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LAS VEGAS, Oct. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Carlos Banchik, President of Innova Technologies, has been elected President of the International Monorail Association (IMA).
Banchik, whose company has been a member of the IMA since 2010, was elected president at the IMA meeting in Dresden, Germany. His term ends in the fall of 2016.
"I am deeply honored to accept these new responsibilities on behalf of IMA. IMA is the world's most important forum for exchanging vital information on this state-of-the-art mass transportation system," Banchik said. "I appreciate the members who have assisted and supported the Association to this date."
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Since being elected as President, Banchik has worked on strengthening the reach of the organization, helped plan the 2013 meeting in Korea by working with companies worldwide that may be interested in monorails, and targeted embassies located in South Korea to communicate with planning organizations within their countries to attend the meeting in Korea.
Banchik is recognized as an expert in the design and construction engineering of monorail projects.
Banchik started Innova Technologies in 2003. Under his leadership, Innova has grown to be a leading specialty engineering firm in monorail and people-mover transit and construction engineering.
Banchik and many people in his staff have worked on several major transportation projects, including the Las Vegas Monorail, MGM-Bally's Monorail, Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, Harmon-Las Vegas Blvd Pedestrian Bridge, Waikoloa Hotel Tramway Bogie Design in Hawaii, and a 24-km-long Monorail in Sao Paulo, Brazil, connecting the Vila Prudente to Cidade Tiradentes.
Prior to establishing Innova Technologies, Banchik gained more than 20 years' experience working with numerous public and private transportation systems, and has been responsible for more than $800 million of construction projects.
Banchik received a Master of Engineering degree in Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics (SESM) from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Tampa Bay announced today that they have released CB Brandon McDonald and promoted CB LeQuan Lewis to the 53-man roster from the Bucs' practice squad.
McDonald was signed by Tampa Bay on August 20th, just before the preseason game against New England. The sixth-year corner was cut on September 1, but resigned to the team four days later.
The former Memphis Tiger was a popular player in the Bucs' locker room and undrafted rookie Leonard Johnson said McDonald had given him the best advice the Clearwater native had received since becoming a Buccaneer.
"Stay hungry, stay humble," Johnson said. "I got that from B-Mac (Brandon McDonald), great guy, one of the guys I lean on besides the rest of the guys in the secondary group. But most definitely he watches over me and continues to bring me along with him."
McDonald had played in all eight games for the Bucs, starting two, and had recorded 21 tackles and intercepted Eli Manning in Week 2.
Undrafted out of Arizona State, Lewis signed with Tennessee in July 2011. Unable to make the final roster cuts with the Titans, Lewis spent all of last season out of football. In 2012, Lewis signed with Oakland, the New York Jets twice, and Dallas where the former Sun Devil played in the first three games of the season, recording one tackle before being released from the Cowboys on October 2nd. Tampa Bay became the fourth team this year to sign Lewis, adding him to the practice squad on October 9th.
On October 20, the Bucs called Lewis up from the practice squad to the active roster, but released him after DE Da'Quan Bowers was removed from the PUP (physically unable to perform) list and activated to the 53-man roster shortly before the Vikings game on October 25th. After clearing waivers, Tampa Bay re-signed Lewis to the practice squad.
With Aqib Talib now with the Patriots and the immediate future of CB Eric Wright unknown (FOX's Jay Glazer reported a little over a week ago that Wright had tested positive for Adderall), the addition of Lewis is not too shocking considering the Buccaneers coaching staff, including head coach Greg Schiano, had been working with the second-year corner one-on-one in practices.
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They are particularly known for their use of soaring 3 part vocal harmonies (which they refer to in their album liner notes as the "oozin' aahs"), wide vocabulary, and political or religious commentary. Their lyrics often relate to matters of social responsibility.
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At some point you've been asked The Question.
"So where do you go to church?"
In Tulsa, The Question isn't confrontational. It's small talk. For many of us, it's just as natural as asking about the weather. We're just curious. What Holden Caulfield says about Catholics in The Catcher in the Rye could be applied to Tulsa Christians generally: "Catholics are always trying to find out if you're a Catholic."
But for the city's small but dedicated group of atheists, The Question can be anxiety provoking. Most of them do not go to church. They don't believe God exists, or even if he does, they don't believe he takes an active interest in human affairs.
