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Article by FIFA 12 Producer Garreth Reeder on ea.com:
FIFA 12 is a massive year for online, and our goal of 'revolutionizing' the game has been truly realized. Let's get started!
The first big thing I want to talk about for online in FIFA 12 is 'Head to Head Seasons'. Traditionally, all sports games offer ranked quick matches, where skill points are awarded and users are ranked on a leaderboard. Outside of the top 100 users in the world, this type of online gameplay doesn't feel very persistent, fun, or football. 2010 FIFA World Cup made a strong effort to change this model, and now FIFA 12 has taken it to the next level.
FIFA 12 Seasons
Head to Head Seasons focuses on you, your season, and your division. There are 10 divisions to progress through, with 10 games per season to try to get promoted (and avoid relegation). Points are simple: 3 points for a win, and 1 for a draw; every game without points hurts your campaign.
We've also made an effort to balance the path to Division 1. In Division 10, where everyone starts out, you only need 12 points to be promoted to Division 9. For many of you, this will only take four games, but as you move up, the promotion thresholds get tougher and tougher. For the best of you that can reach Division 1, the goal is to win the 'League Title' and earn your trophy. At points along your seasons, the commentators will even discuss your recent performances and your current campaign.
To see how your division placement compares to the entire FIFA community, check out our 'World Table' screen which shows how many people currently occupy each division. It's a great way to visualize your skill in FIFA in a way that a leaderboard rank just can't do.
FIFA 12 Flow
Creating this new mode gave us a chance to really revolutionize how you play online as well.
Traditionally, we find you an opponent and let you figure out the clubs you want to use, and then finally you adjust your lineup and tactics before the match starts. Of course this usually results in the '5-star dance' where even if you want to use Portsmouth, you are forced to pick Chelsea to battle on even ground with the inevitable Real or Barca selection from your opponent.
In FIFA 12 you pick your club, kit and lineup changes first before searching. For all you manual fiends out there, during pre-search you can also choose 'Any' or 'Manual' if you want to guarantee another manual user. When you choose to search, we take your Division, skill, location, controls, DNF % (essentially how often you 'rage quit'), and Club star level to find an ideal opponent and take you straight into a match. We even make sure you see the kit you chose and prevent kit clashing in the game. This means Mr. Humber can use his beloved Pompey in Seasons without fear of being crushed by a 5-star club, and instead focus on the Southamptons of the world.
FIFA 12 Cups
Similar to real life, Seasons features key cups with entry based on your division. There are four cups total, starting with the 'EA Shield' for the lower divisions, up to the 'Premier Cup' for Divisions 1 and 2. The cup window will open up every few weeks for a few days of frenzied action to determine who can earn silverware in four-round dynamic tournaments.
Your Season Hub will show you when the cup window is opening or closing, as well as your best cup finish and silverware. Of course we have full leaderboards to see the stats, trophies, and titles for you, your friends, and the top players in the world.
Of course, despite the popularity of ranked play online, a big part of FIFA is playing friends. Personally, I had many 'friendlies' in FIFA 11 online that provided me some of my favorite moments with the game with nothing to show for it.
Not so in FIFA 12! We had a simple concept: Provide a quick and easy way to play friends online, but track the results and make it feel like football.
In the Hub your friends list appears on the left. Select a friend, choose your settings, and play. The beauty of the mode is every game versus a friend becomes a season. Similar to Head to Head Seasons, you have 10 games, with the goal of ending with more points than your friend. If the points are tied in the 10th match, we even go down to the detail of goal difference to make the experience authentic. There is nothing quite like final win against a friend with your favorite club hoisting the trophy at the end of the match.
After a season, your next match automatically starts Season 2, so you can get started defending or retaining the trophy. The commentary team even talk about the status of your season to make it feel even more real and authentic. Play as many friends as you want, as many times as you want, and easily see the status of all your seasons in the Hub and leaderboards. Since these are matches between friends, it's up to you what clubs, rosters, and settings you use (even Creation Centre teams).
With such a big focus on making two new modes in Head to Head Seasons and Online Friendlies, we made a conscious decision to avoid major feature work in Pro Clubs and instead focus on bug fixes, tuning, and testing.
The incredible popularity of FIFA 11 and the complexity of Online Team Play at times made for a difficult year, and for FIFA 12 the efforts we've made to Clubs –both in the game and on the servers – should make for a much better experience all around. Stability and exploits are a key focus for us so that games are an enjoyable experience and fair for all involved. Secondly, we worked with a few members of the community on 'little things' like bugs and Virtual Pro accomplishments and unlocks that I think you will notice.
We hope you enjoy FIFA 12 online, whether it is climbing divisions, beating your mates, or growing your Pro online with your Club.
Amazing scenes await!


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The Feast of Pentecost in Butte, Montana
On June 8th, the glorious Feast of Pentecost was once again celebrated by the Church of the Holy Trinity in Butte, Montana. Parishioners and clergy of the parish were duly blessed on the occasion by the presence of their beloved hierarch, his Grace, Bishop Maxim, who presided over the Feast.
His Grace arrived late Friday evening and was received as the honored guest at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. David Hicks. During his stay, Bishop Maxim was able to discuss with his hosts and Fr. Russell ideas concerning the future of Orthodox Christianity across the state of Montana and review plans for the much-hoped-for establishment of a monastic community there on the Hick's property.
Festivities for the feast-day began with the solemn celebration of Great Vespers Saturday evening, followed immediately by an exceptional hors d'oeuvres and winetasting event hosted by beloved parishioners, Kevin and Denise Horne.
Following the wine-tasting, Fr. Russell and the parish council of Holy Trinity hosted a small meeting with his Grace in the formal dining room of the Copper King Mansion in uptown Butte. During this special time, representatives of the Kalispell satellite mission presented His Grace with a formal petition to be recognized as mission church of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America. The meeting, which was a profoundly moving event for everyone present, marked the culmination of several years work on the part of countless people from both communities and the deep pastoral sacrifice of Fr. Russell and his family. The sense of joy and gratitude for God's continued faithfulness to the people of Montana and for the miraculous growth of Orthodox Christianity throughout the state was palpable. After sharing his keen wisdom and insight with the group, bishop Maxim graciously granted their request and raised the Orthodox community in Kalispell, Montana to the status of a mission parish under the patronage of our beloved wonderworker of Alaska, St. Herman.
The following morning, his Grace, Bishop Maxim, presided over the celebration of the festal divine liturgy of Holy Pentecost. Concelebrating with his Grace were clergy of the parish, Fr. Russell Radoicich, Fr. Peter Tobias, and parish deacon, Daniel Kirk. The beautiful liturgy was followed by the festal procession and kneeling prayers of the Vespers of Pentecost.
The banquet following services was graciously hosted by faithful parishioners, Svetlan and Nadelka Krsic –the kumovi of this year's parish Slava. The meal, which showcased both traditional Serbian dishes and local Montana fare, was thoroughly enjoyed by all.
The festivities concluded with several readings from that great defender of the Holy Spirit and hierarch of the Church, St. Basil –beautifully read by parish youth –while parishioners and guests alike were blessed by the remarkable chanting of Bishop Maxim and the singers from Holy Trinity's own beloved choir.
Source: Western American Diocese

