumble in downtown Tulsa.
No, there isn't a championship heavyweight boxing bout coming to the BOK Center.
Nor is ONEOK Field hosting an outdoor edition of Wrestlemania. Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Ultimate Warrior won't be making special appearances at Cain's Ballroom, either.
Nevertheless, wrestling is making its mark downtown. It's not your average, run-of-the-mill, as-seen-on-TV wrestling event -- in fact, you'll be hard-pressed to find this type of wrestling on any sort of TV north of the border.
This is lucha libre, and the luchadores have found a home in the Luchador Bar at Eloté Café, 514 S. Boston Ave.
The phrase "lucha libre" is Spanish for "free fighting," and the fighters at Elote put on quite a show.
Before the Luchador Bar opened, Eloté owner Libby Auld said she was looking for a way to keep the restaurant busy into the late hours of the evening.
"We were sick of hearing people ordering one drink and then going to another bar," Auld said.
Once Auld decided to open a bar, the search for a theme began. Auld wanted to do something different and thought a luchador-themed bar would be funny, she said. A 10-foot ring was built, and the Luchador Bar came to life.
"We thought we needed to do something different downtown in order to be successful," Auld said.
And successful it has been. Auld said the house is always packed to watch the técnicos battle the rudos -- heroes versus villains -- in the luchador fights, which take place on the first and third Thursdays of each month.
In keeping with the tradition of lucha libre, the luchadores all wear masks to shield their true identity from the public eye, along with costumes to help define the fighters' personas.
Auld said the luchadores have been embracing their roles and accepting the bumps and bruises that come with battling it out in the ring.
La Corredora Luchadora, a técnico, and Margarita the Meter Maid, a rudo, are two of several fighters who duke it out every other Thursday.
La Corredora, who enters to the song "She's Going the Distance" by Cake, said it's fun to get out, have some fun and elbow drop opponents.
"The scene isn't very large, especially for women, but it's just fun," she said. "It's a great environment. The owners had a great idea in bringing us in. And what else do you want to do twice a month than come out and wrestle, have a good time and have a couple of beers after you wrestle?"
Every luchador has a nemesis, and for La Corredora, that enemy is Margarita the Meter Maid, who takes her name from the Beatles song "Lovely Rita."
Margarita, who issues citations and throws coins to the customers -- "People need to keep their change so they have coins to feed the meter," she said -- said the fans love to hate her.
"It feels really good, because as the Meter Maid, people don't like you," she said. "So anytime you get a chance to bring somebody down off the turnbuckles, it feels really good."
As the luchador fights draw bigger and bigger crowds each week, Auld said the new bar is helping to accomplish a goal she shares with other downtown restaurateurs -- bringing new life to downtown.
"We all have the same mission," she said, "and that's to get customers downtown."
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My Favorite Songs of 2011
Here are some of my favorite songs of the year. I decided to just pick ten and put them in alphabetical order. There was far too much great music this year to try and pick one song for the entire year. However, with that having been said, here are ten of my favorites (plus an honorable mention not in alphabetical order):
(Honorable Mention) David Ramirez: "Fires"
Adele: "Rolling In The Deep"
Alabama Shakes: "Hold On"
(By the way, if I had to pick a favorite song of the year, which I don't), this would probably be it. Definitely a band to watch in 2012:
Chris Bathgate: "Big Ghost"
Bon Iver: "Holocene"
Cass McCombs: "County Line"
m83: "Midnight City"
Josh T. Pearson: "Country Dumb"
Seryn: "So Within"
Shabazz Palaces: "Swerve . . . the reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir notwithstanding)
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Bright color changes and machine washable yarn, now in a sport weight! It's Classic Elite's Liberty Wool Light, the finer gauge cousin to the popular Liberty Wool. Liberty Wool Light is perfect for shawls, socks, scarves, and fine sweaters that showcase its wonderful color combinations. Easy to care for and easy on the eyes--you'll love Liberty Wool Light. Made in Italy.
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My bonus.. I was traveling on a cruise and bought this yarn for a shawlette. Thought I had enough, but needed another skein. Ordered it from Webs and got the same dye lot.. WOW!
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I selected this yarn for a scarf for my son, to go with his brown leather jacket. Red and brown, a nice break from all the black he usually wears. But this yarn is PINK and PURPLE. It doesn't look anything like the online images.
I'm really disappointed.Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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In the picture it shows this yarn to be very red and brown. The yarn I got is purple, pink,grey, and brown, with very little red.
The title of the yarn describes the yarn. The picture does not.(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
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I ordered this yarn to crochet a granny square blanket for my grand daughter's American Girl Doll 70's style bed. The colors seemed to match perfectly (on the internet), and just what I was looking for.
