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Thank You, Roger Ebert: You Gave Me Comfort and Inspiration The Day You Died
An essay by Roger Ebert reached me at exactly the right moment.
-April Daniels Hussar
Yesterday my Facebook feed was full of the news that the world lost one of our greats, film critic, writer, and thinker Roger Ebert. F&*ing cancer made another claim. By evening, I noticed that a couple of my friends had shared the same link, to an essay by Ebert on Salon.com, so I clicked.
And it just absolutely blew me away.
The essay is titled, "I Do Not Fear Death." In it, Ebert starts out by writing, "I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear."
The bravery and honesty with which he writes the rest of the essay gutted me, and inspired me, and brought me so much comfort, because right now I am grieving the loss of my little sister. In this time of darkness and hurt, when death has become suddenly so real and terrible, so final, Roger Ebert's words made me feel better. The whole essay is a must-read, but the part that touched me the most — made me burst into grateful tears — was when he quoted Vincent van Gogh:
Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map.
Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?
Just as we take a train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. We cannot get to a star while we are alive any more than we can take the train when we are dead. So to me it seems possible that cholera, tuberculosis and cancer are the celestial means of locomotion. Just as steamboats, buses and railways are the terrestrial means.
To die quietly of old age would be to go there on foot.
"That is a lovely thing to read, and a relief to find I will probably take the celestial locomotive," Ebert writes.
I think of my sister reaching the beauty and wonder of a star, and it fills me with longing and hope. I think of Ebert writing and sharing those words, and finding them lovely, and I am filled with awe, and inspiration, that a man who had looked death in the eye did not fear it. Instead, Ebert focused on what life meant to him, what his version of faith meant to him, and how that philosophy brought him peace as he looked at his life, and his eventual, inevitable death:
I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
Thank you Roger Ebert. Your words not only reminded me about the important thing in life, but offered succor to my aching heart. I think of you reaching your star, while your words here in this world make you immortal, and I am inspired.
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SMWC uses grant to help local museum educate kids about bees
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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) has recently been awarded a $15,000 Empowerment Grant from the Motorola Mobility Foundation, for an innovative internship entitled Mobile Museum Developers Using Gamification and Crowdsourcing. For this virtual, multidisciplinary internship, both online and campus students will work together to create a brand new bee exhibit for the not-for-profit Terre Haute Children's Museum.
The basis of the entire exhibit is a proven effective, unique concept called gamification, which Jennie Mitchell, Ph.D., project director and professor of business at SMWC, described simply as "creating virtual games with fictional characters that take kids on an educational journey." Harnessing this breakthrough idea, students in this internship will use Lectora Inspire software to create a museum exhibit that young children can manipulate through large touch screens provided by the College, mobile platforms, or on their own mobile devices. Children will also be able to download interactive games related to bees and take the information home on their mobile devices, or access it later from the museum's website.
By teaching these young children in a fun, interactive way, this new exhibit will show kids that they really can understand science. "The key is that the audience is young (neo-millenials), and will love the mediated immersion that gamification allows," Mitchell said. On a larger scale, Mitchell believes that the use of gamification will help develop young children's interests in the STEM fields: science, technology, education, and mathematics. As a result, children will learn early on how to be innovators and leaders.
Robert Jean, Ph.D., an SMWC assistant professor of ecology and expert on bees, and Sonja Frantz, Ph.D., professor of education and SMWC education department chair, will combine disciplines to help students with the exhibit's content. "The idea is to use experts we already have, or experts in other schools—content experts. Then, our students create it for a young audience," said Mitchell.
Through a cutting-edge concept called crowdsourcing, the content of this exhibit will be shared with a 280-member museum consortium, which will provide feedback and evaluate the project. The exhibit will also be made available, through the Association of Science-Technology Centers, to individuals and K-12 classes nationwide, and will adhere to educational standards for use in K-12 classes nationwide.
"It is a wonderful opportunity for our students to serve the needs of local children, and children around the country," said D.J Wasmer, Ph.D., professor of business and SMWC business department chair.
The grant will go towards the large touch screens for the Terre Haute Children's Museum, iPads for SMWC students involved in the internship, to learn the software and develop the exhibit, and honorariums for various content and consortium experts.
"There is a Chinese Proverb," shared Lynn Hughes, executive director of the museum, "that states, 'I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.' The interactive features of this new exhibit will help children retain and comprehend information about the bees and their habits."

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Thread: Torment: Tides of Numenera
It's a Dark Souls situation, except for Avellone (I hope he's going to be a stretch goal). It's a sequel in everything but the setting.
It looks like they've got some of the key people involved in creating and writing for the Planescape setting involved in Tides of Numenera, and what they've shown us so far looks good. The game itself and those making it are more of an unknown factor for me, but having a strong setting to work with is important, and they have members of the original team working on it along with the approval of those at Obsidian.
So I'm fairly optimistic. It's impossible to say at this point what the quality of the final game will be like, but simply making the attempt is a big point in their favour.
Okay, thanks. I guess I should get around to playing it at last in a couple of weeks. If I like it, there will still be some time left to decide.
It's really hard to describe why Planescape: Torment is such an extraordinary game to somebody who has not played it. In my opinion it's because it's a game that is primarily aimed at adults, something that does not happen very often. Well, unless your definition of adult game is Wet Empire.
It's a fantasy game, yes, as it is part of the D&D continuum but whereas Forgotten Realms is Tolkien, Planescape is Moorcock.Immersive Sims on Steam WIP
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I'd agree this game is not mainstream but that does not mean it's not epic. I'm supporting this one and other similar games in the future.
It's always a good idea to confront the status quo. Torment is clearly a good example of this concept. I just wish this game will be released sooner.
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Torment's theme is less special than the way it's intricately woven into the game. Every single character is defined by their pain, and their pain keeps them tied to the main character in ways many of them don't even understand. It's beautifully crafted and the themes (Torment is not the only theme in the game, just the titular one. Arguably the role of belief is more important) and atmosphere constantly reinforce each other.
As for cynicism, I backed Wasteland 2 and I did not back this. For three reasons:
I thought their theme was a bit simple, and they focused too much on it in the pitch. "What is one life worth?" Didn't really sound that impressive (although Torment doesn't either). The way they hammered it in though really didn't work for me, because what sets Planescape Torment apart is its subtlety. Their pitch was a bit hamfisted.
