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A few months ago, I was in a discussion about independent game developers trying to compete with both game development studios (“trad” game publishers) and fellow indie game developers who published buggy or confusing or unplayable games (which poison gamers’ opinions).
We talked about elevation of independent gaming to compete with Triple-A titles (many of which we agreed weren’t particularly good). The ones which shone were stuck in the quagmire that is the general gaming public’s view of independent gaming as a whole. The concept of an independent game developer standard competitive with Triple-A came up.
In that discussion, an epiphany struck. I wrote:
and the concept of Triple-I development was born. But what does “independence, imagination, innovation” actually mean to the independent game developers and the gamers looking for quality titles from independent providers?
Independence is the easiest for a developer or studio to achieve. If you’re not a studio which could ever be considered for a Triple-A title rating, you’re definitely in the running for Triple-I title rating.
Imagination is harder. Asset flipping and reskinning (cloning an extant game) makes it easy to knock out basic games. Unfortunately, they’re uninspired and more of the same.
Innovation is the hardest. When it seems like every game that can be made has been made, pursuing an original concept is a huge risk. I’m not talking about making gameplay non-intuitive or increasing the challenge by making the game virtually unplayable. Stepping up and taking that huge risk is hard in the face of nearly impossible odds.
Committing to the pursuit of Triple-I quality comes down to the same thing I tell new writers: Writing is who you are, not what you do. Independent game development is unappreciated, but Triple-I development teams (whether 1 person or 1,000 people) do it because it’s who we are–not what we do.
Every Triple-I title is a love letter to players from creators who give their best to the gaming community. Considering video gaming started as a few independent, imaginative, and innovative programmers using a computer to do something different than its intended purpose, the truly committed in independent game development deserve to be recognized and rewarded.
I think Triple-I is a means to appreciate the independent game developers’ blood, sweat, toil, and code.
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As a worship guy, you can probably imagine that I spend a lot of time (and money, haha) listening and looking for great tunes, both old and new. Worship music has gotten so big that it has become its own genre. That’s to say it contains a diverse range with guys like The Digital Age pumping out modern electronic music, all the way to Gungor with their raw, and edgy sound. Sometimes, it can be hard to find the good stuff out there. Hopefully I will be able to help steer you in the right direction as I share great new albums, new bands, and songs that we are doing at church.
First up is the new Passion Album “Let the Future Begin”
This album is full of modern, edgy, bible inspired lyrics. That last bit is actually pretty important. There have been those who have criticized modern worship for its me first mentality, and they may have a point. But not with this album. With lyrics like “We believe our God is Jesus” or “The Lord our God is ever faithful, Never changing through the ages” the Passion crew emphasize that’s it all about God.
We’ve worked a few of these songs into our Sunday services at the Alliance Church, including my personal favorite “Here’s My Heart”, “The Lord Our God”, and “Whom Shall I fear”. If your looking for something new to put on your iPod, this album should be it.
Buy it on iTunes here

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Over the past eight years NIED has been committed to helping to disseminate quality information about Eating Disorders to caregivers, healthcare professionals and those with lived experience. NIED’s educational efforts began with symposia, which touched on everything from Eating Disorder signs, symptoms and treatment modalities, to putting a spotlight on Eating Disorders in underrepresented groups. Over the past few years, the symposia have also been broadcast online, reaching people affected by Eating Disorders all over the world. “We’ve heard so much amazing life changing impact from individuals about what it’s meant to them being able to participate in a number of these symposia either as participants, in terms of audience, but also in terms of co-presenters as well,” says NIED Chairman Mark Ferdinand. “We received feedback from people in the Middle East and Japan with regard to these symposia with people asking for support.”
Through the symposia and other outreach efforts, including a caregiver survey done in 2018, NIED has now consulted with over 10,000 people looking for help, support and guidance related to addressing Eating Disorders. Through this engagement NIED has learned that there are many ways that Canada can do better in supporting recovery within our healthcare system. With the groundwork created by our symposia, and a recent partnership with Body Brave, NIED has committed to creating several educational programs meant to help bolster the treatment of Eating Disorders across the country.
Through this engagement with so many people with Eating Disorders and their caregivers, NIED has found that negative interactions with healthcare professionals is a key barrier for many getting the help they need. NIED Communications is meant to not only teach primary care providers what to say when talking to someone with an Eating Disorder but also how to say it in a way that will support recovery. So many resources and standards explain ‘what to do’ to support better communication or collaboration in care, but few, if any, resources clearly explain ‘how to effectively implement these standards’ in different settings, with different people and in different situations. Learning how to apply various communication and collaboration skills during very different, individual recovery journeys takes patience, good training and adaptability.
Conversely, NIED Communications will also focus on helping those with Eating Disorders navigate the healthcare system while teaching them things like what to do when meeting a care provider for the first time and how to navigate transitioning between different levels of care. “We’re really focused this year on improving people’s ability to communicate in a much more empathic way with people seeking care, as well as with their caregivers and other professionals,” Ferdinand says.
Given that Eating Disorders are a mental illness that can also affect every organ of the body, it is very important that various healthcare specialities know how to work together. This also includes caregivers and people with Eating Disorders themselves, both of whom play an integral role in the recovery process. “Having an ability to collaborate effectively is associated with higher chances of recovery and improves well-being,” Ferdinand says. NIED Collaboration is focused on teaching key skills and approaches that help establish and maintain a productive therapeutic alliance between care providers, individuals and their caregivers.
When it comes to helping those with Eating Disorders, Canada’s healthcare system is disjointed at best. Many primary care providers face challenges in referring patients to specialists or further treatment, and even then, the wait times are often months long. This is why NIED Connections is focused on helping people learn how to navigate health and social services to get effective, evidence-based and evidence-informed care and support. This includes things like: what to do/how to cope when waiting for a specialist appointment or higher level of care and what to do when navigating health care, social services and community care and how to do it. “We know that not everyone’s recovery journey is the same and so people require different types of supports and different types of relationships, potentially across different providers,” Ferdinand says. “Helping people better connect with the right levels of care and support is extremely important to us.”
Inspired by feedback that NIED has received regarding experiences with care from people with Eating Disorders, caregivers, professionals and providers over the past 4 years, NIED is committed to preparing a set of guidelines meant to standardize the quality of care for people with Eating Disorders across the County. “NIED Quality is about improving programs and services for people affected by Eating Disorders so that’s more of a system level and possibly an organizational level type focus,” Ferdinand says. “We know it’s going to take that many more stakeholders and collaboration in order to establish what we think is needed in Canada, which is higher quality standards of care for people with Eating Disorders.” NIED will begin engaging with stakeholders in 2021 to create Quality Eating Disorders Care and Support Standards for Canada, which will then form the NIED Quality programming in late 2021.
NIED Communication, NIED Collaboration and NIED Connections will be disseminated in both informational materials and online courses aimed at healthcare professionals, caregivers and people with Eating Disorders. Download our new fact sheets based on these three initiatives here.

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The new Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P come packed with Marshmallow, straight out of the box. Google has already confirmed the update roll out for Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7, Nexus 9 and Nexus Player in phases. But what happens to other high-end, mid-range and entry-level yet compatible devices? Apparently, a master list of devices that are earmarked to receive the latest firmware update has been published.
