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At Sacramento Adventist Academy, Capitals Engineering, the school's First Tech Challenge robotics team has competed in 3 tournaments. Through FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) the tournaments have been growing bigger and have been spreading awareness to other schools through robotics to encourage students to have STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs in their education.
The tournaments were located in San Jose, which is a two hour drive from Sacramento. All the team members were scheduled to be at school before 6:00 am to leave for San Jose. As soon as we got to the tournaments, our plan was always the same. We help to unload the excursions and set them up on our assigned area. After setting up, we will run through our presentation altogether before being seen by the judges.
When presenting to the judges we talk about our team and our robot. We lined up starting with the engineering members from one side to marketing members on the other side. The engineering team explains their hardships, the processes the robot has gone through, and what was involved to change its features. Then they demonstrate how it works and what the most import features are. The marketing team went into further depth about the team by describing our outreach to the community, such as what companies we've met with and what teams for which we have raised funds.
Following the judges presentation came the opening ceremony where the rules and field set up are explained. Next the matches take place. There are three parts to robot competition: qualifying rounds, semi-finals, and finals. Teams are paired up with different teams to compete in an alliance, on either the blue or the red side. There can only be two teams in an alliance at a time, with a total of four teams on the playing field.
There are many ways to score points. First is the autonomous period, which is when the robot is programed by teams to make their robot move and score points independent of any controllers for the first thirty seconds. After that, the driver controlled period begins. Foam blocks called glyphs are scored into a cryptobox, which is essentially a scoring zone. Scoring the relic is the most difficult task; on the outskirts of the playing field are two extended mats, one for each alliance team. The mats have three zones that have different points based on distance from the playing field. Bonus points are also handed out if teams can place the relic standing up. To finish it off, the robots must balance on a platform as the games come to an end.
We competed in many matches with different teams as our alliance partners. We made it to the semi-finals once but were eliminated. We all agree to stay to watch the rest of the matches because it is very fascinating to see how different teams function and compete.
The award ceremony took place after the matches have been finished. We won the Rockwell Collins Innovate award at the first tournament, the Connect award at our second tournament, and the Rockwell Collins Innovate award at our third tournament which was a regional championship with 56 teams. To celebrate we all get dinner at Taco Bell, where it is traditional to take a picture of the trophy. We head back to school after an enjoyable dinner, then go our separate ways home awaiting the next season.


