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Getting Balls Deep & A Goal of Getting High ScoresAugust 7, 2013 by

As a 90s kid, I grew up in the middle of a technical revolution. Huge computers and phones getting vastly more compact, file sizes growing and changing, and internet speeds running progressively faster. And, as a gamer, I was mostly using the latest consoles. Growing up in the normal day world was of course fun, but it wasn’t until last weekend when I discovered something that was missing from my youth… Pinball.

Of course, I’ve played a machine once or twice in my life but never got the chance to respect and understand it. It was always just fun, bright blinking lights and a thoughtless thrill. Now, being the twenty-three year old I am today, can wrap my brain around the skill and art of pinball playing.

It was last weekend when I was hanging out with my mom and sister at the local bowling alley. Shortly after we got there, my sister pointed in the corner with her twelve year old finger and exclaimed there was a pinball table. I know she goes and plays a table sometimes at the local alley where she lives two hours away. She really likes it as well, but I suppose it’s the same for her the same way it was for me until recently.

The table is Theatre of Magic, which is to my understanding a pretty popular machine. We took turns, me of course with a pinball virgin mind, just having mindless fun with them. I was having a ball (pun intended), and liked it so much that I came back the next day with my girlfriend and played until my pockets were dry of quarters.

The more I played, the more I understood it, and still had a lot to learn. I planned to go back soon—I made a minor goal to get a high score. I want my name on that machine.

To my amazing luck, the next day I was browsing PSN, and noticed that Pinball Arcade is free to PS Plus subscribers. New to the scene and curious, I threw it in my download list right quick. A little while later I’d install it to find out that it comes with four free tables. And dear lord, one of the tables was Theatre of Magic.

Over the past three days, I’ve sunk a solid four to five hours into practicing, reading instructions, and trying to set the virtual high score. I’ll admit that I still have a long way to go to be a master, but now I know a good majority of that machine, making me feel confident that I’ll rock its socks next time. I can only hope… If not, there’s always the fun I’ll have while playing.

Rolling with the balls of Pinball Arcade, I’ve discovered some other tables, and it has only made me imagine what I’ve missed when pinball was at the top of the arcade world. So many quarters, multiballs, and flippers that I could have used, lost, and flipped. So tilts and bumpers I could have got and hit. However, it’s 2013 and I have to live in the now. Pinball is a dying legacy, but it doesn’t mean that it won’t be missed. I’m super glad and proud of the people who have kept, preserved and maintained their machines. To all of you, I thank you. I know they still make new ones today, but the more well kept, the better.

And to you older folk that have had the opportunity to live in the prime of this delight of a game, I hope you enjoyed and cherished it enough for the both of us. It makes me sad that I was never able to socially take part in it and contribute the culture in which it formed into. But you can surely bet that if I was born ten to twenty years sooner, I would.

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Review Time!: Sound ShapesJuly 27, 2013 by

About a month ago, I came across this lovely gem on sale on PSN. Between hearing the wonderful things about it and knowing it has an MSRP of $14.99, I couldn't help to pick it up for the four dollar price tag to see what it's all about. And let me tell you, it deserves all the love that it's getting.

Sound Shapes, if you haven't quite heard of it, is a music oriented 2D platformer. You play as a cute little blob, collecting circles as you try to make your way through the level. When snagged, each circle adds a little something to the tune that's playing. It could be anything from a soft hi-hat to a few plucks on a banjo, or even a sweet resounding chord. You don't necessarily have to get all of these collectibles in order to complete the level, but it definitely helps create the full picture.

And this is a game where anyone can practically jump in and try it out, given the two button control layout. While the controls are easy to master, the concept of this beaut of a game is just as simple. Just don't hit the red stuff! Do that, and your blob will be just fine. And did I mention your blob naturally sticks to a good number of things? Well, it surely comes in handy. You'll be traversing the levels in style as you hang from ceilings and hang on to rotating objects as you're making your way while chilling out to some awesome tunes from I am Robot and Proud, Beck, Deadmau5, and more.

Let me tell you...these songs are undeniably awesome. They all have an electronic style, but you seriously cannot help to bob along to it. And there's things like in Beck's album, wherein the lyrics are incorporated with the level, making platforms change as the words are sung. Or objects that travel with the bass line. Even the wrecking ball in the picture below pulsated with the tempo of the song, and the whole level just lived in the music. I couldn't help but love it.

I also just have to mention the way the level select is set up. On the menu, you can pick albums. Each record album is performed by a different artist and can include from three to six songs. Might I add that each record has a unique art style, differentiating itself from the rest of the game. It makes for a nice change of pace, and really sets the mood as the music is sewn into its separate worlds. So when you've chosen what you want to play, you play the album in order. Each song is a level, and progressing puts the needle closer to the center. It's a simple, yet brilliant touch.

The main campaign is only about five records long, including twenty tracks all together. However, you can download more albums and tracks in the Sound Shapes store for free! While there are many user created levels, there are also more albums by the developer, Queasy Games, as well as an album by the Ghostly International label.

As you might have guessed since there's user created content, you yourself can create levels too. Completing a level unlocks a good number of obstacles and items from it, and you can combine them in your own way while placing the collectible circles where you want in order to make your own beat. This is an unbeatable feature, as it feeds the creativeness for whoever is hungry for it. Finishing the campaign also unlocks two more different modes of play, providing even more replay value. Death mode is extremely challenging, so play at your own risk.

In the end, Sound Shapes is an undoubted win. Its wide array of elegant art styles cooperating with their own captivating melodies is no match for the everyday platformer. Even if the campaign is a tad short, the game makes up for it in other parts. Also, it's an ease to hop into, without question. I'd definitely pick this title up if I were you.

