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Seismic surveys presentation to be given at Dunbar Township meeting
McDonald Land Associates, an Oklahoma-based firm that does seismic surveys for Marcellus shale natural gas drilling sites, will do a presentation at the Dunbar Township meeting Thursday.
John Tabaj, chairman of the Dunbar Township Supervisors, said supervisors are expecting an overflow crowd for the 7 p.m. meeting.
Tabaj said there are many questions among township residents concerning the process now going on.
And some residents are worried about potential damage to their homes and properties.
Tabaj said the supervisors have no control over the process since their function is work on township roads. The surveys and drilling operations are controlled by the land owners and the company.
Seismic surveys will begin in autumn to determine the best locations for future Marcellus shale gas drilling operations.
McDonald is sending letters to property owners who agreed to the surveys, notifying them of the procedures that will take place.
The survey will take place in six phases in mid-October until the survey is complete in that area.
During the first step, a company named Pathfinder will take an initial access survey to locate all items of interest that will be avoided on each property, including pipelines, wells, natural springs, wetlands, buildings, ponds, etc. Pathfinder will then survey source and receiver locations.
"If allowed by permit and only if necessary, areas with heavy brush will be cleared: however, heavy timber will be untouched," the letter read.
Surveyors will travel to each property in pickup trucks and will drive between properties in small all-purpose utility vehicles while using GPS and/or other equipment to survey source and receiver locations. Each position will be marked with a numbered wooden lathe, and colored ribbons will be used to mark the path from point to point that the crew will follow. The ribbon flagging serves as a visual aid for navigation of field personnel during operations.
During the third phase, Omni Energy Services will use small rubber-tracked drilling rigs to drill and load sound source holes. The holes will be loaded with a small charge, then back-filled with gravel in accordance with state Department of Environmental Protection regulations.
A third company, CGGVeritas, will complete the fourth through sixth steps, according to the letter.
"Receiver equipment will be delivered by a helicopter via long lines to each location on the properties in fluorescent orange duffel bags, containing geophones and receiver boxes," the letter stated. "Geophones are listening devices that receive the reflection of the sound signal, storing it in the receiver box."
The source will be detonated one at a time, creating reflective sound waves. In the event that drilled source holes cannot be used exclusively in an area, it will be necessary to use Vibroseis trucks for source locations. In that case, the trucks will travel along specific roads to introduce the reflective sound waves through a series of vibrations.
Once the operations portion of the project for a permit is concluded, the property will be cleared of any remaining equipment and materials.
"We are committed to conducting this survey safely and with respect for your property," the letter read.
A permitted agent will be available at 724-439-3500 to address any questions or concerns associated with the seismic survey.


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Drew Barker's high school career came to an end when Conner's rally fell short 35-34 in a second round Class 5A playoff game on Friday night. Here is a summary of Barker's career stats from Mike Fields:
Drew Barker's unofficial final career stats: Passing–437 of 747 (58%), 5,805 yds, 60 TDs, 19 INT. Rushing–602 carries, 3,815 yds, 50 TDs
— Mike Fields (@MikeFieldsNotes) November 18, 2013
Drew Barker can also punt:
According to the box score, Drew Barker also punted the ball 4 times for a total of 167 yards tonight. His long was 53 yards.
— Ben Roberts (@NextCats) November 16, 2013
The Herald-Leader has a great photo gallery by photographer Mark Mahan from Conners' Class 5A playoff game against Anderson County:
View a gallery of photos from UK commitment Drew Barker's final high school game: http://t.co/NlwiDPizXy
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'How Art Thou Affected, Poor Child, in the Reading of this Book?': Cotton Mather's Children's Books and the Making of Closet Readers
Even though the phrases "skeletons in the closet" and "coming out of the closet" did not become widespread until the mid-twentieth century, the closet—signifying both a "secret place in the house" (English Secretary, 1625) and the interior recesses of the heart—has long been a space that orients private activities and identities to public scrutiny and purpose. This paper focuses on a moment closer to the beginning of the closet's history of concealment, publication, and exposure. In 1705, Cotton Mather presented a set of reading practices, which he called "the religion of the closet," to a new class of readers perfectly sized to fit the closet's diminutive sphere: children. Using Mather's frequently reprinted children's classic, A Token for the Children of New England (1700), as well as his lesser-known children's sermons and manuals, I argue that he imagines the child reader as a figure through which to conceive the very process of forming and maintaining a "closeted self," at once autonomous and individualized, and fundamentally contained and shaped by social expectations.
While the reading of the closet is unsupervised, and therefore contains a surprising amount of room for child readers' improvisations on pious behaviors, the emerging technology of print (which Mather explored relentlessly in his over 400 pamphlets and tracts) provided him with a way to simultaneously mark and trespass the boundaries of this closet self by scripting its primary emotional expressions. As the most intensive site of self-fashioning, childhood became an effective locus for Mather's larger project of merging patriarchal social expectations with a new focus on individuality, allowing further links between autonomy, hierarchy, and social control. What is more, because task of shaping one's identity to fit social hierarchies was ideally a sustained process, the image of the closet child reader lends Mather metaphors through which to imagine ways of reading that apply to readers beyond the boundaries of youth, creating "childishness" as a feature of eighteenth-century American readership.
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Ram Gopal Verma is back with his sequel to 'Phoonk'. Of course, this one has not been directed by him, but by Milind Gadagkar. 'Phoonk' had the crow and now 'Phoonk 2' has a doll, which spooks you. The movie starts promisingly well, though it gets a little slow as it goes on but post interval, it shows some real fast movements. Phoonk 2 captures the fear of a family caught hostage to a murderous, animalistic spirit seeking revenge by brutally terrorizing them.
"Phoonk" ends with the killing of Madhu, the woman who casts a black magic spell on Rajiv's daughter Raksha. Phoonk 2 begins with Madhu's ghost returning from the grave to seek revenge on the family.
Rajiv moves with his family to a new place. Raksha and her brother Rohan begin exploring the new place and the surroundings — the lonely beach and then the woods behind the house. The action begins with Raksha and Rohan finding a doll in the woods which then progresses to a series of highly disturbing experiences for the whole family.
Manja, who is Rajiv's best friend and the only person whom he could turn to, meets a horrifying and frightful death at the hands of the black magic woman Madhu's ghost, in order to seek revenge on Rajiv, by torturing his loved ones.
Debutante director Milind Gadagkar uses every trick possible to make PHOONK 2 work and he was successful to a greater extent. The night shots, secluded bungalow, eerie silence, captivating sound design and crazy camera angles did make a wonderful end product.
Post interval, the real action began, though a number of questions remain unanswered. Questions like what do Amit Sadh and Neeru(Rajiv's sister and brother-in-law) see in the jungles that they start running helter-skelter? Also, if the spirit could enter a body [in this case, the wife's], where does it disappear when the wife falls off the terrace towards the end?