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Cash donations to benefit those affected by last month's tornado in downstate Washington will be accepted throughout Friday's girls/boys doubleheader between host Batavia and Geneva.
The schools are billing the night as "The Rivalry To Help Rebuild Washington, IL." The girls varsity game is set to tip off at 5:45 p.m., with the boys scheduled to start at 7:15. Donations also will be accepted during Thursday's lower-level games.
The Batavia varsity girls passed through Washington last week while traveling to Morton for its Thanksgiving tournament. The experience quickly prompted jarring reactions.
"Driving through Washington didn't feel real," Bulldogs senior center Erin Bayram said in an email. "I never thought something like that could actually happen until I saw it with my own eyes. It was extremely emotional and I instantly knew we needed to do something to show our support to the town."
All funds raised will benefit a relief fund started by Washington Community Bank.
Sooner or Raider
Glenbard South once was a schedule staple during the days of the bygone Western Sun Conference, facing Batavia, Geneva and Kaneland twice per season.
Now a member of the Metro Suburban Conference, the Raiders will play a handful of non-league games against teams from Chronicle Country in 2013-14, hosting Wheaton Academy next Tuesday and St. Francis on Jan. 23 before a Jan. 24 visit to St. Charles North.
Batavia defeated Glenbard South, 58-47, on Nov. 19.
The Raiders finished 22-8 under longtime coach Julie Fonda last season and advanced to the 3A Nazareth Academy Sectional final, continuing to grow a pedigree that makes them an attractive foe.
"Aside from the fact that Julie's a really good coach, I think if I looked at their roster they've got a lot of their team back, they've got a good system and the kids look to enjoy playing and enjoy playing together," St. Francis coach Mike Phillips said.
Patron Saints of buses
St. Charles East plays its home opener later than any area team by far, hosting Evanston on Jan. 4.
The Saints opened the season at the Schaumburg Thanksgiving Invite. Friday's visit to Upstate Eight Conference River Division foe Larkin starts a six-game road trip ahead of the Wheaton North Falcon Classic Tournament to close the month.
"Just the way it worked, you know," Saints coach Lori Drumtra said. "I didn't even realize it until I was looking at the schedule and went, 'Oh, gosh.' And two of them are tournaments with a few games in between. There aren't always a lot of home games at the beginning of the season. But yeah, we call ourselves the road warriors."
East will need a new moniker come the new year, as it plays eight of its final 11 games at home.
– Kevin Druley, firstname.lastname@example.com
Sam Novak
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What she did: Novak swished the decisive 3-pointer with 13 seconds to play on Friday, helping the North Stars to their first victory in the coach Sean Masoncup era, a 55-54 win against holiday tournament host York.
Natasha Brown
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What she did: Brown has snagged 52 rebounds in the Eagles' past three games, including a 21-board effort during a Nov. 27 victory against Harvest Academy.
Kaneland's long-range shooting is off to a strong start. The deep Knights feature several players with a penchant for connecting from distance, and one of them was especially effective in Friday's Immaculate Conception Tournament win against Regina. Caroline Heimerdinger hit three of Kaneland's four 3s in the game, finishing with 14 points.
Which teams enjoy early bragging rights in the first leg of rivalry games. The beginning of the Upstate Eight Conference River Division schedule this week offers a pair of marquee meetings, with Batavia hosting Geneva on Friday and St. Charles North hosting St. Charles East on Saturday.
The first few days of this week offer a slight respite between the end of Thanksgiving tournaments and the beginning of conference play. Only a handful of games are scheduled before the weekend.
Here's hoping coaches work in a little more conditioning during workouts. For one, it will help in canceling out some of that extra turkey and pie. For another, it can only aid in the flash of fast breaks, defense and up-tempo play that awaits each team in the next couple months.


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An AccidentComments
One of thousands of deaths on the job in the Pacific Northwest timber industry over the years. From West Coast and Puget Sound Lumberman June 1903.
A horrible accident occurred in the West & Slade mill, Aberdeen, Wash., on June 10. C.R. Wyman fell on a saw and his body was cut in two. The first that was known of the accident was the discovery of the body moving along on the conveyor which feeds the fires. He leaves a widow and child.
I have literally hundreds of examples of this sort of thing in my collection of logging papers. In that issue of the journal alone, 12 fatal accidents are reported and described in detail. Lest we forget, the past is the future our corporate overlords have planned for us.


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Companies are Spending 1 Million Dollars a Week to Secure Sensitive Information
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and McLean, VA - March 28 - McAfee and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE:SAI] today announced findings from a global study on the security of information economies. In the study, "Underground Economies: Intellectual Capital and Sensitive Corporate Data Now the Latest Cybercrime Currency," security experts and senior IT decision makers illustrate how cybercriminals have made the shift from stealing personal information, to targeting the corporate intellectual capital of some of the most well-known global organizations. Cybercriminals understand there is greater value in selling a corporations' proprietary information and trade secrets which have little to no protection making intellectual capital their new currency of choice.
The cyber underground economy is making its money on the theft of corporate intellectual capital which includes trade secrets, marketing plans, research and development findings and even source code. McAfee and SAIC collaborated with Vanson Bourne to survey more than 1,000 senior IT decision makers in the U.S., U.K., Japan, China, India, Brazil and the Middle East. The study is a follow up to a report released in 2008 called "Unsecured Economies." The new study reveals the changes in attitudes and perceptions of intellectual property protection in the last two years. The findings revealed which countries were perceived as the least safe to store corporate data, the rate at which organizations are experiencing breaches and the response rate to prevent or remediate data breaches.
"Cybercriminals have shifted their focus from physical assets to data driven properties, such as trade secrets or product planning documents," said Simon Hunt, vice president and chief technology officer, endpoint security at McAfee. "We've seen significant attacks targeting this type of information. Sophisticated attacks such as Operation Aurora, and even unsophisticated attacks like Night Dragon, have infiltrated some of the largest, and seemingly most protected corporations in the world. Criminals are targeting corporate intellectual capital and they are often succeeding."
"The distinction between insiders and outsiders is blurring," said Scott Aken, vice president for cyber operations at SAIC. "Sophisticated attackers infiltrate a network, steal valid credentials on the network, and operate freely – just as an insider would. Having defensive strategies against these blended insider threats is essential, and organizations need insider threat tools that can predict attacks based on human behavior."
Key findings from this year's report include the following:
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This documentation describes the Global module which consists
of the following functionalities:
1. Registration of global names
2. Global locks
3. Monitoring nodes
4. Maintenance of the fully connected network
These services are controlled via the process
global which exists
on every node.
global is started automatically when a node is started.
The ability to globally register names is a
central concept in the programming of distributed Erlang
systems. In this module, the equivalent of the
register/2 and
whereis/1 BIFs are implemented, but for a network of
Erlang nodes. A registered name is an alias for a process identity
Pid. The system monitors globally registered Pids. If a process
terminates, the name will also be globally unregistered.
The registered names are stored in replica global name tables on every node. There is no central storage point. Thus, the translation of a name to a Pid is extremely quick because it is never a network operation. When any action in taken which results in a change to the global name table all tables on other nodes are automatically updated.
Global locks have lock identities and are set on a specific resource. For instance, the specified resource could be a Pid of a process. When a global lock is set access to the locked resource is denied for all other resources other than the lock requester.
Both the registration and lock functionalities are atomic. All nodes involved in these actions will have the same view of the information.
The server also performs the critical task of continuously
monitoring changes in node configuration, if a node which runs a globally
registered process goes down, the name will be globally unregistered.
The server will also maintain a fully
connected network. For example, if node
N1 connects to
N2 (which is already connected to
N3), the
global server on
N1 then
N3 will make sure
that also
N1 and
N3 are connected. If this is not
desired, the command line flag
-connect_all false must be
passed to
init at boot time. In this case, the name
registration facility cannot be used (but the lock mechanism
will still work.)
del_lock(Id, Nodes) -> void()
Id = {ResourceId, LockRequesterId}
ResourceId = term()
LockRequesterId = term()
Nodes = [node()]
Deletes the lock
Id synchronously.
notify_all_name(Name, Pid1, Pid2) -> none
This function can be used as a name resolving function for
register_name/3 and
re_register_name/3. It
unregisters both Pids, and sends the message
{global_name_conflict, Name, OtherPid} to both
random_exit_name(Name, Pid1, Pid2) -> Pid1 | Pid2
This function can be used as a name resolving function for
register_name/3 and
re_register_name/3. It
randomly chooses one of the Pids for registration and
kills the other one.
random_notify_name(Name, Pid1, Pid2) -> Pid1 | Pid2
This function can be used as a name resolving function for
register_name/3 and
re_register_name/3. It
randomly chooses one of the Pids for registration, and
sends the message
{global_name_conflict, Name} to the
other Pid.
register_name(Name, Pid)
register_name(Name, Pid, Resolve) -> yes | no
Name = term()
Pid = Pid()
Resolve = {M, F} where M:F(Name, Pid, Pid2) -> Pid | Pid2
| none
Globally notifies all nodes of a new global name in a network of Erlang nodes.
When new nodes are added to the network, they are informed
of the globally registered names that already exist. The
network is also informed of any global names in newly
connected nodes. If any name clashes are discovered, the
Resolve function is called. Its purpose is to
decide which Pid is correct. This function blocks the
global name server during its execution. If the function
crashes, or returns anything other than one of the Pids, the
name is unregistered. This function is called once for each
name clash.
There are three pre-defined resolve functions,
random_notify_name and
notify_all_name. If no
Resolve function is
random_exit_name is used. This means that
one of the two registered processes will be selected as
correct while the other is killed.
This function is completely synchronous. This means that when this function returns, the name is either registered on all nodes or none.
The function returns
yes if successful,
no if
it fails. For example,
no is returned if an attempt
is made to register a process with a name that is already
in use.
If a process with a registered name dies, or the node goes down, the name is unregistered on all nodes.
registered_names() -> [Name]
Name = term()
Returns a lists of all globally registered names.
re_register_name(Name, Pid)
re_register_name(Name, Pid, Resolve) -> void()
Name = term()
Pid = Pid()
Resolve = {M, F} where M:F(Name, Pid, Pid2) -> Pid | Pid2
| none
Atomically changes the registered name
Name on all
nodes to refer to
Resolve function has the same behavior as in
send(Name, Msg) -> Pid
Name = term()
Msg = term()
Pid = Pid()
Sends the message
Msg to the globally registered
Name. If
Name is not a globally
registered name, the calling function will exit with reason
{badarg, {Name, Msg}}.
set_lock(Id, Nodes)
set_lock(Id, Nodes, Retries) -> boolean()
Id = {ResourceId, LockRequesterId}
ResourceId = term()
LockRequesterId = term()
Nodes = [node()]
Retries = int() > 0 | infinity
Sets a lock on the specified nodes (or on all nodes if none
are specified) on
ResourceId for
LockRequesterId. If a lock already exists on
ResourceId for another requester than
LockRequesterId, and
Retries is not equal to
0, the process sleeps for a while and will try to execute the action
later. When
Retries attempts have been made,
false is returned, otherwise
true. If
Retries is
true is eventually
returned (unless the lock is never released).
If no value for
Retries is given,
infinity is
This function is completely synchronous.
If a process which holds a lock dies, or the node goes down, the locks held by the process are deleted.
global keeps track of all processes sharing the same lock,
i.e. if two processes set the same lock both processes must delete the lock.
This function does not address the problem of a deadlock. A deadlock can never occur as long as processes only lock one resource at a time. But if some processes try to lock two or more resources, a deadlock may occur. It is up to the application to detect and rectify a deadlock.
start_link() -> {ok, Pid} | {error, Reason}
This function starts the global name server. Normally, the server is started automatically.
stop() -> void()
Stops the global name server.
sync() -> void()
Synchronizes the global name server with all nodes known to
this node. These are the nodes which are returned from
erlang:nodes(). When this function returns, the
global name server will receive global information from all
nodes. This function can be called when new nodes are
added to the network.
trans(Id, Fun)
trans(Id, Fun, Nodes)
trans(Id, Fun, Nodes, Retries) -> Res | aborted
Id = {ResourceId, LockRequesterId}
ResourceId = term()
LockRequesterId = term()
Fun = fun() | {M, F}
Nodes = [node()]
Retries = int() > 0 | infinity
Res = term()
Sets a lock on
Id (using
Res = Fun() if successfully locked and returns
Res. Returns
aborted if the lock attempt
failed. If
Retries is set to
infinity, the
transaction will not abort.
infinity is the default setting and will be used if
no value is given for
unregister_name(Name) -> void()
Name = term()
Globally removes
Name from the network of Erlang nodes.
whereis_name(Name) -> Pid() | undefined
Name = term()
Returns either an atom
undefined, or a Pid which
is globally associated with


