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Here's an idea. Breaking the rules of a game makes for a better game experience.
Games have rules. Some have few, others have dozens. It doesn't matter if it is a rule that tells you to roll this dice at this time in RPG, or a one that tells you how to move your piece in a board game, or even a equation that limits how high can you jump in a video game. Without those rules there would be no real game to speak of. It would be more of an experience than game. On the other hand, what would it be, if you had rules that everyone has to follow, but each person is allowed to "cheat" in some way? I would call it an awesome game experience.
Let me tell you about two games that you probably never heard about: Monastyr and Neuroshima.
The interesting thing about those systems is that during character creation you are basically choosing two ways of how to "cheat". You choose your birthplace (i.e what country/settlement you are from) and what have you been doing throughout your life (basically a professional background - a soldier or a monk). With each choice you gain a special ability that basically breaks the rules of the game in some way.
Plenty of other games have special abilities that you can get. D&D has feats, Savage Worlds has Edges, heck, even fate has...what-you-call-them... stunts. But for whatever reason they do not feel the same. Edges, Feats and Stunts don't feel unique and as fun as the "cheats" from Monastyr and Neuroshima. They feel mundane, as a player you expect to have them, they are part of your character build, not something special.
Cosmic Encounter or Apocalypse World on the RPG side of gaming. Both those games are popular because of their game altering abilities. Each player can do something that changes the flow of the game. That's not all, both of those games reinforce exclusivity of those "cheats". If you have one alien, or playbook, no one else can have the same (not as true in AW, but it would be like that with a limited number of players). You, as a player, are the only owner of this particular game breaking cheat. You can do something unique that no one else can and that makes it cool.
When I released my 24h game HEIST_ACES one piece of feedback that I got over and over again is to include unique abilities. Now I know why and will work on implementing that in the future. Saying that, I feel that many games can benefit from "cheats" like that. Give each player a special ability or two that can break the standard set of rules in one way or the other and see how much more they will enjoy their character. It will make the games more memorable for the player when they get to use their one of a kind ability. You will vividly remember when you saved the day, because you were the only person who was immune to toxic fumes. Being able to occasional break the rules like that, changes the game into more of an experience. And it's only a good thing.

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The Dandelion Project
Fix the image of a dandelion in your imagination. How many of us have ever taken the time to witness the miracle of a dandelion? Now imagine the bare head of the flower after the winds have blown all the seeds away. It is indeed a grim image. Having stripped the flower of its crown, it would be easy to believe the winds have won. But Nature is a model of resourcefulness and within a very short time, that one flower, tossed by the winds, will transform into millions of shining orbs of yellow; literally creating a field of gold. We, as creatures of that same nature, have the capacity to do likewise.
After Hurricane Maria made landfall in September 2017, Keeper of the Mountains sat in utter shock as the news poured in of how many Puerto Ricans were suffering without power and clean water. We brainstormed solutions of how to help our friends and family in Puerto Rico, and decided to devote our time and energy into being the change we wish to see in the world. Thus, the Dandelion Project was born.
The Dandelion Project is our way forward in creating sustainable energy alternatives in low-income or underserved communities.
The Dandelion Project is a dream for so many of us. For far too long, underserved and low-income working communities have struggled at the hands of power bills, power coverage, and they continue to suffer due to the devastating environmental effects from Mountain Top mining, fracking, and climate change. This project will place the literal power back into the hands of the people. Your donation will help us: install solar panel systems, train locals to maintain these sustainable energy systems, and provide a quality of life that every single person deserves.
If you are interested in being a sponsor for this project in Puerto Rico, please contact us via email at email@example.com or by phone 304-205-0920 for more information.
Our donation page can be found here! Any amount helps us towards our goal. Thank you!
Together we can make a difference!
KOTM Counsel Files at the EPA
On May 30, 2018, KOTM Counsel Bill DePaulo filed comments, jointly with People Concerned About Chemical Safety, Inc., at the EPA in connection with proposed "transparency" rules that could fundamentally alter the implementation of clean air, clean water and other critical health and safety regulations. More than 130,000 comments were filed on this critical piece of regulatory governance.
The key to EPA's "transparency" proposal is the requirement to publish, at the time of a proposed rulemaking, the underlying scientific data supporting the proposal, so that other scientists can conduct analyses intended to test or "reproduce" the results. The problem with the proposed rule is that many historic health studies, including particulate matter studies that were the basis for much of the regulations implementing the Clear Air Act, were promulgated many years ago on the basis of private health data that cannot be published now under applicable privacy rules.
Intending to reassure the public, EPA stated that the proposed "transparency" rule, which requires publication of underlying data, would be prospective. In the same breath, EPA noted that there are mandatory requirements to revisit the earlier rules, on a firm deadline, to assess whether the science underlying them is sound. In short, the proposed "transparency" rule could be used, by persons intent on dismantling the EPA regulations, to undo the last half century of work to protect health and the environment. But then who would do that? Who indeed.
Although it is surely only a coincident, DePaulo pointed out in his comments that EPA's "transparency" rule was modeled on the ironically titled "Honest Act" proposed by retiring Texas congressman, the current chair of the House Science Committee, Lamar Smith. Yes, the same Lamar Smith who famously has subpoenaed the underlying data regulations his supporters in the petroleum industry would like to see go away.
Chairman Smith's great claim to fame has been his general harassment of the governmental agency scientists who, applying traditional scientific processes, have consistently found things like concentration of particulate matter to be associated with increased pulmonary disease and early death. With EPA's proposed rule, even as he leaves Washington, DC, Chairman Smith can take pleasure in the vision of future generations.
DePaulo took the opportunity to point out to EPA that the "reproducibility" crisis was not the only data issue before the agency. Also of concern is the "producibility" crisis. Specifically, the current administration has withdrawn funding from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine for a study tentatively titled "Potential Human Health Effects of Surface Coal Mining Operations in Central Appalachia." See NAS Press Release dated August 21, 2017 (Attachment G). See also, Trump administration halts study on coal mining's impact on health, August 21, 2017 The Roanoke Times, http://www.roanoke.com/business/news/trump-administration-halts-study-on-coal-mining-s-impact-on/article_bf9a6a04-ad9e-5fe2-a0cb-177c2c9cccca.html (last visited May 25, 2018). Why not produce the study, at a cost of less than $100,000, and subject it to peer review? Or is it so clear that the outcome would prejudice efforts to continue MTR that the Trump Administration simply can't allow the study to see the light of day?
And not to be outdone, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has denied PCACS's FOIA request for a copy of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) assessment of a class of toxic chemicals that has contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York to Michigan to West Virginia. Publication of the assessment was blocked after a January 30, 2018 email in which an unidentified White House employee stated: "The public, media, and Congressional reaction to these numbers is going to be huge" and "The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We (DoD and EPA) cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be," See https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house-interfered-with-science-study-536950 (last visited May 16, 2018).
