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MLB.com At Bat launches into spring
Highest-grossing sports app each of the past five years features new look
Now reporting to camp: MLB.com At Bat.
The sports app standard bearer returned on Tuesday for a sixth year and with a new look to millions of mobile devices everywhere, in time for this week's start of Spring Training exhibitions.
The highest-grossing sports app five years running was launched by Major League Baseball Advanced Media for the iPhone, iPad, supported Android smartphones and tablets, Amazon Kindle Fire and BlackBerry 10. A Windows Phone 8 version of At Bat is expected to be available in March. Look for the update if you haven't already.
At Bat, which has been available since it became one of the original 500 apps to launch with the Apple App Store on July 10, 2008, was downloaded a record 10 million times in 2013. That was a 45-percent increase over the previous year.
"Wherever I am, so is my game," said Jason Aldean, the multiplatinum country music star, Braves fan and former high school first baseman, among those who embrace this rite of spring. "Now it's cool, because it's kind of anywhere you go, you've got it right there. You can be walking down the street and pull [your iPhone] out and be watching on your phone. … I can keep up with everything."
The app is a year-round presence for fans, and now comes the fun of using it to follow your favorite players. Here is a primer on the return of a sports superstar:
Mobile experience pioneer
Long hailed for introducing features that matter to fans, At Bat reports for live Cactus and Grapefruit League exhibitions with a full app redesign for iOS 7 on iPhone and iPad, among other new enhancements. You again have access to the core functionality At Bat has pioneered over its first five years, including: personalized team experiences to deliver a linear feed of content for a designated favorite team; searchable libraries of tens of thousands of video-on-demand highlight clips; and customizable original news reporting and fantasy baseball analysis from MLB.com club beat reporters and national columnists.
The forefront of mobile video
Since it became the first app to stream live video in 2009, At Bat has introduced an evolving set of ways for its millions of subscribers to consume live baseball games. Beginning on Opening Day, MLBAM again will provide blackout free live look-ins, in-game highlights delivered to At Bat in less than 60 seconds, the free MLB.TV Game of the Day, live statistical overlays such as pitch tracking and an archive of Classic Games. New video-driven features being built by MLBAM for 2014 will be announced at a later date.
Cross-platform accessibility
For the third year, MLB.TV Premium subscribers again will receive At Bat for free, unlocking the app's premium feature set. MLB.TV Premium is $129.99 a year or $24.99 a month, and signups are underway. Fans also may subscribe to At Bat for the one-time annual fee of $19.99, covering the entire season. iOS users may pay $2.99 a month with the recurring billing offering.
With an At Bat subscription, you get multi-platform live audio access for portability to take home, away and Spanish-language audio feeds to desktop and laptop computers. You also can have full premium feature access across all support iOS and Android smartphones and tablets.
Spring Training features
Tuesday's 2014 launch is just the start, as a further At Bat Opening Day update will be coming in March. You can watch more than 200 Spring Training games live with an MLB.TV Premium subscription (iPhone, iPad, select Android phones & tablets, Kindle Fire, BlackBerry 10).
In addition, all the supported devices will let you: listen live to all available Spring Training radio broadcasts; track league-wide scoreboards and batter-by-batter action for every exhibition; get breaking news, schedules and interactive rosters and players stats for every team; and check full-season schedule calendars.
Rays fan Summerly Brown is a social media specialist at the office of admissions and scholarships at Mississippi State, where she is in grad school, and she said she watches most games live via a Macbook Pro and iPad 2. But now she also is armed with a new iPhone 5c poised to expand the overall capability of following everywhere.
"It depends on where I am by which device I use," Brown said. "I have used the MLB.com At Bat app to keep track of scores on my iPhone 4 in the past. Since I recently upgraded to a 5C, I plan to watch games via my mobile phone a lot this upcoming season. I use these devices to watch the games home after work, during cycling training at the gym with Wi-Fi, and downtime between work and my night classes during the season. … it gives you access everywhere, anytime."


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Poor Abby Progress Report
I've reached a minor milestone with my newest game, Poor Abby Farnsworth, and I wanted to take a moment to write about its development so far. I just ordered my first print version of the game with nicer cards and some rough, but passable graphic design and iconography. I decided to spend the time and money to do this because my testers are sick of index cards. Furthermore, I think the game is far enough along that it'll be useful to send it out to blind testers for feedback.
Simply put, I believe the foundation of the game is strong and I need a great deal of independent testing to verify the rules are well written, the foundation is strong, and the game is full of interesting choices. I hope my testers can verify that a.) the game is fun (or can be) and b.) it's unique. If these are mostly answered in the affirmative, we can begin diving deeply into card balance and strategies.
You can read the game's rules and see a full list of content here.
I believe the game can sufficiently stand on its own at this point. By that, I mean it's not a <insert deckbuilding game> clone. The game is definitely iterative and firmly on the evolutionary side of the spectrum, but I think it can grow to ultimately be a worthy addition to the growing library of deckbuilding games.
Neat Features
- Cards are drawn from a central deck in placed in 4 stacks of 2 cards each. Players can vie for each of these sets by essentially bidding on them with Influence cards (the game's currency), or buy the top card of a set outright for 4 Influence. The bottom card is then trashed and the set is replaced.
- The central deck, referred to as the Trial deck, contains 45 unique cards. I sought to make all 45 cards useful and powerful AND there's no cheap take that gameplay. The work of designing these cards to provide several viable strategies is by far the most challenging thing still before me.
