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Dean Robert A. Barnhardt portrait
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Barnhardt, Robert A.
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IT'S as difficult to categorize Colleen Saidman, an owner of Yoga Shanti, a papaya-color studio in Sag Harbor, N.Y., as it is to hold a headstand for the duration of the Beatles song "Let It Be," a challenge often presented in the classes she teaches.
To begin, Ms. Saidman, who is also a model, is fearless, especially when it comes to wearing orange, diving into the cold ocean, laughing loudly, going barefoot or making radical changes in her life.
She grew up in Indiana, worked at a fast-food restaurant, ran on the boys' track team and regularly wrote to Mother Teresa asking about the meaning of life.
In her packed classes she tiptoes between the mats, making adjustments and dabbing rose oil on the foreheads of students. She has been known to startle them with poems about death. Ms. Saidman, 47, has come close to death herself more than once. At 15 she was run over by a car, and in 1989 she was struck by lightning while camping.
"With Colleen you can expect extreme situations," said Ed Zello, one of her five brothers, all tall. He added that most people who are around her long enough suffer "orthopedic trauma" of some kind from trying to keep up.Continue reading the main story
Ms. Saidman tells her students not to follow or imitate her, particularly not her love life.
In 1998 she was living in SoHo with her first husband, a fashion photographer, and their daughter, Rachel. She was beginning a new career as a yoga teacher when a friend took her to a class in Manhattan taught by Rodney Yee.
Mr. Yee, 49, has become known for his retreats, many held in places like Mexico and India, and for his videos and CDs. He is meticulous about anatomy and alignment: even his signature ponytail looks perfectly aligned with his spine.
Halfway through his class, however, Ms. Saidman walked out. She said she found him humorless and "totally arrogant."
He offers a different explanation: "She knew her life was going to change, and she didn't want to change it." If Mr. Yee's teaching could be reduced to one notion it would be, "Don't run away from discomfort, in a yoga pose or in life."
He wasn't always so steady. His sisters recall he spent his childhood on an Air Force base in Oklahoma, speed-eating hamburgers while reading Archie comics. He later became a ballet dancer, a vegetarian and a yogi. In 1987 he and two partners opened the Piedmont Yoga Studio in California. Mr. Yee also married, and the couple had three children.
A year after Ms. Saidman bolted from his class, a friend took her to another one Mr. Yee was teaching. This time she loved it.
"I thought he could teach me what I needed to learn," she said. "He went much more into subtleties like getting in touch with the corner of your eye or the center of the armpit."
She became a devoted student of his and formed a close student-teacher relationship, which remained platonic for years. Then, in 2002 at a yoga conference in Nashville, Ms. Saidman and Mr. Yee found themselves sitting next to each other in a crowded hot tub after a day of twisting poses.
"She put her thumb on my forehead, right on the third eye, and literally I felt something I'd never felt before," Mr. Yee remembered. "It was almost like: 'Who are you? What just happened?' That was the turning point. There was something between us that was unavoidable."
Still, they didn't want to break up their marriages, which they said were not unhappy. "I walked away from Rod many, many times," Ms. Saidman recalled. "I told him not to call me. I said, 'Whatever we have with our spouses, we have to give it a real try.' "
He could never go for more than a week without talking to her. "To not call Colleen was unbearable," he said. "I just lost it. I can preach all I want, but when love hits you, it just devastates everything. Everything was blown down."
He eventually told his family he had fallen in love. "He said she was a model," his son, Evan, 16, recalled. "Victoria's Secret came to mind. I thought: 'Stupid model. Typical.' But then I actually met her, and she's so different. She's really out there. She's a lot like Dad. They're both messy. They're spontaneous and loud, but they can really sit with silence."
About ending her marriage, Ms. Saidman said: "Sometimes the voids are not so obvious until you meet someone who fills those voids. Having said that, I wouldn't recommend doing what we did to anyone. I have two friends who are tempted to leave their marriages right now, and I've told them: 'Run! Unless it's absolutely necessary, don't do it.' "
Three years ago Mr. Yee moved into her shingle-style house in East Hampton, N.Y., and rumors swirled around them and Yoga Shanti. Students quit, disillusioned. There was even an article about them in New York magazine, "An Illicit Yoga Love Story." Ms. Saidman said, "For us to be together, it couldn't have been a harder path."
Today they seem perfect counterbalances for each other: she never lets him become too mechanical or scientific, always reminding him of saints, miracles and mysteries. He doesn't allow her to become overspiritual, imprecise or Pollyannalike.
A few weeks ago, while trying to define happiness, she said: "The only way to be happy is to be of service to another. At the airport, I helped this woman who was balancing all these kids and bags. That made me a lot happier than the cashmere sweater I bought that day."
He quickly interjected: "I don't know about that! I think we're getting into self-delusion here."
While two yogis might be expected to marry in a place known for spirituality — Bali or at an ashram — they were wed in Lake Las Vegas, a resort in Henderson, Nev., 17 miles from the gambling strip.
Lake Las Vegas, set in the middle of the desert, is beautiful but not exactly natural. It has a golf course, artificial waterfalls and even a skating rink melting in the sun.
The Rev. David St. John, a priest of the National Catholic Church of North America, performed the ceremony in the Tuscan-style Chapel Fiorenza, which overlooks the lake. The bride explained why they chose to marry near Las Vegas: "We're all about balance. We need some chaos and artifice in our lives."
There was neither a yogi nor a model among the 45 guests. Sharp-witted schoolteachers — all family members — predominated.
Ms. Saidman wore a gold-color Donna Karan dress. Like almost all the clothes she wears, it would have looked like a Halloween outfit on most other women. It was loosely wrapped around her with ropelike straps and had a fishtail hem.
"It's part mermaid, part Egyptian goddess," she said. The bride glowed more and more throughout the ceremony, as if on a dimmer switch that was slowly being turned up.
During the reception next door at the Ritz-Carlton the bride and bridegroom kissed and held onto each other. "Rod and I wake up every morning like, 'I can't believe we get to be together,' " she said. "We are touching 24 hours a day."
Mr. Yee added: "It makes people sick. People are like, 'Can you please not be so in love? Can you hide it?' No, we can't hide it."Continue reading the main story

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Esther Whitton has gladly spent the last few months enjoying the quiet calmness of a Yorkshire winter, devouring books and attempting to keep herself from falling for a man she knows she can never have. But when her Great-uncle Danby announces they're all going to London for the Season, she decides it's time to step out of her comfort zone and follow her heart before it's given away to another.
Timothy Hargood knows his place is in servitude, and therefore pining after a woman destined to be the wife of a peer is completely pointless. But when she makes the first advances, how can he resist?