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My Personal Top 5 for '13 (January-June)July 23, 2013 by

Although we've already covered this in a podcast in early July, I thought I'd whip this up for y'alls quick. Let me know what you think! Agree? Disagree? Leave a comment to keep the talk flowin'!

Honorable Mentions:

Luigi's Mansion: Dark MoonThis lovely sequel definitely put a smile on my face for hours. The plethora of interactive items combined with the fine-tuned personality of Luigi made this game an instant win.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf: In all the hours I've sunk into gaming this year, most of them have probably gone to New Leaf. But with its addiction comes menus and systems that should be easier to work through, which keeps me from putting this game near the top of the list (It's still a winner, though!).

Now let's get to the good stuff.

Taking a turn for the dirty, this reboot did a lot of things right. Its gameplay was Arkham and Uncharted-esque, and everything looked mighty sharp. While it did have some minor flaws, it never made me want to put down the controller. I just wish it had more puzzles.

Now I was waiting for this little number for a good while, seeing as it was originally supposed to come out late last year. It's a rhythm based 2D platformer, in which Commander Video runs and a steady speed, and you have to overcome obstacles to the beat in order to pass each level The music is catchy, and with Charles Martinet narrating, you can't go wrong.

Ever since the first Dead Space debuted in '08, me and my brother have been big fans of the franchise. So naturally, I couldn't wait for this game, and I knew I'd get into it. However in hindsight, I thought the story of this final chapter wasn't as good as the previous installments. But where Dead Space 3 lacks in story, it really excels in the new features, such as the weapon crafting and the uber fun co-op mode. (Tag team that necromorph carnage!)

This long awaited piece of art from Naughty Dog definitely delivered as expected. It's an emotional roller coaster planted in the depths of the earth twenty years after it's gone to hell. But even in a world so run down, The Last of Us displays how beautiful and luscious the world can still be, while also telling a strong tale of a man doing anything to survive not only physically, but mentally.

Maybe I'm just a sucker for the works of Studio Ghibli, or maybe this game is just that good. Either way this game had everything you could want in an RPG, and then some. The heartfelt story is overwhelmingly contagious, and you can't deny the wonder of the open world. With a 50-60 hour playthough, they've set you up to have a truly marvelous adventure in another world.

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The Love, Hate, and Off-the-Wallism of Animal Crossing: New LeafJuly 4, 2013 by

Animal Crossing. Some people love it, some people hate it, and some people just don't get it. For me, it's a combo of all three, yet I am still hooked on the game. But why? I'm hoping I can realize the reasons as I break it down chunk by chunk.

First, let's start off with that things that make Animal Crossing: New Leaf really, really dumb. There are a few key things that it does that just make me want to punch my head in...

1. The hoops you have to jump through in order to visit towns or open your gate. Befriending someone on the 3DS is quite a chore in itself in the first place, but when you add in having to go to the train station, flipping though ten dialogue screens and answering a few questions, it gets to be a bit much.

To make me happier and things easier, they could have made an option in the menu to open your gate or travel to a town. It'd surely be a lot quicker. In fact, there was an instance where I thought I could trick the game into closing my gates by turning off the Wi-Fi, but silly me. An error prompt came up, causing the game to reset to my previous save state, and I lost a few things. Anyways, enough ranting about that.

2. This one goes hand in hand with the previous. I don't like the fact that you can't design or donate items to the museum while your gates are open. I'm not sure if that's a technical issue or what, but a lot of the time, I forget that I'm not allowed to do something and it ends up being a wasted trip to the museum, or what have you.

3. Repeated dialogue. I'm getting sick of going to the museum, having to wake up Blathers, only for him to say the same fifteen sentences every time I want to donate something. I really prefer it by him saying right away "Hey, what can I help with?" then donating. Then him following up by, "Oh, great! We'll get this displayed right way!" instead of him reminiscing every god darn time I show him a new item.

The same thing goes when you walk into a store when people greet you. It also kind of goes hand in hand with reason one as well.

4. Inventory management. Why can't there be more slots? I know you can stack fruit, but that's not quite enough. Stacking same species fish and bugs would be helpful too.

Now, that seems like a lot of things that I don't like--and it is. And lately, it's been bogging me down more and more. But with that aside, there are plenty of reasons why I love the crap out of this delight of a game.

1. Its overall cuteness and peaceful nature. By the end of the day, Animal Crossing is just a pleasant place to be to get your mind off things. The music contributes greatly to that, and it's just super relaxing to chill out and go fishing for a few minutes and mindlessly discovering what's new day to day.

2. Puns and other comedic value. This game really shines when it comes to the writing. Each character has their own personality and they really focus on it. While some might be a tad colder than most, some others you'll want to have in your town forever.

The character I love most though is Kapp'n. His songs are sometimes hilarious but often have wise advice tossed in. Not to mention the melody is undeniably catchy.

Also, the comments your character makes when you catch something is plain fun. "I caught a squid. Yes, I did!" or "I caught a ladybug. Or is it a man?" Quotes like that really put some smiles on my face and I often catch myself saying the quote beforehand if I know it.

3. The slow unraveling of never-ending new stuff. As many people know, there's new stuff every. New items in shops, a new debt to pay off, new animals to catch, new weather to play in, etc. The subtlety of it hits a sweet spot. It's not too much to be overwhelming and it's not too little to get bored with it.

4. Being able to do whatever you want. There are no rules. You are the mayor. Wanna dig holes all over your town? Go for it. Want to chop all the trees down? Feel free. Want to make your house an ugly turd? No one's stopping you. It's games like these that really puts your mind at ease, where you can do your own thing at your own pace.