The second is that you have to trust in Fargo's abilities as a team leader, not just as a person. I fully believe that he will do everything between hell and high-water to get these games out. However, I'm not as convinced in his abilities as a manger. Wasteland 2 updates have been glacial, and don't seem to show very quick progress. Also, Choplifter HD and Hunted.
The third is that you have to trust not only Fargo, but also the writing team. The writing in the Wasteland demo was not great. Angela Deth's quote wasn't great either.
I don't want to end on a cynical note though. I feel like I have been unduly negative about this game in other posts. In a world where I didn't have to sell blood to back Project Eternity, I would have backed this too. The risk would have been worth it if $40 wasn't all the spending money we have a month. So here's a few bright points to dull your cynicism.
- They're using tech they already understand quite well, which means less nasty surprises.
- McComb did some good writing in PST and Avellone respects him.
- George Ziets did good writing in MotB (which was well-written all around), and Obsidian respects him.
- They already look like they made an interesting skill and combat system for Wasteland 2.
- The Brain City looks pretty damn cool.
- There have been three successful 2D rpgs kickstarted for over a million. You saw the Shadowrun Returns video today, Wasteland 2 released a neat video, and PE is making steady progress that is well-documented (and creating a system which combines 3e and 4e D&D better than WotC can).
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Kickstarter seems to support cooperation between developers. InXile looks independent. Obsidian doesn't appear to work with the same publisher 2 times in a row, and Eternity is self-published. Is this the start of a new trend ? Will we see more developers join forces if they like each other and share a passion ? More humane and passion-driven game development ?pass
I have such a hard on for this game I pass out every time I hear it mentioned.
I started playing Planescape: Torment for first time. Impressions? Meh. I must have some sort of aversion to Infinity Engine, I think, because I didn't like Baldur's Gate either. What's bugging me most is quests. I walked into some woman house and after quick conversation I have to help her husband to deal with his debts. WTF? Why? Who the hell is asking some random stranger who invades they private house to help for such a thing like paying debts? WHAT DID THEY THINKING?!
And now here we are - next Torment and probably the same bullshit as devs want to make isometric graphics, tons of dialogues etc. Sure, I can skip these quests. But it not make game much better. It's like: "I see some punks beating a poor guy, but I close my eyes and they will disappear".
I wish they would somehow experiment with videogame narration and gameplay instead of ressurecting old and broken (for me) style.
Now you can punch me in face.
You are not paying for this game, you have no say in how it should look like. People are paying for it because they want a game like this. If it looked like you propose, it wouldn't get funded.
The text and conversations are what people like the most about Torment. Sometimes it's unrealistic like when you invade someone's house and don't offend him, but it would make the conversation even longer. Not everyone enjoys cutting through 5 minutes of small talk to get to something interesting.
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You're right, but I want more devs to do something fresh, because games have potential for more various ways to tell a story than just clicking through dialogues and Torment seems to have good setting for these experiments.
For example - these guys who "speaks" with symbols from first Torment. Awesome idea. But if that idea is executed that you must read: "you see some symbols blahblahblah" is rather bad. I would want to SEE these symbols and maybe figure them out by myself and not by my character wisdom or intelligence stats. Yeah, it's somehow against RPG nature of this game, but would be much more engaging and fun.
Also - I do not dislike Torment setting, just mechanics. Oh, it also have very annoying way to mark *some* words with strange *characters* that looks *very* bad in dialogues.
Books doesn't need that to provide good dialogues. Visual novels doesn't need that either. Why put something like that in a game?
I don't think it's really a problem though. Not all games with great writing imitate the Infinity Engine games. You could try out Alpha Protocol, which eschews sidequests and which ties all NPCs neatly into the main storyline. Or you might like Psychonauts and The Longest Journey, games that have nothing to do with RPGs altogether. And if you're looking for something featuring a greater degree of personal freedom, Far Cry 2 might be worth a try.
Yeah, that's the one thing I dislike in Kickstarter. You need to came up with some nostalgic stuff if you want to make a money.
That's why kickstarting next Torment is good opportunity to do some experiments, because people would back it anyway, because it's Torment.
BTW, thanks for reminding me that I have to finish Psychonauts.
Hopefully they can rise above this lazy design.
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Far Cry 2 gives the illusion of freedom and it isn't even very strong. It goes out of its way to stop you from doing things it didn't think of or doesn't want you to be able to do. And the writing is hamfisted.
The original PST did a lot of mechanical experimentation. The importance of wisdom, the fact that players couldn't die, the spell cinematics, moving alignment, lie tracking, putting an endstate in the middle of the game, punishments for killing people in public, etc.
And yes, there character agency vs. player agency is always an issue, but it's not like there's a right or wrong decision to that. When you say it would be more engaging and fun, it's important to clarify that it would be more engaging and fun to you. Which is perfectly acceptable. Arx Fatalis is like that with symbols if you haven't tried it.
Setting and mechanics are pretty intricately linked in Planescape Torment, which is in many ways a deconstruction of D&D.
Finally, the thing about people barging into houses is kinda funny, because that's one thing Baldur's Gate actually does do. People will get mad if you come into their house uninvited, and call the guards if you steal things. If you kill the guards, more will chase you any time you're in the city.
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Check out Castle Story, Planetary Annihilation, FTL, Sui Generis, At The Gates. Not exactly sequels or clones.pass
Besides, you can walk only into a few houses. This is a metaphor for: there's nothing interesting in the rest.pass
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So, numbers on Kickstarters:
In the first three days of funding:
Wasteland 2 had 38.21% of its total, Project Eternity had 34.7%, and Shadowrun Returns had 33.29%.
In the first four:
Wasteland 2 had 42.19% of its total, Project Eternity had 38.63%, and Shadowrun Returns had 36.92%.
I have a list with a lot more, but I thought these three were the most germane because they're top down RPGs that wildly exceeded their funding, which was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The games are of course unique in their own rights, and I'll establish a larger list as more get made. They all had pretty big boosts in the middle. Shadowrun's boost corresponds with it hitting $1m (and announcing a collector's edition), Wasteland 2's is the signing of Avellone, and PE's is the "screenshot."
So if Torment: Tides of Numenera follows the patterns of other games it will likely get somewhere between:
From 3 day: $6.36m (Shadowrun) to $5.78m (Wasteland 2)
From 4 day: $6.3m (Shadowrun) to $5.5m (Wasteland 2).
