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What will you be for Halloween?

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BY AIMEE BLANCHETTE Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

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ith Halloween creeping up, it’s time to add some panache to all those pumpkins. While carving is a time-honored tradition, it’s also time consuming, takes some skill and requires dealing with the slimy insides. (Eek!) Besides, it’s only a matter of time before the jack-o’-lantern you worked so hard to create begins to rot. So forget the knife altogether. There a thousand other ways to dress up your pumpkin for the season. We wanted to scare, er, share some ideas on how to turn your plain-jane gourds into smashing pumpkins.

JACK-O’-LANTERN

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BUTTON BOO Buttons are unexpected and add a touch of whimsy to your jack-o’-lantern. With a pencil, draw out your design or words. Pin the buttons into place. It’s helpful to lay out the buttons on a table first to see which ones fit nicely.

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● Plastic spiders

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or die-cut felt spiders

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● Gauze ● Cheesecloth or white crepe pape

● Googly eyes

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MUMKIN Turn your pumpkin into a mummy by gluing on a pair of googly eyes. Next, secure one end of your fabric with a tack, glue or doublesided tape; wrap around the pumpkin as many times as you’d like, then secure the end again. Instant pummification.

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TANGLED WEB Start by gluing one end of the twine to the bottom of the pumpkin. Loop the twine up toward the stem and continue to wrap it all the way around the pumpkin vertically. Then start wrapping the twine loosely around the stem and continue to make loose loops from top to bottom. Use hot glue or sewing pins to secure the twine when needed. Secure a few spiders to your web, and voilà!

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BLACKBOARD GOURD The kids can decorate and redecorate their pumpkins as many times as they like. Apply a few coats of chalkboard paint and let dry 24 hours before drawing your design with chalk.

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FINGER-PAINTED PUNKIN’ No-carve pumpkins are perfect for toddlers. Give them a paint brush (better yet, just let them use their fingers), some nontoxic paints and allow them to create what inspires them. We finished off this toddler’s work of art with a windowcling silhouette and ribbon. Consider taping off the face of a jack-o’-lantern and let your kiddo paint around that. Optional: If the pumpkin is going to sit outside, apply a layer of sealer or varnish before and after to help the paint stick and protect the pumpkin. If you want the creation to last for years, use a faux pumpkin.

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Boo-it-yourself No carve pumpkins and glue

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Answer: I am going to be watching old fright night movies and passing out candy!

Name: Rosa Maria Juarez Major: Mass Communication

Answer: I’m not dressing up this year. I’ll be staying in to work on homework!

Name: Lacie Edwards Major: Child Development

Answer: I would be a witch for Halloween because I always wanted to be.

Name: Binh Le Major: Chemical Engineering

Answer: I want to be Agnes from Despicable Me because she’s really cute like me.

Name: Dan Kneipp Major: Psychology

Answer: I am going to a party as the pope.

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● Hot glue gun and glue

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GOURD-GEOUS Add some bling to your boring pumpkins using gemstones or simple brass tacks. Lightly trace your design with a pencil, then start bedazzling.

● Candy corn

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CRAFTY CORN It’s an owl! It’s a cat! It’s a hedgehog! Your craving for carving will be long forgotten when you experience the three-dimensional effects you can give your pumpkin using candy corn or another holiday favorite. To get started, outline the shape of your creature’s face with a pencil. Follow the shape you’ve drawn by gluing just a few rows of candy corn or covering the whole pumpkin as shown here. Play with the shape of the eyes and nose on a table before gluing them to the pumpkin. This design takes awhile, but it’s not as scary as it looks.