According to GSM Arena, the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for compatible devices from various OEMs across the globe has been confirmed. Apart from this grand list, other handsets might also get the latest firmware package, however, at this point, there is no confirmation available for those devices.
Speaking of Samsung handsets, following devices will apparently be upgraded to the latest OS version: Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 Edge, Galaxy S6, Galaxy Note 4, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Alpha, Galaxy A8 and Galaxy A7.
When it comes to Sony, a slew of devices have been confirmed. This includes the Xperia Z5 Premium, Xperia Z5, Xperia Z5 Compact, Xperia Z3+, Xperia Z4, Xperia C5 Ultra, Xperia C4, Xperia M5, Xperia M4 Aqua, Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3v, Xperia Z3 Compact, Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact, Xperia Z2, Xperia Z2 Tablet and Xperia Z Ultra GPE.
Moving on to LG, the flagship G4, curved-display clad G Flex 2 and the predecessor G3 will apparently be receiving the update. HTC, on the other hand, has the following handsets listed: One M9, One M9 Plus, One E9 Plus, One E9, One M8 and One E8.
The confirmed Moto X lineup of smartphones includes the Pure Edition (Gen 3), Style (Gen 3), Play (Gen 3), Moto G (Gen 3), Pure edition (Gen 2), DROID Turbo, MAXX and Moto Turbo.
Xiaomi has listed all the devices that were released internationally and this includes the Mi Note 2, Redmi 2, Redmi 2 Prime, Mi 4i, Mi 4, Mi Note and the powerful Mi Note Pro.
As for the promising tech startup, only two devices i.e. OnePlus Two and the predecessor OnePlus One have been released, thus far. Both the smartphones will apparently receive the latest OS version.
The Chinese tech giant Huawei is also gearing up to update the following devices: Ascend P8, Ascend P8 Max, Honor 6 Plus, Honor 7i, Honor 7, Mate S, MediaPad X2, Mate 7, Honor 6, Honor 4X, Honor 4C and Ascend G7.
Lastly, it is worth mentioning that Google has introduced a stand-out feature in the latest version. The firmware update brings in the much-required improvements to battery and power usage. The search giant has apparently introduced a mechanism called "Doze" to improve the handset’s battery stand-by time. With the help of "motion detectors," the latest version will apparently identify an idle device for a prolonged period of time i.e. when the handset owner sleeps or the phone is left in a place unused. After deducting idleness, the OS will automatically reduce the background processes and thereby, saving the battery life.


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North Forsyth couldn't complete the comeback Thursday afternoon, falling 3-2 to Mountain View in the first round of the Class 7A state tournament in Columbus.
The Raiders (30-4) will face the loser of Parkview/East Coweta at noon Friday in the next leg of the double-elimination tournament.
North entered the seventh inning trailing 3-0, but a string of singles by Hailey Mize, Katie Sarfaty, Maggie McBrayer and Adaline Nix cut Mountain View's lead to one run.
Mize singled to lead off the inning, then after an Abby Martin popout, Sarfaty's single sent pinch-runner Lauren Fields to second base.
McBrayer singled in Fields, then Nix singled to left field to score pinch-runner Ali Jones.
North's offense couldn't solve Mountain View pitcher Sarah Currie for the first six innings, as the junior managed to shut out the Raiders' potent offense, striking out 12 while giving up just two hits.
Prior to the final inning, the Raiders had managed a couple of two-out hits against Currie — a single in the bottom of the fourth by Mize and a double off the bat of McKayla Cothran in the sixth — but couldn't capitalize in either situation.
Mize led the Raiders at the plate, finishing 2 for 3. Cothran reached base twice, adding a walk in the first inning.
Kyleigh Sanders took the loss for the Raiders despite tossing seven strong innings and striking out five while walking none.
A hit-by-pitch and a single, paired with a sacrifice bunt, set the Bears up with runners on second and third in the second inning and allowed Mountain View to grab a 1-0 lead following a wild pitch.
Mountain View (20-9) struck again in the sixth inning when Hannan Razquez launched a two-run home run over the centerfield fence.

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We had a visit this past weekend from a friend of mine from high school who got a Ph.D in Botany and than decided he would rather farm and now has a CSA in Wisconsin. His visit gave us much to think about. He runs his farm very differently than we do. He has over 60 acres, 300 members and he has over 5 tractors. Oh yeah, and he is in a CSA Mecca-Minneapolis which is about 20 years ahead of us as far as local foods issues and markets are concerned. Yeah, SW Ohio is a really bad place to establish a CSA and of all places in SW Ohio, Preble county has the to be worst place within SW Ohio to do anything concerning Organic agriculture and especially a CSA. But things are changing around here and it is much easier to make a living doing what we do in this area than it was 17 years ago.
His visit got us to thinking about many things. Like how different CSAs are, no two are alike. For example my friend's CSA up north employs a lot of interns and uses a lot of machinery. We have in the past and will in the future take on an intern or two but not the 15+ people he has. Of course he grows on 18 acres and we grow on 4.5 acres so he does indeed need more people and I believe the teaching aspect that many CSA has is more important to him than it is to us (he was going to be a college professor when he grew up before farming derailed that idea) and so he is willing to work with newbies than we are. he is also a lot more into machines than we do. He spent a lot of our limited time together going on about his various tractors, tillers and attachments. All those machines means he uses a lot more gasoline than we do. We used around 30 gallons of gasoline last year to till, plow and mow our estate. Had we had a tractor, we would have used 5x as much (and if we has a fleet of tractors we would have even more). The van we use to get food to the Oxford Market used 300 gallons of gasoline just to go to Oxford (about 32 miles round trip) and back about 35 times plus a few trips over to the Filbruns (17 miles round trip) for straw and other soil building items (we plan to replace the van with something newer and with better milage in the next few months-if you know of a cargo van that is less than 10 years old for sale let us know we are looking). And this is one of the reasons we don't do delivery-we cannot afford it with the vehicle we have to use. It uses a lot of gas and is getting less reliable as it gets older and if we don't replace it it will get really expensive as major parts start to fail. It would be wonderful if we could replace this van with an electric van but, if they even make them, I am sure they would be way out of our price range (but we can dream). But the point I am making here is, as a farm we use very little gasoline and this will stead us well in the coming months and years as gas likely will go up to $6 a gallon and that is a point where farmers who depend on gas powered machines to do the work will see a huge cut to their bottom lines if they cannot raise their prices. Us, we won't suffer nearly as much as the machine scale farms because we use far more human power than gas power to get things done around here.