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The Perth couple who lost all three of their children in the Ukraine plane disaster had sent them home from a holiday in Amsterdam with their grandfather so they wouldn't miss the start of the school term.
Keen sailor Nick Norris, 68, and his three grandchildren - 12-year-old Mo, Evie, 10, and Otis, eight - were among at least seven West Australians killed on the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Mr Norris, the managing director of management consulting firm Collaborative Systemic Change Pty Ltd, is survived by wife Lindy, a Murdoch University professor, and four children.
These include son Brack, who said his sister Rin Maslin and her husband Anthony Maslin had stayed behind in Amsterdam while Mr Norris brought his grandchildren home in time for the new school term.
The Australian consulate was arranging a flight home for them, he said.
"They were staying a few more days, which is why the kids were with my dad," Brack Norris told ABC radio.
He said the news was shocking and difficult to believe.
South of Perth Yacht Club general manager David Harries said the club was an immense part of the family's life. Mr Norris had been a member for 16 years and his grandchildren had joined recently.
"The members of SoPYC are shocked by this tragic, senseless loss," Mr Harries said.
Other West Australians confirmed as being on the flight were a female Catholic school teacher and a male Department of Agriculture and Food employee.
Media reports name the man as Albany local Arjen Ryder, who was reportedly travelling with his wife Yvonne.
Also killed was German national Fatima Dyczynski, who previously lived in Perth and had returned to Amsterdam to continue her studies in aerospace engineering. She was coming back to the West Australian capital to live.
She had spoken to her parents, Mosman Park doctor Jerzy "George" Dyczynski and his wife Angela, just before the flight departed, saying she was excited to be coming back.
But she also said there had been a problem with boarding so her parents went to Perth Airport late on Friday afternoon, distraught but clinging to hope she hadn't got on MH17.
Premier Colin Barnett said he was horrified and deeply shocked, and expressed his deepest sympathy to the families of the victims.
"At this stage, reports do seem to indicate that the plane was shot down by terrorists and, if so, this is a truly unspeakable - and incomprehensible - act," he said.
Opposition Leader Mark McGowan said his thoughts and prayers were with those grieving.
The premier said people who had been affected by the tragedy could call the Department for Child Protection and Family Support on 1800 032 965 to access emotional and practical assistance.


text: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an illness caused by a newly discovered virus in the same family as SARS. Most of the documented cases have come from Saudi Arabia, which has seen a 54 percent mortality rate in those patients. Martin Cetron, director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the emerging virus.


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Discover the cleaner side of Amsterdam
Amsterdam has a reputation for sex and marijuana, but that's not all there is to this charming city of canals. Amsterdam's scenic canals have earned it the reputation of the 'Venice of the North.' Cyclists will love the city for its bike culture -- there are over 600,000 bicycles here. And there are art galleries, too. If you want to get high, there's no need to smoke up!


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Children from a string of Doncaster schools have got to grips with some real slippery customers.
For pupils from Waverley Primary, Hexthorpe Primary and Bentley Primary schools released elvers - young eels - into the waters at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust nature reserves in Doncaster as part of the 'Eels in Schools' project.
The 'Eels in Schools' project which is led by Don Catchment Rivers Trust and Severn & Wye Smokery, has seen hundreds of children look after elvers in tanks in their classrooms for up to six weeks.
During this time they have learnt about the eels fascinating life cycle, which sees them travel to the Sargasso Sea near the America's to breed, after which the young return to the rivers and wetlands of the UK to feed.
Bentley Primary students released around 100 elvers each at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's flagship site in Doncaster. Students at Waverley and Hexthorpe Primary have also been caring for elvers in their classroom and released several hundred at the Trust's Sprotbrough Flash Nature Reserve. In total the 'Eels in Schools' project has released over 250,000 elvers across the country, with more than 2000 school children having been involved.
Jim Horsfall, Reserves Officer for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, talked of the importance of the project: "Eels are a species that has been in decline since the start of the industrial revolution; industrial pollution in rivers and the construction of weirs to control water levels have meant eels have been unable to live in the river and pass up stream to where they spend most of their lives in ponds, marshland and lakes. Some estimates put the decline as high as 95% over the last 30 years and they are listed as critically endangered globally.
"Thanks to better regulation of rivers and pollution, and introduction of eel and fish passes on rivers they are beginning to recover in Yorkshire, but need a helping hand to reintroduce them to areas where there aren't many. Eels, released as elvers, can live for 20 to 30 years in a place like Potteric Carr, feeding until they are large enough to go down stream and swim across the Atlantic Ocean to spawn in the Sargasso Sea. The young elvers will then float back to Europe on ocean currents and make their way upstream, starting the process all over again."
Local artist Shelia Bury was so inspired by the project she decided to raffle her paintings to help fund the release of the elvers at Potteric Carr Nature Reserve.
Shelia Bury said:"This year I am fundraising for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust by donating four large paintings to help them purchase young eels for Potteric Carr Nature Reserve. Each painting depicts one of the Four Seasons, with the first two, 'A Potteric Winter – Highland Cattle on St Catherine's Field' and 'Piper Marsh – Spring' having already raised more £1200. The raffle for the third painting, 'Peacock Butterflies – Brockadale' will be drawn at Potteric Carr on August Bank Holiday Monday and tickets are still available from the nature reserve. The final painting, portraying autumn colours at Potteric Carr is yet to be started, but will be raffled this December."
Eels are important in the food chain and are part of a rich tapestry of wildlife, ensuring a rich diversity in the Humberhead Levels Nature Improvement Area (NIA): an area in which Potteric Carr Nature Reserve sits and Sprotbrough Flash is found close to. Eels support rare birds such as the bittern, which can be seen at both sites, and mammals including otters. The Humberhead Levels NIA supports a number of projects, including 'Eels in Schools' to create thriving wildlife habitats across the levels.
The Humberhead Levels NIA partners include Natural England, the Environment Agency, the RSPB, English Heritage, North Lincolnshire Council, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Isle of Axholme and North Nottinghamshire Internal Drainage Board, Lower Ouse Drainage Board, the Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards (represented via JBA Consulting), York University and Sheffield University.