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Curtain Call – Mötley Crüe Close The Door On Final Tour with SPECIAL GUEST ALICE COOPER
By Matt Bishop August 17, 2015 January 17, 2018 Features, Rock News
For 33 years, Mötley Crüe have embodied all that is excess in rock 'n' roll. Now, after over three decades of decadence, the band is touring the world once last time to take their final bows before the curtain closes on one of the most raunchy, reckless, and successful careers… Continue reading
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MÖTLEY CRÜE ANNOUNCE MORE NORTH AMERICAN FINAL TOUR DATES
By Matt Bishop April 21, 2015 April 21, 2015 Rock News
Mötley Crüe have added 21 new shows to their already-massive Final Tour. The new North American dates run from October 5 – December 27. On December 31, Mötley Crüe will return home to Los Angeles for the last show of The Final Tour. The band's career began in Los Angeles 34 years ago. Last… Continue reading
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MÖTLEY CRÜE PERFORM "GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS" LIVE ON 'THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON'
By Matt Bishop January 23, 2015 January 23, 2015 Rock News
Last night, heavy metal bad boys Mötley Crüe stopped by The Tonight Show to visit Jimmy Fallon and perform "Girls, Girls, Girls". Earlier this week, the band released a brand new single "All Bad Things" and announced the second leg of their Final Tour, which includes treks in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. This summer, the… Continue reading
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MÖTLEY CRÜE RELEASE NEW SINGLE "ALL BAD THINGS", ANNOUNCE 2015 FINAL WORLD TOUR DATES
By Matt Bishop January 20, 2015 January 20, 2015 Features, Rock News
The infamous Mötley Crüe have released a brand new single. The official music video for "All Bad Things" was unveiled late yesterday. The band also revealed the plans for their final show ever. On December 31, 2015, Mötley Crüe will return home to Los Angeles for the last show of The Final Tour. The band's career… Continue reading
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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS RECRUIT BRAD WILK (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE) and MIKE STOERMER (THE KILLERS) FOR UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS
By Matt Bishop November 18, 2014 November 18, 2014 Rock News
The Smashing Pumpkins have recruited drummer Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave) and bassist Mike Stoermer (The Killers) to partake in the band's upcoming album release shows in support of their new disc Monuments To An Elegy which drops on December 9 via Martha's Music/BMG. The Smashing Pumpkins will also be releasing Day For Night. "We're absolutely thrilled and humbled… Continue reading
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THE SMASHING PUMPKINS PREMIERE NEW SONG "ONE AND ALL" feat. TOMMY LEE
By Matt Bishop November 5, 2014 November 5, 2014 Rock News
The Smashing Pumpkins have premiered a brand new track "One and All" that features the one and only Tommy Lee on drums. A few months back, a photo of Lee and Smashing Pumpkins mastermind Billy Corgan in the studio surfaced. The song is from Monuments to an Elegy, one of the band's two new studio albums they… Continue reading
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one. 5-Day East Coast Elite Residential Goalkeeper is the most intensive 5-day training program offered in the USA attracting high level youth soccer players from across the USA, South America and Europe.
The curriculum has been specifically designed to support individual player development while always respecting the importance of TEAM. The coaches are hand selected to offer a blend of expertise in all concepts of the game. Players will be challenged to reach inside themselves and become more than they thought they could be! The resident philosophy embraces the importance of work ethic, desire, teamwork, respect and self-belief. Not only will the player train more than they have ever trained in such a short period of time on the field, they will also be challenged in the classroom.
On the field goalkeepers are challenged to refine all aspects of the game: Technical, Tactical, Physical and Psychosocial. The technical emphasis will focus on shot stopping, diving, dealing with crosses, recovery saves, distribution techniques, 1v1 scenarios, footwork and positioning in a competitive environment. The tactical focus will cover counter attacks, clear and correct ways to organize and communicate, identifying support and ways to penetrate forward through distribution, decision making in and out of possession and overall game management. We also understand the importance of competition and developing a competitive mentality. Each goalkeeper will work on GK specific SAQ to assist in the individual's agility, balance, coordination, physical power, reaction speed, leaping ability, and overall ability to recover. The psychosocial aspects of the goalkeeper will cover dealing with pressure, self-teaching, ability to rebound from mistakes, how to develop relationships with back rows, leadership skills and discovering ways to handle emotional balance during matches. "Train like we play and play like we train".
In the classroom players will learn the importance of whole food nutrition and how it supports health and longevity as well as sports performance. In addition to nutrition we also place a high level of importance on teaching good character traits.
Throughout the week, players will also be introduced to Yoga as we believe that practicing Yoga long-term can play a KEY role in a players athletic performance, recovery and injury prevention. Following yoga, we provide either a motivational speaker, highlight videos or a visualization session and then wrap up with a 30-45 minute down time period where our athletes can socialize and relax. Lights out for our younger players is 9:45-10:00pm while older players is 10:30pm. Sleep is the key for recovery and preparation for the following days success.
Note: Brooks Boarding School offers the following activities during our down time periods: 2 Swimming Pools, Pool Tables, Ping Pong and Foosball Tables.
At one. Soccer Schools our entire philosophy is to inspire players to leave us with improved ability and confidence on the field and MORE importantly better young men and women off the field!
Late Registration begins 30 days prior to camp start date. We have limited space available in our programs. Sign up prior to Late Registration to guarantee your child's spot.
Please click here to visit our Parent Page for the following: FAQs, What to Bring, Player Expectation Agreement, Medical and Liability Form, and Code of Conduct; Please note there are no refunds.
Please be sure to complete and review your registration thoroughly. Our Residential Program Director, Lloyd Biggs, will connect with every registrant to review your child's profile and answer any questions prior to the start of camp. We look forward to the opportunity to work with your athlete this summer!
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Evidence for Vitamins
List of Vitamins
It's About Health
Your Major Asset
Active Boomers
Why Take Vitamins
Alternative Health Care Research
Alternative Health Care Research is a critical component of health care, especially as it relates to disease prevention. Our health care systems can be saved from dysfunctionality and bankruptcy by cost-effective disease prevention strategies. Qualitative health research is one component.
There is actually an incredible wealth of alternative health care research - medical and scientific evidence about the need for nutritional supplements.
Taking the time to understand at least the general points of this research can help you strengthen your immune system, reduce your risk for degenerative diseases including those listed below and enjoy a much healthier lifestyle with more energy and more joy.
This page focuses on research found in peer reviewed medical journals and concentrates on findings about nutrition and nutritional supplements. Another area of research - combating electro-magnetic pollution -
can be found by clicking here (opens new window).
We have covered many of the main points in the preceding pages of this section on Protecting Your Major Asset – Your Body. Now we'll look at a bit of the general points of this alternative health care research.
Understand the Medical Evidence for Using Nutritional Supplements
Doctors and other health care professionals who make the time to research the medical literature are amazed at the overwhelming evidence in their own peer-reviewed medical and scientific research journals.
This information has not been taught in medical schools (although there are small signs that this is slowly changing); in most medical schools nutrition has been at most a single course in the entire curriculum.
Let's look first at some general statements.
•	"Until quite recently it was thought that everyone in this country got enough vitamins through their diet and that taking supplements just creates expensive urine. I think we now have proof this isn't true." (Professor Walter Willet, Harvard University Medical School, April, 1992
•	Nutrition Reviews, the pinnacle of scientific respectability, showed unequivocally in 1992 that it is impossible to get sufficient vitamins from our degraded food supply. The article also criticized the FDA for failing to permit companies to tell us how vitamins prevent cancer. Nutrition Reviews, July 1992
•	In March 1994, Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg, Director of Research at the USDA, Human Nutrition Research Center, recommends publicly that everyone take antioxidant supplements: "I have confidence that these things really work".
•	Editorial Position of the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Ranjit Chandra: "The era of nutrient supplements to support health and reduce illness is here to stay". JAMA 1997;277:1398-99
•	After 57 years of denial, the RDA Committee of the National Academy of Sciences finally admits that the American diet does not contain sufficient nutrients for normal health and recommends that almost all Americans take vitamin supplements. New Engl J Med, 9 April 1998 "Eat a Good Diet & Take Vitamin Supplements"
This information is slowly moving into mainstream medicine as more and more doctors become educated in the literature of their own journals:
"Our first goal should be to have our children eat a variety of fruits and vegetables. Experts in the nutrition field are asking for a re-examination of the Food Guide Pyramid to emphasize even more fruits and vegetables. Our second goal should be to understand the role that sensible nutritional supplementation has in defending against free radical damage [my italics]." Wood, Christine (MD – Pediatrician), How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It. 1999
You can find her book and lots of valuable information about kids' health and nutrition at
Kids Eat Great (opens new window).
Periodically we see articles in newspapers or on television suggesting that certain vitamins are not safe. While some vitamins like A and K can be toxic if taken in doses that are too large, generally vitamins in supplement form are safe, provided a number of issues discussed in the section Quality Does Matter (in new window) are properly addressed.
Two vitamins attacked a fair amount in the media in 2004 and 2005 are Vitamins C and E. But a study in 2005 put these concerns to rest. Scientists evaluating 95 clinical trials or epidemiological studies in humans concluded that Vitamin E supplements appear to be safe for most adults in doses of up to 1600 IU/day. They found no pattern of evidence to suggest concerns about dosages of Vitamin C up to 2000 mg/day. Am J Clin Nutr 2005; 81(4):735-745.
Alternative health care research can follow some twists and turns but the overwhelming weight of evidence is positive. Sometimes you just have to ignore the sensationalist headlines - for the news media they mean advertising revenue. But that's not the way to do qualitative health research.
There is actually an incredible wealth of medical and scientific evidence about the need for nutritional supplements.
In the 12 years (1998-2010) that I have followed the literature on supplements and alternative health care research the number of good, solid research articles has increased dramatically.
In It's About Health (opens new window) you'll find summaries of over 450 articles from top medical journals – evidence-based alternative health care research on prevention and care of the following conditions and degenerative diseases:
•	ADHD
•	Aging
•	Alzheimer's Dementia
•	Arthritis
•	Asthma
•	Cancer
•	Cancer - Chemotherapy & Radiation
•	Children and Degenerative Diseases
•	Cholesterol
•	Depression
•	Diabetes
•	Diabetes- Metabolic Syndrome
•	Heart and Cardiovascular
•	Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
•	Immune Function
•	Infertility
•	Kidney Function
•	Migraine and Headache
•	Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
•	Obesity
•Osteoporosis
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•	Pain
•	Parkinson's
•	Pre-Natal Issues
•	Prostate
•	Skin
•	Vision
•	Weight Management
Please remember, if you are not a doctor, you do NOT prescribe for yourself or for others. You can present this information to others but that is as far as you can go. This allows you and them to make informed decisions in consultations with their doctors, physicians and other care-givers. Just get them to look at this alternative health care research.
The summaries, categorized by topic/disease, are all drawn from leading medical and scientific journals and other reputable medical sources. The bulk of the cited studies were double blind, placebo controlled, randomized scientific studies. Many were conducted in clinical settings with large groups of people over a period of time. Some were crossover studies ( all these terms are defined in
It's About Health. (in a new window). The majority was published in peer reviewed journals. These excerpts and summaries can also be shared with physicians, doctors and care-givers in determining a course of action. If they choose they can use the citation to go to the original article.
Here are 5 examples of what you will find in It's About Health.
1. Thirty men and women with Type 2 Diabetes were randomly assigned in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study to receive either 500 mg of Vitamin C/day or a placebo. After 4 weeks of treatment the systolic blood pressure (the higher number) decreased an average of 9.8 mm Hg while the diastolic pressure (the lower number) decreased by 4 mm Hg. No change was seen in the placebo group. Given the link between Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases this study suggests that people with Diabetes can reduce their risk of associated heart disease with Vitamin C supplementation. Most diabetics can safely handle Vitamin C but to be on the safe side should check with their caregiver. Hypertension2002;40:804-809
2. It is known that Hormone Replacement Therapy has a beneficial effect on bone density in women, especially post-menopausal women; but it is also linked to the development of cancer and has been largely discontinued. Isoflavone estrogen therapy is an alternative. In this study 205 women aged 49-65 were enrolled in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial; 177 completed the year long study that used a red-clover derived isoflavone supplement that provided a daily dose of 26 mg biochanin, 16 mg formononetin, 1 mg genistein, and 0.5 mg daidzein. Loss of lumbar spine bone mineral content and bone mineral density was significantly lower in the women taking the supplement than in those taking the placebo. Bone formation markers were also significantly increased in those taking the supplement. Am J Clin Nutr 2004;79:326-333
3. A study involving 156 healthy men and women with mildly elevated cholesterol demonstrated that when compared with 25g of casein (isoflavone free soy), 25g of isolated soy protein containing 62 mg of isoflavones lowered total cholesterol by 4% and LDL cholesterol by 6%. In those "patients with LDL cholesterol levels in the top half of the population studied (>4.24 mmol/L [or in the U.S. >164mg/dL], comparable reductions were 9% [total] and 10% (LDL)". In comparing the 62 mg level of isoflavones with 2, 27 and 37 mg levels, the authors concluded "there was a dose-response effect of increasing amounts of isoflavones on total and LDL cholesterol levels". In short, more was better. The authors noted that the method extracting isolated soy protein is critical since 25g "ethanol-extracted isolated soy protein containing 3mg of isoflavones did not significantly reduce plasma concentrations of total or LDL cholesterol". Arch Intern Med 1999; 159(17): 2070-2076
You can find a soy product containing these levels of protein and isoflavones by Clicking Here (opens new window).
4. In a 24 year follow-up (1976-2000) to the nurses health Study involving 116, 564 women who at the outset were free from CVD and cancer. In the subsequent 25 years 10,282 of the nurses died; 2,370 from CVD, 5,223 from cancer and 2,689 from other causes. Using lean (BMI 25 or lower) active (at least 3.5 hours of exercise/w) women as a base, it was found that the multivariate risk of death were 1.55 for lean, inactive women; 1.91 for women who were obese (BMI 30 or greater) but active; and 2.42 for inactive, obese women. N Eng J Med 2004; 351:2694-2703, 2753-2755
5. A total of 974 men with a history of either basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma (forms of skin cancer) were randomly assigned to either a daily supplement of 200 mcg of selenium or a placebo. Patients were treated for a mean of 4.5 years and followed for a mean of 6.5 years. Significantly lower rates of prostate cancer were found in the men taking selenium. When the sample was reduced to include only those with normal (< or = 4ng/mL) prostate-specific antigen (PSA) at the beginning of the study (a total of 843 patients the results were even more dramatic. No protection was found against recurrence of basal or squamous cell carcinomas. Br J Urol 1998; 81(5):730-4
This is good news for someone like me who had an enlarged prostate and both basal and squamous cell skin cancers. By taking other anti-oxidants shown in the literature to be helpful in reducing the risk of cancer and using skin care products I have no recurrence of skin cancers. This evidence shows that with the 198 mcg of selenium I have received since 1997 in my supplements I am protecting myself against prostate cancer. The same company's Saw Palmetto Plus has returned my previously enlarged and asymmetric prostate to a normal size and shape. Click here for more information on these super supplements. (in a new window). My personal results certainly strengthen my confidence in alternative health care research.
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Asthma: Symptoms and Diagnosis other than asthma can be responsible for symptoms suggestive of asthma. Emphysema and chronic obstructive bronchitis can resemble asthma, but a significant history of smoking cigarettes is usually present. Pulmonary sarcoidosis can cause wheezing. Rare lung diseases like obliterative bronchiolitis or eosinophilic pneumonia are also occasionally in the differential diagnosis of asthmalike symptoms. Common medical conditions that lead to symptoms similar to those of asthma are reviewed in Question 23.
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The next step usually involves attempting to confirm, or "rule in" the doctor's initial diagnostic impression by performing specific tests as needed, in addition to history taking and to the physical examination. For example, the differential diagnosis of a persistent, daily, dry cough that lasts more than 2 months in a 22-year-old non-smoking college student in otherwise excellent health might include asthma, UACS (postnasal drip), or GERD, either alone or in combination. The physician would thus initially perform an evaluation for the possibility of asthma and perhaps even prescribe asthma medication.