There is some guidance (which is always helpful) but in the long run this games about kicking your feet up and admiring how you shaped your town the way you wanted. Molding something anything at your own will makes you feel a warm content that you can't help not to be proud of.

There you have it. Four key good things, four key bad things. Where this game shines obviously contributes greater than where it lacks. Otherwise I wouldn't be playing. And sure, this game is cram-packed with straight up nonsense, but that's the stuff I tend to like most in video games.

I'm not sure how much longer I'll be playing it, but overall I'm glad to have an off-the-wall game like this where I can do whatever I want.  It makes me feel like I have control, whereas in real life it's not that easy. And besides, where else can you put a shark in your pocket and use bells to buy a megaphone to yell dumb things at the citizens you don't like?

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What Would Make Mii Buy a Wii UJune 23, 2013 by

Many folks are being rash about the Wii U, claiming it's the baby that Nintendo should have aborted... Well, not quite, but you know what I mean. It's not selling like hot cakes at all, but there are reasons for it. Instead of lecturing on how Nintendo could have sold more units than they already have, I rather fantasize on what may eventually come (but probably won't) that will push me over the edge and cave in to buy a Wii U.

First, the big one--a new StarFox. As my favorites are both StarFox 64 and StarFox Adventures, I can't say I which style I would prefer it being. I just love that badass fox for all he's worth. I mean come on, no one can barrel roll finer. However, if a new installment sees daylight, we'll have a good while to wait considering it had no place in the E3 Nintendo Direct.

While a new Metroid game would be splendid too, I'm not sure if that would sell me or not. I guess I would have to see what style it'd be in, seeing as the franchise has gone all routes over the years.

Another reason? New IP. This can definitely fit into reasons to buy other consoles as well, and I'm sure this is a big one on everyone's list. Who doesn't love totally fresh ideas? The only Wii U exclusive I saw which wasn't some form of sequel was Wonderful 101. And while it totally looks awesome (and I would probably buy if I had a Wii U), it's not enough to make me buy the console itself. However, a handful, or even a few, games of this quality that are also new IP could do the trick.

And last but not least, phenomenal third party games. Nintendo claims they have outside development support, and they proved it by showing that sizzle reel in the latest Nintendo Direct of third party games still yet to come to the Wii U. But honestly, hardly of them quite did it for me. The ones that did are coming to other consoles.

This might be asking for a lot, but I don't need all of these to make me cave in. I'll quickly go over the things that make me dabble buying a Wii U already... Backwards comparability. I never had a Wii, so I can go back and play the few awesome Wii games I've missed like Mario GalaxyMario Kart 8. I friggin' love me some Mario Kart. Lego City Undercover. True Crime, Lego style? Awesome. And the virtual console. It'd be a wonderful way to catch up on all the older games I've missed out.

When all is said and done, Nintendo is slowly packing Wii U's punch. By the looks of it, I may not want to get one for another year or so. A price drop would definitely sway me as well, but who knows how long we'll have to wait for that. And I also have a question for you wonderful folks who already have this console, that is, if you want to convince me a bit more. What do you like about it, and why should I get one?

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Finalists For Walter Payton NFL Man Of The Year Award

January 20, 2014

Three community-minded NFL players will be recognized during Super Bowl week as finalists for the WALTER PAYTON NFL MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD, it was announced today. THOMAS DAVIS ofthe Carolina Panthers, JAY FEELY of the Arizona Cardinals and CHARLES TILLMAN of the Chicago Bears are the top candidates for this year’s award, named for the legendary Bears running back who died in 1999.

The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award is the only league award that recognizes a player’s off-the-field community service as well as his playing excellence.

The winner of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award will be announced in New York, the site of Super Bowl XLVIII, during the third annual NFL Honors, a two-hour primetime awards special to air nationally on Saturday, February 1, from 8-10 p.m. (ET) on FOX.

Recent winners of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award include JASON WITTEN of the Dallas
Cowboys, MATT BIRK, then of the Baltimore Ravens (2011), MADIEU WILLIAMS, then of the Minnesota Vikings (2010). (Complete lists of players nominated for this year’s award and previous winners are below).

The three finalists were chosen from among the 32 team nominees for the award, all of whom receive a $1,000 donation from the NFL Foundation to the charity of their choice. The three finalists will receive an additional $5,000 donation in their name. The selection panel is comprised of NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL, former NFL Commissioner PAUL TAGLIABUE, CONNIE PAYTON, Pro Football Hall of Fame members FRANK GIFFORD and ANTHONY MUÑOZ, 2012 winner JASON WITTEN, and Sports Illustrated football writer Peter King.

The winner of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award will receive the Gladiator statue, an original art creation by the noted sculptor, DANIEL SCHWARTZ.  In addition, the player’s favorite charity will receive an additional $20,000 donation in his name.

THOMAS DAVIS (Carolina Panthers)

Selected with the 14th overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft, Davis has spent his entire 9-year professional career with the Panthers. A three-year captain, Davis successfully returned to the field of play following three ACL reconstructions in the same knee.  His return propelled the 2013 Panthers to a 2nd ranked defense, a NFC South Division Championship and a no. 2 seed in the NFC Playoffs.  Davis’ play on the field also earned him NFC Defensive Player of the Month honors for November. He set or tied career highs for tackles, sacks, interceptions and passes defensed.

