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For Immediate Release Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Thursday, December 19, 2002 "Lanux Limited Teams with PostgreSQL, Inc. on PostgreSQL High Availability Solution" "Lanux has established a reputation of delivering unparalleled connectivity across protocols, operating systems and hardware platforms," notes Geoff Davidson, CEO of PostgreSQL, Inc. (PgSQL), "creating a technology that meets the business need for high speed Hot Failover capabilities demanded by today's real-time online mission critical information systems." Lanux technology complements and enhances PgSQL's recently released replication solution, eRServer v1.2 by providing transaction integrity and hot failover. "We have chosen to work with PostgreSQL at the strategic level for all the right reasons." states Kevin Alexander, CTO of Lanux. "PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database, and it provides rugged industrial strength solutions to IT organizations around the world." "Corporate IT managers face a number of financial and operational challenges. Lowered earnings and increased cost per transaction have cut into IT budgets. There is an urgent need for an integrated solution which provides high systems availability, transaction integrity and increased levels of data security through data cloaking. Lanux partnered with PostgreSQL enables our customers to achieve these benefits. Adding the enhanced security and communications features of Lanux means that government and industry can continue to expand distributed and wireless computing while increasing security across the entire network." Observes Lanux CEO Dennis Bernhard. "This strategic partnership delivers immediate benefits to everyone," explains Davidson, "PostgreSQL benefits by having one of the most robust business continuity and disaster recovery facilities available at any price. IT consumers benefit through improved connectivity, virtually unlimited database capabilities, and increased network security at a substantially lower cost. Lanux benefits by entering into several new markets as a technology leader." In addition to providing Lanux High Availability technologies for PostgreSQL, Inc.'s global network of partners and clients as a Prime Platinum CAP, Lanux can now offer PostgreSQL, Inc.'s sales, service, support, development and innovation initiatives, programs that include: - Enterprise Customer Relationship Management - Certified Alliance Program / Value Added Reseller agreements - Annual Support Certificates - Certified Training Programs About Lanux Limited Lanux is a leader in secure universal networking and distributive computing. Lanux meets the needs of its customers in financial, telecommunications and business markets by delivering a universal secure networking solution. Lanux provides to its customers a variety of solutions including, firewalls, automated systems management, wireless and wire-line network security, device monitoring & controls and integrated VPN security. All of these solutions are built on Lanux's patented universal platform. Lanux's solution offerings include: - Lanux Business Services - Lanux OfficeManage - Lanux Access Manage - Secure Wireless Networking - Industrial Monitoring - Integrated Security Solutions (VPN, Polymorphic Firewalls, Cloaked Wireless Data Streaming) - PostgreSQL based information solutions For more information about Lanux Limited visit www.lanux.com, or contact Public Relations at (905)212-9228 or pr(at)lanux(dot)com(dot) About PostgreSQL, Inc. PostgreSQL, Inc. is a federally incorporated Canadian company, founded in early 1999, substantially owned and controlled by three of the four original founding founding members of the PostgreSQL Global Development Project. PostgreSQL, Inc.'s Mission is to promote the continuous growth in use, application development, training, and certification programs for PostgreSQL by providing companies and individuals with a commercial, full service support organization to meet their business, information and database needs. PostgreSQL, Inc. provides clients, expert consultants, partners and open source community volunteers with both financial recognition and project opportunities while expanding PostgreSQL database functions, applications and capabilities. For more information about PostgreSQL Inc. please visit www.pgsql.com, or contact Media & Public Relations at (902) 542-0713 or pr(at)pgsql(dot)com(dot)
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IGN FilmForce's recent plug of ToyFare Magazine's interview with G.I. Joe producer Lorenzo DiBonaventura prompted a lot of feedback, including an item from none other than Joe screenwriter Michael Gordon.
Gordon assured us that the "G.I. Joe movie is based on the 80's Joe characters. (Duke, Scarlett, Snake Eyes, Destro, Baroness, Storm Shadow, Cobra, etc.) Period." In other words, there will be no Joes based on the classic 1960s characters, as DiBonaventura &#Array; whom Gordon praised as "a master producer" &#Array; seemed to suggest.
The screenwriter and self-proclaimed "Joe fanatic" also told us a tiny bit more about the film's sole new Joe character, Rex, who DiBonaventura said would be a major character. "Rex is just a first name (which actually came from Hasbro)," Gordon advised FilmForce. "Much like Duke is really Conrad, Scarlett is really Shana, etc. Rex will have a Joe handle just like every other character."
Gordon promises fans that "the G.I. Joe movie will ROCK!" and will be "chock full of blistering adventure, heart pounding heroism, high tech weapons and vehicles, and more crazy ninja action than you can handle." Sounds good!

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ISA Security Compliance Institute calls for input on specification
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The Technical Steering Committee of the ISA Security Compliance Institute is developing the Embedded Controller Security Assurance segment (ECSA) of the ISASecure conformance specification for industrial automation control systems (IACS). This specification is intended to provide assurances of secure characteristics in network- connected IACS devices that monitor and control manufacturing processes in an industrial environment.
The ISA Security Compliance Institute is releasing this Call for Input to encourage a cross section of industry security experts to collaboratively create the Embedded Controller SA conformance specification. The specification will be constructed within the framework of the ISA99 Standard Foundational Requirements, will be measurable and testable and, establish the basis for the first ISASecure conformance tests for devices.
Interested parties are asked to notify the ISA Security Compliance Institute of their interest in contributing to the ECSA via email to Andre Ristaino at email@example.com by August 15, 2008. Contact Andre Ristaino at firstname.lastname@example.com to request a copy of the CFI. The Call for Input document containing deadlines and further detail, will be posted August 4, 2008 on the home page of ISA Security Compliance Institute website at www.isa.org/ISASecure.
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Investigator Kevin Trussell steered his police cruiser along the curb near where two young men and an older woman stood.
The policeman waved the woman over, and she came to the car window.
"Oh, you miss me?" she said, smiling.
"You get all your court stuff taken care of?" Trussell asked.
"Yeah, I appreciate what you did," she said.
"You know where [suspect name] is at?" he asked.
"Nah," she said; then she paused, looking around.
Trussell knew this might not be the best time to ask more questions.
"All right. I'll see you later," he said.
"OK," she said, walking back to the porch as Trussell drove away.
It's the same porch where in March two juveniles were shot, one hit in the foot, the other in the leg as they ran from the gunfire.