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Lifestyle

As economy heals, thriftiness thrives Kasia Hall The Orange County Register

Strategies for balancing school and life

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Golf team winds down fall season

Entertainment

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Fall a big hit for new game releases

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And that might be a sign that something deeper than economics is at work - fashion. SANTA ANA, Calif. Between the racks at Maria Garcia’s front yard Lutheran High Thrift, not sale held no theme. everyone is struggling to Shoes, wrenches, get by. blender, a Darth Vader “I think a lot of people mask - all were on the if they don’t need to shop driveway in front of her here, they still come here,” one-story Garden Grove said the store’s manager, home. Suzanne Sotelo. A child’s shirt? Five Without being prompted, bucks. Barbara Rose, from The blender? Fifteen. Orange, said her whole Garcia, 31, began holding outfit was secondhand, monthly garage sales three down to the $2 pink wedges. years ago to earn pocket Rose said she’s been a money for her father who “thrifter” her whole life. had been forced out of the But, recently, she’s been workforce by illness. copied by well-off friends. Times were tough in Thrift store parking lots are Orange County then and full, she said, sometimes unemployment was at with Mercedes and other its peak. These days, the high-end rides. economy has improved. “It’s just a big social Local unemployment is change, where people 6.2 percent, slightly better are very much inviting Photo by Bruce Chambers/Orange County Register/MCT than the national average. Erica Mendez, 24, a mother of two young children said this was her first trip to a thrift store, Monday, that idea to recycle,” said Home prices are going up. Savers’ front manager Oct. 21, 2013. Still, for people like Zabala. Garcia, the lessons about to-measure market. County fell from 8.8 percent to The stigma of shopping “It’s really amazing when thriftiness learned during the Economists who calculate 7.6 percent. secondhand, she said, has you have customers come in, dark times haven’t gone away. gross domestic product count Officials at Goodwill of evaporated. and they completely love the Garcia works full time. But the value of goods only one Orange County have seen “We are addicted,” Varela thrift store. she also does what she can to time, the first time they’re sold. something similar, saying sales said. They come three to four save cash, buying cheaper So it’s hard to gauge the true at their retail outlets in Orange “... I call that getting tricked times a week and spend $40 to clothes for her kids and volume of America’s thrift County have grown steadily by a business...” $50 each week.” shopping at thrift stores for economy. since 2008, even as economic A couple of years ago, Savers’ shopper Lauren herself. But one industry - used cars - conditions have improved. a friend of Yazen Haddad Zakich agreed, saying even Garcia says she and her offers a clue about the relative And the Lutheran High complained to him about the her boyfriend - who once had sister once were big mall popularity of used versus new. Thrift Shop in Orange, which hassles of holding a garage to be dragged to a thrift store shoppers. And in Orange County, helps provide scholarships for sale. has become an eager customer. She also says she hasn’t been Calif., used has been hot. Sales a private high school, has seen An idea was born. “Even though I have some to a mall in years. of new cars in Orange County double digit sales increases in Today, Haddad runs friends who (still) say thrifting With people like Garcia fell hard in 2008, the peak year each of the past three years. Garage Hunters, an Irvine- is gross, I think it has become taking on new habits, and of the recession, and didn’t Still, it’s possible the based company that pairs a fad to wear things that were rappers bragging about 99 return to prerecession levels fundamentals aren’t as rosy consignment store owners (previously) in style,” the cent sheets, and entrepreneurs until last year. as the economic statistics with homeowners wishing to 22-year-old said. looking to franchise garage But during that same suggest. thin out. “Maybe that’s because my sales, one thing seems clear: period, used car sales grew And boom times at thrift Haddad, who also sells real generation is struggling to Thrift is chic. consistently, according to the stores might be a sign that estate, said decluttering is earn money, even when we “One man’s trash, that’s state Board of Equalization. some of the jobs created in earning big bucks, and that a graduate from college.” another man’s come-up ...” It’s Finance 101. When the past few years don’t pay typical garage auction Orange --- From “Thrift Shop” by consumers have less to spend, enough to send consumers County churns out about THRIFT BOOM BY THE Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. they look for ways to get back to the malls. $1,500. NUMBERS Thrift stores are the Chia more for their money, said Or, for shoppers like Yvonne What’s more, his buyers – $13 billion: The value of Pet of industries. Esmael Adibi, an economist at Varela, the jobs might not be consignment store owners - previously owned stuff sold Local and national experts Chapman University. consistent enough to keep are eager for product. last year in thrift stores, say thrift store sales grew “A higher unemployment them away from the discount “I see a lot of new buyers,” consignment shops, swap during the last recession - rate, a loss of income, means rack. Haddad said. “It’s definitely a meets and similar outlets, and they’ve continued to grow that people are going to choose Varela, 35, was laid off in new market.” according First Research. during the supposed recovery things that nobody would have 2010. Before that, she says, There’s even a new twist in 7 percent: The annual growth of the past three years. touched (a few years ago),” she wouldn’t have considered the thrift business. In May, rate in the number of U.S. And thrift stores are just Adibi said. shopping in a thrift store. Goodwill of Orange County thrift stores and consignment part of a bigger trend. But that trend is playing out “A lot of my girlfriends are expanded, debuting its first shops since 2011, according The Association of Resale even as those basic factors - single moms, too, and at first boutique store, based in Tustin. to The Association of Resale Professionals reports that jobs and income - seem to be we were like ‘Oh, secondhand? The goal is to offer high-end Professionals. national sales in all quarters improving. That’s kinda gross,’” Varela donations to shoppers looking 32.4 million: The number of of the so-called secondhand Matthew Zabala, front said. for high-end (but secondhand) used cars sold in the United industry - including retail supervisor for the Savers But since 2010 Varela product. States through September of categories ranging from thrift thrift store in Anaheim, Calif., has had a hard time finding “I think we realized people this year, a jump of about 4 shops to high-end consignment said both gross sales and the consistent, full-time work. are hooked,” said Corrine percent from 2012, according stores - grew more than 7 number of customers walking And, on a recent Wednesday, Allen, vice president of to CNW Research. percent in each of the past two into the store have jumped by she was looking sifting Goodwill of Orange County --years. about 20 percent in 2012. through jeans for her 10-year- retail operations. (c)2013 The Orange County And that number, they add, During that same period, old daughter at Lutheran High “... I wear your grandad’s Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) gives only a glimpse of a hard- unemployment in Orange Thrift. clothes. I look incredible ...”