Davis transitions his energy and leadership on the field directly into the community.  In 2007, he and his wife Kelly founded the Thomas Davis Defending Dreams Foundation (TDDDF), a non-profit dedicated to providing and promoting free programs that enhance the quality of life for more than 2,000 underprivileged children and their families annually.  The foundation’s cornerstone program, the Youth Leadership Academy, is a 14-week afterschool mentoring program for low-income middle school students.  Davis annually provides two college scholarships for graduating high school seniors who have completed the Youth Leadership Academy program. The TDDDF hosts annual programs including a back-to-school supply giveaway, a Thanksgiving meal at a battered women’s shelter and a Christmas gift giveaway for underprivileged children, both in Charlotte and in Davis’ hometown in Georgia.

This past June, Davis led the construction of the first and only playground in his small rural hometown of Shellman, GA. In addition, his annual free football camp provides over 350 children with instruction in football basics with a focus on life skills. Davis is active in the Panthers PLAY 60 efforts and is an ongoing supporter of the team’s pediatric hospital visits.  In 2013, Davis was voted by his teammates as the Carolina Panthers nominee for the Byron “Whizzer” White Award, the NFLPA’s annual award for on and off the field dedication.

JAY FEELY (Arizona Cardinals)

With 1,437 career points since entering the league in 2001, kicker Feely is one of the NFL’s top-five active scorers and has appeared in 207 of a possible 208 regular season games in his 13 seasons. One of just eight players in NFL history with at least seven game-winning OT FGs in their career, Feely finished the 2013 season with 127 points, which represents the second-highest single-season point total in franchise history. During a memorable performance in a 2010 victory over the Broncos, Feely became the first player in the Super Bowl era (post 1967) to score 22 consecutive points in a game (5 FGs, TD, PAT).

Since joining the Cardinals in 2010, Feely has been an active participant in the Arizona community. He is a supporter and regular visitor at the Phoenix Ronald McDonald House and was recently honored with the “Game Changer” award at the Phoenix Rescue Mission for his years of service and dedication. Feely is also a supporter of the House of Refuge, a non-profit organization helping homeless families and individuals as they strive towards self-sufficiency and seek to obtain permanent housing. Along with his family, Jay created the Feely Family Foundation which focuses on the protection, education, and rehabilitation of children.

Feely’s charitable contributions extend beyond the U.S., including regular trips to Haiti as part of relief efforts following the devastating earthquake in 2010. While in Haiti, Feely has taken part in the process of rebuilding a church that was destroyed by the earthquake while also working with an orphanage outside of Port Au Prince to bring clothes and other goods for donation.

“I feel like the biggest advantage you have as a professional athlete is the opportunity to give back,” Feely said of being named the Cardinals 2013 Walter Payton Man of the Year. “People look to you to be a leader, but also look at you in a certain way just because you are an athlete. I think you can use that to your advantage to have an impact on people.”

Cornerback Charles Tillman has distinguished himself as one of the NFL’s top defensive backs during his outstanding 11-year career with the Chicago Bears.  Since entering the NFL in 2003, he is tied for fifth in interceptions, fifth in interception return yards, tied for second in interception return touchdowns, second in forced fumbles, fifth in pass break ups, and is the only player during that time with 30+ interceptions and 30+ forced fumbles.  A two-time Pro Bowl selection, Tillman ranks third in Bears franchise history with 36 interceptions, and is the franchise leader in defensive return touchdowns, interception return touchdowns and interception return yards.

A finalist for the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award in 2011 and the winner of the NFL Salute to Service Award in 2012, Tillman’s contributions off of the field are equally as impressive as his work on it.  Tillman continues to have an impact on millions of people in the Chicago area through his Cornerstone Foundation and its many programs.  Charles’ Locker provides pediatric hospital patients with access to iPads, laptops, gaming systems and other kinds of entertainment to help pass the time during their hospital stays and annually reaches more than 370,000 children.  The Tiana Fund has distributed more than $1 million to over 300 families who have been identified by local organizations as at-risk or in-need.  The support is provided to families and individuals to strengthen their ability to care for themselves, enhance their stability and security, and improve their quality of life.

Tillman and his wife, Jackie, also contribute their time and resources to local, national and international organizations outside of the Cornerstone Foundation.  The Tillmans have helped build a school in Cambodia, sponsored children through the Urban Promise program in Camden, New Jersey, and have purchased and donated over 700 tickets to Bears home games since 2008 through the Bears Home Team Hand-Off program.  Tillman is also an avid supporter of our military, and has participated in a USO tour to Iraq, volunteered with the USO of Illinois on Thanksgiving to serve meals to local troops, and provided soldiers with tickets to games at Soldier Field during the 2013 season.

Arizona Cardinals

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Atlanta Falcons

Matt Bryant

Baltimore Ravens

Torrey Smith

Buffalo Bills

Arthur Moats

Carolina Panthers

Thomas Davis

Chicago Bears

Charles Tillman

Cincinnati Bengals

Vincent Rey

Cleveland Browns

Jabaal Sheard

Dallas Cowboys

Brandon Carr

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Wesley Woodyard

Detroit Lions

Stephen Tulloch

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Brad Jones

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J.J. Watt

Indianapolis Colts

Antoine Bethea

Jacksonville Jaguars

Maurice Jones-Drew

Kansas City Chiefs

Dustin Colquitt

Miami Dolphins

Brandon Fields

Minnesota Vikings

John Sullivan

New England Patriots

Tom Brady

New Orleans Saints

Pierre Thomas

New York Giants

Eli Manning

New York Jets

Kyle Wilson

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Usama Young

Philadelphia Eagles

Bennie Logan

Pittsburgh Steelers

Ben Roethlisberger

San Diego Chargers

Antonio Gates

San Francisco 49ers

Vernon Davis

Seattle Seahawks

Doug Baldwin

St. Louis Rams

William Hayes

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Vincent Jackson

Tennessee Titans

Delanie Walker

Washington Redskins

Alfred Morris

Jason Witten, Tight End

Dallas Cowboys

Matt Birk,  Center

Baltimore Ravens

Madieu Williams, Safety

Minnesota Vikings

Brian Waters, Guard

Kansas City Chiefs

Kurt Warner, Quarterback

Arizona Cardinals

Jason Taylor, Defensive End

Miami Dolphins

Drew Brees, QB (N.O.) and LaDainian Tomlinson, RB (S.D.)