Star-crossed from the start, this unlikely pair must try to find a way to be together, even if it means thwarting the all-powerful Duke of Danby to do so.
As soon as she closed the door behind her, Esther felt the weight of her guilt lift from her shoulders. Goodness, Leah had a remarkable talent for driving her mad. But Esther wouldn't let it get the best of her. Her mind was made up. She didn't want a season—she didn't want to go to London—if she had her way, she wouldn't leave Yorkshire at all. She just had to find a good reason to stay here.
She scurried to the staircase and descended to the lower level in search of Duncan. No doubt he was polishing the silver or taking stock of the wines, or some other such—
"Ow!" Esther stumbled back a couple of paces, clutching her forehead, as if it might stop the throbbing. "What in the—"
"Oh, dear God," came a deep, rumbling voice. The very voice that made her heart stop whenever she heard it.
Esther tried to breathe in air, but it seemed she had temporarily forgotten how to do such a simple, natural thing.
"Miss Whitton, are you all right? What an oaf I am, rushing through these narrow corridors. Please…let me look at it."
His hand—his large, uncalloused, gentle hand—touched to hers, causing Esther at first to flinch, and then stiffen as her mind and body swirled with a million emotions. Heavens, how did he do this to her? How could she let him? Even if he did return her affections, they could never, ever be. At least, not as long as the Duke of Danby, or any of her relations, for that matter, were alive. She was the great niece of a duke—her blood ran blue—and his…
"Does it hurt?" he asked. He was so close, his lips were but a hairsbreadth away as he studied her forehead.
"Erm…only a little," Esther managed to breathe out. And then his eyes met hers, officially stealing the very last breath from her body.
"It's only a little red," he murmured. "No bump yet."
His thumb caressed her forehead oh, so tenderly as he searched for a protrusion. Good heavens, she was going to melt into the ground if she wasn't careful. Trying to snap herself out of the trance he'd put her in, she glanced up to look at his forehead.
"Oh, Timothy!" she exclaimed, and then remembering what she was about, said, "I mean, Hargood, of course. Erm, you seem to have gotten the brunt of our collision." A sizeable lump protruded from the left side of his forehead. "Or perhaps it is true what my brother says about me."
"And what is that?" Timothy asked, still too close, his voice still a gentle purr that threatened to drive her to the brink of madness.
"That I am rather bullheaded."
At this, Timothy burst into laughter, causing his hazel eyes to shimmer with mirth. It warmed Esther from the inside out. She'd never made a man laugh—not like this, anyhow. It didn't even matter that it was sort of at her expense. It felt good to not take herself so very seriously for once.
"Well, do you think that's true?" he asked as his laughter died down.
Esther shrugged. "I suppose so, especially when it comes to propriety. I do think rules are important to a society—and to an individual, for that matter."
Timothy's gaze grew dark, and his eyes narrowed just a hair. "And are they never, ever to be broken?"
Something about the way he asked that question—the tone in his voice, the gleam in his eyes—made her wonder if he didn't only mean rules in general, but more specifically. And if more specifically…?
No, she couldn't let herself wonder about that. Because she did mean in general and on most things there were no exceptions, no matter what her heart might say about it.
"Only very rarely, Hargood," she said, sucking in a deep breath and steeling her spine. If she didn't steel herself against him, she'd fall headlong into his arms, especially if he kept staring at her that way. As if he wanted to kiss her, for heaven's sake!
"Well, I think we're all good here," she chirped, side-stepping him and backing away as if he were a lion whom she feared might pounce. "I believe Gabriel will be expecting you soon. I've probably already kept you too long. I do hope your head feels better!"
She rounded the corner out of sight and then collapsed with her back against the plaster wall of the small foyer. She sucked in deep breaths, trying to get the air to fill her lungs completely, for she felt as if she hadn't taken a proper breath in minutes. How had this happened? How had she fallen for someone she couldn't possibly have?
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Betty Nicolay 1922 - 2010 Baldwin City
Funeral services for Betty Nicolay, 87, Baldwin City, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the Feltner Funeral Chapel in Lyndon. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery north of Lyndon. Mrs. Nicolay died Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
She was born on April 17, 1922, in Osage City, the daughter of Robert and Migonette Rice Burd. She had lived in Osage County for many years, in and around Lawrence and had lived in Baldwin City since 1999.
Mrs. Nicolay had worked as a practical nurse in Lawrence for 18 years. She was a homemaker and care giver.
She married James Nicolay Sr. on Oct 12, 1940. in Osage City.
Mrs. Nicolay is survived by her three children, Mary Louise Anderson of Carbondale, Ed Nicolay and Suzi Gottstein, both of Baldwin City; her sister, Bessie Rissen of Topeka; eight grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jim on Oct. 26, 2001. Also preceding her in death was a granddaughter, Tiffani Harper, a great-granddaughter, Britni Proctor, her parents, two brothers, Bill Burd and Robert Burd and four sisters, Mary Robbins, Anna Mae Bronson, Helen Fitzwater and Verna Groff.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made payable to Heart of America Hospice and sent in care of Feltner Funeral Home, 818 Topeka Ave., Lyndon, KS 66451.


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Please join Ronald J. Tabak from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, who co-chaired the special committee that led the New York State Bar Association to adopt unanimously a report and recommendations on these issues. He will:
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The misbehaved plant, Audrey II, prepares to invade Stage 9 in Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's diabolical and botanical romp, Little Shop of Horrors. Performances will take place April 21 to 23 and April 28 to 30, 2016 at 7:30 pm and at 2:00 pm on April 24 and May 1, 2016 at Stage 9 at 9 South Main in downtown Hutchinson.
Mr. Mushnik, the owner of the run-down Mushnik's Skid Row Florists, prepares to throw in the towel and close his business. Suddenly, Seymour Krelbourn, one of Skid Row's many misfits and Mushnik's employee, stumbles across a new breed of plant and names it after his love and coworker, Audrey. Their luck begins to change mysteriously for the better along with the growth of Audrey II. Three street smart Skid Row denizens, Ronnette, Crystal, and Chiffon, who seem to have all the inside scoop on this new exotic plant, guide us along as Seymour and Audrey's love blooms. However, Audrey's abusive sociopathic boyfriend (who happens to be a dentist) and Audrey II, the plant with an insatiable appetite for blood and world domination, provide seemingly insurmountable odds for Audrey and Seymour.
Little Shop of Horrors is another revival for Stage 9's 100th Anniversary year and is from the creative genius team behind Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. It's an out-of-this-world musical not to be missed.