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Index

Halloween was originally a celebration of the New Year. News - 2 Lifestyle - 3 Opinions - 4 Puzzles/Comics - 6 Sports - 7 Entertainment - 8

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FOLIO LINE

BY AIMEE BLANCHETTE Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

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M c C l a t c h y - Tr i b u n e

JACK-O’-LANTERN

DESCRIPTION

DIFFICULTY

● Approximately 50 buttons depending on their size

▲▲

◗

MATERIALS

● Hot glue gun and glue or sewing pins

▲▲

◗

twine or white yarn

● Plastic spiders

▲▲

or die-cut felt spiders

● Glue or sewing pins

▲▲

◗

● Gauze ● Cheesecloth or white crepe pape

● Googly eyes

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● White butcher’s

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● Adhesive

● Little fingers for painting ▲▲

● Chalkboard paint

● Chalk

▲▲

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BLACKBOARD GOURD The kids can decorate and redecorate their pumpkins as many times as they like. Apply a few coats of chalkboard paint and let dry 24 hours before drawing your design with chalk.

● Nontoxic paints

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● Hot glue gun and glue

● Something

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for the ears (we used patterned paper)

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● Tacks or or gemstones

● Hot glue gun and glue

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GOURD-GEOUS Add some bling to your boring pumpkins using gemstones or simple brass tacks. Lightly trace your design with a pencil, then start bedazzling.