When I started to crochet, I found the crochet hook constantly split the strands of the yarn, making it take a lot longer to complete the small project.
I usually knit - and I don't think the splitting would be as big a problem knitting. But I totally would not recommend it for crocheting.Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By John W Dower (W W Norton & Co/The New Press 596pp £22.99)
JOHN DOWER WAS provoked to write this book by the almost instant decision to christen the ruins of the World Trade Center 'Ground Zero', a name originally associated with the atomic attacks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In observing how the ruin quickly became an icon of American victimhood, he was struck, as a historian, by how little his own countrymen knew of their own terror bombing of Japanese cities in 1944–5, which had culminated in the two atomic attacks. We remember the atom bomb for the iconic photograph of the mushroom cloud, taken by the Enola Gay's tail-gunner, George Caron. It soon became the logo of fifty-five companies in New York and even, more bizarrely, the Miss Atomic Bomb Pageant in Las Vegas.
Dower's book opens with the largely unchallenged connection drawn by the US media and the American public between al-Qaeda's surprise attack and Japan's 'day of infamy' sixty years earlier. It takes the analogy much further, addressing US failures of intelligence and imagination both in 1941 and 2001. The 9/11 Commission singled out 'imagination' as one of the central failures revealed by the attacks. It went so far as to recommend that the best way to avoid another surprise attack was to 'bureaucratise the imagination' – an oxymoron, adds Dower, that we can picture the bureaucrats taking seriously to heart by forming committees, preparing flow charts, and perhaps even creating a National Imagination Agency (NIA).
The book also explores the many factors that contributed to Japan's successful postwar recovery and reconstruction on the one hand, and to the lamentable disintegration of Iraq as a society and as an economy on the other. Even if the insurgency had never broken out after the fall of Saddam, the US simply wasn't prepared to play the role of occupying power that it had in 1945. The neo-conservatives, then in the ascendant in Washington, were market fundamentalists who lacked the sense of public duty shown by the experts who worked for MacArthur in Japan. And although MacArthur's military advisers had been dedicated to creating a sound capitalist economy, what they understood by reconstruction was very different from what the neo-conservatives had in mind in Iraq. Sixty years ago it meant land reform, the emergence and encouragement of organised labour and trust busting, as well as 'economic democratisation'. By contrast, the Bush administration put up much of the country's economy for sale, outsourcing the task of reconstruction mostly to THE STATE WE'RE IN
American subcontractors. Nation-building was privatised for the first time. And although there has been some recovery, especially in the oil market, the country is not set to become the regional ally that both Germany and Japan rapidly became in the early days of the Cold War. Instead, it looks increasingly likely to become a potential satellite of a nuclear-armed Iran and not what President Bush promised: an Arab democracy at the heart of the Middle East.
It might also be added, though Dower doesn't, that it is difficult to see how nation-building can be done 'under fire'. The US patented nation-building in the American South after Lee's surrender in 1865. It was actually called 'Reconstruction' and it was achieved after years of military occupation. As well as launching Germany and Japan towards 'economic democratisation' after the Second World War, the US also rebuilt Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989. But as Dower makes clear in an earlier Pulitzer Prizewinning work, tellingly entitled Embracing Defeat (1999), if a nation fails to welcome its defeat it will quickly unravel. Perhaps it all depends on how quickly a regime collapses.
By Jim Frederick (Macmillan 439pp £12.99)
IN OCTOBER 2005, the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment (1/502) of the 101st Airbor ne Division deployed to Iraq to take their turn garrisoning the area south of Baghdad known as the 'Triangle of Death'. This was the time when the Bush Administration's scheme for 'invasion lite', followed by a self-funded reconstruction programme using Iraq's oil revenue, was dramatically unravelling. Dangerously low Coalition troop numbers and implausible expectations of success had given armed factions in both the Shi'a and Sunni communities the time and space to organise themselves. At the same time, the Jordanian Abu Musab al Zarqawi's 'al-Qaeda in Iraq' – in reality, a vicious Sunni faction with little real connection to Osama bin Laden's organisation – had established a campaign of atrocity targeting the Shi'a community, with the presumed intention of provoking all-out sectarian conflict.
Spread desperately thinly and lacking a coherent tactical approach, the soldiers of 1/502 struggled to maintain secur ity within their area of operations and quickly began to take casualties from snipers and the seemingly omnipresent Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Despite this, on 12 March 2006, four soldiers from 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1/502, decided, apparently
Looking back, even George W Bush lamented that the US had won too quickly. 'Had we to do it over again we would look at the consequences of catastrophic success – being so successful so fast, that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in, escaped to fight another day.' Or as General Myers asserted, victory proved 'too elegant'. In hindsight, he told the Senate Armed Services Committee, 'we were probably too gracious in our victory'.
