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So in the wake of my last article about Nintendo's next-gen console, here's one tackling Microsoft's successor to the mighty Xbox 360. It's currently known as the Xbox 720 or the Xbox Loop, and there's a veritable butt-load of rumors out there on the world wide web, so varied in likelihood, paranoia factor, and outright dishonesty, …
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Nintendo's announced that Kid Icarus Uprising will be available in Europe on March 23, along with a special stand for the game.
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The time has come Citizens of Steelport. Saints Row 3 has officially been released to the public as of 12:01 AM this morning! We saw tons of you showing up at midnight openings around the United States, and even more of you playing the game throughout the morning.
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KINGMAN - Margaret Wilson, 91, died March 28, 2013. She was born May 12, 1921, at DeWitt, Iowa, the daughter of James and Hazel Johnston Sample.
A Kingman community resident most of her life, she was a homemaker. Margaret was a member of the Kingman Christian Church, the CWF, the Kingman Art Club, the Retread Motorcycle Club and was a WWII U.S. Navy veteran.
On Jan. 25, 1946, she married Harold Wilson. Other survivors include: a son, Leland and his wife Renee; three daughters and their husbands, Bonnie and Mike Eidem, Christi and Mike Buser, and Barbara and Gary Henson; eight grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her brother, Ted Sample.
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Bioware included a feature in SWTOR known as Legacy. At this point in time your Legacy is purely cosmetic, nearly worthless, and somewhat confusing. It's also one of the most highly anticipated features of the game for the average player, at least, the features it's supposedly bringing in patch 1.2 and beyond are.
I'm not going to get into the details of the Legacy system that have been revealed yet, though I did initially when writing this post. At this point in time the information that's out there on Legacy has already been covered by more than enough sites so there's no reason for me to repeat it (see the links at the end of the post if you need details). Also, we don't have all of the details yet so even if I did post all of the information it would be incomplete and I'd rather get all the details out there at once as soon as they're fully released.
What I want to do instead is exactly what the title implies. I want to share my thoughts on the Legacy system as an altoholic because that's who this system was designed for. There are many things to cheer about in regards to Legacy, but there are also some things that make me a bit concerned.
I am going to touch briefly on the basic concept of Legacy for those of you who are not playing SWTOR or who have not looked at any of the information on it so that you're not wandering around here completely lost. I'm going to try to fight my natural instincts of sharing bucket loads of detail here though, and just try to cover the basics.
What the Legacy System Is & How it Works
The Legacy System is earned in a way similar to your characters' experience points. As you earn experience, you earn a percentage of that experience (based on your level) as Legacy experience, and your Legacy levels up in pretty much the same way as your characters would.
It's been described to us as a Family Tree, or a way to link your characters together in various relationships that obviously could never take place in the game since you can never be logged in to more than one of your characters at once. It's not just a family tree though, because your characters don't have to be related to fit within the tree. What those trees actually do hasn't been discussed very much as far as I'm aware, though I have heard some talk about certain unlockable features only being an option if you have multiple Force-users tied together in the family tree for example.
By gaining Legacy experience you're able to increase your Legacy level, and your Legacy level is what determines which features and bonuses you have access to. As far as I'm aware we have not received any information about which features unlock at which Legacy levels beyond a few examples given at the Summit that mentioned "new feature X does blah-blah, and it's unlocked high in the Legacy tree."
If you're a WoW player, or have been for the Cataclysm expansion, the Legacy system is basically WoW's Guild Levels and perks. Except rather than benefiting the guild and being unlocked by the guild, it's all based solely on you. Your Legacy has nothing to do with your guild and they do nothing to directly help/hinder your Legacy, but it works under the same basic principles.
What the Legacy System Holds
Like I said, I'm not going to get into the full list of features that we currently know about. However, there are some perks that are important for the topic of this post, so here they are:
- Legacy Class Abilities unlocked
- Species unlocked for all classes
- Species-specific attribute buffs
Legacy Class Abilities: This feature unlocks a signature ability from a class that you have leveled to 50 and makes it available on your Heroic Moment spell's cooldown for the alts that have it. Examples they gave included the Bounty Hunter's Flamethrower and the Sith Warrior's Force Choke ability. It was confirmed in a recent Q&A that the ability that is unlocked is specific to each class, you do not get to simply pick an ability from the class you want and run with it. So if you level a Sith Warrior to 50 then you get Force Choke and that's it, you don't get to pick a different spell from the Warrior.