It looks like it might be a bit lower than these estimates because it's decreasing faster than any of them. Day 2,3,4 decreases:
Wasteland 2 -16%, -35%, -54%; Project Eternity -31%, -59%, -20%; Shadowrun Returns -27%, -53%, -33%.
Torment decreases are significantly sharper:
-65%, -60%, -40%.
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Harold F Govoni (KIA) 321st BG, 447th BS, B-25 /MTO
20 March, 1943 — North Africa
Harold Govoni; KIA by enemy fighters, B-25 TRIGGER #41-13171 Shot-down at Sea. Harold was an Engineer and Aerial Gunner.
Harold F Govoni was living at "Box 316, Wapping Road, Kingstown, MA. at Enlistment.S SG Harold F. Govoni ID: 11032438
Branch of Service: U.S. Army
Hometown: Plymouth County, MA
Status: KIA
MISSING IN ACTION on 20 March 1943 on Sea Sweep Mission Between Tunisia and
Sicily. Attacked By Enemy Fighters~SHOT DOWN at SEA.
One Crew Member Killed Before the Crash,
The 5 Surviving Crew Members Made it to the Life Raft, Rowed to Shore~EVADED ENEMY CAPTURE~Made
it to Friendly Lines, Were Treated for Minor Injuries, and RETURNED to the 447th Squadron on 27 March
1943, ALL 5 Were Wearing British Uniforms.
A/C No. 41-13171 "Trigger" (shot down)
Ackley, James H., 2Lt, pilot
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
Orr, Douglas C. "Doug", 2Lt, bombardier
Drogosch, Robert C., T/Sgt, radio-gunner
Govoni, Harold F., S/Sgt, engineer-gunner--(KIA)
Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt, armament-gunner
FANTASTIC Account by LT. McDuff:
447th BS: War Diary of: McDuff, Daniel R., 2Lt, pilot: (although Lt Duke &
Crew didn't return to the 447th until 27 Mar 43, this entry is placed here
for continuity)
Saturday, 20 March 1943
"…no one in the outfit is very fond of sea-sweeps! Too many ships have
turned up either missing or all shot to pieces. Burns and Duke, to begin
with---and now several others I'd rather not write about.
Burns brought his ship down in a crash landing at Bone==shot full of
holes. We have pictures of it now at headquarters and, believe me, it looks
like a sieve. They immeasurably increase my faith in the ability of the B-25 to fly under adverse battle conditions.
…Duke went down at sea---and miraculously lived to tell about it. In
fact, all but one member of his crew (the engineer) escaped with minor
injuries. This is what happened according to Lt. James H. Ackley, the co-pilot,
as best as I can gather.
Ackley, James H., 2Lt, pilot
Burns, John P. "Buster", 2Lt, pilot
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
They were flying No. 4 position of a flight of four ships and were
flying it close. Oil was leaking out of the right engine and going back over
the wing. They had had a little trouble with it during the attack, but it was
working O.K. on the trip home.
But the oil on their wing was their ruin. Enemy fighters
(ME-109's-yellow nose jobs, indicating Goering's prize squadron) picked Duke's ship as a
possible cripple, and concentrated their attack on them. They were doing
O.K. in holding off their attackers, Sgt. Noble, the turret gunner shot down
one ME-109 and Sgt. Drogosch the radio operator on the waist guns, shot down
another. One Nazi, however, paid no attention whatever to the fire power
concentrated on him and came boring in in spite of it. He did a good job.
His fire raked the ship from one end to the other---a 20 mm shell exploded in
the navigator's compartment, tearing things up generally. But other than a
few cuts on their hands and faces, did no damage to Duke and Ackley. A string of 20mm
shells hit the right engine, going back across the wing towards the fuselage
and the tail section. That was the burst that did the dirty work. The
engine caught fire and quit. The wheel assembly came down out of the nacelle
and hung there. The right wing flaps came down and fell off. The right wing
itself was badly shot up and weakened. The tail section was riddled, and
Sgt. Govoni, the engineer on the tail gun, was killed. He never knew what
hit him.
Ackley, James H., 2Lt, pilot
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
Drogosch, Robert C., T/Sgt, radio-gunner
Govoni, Harold F., S/Sgt, engineer-gunner
Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt, armament-gunner
Duke had no choice but to set it down---and that was a job! His ship
just wouldn't fly, dropping fast. He tried to slow it down by closing the
throttle, but it was falling so fast it kept its speed. Nothing to do but hit
and hang on…
They hit---and what a wallop it must have been. The ship broke into
three pieces---the right wing came off and the fuselage broke just aft of the
turret. The radio operator had hold of the life raft release when they hit,
and in falling, released the raft. Duke, for some reason, had his safety
belt off and bounced around in the cockpit doing various and sundry damage to
his ribs, head and hands. Ackley got a nice cut from his hair line down
over his forehead, but isn't sure just where or when he got it. Doug Orr, the
bombardier, got out O.K. with minor scratches.
When they hit, Orr was back in the navigator's compartment, and when
the forward motion of the ship ceased, water came gushing up in to it with
such force that Orr, Ackley, and Duke were washed out through the pilot's
escape hatch. They don't know who got out first, but Ackley claims they all went
out together…
The radio operator got out safely with only slight bruises and
scratches, but Sgt. Noble was knocked unconscious in the crash. The ship sank in 20
to 25 seconds so there was no time to try to reach him. However, as the
ship went down Noble was revived by the cold water and swam out the only hole
he could see over the riddled body of Sgt. Govoni.
Ackley, James H., 2Lt, pilot
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt, armament-gunner
Orr, Douglas C. "Doug", 2Lt, bombardier, navigator
After he was clear of the ship, Ackley discovered himself in trouble.
His parachute harness was still fastened across his chest and he had
inflated one side of his Mae West life jacket. The inflated side, in expanding,
had tightened the chute harness so that he couldn't unfasten it---and the
heavy pack kept pulling him down in the water. It was all he could do to hang
on to the raft while the others unfastened his harness. Finally free of it
he crawled into the raft, and then, he said, he promptly got mad! While it
was on him and he couldn't get it off, his chute pack dragged him
under---but when he got free, the damned thing began to float!
His little experience taught us never to inflate our Mae West under our
chute harness.