Okay lets talk about rain. We are getting way too much if you haven't noticed. Our main growing area is very, very well drained but even it is going under water because until the Ohio river starts to discharge it's load of water, there simply is no place for all this water to go. So far we have not noticed any damage but there is sure to be some crops that rots and dies due to too much water. Freshly seeded beds will be the first to go (but fortunately are the easiest to remedy-just replant the seeds when conditions are better). Other than harvesting and putting down compost and sulfur on beds, we have not been doing much farming due to the weather and we are beginning to get behind. The weeds are growing well and soon will be a problem. I have been trying to finger weed a spring mix bed (where one pulls tiny weeds from between densely planted lettuce plants-takes hours to do but is important to the quality of the salad mix). But it has been so wet that it is nearly impossible to do the job. Yesterday I was able to get about 10 feet of row done on one bed (and there are several other beds of baby greens plus hundreds of other beds waiting for a hoe). Eugene tried to plant onion seedlings but he said it was too wet to do the job (the clay mud gums up one's hands so quickly so that you spend a lot more time wiping the mud off than doing work) So he decided to mow the grass around the pond and while doing so found we have lawn morels (see the Boulder Belt Blog or my Facebook page for photos). I had hoped we would have enough to include some in your shares but our lawn did not yield nearly that well. I will say, go out and look for some morels. This is the best season for them in many many years. I remember as a kid living in the Mile Square of Oxford we had 15 morels come up in the back yard near a pine tree. That has not happened since, that I know of. And I do know it has been at least 8 years since we have found any (or eaten any). For some photos of my mushroom harvest take a gander here http://boulderbelt.blogspot.com/2011/04/lawn-morels.html.
Pick up is after 4 pm today.
We reuse and recycle and that means we will take any CLEAN plastic or paper you do not want. Plus we want back all of our packaging from rubber bands to bags (unless you have a use for these things, than keep them but if all you are gonna do is land fill them than bring them back to the farm)
Thanks for supplying bags for your shares. I believe at this point all but one member has supplied bags, Yay!
While I know the weather is less than conducive for this, please feel free to walk about the farm, go fishing, help us in the fields. in other words make use of this resource you have access to. Very few people ever get to visit a working farm and here you have free access to one. If nothing else, the bird watching has been great the past few days as we have several types of herons visiting our pond (I suppose for the frogs) as well as red winged black birds, finches, jays, several kinds of woodpeckers (including red headed and piliated)
Spring Veggie Curry
1 leek sliced
Many spears of asparagus cut into 2" pieces
2 cups snow or sugar snap peas, string and cut in half
1 cup broccoli florets
1 medium onion, chopped
2+TBL fresh parsley chopped
1/2 cup raisins
1/4 cup garlic chives, chopped (this is for garnish)
1 TBL fresh ginger, peeled and grated
1+ cloves of garlic, smashed or minced
1 cup coconut cream/milk (you can buy this pre-made or you can make it from unsweetened coconut flakes by soaking the flakes in hot water for a while and than putting in a blender than straining off the flakes leaving you with a coconutty liquid. The pre-made stuff is better but this is a cheap substitute that works well enough)
1 T curry powder (or more or less, to taste)
1 TBL olive oil (or other fat)
Salt to taste
Basmati rice (I love brown basmati but white will certainly do)
Start the rice than in a hot pan (over medium heat) put in the fat than the leek and onion and let cook about 4 to 5 minutes. Add the other vegetables (except the garlic chives and parsley) and cook another couple of minutes stirring occasionally to prevent burning/sticking. Than add the coconut cream and curry powder and bring to a simmer stirring constantly. Turn down heat to medium low and let simmer for at least 20 minutes. Add the parsley about ten minutes into this and continue cooking. Serve over rice and this is even better if you have a decent chutney and yogurt raita (but plain yogurt works well too). If you have morels, they would be spectacular in this dish.
What's in This Weeks' Share
Asparagus- At this point in time it looks like you will get about 1/2 pound. But we still have to harvest more before this afternoon so the amount might just double
Lettuce- You should get 3 to 4 heads of a mix of red and green lettuces (The green is called Salad bowl, I have no idea what the red is called but it is spectacular)
Leeks- You get one leek
Garlic- You get 4+ corms of garlic. This is on its' last legs as it is almost a year old but there are still good cloves in most corms.
Kale- At least 1/2 pound of mixed kale
Radish- A small bunch of D'Avignon radishes
Parsley-a bag of fresh parsley
Tarragon- A small bag of French Tarragon
Chives-A nice bunch of oniony chives
Garlic Chives-A bunch of garlic chives (flat leafed)
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It's the first day of the 2010 Boulder Belt Farm Share Initiative-Woo Hoo! This is the first in a weekly series of newsletter that only FSI member get, i.e. this is different than the quasi-weekly missive I send out year round to the hundreds of Boulder Belt Fans on my list.
As you know if you read the email that had the 2010 Farm Share Initiative Regulations and Musings for 2010 that pick up is every Wednesday after 4pm and any shares not picked up by 6:30am Saturday mornings will be taken to Oxford and donated to the Oxford First Choice Food Pantry. If you need to do a Saturday Pick-Up you must tell me in advance (like the week before you are scheduled to pick up, a simple email will do the trick).
Your shares will be in bags with your name on it. Last year I requested that members supply their own reusable bags and I am doing so again this season. I did think about buying a hundred or so (they are very cheap) but thought that all of us have a plethora of reusable tote bags around the house that we do not use so why should I waste more resources buying more bags when the members can supply such. So, if in the next week or so, you could bring 2 to 4 reusable shopping bags that would be wonderful. Otherwise, I will put your food into plastic shopping bags. Please take only the bag(s) with your name on it (plus the other members' bags, if you are picking up for other people). This is important as some times people will order extra stuff and I simply put that extra food into that person's share. And on occasion I may omit an item from a share at the member's request
The shares, unless otherwise noted, will be in the store fridge to your right as you come in the front door. Today they will be on the shelving near the fridge (unless I fire the fridge up than, in that case, they will be in the cool environment)
Okay one of the purposes of this news letter is to let you all know what is going on on the farm. I will continue to do this but if you are on Face Book and not already a Fan of Boulder Belt Eco-Farm sign up today. I am using the Boulder belt Fan page to be as they say these days, transparent about the farm. In other words, I am posting, usually several times a day what we are doing on the farm here is the link to the Fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boulder-Belt-Eco-Farm/368403976315?ref=sgm. I also have a blog that is usually about the farm (and is getting an increasing number of videos of the farm posted to it) though I will talk politics of food as well there http://www.boulderbelt.blogspot.com
But lessee, what's going on at Boulder Belt Eco-Farm? Lots of things. Mid spring means being very busy. We are getting beds to get ready to plant (and on the blog is a series of very short videos that show you just what we do to get a bed ready for seedlings), planting beds with both direct seeding and transplanting seedlings. We are still starting lots and lots of seedlings (we probably start 3000 of them annually, maybe more) to be transplanted into the garden over the next 6 to 8 weeks. Plus we are harvesting asparagus daily and with the start of the FSI and soon the Oxford Uptown farmers market will be weekly and we will have the farm store open 3 or 4 days a week we will be harvesting other things like lettuce, arugula, kale, etc., several times a week. And than there is maintenance-hoeing and other kinds of weeding (like hand pulling or digging the damned things out) puppy training (we have a rather large and growing 5 month old bitch pup, Betty, we rescued in late January) so that she will one day become a stellar market garden dog. Her training is coming along well so far. She is at least a year ahead of Nate, the other dog we have. It took him about 3 years to figure out what we meant with terms like "out of the garden". but it is possible that we will have a crop failure due to Betty's antics like trying to bury a bone in a flat of seedlings (fortunately they were flowers for our own enjoyment and not a commercial crop) but since we do not have eyes in the backs of our heads nor the ability to do farm work and closely monitor the puppy she gets opportunities to do mischief and right now she is in a bone burying phase and we have found her bones in some rather bad places (freshly tilled beds are favorite). All that said the market garden is big at close to 4 acres and there is no way she can do much damage other than destroying a bed or two (but likely all she would do is damage small parts of many beds which gets us mad at her but as far as the crop goes minimal loss). Now why do we have Betty as she has the potential to do a great deal of crop damage? Because her job that Nate (that's right we are using a dog to train another dog) is training her to do run the deer and kill rabbits and mice, all of which can and will do far more damage to the market garden than a hyper playful pup. Without the dogs doing this night time job we would likely lose around 75% of the crop to deer, bunnies and mice. But with the dogs we lose no more than 10% to the wild life. We found this out when we moved from the old farm to this farm in 2005. At the old farm we left a lot of crops in the field (we had planted them in June and July, before we knew we were buying an farm and moving in October). When the dogs were still around the crops were not touched but within 3 days of the dogs leaving that farm we noticed the deer had moved in and were happily eating the beets and strawberry plants, among other things and in one night destroyed about 50% of what we had left.