Species Unlocked: Once you level a character of a given species to level 50, that species becomes unlocked for all other classes (once you have this feature unlocked, of course). It also unlocks things like the Cyborg's implants which vary from one class to another to be unlocked for all Cyborgs you roll.
This caused a bit of an uproar in some of the player base who feel that racial restrictions are required for them to have canonical immersion. It's an opinion that's completely valid, and one that I absolutely hate.
Personally, I hate having unnecessary restrictions for the sake of immersion in a game. Not being able to roll the character I want to roll isn't immersing, it's frustrating. Racial restrictions are a feature that I personally feel should have become a thing of the past in gaming as a whole back when Dungeons & Dragons did away with it decades ago. You want conflict? Do it with organizations and allegiances, not races.
It sucks that this has to be unlocked with a legacy feature rather than being a base part of the game, but at least the functionality will exist. (Blizzard, I hope you're taking notes.)
Species-Specific Buffs: Upon reaching level 50 with a given race, you'll receive an attribute bonus on all of your alts. The example given was that having a level 50 Human would give you a bonus to Presence. There's a big fuss brewing about this one as there will inevitably be some guilds that require you to have the best buffs in order to be members or raid with them. I have no interest in being a part of a guild that does that in the first place, so I couldn't possibly care any less about that potential "drawback" of the feature. Even if it's just a small buff, like +3 Presence, the fact that you get a buff by leveling a certain race to level 50 is going to make some people feel forced to level a character they may have no interest in leveling simply to obtain that buff.
Through the Eyes of an Altoholic
And now we start getting to the whole reason why I wrote this post, which is to share my thoughts and concerns about this system as someone who takes a great deal of pride in being an altoholic.
How Legacy Thrills Me
First, I love the fact that they're trying to reward people who will play this game A LOT by giving them little perks and bonuses for doing just that. It's an incentive for people to roll alts who normally do not, though how strong of an incentive it is will vary from one player to the next, and for people who do roll alts to keep right on rolling. Not everybody is going to care about unlocking the Twi'lek race for all classes, or using the Sith Warrior's Force Choke spell, but for some people that's the coolest thing in the world.
Bioware has said that this system is designed for people who play alts. You earn Legacy experience by doing things with all of your toons, most of the perks are useful for leveling characters more so than characters who have already reached level 50, and many of the features that you unlock are only useful if you're going to roll yet another alt.
It's important to note that this audience is "altoholics" and not "hardcore altoholics". An altoholic is anybody who happens to enjoy playing multiple characters. You can bounce back and forth between just two or three characters and be considered an altoholic, or you can be someone who has eight level 50 characters on each of three realms and still be considered an altoholic. In this way, not all altoholics are created equal.
The biggest draw to a system like this is that many players are going to want to collect all of the perks available so that they have the freedom to roll the characters they want to roll and have the benefits that they've earned. It gives people something to do when they're not doing their big time sink activities (operations, flashpoints, warzones), and gives the people who have no job and are able to play virtually all day long something to sink their time into that doesn't require other people.
How Legacy Fails Me
The most disturbing announcement that I saw in relation to the Legacy system came during the Q&A portion: they have no intention of increasing character slots.
This threw me for quite the loop after reading about all of these Legacy perks and how you unlock them. We have all of these things encouraging us to roll alts to get all of these different features unlocked, and yet you're still only going to let us have 8 characters per server?
Let's take just one example: unlocking all races for all classes.
Right now there are nine playable species. Of the nine species, two of them are Republic-only, three are Empire-only, and four are capable of serving both factions. Of the nine species, two of them can already be used for all classes (Human and Zabrak).
At this point we have seven of our eight character slots taken up by one of each race in order to unlock all racial options. We only have one character slot left, so six of those seven races that we unlocked are wasted because we don't have any slots to roll a new species/class combo them with.