As the ship sank one ME-109 returned, circled low over them, and headed
back toward Tunisia. Taking stock of their situation, they decided they
were about 10 or 15 miles off Cape Serrat----enemy territory! But it was
land, and land being their main interest, they began to paddle for it. They
paddled with everything they had as fast as they could---arriving on the
mainland at about 1 or 2 in the morning---or after about 12 hours of paddling!
They landed in enemy territory and it took them 3½ days of walking to
get back inside our lines. They walked mostly in the hills---the coast was
generally too rocky---and they found it easier to dodge enemy patrols by
staying in wooded country. Duke was the only one anywhere near seriously
injured---the bouncing around in the cockpit when they hit the water gave him a
pretty good beating. He was in pain quite a bit of the time---going sort of
out of his head at times. They gave him morphine on several occasions until
they ran out.
They had a time getting food, and most of the time they did without.
Doug Orr can speak a little French and succeeded in getting a little food
from Arabs.
Orr, Douglas C. "Doug", 2Lt, bombardier, navigator
They hired one Arab to guide them safely to the Allied lines, but after
careful checking on their compasses, decided he was taking them to an enemy
outpost. They thought they might kill him, but decided against it as it
could easily rouse the Arabs against them. So they gave him the slip.
They waded rivers, climbed hills and rock, and somehow got through to
the British. Somewhere along the line they met a Frenchman who had escaped
the Nazis and who knew the country pretty well. They all admit he was a big
help-especially in dealing with Arabs.
The British treated them royally---gave them new clothes, fed them well
and often, treated their injuries, and after a few days, sent them back to
Duke kept complaining of headaches and is now in a hospital somewhere.
The rest of them are in either Oran or Algiers for a rest cure.
Duke, Albert (NMI) "Al", 2Lt, pilot
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A REDNAL playgroup and dance school joined forces to take part in a special fundraising onesie day.
Members of St Stephen's Church's playgroup and Victoria's School of Dance and Performing Arts donned onesies to help raise awareness and funds for Autism West Midlands.
Youngsters learned about the importance of treating others as they would like to be treated, and that it is OK to be different.
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NEIL Mitchell says Stourbridge's trip to Macclesfield on Saturday is "make or break" for their season.
The Black Country side trail their hosts by three points in National Two North with just seven games remaining.
With last season's last-second play-off defeat still an open wound for Stourbridge, Mitchell says defeat against their main title rivals would make life difficult if they are to seal promotion.
"It's obviously a really big game for us – make or break," said Mitchell.
"We targeted three games we had to win, Sedgeley Park, Macclesfield and Darlington (who are two points behind Stourbridge but with a game in hand) and this is stage two of that after beating Sedgeley Park.
"We have to get more than one point from this game if we are to stay in the race and I feel we are more than capable of a getting a result.
"The last three games we have scored 97 points and conceded only three, the last two being to nil against the teams fourth, fifth and seventh, and showed what we are about and there is a confidence within the team.
"This set of players is good enough to play at the next level and it's at this point in our own hands.
"The play-off defeat is still in our minds and we don't need much reminding about it.
"If we lose then we would have to rely on slip ups from the teams around us but we are away, so there is not the same mindset and it's different this time around with us last season having won the first 18 on the bounce, then we lost to Bromsgrove and there was a chip our our armour.
"Now it's the other way round. We will give every one of the seven games the same attention, although clearly the games with Darlington and Macclesfield carry extra importance"They play each other on the last day at Darlington, who still have to go to Birmingham and Solihull who have already beaten them so there is a lot to play for." Blindside flanker Nigel Mukarati's ankle injury sustained against Leicester may not be as serious as first thought and he may still make the starting line-up.
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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, vowed Tuesday to speak on the Senate floor "until I am no longer able to stand" in opposition to President Obama's health care law.
A conservative-driven effort to defund Obamacare on a stopgap spending bill now under debate in Congress has raised the threat of a government shutdown Oct. 1.
Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, have led the defund effort despite criticism from Senate Republicans who view their tactics as short-sighted because there is no chance of passage up against a Democratic-led Senate and Obama's veto pen.
Despite the Republican senators' efforts, the chamber is on track to clear a key procedural hurdle Wednesday to ultimately advance a stopgap spending bill that leaves intact President Obama's health care law.
"Filibusters stop people from voting, and we are going to vote tomorrow," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Tuesday. Cruz took to the Senate floor at 2:41 p.m., but under Senate rules Reid will be able to hold a procedural vote to take up the stopgap spending bill around noon Wednesday no matter how long Cruz intends to speak.
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Reid, posted on Twitter that Cruz and Reid had pre-negotiated the terms of Cruz's floor time.
The House-passed spending bill under debate in the Senate maintains the current annual $986 billion funding levels across the federal government through Dec. 15 but includes a provision to defund the Affordable Care Act. The Senate's vote on Wednesday would essentially clear the way for a final up-or-down vote by the weekend, but Reid is going to strip out the language eliminating spending for the health care law, which is why Cruz and his allies are using blocking tactics.
Senate Democrats also intend to change the time period of the stopgap spending bill to Nov. 15, in order to nudge lawmakers closer toward passing the annual spending bills instead of relying on stopgap measures. "The best way to stop lurching on this crisis to the next crisis is to get back into funding our government the way the Founding Fathers set it out, through the appropriations process," Reid said.
Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., said she will be seeking a longer-term resolution to the dozen fiscal year spending bills that remain unfinished. Democrats are also seeking ways to use the annual spending bills to turn off unpopular, across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester for up to two years.
The majority of Senate Republicans have said they oppose Cruz's tactics on the stopgap spending bill, in part because of fears of political repercussions for being blamed for a government shutdown, which will occur Oct. 1 if Congress doesn't pass it.
The chamber's top two Republicans, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Monday that they will not vote with Cruz on Wednesday, a clear signal that there are the 60 votes necessary to move forward with the debate on the spending bill.
"We'd all be hard-pressed to explain why we were opposed to a bill we were in favor of," McConnell said Tuesday, noting that the vote Wednesday will allow debate on a bill that includes the defund language since Reid has not had the opportunity to strip it out yet.
However, Republicans continue to unanimously oppose Obamacare as a matter of policy, which begins open enrollment on Oct. 1, and are seeking other avenues to dismantle the law.
For example, House Republicans are working to approve a legislative package tied to a debt-ceiling vote increase expected next month that would delay implementation for one year in exchange for suspending the nation's borrowing limit through next year.
Obama has maintained that he will not negotiate on the debt ceiling because of the potentially sweeping economic repercussions that could arise from the United States defaulting on its debt payments.