Peyton Manning, Quarterback

Indianapolis Colts

Warrick Dunn, Running Back

Atlanta Falcons

Will Shields, Guard

Kansas City Chiefs

Troy Vincent, Defensive Back

Philadelphia Eagles

Jerome Bettis, Running Back

Pittsburgh Steelers

Derrick Brooks (Tampa) and Jim Flanigan (Chicago)

Cris Carter, Wide Receiver

Minnesota Vikings

Dan Marino, Quarterback

Miami Dolphins

Troy Aikman, Quarterback

Dallas Cowboys

Darrell Green, Cornerback

Washington Redskins

Boomer Esiason, Quarterback

New York Jets

Junior Seau, Linebacker

San Diego Chargers

Derrick Thomas, Linebacker

Kansas City Chiefs

John Elway, Quarterback

Denver Broncos

Anthony Munoz, Tackle

Cincinnati Bengals

Mike Singletary, Linebacker

Chicago Bears

Warren Moon, Quarterback

Houston Oilers

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The Durham Turfdogs are pleased to announce their coaching staff for the 2014 season.  Leading the team behind the bench will be Head Coach Paul Stewart, and working alongside him will be assistants Steve McCarthy and John Munroe. Turfdogs GM Dave Colbourne said, “I am incredibly excited about this coaching staff.  They all bring a wealth of experience to the team, and I’m confident in their abilities to bring a Creator’s Cup to Durham.”

Paul Stewart is an Oshawa native and has been involved in lacrosse for 25 years.  As a player, Stewart played both with Six Nations and Brooklin.  Stewart brings a wealth of coaching experience to the Turfdogs having coached internationally with Team Canada and Ireland, as well as in the NLL with Minnesota, New York, and Philadelphia. Additionally, Stewart has spent time behind the bench with the Clarington Green Gaels, Brooklin Merchants, Ajax Rock, Six Nations Chiefs, Brooklin Redmen and numerous minor lacrosse teams in the Oshawa and Whitby area.  Stewart said, “I look forward to coaching in my hometown in front of my kids and their minor lacrosse teams, and building a team that young local lacrosse players can look up to and aspire to be like.”

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Since "Versailles Rive Gauche" (1992), the Podalydès brothers rank among the darlings of the French press and critic specialized in cinema. This movie "Dieu seul me voit" (1998) confirms it. It achieved a huge success more critic than commercial and it won the Oscar for the Best First Work in France in 1999. I watched it recently and I thought it wasn't bad.

It's obvious that the Podalydès brothers have got a certain talent as a director (Bruno) and as an actor (Denis). Both have concocted a light and subtle movie which isn't however devoid of weaknesses. To sum up this film, someone told me this sentence: "a recording engineer drowned in his loving problems". It can be checked in one sequence, at the end of the film, when Albert (Denis Podalydès) is in front of the Versailles castle after the demonstration with all the women he charmed. Otherwise, I don't think the sentence suits well to the opus. I would have chosen "a recording engineer hesitating between several loving conquests". Moreover, Albert mainly evokes a loving Candide.

Then, "Dieu seul me voit" is supposed to be a comedy. It's rather true. There are, actually two kinds of comic. Firstly, a comic that emanates from the dialogs and secondly, situation comedy. Using these two devices, Bruno Podalydès, let's admit it doesn't always hit the bull's eye but when he succeeds in it, it's a delightful result.

But I also thought that most of the sequences were of varying quality: if the ones that take place in Toulouse turn out to be particularly successful, others are badly mastered: when Albert's having dinner with Anna in the "Klow restaurant".

At the end, the whole gives a nice movie even imperfect.

A remark: the Podalydès brothers are big fans of Tintin and "Dieu seul me voit" contains three nods at the famous reporter:

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waiter's got the same aspect as the one in the Tintin's album: "King Ottokar's sceptre".
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clothes as Tintin: a white shirt and a blue sweat shirt.

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I think this film, as a sequel, does a huge disservice to the original Balto

  • in my opinion one of the finest animated moves ever and one of the few

movies ever to move me to tears.

First, I really wish we could have had Kevin Bacon and Bridget Fonda back from the original. While the voices were good, it left me feeling a bit lost as to the relation to the first. Mark Hamill's voice was also completely inappropriate for Niju - at least as he was drawn, it should have been much deeper. Second, the animation - compared to the first - is atrocious. The computer-generated parts are easily identifiable and the scenes just don't seem to mesh as well as the original Balto. The combat scenes don't seem to flow very well. And one of the things that sticks out the most in my mind from the first is gone: the complex facial expressions of the characters. Third, the plot (while good) has some holes that you could fly a 747 through. The two evil wolves (and indeed the clan) were introduced so suddenly it sent me reeling, and how did the wolf pack suddenly know Balto's name? Fourth, it tried too hard to be Lion King - and it was so visible. With Aleu hanging off that cliff, I kept seeing Simba. With Niju standing up on the rock, I kept seeing Scar preaching to the lions. Why does every movie now feel they must pay homage to the Lion King in some fashion?