By leveling one race to 50 in order to unlock the racial choice for other classes, rolling an alt using the newly unlocked species means you're already robbing yourself of that potential feature on the new character because you've already unlocked all of that species' perks. You'll still get the perks of leveling the class (if that's not also a duplication for you), but you're missing out on unlocking other features by making use of an unlocked feature. Unlocking Chiss means your new Chiss Sorcerer has his species wasted.
We also still have two races that we need to level in order to unlock their attribute bonuses since we still have two races that we didn't need to level in order to unlock the race/class combination. The only way for us to get all nine of the species buffs is to delete a level 50 character that we've already unlocked and then reroll the final race and get it up to level 50 as well. Deleting characters won't bother me, but it will bother other players.
Money Solves All Problems
Bioware apparently saw at least some of these drawbacks because they're planning on some of the features you can unlock in your Legacy to be opened with high credit costs. I don't know for sure if those features that can be unlocked with cash can also be unlocked through leveling a character, or if it's either one or the other. If we can assume that you have the option of buying some of these features like species choices, then you won't have quite so big of an issue, but if the only way to unlock everything is to level characters over and over to max level, then they need to give us more character slots in order to make it work.
Every game needs a money sink, I get that. Unlocking features like this with credits is a good idea. It gives us at least some way around the issue with maxed character slots, so I'll take what I can get. I don't particularly like having features restricted by credits when I'm the type of altoholic that rolls on several servers, but it's better than nothing.
Where I Stand With Legacy
I love where they're going with Legacy, and I'm excited beyond words to see what new features they come out with for it and to get more details about the system that they already have in mind for 1.2. The only thing that really kills me is this ridiculous eight slots per server thing.
Unlocking all of the class features won't be a problem because there are only eight classes and eight character slots to match up with them. Though again, if you have to level eight characters in order to unlock everything then how do you expect to ever benefit from all of those unlocked features when you don't have any character slots left to roll new ones?
They've also said that they're considering Legacy rewards that require level 50 characters from both factions in order to unlock. Each faction has eight advanced classes to choose from, meaning there are sixteen classes for you to play. Sure, the advanced classes are mirrored across the two factions, but of all of the different characters I've played so far the only ones that actually feel the same between the two factions has been the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior. All of the other combinations are different enough in look and feel that they might as well not be mirrors. That aspect has been a huge success. The drawback being that in order to experience them all you have to have a minimum of two servers to house all of the character slots you need to do so.
I take that back, character slots isn't the only thing that bothers me about Legacy. There's also the whole Legacy being tied to a single server issue. If you roll on another server then you have to start all over with your Legacy there unless you're willing to pay to transfer a character from an existing Legacy (a feature which does not yet exist).
While the system does encourage alting, it actively works against the brilliance we like to call "Cyn Crash". Legacy doesn't even match up to WoW's guild perks in this situation because leaving a level 25 guild in WoW wasn't so bad if you could join a level 25 guild on another server, but with this if you don't pay to transfer a character then you completely lose out on all of your perks and have to start with nothing until you level that new character to 30+ again to reopen a fresh Legacy. Starting over from scratch with a new character is fun. Starting from scratch on such a huge time and energy investment project as a Legacy is disastrous.
Bioware is doing their best to encourage server-based communities, but in the long run it may very well come back to bite them as they're focusing so much on the little communities at the expense of the SWTOR community as a whole. It's not a problem right now, but it very well could be in the somewhat near future if other games continue to open doors while SWTOR trudges forward with blinders on. Let people play what they want to play, with who they want to play it with, and without penalizing them one way or the other when they do so.
Giving Credits Where Credits Are Due
As I said before, I did not attend the SWTOR Summit, so all of my information comes from blogs, twitter feeds, and forum posts. The following blogs are where I got the majority of my information, so here's a shout out to them for their recaps, live tweets, and so on:
Ask a Jedi
Force Junkies
SW:TOR Strategies


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The Uncivil Style of Intelligent Design Critics]. Apparently it's going to be a long series ....
