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Hello Pogoians,
HAPPY 19th Anniversary to Pogo and welcome to Blog #86 of the Pogo Insider. September 1st will be the official 19th anniversary of Pogo. We're so happy to be celebrating with you! Please click here to read up on a bit of history of Pogo.
To continue with exciting Pogo events: Double Deuce Poker HD is now available. We hope you have lots of fun playing it!
Word Whomp HD
Word Whomp HD will be coming out on Thursday, September 13. (Please reference this article for more information). Pogo Producer, Pogo Clement, will be joining me in the Pogo Insider studios again for a Question and Answer session. So, I'd like to know what questions you have for him regarding the creating of Word Whomp HD. Please submit your questions in the comments below and your question may end up in the next Pogo Insider.
Starting soon, all new Badges will flip from landscape and portrait to only portrait. Why is this, you may be asking? Here's the deal: making all badges portrait orientation ensures they are optimized for high-resolution devices. So basically, they will look even more super-glorious! Also, using a consistent orientation allows the Pogo design team to be more efficient and create more Badges. You'll start seeing this soon and eventually it'll happen for all Badges in the coming months.
Here is the landscape badge for August 29th's Mahjong Garden Challenge.
Here is an example of what the new portrait badges will look like. This yet-to-be-named-badge is for an upcoming Wednesday Challenge for the game, Peggle Slots.
Welcome to the Construction Zone! Here is where you will find the latest on game updates. What is currently "under construction" on Pogo? As often as I can, I'll sit down with the Pogo team and get the latest info on which games are being worked on and what's coming. I will always post more details when I have them available. Please understand updates are subject to change.
Please understand that unless an announcement comes directly from EA and/or Pogo, we cannot endorse it as true. All games and updates reported here in the Construction Zone have been given the "go ahead" and are on track to come out. Anything else that is reported is speculation right now.
Upcoming events
Pogo's 19th anniversary celebration – Now through September 1!
Amazing Mini Show for Pogo's 19th Anniversary – August 30.
Solitaire Gardens Badge Marathon – September 6
PogoFest Badge Marathon – Slated for September 22
Claire Hart 2: Secret in the Shadows Badge Marathon – Slated for October 3
Game Updates
Cookie Connect: New levels coming in September
Jet Set: New levels landing in September that will include new destinations to Los Angeles and Houston and extended stay in Cusco!
A Way With Words: Brand-new Challenges called Legend Challenges are slated for September
Jewel Academy – New levels slated for October
New Games
Double Deuce Poker – Available now!
Word Whomp HD – Coming September 13! (Please note: this release date was pushed back from 9/11 to coincide with the Tournament for the Flash version of Word Whomp).
Poppit! HD – September 27! (As with Word Whomp, we pushed this release another few days later by virtue of the Tournament for the Flash version).
Tumble Bees HD – Slated for October
Lottso Express HD – Slated for October
Tri-Peaks Solitaire HD – Slated for October
Solitaire Gardens (HTML5) – Slated for November
Mahjong Safari HD – Slated for December
First Class Solitaire HD – Slated for December
Known Issues
H5 games using Safari on mobile/tablets – We're currently in the process of updating Pogo games so that they're more fully supported on mobile and tablets, and the functionality of Pogo on mobile/tablets with Safari is part of this; currently, it's working as intended on Safari as we to adjust games and their mobile functionality.
Website updates
Token Updates: As many Pogoians may be aware of at this point, the current token system will be replaced with a new award system. As stated in a May 2018 blog, I, and the rest of the Pogo team, know this is a point of contention with some players. For those of you for whom tokens provide a way to project status and achievement over time, we hear you and we understand your aversion to losing this status.
As such, the Pogo team has started to design a new awarding system that will allow you to engage with Pogo and Challenges in more meaningful ways. We know that it's truly important for players to see a symbol of their accomplishments here on Pogo as a whole, and the new system is being crafted with this in mind.
As Pogo makes way for the new awarding system, tokens will be removed from the following HD games on September 25:
Poppit! Party
Story Quest
Cookie Connect
Poppit! Bingo
Aces Up! HD
Phlinx II
Pogo™ Sudoku
Please understand that I do not yet have a preview for you about what the new system entails but, I will provide more details at a later time when I am able, as I know the team will be very excited to share that information with you. Tokens in the current Flash and Java games will remain and will not be removed. Thank you for your understanding.
September Mini Mall update: The Mini Mall update will be on 9/6 with some animal-themed Minis; we'll also have two special Word Whomp Minis coming out just prior to the release of the HD game on 9/13! After that, our next scheduled Mini Mall release will be in October, when we have Halloween Minis coming your way!
Pogo recommendations and specifications for your computer – The specs have been updated as of August 14, 2018. These are the recommended specifications for playing Pogo games smoothly; please click here in order to find out more about these recommendations to help ensure that Pogo games run more smoothly on your computer.
New Pogo Sign-In Experience – The new Pogo sign-in experience will be starting to roll out in this week with the first part of the two part process. The first part will start with the new login screen. Click here for the latest information.
Chat – See Pogo Insider Question below
Every week I answer a non-technical question related to Pogo. We get lots of questions every week, so I try to focus on common themes or the same question coming from different folks. Please ask your non-technical related question in the comments section of the blog.
(For technical issues, please go to Pogo's Help Page.)
Q. What's going on with Expressions and tokens?
A. Expressions are still currently available and can be part of your collection with tokens at this time. However, the token pricing will be removed at some point in the future- the change is currently slated to take place in mid-September. I'll let you know here, in the Pogo Insider blog, when I have more information.
Q. Seems like the Pogo team has been reviewing chat solutions for a long time. Why is the chat update taking so long?
A. A bit of Pogo chat history for you all first – The current chat system uses Flash as the majority of the games, at one time, were Flash based. However, when HD games were created, the Flash chat system continued because if we removed the Flash component of chat, it wouldn't work in Flash. This is why some players experience a disruption in chat for HD games as it is Flash based and Flash and HD do not mix. As you know, Pogo is working on bringing over many more HD games, and as we move forward, we're also working on implementing a new, updated, and improved HD chat. So you've been asking "Why does this process seemingly take so long"? The truth is, the process is a lengthy one.
Here's a brief overview of what happens:
First, the team collects feedback and there are plenty of discussion and brainstorming meetings to be had. Then, there's the technical aspect of it all as to what can be implemented and what happens if something else is implemented, and how it all comes together to work without disrupting any other facets of the site. After all of that, the actual system has to be "built," by the engineers and then tested by our quality assurance team. Once that has been completed, then it will be time to launch to our players. It's a lengthy process, but one that is totally worth it and we are currently in the beginning stages.
Chat is a priority to the entire Pogo team, as we know Pogo is a great place to make friends and having chat certainly helps with that. Another thing that adds to the time it takes to implement a feature such as chat is working on converting games. We have a team here at Pogo but have to efficiently delegate where the resources go so while chat is important, so is the conversion and creation of new HD games for Pogo. To summarize, the Pogo team is working on chat and I will be keeping you here with updates on it as they become available. This process will take some time due to everything involved, but it is a priority for us and we know how much Pogoians love their chat, and we do too! We all thank you for your understanding.
Seeing as it is Pogo's 19th anniversary week, please comment below with what originally brought you to Pogo and how long you have been a part of this fabulous and fun site. I would love to hear your story and will share it with my team, and you all in the Community, as well.
I would like to tell you what brought me to Pogo! It was the early 2000's (sadly, I do not recall the exact year) and my great aunt would tell me about this fun game site that she played on, and it was called Pogo. When I would go back home to visit, she and I would spend hours looking through her badge albums (she would print off the badges and had them in a binder) and she would show me her favorite games. It was such a bonding and unique experience that I decided right then and there that I wanted to work for this great gaming site. Fast forward years later, here I am!