With spring around the corner, many people are beginning to think of planting their gardens. Between lifting heavy bags and spending prolonged periods of time in awkward positions, gardening actually puts tremendous stress on the human body. So Brill Physical Therapy is here to offer some pointers!
When people think of physically demanding jobs, they most commonly think of industries like construction, plumbing, or electrical. However, professional musicians must endure tremendous amounts of physical strength in order to hone their craft.
Indoor rock climbing- perfect way to get a great body and brain workout, all while staying warm inside! With the increase of climbing gyms, we've seen an increase in climbers and wanted to cover ways to prevent injury!
As new parents, we quickly figure out that our babies don't come equipped with owner manuals. So when we hear about the importance of tummy time for newborns and young infants, it can be overwhelming to understand what this actually entails.
Diastasis Recti: how do you know if you have it and what can you do about it?
Diastasis recti or abdominal separation occurs commonly amongst two-thirds of pregnant women and can also occur in men.
Patellofemoral pain syndrome or "runner's knee" translates to kneecap pain. It's the most common overuse injury among runners, but it's important to highlight that it can occur in athletes from nearly every sport and even in non-athletes who stress the knee in their daily activities as well.
Congenital Muscular Torticollis (CMT) is a term used for a situation in which an infant has a tightening in their neck muscles, primarily on one side. This will cause them to often have their head rotated and tilted to one side, and is most easily seen when your baby is lying in their crib or in their stroller.
What Does A Hip Replacement Cost You?
As of July 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 332,000 hip replacements are performed each year. Therefore, Brill Physical Therapy thought this NY Times article comparing costs of hip surgery may be of interest to many of you.
Physical therapy is becoming more and more recognized nowadays.
Physical therapy can mobilize the knee for better alignment which often allows the meniscus to heal.
Balance is very important in everything you do. This self-test will help reveal the power and strength of the muscles in your lower extremities. Here is a quick test to see how good your balance is.
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Here are some of the causes of tension headaches.
Why am I having tingling and numbness in my hands during pregnancy?
These sensations are most likely caused by carpal tunnel syndrome. Although you probably associate this condition with people whose jobs require repetitive hand movements (such as data processors, computer programmers, and assembly-line workers), it's also more prevalent in pregnant women.
New Moms get well at Brill Physical Therapy!
Did you know that physical therapy can help out post-partum mothers?
Pelvic rehabilitation is a type of physical therapy that can be very helpful for postpartum moms. Pregnancy and childbirth can damage the pelvic floor muscles and connective tissue, causing all kinds of inconvenient and uncomfortable symptoms for women after they give birth.
Curious about shoulder pain and impingement?
Why am I having shoulder pain when I reach above my head?


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Like Frodo, Tabletop Gaming Lives!
How's that title for a combination age giveaway and cred establisher? Seriously though, our friend David N. Scott of Pererro asks a question near and dear to my heart, "So... anyone out there still tabletop?" The underlying assumption to this question is that gaming has moved from the tabletop to the desktop, or to the console as the case may be. Let me say, that for me tabletop gaming is alive and well. I might spend weeknights playing Mass Effect (when I'm not doing the Geekerati podcast), but my Saturdays are filled with gaming goodness. Let me share with you the games I play regularly with my gaming group (Wes, Jo, Eric, Steven, and Joel) every Saturday in our marathon 10 sessions. Then I'll mention a couple of the other games I've played this year.
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5: The first, second, fourth, and possibly fifth Saturday of every month (holidays excepted), I run an Eberron campaign based in that campaign's city of Sharn. The basic theme of the campaign is CSI: Sharn and the characters solve murders, battle terrorists, and are currently beginning to scratch the surface of a possible continent wide conspiracy that will begin with an assassination (if the players don't do their job). The game begins Saturday at 1pm and usually ends around 6pm.
Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 (Backup Games): Did I mention earlier that we have marathon sessions on Saturday? Well, we do, but one of our group leaves at 6pm. I didn't want this player to feel left out of the regular campaign, which has been running for three years, so the group runs a couple of back up games after our 6pm break. Starting at 7pm and lasting until around 1am, we adventure in the world of Paizo's GameMastery world. We alternate two different campaigns in the Paizo-verse. In the first of our Paizo games, the players are running through Nicholas Logue's series of Falcon's Hollow adventures in the GameMastery Module line. They started with Hollow's Last Hope, continued with The Crown of the Kobold King, and will soon face The Carnival of Tears. Characters in the second Paizo game are attempting to finish the Rise of the Runelord's adventure path contained in the pages of Pathfinder magazine. They are about a third of the way through Burnt Offerings.
Star Wars Saga Edition: Every third Saturday (minus holidays as usual), Wes runs our Star Wars Saga Edition campaign where our struggling rag tag group of heroes attempts to thwart the plans of the Sith during the Clone Wars. So far we are having a great time, but my Jedi character (Resh Sal'Gana) is pretty sure that every Jedi, who isn't in his immediate group, is a Sith Lord. So far, we like the new rules set, but have some issues with the layout in the core rulebook (especially when it comes to GM advice).
Chill 1st Edition: Around Halloween, during our "backup" game period, we played a little 1st edition Chill and had a great time. I imagine that we'll be playing another session sooner rather than later. Pacesetter games was a company founded by former TSR employees who created a number of games that were criticized at the time, but which feature elements that are common now in horror RPGs. Chill may not be Call of Cthulhu, but then again, it never was meant to be.
d20 Modern: Yep...we've played this, and will again very soon, in our backup game time.
Marvel Superheroes: The players got a little taste of this game earlier this year, and we had a blast.
There's more RPG gaming that we've been doing this year, but needless to say we've been hitting the tabletop pretty hard. Speaking of tabletop gaming, here is a list of some of the board/card games I've played with this year.
Bohnanza: A wonderful card game (5 of 5 stars).
Bull in a China Shop: A very good card game (4 of 5 stars)
Cthulhu 500: A poor card game (2 of 5 stars).
Formula De: My favorite racing game (5 of 5).
Mr. Jack: An amazing two player deduction game (5 of 5)
Tannhäuser: A fun tactical miniatures/board game (4 of 5)
Descent: New classic dungeon crawl game (4 of 5)
Runebound: My favorite "adventure" board game (5 of 5)
Zooloretto: Great fun (5 of 5)
There are many more, but these are just a few of the highlights from the past month.
Labels: Dungeons and Dragons, Fantasy Flight Games, Games, Gaming, Role Playing Games