I'm going to let ENV readers in on a little secret: When many of us in the intelligent design (ID) movement read the arguments coming from our critics, we're surprised at their low quality and style. We don't rejoice at this -- we'd much rather see a robust, civil, and fruitful scientific debate over the relevant questions. But the incivility, basic inaccuracy, and unserious tone characteristic of so many criticisms of ID all make you wonder: If the critics had stronger rebuttals to offer, wouldn't we be hearing them?On a completely unrelated topic that has nothing to do with Darwinist incivility ...
There are so many examples of incivility among ID-critics that it's hard to know where to start. And I'm not just talking about the usual Internet suspects, like PZ Myers, Jerry Coyne, or Larry Moran.
While you're checking out Evolution News & Views you might want to read a fascinating article by Richard Weikart defending his books From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany and Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress [Robert J. Richards and the Historical Record]. It even has a photo to illustrate the point about Darwin (see below).
This is a follow-up to a very civil article posted last month: Can Darwinists Condemn Hitler and Remain Consistent with Their Darwinism?.
I threw down the gauntlet to many of my Darwinian opponents by telling her that if Darwinism is indeed a purposeless, non-teleological process, as many evolutionists and biology textbooks proclaim, and if morality is the product of these mindless evolutionary processes, as Darwin and many other prominent Darwinists maintain, then "I don't think [they] have any grounds to criticize Hitler."Anyway, let's not forget the important point and that's Casey Luskin's upcoming series on the incivility of ID critics.
According to Flam, these are "fighting words." However, I have spoken with intelligent Darwinists who admit point-blank that they do not have any grounds to condemn Hitler, so I am not just making this up. Many evolutionists believe that since evolution explains the origin of morality -- as Darwin himself argued -- then there is no objective morality. The famous evolutionary biologist and founder of sociobiology, E. O. Wilson, and the prominent philosopher of science Michael Ruse co-authored an article on evolutionary ethics in which they asserted, "Ethics as we understand it is an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to co-operate."


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What are these things?
Posted 09 January 2011 - 09:08 AM
Before I get into what's wrong, let me give a little background:
I've been doing work with energy/the occult/supernatural entities for almost my entire life. I keep a far distance from media such as Ouija boards and the like. However, strange entities have an odd way of finding me despite this.
The issue I've been having started almost a year ago when I got into a discussion with someone I called a friend at the time (And have since come to realize was anything but). The topic of the supernatural came up, and he started to talk like he knew something, when everything he said was an obvious lie. Eventually, I got fed up and started to show him actual energy work (Which I now realize was a mistake) like spiritual attack and healing. I think this was what led to things going wrong.
The individual I was demonstrating this to kept up talking like he knew everything there was to know and wasn't impressed by my "Party tricks" at all. Thing is, I knew all along he was just lying to save face.
Shortly after this incident, some very odd entities started to attack me and my friends in large numbers. The creatures are 4-5' tall, greyish in color, and have barely distinct facial features, mostly being covered with just wrinkles and open wounds. I managed to pseudo-capture one of the creatures within a crystal pendant, and, after realizing it couldn't break out, it started to talk to me. This thing said it was part of a race called the Dia. Apparently, these are parasitic creatures that siphon life force off of unsuspecting humans.
The problem I'm having is that I believe the ex-friend of mine may have delved into dark or demonic magic in an effort to one-up me, in the end resulting in his releasing these Dia monsters.
What I'm asking is if anyone here knows more of what these things are or how to get rid of them?
TLDR: Does the name Dia ring any bells, and how do I get rid of them?
Posted 09 January 2011 - 01:27 PM
Do you have any evidence of these beings? Photos, video, etc.?
Posted 09 January 2011 - 01:48 PM
Sorry, Blackhawk I tried Googling the Dia and came up with nothing except the Latin American holiday Día de los Muertos, meaning Day of the Dead.
Do you have any evidence of these beings? Photos, video, etc.?
I was having the same problem trying to google them, seems nobody's heard of these things. And the problem with getting a picture or video is that the only live one I've got is inside the pendant, and if I let it out, I'm sure it'll try to run away like the others did. I can describe them in frightful detail since I've seen so many, but I'm afraid there's little else I can do
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Posted 09 January 2011 - 05:57 PM
Can you draw us a picture of the creatures? I also tried googling "energy parasites" and found a link. Not sure of the accuracy but here it is.