For the majority of Tulsans who believe in God, it's a mind-boggling opinion. It's hard for atheists to express their views without receiving, at best, a look of confused pity.
Perhaps for that reason, many atheists think The Question is offensive and shouldn't be asked. They believe religion is, or should be, a private affair. For some people, a co-worker or stranger asking about their religion is akin to asking about their sex life or family difficulties. It just shouldn't be done.
Religion -- especially Christianity -- is deeply ingrained in Tulsa's culture. Its effect has been overwhelmingly positive. The John 3:16 Mission gets homeless people off the streets. Catholic Charities provides foods, clothes, immigration help, and a number of other services. Oral Roberts University educates thousands of students every year. B'Nai Emunah synagogue holds lectures on a variety of ethical, religious, and secular subjects.
(During Greek Fest, Holy Trinity Orthodox church sells the world's best tzatziki sauce. I'd call that a positive contribution.)
Indeed, Christianity is so deeply a part of our city's culture that our religious organizations often don't reach out specifically to nonbelievers. Denominations may poach each other's members or attempt to appeal to the growing group of people who call themselves spiritual but not religious. Atheists are left out of the evangelistic equation.
You can see this at events like the Nightmare at GUTS Church. The haunted house consists of a series of horrifying images followed by an evangelistic message. The intent is to scare patrons out of going to Hell. That's unlikely to work if you don't believe in an afterlife in the first place.
In the buckle of the Bible Belt, it's easy for atheists to get defensive when they are asked The Question.
This article is aimed at both atheists and believers, especially but not necessarily Christians. (Full disclosure: I'm a practicing Catholic.)
Atheists frequently don't have the opportunity to air their grievances in a mainstream publication. However, most of the atheists I talked to appeared to distrust religious people to an extent that didn't seem justified.
At the same time, Christians have such a strong majority here that they don't often think about how their words and actions can affect people who fundamentally disagree. It's useful for both sides to take a step back and think about how to engage without defensiveness or condescension.
The biggest indictment against believers is that some atheists feel uncomfortable declaring themselves. It's bad enough to feel judged, but atheists can feel like they might be ostracized. It's sometimes so scary to "come out" as an atheist that one person interviewed for this piece requested anonymity.
This Oklahoma atheist, a 28-year-old, female TU grad, was raised Methodist. "Growing up, I was pretty heavily involved in my church's youth group," she wrote in an email. "When I was about 16, I began thinking more about the doubts or concerns I had about religion. ... I don't think it was until at some point as an undergrad that I really started to identify as an atheist."
She didn't point to a negative experience or single moment of realization. For our anonymous source, it wasn't so much a crisis of faith as a gradual realization that she never believed what she was taught in the first place. "I don't think I ever had faith in God, so the only change was coming to terms with and realizing that fact," she wrote.
She said her atheism does not affect her on a daily basis. She may not pray, but lots of believers don't pray. She said that she finds what she called "platitudes" annoying, but not debilitating. "For example, I had a lot of people in professional positions tell me to 'have a blessed day' rather than just goodbye or have a good day. I learned to smile and nod," she wrote.
Nevertheless, our anonymous source has worried that her non-religion could have negative job or career implications. She has felt like she can't talk about her lack of faith the way other business leaders and politicians frequently invoke their faith in God as inspiration. "[E]ven working for a particularly socially liberal organization in Tulsa, because I had a public job, I knew I couldn't be open or vocal about my atheism for fear of offending my boss or board members," she wrote.
Certainly that is a unique challenge atheists face. Christians and others can speak openly about their belief in God in social settings, as long as they're not perceived as going overboard. It probably would not be controversial for a Christian to say publicly, "My faith is important to me." (Some of the implications may be controversial, of course.) But atheists can have a harder time receiving acknowledgement that their non-belief is important as well.
Our anonymous source indicated fear for her social acceptance as well as for her career prospects. She said that when most people ask her The Question, she doesn't say she is an atheist. Instead she says she is not very religious. "It feels safer to me because there are a lot of extremely negative connotations associated with the label 'atheism,'" she wrote. "A few years ago I read a poll or study that said something like most Americans marked atheists behind rapists on a scale of trustworthiness. That broke my heart. I feel like I'm a person of good character."
In her experience, however, some people will only see her beliefs and not her good actions. "I know firsthand that it can change the way some people think about you ... or treat you," she wrote.
