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Ring in 2013 in total darkness at Ventura Blackout Ball
The Mayans were bad at math, the world didn't end (yet) and 2012 is definitely circling the drain.
So it's on to 2013 — another year older and deeper in debt and all that. But first, there's New Year's Eve to deal with. That means parties to attend and cops to avoid. It's best to figure out where you're going, get there, get wasted if you must, and then not even think about trying to drive home. Leave that to someone who hasn't been drinking cheap Champagne out of a plastic cup.
As always, entertainment possibilities abound. Here's a new option: ElectroShock's New Year's Eve Blackout Ball at Ventura Improv Company in Ventura. Negating the entire notion of drinking someone cute, the whole event takes place in the dark. Party animals are encouraged to dress up in clothes that light up. The soundtrack will be electronic dance music as selected by the DJs who normally keep the joint jumpin' during ElectroShock Nights at the Bombay in Ventura.
Electronic music has been around since the turn of the century — the 20th century — and has grown exponentially since those silly '60s. Every year, the huge DJ tents at Coachella are packed with wall-to-wall dancers. And then there's Tiësto, one of the most popular DJs in the world. He played for a quarter of a million Brazilians on the beach a few years ago. The Ventura Improv Company's building, formerly known as the Livery Theatre, holds a few less than that.
(In case you're wondering, the Ventura Improv folks will still be holding their annual New Year's Eve show; they're just doing it at another location -- the Poinsettia Pavilion in Ventura. Call 643-5701 for reservations or visit http://venturaimprov.com/?tribe_events=new-years-eve-gala-and-fundraiser for more information.)
Though it may appear that a DJ is just a guy on stage, surrounded by machines, who presses "Play" and then checks out the dancing ladies, that's not the case. Not even. DJs are artists in their own right and a lot of the stuff they play is stuff they created. The feet of the faithful invariably know what to do.
One guy who knows his way around the old Livery is Brian Parra, who's been booking shows there for years. He started off as a member of the American Cheese Band, a goofball rock group, but then became a promoter, heading up Blackbird Productions, which hosted live, all-ages rock shows at the Livery.
The Blackout Ball is a collaboration between Parra's new company, Saturday Night Sound, and Zephram Cochrane of ElectroShock. Here's what Parra had to say about all of that.
Tell me everything you know about the Blackout Ball.
Well, the Blackout Ball is a project between me and my friend, Zephram Cochrane.
He's the DJ guy at the Bombay?
Yeah. He organizes what are called ElectroShock Nights at Bombay. These nights feature a collection of EDM (electronic dance music) DJs. They do every other weekend there.
So, obviously, unlike me, they know the difference between Tiësto, David Guetta, Steve Aoki and Deadmau5?
They could tell them apart, certainly. They could. You know, EDM is becoming mainstream. It was underground for a long time and it's beginning to compete on its own with the hip-hop nights. EDM is holding its own.
At the Blackout Ball, we're urging people to wear lighted costumes, bring glow sticks and electronic stuff or things they might make themselves.
The ElectroShock guys at Bombay have had a lot of scene nights where people make costumes based around a TV theme or a science-fiction thing. So this is just the theme for this one — people wearing lighted clothes. At certain points of the night, they'll turn the house lights down so the only light in the room will be coming from the dancers.
Sounds like fun. Who are the DJs?
It's DJ QuickPheet, DJ In_A_Trance, DJ Serenity and DJ Blue. Nine. A. These guys aren't just playing other people's music. They're mixing on the spot and creating stuff that they produce themselves.
So they're not just going to press "Play" and gawk at the girls?
They're very active. If you watch these DJs, they jump all around and it's clear that they're involved in the music. They're not just pressing "Play."
Yeah, Deadmau5 is all uptight about that. "Don't call me a bleeping DJ, man," he says.
That's what attracted me. You're aware of my history. I've been doing live music, garage bands and stuff and this is the first sort of DJ thing that I've ever done. I've been to a couple of the shows at the Bombay and I've seen what these DJs do. I had someone with me who would tell me, "Oh, this is something that this person has created themselves versus this is a song being played," so I've been really impressed with these guys. They do great work and it's very clear that they're doing a lot more than just pressing "Play." They're creating the music, and to me, it sounds incredible.
So DJs and live musicians are not necessarily mortal enemies?