● Candy corn

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NO CARVE PUMPKINS MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

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Strategies for Balancing School & Life Camille Schwartz Student Health 101 If you’re pursuing higher education, you may feel torn between school and other commitments. Balancing school with other daily responsibilities is challenging, but can be manageable with the right support system and coping strategies. By planning ahead, communicating with loved ones, and managing stress, you can build a successful life inside and outside the classroom. Plan Ahead Managing responsibilities and going to school is time consuming. You can set yourself up for a more balanced school year by creating a strong support system and communicating your academic schedule and commitments to family members, friends, and colleagues. Talk It Out Meet with family members or partners to discuss how your relationship dynamics may change during the school year. Be clear about how your academic responsibilities will impact your schedule and energy and how these changes will affect your children, friends, and co-workers. Make sure to leave time for your loved ones to openly express their questions or concerns. Ask for Help Remember that receiving support is a key to your success and happiness as a student. A study published in Family

Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Studies found that students who receive support feel more motivated and confident in school. Be specific with loved ones about what you’ll need during the school year. Talk about sharing household responsibilities and how you’ll manage time commitments. Here are some ideas: Ask for help grocery shopping or cooking. On nights when you have a lot of work to do, remind your loved ones to not pressure or guilt you into doing something else. Allow your friends and family to quiz you when you’re studying or help you with household chores while you’re spending time together. Your Shifting Identity Many students feel a shifting sense of identity as they transition into being a student. If you simultaneously have a job and go to school, you may struggle to let go of work responsibilities in order to dedicate more time to your studies. You may also feel unsettled as you realize you have a lot to learn. Prioritize and Focus Identify the activities in your schedule that will bring you the most value. Chances are you won’t be able to keep up with everything all the time, and it’s not necessary or expected that you do. If you focus on specific priorities and goals, you’ll be able to whittle down your commitments and work within

a manageable schedule. This means you can also be more present and competent in the tasks you do choose to tackle. You’re Still You If you get too busy, it may be easy to lose sight of what’s important. Remember to set aside quiet time each day to unwind and reflect. Manage Stress There may be times when it seems impossible to do what’s necessary in some of your roles. In situations like these, the counseling center at the University of New Hampshire encourages students to engage in activities that minimize feelings of stress. Before things feel overwhelming, make a list of the stress-management techniques you’ll employ if you need them. Being a student and managing a family, job, and social life at the same time will never be easy, but there are strategies you can use to make it less stressful on yourself and your loved ones. By creating a strong support structure and mental space for your relationships, work, and academics, you’ll begin to feel in charge of more aspects of your life. Students can access the Parkland College Student Health 101 magazine online at http://readsh101.com/ parkland.html. Copyright 2013 Student Health 101

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Public Safety gives Halloween safety advice Ben Boltinghouse College Resource Officer

Illustration by Chris Ware/Lexington Herald-Leader

Well, October 31st has come around again and the biggest question of the month isn’t how much you’re going to study for your English class but instead what you’re going to dress up as for Halloween. Halloween can mean a couple of different things for college aged students, either you gather up some friends for some goodold fashioned trick-or-treating or you dress up and head over to a Halloween party. Either way, there are a few inherent dangers in both activities that can be avoided if you’re going to partake If you’re going to be trick-ortreating, here’s some tips to keep you as safe as possible and make sure that you make it home to enjoy all Reese’s cups. Stay in a group and plan out a route ahead of time

Make sure you bring flashlights with extra batteries, and try to ensure that someone in your group is wearing something reflective so that you don’t become a traffic hazard When planning a costume, try to ensure that it doesn’t drag too much on the ground in order to avoid tripping, tangling, and getting caught on fire as you dodge the jack-o-lanterns Try to remember that even though adults can enjoy it, the holiday is really for the kids, so do your best not to interfere with the children’s night out Finally, check to make sure that any candy that you receive is still in its original packaging, don’t want to bite into a stale, or even worse, poisoned Kit-Kat. Now, if you’re going to be taking part in a more over-21 themed Halloween, there’s a slightly different prescription to keeping safe next Thursday. Plan out how you’re going to be getting home at the end of the night. Maybe that means someone in your

group taking the role of the designated driver, or it could be just programming a taxi cab’s number into your phone. Keep track of your drink at all times, and don’t drink anything you haven’t actually seen someone make, it’s far too easy to slip something into a cup that you won’t even taste. If you decide to split off from the group of friends you arrived with, make sure someone knows where you’re going and when to expect you back If at any point someone gets sick from drinking too much or consuming anything to excess, immediately call 911. It’s not worth someone’s life just because you’re afraid of getting a drinking ticket. Overall, just use common sense as you go through the holiday trying to stay safe and have a good time. You’re getting close to the final stretch of the semester and there’s nothing wrong with blowing off a little steam but you need to get back and be ready to finish up strong!