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Tell the truth?
I took concerns to my management and said I would not implement their solution and outlined why. Their response was to pull me from the project and put in a yes-man that would do whatever he was told.
Your other option was to play nice like the dummies are advocating, and have a failed project as a black stain on your resume.
You did the right thing. So did they. Good people are incompatible with idiots.
Maybe you should have presented YOUR solution. Telling the boss "no I won't do it" will get you nowhere. Telling him "Look at my better way of doing it" will get their attention. The best lesson I've learned in business is to never take a problem to my boss unless I bring with me a solution to solve it. If you can't solve the problem, find someone who can, or else the boss will. Business needs are not going to change.
A lot of times there is NO solution:
- problem is badly described,
- idiot expert promises quick, simple solution and explaining why it won't work takes an excessive amount of time or knowledge that the client doesn't have,
- idiot expert knows client from college,
- idiot expert lives next door and you work offshore from South America,
- client company is populated by alpha males who like quick decisions and never back down,
- a combination of the above (I have first hand knowledge about this situation).
Sometimes the best option is to watch the explosion from far away enough that you're not killed and near enough to be the first responder.
So you go back to step 1: the problem is badly described. The Systems Development Lifecycle dictates that you, as the new help solve the problem. Start at wherever there is trouble. In the scenario you describe, it looks like we need to go back to step one fix the root problem: it is badly described. We cannot build any system to high user satisfaction that is badly described. One can only start over and build from scratch. If that's not possible, we will have to break the problem down into manageable parts and dig deeper for root causes and solutions.
So you go back to step 1: the problem is badly described.
The guy who described it doesn't think it's badly described. See the 5th point above.
Totes adorbs!
FYI, some of the best and brightest to ever walk this Earth were sacked for expressing this very sentiment.
If you find yourself in this situation, don't be a hero to anyone but yourself. If you have a better way, keep it to yourself, find investors and become an employer.
The problem with "solutions" is that they undermine the abilities of others. If this is deemed necessary in your current position, then you're simply better off saying "thank you for your time" and walking away NDA free.
With some idiots no amount of money can pay for the amount of grief you will get.
> Be as diplomatic as possible, but completely
> factual and provide as much evidence as possible.
Yup. The best way to win an argument is to start out by being right. Being polite saves your ass in case it turns out you're not.
It's slightly bizarre but sometimes people cannot see that they're being inconsistent.
I wish I'd written it down because it was a perfect example of this - I was approached to make a change to some functionality.
I said - but if we do A then B happens.
To which they said "but we can do C" (which did solve B)
I said - but if we do C then D happens
To which they said "but we can do E" (which did solve D)
I said - but if we do E then F happens
To which they said "but we can do G (which did solve F) except that G was
Know the important facts before you start:
Is the idiot related to anybody? Does he play golf with the CEO? Does he have dirt on somebody?
You can bet the 'idiot' has something.
Nice to test the political waters but there are lot of just clueless sociopathic idiots that get fat consulting contracts, then spew nonesense until your ears bleed.
Some idiots are lucky. It's like the old adage that nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
OTOH, Cousin Ernie may have gotten the gig for reasons that don't meet the test of credulity, either. Never leave to conspiracy that which can be explained by sloth.
Hah, its funny you say that, because I ran into a similar situation working for a somewhat niche but well-known and respected website with many established customers. What happened was that we were bought out by an obscure advertising shit-peddler, and immediately came the MBAs telling us about web 2.0 and how the things on our site were rendered too small. One of the sonofabitches actually said, " When people see small things on your screen, they think small. Think BIG! 16-point text and 500-pixel padding
Oh, come on, you made this up.
Nobody on slashdot would believe such a load of.....
oh, wait, ah never mind.
You're facing a problem here:
Your boss hired this person, most likely for a lot of money. He has to justify that expense. Admitting now that he fell for a snakeoil peddler is not something that will further his career.
You're facing a problem here:
Your boss hired this person, most likely for a lot of money. He has to justify that expense. Admitting now that he fell for a snakeoil peddler is not something that will further his career.
Right, and for that reason asking your boss to choose between yourself and golden boy (aka, 'the expert') is a loosing proposition. If you feel you absolutely can't work with the new guy under any circumstances find a new job and then quit your current one. Be polite about it and don't tell them it's because of the expert if you can at all avoid it, just give them some blurb about 'personal reasons' or that you feel 'your career is stalling but that you have grown as a professional at this company... blah blah blah....' management loves that sort of verbal diarrhoea. Leave your boss to fall on his face with the new guy or succeed (it is after all possible that you are wrong). One thing is for sure, nobody will derive any advantage from an acrimonious dissolution of your employment relationship, least of all you. Another poster here suggested being blunt about your gripe. I have to disagree since I have always thought that making an angry speech where you go into details about how you feel other employees or management are a bunch of morons when you quit your job is a bloody stupid idea since I am generally not in favour of burning bridges. Of course other people's experiences with bridge burning may be more positive than mine.
If its your last day on the job. Just say, "You're an idiot and so is that moron you hired."
Just remember though, burning bridges isn't always a good thing.
If its your last day on the job. Just say, "You're an idiot and so is that moron you hired."
Just remember though, burning bridges isn't always a good thing.
And the last day should be the first day you find out that the client takes the advice of an idiot (so many consultant jokes... must resist).
Seriously, if a client wont listen then dump the client. They'll cost more money than they bring in over the long run, they'll definitely cost way too much in headaches.
If you bill for time and materials, the headaches turn in to more cash.
If you bill for time and materials, the headaches turn in to more cash.
Not really, you spend all your time working on a project that's doomed to failure because the client wont listen. When it does fall through you cop the blame and the idiot client tells everyone at the golf club how useless you are. This is what I mean by "in the long term", what you're proposing is short term gain with no consideration of long term effects.
If you don't understand how important reputation is as a consultant, you've never been a consultant.
Terrible advice. There is always money in confusion as long as you write the contract properly, which should always be the case.
Because contract have never been torn up in court.
I used to know a consultant like this. Would write incredibly one sided contracts, still 100% legal but very one sided, which only idiots would sign. It worked for a while but when one project fell through this idiot client hired a non-idiot lawyer and he lost more than he earned in his career. House, investments, car, even furniture. The guy went from driving a Porsche 911 (not cheap in Oz) to a old Huyandai Getz in a matter of days and hand to declare bankruptcy just to keep the Getz.
Writing unfair contracts is an easy way to get sued. Even fair contracts can land you in a lot of shit.
As long as it's a legal contract it can be as 'unfair' as you can get them to sign.
'Fair' is not a legal term and issues related to fairness should be handled in contract negotiation.
That said 'legal contract' is not a simple subject. Consult a competent shyster.
All related to 'legal contract'. Like I said: consult a competent shyster.
Actual judges will side against you if you are the one writting the contract. So if you think you can commit fraud by writing a sh*tty contract then you are due for a rude awakening.
WTF? Where did I say fraud?
All I said is 'fair' is not a legal term. Make sure you have a 'legal contract', consult a shyster.
Judges will weigh any ambiguity against the person that wrote the contract. They won't throw out a legal contract because one party thinks it's 'unfair' in hindsight.
The only bridges worth burning are the ones you wouldn't cross anyhow. Never burn a bridge you have crossed, even if it was a mistake. You have time invested.
Burn bridges before you cross them, not after.
I don't normally burn bridges after I've crossed them.
But when I do, it's to stop Beta from following me.
he only bridges worth burning are the ones you wouldn't cross anyhow. Never burn a bridge you have crossed, even if it was a mistake. You have time invested.
Excellent advice HornyWumpus. Some times all you have invested in it is time and time can be more valuable than any kind of monetary game you get out of it. Even if the person that is taking your place is a moron it its probably best just to keep your mouth shut and exit.
It is like using references, I have learned that if a company asks for them, they are idiots. Nobody EVER calls them and if they do they are basically saying "I have no clue from interviewing how good this guy is, so I got to ask someone else". Stellar performance right there!
The solution is relatively simple, see job interviews as a two way process. They are interviewing you BUT you are ALSO interviewing them. And gosh darnit, you can reject THEM as an employer!?! Shocking ain't it.
When I read a site like clients from hell, (not linking because it has an annoying nag script) I can't help but feel that a lot of the time all the problems could have been avoided if the complainer had just said at the interview "you are an idiot, I am not going to work for you".
If you spend sometime in your field you should know the warning flags. If a client/employer for instance is looking for a lead developer, the existing code base is a pile of steaming shit such as you have only seen in every single job before where the existing lead had to finally admit he needed an extra hand (translation: needed to be taken outside and shot for the good of humanity). If they are looking for a replacement team for the software project, the existing code doesn't (exist that is, what is there is maybe some scripts that on some days, does something but nobody knows what). If they are considering a rewrite, the servers are on fire and the the sys admin has slaughtered the entire office and is sniping from the rooftop.
You get to regonize the signs after a while. Does the boss spent the entire interview bitching about what gone wrong before? Translation: He is to busy still raging and hasn't yet learned from the mistake which was HIS, for hiring the wrong people.
There is no handover period because the previous guy already left? Translation: Make a sentence with rats, ships, sinking. Question: Do you want to come on board? Consideration: At least the ship is rat free.
If the ship is on fire and they are haggling over budget with the fire-fighters, translation: they spend all their money on flammable lifeboats and have nothing left for you. Another form of this is if they talk about how much money already has been sunk into the project and/or whining about recovering investment. Fact of life: money sunk into a project that has failed is lost, deal with it. A projects worth is NOT measured by how much money has been lost on it.
And hey, you can ignore all of this and think YOU are going to be the perfect employee who can deal with idiots... and I will point to you and say "this guy is going to be on a rooftop someday, sniping at the police while chewing on someone's leg". Either that... or... you are one of them... got an MBA?
Either way, if you can't call out losers, you'll wind up being one.
I like it. That line should be elevated to "ancient chinese proverb" status.
I almost always ask people what polymorphism is in technical interviews for OO developers and you'd be shocked how few get it right.
You could also have a switch/case approach and call the functions directly.
The thing is, there are some architectures (*cough*8051*cough*) out there where you could, technically, use function pointers, but due to architectural quirks, unless you really, really know what you're doint, you're likely to end up with a horrible buggy mess.
Most experts are idiots at what they claim, but an expert at earning trust regardless of their knowledge. So be careful of these people, as they are quite aware of their lack of expertise and their fragility. Gain trust of the client first before taking on people your client trusts.
Oddly enough, I never had to work with anyone who was completely incompetent. Some didn't know squat about the technical side of things, but their business knowledge was impeccable, and that was what they brought to the table.
Maybe the problem isn't whether they're an expert in the field, but whether you know how to communicate with someone outside your field.
Well, I have worked with a complete idiot. However, he was very good at buttering up the boss. His mode of operation was to get you to do the work with him, and then see the results. If it was successful, he would be in the boss's office claiming the success. However, if it had issue(s), you got blamed for any issues occurring, and somehow, the boss would be blind to what was going on.
Working with this person started me on learning about office politics, and peoples personalities. In terms of how to ha
I worked with the same dude and spent a little time making sure he publicly embarrassed himself claiming something he didn't even understand.
Turns out the boss just didn't care. The fish rots from the head down.
If forget the name of the corollary to the peter principle. It basically says that once someone reaches their level of incompetence they know it and surround themselves with even more incompetent people. Whenever you enter a new job, the first thing to do is identify the head idiot and where the
The truth is, you can learn something from everyone, and an expert in a specific field with an IQ approaching his body temperature knows some stuff that you do not.
Absolutely. For example how to not do something, how to injure yourself horribly, or like I saw yesterday.....
How to destroy a $60,000 Conference room table by not listening to those of us that know better.
I said several times, you have it marked off wrong you had better stop and re measure. I was told to shut up and they cut the hole, 6 inches off center.
I'd say a $60,000 conference table was a serious sign of incompetence on the part of the executive and facilities staff . . .
I can find you 12 foot round table made from a solid slice of black oak, four inches thick. $10K. Hurry, each table is slightly smaller then the previous.
Made by a good friends brother, who was paid by PG&E to cut down and haul off the tree.
WTF does a 60K table do? Play with your balls?
"WTF does a 60K table do? Play with your balls?"
Makes filthy disgusting rick people feel better about themselves. When you make $300 million a year $60K for a conference table is toilet paper money.
I dont think you understand exactly how ungodly rich the 1% really are, they can buy and sell your family with the money they find in their couch cushions.
I don't know, but I'm sure if I read the free eBook that the article is advertising I'd become a management expert literally overnight. !!! DOWNLOAD NOW !!!
If I don't want to work on a project with an "expert", as part of my job, but I don't want to work on the project anymore because of something someone else is doing...I'd complain to my supervisor, then if I still wasn't happy, I would quit my job. If I wanted to keep my job (even if it was just to see them fail) I would manage to hobble through by doing the absolute minimum. It's not exactly controversial. How is this interesting enough to be a topic?
Because not every one is a passive aggressive person, and they want a good solution?
This happened in two different contracting jobs. In one, first indication of possible trouble was when the contractor in question put all of his certificates of course completion (framed) up in his office. Second indication was when he tried to convince our client that he should manage the rest of the contractors. Eventually, we stayed, he didn't. The bad news was that I had to untwist and make coherent all of his "solutions".
In another job, similar experience, one of our team of four complained loudly
Just read, Dealing with Dummies for Dummies...
Figure out what you'd need to get the job done. That might be an additional person, not a replacement person in order to make up for the deficiency. There may even be someone else in the company that could "assist".
Go to your client and tell him that this is what you'd need to get the job done because you'd assumed a certain skill set.. If the client won't go for it, regretfully let him know that you're not the right person for the job under these circumstances and that his "expert" might be able to suggest someone else. Or maybe you can and then you've solved the problem, even if you're not the solution yourself.
In any case, walk in with a solid proposal for fixing the problem that doesn't paint the "expert" as a complete idiot - just say that the skill sets don't line up right - and be prepared to lose the client. But if it's really that bad, you might be better off losing it now than getting dragged into a giant fight over breach of contract or cost overruns.
As a consultant it is *my job* to work with the client and their people. Incompetent or not, it is still my job to work with them.
If you are complaining about this as a consultant, you have no business being a consultant.
Mod up. I have been contracting since 1992 and a large part of my job is play nice with all sorts of unattractive people. I often wonder how many of them managed to get hired in the first place, but that really does not matter. They were in place when I got here and most likely they will be here when I leave. Smile and cash the checks, or go get a job where you can happily pick fights w/your coworkers.
I'm using the slas^H^H^H^H a website's beta and its designers have the same issue.
Near as I can tell, they don't plan on listening....
I hope not, because you and your ilk are wrong.
I'm using the slas^H^H^H^H a website's beta and its designers have the same issue.
Near as I can tell, they don't plan on listening....
But they pretended to listen. And the OP should do the same and pretend to respect the consultant, document the shortcomings and make it clear that slas^H^H^H^H the people in charge of the project are wrong.
Come on, be honest. But before you open your mouth, THINK carefully.
I have a policy of ALWAYS assuming that any problem somebody brings me is MINE to fix. I most likely caused it and it's my responsibility to fix it. Problems are not always my fault in the end, but until I've proven to myself and more importantly to the person who brought the problem to my attention that it's NOT my fault I'm taking personal responsibility to see it gets fixed.
With that in mind, before you go off and start calling somebody you don't know well an idiot to his face you better be darn sure. And before you go tell anybody else about your suspicions they are an idiot you better be doubly darn sure you can back up the claim with absolute, you'd bet the farm on it, proof. Otherwise, you are going to be shot full of holes because YOU are the idiot.
Given that you obviously are NOT the subject matter expert (or why would you need one given to you) I would say that what we most likely have is a personality clash between you and the expert. There is a non zero chance this is not true, but unless you are ready to make yourself into the subject matter expert and PROVE it, you really have two choices...
First choice: You can suck it up, stop complaining and start working with the expert regardless of how you feel about them. You don't have to like them, but you need to respect them and stay professional about any disagreements. This will involve trying to figure out how you can best approach this person and doing things you would consider wasting time by taking their advice. Get their advice in hard copy, just to CYA in the future, but do your best to play in the sandbox with them.
Second choice: You can go in, guns blazing and shoot the idiot full of holes, preferably in public in front of management. If you are wrong, you will go down in a blaze of glory, fully burning the bridge behind your hasty departure. If you are right, and manage to prove it without stepping on a land mine in the process, nobody will ever want to work with you and the disgraced "expert" is still likely to be there, possibly on your team, which puts you back to your first choice where you will eventually have to work with them. When they start like this, such relationships don't go well and your life will be a mess.
So, I suggest you suck it up and do what it takes to work with the idiot and if you really just cannot make it work, look for another job.
and examples.
Reminds of the time I was talking to an 'Expert Computer Engineer'. I had to explain binary to him.
You find another client.
You need to stop worrying about whether your expert is an "idiot" or not. The only question is: are they qualified to provide the input, or do the thing they needed to be brought in for? If yes, then if necessary remind them and the client what the scope limits are on what the expert is needed for, show the concerns proof that the expert was going a bit out of scope, and point out their "signs of incompetence" as specific problems/action points for the expert to address, or point out on how you know
A PhD basically indicates that they know a whole lot about some certain thing at a certain time. If your business is that thing and their knowledge is recent then great. The reality is that things move so damn quick in the CS world that anyone who is good is always keeping up to date and doubtfully has any paper to show that.
That's not the key of a PhD. Of course while getting the grade you learned a lot about a very specific field, the most important part you prove (and have learned) by gaining a PhD is that you can work independently, and that you can set up and execute a research project successfully. The latter is what you should hire a PhD for. The first helps you decide which individual to choose (i.e. the one whose background matches what you intend them to do).
This happened to me. The boss man had "taken the initiative" and brought in a new consultant. The guy was an idiot. He opened tickets with the software vendor asking things like how to set the date on a Linux system. He told one of my co-workers that if the root password was lost, he'd need to boot with a rescue disk and do some trickery with
It all worked out though. As this guy's contract was being renewed, we asked him to show what he'd done. All the lies he'd told the boss man evaporated when it was revealed that his cluster was just a cluster fuck, his vaunted "remote management" system was really just a "yum install webmin" (left unconfigured), and he'd informed another co-worker not to reveal where he was sitting.
Even years after, the boss man still insisted that the contractor "had fooled everyone."
So no, if the boss is an idiot, you may as well just distance yourself from the idiot. Let him dig his own grave.
He told one of my co-workers that if the root password was lost, he'd need to boot with a rescue disk and do some trickery with
While it is a strange thing to say, what is incorrect about it? If:
1. you've lost the root password
2. sudo is not configured (disappointingly common)
3. single user mode is configured to require entering the root password
The fastest way to regain root access is to blank it in
You get them both in a meeting, and when the "expert" presents an idea, you point your index finger at your temple and rotate it in a circle around your ear.
Rolling your eyes and bursting out laughing is also good.
When the expert starts his powerpoint presentation, sigh loudly, raise one butt cheek and give an audible fart. Look around the room and say "Is he serious?" in a stage whisper.
There, I think that's a good start.
I was a consultant for a while and trained more than a few FNGs. I would always advise them that the choice was theirs, but that the chances of a positive result were slim to none if they took their concerns to the customer. Sure enough, I saw several otherwise excellent consultants get shown the door because of this exact scenario.
Part of your responsibility as a consultant is to "work magic". If you run into roadblocks, you find ways around them and that includes the occasional professional vegetable. What typically isn't in your domain is giving advice on personnel, unless you were specifically hired to do exactly that. In the end, almost nobody wants to be told that one of their chosen workers is sub-par. It's negative, it's dangerous, and it's usually pointless.
Just work around them, document everything, and communicate that sort of stuff with your own manager behind closed doors. You should also be sure to have customer "witnesses" in your emails and meetings. Team distribution lists and direct managers are excellent for that.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"