No. I see more and more shows where a band plays a live show with a DJ on the same bill and the name of the DJ will be listed alongside the band. There's still a possibility we might have a live band for the Blackout Ball. The Small Town Heroes have a dub step DJ in the mix and they've been playing around town.
I know you have a long history at this venue, but why the old Livery Theatre?
You know, years ago we shut down the Livery because we couldn't keep the insurance policy on the place. But it just occurred to me that through Saturday Night Sound, my business that I'm running now, I hold one of these insurance policies just as a matter of course. So I called the Livery and told them that I had all the prerequisites and asked, "Can I come back?" And they said,"Sure."
Is there anything else booked at the Livery you can tell me about?
Not yet. Don't have anything on the books yet but I'm looking at doing shows maybe once a month.
You had a long history at the Livery. What was your coolest show?
Oh man, there were so many cool shows there. I remember a completely sold out Missing 23rd show. We also hosted Sugarcult, Yellowcard and Motion City Soundtrack.
Yeah, all three of those bands are big-time. I liked that Atom & His Package show.
Yeah, we've had a couple big-time bands come through. We did that for about six years — every Sunday. Then we walked away from it in 2006 because the scene kind of died at that point. But lately there's been a lot of stuff going on. There's been a lot of all-ages shows and a lot of new bands sort of making it on their own. It just felt like it was the right time to start doing these kinds of shows again.
What did you learn being in a band that you applied to being a promoter who books bands?
I'm always up front with everybody about what the money situation is and I find that when people know what the story is, they're not angry at the end of the night. When you're a promoter, you have to be upfront with people as to how much things cost — how much security costs, how much the sound system costs, how much the rent costs. There's a lot that goes into it. When the band shows up, they should be taken care of. I always tried to make it all seem kind of seamless so it's not something they need to worry about.
What's your take on the local scene at this point in time?
It's blowing up right now. There's all kinds of places to play and all kinds of great new bands. There's been a lot of movement lately and I think that's great. I felt it was time to get involved again.
One more place to play is always a good thing, especially if it's an all-ages venue.
Right now that's not a consistent thing. There's Rock City in Camarillo. I know that place has been doing it for a long time but I've always felt Ventura needs to have a place. Ventura has a long history of local music and we need a venue right here in our backyard. I'm happy to run the Livery and make a place for people to come. At the end of the day, though, I need people through the door to pay a cover.
What's the major hurdle in doing all-ages shows?
Honestly, the biggest hurdle is making the bills. I mean, the kids around here have never been much of a problem. Of all the shows, we've never had any kind of violence. There's never been any kind of thing that would make us quit. It was just, "Can we pay the bills? Are people going to show up?" It's a problem and people need to realize that shows like this cost money. The room costs money, everything costs money. Money isn't the only reason to do it but, ultimately, it's got to work financially for the promoter. So when a kid says, "I can't cover that, I'm gonna sneak in," that's a problem. Or when a band tries to put 20 people on the guest list. Stuff like that makes it very difficult to continue. … I like it when at the end of the show, everyone had a good time and there's a little cash for everybody. That's my favorite show.
Why do you have to continue to be involved in the local music scene?
It's the funnest thing I can think of to do that's legal. I could make money doing anything else but this is the most fun. It's interesting and I get to hear a lot of interesting music that I might be paying to see somewhere else, so why not do it myself?
For more on music, local bands and new albums, check out Bill Locey's Rockin' Roll Call blog at blogs.venturacountystar.com/locey. Email Locey at firstname.lastname@example.com.
ElectroShock's New Year's Eve Blackout Ball
The event, featuring electronic dance music by DJs, will take place from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Monday at the Ventura Improv Company, 34 N. Palm St., Ventura. The house lights will be turned off for much of the night. Attendees, who must be 18 and older, are invited to bring a light with them, and to wear an illuminated costume. Prizes will be awarded for best and most creative costumes. Tickets are $12; includes one beverage. Visit blackoutball.brownpapertickets.com for tickets.
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Pat Dollard posted this. It's an official Barack Obama campaign ad for 2012. Having asked supporters to shove their donations to Obama's reelection in their relatives faces last week, they're now asking fans to convert those same people through persistent political harangues at family gatherings.