Nevertheless, certain areas of Tulsa can be more accommodating to nonbelievers than others. "For my entire decade in Tulsa, I pretty much stayed within my little midtown triangle of TU, downtown, and Brookside. This felt like it was just about the most liberal group of people and businesses in all of Oklahoma," she wrote. "But even there ... there were frequently times when I knew I needed to just smile and nod whenever religion was mentioned."
Another local atheist, Jessica Criswell, 28, agreed that public atheism can have negative consequences at work. Even if she has no fear for her job security, she said that the prevalence of Christianity can lead to trouble. "I feel very uncomfortable as an atheist in this setting," she wrote in an email.
More disturbing, Criswell -- who teaches in a public elementary school -- said some of her Christian co-workers behave in an unprofessional manner. "I have been directly asked by a co-worker, 'Are you a Christian?' At work! I have also walked into a classroom while the teacher was reading Bible stories to the class," she wrote.
According to Criswell, closed-minded forms of Christianity can affect the ability of some teachers to do their job. "I have heard a teacher talking about how she didn't want to communicate with the parents of a child because they were lesbians and she didn't support that lifestyle," she wrote.
It's not a matter in which religious teachers bite the bullet and deal with uncomfortable situations. Rather, Criswell believes it is the non-Christians who have to make compromises, possibly to the detriment of students. "We have an increasing number of non-Christian families with children in our schools, and they often feel public schools do not accommodate them," she wrote.
One potential solution is to adopt a more open-minded approach to religion. This was the thinking of the Tulsa City Council when it began to encourage persons from a variety of traditions to offer the opening prayer at meetings. Petitioners are encouraged to make use of their religious beliefs rather than to offer something generic.
Dan Nerren, the first person to offer an atheist invocation at a Tulsa City Council meeting, addressed the councilors instead of God.
"Rather than bowing our heads and closing our eyes in deference, we should open our eyes widely to face the reality that confronts us, without losing sight or our ideals of what we could achieve," Nerren said at the beginning of the Aug. 30 council meeting, according to KRMG.
That prayer could be perceived as the same problem from the opposite perspective: an atheist acting confrontational without intending it, offending those who disagree.
But Nerren, a former railroader worker, is not a confrontational person. He is a kindly retiree married to a church-going Methodist. He was raised Southern Baptist. As a teenager in the mid-'60s, he worked at a Baptist camp in New Mexico. Every night at camp he listened to a different sermon. "I think maybe the doubts started ... because I heard many sermons out there," he said. "I noticed their [the preachers'] behavior didn't always coincide with what they were preaching."
He became an atheist in college. Like our anonymous source, he cannot quite pinpoint when he stopped believing in God, but credits his studies for solidifying his non-belief. "I think the ideas I was exposed to [in college] had a great deal to do with the transition," he said.
In 1988, he co-founded the Humanist Association of Tulsa. Several years later, he began setting up local atheist meet-up groups. Nerren said Tulsa atheists were able to connect with each other because of the "effect of the Internet on free thought ... we started growing." Regular meetings can attract upwards of 40 people.
Discomfort with Tulsa's religious culture is a common discussion topic in atheist meet-ups. "We usually start off with how bad things are," Nerren said. Conversations often drift into politics. The mostly liberal atheists have no shortage of grievances there either, according to Nerren.
Unlike the younger atheists who were interviewed, Nerren never had difficulties talking religion at work. "I didn't have a problem at work," he said. "I had some good conversations ... But that's all it was, conversations."
This may be because, despite his strident rhetoric, he's a very approachable person. Nerren is willing to discuss what he believes (or doesn't believe) without either defensiveness or proselytizing.
Nerren is also a practicing Unitarian. He said atheists and humanists form a significant contingent of the local Unitarian community. He insisted that, despite what many people may think, atheists can be just as moral as believers. As with any basically moral person, helping others is important to Nerren.
For him, the this-world focus of Unitarianism helps. At the church service he attends, "the object is not to get your soul to Heaven; it's to help mankind on earth," he said.
All the atheists interviewed for this article -- especially Nerren -- undermined the stereotype that atheists can't or shouldn't be moral.
Theologically, this shouldn't surprise believers, especially Christians. The Bible says that God provides the same basic moral law to everyone, whether or not they believe: "[W]hen the Gentiles who do not have the law by nature observe the prescriptions of the law ... [t]hey show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts" (Romans 2:14-15). At minimum, atheists in Tulsa deserve to be judged socially by their actions, while letting God judge the state of their souls.