On May 22, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services denied PCACS FOIA request for the ATSDR study on the grounds that:"ATSDR's Toxicological Profile for Perfluoroalkyl Substances has not been approved for release to the public." The obvious question is why the study is not ready? Is it because agency scientists are scrupulously running checks on the statistical bases for the conclusions in the study? Or is it because the release of the study would cause a predicable – and politically inconvenient – demand for enhanced regulatory response from an administration committed to the destruction of the EPA as an effective regulatory body?
As the National Enquirer -- a loud and proud supporter of the Trump Administration has stated -- "Thinking people want to know."
Attached below are KOTM and PCACS's comments filed with the EPA.
On March 13 and again on March 21, 2018, Bill DePaulo, Counsel to KOTM, appeared in the Circuit Court of Monroe County, West Virginia as counsel for one of the alleged "tree-sitters" ensconced in trees purportedly blocking MVP's ability to clear trees along the path of the 303-mile natural gas pipeline.
The point of contention was at a spot in the Jefferson National Forest where the MVP would intersect with the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (ANST, the priceless national treasure running from Georgia to Maine). According to the FERC that licensed MVP's construction, MVP was required to leave a 300 foot buffer on either side of the Appalachian Trail and tunnel underneath it as a means of minimizing the impact of the 42" natural gas pipeline on the ANST. Effectively, there was a 600 foot long "NO CUT" zone extending across the width of the ANST, 300 feet on either side.
MVP failed in its effort to obtain an injunction against the tree-sitters because, on cross examination, their surveyor could not reliably prove that the tree-sitters were, as MVP alleged, 7 feet beyond the NO CUT zone. As explained in National Public Radio's coverage of the hearing:
At the center of the courtroom debate was a map, provided by MVP, showing the location of pipeline mile markers, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the tree sitters in Jefferson National Forest. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, known as FERC, has granted MVP permission to cut trees up to the pipeline's mile marker 196.29.
But exactly where is mile marker 196.29?
Defense attorney William DePaulo went through the map item by item, defining points, adding numbers and to reveal that some points had been rounded. Then he pulled out a piece of paper in what he called a "6th grade" measuring tool to demonstrate items on the map were not located to scale during his cross examination of MVP expert witness, Marshall W. Robinson.
DePaulo, pressed the paper to the map, "Put the left corner at 196.35 and go up to 196.4 they are not the same distance are they," he asked.
"No, they're not," responded Robinson.
Defense attorney William DePaulo cross examines expert witness Marshall Robinson about the surveyed map presented as evidence in the case.
DePaulo then turned to the judge, "And that's 5/100ths of a mile. And we know that 196.35 and 196.4 is also 5/100ths of a mile. And it should be, if the map is to scale, it oughta be the same thing. But it clearly is not," DePaulo concluded.
Judge Irons described himself as "flabbergasted."
"The devil's in the details," he said. "I have a map that it seemed pretty clear at first blush and then the more we listened to it there are rounding errors, there's inconsistencies. As I sit here I really don't know whether or not it's right."
Judge Robert A. Irons of the Monroe County Circuit Court ultimately ruled that MVP had not carried the burden of proof necessary to obtain a preliminary injunction, and denied MVP's requested order to remove the tree-sitters.
In the time the tree-sitters on Peter's Mountain were in place three more sits began on the Virginia side of the Appalachian Trail. MVP's efforts to evict those tree-sitters has had inconsistent success, with tree-sitters in one location voluntarily vacating a given tree subject to an injunction, for another still free of MVP. And there are a lot of trees spread out over the proposed 303-mile MVP pipeline.
Paul Corbit Brown, President of Keeper of the Mountains Foundation, spoke today on behalf of the Divestment Work our organization is committed to, with the support from RAN (Rainforest Action Network) and alongside Indigenous and frontline activists from across the Americas to confront Chase Bank's shareholders for its massive funding of extreme fossil fuels and rights violations at its Annual General Meeting in Plano, Texas.
From Paul:
An absolutely amazing group of leaders. I was truly humbled and honored to be here today with them to speak truth to power to JP Morgan Chase. The words I spoke to the board and shareholders:
"Any investment is a gamble, and every company or individual has the right to gamble their own resources in the hopes of making a profit. However, no company, no individual has the right to gamble that which does not belong to them. Your money is far from the only asset that is at risk due to your investments in fossil fuels. Also on the table are the health of those living in the communities affected by the industries you support and profit from; the damage and devastation to the resources that WE ALL rely on such as clean water and clean air; and lastly, climate change. We are long past the time for taking climate change seriously. There is no debate among those who are thinking clearly and honestly.
Dear members of the board and shareholders of JP Morgan Chase, you are gambling with that which does not belong to you and we, the people of the communities you are profiting from, are suffering and literally dying as a result of your gamble. The truth is that our rapacious appetite for wealth through the consumption of fossil fuels is destroying the life support system for human beings. The truth is that we must realign our investment priorities in favor of a renewable, sustainable and equitable energy economy. The truth is that the laws of nature will ALWAYS supplant the laws of humans. So that you, Dear board and shareholders, are clear that I am not speaking in hyperbole, I submit these more than 20 peer reviewed health studies and ask that they be entered into the official record of this meeting. You have the right and responsibility to know the harm of your investment.
We all know the truth, now we are left with one of two choices: we will rise to meet the truth or we will succumb to it."
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The project involved an online survey of over 6,000 SBO participants across Australia. ASR also conducted 30 telephone depth interviews with selected participants after the online survey phase was completed to provide qualitative feedback.
Our control group was small businesses that had not participated in the SBO program, from whom we obtained about an additional 300 online responses. This was in order to gauge a level of general awareness and interest in participating in similar programs in future.
This research provided DIISR with feedback that will be used to shape further programs in terms of program content, training formats (seminars, mentoring sessions, online training etc), demand and communications.
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Microfabrication techniques — Blow molding
Two types of microfabrication techniques exist:
- Indirect microfabrication method which requires a master with the negative of the design of interest to mold the sign you want on your future microfluidic chip
- Direct microfabrication method which requires no intermediary and directly process the fabric you selected for your future microfluidic chip.
Many techniques (injection molding, hot embossing, polymer ablation,…) can be used for the fabrication of microfluidic chips, but only blow molding technique, which is an indirect microfabrication method, is presented here. The process to obtain the needed intermediary master to produce the chips will not be explained.
Schematic blow molding process to create cartridges out of thermoplastic foils.Images source: [5].
Blow molding [1], [2], [3]
Blow molding is usually a method by which hollow plastic parts are formed like plastic bottles. The most frequently used materials in blow molding, regardless the targeted domain, are the following ones. Polyethylene (Low Density (LDPE) and High Density (HDPE)), Polypropylene (PP), Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET).
There are three main types of blow molding:
- extrusion blow molding ー A hot hollow tube of thermoplastic material is dropped from an extruder with a rotation screw and is then captured in the closed blow chamber. Compressed air is injected through the open end of the thermoplastic tube to push the material against the wall. Advantages: simple, low costs, fast to setup to begin production; disadvantages: production speed is slower than other newer blow molding methods, not suitable for precision parts (might not be suitable for microfluidics), wall thickness is difficult to control.