- The game has various entities (Judge, Magistrate, Witch, Witnesses, Jurors) that can be bribed for powerful actions. Bribes are bought with coins and each player only has 6 for the entire game.
- Witnesses are obtained like the other cards from the Trial deck. However, the Witness that is currently summoned provides a new Bribe action.
- Points are primarily earned by playing Argument cards, which require certain conditions be met before they can be scored.
Art Style
I'm a HUGE fan of the work of artist Brett Bean. He was the primary illustrator for Farmageddon and I couldn't be happier with his work. Obviously, I'd love for Poor Abby to find a publisher, which means the art and graphics are out of my hands. But, that doesn't mean I cannot dream about my ideal art style!
I love Brett's human characters. Check these out, especially the colonial gentleman on the top right:
I thought those humans were pretty snazzy, until Brett posted these two characters to his blog:
These characters make me squeal with delight. They are beautiful, hilarious, and overall outstanding. They remind me of the Walt Disney animated Robin Hood...ooo da lalay! Just imagine the jackass (donkey) judge, the fox prosecution attorney, the defense attorney as a pig, all Jurors are sheep...all with wigs, of course!
I'm drawn to humor, imaginative worlds, and overall, silliness. In my ideal world, Brett would be the one to make that happen.
Interesting and Bad Ideas from Previous Iterations
While preparing to write this post, I thought about all the interesting and bad ideas I've had throughout the course of Poor Abby's development. Some of the neat ideas listed above may very well find themselves on this list before it's all said and done!
- Originally, players rolled dice to determine their purchasing power. I tried to counter the randomness by making it such that Influence could augment dice rolls. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the tuning right and the dice were clunky. Note to Designers: Taking a genre and swapping out components is not an innovation. (As a result of removing the dice, I thought to remove cost from cards entirely and players must bid to fight for them based on their perceived value. I think this has been great for streamlining the game AND differentiates it from other deckbuilding games.)
- At some point, certain Jurors, when controlled, would provide a special benefit. It was implemented in a clunky way, but I believe was the forefather to the current Bribery feature that I really enjoy. I tried a bad idea and it evolved into a good one!
- All cards in the Trial deck used to belong to one type of evidence: Spiritual, Physical, and Hearsay. Cards within an Evidence type tended to lean towards a particular strategy, but they also dictated which Jurors could be affected. The idea was somewhat neat and I may bring back elements of it, but ultimately it added an insignificant layer to the game that just added unwarranted complexity.
- During one test, Jurors all had abilities that could augment the state of the Jurors adjacent to them in one way or another. This would have been neat if players controlled Jurors in a more permanent fashion. But, as the game is tuned currently, the feature was entirely ignored. And again, it added undue complexity.
- The game used to feature Objection cards, which were randomly drawn global modifiers. I couldn't get them to fit into the game well, which is typically a sign the feature needs to be removed. The idea appeals to me, still, so I'll keep it on the back burner.


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Here We Go Magic's latest effort – a collection of sentimentally ambiguous cyclical grooves – somewhat wrong-foots its listener with its 60-second 'Intro.' Listening to the brief clip of kitchenware banging tribal faffery; all pots and pans and ceremonious yelping, you start to worry that the New York sextet may have lost all grounding in the writing and recording of their third album. They haven't.
Faith is immediately restored in the Nigel Godrich-produced A Different Ship almost immediately: 'Hard To Be Close,' something of a luau for a rainy day, pitches inner-city grooves against a Polynesian lull, and the refreshing atmosphere that this creates is immediately engrossing. It's a tone that returns on moody daydream 'Over the Ocean,' and after the dense climax of the title track, we're allowed to drift off once more with the submerged, nautical three-minute drone that closes out the record. This juxtaposition of contrasting moods permeates a large part of the record – Here We Go Magic interlock conflicting styles with flair and sophistication.
Fitting, then, that songs like 'Make Up Your Mind' and 'Alone But Moving' should so prominently feature their title in a lyrical context. A Different Ship feels as if it's built, both musically and lyrically, on a friction that arises from insecurity and contradiction, and it's on this that the record thrives. The fragmented lyrics on 'Make Up Your Mind' drive these tensions home: "give me a minute / need to look it over … what if it's bad?" – all before a refrain of the title phrase over skittish guitar rhythms. (I feel obliged to mention the the Eighties Spandau Ballet wet-towel-to-the-face synth that features prominently in the chorus. Personally it evokes either a wince or a grin depending on the weather, but I'm sure you can make up your own minds). Understandably then, 'I Believe in Action' strikes as somewhat disingenuous, but with "I believe in action / 'cause nobody wants to be left alone" comprising the majority of the lyrical content, it's intentions and implications aren't entirely clear regardless.
Even after repeated listens, lead single 'How Do I Know' remains the black sheep of the collection – the jangly, indie-pop rhythm guitar seems a million miles out of place. Eventually, this guitar is submerged by a myriad of other looped motives; the sounds of hand-claps, of those psychedelic synths, of endearing whoo-whoos, but it feels alien nevertheless. It is, by far and away, the funkiest and most simply fun tune of the bunch. Still, despite the new assuredness of the music, the lyrical themes remain steadfast: "how do I know / if I love you? … how do I know / if I know you?"