I hope you all have a very fun week playing your favorite games and working on Challenges here on Pogo. I shall return on Tuesday, September 11, with the next edition of the Pogo Insider. For those in the US, please have a safe and good Labor Day on Monday, September 1.
And please, always remember, you matter.
Pogo Llama
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If you're having troubles loading or getting into a Pogo game, please go to Pogo's Help Page. Unfortunately, I am unable to help out with any technical questions via the blog. Thank you!


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The NPA is also facing leadership challenges because the acting national director of public prosecutions, advocate Nomgcobo Jiba, is going on maternity leave soon.
Senior NPA sources told the Mail & Guardian they believe Jiba would have been consulted by the director of prosecutions for North West, advocate Johan Smit, before charging the 270 miners with murder at the end of last week.
Although on paper the regional head would make such a decision, in practice it was done in consultation with the national director of public prosecutions, they said. The murder charges were considered a "bad idea" by those with lengthy prosecution experience, the M&G was informed.
At a press conference last Sunday to announce that the NPA was provisionally withdrawing the murder charges against the miners, Jiba made it clear Smit had taken the decision to charge them.
But senior NPA sources said her stance in hanging Smit out to dry just reflected the lack of leadership at the NPA and it now appeared to be a political decision about who is appointed to the key post of national director of public prosecutions.
The NPA would have to find someone to stand in for Jiba – already acting in her position – in the near future because she is pregnant, NPA spokesperson Bulelwa Makeke confirmed. "We do not know who is going to replace her and I cannot tell you when she is going on maternity leave. You are getting way ahead of things."
It was revealed in April this year that President Jacob Zuma had expunged the criminal record of Jiba's husband, Booker Nhantsi, two years ago. A former lawyer and Scorpions member, Nhantsi's criminal record for stealing a client's money from his trust fund was erased in September 2010.
Jiba was appointed deputy national director of public prosecutions in January 2011 and acting head of the NPA at the end of last year after the Supreme Court of Appeal found Zuma's appointment of Advocate Menzi Simelane was irregular.
Simelane is still on special leave, remaining in his post on full pay until the Constitutional Court passes judgment on the appeal court's December 1 ruling.
The NPA has come under fire for questionable decisions it has taken in recent months, including the suspension of the head of the specialised commercial crime unit in Gauteng, Glynnis Breytenbach.
Whereas the NPA has claimed that her suspension is related to her alleged abuse of power in the Kumba-Imperial Crown Trading case, Breytenbach has argued in the Labour Court that the NPA had "ulterior motives" when it suspended her. It was to prevent former crime intelligence chief Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli from being prosecuted for fraud and corruption, she claimed.
The latest upheaval for NPA staff came with the news that the miners were to be charged with murder. ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa called the charges "absurd" and there was an outcry around the world.
The legal team acting for the miners, led by advocate Dali Mpofu, had no prior warning that they were to be charged with murder and only found out about it in court last week.
The NPA swiftly called a media briefing after Mpofu's team sent a letter to Zuma, demanding that the miners be released by Sunday. Zuma responded by saying he could not release them, but the team told the M&G they "read between the lines and knew something was about to happen".
Asked whether he was the fall guy for the fallout from the controversy around the charges, Smit said he stood by what he had said at the press conference.
Sharing a platform with Jiba, Smit explained why he was going for the murder charges, based on the legal principle of "common purpose". He pointed out that the murder charges related to the killing of 34 protesters and compared it to other legal precedents, describing his decision as "sound".
The murder charges have been provisionally withdrawn and Smit confirmed they could be reinstated if it was considered necessary. He said the miners have now been charged with "public violence, attempted murder and possession of weapons".

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By Sanjay Jog www.business-standard.com
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), the nodal agency for infrastructure projects here, has initiated an inquiry into the collapse of a section of a metro rail bridge yesterday, in which one person was killed and 16 injured.
A committee headed by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay professor K V K Rao would probe the incident and suggest safety measures to avoid such instances in the future. The committee includes MMRDA chief engineer S B Tamsekar.
Mumbai Metro One, a special purpose vehicle set up by Reliance Infrastructure and MMRDA to implement the metro project, has also initiated an internal inquiry into the incident.
The Maharashtra Police has registered a first information report against metro contractor Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), which was roped in by Mumbai Metro One. HCC has also been asked to carry out safety and structural audits to ensure such accidents do not recur.
MMRDA Commissioner Rahul Asthana told Business Standard, "MMRDA is not executing the metro phase-I project, neither was it a supervisor. The project implementing agency is Reliance Infrastructure arm Mumbai Metro One, which roped in HCC as contractor. Still, we have ordered a thorough inquiry into the incident to ensure adequate safety standards are maintained during project implementation." More info


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July 20, 2014
This week we will be doing something very different in worship. We will be celebrating Christmas in July. It will be a chance to remember that the spirit of Christmas is something to be celebrated all year long, not just in December.
Here's a preview of what you'll find when you join us for worship this Sunday at 10:30 a.m.


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Skaar has fought hard to exact vengeance against Axeman Bone and the many foul criminals that populate Sakaar, but he finds himself faced with a much bigger set of problems now. Namely, Galactus has come to feed on Sakaar and its vast planetary energies. Rather than aid her son, the spirit of Caiera Oldstrong has appeared to convince Skaar that Galactus should be left to feed. Morphing into Hulk and beating the snot out of Skaar didn't work, so Caiera leaves it to Silver Surfer to reason with the boy. But can a creature who was baptized in fire and raised for war really be reasoned with?
That's sort of the central question of this issue, and it gives rise to an interesting morality play. Should Skaar sacrifice his home and millions of lives so that billions more will be saved from Galactus' hunger? Or should Skaar take the Rorschach route of never compromising in the face of Armageddon? In taking on a more philosophical angle, the series immediately becomes vastly more interesting than when it was all about smashing and slashing. The story almost forcibly molds the dull and one-dimensional Skaar into a more complex and engaging protagonist. Caiera's presence helps tie Skaar's fate to that of his father, and it's immensely pleasing to see someone finally following up on the events of World War Hulk in any meaningful way. In short, Skaar has finally become the sort of book it should have been 10 issues ago.
As usual, Ron Lim's work is very solid in its artistic foundation but a bit bland in its execution. His figure work seems to be improving, but his backgrounds and the general visual tone of the book just lack a certain necessary flair. Given that this issue is truly epic and far-reaching in scope, I feel much more could have been accomplished in terms of visual excitement. It's a disappointing aspect to what is still the strongest issue of the series so far.
Though Skaar lacks visual punch, there can be no denying Pak has finally kicked the series into high gear. I'm jazzed for the beginning of Planet Skaar and what will hopefully be the continuation of something fresh and exciting for the Hulk-verse.
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Respectful Parenting, Mindfulness, & Creative Arts
The other night my 6 year-old son was having trouble sleeping. I got up to his bedroom and he just couldn't calm himself down. "Honey, do you want to try some mindfulness?" I asked and waited for him to laugh and say no-way. But he didn't. I had taught him some basic skills (mindfulness of breath) a few weeks earlier and practiced a few times and as soon as I asked, he knew it was just what he needed. We did a short practice–listening to our singing bowl 3 times and then noticing our breaths go in like we are smelling a flower and our like we are blowing out a candle. When he calmed down, I simply said "I am going to ring the bell one more time and then I am going to leave the room". Then I did. As I was leaving his room he said "Mom, turn my music on" and then he cut himself off "….no, no, never-mind" and he literally rolled over and went to sleep.
I am not perfect (by far!) and my kids are not saints (also by far!) but this mindfulness stuff is really working for our family. For one, it has made me more patient and present with my kids and able to modulate my strong emotions better. For my kids, they have started to really notice their own emotional states more and become more aware of their needs within those high's and low's which is an amazing life skill.
