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Thank you for all of the support this year. I have enjoyed sharing my travels, adventures, photos and thoughts with all you and look forward to another great year as the Joyful Shoehorn continues to grow.
Thanks to your views, comments & likes here are my top posts of 2011:
1. The Final Leap – Jumping Covered Bridges
The big hurrah-hurrah and last two freeze-frame jumping photos to finish off my almost two-year long journey to visit each of the Covered Bridges of Lane County.
2. How to Survive Winter in the Pacific Northwest
11 Tips to get over the rain, wind and constant gray-ish gloom of the Pacific Northwest.
3. Buick Tweet House Road Trip: King Estate
The first leg of my road trip to Napa with the Buick Tweet House crew for the Napa Valley Film Festival. Sipping delicious wine and savoring fantastic food, the first stop of the trip featured Oregon's largest winery, King Estate.
Sampling wine nearly twice my age at the Buick Tweet House in Napa. From a rich, earthy 1974 Cabernet Sauvignon to a delicate yet sweet 1976 Riesling, this is one tasting experience I will never forget – no matter my age.
One of my many mishaps in the kitchen. (It makes me smile that this is one of my top posts of year – lol)
A review of my favorite photos from 2011 since I started my blog in April.
Hiking adventure in Oregon to visit three waterfalls just outside the small town of Dorena. Just remember to fill that gas tank before exploring back country roads!
8. Jumping Covered Bridges – McKenzie River
Ventured deep into the McKenzie River valley to jump at two covered bridges as part of my Covered Bridges of Lane County tour.
9. Elijah Bristow State Park: The Ugly Step Child
This muddy and barren State Part just outside of Eugene may not be the pretty site for recreation, but I can find an adventure under any boring rock.
Hey, sometimes it not that bad being alone!
Also here are my top photo posts based on views for 2011:
- Eugene Christmas Lights
- Best Photos of 2011
- Gluten Free Banana Blueberry Muffins
- Over the River and through the Fog
- Voluntourism in Cape Town
- A Beautiful View Even When Lost
- Cold Feet in Eugene
- I'm an Aunt!
- Planking at the Oregon State Capitol
- Oregon Winter Trees
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For this to work, the doll has to be printed on card-stock or been glued to some. It won't work if the doll is just made of flimsy paper. I used Florence to demonstrate this method, but it will work with any of the paper dolls that have bases.
Sorry about the image quality. I only have an iphone for picture taking and I know it's not ideal.
Cut out the paper doll and place her on top of a spare strip of card stock, at least three or five inches wide. Carefully draw a line in a curved line down from the doll to the bottom of the card stock. I recommend doing this in pencil. I did it in bright red pen so it was visible.
So, after you cut out the stand, it should look like this. Draw a line a quarter inch in to make the tab to glue to the back of the doll. I've drawn the red line where I would fold back this tab.
Fold back the tab and then glue it to the back of the doll. Double sided tape would also work fine, I think, but I always used glue.
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One thing was clear in the aftermath of the two national political conventions last week: California played a larger role for the Democrats than for the Republicans.
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A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller, directed by Arthur Crabtree (Horrors of the Black Museum). This outstanding sci-fi/horror hybrid is a special effects bonanza, and a high-water mark in British genre filmmaking. (1958, b&w)
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Fiend Without A Face is an Amalgamated Production, geared to an American audience, but filmed almost entirely in England. A Canadian setting is used to serve two purposes: First, the action is near enough the US border to keep the attention of American film-goers, and second, it helps explain the odd accents. Marshall Thompson (First Man Into Space, It! The Terror from Beyond Space) was given the lead role to further enhance the American ambiance.
Thompson plays Maj. Jeff Cummings, second in command at an American airbase located in Canada. The neighboring community, consisting primarily of dairy farmers, is suspicious of the military's radiation experiments and blame them for the sudden decrease in milk production.
Kim Parker (Fire Maidens from Outer Space) plays Barbara Griselle, sister to the first victim. Maj. Cummings is immediately attracted to Barbara, though it takes her awhile to warm to him. Barbara is featured in a shower sequence (see promotional still, above), obviously added to embellish the sexiness of the picture, but the scene comes off as rather tame and a bit awkward. For 1958 it was very hubba-hubba, though.
Barbara works for Professor Walgate (Kynaston Reeves), an eccentric but kindly old man who writes books on such topics as "The Principles of Thought Control," and "The Energy of Thought." It doesn't take much to figure out that Professor Walgate is somehow responsible for the creation of the fiends.
Other characters include Capt. Al Chester (Terence Kilburn), a good friend of Maj. Cummings; Constable Gibbons (Robert MacKenzie, Womaneater), a local rabble-rouser; Mayor Hawkins played by James Dyrenforth (Horror Hotel), and Dr. Bradley, portrayed by Peter Madden (The Kiss of the Vampire, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors). You may also recognize Michael Balfour (Quatermass 2) in the role of Sgt. Kasper, and Launce Maraschal plays Deputy Mayor Melville.
The story becomes more far-fetched as the movie progresses, and finally dissolves into nonsense, but it's not the acting nor the story that you'll remember about Fiend Without A Face. It's the monsters.
The monsters were created by German team of stop-motion animators, K.L. Ruppel and Florenz Von Nordhoff. The creatures are so bizarre that they won't soon escape your memory. Basically, they are brains that crawl along (inch-worm fashion) on spinal cords, but leap with amazing agility. They have antennae, but no faces, and survive by slurping out the brains and spinal columns of their victims.
At the outset of the film the fiends are invisible. We only hear what sounds like a heartbeat, and a bone-crunching noise. When the monsters attack, the victims grab for their necks and we hear the most repulsive slurpy-sucky sounds ever created for film. Much credit is due to sound technicians Peter Davies and Terence Poulton for making us cringe even before we see the beasts.
The story of the fiends' creation is too complex and absurd to delve into here; suffice it to say that Professor Walgate, with the help of siphoned radiation, accidentally created the monsters through "thought materialization." We don't actually see the creatures until the final sequences of the film, when, through a boost of radiation, they become visible.