All these un answered questions, I'm sure will be covered in Phoonk 2's sequel, as the movie is left open ended, for a sequel to continue.
The sound effects plays a major role in this flick which makes it a horrow film.According to me, the movie introduces the biggest fear that will follow you when you leave the theaters after having watched. It is a movie worth watching.
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Effects of Inulin on Satiety and Food Intake (Inulin)
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To assess the effect of inulin on appetite profile ratings, food intake and satiety hormones.
|Dietary Supplement: inulin Dietary Supplement: placebo
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Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
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|Effects of Inulin on Satiety and Food Intake
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- food intake [ Time Frame: on testday 0 and 13 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- appetite profile ratings [ Time Frame: on test day 0, 8 and 13 (at 16 time points) ]
- satiety hormones (GLP-1 and PYY) [ Time Frame: on test day 0 and 13 (at 9 time points ]
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Dietary Supplement: inulin
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Other Name: oligofructoseDietary Supplement: placebo
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Other Name: maltodextrin
Based upon a slower digestion and the fermentation in the intestinal tract, food containing soluble dietary fibres, such as inulin, is hypothesized to be more satiating, and to limit energy intake, in humans. Does supplementation of inulin (at 2 dosages) versus placebo over 13 consecutive days in normal to overweight men and women, lead to an increase in satiety, a reduction in food intake and stronger postprandial increases in GLP-1 and PYY?
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- BMI between 23 and 28 kg/m2
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"Are you sure this is the place?" our driver inquired.
Unsure of the building's location on his map, he had got out of his car and followed us a few meters, reluctant to abandon us in the downpour.
"Hey, I see some foreigners, so this has got to be right place," said Yoshiaki Miura, The Japan Times' intrepid photographer.
Well, it was almost the right place. We had disembarked from the cab, in front of the building's side entrance. A paper sign taped on the window, in Japanese only, read: "This is the entrance for processing illegal overstayers. For regular immigration procedures, please use the main entrance."
One reason our driver was confused was that the new building housing the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau — which from February took over the operations heretofore handled by the office in Otemachi — is not conspicuously marked.
It does sport a low-slung sign in Japanese and English near the building's southwest corner, but it's engraved on black basalt and in pouring rain, as it happened to be on the day we visited, was about as conspicuous as a ninja night school class during a power blackout.
Fortunately, the building itself is imposing, and there are few other buildings in this warehouse area on the Tokyo waterfront that you're likely to confuse it with.
The real question, which this reporter was eager to pose to the senior staff member of the bureau's Administration Department who welcomed us into a spacious conference room upstairs, was, "Isn't this place just a little off the beaten track?" But before I could confront him with the question, he actually beat me to it.
"We realize that it's a bit out of the way," was how he put it, with a resigned, but not quite apologetic expression. The number of foreigners coming to live and work in Japan, he explained, has grown exponentially since the Immigration Bureau set up shop in Otemachi nearly 18 years ago. The facilities scattered around the city just weren't adequate to serve these needs. Hence a new 12-story building, on state-owned land, encompassing 36,115 sq. meters of floor area, or 2.4 times that of Otemachi.
The Shibuya Branch will be closing at the end of this month, and — with the exception of the small Tachikawa Branch in west Tokyo — henceforth the city's foreigners will be obliged to go to this facility for all matters related to extension or change of status, re-entry permission, and so on.
While many will refer to the Immigration bureau as "Shinagawa," its actual location is Konan 5-chome, Minato Ward.
But why such a huge building we wondered? In addition to space for processing a daily average of 1,500 various applications on the lower floors, and the administrative offices immediately above them, there are short-term holding facilities for up to 800 overstayers. Japan deported over 40,000 foreigners in 2001, of whom about 3/4 were visa overstayers. A simple calculation shows these took place at the rate of nearly 110 per day.
The "bright, clean and healthy" holding facilities upstairs, which the Japanese-language brochure explains are "revolutionary in their consideration of human rights," feature an open exercise area on the roof with benches and tables. Detainees can make telephone calls and also receive properly screened visitors while in custody.
Touring the premises
Our host then guided us around the premises and, this writer must concede, once you're inside the building, the amenities take some of the sting out of the bleak location.
We started on the first floor, which actually features decorations — reproductions of old historical pictures of the Edo waterfront — on the walls.
To the right of the entrance is an AM/PM convenience store selling revenue stamps, reading matter, snacks and IC telephone cards. (The exclusive use of IC-type phones strikes one as a subtle dig at certain groups known to hawk the other, easily doctored variety, on Shibuya street corners).
To the left is a smoking corner, waiting room to visit detainees, and reception counter providing information.
After your application has been submitted upstairs, you can come back here and take a seat in the small Delice's restaurant, or sit in the waiting area, where a large display screen on the wall flashes the current applicant numbers for the various categories (business, student, re-entry, permanent, trainee), alternating the display language from Japanese to English, Korean, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese.
The escalator in the entrance foyer leads to the second floor. As a nice touch, the various departments have been color coded: Yellow for re-entry permission; red for work-related matters; green for students; orange for merchant seamen; violet for permanent residents.
The first, second and sixth floors have "kids corners" for small children to romp, and partitioned enclosures where nursing mothers can breast-feed infants in privacy.
Meanwhile, the authorities are still making efforts to get the word out of the move to the new location, with mixed results. Part of the problem is that on a busy day, getting through by telephone can take hours.
"Actually right now (mid-March) is one of the busiest times of the year," our guide explained.
"It's at the time of the school break, and when companies bring in new hirees. Mondays and Fridays tend to be busier," he adds.
He reminded us that to avoid the peak periods, applications for renewal of status can be submitted as far as two months in advance.
But why not streamline things further, we asked, by allowing some procedures to be handled via the mail? Or even use the Internet?
"It hasn't come to that point yet," he smiled. "But we certainly can't rule it out."
Many of the conveniences we foreigners enjoy today — such as not having to turn in your alien registration card each time you leave the country — only date back to Oct. 1, 1980, when several amendments to the Alien Registration Law took effect.
Some might find the current immigration procedures to be cumbersome and bureaucratic, but for this writer, who arrived in Japan in 1965, most changes in the system have been welcome improvements.
From 1964 to 1985, the Immigration office was in Konan 3-chome, only a couple of blocks away from the new location. (Nobody back then took the bus; in those days the taxi fare was much less, 120 yen or 150 yen).
You disembarked in front of a nondescript and rather shabby three-story structure and queued up in front of windows for either re-entry, extension of stay, permission to engage in activity not specified in original status, registration of a birth and everything else.
As often as not, the person in front of you shifted his feet nervously while chain smoking malodorous unfiltered cigarettes.
Application forms had to be submitted in duplicate. There was no screening of the documents on your arrival, so you waited your turn in line, sometimes only to find that you were missing a document and couldn't submit your application.