Truth be told, very young kids are the experts on mindfulness. They are the masters of living without judgement or attachment but exposure to culture and unconsciousness teaches kids to care more about doing and achieving than being attuned and grateful of the present moment. Adults in their life may want to teach them a different way: the way of mindful awareness. Being on this path with your child, and in alliance with them on their journey through the highs and lows of life, will be a divinely gratifying and nourishing to you as their parent and greatest teacher. But it is important to go on this journey with intention but also of awareness of these basic tenants so that the pendulum does not end up swinging back into more frustration, anger, or control for you or your child.
1. Start with parent. The first step to bringing mindfulness into your home is to ask yourself what motivates your interest? If your authentic answer is to change your child, it will not work. Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, non-judgmentally, to the current moment and if your child does not want to do that it will not work. Instead of forcing it on them, invite them to participate with you and be ok with them not being ready to learn it at this point in their life.
2. Learn basic techniques. It is important for adults to have a basic understanding of mindfulness before you start sharing it with your child or you are setting yourself up for failure and frustration. Learn about how to have a mindful body, how to listen mindfully, how to bring your focus back to your breath, and how to integrate heartfeltness into your moment-to-moment interactions.
3. Choose a time of day to insert mindfulness. Think about your daily routine. Is there a time of day when behavior is generally good and your kids are ready to listen? If your answer is like most parents, that may be hard to identify. Try talking them in the car when everyone is contained. But again, be mindful of your agenda, and willing to drop it if they are not interested.
4. Give them ownership of their practice and let children lead mindfulness. Allow them to ring a special bell to practice listening, cueing you to focus on your breath, or leading you through a body scan.
5. Don't use it as a consequence. Being aware of your present moment and your breath is not a punishment–it is the sweetest gift you could give a child. Don't allow it to be associated with anything bad or your child will resent it. That being said, if you want to use it as an intervention for behavior, make sure a practice is established.
6. Be consistent. You can not do a mindfulness activity and expect it to be suddenly integrated into your child's brain. Like all learning, practice it regularly to strengthen the neural pathways in your child's brain so that it becomes more and more natural for him to use it.
7. Institute short moments of awareness many times throughout the day for yourself and invite them to participate. Simply asking them to "notice how you are feeling" is a good starting point.
8. Integrate simple rituals. Taking some deep breaths before starting a meal or putting your fork down between bites during a meal is a good way to fold mindfulness into your regular life.
9. Let them teach you what they know. Listen with attunement and presence–exactly how you would want them to listen to you if you were explaining something new to them. Ask questions and look for answers, together, if your child stumbles over their explanation.
10. There is no one-sized fits all approach to mindfulness. Kids of different temperaments, ages, and abilities will need different approaches to learning mindfulness. Some kids might be interested in learning about the brain, others maybe interested in learning during a peaceful hike, and yet others in totally different ways. There are so many directions to try.
We will be sharing more mindfulness resources in the coming weeks so please follow us on FB/IG @NurtureFamilyEducation
© 2017, Nurture: Family Education and Guidance, nurturefamilyeducation.com
A large part of becoming awakened and growing up as our children need us to has to do with letting go of our attachment to, need of, and dependency on our own parents….By binding ourselves to our own parents for approval, permission, a sense of belonging, and love, we keep ourselves small and childlike. This symbiosis of selves ultimately leaves little room for each to grow and thrive. It then gets projected onto our children, enslaving them to our parental fold beyond what's healthy"
-Dr. Shefali Tsabary "The Awakened Family"
When you birth a child, you birth two new people. Your baby and you. You are never the same, never disconnected to this life that came of you. It even feels like you could never be independent from that soul–the one in front of you and the one within you. But you were once a new life in front of doting parents, and so were they. What age is it time to let them be free again (are we ever?) and who decides?
Everyone grows up with some level of attachment to our parents–in some cultures and some families, that attachment is stronger than others. Initial attachment is our emotional bond to our parents that gives them the desire to take care of our primary needs (eating, sleeping, safety) and eventually becomes the "engine of subsequent social, emotional, and cognitive development." The confusing reality of this is that in order to be able to have a healthy attachment to your child-which has multitudes of short term and long term health benefits to you both, one must be able to honestly assess their own emotional bond to their parents. One must ask, how did my parents do at keeping me safe, seen, secure and soothed?
Many of us do not want to assess our attachment to our parents in any sort of negative light because we were told to "honor thy mother and father." But honor does not mean cover up, sideline, or perverse the truth. Honor means telling the truth (sometimes to ourselves, first) about them, and their journey through life–because, whether they understood this or not, they were your first iteration of the universe's expression of wholeness. If that iteration had a facade of wholeness and perfection, or at least a good-enough version, we may still trust them to be the truth in our lives. And if not your life, than in the life of your child. So many of us turn to our parents in our own parenthood looking for answers, truths, affirmation of how we are doing. Someone to say 'you are ok. You are doing a good job." Mostly that is okay, until you allow that fine line of affirmation to be blurred into an outright acceptance of truth and you end up trusting your parents more than you trust yourself. It is not a parent's job to set your boundaries in an adult child's way of being with their child, that is your job. It is a hard part, maybe the hardest, of growing up. Letting go.
You let them in as much as you need or want them there, but honestly assess whether you are giving them this power over your parenting because you need them or because you want them. Confronting your own independence takes maturity, trust, consciousness and vulnerability. Maturity to acknowledge that you are a grown up (even if you don't always feel that way when you feel like you got lured into an argument with a child). Trust to allow this process of unfolding your children to happen naturally with the good and bad. Consciousness to awaken out of your blind acceptance of enculturation–of your parents and yourself. And finally, vulnerability to admit you may have been wrong and will be wrong in the future.
Setting parents free is different than kicking them out; it is a gift to you- and to them- and a way of stating that "you did a good job here but your job here is done, I'll take full responsibility for my development from here." It is a mature way of accepting your own adulthood and relieving them from any unintended damage they may have unconsciously done while raising you. It is freeing both of you from dependence, codependence, and enmeshment and gives you the chance to have a mature adult relationship, as intimate as your boundaries allow, with your parents.
Not from our culture and not from our parents will we learn to parent. We will learn only when we are willing to accept ourselves as unfolding on a perfect timeline for our evolution and that of our children.
Conscious Parenting series will be starting again soon! Details at: "Upcoming Events."
Read More about Attachment here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/attachment
PS. I love you Mom and Dad–now more than ever.
I am in Fundamental Political Shock. Shocked, surprised and sad are just the beginning. Hurt, deceived, angry, and stupid are also some of the feelings. I want to hug my children and explain to them…explain what? Today we are just surviving.
The first and last thing I want my kids to learn from today is that when we are on our Anger Mountain* lets start by focusing on being gentle. To ourselves.
The healing and recalibration process begins by starting with our feelings.
But its hard. On one hand it's personal. This was not an affront or attack on our physical body but on our ideas. But our ideas are just that ideas. They are not who we are: we are our spirits, our hearts, our souls. So let's extend a physical hand and actually share our convictions, dreams, hopes. Lets accept our vulnerability and be open to the differences percolating out there. Lets not come up a cognition-driven explanation to satisfy our egos need to understand. The reality is that people all over the world and our country are really different from us. That is what we supposedly celebrate. So let's walk with them. Let's just be present with them and not try to talk through the differences or even celebrate our similarities-first lets just be. And find a way to be OK with not doing–pro or against their ideas.
But I also feel stupid because I bought the lie. I guzzled it up and proselytized it: Media made us believe that it was about a binary option; that this was: bad vs. good, intelligent vs. stupid, morally elite vs. financially elite. This was never those things and we all drank the media's kool-aid.
The lesson for our kids is that it is ok to be and not do. We will do tomorrow. Today we will just be in our feelings. Feel our feelings. Accept our humanity. Adults don't always have all the answers and we can teach our kids that we do not always use our brains to solve problems. Our hearts come first. And right now our hearts ache so let's start there by dwelling in that, allowing the feels, and being gentle to ourselves.