Cast members include Isaac Glover (Seymour), Nicole Hase (Audrey), Lynn Hase (Mushnik), Jordan Gajewski (Orin, the Dentist), Jacob Aden (Voice of Audrey II and plant operator), Dashona Mahoney (Crystal), Paul Rothe (Ronnette), Theresa Teufel (Chiffon), and Trevor Sullivan (Wino and plant operator).
Little Shop of Horrors is directed by Charles A. Johnston, Stage 9's Producing Artist Director. Other production team members include Lynn Ledeboer (Stage Manager), Piper Harding (Choreographer), Kelly Gauthier (Costume Designer), Denny Vick (Properties Designer) and Jason Depew (Lighting Designer). Johnston also serves as music director and contributes scenery and sound designs to the production.
Performances for Little Shop of Horrors will occur April 21 to 23 and April 28 to April 20, 2016 at 7:30pm and at 2:00 pm on April 24 and May 1, 2016. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $10 for ages 8-14. Children must be eight years old to attend Stage 9 productions. Tickets may be purchased in advance online at stage9hutch.com as well as at Apron Strings, located at the intersection of Sherman and Main Street in downtown Hutchinson three weeks prior to opening. Patrons may also purchase tickets at the door one hour prior to a performance. Little Shop of Horrors is performed by special arrangement with Music Theatre International, Inc.
All seating is general admission. The house opens at 7:00 p.m. for evening performances and 1:30 p.m. for afternoon performances. Stage 9 seats 85 people and seats are available on a first come, first served basis. To check performance availability, please contact Stage 9 by email at [email protected] or by phone at 316-350-PLAY (7529).
For more information about Little Shop of Horrors, performances or to schedule interviews with the director, contact Charles Johnston at 646-628-4353 or [email protected]. You may also contact Johnston for information about program advertising or sponsorship for Stage 9's 2016 Season.


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After Darkness by Christine Piper
Australia's history is chequered at best. For every story of military heroism, there is one of discomfiting prejudice. So it is with Christine Piper's After Darkness, which explores Australian history from the point of view of a Japanese doctor, Tomakazu Ibaraki, arrested as a national threat while in Broome, and sent to the Loveday internment camps in regional South Australia.
Tomakazu, once a good man, is now haunted not by what was done, but what he once refrained from doing. Prior to his arrival at camp, he was a doctor in Broome, and before that part of the Japanese Army's medical research unit in Tokyo. Tomakazu battled prejudice and systemic short-sightedness in both places, but it pales in comparison to the governing structures he finds within Camp Loveday.
Piper's novel cleverly interweaves three distinct temporal narratives and settings. The first, in Tokyo in the mid-1930s, explores the impact an opportunity to work with the army's military research division has on Tomakazu's marriage. The second charts his time in Broome as a locum in the late 1930s as World War II tensions escalate. The third covers his time at Loveday.
As the novel progresses, Piper introduces a number of secondary characters. Sister Bernice helps Tomakazu in Broome, and a friendship develops. Taxi driver Johnny, a minor character in the Broome narrative, becomes an active dissident in the chapters dealing with Loveday. The ghost of Kayoko, Tomakazu's estranged wife, lingers throughout, still living in Tokyo, but separated from her once loving husband by time, space, and circumstance.
After Darkness is set, for the most part, in the shadow of World War II, but its themes resonate into the present day. Piper's novel is, if nothing else, a story about duty, both as it relates to those in the medical profession and to those who, in the course of their work, must hold certain ideals above their own ethical standards. In Tomakazu Ibaraki, we find the human extension of such a quandary. A man who, by all accounts, tries to do 'the right thing'. In Piper's hands, such an ostensibly simple equation of ethics, values, and judgements assumes a labyrinthine complexity. As readers, we are taken along on the journey with Tomakazu in each of the novel's threads, contrasting his assessments of right and wrong, with local, national, and international interests.
It is no surprise that these interests occasionally jar with the reader's vision of humanity; such is many a government's willingness to prioritise national progress over the rights of the individual, and to value one's own interests over mutual sacrifice for the greater good of the country.
The Australia that surfaces in After Darkness is one startlingly untouched by racial integration. The Japanese people living in Broome in Western Australia's far north have an allocated district, a separate hospital, and even a Japanese doctor, flown in specifically for the purpose. Once the war is in full swing, this uneasy balance of cultures collapses. From there, it is only a short trip to Loveday, which itself bears more than a few unflattering comparisons to any number of facilities created to 'handle' those Australians not yet deemed worthy of a full welcome.
At its best, After Darkness is a profound study of how governments can lose their sense of humanity during national crises, and of the survivalist strategies inmates and employees adopt when faced with such dehumanising conditions. Dr Ibaraki is a credible and vulnerable character. Piper cleverly spreads his back-story across each of the three narratives; the reader becomes privy to his motivations and limitations. Johnny presents a striking contrast. His anger, resentment, and forthrightness are at direct odds with Tomakazu's stoicism. By definition, he is the necessary antagonist and companion: a mirror reflection of all Tomakazu would like to be were he not governed by a sense of duty.
If the sections with Tomakazu and Sister Bernice suffer by comparison, it is only because they lack a similar contrast in character and motivation. There is a sense that having found each other in this hot, oppressive pearling town, Tomakazu and Bernice are now limited only tofragments of conversation and occasional glances. Given Tomakazu's experiences earlier in the novel, it is doubtful there would have been many other possible outcomes for such a relationship. Nevertheless, and aside from an exquisite lantern ceremony, the sections set in Broome offer a slower (if necessary) insight into trauma and companionship, when considered alongside the more eventful, conflicted chapters of mid-1930s Tokyo and Tomakazu's internment at Loveday.
There are few, if any, major flaws within Piper's novel; such is her mastery of the craft, and willingness to unravel the story at her pace, in a unique way. The Vogel Committee chose not to present an award in 2013. This year, they were blessed with a stronger pool, and it is no surprise that Piper (who also won the 2014 Calibre Prize) prevailed. She poses important questions, not only about what it means to be Australian, but, more poignantly, what it means to be human, regardless of time, place, or government policy.


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Ustad Nikhil Banerjee
About Ustad Nikhil Banerjee
When Nikhil Banerjee died in 1986, India didn't just lose one of its greatest sitar players, but one of its most influential classical musicians. A former child prodigy who won the All-Bengal sitar competition at the age of nine, Banerjee grew up to earn international acclaim as a highly skilled musician. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, Banerjee's "technique is a phenomenon, faster than cheetahs, more secure than the dollar." Music And Musicians observed that "his improvisations always sound completely natural and spontaneous.." In an obituary published after his death, The New York Times wrote "the extraordinary fluidity and assurance of his rhythmic ideas and phrasing set a standard that would have left the more international 'stars' of Indian music behind."