Still, the movie does have many redeeming qualities. It stays interesting for most of the film and deals with some issues that can be looked at by both children and adults from both sides - when to let go. Besides the holes
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Overall, it was a good film and worth the DVD, but it could have been so much more.

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Honeywell International is a $36B diversified technology and manufacturing global leader with a long and demonstrated heritage of both innovation and achievement. Honeywell Aerospace, an $11B division of Honeywell, is a leading global provider of integrated avionics, engines, systems and service solutions for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, business and general aviation, military, space, and airport operations.

This is solid opportunity for degreed engineer with a background in OEM Program Management to join Honeywell Aerospace supporting both Mechanical and Electrical Products. This position can be located in either our Phoenix or Deer Valley locations.

Honeywell Aerospace is a leading global provider of integrated avionics, engines, systems and service solutions for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, business and general aviation, military, space and airport operations.

  • Extensive and highly specialized knowledge of engineering principles/practices and Honeywell Aerospace product lines is required, in order to oversee reliability guarantees & commitments and ongoing repairs and alterations made to equipment, systems and/or structures
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  • Establish and continually review customer reliability commitments and work with the appropriate engineering disciplines to ensure that our products achieve those commitments
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Radical plots: The politics of gardening

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Gardens can captivate, relax and delight. But they have also been the setting for political statements and bloody protests. George McKay argues that we must dig beneath the flowerbeds and see the turf wars instead

Gardening is suburban, it's a leisure activity and a TV-makeover opportunity. Its origins are religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden), military (the clipped lawn, the ha-ha and defensive ditches), aristocratic or monarchical (the stately home, the Royal Horticultural Society).

It's a practical, hands-on, common-sense thing we do – and Britons do it a lot.

For millions of us, gardening is our regular pleasure. But there is an alternative route, through history and across landscape, away from practice and into ideas, that explores the link between, say, propagation and propaganda, or pomegranate and hand grenade. Just think of the words of the radical gardener-artist Ian Hamilton Finlay, from his contumacious green space called Little Sparta in the Scottish lowlands: "Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks." But how can a garden be an attack, a flower a critique, a trowel an agent of social change?

Notions of utopia, of community, of activism for progressive social change, of peace, of environmentalism, of identity politics, are practically worked through in the garden, in floriculture and through what art historian Paul Gough has called "planting as a form of protest". But not all – some are sobering, or frightening, for within the territory of the politically "radical" there have been, and continue to be, social experiments that invert our positive expectations of the human exchange that occurs in the green open space of a garden. There are fascist gardens (for the Nazis the land and its planting were pivotal to their ideology): the notorious herb garden at Dachau concentration camp (run on the biodynamic principles of Rudolf Steiner which were favoured by many senior Nazis); the SS "village" at Auschwitz, as recalled by Primo Levi, with its domestic normality of houses, gardens, children and pets – and the garden paths paved with human bones.

There are also contemporary troubles: the British National Party, for example, has a campaign website entitled Land and People (not such a distant echo in its title of the Nazi Blood and Soil doctrine): "Land and People say the choice between allocating land for locals – utilise as allotments – or for 'development' – building to house migrants – as they say, a 'no brainer'... only British Nationalists will put the engine of immigration into reverse and, in so doing, save our countryside."

The BNP has also argued for the planting of old English varieties of apple trees as part of its campaign to preserve a pure and rustic national culture. In spite of being neither English nor a nationalist, I have planted a "lost" local heritage apple tree in my Lancashire garden (it doesn't fruit as much as the Bramley bought end-of-season from B&Q for a fiver, thus probably explaining why it was lost). But nonetheless, can we say that the discourse of horticultural purity and nativism – and even more so of native vs invasive species – maps uncomfortably on the politics of extreme nationalism and xenophobia?

Any notions of a horti-countercultural politics (I agree that they probably don't called them horti-countercultural politics) that gardeners may have imagined were in their earthy practice and pleasure have a rich and challenging tradition, a significance and a trajectory of energy and import that makes them matter for our future. "Why," asks writer-gardener Jamaica Kincaid, "must people insist that the garden is a place of rest and repose, a place to forget the cares of the world, a place in which to distance yourself from the painful responsibility with being a human being?"

Kincaid and other writers – like Gough, Martin Hoyles and Kenneth Helphand – have helped shape my own understanding of the garden as a place that actually confronts and addresses the cares of the world. Helphand's Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime in particular, a study of gardens in the most unlikely of wartime settings (such as planted by troops in First World War trenches or in Jewish ghettos), with a stunning set of archive images from military and holocaust museums, made me completely rethink what might be definable as a garden.

This isn't a forced juxtaposition of plant and ideology. Think only of the English radical writer William Cobbett, who declared in 1819 that "if I sowed, planted or dealt in seeds, whatever I did had first in view the destruction of infamous tyrants". Or the early 20th-century revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht, who observed, with startling accusatory power, that "famines do not occur, they are organised by the grain trade". Or the Peace Pledge Union's white anti-war poppy, or the 1960s' hippie placing a flower down the barrel of the National Guardsman's rifle. Or the female Colombian activist speaking recently to Western buyers on behalf of the 40,000 women working in the pesticidal Colombian flower industry: "Behind every beautiful flower is a death. Flowers grow beautiful while women wither away." Or street artist Banksy, whose most famous images include the masked rioter throwing not a petrol bomb, but a bunch of flowers. These horticultural snapshots illustrate a compelling and enduring connection between plant and politic, a radical gardening.

In his recent book, Nowtopia, Chris Carlsson writes of a politics inscribed in the very act of "slowing down the gardener, making her pay attention to natural cycles that only make sense in the full unfolding of seasons and years. In a shared garden [especially], time opens up for conversation, debate and a wider view than that provided by the univocal, self-referential spectacle promoted by the mass media".