If any of your relatives turn up at Christmas dinner demanding to know why you're not voting for Barack Obama, ask them this question: Did your cult leader instruct you to do this on his behalf. If they say yes, point out how creepy this is. And if they say no, show them this video and then point out how creepy it is.
Seriously, it's one thing to ask for people's vote. It's something else to put out a video instructing people to badger their relatives into voting for you also. I guess this is what you get when you elect a community organizer.
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Three wins, three sweeps -- on to the championship bracket.
Day 1 of the 14th annual Bev Ball Classic was that easy for the Abilene High School volleyball team, which will square off with Weatherford in today's championship round. The match is slated for 9 a.m. at Abilene High.
Opening with a 25-7, 25-9 rout of El Paso Andress, the Lady Eagles went on to sweep Birdville, 25-17, 25-11. AHS capped the day with a 25-12, 25-14 win over Arlington Bowie, giving the Lady Eagles (3-0) the top seed from the tournament's Black Division.
Caroline Cleveland had eight kills and seven aces and Lily Barnett had eight kills and two blocks to lead AHS in the third match, which was over in less than an hour.
Hammered with 11 aces in two games, Bowie had no answer for the Lady Eagles' jump serves, which also led to 12 passing errors.
"We've got some really good jump servers, and that has a lot to do with how people pass," Abilene coach Didi Pierce said. "When you have tough servers, it makes the other team look like they're struggling."
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Bowie's Prudence Anusim led the Lady Volunteers with five kills and two blocks.
"Abilene can hit well, but we didn't play defense and we didn't block," Bowie coach Christy Cox said. "We couldn't get our blocks up. Our block was slow, our defense was slow and we couldn't get position.
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Other contributors for Abilene High included Katy Sojourner with six kills and Emily Bibb with two aces.
If the Lady Eagles top Weatherford, they will face the winner of Cooper and Richardson at 11:30 a.m.
"We have hitters all across the front line and we can go to any of them," Pierce said. "Just having that diversity is really helping our overall game because we have so many options."
In other action, Cooper finished with a 2-1 record on the day to qualify for today's championship round. The Lady Cougars opened with a 25-19, 25-12 sweep of Graham, then took El Paso Chapin out in two straight, 25-13, 25-17. Lakeisha Collier had nine kills, four blocks and an ace to lead Cooper over Chapin.
Later in the day, Cooper (3-1) dropped its third match 25-16, 19-25, 25-18 to Mansfield Legacy, but retained the second seed from the Red Division.
"Overall, we're pleased," Cooper coach Nora Oglesby said. "As long as we've set ourself up in the championship bracket, which was our goal, we're happy. We played well and got a feel for each other today."
In the other side of the championship bracket, Legacy will face crosstown rival Mansfield Timberview and Aledo will take on Birdville. Both matches will begin at 10:15 a.m.
In the Challenger's (consolation) bracket, Bowie will face Lubbock High and Sweetwater will square off against Chapin at 9 a.m. Graham will face Brownwood and Miles will take on Andress at 10:15 a.m.
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Birdville def. El Paso Andress, 25-16, 18-25, 25-20
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Mansfield Timberview def. Sweetwater, 25-23, 25-19.
Arlington Bowie vs. Birdville def. Bowie, 25-17, 25-16.
Richardson def. Brownwood, 25-22, 25-22.
Arlington Bowie def. Andress, 25-16, 25-14.
Richardson def. Timberview, 25-21, 25-9
Sweetwater, def. Brownwood, 23-25, 25-20, 25-23.
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Cooper def. Graham, 25-19, 25-10
Aledo def. Lubbock High, 25-13, 25-16
Cooper vs. El Paso Chapin
Weatherford, def. Miles, 25-19, 15-25, 25-20
Mansfield Legacy def. Cooper, 25-16, 19-25, 25-18.
Graham def. El Paso 30-29, 25-23
Aledo def. Miles, 25-16, 25-12
Mansfield Legacy def. Chapin, 25-19, 25-22
Weatherford def. Lubbock High, 25-13, 25-9
Mansfield Legacy def. Graham, 25-11, 25-17,
Aledo def. Weatherford, 25-12, 25-9
Miles def. Lubbock High, 18-25, 25-19, 25-22
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At Abilene HS
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Mansfield Legacy vs. Mansfield Timberview, 10:15 a.m.