The stop-motion animation gives the creatures a weird and fascinating screen presence. The visuals, combined with the repulsive sound effects, make the monsters some of the most unique of the era. There is a particular scene, when a legion of the creatures come flying through a window, where their movements remind me of mutated sperm swimming under a microscope. But that might be just me.
More revolting than the creatures themselves is the manner in which they die. After being shot, the faceless fiends sputter blood in disgusting globs, making Fiend Without A Face one of the most graphic sci-fi films of the 1950s. The effect is quite shocking, considering the mediocrity of the rest of the film. When the radiation supply is cut off the creatures meet their demise by dissolving into a putrid slime. Quite nauseating, really, but it's great fun.
If not for the unconventional creatures, Fiend Without A Face may have been just another 1950's sci-fi throw-away. However, considering the originality of the critters, plus the excellent stop-motion work and gruesome sound effects, this movie scores a few notches higher.
Scene to watch for: Constable Gibbons (Robert MacKenzie) shows up at a town meeting freshly lobotomized.
Line to listen for: "What the heck? I'm human. We're all human here! We're not monsters from outer space!"
Trivia: Fiend Without A Face is based on a short story, "The Thought-Monster" by Amelia Reynolds Long, which was originally published in Weird Tales (1930).
Recommendation: If you have some extra dough, I recommend the Criterion Collection DVD production of this film. It's a great transfer, and the commentary with executive producer Richard Gordon (interviewed by film historian, Tom Weaver) is both informative and amusing.
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Westboro gives all baptist a bad name. Why because when wittnessing to people and inviting them to your church the baptist church they heard about is Westboro and they are hateful indeed. They also don't believe in once saved always saved.
Christian is also my prOBlem. I don't want to be called a christian because I know many who call themselves christian and i would never listen to, watch, wear, or go whre they do and i do not want others to lump me with them. I am a Biblisist.
Oh and kita I prayed all summer to have $ to spend a week alone with God and I found these Cabins in Ohio that had no cable or internet and that is fine with me. But i just did not have $ for it. I will be in debt for life from all this. I won't say why cause if i tell the true people get mad but i hate debt and I did not do it. I get to pay for someone elses sin.
I miss church often too cause I wake and daughter is gone and son is at work and I have to stay with him cause he don't want to be alone. I'm home tonight and soon my church starts but I have to be home. Pray WBLW has another good message just for me cause I love my church and miss being there. We have new Pastor and he is a good man of God. Our church is growing again too. We just had mission conference and over $50,000 was raised for missions in our very small church.
I am not rebeling against God if I am still living here and still breathing the smoke. I don't feel it is rebeling against God to desire to live in smoke free home or desire to not be in hospital or be on steroids. that is what is bothering me about John's posts. He is assumming I'm not saved and i do have a testamony here i think) and I am rebeling against God.
John put a clothes pin over your nose so you can not breathe though it. Now put a coffee stirrer straw in your mouth and get all your air through it. How active can you be? Is it fun? You get just enough air to remain alive but hardly enough to move from point A to point B. That is asthma. My asthama comes slowly and my bronicle tubes constrict. In times i have suffered for days on end I also pray and tell Jesus that he want our yea yea and our nay nay lukewarmness makes him sick and I'm to that point now give me enough air to breate and move or take it all away. I was born with Hyline Membrane Disease and my left lung was collasped. I was supposed to die but did not but have had asthma all my life. I had my last attack 6-7 years ago. I was told then that I also had COPD. I have to wear a scarf over my face if temps dip below 27 degrees. In summer when humidity level are high I am very short winded and can only move slow and I have to try to not over exert myself cause it mean trouble with my asthma a trip to hospital 10 day on steroids. Sometmes in summer if humidity is high I have to call into work cause I am not getting enough air to do my jOB. Let me tell you something else do you know how many times I had to explaine why I did this or that was because bible says for wife to sumit and OBey their husband and then I am told God did not call you to be a door mat. There was other time i put my foot down and said no way not going to do it. ( not to him but in my mind and I prayed for God to do something just like I am doing now) That was when he wanted me to get an abortion. I would have aborted our only son. Now this is my fear of having to go to hospital and be on steroids again and more lung function tests and then the drugs. Not to mention more doctor bills. This remind me when I was bus captain and on Sunday morning I went to go pick up a 5 year old, shy girl that came on Sundays. I visited kids every Saturday too to see who would be coming on Sunday. This apprtment was alway smoky and had strong smell of smoke but that Sunday when I went to get her they invited me in like always and 4-5 adults were all smoking at the table while the little girl I went to get sat on the floor giving herself a breathing treatment. Needless to say she wasn't going that Sunday cause her asthma flared up. I got to tell her maybe she could come next week and told her we would pray she feels better. When I left it sicken me that they had a small child that had asthma and didn't have the brains to step outside on their balcony to smoke. I feel like that little girl no one cares. There is nothing anyone can do here but if God really wanted me to stay around and breathe all the carcinogens and sacrifrice my health for the sake of my husband then why can't he a least make it smell better. Is this a join them if you can't beat them type of thing? I don't think so but I have to admitt that if i was a smoker myself it would not smell so bad. I tried to find out the affects of pot on asthma and i kept finding sites pro weed saying pot was good for asthma. Really how can something with more carcinogens be good for asthma when tOBacco with less carcinogens are so bad for asthma? Don't sound right to me. Anyways I am living here I am breathing the second hand smoke and yes breathing difficulties are starting. I keep telling myself; so what, look how long it's been since your last one. Even if I get hospitalized I'll be in a smokefree environment. So see I am also trying to encourage myself like David. However I am also praying about selling some of my sick time at work. This will be first time I ever did this. I am praying and asking before I fill out paper cause God knows whether I will need that time or not. God knows whether it would help or hender my taxes. Also I'm asking God if I can send it to IRS or one of the doctor bills, or can I go to Sam's Club and go hog wild in buying food. Bible says not to be a surety for debt too., Elijah got depressed, Jeremiah was the crying Prophet I am not the only believer to feel so alone, and down. Oh a door mat is used to wipe dirt off your shoes and they are dirty. I am breatheing second hand smoke and it is dirting my lungs so yes now I am a Door Mat.