This farm has a much much higher deer population-we believe the herd is around 300 head-and yet we rarely lose anything to them because ever since we have been here we have had at least 2 dogs working all night to keep them away. It's that or investing around $50K in deer fencing around the perimeter of the farm. I'll take dogs over fencing every time.
Oh yeah, we encourage you to take advantage of the farm. feel free to walk around the farm. To get access to the farm walk between the barn and the store and there are two gates. the one to your right will open and allow you onto the farm. We have a pond that is stocked and fun to fish (and you can keep what you catch), we have about 2 miles of trails running all over the farm. We have a lot of beauty out here. use it if you wish.
I would like to schedule a on farm pot luck and farm tour either the end of this month or sometime in May. I am thinking on a Sunday afternoon/evening. But I need input as to when this will work for everyone. Let me know sooner than later. Potlucks are BYOB, though we usually have some homemade wine and beer on hand. Plus you will need to bring a dish that can feed 6 to 8 and things to eat with (flatware, plat, cup). let me know sooner than later when you would like to do this.
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Salad dressing is one of the easiest things to make and there is absolutely no reason to go out and buy over priced, full of crap that you do not want in your body, salad dressing when you can make your own. I will endeavor during salad season to give out several different dressings. Here is what I have been using for several months
1/4 cup vinegar-I like to mix balsamic and rice vinegar
1/2 TSP salt
1/4 cup honey, more or less (usually more than less)
1 clove raw garlic either put through a garlic press (use two cloves if using a press as you lose so much) or grated on a micro-planer-if you don own one of these you can either go to a hardware store and pay about $8 for one or go to a cooking store (I know Jungle Jim;s has these in stock) and pay almost double for exactly the same thing. I am a huge advocate of the micro plane for cooking.
1 cup good olive oil.
In a small canning jar or salad dressing carafe mix together the honey, salt and vinegars. Cover the jar and shake well to mix everything together (takes a good minute as the honey will not want to mix easily) when everything is uniform than add the oil and shake again. let this sit for at least an hour before using. this will last about 2 weeks sitting on the kitchen counter, it does not need to be refrigerated and if you do the oil will congeal making it necessary to warm it up so you can use it and not get big olive oil globs.
For variations on this you could add a 1/2 tsp of dried rosemary or perhaps the same amt each of dried basil and oregano. Or maybe finely chop some chives and put them in the mix. The amounts I am using for the dried herbs are only a guideline and, in fact, when I make dressing I never measure anything other than the salt so with the herbs do this to taste but know that 1/2 tsp is a good amount to start.
What's In the Share
Leeks-you get 2 leeks this week
Lettuce-you will get 5 heads of various heirloom lettuces. These will be from a bed of lettuce that was planted last year and over wintered in a hoop house.
Spinach-you get a bag that should be around 1/2 pound (but maybe less, I won't know until I bag the stuff later today
Chives-a big bunch of oniony chives to use raw on salads, potatoes, soups, dip, etc..
Asparagus-I did not think there would any of this for the first couple of week of the FSI but last week it started coming up. Still I figured that there would only be enough for 1/2 pound per share. I was wrong, you get a whole pound this week.
Potatoes-a 2 pound bag of French Fingerling taters. These are red on the outside with a golden flesh. very good for roasting, frying, in salads but not the best for mashed taters
Parsnips-These look like a white carrot but are much sweeter. These are great roasted, covered, for 30 minutes in a 350F oven. if you have not had a parsnip before this may become one of your favorite foods.
Garlic-we are at the end of the 2009 garlic (the 2010 garlic will not be harvested until early July) so you are getting what seems like an awful lot of garlic, it is not as at least half of the cloves will be unusable.
Dried Rosemary-a jar of dried rosemary-this is wonderful on potatoes and poultry
Spring Mix-a mix of baby arugula, tat soi, red mustard, mizuna and many different kinds of lettuce. Wash and eat.
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It's been a busy week here at the farm. I have been starting hundreds of seeds-Asian greens (something called tong ho and a bok choy), celery that was completely unplanned but Eugene found a packet with a lot of seeds so I planted several hundred. parsley that should have been started about 3 weeks ago. And 5 kinds of lettuce for late May/early June harvest. Some time this coming week I will start about 1000 tomato seeds (I plan on starting around 20 different kinds).
While I have been doing all that Eugene has been mowing, tilling, direct planting seeds for things like spring mix and I believe some spinach got planted as well but I do not have high hopes for it if it does not cool down a lot and start raining. You may like temps in the high 80's in April but this is very hard on the cool weather crops. lettuce gets bitter in the heat and the spinach wants to bolt to seed, among other things.
Because of the heat I harvested most of the spinach on Saturday morning as it was either gonna bolt to seed or die of heat and lack of water. Either way it would mean the end of that crop and no more in your shares. So I decided to harvest early so you guys can get one last week of spinach.
Okay, we have also been doing a lot of transplanting. We finished off the leeks, put in about 100 lettuce plants and another 150 of broccoli, kale and cabbage. This we did in about 3 hours. If all we had to do was simply pop seedlings into the soil 3 hours would be a leisurely pace for us, but on Boulder Belt Farm most seedlings get the following treatment. A bed is raked smooth, seedlings are put in the soil. Than they are each given a drink of water spiked with freeze dried kelp and fish (smells like the seas shore) from a watering can. Than 7 wire hoops are put in place along with 14 heavy rocks per bed (and the rocks always seem to be in another part of the market garden so there is usually a good amount of toting) and finally a row cover is stretched over the whole thing and weighted down with the rocks. The row cover protects the seedlings from wind and hail as well as from insects and keeps the moisture in the soil and leaves. Things love growing under row cover.
This week we got 6 yards of compost from up north in Union City, OH. We had ordered the compost in Feb and were told we would have it the 3rd week of March and got it Friday evening. It would have been nice to have had the compost a month ago better a month late than never. This has added to our repertoire of chores. Big pile of compost must go on all 225 beds and that has been happening too.
And on top of all this, the asparagus and strawberries are coming in and need to be harvested at least once a day. Asparagus will be plentiful this week. Tuesday folks will get a double dose of it as they got none last week. No one will get any strawberries in their share before May. While they are beginning to ripen there is no where near enough to fill 11 shares this week.