- injection blow molding ー combines injection molding (first part of the process consists in melting the material in a first mold) and blow molding (the preform is then placed in the blow molding chamber – second mold – and compressed air is blown to push the material against the walls with the wanted design). Advantages: faster production speed and higher precision than extrusion blow molding, net cost may be lower in high volume production; disadvantages: the setup costs are higher due to two different molds, it may take longer to setup to produce the first product, less flexible in adjusting for different product gram weights.
- stretch blow molding ー very similar to injection blow molding except the fact that all the process is done in only one mold. A small piece of thermoplastic material is preformed to a test-tube shape and is then used to inject compressed air via the blow stem while the blow stem is pushing forward to stretch the preform further into the mold until the preform reaches the wall of the mold. Advantages: very fast production speed, very repeatable and stable product quality; disadvantages: very high setup costs (need extremely high production volumes (in the millions) to be justified), will take longer to setup, less flexible in adjusting for different product gram weights, limited to certain plastic materials, such as PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate).
Those three common blow molding methods used in a wide variety of domains are based on melting the material and then blow it in order to make it go against the walls of the blow chamber to be shaped. However, in microfluidics, use of thermoplastic foils are often presented to create some designs: lab-on-a-chip cartridges (Lutz et al. [4], Focke et al [5]. presented a way to use blow molding in order to design lab-on-a-chip cartridges with very thin sidewalls of 100 to 180 µm using different type of polymer (COP foil, PMMA, polypropylene or polyethylene)).
Image of a thermoformed cartridge with four sectors of microfluidic structures for a Real-Time PCR. Images source: [5].
[1] http://www.custompartnet.com/
[2] http://www.efunda.com/processes/processes_home/process.cfm
[3] N. E. Steidle, Micro- and Nanostructured Microfluidic Devices for Localized Protein Immobilization and Other Biomedical Applications, 2014, Karlsruhe Scientific Publishing, pp. 38-44.
[4] S. Lutz, P. Weber, M. Focke, B. Faltin, J. Hoffmann, C. Müller, D. Mark, G. Roth, P. Munday, N. Armes, O. Piepenburg, R. Zengerleabe, F. von Stettenab, Microfluidic lab-on-a-foil for nucleic acid analysis based on isothermal recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA), Lab Chip, 2010, 10, 887–893.
[5] M. Focke, B. Faltin, T. Hösel, C. Müller, J. Ducrée, R. Zengerle, F. von Stetten, Blow molding of polymer foils for rapid prototyping of microfluidic cartridges, 2008, Twelfth International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences.
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Let me give you a graphic to help explain just what coffee means to me...
Here is me in the morning...before my coffee...
How did you get a hold of that photo of me before coffee?!?! Hehehe... can completely relate, except that I'm no Snow White for at least another hour ;)
Loving the look of your blog by the way - absolutely fabulous Miss Maggie!
I am looking forward to seeing this in our grocery store. I love Starbucks but that is a treat around here, not a daily thing. I am much the same as you with my coffee. Love the before & after coffee pics. LOL
My daughter is also a coffee lover and I think these will be a hit with her. I am just hoping they are not too sweet for me.
How did you get so lucky to try this stuff before it came out! I LOVE iced coffee and will for sure have to try this! love the blog!
I start every day w/ an iced mocha and woe unto anyone who finishes the milk and leaves me with none! Sounds like I better get some of this in Mocha! Love the before and after pics. I can relate.ReplyDelete
I am a huge ID Vanilla creamer lover! No other brand, just ID. So I know I will love the iced version! TY so much for sharing your experience with us! Where do we get a cool blue cup too?
I'm officially jealous. Your Collective Bias posts are killing me ... you're having way too much fun! This iced coffee sounds awesome. I can't wait to try it. I'm tempted to mark the date on my calendar and hit up my local Walmart.ReplyDelete
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Oh my gosh, Jen...you will love this...truly. I'll have to contact ID to find out about the cups! They're awesome 'cause they don't sweat! ;)
I can't wait!!! Seriously!! I did a dance just now and my husband looked at me weird haha :) I buy the VIA Starbucks iced coffee pouch things but I end up using a ton of creamer (ID actually!) so this is going to be AWESOME! Can you tell I'm excited too!!ReplyDelete
My kids also know not to ask me for anything until I get my first cup of coffee. I bought myself a Keurig Machine and love everything about it. We use the k-cups and recycle them and use the my k-cup to brew our own coffee, whats best is it makes a single cup in under a minute. As for ice coffee I love it also, haven't tried it in my machine yet but will soon.ReplyDelete
I don't drink coffee..but this does sound yummy. xoReplyDelete
thats awesome. I can't wait to see it in a store somewhere. The cup is pretty cool, is it a glass version of plastic? I love it when they do that; less plastic = waay better. I do that too with eating the yucky things first and the good things last; its like a reward for eating auntie X's gross christmas stuffing, etc.ReplyDelete
love your story and pics!!! thanks a bunchReplyDelete
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You all might remember a interview with Sony's CTO last year where he talked about the future of PlayStation & he described the PS4 Chip as being a chip with most of the processing still being done by the CPU & GPU but also being helped out by DSP's & Programmable Logic
"It took five years before we saw games that used the full power of Cell, so we are used to looking ahead and having capacity," Tsuruta says. "We are looking at an architecture where the bulk of processing will still sit on the main board, with CPU and graphics added to by more digital signal processing and some configurable logic."
Fast forward to today & we have a SoC pictured in AMD's Next Generation APU (Kaveri ) & HSA presentation.
This SoC shown in the documents fit the description having a DSP & 'Fixed Function Accelerator' which could be the Vector Processor\ Compute Modular that some people have reported to have seen but we haven't heard much about it.
From EuroGamer
"However, there's a fair amount of "secret sauce" in Orbis and we can disclose details on one of the more interesting additions. Paired up with the eight AMD cores, we find a bespoke GPU-like "Compute" module, designed to ease the burden on certain operations - physics calculations are a good example of traditional CPU work that are often hived off to GPU cores. We're assured that this is bespoke hardware that is not a part of the main graphics pipeline but we remain rather mystified by its standalone inclusion, bearing in mind Compute functions could be run off the main graphics cores and that devs could have the option to utilise that power for additional graphical grunt, if they so chose."
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Originally Posted by JonathanCarabalo
The PS4's world-famous Vector co-processor
A truly innovative feature - the Playstation 4's world-famous vector co-processor. It's connected to a CPU core. It doesn't look like much on paper:
- 100 million transistors
- 300 mhz
- $25 to produce
- 25 nm production process
- 16-way SIMD floating-point multiply-add instructions (512-bit)
- 1024-bit load-store instructions
- 512 Kbytes local memory
- L2 cache of the X86 CPU
- Write-to-memory feature - bypassing the CPU
- Has a connection to the instruction dispatch of a regular x86 Jaguar core
It doesn't look like much, except for the 16-way multiply-adder! Besides that though - it only costs $25.00. "How can $25.00 worth of CPU logic improve the graphics pipeline?" Thus - top-secret alien technology. The world-famous vector co-processor. With it - developers can pull off pretty amazing effects, in real-time. I've already seen:
Full-screen per-pixel lighting! Pretty amazing - I haven't seen any games do that.