Still, sometimes it's hard for believers to understand why people wouldn't believe in God. Frequently this comes from a shallow understanding of what (or who) God is.
Rev. Marlin Lavanhar -- senior minister at All Souls Unitarian church -- is not an atheist, but many of his parishioners are, at least when they start attending. "I often ask people who say they are atheist, 'Tell me about the God you don't believe in, because I probably don't believe in that God either,'" he wrote in an email. "Usually people will describe a God that they learned about in a fourth grade Sunday school class or a very superficial idea of God they picked up from the culture at large."
Many of these people "eventually discover ideas about God that begin to make sense to them," Lavanhar wrote. "For this group, atheism is one stop on their journey of faith development, but with more introspection and exposure it is not their final destination."
Nevertheless, some of Lavanhar's parishioners come to the honest opinion that God doesn't exist. "These are people who do not find their inspiration for living an ethical, moral life from ideas of God or scripture, but who still have deep convictions and live principled lives," Lavanhar said.
He estimates about a quarter of the 2,000-member congregation at All Souls consider themselves atheist, agnostic, or humanist. Some Unitarian churches in Tulsa offer humanist services every week. All Souls' atheist services are Sundays at 8:30am.
"It is a service that draws inspiration for living a meaningful and principled life from history, philosophy, literature, poetry, and nature," Lavanhar wrote. "No robes, no hymns, no prayers, or scriptures. Just a relevant message, inspiring music -- jazz, classical, improvisational, and more -- and a community committed to the common good."
It may be difficult for believers to conceptualize a church service without prayer. Most religions boil down to some form of "love God and love your neighbor." This type of religious atheism drops the first half of that definition. But it helps some local atheists in their journeys to live moral lives.
A humanist church service doesn't appeal to all local atheists. "I could never wrap my mind around the idea of community or fellowship at a church where there was no shared doctrine," our anonymous source wrote. She doesn't feel the need for fellowship with other atheists. "I'm very lucky to have such open-minded people close to me. We may not agree on religion, but they still love me." (Of course, that doesn't make it easier to live in "fear that the wrong person could find out" about her non-belief.)
Nevertheless, atheist services like the one at All Souls provide an opportunity for fellowship and personal exploration.
Most of the atheists I interviewed feel defensive in Tulsa. It's as if they feel like there is an edge behind the questions Christians ask. "When I observe how judgmental and self-righteous some of these Christian teachers are, it really troubles me," Criswell wrote. While these atheists never indicated that Christians try to convert them, they do feel like they are or could be condemned because of what they (don't) believe.
Nerren was the exception. He seems to enjoy intellectual sparring with believers as much as he enjoys playing ain't-it-awful with fellow atheists.
On the one hand, it seems the younger atheists could take a page from Nerren's book. Religion is private and personal, but if it doesn't affect how one views the world (and therefore how one talks in casual conversation), it may not be much of a religion. Believers expect their religions to impact how they speak and how they live. When believers say "praise the Lord" or similar things, they are usually expressing their deepest selves, not trying to make somebody feel uncomfortable.
At the same time, many Christians in town are, shall we say, aggressive about their Christianity. For example, we remember the backlash when it became widely known that the Parade of Lights had changed its name to the Holiday Parade of Lights. Last year, devout Christians in T-Town pulled out of the official parade and staged their own, calling it a Christmas parade in order to keep Jesus in the season. (Both sides presumably had Santa.)
The spectacle continued this year. Though Christmas parade organizers said it wasn't intentional, the two parades began at the exact same time on Dec. 8.
The protestors could be accused of forgetting that Jesus would remain part of the celebration (or not) regardless of what they called the parade.
It's possible that both atheists and believers just need to lighten up, but that seems a simplistic explanation.
It's more likely that neither side does nearly enough listening.
Christians tend to congregate with other Christians socially and professionally. (It's hard not to when there are so many!) Many churches have their own schools, and many of those that don't have vibrant youth groups. These set the stage for lifelong relationships among those who believe in God -- and who believe roughly the same things about God.
Likewise, if atheists are going to broach the topic of religion at all, it is often with other atheists or skeptics. Our anonymous source said she has a close Southern Baptist friend, for example, but they usually avoid talking religion.
Both groups can fall into an echo chamber where they forget that the other group has some good reasons (and some not-so-good reasons) for believing what they do.