If you are paying by the month you can leave a check (or cash with an explanation of who left the money) on the counter at the store to pay for the month on May.
Oh yeah, please do not toss out the jars the apple sauce came in. If you are not going to use them (I know some of you are canners) I will take them back (lids and rings too) as I go through a lot of jars in a year and I don't want to see them recycled or (ugh) land-filled.
One last important note. I have just changed ISP's (and DSL after 19 or so years with dial-up) and have a new email address- boulderbelt-at-embarqmail.com. Please update your address books. I will have the old email for another month or so but after that if you use it to try to contact me your email will be sent off into a void
Asparagus and Leek Salad
4 spears of asparagus
1/2 bag of spring mic
1/4 of the chives (or more or less depending on your taste)
Cut the asparagus into 1" pieces. Cut the leafy green part and the root off of the leek than cut length-wise (as opposed to cutting it into rounds) and cut the leek into quarters, you will end up with a lot of julienned pieces. Put the leeks and asparagus into a saute pan that is on medium heat and has a dollop of butter or olive oil melted and hot. Cook for about 5 to 6 minutes or until the veggies are tender. Remove from heat and let these cool a bit, say 5 minutes
While the veggies are cooking wash and spin dry the spring mix and wash and slice the radishes. Put the greens into a salad bowl, top with the radishes and right before you are ready to serve add the cook and still warm veggies. Top with a nice vinaigrette or other favorite dressing (ranch is really good on this)
Here's what's in the shares this week (kind of a small share this week but soon there will a myriad of produce coming out of the garden. We are at the point where late winter/early spring stuff is ending and mid spring/early summer stuff is just coming in)
Green Asparagus- We also have purple which is better but we are not getting much yet but should later in May for everyone to get some
Lettuce-like last week a bag of mixed lettuces
Leeks-believe it or not this is about it for the leeks. We might have them one more week after this week
Chives-a nice bunch of fresh chives
Radishes-Tuesday gets D'avignon and Thursday will get easter egg which are round radishes in pink, red, white and purple
Cilantro-this is really good in Macaroni and cheese
Spinach-I believe this will be the last week for spinach until fall or next spring. We never have much luck with mid spring planted spinach.
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Heh. I can almost hear the head-shaking and silent denunciations from my fellow Bruce Springsteen fans for choosing to write about this epic piece of prog-pop trash, and not about the jazzy R&B opening track of Springsteen’s career.
But fuck that: I’ve always loved this ridiculous arrangement, which — in my defense came out when I was 13 — pretty much owned the summer of 1976 on both the AM and FM radios. So I could hear the single on KYNO-AM, which was all chorus verse chorus verse chorus, and then flip over to KFIG or Rock 96FM and hear the album version, which was where the fun was.
While Bruce’s version opened with the word salad over lyricism that showed he was trying too hard (not an insult, trying too hard is exactly what made him an immortal), Manfred Mann’s version went straight to chorus, which — as sung by rhythm guitarist Chris Hamlet Thompson over a repeating Townshendesque keyboard part — I and millions of other adolescents heard as:
Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another runner in the night
Now I’m not going to say that it was another case of “Louie Louie,” but dude was getting away with “douche” on the radio! Of course, he really wasn’t, and all we had to do in 1976 was google the lyrics to find out that he was really singing “revved up like a deuce,” which itself was a bastardization of Bruce’s original (and way better) “cut loose like a deuce.”
But sure, why not? That was one of many many weird choices that characterized “Blinded by the Light,” like the way the first couple of choruses faded out instead of ending, like they were still going on out there, or all of the weird synth squiggles that announced the second and third chorus.
And it was after the third chorus where things got really weird. They don’t really finish it, but instead stop the song dead, slowing the beat to a crawl, because it’s time for a very long, very wanky wah-wah guitar solo by lead guitarist Dave Flett, which gets longer and wankier as it goes on until the stop the song dead so that Thompson can sing what has been a meme for me for over forty years.
Mama always told me
Not to look into the eyes of the sun
That’s where the fun iiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssss
Seriously, I can’t even glance at the sun without having “But mama, that’s where the fun is” going through my head. And I don’t even know how many times I’ve used it as a punchline.
And then as the beat comes back in, Manfred Mann follows this beautifully exquisite moment by playing fucking “Chopsticks.” “CHOPSTICKS!” I mean, I could play fucking “Chopsticks.” What even is this madness?
By the time you processed “Chopsticks,” they were already into another verse and one last chorus, but this time, as Thompson is singing the chorus over and over and over, Manfred Mann is singing the verses against him, and it’s utter insanity for a minute or so — who knows what the hell is going on anymore? — but at the same time, it’s kind of beautiful, too.
This crazy-ass thing became a huge huge huge single — eventually making it to #1 right around the time I started high school — as well as an annoyance on the radio ever since. Because, mama, that’s where the fun is.
“Blinded by the Light”
“Blinded by the Light” performed live in 1976
The single version of “Blinded by the Light” lip-synched
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Song's stuck in my head now too...
Love the use of the puppet metaphor.
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At Crosswinds Equestrian Center, 15 miles off Marist College’s campus, 40 Marist students train year-round and compete for the school’s Club Equestrian Team. Led by Coach Clare Knapp, the team is headed to Nationals for the second year in a row, and an international competition for the first time.
Knapp, a 2003 Marist graduate, never rode for Marist. While a student here, she was captain of the track team. However, she grew up riding. Her family owns Crosswinds, where the team practices and holds competitions. In 2007, Marist asked her to coach the team, a position she’s held ever since.
In both the fall and spring semesters, members of the Marist Equestrian Team compete in Zone Three of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA). They also compete in numerous tournaments, dependent on the year and the season. Of the 40 members, 35 show. The team accepts riders of all levels. Teams are judged at multiple levels, so all team members are encouraged to compete regardless of experience.
In their normal competition circuit, IHSA Zone Three, students compete on a different horse each time. Horses are assigned to the students on the day of competition based off of a random draw. “It’s a horse that you’ve never sat on before. You don’t get any warm up jumps, you just get on, walk into the ring and compete,” explained Coach Knapp. “It takes great horsemanship ability to adapt and really recognize every horse is so different.”
The team saw many successes this year. They came in second overall in their Zone, and they also won the Battle in the Saddle invitational tournament. Many individual wins and honors have been achieved by the team as well.
On April 25 through 28, three Marist Students competed in the Longines Masters in New York City, an inaugural invitational international competition. Three Marist students were invited to compete: Captains Mia Fellin, Sarah Levi, and senior Blake Portmann.
Sophomore Leah Tanzman won Zone regionals and qualified for Nationals in novice fences. On May 2 through 5, she will be competing for Marist in Syracuse. This year marks Tanzman’s first regionals appearance, which she won. It is also her first time qualifying for nationals.
“At Nationals, you’re competing against the best of the best riders throughout the nation,” Tanzman said. “My goal is to obviously ride well and feel proud of myself for going forward there.” She transferred to Marist at the start of this academic school year from Siena College, where she also rode in the IHSA.
Teammate Mia Fellin mentioned that Tanzman’s win at regionals was one of her most memorable moments from this past season with the team. “She’s tried so hard since she’s been here, it was so deserving,” Fellin said. “It was crazy to see our whole team so happy for her.” Fellin is a junior, and has been captain of the team since her second semester of freshman year.