Starting to read John Howard Yoder's Politics of Jesus already on the first page in the first note I am referred to books and authors I have not heard of, such as John Pairman Brown with The liberated zone, dated 1969.
Apparently there has been a tendency towards what is generally called liberation theology in the Anglophone world, earlier than might have been thought.
A review of this book from 1970 - you can enlarge the text to read it by clicking on it.
There will be a meet up for Christians interested in dialogue at the London Anarchist Conference at Mile End. The conference is Saturday 6th to Sunday 7th June. The meet-up is on Saturday, 7 p.m. at the Orange Room on Burdett Road for a Lebanese meal, just to catch up and share ideas and thoughts.
By Tube: Come out of Mile End Station (Central Line) turn left onto pavement, left at the busy junction onto Burdett Road. The park is on your right; The Orange Room is further down on your left.
By Bus: Take the Number 25 ariculated bus to Mile End Station and follow above instructions.
By Car: Ha! Good luck!!!
By Cycle: The Canal Network will spill you out at Mile End Park part of which runs parallel with Burdett Road.
For a short time which I very intensively lived through I was a reporter for a newssite on religion and globalisation.
Yes, I know what some readers will think or say when I tell it was funded by a state loan. The state demanded the money back after two months, which no normal lender would have done.
That effectively was the end of any professional own reporting for the site, any chances of developing into something independent and it was the end of my journey through Organised-Religionland - which I had found very interesting.
The other day I had to look back on a piece I wrote in that short period not too long ago. A story which without my being a reporter would have gone unnoticed for me.
It was about a television programme aired by the evangelicals - who have their own licensed broadcasting company on public radio and televison in NL - can you manage to live for forty days without s**? A drooping and drooling presenter showed a girl who - we were told - was very easy to get and would not say no to whatever occasion was offered to her - but she wanted to let us know she was not the s*** people said she was.
When I look back at it my sadness about it - and a certain personal sense of utter dullness - comes back with a vengeance. I know we are not supposed to follow the multitude.
Yet, for the multitude this is the face of living christianity today.
About being or not being a s***. Questions about Jesus which I - who happen not to accept the Chalcedon decree about the divinity of Jesus - find of a despicably profane nature. Rather inconsistently I have to refer to one place where you can see what I mean.
It would have been healthier not to have seen it all.
There is not much difference with the story about anarchism - whatever clever things you might say about it, one of the usual idiots on the telly will blow it away within one second. With Christianity, the situation in the final analysis is not different.
Anyone for a provisional definitive consoling message?
And a few minutes after my having finished this the paper edition of A pinch of salt lands into the mailbox and I have to laugh, just like about the cover of nr. 18. "Look kitten..."
Issue 19 of A Pinch of Salt is available.
John Pilger reminds us of the role of the UK in Sri Lanka: as massive arms dealer to the racist and repressive government. At the same time the New Labour government asks the Tamil Tiger guerrilla movement to lay down its arms.
You certainly do not have to be willing to defend the Tigers in a moral sense to understand why they will be fighting on desperately. The Sri Lanka regime does not care about human life in general and Tamil human life in particular.
And it now says it will have dealt with the guerrilla within a few hours even .
A quick kill, just like the Old Labour government championed in Nigeria in 1967, against Biafra, the republic which was the result of fears of genocide of the people from the (South-) Eastern part of this colonial manufacture.
Dividing, killing, ruling. And of course: making money out of all three.
According to government figures, in the last quarter of last year Whitehall approved arms exports to Sri Lanka worth £1.4m, mainly components for communications equipment. This compares with under £1m-worth of UK arms exports to the country for the whole of 2007. "When the world needs co-operative solutions to global problems, the thriving international arms market points to a squandering of resources which the international community can ill afford," said Paul Holtom, head of Sipri's arms transfer programme.
More articles on the UK arms deliveries to Sri Lanka here and here (dating back to 2001). It is easy to find more.
In the case of Nigeria it was the USSR which also helped the junta with its quick kill (which lasted 2,5 years, incidentally). In Sri Lanka where so-called maoist Sinhalese racists are supporting the government, this fraternal socialist role is fulfilled by the People's Republic of China.
Around ten years ago I had an appointment with an Israeli anarchist professor, who was looking for people willing to present a paper on Gustav Landauer. I suggested to offer a parallel history of ideas of Dutch Christian anarchists and Landauer – whose anarchism certainly can be called religious but not Christian. This for the rather simple reason that he was Jewish, and although he presented thoughts of Meister Eckhart's in modern German he never betrayed his spiritual roots – why indeed should he?
I spent most of that summer studying Landauer and getting to see the connection between Christian anarchism and Landauer's type of anarchism. It proved rather helpful that I considered and still consider his Aufruf zum Sozialismus (Call to socialism) the best invitation to anarchism I have read – and I have read quite a few. In the final analysis the connection between "my" Dutch Christian anarchists and Landauer was founded on the basis of mysticism – strange as this may sound since many people cannot think of combining "basis" with "mysticism". The latter word seems to refer to floatings in the air, not with the baking of daily bread for a corner shop (which was a connection I found – and to my amazement the retired Israeli professor told me he now was a baker at a kibbutz...).
So I braved the odds of entering Israel, being questioned in the middle of the night whether this professor might be called to verify my story. I had to spend the night outside in front of the university, watching the sun coming up and getting strength. I did not know what I was waiting for – actually, it was Saturday and it took me quite a lot of apparently forbidden work to even get into the room I had made a reservation for in the university building. And then Monday morning arrived – the moment of my debut as presenter of a paper at a university on the subject I had been studying for some time. Nobody there, except for the Israeli professor. Most participants, it turned out, had cancelled their promise to participate. And those who had not done so did not turn up. After nearly half an hour the professor decided to call it a day: "It happens". He would try to squeeze me in somewhere so I would not have travelled all this way in vain. I was too stunned to be sad or angry.
Walking through the corridor of the university building I saw a man who was putting a notice on the information board: Extra Seminar on the study of "Mysticism and society"! I had to laugh, the man putting up the notification asked me why. "Because I have to ask you whether I can present my paper at your seminar". I told him the story, gave him a print of the paper, he had a quick look at it and said that naturally I would fit in. If ever I could have believed in God's Finger, it was at that moment. A few days later I was presenting the story of Dutch Christian anarchism and its parallels with Landauer to an international audience – and afterwards the moderator, a reverend of the Evangelische Kirche and I were rather stubbornly invited by a Carmelite nun to present our papers to a Carmelite community – at Mt. Carmel itself. I had to improvise it in French, the first European language of Christendom in the Near East. The unforgettable picture of smiling convent sisters behind their bars listening to me telling about the connection between anarchism, mysticism and Christianity... Writing it down I find it hard to believe it myself.
[Written as Pt. 1 of a series: Mysticism - a coming out story.
Only this biter has been bit by his own previous posting which suddenly made him see how much he takes for granted.
The picture is a look at Haifa University from downtown. I would not go there nowadays, a critical theorist working there with whom I stayed in touch called it "a sad part of the world".
Anyway, God willing - to be continued].
"A mystical vein runs through our movement," Dutch Christian anarchist reverend Louis A. Bähler wrote around a century ago - about Christian anarchism. Crossing the edges of logic I might say to this: this is both true and untrue. The English title of Dorothee Sölle's book on mysticism and action expresses this logical non sequitur better still: The silent cry (Du stilles Geschrei - the original German subtitle, again, is ambivalent, meaning either "You silent cry" or "Hark the silent cry").
So you have not stopped reading already, impatiently shrugging? Chances are the word "mysticism" invokes for readers with a Christian background the burning of fragrant sticks, humming Om endlessly and all the other kinds of kitsch white Westerners like to shop for in areas which will really remain closed to them - the world Gita Mehta already summed up in her book title Karma cola.
Mysticism has been declared a closed area by many Christian theologians, starting from Tertullian right down to Karl Barth. On the other hand, a theologian as Karl Rahner thought that there would be no future for the Church if it did not turn (back) to mysticism. And Peter Maurin - another Christian anarchist - stresses that the workers are naturally mystical - and theirs is the future anyway.
Mysticism is the knowledge of God, based on experience.
To understand the nature of mysticism you have to go back to your childhood and remember what it was like when you first fell in love. Can you remember the days at school when this undefinable thrill for the first time got hold of you? There you were, all of a sudden you had fallen in love with a girl that was in your eyes the favourite of the gods. She was so touched by divine grace that the picture of her could not leave your mind for a second. How smooth her skin and how beautiful her hair! What a gorgeous face! How delicate the rounding of her forearms! Her beautiful girlish hands, with the tender and fragile fingers, kept coming back to your mind all day. And if this mental picture, which you had chained to your soul with all the Gordian knots in the world, left your memory and the image of her went blank, then you felt a great loss, a tremendous pain of being bereft by something so precious that you would give up everything you owned to get it back. You remembered everything she said, what she did, the way she walked, the charm of her conversation. Especially on moments when you were alone this feeling was cherished. You wanted to be by yourself with this feeling and you locked yourself up in your room to think about her. It made your favourite music sound like it was played on Mount Parnassos by Apollo himself.
No, my friend - this is more or less how it felt the second time I fell in love, and certainly not exactly that way.
The first time was - now that I write it down it comes with some fear and trembling - meeting a girl whose name was the name she should have had, the immediate recogniton - "It is you", her answer: "Yes, and it is you" and the feeling of both certainty and confusion at the same time. What next?
Next was - she was married within weeks. With the father of the child she already was expecting.
She had to. Working towards a certain mystical experience. Bye bye.
Sorry for this interruption - anyway, the general feeling probably is expressed in the right way in the exalted story about this girl and her forearms (not a body part I particularly associate with roundings) - you might understand it even when you are a "straight" woman, a gay man or a lesbian - at least, I hope you recognize it since I do more or less. The anonymous writer on the site - as does Dorothee Sölle - stresses everybody has had mystical experiences in their life.
Frankly, I have no idea about the difference between metapsychic experience - such as my first encounter with love - and mysticism.
My intuition (ah! something else in this field) tells me the boundaries are uncertain. A very prominent anti-mystical theologian tells he was so frightened about a mystical experience that he got on the run for it - and apparently succeeded in shaking it off. I will not mention names but he has written on Anarchie et christianisme. It turned him into a religious man but an anti-mysticist too. More on that later.
And again, there is a contradiction. Can mysticism be studied rationally? Yes, it can be done, but you should have experience with mysticism yourself to study it. But haven't we all, then?
*) When I wrote the stage play the tragic aspect of it all was what had struck me most - as if meeting someone you have been waiting for and whose name you have known in advance and the mutual recognition - as if that would have been perfectly normal.
And maybe it is. At a younger age I probably took it for granted.
And yet it is frighteningly inexplicable - as yet. Since it is by its nature a one-time experience it is not open to experimental research. More on the ordinary of the miraculous and the miracle of the ordinary here as far as I am concerned.
His holiness Pope Benedict was a member of the Hitlerjugend, as anyone of a certain age in Germany was. He was also enlisted in the armed forces, as any male was at his age in his lifetime.
I am not a Catholic, so I am not obliged to say it let alone think it but I will go along with the idea that it is the Holy Spirit Who decides who will be pope. There is a time to be Protestant and there is a time to let go of this protestantism and respect the position of the larger part of the one holy catholic Church.
Visiting what is generally referred to as the Holy Land - a way to avoid difficult referring names as Israel, Palestine, and what most Israeli Jews call The Territories which for any decent person should be a scandal - he will be consistently reminded of his nationality.
It could have been expected that the pope would be blackmailed about his German background and what this means at his age. And he is. He will never be able to say it right. Neither will any successor, for that matter, of whatever nationality (s)he may be.
I could not see them at first glance but maybe if you have a good look you will find apologies for the murder (not: killing) and profit making by murder (not: killing) and slave labour.
Capitalism is the worst mental disorder ever to visit humankind, and we are surrounded by this disorder all day and all night and we should accept it as a perfectly normal and decent condition.
I am lost for words actually because I really was so naive to think these companies were not allowed to be based in Israel.
Would it be useful to show any disappointment about the pope who will not be visiting Gaza? The polite answer, of course, will be: the Israeli junta will not guarantee the safety of the head of the Church of Rome in finibus Filistinorum, since it will guarantee no-one's personal safety in this area.
And so rather unsurprisingly the possibility to meet certain Christians of the land where Christianity was born will pass. Unsurprisingly, but still disappointing for the Christians concerned, and - without doubt - for the muslims too.
But there will be chances to have your own special pilgimage without taking risks no-one should run. Be on the lookout for olive harvesting.
And then there is the peace initiative of Father Elias Chacour, which organises its own pilgrimage in the autumn. I was there and I can only say: seeing for yourself, being there is - let me think about words because I do not want to sound like a tourist brochure.
More on "being there" soon.
Tuesday at 7.30pm and free.
After years of struggle; national strikes, Maoist and military imposed curfews, the bloodiest asassination of royals since the end of the Russian Tsars, and riots on the streets of Khatmandu, the Nepalese people finally overthrew the Royalists (2006) and last year and the communists stormed to power in a new federalist system.
Almost exactly a year later and the prime minister and some other goverment minister's are resigning in what Link and blogger Ben Peterson are calling a "soft coup" that suggests that Maoist and popular reform in favour of greater social justice are still being frustrated by monarchist military elites.
The protests ranged from involving hundreds, to tens of thousands, he said. However, he emphasised that these protests occurred simultaneously — there could be dozens of protests in Kathmandu at any one time. "Many of the people I have spoken to at the protests were not Maoists", Peterson said.
The foreign media have attempted to play up protests by right-wing NC supporters. The Sydney Morning Herald even featured a photo of an NC supporters protest with the caption "People's Power". Peterson said that before the UCPN (M) left government, there were some tiny protests involving a few hundred people at most. Since then, no such protests had occurred.
In some cases the police have attacked protesters, including tear gassing a demonstration by the pro-UCPN (M) Young Communist League. Police repeatedly attack attempts by protesters, mostly Maoist women, to demonstrate in front of the president's offices. Protests in that are have been banned, resulting in regular clashes.
However, the state has held off from trying full-scale repression.
So far, the UCPN (M) has also held back from full-scale mobilisations. It has yet to organise a centralised, all-out demonstration that calls the greatest numbers onto the streets together. However, as the likely futile negotiations by the anti-Maoist parties drags on, that could be about to change."
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The attack at the Dutch royal family of April 30th - which took the lives of seven people, the perpetrator including, and several wounded who will be scarred for life - keeps intriguing. Now here is someone who was fired, who would be evicted because he was unable to pay the rent and as a divorced father was deprived of the right to see his children.
Yes, there are thousands or hundreds of thousands of people like him, if not millions. Luckily, hardly any of them decides to do an Attentat.
But even though poverty may have loomed for the late attacker, he still had a car, the best legal means to kill or hurt. It was a Suzuki.
I am not sure whether CNN mentioned the brand in its news item about the attack. But click on the illustration and find out what CNN has to say about Suzuki.
CNN is not broadcasting for the news ONLY ON CNN.
CNN is there for the advertisements.
And any advertisement for a brand of car is an advertisement for cars in general, as Erich Fromm has written. It projects a society in which it is perfectly normal and desirable to own your own four wheeled means of transport (which has to be bought on credit of course - oops, something going wrong with this these days).
And "creating" seven dead and several more wounded is a way of life.
Libertarian marxist André Gorz already summed up the case against cars in 1973.
Come to think of it, Dutch Christian anarchist Felix Ortt already wrote half a century before Gorz that it was a wasteful means of consuming energy - when you convert the costs you end up in proceeding at a speed of 5 km/h - the speed of a walking person - and you use quite a lot of irreplaceable resources for this result.
...but I've been to the site.
Glasgow, the city of Alasdair Gray, of our friend wee beautiful pict and of Alastair McIntosh, on whose enchanted-garden-like site I got lost today by way of Sunday service (it even inspired me to write a poem).
Somewhere in that garden is a complete text of Dom Hélder Câmara's Spiral of violence, as a pdf.
This year's 2009 anarchism and Christianity conference in the US aims to be a time to think about the possibilities for the world to come. The speakers and the workshops will not only provide a much needed reality check regarding the financial and ecological crises we face, but also point to signs of faithfulness and hope. We want to see the current challenges as an opportunity for creativity, for alternative living, for radical sharing, for faithfulness, for a new way of being. We are living in a karios moment that will either break us or compel us to finally strive for a sane way of life.
The questions we face at this pivotal time of global turmoil is not if our human empires will fall apart, but when they will fall and how will we face it? We hope you will join the conversation.
The perpetrator - the suspected perpetrator I should say - of the bloodbath at the Dutch royal parade in Apeldoorn has died, being the sixth victim of his attack. So we will not get a statement about his intentions.
What we know is that he was a security guard - not the type of work that breeds revolutionaries - it is the ultimate kind of the simulation of work. He had received notice that he was being fired, furthermore he would be dispossessed of his house and he was a divorced father being deprived of the right to see his children.
But it was not a terror attack. And we will never know the grudges he had against the ruling order which made him do his evil deed.
And a simple truth which will never be stressed in this or any other case: anyone with a car is a potential mass murderer.