It just feels like now I am say sin can abosolutely be in my house and I approve. As far as them defiling their bodies that's there choice forcing me to is not my choice. Smoke is smoke and if you are smoking in same area I am then I am breathing it too. I don't feel as tight as yesterday but my lungs should not feel tight at all in my home. I do want that big asthma attack that will have me wake in Jesus arms. I am awake early I don't know why but I was in bedroom with door close sleeping and woke and the stench was strong. I pulled covers over my head and prayed andasked Jesus why does smoke have to come through closed doors. I tried to drift off the sleep but can't with covers over my head. Lift covers and stench is still very strong. I got up and asked is everyone in house smoking cause it is strong in my room. Bill smokes 2 -21/2 packs a day. When they sat in gargage and smoke i would go out to talk to him but if he was smoking i didn't stay long. I could go in house now I feeling like leaving to get away from it. I juyst have no where to go and no $. If it was a nice sunny day my dog and i could at least go to the park. I living with it trying to be joyful but stench can cause me to leave.
The wierd thing about it is it seems it is legal in Michigan to use pot for medicine but illegal to posess it. Does that make you say "What?" does me.
I not sure smoking pot is, I know Bill is not legal. Our state I think now approves of medical pot but this is not medical it is street pot It is not just him my son and daughter smoke too. I allowed them to do it in the garage but now that is impossible for Bill. I told him that when they want to smoke and if it has to be them smoking with him then they can go outside and he can look out window at them smoking with him. He told me if they are smoking a joint that won't work. I woke yesterday and took care of plastic container with a little bit of water in it and 2 different cigarette butts in it. Bill has small ash tray by his bed. His bed sheets and blankets are all new and he has one burn hole the size of a 50 cent piece and another about the size of a cigarrette end. He said he had an accident. We have no smoking signs on our front door and back door we have to have them there cause we have oxygen tanks in our house. I guess they don't have to be OBeyed though. i don't like it at all it stinks and yes if God wants my house to be a drug house then so be it. I'll stink for Jesus. Anyways I prayed and asked him why he helped me give up smoking years ago and now saying I have to breathe it and live with it. Thankfully Bill has not lit up since I got up so that is a praise. I go to work soon so he is prOBably waiting for me to leave so that is good.
He's in hospice at home. he chooses to be here in our livingroom. Just me and daughter get his food, change his diaper, run to store to get what he wants, only my daughter runs and get his smokes too. My daughter and son are living here. I work 3rd shift. I went to bed one day and woke to smelling cigarettes I came out and in livingroom my son and daughter were smoking with dear ole dad. I am out numbered here. I would like to just leave and they csan all smoke but sadly house is in my name only.
last time i talked to him about hope in Jesus and Heaven he told me he could not be that dellusional. My pastor has also talked to him and he says he want to believe but can't cause it is not something he can make himself do.
Also the window have been covered with plastic and it not just cigarettes it pot too. I hate the smell. We open the door and furnance comes on. The thing is I am asking Jesus for that real big asthma attack that will have me wake in his arms. He always joked he did not have life insurance cause he wanted it to be a real tradgedy when he died. Many friends laughed at that I did not and I will be in debt for the rest of my life because of his handling of money. just think wouldn't that be funny if his smoking caused me to has the altimate attack and I leave this world first before a man dying of cancer.
I Want To Leave Home.
CauliflowerClown posted a topic in The LoungeI am saved but still unequally yoked. Ever since we have had this home which is in my name I said no smoking in the house. He made the garage his man cave with TV stero and everything. Now he is bed ridden in the living room and he is smoking legal and illegal and I hate it and it stinks. Am I the one being disrespectful by not wanting a dying man to smoke in the house. Or is the he disrespecting me by smoking in house when he knows I've had asthma all my life? I feel I am being smoked out of my house but have no place to go.
Why I Have Decided To Change My Music Standards.
CauliflowerClown replied to Jordan Kurecki's topic in IFB Biblical IssuesMusic speaks to your spirit. If it makes you want to gyrate your hips then it is not good music if it speaks to your spirit and bring you closer to God then it is good music. That is how I judge music.
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CauliflowerClown replied to The Glory Land's topic in The LoungeWell I can commend he does spends time with his family and daughters but he is polluting their minds otherwise. I pray God haunts him with the blood of aborted babies.


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Continuing my rant from Monday's post [Time for a New Laptop], I got my new laptop Wednesday afternoon. I was hoping the transition would be quick, but that was not the case. Here were my initial steps prior to connecting my two laptops together for the big file transfer:
The next step involved a cross-over Ethernet cable, which I don't have. So that will have to wait until Thursday morning.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 6, 2011) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on June 6 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas and other team news.
BARBOZA, FAWCETT PARTICIPATE IN ANAHEIM UNION EVENT: U.S. Women's National Team players Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.) and Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) joined U.S. Men's National Team players Kawika Shoji (Honolulu) and Robert Tarr (Cape Canaveral, Fla.) as award presenters at the Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) Scholar Athlete Awards on June 2. The event recognized high school athletes for their excellence in academics and sports. The four National Team athletes posed for pictures with each award recipient. The City of Anaheim is the headquarters training city for both the U.S. Men's and Women's National Volleyball Teams, which trains at the American Sports Centers. Both National Teams have participated in several community service projects in Anaheim and around Orange County since moving their training locations from Colorado Springs to the southern California city (U.S. Men moved in 2006, U.S. Women moved in 2009).