The team has also provided its members with opportunities to help run the events. Junior Connor Murphy helps announce the shows. “Whenever we have a home show, we always need an announcer. I offered to do it once freshman year, and I’ve offered to do it every other year since,” Murphy said. He mentioned that it was a great experience, “to learn from the people who are determining who comes in first, second, and so forth.” Murphy knew before coming to Marist that he wanted to ride in college, something he’s been doing since he was 9-years-old.
Going forward, the team hopes to beat rival team Centenary University next year for the Zone title. Murphy hopes to see more members qualify for nationals. Coach Knapp knows of 12 interested incoming freshmen, and is excited to see the talent and dynamics they’ll bring to the team.
Their home shows are free and open to the public. The team has had faculty members in attendance at shows, but would love to get more students to attend. Their active Facebook page keeps the public updated on all their events and results.
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A newly acquired 145-acre natural area along the Tualatin River west of King City will protect clean water and support a variety of native wildlife and plants.
The new Beef Bend Natural Area protects more than two miles of the riverbank and connects several large pieces of publicly protected habitat. The natural area borders the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge to the south and across the river to the east. To the east of the refuge property is Metro’s 203-acre Heritage Pine Natural Area.
The publicly owned properties are located in a pocket between areas of future development for King City and Sherwood near Tigard and Tualatin. The large area of habitat provides benefits for wildlife and clean water and protects nature in a fast-developing part of the region.
“It’s going to be really hemmed in by urban development long term,” said Ryan Ruggiero, the Metro real estate negotiator who worked on the acquisition.
The new natural area features increasingly uncommon oak woodlands and riparian forests, including several Willamette Valley ponderosa pines that stand at more than 80 feet tall. Beavers, black-tailed deer, pileated woodpeckers, western gray squirrels and other native wildlife likely use the site.
“It’s important core habitat for all the wildlife that use that area,” said Jeff Merrill, a natural resources scientist who is leading restoration work at the site.
Upcoming restoration work could include removing a bridge spanning a small seasonal stream on the property that flows into the Tualatin River and manmade objects from the stream, Merrill said. Invasive plants, such as Himalayan blackberry and ivy, will be removed from the riparian forest and native trees and shrubs will be planted in their place. Fast-growing Douglas firs could also be selectively removed to provide more sunlight for native Oregon white oaks.
About 70 acres will continue to be leased for farming.
Crews have already removed an old shed where machines repairs occurred. About 25 cubic yards of soil contaminated with lead and other chemicals were also removed and disposed. Other old structures and a septic system are also planned for removal in the future.
Beef Bend Natural Area cost $1.7 million to acquire. Money came from the natural areas bond measure that voters approved in 2006. Every property Metro buys is within one of 27 specific target areas set out in the bond measure, and the properties are purchased only from willing sellers.

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I enjoy making games for others to enjoy! I added almost all of my projects here. Become a curator and add yours too! I will let you know about things going on, in the comments.
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You can add, I can add, if you curate, you ALL CAN ADD!
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The Words of the Wilson Family
Everyone, We are at a moment of crisis in the peace negotiations:
"The clock is ticking for the peace talks that began in September at the White House but stalled when Israeli settlement construction resumed Sept. 26 after a 10-month moratorium. The 22-member Arab League, which met in early October www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1008/Arab-League-expected-to-demand-settlement-freeze-before-peace-talks-continue, has given President Obama until the second week of November to broker a compromise that might allow talks to continue." www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/1029/Israel-could-lease-Palestinian-lands-in-exchange-for-Palestinian-statehood-report.
On the issue of settlements, which the Palestinians hold up as a precondition for talks, there is actually movement in terms of floating a proposal for Palestine to lease some of the settlement lands to Israel. A lease (like the British had for Hong Kong) would acknowledge Palestinian sovereignty yet give the settlers their homes. If that idea can fly, I would call on the Palestinians to drop their preconditions (of a settlement freeze) and get back to talking. A freeze ceases to have any real meaning, now that the resulting state of Palestine with borders near the Green Line has already been conceded by Israel and America.
However, other Palestinians, notably chief negotiator Saeb Erakat, are impatient and want to jump over the stalled peace talks to appeal for international recognition for Palestine:
Palestinians on Tuesday urged the international community to immediately recognize a Palestinian state in response to Israel's decision to build 1300 new East Jerusalem settler homes. "This latest unilateral Israeli act necessitates dramatic international action for immediate recognition of the Palestinian state [based] on the June 4, 1967 borders," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said in a statement. nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=215058#ixzz14tGbvZox
This unilateral move would be very, very tragic. I ask everyone to pray that cooler heads can prevail and that both sides can let the current negotiations resume. Pray that both Netanyahu and Abbas can find a compromise way back to the negotiating table before the end of this week, when the Arab League's deadline expires.
There is a world of difference between a Palestinian state established through voluntary negotiations with Israel and a Palestinian state imposed by international pressure. I have thought about some likely scenarios, and they look very bleak:
1. The current efforts by Obama and Hilary to broker a peace fail, and the Palestinian Authority goes to the UN to ask for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian State on the West Bank. It is likely that they will gain international approval for a state based on the 1967 borders, including East Jerusalem.
2. Israel, under pressure, formally withdraws from most of the West Bank, but she refuses to relinquish East Jerusalem. Instead, Israel annexes East Jerusalem because it sits within the existing borders of the municipality.
3. Israel fortifies the border of Jerusalem.
4. Certain disgruntled Palestinians or outside Arabs explode bombs or missiles in Jerusalem. After a few of these, Israel responds by rocket or air attacks into the West Bank.
5. The situation further deteriorates. Israel sends tanks across the Green Line into Palestine to punish the terrorists, and the Palestine calls for support from the Arab League to defend its integrity. Israel is forced into a humiliating withdrawal.
6. Maybe these Arab forces even enter Jerusalem to assert Palestinian claims. Maybe Hamas and Hezbollah enter the fray to create a war on 3 fronts.
7. America enters the fray in support of beleaguered Israel, leading potentially to world conflict.
8. To prevent all-out war, God and the spirit world call for another sacrifice from the True Family. Another helicopter accident? Death of another True Child? Heaven forbid!
9. In the resulting truce, international forces occupy Jerusalem and create a no-man's land along much of the Green Line.
We don't want this sort of scenario to unfold and spiral downward. Instead, let's pray that Palestinians will take a step back and allow Israelis space to work out their internal issues. Now is the best chance for peace talks to actually succeed, but talks take time. Netanyahu and Abbas both need time to digest the proposals on the table, work things out with their political supporters, allies and opposition, and bring their constituencies to accept the agreement that they are hashing out.
When Israelis and Palestinians make peace through face-to-face agreement, the sort of scenario I outlined above will not happen because:
1. Israel and Palestine negotiators would have come to a compromise on Jerusalem that they can sell to their people.
2. Israel and Palestine will develop joint security arrangements and work cooperatively to foil terrorists. Hence the need for fortified borders and heavy security measures will decrease.
3. Jerusalem will become a locus for dialogue and people-to-people meetings that can create warmer relationships and trust between Israelis and Palestinians.