I am loving the concept of Butterfly twists, Launched in London in 2009 by four close friends, Butterfly Twists have quickly redefined style, comfort and fashion. The hallmark of the British brand is the fact that each design boasts an innovative twist allowing the footwear to be folded and thus easily transported in your handbag or carry-all.
The twist up shop opened on the 1st July at Morning Side shopping centre and is the first of its kind in South Africa.
Kicking off its debut with a range of ballerina flats which were foldable, flexible and fabulous, Butterfly Twists now come in a range of permutations from the sultry Eve (a snakeskin flat in four eye-popping shades) to the ladylike Olivia and the racy Elizabeth line, which features 1980s inspired studs. And in a nod to the new festival crowd of Kate Moss and her ilk who have added style to the mosh pits of Glastonbury, the new Butterfly Twists slouchy boots made from soft, plush-micro suede are not only easily foldable but set to become a trans-seasonal wardrobe stable moving from winter to spring and back again.
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Everything you need to know about virtual reality
The state of VR: Where Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR, and others stand right...
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For years, our personal computers were made up of monitors, keyboards, and a big beige box. Then laptops came along and changed everything—until a small, flat plate of glass encased in metal, dubbed the iPhone, showed up and changed everything again, followed shortly thereafter by an even larger plate of glass called the iPad that changed things even more.
As exciting as the iPad was, the original came to us five years ago. Today, we once again face major shifts in for computing. What will that future look like, both in the near term and the slightly further-off future?
Peering into that which hasn't happened yet is a perilous business, but here are some new visions for computing that technology companies are rolling out soon—as well as a few radical, yet compelling dreams that are still years away from becoming tangible.
The near term
We've already got basic virtual reality headsets in the form of Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR. But these two models are limited because they rely on a smartphone to double as the VR display, and the software they run are mere mobile apps that offer a fraction of what's possible with a full PC's power.
Soon, the real heavyweights of VR will make their long-expected debuts, bringing with them dedicated displays, positional tracking, and newly designed made-for-VR controllers.
The long-awaited Oculus Rift will finally show up by the end of March 2016, the SteamVR-powered HTC Vive is launching in very limited numbers by the time the holidays roll around, and at some point after both of those, Sony should release PlayStation VR, also known as Project Morpheus.
Virtual reality promises to change the way we play games, do business, train soldiers, and perceive the very world around us. For all that promise to live up to the hype, however, these kits need to be affordable. Right now all we can say is that Oculus might be priced affordably, the Vive's room-scale experience probably won't be, and we have no idea about the PlayStation VR.
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Further reading: Virtual reality for beginners: Everything you need to know to wrap your head around VR
A close cousin of virtual reality, augmented reality is something we've been playing with on smartphones for years. The easiest way to think of the difference is that virtual reality immerses you in a 100-percent digital experience, while augmented reality creates a digital overlay on top of the physical world.
Further reading: Why virtual reality is better than augmented reality for gaming
Microsoft's HoloLens captures the most attention in the augmented reality realm these days. The device may soon allow you to fight off Minecraft Zombies and Creepers coming at you from behind your couch. It will allow medical students to view a 3D model of the heart right in the middle of the classroom, help non-electricians successfully wire a broken lightswitch, and much more.
Microsoft isn't the only company working on augmented reality. Another notable player is Magic Leap, a secretive start-up that is full of promises and short on specifics, while a team of former Valve engineers are working on CastAR.
Unfortunately, there's no word on when we might see these augmented reality headsets in the real world.
Intel's wireless future
PCs are great for gaming, getting working done, gaming, surfing the Internet, and gaming, but man they need a lot of wires. Intel hopes to reduce our dependency on little black tubes snaking around and under our desks with new wireless technologies—a wire-free future for the PC.
Intel's been pushing WiGig, a standard for wireless gigabit data links currently supported by Dell and HP. WiGig can connect monitors, hard drives, and other peripherals to your PC sans cables.
Intel is also working on a method for wirelessly charging your laptop with a pad delivering up to 20 watts of power. We hope to see laptops charging wirelessly in 2016.
Perceptual computing
A pet project of Intel's for a few years now, Perceptual computing is the idea of interacting with your PC using natural senses rather than traditional interface methods. Instead of a keyboard, you might use hand gestures. Instead of clicking a pause button on a video, it might stop based on eye-tracking.
To move conceptual computing from trade show demos to real-life applications, however, PC users need the right equipment. That's just starting to happen now with Windows 10 laptops and PCs loaded with RealSense cameras, which (among other things) team with Windows Hello biometric security to unlock your PC with your face—no password required.
Smartphone as PC
Blame it on Motorola's (failed) Atrix, but the idea of your smartphone's doubling as a PC when docked just won't go away. But so far, all we've seen are smartphones that can slip into a customized desktop version of Android or a Chrome OS-like browser-based system when docked.
Nevertheless, the reality of a full desktop powered by a smartphone is now closer than ever, thanks to Microsoft's work on a Windows 10 Mobile feature called Continuum. Continuum allows Windows 10 phones to display a Windows desktop-like experience when connected to an external monitor. You can also connect an external keyboard and mouse, or use the phone's display itself to control the "PC."
Canonical has a similar concept, where an Ubuntu smartphone can display a full Linux desktop when docked. The concept was first introduced for the crowdfunded Ubuntu Edge smartphone, which raised more than $12 million. Though it fell short of its $32 million goal, the dream didn't die: Ubuntu phones that double as Linux PCs should roll out sooner than later.
Continuum, meanwhile, will show up on Windows 10 mobile devices later in 2015.
Wall computing
Microsoft's dream of a wall-sized computer is alive and well. It's not a new dream, however—the massive Perceptive Pixel display was something of a novelty that not many people besides Bill Gates ever used.
Nevertheless, Microsoft is trying again with the upcoming Surface Hub. This 84-inch, 4K business-focused touchscreen looks like an amazing device to play around with. It runs Windows 10 and can be used for pretty much anything you use a PC for today, including video conferencing and presentations. Microsoft's aim here is not just to make a big PC, but to digitize the whiteboard and take advantage of all the possibilities such a concept entails.
The Surface Hub will roll out in January 2016, four months after its original launch date of September 1, 2015.
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You might've noticed the steel beams holding together all that wood and glass. According to the listing, those beams were repurposed from an NYC loft, bringing a sprinkle of urban industrial flare to this contemporary log cabin. But, unlike those rustic cabins upon which this cottage is based, it's quite spacious at 2,133 square feet and outfitted with a chef's dream of a stainless steel Sub-Zero and Bosch kitchen with soapstone counter tops, spa-like bath fixtures including soaking tub and limestone tile, Wittus Trendline free-standing wood stove in the living room, and security system. Dare we say it? Oh, what the hell: This is not your grandfather's log cabin.
Includes two bedrooms on the second level of the house, one of which is a master en suite. The second level is a loft level, open to the lower level, and bordered on one side by a two-story wall of glass.
The lower level comes with an additional full bath, studio, laundry room, and access to the ground-floor poured-concrete patio, where you can sit and watch the trees languidly sway in the breeze.
Located in total seclusion less than 4 miles from the charming, historic hamlet of Stone Ridge. Rumor has it that you will get views of Mohonk Mountain from here, and outdoor attractions like Mohonk Preserve, Minnewaska State Park, Awosting Reserve, and all of the Catskill Park are practically at your door step.
Like secluded properties like this one? We do, too, which is why we've been featuring secluded properties all this week on Upstater. Find more secluded properties here, here, and here.
Does this Ulster County Modern loft fill your personal quota for glass, wood, and steel? Find out more about 39 Hornbeck Lane, Accord from Berkshire Hathaway.