Both sides need to respect that sometimes the other can feel attacked. When it became known that the name of the Christmas parade was changed to the holiday parade, some Christians felt attacked. First Amendment issues aside, it is how some believers felt, and it would be wrong to call their feelings invalid.
But staging an alternate Christmas parade probably doesn't let atheists feel welcome in town either.
Put another way: Yes, it is wrong for Christians to feel social pressure to say "Happy Holidays." But it is equally wrong to say "Merry Christmas" as if expecting to be challenged.
Competing parades seems particularly distressing because it causes even more self-segregation of believers and atheists than we already have. Not only do believers and atheists talk past each other, they don't even see each other at the parade anymore!
Christians won't make many converts if they don't engage atheists, and atheists won't find cultural acceptance if they don't accept that religion is both a public and a private thing in this city. Neither side will grow -- personally, communally, or spiritually -- without interreligious conversations.
If conversations can take place without confrontation, we might move as a city toward open dialogue like the type Nerren has in his own life. He maintains friendships with people holding a variety of religious opinions while not avoiding controversial subjects. "I'm friends with a lot of [people] in my wife's church," he said.
Even if no one changes their mind, there's nothing wrong with a good conversation!
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House of Payne: England treatment of Care is shoddy at best
6:00am Sunday 3rd November 2013 in Sport By John Payne
There have been moans for a few years now that the England football team virtually picks itself, but that's not an issue facing England rugby coach Stuart Lancaster, writes John Payne.
He admitted as much this week when he said: "It's never easy deciding who to select and that's what you want – players pushing hard for places across the board."
Lancaster has shown his faith in Harlequins' Chris Robshaw, just about, following months of speculation about whether he would remain captain since England's Grand Slam hopes were blown apart in Cardiff in March.
However, Lancaster has done nothing to suggest he has total faith in Robshaw, unlike that shown to Steven Gerrard in football or Alastair Cook in cricket.
Danny Care has had an even more unpredictable experience, once again being returned to Harlequins this week with England deciding Ben Youngs and Lee Dickson are their favoured scrum-halves to face Australia.
It seems strange given that Lancaster so publically backed Care following a few off-field mishaps – even more so given his livewire performances whenever he has worn an England shirt.
England legend Will Carling certainly thinks Lancaster has got it wrong, saying: "Sad to see Danny Care released by England. We need some of his attacking edge. This November England must develop their attacking prowess."
Kyran Bracken, a man who won 51 England caps at number nine, added: "Barmy to let him go. Game changer. Are we hoping to grind a win?"
Care himself has had enough ups and downs in his career to be able to handle another setback, but the Yorkshireman must begin to wonder what more he can do.
He once again did his talking on the field in Quins' 24-3 win over Sale, with director of rugby Conor O'Shea singling him out for praise.
England's cricketers have recently benefited richly from a consistent selection policy.
In contrast, the grubby treatment of Care suggests our rugby bosses are as far away as ever from knowing their best team.


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By end-2005 France (including its overseas departments [DOM]) had a total installed PV capacity of 33 043 kWp, of which 13 844 kWp was off-grid domestic, 6 232 kWp off-grid non-domestic and 12 967 kWp grid-connected distributed. Metropolitan France accounted for almost 49% of total PV capacity and about 42% of PV output. The annual average increase in capacity between 2000 and 2005 was about 24%.
The principal sources of subsidies for PV installations in France are ADEME (Agence de l'environnement et de la maîtrise de l'énergie: the body charged with promoting renewable energy), the regional councils and the European Commission.
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The French feed-in tariff for PV electricity was updated by an Arrêté dated 10 July 2006 (€ 0.30 to 0.55/kWh), for installations with a capacity of below 12 MW.
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Continuing the tradition, this is a yearly topic where we keep track of the games we beat. Here's to another fun year of gaming!
1. Jan. 1 - Spyro the Dragon - PS1
2. Jan. 4 - Lagoon - SNES
3. Jan. 7 - Soul Blazer - SNES
4. Jan. 14 - Dr. Mario 64 - N64
5. Jan. 14 - Dr. Mario Online Rx - Wiiware
6. Feb. 3 - Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Genesis
7. Feb. 3 - Super Bubble Pop - PS1
8. Feb. 15 - Suikoden III - PS2
9. Feb. 25 - Suikoden IV - PS2
10. Feb. 28 - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles - Genesis
11. Mar. 2 - Dragonball Z: Budokai 3 - PS2
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Whoa, I haven't had a chance to play through any games for a long time. Moving twice takes up a lot of time.