Trussell spends his days and many nights cruising Chattanooga's streets with his teammates in the city police department's crime suppression unit.
"You have to be able to know who has the information on the street," he explained.
"Those are the people you kind of have to garner a relationship with. Because in the end you might need them one day," Trussell said. "You might need them to tell you who shot who."
Not every contact is pleasant, and not everyone is happy to see the officers. Through the rest of the afternoon shift, Trussell helped fellow investigator Aaron Patterson on a warrant arrest in which the suspect gave a false name and a traffic stop in which police believed the driver swallowed a bag of marijuana. Those men went to jail.
During a drive through one neighborhood, Trussell spotted a man in an orange sweatshirt who ran away when he saw the patrol car. A call from another officer kept Trussell from learning why.
But as often as possible, officers work to improve their relationships with people close to the street, as well as with community leaders.
The next night those relationships were tested. Trussell, Patterson and officers from various divisions worked through the night and into the dawn tracking information after a Nov. 19 shooting at a Pawnee Trail home sent a bullet to the head of 22-year-old Jermichael Richardson. He died later from the wound.
Crime Suppression Unit statistics
Year / Total Arrests / Drug arrests / Guns seized
2007* / 226 / 86 / 13
2008 / 321 / 120 / 24
2009 / 421 / 138 / 65
2010** / 888 / 226 / 70
*From June to December
**From January to mid-November
Source: Chattanooga Police Department
That shooting triggered a string of reprisals by opposing gangs, police said. Community tips helped lead police to arrest Devante Stoudemire, 18, on Nov. 21 and charge him with criminal homicide in Patterson's death. The next day police got reports that two to three men drove by 1913 Foust St. firing at Omerrieal Woods, 20, hitting him in the buttocks as he fled.
Homicide detectives lead murder and most shooting investigations, but the crime suppression unit goes out into the streets collecting leads to pass back to the detectives.
"A lot of it is in the way we talk to people," Trussell said of building trust with residents and especially, known gang members. "We don't automatically treat them like a criminal because information is our best friend, and we gladly accept it."
Since its inception three years ago, the unit has more than doubled the number of arrests it makes each year. As of August, just five officers had taken nearly 170 guns off the streets and made more than 3,000 contacts with gang members.
Underscoring his belief in the effectiveness of the unit, Police Chief Bobby Dodd doubled its manpower in August, about a month after he took over the department.
The unit formed in June 2007 with just four officers. Dodd said he and Lt. Edwin McPherson saw the need for a small unit focused on crime hot spots but didn't want to narrow it to only gangs.
At the time Dodd was an assistant chief over the investigation division. He and McPherson sat down with then-Chief Freeman Cooper to sell the idea.
Patrol officers, inundated with issues ranging from speeders, noise complaints and domestic violence calls, rarely had the time to spend on building relationships with residents, Dodd said.
A specialized unit wasn't a new concept. Dodd said that in the past police leaders had formed "jump-out squads" or "spot teams" that tackled a crime-ridden area until activity slowed.
Instead of tying the unit to one area, Dodd and McPherson wanted to recruit members from different parts of the city and keep them mobile. Today, each of the officers has authority to work anywhere in the county and is not tied to one area of the city. They can work alongside Hamilton County Sheriff's deputies outside city limits and target any area of crime.
Unit investigators work everything from burglaries to DUIs to gang-on-gang violence, unlike officers in other divisions who focus on either a specific zone of the city or a type of crime, he said.
That flexibility helps each of the divisions.
Last week, the unit was involved in a 65-officer multiagency gang roundup dubbed "Operation Gangsgiving." Dodd reassigned the 10-officer team to work directly with investigators from patrol, fugitive, narcotics and property crimes during the operation.
"It's going to be [kept up] for a while, until we get a handle on it," Dodd said. "I'm just sick and tired of these little thugs running around here deciding when they want to create chaos in our city."
The one-day "Gangsgiving" operation netted 36 arrests -- 20 of whom were gang members -- 49 warrants served, five guns seized, 38 grams of marijuana and 2 grams of cocaine confiscated.
The police information network can be likened to an octopus -- one central brain, with tentacles stretching out to all areas of the city and county pulling pieces back to filter and use later.
Chattanooga police and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office share information on known gang members, their affiliates, criminal histories, work places and disputes.
Lt. Van Hinton heads the county's recently formed gang task force, which works most closely with the city's unit. The five-officer county unit mirrors the suppression unit in some ways but differs in others.
Some of the deputies work undercover, and the unit falls under the department's narcotics division, as gang crimes and drugs often show up together.
"We find ourselves communicating daily and working throughout the week as well," Hinton said of work between the units.
More and more often, Hinton said, police will find a gang member living in the county but working in the inner city, or vice versa. Teaming up the two units helps police better track their operations.
"What it does is put us on the same playing field," Hinton said. "It gives us the ability to call the city immediately when something happens, or for them to call us immediately."
So when a new face suddenly shows up in their area, deputies can tap into the city's knowledge and find out if the person has a criminal history. It works the same the other way, he said.
Since the city's unit formed, gang contacts -- instances where police officers have communicated with a known gang member -- have increased from about 100 to more than 3,000.
Increased contacts do not necessarily mean new gang members but instead multiple meetings with individual gang members.
In the case of a gang-related shooting, the network runs quickly, trying to get fresh information not only to catch the person responsible but also to anticipate who might try to retaliate and to try to prevent more shootings, Trussell said.
Street-level contacts like the one Trussell had with the woman near his patrol car are one way officers learn what's going on in neighborhoods. Another is complaints or calls from residents.
Though the unit moves inside the entire city, some areas need more help than others. East Chattanooga warrants more attention at times, and some Glenwood residents have used their neighborhood groups to share information with the unit.
"You can kind of see the immediate effects of police work," Glenwood Neighborhood Association President Tommy Diller said.
Diller has lived in the neighborhood for eight years and worked closely with the association for four. Though he doesn't talk directly with unit members, he passes along community complaints to Lt. Brian Cotter, who works with the East Chattanooga Weed and Seed program. The federal grant program funds overtime pay for additional officers in East Chattanooga.
Trussell and Patterson worked in the program before coming to the crime suppression unit and still assist the area when they learn of crime complaints.
The Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies 2010 Public Safety report shows that between 2005 and 2009, reported drug offenses decreased in the Glenwood/Eastdale neighborhood by 26 percent, slightly better than the entire city's decline of 24 percent.