4. Joint economic projects will enrich both Jews and Palestinians and build a strong constituency for normal relations.
5. As the Palestinians become more economically prosperous, their residual hatred of Israel will fade in comparison to their desire to get rich and provide a prosperous future for their children.
When people have the ability and the maturity to make voluntary agreements, this kind of virtuous spiral can occur.
So please pray that God and the good spirit world will restrain the more hot-headed Palestinians and Israelis, so that both sides can move deliberately towards self-restraint and renewed commitment to a peace process of face-to-face negotiations.


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Hundreds of thousands of commuters on one of Britain's busiest rail routes endured a chaotic journey into work this morning as strike action brought National Express East Anglia (NXEA) to a near-standstill.
Passengers were forced to stay home or take the bus, car or tube into work as NXEA was reduced to operating hourly services. The East Anglia franchise ferries 2 million people a week from Colchester, Southend and Norwich to London Liverpool Street in the capital's Square Mile financial district.
Tourists were affected as the route from Stansted Airport to London was cut to one train per hour. On a normal weekday NXE operates 1,800 services on its line but today expects to run 100 trains.
Andrew Chivers, the managing director of the franchise, apologised to passengers stranded in commuter towns such as Chelmsford, Braintree and Colchester: "We are extremely disappointed that the Aslef and RMT unions have called this industrial action over their salary demands, despite lengthy negotiations where we have offered the unions a salary increase above the rate of inflation."
The Rail Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and drivers' union Aslef said their members "solidly supported" the two-day walkout, which could be followed by three further 48-hour stoppages in the coming weeks.
The RMT said managers were running a "token" service on a few lines but most were "crippled".
The strike comes after NXEA's owner, National Express, plunged into a first-half pre-tax loss of £48.1m due to the cost of quitting its £1.4bn east coast franchise. The government is determined to strip the group of the East Anglia contract as punishment but National Express said today it was prepared to challenge this in court if necessary.

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I bought a few sets of BoBunny's background stamps and love them. They are so clear and detailed and the patterns make it very easy to stamp large sections of a page. They blend nicely. I really like the chicken wire pattern on this one.
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Warehousing services in Bonita Springs FL are available for business owners who do not want to or cannot have a warehouse at their own facility. Many businesses simply do not have space available to hold the amount of inventory they want to keep on hand. Others have concerns about employing warehouse personnel and find it significantly more cost-effective to outsource the work.
It’s not just the cost of paying more employees, including providing benefits. Warehouse employees are at greater risk of injury than workers in many other occupations, and many business owners do not want to take on the potential liability and increases in workers compensation insurance premiums. Contracting with a company providing Warehousing Services in Bonita Springs FL is often a smart decision, especially for small businesses operating on tight budgets.
Incidents on loading docks and accidents involving forklifts are the two most frequent causes of warehouse injuries. Manual lifting is another prevalent cause, as are tasks that require working on and around conveyors. Slipping or tripping and falling are common warehouse-related injuries. Uneven surfaces, wet floors, and pallets on the floors are frequent factors in these episodes.
Forklift accidents can cause injuries to drivers and people on the floor. A company that needs these workers must make sure they are fully trained and may even have to require random drug testing. A company that specializes in warehousing, storage and moving services is better equipped than a small business to manage these issues.
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By Syed Akbar
Hyderabad, Feb 24: Even as the State is battling to control HIV which is assuming monstrous proportions, the infection has spread to new population groups affecting children below 14 years of age.
According to the latest Sentinel Surveillance Report of the Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society, about four per cent of all HIV positive cases are children below 14 years. Officials are surprised at the spread of HIV in small children as Andhra Pradesh is primarily a "heterosexual State" where 90 per cent of the HIV/AIDS cases are through heterosexual transmission and just 0.46 per cent cases are through gay relationships. They believe that the streetchildren factor might have contributed to the high incidence of HIV in small children along with mother-to-child transmission route.
What is horrifying is that the State has fast moved from the "high risk groups" phase to "bridge population and vulnerable groups" phase. The State no more has any identifiable high risk groups like truckers and prostitutes. The infection has become quite common and everyone irrespective of social background in the State is at risk.
"We have five lakh HIV cases in the State and of this four per cent are children below 14 years of age. It is affecting women and children, both vulnerable groups, adversely. We do not have data on the exact cause of spread of HIV to this group of population. We cannot say for sure that HIV in small children is through sexual contact. There is no provision in law for a random survey on HIV/AIDS and hence we depend on the cases visiting voluntary counselling centres, STD clinics or prenatal test units", says APSACS joint director Padmavathi.
Andhra Pradesh is one of the States where HIV has become generalised epidemic with a prevalence rate of above one per cent. The prevalence is above one per cent in 18 districts and above two per cent in the districts of Kadapa, Nellore, Prakasam, Gutur, East and West Godavari and Srikakulam.
Another factor troubling APSACS is the spread of HIV among teenagers. About 50 per cent of the new infections reported are in the age group of 15 to 24 years. Taking prevalence into consideration, 45 per cent of the infections are in the age group of 15-29 years. About 90 per cent of the infections are in the age group of 15-49 years.
According to official statistics for 2004-2005, 3.66 per cent of HIV patients are below 14 years, 44.89 per cent in the age group of 15-29 years, 35.23 per cent (30-39 years), 12.45 per cent (40-49 years) and 3.77 per cent (above 50 years).
Probable modes of transmission as per the information reported in voluntary counselling and testing centres are: heterosexual transmission - 89.23 per cent; homosexual transmission - 0.46 per cent; infected syringes and needles - 0.80 per cent, blood and blood products - 0.98 per cent and others 8.5 per cent.


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Not long into “The Frozen Wilds,” the first expansion for one of the best games of this year, “Horizon Zero Dawn,” I realized the content’s potential.
I was in a new locale: the icy, sub-alpine forests and steamy geysers of Yellowstone. Fat flakes fell as I moved through realistic, waist-high piles of snow, and in the background loomed a lightning storm amid the thick, black smoke of a threatening volcano. The setting of “The Frozen Wilds” is just as beautiful and diverse as the base game.
With a new area comes a new story and some interesting characters and side missions. But a different location and some new quests aren’t the only thing the downloadable content adds; the expansion includes new enemies, skills, weapons and outfits, making it a worthy addition to the base game.
All three new machines are difficult foes, making combat fun for “Horizon” veterans. The Scorcher looks like a big wolf and, as the name implies, it likes to burn things. It has a mounted mine gun you can shoot off and use against it, which is always a blast. Frostclaws and Fireclaws look like bears and, again, use elemental attacks.
“The Frozen Wilds” also adds daemonic machines, which are like corrupted machines, only stronger. Those who have mastered fighting every machine and their corrupted variants might get a kick out of daemonic machines, which seem stronger and more resistant than their brethren.
A new, welcome twist on combat is control towers that heal machines close to them. Encounters are a bit different when a machine-repairing element is thrown in, but the towers can be destroyed or, better yet, overridden to stun machines to give you the upper hand. It was mostly fun and sometimes frustrating trying to sneak to a tower to override it before a machine spotted me and thwarted my efforts.
I’m happy to say “The Frozen Wilds” doesn’t include human combat, which is easily the weakest part of the base game. Instead, the expansion plays to its strengths.