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don't know why everyones given it such shitty reviews. My only real true complaint is that it was kinda short.. Other then that. Good game
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Just completed The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for GameCube. Took 43 hours and I got... 17 golden bugs, 36 poes, and was short 11 pieces of heart. I must say that it was a really enjoyable game except the first hour in Ordon Village. The beginning of this game sucked the enjoyment and interest completely out of the experience - I'm fortunate I didn't give up until I had just met up with Midna. However, I did save right after and didn't touch the game for 8 months as a result. Still, picking up from there was a game I found that kept getting better and better. Now I'm looking forward to Ocarina of Time!
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I beat Bowser in Mario 3D Land a few days ago. I rescued Peach and everything was seemed like the end...until Luigi came into the picture.
It can be disappointing when you think you've beaten a game only to find that you haven't. Except when it's a good game like this.
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES, 1/5/12)
Beaten twice today. Really enjoyed flying through it the second time with the levels maxed out.
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The world would be a great place if it wasn't for all the people.
Sonic Generations
It's an okay game. I'm still trying to get 100% in it.
Uncharted 2 Amongst Thieves PS3 - After shelving Uncharted Drake's Fortune for a year (no reason just other games to play) I did not make that mistake when I got Uncharted 2 for Christmas. Every bit as amazing as the first, now I need a price drop on Uncharted 3
1. Sonic Generations
2. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak
3. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: Episdoe 3: They Stole Max's Brain!
4. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
5. Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse: Episode 5: The City That Dares Not Sleep
This was amazing. All the Sam & Max I've grown to love, with a slightly improved interface and a surprisingly intricate story. Highly recommened fans of point-and-click adventures look into this.
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1. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (XBLA, 1/1)
2. Secret of Mana (SNES, 1/5)
3. Kirby's Dream Land (3DS VC, 1/11)
A great classic for the original Gameboy, it's short but it's a perfect handheld title that can easily be beaten in a sitting and, along with the Extra Mode, allows for some decent replay ability. It's not as good as Kirby's Adventure or Super Star Saga, but it's still a great entry in its own right and was a great start to one of Nintendo's popular franchises. 3/5
1. Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing with Banjo Kazooie (360): 01/15 - 100% Achievements
So far, I haven't finished any game in 2012, but I am almost done with Chrono Trigger DS and I'm advancing well into Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. At this point, I dunno which of the two I'll finish first, but one of my resolutions for this year is to track down all the games I finish.
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11/01/2012 - Sonic Generations (360)
17/01/2012 - iball (Xperia Play)
I never thought I would see the day that I actually completed iball - I first started playing it around 20 years ago! Tough game. I couldn't have done it without saving plus I got lucky with the electro shield in the final level. The game really doesn't want you to beat it. I never got rainbow ripple though...
1. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I (XBLA, 1/1)
2. Secret of Mana (SNES, 1/5)
3. Kirby's Dream Land (3DS VC, 1/11)
4. Final Fantasy III (SNES, 1/18)
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Took the family to vacation this week. Headed down to San Antonio for a few days, was at SeaWorld on Monday and Tuesday, now we're in Port Aransas, outside of Corpus Christi.
Got my license to park on the beach too, pretty cool. I'll get some photos of the Trailblazer on the beach down here. There's a pretty cool little ferry that boats you across these islands too. One of the shortest Ferry rides that I've ever been on.
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08-05-2010, 01:08 AM #2those are the best vacations...right on the beach...just curious...how much for permits in Texas? we have certain beaches here in Cali that have a certain parking just for on the beach...rv/trailers/auto...but those go quick...but pretty reasonable for about 25 a day...
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08-05-2010, 07:33 PM #4I need to take a vacation on the beach, I havent been to the ocean to relax and have fun since I moved from Virginia Beach to Texas in 2001.
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Got burned today. It's nice and 10 degrees cooler by the beach, but still got hit by the sun. May head home tomorrow after some AM beach time.
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Well I made a post before letting you guys know that I was going to purchase some Rollerblocks form Symposium Acoustics ( www.symposiumusa.com )and I told you that I would review them and let you know how they performed on my system.