The songs on A Different Ship are like Russian dolls – continually shedding one layer of their groove to reveal a different version of the same thing. And while it's a record that often leans heavily on its intricate polyrhythms, it is still, for all intents and purposes, a pop record (note the band's upcoming support slots with avant-garde maestros Coldplay). At times full of nervous vigour, at others letting itself fall blindly backwards into honeyed daydream, A Different Ship has a life and character all of its own.
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I had such a fun filled day when I recently met up with Darryl (Darrylw4) and Drei (Firefly03) in Roseville, Michigan. Not only was I going to be able to interview these two wonderful podcast hosts for my
GeoSnippits show but they were going to interview me for their Cache-A-Maniacs podcast.
We had a great time setting up the video and sound for both shows which also allowed us to get to know each other better as well. Once the two interviews were complete we also were invited to the Geocaching Roseville Event where a lot of caching goodness, camaraderie and great food ensued.
I look forward to coming back to Michigan soon to do some serious geocaching with Darryl and Drei in the not too distant future.
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National Semiconductor and ARM Jointly Develop Power Efficient Systems for Handheld Devices
New Technologies Will Quadruple Battery Life for Portable Electronics
Santa Clara, Calif. AND Cambridge, UK – Nov. 11, 2002 – National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:NSM) and ARM, [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], today announced a strategic business relationship to jointly develop and market power efficient systems that will increase the battery life of handheld portable devices, in several stages from 25 percent to up to 400 percent.
This relationship is focused on developing an advanced technology that enables ARM Powered® system-on-chip (SoC) devices to dynamically adjust performance and power consumption to maximize energy conservation in portable devices. Proof-of-concept demonstrations of National's PowerWise™ technology and ARM's Intelligent Energy Manager™ technology will be on display at National's booth at electronica 2002 (November 12-15, New Munich Trade Fair Center, Hall A4, Booth A4.506).
Mobile Phone Users Want Longer Battery Life
"Consumers are demanding better performance and longer battery life from handheld devices," said Peter Henry, vice president for portable power products at National. "Every time you add a new capability such as multimedia systems or digital photography, it takes more power and reduces the lifetime of your battery. The only way to give consumers what they want --- more features and longer battery life --- is to improve the management of power consumption in portable devices. That is what National and ARM want to accomplish."
Joint Solution Benefits OEMs and Consumers
In current practice, processor vendors and power management IC manufacturers develop their technologies separately. Despite many improvements, power efficiencies are reaching levels where only minimal gains can be achieved through conventional approaches. National and ARM intend to change this paradigm by developing a holistic system-level approach that intelligently manages performance and power consumption within an embedded system. The first phase of products will increase the efficiency of the digital baseband by 25 to 75 percent. This collaboration, benefiting handset manufacturers and consumers, is the first of its kind to address system-level power management for an expanding and demanding portable market.
This program leverages ARM's penetration into the mobile phone market of more than 70 percent, and National Semconductor's expertise in analog and power management. The overall handset market, including mobile phones, smartphones and handheld devices, is expected to grow to more than 525 million devices by 2006, an increase of 31 percent from 2002, according to research firm In-Stat/MDR.
"Innovative energy conservation for mobile and handheld applications is essential for the development and proliferation of advanced multi-media capable devices," said Mike Muller, chief technology officer of ARM. "By combining National's industry-leading PowerWise technology with ARM's low power CPU cores and Intelligent Energy Manager technology, we can enable OEMs to deliver enhanced functionality to end users in ultra compact and light weight form factors."
"Because of its leadership in developing low-power cores and software, ARM is the ideal partner to launch National's new PowerWise technology in the handheld market, where reliance on batteries makes energy conservation increasingly important," said Suneil V. Parulekar, senior vice president and general manager of National Semiconductor's Analog Products Group. "In addition to sharing technology, ARM and National also have highly compatible business and engineering objectives to serve our customers in their current voice-centric and future multimedia-rich designs."
Radical New Technology Uses Synthesizable Core
National's PowerWise technology is an umbrella solution that will be developed in several phases, with the first phase targeting embedded SoC devices in mobile phones. The heart of the solution is a synthesizable AMBA® methodology–compliant macrocell that works together with ARM Powered processors. It communicates with external PowerWise compliant power management chips using a PowerWise interface to reduce the system power supply to the absolute minimum necessary to meet the required level of performance.
ARM's Intelligent Energy Manager solution implements advanced algorithms to optimally balance processor workload and energy consumption, while maximizing system responsiveness to meet end-user performance expectations. The Intelligent Energy Manager technology works with the operating system and applications running on the mobile phone to dynamically adjust the required CPU performance level through a standard programmer's model. National's PowerWise on-chip macrocell then adaptively sets the minimum required power supply delivered by the external compliant power management chip.
New Solution Creates an Open Standard
National and ARM will work jointly with lead Partners and third parties to standardize the software programmer's model and the PowerWise high-speed, low-power interface between the SoC device and the external power management chip. Long sought by the market, these kinds of open standards will ensure supply-chain flexibility for manufacturers of personal electronic devices.