MONTREUX VOLLEY MASTERS ON DECK: The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team announced its 14-player roster on Monday that will be used at the Montreux Volley Masters event held June 7-12 at Montreux, Switzerland. Middle blockers are Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) and Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.). Outside hitters on the roster are Angie Forsett (Lake Mary, Fla.), Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), Jordan Larson (Hooper, Pa.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah). Opposites competing at Montreux are Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio) and Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.). The two setters running the offense are Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) and Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.). The liberos are Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii). The U.S., which won the silver medal at last year's Montreux event, opens the 2011 Montreux Volley Masters on June 7 versus Peru at 4:30 p.m. (7:30 a.m. Pacific Time). After its off-day in pool play, Team USA faces Germany on June 9 at 6:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. Pacific Time) followed by a June 10 match against China at 9 p.m. (noon Pacific Time). Semifinal round matches will take place on June 11, followed by the classification matches on June 12. In the opposite Montreux Volley Masters pool, the four teams competing for the title are Cuba, Italy, Japan and Netherlands. For the complete press release, visit usavolleyball.org/news/article/42666.
MONTREUX PRESS KIT: The U.S. Women's National Team will compete in the 2011 Montreux Volley Masters set for June 7-12 in Montreux, Switzerland. To view the press kit with bios on the preliminary roster selections, notes on the tournament recap of 2010, click here.
BERG, HODGE WITH VILLA CORTESE ADVANCE TO ITALIAN FINALS: U.S. Women's National Team setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.), who are competing for MC Carnaghi Villa Cortese in the Italian Serie A league during the 2010-11 season, led their team to the Italian Serie A Cup championship best-of-five round against Norda Foppapedretti Bergamo. Villa Cortese, the regular season champion, lost a 25-20, 25-21, 18-25, 25-17 match to open the championship series against Bergamo on May 29. Berg set the squad to a 39 kill percent, while Hodge tallied five kills and an ace in the loss. In the second match, Villa Cortese recovered from a two set deficit to win 24-26, 25-27, 25-20, 25-17, 15-13 on May 31. Hodge provided 24 points with 23 kills on a team-high 52 attacks to go with a block. Berg set the team to a 47 kill percent for the match, including a 55.2 percent in the final three sets. Bergamo took the series lead 2-1 with a 25-21, 25-20, 32-30 victory on June 2. Hodge totaled eight kills on 23 swings and four blocks for 12 points, while adding a 60 percent positive reception mark on five attempts. Berg added a kill and set the team to a 41 kill percent. Villa Cortese evened the series at 2-all and forced a deciding fifth set with a 25-18, 25-18, 28-26 victory on June 4. Hodge scored a match-high 19 points with 17 kills on 28 attacks for a 61 kill percent and .500 hitting efficiency (three errors). She added a block and ace in the victory. Berg set the squad to a remarkable 57 kill percent with 47 kills on 83 attacks and just nine errors for a .458 hitting efficiency. Bergamo won the deciding fifth match 19-25, 25-22, 26-24, 25-20 on June 6 to claim the Italian Serie A championship. Hodge tallied 13 kills on 43 attempts in the final match, along with two blocks and an ace for 16 total points. She added a 67 positive reception percent on six attempts. Berg added a kill on two swings while adding an ace for two points. She led the team to a 36 kill percent.
MURREY LEADS USA A2 BLUE TO OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP GOLD: The USA A2 Blue squad defeated USA A2 Red 26-24 in the double final title match of the 2011 USA Volleyball Open National Championships Women's Open Division to complete a comeback through the consolation round on Tuesday evening at the Dallas Convention Center. USA A2 Blue, who lost to USA A2 Red earlier on Tuesday in semifinal round, gained revenge in the first title match with a 19-25, 25-23, 25-18, 25-23 victory to force the Golden Set playoff in the double-elimination format. In the do-or-die set, USA A2 Blue came back from a 24-22 deficit to win 26-24 on four unanswered points. In the full Women's Open title match, Tarah Murrey (El Cerrito, Calif., California) scored a match-high 20 points with 14 kills, four aces and two blocks while holding a 59 positive reception on 17 attempts. Ashley Bannister (Sugar Land, Texas, Texas) knocked down 14 points, while Michelle Bartsch (Maryville, Ill., Illinois) matched her 14 points that included five blocks to go with a 62 positive reception percent on 13 attempts. During the Golden Set, Murrey scored six kills, a block and an ace for eight of her team's 26 points. Ashley Rhoades (Rio Rancho, N.M.) added six points in the set, while Gwen Rucker (Lexington, Ky., Louisville), Brianne Barker (Amarillo, Texas) and Bannister each collected four points in the deciding set. Murrey was named the tournament's Open Division Most Valuable Player and was joined on the All-Tournament by Barker and Bannister on the USA A2 Blue Team, Natalie Hagglund (Encinitas, Calif., Southern California) and Madison Kingdon (Phoenix) on USA A2 Red, and USA A2 White's Colleen Ward (Naperville, Ill., Illinois). USA A2 White captured the bronze medal for the complete podium sweep in the Women's Open Division. For the complete story, visit usavolleyball.org/news/article/42591.
SUMMER TRAINING BLOCK ROSTER: The U.S. Women's National Team summer training block started May 2 at the team's training headquarters at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif. As of May 23, U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) and his staff are training 24 players with additional athletes to join the group upon completion of their overseas club seasons. The U.S. Women's National Team training sessions, generally held 9 a.m. to noon on weekdays, are open to the public free of charge. The current group includes setters Ashley Engle (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.), Nellie Spicer (Barrington, Ill.) and Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.). Liberos currently training are Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa), Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii). Opposites currently training are Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas). The middle blocker group includes Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), Heather Bown (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) and Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.) and Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.). Outside hitters in the gym are Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), Keao Burdine (Pico Rivera, Calif.), Angie Forsett (Lake Mary, Fla.), Regan Hood (Carrollton, Texas), Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) and Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah).
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Eighteen-year-old Peyton Strickland of Cape Fear Community College was shot when deputies tried to serve a warrant for UNC-Wilmington police at his home.
The warrant concerned the theft of a video game console from a UNC-Wilmington student.