The same report shows a 4 percent decrease in aggravated assaults and a 2 percent decrease in simple assaults, but a 34 percent increase in burglaries for the same period in the neighborhood.
Diller said seeing results after residents share information has helped strengthen the association and, by his observation, made the neighborhood safer.
"Once you get to know the police on a personal level and know that they do care ... I guess it empowers the residents to be a little more proactive," he said.


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If Earl Bennett only has an average game today against Georgia, fans at Vanderbilt Stadium will see some SEC history.
Bennett is just six catches away from the conference's career receptions record. Since he averages a conference-high 8.2 receptions a game, he should overtake former Kentucky wideout Craig Yeast. Bennett has caught at least four passes in 20 straight games. Auburn held him to four catches last week so he might be overdue for a big outing.
Bennett left his footprints on Vanderbilt's 24-22 win against Georgia last season. He caught eight passes for 89 yards and a score.
"He was a possession receiver; then he became a playmaker," Georgia safety Kelin Johnson said. "He's an awesome player. He's fast. He can catch. He has heart. When you've got a guy who has that many catches, he has to have heart. That's a lot of catches."
Bennett has 202 career receptions just five games into his junior season. Yeast has the career record of 208 set from 1995-98. Georgia's Terrence Edwards is second with 204 career receptions from 1999-2002. Bennett is currently tied with Chris Collins from Ole Miss for third.
"Hand's down their best offensive threat is Earl Bennett," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "I don't think that is a mystery to anyone. He is a fantastic player and he's getting ready to break career reception records and he's walking them down in his junior year. I don't know if he'll come back for his senior year. It wouldn't bother me if he turned pro."
Bennett leads the SEC in receptions with 41 for 499 yards and four touchdowns. He set Vanderbilt's career receptions record last week with four catches against Auburn.
"He catches the ball on a consistent basis," Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez said. "He's got great speed and good size. He's a competitive kid. I know it sounds simple, but when the ball's in the air, he'll come down with it. It can be awkward. It can be behind him. It can be in front of him. It doesn't' really matter. Even if you've got great position on him, you've got to compete for the ball."
Bennett was overlooked when he went to Vanderbilt. He played running back, receiver and defensive back at West End High School in Birmingham, Ala. with eventual Auburn quarterback Brandon Cox.
"Sometimes guys slip through the cracks," said Mike Bobo, Georgia's offensivecoordinator. "Sometimes that's the definition of a football player. He's one of those guys who's going to go out and make plays.
"He's a lot like Hines Ward in that way. Hines had been a quarterback in high school and was a little overlooked. When he got here, he started making plays as a wide receiver. He had the toughness and the ability to make plays in traffic."
Bennett made an almost immediate impact at Vanderbilt. He caught 16 passes against South Carolina his freshman season. He caught 79 passes his first season, an SEC record for freshmen. He tied an SEC record with five touchdown catches against Kentucky, which also came during his freshman season.
"You have to be physical to be a great receiver," Johnson said.
"You have to out-smart the defensive backs. You don't' have to have great speed. But you've got to have great technique. If you've got technique and will, you're going to be a great receiver."
Although he has an opportunity to climb to the top of the SEC career receptions rankings, Georgia does not want to become preoccupied with avoiding becoming part of history.
"You've got to play football, man," Johnson said. "You can't worry about how many catches he has in a game because it takes you out of your game."
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I've been taking a lot of pictures lately, so I'm starting a new three part series on Photographing Children.
Kids grow up so fast. You blink and it seems the time is lost. While we are often filled with wonderful memories of their years growing up, most parents only have the yearly school portraits, some blurry holiday snapshots, terribly forced smile pictures, and photos with eyes closed, strange faces and no smile.
Is that the way you want to remember your children?
It isn't the way to account for the years that have passed. Our memories are too precious not to have some great shots of our children. We want the pages of our scrapbook albums to be filled with wonderful images of our children.
I think it's time to start really focusing on improving our photography skills and what better subject to photograph than your adorable children.
It often seems, the main focus in many people's scrapbook albums is their children. But photographing children can propose many challenges. Between goofy smiles, blinking eyes, and blurry movement shots, catching a good photo can seem daunting. It doesn't have to be.
While it can be challenging at first, if you know some basic info, practice a lot and you follow the tips offered in this series, you might just get some award winning shots that are most definitely scrap-worthy. And you won't believe that you actually took that photograph!
The very first tip I'd like to share is easy. Bring that camera out often. The more your children get used to seeing the camera and having their photo taken, the more natural they will become in front of the camera. Your photographs will seem less posed and more genuine. Be sure and have it handy to capture even the mundane things in your everyday life. If your child is accustomed to seeing that flash a lot, they won't be so apt to stop what they are doing and become interested in what you are doing, which typically rewards you with a false smile, or forced grin. Scrapbookers usually have a camera out a lot to capture all those great memories. The more you use the camera, the more natural your pictures will become.
Please watch for the next article in the Photographing Children Series by continuing to check out my families.com blog.


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The fifth annual "Best Hit Kayosai (Best Hit Pop Song Festival)" will be broadcast live Monday night at 9 p.m. on the Yomiuri Television network (Nihon TV in Tokyo) from the Osaka Festival Hall.
Formerly known as the "Zen-Nihon Usen Taisho (All Japan Cable Radio Awards)," the ceremony recognizes the most popular Japanese songs and artists of the year based on requests from listeners of the Usen cable radio service, karaoke rankings, and record sales.
Among this year's recipients of the Gold Artist Award for record sales are the tenor Masafumi Akikawa for the single "A Thousand Winds," which has shifted more than a million units since it was released in the fall of 2005, and the South Korean boy-band Toho Shinki, who sing in Japanese. The likely winner of the newcomer award is American pinup-turned-singer Leah Dizon. Another song that will be honored is "Oshiri-kajiri Mushi," a novelty tune sung by the titular "Bottom-biting Bug" in a popular animated short that originally appeared on NHK and has since become an international hit on YouTube.
Veteran TV announcer and media gadfly Kyosen Ohashi, who has lived overseas since officially retiring more than a decade ago, is making one of his periodic whirlwind tours of Japan as evidenced by the fact that he's appearing on numerous variety shows this week. On Tuesday, he will be the guest on the antique appraisal show "Kaiun! Nandemo Kanteidan (Good Luck! Team That Appraises Anything)" (TV Tokyo, 8:54 p.m.), where he will ask the experts to tell him if the Maud Lewis painting he bought for $8,000 is a forgery. Apparently, forged works by the Canadian "folk artist," who died in 1970, are quite common.