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Sweetwater vs. El Paso Chapin, 9 a.m.
Graham vs. Brownwood, 10:15 a.m.
Miles vs. El Paso Andress, 10:15 a.m.
Winner's and loser's bracket semifinals, 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Third-and fourth-place matches, 2 p.m.
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Don't be a Content Marketing Ostrich > How to Avoid Future Penalties.
2013 is going to be a BIG year for content marketing. The rise of Google penalties, social and semantic understanding has forced even the most technical SEO into considering content strategy, creation and marketing.
The result has been a leap into the unknown for many, and a fast learning curve for the rest but while quality content is a great thing for brands, and the web generally, it doesn't mean that it's without risks.
As we've seen in recent months doing too much of a good thing can be frowned upon by Google and so if there is one key lesson from Penguin and Panda it must be that you should be much smarter in the way you deliver any campaigns online.
Even white hat projects like major content pushes can bring with it an element of danger. Algorithmic penalties by their very nature take no prisoners and so you must abide by certain rules if you are to avoid misplaced punishment.
The perfect example of early stage content marketing is guest posting. It's a relatively straightforward and immediately impactful way of leveraging content for visibility and links. The problem is mistakes are made and anchor text is overused, or other key metrics are not monitored as closely as they should and so issues arise.
This is when content marketing optimisation comes into play.
I am going to stop making up new SEO buzzwords for the rest of this article and focus on how it's still important to plan your approach with content marketing to ensure you are not at risk of over optimisation.
To do this we need to look at how we can better understand how things have changed and how we can leverage a new reliance on link relevancy to keep the right side of that line. Enter Semantically Related Keywords.
What are Semantically Related Keywords?
We all know that Google is working hard to fully understand the correlation between different words so that they can truly understand what context we are using when searching. Add to the fact that there are genuine semantic search engines such as the wolf ram alpha and it is clear that this is the future of the web.
But for quite some time Google has been working on creating a system that will analyse the content on a page and from the keywords of the article determine the overall subject. This is what Semantic is all about. Over the years there has been a lot of discussion on whether this is Latent Semantic Indexing or just a technology that gives weight to semantically related words. Either way, this technology has been given more weight in recent months.
Where to use Semantically Related Keywords
When Google crawls a page of content, semantics come into play and will look at the keywords on the page to determine the subject. This is how Google will know whether you mean hi tech devices or fruit when you are searching for the term "Apple".
Fast forward to recent months and semantics has evolved and is now being used in many other areas of the web. In particular semantics are being used to judge the power and anchor texts of links and even used to detect over optimised link profiles. This is where careful optimisation is needed when planning content marketing.
How is Semantics used for judging links and penalties?
You only need to look at the recent panda and penguin updates to understand that Google is on a mission to clear up link spam promote genuine naturally gained link profiles. This has resulted in the relevance of a link being one of the most important metrics. How do you think Google determines the relevancy of a link? By using its technology to determine semantically related keywords of course.
I am going to bring this back to the guest post example to show how Google uses semantics to determine the quality and relevance of a potential guest post. This will in turn show how we can use semantics ourselves to both maximise the relevance of the link and ensure that the anchor texts are not over optimised.
Using Semantics to Control the Relevancy and Power of a Guest Post
With guest posting, we all know that having a guest post from a similar niche site is far greater than having a post from a completely different niche. Google automatically detects the relevancy between the 2 posts and gives the link more power because of it. Now you can probably guess by the theme of this article that I am going to explain that Google will look for the same and also semantically related keywords on the guest post to determine its true power. This is where we can be very clever and construct specific content to produce the absolute maximum power possible. All we need to do is make sure we write content that has the semantically related keywords that Google is looking for to determine the true relevancy.
Let's go through an example, let's say you have done the outreach for a website that is within the payday loan niche and you have found several finance blogs that will accept your guest posts. Whilst you know that a finance blog is an excellent, relevant site for your guest post, you can refine it even further by optimising the content you write. Here is how you can do this.
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I am 50% Danish, 12.5% Italian, 12.5% German, 12.5% Dutch, & 12.5% Native American.
So what's your ethnicity? Does it matter to you?