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Nil Battey Sannata : Passed with distinction….
Some movies entertain you and you tend to forget them, but some movies are very simple but yet they entertain you but also tend remain in your mind long after the movie gets over…"Nil Battey Sannata" is one such movie.
After writing it is the performances that makes "Nil Battey Sannata" worth a watch…especially the performance of Swara Bhaskar who plays the main protagonist Chanda, a domestic help…Swara just becomes Chanda and I don't think so there can be any bigger appreciation for her performance. She owns the character and never ever will you feel the Swara Bhaskar of "Tanu Weds Manu" or "Ranjhnaa" or "Prem Ratan Dhan Payo"…she is so natural and everything about her portrayal is just brilliant. Swara would definitely be the favourite contender for awards for this year. Next is debutant Ria Shukla who plays Chanda's daughter Apu, she complements Swara's performance with equal vigour and helps to create the right chemistry between the character of the mother and the daughter, definitely another brilliant performance. Ratna Pathak Shah as Dr Diwan, Chanda's employer, is just amazing, the way she underplays the character becomes the beauty of portrayal and the chemistry of both the characters is full marks to Swara Bhaskar and Ratna Pathak Shah….Another brilliant performance is of Pankaj Tripathi who plays the Principal and the maths teacher of the school, Pankaj yet again proves his brilliance with his realistic portrayal, definitely a actor watch out for….rest of the cast also do a brilliant job….Sanjay Suri in a cameo is adorable….
Cinematography by Gavemic U Ary blends brilliantly with the narration and the beauty is how simply Agra and it's by lanes having been captured….
Will have to mention casting director Mukesh Chabra, who gets the casting, right….
At last and definitely not the least, the director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, first kudos to her for choosing such a topic and second executing such a brilliant script, co-written by her, in a simple yet beautiful way. Ashwiny gets the chemistry of the characters bang on and she gets the emotional quotient just right without any melodrama. Will definitely watch out for Ashwiny's next….
"Nil Battey Sannata", is simple yet will pull your heart strings and will make you laugh and cry and at the end will put a smile on your face…will go with FOUR stars….