John Dower ends his reflections with the conclusion that there are likely to be more failures and military disasters in the years to come. Some readers will find the author too partisan, others too pessimistic, but he offers a sobering analysis, one that defines the contours of the fast unfolding post-American world. There are two kinds of imagination, of course: imagining the next possible challenge, and having enough imagination to dig oneself out of a hole when you find yourself in one. With respect to Afghanistan that is precisely where the US is failing, in part because the 'culture of war' still continues to exercise its iron grip. To order this book at £18.39, see LR bookshop on page 10
spontaneously, to leave their small, isolated outpost and visit the home of a nearby Iraqi family where they gangraped and then murdered fourteen-year-old Abeer al Janabi as well as killing her parents and younger sister.
Black Hearts is journalist Jim Frederick's attempt to explain how this disgusting crime came to take place. Does he succeed? He certainly nails the circumstances and the situation. Frederick describes a unit that appears to have been almost entirely dysfunctional. The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Kunk, is painted as a man whose leadership style involved routine public humiliation of his most senior subordinates; junior commanders and NCOs seem to have had little rapport with each other or the soldiers they were supposed to lead; duties and missions were assigned with little regard for the actual manpower or resources available to handle them; logistic and administrative functions at the sharp end were chaotic and ineffective; and rest periods and 'down time' seem to have been almost non-existent.
Against this backdrop, the insurgents achieved a steady rate of attrition. Twenty-one members of the battalion were killed during their tour of duty but scores more were seriously wounded; more than 40 per cent of the battalion received treatment for mental health issues whilst they were still 'in country'. Almost everyone in the battalion was caught by an IED strike at one time or another; many were on the wrong end of multiple attacks, sometimes on the same day. Firefights were frequent and often intense. In a landmark incident in June 2006, three members of 1st Platoon, Bravo Company, were captured, killed and mutilated by insurgents.
But did this chaotic situation lead to the rape and murder of Abeer al Janabi and her family? Not directly. Private Steven Green, the ringleader of the crime, was identified not long afterwards (although before his involvement was
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MOUNT HOPE - This community of less than a thousand residents lost its only school when the elementary school closed in 2011. But the building could reopen in August 2013 as a K-12 public charter school.
Playing a lead role in the school's future is another school two counties away from Mount Hope: McPherson College.
An associate professor and his graduate students have taken up the project, with the endorsement of education and community groups.
"You can't predict how this will play out," said Mark Malaby, director of the master's in education program at McPherson College.
But these opportunities don't come along often enough, Malaby said, where you can help a town and create a different kind of school in the process.
"We're going to take this and make something of it," he said.
Help sought
Mount Hope lies in Sedgwick County, and the K-8 Mount Hope Elementary School was USD 312's only school outside Reno County.
When a budgetary squeeze forced USD 312 to chop hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenditures, it reduced staff and closed the Mount Hope school at the end of the 2010-2011 school year.
Haven USD Superintendent Patrick Call summons the word "serendipity" to describe how talk about using closed school property variously involved a USD 312 committee, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas (ESSDACK), and McPherson College.
"It kind of happened real quickly," Call said.
Malaby said ESSDACK contacted him in late summer 2012 about "the potential for a really interesting project."
That project: Creating a new school in Mount Hope.
"To get the school back, it has to do something different," Malaby said.
To be financially sustainable, the Mount Hope charter school has to attract students not currently enrolled in USD 312 schools, thus bringing in additional state aid.
The plan calls for a project-based "rural life" charter school, with potentially an entrepreneurial focus for Grades 7-12.
"Rural life" does not necessarily mean agriculture, Call said.
Malaby said rural life pertains to developing the community of Mount Hope.
A one-building K-12 school in a small town could appeal to families in northwest Wichita, less than 30 minutes away, or to families home-schooling children, as Call and Malaby see it.
Engaging students
Charter schools enjoy greater flexibility than traditional schools.
USD 312's Yoder Charter School appeals to Amish families, and the district's K-12 Pleasantview Academy offers virtual and on-site learning.
Malaby offered an example of how a project-based Mount Hope charter school would interact with the community.
Juniors and seniors could learn math and a business or business prospect could develop a business plan through collaboration, he said.
Or, students could help develop a community festival, Malaby said.
Project-based learning is aligned with Common Core Standards, the successor to No Child Left Behind standards, according to Malaby.
Rather than emphasizing the memorization of facts, Common Core encourages a deeper understanding of a topic and cross-integration of the concepts across multiple subjects.
Project-based learning, Malaby said, addresses a key problem in schools.
"Kids think school is boring," he said. They "don't understand why they are learning much of what they're learning," he said.
Like a movie within a movie, Malaby's own graduate students, all currently working in education as they pursue their master's degree, are helping to devise the model for the Mount Hope project-based school as part of their own non-traditional project-based graduate studies.