I personally prefer mixed heritage over full. Because then you get a little something from each ethnical background. I have the hair of a Dane, nose of an Italian, I tan like a NA, the 'temper' of a German*my mom says*, and tall like the Dutch. Most(I say most) of the 'full blooded' seem to look very similar. When you're mixed, you're the best of both worlds.


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A deep but accessible online tactics game for iOS. Command anything from artillery to zeppelins across diverse 3D battlefields! Read more
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A deep but accessible online tactics game for iOS. Command anything from artillery to zeppelins across diverse 3D battlefields!
Touch Tactics Team
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Touch Tactics Team
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About this project
We're creating a 3D turn-based tactics game for iOS, supporting competitive and cooperative multiplayer modes using Game Center. In addition, the game will feature a mission-based single-player mode. If initial sales are strong, we plan to add substantial post-release updates including new game play modes, story scenarios, and unit types.
Inspired by the industrial design of 18th-century Europe and other eras, the game puts you in command of units like artillery, dreadnought battleships, and even zeppelins, each with their own unique characteristics and abilities.
We chose to make a tactical game because of the genre's great capacity for both inward depth and outwardly simple rules — a classic example of this is the board game Go. We want to create a game that's rewarding for both beginners and enthusiasts, with an appeal that evolves alongside skill level (think Tetris or Team Fortress 2).
The game supports up to 4 players, either online or through an offline "hot seat" mode using a single device. Players move their combat units across diverse battlefields of 3D terrain tiles, using a natural interface optimized for touch control. To secure victory, you'll need to choose effective combat match-ups, maintain strategic positioning, and use terrain variations to your advantage.
By taking part in multiplayer matches, players accrue points which can then be applied toward unit upgrades between battles, allowing you to assemble a customized battalion that uniquely suits your own strategies and style.
Some inspirations for the project include Sid Meyer's acclaimed Civilization series, MicroProse's X-COM games, Square's Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre, Nintendo's Advance Wars series, and even some classic tabletop war games.
How Will We Do It?
We may not be household names, but studying at DigiPen has given us a lot of early experience working "in the trenches" of game making. The school is widely regarded as one of the country's best higher learning institutions for game development, and has consistent representation at independent game competitions like the IGF. If you'd like to check out our past work, you can do so on our portfolio sites:
We all really want to see this project succeed, but to do it our team members need to cover some modest living expenses and the cost of equipment and services needed for development.
All further donations will go toward additional improvements to the project. In particular, passing our goal by the following amounts will allow us to pursue these additional objectives:
- $17,000 — Working with an experienced composer to create a great interactive musical score (the game will have music either way, but this will ensure it's especially high-quality)
- $20,000 — Translation and localization for other major languages and regions
- $25,000 — Mac version supporting cross-platform online play with the iOS version using Game Center in the upcoming OS X Mountain Lion
- $30,000 — Steam version supporting online play with other Steam users
Why Make This Game?
Most developers seem to believe they have to sacrifice depth to achieve accessibility — sometimes it feels like "casual" has become synonymous with "superficial" when it comes to game design. In contrast, we think great design is universal, and hopefully this project will help demonstrate that appealing only to the lowest common denominator is not the way forward for the medium, creatively or financially.
At this point, it's also well known that publishers tend to be very risk-averse, which makes it hard to get funding for a genuinely innovative project. By working directly with players using Kickstarter instead, we can focus on crafting the best possible game experience rather than just worrying about the bottom line. Your support will determine how far we can take this project, so please give it some thought if you're at all interested. We're counting on backers like you to make it happen!
We're developing a custom engine from the ground up using Apple's own APIs and OpenGL ES 2.0. While some of our early prototypes are being created with Unity, we won't be using it for the final release.
"Touch Tactics Project" is just a working title. We'll announce the game's proper name later in development.
Unfortunately, porting to Android would require enough of the game's code base to be rewritten that it's currently beyond the scope of the project. The silver lining is that this is a consequence of making the initial release as feature-rich and compelling as possible given our present constraints.
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Not really an achievement..lol just a grind!
This would be the place to post this
Originally Posted by Shinra1
I've been trying to level my warlock for well over a year now and I've only just hit level 60. There's something very difficult about their playstyle right from the get go. Surely it can't just be me? Is there any chance that the devs can streamline the class. Their resource system is also difficult to maintain as well.
Now try to cap Valor/Conquest points every week on every Character.