The son of an amateur musician, Banerjee was fascinated by his father's playing. Although he wanted to try his hand at an instrument as early as the age of four, he was discouraged by his father and grandfather. At the age of five, however, they relented and he acquired a small sitar. Banerjee took to the instrument immediately. In addition to winning the All-India sitar competition, he became the youngest musician employed by All-India Radio at the age of nine. He remained a featured radio performer for five years. One of 15 children, Banerjee was greatly influenced by Ustad Amir Khan, who would come to his family home to teach his older sister. Banerjee also studied with Mustaq Ali Khan for three months and Jnan Prakash Ghosh, who taught him to play tabla. His greatest teacher, however, was Baba (Allaudin Khan), with whom he apprenticed, along with Ravi Shankar, from 1947 until 1952. Following Khan's death, Banerjee went on to study with Khan's son, Ali Akbar Khan, for an additional five years. Banerjee subsequently performed an estimated 1,000 concerts in India as Khan's accompanist. Banerjee performed his first concerts outside of India in 1955 as a member of a cultural delegation sent by the Indian government to Poland, Russia, and China. He made his United States debut in 1967. For many years, Banerjee spent three months each summer teaching, performing, and lecturing/demonstrating at U. C. Berkeley.
In 1968, Banerjee was awarded the honorary title Padma Shri. The same year, he was named India's "outstanding musician of the year" by the Sangeet Nagat (music and dance) Academy.
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The year 3000 has never looked this tangible. Thanks to the visual wizardry of Alexy Zakharov, the cityscape of Futurama's New New York now pops out of your screen in stunning, polished 3D.
Zakharov used a killer combination of After Effects, Photoshop, Nuke, and 3Dsmax to forge this incredibly detailed "test footage" of Matt Groening's sci-fi metropolis. The zooming traffic, picturesque background, and sweeping lens flare—J.J. Abrahms would be proud—lend the tantalizingly short video a genuinely lifelike atmosphere. When the Planet Express delivery spaceship rockets into the frame, we expected the familiar intro bells to enter the background score.
A 3D-rendered model of the Planet Express accompanies the cityscape on Zakharov's Behance project page, along with a set of intricate imaginings of the space vehicle in action. Looking at all this new content is so exciting it almost made us forget that the show was cancelled...twice.
Now that our interest is piqued, we're waiting with baited breath to see what Zakharov plans to do with this meticulous body of work. His obvious passion for the Futurama franchise gives us hope for both the artist and the future of the cult TV show, but if a 3D version of the ever-loved robot, Bender, doesn't meet our standards, someone's going to get exiled to the mutant sewers.
Rocket over to Zakharov's Behance page to ogle the rest of his images, or you can sit back and watch his Vimeo collection.
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Cisco's uncharted territory: Here be storage dragons
Blades are one thing, disks are quite another
Comment Cisco's California may be a Unified Computing System, but it sure isn't unified storage.
On old maps uncharted areas were labelled 'Here be dragons'. Cisco has redrawn the data centre map and left two uncharted areas outside the Cisco occupied territories of blade server chassis, switches and Cisco's UCS Manager software. It's called its vision thing unified computing, but in truth it's just a blade server and switch HW play providing an infrastructure for two IT ingredients that Cisco is not responsible for.
Firstly there is the software inside the blade servers. VMware, Microsoft and Xen hypervisors will provide virtual machines for Window and Linux/Unix servers running the apps. EMC VMware and Cisco are co-operating like star-crossed lovers, but no way is Cisco crazy enough to get into a monogamous VMware relationship. Unless customers standardise on one hypervisor it's going to be a mess, and the unified computing system idea will stop right there.
The UCS unification provides storage access, not unified storage. It is not bridging the storage silos in the data centre but reinforcing them, providing, as Cisco says it does, "consolidated access to both storage area networks (SANs) and to network attached storage (NAS). Support for a unified fabric means that the Unified Computing System can access storage over Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet or iSCSI, providing customers with choices and investment protection."
The Cisco data centre map has 'Here be dragons' plastered all over the storage area. Customers don't get storage unification, they get storage choices. It's consolidated access to a junkyard - that means the opposite of unification.
UCS supports both Fibre Channel and Ethernet access, Cisco having to recognise the need customers have to continue using Fibre Channel infrastructures. It supports iSCSI - but so what? Most every SAN vendor has spent the last three years chanting the iSCSI-is-not-for-the-data-centre mantra so, yes, of course, you can use it inside this grand UCS vision thing in theory - but virtually no one will. It's a worthless choice that unifies nothing.
Cisco has been unadventurous in its approach to storage. With switches it's even virtualised a switch into a VM but in storage its moves are as exciting as watching paint dry. Sun has gone far, far further in deconstructing storage arrays with its open storage idea which, ultimately, will have the entire storage controller software stack running in the server and looking after what is in effect a large JBOD.
This is too advanced for Cisco, which is happy to disrupt the server business but has no intent here to disrupt the storage business. The net effect is to encourage storage vendors to stick an FCoE access port into their data centre arrays, and that changes very little. It's not really unifying storage at all, UCS appearing to change things on the surface but not the actuality underneath.
A potentially interesting aspect of this UCS deal is what it means for Microsoft and the storage vendors. We see EMC tightly embracing Cisco with VMware, and Cisco leaving room for Hyper-V and Xen. There is potential here for a dynamic that stengthens the willingness of storage vendors other than EMC to work more closely with Microsoft, on the basis that this could help cut EMC down to size. Nothing else they are doing is, judging by IDC's numbers.
For Microsoft EMC's VMware is a great big fly in the ointment, and it will surely be encouraged to strengthen Windows' and Hyper-V's relationships with storage vendors other than EMC as a way of weakening the Cisco-EMC-VMware axis.
EMC management must now have a care not to get boxed in, with Dell, HP and all the other server vendors except Cisco looking to ally with its storage competitors, and with Brocade to create a counter to the Cisco-EMC-VMware trio, a virtually-everyone-but-Cisco-EMC-VMware axis. Who knows, but HP may get some ProCurve OEM deals out of this. Dell might even feel tension between itself and EMC because EMC is so strongly supporting a Dell server competitor. Will Dell move to add another storage OEM alongside existing EMC?
Sun is also in an interesting position strategically. Its storage array deconstruction strategy puts it at odds with storage array vendors and its open networking strategy sets it against network switch vendors. So, to my mind, it will not find it easy to make common cause with other server and storage vendors competing with Cisco, EMC and VMware.