In the old days, re-entry permits were usually valid for single trips only, and what's more, each time you left Japan you had to hand over your little alien registration booklet (not a card) to immigration; then upon re-entry, you would have to go to your local city office within 14 days to reclaim it.
This writer admits he was almost ecstatic when Tokyo Immigration opened a new branch office in Ikebukuro's Sunshine City complex in October 1980.
While he is the first to praise the streamlining of procedures over the years, he must admit immigration's return to its old haunt on the waterfront fails to evoke nostalgic feelings.


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On behalf of the city of Elk River and the Public Works and Parks Maintenance divisions, I wish to offer my most sincere thanks to The Bank of Elk River, Cub Foods, Von Hanson's Meats, Steve's Elk River Nursery and the Elk River Police Department Reserves, for their generous support of our Maintenance Facility Open House. I also wish to thank the very talented Benny James who entertained visitors with his wonderful music.
Over 500 residents, neighbors and guests visited the open house on July 31 to tour the new facility, watch equipment demonstrations and visit with the men and women that plow and repair our streets, manicure our parks and trails and maintain our fleet and facilities.
The open house not only allowed visitors to see our newest facility, it provided an opportunity to learn about city programs and services. Thank you to the many visitors that brought nonperishable food items. Five full bins of food for were collected and donated to the Community Aid Elk River program.
Thanks again to event sponsors, city staff and visitors for making this a very successful celebration through your generous support. — John Dietz, Elk River (Editor's note: Dietz is the mayor of the city of Elk River)


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by Rob Barrone | Correspondent
Hudson High school basketball in March is often the best youll see. Basketball in November?
Not so much.
When the Hudson and Nordonia boys basketball squads met on the hard court Nov. 30 at Hudson High Schools Ray Buck Hyser Gymnasium, nobody should have expected a top-notch performance.
In typical season-opening fashion, the two played a somewhat sloppy contest where defenses had the edge.
In the end, the Knights defense, which forced 22 turnovers (to 16 miscues of their own), was the difference as Nordonia prevailed by a 67-58 count.
Both clubs have reasons for the less than par efforts as both schools football teams advanced to the Division I playoffs.
Coming off an 18-4 hoops campaign last season with only a handful of returnees, the Knights featured a number of inexperienced underclassmen.
Meanwhile, the Explorers had nearly everyone back from a 13-9 team.
But Hudson had four starters fresh off a second-round run in the gridiron state tournament.
Were not going to make excuses, Hudson head coach Jeff Brink said. We have to play better basketball and take better care of the ball. We made some poor decisions, but you have to give them [the Knights] credit for creating some of those bad decisions.
On the defensive side, Nordonia came away with 16 steals on the night. It was two of those pilfers by senior guard Nick Piotrowski (13 points and five steals) that were key in a 40-29 second-half surge that brought the Knights back from a 29-27 halftime deficit.
Piotrowskis third steal of the night came on Hudsons first second-half possession and helped his club regain the lead and then his fifth swipe late in (1 minute, 29 seconds to play with the Knights up 62-56) kept the Explorers at bay when they were poised for a late comeback.
I thought the turnovers right out of the gates in the third quarter were key to turning the momentum, Brink noted.
Alex Alders, a 6-foot-1 guard, led Nordonia with 22 points. He converted 8-of-15 shots from the floor and 4-of-7 shots from the foul line. Alders also made a trio of three-pointers.
Alders teammate, Chris Scott, hit 6-of-8 field goals and 4-of-6 at the line for 16 points. The 6-6 senior also grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds and swatted away six shots.
On the other side of the court, third-year starting guard Zack Brandy led Hudson with 20 points. He made 8-of-20 shots from the floor and pulled down a team-high nine rebounds. John Zuccaro and Steve Boslet each had nine points apiece for the Explorers. Boslet made 5-of-6 foul shots.
We didnt do enough to help Zack, Brink said. We need production across the board so Zack doesnt have to make every play.
Hudson took a 14-8 lead late in the first quarter before Alders found his stroke.
Alders scored eight points in a 22-second span to give the Knights an 18-16 lead heading into the second quarter. The Explorers led 29-27 at halftime.
When Scott, scored on a putback to put Nordonia ahead 33-31, the Knights never lost their advantage the rest of the way.
Alders made three consecutive baskets to give Nordonia 43-32 lead late in the third period and the Knights never looked back.
Hudson is scheduled to visit Northeast Ohio Conference rival Parma Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
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SEMINOLE — Officials here will rely on Florida's famous sunshine not only to power two new buildings, but they're also hoping it will produce enough electricity to more than compensate for the extra money it takes to construct "green" facilities.
One of the buildings will house Seminole's Public Works Department. The other will serve as fire department headquarters and as Seminole's emergency operations center in case of a hurricane or other disaster.
Seminole council members on Tuesday unanimously approved selling $5.5 million in bonds to pay for construction, which is scheduled to begin this month.
The two buildings will be across from each other in the 11000 block of 70th Street N, next to the Pinellas Trail. The Public Works building's 16,208 square feet will be on the site of a former St. Petersburg Times distribution center that the city bought a couple of years ago.
The emergency operations center, or EOC, which is expected to withstand 165-mph hurricane winds (a low Category 5 storm), will be on the site of the former fire administration building. The administration building, built in 1992, was knocked down last September because officials said it cost too much to run — about $85,000 a year. And, at 10,605 square feet, it was too large for the seven employees in the city's fire administration.
Another strike against the old building was its construction: plastic foam with a steel and stucco coating, which was not weatherworthy, officials said. The building was erected before Hurricane Andrew ushered in new construction standards. It went up before Seminole took over fire protection for that area. That portion of the fire district was then run by a board, which spend its money on a building without much thought about the possible impact of a storm on its construction. It is unclear how much the administration building cost taxpayers when it was built.
But the problems city officials said they had with the old building will be solved by the new.
At 4,476 square feet, the EOC will be a little less than half the size of the administration building. That alone would help lower the cost of heating and cooling, but the EOC — and Public Works complex — will be state-of-the-art green buildings.
Both will have xeriscaping to save water, solar water heaters and fuel-efficient parking — meaning hybrid vehicles get special spots close to the building as do vehicles used for car pooling — and bike racks to encourage employees to forgo cars for commuting. They'll also test solar-powered lights in the parking lots to see whether they are adequate to use elsewhere in the city.
But, more importantly, both buildings will have massive amounts of solar panels — 90 on the EOC and 300 on the Public Works building.
These solar cells are not the traditional large panels that take up a lot of room and can be unsightly. Instead, the city is using a newer product that comes in a flexible roll. The material is a peel-and-stick film that is touted to be nearly unbreakable because it has no glass in it. It is made by a company called Uni-Solar. The product can be seen on the company's Web site at www.uni-solar.com.