Products Available in 2003
National and ARM are also collaborating with other Partners to develop compatible OS support, design tools, and other necessary technologies. The joint solution will sample to key customers in the second quarter of 2003. Customers will be able to license the PowerWise synthesizable core directly from ARM and the external power supply chips from National. For additional information, visit powerwise.national.com or http://www.arm.com/armtech/PowerWise
About National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor is the premier analog company driving the information age. Combining real-world analog and state-of-the-art digital technology, the company is focused on the fast growing markets for wireless handsets; information appliances; information infrastructure; and display, imaging and human interface technologies. With headquarters in Santa Clara, California, National reported sales of $1.5 billion for fiscal year 2002 and employs about 10,000 people worldwide. Additional company and product information is available on the World Wide Web at www.national.com.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-on-chip (SoC) designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com.
National Semiconductor is a registered trademark and PowerWise is a trademark of National Semiconductor Corporation. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
ARM, ARM Powered and AMBA are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. Intelligent Power Manager is a trademark of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM China.
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This three-days course is focused on providing attendees with an overview of the methods required for assessment of the risks and uncertainties within a contemporary prospect evaluation. Participants will learn the principles and concepts that should be applied when assessing both simple and complex prospects.
Delivered in a workshop style, the course combines lectures on the principles of stochastic volume calculation, pre-assessment data collection and analysis; manual volume calculations exercises and exercises using the GeoX software suite to illustrate the analytical methods used to assess the risks and uncertainties of an exploration prospect. In the last session of the course the participants will use a case study to run their own GeoX prospect assessment.
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All geologists and geophysicists that map and generate prospects and are involved in prospect assessment.
G&G staff that are involved in Peer reviews, QC, technical advice and exploration decision making.
Managers involved in exploration decisions, prospect ranking and exploration portfolio decisions.
Reservoir engineers/economists working with exploration value assessment and need to understand the probabilistic subsurface model in GeoX
Participants should have a background in geosciences and preferably have some exposure to petroleum exploration and prospect evaluation concepts.


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Day's Worst: Sen. Lindsey Graham says he's OK with government reading our mail
While many politicians have called for the government to rein in its spying on Americans' internet and phone activities, others have defended the practices as necessary to protect our safety.
And then there's Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who says he'd be fine with the government censoring the mail.
"In World War II, the mentality of the public was that our whole way of life was at risk, we're all in," Graham told reporters. "We censored the mail. When you wrote a letter overseas, it got censored. When a letter was written back from the battlefield to home, they looked at what was in the letter to make sure they were not tipping off the enemy.
"If I thought censoring the mail was necessary, I would suggest it, but I don't think it is."


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Current & Forthcoming
Sigg Prize 2019 exhibition
07.12.2019 to 17.05.2020, M+ Pavilion, Art Park
Six shortlisted artists selected by an international jury of the inaugural Sigg Prize, present a range of mediums, including sculpture, site-specific installation, video and performance. The work featured in this exhibition address pressing questions that resonate across contexts
Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe: Ringing the Palace Bell
26.08.2020, Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre
Based on a classic tale, this award-winning production presents a philosophical portrayal of an emperor facing the end of his rule. A rare Kunqu tale of war with Plum Blossom Award winner Li An taking the lead as Emperor Chongzhen
Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe: The Story of the Jade Hairpin
28.08.2020, Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre
A tale of young love, this popular Kunqu romance – often seen as a measure of the skills of the lead male and female actors – sees a young scholar fall hopelessly for a pretty nun. Forced to part, they tearfully pledge to honour their love
Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe: The Outburst of a Shrew
29.08.2020, Grand Theatre, Xiqu Centre
This much-loved comic tale of marital strife features the award-winning team of Yu Bin as the domineering wife and Li An as the henpecked husband forced to recognise the error of his wandering ways and the importance of submitting to a woman's demands
Screening: "Your Face" – Tsai Ming-liang
09.09.2020 to 10.09.2020, The Room, Freespace
Part documentary, part fiction, Tsai Ming-liang's award-winning experimental film presents a series of close-up portraits of faces touched by time. Painted with light, love and gentle reflection, the subjects are slowly revealed through observation, silences and speech. Featuring original soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Ryuichi Sakamoto feat. Shiro Takatani: dis·play
11.09.2020 to 12.09.2020, The Box, Freespace
Ryuichi Sakamoto returns to Hong Kong for the first time in more than a decade with his new performance dis·play, combining music from his 2017 album async and visual compositions from long-time collaborator Shiro Takatani
"The Detective House of Agatha Christie" Series: Verdict
13.11.2020 to 22.11.2020, The Box, Freespace
"The Detective House of Agatha Christie" Series: Verdict is presented by Theatre Space Foundation Limited on 13-22 November 2020


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Checking in on… the Sun BeltPosted by jstevrtc on January 23rd, 2010
Laura Hathaway of the Clarion is the RTC correspondent for the Sun Belt Conference.
Current Standings
East Division (conf/overall/streak):
- Western Kentucky (4-2/11-6/L1)
- Florida Atlantic (5-3/9-10/W2)
- South Alabama (4-3/12-7/W1)
- Troy (4-3/9-9/L2)
- Middle Tennessee (4-3/9-10/W1)
- Florida International (3-6/6-16/L2)
West Division (conf/overall/streak):
- Arkansas State (6-1/11-7/W4)
- Denver (5-3/12-7/L2)
- North Texas (4-4/11-7/L1)
- Louisiana-Lafayette (3-3/6-11/L1)
- Louisiana-Monroe (3-5/8-11/W2)
- New Orleans (2-5/7-11/W1)
- Arkansas-Little Rock (1-7/5-14/L1)
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Western Kentucky. Player of the Week goes to Western Kentucky's star player Steffphon Pettigrew. Pettigrew led WKU in two of their most recent victories, averaging 18.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game. He was 11 for 16 from the field in the Hilltoppers' win against Florida Atlantic last week. This junior is the second WKU player to be honored as Player of the Week. A.J. Slaughter has received the award twice already this season. Slaughter also has moved up on the list of WKU all-time scoring leaders. He has scored 1,219 points as of Jan. 9 and is 24th on the list. A statistic recently released shows that Western Kentucky is holding opponents to an average of 61.9 PPG in the friendly confines of Diddle Arena.