*Anger Mountain is a way I illustrate anger to young children. Being angry is like hiking a tall mountain–every step towards the top is harder than the last and at the top, you burst with feelings and end up feeling smaller, less empowered, more enraged. The opposite also exists: Happy Hills. Happy Hills are also steep, but hopefully more frequent. And when you get to the top you feel bigger, exuberant, empowered. So the goal when the child starts to feel Anger Mountain is to help them identify and choose to take other "paths" that can lead them towards a Happy Hill. The paths don't have to be positive emotions but rather useful feelings to get through the journey: sadness, fear, helplessness are just some. It is ok to be in those feelings and need some time to work through them. And holding hands with the right partner on those other paths always makes them easier to travel. (And as a sidebar to that; as a parent, I hope to be that partner for my children but it is important to accept if they choose a different journey-worthy person).
What are you feeling? What are the physical symptoms you feel?
How will you be gentle to yourself today?
(c) 2016, Nurture: Family Education and Guidance
"When we are our angriest, we are our stupidest."
As a school counselor one of the trainings I went through was called Therapeutic Crisis Intervention. It is a way of understanding crisis as an opportunity to connect and teach new behavior and I have found it is also helpful in parenting and raising children. The Chinese define crisis as danger + opportunity. This is a helpful way of looking at a potentially "hot" situation because it instills hope that their will be something positive to come of the difficult behavior.
The goal of any intervention is for the child to come away empowered and better able to self-regulate and solve problems without adult help. What one does not want to happen is for a power struggle to ensue. Power struggles will only encourage the kid to view their parents as people who should not be trusted, kept at an arm's length, and not really caring about their autonomy (ability to govern ones-self).
The 5 phases of the Stress Model of Crisis are: the baseline state, the triggering phase, the escalating phase, an outburst (violence, screaming), and recovery.
When a child is in a baseline state they are functioning normally. When a child is triggered you may want to ask yourself:
1. Why did this happen today, and not yesterday?
2. Is this typical behavior for my child?
3. Is my child expressing a need?
4. Is this developmentally typical?
5. Does this behavior reflect an implicit or explicit way of being in our family during a crisis?
(sidenote: these questions are very helpful if you are trying to understand why YOU, as a parent/care-taker, were triggered by a situation. In addition to these questions you should ask yourself: what happened in my childhood that may have contributed to these feelings.)
If your child's behavior has escalated it is important to not escalate with them. It is a luring trap to be weary of because it is so easy to drawn into a power struggle, succumb to your triggers as a parent, act immaturely (yell, threaten), and say/do things to your children that your parents said/did to you that you swore you would never repeat. So how do you not escalate with them? Ideas could include: empathize with the fact that they have these big of feelings, take a moment to get perspective on the situation, take a deep breath, walk away, or ask for help.
Now, if a child's behavior has escalated and is now in the outburst phase some thoughts to consider: is this child's behavior a threat (to himself or others or property)? Have other interventions been tried (change environment, talking to kid)? Physical restraint is NEVER a first choice option but if your kid is acting in a way that could pose serious harm, intervention is warranted. Carefully and gently restrain child and tell them "I am not going to hurt you, but you may not hurt me. When you are calm I will let go. Lets take a deep breath together." It is imperative that parents know that physical restraints must never be used as (a) punishments, (b) consequences, or (c) for demonstrating "who is in charge". Not ever. Also, restraints must be stopped as soon as your child is no longer a risk of harm to self or others.
Once the child has calmed down take them to a quiet place away from distractions. Face them, get on their eye level or below, and listen. Speak calmly and respectfully and make sure they understand. Ask you child to think about outcomes of his behavior and brainstorm other behaviors and their outcomes. Don't make it personal, make it factual. Give you child some time and space to think and do not pressure them to say the "right" thing, remind yourself that they are in fact learning and that is a process of testing out right and wrong ideas. That being said, do correct them if they give suggestions that would not be appropriate. End the conversation with a hug or other gesture of love and affection to remind them that you love them despite them having behaviors that you may not love.
A universal goal of most parents is to create trusting and caring relationships with their children. Showing kids exactly how to treat people, and how they should expect to be treated by people, even during difficult times is a critical skill. With a little knowhow, parents can feel confident to help their kids even through the boldest of emotions.


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I was born in Connecticut and raised on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands with my twin brother Sean. We spent our first two years aboard a 40-foot sailboat named Yahoo - on which we were not allowed to wear shoes - and commuted to school on St. Thomas via dinghy, Jeep, ferry boat, and bus. Eventually we moved ashore and joined St. John's renowned Little League team, thus becoming the league's two white kids. I spent much of my childhood in the water, surfing and sailing and swimming and fishing.
I attended my last three years of high school at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut and played football and baseball for Middlebury College in Vermont, earning a psychology degree in 2001. After a year as a counter-terrorism analyst in Washington, D.C., I headed west, stopping for a fateful respite in Colorado's upper Blue River valley, where I still reside.
Since quitting my job as a newspaper sports editor in 2007, I have chronicled a 40-day expedition to pioneer skiing in Western Nepal, investigated a new way to predict weather, completed (and reported on) two weeklong races through Colorado's backcountry, and profiled subjects ranging from the first black player in NHL history (Boston Globe Magazine cover story) to an 86-year-old woman who's become an unlikely icon in the Himalayan climbing world. Although much of my reporting focuses on people and sports, I also do history, travel, and mountain culture stories - the stranger the better.
In my own life, childhood adventures in the ocean have been replaced for now by skiing, mountain biking, and trail running. I have served on the Breckenridge Open Space Advisory Commission as well as the Summit Huts Association board, and I live with my wife and son a few miles outside Breckenridge at 10,200 feet.
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Should We Go Up Onto the Temple Mount?
Many years ago, on Fridays, I would go up to the guard shack that is on the roof next to the top of the Kotel. I'd go to put tefillin on the guard there. While he would read the Shema, I would take off my shoes and go stand on the dome of that building which is just across from the golden dome and maybe half as high. I think that the dome where I would stand is actually a little over the lower levels of that part of the Kotel.
Wow! What a place to stand and look for Hashem's Presence. The best in the world! At least it's the best place in the World where we are told we can go today.
But shouldn't we go up onto the Temple Mount itself? Aren't some Jews and some rabbis saying it is time to go?
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I am not on such a level that I can make this decision myself. I have to look to the leaders of our times and see what they say.
The Baba Sali the most famous miracle worker in our days did not go up. Rav Kadduri the famous mekubal did not go up. The famous Rav Ovadia Yosef did not go up. And the Lubavitcher Rebbe said it is a sin to go up now.
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100-Series Prototype
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MOMO Mizrahi, also stylized as M.O.M.O. (Multiple Observative Mimetic Organicus), is a major playable character in the Xenosaga series.
Background Edit
MOMO is the prototype 100-Series Realian created by Joachim Mizrahi and Juli Mizrahi before the Miltian Conflict in the year 4753. Joachim programmed her data on Miltia, and this data was sent to Proto Merkabah where she was born. MOMO possesses the important Y-Data as a repository, which several groups desire because it has key to Miltia where the Zohar is; Miltia was lost in the Abyss after the Miltian Conflict.
MOMO's father Joachim passed before her birth. Her "mother" (Juli Mizrahi) is reluctant to accept her as her daughter due to her being modeled after Sakura Mizrahi, the late daughter of the Mizrahis. Unfortunately, Juli can't help but see MOMO as an imitation of Sakura.
MOMO was created to act as a link between Sakura's mind and the world so that Sakura could communicate. However, when Sakura died, Joachim changed his focus. Instead, Joachim was hoping to resurrect Sakura's consciousness within MOMO.
Personality Edit
MOMO was installed with the same personality as the child she was created to represent. Her creator, Joachim Mizrahi, was devastated by the loss of his daughter, Sakura, and created a new model of Realian with a physical appearance similar to that of his late daughter. The 100-Series Observational Realian became a popular model, but MOMO remained unique to others by being the prototype. Most of the others have a standard Realian personality, but MOMO's retains certain aspects of Sakura.