Extremely realistic fire effects
Extremely realistic ice simulation
Massive degrees of normal/displacement mapping
And this is just the start.
Originally Posted by JonathanCarabalo
SIMD Vector Processor Comparison
Playstation 3 - Cell
- Developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba - mostly IBM, at Austin Texas
- Based on the Power4 architecture, the PowerPC 970 main core
- 7, 128-bit Floating point multiply-adders
- 256 Kbyte local memory for each SPU
- 1 PowerPC 970-based main core
- 512 Kbytes L2 cache connected to the 7 SPUs via a Token-Ring bus - which they used to inter-communicate as well
- 200 GB/s EIB L2 cache bandwidth
- 3.2 ghz clockrate
- 230 million transistors
- $400 million to develop, $100 to produce
- 4-way SIMD
Playstation 4 - Vector Co-Processor
- Developed by AMD and me (just a joke)
- Based on the X86 architecture
- 1, 512-bit floating point multiply-adder
- 1.6 ghz clock rate
- 512 Kbyte local buffer + the CPU core's main buffer
- Connected to the bus directly via a bus-interface unit, and to a CPU core
- About 300 million transistors
- $0 to develop, $80 to produce
- 307.2 GB/s buffer to execution unit
- 16-way SIMD
- 8 X86-based cores, each with 128-bit FP unit, L2 cache, and shared local memory between pairs of CPUs and between all 8
16-way SIMD makes it 4 times faster, per clock. I.e. to do 16 FP multiply-adds, it takes 8 cycles. 4 load-stores, followed by 4 multiply adds - the Cell. But for the Vector Co-Processor to do 16 FP mulitply-adds, it takes 1 cycles. The Out-of-Order, 512-bit load-stores load the data, while the Vector Co-Processor is performing the data. Thus - the Vector Co-Processor alone is equal to 8 SPUs.
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The PS4 specter vector? I'm not a 100% sure what it is at this stage... I'm 45% leaning towards physics offloading or helping out within that department. The other 55% is screaming a modified component for helping PS3 games work within the G/Cloud environment.
And as you can see The SoC in the picture above is not Kaveri.


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Brussels – Brainstorming at the European Parliament on how to save the EU-Turkey refugee agreement and EU-Turkey relations
With the support of Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur of the European Parliament, the European Neighbourhood Council and ESI jointly organised a brainstorming on EU-Turkey relation to discuss how the EU should best respond to the worrying domestic developments in Turkey and save the fragile EU-Turkey refugee agreement. ESI's Gerald Knaus and Alexandra Stiglmayer made an introductory presentation after which they discussed options for EU action with participants.
- ESI background paper: On solid ground? Eleven facts about the EU-Turkey Agreement (1 December 2016)
- ESI newsletter: Fire in the Aegean – Scenario of failure – How to succeed (11 October 2016)
- ESI paper: Pangloss in Brussels – How (not) to implement the Aegean Agreement (7 October 2016)
- Media reactions to ESI refugee proposals
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The Sun Gate is a portal located near the Vector Coil in Bloodmyst Isle [18.9, 63.5]. The portal was opened by the Sunhawks, servitors of self-proclaimed Sun King Kael'thas Sunstrider, to allow blood elf reinforcements from Kael'thas' fortress of Tempest Keep to enter the Azuremyst Isles, with the intent of retaking the Exodar. The portal, which never closes, shows the front of Tempest Keep, of which the Exodar was originally a part (hence why Kael'thas is sending his servitors to retake it).
Draenei players - after doing a series of quests pertaining to it - will ultimately be called upon to destabilize it, sealing off the entry point for Kael'thas' legions to enter Azeroth.
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- Needs to be destroyed for the quest [18] The Sun Gate.
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Writing application essays
The basic purpose of a personal statement is to write an "essay" that represents your goals, experiences, motivations and qualifications in a positive manner as well as to demonstrate your writing abilities. This is your first introduction to the program admissions committee, so it is important that you take the time to create a quality piece of work. Remember, this is your chance to show them that you are a good match for their program.
Asher, D. (2000). Graduate Admissions Essays (Rev. ed.). Toronto: Ten Speed Press.
Prepare your materials...ask yourself:
- What is the MOST compelling reason you can give for the admissions committee to be interested in YOU?
- What is something that you have experienced that is not common to the people that will be reading your essay?
- At what particular moment did you first think of pursuing this type of career path?
- Consider your immediate future - how have your classes influenced your direction, what research skills have you learned, internships or professional experiences.
- What are your career goals? Make a list of your real reasons for pursuing this field.
- Now re-order your ideas in the order of interest to your targeted audience - THE ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE!!!
Write a rough draft.
- Sometimes programs will specify a question for you to answer. READ THE QUESTION! Re-read it throughout your writing of the essay.
- 1st copy will be ROUGH - it's ok! Write first, edit later.
- It's like an interview - read it out loud to get the full effect.
- Grab their attention right off the bat.
- Don't be afraid to use vivid detail to make a point.
- If you are having difficulties move on to another part of your essay - it's not going to move!
It is important to grab the reader's attention early in your essay. Many personal statements begin with a catchy opening; something unique that makes you, the applicant, stand-out from other applicants. From there you can connect the examples or experiences you might have to the actual program that you are applying for within that institution.
Detailed supporting paragraphs
Following paragraphs should address specific questions from the application including the strengths of the program/institution, your own qualifications, the factors that influenced your decision and any goals that you hope to accomplish was a result of your additional schooling. It is extremely important to give the reader concrete and relevant examples of your experiences that are able to support your argument about your qualifications.
This final part of your essay is the "tie-in" - tying together all the issues that you have discussed in your essay and reiterated your interest in the particular program or institution. This is also your opportunity to share with the admissions committee how this program may help you in reaching your long-term goals.
Questions for you to consider after you have completed your rough draft of your statement.
- Did the opening paragraph capture your attention?
- Did the statement keep your interest throughout the whole essay?
- Was it well written?
- Did it seem positive and upbeat?
- Did you answer the question(s)?
- Did you forget to add anything important?
- Any typos or other errors?
- Does this statement make you look unique from the next candidate?
- The number one complaint from admission committees - ALL THE STATEMENTS ARE THE SAME
- Don't hide information that the committee will consider pertinent - you want to become a social worker and your mom is a Director of Social Services
- If you have grades or test scores that do not represent your true potential, you can briefly explain that in the essay. Don't make long involved excuses; keep it simple and absent of drama; no whining and feeling sorry for yourself. Move on to the positive.
- Avoid excessive use of "I".
- Avoid using obvious clichés (ex. "I am a people person."); be specific.
- Keep it brief - some programs will limit you in words (ex. 500 word limit)
- PROOFREAD, PROOFREAD, PROOFREAD!!! And when you are done have a faculty member, advisor, friend or family member proofread it too!
- Be genuine and good luck!