"The majority of the flat roofs on both buildings will be covered with film," Seminole Public Works director Jeremy Hockenbury said.
The decision to go green meant construction costs were about $300,000 more than they would have been had city officials opted for two traditional buildings.
"Green costs green," Seminole fire Chief Dan Graves said.
But, he said, the city will receive about $100,000 in rebates for choosing to build green and the massive solar array means that, generally, the buildings will generate more electricity than they're expected to use.
"The meter will be going backwards most of the time," Graves said.
The goal, he said, is for Progress Energy to buy the excess electricity. If all goes well, that means the extra cost will be made up in six to seven years in the form of lower energy costs. After that, the excess electricity will help offset the remainder of the building costs for at least the life of the solar cells — about 20 years in total.
Graves said the city is also saving money by building during an economic downturn. The price, he said, is about $1 million less than estimated because of lower labor and other costs. That is, in part, why the city decided to sell bonds so the complex could be built now. The bonds will be repaid with money from the Penny for Pinellas program.
Had Seminole waited until it saved enough from the Penny for Pinellas program to build, prices might have risen, resulting in a greater expenditure over the long run.
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2014 NHRA: Provisional No1 Qualifier By Johnson Bolsters Mopar At NHRA Springnationals In Houston
After an uncharacteristic absence from the final elimination round at the last two National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) national events, drivers and teams are working to get a Mopar back to the winner's circle at the 27th annual SpringNationals near Houston, Texas, this weekend. Allen Johnson got things going with the right foot by taking the "Magneti Marelli Offered by Mopar" Dodge Dart to the top of the Pro Stock score sheets to earn the provisional No.1 qualifying position, while three HEMI-powered drivers are hoping to have repeat victory performances at Royal Purple Raceway, and another hopes to debut his new Dodge Dart with a win.
Johnson earned the provisional pole on his second run in the cooler evening air posting a 6.555-second elapsed time run at 211.63 mph to dislodge Erica Enders-Stevens (6.563 sec./ 211.59 mph) from the top spot and improved on his second place pass in the first session.
"We usually do good in humidity and the team prepared well for it because you know we are still adapting to the new Dodge Dart," said Johnson, who drove to consecutive national wins this year in Phoenix, with the Dodge Avenger, and Gainesville for the debut of the new Dodge Dart. "We've got just three races under our belts with it, so each track and each situation presents a new set of difficulties with the new car. We've adapted well here with it and made a great run on that last pass.
"We've been fortunate to win at a lot of tracks but this is one that has slipped through our fingers many times," Johnson added. "It presents a challenge to us and we want to win. Tomorrow is 4-26 (April 26) and that's HEMI Day and this is a good start towards a happy HEMI Day."
In tribute to the Gen II 426 Race HEMI, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this season, Mopar has designated April 26 (4-26) as "HEMI Day" and will once again share a video featuring all the Mopar drivers wishing enthusiasts a "Happy HEMI Day". The video will be available on the Mopar YouTube channel at http://youtu.be/NcSanOT5OHI and on www.facebook.com/Mopar on Saturday.
Meanwhile, HEMI-powered Johnson & Johnson teammate, Jeg Coughlin Jr. (6.592 / 210.47) drove his JEGS.com Dodge Dart to a fourth place spot after Friday's qualifying sessions.
Coughlin and Mopar Funny Car driver Matt Hagan both had their first career wins at this event. For Coughlin, not only was it his first professional win, but it came in his Pro Stock debut in 1997 and has a total of four trips (1998, 200, 2010) to the winner's circle at the sea-level track. Coughlin earned the No.1 qualifier position at this event last season on his way to earn the 2013 NHRA Pro Stock Championship and his fifth career world title. For Hagan, his first career win, earned at the Houston track, set him on track to a runner-up finish in the 2010 Funny Car Championship.
Also looking to earn a Wally trophy this weekend is V. Gaines, who after a strong start to the season with back-to back final round appearances, is hoping to repeat what Johnson did at the Gatornationals; debut a new car by taking it to a national title win. Gaines' premiered his new Dodge Dart on Friday with a 6.605 sec / 210.21 mph effort to put him in 10th place going into the final two qualifying sessions.
In Funny Car competition, the Don Schumacher Racing Mopars have been noticeably missing from both semifinal and final rounds at the past two events, but with hopes of rectifying that this weekend, Jack Beckman (4.063 / 314.09), Tommy Johnson Jr. (4.068 / 312.21) and Ron Capps (4.079 / 310.34) drove their Dodge Charger R/T machines to the second, third and fourth place spots, respectively, with their preliminary qualifying runs, while the provisional pole went to competitor, Del Worsham. Capps has two wins (2006, 2007) and a runner-up finish (2012) at the SpringNationals, while teammates Johnson (2002) and Beckman (2009) have each have had a final round appearance at the raceway.
While Hagan didn't quite have the runs he was hoping for when the Mopar Express Lane/ Rocky Boots machine shook the tires upon launch to put him in the No.10 spot heading into Saturday's qualifying rounds, he'll have the support of some new fans regardless of that this weekend.
Hagan and Allen Johnson both have a number of new supporters after taking part in an autograph session at Helfman Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep & Ram dealership near downtown Houston on Thursday evening. The Helfman group held a successful pre-race open house party for a second year, where attendees were invited to get their photos taken with the Mopar drivers, as well as the Mopar Express Lane Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car, and door prizes included tickets to the NHRA SpringNationals.
For those that can't attend the event in person, television coverage for the 27th annual O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA SpringNationals, the sixth of 24 events on the 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season schedule, will be broadcast on ESPN2(HD) with two hours of qualifying highlights airing Saturday, April 26 at 6 p.m. (ET) and three hours of eliminations coverage on Sunday, April 27, beginning at 7 p.m. (ET).
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PRO STOCK (season wins in parentheses)
1. Erica Enders Stevens – 426 (1)
2. Jason Line – 384 (1)
3. Allen Johnson – Dodge Dart – 370 (2)
4. Vincent Nobile – 339
5. Shane Gray – 334
6t. Dave Connolly – 308
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3. Alexis DeJoria – 375 (2)
4. Ron Capps – Dodge Charger R/T – 282
5. Del Worsham – 277
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8t. Tim Wilkerson – 244
10. Jack Beckman – Dodge Charger R/T– 234
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Some of the earliest puppets were made from cut paper or cardboard. These shadow puppets had jointed limbs to simulate lifelike movements when manipulated before a light source. Early versions of this style of puppet came from China, where shadow puppet troupes first flourished nearly 2,000 years ago. The invention was supposedly inspired after the death of an imperial concubine in the second century B.C. To soothe the grief-stricken Emperor Han Wu, his attendants recreated his wife in shadow form, using a puppet made from hinged pieces of leather.