Alarge number of people will soon be retiring and leaving Japan's big cities for the rural life. The special program "Gekiyasu! Yume no Inaka Kurashi Akogare no Chi wa Koko da (Very Cheap! This is the Rural Place Where I've Always Dreamed of Living)" (TBS, Wednesday, 6:55 p.m.) offers some suggestions for places that offer superb rural real estate at very low prices.
Probably the most desirable property offered is a house on the Izu Peninsula overlooking the sea, which comes with its own hot-spring bath. Also profiled is a Yokohama family who want to live self-sufficiently in Niigata. Problems of such a lifestyle change are also explored with the case of a husband who wants to move to the countryside despite his wife's desire to stay in the city.


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Today on Happening Now, anchor Jon Scott responded to a Media Matters report that FNC copied a press release from the Senate Republican Communications Center during yesterday's broadcast. The segment included the same typo (an incorrect date) in a full-screen graphic as there was in the original Republican release.
"Our story [was] prompted by a news release from the Senate Republican Communication Center," said Scott.
"In compiling the story, our producers and researchers did what we always do — we verified the accuracy of the material," he said, but admitted making "the same mistake they did…That was our error, and we apologize."
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New Burntisland Primary School to be built on East Toll Park
Archived news: published on Thursday 12 Jan 2012 by Fife Council
A NEW, state-of-the-art, £12m primary school for Burntisland will be built on East Toll Park, with the hope of having the school up and running by 2014 .
Following a lengthy and thorough consultation process which generated an unprecedented response, members of the Education and Children's Services Committee heard today that the majority of parents, pupils and the wider community who took part in the consultation have given their support to building the new school at East Toll Park.
Two thirds of respondents voted in favour of building the new school on the East Toll Park site and councillors today agreed to move forward with the plan to build the new school there.
Cllr. Douglas Chapman, Chair of the Education and Children's Services Committee, said: "As part of our £126m Building Fife's Future programme we have already delivered an outstanding school in Dunfermline, Carnegie Primary School, and I am looking forward to seeing a similarly excellent new build for Burntisland Primary School."
"The present school is out-of-date and bursting at the seams and we owe it to those currently at the school and the future generations to come to make sure that we now get their new school delivered as quickly as possible.
"I firmly believe that this is the right decision for the school and I hope now that we can work with the whole community, to take them along with us and let everyone see the top class school we can create on this site.
"It is hoped that we can make substantial progress in the near future with the formal planning process which will guarantee that children are in their new school for the start of the new term in August 2014."


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'BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE' PRESENTED BY DEPORTES TELEMUNDO ON mun2 THIS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 AT 10:55 EST/9:55 CST WITH ARSENAL VS. TOTTENHAM
Two Title Contenders Meet for the First Time this Season as The Spurs Look to Stay Perfect Against an Arsenal Squad On The Rise
UNIVERSAL CITY, CA – August 29, 2013 – mun2, the leading Hispanic cable network for Hispanic millennial adults, continues The Barclays Premier League presented by Deportes Telemundo this Sunday, September 1 live at 10:55AM EST/9:55AM CST with a clash between Arsenal and Tottenham, two title contenders who meet for the first time this season. Tottenham looks to stay perfect and hold onto the top spot, but the Gunners have other plans and can't afford to disappoint their home fans at Emirates Stadium and aim to obtain their second straight victory in the 2013-14 season. To find out where to find mun2 in your area, please visit: http://www.mun2.tv/get-mun2 and http://www.mun2.tv.The match is also available via the Deportes Telemundo app "Deportes Telemundo En Vivo."
The Spurs are undefeated so far in the Barclays Premier League and rely heavily on Roberto Soldado, the Spanish striker that arrived in London this summer as Tottenham's new star, and currently has two goals in two league matches, both of them key game-winning goals as well.
Arsenal displayed its best level with a convincing 3-1 win last week against Fulham and is currently riding a three match winning streak between the domestic tournament and the UEFA Champions League. The Gunners are considered a favorite by many to dethrone powerhouses Manchester City and Manchester United and rely on Theo Walcott, a dangerous midfielder with a knack for scoring with 14 goals in the Barclays Premier League last season.
Deportes Telemundo, Telemundo Media's sports division, is one of the leading providers of Spanish-language sports content in the United States. The "U.S. Home of the Olympics in Spanish," Deportes Telemundo also offers World Cup Qualifying matches played by the Mexican National Team; all Liga MX matches played at home by Club León; the leading boxing show in U.S. Spanish-language television, "Boxeo Telemundo," and the U.S. broadcast and online rights in Spanish language to the biggest soccer tournament in the world, the FIFA World Cup®, across all platforms (except radio), 2015 through 2022.
In addition to its biggest sporting events, Deportes Telemundo produces two leading sports entertainment shows, "Titulares y Más" and "Titulares Telemundo," offering the latest sports news and analysis combined with entertainment and lifestyle segments. Deportes Telemundo's award-winning broadcast team is led by internationally acclaimed sportscaster Andrés Cantor and also includes Jessi Losada, Sammy Sadovnik, Leti Coo, Edgar López, Karim Mendiburu, Mirella Grisales, René Giraldo and Kaziro Aoyama.


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Various departments offer social innovation classes ranging from introductory to graduate-level work.
Ballard Center Courses
Classes covering social innovation topics are offered in a number of different departments across campus. Below are a few examples of classes specifically offered through the Ballard Center to help students learn how to Do Good Better. Many of these classes are broadly applicable to a number of different programs and majors, even if they're not listed in your major's Changemaker MAP. Be sure to talk to the Ballard Center and your adviser about incorporating them into your graduation plan.
- Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series~^+ (BUS M 371R; 1 credit): Come listen as various social innovators discuss their various paths to making the world a better place. This course is offered in the fall and winter.
- Social Innovation: Do Good Better+ (BUS M 375; 3 credits): The Do Good Better course helps students from all majors discover various ways that they can get involved in social innovation (e.g. starting a social venture, working for a nonprofit, volunteering, etc.); develop skills to critically analyze social ventures; and develop a personalized plan on how to create a life of purpose.
- Social Innovation Projects^+ (BUS M 491R; 3 credits): SIP is the Ballard Center's on-campus internship program that allows students to work on semester-long projects from top-tier social innovation organizations. To learn more and to apply, click here. Available only during fall and winter.