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A 17-year-old boy who was supposed to spend 22 days in detention for violating his probation is out on the street because a communication snafu apparently caused him to stay in a holding cell at the Carbon County Courthouse from 3 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon until 9 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The juvenile was put in the holding cell, which only has a bench to sit on, no water and no toilet facilities, by a probationary officer on Tuesday afternoon.
After that point it is unclear exactly what happened, but a communication error occurred and the young man was not taken out of the cell and transported to the Carbon County Jail as he should have been.
In an interview with KUTV news the teenager said that after the first hour he became anxious because he thought that some one would be there to pick him up within 30 minutes.
Then the hour turned into two hours and then many more. He stated that he thought maybe some apocalypse had befallen the world because he made noise and pounded on the door but no one came to release him.
The state court system is investigating the incident, and the Carbon County Sheriff's Office has also appointed an internal investigation team to look into what happened.
After the young man was released, the court decided that the incident was enough punishment for violating parole and let him go free.
One Carbon County adult who has been in the holding cell described it as "primitive."
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What Might Happen on DOOL!
Rumors and Predictions by Suzanne
Many sites are reporting that Kassie DePaiva (Eve) will be leaving town.
It's not yet officially reported on any of the major sites. She won't
be a victim of the serial killer. It's also rumored that James Read (Clyde)
will be exiting the show long before the serial killer story ends, so it's
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My predictions: None of these people are the serial killer - Stefano, Chad,
Abigail, Clyde, Eve, Marlena, John, Bo, Hope, Aiden, JJ, Brady, Ciara,
Claire, Eric, Roman, Sami, Theo, Jennifer, André, Theresa, Rafe, Sonny,
Kayla, Daniel, Steve, Adrienne, Maggie, Victor, Ava, Doug or Julie.
That only leaves these major characters: Ben, Maggie, Chloe, Caroline,
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returned character.
Predictions by Suzanne
really will try to be a better person.
will die and there will be a murder mystery. Might be
Theresa, J.J., Nick, Chad, Lucas, or someone else!
Predictions by Michele
and Cheryl 7/1/13
will find out about EJ and Justin's plan to take over his
JJ will
continue to come between Daniel and Jennifer.
Another guy
will come between Will and Sonny.
will get closer to Roman while John is gone.
Rafe will
lose his memory when he comes out of his coma.
Predictions by Michele
and Cheryl 4/15/13
Chloe will attempt to commit suicide.
Sami will catch Kate and Rafe in a compromising position.
Anne will see Cameron stripping and use it to her advantage.
Cameron and Abby will make love.
John and Kristen will come close to
making love, but he will stop himself.
Roman and Marlena will grow closer.
Predictions by Michele
and Cheryl 3/23/12
EJ will realize that Nicole is
Nicole will start to have feelings for
Daniel and Billie will become
Austin will catch Rafe and Carrie
in a compromising position.
Lexie will come close to
forgiving Abe, but something will keep her from being with
Predictions by Michele
and Cheryl 2/24/12
Lexie will turn her back on Abe and
Jennifer because of what they did during the election.
Abe will get arrested for his dirty
tricks during the campaign.
Just when Sami decides to forgive Rafe,
she will see him with Carrie.
Abby will tell Austin she's pregnant.
Abby will have sex with a random guy to
get pregnant.
Predictions by Michele
and Cheryl 2/12/12
Bo and Marlena will have a reason why
they can't go to Alamania.
John and Hope will get close while they
are in Alamania.
Carrie will find herself thinking about
Rafe while working things out with Austin.
Abby will become obsessed with Austin.
Austin will continue to feel guilty
about "being" with Abby.
Gabi will come between Chad and
Melanie's growing relationship.
Predictions by Michele
and Cheryl 1/29/12
Princess Gina will
return and cause trouble for Bo and Hope.
The secret Alice was
hiding is the fact that Hope is really Gina.
Rafe and Carrie will
have an affair.
Sami will get closer to
Lucas because her relationship with Rafe will fall apart.
Abe and Lexie's
marriage will suffer because of his actions during the
EJ will win the
Predictions by
Carrie and Austin's marriage is tested, but they survive.
Rafe and Sami split up. She is tempted to get back together with
Lucas. Chloe returns to town and plots revenge against
Kate and Victor. She goes after Daniel again. Marlena does
something drastic to E.J. Will finally comes out,
eventually. He and Sonny fall in love.