Florida Atlantic. I'm not buying it that Florida Atlantic will remain second in the East Division standings. At halftime on Thursday night, the Owls were losing to the worst team in the conference, Arkansas-Little Rock, and they barely survived, coming back to win by only three. However, there is some positive Owls news: if Greg Gantt hits 14 more three-pointers he will break the team's freshman record, and Raymond Taylor is most likely going to break the freshman and overall school records for assists in a season. Taylor is averaging 6.4 APG. Brett Royster is ranked 18th in the NCAA in blocks with an average of 2.9 BPG.
South Alabama. The Jaguars snagged a big win against Troy on Saturday, winning a nail biter, 69-67. Head coach Ronnie Arrow has become South Alabama's all-time win leader with 172. Freshman Martino Brock recorded his third double-double this season, and in doing so got a career-high 12 rebounds. Junior Gary Redus continues to miss games because of his right leg injury.
Troy. Senior Yamene Coleman had a fine week last week, recording his fifth double-double and scoring 20 points against South Alabama. Twenty points is the most Coleman has ever scored against a Division I opponent. Point guard Michael Volger is 17 assists away from tying the school's all-time leader in dime-dishing. Volger is also 21st in the NCAA in assists with 5.6 APG. Brandon Hazzard continues to lead the SBC in scoring at 18.3. Troy avoided a three-game losing streak by beating Western Kentucky on Thursday night, 77-69.
Middle Tennessee. This team had 46 rebounds in one game against Florida Atlantic last week. That is a season high for the Blue Raiders. Senior Montarrio Haddock had his fourth 20-point game after a disappointing loss to Florida International last week. If Middle Tennessee lets games like that one slip through the cracks, the post season isn't looking likely for them. A high note for the Blue Raiders was Desmond Yates' 35 points against FAU. An interesting stat about Middle Tennessee is that as of Jan. 7, they are 23rd in the NCAA for free-throw percentage at 74.8% (BYU leads this category at 78.9%).
Florida International. The Golden Panthers won their third conference game of the season last week, but that might end up as one of their last wins of the season. They do have a shot in Saturday night's game against Arkansas-Little Rock, which should be a relatively easy home win.
Arkansas State. The Red Wolves are pretty hot right now. They are definitely the team to beat in the West Division. That win against North Texas was big in more ways than one. Arkansas State scored its highest point total in conference play with 83 points. Freshman Brandon Reed led ASU against the Mean Green, putting up 18. Three other players on the Red Wolves scored in the double digits that game. Against South Alabama later that week, freshman Brandon Peterson swatted his 35th block of the season. Arkansas State is ranked 14th in the NCAA in three-point field goal defense.
Denver. The Pioneers are second in the NCAA in field goal percentage at 51.9%. and 19th in three-point field goal percentage at 40.5%. Now, the bad news. Denver lost their weekend games in Louisiana to ULM and ULL. They just can't cut it on the road. If Denver can beat South Alabama this Saturday they will extend their 11-game home win streak. Keep an eye on freshman Chase Hallam who had a career-high four three-pointers against ULM. Hallam leads DU by making 47.8% of his three-pointers.
North Texas. Tristan Thompson did the most in helping the Mean Green get by Troy last week with his 21 points. Senior Eric Tramiel is back in the line-up after suffering a wrist injury and missing four games. During the game against Troy, Tramiel scored 11 points, then added 12 against Arkansas State. Fun fact: North Texas has won at least one game in 11 of the SBC's 13 venues since the 2006-07 season.
Louisiana-Lafayette. Well, my predictions from two weeks ago about Louisiana-Lafayette losing three of their next five games may be proven wrong. If the Ragin' Cajuns win either of their next two games, I'll have to admit that I was way off about this team. And moving up isn't impossible for the Cajuns. They have maintained that middle spot in the West Division standings all season, while the three teams above them flip-flop around.
Louisiana-Monroe. The Warhawks had a surprising victory over South Alabama last Thursday, 61-58. And then used that momentum for another surprising victory over Denver on Saturday, 64-53. ULM only missed four free throws against Denver, shooting 26-30. Senior guard Tony Hooper has 198 career-steals, putting him four away from the school record. Brian Spencer holds the record at 202, from 1985-88.
New Orleans. Big news for UNO player Carl Blair, he is second in the NCAA for triple-doubles…with a total of one. Another UNO player with some noteworthy stats is Billy Humphrey who is 33rd in the NCAA in FT% at 88.3%. However, Humphrey was sidelined last week due to a knee injury. The Privateers managed to win without him, defeating UALR, 67-66, in overtime. If they hadn't been playing the worst team in the conference that might not have been the outcome without Humphrey. UNO lost their 13th straight game in the Louisiana-Lafayette Cajundome on Thursday night.