She's kind, loving, and cares about those around her. Ziggy says MOMO has a "pure heart" and that is why he is able to believe in her. She's soft-spoken with her small voice, but determined when it counts. Her Realian abilities give her increased intelligence, and she often carries the air of someone much older than she looks. Despite being the youngest member of the main Xenosaga cast, MOMO carries an aura of impressionable maturity and wisdom. She's fiercely loyal to her friends, and she is willing to sacrifice herself for their well-being. At times, she does revert to the young pre-teen girl she was modeled after, being perky and giggly when she's having fun. MOMO has an affection towards Bunnie, like Sakura once did.
In contrast to Ziggy, MOMO wishes to be human. MOMO doesn't like being referred to as a Realian because Realians were discriminated against after the Miltian Conflict. As such, MOMO is ashamed of being a Realian. She acknowledges that she's different and will use her abilities when they can help, but she desperately just wants to be a normal girl. She hates being called by her model designation (100-Series Observational Realian) and wants people to call her by the acronym for her scientific name (MOMO) because it sounds more like a normal human name. She will make small, innocent jokes about what she is to lighten situations or to keep people from worrying about her, since her young appearance makes her seem much more fragile than Realians actually are, but she likes having people treat her like everyone else instead of like some inhuman lifeform.
According to enneagram personality assessment, MOMO is categorized as a particularly emotional Type-2 with Nephilim Verum (deeply loving, sociable, self-sacrificing, grandiose). When considered as a human, the tendency to hold ambivalent feelings towards a father or father-like figure can be seen to originate during the infancy of this type. Those emotions have a profound effect on character development. This is something that can be seen through the emotions MOMO held for Doctor Joachim Mizrahi. MOMO never had a single direct confrontation with Dr. Mizrahi, nor an experience where she was shown affection by him, but due to the information given to her during her pre-completed state, she held a strong love for him.
A type-2's self-esteem is maintained by the requirement that they are, themselves, "good people". In other words, the very idea that "if you do good deeds, you can become human" that MOMO wished, is an absolute requirement that sustains her self-esteem. Therefore, even though she had love for Dr. Mizrahi, she may have felt hatred when confronted with the contradictory truth. However, that cannot be confirmed. When someone harbors a mix of love and hate in their heart, in order to maintain their own self-esteem, they continually focus only on love.
This type's prime motivation is the intense desire to be loved. To be important to another. To be appreciated. Such thoughts drive those of this type to action. When MOMO was praised by Tony, Ziggy, and the others for her piloting technique in the shuttlecraft, her carefree smile revealed joy from the bottom of her heart. It is this state of being recognized, of being needed, that those of this type ceaselessly seek. As can be seen in her administering nano-treatments to others, or the cross-interference to the D.S.S.S. systems by the Hilbert Effect that she performed without regard to effects on herself during the escape from Pleroma, all her actions that benefited others were due to this motivation.
Strictly speaking, it is difficult to say that these types of actions are altruistic. However, while there may be selfishness involved, benefit to others is achieved as a result. If the interests are mutually beneficial, then there is no need to question the purity of selflessness.
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur MachtEdit
MOMO is first seen on Pleroma as the prisoner of Margulis and the U-TIC Organization. There, she resides in a cell where Margulis addresses her as "100-Series Realian" to which she replies that she does not like that name. Margulis tells MOMO that he is interested in her Y-Data, which her refers to by, "We'd like to have a word with the man you have hidden inside of you."
Ziggurat 8 later arrives and rescues her after defeating the guards that patrol her cell, and MOMO reveals her name to him, stating that it is what her "daddy" called her. They later take shelter in a room to avoid being seen by the guards, and MOMO gives him the name Ziggy, stating that it is more suitable for a real human, in contrast to his model number.
While attempting to escape from Pleroma, MOMO and Ziggy encounter some A.G.W.S. units. MOMO then uses her Hilbert Effect ability to destroy their external sensors, but is weakened in the process due to the cross interference that it caused. Ziggy then defeats the A.G.W.S. units with MOMO's help and they proceed to escape the planet. However, when they are almost at the ship, Margulis confronts them and they battle. In the commotion that the fight causes, MOMO and Ziggy escape Pleroma, but are followed by many of the U-TIC ships.
Aboard the Elsa, Shion Uzuki, Allen Ridgeley, chaos, and the others aboard the ship notice the battle in hyperspace. Ziggy's ship then gets shot down, and, believing that they are going to die, apologizes to MOMO about not keeping her safe. MOMO replies that it is fine, and thanks him for everything he has done for her. Ziggy then asks her if she is afraid, to which MOMO replies that she is a little scared, but is okay due to his being there. The Elsa then catches the falling ship at the last moment and, after some commotion, brings them inside. There, Shion, chaos, and KOS-MOS meet up with each other and introduce themselves before stopping the Auto-Tech invasion. They then meet up with the rest of the crew where MOMO and Ziggy properly thank them for the rescue.
While the crew is eating dinner on the ship, Tony finds out that it was, in fact, MOMO who was piloting the ship instead of Ziggy. Shion then notices MOMO's uniform and asks if she is from the Mizrahi Lab, to which she replies that she is and introduces herself as an Observational Realian. Captain Matthews then asks where the two are headed, and they ask them to take them to Second Miltia.
When the Elsa stops at the Dock Colony to repair their ship, Andrew Cherenkov is injured by some "street punks." Seeing that he is injured, MOMO attempts to cure him, but to MOMO's disappointment, refuses, claiming that he is "not a big fan" of nanosurgery. Ziggy then asks her to give him a tune-up, and soon reveals that he is comfortable with her looking him over because of the purity of her heart.
Later, the crew boards the Durandal where Jr. allows them to view the Zohar Emulators. In the conversation regarding Joachim Mizrahi, Jr. describes him as a "lunatic" who invited the Gnosis into the galaxy, leaving the rest of the people to pay for his ambitions. An upset MOMO silently walks out on this and leaves the room, saying to herself, "Daddy... Daddy wasn't like that." and wants to believe her father wasn't a lunatic. MOMO, who thought of Mizrahi as a parent, thought she too was being rejected, herself. MOMO wondered, if she was brought into the world by someone who was socially unaccepted, does that mean that she too should be unaccepted? MOMO anguished over her reason for existence, and worried that her creation was a mistake. Due precisely to the fact that she couldn't talk directly with her father, her own inner-image of him wavered when others provided information.
Shion later finds MOMO in the Durandal's park, pondering over the meaning of her Realian existence. Shion comforts MOMO by telling her her belief that even though Realians are man-made, they function as though they have existed all along, and that Joachim Mizrahi was probably not the evil person that everyone makes him out to be. Shion told MOMO that not all of Dr. Mizrahi's research was unacceptable to mankind. Through those words, MOMO was able to cling to the hope that her own existence wasn't unacceptable. Thinking that everything about her father was unacceptable, MOMO considered herself, who was brought into the world by her father, was also unacceptable. But with the thought that there may have been even the slightest facet of her father accepted, MOMO was able to put her mind at ease by considering that her existence might also be acceptable. What Shion says makes MOMO feel better, and she returns to her normal kind and joyful attitude.
Later, Jr. meets up with MOMO and gives her a good luck charm (a bullet) with the inscription "Sayonara, baby!" on it and uses a mysterious power to turn it into a bracelet. MOMO delights in how pretty it is, and thanks him.
Soon after, the Kukai Foundation is placed under arrest due to wrongful accusation of conspiring with the Miltian government on an attack on the Galaxy Federation. A group of Federation soldiers board the Durandal; one of them grabs MOMO, and Jr., afraid of MOMO getting hurt, escapes the custody of one of the soldiers, only to get knocked to the ground. Later, MOMO dives into KOS-MOS' Encephalon to get KOS-MOS' AAA data and sees her father dying from the top of Labyrinthos. This causes MOMO to become upset and cries, and Jr. comforts her.