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This case study presents results from a complex assessment of a biologically impaired urbanized coastal watershed located primarily in South Portland, Maine, U.S.A., the Long Creek watershed. This assessment serves as an example implementation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Stressor Identification guidance. Four specific biological effects defining impairment and seven candidate causes of impairment were chosen and evaluated at three impaired sites along long Creek. Decreased dissolved oxygen, altered flow regime, decreased large woody debris, increased temperature, and increased toxicity due to ionic strength were identified as probable causes of impairment. The implications associated with interactions among probable causes are discussed in terms of this case study and causal assessment in general.


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Oh, that reminds me... I meant to say it looks like you may be pinching with your knees a bit, which tilts you too far forward and causes your lower leg to get too far back and your heel to come up (I do this, too :)
Also, be careful with stirrup length. Yes, dressage is longer, but don't overdo it at first. Lengthen some and get used to that length before going longer. 1. You really need to develop your core muscles to ride with longer stirrups, otherwise you'll be gripping with your legs and your leg muscles will be hurting and 2. Beginning dressage riders shouldn't try to mimic the FEI level riders stirrup length, which is not appropriate for them.
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By Jennifer Geiger on December 13, 2012
In what seems to be a Honda tradition, the automaker's luxury arm announced it will unveil a prototype of the next Acura MDX crossover at the 2013 Detroit auto show. As with other concept debuts, it will likely be very close to the 2014 production version.
Details are slim, but Acura released a teaser sketch and said the 2014 MDX prototype uses a new "Aero Sculpture" design language. The image shows a curvier MDX with more pronounced wheel arches and an updated version of the shield grille. The midsize crossover was last refreshed for model-year 2010.
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- PRESENTATION: Gene Sharratt will present the board with a School of Distinction award for Waitsburg High School. Sharratt represents the Center for Educational Effectiveness and Phi Delta Cappa. This is the second time in three years the high school has received this honor. The award is given to the 5 percent highest improving schools, over a five-year span of time, in reading and math. Refreshments will follow the presentation.
- REPORTS: Hear reports from administrators, athletic director, and transportation/maintenance supervisor.
- HANDBOOKS: Consider approving Waitsburg Elementary School student handbook for 2009-2010.
- LEVY: Discuss replacement maintenance and operations levy.
- PLAN: Consider approving the 2009-2010 elementary school improvement plan.
- POLICY: Consider approving revised policy related to family emergency leaves.
- BARGAINING: Consider approving results of collective bargaining agreement for certificated staff and classified staff.
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It's once again the hazy days of winter. While other cities contemplate their buildings clearly, through the web of naked treebranches, standing in the crisp clear air, Los Angeles sees only the corner mall through the brownish haze of coastal fog. What is it that they see? All the elements and building blocks of the postmodern playpen, reassembled for corner shopping malls, colored in every number on the Prismacolor chart and all tumbling around the same basic set of plans: one or two stories, garage on grade or under, the curving walls, the triangular pediments and the bright red cubes are the same from Studio City to Alhambra. Work goes on in large, corporate versions of articulated steel chic—meta-morphosized grids of steel housing bank buildings. Skidmore Owings and Merrill rip off Mayne and Rotondi, Arquitectonica brings International Class Bank Architecture to Wilshire Boulevard. So much for daily life. At night, one can return to any number of four-story neo-Spanish, neo-Haifa, neo-Dutch sagging stucco mansions currently being put up by a Santa Monica architect in the Fairfax/La Brea area. The evolution from apartment buildings into condominiums can be traced in the emergence of tile roofs, arched windows and palm trees planted out front. At night, there are dozens of new movie theaters and, soon, a new opera hall. The evolution from Mickey Mouse into Placido Domingo will be marked by metal and dancing cubes, by paper thin classicism or by confused expressionism, depending on who panders most successfully to Mrs. Disney's fear of design. Of course, this monument to the conversion of a crass industry into elite taste temples will be surrounded by the latest corporate megalomania, whether in the overblown temples of yuppie living or in the glass curves and grids of mysterious business. Los Angeles will soon have a downtown (at least one), even if we will not be able to see it through the haze of our soon permanent winter. The Forum will keep its expeditions going through this winter wonderland. In fact, the current project is to map the territory in as many ways as possible. A pamphlet, to be published within the next few months, will contain geological maps, surveys, pueblo markings, faults, floodplains, industrials surveys and health images. Aspiring cartographers are needed. The Forum is also planning a series of events for the Spring which will highlight the work of young architects. The "Living on the Edge" design charrette, postponed from this month, will be held in February. The National Endowment for the Humanities has made many publications possible, so please make suggestions. Time to come out of hibernation.