One of their obstacles is overcoming the past.
Moving on
The USD 312 decision to close Mount Hope Elementary School prompted some families to sell their homes and move into the Maize school district, said Mount Hope Mayor Terry Somers.
Some Mount Hope children continued in Haven USD 312 schools, but other students transferred to schools in the Renwick and Burrton school districts.
"The parents have made their choice," Somers said.
Mount Hope parents would not automatically enroll their children in a Mount Hope charter school, Somers said.
Janine Addis is a student in Malaby's program and also a former Mount Hope Elementary School teacher now teaching at Yoder Charter School. She and her husband live in Mount Hope, and they have daughters attending Haven High School and Haven Middle School.
Addis said she would be up for sending the younger daughter to the charter school for her high school years. But Addis acknowledged that parents with students already in high school and involved in school activities would not want to transfer them.
Addis also noted that hard feelings toward USD 312 still persist for some in Mount Hope. Some people won't choose the charter school as long as it is part of the Haven school district, she said.
That's one reason it's beneficial the McPherson College program, instead of USD 312, is a partner in the school's planning, Addis said.
On Nov. 12, Malaby made a presentation to the Mount Hope City Council and the council passed a resolution in support of the Mount Hope charter school concept.
Malaby said the graduate students will survey Mount Hope residents, to determine what values they identify with their community - such as neighborliness and respect. That, in turn, will determine the values and the projects at the charter school.
"That's the beauty of this," Malaby said. The community will have "ownership" in the school, he said.
Would the K-12 school offer sports and other extracurrilar activities?
"Anything that will bring the school and town together is definitely on board," Malaby said.
The state is changing the charter school application document, but USD 312 has indicated its intent to apply once the form is updated.
"If everything goes perfect, we'll open it next fall," said Superintendent Call of the envisioned school.
"It's very ambitious," Addis said, but it's doable "if we lay all the groundwork and don't skip any steps," she said. She quickly added that they won't skip any steps.
Ideally, Call said, the district would know sometime in January if the school is going to open. The school still could open in August if a decision is made in March-April, said Call, in his last year at the helm of USD 312.
One challenge is the infancy of the McPherson College graduate program shepherding the Mount Hope project.
"Right now I have five, with one more coming on board, but I need more," Malaby said of graduate students.
Potentially, the Mount Hope School could open with elementary grades or combined grade school classes.
"They're perfectly willing to have a year or two of slow growth," Malaby said, of school district and city leaders.
Both parties are enthusiastic enough to be patient, he said.


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Holiday Gift Hint: Boutique Lingerie Wednesday, 21 November 2007 Samantha Chang, the designer of Samantha Chang Intimates, takes us on a spin around the Boutique Lingerie showroom. Find out about the exciting new brands in sleepwear, loungewear, and intimates that stand apart from the more generic brands in their superior details, designs, + fabrics. Designers include Lavit, Panache, Little Bra Company, Bisikay, Ravage, Keep Me and more!


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Call for papers - Third International Conference eLearning-2012
This annual conference serves as international forum for researches, developers and educators to discuss about technology, innovation and best practices in e-learning, distance education and new learning opportunities.
This year, the eLearning-2012 conference will pay special attention to all aspects of quality assurance in e-learning and accreditation issues in higher education sector as well as other sectors. The conference covers technical and non-technical issues for this type of education. Selected papers from conference will be published in International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning - iJET The Conference Chair: Professor Dragan Domazet, rector of BMU


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"Art Heals"
September 9, 2013 - January 3, 2014
Art Heals: Art has the capability to inspire and impact an individual's road to recovery. It isn't important whether the artist heals through the creation of the art, or the patron feels inspired and uplifted by the art, just the fact that it happens at all. Works of art that are submitted for this exhibit should have some relationship to a healing process, whether it is the artist's own journey, depicts a person, place or thing that inspires, or speaks to a medical concern or issue. Art can touch someone's heart and soul, and help them become whole and healthy. Help us heal.
Frederick Memorial Hospital is interested in reaching out to local artists by offering them a unique opportunity in this unique setting. The artists will be able to impact this space by creating a visually positive and uplifting environment for the community and the center's patients. Each showing will have its own theme chosen to inspire. The art will have significant visibility in this venue. The art will be rotated on a regular basis.
The gallery at the Women's Center at FMH Crestwood will have a new exhibit just after we ring in the new year. Please join us for an opening reception January 10th from 5-7 p.m.


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Sites that have a high number of social shares, comments, tweets and +1s tend to rank better in Google, according to a new report from Searchmetrics.
And of all the four main social networks it appears that Google+ actually has the strongest correlation with high search rankings.