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I am shocked that I've never seen this amazing commercial before. I actually overlooked it a few times because I thought it was fake. It wasn't until I saw this BTSV that I found out that this really did happen. The camera had to endure temperatures down to 90 degrees below 0 and a massive fall once the balloon finally popped. Luckily the gear survived with the help of a parachute and they were able to create this amazing commercial.
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They forgot to edit out the stringy glare. I'm curious what made the chair break apart in space, I mean the legs just snapped off. Also, I was kind of lost in the tag line as to how the chair helped get the message across for Toshiba.
I don't think they forgot to edit out the strings - it's probably intentionally left in, so people don't think it's a 3D model composited against a space backdrop. Let people realise it's a chair hanging off something - generates a bit of curiousity about how/why it was done that way. About the tag line & message - it doesn't need to make any connection - the idea is present something different to catch the viewers attention.
The chair being lifted wasn't a real chair; it was mostly balsa wood to keep the entire payload under 4 lbs as required by the FAA for these sorts of balloon lifts. After the balloon burst the balsa wood falling back to earth came apart.
GREAT idea - although I agree with J.J - I think it failed on concept execution. As cool as it was behind the scenes, they failed to make it as cool in the 30 second spot.
See I'm black, and black people don't send our furniture into outer-space. We could not even sit on our grand mother's GOOD couch, you know the one with the plastic on it. So naturally I was not surprised to see a NON black person flew 4 perfectly good chairs into outer-space. Obama may be wasting money, BUT HE AINT WASTING PERFECTLY GOOD OFFICE CHAIRS! lol
What kind of camera did they use? GoPro?


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This is the perfect rack to showoff your wakeboard. Just like a bikini this rack covers only what is absolutely necessary and leaves the rest to showoff your sweet ride! It does the job of holding your wakeboard on the wall without overwhelming your skateboard or house with a big bulky rack. Let those sweet deck graphics show!
The Wakeboard Naked Rack is made from high quality aluminum. The base then gets a foam rubber applied to cushion your skateboard and also add some friction so your wakeboard does not slip. It's designed and made in the USA by skilled metal craftsmen.
The Wakeboard Naked Rack displays and stores your wakeboard in a very compact and efficient way. It lays it pretty much flat up against the wall, so it is not sticking out into the room. It turns your wakeboard into ART!
Matte Black: This is the perfect kind of black for this rack. Its not too shinny or glossy which means your finger prints won't show up on it - we love it!
The Naked Rack has got me pretty stoked. Looking at the racks, they are pretty simple but that was exactly the point. We listened to some customer feedback that they didnt want to see the rack that was holding their board. As you can see from the pictures our wakeboards look great in the Naked Rack.
It almost looks like the board is floating which is a great look in any space. I know we sell a few racks that make the boards look like they are floating (most notably our Skateboard Deck Rack) and they are HUGE sellers that customers cannot get enough of. This is a sturdy, solid solution for wakeboards that you should definitely check out.
By the way - did you check out the price? At that price you might as well get a few for all your boards!
Ride on,
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Excellent Product/Great Quality. Very durable. Everything u need included. Customer Service great. Let me know when product shipped. Quick delivery. Perfect for my son's wakeboard in his room. Looks so cool!
The wall rack nicely stores my board. The racks inner surface has a soft velvety lining to protect your board.
The item arrived sooner than expected. Thanks!
It's boating season! But what do you do with your board in the off-season? Mine has super cool graphics, so we turned it into wall art and hung it above the closet in our guest bedroom. The brackets we purchased from Naked Rack were easy to install, had dark grey felt for protection, and were a sleek black color. We love it!
Easy to install. Does excellent job of storing board and still display it in the room.
I was looking for a way to display the wake board that my son's used with they were younger. They loved that wake board and now as adults I though they would love to see it displayed in our beach house. The rack is excellent and very sturdy with no worries about the wake board falling down. It looks great on the wall!
Really happy with the minimalist look and performance of this rack. Anchor screws weren't the best, but no big deal.
Sturdy and attractive. Great in my son's room.
Easy to hang, great display!
The mounts are simple in design and have a low profile. They\'re easy to install and when I attached them to the wall I angled them a bit to fit the curvature of the board. Makes my board room look sick!
Just what I was looking for.
Exactly as described. They look amazing.
Love the low profile and matte black finish. Makes it looks pretty sweet in my room! Killing it....
The Naked Wakeboard Rack makes my room look like an art gallery! - my kind of art These things are sweet! I am going to get a couple for my snowboards as well and the price is right
These wakeboard racks make my board look so cool hanging on the wall. It is a really simple rack but it is made from solid metal so I knew it would hold my wakeboard no problem. I ordered more so now I have 3 all lined up on my wall - sweet.
The "Naked" look is cool, it shows my Hyperlite board graphics really well
I bought this rack because I thought it looked cool and it was cheap. I was not disappointed when it arrived (only 2 days after ordering)! It makes my wakeboard look awesome on the wall in my room.
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Amanda Spain has been producing and directing feature documentaries and television for over 15 years. In 2013, she founded Giving Voice Films, a company dedicated to producing compelling documentaries for both the large and small screen. Most recently Amanda produced Bathtubs Over Broadway (directed by Dava Whisenant) which premiered at Tribeca 2018. Alongside Sandra Alvarez she is currently directing An All American Affair: The True Story of Maxene Andrews. She previously produced and directed two short documentaries for ESPN's acclaimed 30 FOR 30 series: Wrestling the Curse and Son of South Sudan. She also produced and directed In Their Boots (executive produced by Robert Greenwald), which was nominated for an IDA award in the Limited Series category. Amanda's forthcoming credits as producer include a documentary for Blumhouse TV about the youth led movement to end gun violence, and Jesse Krimes (directed By Alysa Nahmias). Amanda's other work has appeared on A&E, PBS, MTV, HLN and The Sundance Channel and her films have been accepted into festivals across the country. She was a 2016-2017 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow.
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ATLANTIC FUTURE was a 3-year collaborative research project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. It was developed by a consortium of 13 partners during a period of 36 months, from January 2013 to December 2015.
The aim of the ATLANTIC FUTURE was to study the rationales of cooperation in the Atlantic area and to suggest strategies to the EU on how to engage with the wider transatlantic relationship in the context of the ongoing redistribution of power and the overall rebalancing of relations around and within the Atlantic space.
Most of the institutions of the Atlantic Future have collaborated on themes related to pan-Atlantic issues and the role of the EU as a pan-Atlantic actor. The Jean Monnet Network on Atlantic Studies appears as a continuation of the collaborative work in the interdisciplinary exploration of three main subjects: Human security, Economy and Energy. Contributing to a better understanding of the interactions between Europe and Atlantic Continents.
Project Website: www.atlanticfuture.eu
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With the 16th July deadline edging closer, have you submitted your entry to the 2018 Engage Awards yet? With a variety of categories in the Customer and Employee Engagement sector, this could be your year! Enter here.
The UK Rail Industry Awards recognise the hard work and achievement of organisations, teams and individuals working tirelessly to deliver an efficient, robust rail transportation network. If you have a story to tell that's worthy of the attention of the pan-industry panel of judges and would like to win one of these coveted awards then enter today. The entry deadline is Sunday 25th September 2016. For further info, please click here.