Posted 09 January 2011 - 07:42 PM
@Cryscat: I can try to sketch a picture of one next time I have access to a scanner, sure, but I'm no artist, and I doubt I can draw them any better than I can describe them
Posted 10 January 2011 - 12:20 PM
You said they attack you. How do they attack you? Physically, mentally, spiritually, all of the above?
Hmmmm. Since you can't film or take a picture of the one in the crystal pendant, do you think you could record audio of it talking to you?
Posted 10 January 2011 - 02:07 PM
These creatures appear anywhere and everywhere I am, be it in my room or miles away. However, they usually appear at dusk.
They attack by sort of latching on to my body and starting to suck energy away. While they're doing so, I feel physically and spiritually weak, as well as starting to feel very depressed and helpless. The only way I've found to get rid of them is to send a large burst of energy to the point where they're connected, which seems to overload them and make them leave.
I've actually tried to record them during an attack, but nothing comes out on the recording, which leads me to believe they communicate through some sort of telepathy as opposed to speech. As per Cryscat's request, I'm going to try and do a rough sketch of one and scan that into my computer for you all to look at
Posted 10 January 2011 - 06:04 PM
Have you tried any type of protection? Picture yourself inside a blue egg of energy. Use this as a shield..the goal of this is to prevent them from attaching.
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Posted 12 January 2011 - 02:16 AM
That is a good thing and makes things easier Blackhawk, just ask your guides or fairies and they would help you with this situation. Good luck.
@Caesar: Yes, I talk with spirits and such on a fairly regular basis, since I encounter them almost everywhere I go even before this started
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
Posted 16 January 2011 - 04:50 PM
Artificially created elementals are most commonly called thought-forms. In occultism a nonphysical entity created by thought that exists in either the mental plane or astral plane. A clairvoyant can perceive them.
Thought-forms can be directed at individuals. To have an effect, they must be able to latch on to similar vibrations in the aura of the recipient. Thought forms are said to have the capability to assume their own energy and appear to be intelligent and independent. Equally intense thought can disperse them, or they can simply disintegrate when their purpose is finished. Be careful for those that may get ideas of using this because if they cannot latch on to similar vibrations, they come back to YOU.
It is theorized that thought-forms may arise spontaneously out of the collective unconscious as archetypes which take on phantom or seemingly real form.
What you need to try is using your thought to disperse what you are holdiing in your crystal. Once done, I would take the crystal and send it back to where it came from, the earth. I would not try to cleanse it as it has been contaminated, I wouldn't trust it. You can take it outside and destroy it into small enough pieces so they can be thrown into a river or some body of water. This will certainly cleanse it and be small enough to not come into someone else's hands. Be careful when you destroy it as there may be residual energy in it and may have a small "explosion".
I hope this helps you Blackhawk.
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These enormous immovable slug sculptures are called " Slowslugs " and are made of steel , netting and 40 ,000 recycled plastic bags . They were made for the Accroche Coers Festival in Angers, France and they were up for 10 days , Sept 7 to 17 , 2012 . The artist is Dutch street artist Floretijin Hofmann .
The slugs are placed so that they appear to be crawling slowly up the hills of Angers toward the towns' big Catholic church . They are meant to symbolize mortality , religion , natural decay and the slow suffocation of commercial society .
Ok . This image of these gigantic plastic bag slugs appeared suddenly , mysteriously and annoyingly with out any information on Facebook and it is my holy quest to document these sort of things . I thought it was an astonishing sculpture , heavy and ponderous and also light , silly , childish and scary . The artist Florentijin Hofman has made many of these cheerful , goofy and overwhelming outdoor animal installations – the most well known is probably " Rubber Duck " in Osaka harbor , Japan in 2009 .
Hofman and his interns work for months on his outdoor sculptures and they are often up for only a few days . He tells his interns that in the end they will only remember the completed art and the time of work will fade out of mind .
His motto is " Work Big ! "
He also likes to use local materials and objects that are very familiar and normal to the viewer like the flip flops he used to make " Fat Monkey " for the Pixelshow Conference in Sao Paulo in 2012 . The flip flops are his reference to pixels .