My system is comprised of a pair of DIII's on a pair of DIY stands, Toshiba DVD/CD/MP3 player, AMC 3150a (solid state 150wpc integrated) amp, and a Panamax 5300 power conditioner all on a DIY built audio rack.
I purchased a set of Rollerblock Jr.s ( http://www.symposiumusa.com/rbjr.html ), a set of point pods ( http://www.symposiumusa.com/PointPodLarge.html ), and a set of Rollerblock Series 2+ ( http://www.symposiumusa.com/rollerblocks.html )
The Rollerblock series 2+ were placed beneath my cd player and the point pods were placed directly below the Rollerblocks, the Rollerblock jr.s were placed beneath my AMC 3150a. I used to have set of Puresonic spikes underneath these things.
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-bass is slightly tighter while maintaining low frequency extension and speakers can be driven a bit harder
-mids remained generally the same, no notable differnces
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-vibration/jitter form my cd player while cds were playing were reduced and therefore not as loud
-imaging was decent before and my spikes were an improvement from stock feet but these Rollerblocks image like a motherf###er and help the speakers perform a dissappearing act, they vanish during some songs!
-speakers became slightly more dynamic/efficient
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-EXPENSIVE but will last forever and are a decent upgrade, possibly equal to getting the next step up to a bette cd player and amp
-very very hard to set up due to there function
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Everyone's got enemies. But our fiercest foe is heart disease. It's the No. 1 killer of Americans, and while it affects both sexes, it tends to nab men at an earlier age than it does women. Just last month, however, the Food and Drug Administration made a move that many cardiologists call a boon for prevention: The agency OK'd the use of a cholesterol-lowering drug, a statin called Crestor, in folks whose cholesterol levels are normal and whose doctors haven't diagnosed them with heart disease. The move aims to better shield millions more Americans against future heart attacks, strokes, heart procedures, and surgery.
The FDA's decision hinged on the results of a large study, called the Jupiter trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008. Jupiter took almost 18,000 middle-aged adults and assigned them to either Crestor or a sugar pill. Under national guidelines, the study participants would not have normally been prescribed a statin because their levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol weren't high enough (all had LDL's below 130 mg/dL), explains Paul Ridker, a cardiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and lead author of the study, which was funded by AstraZeneca, the drug's maker. But all of the participants had elevated levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), a measure of inflammation. While inflammation is the body's natural response to infection and injury, it also foments artery-clogging plaque and seems to make that plaque more likely to rupture and cause blood clots that trigger heart attacks and strokes, experts say. Researchers hoped Crestor might lower the risk of cardiovascular problems since statins also reduce CRP.
[Read Bernadine Healy's take on the Jupiter trial.]
After two years, the trial was halted early because volunteers on Crestor were so much less likely to have heart attacks, strokes, and procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafts than those taking a placebo. The trial, says Steven Nissen, chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, was a "blockbuster" and suggests an "important change in thinking about who ought to be treated" with statins. (The FDA apparently agrees.) Jupiter has also suggested a change to the usual heart disease prevention strategy: screening for high cholesterol and prescribing statin drugs to those who have it, says Ridker. That's pretty good, he says, but since 50 percent of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels, many people at risk aren't identified. But now, he says, "even if your cholesterol is low, [we can] screen for CRP and treat with a statin." (Ridker has received funding from AstraZeneca and is listed as a coinventor on CRP-related patents held by Brigham & Women's.)
So what are the implications for men? Since CRP and the inflammation it measures seem to be important aspects of one's cardiovascular risk, should all men 50 and older have their CRP levels checked and start taking Crestor if their numbers are elevated? Well, no, says Nissen.
The FDA now says that Crestor should be prescribed for prevention's sake in men ages 50 and up and women 60 and older with normal "bad" cholesterol levels only if they have a CRP of 2 mg/L or higher as well as at least one characteristic that puts them at risk for cardiovascular disease. Those risk factors include a smoking habit, a family history of early heart disease, high blood pressure, and low levels of HDL, or "good," cholesterol (which the American Heart Association says for men is anything below 40 mg/dL). By contrast, Jupiter participants did not need any additional risk factors to be eligible for the trial; an elevated CRP level was sufficient, says Ridker.