Cisco and EMC/VMware have lobbed a great big rock into the data centre server and networking supplier pool and the ripples are spreading, but not into every corner of the data centre. UCS can unify compute and networking, through blades and virtualisation and management, but it does not unify compute, networking and storage, and nor does it unify the hypervisor environment or other software layers.
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If the weather is looking good then you can't beat a 1/2hr lead rein ride for first timers. If they enjoy it then you can always look at lessons in the future.
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Most of our young riders come to 1/2hr group lessons which we call "Unicorns groups". We run them on Saturday and Sunday mornings, as well as after school during the week. We also offer private lessons if you can't make it to a group or would prefer one-to-one tuition. Read More
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We only need three riders to start a group (kids or adults), so if you can find a couple of friends to come as well, we can try to start a group at a time that suits you.
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Check our current prices here
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You don't have to commit to anything, just book lessons as and when you like. But, as with everything in life, the more often your child rides the faster they will learn.
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Yes we do! 1/2hr or 1hr sessions which are more focused on having fun! If there are more than 7 kids in the group then we will have to split them into 2 groups for the riding session. Afterwards, you're welcome to use our heated classroom for as long as you like, so bring some food and games along. The price for this is the same as a group lesson, with FREE use of the classroom!
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|QR 243 HPG Relay Satellite
|Production information
|The Clans
| HPG Communication Relay
Spy Satellite
Communication Node
|Type (Shape)
|Satellite (Medium)
|Tech Base
|Clan (Advanced)
|Late Succession Wars era[1]
|Technical specifications
|65 tons
|Structural Integrity
|Engine (Type)
|Safe Thrust
|Maximum Thrust
|Burn Rate
|Heat Sinks
The QR 243 HPG Relay Satellite was developed by the Clans, and was designed to provide interstellar communication capacities from orbit. The Inner Sphere first saw use of these satellites when the Invading Clans deployed them during the Clan Invasion. They were the key to allowing a continuous flow of communication between the invading Clans and their people in the Clan Homeworlds and distant outposts in the Deep Periphery. The Clans deployed these satellites to maximize their surveillance of systems occupied by enemy forces as well as allowing normal communication between allied systems.
Though these satellites are common among HPG Relay Satellites types, they were uncommon among the Inner Sphere. This was due to advanced technology used to create the small Hyperpulse Generator. The QR 243 was exclusively being made and used by the Clans by the 31st Century. One such satellite was discovered in 3086, in the outer reaches of the Coventry system. This satellite "Coventry QR 243" origins are a mystery and it exploded as soon as salvage teams tried to handle the craft.[3]
In Clan Space, during the Wars of Reaving, the Society disrupted communication causing the HPG system there to go unused for fear of functional HPGs carrying viruses or being outright destroyed by the conflict.[4] Many of these satellites seeded along the Exodus Road in the Deep Periphery, were also knocked out.[5][6]
Equipment & Capabilities[edit]
The QR 243's main feature is its HPG Relay system, which uses a small 12 ton Ground Mobile HPG. Its advanced communication system allows for a maximum range of 50 light years. Typically QR 243s are deployed at various locations, maximizing its effective range and to aid in relaying signals from distant HPG Stations.
With this in mind, it was designed to be deployed in various locations — from solar systems to the deep voids of interstellar space. To allow the satellite to operate in those settings, a small Solar Sail is mounted in the rear to provide power if positioned in a solar system close enough to a sun. A 3.5 ton Fusion Reactor is fitted with a three-ton fuel capacity for deep space locations for a year.
Seven tons of communication equipment is provided, to allow the Relay to coordinate with spy and surveillance satellites tied into QR 243 which would relay ally forces out of system. The satellite has 1 ton of BAR-5 Rated alloy, which gives it the minimum amount of protection, keeping it safe from the most basic of space debris.
It has been equipped with a Fusion Engine to provide power so it can deploy in secluded locations with little notice. It has two front-mounted Searchlights to provide guidance should it be needed for a resupply vehicle. It also has 1 ton worth of Communication Equipment for basic communications purposes.
As a last resort to prevent the satellite falling into enemy hands, the satellite is fitted with a 6.5 ton Booby Trap.[7]
Related Vehicles[edit]
- SneakSat - Inner Sphere Stealthy conventional spy satellite
- D40 Communication Satellite - Small Military communication satellite
The QR 243's Equipment Rating is F/X-FF (Advanced) and burns .005 of fuel per day when using the Fusion Engine. Its record sheet is only found in Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions.
The design's name and function were not fleshed out until IP3:IE was published, however the summary of QR 243 spells out that this was used extensively as one of the chief spaceborne HPG systems used by the Clans to communicate with forces in the Inner Sphere.
- ↑ MUL Profile for QR 243 Relay Satellite (Standard) - Era and BV2 only. No Intro year.
- ↑ Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions, pp. 111 & 118 - BV2.
- ↑ Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions, p. 111 - QR 243 HPG Relay Satellite "Background information"
- ↑ The Wars of Reaving, p. 109 "Communication Breakdown" - "Sub-section notes of HPGs going down, mobile ones on WarShips lost. QR 243s are likely similarly affected by these viruses.
- ↑ The Wars of Reaving, P.119, "Spreading Contagion" - Deep Periphery HPG Relay network mentioned as being disrupted by war.
- ↑ Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions, p. 111 - QR 243 HPG Relay Satellite "Background information notes these satellites were used in Deep Periphery, at various facilities which would have been part of the Exodus Road."
- ↑ Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions, p. 111 - QR 243 HPG Relay Satellite "Stats


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June 2013 - Ron Parsons
Miniature Species You Can Enjoy and Grow
We are excited to welcome Ron Parsons who will speak to us on "Miniature Species You Can Enjoy and Grow". Ron's talk is based on a book he is writing, which will be published later this year. His presentation will feature beautiful color slides of the subject matter, in-depth information, and first-hand knowledge about the species discussed. June's plant opportunity table will be provided by Andy's Orchids.
Like many of us, Ron is a true plant lover and has been growing orchids, cacti, and bromeliads for over thirty years, and carnivorous plants for ten. He grows an assortment of cool growing species under lights at his home in South San Francisco and a few more in an unheated greenhouse at his parents home in Burlingame. His collection is beautifully grown, and often the plants featured in his talks are from his own collection. He willingly shares his knowledge about plant habitats and suggestions for culture with all who are interested.