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Diaphragmatic breathing, or deep breathing is the act of breathing deep into your lungs by flexing your diaphragm rather than breathing shallowly by flexing your rib cage.
This deep breathing is marked by expansion of the stomach (abdomen) rather than the chest when breathing. It is generally considered a healthier and fuller way to ingest oxygen, and is often used as a therapy for hyperventilation and anxiety disorders.
Performing diaphragmatic breathing can be therapeutic, and with enough practice, can become your standard way of breathing.
To breathe diaphragmatically, or with the diaphragm, one must draw air into the lungs in a way which will expand the stomach and not the chest. It is best to perform these breaths as long, slow intakes of air - allowing the body to absorb all of the inhaled oxygen while simultaneously relaxing the breather. To do this comfortably, it is often best to loosen tight-fitting pants/belts/skirts as these can interfere with the body's ability to intake air.
While at first one may not feel comfortable not expanding the chest during breathing, diaphragmatic breathing actually fills up the majority of the lungs with oxygen, much more than chest-breathing or shallow breathing.
A common diaphragmatic breathing exercise is as follows:
1. Sit or lie comfortably, with loose garments
2. Put one hand on your chest and one on your stomach
3. Slowly inhale through your nose or through pursed lips (to slow down the intake of breath)
4. As you inhale, feel your stomach expand with your hand. If your chest expands, focus on breathing with your diaphragm
5. Slowly exhale through pursed lips to regulate the release of air
6. Rest and repeat
One thing to note is that for some, the diaphragm is dysfunctional or entirely non-functional, in which case one should focus on slow inhalation and exhalation (through the nose and pursed lips).
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
In a world where everyone possesses magical abilities, powerless twelve-year-old Abby, an Ordinary, is sent to a special school to learn how to negotiate a magical world with her unmagical "disability"--and to avoid becoming a victim of kidnappers, carnivores, and goblins ready to prey upon the Ords.
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression.
In the summer of 1963, after his father has inexplicably disappeared leaving Cully with his three eccentric aunts on their barely profitable apple farm, Cully goes to work for a mysterious antiques dealer who has the strange hobby of collecting shadows.
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
What starts out as just another day becomes anything but that for Feather Anderson. Her beloved grandfather, a traditional Lakota healer, pulls her out of class one snowy morning and takes her on a traditional vision quest in the heart of New York City in hopes to find the perfect Lakota medicine. It becomes the most magical day of Feather's life as she saves her little brother's life and earns her newly-given secret Lakota name
When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, José, and Henry, all descendants of the Silver Jaguar Society, pursue suspects on airport carts and through baggage handling tunnels while stranded at a Washington, D.C., airport during a snowstorm.
Oona and her brother, Fred, love their cat Zook (short for Zucchini), but Zook is sick. As they conspire to break him out of the vet's office, convinced he can only get better at home with them, Oona tells Fred the story of Zook's previous lives, ranging in style from fairy tale to grand epic to slice of life.
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
From Charles Towne, Carolina Territory, in 1712, thirteen-year-old Jameson Cooper, orphaned and indigent, is abducted by privateers working for Queen Anne but proves himself worthy to be called a royal sailor through his writing and drawing skills, as well as his hard work and courage.


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Jill Pruetz
Biological Anthropologist
Photograph by Frans Lanting
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Very deliberately, the chimpanzee selects a branch, breaks it off, strips away leaves, and uses its teeth to sharpen the end to a point. Then, spear in hand, it begins to hunt. A scene from a science fiction movie? No, one of several startling behaviors Jill Pruetz's fieldwork has revealed for the first time.
It was not the scorching 110 degree Fahrenheit (43 degree Celsius) temperatures, poisonous snakes, or ever present risk of malaria that drew Pruetz to the savannas of Senegal, but the similarity between this habitat and that of our earliest human ancestors, hominids.
"Environment," Pruetz explains, "has triggered significant changes throughout the evolution of our own human lineage. In the savanna, food sources are few and far between, which can exert pressure to make more sophisticated tools and develop more innovative hunting behaviors. We see it today with the chimps at my site, and hominids may have responded to this challenging habitat in the same way."
Pruetz's study was also the first to report that chimps, our closest animal relatives, seek shelter in caves, behavior reminiscent of early hominids. "Again, this is environmentally driven," she notes. "They use caves only during the hottest times of day." Another surprise came when she observed chimps at her site cooling off by soaking in pools of water. Chimpanzees have long been thought to dislike and even be afraid of water.
But the most striking difference between the savanna chimps and those living in forests lies in how they hunt. Savanna chimps fashion "spears" and jab them into hollow tree cavities to kill and extract bush babies, a small primate and a source of protein that is ignored by forest-dwelling chimps. "In the forest, chimps have a much more plentiful supply of monkeys," Pruetz says. "But for chimps at my site, hunting bush babies is a creative way to get protein. Forest chimps don't have to go to the extremes savanna chimps do."
Even more surprising, the spears are predominately used by females. Previously, hunting was considered an almost exclusively male behavior in chimps. "To me, this shows that the females have to be a little more innovative," Pruetz observes. "Males are able to run down monkeys. That's much more difficult for a female, especially since most have an infant clinging to them."
Although anthropologists and biologists have long been interested in studying savanna chimps, Pruetz is the first to successfully habituate them in this unique habitat, a process that took four years and still is not complete.
Fieldwork in this environment is particularly challenging because of the chimps' enormous home range—more than 23 square miles compared to less than four square miles at many forested sites. "I usually spend 13 to 15 hours in the field. I get up before dawn, hike to where the chimps are sleeping—sometimes an hour and half away—and wait for them to wake up. Then we follow them all day until they stop for the night. Because their territory is so gigantic, if we left before they stop there's a good chance we'd never find them the next day."
When she's not traversing the savanna, Pruetz is an associate professor of anthropology at Iowa State University. In the future, she plans to conduct a distance education course from her Senegal site, giving students a chance to observe the chimps live from the field via satellite computers and phones.
Nearly seven years after beginning her Senegalese study, Pruetz is primed for more surprises. "The most exciting findings here have been completely unexpected. And even now, although I've seen some of these behaviors dozens of times, it's still exciting. Of course the chimps are completely oblivious that they're doing anything extraordinary, but I want to say to them, 'Wow, don't you realize how important and amazing you are!'"