There is a new skill tree for those who have maxed out player character Aloy’s many skills. One branch is useful, allowing Aloy to find more rare items when looting enemies and salvage unwanted scrap for half its merchant value. The other branch makes Aloy more versatile when mounted on a machine. Considering I never ride the robots, I found the skills largely useless.
“The Frozen Wilds” includes some very nice upgrades to Aloy’s three bows. I especially loved my Banuk Striker Bow, which does extra damage when fully charged. There are also three entirely new weapons that deal heavy elemental damage, but I never found much use for them. “Horizon Zero Dawn” already had an abundance of versatile weapons, but it doesn’t hurt to have more options.
The expansion also includes spear upgrades, a first for the game. It’s nice to be able to upgrade your sole melee weapon for once. Of course, there are some new and useful outfits with passive abilities, such as health regeneration, which make them possibly better than the base game’s outfits.
All the additional goodies are a nice bonus to an abundance of quests, side missions and personal stories that expand on an already fleshed-out and fully realized world. “Horizon Zero Dawn” has delivered again.
“Horizon Zero Dawn” is one of the year’s best games, and “The Frozen Wilds” is a worthy addition to an already incredible experience. With new missions to complete, new beasts to conquer and new gear and skills to acquire, all in a beautiful location, “The Frozen Wilds” is something every “Horizon Zero Dawn” fan should experience. It comes at a great time, too, giving fans a reason to return to the game eight months after its initial release.
Final score: 9/10
”Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds” was reviewed on the PlayStation 4 with a digital copy provided by the publisher, Sony.
Video game columnist Jake Magee has been with GazetteXtra since 2014. His opinion is not necessarily that of Gazette management. Let him know what you think by emailing email@example.com, leaving a comment below, or following @jakemmagee on Twitter.


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Music, film and storytelling highlight Augusta Symphony’s new season.
A little bit classic; a little bit country; a little bit Hollywood and a little bit rock ’n’ roll. Music aficionados no doubt will find something to love in the innovative programming for Augusta Symphony’s 65th season, Beyond Boundaries, this year.
“We are hoping to take the regular experience at the symphony and elevate it even further, thus going beyond the boundaries of the traditional concert experience,” says Dirk Meyer, music director.
The orchestra will open the season, and its Symphony Series, with The Romantics, featuring cellist Zuill Bailey, on Friday, September 27. The music will include Still’s Poem for Orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto.
In this series, the orchestra will present masterworks by the greatest composers throughout history to the present, and two of these concerts will include performances of four previously unrecorded works by American-Uruguayan composer Miguel del Aguila.
The performances will be professionally recorded and ultimately released on a classical music label in collaboration with the composer’s publisher, peermusic Classical, the world’s largest publisher of music.
“This will be the first time ever that the orchestra is undertaking a recording project. To record and release four previously unrecorded works by a prominent American composer is an amazing feat for an organization of our size,” Meyer says. “With the help of peermusic, we are confident we will find the right label and are in good hands regarding distribution of the recording. This release will bring national – if not international – coverage and recognition to our orchestra.”
The symphony also will build on last year’s introduction of multimedia to the concert hall with the audience-engaging EnCue app. In Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, the film will play on a big screen suspended above the stage while the orchestra performs John Williams’ movie score.
The symphony’s performance of Holst’s The Planets will feature projections of NASA video and images of the solar system from Voyager 2.
In the Pops! Series, the Texas Tenors will accompany the symphony to perform holiday favorites with cowboy charm in “Deep in the Heart of Christmas.” Patrons can rock out to “The Music of Billy Joel” and “Revolution: The Music of The Beatles” in this series as well.
The Family Concerts at the Jabez S. Hardin Performing Arts Center in Columbia County include “Halloween at the Symphony” and “Musical Fairy Tales.” For the Halloween performance, the entire family is invited to come in costume and listen to spooky classical favorites. L’Histoire de Babar, with a narrator and the orchestra telling the story of the beloved little elephant, will highlight the Fairy Tales concert. These one-hour programs are ideal for introducing children to the symphony, and Meyer will explain the meaning of the pieces between performances.
“This season we will again offer a mix of beloved classics, interspersed with lesser known works and composers. I believe audiences truly enjoy hearing something they know and love, but then also find a new treasure and discover something they didn’t know yet,” says Meyer. “Orchestral music truly has transformative powers. It expresses those emotions that cannot be expressed with words and gives us a glimpse of what the human mind can achieve. The shared experience of art can help us overcome our differences and unite us in what is truly important – our shared humanity.”
If You Go:
What: Augusta Symphony’s The Romantics
When: 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 27
Where: Miller Theater
How Much: $22 – $69; season tickets also are available
More Info: (706) 842-4080 or augustasymphony.com


Intel isn’t letting the Virtual Reality revolution getting away from it, but since it really wants to sell more chips, its Project Alloy headset packs a full VR rig into a standalone system. Shown off for the first time at IDF 2016, the company’s developer conference in San Francisco, CA, today, Project Alloy looks at first glance like a regular – albeit bulky – headset, though that size is because it’s actually a complete PC, too.
Project Alloy also supports what Intel is referring to multi-room tracking, moving from space to space in a home or office. At the front of the headset there’s a RealSense camera array, while at the back there are batteries built into the rear of the head strap. 6-DOF motion sensors inside Project Alloy can track where you move, rather than requiring external sensors as something like HTC Vive demands.
Rather than a gamepad controller, meanwhile, the RealSense camera is used for full depth sensing and real-time tracking of all five fingers on each hand. In fact, your hands show up as floating, disembodied limbs in the center of your view.
You can even bring in objects from the real world – Intel demonstrated it with a dollar bill, clutched in the hand – and, if people or objects are close enough, they’ll be included in the digitized environment too.
“If you’re going to untether and walk freely in the house,” Intel CEO Brian Krzanich explained, “you’ve got to be able to avoid obstacles.”
Intel is working with Microsoft to use Windows Holographic, the same platform that powers Microsoft’s own HoloLens headset, to support Project Alloy too. As of 2017, an update for all Windows 10 PCs will bring Windows Holographic support, allowing them to power the interface and experience when a VR headset is plugged in.
Both of the companies are working – with partners – on a common mixed-reality specification, though we won’t see version one of that until December 2016. It shouldn’t be especially demanding, though: Microsoft’s mixed reality demonstration was powered by one of Intel’s tiny NUC PCs, capable of running 90 frames per second VR.
As of the second half of 2017, meanwhile, Intel says it plans to open-source the Project Alloy hardware design. That’ll mean any company will be able to create their own mixed reality headset built on the platform.


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123 West 12th Avenue
Commute to Downtown Englewood
Daily errands do not require a car.
Transit is convenient for most trips.
Flat as a pancake, excellent bike lanes.
123 West 12th Avenue has a Walk Score of 96 out of 100. This location is a Walker’s Paradise so daily errands do not require a car.
This location is in the Downtown neighborhood in Denver. Nearby parks include Civic Center Historic District, Civic Center Park and Civic Center Park.
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D 30th & Downing Station to Littleton-Mineral Station
F 18th & California Station to Lincoln Station
H 18th & California Station to Florida Station
C Union Station to Littleton-Mineral Station
E Union Station to Lincoln Station
W Union Station to Jefferson County Government Center-Golden Station
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