Ron Parsons is one of the finest flower photographers in the United States. His photography and encyclopedic knowledge of orchids is known both nationally and internationally. He has been photographing orchids, wildflowers, and almost every other kind of plant for over 25 years, and has a slide collection that numbers well over 80,000 slides! He went "digital" recently, and in this short time has taken thousands of photos of orchids, wildflowers and other rare plants. Ron travels extensively, photographing orchids and wildflowers in situ, visiting orchid and other plant enthusiasts' collections, and most of all, taking photographs of plants and flowers that he likes. Several of his photos can be found on his highly informative website. More recently, some of his orchid photos appeared on the front and back covers of the April, 2013 issue of Orchid Digest Magazine.
Ron is a member of the San Francisco Orchid Society, The Peninsula Orchid Society, The Orchid Society of California, and the Bay Area Pleurothallid Alliance. He is also a member of the San Francisco Succulent and Cactus Society, and the American Gesneriad Society of San Francisco.
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With the holidays coming up I have been busy busy busy with sewing and getting orders from my Etsy shop finished up.
The other night I was freezing but wanted to do something crafty, so I grabbed this unfinished x-stitch and worked on it in bed. I started this when I first found out I was pregnant with William and I was determined to get if finished before he was born.
Last night I started this project for my Grammo's Christmas present. She asked for a quilt a couple months ago, but I knew there was no way I could get it done before Christmas.
I hope she likes it. When she asked for a quilt she said she didn't like bright colors and she didn't want it to look like the quilts from Wal-Mart.... not 100% sure what that meant lol
I also made William this appliqued shirt to go with his Howard Pants that I made him a couple of weeks ago.
pants are going to be his outfit for Christmas Day and I am super excited about how cute he is going to look. I was going to take his picture to show this off better beforehand, but I don't want to take the chance of him getting it dirty lol He's a walked mess sometimes!
I've also been working on the bazillion other things on my to-do list. I am hoping to have most/if not all of them done by next week. Wish me luck!
What have you been working on this week?
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
WIP Wednesday
Labels: quilting, sewing, WIP Wednesday
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Wow! You have been busy, that is a lot of projects in one post. Nicely done!ReplyDelete
That shirt is adorable (as is everything else)!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2013 at 7:53 PM
Cute stuff!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Such cute stuff!ReplyDelete
Awesome! I love the colors in the triangle pillow. Great choices. - KateReplyDelete
Great projects! I especially love those triangles and the colors are wonderful as well. Nice work.ReplyDelete
the colors of your triangles are so soft and pretty. She will LOVE it!ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing this at Needle and Thread Thursday!
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A battery or electrical operated hammer drill and/or a portable generator are needed from Nov. 1 through Nov. 31 to install missing street sign plaques on our neighborhood's brick columns.
Bob Conklin and Pete Fraver will be working on weekends, as weather permits, to install 34 plaques and are in need of assistance from other Corn Hill neighbors.
If you would like to assist, offer tools, and be part of the team please email Sue Porter at [email protected].


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American media commentator Michael Wolff writes that:
"Of all the recent pairings of British prime ministers and American presidents, none is as strained as Gordon Brown and Barack Obama... His recent visit was an excruciating affair... Well, it may not have been the least successful visit ever to Washington by a foreign head of state, but it could be among the most
ignominious... From a name recognition point of view, he's a nothing... Part of the problem is that at the Obama White House they're pretty sure that Brown is not a keeper. The new president is not going to lavish affection and attention on someone he doesn't know, or care about, or expect to be in office very long."
Brown has put a lot of effort in to cultivating an image of international statesman with a unified centre left purpose. This won't go down too well behind the closed door of No.10. Hide the office printer...


text: Warnings about the dangers of too much sun exposure abound, with the advertised consequences ranging from wrinkles to cancer.We know that we should wear sunscreen, avoid tanning beds and, in general, be careful about catching rays. Unfortunately, with teens and preteens, that knowledge – and the maturity to act upon it – often come after the damage has been done. How are we to protect our youngsters from a future of skin damage if they don't believe it will happen to them?A volunteer is imaged using normal (left) and ultraviolet (right) light. Sun damage is visible as darkened spots in the UV image. Courtesy of Dr. Mariefrance Demierre, Boston University School of Medicine.Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine are investigating ways to impress upon young people the reality of the damage done by too much sun exposure. To convince them, the researchers are using a Canon camera fitted with an ultraviolet filter to reveal the skin changes that already have taken place.Led by Dr. Mariefrance Demierre, the researchers recruited 111 children, aged 11 to 13, from a local community with a higher-than-average rate of melanoma. All of the participants received a lecture about sunscreen use, and those in the intervention group (83) also received an ultraviolet photograph of their faces and a detailed explanation of the skin changes found there; the remainder, in the control group, did not. Both groups completed follow-up surveys regarding their attitudes and behaviors in relation to sun protection practices at two and six months.After two months, the intervention group reported 21 percent fewer sunburns than the control group, although the gap narrowed to 13 percent at six months. Importantly, the greatest sun protection changes were made by children who had been shown to have a large number of skin changes, indicating a higher risk for melanoma. Demierre believes that the use of UV images in sun education could make a huge difference in the way teens and preteens view the subject, especially if the practice were to become widespread. She suggested that taking the photos in doctors' offices could become a common event.The researchers have another paper due out on similar research, in which they used a full-spectrum camera during an outdoor event to show adult participants the changes in their skin.


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Iraq Report: Arrowhead Ripper and Wider Operations
Operation Arrowhead Ripper, the name of the U.S. and Iraqi offensive in Diyala province remains the hottest front in Operation Phantom Thunder, the overarching operation in the Baghdad Belts. Since the start of the operation on June 16, U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed 59 al Qaeda operatives, captured 40, destroyed 28 roadside bombs and 12 booby-trapped buildings, and uncovered 16 weapons caches in Baqubah and the surrounding regions. U.S. and Iraqi forces have begun to distribute aid to civilians in the city.
U.S. commanders have begun to tamp down expectations of a large fight against al Qaeda believed to be trapped in the city. On Friday, ground forces commander Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno stated that it was thought about 80 percent of al Qaeda senior leaders escaped the city, while a large majority of the mid-level commanders and fighters remained.
Today, Colonel Steve Townsend, the commander of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 2nd Infantry Division warned that the next day or so will tell how the fight will develop. "We will either make enemy contact quickly, or we won't," Col Townsend told Reuters. "My company commanders' gut feel is that there won't be a big fight here ... The fight so far has gone a little easier than I expected. That does not mean there isn't any fight left in them."
U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to shape the battlefield in the regions north and west of Diyala, in Salahadin, Kirkuk, and Ninewa provinces. These are areas al Qaeda will likely attempt to regroup.