Arkansas-Little Rock. The Trojans finally won a conference game. Not saying much considering they beat Louisiana-Lafayette who also has a losing record. They unfortunately regained their usual form against FAU, dropping a close one, 77-74, to make it nine losses out of ten games.
Upcoming games
Sat., Jan 23 Middle Tennessee @ WKU 12 p.m.
Sat., Jan 23 South Alabama @ Denver 5 p.m.
Sat., Jan 23 Arkansas State @ Florida Atlantic 6 p.m.
Sat., Jan 23 Troy @ Louisiana-Lafayette 7:15 p.m.
Mon., Jan 25 WKU @ Southern Illinois 7:05 p.m.
Thurs., Jan 28 Denver @ UALR 7 p.m.
Thurs., Jan 28 North Texas @ WKU 7 p.m.
Sat., Jan 30 New Orleans @ WKU 3 p.m.
Sat., Jan 30 North Texas @ Middle Tennessee 7 p.m.
Sat., Jan 30 Denver @ Arkansas State 7:05 p.m.


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Amid all the recent research on — and criticism of — positive thinking, one question hasn't received much attention: does optimism actually make people healthier, or is it the other way around?
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A recent study published in the journal Circulation showed that a sunnier outlook on life is associated with a lower risk of heart disease and mortality. The research, which tracked more than 97,000 women older than 50 for eight years, found that optimists were 9 percent less likely to develop heart disease and 14 percent less likely to die from any cause than their pessimistic counterparts. Those with a high degree of "cynical hostility" were 16 percent more likely than all others to die during that same period.
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Klodas says "there are many positives to being more positive," and it's true that an optimistic outlook can sometimes make a bad situation seem better, or provide the necessary confidence to help someone out of a rut. But Klodas's chicken-or-egg caveat makes it clear that we are far from being able to prescribe positive thinking as any sort of cure-all. This is no reason people shouldn't be optimistic if they want to, and if they can. But it is evidence that maybe we shouldn't saddle sick people with the added pressure to be sunny.
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Here are some photos from our trip last week during Emma's spring break. Hope you are getting out and doing some spring exploring. It is one of my favorite times of year - with the trees still bare everything feels fresh and clean... withe little pokes of daffodils peaking through.
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SPRINGFIELD -- Country music's
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Singer and songwriter Toby Keith, presented by Ford F-Series, will
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From his first No. 1 single, "Should've Been a Cowboy," to his
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Keith's albums have sold more than 37 million copies, ranking him
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Artists of the Decade, and his tours have drawn more than a million
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2002 as well, a month after his signature song, the patriotic anthem
"Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue," reached No. 1 on the Billboard
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A famous portrait of Jack Nicholson adorns a fake ID with the name Joao Pedro dos Santos, a fake ID used by Brazilian Ricardo Sergio Freire de Barros to open a fraudulent bank account. Needless to say, the man was caught by police.
Ricardo Sergio Freire de Barros, a 41-year-old man from Brazil, was arrested after he presented a fake ID bearing a photo of Jack Nicholson, the Oscar-winning actor, while trying to open a bank account in the Brazilian city of Recife.
The Nicholson photo that Barros selected couldn't have been more obvious. It's a famous portrait taken by renowned celeb photographer Martin Schoeller which has been published in several magazines, and exhibited in museums worldwide.
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Germano-Phobia in the Russian Empire and in the
Soviet Union
Germanophobie im Russischen Reich und in der Sowietunion
Krieger, Dr. Viktor. "Germano-Phobia in the Russian Empire and in the Soviet Union." Volk auf dem Weg, November 2006, 17-19.
Translation from the original German-language text to American
English by
Alex Herzog, Boulder, Colorado
NOTE: This is a continuation of a series of installments of this article, continued from the October 2006 issue of Volk auf dem Weg, page. 13-14.
As is well known, the Soviet side experienced catastrophic results during the initial months of the war [with Germany]. During the course of the first two months [1941], the Wehrmacht pushed as far as Kiev and the Dniepr River, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, including soldiers and officers. By the end of August, 1941, one and a half million Red Army personnel either became prisoners of war or, swayed by German propaganda, switched over to the German side. Additionally, among the populace in the newly occupied areas there were obvious instances of collaboration with the enemy.
A typical anti-German poster by the painter Mariya Nestrova (1897 - 1965) from the year 1942: "Papa, kill the German."
Following the failure of initial attempts to influence the approaching enemy with class-struggle slogans proclaiming international solidarity with the workers and farmers, official propaganda quickly crossed the line of unrestrained tirades of hate and cruelty. The words "German" and "Fascist" thereby increasingly took on symbolism -- a fact that was to have fatal consequences for German-Russians. In the face of this reversal stood the Autonomous Soviet Social republic of Volga-Germans, even with its formal, constitutional rights, with its own representatives in the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and the Russian Federation, and with its own people working within State and Party apparatuses. But for an all-out propaganda war, characterizing Germans as "two-legged animals," "people eaters," or "rabid dogs," the existence of a recognized minority with documented autonomous rights certainly represented an important impediment.