The report is based on analysis of 10,000 search terms from Google UK, using the first three pages of results.
It's important to point out that this is a correlation rather than causation, so we can't necessarily say that social signals definitely lead to higher search rankings. But it does seem to suggest that there's some relationship between the two.
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by David Moth 01 August 2013 13:41pm 4 comments
Every now and then a report is published that suggests people are slowly coming round to the idea of using Google+, however the reality is that it is still a long, long way behind Facebook in terms of active users and average time spent on the site.
Also, I recently looked at how major retailers use Google+ and it's clear that they don't have a very high opinion of the network.
But there's still a nagging sense that businesses can't afford to totally ignore G+, as there's a chance that in the long term it will have an increasing influence on search rankings.
Given this discussion, the use of G+ was explored in the new Econsultancy/NetBooster UK Search Engine Marketing Benchmark Report 2013. It revealed some striking differences between client-side and agency responses over the perceived impact of G+.
by David Moth 24 July 2013 11:55am 17 comments
Every so often a report pops up suggesting that Google+ is far more popular than we actually think and that it's on course to dominate the world of social media.
Just recently stats emerged which showed that G+ was second only to Facebook in terms of social logins, and the popularity of the network among pre-teens and youngsters suggests that its long-term prospects appear healthy.
But from personal experience I've found that brands aren't particularly fussed about G+, despite the potential SEO benefits.
A survey of the top 20 UK online retailers revealed that 19 of them had G+ pages but only 13 posted content on a regular basis. And even the active pages achieved very low levels of user interaction.
by David Moth 17 July 2013 17:23pm 8 comments
In the latest of our posts looking at how major brands use the four main social networks I've decided to turn the spotlight on Pepsi.
The drinks brand is forced to play second fiddle to Coca-Cola's global dominance, and is unlikely to ever match its rival's huge social following.
However it should still make an interesting case study, particularly with its long list of brand ambassadors. This post follows on from similar blogs looking at brands such as McDonald's, Nike, Burberry and Walmart.
So without further ado, here is a quick overview of how Pepsi use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+...
by David Moth 15 July 2013 14:13pm 15 comments
Inspired by the works of our reporting superstar David Moth, I decided that with all these big brands being covered in our series on social strategies, it was high time we threw our own hat into the ring.
As I'm the one doing it (and an egomaniac), I thought it might be fun to talk about how and why we use different social channels at Econsultancy...
by Matt Owen 18 June 2013 11:17am 7 comments
In a recent study looking at the world's most social brands, four out of the top five were from the travel sector.
German airline Lufthansa came in third place, so it seems like a good case study for our series of posts looking at how different brands use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.
Lufthansa actually publishes its social media policy online, however it doesn't appear to have been updated in a while as it links to Twitter feeds that no longer exist.
So here's a look at how it uses the four main social networks. This post follows on from similar articles focusing on Walmart, Nike, Coca-Cola and Starbucks...
by David Moth 17 June 2013 11:40am 5 comments
As a reaction to its declining fortunes a few years ago Burberry decided to overhaul its marketing strategy and the company currently allocates around 60% of its ad budget to digital.
For that reason it's often highlighted as a brand that's ahead of the curve in terms of social marketing.
That obviously makes it the perfect subject for our regular series looking at how major brands use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.
This follows from similar posts focusing on ASOS, H&M, Starbucks, Coca-Cola and Red Bull...
by David Moth 12 June 2013 11:45am 6 comments
Google+ is an interesting conundrum as many people feel obliged to use it in the face of any logic and just because "it's Google".
We're all sitting around expecting that one day Google will unveil its true purpose and all the effort will have been worthwhile, but at the moment I feel that blind optimism is one of the only things keeping it going.
Admittedly the latest updates have improved the usability somewhat and Hangouts are certainly an interesting feature, but in the face of the sheer amount of time spent on Facebook and Twitter's increasingly important role as a news platform it does seem that G+ is floundering while trying to work out what purpose it actually serves.
Normal users don't need to fret about this problem and can wait for Google to lure them in with a killer new feature, however for brands it raises a bit of a dilemma.
by David Moth 29 May 2013 14:59pm 8 comments
For the latest in our posts looking at how major consumer brands make use of social media I've decided to take a look at Sony.
The company's official blurb states that it "participates in social media to listen, learn and share stories of the passionate people who help bring Sony to life."
The aim is then to learn from the conversations to create better products and services.
But does the company achieve this lofty goal? To find out, here's a look at how Sony uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+.
This follows on from similar posts looking at Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks, ASOS and The Rolling Stones...
by David Moth 29 May 2013 12:11pm 5 comments
It's time again for us to shine a light on how one of the world's biggest brands use the four main social networks.