HRH The Prince of Wales' charity Business in the Community (BITC) is calling on inspirational businesses across the UK and abroad to enter the 2016 Responsible Business Awards.
The most prestigious and respected awards championing responsible business identifies and celebrates inspiring examples of businesses making a difference by creating stronger communities, building more inclusive workplaces and tackling societal and environmental challenges. Now in its 19th year, the awards are open to companies of all sizes - from SMEs to multi-national companies - and across all sectors. This year there are 11 categories, recognising a variety of ways businesses are making a difference locally, nationally or internationally.
The closing date for entries is 12 February 2016. For further information please visit the Responsible Business Awards website.
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are highly prestigious awards for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of Innovation, International Trade and Sustainable Development.
Winners are announced in April every year and representatives from each winning business are usually invited by HM The Queen to a reception at Buckingham Palace.
The closing date for entries is 30 September 2015. For more info, click here.
CIPR Excellence Awards now open for entries
Brought to you by the CIPR, The Excellence Awards are the public relations profession's leading awards. They recognise and celebrate the outstanding work of individuals, teams and consultancies across the UK and overseas. The Excellence Awards Dinner brings practitioners together to celebrate the most professional and creative achievements that public relations has to offer. The event takes place at Old Billingsgate, London, on 3rd June 2015 and it's a fantastic evening for everyone involved, whether you are up for an award or just want to be a part of it.
The closing date for standard entries is Tuesday 24th February 2015. For further information and to enter, please visit the website here.
The charity Business in the Community (BITC) is calling on inspirational businesses across the UK and abroad to enter the 2015 Responsible Business Awards. The UK's most prestigious and robust responsible business awards programme identifies and celebrates businesses taking action to address social and environmental issues and transform their communities. This year there are 14 categories, recognising the variety of ways that businesses are making a difference locally, nationally or internationally.
The closing date for entries is 13th February 2015. For further information or to enter, please visit the website here.
The entry deadline for the Guardian Sustainable Business Awards is on 7th February, so you only have two weeks left to submit your entries. With categories from Social Impact to Carbon & Energy Management, there is a wide range of awards for you to choose from. For further information and to submit your entry, please go to the website here.
The Guardian Sustainable Business Awards 2014 celebrate innovation and impact in corporate sustainability. Across 11 categories from communication to natural capital, they reward the people who are making business better. Judges will be looking for practice that is genuinely pushing the boundaries and driving real change in the way that business approaches sustainability.
Entries close on 7 February 2014. For further information, please visit the website here.
Organised by the Guardian Small Business Network, the Small Business Showcase rewards innovation and best practice across the small business sector. Launched on Monday 26th August, the Marketing and PR Excellence category recognises how companies have creatively used marketing and PR strategies to benefit their business.
Every entrant that meets the criteria will have their entry published on the Guardian Small Business Network website. The shortlisted businesses will then be invited to attend an awards evening in May, as well as receiving a 500-word case study in the business section of the Guardian newspaper.
The closing deadline for entries is midnight on Friday 13th September. For further information, please visit the website here.
CorpComms Awards 2013 open for entries
Now entering their eighth year, the annual CorpComms Awards are recognised as the leading awards scheme for in-house communications professionals. Last year's winners included some of Britain's biggest organisations, including AXA UK, British Red Cross, Debenhams, HSBC, Kingfisher, McDonald's and Sainsbury's, and agencies, such as Blue Rubicon, Cicero, Edelman, Ogilvy UK and Pagefield.
More than 500 of the UK's top communicators enjoyed an evening of outstanding entertainment at last year's awards, held in the Art Deco splendour of The Troxy, located on the fringes of the City.
The closing deadline for entries is Friday 12 July 2013. For further info, visit the website here.
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Developing Efficient Monitoring Strategies Enabling Condition Based Maintenance :
The project focuses on the ability of applying Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) by applying condition monitoring techniques. Those techniques are often technologically as well as economically challenging with respect to their industrial environment.
The output of the project is to be a decision support tool that advises in the selection of the condition monitoring technique enabling Condition Based Maintenance by integrating the following aspects :
- The feasibility of a CBM approach-The selection of sensors for a given application-The processing and analysis of the collected data
During this project, case studies will be carried out (mainly) in the sector of process industry.


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You'd think that graduation would actually save money but, in reality, it can become quite expensive. Between filing fees, the cap and gown, announcements and invitations, party planning and gifts, costs can really begin to add up. When it comes to graduation, celebrate to your heart's content – the key is to be creative to save a little dough in the process! Follow the tips below to help you save, high school or college students, whether it's your own graduation or you're planning a graduation celebration for loved one.
Reserve your cap and gown earlyIf you have the option, reserve or purchase your cap and gown early. The earlier, the better because students who wait until the last minute are often charged nearly double the price! If you're renting, make sure to return your cap and gown on time because late fees often apply.
Shop around for announcements and invitationsYou don't buy your textbooks at the college bookstore because of the costs so why on earth would invitations be any different? There are websites that offer discounts or specials to students on graduation invitations and announcements. You can check out web sites like Pear Tree, Minted, Invite Shop (and many more) for unique designs that are also affordable!
Buy thank you cards on the cheapCheck dollar stores and the sales section at card shops for thank you cards. Also, discount stores like Marshalls and Homegoods often have thank you cards for lower prices than card retailers. Also, check for graduation thank you card sales that are affordable on the web. Card prices vary based on whether they are personalized or generic, and you can find great deals on bulk notes on websites. (They have an amazing selection of thank you notes for great prices on Amazon!)
Will you really wear a class ring?Graduates are understandably nostalgic about leaving college and want to have mementos but, if you won't wear it, a class ring is a very expensive memento to acquire. If you will, go ahead and purchase it! However, with an expensive purchase such as a ring, take a moment to consider if you will actually wear it – especially years from graduation. If you do not see yourself wearing for years to come, pass on the ring and opt for framing your diploma, instead.
Frame your own diplomaYou'll have the option of purchasing an "official" diploma frame. There's nothing "official" about the frame – think of the word "official" as a synonym for the word "expensive." You can easily find a cheaper diploma frame online, like on Paper Direct where they start at $8.99, or on Amazon, where they start at around $4!
Take your own photosFamily and friends will be happy to take photos of the graduate in cap and gown before, during and after the ceremony. And, smart phone photos are great quality and make it easy to share photos with everyone. Want prints of your photos? No problem! There's an app called FreePrints, which lets you choose as many prints as you'd like from your photo gallery and other apps (up to 1,000 annually), prints them on quality photo paper and sends them right to you for only $1.99 shipping and handling if ordering 4x6 photos. There are additional fees for different sizes but the cost never goes over $9.99, which is still way cheaper than professional photos! FreePrints is available on iPhone, Android, Windows Phone & Windows 8 devices. That way, you will not have to spend upwards of $50 on expensive packages for the school's "official" graduation photo package. Often times, the candid shots are the best anyway!