- Social Innovation & Social Entrepreneurship*+ (MBA 692; 1.5 credits): This class focuses on solving issues that social innovators face; understanding complex systems of for-profit, nonprofit and hybrid social ventures; and outlining involvement in social innovation as part of a lifetime of meaningful service. Available only during the first term of fall semester.
- Social Innovation Masters Classes* (MBA 693R; 1 credit): Classes will vary by semester/block. Courses may include Corporate Social Responsibility, Impact Measurement, Microfinance, Impact Investing, Microfranchising, Philanthropy, and others. This course is offered only during the second term of fall semester.
- Impacting Investing (BUS M 491R; 3 credits): Open to students from all backgrounds and majors, impact investing helps students learn how to invest in social businesses that are creating positive social impact. Students will gain a foundation in understanding venture capital and impact investing, hear social ventures pitch their ideas, and learn how to think critically and analyze social impact, business models, and other aspects of a business.
- Innovator's Method: Developing Ideas that Matter+ (BUS M 491R; 2 credits): This class will be part lecture and part application. Our goal is to learn how to build a business, product, or social enterprise that addresses high-impact problems. We will use the Innovator's Method framework to generate powerful insights, immerse ourselves in our customer's world and needs, develop prototypes, design experiments to test potential solutions, and craft a business model to support our ideas. This course will be highly experiential, with students applying the Innovator's Method to a real-world challenge or opportunity. This will include weekly out-of-class assignments such as customer observations, building digital and physical prototypes, and running real-world experiments. The course will culminate in a pitch session of each team's journey and outcomes.
~ Counts towards management minor
+ Counts towards Ballard Scholar for Social Innovation
^ Counts towards the international development minor
* Counts towards the MBA social innovation minor
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could be done pretty easily, just unbolt the seats... and unplug airbag sensors etc. you could even remove the runners if you wanted, just make sure you bolt them down tight again,
not sure if unplugging the airbag plug would throw any fault codes up so you would have to get them cleared once back together,
as for somewhere to do it in Essex... wouldnt have a clue, im guessing it would be a do it at home on your drive kinda job or ask a professional detailer, who didnt mind taking the seats out, (or someone on here might be able to help if your not too handy with the tools...)
Yeh Rob is your man as recommended.
There are no runners on the floor, its all built into the seat, just 4 bolts onto the car, airbag light will show & I expect he will have a system to extinguish the light when finished, so wouldnt worry there.
Thanks all, I will get in touch with Rob!
Just disconnect the neg terminal on your batt before disconnecting the air bag connectors under the seat.
This will stop the SRS from storing a fault codes so you can just reinstall, connect the battery and no stored fault codes to clear
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Alton, Va. (August 5) -- The 2007 Gold Cup Historic Races at VIRginia International Raceway will celebrate the 50th anniversary of VIR's opening in 1957. The event is scheduled for the weekend of June 8-10, 2007.
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Photos by Tony Cordoza Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 5 Speaker System (original review, September) No recent speaker I know of is more striking on first acquaintance than Bang & Olufsen's BeoLab 5. First there's the sticker shock - $8,000 apiece! Then there's its appearance - like something from a Danish-designed Jetsons. And then there's its sound quality - superb. It can play loud and clean, it can reach way down into the deep bass, and - thanks to the specially shaped reflecting surfaces around the higher-frequency drivers - it can deliver this superb sound quality to an unusually large prime seating area. You can sit almost directly in front of one of these speakers and still hear a stereo "spread" all the way to the other. But the BeoLab 5's most significant contribution to audio technology is its extraordinarily clever Adaptive Bass Control automatic bass-equalization system. This optimizes the speaker's low-frequency output depending on its location in the room, literally at a touch. If you think eight grand apiece is a bit much, just remember that the speakers are self-powered - with 2,500 watts of built-in amplification per speaker - and accept digital input signals directly. Bang & Olufsen www.bang-olufsen.com, 847-590-4900
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I wish someone had said something like this to be in the early days of my blogging:
"Many bloggers seem to be on a perpetual hunt for the front page of Digg. Sure, it brings you hordes of eyeballs, but then they turn around and leave. What's the point of that, really?
I think that are plenty of tips you can follow to optimize your offering for this fickle mass group. But it's still a crap shoot. Doesn't it make more sense to incrementally earn the attention of a smaller, less glitzy but far more valuable group of people who actually engage with you? And the best part is, your odds of success are a lot better."
Source – Seth Godin's Blog.
I love what Seth's said in this post. There's a lot of wisdom in it.
However I'm not sure I'd throw out traffic from a site like Digg completely. I've written on this theme in Being 'Discovered' vs 'Slow and Steady' Blog Growth. In that post I recounted the story of three blogs that I've started and how each had a different way of growing (some grew one reader at a time and others on the back of waves from social bookmarking sites).
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|September 1, 2010, 04:04 PM
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Yes A Glock 23 right beside the bed on the night stand next to my alarm clock .I occasionaly hit the snooze for me and if any uninvited persons wake me up with ill intent, it will be SNOOZE for them!.....LOUD
|September 1, 2010, 04:11 PM
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Back several years ago, prior to air conditioning in commercial vehicles, it wasn't unknown for a driver to take a nap with the window down and the door latch unscrewed.
I had a PPK. It had about a 15 lb 1st shot DA trigger pull. The PPK was 'kinda' safe to keep close to/in hand.
It should be no surprise that courtesy was important. Heinlin nailed it. Never heard of him then.
Not many recklessly jumped on the running board. Even the 'working girls' knocked on the door. You might be surprised how a swat from 4 cell Mag light forcefully applied across the knuckles would alter the thinking of a would be intruder.
There was no defense against Mosquitos though.
|September 1, 2010, 04:37 PM
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A 1911, AR-15, combat knife and tac LED light all are next to my bed at night.
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|September 1, 2010, 05:16 PM
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Too risky at this point in my life. The alarm would give me enough time to get one unlocked though. I have small children.
|September 1, 2010, 07:00 PM
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Just received my mini gunvault deluxe today.