However unlike in previous weeks when we've focused on consumer brands such as Coca-Cola, BMW, Red Bull and Nike, this week the subject is The Rolling Stones.
The Stones are obviously very different from the other brands we've looked at in that they have a dedicated, global fan base, but they've still got to try and maximise their revenue by flogging concert tickets and merchandise.
With ticket prices what they are this is no easy task, particularly when targeting younger fans who won't be as familiar with the band as older generations.
But social media allows them to bridge this gap to an extent and make the wrinkly rockers appear relevant and in tune with younger audiences.
So to find out exactly how they're doing it, here's a look at how The Rolling Stones use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+...
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Chucho Valdés & the Afro-Cuban Messengers
Even in a country with a grand tradition of virtuosic pianists, Chucho Valdés stands alone, a towering figure who combines the sheer power of McCoy Tyner with the dexterity of Oscar Peterson and a rhythmic sensibility steeped in the intricacies of Afro-Cuban culture. The conservatory-trained son of Cuban music icon Bebo Valdés and an eight-time Grammy winner, Chucho has spent much of his career in the vanguard of the Latin music. As a co-founder of the seminal ensemble Irakere with Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval, he forged an unprecedented synthesis of ritualistic Afro-Cuban percussion, post-bop improvisation, European classical music, rock and R&B. More recently he's stepped forward to stake an indisputable claim as jazz's most imposing pianist. Starting with 1998's Blue Note CD Bele Bele En La Havana, he's released a series of ever more astonishing albums under his own name, most recently 2013's Border-Free, an electrifying session featuring his talent-laden Afro-Cuban Jazz Messengers.
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Cheap hotels near Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam, Netherlands
With a location in the Old Center, close to Amsterdam's Red Light District, the Nieuwmarkt is a popular public square and marketplace. The Nieuwmarkt is best known for De Waag, an iconic structure that once served as a town gate, then a weigh house and is today a swanky restaurant and bar.
The square is surrounded by coffee shops and restaurants, and a market is set up most days. Organic food vendors set out their wares on Saturdays, while an antiques and book fair takes place on Sundays.
Hotels near Nieuwmarkt: Plenty of affordable hotels can be found within a short walk of the Nieuwmarkt. Walk north and you can reach bustling Centraal Station within 15 minutes; west and you'll hit the Oudekerk and the Red Light District; a jaunt to the east takes you into Plantagebuurt.
Address Staalkade 2 (Plantagebuurt)
The Amstel Canal House offers studios and guest rooms near the Old Center, Plantagebuurt and Grachtengordel South.
Address Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 147 (Grachtengordel South)
Located on the touristy Korte Leidsedwarsstraat, the two-star Hotel The Rookies provides 12 clean prefab rooms.
Address Prinsengracht 328 - 332 (Jordaan)
The Amsterdam Wiechmann Hotel is a central 37-room hotel overlooking the Prinsengracht canal, a short walk north of the Leidseplein.
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The perfectly nice Art Gallery Hotel is an intimate, well-located two-star property situated in an attractive Dutch townhouse. Rooms are smallish, but affordable.
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An important step in managing your eczema symptoms is to reduce skin irritation.
Avoid scratching or rubbing the skin. This can make the itch worse. Apply moisturizer whenever the skin feels dry or itchy.
Wash all new clothes before wearing them. This removes formaldehyde and other potentially irritating chemicals which are used during production and packing. Add a second rinse cycle to ensure removal of soap, if you are concerned. Residual laundry detergent, particularly the perfume or dye, may be irritating when it remains in the clothing. Changing to a liquid or milder detergent may also be helpful.
Wear garments that allow air to pass freely to your skin. Open weave, loose-fitting, cotton-blend clothing may be most comfortable. Avoid wearing wool.
Work and sleep in comfortable surroundings with a fairly constant temperature and humidity level.
Keep fingernails very short and smooth to help prevent damage due to scratching.
Appropriate use of sedating antihistamines may reduce itching to some degree through their tranquilizing and sedative effects.
Use sunscreen on a regular basis and always avoid getting sunburned. Use a sunscreen with an SPF of 15 or higher. Sunscreens made for the face are often less irritating than regular sunscreens.
Residual chlorine or bromine on the skin after swimming in a pool or hot tub may be irritating. Take a quick shower or bath immediately after swimming, washing with a mild cleanser from head to toe, and then apply an appropriate moisturizer.
The soak and seal procedure is an effective way to retain moisture in dry, irritated skin. Learn more.
There are many things that worsen the itching and rash of eczema (atopic dermatits). These are different for each person, and there are ways to avoid these irritants. Learn more.
An action plan will help you control your atopic dermatitis. It will help you know what to do if your skin is dry, itchy or has a rash. Learn more.