Book flights and accommodations earlyAny necessary travel plans – whether it's for family to come to the graduation or for you to get home – should be made as far in advance as possible to keep the cost down. Additionally, family members coming into town for graduation should book hotel reservations as early as possible. As demand goes up, the rates will reflect the change in demand and rise as well.
Simplify the graduation dinnerInstead of planning an expensive graduation dinner with family and friends, opt for slightly less expensive restaurants. Since the occasion is what you're really celebrating, you'll have a great time no matter where you dine and enjoy the company of loved ones regardless! Sometimes, local restaurants event have special menu options for graduates and their families, especially in college towns. Call around to see which of your favorite restaurants in town have affordable options before you decide on a restaurant.
DIY or tone down your graduation partyGraduation parties are a great way to celebrate; however, they can get pretty out of control in the expense department. Scale back by making some of the food, go for a barbecue theme and by offering less expensive alcoholic beverages or lessen the variety. Create any decorations yourself DIY style and see if you can throw the party at home or somewhere that is free, like a local park.
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Empowering Rural Villages in South Sudan
SUDEF partners with local villages in rural South Sudan to develop projects that sustainably improve the quality of life through health, education and economic development.
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Sudan Development Foundation (SUDEF) is a community supported volunteer non-profit dedicated to empowering the people of South Sudan and helping them realize their potential, bring positive change to their lives and communities and transform their new nation.
We rely on the support of individuals, family foundations and the collective strength and support of members of the community to realize these goals and achieve our mission
We welcome your involvement and financial support. Organize an event for us. Learn about the Sudanese culture, the history and the resilience and fortitude of the South Sudanese. Hold a house party and invite friends over for a wonderful evening of photos, stories or our short documentary film Grace Under Pressure - The Story of Kalthok.
You can work with us to create partnerships between health organizations and our clinics and training programs, provide data base support for our US office, public relations, write an article on our organizations work or request a radio or print interview with representatives of our organization. Hear the personal stories of some of the Sudanese who founded and work for SUDEF. These men fled their homes and families as young children, made their way across South Sudan by foot over many months of time to Ethiopia, fled back to Sudan and then ultimately to Kenya and lived in refugee camps before coming to the United States as refugees in 2001.
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where to find us
The station is situated just off the main A350 in the middle of Spetisbury village. The nearest postcode for satnav is DT11 9DJ. The Spetisbury Station Project is signposted at the end of the lane leading to South Farm. Limited car parking is available by the bridge at the entrance to the station site, but please do not park in or obstruct the private garage area near the foot of the station steps. On-road parking in available in the village. Parking is also permitted at Spetisbury Primary School at West End, but not between the hours of 8.15-9.15 and 2.30-4.30 during term time. More Bus X8 services from Poole and Blandford stop outside The Woodpecker pub in the village. If you are visiting the station, why not download and print our Spetisbury station guide which explains what is going on at the site.
station access
The station site occupies an elevated position, and access is up a flight of 30 steps, or a steep inclined path. Easier access onto the Trailway is available at Spetisbury Primary School. From the school, it is 15 minute walk along the Trailway to the station. Look out for our sign as you join the Trailway.
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A little research can make a big difference in all walks of life.
Case in point: a burglary suspect is under arrest after allegedly trying to rob the home of an off-duty police officer.
The 19-year-old man was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of trying to rob a home in Redwood City.
The unidentified officer said his dogs woke him up Monday morning around 10 a.m. He said because of his dogs' tone caused him to grab his personal gun and start checking the house.
San Mateo County sheriff's Lt. Ray Lunny said the officer found the suspect, Rodolfo Maldonaldo, and ordered him to stop.
Maldonaldo didn't listen and instead ran out of the house.
A quick chase followed which ended with the officer tackling the would-be robber in the back yard. He called 911 and held the suspect down until help arrived.
Lunny refused to say which police agency the officer works for, but said he does not appear to have been specifically targeted.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call sheriff's Detective Saul Lopez at (650) 363-4347 or the sheriff's office anonymous tip line at (800) 547-2700.


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Hotel CombarroPoio 1.1 km from city centre 73 reviews
At the foot of the Ria de Pontevedra is Combarro Hotel, a modern and cozy hotel located in the heart of the Rias Baixas. It has triple...
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Family hotel which offers exterior rooms with a bathroom, a telephone, a TV, heating, and in room music. There is also a cafeteria, a...
Hotel La ViontaPoio 1.7 km from city centre 6 reviews
Situado a 2 Km. de la zona de playas y a 4 Km. de Pontevedra. 40 habitaciones equipadas con baño, calefacción teléfono y TV. Dispone de...
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I've had an idea for a piece of literature in my mind for over five years. It's tormented me, but I've been wanting it to simmer and digest in my brain-juices forever. I want it to be perfect when I put pen together. Right now, it's crying out. It's all there, the cards are on the table and I have a Royal Flush or something. It's the moment in which I write my masterpiece, the thing I've been dreaming of since I little little. It's the dream we all chase, to be recognised or to become important or to at least try and win over the people who doubt us. Who day by day poke us with insults and instead insist on putting us down. I've had problems with bullying, depression and I have attempted to take my own life. That last one I swore I would never tell anyone, except well, times are a changing. I haven't got much long in secondary education, and soon I'll be unleashed upon the world. I want transparency and my personal history is a part of that, I thought of telling 'my tale' but I want to talk how friends talk – honest.
I have channelled all of my despairs, all of my fears, all of those insults into one great melting pot of that fundamental idea. It's changed, morphed into something else I didn't have from the beginning. It has symbolism, thematics, influences, modern day morals and a variety of other things fed deep into its core. There's a strange wavy line when an idea becomes something more, it becomes a disease, but it becomes something which only you can hold. It's genetic, exclusive to you and nobody else.
The idea I have of the literature piece, I'm going to keep it simmering. I know it's not ready yet, I need to research deeper into the topic. I need to go further and further inside my own mind and see what other stories I have to tell, and weave them deep into my 'masterpiece'. I've been dreaming of this since I put pen to paper, but I know it's not ready yet.
Just thought I'd share that.


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As the JTC team approaches summer the groundwork done over the winter months is starting to bear fruit. Each of our participants in Journey Through Conflict – From Then Until Now has been hand selected for their unique story and artistry. Hours of phone conversations, meetings over coffee, lunches and beers in various parts of…
This was one of the most memorable events of my life ... and I was at Live Aid! (Exeter Cathedral audience member)
Every one of the speakers and their moving description of war will stay with me for many years to come. (Clifton Cathedral audience member)
From Then Until Now is in my top 10 ever Festival events – and I have been in this business for 38 years. (Rosie Turner, Director of Canterbury Festival.)
I felt we were there, it was as if Andy took us on a magic carpet. We met the people he encountered. We could smell the good and the bad on that journey, from torture chamber to cafes and breathtaking hilltop towns that have withstood centuries. It was a story of hope in the darkness.
The most moving, profound and important event in Canterbury Festival 2018.
How very beautiful to have a Muslim and a Christian both singing a prayer at the same event – this shows us how it should be really.
I just loved how the audience started singing at the end, as if we were all saying "yes, this is how it should be!" It was just organic.