Stroke is a major cause of disability and mortality in most economically developed countries. It is the second leading cause of death worldwide (after cancer and heart disease) [55.1, 2] and a major cause of disability in adults in developed countries [55.3]. Personalized modeling is an emerging effective computational approach, which has been applied to various disciplines, such as in personalized drug design, ecology, business, and crime prevention; it has recently become more prominent in biomedical applications. Biomedical data on stroke risk factors and prognostic data are available in a large volume, but the data are complex and often difficult to apply to a specific person. Individualizing stroke risk prediction and prognosis will allow patients to focus on risk factors specific to them, thereby reducing their stroke risk and managing stroke outcomes more effectively. This chapter reviews various methods–conventional statistical methods and computational intelligent modeling methods for predicting risk and outcome of stroke.


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Q: how do i equate raw input with a variable value in python This is my first 'program' or script or whatev. So if I am going about this completely wrong, feel free to make fun of me.
I wanted to make a textual, player vs player chess program.
My first instinct was to make the board an 8x8 list of lists like [[a1,a2...a8]...[h1,h2...h8]], but was unsure how to attach values to the items in the list, such as a flag for occupied or unoccupied.
Then I had the idea to try each square as a separate value that holds its status like a1 = wr (for white rook) and a3 = o (for open) and after successful moves just update the values of the squares.
My first instinct was to take the user input like
move = raw_input("enter your move")

and the user would enter:
e4 for example
I then wanted to do something like:
if move == "o"

to make sure the square would be open
I think its obvious what I am TRYING to do, but I understand why it doesnt work.
is there some way to cast the raw_input as a variable so that:
move == o returns TRUE if the variable e4 is o

?
edit:
for the actual code, it is really only in my head at this point but here is a shot:
a1=wr
a2=wp
a3=o
a4=o
a5=o
a6=o
a7=bp
a8=br

and so on for the remainder files
move = raw_input("enter your move: ")

-----this program is mainly for me, so I am not checking input I would just enter a move like: e4
if move == o:
  then e4 = wp
  else print "illegal move, square is occupied"

I realize that the variable 'move' points to the string 'e4' and the variable e4 points to string 'o' and that these are separate and different entities, but is there some way to take the string input and check to see if there is a variable with the same 'name'?
awesome thanks for all the great answers...

A: I think what you actually want here is a dictionary containing the complete state of the board --
board = { "a1" : "o", "a2" : "k", # ...
}

then you do
if board[move] == "o":
    # take appropriate action

Any time you find yourself thinking "I want to look up a variable by its name", a dictionary is very likely to be what you should use instead.

A: Yes, it's possible, but generally a rather horrid idea and frowned up - it's slow and hacky, almost never needed, and in some cases more error-prone/harder to validate and a source of security problems (likely not here, but still).
Rather use dictionaries - you don't need to change the bord representation, you can just (after checking if the input is in the right format), extract the number and the letter and then derive from that input the indices that refer to the field the user meant:

*

*For the number, convert it to an integer with int and substract one (because list indices start at 0)

*Map the the letter to the index with a dictionary like {'a': 0, 'b': 1, ..., 'h':7} (there are clever ways to do this with less code, but this one is simple and effective).