In Europe, though laws during the Middle Ages often prohibited human actors from portraying certain characters or engaging on stage in particular types of behavior, puppets were given full license to play everyone from popes to prostitutes. The earliest shadow puppets were typically made by artisans like George Bestelmeier, who used his puppets to act out traditional fairy tales or literary works such as "Don Quixote." Sometimes called "pantins" or jumping-jacks, these flat cardboard characters had movable limbs controlled by strings, a precursor to the marionette. In some regions during the 18th and 19th centuries, pantins were outlawed because of the bizarre belief that young women could become pregnant merely by playing with them.
True marionette puppets have numerous cords running to their three-dimensional appendages, which can be manipulated from above to mimic human movement. Because of their nimble lifelike actions, marionettes became the standard for puppet stage performances across Asia and Europe. The popularity of these puppet shows also spurred the production of palatial theaters in miniature, from William West's printed paper versions to others lavishly decorated with velvet curtains and oil lamps.
The first hand puppets were made mostly from cloth, with heads and hands of wood, composition, or pottery, similar to early doll construction. The most famous hand puppet characters evolved from 19th-century British street shows based on a comedic duo called "Punch and Judy." Punch was actually the descendent of an Italian character from the Commedia del'Arte known as Pulcinella, who also appeared in a French production called the Théâtre Guignol. These toy puppets featured carved wood or papier-mâché heads, simple cloth bodies, and small dangling legs. Originally aimed at an adult audience, Punch and Judy quickly developed a loyal following among children, and consequently, its storylines grew more slapstick and nonsensical.
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Microsoft is usually the target of these antitrust battles, and now they find themselves on the other side. AT&T is already saying that antritrust authorities really need to take a look at this deal, and Microsoft is saying that if this deal goes through, Google would be master of 85 percent of the market for ad distributing and they need to be stopped.
Google's response to all of this is that they've taken a look at their claims and it's not true. Along with Microsoft, Yahoo was also in on the bidding for DoubleClick, and they're expected to step up and express their concerns over this deal as well.
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July Drawings 2008
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July brought drawings of bombs, birds and Longhorn steer!
This is essentially a coffee table book of my art. Each day I try to draw...this book is a collection of images that I organize at the end of each month of my daily drawings. I also post my daily drawings on Flickr.com and have included in this book all of the comments and view counts that each image has garnered there.
Most of this work was created some time between 5am and 7:30am before I head off to work. At that time I've usually had my tea, my mind is fresh and the house is quiet. They're usually on 8 1/2" x 11" paper so that I don't have to photograph them, but rather just scan them. These drawings give me a little lift each day...I can head off to the day job, and feel good that I've done something creative before all the stuff that distracts one piles into my head space.
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There is something good happening in our country; and it is the dawn service tradition that started in Albany in 1923 evolving to become one of our most important civic events.
An ex-serviceman, I am a regular dawn service attendee who is amazed at how the public turn out to pay their respects. Anzac day got wacked by the protests of the Vietnam War era, crowds fell away and the event's public decline was significant. Thankfully, the extensive media coverage of the old diggers flying back to Anzac cove for the 75th anniversary of Gallipoli restored that interest.
That interest has made Anzac day a day where wider public solemnly remember those who serve, have served, and those who gave their lives. It is also a day when the close and competitive relationship with our Kiwi neighbours is celebrated and, to our great credit, both countries have managed to avoid the war mongering, jingoistic and fervent nationalism that war remembrances can sometimes raise.
In the lead up to this year's Anzac day, Christopher Pyne has chosen to make some ill-informed comments about Anzac Day losing relevance by comparing its standing with events like NAIDOC Week, Reconciliation Day and Harmony day. As opposition education spokesman he is perfectly entitled to put his view forward, but the argument he constructs is less than helpful.
The effect of Pyne's comments has been to resurrect the John Howard-inspired debate on the teaching of history as the "black armband" view. This debate died last time because most people accepted that political revisionism is a regressive direction to take this country in.
There is no doubt in my mind that Australians want to see the back of the Gillard government and consequently the Libs under Tony Abbott are almost unbackable favourites to win the next election.
The message that the Libs have yet to understand is that Australia is a very middle of the road country that has traditionally rejected the extremes of politics; we have moved on and right wing views and racist dogma are not what we want from our government.
Pyne will be a senior minister so his views will carry some considerable weight; if he is the Minister for Education he will be in a position to directly influence the curriculum development for our schools.
It is very doubtful that many Australians want pollies of any persuasion to interfere with Anzac day, how it is taught or to tell us what it means to us. Just leave it alone, Mr Pyne.
The real meaning of Gallipoli and the Anzacs has never been better put than it was by the bloke who beat us; Turkish PM, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. His immortal words inscribed on the Gallipoli Memorial in 1934 are:
"Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives........ You are now living in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours..... You, the mothers who send their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace, after having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."


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Although we seem to have built an entire culture based on loathing of all things Japanese and admiration of all things foreign, scratch the surface of our inferiority complex and you'll find a streak of patriotism somewhere.
Once found out, we might argue that it's not the nihonteki (Japanese) aspects of Japan that stir our love, but the thing we call wa (harmony). Harmony with ourselves, with others, with nature. For us, it makes the world go round. Wa is all we need.
Wa is a concept as old as Yamato, the name by which Japan was known about 1,000 years ago, for Yamato is comprised of the characters "large" and ''wa." So Japan itself is just one big wa (or we like to think so) and the Japanese psyche is based on what we call "Yamato damashii (the soul of the big wa)."
The notion of wa is stamped on our collective conscience, as inescapable as our very DNA.
Consequently, wa remains a favorite and oft-used character in the Japanese language, often combined with other characters to describe the ideals of the Japanese temperament. Washoku (Japanese food) is thought to calm the nerves, cleanse the body and help control physiological damage. Yoshoku (Western food), on the other hand, is for those looking to indulge the senses and nourish the body — but an exclusive diet of yoshoku will result in weight gain and general malaise.
Wafu (the winds of wa) are thought to enhance tranquillity and subtlety. Yofu (west winds) represent dynamic movement, progression, extravagance.
Wa is also about accommodation and the elimination of confrontation. Wago is to become friendly with others through repeated contact. Wakiaiai implies a state of friendship reached by discarding individual differences. Wakai is mutual understanding and forgiveness.
In each of these cases, the relationship is about sharing common ground and acknowledging an inherent sameness. Wa is not reached through debate but achieved by muting individuality and blending one's opinions with others so that everything becomes indistinct. Perhaps the closest English equivalent to wa in this case is "whatever."
Above all, wa is about softness. Words like onwa, comprised of the characters for "warmth" and "wa," is a prized characteristic. Similarly, nyuwa (comprised of the characters for "softness" and wa), is a trait highly valued in women.
Kanwa means to loosen up and make smooth. And heiwa, made up of the characters for "flat" and "wa," means peace. On its own, the character "wa" can also be read nagoyaka or nagomu — to make peaceful and feel healed.