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In a new low for the BBC's objectively pro-Israel coverage, the British state broadcaster seems to be doing its best to downplay the murder by Israel of family members of one of its own cameramen.
The 11-month-old son of BBC Arabic's picture editor Jihad Misharawi was killed in Israeli tank shelling last night, along with his sister-in-law, according to BBC journalists on Twitter, and one report online (which didn't even name him).
But these killings were totally ignored on the BBC News at Ten last night, the flagship TV broadcast on the BBC's most popular domestic channel.
The focus, as always, was on Israel's false narrative that is it responding to Palestinian rocket fire. The extra-judicial murder of Hamas military leader Ahmad al-Jabari was the emphasis, with the killing of "eight other people" mentioned only in passing.
It was stated that there were "more casualties this evening, among them children and at least one baby," but this statement was accompanied by footage of a injured (but thankfully alive) child being taken to hospital. So "casualties" seemed to be a reference to the injured, not the dead.
This morning I asked the BBC's Gaza and West Bank correspondent Jon Donnison why he failed to mention the death of his co-worker's baby during his report on News at Tenfrom Gaza.
Donnison did not reply (he is currently reporting from the highly dangerous situation in Gaza), but (to his credit) he did mention Misharawi's loss during a live dispatch to today's BBC News at One, speaking of civilian casualties "on both sides."
Meanwhile, this morning's Washington Post featured Misharawi's raw grief on its front page.
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This slight by the corporation is just the cherry on top of the bitter cake of the BBC's terrible coverage of Palestine.
Consistent with its previous woeful coverage, the News at Ten program ignored the fact that, once again, Israel has deliberately broken an effective truce with Palestinian armed groups.
One cannot possibly imagine the BBC underplaying the death of family of its own staff in a similar way if they had been killed by, say, Palestinian rocket fire. The blanket coverage given to the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston in 2007 demonstrates that (he was eventually rescued by Hamas).
The very first words out of the mouth of the BBC anchor on News at Ten last night was that yesterday's attack was a "sudden escalation." But the murder of thirteen-year-old Ahmad Abu Daqqa a week ago today was not mentioned — the murder of Palestinians does not count as "sudden escalation" to the BBC, in common with other mainstream media.
The wider narrative was of course completely absent. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, in the six days before this new orgy of Israeli violence, Israel killed six Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including three children, and injured 52 others, including 12 children and six women. All reasonable timelines of events, easily checkable by BBC journalists, demonstrate this, as well as Israel's habitual contempt for ceasefires (EI's own timeline is here, written by Ali Abunimah)
By way of implied criticism, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen would only mention that "questions are being asked about the timing of the assassination two months before an [Israeli] election." Donnison had similarly stated that "there will be questions about the timing of the action."
In other words, for the mainstream British media, the right of Israel to bomb Palestinians at will is not under question, merely whether its actions are effective or not.
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The BBC is not alone in this — as Maureen Murphy's analysis of US media shows.
Channel 4 News, usually regarded as quite liberal in the UK, claimed the new Israeli onslaught was a "response" to weekend Palestinian rocket attacks. The presenter challenged Israeli government propagandist Mark Regev only on the effectiveness of Israel's actions: will this really achieve the peace you want? he asked with faux naivety.
Al Jazeera English has been little better. In his appearance the Qatari state channel last night (see video above), EI's Ali Abunimah criticized the channel: "I know al-Jazeera doesn't report it every day" he said of their lack of coverage of frequent Israeli attacks on Gaza's fishermen.
The channel last night also featured Israeli army propagandist Avital Leibovich twice in less than two hours (not counting recorded repeats) and her lies were allowed to pass largely unchallenged. Meanwhile, anchor Folly Bah Thibault dismissed as "claims and counter-claims" Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan's perfectly reasonable statement it Israel was responsible for this upsurge, not Hamas (she did not challenge Leibovich in a similar way).
The BBC's deference to power
The problem is not one of individual journalists, but rather the institutional BBC deference to power and conventional wisdom — which in the Middle East means Israel, to the British, European and American establishments.
The BBC has recently been affected by a story about an alleged massive British establishment cover-up of a ring of child rapists that (according to MP Tom Watson) once went as far as Number 10 (the office of the so-far unnamed prime minister of the time). Yet instead of focusing on this story, and uncovering alleged wrongdoing at the highest levels of power, the BBC has managed to transform the story into a self-indulgent torrent of ongoing coverage of problems … at the BBC.
Don't tell me they were not able to broadcast a single item about the murder of Jihad Misharawi's 11-month-old son.
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Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America.
About a year ago, several of us attended a meeting in Washington at which a prominent smart growth leader was showing a presentation on "the business case for smart growth." Much of it was based on the need for everyday, face-to-face business communication within companies and the need for dense environments to facilitate efficient productivity and movement of goods. He stressed that this has always been the case, making connections to history and to studies reaching back for decades.
There was only one problem. Several meeting attendees were participating via conference call, following the presentation via their computers and internet connections in remote locations. They were countering the speaker's point as he was making it.
Indeed, a number of partners in the smart growth coalition we represented were, and are, advocating telecommuting as a way of saving transportation energy and infrastructure. The communications director for Transportation for America, a coalition whose staff is based in Washington, D.C., works remotely from Seattle. An official at the Patent and Trademark Office, which has an aggressive telecommuting program, reports that at a given moment up to a staggering 80 percent of agency employees might be working from remote locations.
Heck, I have one colleague who worked for NRDC (in theory, as an employee of our San Francisco office) for five years seamlessly from Italy, for no other reason than she wanted to and was able to make it work. And so on.
Our speaker was making a 20th-century argument in a 21st-century economy.
And yet the 21st century is shaping up as a decidedly urban epoch, with downtowns more popular than they have been in 50 years and suburbs reshaping themselves in ever-more urban forms. What's going on?