Skin infections often are a problem for people with atopic dermatitis because the condition has damaged their skin barrier. Infections can become quite serious if they are not treated promptly, so it is important to recognize the signs:
If you see any of these signs, contact a healthcare provider immediately. He or she can provide appropriate medication or other treatment.
Though the goal of managing atopic dermatitis is self-care, you should consult your healthcare provider if:
Atopic dermatitis is categorized as mild, moderate, or severe. Patients usually can place themselves in one of these categories depending on how they feel. A change from one of these categories to another is reason to consult a healthcare provider. He or she can suggest changes in medications or in methods, such as "soak and seal," for bringing symptoms under control.
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I am new to this forum and just getting started into playing civilization on the pc, but does anyone know if there is going to be a follow up game for Civ Revolution on the console???
I am new to this forum and just getting started into playing civilization on the pc, but does anyone know if there is going to be a follow up game for Civ Revolution on the console???
Problem is that Duke is a liar, Zef gets confused, Grayson has vanished into the ether and Mawpawk may have been drunk. And me? I always tell the truth.
Look down the front page a bit. There's one thread which starts a rumor of CivRev2 and another that seeks to squash it.
My theory is that Grayson's wife finally laid down the law...
Shoot... I'm supposed to prep for my next class today, but how can I when such mysteries abound!?!!? LOL!!
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(CNN) -- Sid Meier is the director of creative development at Firaxis Games. But to millions, he's better known as the "Father of Computer Gaming."
Now, the designer of "Civilization" is ready to take over a completely new world -- social gaming on the pages of Facebook.
"Civilization" is one of the most popular computer strategy games of all time, and has spawned several versions and updates over the past 20 years. The game allows players to build and develop their own cities, countries and civilizations across the expanse of time.
It has sold millions of copies and drawn in fans from around the world who are involved, vocal and loyal. From its beginning in 1991 to its most recent edition, last year's "Civilization V," Meier said it has been a strong, connected community that has kept the game strong.
"Players have continued to respond to the game in spite of how far technology has come, in spite of how the world has changed, in spite of how the demographics of game players have changed," Meier said. "Each game starts out in a brand new world (and is) probably going to go off in a different direction than your last game. You've never really exhausted the possibilities of the game."
Sid Meier: Facebook is "one more place to experience games."While the game primarily has remained a PC game over the years, Meier took his creation to consoles in 2008 with "Civilization Revolution." The game retained many of the PC version's features, but made them available to a new set of fans -- those who enjoy console and mobile gaming.
"We've seen console games getting more strategic, having more depth. It felt like, both in terms of the technology and also where players were, that they would respond to having a strategy type game on their console."
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Fans and critics who enjoyed the fast playability and ease of control warmly received the game. Long-time fans bemoaned the simplicity of the console version, but it won 2008's Best Strategy Game award from the British Academy Video Games Awards.
Now, Meier is ready to take to the pages of Facebook with an incarnation of the franchise called "Civilization World." Developers hope to have the game up and running this summer.
"It's been the most dramatic stretch for the game, I'd have to say, so far," he said.
"We really weren't looking to make a quote-unquote 'Facebook game'," he said. "We were looking at what does Facebook bring us that is unique, that we can leverage and take advantage of with 'Civilization'-style game play."
Meier said there were things that a Facebook game can offer Civ players over a traditional PC game. Connections with friends and a world with potentially hundreds of millions of players provided fuel for the development team to re-imagine the classic strategy game.
"What was really intriguing to us was being able to emphasize cooperative game play, which was something that really hadn't been a major part of 'Civilization' up to now," he said. "A lot of our design in 'Civ World' was taking advantage and using these opportunities for players to work together -- teamwork, communication, planning. Those are all the things that become really important to 'Civ World.'"
Meier points out that a typical "Civilization" multiplayer game can easily span 12 or more continuous hours, whereas a Facebook game will take place in stops and starts over days and week.
He said pacing and having to work with other people would be the biggest adjustments for PC "Civilization" players.
Playing at different times in the day, Meier said, "fundamentally changes the mechanics of the game because if you are not there at the same time as other players, there needs to be ways of leaving messages, ways of communicating Things have to happen at a pace where everybody can be included. So that fundamentally changes the pacing and the mechanisms of the game."
Meier said all the game's traditional pieces -- science, economy, military, culture -- will be in "Civilization World."
"You can do those things yourself but you'll be most effective -- science, for example -- if a couple of people are researching the same technology then that technology will be discovered more quickly and you can all use it."
In the Facebook game, a world will consist of 200 people, all vying for supremacy. The goal remains the same as previous "Civilization" games -- to build an empire that will stand the test of time.
"You have your own city to manage and you can do all kinds of stuff (on your own)," Meier said. "However, the most successful players will be those that can also work together with other players."