Work on this scale with such confidence , playfulness and swagger gives a real rush of energy to create . It lets us see yarnbombing street art in the context of other art made to be outside , made to be interacting with people unexpectedly , art made to be put up for a short time and then taken down . { My favorite story about people interacting with his art unexpectedly was that a woman in Osaka stopped to take a picture of ' Rubber Duck " and her car drove into the harbor . }
This is a quote of Florentijin Hofman that is interesting :
" That's how my work comes full circle: you change a public space by adding something new, then you change it back again by taking it out which is when you start to miss it. It really changes how people perceive public space. I can tell you countless stories of activists collecting signatures to keep the artwork in place, but like I said, missing it is part of the concept! "


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While Musing over the sonic boom I heard the other night:
The Sonic Boom! emitted from the Riverfront Community Center gymnasium was Boom! defeating the Drillers 2-0 this past Monday in Adult Women's volleyball. It was the first time the Drillers had been defeated since I became the recreation program supervisor – sports almost one year ago. Boom! was victorious 25-23, and 27-25 – two absolutely awesome games! This broke the 17-game winning streak of the Drillers.
The Boom! victory has forged a tie for first place in the Adult Women's Volleyball league with both Boom! and the Drillers having matching 7-1 records. In the other game of the evening, the Dominators defeated Diggin' It 25-18, and 25-13. The Dominators moved into a third place tie with Six Pack at 3-5.
Adult Coed Volleyball saw exciting battles this past week as well. Pancake Pack lost two tough games to Zeck Ford/GLN 25-18, and 25-19. Small N Explosive squeaked past Block Party 25-18, and 25-20. Small N Explosive and Zeck Ford/GLN remain tied for first place at 3-0.
In the Thursday night Adult Men's Basketball league the race tightened up as Purple Reign, behind (18) points from Bobby Hauver, and (16) points of Will Johnson defeated Mutual Savings 63-57 even though Dru Wheatcroft popped for (27) points. The Angry Ewoks, with (26) points from Jordan Glenn and Shane Kelly's (16) points, defeated Wheaton Warbirds in double overtime 68-65. Jake Kavanaugh scored (27) points, and Jake Hendricks scored (13) points for the Warbirds.
The victory puts the Ewoks at 8-3 as they await Mutual's final game of the year as they stand 7-2 in first place. Purple Reign and Wheaton Warbirds stand tied for third place entering the final game of the season at 6-4. Young Sign Company secured fifth place with their 60-55 victory over 2711 as Glen Lemke scored (19) points in addition to the (15) points scored by Joe Thorne. David Billard poured in (21) points for 2711.
The Adult Men's Basketball championship night, pitting the champions from the two Adult Men's Basketball league, LV Street Elite (Tuesday night's champion) versus the winner from the Thursday night league, will be contested on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.
n The championship night will feature the Zeck Ford 3 Point Shoot-out at 6 p.m. Every contestant will have 30 seconds to shoot. There will be prizes for the first five placers. Zeck Ford's sponsorship of the event makes it possible to award monetary prizes: 1st place - $75; 2nd place - $50; 3rd place - $25; 4th place - $10; and, 5th place - $5. In addition to the monetary prizes, other prizes will be awarded. To enter the shoot-out, there is a $10 registration fee and the entrant must be on the roster of an Adult Men's Basketball league team. A registration form is attached for everyone's convenience. Registration deadline is 8 p.m. April 15. No late registration will be accepted.
The Easter Egg Hunt was a fun event for all who participated, I commend Karen Baker, Sagasu Family Martial Arts, and Aubrey Gasbarre for the exceptional job they did with the event. They made the event much more "eventful" with the addition of numerous vendors to add to the excitement for everyone in attendance. Much to my dismay, Master Baker was not in attendance, rumor has it that he was out-of-town still looking for Bugs. Harvey's anonymous source has stated that Ms. Baker and Ms. Gasbarre have raised the bar to new heights and we will need to exceed it in the future. I also appreciate Thumper's efforts to get his "Thumpings" out to everyone keeping them abreast of changes!!!