Thomas Fisher, dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, believes that we are undergoing an enormous change in "how people will live and work, in how businesses will operate, and in what services and support we will need from government." In The Huffington Post, Fisher contends that the 20th-century model of large-scale, heavy industry is largely over. The new workforce is much more independent and nimble:
In the next economy, 'manufacturing' may more often occur at a micro scale, with freelancers 3D printing in their back bedroom or the self-employed laser-cutting products in their garage ... Self-employed entrepreneurs rely upon durable, high-bandwidth infrastructure in order to communicate with and ship to customers globally. They need affordable health care equivalent to what large companies provide their employees. And they tend to congregate in places with a high quality of life, where other entrepreneurs go.
So, yes, we still want to congregate, maybe more than we have in a long time, but for different reasons now.
Continuing, Fisher explains that the new economy demands changes in our built environment, to encourage adaptation of old buildings in new ways and to foster intermingled homes, workplaces, and shops:
With the rise of the contingent workforce, people will also live and work in ways we haven't seen for a very long time. We have developed our cities based on the old economy, with residential, commercial, and industrial areas kept separate and 'pure' through single-use zoning. That made sense in an economy that divided our work lives from our private lives, and that spawned large-scale noxious industries that no one wanted nearby. The next economy, though, may look more like the way in which people lived and worked prior to the industrial revolution, in which home, office, and shop co-exist in some combination of physical and digital space. This may require rethinking our zoning laws to allow for a much finer-grain mix of uses and re-purposing buildings designed for single functions that will have no tenants or buyers if they remain that way.
With former mainstays of retail such as bookstores and music stores giving way to digital commerce - and workplaces getting smaller - we'll still need urban neighborhoods, mainly for "what we can't get any other way." This will certainly include face-to-face conversation, not necessarily within businesses but for socializing and for impromptu encounters among entrepreneurs pursuing separate goals that are stimulated by new ideas. And we may need a new educational approach, too, that stresses creativity, since preparing students for an ordered world that is becoming less so every day could be doing them a disservice.
This, of course, leads directly to Richard Florida's argument that we need cities more than ever, not to maximize efficiencies in the old order but in order to nourish the creativity that will be needed for success in the new. He elaborates in Business Insider:
Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants and provide them with the skills they needed to work on production lines. It is badly broken – a giant creativity-squelching machine—and must be retooled from the bottom up, no more tinkering at the margins. Our schools should stoke their students' passions, unleash their talents, and nurture their creative and entrepreneurial potential.
But the real key to unleashing our creativity lies in humanity's greatest invention – the city. Cities are veritable magnetrons for creativity. Great thinkers, artists, and entrepreneurs—the Creative Class writ large – have always clustered and concentrated in cities. Deeper in our past the concentration of people in cities not only powered advances in agriculture, but led to the basic innovations in tool-making and the rudimentary arts that came to define civilization.
Real cities have real neighborhoods. They are filled with the flexible old buildings that are ideal for incubating new ideas. They are made up of mixed use, pedestrian scale neighborhoods that literally push people out into the street, cafes and other third places, encouraging the serendipitous interactions, the constant combinations and recombinations that result in new ideas, new businesses and new industries.
Last week I moderated a panel at the annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference, in San Diego this year. The speakers in my session included my friend and planner David Dixon who, along with Kevin Ratner of the large development firm Forest City Enterprises, shared their story of why the prosperous but sprawling Columbus suburb of Dublin, Ohio, is trying to reshape its center into a much more urban form.
Simply put, Dublin has several large, corporate employers who need a steady influx of creative new employees. While in a strictly business sense many of these young, new recruits probably could telecommute to perform the tasks their employers require, they don't want to live and socialize in sprawl. In order to stay competitive – the most important goal of Dublin's business leaders – the suburb must attract creative-class workers by offering more urban amenities and a much stronger sense of place.
In the end, our coalition speaker who was making the "business case for smart growth" was right that business needs urban densities, but perhaps not much longer for the traditional reasons he was citing. If the reasons matter - and Fisher, Florida, and the Dublin experience all suggest that they do - both city planners and companies will need to take note in order to ensure that they are prepared for them.
Cities will still be cities, but education, retail, and workplaces may all need to change, along with government services and regulation. The companies and communities that figure this out first are likely to be the ones to succeed in the next economy. Likewise for urban advocates.
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.
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I was wondering, is the localization of a UFD also a UFD?
How would one go about proving this? It seems like it would be kind of messy to prove if it is true.
If it is not true, what about localizing at a prime? Or what if the UFD is Noetherian?
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I was wondering, is the localization of a UFD also a UFD?
How would one go about proving this? It seems like it would be kind of messy to prove if it is true.
If it is not true, what about localizing at a prime? Or what if the UFD is Noetherian?
As far as I can tell, the localization of a UFD is always a UFD. Let $R$ be a UFD and $S \subseteq R$ multiplicatively closed.
A ring is a UFD if and only if every height 1 prime ideal is principal. So, let $P$ be a height 1 prime ideal of $S^{-1}R$. Then there is a prime ideal $I \lhd R$ such that $P = S^{-1}I$. Now, localization does not change height, so $I$ has height 1, hence it is principal as $R$ is a UFD, say $I = \langle a \rangle$. Then $P = S^{-1}I = S^{-1}\langle a \rangle = \langle \frac{a}{1} \rangle$, so $P$ is principal. Hence, all height 1 prime ideals of $S^{-1}R$ are principal, hence $S^{-1}R$ is a UFD.
Edit: As Arturo mentions, this requires $0 \not\in S$. Also, it requires that $R$ is noetherian.
The localization of a UFD is a UFD provided you don't invert $0$.
Suppose $D$ is a UFD, and let $S$ be a multiplicative subset that does not contain $0$. Let $T$ be the set of all irreducibles that divide an element of $S$, and let $M$ be the set of all irreducibles not in $T$.
Claim. $p\in T$ if and only if the image of $p$ in $S^{-1}D$ is a unit.