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Illustration by Chris Ware/Lexington Herald-Leader Hal Herzog Los Angeles Times We Americans like to think of ourselves as animal lovers. But is this claim true? One way to answer this question is to follow the money. According to government, industry and interest group stats, we spend about $50 billion on our pets annually and donate an additional $6 billion to animalrelated and environmental charities. This sounds like a lot until you compare it to the amount we collectively devote to killing members of other species: $72 billion on hunting and fishing, $60 billion on animal research and $240 billion on meat, poultry and seafood. In short, Americans fork out nearly seven times more toward harming animals than toward protecting them. Our cultural schizophrenia over the treatment of other species is also reflected in our behavior. In 2010, PETA named Bill Clinton Man of the Year because he had forsworn the consumption of animal products and become a vegan - no meat, no dairy, no honey. Yet on CNN last year, while extolling the benefits of his new vegetable-only lifestyle, the former president casually added, “Now I try to eat salmon once a week.” Clinton’s convoluted culinary taxonomy shouldn’t be surprising. Studies show that most “vegetarians”

eat flesh. For example, in a national telephone survey, USDA researchers found that two-thirds of self-identified vegetarians admitted that they had eaten meat in the previous 24 hours. What are we to make of the muddled thinking so characteristic of our relationships with animals? Some years ago, I was discussing these paradoxes with Andrew Rowan, then the director of the Tufts University Center for Animals and Public Policy. At one point he looked up and said, “The only consistency in the way humans think about animals is inconsistency.” I call this Rowan’s Principle, and it captures the essence of our morally conflicted relationships with the creatures we share our world with. The blatant inconsistencies in how we think about animals fly in the face of a fundamental psychological principle called “cognitive dissonance” - the notion that simultaneously holding two inconsistent views creates mental discomfort. When confronted with information that conflicts with our beliefs, psychologists say, something has to give. We change our attitudes and behaviors or we distort and deny the incongruent facts. After studying humananimal interactions for three decades, I have concluded that

it just doesn’t work that way for most people when they think about other species. We simply ignore the inherent paradox of loving the cats in our homes and eating the cows on our plates. In my experience, Clinton, who apparently sees no irony in being a fish-eating vegan, represents the rule, not the exception. But some animal rights activists do recognize the logical consequences of taking animals seriously and often change their lives accordingly. Over the years, I have interviewed dozens of animal protectionists. Many of them extolled the personal satisfaction that accompanies rigorous moral clarity. As one man said: “I can go through my entire day without imposing any cruelty on animals. I am free.” But consistency can come at a personal cost. One animal activist I interviewed quit his church league softball team because he could not find a decent non-leather glove, and another felt guilty driving his car because of bugs that were inevitably smashed on the windshield. A young woman confessed that she had given up dating because she could not find men who shared her values. (“Just going out for dinner becomes an ordeal,” she said.) Then there was the doctoral student in mathematics who concluded that pet-

keeping was immoral. So one afternoon he released his beloved cockatiel into the gray skies of Raleigh, N.C. But he sheepishly admitted: “I knew she wouldn’t survive, that she probably starved. I guess I was doing it more for myself than for her.” The philosophical arguments for animal liberation are strong. But in matters of ethics, logic has its limits. The need for moral consistency led Joan Dunayer, author of the book “Speciesism,” to a series of conclusions that most of us would find run counter to simple common sense. She argues, for example, that our moral obligations extend to jellyfish, that a human and a spider are entitled to the same right to life, and that if faced with the decision to save a puppy or an infant from a burning building, you should flip a coin. The public is increasingly sensitive to moral issues posed by factory farms, foie gras, puppy mills, circus elephant acts and even horse racing. However, most Americans tell pollsters they oppose a ban on hunting and support the use of animals in research. And, despite the convincing arguments that eating flesh poses health, environmental and ethical problems, according to the Vegetarian Resource Group, 96 percent of Americans continue to eat meat.