During an attack on the Kukai Foundation by the Gnosis, MOMO volunteers to help with the evacuation. However, she believes she sees her "father" walk away from her, and follows him into an alleyway. There, Albedo Piazzolla catches MOMO and brings her back to the Song of Nephilim. Once at the Song, Albedo intimidates MOMO, hoping for her to faint so he can easily get the Y-Data, a mysterious amount of data placed into MOMO's mind by Joachim Mizrahi, MOMO's creator. At the Song, he murders all of his Kirschwassers and tosses them in his chambers.
MOMO finds him sitting comfortably on his "throne", cradling the body of a slain Kirschwasser in his hands, before he snaps one of its arms effortlessly and tosses it aside. To intimidate MOMO, he uses a small knife to saw off his own arm (edited from the English-language version and made to look as if he rips it off), which he then regenerates. He then decapitates himself, lets his severed head taunt MOMO, and finally crushes his head underneath one foot before regenerating that too. Albedo is greatly amused by the fact that MOMO wants Rubedo (Jr.) to come and save her. Once MOMO lost consciousness, Albedo began to absorb her mind, learning every thought and memory that MOMO ever had. He continues to absorb her mind until he is interrupted by Jr. and his group.Once they show up, Albedo taunts them, and finally takes part of the Y-Data from MOMO, showing him that Shion and KOS-MOS are somehow involved with it; at this moment it appears he gains knowledge of Shion's previous incarnation identity, as well as of KOS-MOS true identity. He climbs back into his E.S. Simeon and fights the group. Once they defeat Albedo, however, he gets out of the E.S. Simeon and shoots a blue aura at Jr., who retaliates with a red one. Their fight is interrupted by Luis Virgil, the Blue Testament. Virgil insists that Albedo get his job done, and stop playing around with Jr.'s group. Albedo leaves the Song of Nephilim in his E.S. Simeon while Virgil fights Jr.'s group.
Once Jr. and MOMO's group escaped the Song of Nephilim and boarded the Durandal, they tried to destroy the Song, but were in shock when their blast deflected off of it. Albedo re-enters the scene in his E.S. Simeon, and summons Proto Merkabah, a large space station that was once home to Joachim Mizrahi and MOMO, using the knowledge he had gained from MOMO's memories. The Song of Nephilim enters a port of Proto Merkabah to help power it, and several Gnosis are absorbed to use an energy source. He uses this station to blow up the entire Galaxy Federation fleet of ships. He sets his next target to nearby planet Second Miltia. However, Jr. tells him to wait before he blows up Second Miltia, so that he can get to Albedo and finish the conflict once and for all.
Jr. and his group board Proto Merkabah. MOMO calls the Proto Merkabah an "abominable machine", and wonders if she's an abomination. Shion tries to convince MOMO that no parent would think of their own child as an abomination.
The group reaches Albedo in the core room, and he shows the group his will, a shining power that exists within everyone. His, however, was very bright and large. Albedo reminds Jr. of what he did to his comrades during the conflict when he 'broke the link', showing a brief scene of Jr. holding his head with an aura around him that sends the standard U.R.T.V. units flying. This differs from the events stated in Episode II but it was most likely due to the change in story writer. He fights Jr. and the others personally, but he is defeated after a battle. He reveals to the group his motive: To make Jr. pay for abandoning him and the other U.R.T.V.s fourteen years ago.
Albedo then reveals Sophie Peithos, a fusion of Proto Merkabah's core and the Gnosis absorbed by the space station. Albedo leaves Jr. to fight this massive beast, and returns to his E.S. Simeon in space. He watches from afar as the space colony plunges toward Second Miltia on a crash course, due to Sophie Peithos' defeat. He watches as the group escapes on the Elsa, and Proto Merkabah self-destructs.
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und BöseEdit
On Second Miltia, on the way to Juli Mizrahi to return MOMO Mizrahi, Jr., MOMO, Ziggy, and chaos are chased by U-TIC operatives wishing to capture MOMO once again. However, the attacks are thwarted.
At the U.M.N. Control Center on Second Miltia, MOMO meets her mother who is reluctant to accept her. She is also given a new outfit. Juli wants to examine the Y-Data. However, the Y-Data examination process goes horribly wrong when a trap (implanted into her by Albedo when they were at the Song of Nephilim) is activated. MOMO is almost killed.
In an effort to save MOMO, everyone dives into her Encephalon (subconscious domain). It turns out that MOMO and Sakura share the same subconscious domain. During the dive, Albedo gets ahold of the Y-Data from MOMO and uses it to recover the hidden planet, Miltia: the place where the Miltian Conflict occurred, and where U-DO and the original Zohar reside.
MOMO is eventually rescued, thanks to the efforts of Shion and her team. When the path to Old Miltia opens, Juli allows MOMO to go due to her skills, and hopes MOMO will safely return. Juli also admits that part of her doesn't want to let MOMO go, and she has come to understand that MOMO and Sakura are different. When MOMO returns, Juli wants to know MOMO better.
Throughout the game, MOMO pilots E.S. Zebulun with Ziggy.
After speaking with Ziggy, Juli's view of MOMO began to change. Ziggy suggested that Juli not see MOMO as an attempt to replace her daughter, but rather as a second daughter. Juli began to open up more to MOMO after that point and began to realize that she was indeed her own unique person and not just a copy of Sakura.
After the events in Xenosaga Episode II, Juli decided to live with MOMO and accepted her role as her mother, with Ziggy on standby should a crisis arise.
Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach ZarathustraEdit
MOMO returns as a playable support character, but has extremely minimal effect on the plot. She still pilots Zebulun with Ziggy.
In Shion's subconscious, MOMO meets Joachim Mizrahi during a trek in Labyrinthos, and gains some closure on her father.
In the ending, she works with Scientia to construct a new non-U.M.N. network. She tells Jr. to say "hello" to Albedo. She waits patiently for Shion's return from her search for Lost Jerusalem.
Etymology and influencesEdit
In Japanese, "momo" means peach or peach blossom. Sakura is Japanese for cherry blossom. Furthermore, the series of Realians that were originally based on Sakura's form and used to create MOMO are known as "Kirschwassers". 'Kirschwasser' is a German word for cherry brandy (Literally, "cherry water").
Albedo calls MOMO "ma belle pêche" which is French for "my beautiful peach".
Mizrahi is a reference to the Mizrahi Jews.
In Xenosaga Episode I, MOMO seems to have been designed as an homage to the magical girl genre. Her outfit was made to resemble a futuristic Japanese schoolgirl's uniform, her weapons appear as magical rods and later as an Ether-based composite bow, and among her Ether skills is the ability to transform into a more powerful version of herself, complete with a colorful costume. When she transforms, it is accompanied by a henshin sequence. Even her name may be a pun on one of the early magical girl shows, Minky Momo or, indeed Namco's own Wonder Momo, and, referring back to her influence, Sakura, from Cardcaptor Sakura. Also, her transformation sequences seem to be similar to Sailor Moon.
Abilities Edit
The 100-Series Observational Realian was developed as a recon unit capable of detecting Gnosis that may not be seen by normal means. As such, MOMO's abilities include increased observational skills such as detection of lifesigns, use of Ether powers and spells, directly connecting to the U.M.N. (basically using something akin to telepathy to connect to her world's Internet), and using the Hilbert Effect. The Hilbert Effect has the ability of pulling multi-dimensional beings into the same plane as the user, enabling physical contact between the two beings. Ether is used through nanomachines implanted in the body to help with increasing healing in herself or others, attacking others, and shielding against various types of attacks. MOMO's strengths lie in defensive and healing Ethers, but her attacks are stronger than one might expect because of her origins as a Realian. She also carries a bit of Sakura with her in her affinity for music.