With a baby on the way, we no longer have one on the nightstand.
|September 1, 2010, 07:03 PM
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LOL, Disco. If you saw a pic of his nightstand . It would take 15+ armed criminals to even make a dent .
|September 1, 2010, 07:31 PM
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No kids in the house, so the nightstand drawer has, from right to left, my carry pistol (loaded and chambered), a spare mag, and a small LED flashlight. In hotel rooms, I arrange them the same way in the nightstand drawer so that I can put my hands on them without thinking.
|September 1, 2010, 07:35 PM
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Tyler... I DO need a bigger nightstand.... since that pic was taken I have bought 3 more .357s and a 45LC.
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|September 1, 2010, 09:26 PM
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I keep my Sigma loaded on my nightstand at all times.
|September 1, 2010, 10:02 PM
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i have 2 night stands on both sides of my bed they have a variety of handguns on them. Colt 1911,Ruger gp100 6" glock 17 with 33rounder. ect ect. and thats just the handguns ha ha
|September 1, 2010, 10:32 PM
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Haha Disco. I think you should just get a giant safe near your bed and keep it open. lol.
|September 1, 2010, 10:56 PM
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My carry gun gets tucked between mattress and box springs at night. Nice and close and easy to get to in a hurry, but out of the way so I don't have to worry about bumpin it while asleep.
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|September 1, 2010, 11:47 PM
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Not really on the bed though, but on the floor under the bed cocked and locked.
|September 2, 2010, 12:31 AM
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I would not have a loaded gun within reach while sleeping. I would prefer to have it in a quick opening safe, or similar set-up.
Every once in a while I find myself waking from a dream and already moving. I wouldn't want to risk having a loaded firearm within reach, without some layer of security between a bad dream and a bad day...
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It was around the end of November 1950, we were about 40 miles south of the Yalu River at the time. The battalion was in reserve, so we weren't on the front line. It was cold and we had a few bonfires going. We had some roving guards pulling security for us. During the night, one of our sergeants got up to ****. He spotted a group of short horses and men passing through our area. He knew that wasn't right and he jumped up on our mess truck which had a ring mounted .50 on it. He opened up on the group of Chinese and the horses. After he started shooting it was utter chaos. I was asleep in my sleeping bag, but when I heard the first shot I opened my eyes. Standing directly over the top of me was a Chinese soldier with a Russian submachine gun. He was kicking my rifle away from my side. I cocked the pistol and fired at him through the sleeping bag three or four times. After the first shot I couldn't see because feathers were flying everywhere. I only hit him one time, in the head, I'm not sure if it was the first shot or the second, third or fourth. The round knocked him over. My sleeping bag was ruined; it had a big 15-inch gash in it. The next day I discovered that the slide of the pistol had left marks on my chest. It's amazing that the pistol functioned in the bag like that.
|September 2, 2010, 01:36 AM
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Since I don't have any kids I modified a nylon holster to fit inbetween my mattress, and headboard. It was a cheapy walmart one with a spare mag pouch. I use the spare mag pouch for a small flashlight, and it always has my P2000 with 12+1 .40 hammer back. I love it because you can be in my room, look for it and still can't find it. The way I sleep my fingers literally rest on top of it. I also do not believe someone would be able to get into my bedroom without my 100lbs golden retriever waking me.
|September 2, 2010, 10:53 AM
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I haven't had a cigarette in a couple or three years now, but the nicotine/lifestyle addiction has had a 50+ year head start. I still, on occasion, dream about smoking. Some of the dreams are kinda vivid. I don't wake with the engine warmed up, all cylinders firing, and hit the deck running thrse days.
Our house guns are either DAO/striker Kahrs or revolvers. They can not be reached w/o me standing up and taking a step or two. My bride does not have this limitation. A 747 could land on the roof, and she might mumble something about the racket. Let one of the Grand-Kids cough, and she is wide awake. Mars and Venus I guess.
Motel 6, Red Roof, HJ, and the like are a bit different. Tritium Night Sights on the night stand or across the room, offer a sense of place and orientation when you wake to something that goes 'bump' at 0300 in the parking lot or hallway.
Since metal keys granting unlimited, (at least 'till the lock was changed) ,access to your rented room aren't common these days, solid core doors, and cell phones are, such thinking may not be necessary. I don't know.
Unless I'm in a sleeping bag or some such place, it'd be foolish for me to sleep with a pistol in hand. It has happened, but less frequently these days.
Sorry for the length. Sometime there is too much unsaid and its hard to stop.
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|September 2, 2010, 11:27 AM
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I have 2 kids aged 3 and 5 that still often crawl in to bed with me, and my son in particular likes guns. He's such a little boy! He knows to never touch Daddy's "fire guns" and he only plays with water guns, but he also knows not to sneak cookies, but he does that. I have to keep them in the vault on my days, but on the 2 days a week that they stay at my ex-wife's, I keep my main pistol on the night stand. As a reflex, when I hear a noise, car alarm, screaming, etc. I'm awake with it in hand. It heightens my sense of security. Incidentally Hogdog, it rests right next to the same model Mustang Shelby GT!
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I always place my clothes and weapons so that I can find them in the dark. A side benefit of nite sites is being able to spot it in the dark. I have a 1911 within reach but not in bed. My 870 is close, my AR is in the room. The dog will give me advance warning. I sleep light and come fully awake quickly.
My Wife made me quit bringing the AR under the covers with us (sic)
|September 2, 2010, 12:11 PM
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So you really do heed the advice of Lazarus Long, Edward? LOL
This thread made me think about the clothes part really. I should have clothes near me in the dark while I'm sleeping. Having been beat nekid by a roommate years ago was awful I didn't need a gun, but clothes would've been nice.
And nobody PM me about nekid or how I sleep or anything like that. Just pretend I'm a guy, then picture me nekid and that should deter you. Seriously, treat the ladies with respect or we will go away.
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|September 2, 2010, 12:35 PM
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Clothes, not a bad idea
Clothes by the bed, not a bad idea. Funny, I always drop my pants by the bed when i get in, sometimes my shirt too (if it's a clean one). I've always thought I was being to lazy to hang them in the closet but it's bed time when I drop them and morning when I pick them up to put on so who cares? Now I realize I'm not lazy, I'm just being well prepared in case I have to grab some pants fast!
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Ears of corn normally remain erect until some time after physiological maturity has occurred (black layer development), after which the ear shanks eventually collapse and the ears decline or "droop" down. In recent weeks, corn field connoisseurs have reported droopy ears in drought-stressed fields that have not yet reached physiological maturity.
Droopy ears are cute on certain breeds of dogs, but droopy ears on corn plants prior to physiological maturity are a signal that grain fill has slowed or halted. Premature ear declination (the fancy term for this problem) results in premature black layer formation, lightweight grain, and ultimately lower grain yield per acre.