The TRYathlon is quickly coming upon us. The 12th Annual First City TRYathlon, sponsored jointly by the City of Leavenworth Parks and Recreation and the Santa Fe Bike Shop, will be held on Saturday, April 13 with the packet pick-up scheduled at 7 a.m. The distances are set to ensure success for the children who are participating. The purpose of the event is to have fun and find out what a triathlon is all about. The event is for 6-15-year-olds and the age brackets are: 6-8; 9-11; and, 12-15. Registration is only $20. Every child receives a T-shirt. Every child who finishes, receives a "Finisher" medal. Times and places are not kept.
Remember that youth baseball/softball registration is currently underway. The deadline for the youth baseball sign-up is April 25. Children's ages are determined by their age on May 1, 2013. Children may not "play up" out of their age bracket. Skills testing for the 9-10 (2-3 p.m.); 11-13 (3-4 p.m.); and 14-16 (4-5 p.m) age brackets will be on April 27.
n I have received many inquiries about instructional baseball/softball. This program will be replacing our T-Ball program for boys and girls of the ages 5-6 years of age. It will be similar to the Bitty Basketball program which was conducted by Coach Derek Zeck, the Leavenworth High School girls basketball coaching staff, and the LHS girls' basketball team. The Instructional baseball/softball program will be conducted by Coach Joe Allison, the LHS Baseball coaching staff, and the LHS baseball team. The program will focus on skill development and understanding the game of baseball. The success of the Bitty Basketball encouraged us to move in this direction and focus. We anticipate the children becoming more proficient in the game of baseball rather than improving their dirt and weed skills.
On the adult side of things, adult summer softball leagues are now being formed. One of our new activities is Adult Coed Sand Volleyball which will be played at David Brewer Park. This seems to be drawing a great deal of interest. Anyone interested in finding out some of the benefits of coed sand volleyball may contact Chris Langley and he is willing to share some of his insight into the game. We are also offering an Adult Men's Basketball league this summer as well. The deadline for all of our adult activities is April 29.
Living a healthier lifestyle tip No. 3: Protect yourself from sun exposure.
Did you know that protection from sun exposure is important all year round, not just during the summer or at the beach?
Ultraviolet rays can reach you on cloudy and hazy days, as well as bright and sunny days. UV rays also reflect off of surfaces like water, cement, sand, and snow.
The hours between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. daylight savings time are the most hazardous for UV exposure. UV rays are the greatest during the late spring and early summer in North America.
CDC recommends easy options for sun protection:
– Use sunscreen with sun protective factor (SPF) 15 or higher, and both UVA and UVB protection.
– Wear clothing to protect exposed skin.
– Wear a hat with a wide brim to shade the face, head, ears, and neck.
– Wear sunglasses that wrap around and block as close to 100 percent of both UVA and UVB rays as possible.
– Seek shade, especially during midday hours.
Remember, sun sense is important all year round.
Philisophical note: The success of a program and/or an organization is measured by the level of integrity of that program and/or organization.
Remember, the goal for all of our programs is that the program policies and procedures are fair for the masses, fun for all, and, safe for everyone.
Keep musing along and enjoy your week!
Tabor Medill is the supervisor for sports for the Leavenworth Parks and Recreation Department.


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It's a model sheet drawn by Bob McKimson for Bob Clampett's unit. There is an earlier version of the same sheet, also drawn by McKimson where he doesn't look as distinct. Clampett went over it and made Bugs' eyes splay at the top and gave his head more planes. Bugs became less egg-shaped. They also beefed up his cheeks, making him cuter. This design is full of tricky subtleties. He's not easy to draw.Maybe that's why he never looked quite like this except in Clampett's cartoons. Chuck came close in a couple cartoons-Hair-Raising Hare for one.It's funny, almost every classic WB cartoonist I met said that once they found this model, they never again strayed from it - when they all obviously did. Tom McKimson told me that he and his brother were the only ones that stuck to the Clampett model for the rest of Bugs' career. Chuck said it too. They also all said that everyone else changed the model except them. Friz never quite got the hang of it.
Shortly after that model sheet, Clampett and his animators made Bugs a little taller.Note how much more active and playful Bugs was in the mid 40s than what he has become. No damn 'tude for one thing! This Bugs is the one that made the character become the most popular in history, not because he had 'tude, but because he was actively mischievous and devious.