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Coach inducted into the Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame
February 16th, 2011 | SMWC
Mike Aycock
In his role as coach, mentor and leader, Mike Aycock, M.A., instills a sense of discipline and integrity in his players. He strives to teach them how to succeed in life, not just soccer. Because of his dedication to leadership and high ethical standards, Aycock, head soccer coach at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, is the most recent inductee in the Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame. At a ceremony in Indianapolis on January 29, 2011, the Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame honored the outstanding achievements and contributions of individuals whose significant accomplishments and effect upon the sport in Indiana merit the highest recognition.
"Mike's been integral in the development of soccer in the state of Indiana, particularly in Terre Haute, and understands its importance to the community," said Vince Ganzberg, director of education for Indiana Soccer. "His approach to coaching players is not just learning skills but learning how to play skillfully. It's like watching Thomas Jefferson teach history."
Aycock has more than talked the talk when it comes to his contributions to Indiana soccer. He has been consistently recognized for his leadership and commitment to young athletes. Aycock has served the community in the following positions:
- Head Men's Soccer Coach, Indiana State University
- Head Girls' Soccer Coach, Terre Haute South Vigo High School
- Head Boys' Soccer Coach, Terre Haute South Vigo High School
- Co-Founder, first president and board member, Vigo County Youth Soccer Association
- Instructor, Vigo County Youth Soccer Association and Indiana Youth Soccer Association
- State Staff Coach, Olympic Development Program
- Frequent presenter at Indiana Soccer symposiums
- Director of various soccer camps across the State of Indiana.
As a player, he was Indiana State University Soccer Club team captain, most valuable player and member of the all stated tournament team. He also was member of the Indianapolis Soccer Club and captain on the Terre Haute Soccer Club and the Wabash Eleven Soccer Club.
"I sincerely treasure the idea of being named among people who are my heroes," Aycock said. "They have made soccer in Indiana this great, living thing that I'm so proud to be part of. I'm very grateful."
Deanna Bradley, athletic director at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College described Aycock as a phenomenal coach. "He is a fundamental strategist whose understanding of the game is beyond compare," she added. "His commitment and passion for soccer covers the spectrum from youth to professional levels, and we are blessed he has chosen to share those talents at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College for the past 10 years. I can't think of a more deserving and honorable coach to be inducted into the Indiana Soccer Hall of Fame."
The Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Pomeroys began the 2010-11 season as United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) national runners-up for the 11th year. In 2010, Aycock lead the SMWC soccer team to a fourth place finish and five students were named academic all-Americans.
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LIFEGUARDS will be patrolling Dorset's beaches over the bank holiday weekend.
The RNLI is providing cover at Bournemouth East, Bournemouth West and Sandbanks for the remainder of the Easter holidays.
The charity is also advising beachgoers to be aware of the potential dangers created on many beaches during the winter storms. RNLI lifeguard manager Brett Shepherd said: "In places, sand dunes have been washed away leaving sheer sand cliffs. On other beaches, access points to and from the beach have changed whilst shifting sand has left deep channels that in turn create strong rip currents."
He added: "We'd urge anyone planning on visiting a beach over the Easter holidays to check local information in advance and head to a lifeguarded beach.
"Swimmers should ensure that they swim between the red and yellow flags, which mark out the safest area to swim and are patrolled by lifeguards.
"Please take heed of the safety signage and any advice offered by the lifeguards on duty."


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On a recent visit to San Francisco, I had to check out some FoodCrafters recommendations for myself. Several tempting spots featured on the show are located there—after all, it's the home turf of host Aida Mollenkamp. In the premiere episode, Aida shares her "obsession" with Blue Bottle Coffee and walks us through the company's unique artisanal microroasting process. I was eager to get my hands on a cup of this stuff…
Blue Bottle Coffee is an ideal first stop in the food-lovers paradise that is the Ferry Building. Walk in and follow the deep coffee aromas to a sign simply marked with a blue bottle.
On an unusually hot San Francisco day, Blue Bottle's "New Orleans-style" iced coffee hit the spot. Lightly sweetened and topped with a splash of milk, it's the most flavorful iced brew I've ever had. The coffee is rich and bold, so a little ice doesn't do much to water it down. I thoroughly enjoyed sipping it while strolling through the bustling farmers' market and gourmet food shops.
You can buy (or order) whole beans from Blue Bottle—just don't ask the baristas to grind them for you. According to their detailed mission statement, every cup of Blue Bottle should be freshly ground.
I might already be hooked enough to splurge for that burr grinder.
Stay on top of the new FoodCrafters episodes or check out the FoodCrafters resource list to see if any of Aida's food finds are in your neck of the woods.
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SCOTT RHODES has lambasted as "atrocious" and "pathetic" local rugby league chiefs' decision to organise two York & District ARL Cup clashes in the run-up to York Acorn ARLC's toughest match of the year so far.
And he is so upset he is considering pulling his side out of future local area competitions.
Acorn go to unbeaten table-toppers Oulton in National Conference League division one on Saturday (2.30pm), less than 20 hours after the Blue and Golds play their York & District Community Cup final against Selby Warriors.
Acorn's under-18s also took on New Earswick in a York & District U18s Cup game last night.
Head coach Rhodes admits Acorn will field an 'A' team tomorrow, as usual for local cup ties, but says the timing of the final makes it difficult to call up reserves for his 17 on Saturday. Moreover, both the first team and 'A' team often field U18s but would be wary of doing so this weekend due to last night's tie.
He also says either York & District tie should have been put back a week, when the Blue and Golds' first team had no game.
"There are six or seven U18s who play second-team and a couple first-team," said Rhodes, pictured. "Yet York & District have given us these two games in three days, a day before we go to Oulton.
"It's atrocious what they're asking us to do but there's no way we can get around it.
"I've got two or three spots available in my 17 on Saturday and I'll have to pick them from a Friday night game. We haven't got a game next week so why couldn't they switch it to next Wednesday? Selby's season has finished so it doesn't affect them.
"It's pathetic. I can't understand why they won't change them.
"It's not fair to ask U18s to play Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. Is it right to ask them to back up by playing Friday after Wednesday? How can we put them in against Oulton on Saturday?
"It's outrageous - two games in four days, never mind three in four days. Where's the player welfare?
"Maybe we should pull out of York & District altogether. It's disgusting how they've treated us."