Transformation Ethers Edit
MOMO has access to transformation Ethers in Xenosaga Episode I which are called Star Wind and Starlight, but they must be found first. They use 10 EP points, can last 3 turns, and have special abilities. Both of them have their own sets of different spells and when the spell is used, all her attributes are slightly risen.
Star Wind provides her with a blue remake of her costume. It is very similar to her original outfit but each individual piece of clothing is different, including her hair piece, with now an aquamarine color. Star Wind is found in the Cathedral Ship with MOMO as the lead character.
- The special Tech that comes with it is called Magic Caster which steals a rare item from a boss. It seems like her wand turns into a fishing rod and she throws the line. When it flashes a picture of her eyes, it means she got the item and pulls back the line, including the item which looks like a present. It is a far range Tech.
Starlight is her second transformation spell. This costume is very extravagant. Her hair ornaments are different again and she wears the beautiful top and skirt, along with a giant bow on her back. This costume is a flaming red and orange. Starlight is found in the Song of Nephilim with MOMO as the lead character.
- Her special Tech for this ether is called MOMO's Kiss. She makes an outline of her face and a giant version of her head appears in front of her. She then whacks it and sends it hurtling through the enemy. This is a far range Tech.
In Episode I, MOMO's weapons are short metal rods with mystical powers. The rods can be used to hit the enemies and have the ability to shoot some sort of musical or petal themed laser beams at the enemies.
In Episode II and Episode III, MOMO has discarded the magical rods and replaced them with an Ether-Based Composite Bow. This causes all her attacks to become long range. MOMO's Ether Bow in Episode II bears the name "LEGOLAS" on its surface (a reference to Legolas Greenleaf from Lord of the Rings).
MOMO starts with her ether bow again in Episode III; this time the name of this default weapon is Compound VI.
Tech Attacks Edit
Dark Scepter is obtained by defeating Mintia. Objects created by finishing off Gnosis with Dark Scepter:
- Emerald - Unicorn, Wyrm
- Garnet - Drone G1, Drone G3, Goblin, Kobold, Manticore
- Ruby - Basilisk, Bugbear, Cerberus, Golem
- Sapphire - Fairy, Hydra
- Diamond - Gigas
- Hemlock - Lizardman
- Frame Repair A - Ogre
- Frame Repair Z - Troll
- Skill Upgrade Z - Armaros
- Holey Gloves - Delphyne
Battle quotes
- "I'm not a tool that you can just use!" (to Margulis during the boss fight)
- "Here you go!"
- "I feel more like a combat model these days."
- "I'm gonna try hard for everyone!"
- "I'm gonna do my best!"
- "Mystic powers, grant me a miracle!"
- "Bullseye!"
Cutscene quotes
- "I don't like that name." (to Margulis when he calls her "100-Series Observational Realian")
- "I never got to meet Daddy, but he used to talk to me all the time before I was born. It's all a little hazy, but I remember him telling me that I could become a real person if I did good deeds."
- "Why doesn't Mommy ever want to see me?"
- "If a lot of people died because of my birth, does that mean I'm an abomination as well, just like Daddy?"
- "Why do you hurt people? My sisters... they all loved something they saw in you. And even after all that you put them through, they still believed in you... how... how could you desecrate their feelings?! Their hearts!" (to Albedo)
- "Tell me! Please, Kirschwasser! Are these actions really of your own will? Do you HONESTLY want to destroy Second Miltia? Is it your will that so many people DIE!?" (in the anime)
- "But that's my... She's not just... Kirschwasser is my sister." (in the anime)
- "Allow me to introduce myself. I am the 100-Series Observational Unit Prototype, designation: MOMO."
- "Artificial... emotion? My heart is... just an optional function?"
- "Shion... what is that!? It's horrible!" (seeing Cecily and Cathe)
- In Xenosaga Episode I: Reloaded, MOMO can unlock a Kirschwasser outfit. It can be found during the Song of Nephilim section. While playing through this section, make your way into the third tower. In here, you should be able to find and unlock the Kirschwasser outfit.
- According to the database in Xenosaga Episode III, MOMO's third appearance is made finalized by a transgenic-type Realian, which are Realians that are half-humans. Due to the having the mix of human genes in her body, MOMO is possibly capable of aging into an older woman, and potentially conceive a child, making MOMO a unique entity of a Realian.
- In Episode II, MOMO exhibits impressive driving skills, possibly due to being an Observational Realian.
- In Episode III, if the player is idle with MOMO, she will do a dance.[1]
- Despite that MOMO is 14/15 years old in the series, she still peculiarly refers to the Mizrahis as "mommy" and "daddy" in a childish way. The reason behind this is never explained - it could be part of MOMO's programming or just a habit.
- MOMO appears with Shion and KOS-MOS in Namco × Capcom, in their appearances from Episode I. MOMO forms a single unit along with Shion, and supports her with her abilities.[2]
- MOMO appears in Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier EXCEED with KOS-MOS, this time in her Episode III outfit. Unlike KOS-MOS, who is a player character, MOMO is a supporting unit, using her bow and Star Wind transformation from Episode I to assist in attacks.


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This is a update to previously done post that only had 1 picture and was posted with a URL instead of a seeable picture, I finally figured out how to post properly. Building was made using part of a Wells Fargo Pola build that had been damaged in a storm. The building actually supplied enough material to build this and 2 others. This is one of my first buildings that kit bashed, and at that time I had just gotten into LED's so this one is Battery powered. It has lights inside the building, 1 under the canopy where the pumps are and 1 each in the Texaco stars on the top of the building, and switch for same is just under the eve of the rear of the building which you can see just above the Texaco sign on rear of building. I changed the hoses on the pumps to a finer more realistic tubing. Funny thing that you can't see in the pictures but the 1920ish pumps have a EPA lead warranting. The roof I weathered like an old station that I remember that the owner had replace 1 rusted out roof panel( I get a lot of ? about why I didn't paint that panel, too funny., Side doors do open and station now has an old time coke cooler out in front and added old time decals. This build was for 1 of my sons that friends call Barn, fun build
Nice rebuild.
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Ending Hunger NowPosted: July 30, 2011 Filed under: economy, education, politics, society Leave a comment
Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war. Her vision: "Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together."
From http://www.ted.com
The First Follower Makes a LeaderPosted: July 27, 2011 Filed under: society Leave a comment
What truly makes a leader? How to leaders succeed?
Anonymous: "What We Are Capable Of"Posted: July 17, 2011 Filed under: politics, society Leave a comment
The secret to happiness…Posted: July 8, 2011 Filed under: psychology Leave a comment
Marijuana the Gateway DrugPosted: July 8, 2011 Filed under: drugs Leave a comment
Joe Rogan discussing Bill O'Reilly's retardednessPosted: July 8, 2011 Filed under: politics, science 1 Comment
"How'd the moon get there? How'd it do it?"
It's called science, Bill.
I know this is slowly turning into more of a video-blog, but videos are a great way to convey information. Skip to about 2 minutes if interested:
It's interesting to note how in Canada we don't have any mainstream news people who are as mentally retarded as some in the US. None of ours seem to have political or ideological agendas that conflict with just giving us the news, the information- or at least it's more subtle. Perhaps if we multiplied our population by 10 our idiocy would match theirs as a whole.
Pop Up Fallacies – Obama lies at 9.5 Lies Per Minute?Posted: July 7, 2011 Filed under: politics Leave a comment
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North Carolina State University
2016 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner: Jeffrey A. Joines, North Carolina State University
Jeffrey A. Joines, associate professor and associate department head of undergraduate studies in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, joined the faculty of North Carolina State University in 2000.
Joines, honored in 2012 as an NC State Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, is passionate about teaching and creating the best environments to foster student learning. His teaching philosophy is rooted in the belief that a teacher must have passion for his or her subject and must create active learning environments emphasizing "real-world" experiences that will challenge students to reach new levels of success.