Current thinking in psychology is that our moral judgments are the product of two mental processes. The first is intuition, a process that is unconscious, instantaneous and ruled by emotion. The second is rationality - it is logical, conscious and slow. Often heart and head disagree, and this conflict plays out in our attitudes toward other species. For example, pure reason tells me that it is wrong to eat animals simply because they taste good, yet my “gut feel” is that the sublime taste of slowcooked Carolina barbecue makes the death of the pig I am about to eat worthwhile. Logic leads Dunayer to conclude that there is no difference in the moral worth of a dog and a human child. My moral intuition says she is wrong. The philosopher Strachan Donnelley used the phrase “the troubled middle” to describe the ethical territory inhabited by those of us who love animals yet disagree with extremists on both sides of the animal rights debate. Given the scarcity - and perhaps the impossibility - of complete consistency in our interactions with animals, and given the demonstrable limitations of both cold logic and hot emotion in matters of morality, it seems that for most of us, the troubled middle is just about right. --(c)2013 Los Angeles Times

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The restoration project The U.S. Capitol dome will be covered in scaffolding for about two years beginning next month as it undergoes its first complete restoration in more than five decades. The project, budgeted at nearly $60 million, will repair more than 1,000 cracks and deficiencies in the cast-iron dome, which is about 150 years old.

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19.5 Height, in feet (6 m), of the dome-topping Statue of Freedom

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Golf team winds down fall season Alex Wallner Sports Writer

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Parkland Golf has played in seven tournaments over the course of the fall thus far, finishing in the top 5 four times, while also grabbing a win at the Danville Fall Invitational. The other three top 5 finishes were recorded at the Fall Preview Invitational and the Carl Sandburg Classic, where the team finished third, and the Ancilla College Invitational, where the team finished in fourth place. Nonetheless, it was a solid fall season. Especially after losing defending National Champion David Keenan to Chicago State, no one was sure how good this team would really be, but they showed it through their play in the fall portion of this long season. The team ended the fall season during “The Thrill” at the Hill Indiana Tech Warrior Invite from Monday, Oct. 28 to Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2013 at the Donald Ross Hill Course in French Lick, Indiana. This was a par 70 golf course that plays over 7,000 yards from the front tees and is sure to provide a challenge for any golfer that comes to play it. Head Coach Zach McNabney’s expectations have never

changed since he became head coach at Parkland. He is aiming at one goal, a National Championship. “My expectations for the spring are always the same, the National Championship. I tell the team each August that if you are not interested in winning a championship than you are wasting my time as I believe in my heart we have the ability to make that trip and win,” McNabney said Parkland has the struggle of being in one of the tougher golf regions in the Division Two level of the NJCAA, with powerhouse John A. Logan and Rend Lake, who always seem to peak at the right time of the year. “Our region is extremely hard as John A. Logan has won the past five regionals while I have been coaching at Parkland and they have won the National Championship twice. That is a hard thing to beat, but to win we have to beat the best and that is my goal each and every year,” McNabney stated. Parkland has another gem this year with Lyle Burns, as he has won the last two tournaments individually. Burns won the Danville Invitational by firing an even par 72 on the last day to edge Matt Greenfield of Rend Lake by one stroke. It was just about the same kind of turn out at the Ancilla Fall Golf Preview as Burns won by three