Every once in a while, though, wa will start to pall. There is such a thing as having too much of it, spawning a state known as heiwa-boke (going bonkers from too much peace). It's OK to feed on washoku and be harmonious and abhor conflict, but after a while, something gives. We are stirred to action. We begin to crave heated arguments, locking horns and jikoshucho (asserting one's identity).
This is when the Japanese run to sa (difference), which is the polar opposite of wa. Sa endorses ambition, competition, confrontation. To hell with indistinct opinions and friendliness all around — we want bigger, brighter, better! Vive la difference — and individuality!
And so it goes, the inner pendulum swing from wa to sa and we pack and unpack all the mental baggage that goes with them. Call it the Jekyll-and-Hyde syndrome of modern Japanese living, if you like.


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How to get going as a mage.
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I can't use better weapons, mana is really low, no regeneration, so...? I found it a lot easier playing a mage in gothic 1 and 2 then in this one, altough I heard it's becoming really powerful from some point...
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dermoratraken 8 years ago#2
I suffered the first two towns as melee. Got about 100 more mana, then started pumping knowledge. Hit all the alchemy books so you can make mana pots. It's a real pain, but you will definitely notice the difference as you level up. Regen mana plus one shot fireballs are awesome.
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Put your points in Ancient Knowledge, it increases the damage you do with spells. Also get Learn Quickly as soon as you can (Fire Mage in Reddock teaches it), so you get that extra learning point every level.
I usually start out as a archer/hunter type, using basic bows and arrows and only investing enough in hunting skill to get the trophy skills. That way you will have money to finance what ever build you choose, and bows have a major advantage against most any target (skeletons are immune though). You can ususally find a place to snipe from where melee enemies can't reach you. Then you can learn a few basic spells to deal with skeletons (Ice Lance from the Druid near Montera).
Go to Geldern and buy up all the tablets from the merchants there, use them of course. Then head to the desert, there are lots of tablets in the ruins around the temples. Saturas is there to teach you whatever you need to know.
Good starting spells are Ice Lance (hold the mouse button to fully charge your spells), Ice Lance after fully charged, will stop most enemies (normal size) in there tracks, then follow up with a quick Fireball or Lightning to finish the frozen target. Or freeze the next target, until all are frozen, then zap them or melt them. Or you can just wait for them to thaw out and freeze them again. You can even run up to them if you are quick enough and smack 'em before they thaw.
Alchemy is good, becuase you will need lots of mana potions until you get Mana Regeneration from Saturas (even then you will still want a lot for the powerful spells later on.
Open locks is very useful, since for the cost of learning the spell allows you to open any chest, which will get you lots of goodies.
Bloodlust is an extremely entertaining spell, and useful to complete certain quest with out getting you into trouble with the city gaurds.
Sleep is useful as well (getting past those annoying gaurds, etc...), as is Amnesia.
After you get Mana Regeneration, start pumping points into your max mana, it increases the effect of regeneration and potions, since they are percentage based. Save all your King's Sorrels and Flame Berries for Concentration Potions, you can eat or sell the other stat boosting plants right away.
Once you decide on your path (what to do with the 5 artifacts), you can get the most powerful spells in the game, and become a most destructive force.
I personally like Beliars path, because he wants you to kill everybody and you get Summon Lightning with Army of Darkness. Summon your undead army and while your enemies are busy with them, you can rain bolts down on them without hurting your minions.
My last build had over 300 Ancient Knowledge and 500 mana, casting bolt after bolt of Summon Lightning on your enemies, is quite satisfying.
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Gediminas20 8 years ago#4
i pwned reddock at the beggining , wherei got the quest from cap dun orc leader, besides that mage in reddock with got owned, where else i can learn "learn quickly" skill ? :D
My approach playing a mage is a little different.
At the beginning my mage use mainly the sharpen spear which is good enough for at least 3 first locations ( Ardea, Reddock and Cape Dun) then slowly switching to staff. Also from the start, forget about learning AK but learn ALL the gold producing skills such as skinning beasts, getting teeth, claws, open difficult locks and rescueing the locksmith Kliff early to get a free skill making "broadsword" to sell (225 gold). Make use of a good bow also helps a lot.
From now on, start to add AK, mana, some endurance and health and your mage is ready for the world.
It helps if you have completed the other roles since you know by then what is going on in the game.
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Thousands of people flooded Twitter their job titles and salary information Friday in an effort meant to draw attention to the issue of income inequality.
The tweets got the hashtag "#talkpay" trending throughout Friday, which is May Day, also known as International Workers' Day. A female programmer inspired the social media wave with an article earlier in the week encouraging people to share their salaries, along with their titles and work experience, via Twitter on May 1 to promote discussion of race and gender-based wage gaps.
The programmer, Lauren Voswinkel, kicked things off Thursday evening by tweeting her own salary details:
By late-Friday afternoon, "#talkpay" was among the most popular hashtags of the day with nearly 12,000 mentions on Twitter (twtr). Though Voswinkel works in the tech industry, which has taken heat for its lack of diversity, she made it clear that the discussion was not industry specific, saying in one tweet that "everyone benefits from open discussions of pay."
The Twitter responses that followed came from people across the country, as well as some international workers, making anything from minimum wage to six-figure salaries:
Friday's discussion came a couple of weeks after National Equal Pay Day, on April 14, which highlighted the wage imbalance in the U.S., where women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by their male colleagues. That contrast becomes all the more stark when race is taken into account, as African-American women earn just 64% of their white male counterparts' salaries, while Latina women earn only 56%, according to the White House.
Last year, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to block federal contractors from retaliating against employees who publicly disclose details about their compensation. As Fortune noted at the time, the significance of the order was that it paved the way for more open discussion about compensation, which could encourage all workers — but, women and minorities, in particular — to seek higher salaries more in line with the norm at their respective employment levels.
Friday's "#talkpay" tweets were motivated by the same desire to keep the compensation conversation going. "To truly begin to eradicate pay inequality, we need a radical discussion. So let's talk about pay," Voswinkel wrote last week.
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'Prevention first' wins Public Sector Excellence Awards
Police 'prevention first' wins 2014 Public Sector
Excellence Awards
The New Zealand Police 'Prevention First' programme won the Prime Minister's Award at the IPANZ Gen-i Public Sector Excellence Awards held in Wellington last night.
The goal of 'Prevention first' is to redirect Police resources so that crime and crash prevention is at the forefront of everything Police do, ultimately enabling them to provide a better service to their communities. At the heart of this is encouraging all staff to look at prevention opportunities as part of their everyday work.
As a result, crime prevention activities have increased by more than 5% – this in turn has led to an increase in visibility of Police within communities and a 17.5% reduction in crime.