Climate change, peak oil transition, community cohesion, the environment, genetic modification and food policy, diet, health and disability – the garden is the local patch which touches and is touched by all of these kinds of major global concerns, whether it wants that kind of attention or not. In a sparkling collection of autonomous essays from a decade ago called Avant Gardening, Peter Lamborn Wilson comments wryly that "'cultivate your own garden' sounds today like hot radical rhetoric. Growing a garden has become – at least potentially – an act of resistance. But it's not simply a gesture of refusal. It's a positive act".

Community activist-gardener Heather C Flores has written of being as "radical as a radish". For Flores (I'm guessing that's a pseudonym), "radical" (like radish, from radix, Latin, meaning root) is an essential attribute of gardening, in the sense that "it comes from, and returns to, the root of the problem: namely, how to live on the earth in peace and perpetuity". A simple enough problem, and one that, in Flores's view, the garden can help solve. While Winston Churchill stated to Siegfried Sassoon that "War is the natural occupation of man... war – and gardening", I am more interested in the peace-garden movement.

Rather than what Helphand calls the "antigarden" of a war-ravaged landscape, I'm fascinated by the CND-influenced peace garden of the type produced by left-wing local authorities in public parks in the 1980s, many of which are still around in some form. You could make a standard peace garden in a public park with a modest pagoda, some peace roses, maples, cherry trees for spring blossom, and one or two small pine trees clipped in cloud shapes – this cluster of plants and structures signified a political statement of anti-nuclearism, bringing a piece of Japan to the British park, as a gesture of solidarity and memorialisation. A real political planting is in operation here – the design and construction of a polemic landscape. Perhaps with Fukushima we will revisit and freshen up some of our remaining peace and anti-nuclear gardens.

Curiously perhaps, the cosy and familiar space of the British allotment is a profoundly political – and, I believe, anti-capitalist – environment. In their classic book The Allotment, David Crouch and Colin Ward point out that the very term contains a political position: "the word 'allotment' implies deference and allocation, qualities that indicate a relationship between the powerful and the powerless". Yet the fact remains that this wilfully anti-capitalist state-sponsored horticulture is as radical a practice of gardening as any in government policy.

The allotment's anti-capitalism is most clear in two fundamental features: first, the astonishingly low rents charged for plots by local authorities, which is a powerfully consistent rejection of spiralling urban land market values; second, the legislative fact that, by and large, produce grown by allotmenteers cannot be sold commercially for profit. The standard treatment of a surplus or seasonal glut is to give it away: the allotment is predicated on a social and economic practice defined by, in Crouch and Ward's term, "the gift relationship". In their view, an anarchistic "combination of self-help and mutual aid... characterises the allotment world".

Furthermore, in a nationwide public socio-horticultural experiment that has endured and transformed itself for over a century, it is on the allotment, among the bean frames and sheds, the DIY glass houses and the patchwork of dirty labour, that we should look in Britain for a quiet seasonal radicalism.

Sometimes the garden has been the target of political attack and in British garden history among the most notable of these campaigns were the garden attacks by suffragettes in the early 20th century. These were done with a very clear understanding of the gender relations underpinning land and garden (after all, the new gardening colleges for women then springing up were teaching other – or perhaps the very same – suffragettes careers in horticulture). So some suffragettes damaged male-only golf greens with acid spilled secretly at night to ruin the next day's playing.

The most notorious of these acts – reported as "female vandalism" – was the targeting of Kew Gardens in 1913: first the smashing of the Orchid House and then the firebombing of the Tea Pavilion. As one horticultural magazine described events: "Kew has been marked out by the suffragettes as one of the scenes of their exploits. They smashed a quantity of glass in the orchid house, and in a manner that one can scarcely accredit to sane adults,wantonly tried to destroy the plants".

In January 1999, during his lamentable campaign against New York's wonderful community gardens, made by local people since the 1970s on vacant lots of "waste" ground, Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that "if you were totally unrealistic you could say everything should be a garden". Well, there are countless instances of people being "totally unrealistic" about gardens. From Hyde Park revolutionaries and ravers to utopian cranks and simple-lifers in garden cities like Letchworth, biodynamicists and back-to-the-landers, permaculturalists, white-poppy pacifists, separatist peaceniks, suffragettes, flower children, allotmenteers and guerrilla gardeners... such a constituency of unrealistic pragmatists (they are gardeners, after all) is in my view quite a good social grouping with which to dream and to make a better world – or, failing that, to lower the ambition to a realistic level, to make the world slightly less bad than what we are currently on track for. Radical gardeners should be part of the solution.

In the East Anglian Fens of 1840s' England, a utopian community was established at Manea Farm to make a new world – money was abolished, there was intensive agriculture, a cricket pitch, free love, militant feminism, even an independent press. Colonists likened themselves to Robin Hood and his foresters and dressed all in green – men in a green habit, women in green trousers. In England during the 1920s and 1930s a curious uniformed youth organisation was one of several established. The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was a non-militaristic alternative to the Boy Scouts movement, whose most significant achievement would be its offshoot, the Woodcraft Folk. Members marched in green (in the 1930s they became known as "Greenshirts" as opposed to the fascist "Blackshirts"), and some threw green bricks in protests at Downing Street and banks.

In 1970s' London a small group of activist-architects, the Street Farmers dressed in green boiler suits, consisted of environmental radicals who advocated the ploughing up and planting of the urban streetscape. And today's Green Bloc of radical protestors constitute the environmentally centred part of the global anti-capitalist movement at demonstrations.