In Mosul, U.S. and Iraqi forces raided "a large factory used to make home-made explosives, improvised explosive devices and vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices" after receiving a tip from a local resident on Saturday. Thirty-two insurgents were captured at the site, which "consisted of three separate buildings with one building used to prepare VBIEDs, a second used as an HME/IED factory and the third, a storage area for VBIED and IED-making materials. Each of these buildings was connected by a tunnel that had openings into each part of the structure."
In Taji, a 500-man neighborhood watch was established in the village of Falahat. "The neighborhood watch is made up of a group of 500 volunteers who are currently being vetted for possible future selection for training as Iraqi Police or some other organization in the Iraqi Security Forces," Multinational Forces Iraq reported. "The volunteers are members of a number of tribes in the Taji area who want reconciliation with the Coalition and the Iraqi government." The Falahat watch turned over an IED cache to Iraqi troops serving in the region. This news comes as Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki stated he supports arming tribal forces to fight al Qaeda just as long as the proper checks ensure the forces can be integrated into the Iraqi security forces.
Operations against al Qaeda's network nationwide continue to focus on the Baghdad Belts and the northwest. On June 22 and 23, Coalition forces killed seven al Qaeda fighters and captured ten during targeted raids on al Qaeda's network in Tikrit, Mosul, Fallujah and "an area south of Baghdad." On June 21, six al Qaeda fighters were killed and five captured during a raid in against al Qaeda in the Karma region.
Operations against Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army and the Iranian backed "secret cells" of the Qazali Network continue to remain a focus. On June 22, Iraqi Special Operations Forces "detained a key rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi insurgent leader in Sadr City." The Mahdi Army commander was "responsible for coordinating and conducting kidnappings, death squad killings and improvised explosive device attacks" as well as suspected of "smuggling weapons into Iraq." On June 23, a Coalition raid "as part of an effort to deny Iranian influence in Iraq" in Sadr City netted three "suspected terrorists with ties to Iran."


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Hello !
I am currently dealing with the following problem : I can not figure out how 12 bits ADC output is converted in 16 bits format. Let me explain...
I am using a Pico 4224 (containing a 12 bits ADC) with Matlab. My application requires to retrieve the ADC output (12 bits integers) but the instrument driver only returns 16 bits integers in order to allow for potential averaging and resolution enhancement , and this feature seems to be deeply rooted in the driver code ( see this post : topic19821.html ). Looking at 16 bits integers provided by the driver I tried to understand how 12 bits values are scaled to 16 bits, my idea was to see if 16 bits values were regularly spaced but I could not find easily any simple pattern.
Could you explain to me how 12 bits values out of the ADC are scaled to 16 bits so that I can get them back ?
Many thanks in advance
How to retrieve 12 bits ADC values coded in 16 bits format ?
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Re: How to retrieve 12 bits ADC values coded in 16 bits form
During factory test a digital scaling factor is calculated for each of the ranges and stored in the scope, this is applied to the ADC counts before they are returned to the application. This is necessary to ensure that the returned values are within the published specifications for the device. It is not possible to recover the original 12 bit values.
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WARNING: This post completely spoils The Giver and Messenger by Lois Lowry. Not that she left much for me to spoil...
I hate The Giver.
I read Lois Lowry's The Giver for the first time (and the second and third time) as a grade school assignment – I adored it. I eagerly shed off the tales of talking animals, of neatly bound fables, and choose-your-own-adventure Goosebumps (almost) for this dark, alluring "big kids" novel. It catapulted me into a decade-long fascination with dystopian fiction. Afterward, I leapt into Lord of the Flies and 1984 – very adult, and very fundamental pieces of literature. The Giver was the catalyst in my transition from children's to adult fiction – a life-altering moment.
|Look at this smug bastard.
My class spent an entire week discussing the ending. We had debates. We yelled and we laughed andwe let ourselves be completely absorbed by ideas. It was the first time in my life that I picked apart a piece of literature, defended my thesis, and really thought about the power an author has to bend our perceptions – about how our reactions to literature expose who we are. I was absolutely convinced that Jonas had died, and I loved the book because of it. Death made it a more meaningful, cautionary novel and, for some reason, I've always loved things that make me sad. But I was also intrigued by my classmates' ideas – some of them outrageous or intentionally silly, but exciting none the less; their own personal convictions were bleeding out into their hopes and conclusions, and nothing pleases me more than the chance to analyze someone based on their literary conjectures.
Our class read interviews with Lowry in which she was asked about the ending of The Giver and her answer impressed the hell out of me: "That is up for you to decide." This woman was respecting the intelligence of her young readers and I was thrilled. I was right, and you were right, and even though we moaned and acted as if we would die if she just did not tell us what it all meant, we were happy. It was a formative experience.
But now I am just mad. A book that shaped my identity as a reader and writer is now one of my most despised objects. Lowry betrayed me, and I can't go back.
|He's on a real bad trip.
Lowry told us that we could pick the ending, then wrote one anyway. If she had any inkling that a sequel was in the works, she shouldn't have given readers free-reign to decide for themselves. She could have just shrugged and said, "You'll see." (This is why I think the rest of the series is a huge afterthought and a money grab, but that's a different story). There's a big difference between "you can pick" and "you can guess." I realize that many times, an author may not know there's more to their own stories until well after the fact. Inspiration doesn't care about publication dates. But, there's no reason why Messenger had to be so out of touch with the first novel in the series and its readers. She squandered this giant gem of emotional intensity, mystery, and human nature in favor of a frustrating book about magical powers and Christ allegories and, quite honestly, probably a quick buck. The Giver and its first sequel, (though I didn't know it was a sequel when I read it) Gathering Blue, are poignant because they feature people doing horrible things, and people overcoming them. Messenger's moral lessons were the equivalent of giving bad acid to Aesop and seeing where things led.
Maybe I'd be a little less upset if the "ending" she forced upon us was not so badly written.
Reading Messenger was like seeing an ex-lover for the first time in years. There are familiar pieces, pieces that feel, though you hate it, kind of interesting. But most of it just makes you embarrassed. Your cheeks flush and you want to retroactively go back and alter the few kind things you've ever said about it because now, having seen what it became, it's just so horrible. You would rather not ever have been associated with this. Some things just don't need sequels.


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2-3 weeks ago my children and we have celebrated that: Thingy an. Thingyan also referred to as Burmese Drinking water Festival is significantly more as compared to what suits the non-Burmese eyesight. It is significantly, much greater than drinking, grooving, singing and also throwing drinking water. The expression 'Thingy an' offers its starting point in Sanskrit not to mention means 'change' or perhaps 'transition'. Which is exactly what 'Thingy an' is actually: the vary from the good old cycle from seasons for the new cycle with the seasons. It is really a change with the old life for the new life in addition to a change within the old year for the new 12 months.