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Craig Lee won't arrive at UCLA until next season, but the Redlands High School running back has already faced plenty of college-caliber talent this year.
Thursday night the Terriers took on a defending CIF champion Summit defense with eight returning starters that included multiple Division I prospects, but Lee couldn't be contained for the second consecutive week as he churned out 148 rushing yards and two touchdowns in a 21-12 victory at Miller High School.
After Lee was held to 80 yards on 20 carries in a season-opening blowout loss to the CIF-SS Inland Division's No. 2 team last week, Redlands bounced back by pulling away from the defending Eastern Division champions in the second half thanks in large part to its UCLA-committed running back and a stout defensive effort. Rancho Cucamonga, which features at least four defensive players with multiple scholarship offers, handed Redlands a 40-17 loss last week but Terriers coach Jim Walker knew his team gave the Cougars plenty of assists.
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Redlands running back Craig Lee (above) ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries in a 21-12 win over Summit.
"That was our worst game tackling probably in the history of us being here," Walker said. "We missed 28 tackles. So we knew we had something with this team. We just had to figure it out."
It was Lee who was breaking the tackles Thursday. The Redlands running back peaked during the Terriers' first possession of the second half, touching the ball five times on a six-play drive he finished with a touchdown run to give his team a 14-10 lead.
Despite having a 30-yard touchdown run called back in the fourth quarter, Lee eventually found the end zone on the same possession to swell the lead to 21-12.
"We kept our defense on the field for too long tonight," Summit coach Cesar Villalobos said. "We just had too many penalties."
Redlands finished strong with 14 points in the second half while holding Summit to just a safety over the final two quarters. After committing 134 yards in penalties during a season-opening 38-6 win over Etiwanda last week, the SkyHawks (1-1) racked up 74 penalty yards on Thursday. Summit ascended to the No. 1 ranking in the CIF-SS Central Division following its drubbing of Etiwanda, but the SkyHawks are sure to drop following their loss to the Inland Division's 10th-ranked team.
"They wore us down in the second half," Villalobos said, "because our offense just couldn't stay on the field."
Summit's offense started slow, but after gaining just seven total yards on its first two possessions, the SkyHawks drove their third 65 yards in nine plays for the game's first touchdown 3:33 before halftime.
Redlands mustered its own 65-yard touchdown drive in just two minutes, 15 seconds as a reverse to fullback Darryl Miller turned into a touchdown pass to a wide open Jordan Ory with just 18 seconds left in the second quarter.
Myles returned the ensuing kickoff 36 yards into Redlands territory and two quick passes later James Fonseca connected on a 41-yard field goal as time expired on the half to give the SkyHawks a 10-7 advantage heading into the locker room.
After 51 rushing yards in the first half, Lee asserted himself on Redlands' opening possession of the second half. The running back carried four times for 36 yards and took his lone reception 21 yards on a 57-yard touchdown drive. His two-yard scoring run gave the Terriers a 14-10 lead with 5:52 left in the third quarter.
Lee found the end zone for a second time with 7:28 to play, finishing off a 70-yard drive with a 5-yard scoring run that put the game out of reach.
"We knew we had to step it up tonight," Lee said, "and become men."