That was magnificent …. completely magnificent! (Clifton)
Many congratulations on 'Journey Through Conflict' – it was magnificent in every way.
You told the story in a magical way. It is still in my thoughts today. (St James Piccadilly audience member).
After the event a lot of the audience members came up to me and shared some amazing stories of their own personal journeys, in relation to Islam, Muslims, politics.
I was privileged to be at all but the last ten minutes of your session, and I heard very positive feedback from colleagues and Festival goers who were lucky enough to be there. 'Profound', 'moving' and 'powerful' were the words I heard most.
This was a very powerful, thought-provoking and immersive compilation of human sacrifice and the ability to survive. (Clifton Cathedral audience member)
I liked the honesty and the realness of the event and the fact that it ended with hope and with the sense that as we listen to one another as human beings things can change.
Nicholas McCarthy's brilliant piano and Richard Rochester's evocative painting of Mametz Wood provided a perfect setting.
The singing (Nawroz Oramari) was extraordinarily special and brought a sense of creative pain as he cried for his country with anguish, using his fascinating technique which was new to me. What a gifted singer.
The lighting of the nineteen candles was deeply moving and it was so good to involve the audience by inviting them to come forward, thus making all of us involved.
I sensed you all felt the complete, intense connection between the cast and audience.. (St James Piccadilly audience member)
Left the event having the idea that spending time with people on all sides of conflict, drinking tea, or whatever it is, talking, sharing, gives potential for peaceful resolution.
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Local Comics Creator Wants to Show You How to Do It
Greensboro's Barrett Stanley has created a very impressive indy comic book. Now he wants to show other would-be creators how. Come to Scuppernong Books at 7pm on Tuesday, Feb. 28, and he will.
"I'm not sure if I should call this event a proper workshop," he says. "I think it will be more of an introduction to the process of making a comic. I'm testing the waters here and want to gauge the interest level. It's something I'll bring up in the talk and see if there are people who'd be interested. People don't really need to bring anything in particular unless they want to jot down some notes."
Barrett's Heartbreak Quadrant, currently on sale at Scuppernong Books and Acme Comics, is a quirky character-oriented sci-fi adventure that somewhat resembles a more intimate and feminist version of Joss Whedon's cult TV series Firefly crossed with the work of the great European Heavy Metal comics artists Jean "Moebius" Giraud and Enki Bilal.
It's about the raffish exploits of Ida and Kumi, two young women who make their living buying, selling, and trading artifacts from planet Earth, which was destroyed 20 years earlier. They travel the galaxy in the Red Grapefruit, a salvaged alien ship, always seeking the big score that would let them settle down and live comfortably in the Charm Quadrant. Unfortunately, their days are filled with double-crossing clients, technological disasters, and sub-standard replicated nachos. In their first adventure, they run afoul of a former business associate and his mysterious enforcer, who are determined to take Kumi and melt her down for her unusual DNA.
"The first issue is a sort of 'pilot episode' and is about 60 pages – it gives you a pretty good introduction to the characters and plot, With this workshop, I plan to give the attendees a first-hand look at how I went about creating Heartbreak Quadrant, from the initial concept and preliminary sketches to the finished product."
Barrett is the first to admit that creating it wasn't easy, especially as he did it without a traditional publisher, financing it through a modest but successful Kickstarter campaign. "I'm the writer, artist, and letterer, so it's kind of a one-man show. The first issue took about three years, all told, which sounds ridiculous, but working full time and having a family didn't leave me with very much time to work on it on any given day. I would generally spend a few hours on it each night, but there were definitely days when I just couldn't get to it. It was a painfully slow process, but I tried to focus on my short-term goals and deadlines. During the drawing and inking process, I was trying to get one page done each week. Sometimes I missed the deadline, but not often."
I ask him if he wrote a complete script before he started to draw it. "In the beginning, I was scripting pretty thoroughly, but not very far in advance. I knew the outline of the plot, but I didn't sit down and script the whole issue at the outset. By the halfway point, I'd stopped scripting the dialogue completely and was just laying out the pages with thumbnails and a basic idea of what was being said in each panel in mind. It actually worked really well for me and in following that plan with the second issue."
I ask how much he had completed when his Kickstarter began. "The issue was 95% finished before I started the campaign. I was paranoid about completing it on time, plus I wanted to post a large portion of the issue for potential backers to see. At that point I felt confident I could finish it quickly if the Kickstarter was funded."
That campaign took place in the Fall of 2016. "It ran for a month and I had a very positive experience working with Kickstarter. They selected Heartbreak Quadrant as a staff pick and even chose it as the 'Project of the Day' across the entire site one day. Their support really helped boost my fundraising, and the project passed its funding goal by almost a thousand dollars. I'm planning to launch another campaign for the second issue this year."
Barrett is 40 and lives in Greensboro with his wife of 17 years and their 8-year-old daughter. A graduate of Grimsley High School, he studied art at Appalachian State University and has dabbled in a number of media, including fine art, graphic design and sculpture.
"I've worked in a lot of different media, from painting to printmaking to pottery to tattoo to illustration. I grew up reading comic books, spending Saturday mornings at Acme Comics back when it was a dark, cigarette-smoke-filled little shop downtown. Back then, it was mostly superhero titles. By the early 90s, I was starting to lose my taste for comics, and to be honest, mainstream comics were going through a pretty bad patch during that time. I was away from comics for a good long while, but then a few years ago a couple of friends started introducing me to some current comics and creators, and my interest came back pretty quickly. The Prophet series by Brandon Graham, Old City Blues by Giannis Milonogiannis, Copra by Michel Fiffe, plus artists like Ashley Wood and Frank Quietly were all inspiring, plus I discovered European comic artists like Moebius, Enki Bilal, and François Schuiten. I started buying old copies of Heavy Metal from the 70s and 80s and found a lot of amazing gems in there. My work draws influence from those old-school visuals, but with a more modern sensibility behind it."
While he was putting the first issue together, Barrett was a Department Head at a local grocery store, but since then has begun working for himself. "Nowadays I'm basically doing comics and art full time, along with taking care of my awesome daughter. People in Greensboro have been really supportive. If I were to point to one person who's thrown a ton of support my way (aside from my wife, that is), it would probably be Jermaine from Acme Comics. He has promoted the book pretty relentlessly and has given me opportunities to participate in events at the shop, and has just been a great resource as I try to get myself out there. That said, I truly appreciate everyone who's helped me along on this journey."
Wanna go? You can check out more pages from his story at heartbreakquadrant.tumblr.com. His "Pre-Workshop" at Scuppernong Books at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 is free and open to the public.


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Review: Inscriptions by Wil BoltonBy David Smith. Posted in Ambient, Drone, Electronic, Reviews, Vital Albums | No Comments »
I didn't plan to write a review tonight. But the CD was playing and it caught me up and carried me away and I had to write…
Wil Bolton's music is part of the texture of my world. I always enjoy his releases to one degree or another, but a handful of them have risen from "this is nice" to "this is one of my favorite things". The expressive chimes of Time Lapse and Chimes for a Wall Drawing call forth wonder and remain in my listening rotation years after their release.
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