"This is a great example of an organisation that has responded to the call for "smarter, better public services for less," said IPANZ President John Larkindale. "By challenging the accepted methods, they have transformed the way they operate to deliver better services to New Zealanders."
The programme also won the Excellence Award for Improving Public Value through Business Transformation. Phil Royal, Wellington managing partner and government leader of PwC said, "Having assisted Police in the initial stages of this transformation, the extent of the culture change undertaken cannot be underestimated. The intelligence-led, risk-based approach to policing is world-leading."
Promoted by IPANZ and Gen-i, the annual Public Sector Excellence Awards recognise and reward outstanding performances and achievements in the New Zealand public sector. The awards attracted 77 entries from 40 different organisations this year.
Tim Miles, CEO of awards sponsor Gen-i, congratulated the winners, adding theirachievements demonstrate that innovation and a commitment to excellence is thriving in the public sector.
"Gen-i is proud to have been supporting these awards since their inception in 2008, and to once again honour the exceptional talent demonstrated by tonight's winners. It's great to see how the level of award entries has grown year on year, reflecting the exponential growth in creative thinking and high performance within New Zealand's public sector," said Mr Miles.
Phil Royal, of event sponsor PwC added, "The winners have shown excellence in implementing proactive, forward-thinking projects that will create a legacy for the next generation public service.
"Celebrating these successes shows us we have a vibrant and innovative public sector that we should all be very proud of," concluded Mr Royal.
2014 Award winners in each category:
Improving Public Value through Business Transformation and PRIME MINISTER'S AWARD
Police Model – Prevention First; New Zealand Police
Crown - Maori Relationships
Ngati Haua settlement of non-Raupatu historical claims; Ministry of Justice
Integrity and Trust
Leading by backing others to win; Ministry of Education
Improving Performance through Leadership Excellence
Transition: a cross-agency leadership development programme; New Zealand Police, Ministry of Social Development, New Zealand Defence Force, Inland Revenue
Management development programme for middle managers – Western Bay of Plenty District Council
Digital Government
Infrastructure as a service common capability; Department of Internal Affairs
Public Sector Communications
Safer Summer – speed enforcement campaign; New Zealand Police
Achieving Collective Impact
Hutt Valley Justice Sector innovation project; Ministry of Justice, New Zealand Police, Department of Corrections
Excellence in Regulatory Systems
Alternative environmental justice – Environment Canterbury
Poster Award for excellence in design of supporting poster
The Hazardous Substances Toolbox and public awareness campaign, Environmental Protection Authority
Details on all of
the 2014 winners are at www.ipanz.org.nz/excellenceawards


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I am liking chic eighties writer Bret Easton Ellis's new catchphrase and possible party game ("Are you Empire?"). In a recent Daily Beast column about Charlie Sheen and other significant attackers of "the Empire," Ellis praises those stars who deploy "a different kind of self-expression ... more raw, less diluted."
The Empire, never named in this happily nihilistic treatise, is the old guard or the mainstream, or "the Establishment," as one poster nervously conjectures. Or it is a cruel dictatorship, spanning many galaxies, that the Rebel Alliance seeks to destroy.
In the same column, Ellis praises James Franco's Academy Awards appearance, the cast of Jersey Shore and singers Nicki Minaj and John Mayer, who all "get it."
What do they get?
They are "REAL" – inelegant, yet authentic, and such is the conduct of the newly minted rebel army.
Leaving the bleak, nihilistic source aside, Ellis is right that we all seem to be moving toward a Network (1976) paradigm; that any day now, we will be hammering our computer when it finds Internet sensation Rebecca Black singing Friday, then howling our rage.
The catch? In the film, civilians were instructed by a mentally ill celebrity (of sorts) to act out; to express "REAL" anger.
This is the problem with rebel armies – after they have toppled the old order, they invariably usher in one that is far more cruel and uncompromising; one that despises originality and is protected by the aegis of "cool." (Young, otherwise intelligent kids still wear Che Guevara and Chairman Mao shirts. "Why not Pol Pot?" I ask them. "Or Robert Mugabe. Problem?") That is a lot of heaviosity, considering the topic at hand is louche celebrities, but the rebel factor, I believe, was brought to the stars by us, not the other way around, and it has consequences.
For the first time in history, stars are laying almost as low as us. When they log on to their computers, they can read reams of vile cruelty about themselves. This has caused the whimpering Selena Gomez, the jealousy-plagued girlfriend of Justin Bieber, to drop Who Says?, a ballad about "haters" online.
Listen: "You made me insecure/ Told me I wasn't good enough/ But who are you to judge/ When you're a diamond in the rough."
New problem? That last smug lyric made me hate her a bit.
And surely many more stars are dreaming of a not-so-distant past when fans were a blurry abstraction; a nuisance around the limo or gates and not much else. The smart ones are dropping the illusion that they live at such a vast distance from us (look at the otherwise useless stars who have risen up by using Twitter to commune and share with just about anybody. Okay, look directly at Ashton Kutcher.)
But even kindness won't save the celebrity rebels who, in railing against the establishment, assume they are one of us. Because hate isn't simply en vogue, although TV programs, films and Internet shows are crueler and crueler: Due Date, as with The Hangover, is a melee of physical and emotional violence; as are Between Two Ferns or Going Deeper (the last two, interview shows, are very funny, but contain a sharp, painful edge.) Even roasts, the lowest of low humour, have returned: We were meant to laugh at the vicious and disgusting jokes told on the Donald Trump Roast; to laugh at the cyber-bullying of Rebecca Black, who has now officially trended longer than #prayforJapan.
Gilbert Gottfried's firing by Aflac over insensitive jokes on Twitter about the Japan tragedy seems especially wrong-minded (still have to love free speech!) in the face of casual, everyday cruelty and entertainment cruelty.
Hate has been around as long as stars and well before – hate, or a mixture of envy, invidiousness and self-pity.
To love a star is, in most cases, to loathe one's self simultaneously.
And when a star pretends he or she is "just like us!", as the tabloid catchphrase goes, we say, quite logically: But I don't live with two goddesses in a mansion! Or, I don't get to ruin the Oscars because of my good looks! And so on.
Another REAL feeling, a raw, ragged emotion emerges from mob rule. (Soon to be #Mobrules!) This feeling is fickleness, an unpredictable disdain for what once briefly amused us.
The Empire is well advised to retreat, and return to making us feel powerless. Currying the favour of a mob can never go well. As one poster said to the instant superstar and total crybaby Rebecca Black recently, "We don't hate you because you're famous. You're famous because we hate you."
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The Birdsville Track is one of the best known - and loneliest - tracks in Australia, and for twenty years Tom Kruse was the mailman, battling the searing heat, floods and mechanical breakdowns. He made the run every fortnight, and was a lifeline to the isolated settlements and stations along the way, delivering everything from letters to essential supplies.