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Well, I figured many of these depraved, miserable people felt this way, but it's still shocking to see it so brazenly on display.
The Obama "infanticide" smear wouldn't trouble me even if it were true.
Without knowing it, this DUmmy actually swerves into an arument against all abortion:Quote:
Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-21-08 10:31 AM
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The Obama "infanticide" smear wouldn't trouble me even if it were true.
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I understand the political potency of the issue. My comments are only about the logical sense of the thing, not the politics of the thing.
The smear is that Obama didn't support a bill requiring the protection of babies who survive botched abortions. The explanation is that they were already protected, the bill had bad trojan-horse features, etc. Which is all good.
But the fact this could even be a controversy shows just how incapable most people are of rational thought on the emotional subject of choice.
A pregnant woman goes into a room with a doctor. The idea is that when she leaves the room the fetus will no longer exist. Assuming that is legal, it makes no difference what happens in that room. None. Zero. Nada. (Newsflash: Everything that happens in a operating room is disgusting.)
If the doctor dispatches the fetus with a hand gun it doesn't change any moral question posed by the original situation. The mother and doctor are legally empowered to terminate the fetus in that room on that day. The method employed is trivial compared to the moral question posed by the abortion itself.
A doctor intends to cut a fetus into little bits in the womb, or introduces a lethal poison, but some freak accident occurs and the poisoned or partially dismemebered fetus pops out in one piece and somehow draws a feeble breath. Then the doctor is supposed to treat the situation as if the fetus had just walked into the emergency room requesting help. Why? What status has the fetus gained? Viability? If a fetus remains viable after a botched abortion it was even more viable before. Viability does not arise from a botched abortion. Quite the opposite. (A premature fetus is obviously more viable in the womb than out.)
The idea underlying this controversy is that life begins when a fetus leaves the womb, no matter the circumstances. Since ALL anti-choice people believe that life begins well before that the position is more than disingenuous.
It is a matter of supreme indifference to the fetus whether it is terminated in the womb or twelve inches away. The outcome is the same. The interests of the fetus, if any, are exactly the same in both scenarios. The interests of the woman and the doctor are the same in both scenarios.
The reason people feel this issue emotionally is that folks feel there must be some thresh-hold beyond which an infant is a person, and if it isn't conception then at LEAST it ought to be birth. And if a fetus somehow makes it out of the mother then that's birth.
Medical technology complicates the definition of birth as physical separation from the mother, so it seems that the idea of life beginning at 'birth' should be the primitive default view. Ironically, 4,000 years ago when they didn't have all our modern medicine human ethical systems did not hold that person-hood began at birth. Person-hood more typically began at christening. Neo-natal mortality was so high that you waited a while before deeming a new born to be a person with a name.
(Among some African nomadic hunter gatherers, thought to be the modern human groups most like primordial society, when a woman goes into labor the female relatives and tribal female elders take the mother out into the brush, midwife the birth, and then decide, in consultation with the mother, whether the baby is healthy enough and whether the tribe has enough food at the time. If it is decided that the baby is a go it is then brought back to the tribe and introduced as a new person. If not, it is left in the brush. I don't propose this as a good idea; merely offer it as a counter to the idea that abortion is a novel evil of modern society at odds with our fundamental moral nature, and to note the intriguing fact that even in a primal patriarchy no man is involved in the decision.)
There actually is a right answer to this, but it doesn't seem to appeal to people. It is what I said at the beginning. We have decided that the state has an interest in protecting a person (which is the basis for all of this stuff) and that person-hood attaches primarily as some function of time. (Roe v. Wade is primarily about time... trimesters and all.)
If it is legal for a medical professional to terminate a given fetus on April 22 then it is, or should be, legal for her to terminate the fetus in the womb, half-way out of the womb, or entirely out of the womb. The definitive factor is the date, not the location or any accidental medical circumstance.
A counter view suggests that fetal development is less important than particulars of medical procedure. How can a 187 day fetus be considered closer to being a person merely because it is separated from the mother through a mistake in a medical procedure? It runs counter to the underlying idea that person-hood arises through time.
A hypothetical ten year-old who happened to remain attached to his mother through some medical freak circumstance is a citizen. A microscopic frozen embryo is not a citizen, even if it is viable and a thousand miles from its mother, and thus obviously "born." When I say an embryo is viable that means it could turn into a citizen someday with enough medical intervention. The same goes for all premature babies. (Even a four year-old is not viable in the sense of being able to survive on its own if dropped off in the woods.)
I know people have violent disagreements on whether fetus X can be terminated on April 22, but it is grotesque sophistry and trouble-making to parse the particular circumstances of whatever happens on April 22.
It is like death row inmates who sue for stays because they are too fat or ill to execute. The lawyers who take those cases pro bono are opposed to the death penalty in ALL cases, not only in the case of overweight inmates. I happen to oppose the death penalty and support vigorous legal advocacy even to the point of absurdity, but since I'm not a lawyer with a client on death-row I'm not going to pretend that the death penalty is generally okay, but this guy here is just too heavy to execute.
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It is a matter of supreme indifference to the fetus whether it is terminated in the womb or twelve inches away. The outcome is the same. The interests of the fetus, if any, are exactly the same in both scenarios. The interests of the woman and the doctor are the same in both scenarios.
If it is legal for a medical professional to terminate a given fetus on April 22 then it is, or should be, legal for her to terminate the fetus in the womb, half-way out of the womb, or entirely out of the womb. The definitive factor is the date, not the location or any accidental medical circumstance.