Indeed, if $p\in T$, then there exists $s\in S$ such that $p|s$; let $x\in D$ with $px=s$. Then $$\frac{ps}{s}\cdot\frac{x}{s} = \frac{pxs}{ss} = \frac{ss}{ss} = 1_{S^{-1}D},$$ so the image of $p$ in $S^{-1}D$ is a unit. Conversely, if the image of $p$ is a unit, then there exist $t\in S$ and $x\in D$ such that $\frac{ps}{s}\cdot\frac{x}{t} = 1_{S^{-1}D}$, then $\frac{pxs}{st}=\frac{s}{s}$, hence $pxs^2 = s^2t$, hence $px=t \in S$, so $p\in T$, since $p$ divides an element of $S$. $\Box$
Claim. If $p\in M$, then the image of $p$ in $S^{-1}D$ is irreducible.
Indeed, suppose that $\frac{ps}{s} = \frac{x}{t}\frac{y}{t'} = \frac{xy}{tt'}$. Then $pstt' = xys$. Since $p$ does not divide any element of $S$, and $D$ is a UFD, an associate of $p$ appears exactly once in the factorization of $xys$ into irreducibles, and it must divide either $x$ or $y$, but not both, and all other irreducibles that appear in the factorization of $xys$ must lie in $T$. Therefore, either $\frac{x}{t}$ is a unit, or $\frac{y}{t'}$ is a unit. So $\frac{ps}{s}$ is irreducible (it is not $0$ or a unit by the previous claim).
Since $S^{-1}D$ can be embedded in the field of fraction of $D$, it follows that $S^{-1}D$ is a domain. Let $\frac{a}{s}\in S^{-1}D$; let $$a = up_1^{b_1}\cdots p_r^{b_r}q_1^{c_1}\cdots q_t^{c_t}$$ be a factorization of $a$ in $D$, where $u$ is a unit of $D$, $p_1,\ldots,p_r\in T$, and $q_1,\ldots,q_t\in M$. For a fixed $s\in S$, we have $$\frac{a}{s} = \frac{u}{s}\left(\frac{p_1s}{s}\right)^{b_1}\cdots\left(\frac{p_rs}{s}\right)^{b_r}\left(\frac{q_1s}{s}\right)^{c_1}\cdots\left(\frac{q_ts}{s}\right)^{c_t}$$ is a factorization of $\frac{a}{s}$ into a unit times a product of irreducibles (namely, the images of $q_i$ in $S^{-1}D$).
To verify uniqueness up to units, cross multiply and use unique factorization in $D$ and the claims above.
One slick way is via Kaplansky's characterization: a domain is a UFD iff every nonzero prime ideal contains a nonzero prime. This is easily seen to be preserved by localization, hence the proof. Alternatively, proceed directly by showing that primes stay prime in the localization if they survive (don't become units). Thus UFD localizations are characterized by the set of primes that survive.
The converse is also true for atomic domains, i.e. domains where nonzero nonunits factor into atoms (irreducibles). Namely, if $\rm\:D\:$ is an atomic domain and $\rm\:S\:$ is a saturated submonoid of $\rm\:D^*$ generated by primes, then $\rm\: D_S$ UFD $\rm\:\Rightarrow\:D$ UFD $\:\!$ (a.k.a. Nagata's Lemma). This yields a slick proof of $\rm\:D$ UFD $\rm\Rightarrow D[x]$ UFD, viz. $\rm\:S = D^*\:$ is generated by primes, so localizing yields the UFD $\rm\:F[x],\:$ $\rm\:F =\,$ fraction field of $\rm\:D.\:$ Thus $\rm\:D[x]\:$ is a UFD, by Nagata's Lemma. This gives a more conceptual, more structural view of the essence of the matter (vs. traditional argument by Gauss' Lemma).


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Hydraulic fracturing, better-known as "fracking," has transformed U.S. energy production in recent years. Americans haven't seen a domestic energy boom like this in decades, and it's not limited to one state or region — fracking has spread rapidly across the country in just a few years, from Texas to New York to North Dakota.
But while fracking has unlocked a vast cache of fossil fuels, it has also opened a Pandora's box in many places. That's because, in addition to cheap natural gas, fracking also produces airborne emissions of methane as well as volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and VOCs are a diverse group of chemicals that contribute to smog and can cause cancer in humans.
(Critics say fracking contaminates groundwater, too, although that has been harder to prove. Underground injection of its wastewater has also been tied to earthquakes.)
In hopes of defusing the national tension over fracking's pros and cons, the Obama administration made a cautious attempt this week to please both the energy industry and environmentalists. And somehow, against all odds, it seems to be working.
The EPA on Wednesday issued its first-ever clean air protections for fracking, finalizing an earlier set of rules after listening to comments from industry, environmentalists and the public at large. The new rules were dictated by the Clean Air Act and mandated by a court deadline, yet they haven't drawn the reaction you might expect for an agency backed into a corner. Despite all the emotions involved, the EPA's balancing act hasn't sparked a controversy — not everyone is thrilled, but no one seems outraged, either.
Consider the following statements, released this week by two very different groups:
"EPA has made some improvements in the rules that allow our companies to continue reducing emissions while producing the oil and natural gas our country needs." — Howard Feldman, American Petroleum Institute
"There is more work to be done to protect Americans living near oil and gas fields from cancer and other unacceptable health threats, but this rule from EPA is an important first step."
— Trip Van Noppen, Earthjustice
That almost sounds like agreement. It's actually something short of that, since industry and environmental groups still don't see eye-to-eye on the risks and benefits of fracking, but they do seem to recognize that some kind of compromise is inevitable. As EPA air quality chief Gina McCarthy told reporters this week, the goal of these updated standards is to rein in toxins "without slowing down natural gas production."
The new rules will regulate VOCs from fracking — something long-sought by environmentalists and public-health advocates — but the EPA will also oblige the gas industry by delaying implementation of the rules until 2015. In the meantime, all U.S. gas producers will be required to at least burn off their excess gas, which is wasteful but does cut down on dangerous pollutants by roughly 95 percent. After this three-year grace period, they'll have to start a process known as "green completion," which involves capturing leaked and vented gas so it can be resold.