What Causes Droopy Ears? The most common contributing factor seems to be severe drought stress that extends late into the grain filling period. The "droopy" symptom suggests a loss of turgidity in the ear shank with stress, possibly combined with some cannibalization of the ear shank similar to what can occur with the stored reserves of the main stalk. Eventually, the ear shank collapses and the ear droops down.
In hybrids without the Bt-corn borer trait, collapsed ear shanks can also result from extensive tunneling by European corn borer larvae. Such tunneling weakens the ear shank, allowing it to collapse, and can ultimately also cause the ear to literally drop from the plant.
Impact on Yield? Remember that the ear shank is the final "pipeline" for the flow of photosynthates into the developing ear. An ear shank that collapses prior to physiological maturity will greatly restrict, if not totally prevent, the completion of grain fill for that ear and will likely cause premature black layer development in the grain. If the droopy ears you've looked have not yet black layered, they soon will.
The timing of the onset of the collapsed ear shanks determines the magnitude of the expected yield loss. If grain fill were totally shut down at the full dent stage of grain development (milk line barely visible at dent of kernels), the yield loss would be as much as 40 percent. If grain fill were totally shut down at the late dent stage of grain development (milk line halfway between dent and tip), yield losses for the affected ears would equal about 12 percent.
Multiplying the percentage of affected ears in a field by the estimated yield loss per ear will give you an estimate of whole field loss. For example, if ten percent of the field contained plants whose ears drooped prematurely at the late dent stage, whole field loss would be estimated at 1.2 percent (10 percent of the ears multiplied by 12 percent yield loss per ear).


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#10: Killing Sasha
Half-Minute Hero is an 8-bit throwback to the old Final Fantasy games. Players of the original Final Fantasy will recognize the silent protagonist and general storytelling being made fun of, and players quickly get accustomed to two-dimensional characters and humorous storytelling. However, in the penultimate level of Half-Minute Hero, the player is introduced to a new character, Sasha, originally portrayed as a damsel in distress that is later revealed to be a monster transformed into a human in order to distract the main character from saving the world. Sasha eventually begins to show remorse for her actions and asks the player if they will still consider her a friend. Later, however, when the player destroys an altar causing the transformation, they are forced into a battle in which they are almost certainly tricked into killing her.
Though the game presents itself as being lighthearted and humorous, perhaps it is because Sasha's death is such a strong non-sequitor that players have been so greatly impacted by it. The fact that Sasha's death is not entirely deterministic is only another reason for players to feel guilty after killing her.
If you were stranded in a parallel dimension, sealed away from the love of your life, how far would you go to return home to your sweetheart? Media always portrays love as being an unstoppable force and the noblest of all causes, yet Alexander is cast as the antagonist in Amnesia: The Dark Descent. In order to open a portal back to his home world, Alexander must extract vitae from humans, which can only be done through torture. Reading Alexander's diaries as the game progresses, the player comes to understand that Alexander regrets his decisions and has looked for alternative methods of extracting vitae, but to no avail. Though this isn't a specific moment or line of dialogue from the game, the harsh reality of Alexander sinks in as the player continues through the game.
#8: Angela's Suicide
Though not the saddest theme in Silent Hill 2 (or the series for that matter), Angela's suicide captures the most emotion of any scene in the series onscreen. Haunting piano music plays as James confronts the deeply troubled Angela, who puts her long history of physical and sexual abuse behind her as she walks into a burning building. Yeah, you can go ahead and sing, "Cool girls walk into explosions," but it doesn't make the scene any less sad.
#7: Red's Diary
This one is a little bit different because the player is only able to comprehend the tragedy AFTER it has already happened. Near the end of the game, the player is forced to kill off Tom Redwood, an insane and paranoid survivor living in an abandoned mine. Though unstable, he serves as the only guide to the player as they wander about in the darkness. Red shows his insanity multiple times, most notably when he tricks the player into traveling through a spider-infested tunnel.
However, when the player finally does honor Red's final request by incinerating him, they soon after find his first diary entry after he became stuck in the mines. After hearing the strange and senseless dialogue from him through various intercom speakers, the player is suddenly inside the mind of someone who has not yet gone insane. Putting into perspective the dramatic transformation Red goes through as he adapts to his solitary lifestyle is not only disturbing but incredibly depressing.
Oh boy, Final Fantasy VI... Picking just one moment from this game is going to be very difficult.
Like other moments on this list, the scene on the Phantom Train is given its power by the silence and mental realization rather than what is shown directly to the player. After navigating through the Phantom Train, a train that escorts the living to the land of the dead, Cyan turns around and sees his family in one of the cars. The suddenness of this moment is what makes it so effective. When I first saw it, all I could do was mouth "no" over and over like a fish out of water.
#5: Wander's Defeat
Shadow of the Colossus is given power through its minimalism. With much of the game being spent riding a horse through eerily silent terrain, hearing nothing more than the wind howling, the player is given plenty of time to take in the atmosphere as they play. Wander's unwavering determination is shown through the gameplay as he slayed sixteen building-sized colossi unquestioningly in the hope of reviving a dead maiden. Only after all sixteen are slain does the player realize that Wander is severely weakened. He is unable to walk, his hair has turned black, and when stabbed, his wound spews a black gas. When Wander transforms into a giant demon, the player is in control of it for a short time before it is overcome and defeated. Wander never even gets to see the maiden stand before he is overwhelmed. Though sequences in which the player is expected to lose are becoming more common, it is perhaps the lack of dialogue in this game that makes this scene most tragic, because more emphasis is put into body language.
#4: Lee's Death
Though the moment in which Lee has to choose who to feed in Episode 2 is also an incredibly stressful moment for the player, it's when Lee dies that the tears start coming. After seeing over a dozen other characters being killed, sometimes even having to choose between them, Lee himself becomes one of them. Just when it seems as if Lee has lost everyone, his own life comes to a screeching halt. The fact that Clementine can be the one to kill him only serves to make the moment sadder. Ultimately, it is the immense familiarity the player has with Lee and all of the other characters after over ten hours of completely story-driven gameplay that causes the game to be so sad.
#3: Dyne's Suicide
What, you mean this one isn't about Aerith's death? Too right it's not, because Aerith's death is too sudden for the player to even feel sad about it.