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While high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) can provide basic information about a product's makeup, the application of NIR-CI adds novel information relating to its manufacture. Using Malvern's ISys chemical imaging analysis software to evaluate the size, shape, and proximity of chemical components, SyNIRgi's global imaging approach provides a visual representation of a product's composition and engineered structure.
SyNIRgi delivers robust automated sampling capabilities that deliver rapid data acquisition as well as advanced data analysis via an easy-to-use interface.
The NIR-CI technique demonstrated in Malvern's new application note takes advantage of both SyNIRgi hardware and ISys software's advanced features. This type of reverse engineering has demonstrated unparalleled ability to help understand product failures and can primarily be used for trouble-shooting. The wealth of chemical and physical information in a chemical image provides a fingerprint of the tablet's production properties and ultimately, its performance. It is ideal for pharmaceutical dosage analysis and enables refined quality control.


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Yes, but it's "an abomination."
Student or Learner
Dear teachers,
Would you be kind enough to tell me whether I am right with my interpretation of the expression in bold in the following sentence?
This coffee is in abomination.
This coffee tastes vile.
Thank you for your efforts.
Yes, but it's "an abomination."
Hi conungursvia,
Thank you for your affirmative reply as well as for your proper amendment.
I was misled by the the phrase "to hold something in abomination".
Thank you again for your backing.


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I'm looking at getting a tablet soon myself. I would say don't tie yourself to an iPad just yet. As other PP's have said, there are other tablets out there, and this is the time for new offerings to come out, in time for the holidays. Google is apparently going to be announcing a new version of it's Nexus next week, and the Nexus gets absolutely rave reviews. Microsoft is debuting it's Surface tablet on Friday (I'm leaning towards this right now personally), and that's supposed to have some super features available. I have a Kindle Fire right now, which I love, but the downfall for me is it's small memory. I'm not always near a wifi connection, so I'd like to have the ability to download a whole bunch of stuff and view it while I don't have a connection. With my Fire, I'm always afraid that I'm going to run out of space, so I don't download as much, and consequently run through all the things I have, with no chance of getting more since I'm not near wifi.
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When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Farm Visits for all fair livestock participants.
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Relatives As Parents--Northland Grandfamilies Program (Session 3 of 5)
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Northland Grandfamilies Program strives to raise awareness of issues facing grandparents and aunts/uncles who are raising grandchildren/nieces/nephews. The program offers twice-monthly support group meetings featuring a wide variety of speakers and topics. The program also provides information and referrals to community agencies, access to counselors, health professionals and legal advice. Updates on current legislation affecting relatives as parents are shared on a regular basis and opportunities to educate and advocate are provided to paticipants. The University of Missouri Extension Council in Clay County partners with Clay County Senior Services and the Platte County Senior Fund to provide this program in Clay and Platte Counties.
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Food Safety- ServSafe Training (Session 2 of 3)
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
ServSafe Training, 8 hours of training and the certification exam.
The last 5 chapters of the servsafe manual will be covered
Contact Chris Merritt, MU Extension. email@example.com or 636-456-3444
Walk With Ease-Arthritis program-Osceola (Session 14 of 18)
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Walk at own pace
Call St. Clair county Extension Office at 417-646-2419
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FastTrac® NewVenture™ (Session 2 of 5)
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Class dates/times in this series:Day 1: July 30 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)Day 2: August 6 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)Day 3: August 13 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)Day 4: August 20 (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)Day 5: August 27 (9:00 am - 2:00 pm)(must attend all sessions to complete training ) In FastTrac® NewVenture TM, a program of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, you will look at all aspects of your proposed company, exploring the feasibility of your business concept and learning how to develop a viable business plan. Participants will learn about start-up issues and learn to address the competition, legal matters, marketing and financial management aspects. FastTrac® participants don't just learn about business, they work on their own business endeavors throughout the course. This program is fast-paced and energizing, using guest speakers and lots of group breakout activities.
In FastTrac® New Venture, participants will learn about start-up issues such as the competition, legal matters, marketing & financial management aspects. This program is fast-paced & energizing, with guest speakers and lots of group breakout activities.
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$595.00Missouri dislocated workers may qualify for a full scholarship. Tuition is covered through a grant through Missouri Workforce Development. Any others who would like to attend may do so in paying the full tuition. You will receive more information once you apply.
Carmen DeHart, email@example.com of Missouri-Kansas City SBTDCphone: 816-235-6428
Success with No Till Forage Establishment (Houston, MO)
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Ted Probert, firstname.lastname@example.com Extension in Wright Countyphone: 417-547-7539
Making Better Business Decisions Using Your Financial Statements
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
This workshop is designed for business owners, managers and those who want to learn how to turn financial statements into useful management tools. They will learn how to capture information from the Income Statement and Balance Sheet, calculate several useful Ratios and learn to make business decisions from this information. more...
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Missouri Master Naturalist - Level 1 Training (Session 4 of 17)
When: Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
A training program to help you discover the natural Missouri by developing your skills as a naturalist, resource scientist, botanist educator or recreations specialist. You'll gain a wealth of natural science information in classes given by some of Missouri's finest biologists and build new friendships with others who share a love of Missouri's outdoors. more...
Fundamental Ecological Concepts - Ecological concepts such as succession, limiting factors, carrying capacity, biodiversity, habitat vs. niche, exotic/invasive species, preservation, restoration and management. Discussion of Missouri's Land Type Areas.
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Focus on Kids - Phelps
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The purpose of Focus on Kids is to help parents learn how to nurture and support their children during and after separation and divorce.
To register for this class please call the Phelps County Extension Office at (573)458-6260.
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State-mandated co-parenting class for divorcing and never married parents.
Focus on Kids is a co-parenting class for parents who are divorcing or never married and have a court case.
Pre-register one week in advance by calling the Johnson County Extension Center at 660-747-3193.
Missouri Master Naturalist Volunteer Training (Session 2 of 14)
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Jasper County University of Missouri Extension Council meeting (Session 8 of 12)
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Meeting of the Jasper County University of Missouri Extension Council and annual picnic.
Salt River Master Gardeners monthly meeting (Session 7 of 12)
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The Salt River Master Gardeners are a group of Missouri Master Gardeners from Marion, Ralls, Monroe, Pike, and Lewis counties. The group meets the first Tuesday of the month, and has an educational presentation at each meeting.
Fabius 4-H Club (Session 34 of 35)
The Fabius 4-H Club generally meets the 1st Tuesday of each month at the Fabius Community House.
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Samir Nasri nets brace as Manchester City beat Chelsea in New York
Samir Nasri netted twice as Manchester City beat Chelsea 5-3 in the second match of the clubs' US double.
Last Updated: 26/05/13 10:29am
Gareth Barry, James Milner and Edin Dzeko were also on the scoresheet as the Citizens followed up their victory in St Louis earlier in the week - when they fought back from 3-0 down to win 4-3 - with another thrilling triumph on Saturday evening in New York.
The Light Blues were ahead inside five minutes. Oscar gave the ball away to Sergio Aguero whose strike was blocked by keeper Hilario but only as far as Barry who tapped the ball home from close range.
City got their second on 29 when James Milner fed Nasri who lobbed Hilario before the match at the Yankees Stadium yielded six more goals after the break.
Ramires pulled a goal back for the Dark Blues at the start of the second half after latching on to a long ball from David Luiz.
Shortly afterwards Ramires came close to grabbing a second for Chelsea when his deflected effort was cleared off the line by Milner who netted City's third on 55 after combining with Edin Dzeko.
Ramires grabbed his second of the game on 69 but five minutes later Nasri made it 4-2.
Juan Mata curled the London club's third on 84 before Dzeko completed the scoring with a long range strike that bounced past substitute Petr Cech in what was Rafael Benitez's final game as Chelsea boss.


