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Photo Eryn Montgomery table of contents PHOTONS |6-7 Photography by Julie Renee Jones quest lines: achieving your goals in 2014 |8 Jasmine Myrick / illustrated by Erin Dreis keeping the itch |10 Eli Samuel Johnson / illustrated by Sophie Dannin chess |12 Andrew Fisher/ illustrated by Erin Dreis Katie on Katie |14 photos by Katie Modras-Anible diy- get yer sharpie out! |16 Lisa Patrick-Wright SEek and you shall find |17 ETCH Yer mom’s (and dads) a robots! |18 Jonathan Dillon magic christian music (what is a badfinger?) |20 M. Ross Perkins biggin’s wet and wild ride |22 Randy Cornett / illustrated by Adam Eckley Advice from Mama Cass |24 Telephone ‘toons |26 ETCH, WAKKA and Jason Young The Joy Coloring |27 Ben Riddlebarger 6 | Photos Julie Renee Jones | 7 Quest Lines: Achieving Your Goals for 2014 by Jasmine Myrick Purchase as low as APR Financing 0% for up to 60 months Now through February 3, 2014. Some restrictions apply. See Dealer for Details. Subject to Credit Approval. 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Let’s step outside of the realm of Quest Lines: gamers), we’ve got the perfect foundation for games for a second and venture into literature. completing a goal; we just need to implement Harry has to destroy the Horcruxes before he Achieving Your Goals for 2014 the knowledge that we have. can defeat Voldemort and Danaerys has to by Jasmine Myrick When most people make a resolution, they raise and army before she can even imagine PRESENTS just focus on their main goal. For the sake of taking the Iron Throne. You get the idea. this argument, let’s say that their goal is losing Figure out the step by step processes that are A GROUND-BREAKING CULTURAL MILESTONE weight. Well, how do they plan on doing that? necessary to achieve your main goal, starting By eating better and exercising more, they from the most basic of tasks to the more say? That’s all fine and dandy, but I can pretty complex ones. I’m sure most of us assimilate much guarantee that if you ask them how they better into a new task when we have a set of plan on completing that task, they’ll have no progressive instructions on how to complete clue. The idea of not eating chips for a week it. It’s like an assembly manual from IKEA, and then slowly removing unhealthy foods on except less complicated. a weekly basis doesn’t occur to them. It doesn’t Just as your subquests lead to your main cross their minds to consider it a success to objective, each subquest is made up of wake up early and take a walk in the morning. individual missions. In theory, having all By the way, props to any of you who got up of these tasks to complete can be daunting, to walk in that snowpocalypse weather. The but when you’ve got it all written down on point is that most of society forgets to make paper, everything is put into perspective. sustainable, attainable, and measurable goals. Remember that patience is a virtue. Don’t Good thing we aren’t like most of society. skip any steps. Also, perseverance is key. Think of it this way: When you’re playing a Don’t let discouragement get the better of game, you have your main objective. Rescue you just because you died a few times before the princess, infiltrate the enemy hideout, succeeding. Actually, I really hope that doesn’t save the world, etc. However, you can’t just happen because if you died a few times, you’re jump right into that task; you have obstacles either a zombie or have the Dragon Balls. In to overcome, useful tools to obtain, and either case, I’m coming for you. important skills to learn. 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Glickler—Bradford, Connelly & Glickler Funeral Home • Miami Valley Fair Housing Center | 9 Keeping the Itch BY Eli Samuel Johnson Courteous Mass Dayton is looking for volunteers. Do you want to lead a ride? Do you want to ride sweep and make sure nobody is left behind? Do you want to help pick a route, write for the blog or for our Telephone Weekly Researchers at the National Institute for and midbrain increased in the 16 men and Physiological Sciences in Okazaki found out women involved in the study. ads, get the word out this month that scratching an itch produces Mochizuki and Kakigi warned against the same sensation of elation that one would overestimation of the findings though, about us? feel when being praised or when falling in as those with dermatitis or other skin love. Whether being celebrated or becoming conditions may itch excessively, causing the smitten, the striatum and midbrain regions sensations to be less severe. Does this mean Contact Us: (also referred to as the “reward system”) that those with psoriasis are less likely to feel are most active when people succeed in those romantic butterflies batting around in the workplace, win at gambling, or fall for their brains? No. It just means their hearts a significant other, according to previous don’t pitter-patter as much when they scratch courteousmassdayton.com studies. their arm or ear. According to the study conducted by “If the workings of the reward system are facebook.com/courteousmassdayton professors of neurophysiology Hideki curbed, people will stop scratching their Mochizuki and Ryusuke Kakigi, research itchy areas so much, and their symptoms will [email protected] found that the blood flow in the striatum improve,” Kakigi said. 10 | “But I have been in love. I’ve appropriately cashed Keeping the Itch BY Eli Samuel Johnson in on the opportunity to lose myself completely and also squandered what life has put in front of me. I’ve treated that love well and with the best intentions and I’ve also treated it like the new kid at school with nine toes and a bowl cut.” The researchers also concluded that cut. But knowing that love is physically there scratching itchy areas produces a feeling of as a sensation is so encouraging. To know comfort that would also arise in a person who we can take the plunge. To be inhuman for feels as if they met their soul mate. But how a spell is one of the most beautiful things I comfortable does love really make someone? can think of, with or without searching the If anything, wouldn’t it cause someone to furthest reaches of my mind. feel a bit unhinged? See, it’s really the itch that is so special. The “honeymoon phase” of meeting Knowing there’s a feeling there. You’d forget someone is just fine. Finding someone that particular part of your thigh existed if to click with, to feel at ease with, is a rare you didn’t have to prod it with your nails sensation for some—Those being the or a pencil every once and a while. The introverted, the shy, the awkward, or even itch, if left unscratched, is what really races insecure. (Especially the insecure.) the mind, makes the legs bounce and the heart rate elevate. But once it’s scratched, it “Is this really going to last?” subsides.