The Track is still just that - a track through the desert and sandhills. Tom began in the days before reliable vehicles, good communication and air access in case of emergency. He made running repairs of his truck, he loaded and unloaded tons of stores to ferry his cargo across flooded creeks. He kept people in touch with the outside world - and was sometimes caught up in the grief of a lonely death.
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Maybe it's only me, but I'm finding persuade options to be very interesting for my experience as a player. When to use them and when not to use them is a constant struggle, which I think is great. Using persuade to force that big thug on Coruscant to surrender? Yeah, no problem. Using it to get the Twi'lek pilgrims to back down? Sure--it's a dire situation and probably the only way I could spare their lives.
But then you get some really, really interesting ones. (2 Spoilers for Knight quest through early Alderaan, with as little Knight plot info as possible)
First was on Tattooine, when you face Lord Praven. He's a light-sided Sith Lord--he's deeply loyal to the Sith due to his pureblood heritage and sense of honor. So much so that he spares the lives of Republic innocents where ever possible; he considers it shameful to kill someone who is not a warrior. To facilitate that, he actually offers you the chance to have an honorable duel so others don't get in your way, which would save many lives regardless of who won (something very important to him).
Before the duel, you have the ability to try and make him understand that the Jedi are not the destroyers he believes they are (he doesn't see the evil of the Sith, and is convinced that the Jedi exist only to exterminate his people) or to Force Persuade him into helping. That really made be think. He offered the honorable duel as a way to save lives, so would using FP be fair? I ultimately decided not to, and just tried to convince him the Jedi weren't evil. We fought, yes. But afterwards, I had the option to spare him and then even got him to joint the Jedi. Before that, though, I was curious as to what FP would actually do so I tested the conversation (after making my ultimate choice) just to see--turns out he'll give you the code you want, but then be outraged at your trickery that he attacks. I'm guessing you lose the ability to convert him.
That was a very hard decision, lol.
The other one was the first quest on Alderaan, which I actually regret my choice. Without revealing too many details, an unfortunate death leads to your knight getting arrested along with another scientist. You are able to convince them to let you go free, but the scientist gets imprisoned, or force persuade them into letting you both go. I chose the latter. And, honestly, I really wish I hadn't. The interesting thing is that I suspect my decision was the greater good choice, for reasons I'm putting in the next tag because they're actually a big part of the Alderaan story.
The scientist was a Sith Assassin, and actually the one who killed the count. If she's jailed, I suspect she would have killed those guards. So persuading them to let us both go free actually saved their lives. But I still think I made the wrong decision. They were being more than fair in letting me go free as long as she stayed imprisoned as well, and Alderaan is a bastion of equality. I feel like I just smeared mud all over that. I actually decided I wanted to choose the other option before the conversation ended, but the game lagged and the esc didn't register until the convo was over (the next quest starts instantly upon completion of the scene. What's interesting about this choice in general is that there's no real implication about her going free or not until later in the story--you're forced to make a choice without much info to go off of, and it's interesting.


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The University of California, Merced submitted a proposal
earlier this month to the UC Office of the President to establish a
medical education program leading to a School of Medicine in the
San Joaquin Valley. If approved, UC Merced will enter its first
class of medical students within the next ten years.
UC Merced's plan is to establish a medical education program
to address the disproportionate physician shortage in the Valley,
with a particular emphasis on training physicians who are competent
in multi-cultural health care and who are committed to serving the
needs of the San Joaquin Valley. The proposed medical education
program is based on academic partnerships and utilizes existing
resources in the Valley and sister UC campuses.
"Recent projections indicate that the nation needs to
increase the number of physicians by 30 percent over the next
decade," said UC Merced Chancellor Carol Tomlinson-Keasey. "The
Valley currently lags significantly in both primary care providers
and specialists. Hence, a School of Medicine at UC Merced is
critical to address the healthcare needs of California and the
rapidly growing Central Valley."
"There is a compelling need for increased access to and
availability of health care services in the Valley," said UC Merced
Dean of Natural Sciences Maria Pallavicini. "The Valley has 25
percent fewer primary care physicians and substantially fewer
specialists compared to California as a whole. We must take action
now to ensure availability of health services in the future that
will meet the needs of our diverse and rapidly increasing
UC Merced plans to work with UCSF and UC Davis to implement a
regional model of medical education, the model recommended by a
planning task force comprised of nationally recognized health
education leaders. Preliminary plans call for the first two years
of instruction to take place on the Merced campus with hands-on
learning opportunities in local communities. Much of the third and
fourth years of clinical training initially will be held in Fresno
through the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program, which currently
trains 200 medical students throughout the year. Other clinical
campuses, such as in Modesto, will be considered as the program
"Much of the infrastructure that already exists at UCSF
Fresno will be a critical component of providing training for
third- and fourth year- UC Merced medical students," said Joan
Voris, associate dean at UCSF Fresno, which graduates about 60
resident physicians each year. "We are very pleased to be a
partner in plans to establish a comprehensive medical education
program that leads to a UC School of Medicine in the Valley."
The current vision is to develop a medical education program
with an initial class of 32 students, eventually reaching an
enrollment of 384. A diverse group of students that reflects the
demographics of the Valley will be developed through special
programs aimed at increasing interest in and preparedness for entry
into the medical profession.
The faculty structure will be a combination of full-time
faculty, community physicians, and advanced medical residents.
Approximately 15 full-time faculty members will be hired before the
UC Merced program opens and their numbers will be supplemented as
enrollment grows.
Facilities for the UC Merced medical education program will
be developed in phases as program enrollment expands and the number
of clinical campuses grows. Initially, facility requirements will
include sites at the UC Merced campus and the UCSF Fresno Center
for Medical Education and Research in Fresno.
Annual costs for the program administration and central
support before admissions of the charter class are projected to
average about $3 million. Annual operating costs for the medical
education instructional program are estimated to be $13 million
when the charter class of 32 students enters.
In addition to state monies, funding for the medical
education program would come from campus fees, research grants, and
non-state fees such as individuals, foundations, corporations and
other sources.
"To support the new medical education program for the Valley,
UC Merced will initiate a multi-million dollar fund-raising
campaign to support funding for the medical school research,
teaching facility, endowed chairs and student financial support,"
said Vice Chancellor for University Relations John Garamendi.
UC Merced has already secured more than $1.5 million in gifts
to support a new biomedical sciences and systems biology research
institute, which is developing on campus separately from medical
education planning. The institute's state of the art technologies
will support a major research theme in the medical education
program: population-based health issues specific to the Valley. In
addition, UC Merced expects to publicly announce in the near future
a multi-million dollar gift to support medical education programs.
UC Merced's proposal, which may be refined based on
recommendations from the UC Office of the President, must now be
reviewed as part of the University of California's long-term
planning process, which includes planning for growth in its health
sciences programs. If approved by the UC system, the California
Postsecondary Education Commission also must consider UC Merced's