York & District ARL secretary Spen Allison said nobody from Acorn had asked to change the date of either cup tie, though an Acorn representative had asked on Tuesday if they could switch last night's U18s opponents from New Earswick to Heworth.
Allison, stressing York & District were amenable to switching dates to assist their clubs, said: "I understand Scott's sentiments regarding some U18s playing open age but the date of (tomorrow's) final was set some time ago.
"If there were problems they should have let us know and we'd have been open to reorganising it, but we haven't heard anything. I'm a bit amazed we now have some controversy."
Acorn have not been helped by an ankle injury to Haiden Barber in last Friday's Yorkshire Men's League Forty-20 Cup final, when the 'A' team were pipped 26-24 by Kippax 'A'. Andy Gargan is also unavailable, but Gareth Singleton is back to replace Barber at centre.
Rhodes, whose first team had no game last week, was impressed by the way the club's youngsters fronted up to physical opponents in that final.
"A lot of the Kippax team are ex-Fryston and I remember going there in the Yorkshire Cup when we got trounced," said Rhodes.
"We had a young side out against them on Friday. There were a couple of scraps in there, but we battled well and only just got edged out."
He will leave it late to decide which fringe players get asked to travel to Oulton, when Acorn will come up against an in-form team orchestrated by veteran former York Wasps and Scotland ace Jamie Benn.
Added Rhodes: "They're well drilled and are doing well. I played with Jamie for Scotland and he's always been very good. He kicks well and leads them well.
"Can we win it? I'd say we can - despite no help from York & District."
Tomorrow's final kicks off at 7pm at Heworth's Elmpark Way. Admission is £3 or £1 for concessions and free for under-15s.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Heworth host fellow strugglers Eastmoor in NCL division three.
In Yorkshire Men's League group two, Heworth 'A' go to Castleford Panthers, while York Lokomotive host Moldgreen.


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Former bargeman Viktor, 57, reads the Bible while wearing a hat he made for this purpose, outside his wooden hut located in a forest 34 miles south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. A decade ago, Viktor decided to lead the life of a hermit and settled in the secluded forest. He reads the Bible, and survives mainly on fish, berries and mushrooms.
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Calculate Another DigitSeries teasers are where you try to complete the sequence of a series of letters, numbers or objects.
Each of the following uses a different method to represent the same well-known series. Your challenge is to figure out what the series is and how each item represents it. If you know the series well enough, try finding a value for the next term in each case.
1. How I wish I could enumerate
2. Calculate another digit and easily impress
3. Be done your run, drive mine
HintEach series represents the first 6 digits of pi (3.14159).
If you want to continue, here are more digits: 3.1415926...
Answer1. The number of letters in each word matches a digit of pi. ("How" is three letters long, "I" is one letter long, ...) The next value would be any word that is two letters long, such as "pi".
How I wish I could enumerate pi easily...
2. Look at the first letter of each word; its position in the alphabet matches a digit of pi. ("Calculate" starts with the third letter in the alphabet, "another" starts with the first letter in the alphabet, ...) The next value would be any word starting with a "b", such as "by".
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3. Each word rhymes with the corresponding digit of pi. ("Be" rhymes with "three", "done" rhymes with "one", ...) The next value would be any word that rhymes with "two".
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Raiders rolling in playoffs
Midget AAA team one win away from upsetting first-place Leduc in north division semifinals
Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014 06:00 am
The St. Albert Raiders are poised to do the unthinkable: knock off the first-place Leduc Oil Kings in the midget AAA playoffs.
A win tonight in game four would cap off the best-of-five north division upset. Puck drop is 7:45 p.m. at Akinsdale Arena.
�That�s a huge game. It would be nice to finish them off in our barn. Hopefully the crowd will be cheering loud,� said centre Brenden Passek. �They�re the best team in the league so it�s really exciting to be up 2-1 on them because statistically-wise we�re not supposed to be with them right now.�
If needed, the deciding game between the Oil Kings (23-8-4) and the fifth-place Raiders (18-11-6) goes Friday in Leduc at 7:45 p.m.
�We don�t want to go back there for game five in their barn. You never know what could happen. They win (game four) and they've got momentum,� Passek said.
The Raiders have Big Mo on their side after victories of 3-0 Friday in St. Albert and 3-2 Sunday in Leduc.
�We�re clicking at the right time,� said Pat Dea, a playoff standout between the pipes. �The team is playing really well. We�re getting contributions from every guy. It�s exciting.�
The Raiders are locked in after dropping the series opener 3-2 in overtime last Wednesday in Leduc.
�We played an all right game but we didn�t follow the game plan. We had some bad mental breakdowns and made a couple mistakes,� Passek said. �In games two and three we followed the game plan perfectly. We made sure we executed it really well.�
The Raiders turned the series around with a vintage performance in game two.
�It was a good team win,� Dea said. �It was probably one of our better games of the year.�
Dea, 16, was solid stopping 21 shots for his first shutout of the playoffs and second of the season.
�The guys made it really easy on me. They cleared away second, third opportunities and kept pucks outside. They really helped me out a lot,� said the Grade 11 St. Albert Catholic High School student.
Passek, 17, opened the scoring before the four-minute mark in period two and closed it out with a shot into an empty Leduc net with 26 seconds remaining.
�The first goal was a nice feed from (Matt) McNeil and I just tried to bury it. I didn�t get all of my wood on it but luckily it went in,� said the former midget AA St. Albert Crusader. �The empty net goal was really nice to seal the deal.�
Passek was goalless in the playoffs before his breakout performance.
�It was really exciting to score like that in front of the crowd. Akinsdale was packed. The fans were cheering loud. It was really exciting to play in front of bunch of a fans like that,� said the Grade 12 Paul Kane High School student.
Taylor Lotoski potted the insurance marker with 2:07 gone in the third and in game three knotted the score at one in the middle frame with his second playoff goal.
In the third Kole Bryks pulled the Raiders even at two and Conner Lukan sniped the game winner with 7:49 left in regulation time. Parker AuCoin and Luc Smith assisted on Lukan�s second goal in six playoff games.
Nathan Bizeau chipped in with two assists for a team-leading five playoff points.
�When Lukan buried that one it was the best and Daisy was solid in goal,� Passek said. �Our game plan was to try and wear them down from the bottom of the circles and we followed that pretty good and by the end of the game we wore them down.�
The victory rivaled the game three 2-1 thriller in Sherwood Park, when Luc Smith lit the lamp in double overtime to win the best-of-three opening round series against the Kings.