An FDA Q&A says the trial showed no evidence that Crestor benefited people with no traditional signs of cardiovascular risk except elevated CRP, and thus it shouldn't be prescribed to them. That means a 55-year-old man who smokes but has low levels of LDL cholesterol may want to know what his CRP is, says Nissen, since it might point to a change in treatment. But if a man of the same age has multiple risk factors and high cholesterol, "I'm going to treat him with a statin anyway," says Stuart Seides, associate director of cardiology at the Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, so a test wouldn't change anything.
Note, too, that the CRP test isn't perfect. "You don't want to treat someone with a statin just because they have an isolated CRP increase," says James Stein, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. "There are a lot of things unrelated to heart disease that can make your CRP go up," including an injury or infection, a dental cleaning, strenuous exercise like a marathon, and even an allergic reaction to a girlfriend's cat. And the test can be quite variable from week to week. "I would not say the sky is falling if a patient comes to me and says, 'I'm perfectly healthy, but my doc just told me I had an elevated CRP, [so] when am I going to have my heart attack?' " says cardiologist Thomas Behrenbeck, an associate professor at the Mayo Clinic. He said he would have to rule out all the other possible causes before considering cardiac risk. (That's why some guidelines, such as those jointly published by the American Heart Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003, for example, advise that when doctors deem the test is warranted, they measure CRP twice, ideally two weeks apart, and average the results.)
[Read why Bernadine Healy says that CRP testing could lead to overuse of statins.]
Also, Crestor isn't cheap. A month's supply of the 20-mg daily dose used in the Jupiter trial now has a retail price of about $141—up about 20 percent since the trial results were published, says Stein. (He used drugstore.com to determine those figures.) That makes Crestor the most expensive statin on the market, he says. Most other statins are available generically.
The key question is whether people could get the same protective benefit from a generic statin as from Crestor, says Nissen, but that will be hard to answer. (Nissen accepts no funding from the pharmaceutical industry.) Some doctors will feel comfortable only if they stick to the FDA's new indication, while other doctors may figure that a statin is a statin is a statin; it's just a matter of finding an equivalent dose. (Crestor is the most potent statin.) "This is where you have to really trust your doctor, do a gut-check, and ask yourself, 'Am I willing to pay more for the proven drug or pay less for a drug that's been proven to do a lot of good things but not exactly what Crestor has been proven for?' " says Stein.
While statins are generally quite safe, say experts, as with any drugs they have side effects. A meta-analysis of 13 statin studies published last month in the Lancet found the drugs were linked with a small but increased risk (9 percent) of getting diabetes, though it wasn't clear why; the authors said that risk was "outweighed by cardiovascular benefit . . . in individuals for whom statin therapy is recommended."(The Jupiter study also reported a slightly higher risk of diabetes.) Some people experience muscle aches while taking the drugs, and extremely rarely, statins have led to rhabdomyolysis, a serious condition in which muscles essentially turn to mush and leak into the bloodstream, endangering the kidneys. Such side effects are why it's important that the benefits of taking a statin like Crestor eclipse the risks, and why "the whole idea of putting statins in the drinking water and everybody just taking it because 'What the hell,' is a really, bad idea," says Seides. Still, he suspects that there will be "some creep" in terms of statins being prescribed off-label to people who don't meet the FDA's new criteria as part of aggressive prevention strategies.
None of this, of course, is a substitute for making and sticking to lifestyle changes. That means following a Mediterranean-style diet,or another healthful eating pattern that's rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fish, and healthy "good" fats (such as olive oil) rather than a steady stream of burgers and fries, says Stein. It also means exercising at least 30 minutes a day rather than using that elliptical machine in the basement as a clothes hanger, he says. And when it comes to medication, none of this new information will be relevant if men don't regularly see a doctor who can help them apply it. Seides himself admits he got a colonoscopy only because his wife made him.
[Read 6 Ways to Reduce Inflammation—Without a Statin or a Heart Test.
Corrected on 3/2/10: An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed abdominal obesity as a factor unrelated to heart disease that can elevate CRP. Abdominal obesity is related to heart disease.


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It's been said that the root of all desire stems from our deep need to open ourselves to God in worship. Lent is a season to renew our orientation to God, to draw nearer to the One who creates, redeems and continually renews us in Christ.
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Delta County's commitment to recycling goes beyond being professional grade. It is industrial grade.
The commitment to recycling here goes way beyond the highly visible consumer recycling programs at the North Fork Transfer station and the newsprint recycling bin at 4th and Meeker in Delta.
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