After Cloud and his party discover the aftermath of a massacre at the Golden Saucer, they follow the carnage, originally thinking Barrett to be the killer upon seeing bullet wounds in the victims. Barrett informs the party that there is another man with a machine gun for an arm, formerly his best friend and the biological father of Marlene. Once the player finds him, he reveals that after the destruction of Corel, he slipped into a spiral of depression and underwent a nihilistic transformation. Just like the last time Barrett saw him, Dyne disappears off of the edge of a cliff, only this time he doesn't make it. Though not particularly different from a lot of suicides, it is perhaps the lack of voice acting and graphical prowess that accentuates the conceptual undertones of this scene.
#2: Killing Zalbaag
For only the second time in this list, the player is forced to kill off the character in question. Ramza has just killed his sociopathic older brother and is searching to find his kidnapped sister when he is faced with his final sibling: His brother, who died trying to protect him. Since then he has been resurrected and is being controlled by a demon to attack Ramza. If killing your own brother weren't enough, Zalbaag is able to speak to Ramza during this encounter, though he says he is without sensation and cannot perceive his surroundings. Eventually he tells of a terrible pain he feels and begs for death. If you have the pleasure of playing the wonderfully translated War of the Lions remake of the game, Zalbaag will give a more colorfully detailed depiction of his mental deterioration. Though there is no body language to speak of in the two-dimensional, sprite-operated world of Ivalice, the conversation between Ramza and his brother more than compensates and paints dark, vivid imagery for the player.
#1: Killing The Boss
After saving the world from a nuclear catastrophe, Snake is forced to kill his mentor in order to more convincingly dissociate The Boss from American influence. By doing this, The Boss will claim responsibility for the Davy Crockett fired by Volgin, protecting the delicate balance that is the Cold War. But when you strip away all of the politics, it is a man killing his mentor and best friend. After everything The Boss goes through, having been used ruthlessly, being made to kill her own lover, and having her son taken from her, her death is no less tragic as a man she loves takes her life. When Snake defeats her, she is wounded and on the ground. The only thing left for him to do is pull the trigger... Only it's the player that has to do it. Perhaps the greatest reason for this being a tragic moment is the incredibly in-depth backstory between the two characters; a stronger connection could not be imagined.
So there you have it, ten of the most depressing moments in video game history. Because of various limitations, there were a myriad of other games and characters I was not able to touch on. Honorable mentions include Alessa Gillespie, Zack Fair, Kratos, Terra, Locke, Misao, and Viola from The Witch's House.
Video games are becoming increasingly more cinematic and story-driven as time goes on. Already we are seeing games more than capable of moving us to tears. Hopefully we can expect more emotionally investing stories from the industry in the future.
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Sleaford And District Llegionaires Aviation Society will be hosting a talk entitled 'The Ejector Seat' delivered by Flt Lt Maurice Taylor
Flt Lt 'Mo' Taylor joined the RAF in 1970 as an apprentice in the weapons trade
Having worked his way up through the ranks to Warrant Officer he was commissioned as a Flight Lieutenant Engineering Officer in the Aeromechanical Systems Branch in 2000.
He is currently employed as a course officer at the Royal Air Force School of Aeronautical Engineering, at RAF Cosford, where he delivers lectures on armament technology and engineering management to officers undergoing their engineering training.
Flt Lt Taylor has had a wide spread of postings, serving 18 years in Germany during the Cold War period as well as operational deployments to the Falklands, postings to Italy, a few times to Iraq and to the former Yugoslavia.
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Fire crews are on the scene of a chemical spill at 1336 East Maumee St. in Adrian on Friday morning.
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23 Sep Keep Your Energy High As the Sun Begins to Dip Low
It's the first day of autumn and the sun has set on another summer. All over the country we're packing up our beach gear and airing out our heavy parkas — or light cardigans if you live a little farther south — for the upcoming winter. At this point, you may be feeling the compulsion to pull-on the sweats and ease into the butt-shaped indentation in the couch left over from last winter. But why? Who sucked out our energy and replaced it with the urge to carbo-load?
Well, your new cranky, lethargic demeanor is likely an effect of the change of the seasons. While, for most, the transition into spring welcomes feelings of excitement and renewal, the shifting to the winter months means just the opposite. Experts believe that these symptoms of depression are likely caused by a lack of sunlight. Depending on your latitude, you can soak up the sun for 16 or more hours each day. However, enduring the colder months gets you significantly fewer hours of sunlight each day.
Studies indicate that about 9 out of every 10 people suffer from dwindling energy levels and negative dispositions during the winter months. Furthermore, about 11 million Americans are susceptible to Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which means they can experience full-on depression symptoms that result from decreased sun exposure.
You might be experiencing symptoms of sunlight deficiency if you are:
- Constantly languid and unmotivated
- Finding it difficult to concentrate
- Packing on the pounds
- Filling your plate with starchy and carbohydrate-rich foods
- Opting for a solo night on the couch over rather than a night on the town with friends
Experts believe that these indicators are, in part, caused chemical reactions in your brain that are triggered by the levels of sunlight. When your optic nerve senses sunlight, your body secretes serotonin — a mood boosting neurotransmitter. At the same time, the production of melatonin, a hormone that lowers body temperature and prompts drowsiness, increases. Simply put, when you're not exposed to enough sunlight, you're likely to feel drained more often.
To keep both your energy and spirits high, try these tips for balancing the effects of sunlight deficiency:
- Pop some Vitamin D Supplements: While the summer sun provides adequate levels of Vitamin D, supplements might be helpful when sunlight is scarce.
- Keep a light box at your desk: for many who experience the depressive symptoms of the dark months, the Mayo Clinic states that Light Therapy, which mimics the sun's rays, helps their blues.
- Keep moving: Exercise will not only boost your mood, but if done outside, can help you get more rays while the sun is up.
- Drop the bag of chips: While the oncoming season might re-ignite your love of high fat, high carb snacks, resist the urge to crunch on unhealthy snacks. Instead, opt for Vitamin D rich foods such as milk, eggs, salmon, cod, and (yum) sardines.
- Regular sleep cycles: Don't snooze your alarm and pull the covers over your eyes just yet. Going to bed and waking up at the same times each day balances your circadian rhythms so you feel more rested. Get out and enjoy as much sunlight as possible.
As we try to force smiles and combat the effects of the winter blues, just remember that the spring is inevitable. Until then, sunbathe near a window in your living room while blasting "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles and let the countdown begin: Only 177 days to go until spring.
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