Crossing centuries, each of these movements (if not too grand a term for some) dressed in a shock of green clothing – a semiotic marker of some combination of romantic outlaw – and had a focus on nature, a radical and often unpredictable critique, an environmentalist belief and lifestyle, perhaps even all of these at the same time. Together they form a stylistically consistent and surprisingly persistent strand of the critical rejection of dominant society and an energetically creative social mobilisation around questions of land, even of horti-counterculture.

I am not simply saying that all – Manea utopianists to Kibbo Kift, Street Farmers to Green Bloc – were radical gardeners, but also drawing attention to the historic presence of uncompromising greenesses during times of social change, idealism or agitation. To "sod it" for the radical gardener is not a cross phrasing of resignation or defeat, but a green action of positive defiance for social change. As the slogan goes: "Resistance is fertile!"

George McKay is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford. 'Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden' is published on Friday by France Lincoln (£12.99). To order a copy for the special price of £11.69 (free P&P) call Independent Books Direct on 08430 600 030, or visit www.independentbooksdirect.co.uk

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WALHALLA - The Razorbacks of Walhalla denied West-Oak an opportunity for a three-peat as they held off the Warriors 21-9 in the annual Apple Bowl on Friday night. Quarterback Israel Williamson carried 15 times for 61 yards including a game clinching 8 yard run with 3:06 left in the fourth quarter. The game had been a see-saw affair all night until the Razorbacks gained control of the clock and the line of scrimmage late in the game.

West-Oak was victimized again by a turnover on their opening offensive series of the game. Running back Dustin Wilkes fumbled and Walhalla recovered at the West-Oak 29. The Razorbacks would run three plays before they opted to go for it on fourth and short. Linebacker Clay Johns came up with a big stop for the West Oak defense and swung the momentum in the Warriors' favor.

Quarterback Evan Small would then lead West Oak on a drive deep inside Walhalla territory by rushing for 25 yards and throwing for 17. A sack and an incompletion would end the Warrior threat at the Walhalla 11. Chandler Mays delivered a 28 yard field goal to make the score 3-0 West-Oak.

West-Oak's defense would again rise up and force a Walhalla punt on the next series only to see the tide of the contest swing again with a turnover. Walhalla's defense came up with a loose football off a high snap from scrimmage at the West-Oak 33.

The Razorbacks only pass completion of the night would be a big one as Israel Williamson hit older brother Caleb for a 27-yard gain to the Warrior 6. Jacob Ivester would finish off the drive with a 2-yard touchdown. The point after would make the score 7-3 in favor of Walhalla.

West-Oak's next possession offensively appeared stopped on fourth down but a bad snap would lead to punter Chris Welborn running with the football. A personal foul committed by Walhalla on the play would give the Warriors a first down at the Walhalla 32. Quarterback Small would then hit Chip Snellings with a pass for 17, keep a second down play for 7 yards, and finish off the series with a touchdown pass of 8 yards to Welborn. The point after touchdown was no good and West-Oak would lead 9-7. The first half scoring would end with a beautiful option pitch from Israel Williamson to Blaine Bryant who took it 76 yards down the sideline, giving the Razorbacks a 14-9 halftime advantage.

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The Affordable Care Act has been the most dramatic change to the health care system since the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid. The ACA contains almost 3,000 pages and nearly half a million words. The people who wrangled to have it pass hadn’t even read all of that massive document. They famously claimed it needed to be passed before it could be read.

Go figure that thinking. Who in the world would have the time, energy of desire to read such a massive documentation? A health insurance broker would and should. They are very important at this time because health insurance coverage is very important and integral to the life of many Americans. Here are 6 reasons why health insurance brokers are more important this year than any other:

1. “If you like your plan you can keep it”-President Obama said that people who liked their plans could keep their plans but this was not necessarily true. As the new year rolled around many individuals found their plans canceled, others found their premiums skyrocketing. Under pressure, the president told Americans that they could indeed keep their plans, but only for one additional year. Health insurance brokers know which plans qualify as keepers under Affordable Care Act. They know what plans need to be revamped. They know how to choose a quality, affordable plans for individuals who need it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance

2. “…individuals will be assessed a monetary penalty if…”-The constitutionality of this statement aside, if you don’t buy health insurance approved by the government, you will be assessed a penalty. For individuals and businesses who don’t want to raise the ire of the government or its mass of new IRS employees, you are better to purchase a plan. If you choose to flout the new law and go without insurance, eventually you might really need some. A health insurance broker can get you a new insurance plan, after the fact. There won’t be much that they can do as far as government penalties, but at least you will be covered.

3. “The top-down, federal approach to health care reform…undermines real choice and competition.”-If you are a small business owner, you are not allowed to purchase health insurance outside of the SHOP or Small Business Health Options Program. The SHOP program is accessible only through health insurance brokers. Although the mandate for small business owners has been delayed until November of 2014, when the time comes, there will be a rush of small business owners beating down health broker’s doors to purchase insurance for their companies.

4. “…[The] increased cost that [Obamacare] places on businesses will in turn reduce business growth and hiring.”-It is a fact that the Affordable Care Act will affect most small businesses. This was proven when most businesses put a freeze on hiring after the law was passed. If businesses intend to stay afloat after the implementation of this bill, they will get in contact with a knowledgeable health insurance broker.visit the original source for more details.

Health insurance brokers were important before 2014 because they were experts in their product. They helped the unlearned masses navigate health care costs, services and requirements. As the insurance landscape has changed forever with the implementation of ACA, they are even more important. They will continue to grow and change as the many complexities of the bill come to the forefront.

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