Armed with an unfailing enthusiasm for his subject matter and the faith that students, when properly motivated, will embrace the opportunity to learn and engage with each other, Joines provides students the freedom to collaboratively test their creative skills to solve real-world problems. To facilitate his students' success, Joines not only has designed new classes that have become a cornerstone of the textiles engineering curriculum, but also has implemented a new classroom design with reconfigurable pie-shaped desks and computer monitors on all sides, allowing faculty and students to more easily engage with each other.
It is not surprising, given this commitment to his students that Joines continues to engage with and encourage students beyond the classroom and after graduation. As just one example, a former student thanked Joines for helping him to master supply chain modeling and problem-solving, and that the company with whom he had a summer internship considered him a "superstar," offered him a permanent position.
Jon Rust, colleague and former head of the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, praises Joines as "exceptionally gifted in his ability to lead effective learning in the classroom" and for his "keen sense of interest in demonstrating through verifiable assessment practices what really works best for students' long-term professional development." A recent survey of textile engineering alumni attests to Joines' impact beyond the classroom. Eighty-four percent of respondents stated that Computer-Based Modeling for Engineers (TE/ISE 110), a course he co-created with College of Engineering colleague Steve Roberts, made a significant difference in their careers.
In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate classes, mentoring students and designing courses, Joines believes that serving on teaching-related committees is essential for realizing continuous improvement in curricula and in student learning outcomes. For the past three years, he chaired NC State's Evaluation of Teaching Committee. This group developed a template to ensure more consistency in peer reviews of teaching and created educational materials for all faculty on the use of mid-semester student evaluations as a way to enhance teaching practices. Joines currently serves on the university-wide Council of Undergraduate Education and chairs the course and curriculum committee of the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science.
Joines earned a BS in electrical engineering and a BS in industrial engineering (1990), a MS in industrial engineering (1993) and a PhD in industrial engineering (1996), all from North Carolina State University.
Q. The Teaching Awards were established in 1994 to underscore the importance of teaching and to encourage, identify, recognize, reward, and support good teaching within the University. What does this award mean to you?
A. I'm humbled to be recognized as a top teacher because teaching is a passion for me and it means a lot to be recognized by my peers. I'm also humbled as I look at the list of people who have won in the past and at the other teachers who are being honored this year. There's a quote by John Podojil that I keep taped to my computer. It says: "Teaching is not a profession; it's a passion. Without passion for your subject and a desire for your students to learn and be the best in the world, then we have failed as a teacher and failure is not an option." That's what teaching means to me. I'm thrilled that NC State and the university system share that passion.
Q. What was your path into teaching?
A. During my undergraduate years, while I was earning degrees in electrical engineering and industrial engineering at NC State, I had internships at IBM. They kept making me job offers, but I kept putting them off. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so I went on and got my master's and Ph.D. in industrial engineering. One of my professors, Russell E. King, encouraged me to teach. He said, "Jeff, you're really good at it. You know how to take complicated subjects and help students understand them." I also had teaching in my blood. My mom was a seventh grade English teacher, so I got my passion for teaching from her.
Q. Besides this award, is there one particular achievement in your career that makes you especially proud?
A. About 12 years ago, our students in textile engineering were required to take a class in C++ in the computer science department. They never used it; it was just a box they had to check off. At the time I was working with companies to help them solve real-world problems, and I was doing a lot of data manipulation in Excel using Visual Basic. I realized that this was a skill that our students needed. So I worked with the industrial engineering department to create a class called TE110, Computer-Based Modeling with Excel and Visual Basic. The class teaches students to use data to make better decisions and to build decision support systems. When we did a survey of our recent alumni a couple of years ago, 84 percent said that class made a difference in their careers by giving them a skill set that allowed them to be very successful. For me, that's a pretty big achievement.
Q. What teaching methods do you use to engage students?
A. It's all about active learning or inquiry guided learning. I often use computer simulations with real data that the students collect themselves. I might have them roll toy cars across a piece of paper or shoot marbles with little catapults – anything that helps them visualize complex principles such as statistical variance and tolerance parameters.


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According to the British "financial times" reported on August 26, when the U.S. government for four years ago China Zhongwang Holdings co., LTD. (China Zhongwang Holdings) anti-dumping duties, the world's second largest aluminium producers in China's booming domestic market found the compensation.
Zhong wang today's profitability is the highest in the aluminum product manufacturers around the world. However, along with a position and a major change in the light metals market, global market began to zhongwang review. Large aluminium poured out of China and the impact on the world market, this makes zhong wang and other aluminium producers in China focus, whose success could lead to new China and the United States trade tensions.
Late last month, a previously unknown to public, called Dupre Analytics short-seller report, accusing zhongwang by chairman Liu Zhongtian control false sales of aluminum, in order to defraud tax rebates from the Chinese government. The agency said the aluminum in the overseas sales at below cost price, led to the aluminum too much backlog.
Zhong wang's announcement, said the report "no facts according to". The company will be in the Hong Kong stock exchange (a bit) listed shares were suspended, and refused to make any further comment on the report.
Can not contact reporter Dupre Analytics to comment. The agency's web site can be traced back to a located in Austin, Texas (Austin) address, but did not leave any contact information.
The global aluminum industry is worth $100 billion, these charges are mounting part of the battle for dominance. The industry for automotive, cans, plane and Watch all sorts of equipment, such as Apple (Apple Watch) – provide metal materials.
Today, China accounted for more than half of the global aluminum supply, while only 18% in 2003, the growth thanks to cheap power and built aluminum smelters in the world's most efficient manner. In the face of financial crisis since the lowest prices and profit margins and profits slid in, from North America, Russia to the Middle East, the veteran aluminum manufacturers are very anxious, but due to fear of loss of market share, they are not going to cut capacity.
Cheap hydropower and the neighbouring xinjiang desert in central Asia region detection of new mines, let the smelting capacity in China has greatly increased. According to Goldman Sachs (Goldman Sachs), a short span of four years, China Hongqiao (China Hongqiao) from China's fifth largest producers, until the end of 2014 to develop into the world's largest producer.
Cash-strapped local governments are reluctant to close the factory, has just completed, so we can not sell in China must find aluminum exports.
Alcoa chief executive Klaus Kleinfeld (Klaus Kleinfeld) in July, said: "they avoided the 15% of China's export tariff (aluminium), got 13% of the value-added tax rebates (downstream aluminum products). And they directly compete with western aluminium.
The key point is that these people tend to exaggerate the price, for more value-added tax rebates. What are "Klaus kleinfeld, without naming specific companies.
Once finished products from China (in the process that producers get tax rebates), it is certain to be sold. Channel is one of the finished product remelting into aluminium can be traded in London metal exchange. The second method is to aluminum products sold to the United States, the huge American market to absorb the low price of aluminum products.
According to a market participant, so Chinese manufacturers can purchase aluminium, low price slightly processed exports.
Zhongwang way to last when it comes to the industry insists: "from the point of view of aluminium producers, the export products meet the requirements of all policy, does not violate any law."
Industry executives estimate that remelting metals makes cost increase by around 4%, but the VAT tax refund more than profit to offset the cost increases.
The American association of aluminum extrusion materials (Aluminium Extruders Council) chief operating officer Jeff? Henderson (JeffHenderson) said: "in China's exports to the United States in the process of aluminum extrusion products, we have seen some very strange behavior, and we are very worried about their one thousand tries to penetrate the United States."
Producers such as the United States to zhongwang shipment slapped anti-dumping duties on aluminium products, the results prove that did not stand too big obstacle, because of the anti-dumping duty applies only to a limited product range. Some American importers of aluminium products. In 2013, a federal grand jury verdict five purchasing aluminum from China, they use false invoices in Malaysia to repackage the aluminum, and then import these goods from Puerto Rico. In the same year in Ohio, was fined $1.1 million a importer, the reason is that fake customs file import aluminum extrusion materials in China.