�It was a big win in Leduc. The team played great. We knew we had to win one in their barn and we squeaked one out,� Dea said. �We got two quick ones in the third and we played well with the lead. We also had a couple of good goal-line stands at the end so that was nice.�
Leduc outshot the Raiders 11-7 in the third and 33-28 overall as Dea raised his playoff record to 4-2.
The first goalie taken in the 2012 Western Hockey League bantam draft by the Edmonton Oil Kings as the 22nd overall pick has compiled a nifty 1.75 GAA and .945 save percentage in the playoffs following a brilliant regular season. The candidate for the Bill Ranford Trophy as the league�s top netminder finished 13-4-4, with a 1.97 GAA and .941 save percentage for the top defensive team in the north.
�My job is to stop the puck and that�s what I�ve been doing but I owe a lot of it to my teammates. They�ve been playing great in front of me. They�re making my job a lot easier. The bounces have also been going my way and I�ve had a couple of posts help me out too,� said the Alberta Minor Midget AAA Hockey League�s most valuable player with the St. Albert Flyers last season.


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If you want the secret to love that lasts, you might think happily married couples are the ones to ask.
But well-known relationship expert Dr. Terri Orbuch from the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research found the best advice may come from people who've been through a divorce.
Related: Love lessons from divorce
Local 4 asked people to share what they learned from their divorce and what they would do differently the second time around.
Here are their words of wisdom.
Jennifer writes:
"I think the biggest lesson I learned, the second time around, is to find someone who had more of the qualities that are important to me, like being generous of spirit and being concerned about others not just themselves.
I was young when I got together with my first husband and didn't really pay attention to the important things. So, unfortunately we ended up growing apart. Some people get lucky and grow together but that didn't happen with us. I sort of knew we weren't right for each other from the start but I ignored the warning signs and then once you start having kids it's kind of late. You let things go, as far as the relationship, and concentrate on the kids. So once they were grown, we found we didn't have as much in common anymore.
My message for young couples would be to find someone who has the same core values as you and a compatible personality. That's so important. I don't think a couple has to be exactly alike. It's okay to have differences because then you can balance each other. But you need to think alike on the basic things."
Cameron writes:
"People show who they are - trust that. For example, if they lie, cheat, hide things, etc., then say they are sorry won't happen again --- it most likely will. It's also important to respect each other - no matter how mad you are in a fight always show respect, once you disrespect that person in words or actions (for example, hang up the phone while they are talking or belittle them in your words), it is hard to move on. What I did different the second time - made sure the next man in my life had friends. My ex had no friends, and that should have been a sign he couldn't keep any long term relationships."
Tom writes:
"If you don't care for your spouse, someone else will. Don't take each other for granted. My ex-wife was and is a great mom, very devoted to our children, but she barely seemed to notice if I was in the room. I didn't take care of her as I should have either and after a while, we were just too distant from each other to change things back to the way they were. I haven't found The One yet, but when I do, I won't make the same mistake again."
Amy writes:
"Facing divorce at twenty-seven after marrying at 23 was not what I had planned when seeing my then husband off on his first deployment six months previously. We had been together since my freshman year of college and without any other adult relationship to compare it to, I thought everything was fine. Clearly, I was mistaken. There were definite reasons that came to light as to why the marriage needed to be over. I was definitely devastated but quickly started to feel free. Free to truly be myself, free to live where I wanted to live, travel where I wanted to travel. I took a long hard look at our relationship and myself and saw how absolutely incompatible we were and how I had shoved aside many of my own interests and plans in life for this other person.
I was able to experience my early and mid twenties over again in my late twenties. My divorce was simplified by not having kids and living in a no fault state where it was an even split of assets. I have walked away with some definite lessons after the experience.
The first lesson, which I have passed on to my twenty-two and twenty-four year old nieces is to really take your time with relationships at that age and think long and hard before making a permanent commitment. Something you find annoying or distressing at twenty-two in a boyfriend does not magically change when you marry that person. Unless you see clear and sustained evidence of change, walk away. It is also so easy to grow apart with someone between your early twenties and your late twenties. There is just such a difference in life between those ages and though there are definitely those that make it, it is easy to see why so many young marriages will fail.
The second lesson was that it truly benefited me to take the high road as much as I could and avoid being vindictive and nasty about things. I could have had my ex court martialed but I didn't. I chose to move forward with my own life not turn around and trash his. As a result, I was able to leave with many friendships intact and watch as his own actions caused many of his friends and fellow soldiers to choose my side without my ever asking them to do so.
The third lesson was that my own happiness was really going to be my best revenge. I ended up meeting the absolute love of my life who treats me how any woman would dream to be treated and with him we have created our own family and have had twin daughters. Being in this relationship which has so much equality and shared sacrifice and deep love shows me how shallow my former marriage was. Having had that first experience helps me appreciate my husband now and I make sure to tell him that often. It is also now so easy when I am deeply and truly happy to see how not ok things really were in my first marriage but I just shrugged off those feelings of doubt because of not knowing better.
I was not without fault in the status of my first marriage. I was not the one to stray so it is very easy to excuse myself and place all the blame on another. However looking back, I can see that in that relationship I was probably too bossy or controlling. It was very important for me to be "right" and not back down and very hard for me to say I was sorry or admit when I had made a mistake. Instead of realizing I had married the wrong person for me, I kept trying to force change at a fundamental level at which my ex was not capable of changing. I could not take someone who had difficulty making decisions, taking initiative and having ambition and try to push him into doing those things. From what I hear, these are all still issues for him and it has been eleven years since we divorced. I think even when a divorce happens for what seems like a clear cut reason, such as infidelity, you need to look below the surface for the root causes for the cracks in the foundation of that marriage in the first place."
Dave writes:
"Don't get married too young and don't allow yourself to be pressured into proposing. People change a lot in their 20s and not everyone is ready to be married so young. If your boyfriend won't propose, there may be a good reason why. I convinced myself that I was ready to get married because my girlfriend was anxious to get engaged, and I didn't want to lose her. Big mistake! Just two years into our marriage, my wife told me she didn't love me anymore and wanted out. She quickly got remarried to a friend of ours. They are now divorced too.
I really believe if I had not been so young, I would never have married her and could have avoided a lot of heartache. I tell my nieces and nephews not to rush into marriage. If it's the right person, they will wait until you are sure."
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