Just as during World War I, numerous system-conforming intellectuals and culture-makers voluntarily joined in the service of a patriotic, i.e., primarily strong Germano-phobic, mobilization effort. The loyal "court poet," Alexey Tolstoy, laid out the programmed attitude in a Pravda article of July 28, 1941, namely, that the main mission of the Soviet mass media would now be the fomenting of hatred toward the attacking enemy. Additionally, he was prominently joined in this campaign by a whole series of talented literati such as Leonid Leonov, Michail Solokov, Konstantin Simonov, and others. Poems such as Simonov's "Kill him" and Sukorov's "I hate" were used in serving to lift the fighting spirit of the troops and the staying power of the populace. Anyone expressing even the slightest doubt in the credibility of publicized reports and descriptions of "German acts of cruelty" was immediately confronted with the secret police. This was experienced, for example, by the well-known antifascist director and theater manager Bernhard Reich -- he had resided in the Soviet Union since 1925 -- who in conversations and stage productions characterized German soldiers as "thinking people," not only as "stupid, thieving and animalistic creatures." These views went counter to propaganda guidelines, and they became one of the components of legal accusations against him, and on August 16, 1943 he was sentenced to several years' imprisonment in a penal camp.
The task given by Stalin to the propagandists did not just stick to slogans such as "Kill the Enemy!" or "Death to the Fascists," but specifically climaxed in "Kill the Germans!" The question of who issued this extreme, hate-filled sloganeering most directly is actually of secondary importance. But the sheer depth to which the culture-makers descended can be deduced from such despicable statements as: "The war has developed in us not only hatred, but contempt, for the Germans ... they are not human, but Fritze." The well-known author Perez Markisch, in his own version of intellectual blindness, suggested that a Jewish republic be established to replace the liquidated Volga-German one -- an act that he considered as one of "greatest historical justice." In the visual arena, one should mention especially the poster by the painter Maria Nersterova, "Papa, kill the German," of which hundreds of thousands of copies were posted all over the country.
An article dealing with Volga-German farmer: "Topple Fascism ..." in the Soviet-published propaganda rag "Die Wahrheit [The Truth]" and its July 17, 1941 issue, intended for Wehrmacht soldiers.
Germano-phobic Propaganda and the German Minority
With the exception of newspapers in the former Volga-German Republic and the difficult to access "News of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR," the August Decree remained totally without mention in Soviet mass media, in printed legal records, or in Soviet scientific literature -- during the war and after it. The regime could not admit to a widely available announcement that a people that had for decades had been exposed to attempts at ideological influence suddenly consisted "in totality" of enemies of the Soviet system. Still, numerous party and Soviet functionaries within central officialdom and even at the deportation sites did somehow learn of the official "reason" for the dissolution of the Volga-Republic
It was via word of mouth propaganda that the broad public learned of the "political" peril their [German] neighbors presented. There were frequent occurrences of rather grotesque situations. For example, when deportees arrived at Siberian or Kazakh villages, locals would rip the deportees' head coverings off in order to see whether they might hide horns under their hats. That had been one result from dehumanizing and caricature-like descriptions of Germans in newspapers, on posters, or in products such as the propaganda film "Alexander Nevski." One did not shrink from the seemingly racist generalization and hints, like those on posters with the heading "Young Fritz," that all Germans from childhood on were sadistic, without culture, and given to drink and to violence. This particular poster consisted of six pictures, each accompanied by two-liners: The supplier of the texts was the well-known poet and translator Samuil Marshak; and it was signed by party-loyal caricaturists under the single pseudonym of Kukryniksy (Vasil Kupriyanov, Porfiri Krylov, Nikolay Sokolov.)
The formerly respected image of the "inland" German would
soon be "scientifically" undermined. The Central Archival
Administration of the NKVD in 1942 issued a collection of sources
for German espionage during Tsarist Russia. This documentation was
intended to support the contention that Russian citizens of German
descent, i.e., farmers, specialists of all kinds, entrepreneurs,
high-ranking officials and officers, had participated en masse in
of agents for the benefit of Germany. These kinds of assertions appeared several times in the preface of the report, which would soon be published as its own document with repeated editions. The documentation -- clearly without any basis of critical research -- would serve as the basis for the composition of further writings concerning secret German service activities in Russia during the WW I and WW II.
In addition to the Checkists, numerous literati "earned"
great "achievements" in stirring up resentment against
their German fellow citizens. In early 1943, the future literary
historian Alexander Dementyev authored the book "The Reactionary
Role of Germans in Russian History" (published in Leningrad
with an initial printing of 10,000 copies even while the city was
still under
siege!). A year later a carefully selected collection appeared under his name, and it dealt with the possibly most negative description of "native" Germans among the works of classical Russian literature, accompanied by disparaging commentary. Rabble-rousing pamphlets, composed along the model of anti-Semitic writings, were filled with prejudice, suspicion, and libel of every imaginable sort.
By August of 1941 the popular author Pavel Bashov began to publish writings entitled "Traditions Concerning Germans" (scazy o nemcach) accompanied by nasty caricatures and which first appeared in some newspapers, but later became brochures and books printed in massive numbers. In them he made use of the most primitive of cliches and common stereotypes to emphasize the incredibly advanced spiritual and moral superiority of Russian masters and workers over German administrators, miners and specialists, who in great numbers had been active since the 18th century in the iron works in the Urals. A majority of these anti-German stories enjoyed great popularity within the USSR and, later on, in Russia.
Untold numbers of articles appeared, their distorted and caricature-like images delivered via leaflets and newspapers, books and periodicals, radio programs and films, in which the primary emphasis was to foment aggressively a hatred toward Germans (and not just the enemy or the Fascists), noticeably positioned relationships between other nationalists and German-Russians. Of course, the Soviet officials were not about to make any distinction between them [the German-Russians] and the aggressor nation. Likewise, in the forced-labor camps, which were effectively shielded from the outside world, local leading Communists of the administration and the secret police would stir up their free employees and the surrounding Russian population against the imprisoned laborers.