This Bugs actually did things in the cartoons. He didn't win by default. He went out of his way to cause trouble - and did it in a very likeable way. The 'tude Bugs is completely unlikable. He doesn't do anything to win. He just wins because the rules say so. It's like he was born an aristocrat who deserves to win because he's the star character.
Here he is cocksure and still playful, which is different than 'tude. 'Tude didn't happen till the 50s when Chuck turned Bugs smug and snooty like himself.
They oughta go back to the Bugs Bunny that made WB cartoons the most popular in the world, the one who did funny things, not the one who just stands around looking smug.
And they really should never team him with Daffy. That worked in 1 cartoon, but quickly became a predictable formula.


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Grant Wison is Leaving Ghost Hunters
Posted 19 February 2012 - 08:03 AM
Here's a link to the story:
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:25 PM
As to what will happen to the show? I don't have any predictions. The show will go on, but I have no idea how the fans will react. I stopped watching it a while ago, so it makes no difference to me.
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 10:24 PM
At least they can't fake anything now!
NEVER underestimate the power of the 27 production assistants.
-Stephen G.
Co-founder of Fly By Night Paranormal Investigations.
Based in Omaha, NE with a chapter in Dallas /Ft. Worth, TX. FBN is primarily a paranormal research team with a focus on classical 'haunting phenomena.'
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Posted 03 March 2012 - 12:51 PM
Posted 03 March 2012 - 06:36 PM
gettin' it done everyday
Posted 10 April 2012 - 11:36 AM
So true...LOL!
At least they can't fake anything now!
NEVER underestimate the power of the 27 production assistants.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."- Ghandi, In Philosophy
Posted 17 May 2012 - 06:31 PM
Posted 23 January 2013 - 08:11 PM
BUT I did not like how they treated Bryan in earlier episodes...that was WRONG especially on national television...
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Windows and doors are as important to our homes as the walls and roof.
No part of the home is a bigger culprit for letting heat out in the winter and in during the summer, as well as letting in the exterior noise that can drive homeowners crazy.
And the buzzword when looking to replace windows is efficiency, says Glen Janiszewski, marketing manager for Gienow Windows and Doors.
Though there are several different products and brands on the market that cater to different needs, Janiszewski says efficiency is the common requirement for all homeowners.
"Energy-efficient glass is the big component to improve your thermal efficiency," says Janiszewski.
"The glass has a low-E coating, with argon gas in between the panes. Every manufacturer's got a different name for them, but essentially they have the same properties."
He adds though prices are dependent on a number of factors, the average living room window can be updated for roughly $1,000, some of which customers will see returned in the form of lower heating costs.
Glen Ambrogiano of Lux Windows and Glass says not only are people opting for double pane low-E windows, many are further increasing their efficiency with triple-pane glass, often with two low-E coated panes and two chambers of argon.
"The absolute minimum would be a dual-glaze low-E, but we find the trend is definitely pushing into the high-efficiency stuff, which is the triple-glazed," says Ambrogiano.
He says the average single pane window offers an R value of roughly two, while a triple-pane low-E window can quadruple that value, increasing both thermal efficiency and noise reduction.
Homeowners are also concerned with style.
Janiszewski says many customers are opting for products in blacks, browns, reds and greens, as well as choosing low-maintenance materials.
Style and maintenance are also buzzwords when it comes to doors, says Janiszewski, noting the clunky materials of the past have been replaced by fibreglass in either a smooth finish or a wood-grain texture.
He says the fibreglass doors stand up better to normal wear and tear, and allow homeowners a wide range of colours, stains and styles that weren't available in the past. And like the newer windows, they offer huge increases in efficiency.
"The fibreglass door is much more energy efficient; it's got a polyurethane core in it, so it's much more efficient than a traditional wood door, and it's not going to warp or rot," says Janiszewski.
With the addition of colours and glass inserts in newer doors, customers are opting to remove screen doors and allow their door to be on full display, says Ambrogiano.
"People are spending so much money to dress up their front door systems, and the last thing they want to do is hide this $800 or $1,000 insert that they put in this door with some $200 storm door," he says.