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The roundtables in Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and London, which brought together experts in Islamic Finance, bankers and finance professionals working in the sector, along with regulatory authorities, academics and ratings agencies, made a number of recommendations to both the IASB and Islamic Finance Institutes (IFIs), which are highlighted in the new report published by KPMG and ACCA.
•The IASB should consider issuing guidance on the application of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) when accounting for certain Islamic financial products which are offered by Islamic financial institutions and conventional banks.
•It should also consider issuing guidance on additional disclosures that could be made for stakeholders who are seeking information on the entity's Sharia-compliant operations.
•The IASB should work with the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) and other leading Islamic finance standard setters and regulators globally to establish the gaps between IFRS and Islamic accounting standards and to review the needs of users. This should also include a review of terminology used in IFRS, and consider whether such sensitive terms as 'interest' - forbidden in all forms in Islamic banking- can be amended or added to.
•If Islamic finance is to be part of the IASB agenda, the IFIs should support IASB by forming an expert advisory group, including Islamic scholars from various jurisdictions, which could contribute to the development of new standards and help with the overall review or provide advice on an ad hoc basis.
•The IFIs need to conduct further outreach and education, particularly with the investor community, while providers of professional qualifications should look into the relevance of Islamic Finance to their syllabuses and the members.
•The industry needs to engage more with local regulators to understand their expectations of financial reporting and the disclosure of Islamic financial instruments.
Samer Hijazi, a director in KPMG's Financial Services Audit practice, and co-author of the report, said, "The Islamic finance industry has reached a new stage of maturity. It has a wider variety of customers and stakeholders and a presence in more countries around the world than ever before. As the IASB seeks to establish IFRS as a single high quality set of global financial reporting standards now is the right time to consider how Islamic finance fits into this global framework. Greater comparability and consistency in financial reporting will benefit not only the IFIs but also the international banks which offer Islamic financial services around the world."
Aziz Tayyebi, head of international development at ACCA and its expert in Islamic Finance, and report co-author, said, "One of the key challenges facing Islamic finance and global standards setters is how to resolve the fact that IFIs in different countries can report transactions in different ways, which creates uncertainty for organisations which are trying to assess and compare them not only with each other, but with conventional counterparts. If they are to remain competitive with conventional counterparts, their financial reports need to be comparable. This will involve a great deal of work and education, but should be beneficial for IFIs and those who rely on their reports."


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In The Current Issue of This Month at The Urbana Free Library
Vol. 38, No. 05 May 2013 | Download as PDF | Archived Newsletters
- Teen and Children's Summer Reading Program
- Roger Ebert
- Transportation History of Urbana-Champaign
- Wheels and Sails: On the Move with Amasong!
- Dan Brown at Lincoln Center
- The Friends of the Library Need Your Help!
- Research Night at the Champaign County Historical Archives
- Discover BookNews
- Memories of the 2013 Fairy Tale Ball
Are you looking for an adventure? Do you want to explore far off places and sightsee around the world? With a good book, you can travel anywhere!
Before you start your trip, sign up for Have Book—Will Travel, the library's summer reading program. New this summer—you can sign up for the program and keep track of your reading progress online.
For more information, call Teen Services (217-367-4405) or Children's Services (217-367-4069), stop by the library, or check urbanafreelibrary.org for updates on how to plan your summer reading journey.
The 2013 Teen and Children's Summer Reading Program is generously supported by the Friends of The Urbana Free Library.
Roger Ebert
June 18, 1942 - April 4, 2013
The Urbana Free Library was saddened to hear about the passing of Roger Ebert. A native of Urbana, Ebert had many memories of his 1950s childhood, which he frequently mentioned on his website and in his columns. He particularly had a fondness for The Urbana Free Library children's librarian Miss Fiske, who nodded approvingly when he checked out books—so he checked out more to win more nods.
In October 2001, Ebert returned to Urbana to host a fundraising benefit, where he reminisced about growing up in Urbana and urged those in attendance to support public institutions, such as the place he fondly named "The Urbana Free and Wonderful Library."
Thank you, Roger Ebert. You will always be two thumbs-up.
Inscription by Roger Ebert in Roger Ebert's Home Movie Companion. Donated to the Champaign County Historical Archives by former Executive Director Fred Schlipf.
Transportation History of Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, May 1 • 7:00 - 8:45 p.m.
Lewis Auditorium
Local history buffs can enjoy a presentation that examines Getting to Champaign, a photo-graphy exhibit currently on display at Illinois Terminal (free and open to the public). The exhibit highlights significant milestones in the evolution of ground transportation in Urbana-Champaign.
Sharing in the presentation will be George Friedman, Jr., an expert on the street railways of Urbana and Champaign; Ben Halpern, photographer who has had four exhibits at Illinois Terminal that focus on the history of transportation in and around Champaign; Dan McCullum, historian, former Champaign Mayor and Champaign City Council member, and current Champaign City historian; and Bill Volk, Managing Director of the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) for more than 30 years.
Wheels and Sails: On the Move with Amasong!
Sunday, May 5 • 3:00 - 3:45 p.m.
Lewis Auditorium
Amasong for a transportation-themed concert. The performance will feature songs about sailing and trains, and sing-along fun with favorites such as The Wheels on the Bus.
Directed by Jill Crandall, Amasong is Champaign-Urbana's Premier Lesbian/Feminist chorus and has an enthusiastic local following. They perform folkloric, women-oriented, and classical music.
Dan Brown at Lincoln Center
An Evening of Codes, Symbols, and Secrets
Wednesday, May 15 • 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Lewis Auditorium
Your library will host a live stream of a presentation featuring #1 international bestselling author, Dan Brown, from Lincoln Center in New York City. He'll be speaking about Inferno, his next Robert Langdon thriller, due to release on May 14. Brown will also talk about a range of topics—science, religion, codes, book publishing, movie making, and a few surprises.
You can place a hold request on Dan Brown's Inferno via CU Catalog on urbanafreelibrary.org or call the library at 217-367-4405.
The Friends of the Library Need Your Help!
The Friends support your library in many ways. They organize and raise money through their used book sales and support the library's summer reading programs. The Friends other helpful projects fall in the "extra touches" category, such as the development and maintenance of the signature flower boxes and landscaping around the library.
Do you have a green thumb and might you be looking for a volunteer opportunity? The Friends are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help with the library gardens.
Garden volunteers:
- Help with the maintenance, watering, and weeding of the library garden
- Commit to one hour, once per week
- Need not be a member of the Friends of the Library
If you're interested in contributing volunteer hours to your library, contact Simon at 217-493-3670. The Friends are looking forward to hearing from you!
Research Night at the Champaign County Historical Archives
Second Wednesday of the Month
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Jean Evans Archives Room
Research nights are now enhanced with special topics! Whether you're a regular or new to family history research, stop by to learn about the services of the Archives and take advantage of discussions and demonstrations on special topics.
May 8, 2013: Beginning Genealogy Research
Discover the many helpful resources at the Champaign County Historical Archives for local research and beyond. Members of the Champaign County Genealogical Society will be available to help you with your family history research.
June 12, 2013: Scanning Photos and Transparencies
Digital storage of family photos is important to beginner and experienced researchers. Eric Fair will demonstrate how to use the public scanners in the Archives and introduce you to scanning photos, slides, and negatives.
Research nights are open to the public. There is no fee, nor is registration required.
Discover BookNews
Introducing a new online reader's advisory service from your library where you'll discover:
- Links to monthly newsletters that feature a wide variety of books for all ages
- Descriptions of books with reviews and links to CU Catalog, so you can request a copy
- Links to award-winning and bestselling books
- A newsletter sign-up page where you can subscribe to email newsletters
You can access the BookNews service via the "View All Featured Titles" link from the urbanafreelibrary.org homepage.
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Wrong Turn in Tanganyika
Map on Tanganyika. Looks hand-drawn, or at least a copy of a hand-drawn map.
Found in "Landscape Gardening in Japan" by Josiah Conder. Published by Dover, 1964.
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6 comments:
- Moonshadow said...
LOL - We have a Tanganyika Wildlife Park here outside of Wichita KS.
- June 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM
- jociegal said...
That is beautiful!
- June 14, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Firewing3333 said...
Wow, that's hand-drawn? Amazing!
- June 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- Veronica Wald said...
The "wrong turn" comment is hilarious :-)
- June 15, 2010 at 7:04 PM
- Tricia said...
Beautiful map! And it would be fun to see a merging of the African savannah and a Japanese garden...
- June 16, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Kimberly Cockroft said...
I grew up in Kenya--it seems to me that perhaps you found a map drawn by someone who was on safari; they clearly marked where they saw each animal, which seems like a likely exercise for someone on holiday or even hunting.
What lovely fun. I wish I knew the date of the map. . .did it look rather old? Or was it a reproduction?
- June 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM
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by gothamalleyviper - 1/5/2014 1:09 AM
So they are doing a movie version of the Days of Future Past story arch. I started thinking about the whole "Time Travel to save the future" theme.
I know it has been done before. "Terminator," "Terminator 2," "Terminator 3," The whole of "Wolverine and the X-Men," Marvel's "Days of Future Past" story arch in just about all the X-Men cartoons over the years.
What I was wondering is what would happen if the guy sent back to save the future was a total flake. Someone who made Deadpool seem like Professor X. It doesn't even have to be a guy, just a complete insane nymph.
by aspiringactor - 1/5/2014 11:13 AM
so someone like Booster Gold (DC)?
by gothamalleyviper - 1/5/2014 8:45 PM
Booster Gold was selfish, I am looking for batsh*t.