strokes over Owens, Blaze Hogan. Burns carded a three day total of 213 with a 71 the first day, 68 the second day and 74 the third day to earn his second first place medal. “Lyle has played extremely well this fall. I have seen his confidence grow since last year and I would hope that the taste of going to Nationals and not playing up to his potential has fueled this desire to push himself to see just how good he can play,” McNabney said. “I believe there is more in his tank as he has had a few bad rounds this fall, but I feel he has learned from each round, both good and bad, and his showing in the last two tournaments cannot be questioned,” McNabney continued. “I’m pretty happy, a lot of hard work paying off and I have good momentum going into the spring,” Burns said. Anybody who plays the game knows that it doesn’t take one practice, but multiple practices to reach full potential. “My ball striking and my irons by hitting more greens and chipping and putting. During the winter, it’s going to be tough to work on the ball striking, but putting, just putting on a little practice green and work on my stroke and work on my form will help,” Kinesiology major Nick Berger stated. For more information, visit http:// www.parkland.edu/athletics/golf.

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Fall a big hit for new game releases Ashton Gwin Staff Writer Video game companies utilize the holiday season to come out with new games, promoting their releases just in time for the gift buying frenzy during the holidays. The time between game series are spaced apart by a year or more, causing them to build up anticipation and excitement from their fans for the releases. Games like the new “Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag” and “Battlefield 4” are seen as the flagship titles for their respective developers. According to Ubisoft, the developers of “Black Flag,” the three main locations in the game will be Havana, Kingston, and Nassau, which is an area that the pirates hang out in. Plus there are over 50 exotic locations that the player can explore. This game also has an improved naval system and gives the player the ability to hunt and make equipment out of the animals they catch. Also for the first time it has underwater game play, which allows the gamer to explore sunken ships and caverns to find treasure. General studies student Rachael Martens said that one of her favorite aspects of this game was the amount of stealth she could have. “Battlefield 4” is a first person shooter that is army based. In the game there are endless gun fights and a significant amount of destruction involved. There is even the concept of “Levelution,” which is the special system in which the player interacts with the levels by destroying buildings and other objects. The “Battlefield” franchise is also

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Titles such as “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” and “Battlefield 4” are two of the many games that have been released just in time for the holiday gift-buying season. known for its multiplayer abilities, where one can play with others on a large map area. According to IGN, there are seven new game modes for “Battlefield 4’s” multiplayer, which include Conquest Mode, Domination Mode, Obliteration Mode, Defuse Mode, Team Death Match Mode, Rush Mode and Squad Death Match Mode. “I enjoy the freedom that multiplayer gives you, by choosing

whether you want to go on foot or in go into the various vehicles that are placed around all around the map,” Digital Media major Sean Keck said. Both of these games came out on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, and are available for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3. “Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag” is also out for the Wii U. Another first person shooter that is expected to be released is the new

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“Call of Duty: Ghosts.” This game will be released Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 for all consoles. “Batman: Arkham Origins” has recently been released, and the gamer can play again as Batman and find out the events that lead up to the first game “Batman: Arkham Asylum.” This time in the game the gamer will be able to explore most of the city of Gotham. According to the game’s website,

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Arkham “Batman: Origins” shows a younger, unrefined Batman, and the game takes place years before the two other games. The game features Deathstroke as a playable character if one preordered the game. The game also has new gadgets and a new detective system that allows the gamer to playback certain events that have happened “I can’t wait to see how things lead up to the first game,” Digital Media major Sean Thompson said. Batman: Origins came out Friday, Oct. 5, 2013 and is available on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U. Action games are not the only games that students at Parkland are waiting for. Criminal Justice major Lebyron Collins wants to get NCAA 14 and part-time teacher Alex Jerez is waiting for DuckTales re-mastered edition that comes out Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. “Pokémon X” and “Pokémon Y,” which came out for the 3DS on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, was a long awaited release for many Pokémon fans. The game takes the battle systems to a new level and, while utilizing the 3DS’s 3D technology, makes the action come right at the gamer. Both versions of the game have introduced mega evolutions which give Pokémon a new form. There are many new games that students, faculty and staff are eagerly awaiting or have already received during the pre-holiday season. Gaming fanatics should keep their eyes open for new games that are set to release during the winter.

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