A: As a general rule, if you want to translate user input into variable names, you're doing something wrong.  Sure, you could use eval() but nothing good can come of that - it doesn't take much thought to find ways a malicious user could abuse this and make Very Bad Things happen.  Sure, you could write in a bunch of rules to validate input before doing this direct variable-name magic but it's a lot of work to make the wrong approach functional.  There's always exceptions but, as a beginner, you should just assume that this is a Bad Idea - once you learn what you're doing, you'll learn the exceptions, or at least the times when it's Less Evil to do so.
You're on the right path when you were thinking of using a data structure to hold your board.  There's plenty of ways of doing this - your nested lists are a valid approach.  To follow through with this approach, you'll probably want to write a function that translates from 'e4' to the location on the board, probably having it do the actual look up for you.  The next step might be to make a Board class & have this be a method of it (and then have a move() method, which passes off the logic to objects representing each piece type).
There's other valid ways of solving this, each with their own pros and cons.


MOUNT VERNON, Iowa – The Franklin men's tennis team hit the pavement and headed to the Small Multi-Sport Arena to take on Cornell College and Millikin University in their first contests of the spring.
The Grizzlies (2-6) dropped both contests, falling to 7-2 to Cornell and 9-0 to Millikin. The Grizzlies collected on point in doubles play against the Rams with Jacob Zachary and Zach Lester picking up an 8-4 win in a meeting of the No. 2 doubles teams. Singles play saw newcomer Ty McCory win in his first career singles match, rolling to a 6-0, 6-0 win from the No. 6 position.
It proved to be the only points of the day secured by the Grizzlies, as the Rams and Big Blue controlled play in each respective match.
Franklin makes their home spring debut on Saturday, Feb. 23, welcoming Alma College to the Mickel-Hoover Tennis Complex. First serve is set for 11:00 a.m.


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Daschle's Health Plan Is Recipe for Bigger Government, Less Choice
By looking at President Barack Obama's team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, we can predict both the strategy and substance of his administration's coming efforts at health care reform.
The prognosis is not good for patients, physicians, or taxpayers.
If Daschle meant what he wrote in his book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis, Americans can expect a quick, hard push to build more federal bureaucracy, impose price controls, restrict medicines and technology, boost taxes, mandate the purchase of health insurance, and expand government health care.
Expanded Government Control
In his book, Daschle proposes a National Health Board to regulate health care. This board would have vast powers in regulating the massive federal health care system—a system that includes Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. Under Obama, it is likely this system will be expanded and new government insurance for the non-elderly and non-poor will be created.
Given the opportunity, Daschle would likely charge the board with determining which treatments and drugs are cost-effective and therefore permissible for patients covered by the government. And because the government is such a big player in the health care market (46 percent of health care spending comes from the government), the board would effectively set parameters for private insurers also.
It is nearly certain that the process of determining which drugs and treatments would be approved for use would be quickly politicized.
Overt Move Toward Rationing
Liberal experts, Daschle included, believe America needs to ration new technology and drugs. In his book Daschle complains about overuse of new technology and praises the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), a rationing system that controls government costs by restricting access to lifesaving treatments and medicines.
NICE's denial of care is legendary, from its disapproval of the arthritis drug Abatacept to rejection of the groundbreaking lung cancer drug Tarceva. These drugs are effective—it's just that the bureaucrats don't consider them cost-effective.
Americans will not put up with such limits, nor will our elected representatives.
Daschle himself proves this by punting the hard decisions about rationing to an unelected board. Yet his main proposals would not only expand subsidized programs to cover more people but also add the massively expensive benefit categories of mental health, which has a strong lobby behind it, and long-term care, which is important to middle-income Americans.
Cost-Shifting Myth
One of the great myths in health care is that the uninsured are responsible for driving up private premiums by shifting costs. Uncompensated care certainly shifts some costs to private payers. Yet these costs are actually quite manageable in the aggregate, akin to what retailers lose due to shoplifting. The major cost-shift is from government programs—Medicare and Medicaid—to private plans.
The government pays doctors to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients, but the rates it pays, on average, are less than the cost of care. This is why Medicaid patients, and increasingly Medicare patients, struggle to find doctors.
Putting more people on these programs will destabilize the remaining private system and create a political coalition for price and wage controls.
Americans will never tolerate this. Remember our managed-care experiment in the 1990s? It succeeded in its main goal of controlling costs without an aggregate reduction in quality. But in asking Americans to limit their choices, it prompted a bipartisan act of Congress to provide patients with a Bill of Rights.
Now Daschle proposes nothing less than a giant HMO with a federal bureaucracy setting the benefit plan.
Using Wrong Model
Daschle's model is Massachusetts—an unfolding disaster that demonstrates how Daschle's private/public model is merely a stalking horse for government-dominated health care.
The headline claim is that the Massachusetts program has signed up 442,000 more people for health insurance. The reality is that 80,000 of these were simply put on Medicaid, and 176,000 more on taxpayer-subsidized plans. Costs have exploded, requiring additional tax hikes, and the entire system is only possible due to sizable transfers from the federal government.
The plans are so unaffordable that in 2007, 62,000 people were exempted from the individual mandate due to their inability to pay for this so-called "universal coverage."
The only way the Massachusetts plan will survive is with continued (and increasing) federal subsidies—tax revenue from residents of other states. The only way Daschle's proposed plan would survive is with massive deficit spending—taxpayer money from future Americans.
Daschle and his colleagues have spent years developing the policy and political strategy to make the final push for taxpayer-financed universal health insurance. They have the players on the field, a crisis providing a sense of urgency, and a playbook filled with lessons learned from years of health policy reform disasters, most recently that of HillaryCare in 1994.
The big questions for believers in private medicine are at this point political and strategic. With employers and most insurers reportedly on board with the new administration's desire for radical overhaul, who will step in to ask the tough questions?
Americans could easily find Obama's 100-day honeymoon ends with a whole new health care regime they hadn't bargained for.
Sally Pipes ([email protected]) is president and CEO of the Pacific Research Institute. An earlier version of this article appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Reprinted with permission.
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After over 30 years working in Corporate Australia specializing in marketing and administration Arthur joined the Ellerfield team in 2008 and whilst his timing coincided with the Global Financial Crisis he maintains that the timing was purely coincidental rather than causative. Arthur's previous education and experience was mainly centred in management and human resources and whilst he needed to avail himself of further financial service education his prior experience with corporate and individual goal setting and achievement has been integral in his abilities in the financial services industry.
"There is no better sense of achievement than assisting people achieve their financial goals; from helping young people get themselves out of debt and also to see retirees come to the point where they no longer need to stress about how they're going to get by once they finish work. It's a great way to spend your working day".
With the emphasis from Government and Industry to ensure that the Financial Planning Industry comply to "client's best interests" Arthur believes that the entire industry is getting away from the old days of "selling product" to the emphasis on what is absolutely best for each individual client and this makes the industry so much more satisfying in which to be employed. To this end being a licensed adviser through the MLC Group gives both Arthur and Ellerfield a sense of integrity and authenticity within the financial planning industry.
Arthur works out of Ellerfield's Buderim office but spends a lot of his time in Mount Isa and other rural communities where Ellerfield has a strong presence, he especially enjoys working with the rural community.


The Family Justice Working Group explores the relationship between the adversarial and non-adversarial paradigms in this report, as well as the need for the family justice system to integrate and use non-adversarial, problem-solving values. They identify barriers to change such as limited resources available for the family justice system and an implementation gap in services. The working group contends that more work is needed to realize the potential of non-adversarial programs and consensual processes in family law. They see further culture change as critical to better access to family justice. This report makes nine recommendations related to the goal of making consensual dispute resolution values and processes more central the family justice system and offers a further 22 recommendations relating to diverse aspects of the system.