Environmentalists had wanted green completions to be mandatory right away, and an earlier draft of the EPA rules would have done that. The agency ended up bending to industry pressure, though, moving back the compliance date to 2015. But it declined another industry request that would have ceded its clean-air authority to states.
"The president has been clear that he wants to continue to expand production of important domestic resources like natural gas, and today's standard supports that goal while making sure these fuels are produced without threatening the health of the American people," EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a news release. "By ensuring the capture of gases that were previously released to pollute our air and threaten our climate, these updated standards will not only protect our health, but also lead to more product for fuel suppliers to bring to market. They're an important step toward tapping future energy supplies without exposing American families and children to dangerous health threats in the air they breathe."
Many gas companies already capture their excess gas, and some states even legally require it, so these rules won't have the same impact everywhere. But enough drillers still waste methane that, according to EPA estimates, mandatory conservation efforts will save the industry $11 million to $19 million once the rules take effect in 2015.
And by reducing methane levels in the atmosphere, the EPA also calculates the new rules will yield "climate co-benefits" of $440 million per year by 2015. It outlines the following estimates for annual reductions of air pollutants by 2015:
- VOCs: 190,000 to 290,000 tons
- Air toxics: 12,000 to 20,000 tons
- Methane: 1 million to 1.7 million short tons
For more information about the updated standards, see this EPA fact sheet.
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35 Days to the Starz Denver Film Festival
Thirty five isn't really one of those birthdays that has the ring (or pang) of 21, 25, 30, 40 or 50.
Yet the Denver Film Society has a few things in the offing for the 35th installment of the Starz Denver Film Festival (Nov. 1 – 11) that are likely to make this a year of note.
So in honor of one of the city's premiere cultural events, Mad Moviegoer will be counting down the days to opening night, with tidbits, flashbacks, mini-interviews and more. Keep checking back for more.


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First off, I'll give a little context to this post...I'm in Paris currently for my job and needed a distraction. This isn't my first long stay here before for work, so I've spent plenty of time seeing the sights, and this time I decided I'd try to document and explore Paris' bike share system, Velib, and the city's bike infrastructure, and see how it compares to DC. Many thanks to TFTS for helping me share my experiences and I hope this doesn't end up being TL:DR...
In many ways, DC and Paris are similar, just on different scales...wide boulevards with streets radiating from large traffic circles. Paris proper, however, fits about almost four times as many people into an area about two thirds the size of DC, so it is seriously dense. Like DC, Paris also is fairly car-dependent, unlike say Amsterdam or Copenhagen, so it's not some cycling paradise. Still, the cycling infrastructure is far superior to DC's the drivers are much more tolerant to used to sharing the road, so there's a much greater sense of security on the streets. Paris also has squeezed sharrows, bike lanes, and cycletracks into just about every nook and cranny available, so it's rare that you end up having to ride in the actual street.
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Although I hear the kiosks only take the chipped euro-style credit cards, you can easily buy a subscription online and use it immediately. I have a yearly CaBi membership, so I haven't spent much time using the kiosks, but I did have to use it once and I found it very clunky. The Velib kiosks are extremely easy to use, with large, clear LCD screens and multiple language options. If you have an annual subscription, you can get an Smarttrip-like card that you can use directly at the spot where the bike is locked into the station. The bikes have a flange-type thingy on the side instead of the stem-mounted lock on CaBi.
|[Ed. note: Marc isn't actually trapped in the machine. It's just an optical illusion. I hope]
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|Why would anyone lock up a bikeshare bike?
|Oh I see....
|Place de la Bastille...on to...
|...Notre Dame...
|...to the Eiffel Tower. All in about an hour.
|Ironically, this jackass parked in the bus/bike lane and ran into the bike shop
|The curb separation for the cycletrack didn't stop this delivery truck
|A very common sight on weekdays
|Sweet! 19 bikes available...
Bike shops in Paris are awesome. One, Merci, is a bookstore/coffeeshop/furniture store/perfumery/puzzle store/art exhibit. If you find yourself in Paris, you really should drop in.
I also stopped at another, smaller shop just up the road:
|Had to buy something French, so I picked up this sweet wool jersey
|Taking the lane on the Champs Elysees
|Sunday is an ideal day to ride...no traffic anywhere.
|Paris is relatively flat, but there are some climbs, like up to Montmartre
|It's cold out!
|Autolib, Paris' electric carshare system


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Brain Quest Grades 5 & 6 on the Nintendo DS may be designed for elementary school kids age 10-12, but even if you have a PhD, you'll find yourself stumped on some of the questions. Do you know the order that Germany invade the following: Belgium, France, Norway, Poland? Could you match iron, gold, copper, and silver with their respective Latin names ferrum, cuprum, aurum and argentum? Can you identify a fraction, decimal, prime and even number? In Brain Quest, EA Games has applied what video game makers have learned to do better than most educators: lure kids into developing skills with ever increasing challenges that actually frustrate for a while and then deliver the satisfaction of success.
Brain Quest has four playing modes: Brain Mode, Quest Mode, Multiplayer and a Sudoku game category with different grid sizes and difficulty levels. In Brain Mode you choose questions from one of six categories: English, Science, Math, History, Geography, and Grab Bag. There is also a "Random" button so that you don't know what category is coming next. Sometimes the questions are grouped around a theme, such as the Civil War, and after the answers, your guide gives you additional information about the events.
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The jury of the Principe de Asturias Foundation said the 76-year-old singer-songwriter, poet and novelist was one of the most influential writers of modern times.
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For several years now, Colombia has suffered from a drought that has caused the nation's government to urge citizens to conserve water (see this article for more information).
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In the future, Yeraldin says, sponsored families are planning to continue growing in their role as agents of positive change in their community by planting trees and initiating campaigns to protect the water in the area.
What are some steps you've taken to help your community recently? Let us know in the comments!


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