Unlike other Facebook games (oh, let's say "Farmville"), "Civilization World" will have a beginning and an end. Players who succeed will be rewarded, and then another game can start.
The game will also look different from its PC counterparts.
"We're dealing with Flash. We're dealing with browsers, dealing with kind of a whole different technology than we are with PCs. It is not your standard PC 'Civ' look by any means."
He said designing a Facebook game does give them the ability to update things really quickly because players are essentially downloading the whole game every time they play. He said they will be taking a look at feedback and making adjustments and providing new stuff frequently.
Meier says he's excited about the prospects of social gaming, but thinks its full potential hasn't yet been reached.
"The future is really out there, but I think we are at the very beginning of exploring the possibilities of social gaming," he said. "It is not like I can see the end and know where this is going."
He said that, ultimately, gamers will decide whether social gaming will stand the test of time alongside consoles and PCs.
"It's just one more place to experience games," he said. "Games are really taking over the world."
An associate of mine who is just getting started in java development asked me yesterday if he should learn Swing. In a nutshell, Swing is a toolkit which is used to develop desktop applications (the kind you download and install). I told him not to bother. That's outdated 90s technology. We now deliver business applications in a web browser. You don't have to install anything. There is no concern that the client will be stuck with an old version of the software. Fewer platform issues. It's far easier to deliver patches and software updates.
I think Sid is thinking along the same lines with the Facebook game. A really engrossing game that you can just play from anywhere - well, it sounds dangerous unless you are a game developer. This is very forward-thinking, IMO. That doesn't mean I'll play it. It may not even be any fun (though Blackbutterfly raves about it). But it's the right idea and the wave of the future. In a few years the idea of going to a store and purchasing some sort of permanent storage medium with software on it will seem as silly as floppy disks and tape drives.
That being said, the Facebook game is not a follow-up to CivRev.
Civilization Revolution 2 (if and when it comes out) will consume my life for the next 10 years.


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I thought this would be the best place to put this(being on the subject of society et al).
OK, allow me to begin. Collectivism is the anti-thesis of Individualism and vice-versa.
Have you ever thought about what collectivism is? Collectivism is "where you become an ant" as opposed to having a free mind. It has been moved so far as to say that there isn't an individual mind! How is that physically or even biologically possible for a human? From what I have read, and from several proffeseurs opinions, IT ISN'T POSSIBLE!
But wait! If Collectivism is not "possible", what of individualism? If the anti-thesis of something not possible is possible, wouldn't that be illogical? It must be, therefore, that individualism "is correct"; however, it ultimately "isn't". A most unsatisfactory answer!
Individualism shouldn't "be able to exist" beyond being a "concept", but it is the correct "answer", if you catch my drift. Everyone has an individual mind, and that cannot be "collectivized", per se. But if it cannot, would that make individualism "correct"?
Well, the opposite of something that doesn't exist, that seems absurd. And that is my exact notion on the idea of individualism! That is what I am trying to say, that there is nothing which exists beyond a conceptual idea that is the opposite of an impossible ability. That is my two cents.


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When it comes to birthday parties, I'm not much of a decorator. I'm just not good at that those details. Sure, I get the plates and napkins to match the "theme" of my party, but that is usually about it. I have my kids' parties at super fun locations where they are busy playing and having a good time, so I figure no one looks at the decorations anyway, right?
Well, there is one decoration that has been hanging up at my kids' parties that people DO notice. That decoration is a custom birthday banner from Uniquely Me Designs. My friends Tiffany and Dana started making these banners well over a year ago, and do such a great job. They can make banners to match just about any party theme you can come up with.
You can customize a "Happy Birthday" banner to match the theme of your party. They can even match a lot of commercial themes like Cars, Toy Story and My Little Pony. There are cupcakes, polka dots, sports images, and even Mickey Mouse. Also available are 12 month photo banners, which are perfect for a baby's first birthday.
The possibilities are endless! These banners aren't just for birthday parties, either. The fabulous ladies at Uniquely Me Designs can create a custom banner for your next baby shower, bridal shower, or christening.
If you're a regular reader here, then you have definitely seen these awesome birthday banners in the posts about my kids' birthdays. The first one that we had made was a Cars Birthday Banner for Bryce's 2nd Birthday.
Rylie's 4th Birthday party was decorated with a My Little Pony Birthday Banner. Even the party hosts at the gym were gushing over how awesome the banner was!
Each end had a My Little Pony image on it, and the letters were connected together with tulle. It was so frilly, and so perfect for Rylie!
I absolutely love these custom party banners, and I highly recommend Uniquely Me Designs for your next celebration! All banners are very reasonably priced between $18 and $28, and you can now also order smaller high chair banners for only $12. The quality is excellent, and well worth the price! You will not find anything like this at a party store!
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