A poster by the painter Leonid Golovanov (1904 - 1980) from the year 1943: "Let us keep Soviet children safe from the Germans!"
During the further course of the war, antipathy and embitterment toward Germany, German culture and the German language, along with the steadily rising number of human and material casualties, also increased steadily. Announcements by the NKVD from the exile sites demonstrated a desperate situation for the German-Russians, with numerous deaths due to malnourishment and illness, intentional denial of the allotted food rations, insults from village residents and local leaders, and denial of medicines. For example, a May, 1943 report by regional administrative officials of the Ministry of the Interior of the Krasnoyarsk area reads as follows:
" ... In the Sharypovo rayon, Kimsarenko, the president of the kolchos 'Proletarian Labor,' in talking about taking care of the special resettlees, declared: 'All Germans must die a rotten death; I would not give them any bread at all [...]' A female kolchos farmer, Tchurilova told the German woman Schmidt: 'Why have they brought you to our rayon? It would be better if they had beaten you to death where you came from. You are traitors of the homeland, and you should be left to die of hunger and be sent out into the cold so that you Fascists might get to really feel it.' [...]
"Of 7,396 children, only 2,403 are attending school. This
can be explained by the fact that the majority of children lack
shoes and warm clothing, as well as school supplies. Children twelve
years or older do not attend school because they work in farm operations
or must work for someone else. [...] In the schools of this rayon,
German children are downright terrorized and
insulted as 'fascists.' For that reason they stop going to school.
However, even in the face of such grave violations of existing Soviet laws, the responsible party and Soviet officials did not deem it necessary to take any countermeasures. In fact, statements of dissatisfaction with living and residential conditions in the new locales, and complaints about nationalist discrimination were not rarely considered and acted against as anit-Soviet agitation and propaganda, debased as libel of measures by the party and government, and prosecuted. Many contemporary witnesses were already plagued by omens of a dire and dark future. "If the Soviet powers are to continue to exist, we shall have no normal life. Children of fallen soldiers will point an accusing finger at our children and say: 'it is because of you that our own fathers have fallen.' What kind of life is that?"
Careful people recognized early on the disastrous connection between unbridled hatred of everything German and a surging enmity toward everything foreign. Well-known literary historian Sergei Bondi stated as early as June, 1943: "I regret in the deepest sense the antidemocratic shift one must observe on a daily basis. Consider our nationalistic chauvinism. How has it been evoked? Most particularly through the atmosphere within the army that is characterized as anti-Semitic, anti-German, and aiemd at all national minorities."
The disastrous ideological development following the victory over
Germany, with its Greater- Russia chauvinism and its anit-Western
slogans, its struggle against the so-called "rootless Cosmopolitans"
and against "Creepers from the West" is hardly conceivable
without its preceding history and cliches that were developed and
"tested" between 1941 and 1945. Even the corresponding
caricatures were similar to the point of being indistinguishable.
It is a
bitter irony of history that some protagonists of the anti-German patriotic mobilization effort would eventually themselves become the victims of Stalinist anti-Semitic policies.
Overt and covert Germano-phobia, a substantial constituent component of interior and foreign policy, proved for the Kremlin leadership to be an indispensable means for stabilization of Soviet postwar society. The massive discrimination toward the German minority, which lasted until at least the end of the 1980s, can essentially be traced back to those policies.
Our appreciation is extended to Alex Herzog for translation
of this article.


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- For the Pastry
- 175g butter
- 300g plain flour
- For the Filling
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 1 tsp ground tumeric
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp cayenne pepper
- 250g sweet potato, peeled and cut into 1.5cm cubes
- 1 tbsp tomato purée
- 300g tomatoes, roughly chopped
- ½ x 28g pack fresh coriander, chopped
- 4-6 tbsp ricotta
- 1 medium Waitrose British Blacktail Free Range Egg, lightly beaten
- 2 tsp Bart Nigella Seeds (black onion seeds)
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2. To make the filling, heat the olive oil in a large saucepan and cook the onion for about 5-8 minutes until really softened. Add the garlic and cook for a further minute. Stir in the spices, combine well then tip in the sweet potato.
3. Add the tomato purée and cook for 1 minute before adding the chopped tomatoes and about 150ml water. Bring to a gentle simmer and cook for about 15 minutes, until the sauce is thickened and the sweet potato is softened but still holding its shape. Set aside to cool.
4. When ready to make the pasties, roll out half of the pastry (it's easier to handle if you do it half at a time). Using a saucer, cut out a disc measuring 18cm in diameter. Repeat with the remaining pastry until you have 6 discs.
5. Stir the coriander into the sweet potato mixture. Spoon a heaped tablespoon of the mixture onto one side of each pastry disc and top with a spoonful of the ricotta. Brush the edges of the pastry with a little beaten egg then fold over to make a half moon shape. Seal the edges either with a fork or by pinching the pastry with your finger and thumb. Place on a baking tray lined with baking parchment.
6. Brush the top of each pasty with a little more beaten egg and sprinkle with nigella seeds. Bake for 20 minutes until golden and crispy. Delicious served with a simple mixed leaf salad and French dressing.
Recipe courtesy of Waitrose


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