Burma features a lunar calendar the initial month which is 'Tagus' the fact that marks the start of the warmer summer months, the 30 days that coincides with all the month regarding April with the Julian date. And it really is in Tagus/April, properly speaking the next week with Tagus when the Burmese Fresh Year tumbles. Thingy an is actually traditionally applauded nation-wide by means of three towards four nights of standard water pouring ahead of New Year's Daytime. Thingy a vacation is 10 a short time and on this time virtually all wheels grind with a halt. Authority's offices, factories and a lot businesses happen to be closed along with everyone who is able to have just one thing under consideration: celebrating.
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This creature is a man-sized monster resembling a tree trunk with six long sinewy tendrils spaced evenly around the upper portion of its body. Six smaller tendrils located at the base of its trunk seem to aid it in locomotion. Its body is dark grayish-green and its tendrils are dark gray changing to dark green at the tips.
Kampfult CR 2
NE Medium plant
Init +1; Senses blindsight 30 ft; Perception +8
AC 16, touch 11, flat-footed 15 (+1 Dex, +5 natural)
hp 19 (3d8+6)
Fort +5, Ref +2, Will +2
Immune plant traits
Speed 10 ft.
Melee 6 tendrils +5 (1d3+3 plus grab)
Special Attacks constrict (2 tendrils, 1d6+4)
Str 16, Dex 12, Con 14, Int 6, Wis 12, Cha 6
Base Atk +2; CMB +5 (+9 to grapple); CMD 16
Feats Skill Focus (Perception), Skill Focus (Stealth)
Skills Perception +8, Stealth +9
Languages Sylvan (cannot speak)
Environment underground
Organization solitary
Treasure standard
The kampfult is a tree-like creature that haunts subterranean realms in search of prey, grabbing any living creature that passes by. Creatures slain by a kampfult are slowly absorbed into the base of the trunk and digested.
A kampfult stands 6 feet tall and weighs about 600 pounds.
A kampfult attacks from surprise, waiting until its prey moves within reach and then lashing out with its tendrils, attempting to grab and entangle its prey. A kampfult rarely attacks creatures larger than itself unless it is extremely hungry. It fights until either it or its opponent is dead.
Kampfult from the Tome of Horrors Complete, Copyright 2011, Necromancer Games, Inc., published and distributed by Frog God Games; Author Scott Greene, based on original material by Gary Gygax.


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A territory born out of a stubborn dispute between Melbourne and Sydney.
The ACT is the political heart of Australia and Canberra is the nation's capital, as the country could not choose between Sydney or Melbourne.
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They can be forgotten amongst the political drone that can invade people's perception of the capital.
Is Canberra a boring town?
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From here there is easy access to much of what the town has to offer.
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With a mix of incredible detail, artefacts and history this memorial is as much about what happened as how it has defined the Australian identity.
With entrance free there is no reason not to delve in to this country's short but eventful past.
Spectacular scenery all around.
As an architectural masterpiece is enough reason for any traveller to check out Parliament House, with rooftop gardens offering 360 degree views of the city.
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'In late 1400 and early 1401, the Mongol conqueror Tamerlane left "pyramids of skulls, like those constructed by Islamic State today" across Syria, recalls the French Middle East expert Jean-Pierre Filiu; it's impossible not to see a parallel with the behaviour of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. In his most recent book, From Deep State to Islamic State; The Arab Counter-Revolution and Its Jihadi Legacy, (published by Hurst in London) Filiu concludes that the Arab revolution of 2011 - a term he prefers to "Arab spring" - is being destroyed by a counter-revolution led by the remnants of dictatorships in collusion with jihadists.
Over the past century, Filiu writes, the Arabs' right to self-determination was "denied by colonial intervention, 'hi- jacked' at independence by military regimes, trampled on by the double standards of the war for Kuwait and the 'global war on terror,' and perverted in the UN, where peoples are represented by the regimes who oppress them".
No other people have faced "so many obstacles, enemies and horrors in the quest for basic rights", Filiu says. "In 1926, the French bombarded Damascus while holding an election in Aleppo; in 2016, Assad bombarded Aleppo while holding elections in Damascus," Filiu says. "The logic is the same: faced with a revolutionary movement, hold meaningless elections."
Filiu portrays the Arab dictators as modern-day Mamluks, after the former Ottoman slaves who ruled Egypt and Syria from 1258 until 1516. "They were a military caste, totally foreign to the population," he explains. "They lived in a closed, endogenous society that inter-married, and the only thing that interested them was their internal power struggles. They were ready to burn down their own countries to keep power." To support dictators against Islamic State "is not only immoral, it cannot work", Filiu says. He wants the West to abandon faith in Arab "armies of occupation" and help Arab peoples.
Filiu strongly objects to President Barack Obama's two basic tenets on Syria: that the people Obama has referred to as "former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth" were incapable of overthrowing the Assad regime; and Obama's refusal to intervene without knowing who would replace Assad.
Sovereignty can come only from the people, Filiu argues: "Who liberated America from the British? It was doctors, farmers and pharmacists. A revolution is made by the people who exist." Burned by the Libyan experience, Obama demanded the impossible in Syria. "Imagine if in [the French revolution in] 1789, people had asked who would replace the king. Revolutions don't work like that," he says.
Filiu wrote a book on his stay in revolutionary Aleppo in 2013, when the population drove jihadists out. The world then allowed regime forces to decimate the "doctors, farmers and pharmacists" who had risen up.
"There were a million people in the revolutionary zone," Filiu recounts. "Then Assad started the TNT barrel bombs. There are fewer than 300,000 left now. Assad and Putin cannot take Aleppo house by house, so they decided to starve them and kill all the doctors in the hope people will die of their wounds. They want to turn Aleppo into Grozny [the capital of Chechnya, where 200,000 people were killed by Russian forces.]"
Despite our fixation on dictators versus jihadists, Filiu reminds us, the people count. In March, local militias along the Libyan-Tunisian border drove Islamic State out of their area. When the Syrian resistance briefly took the town of Rai from Islamic State in April, they received no help from the West.
"When the Berlin Wall fell, no one said, 'That's the east Europeans' problem'. We have to stop obsessing about Islam and the 'caliphate' and talk about Arabs and the right of Arab peoples to self-determination." '
"When the Berlin Wall fell, no one said, 'That's the east Europeans' problem'. We have to stop obsessing about Islam and the 'caliphate' and talk about Arabs and the right of Arab peoples to self-determination." '