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Water of Life expanding its reach in Upstate to expand its effect around the globe
The youth at First Baptist Church in Easley started with a goal to build a well in Africa.
They ended up raising enough money in their church family to build nearly three wells within three months, said Steve Lambright, one of the church's members. The original goal was to raise $5,000 to build a well in Sierra Leone.
The young people cleaned out their closets, held a yard sale and set up a booth at the church, which was announced from the pulpit. Between September and December in 2011, the church family raised $8,500, Lambright said.
About 900 people on the eastern coast of India are now served by the well that $2,000 of that money paid for. And a well has just been installed in Sierra Leone.
"The youth were thinking about what they could do as a mission. And they had an idea to dig a well," Lambright said. "Then they asked for help. So we stepped in. That was exciting to see that come out of the youth class; and that excitement spread."
The same excitement is what built Water of Life, a nonprofit ministry with a mission to provide clean drinking water where there is none. Like the young people in Easley, a group of members at Brookwood Church in Simpsonville talked to their missions pastor about what they could do. In 2002, the Water of Life ministry, then called Living Waters of South Carolina, was born.
Roland Bergeron was in that group. He remembers the excitement. It was work they felt called to do.
"When I started this work, I didn't understand the depth of poverty," Bergeron said. "There are people who have literally nothing. Their belongings are the clothes on their back and some cooking pots."
What he also learned was that in those places where poverty is so extreme, access to clean water is luxury. Women and children walk for miles so they can find water. Sometimes, people simply drink what is closest and available.
"We take water for granted in this country," Bergeron said. "That's just not true in most of the world."
Between 2002 and 2006, the all-volunteer ministry raised enough money and gathered enough people to build new wells or rehabilitate broken ones along the northern coast of Honduras.
In 2004, the ministry expanded and moved to a new continent.
Now, it's still a mostly-volunteer operation with two employees. They operate on the west coast of Africa in Gambia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea and India.
While it has expanded across the globe, the ministry has changed its name and is reaching out to other churches in the Upstate.
From 2007 until 2011, the ministry raised enough money to build 83 new wells, rebuild 173 broken wells, plant 80 churches, hold 32 clinics and send 146 missionaries overseas.
The Water of Life expanded its work to include villages in India in March 2011 and has built 24 wells there so far, said Bergeron, who is now a retired homebuilder and full-time president of the ministry.
"I am 61. I lived most of my life living my plan," he said. "Now, I am really just trying to live God's plan."
What he's found in the last 10 years is that building those wells has given the ministry a great opportunity to spread the Gospel. In some places where wells have been built, there were a few Christians, or none at all.
Time after time, Bergeron said he's seen villages changed and people changed when the well was installed.
Bergeron said Water of Life was pulled into India in March 2011 after he met a local pastor there who needed a well for his village. At the time, the pastor had a small church of about 150 people.
The village has about 6,000 people, and many of the women and children were walking two and three hours a day to find fresh water.
"Now the entire village is Christian," Bergeron said.
Similar things happened in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Water of Life partnered with a church planter in Liberia who had seven churches in 2006. Now he has planted 72 churches. In Sierra Leone, Bergeron said they worked with a pastor who was Muslim but had accepted Christ and was building new churches.
The man in Sierra Leone had five churches and now has built 50.
"The wells are a very great blessing to these people," Bergeron said. "When they recognize the blessing and want to know where it came from, we give all the credit to God."
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In Day 1 of Dana White's UFC 141 Vlog, DFW gives us a glimpse at some behind-the-scenes footage from the last event. Igor Pokrajac knocked out Soszynski in 35 seconds at the event, and if you skip to 3:15, you will see Soszynski backstage exclaiming, "This is my last MMA fight. I'm done," he tells the camera man, "It's a shitty way to go out, though."
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