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One of the great things about fantasy gaming, or any other genre of gaming for that matter, is that we can take a vile concept from real life, such as the ancient art of torture, something that normally reminds us of the atrocities of which humans are capable, and having fun with the variety of ways and means!
I propose a one-stop shop for everything and anything torture-related. Every GM in the history of gaming, has decribed at one time or another, the ubiquitous torture chamber deep in the bowels of some dungeon, castle, or cult headquarters. In published materials, these dank rooms are usually filled with the standard cliched items. A Rack, an Iron Maiden, and some heated tongs and pincers. But there are so many ways to make em' talk or kill them slowly, that I thought this would make a great thread!
I'm proposing entries of both a historical nature, and ones from imagination as well. Anything goes!
Inspiration struck after reading a MoonHunter entry, titled The Red Hand's Guide.
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This device was invented when Sir Leonard Skeffington was the lieutenant of the Tower of London. 'Scavanger' was a corruption of Skeffington. In Italy this was known as the 'cicogna' or "the stork".
Originally used as a bondage device to transport prisoners between two buildings-this device also caused painful cramping of the abdomen and rectum. The neck was placed inside a loop, the hands placed through smaller loops, and the legs stuck between two bars, with the feet locked into stirrups. This placed the prisoner into an uncomfortable fetal position, with the knees and hands drawn up to the chin. Any kind of significant movement was painfully impossible.
Variations existed, which allowed the torturer to slowly compress the distance between the knees and chin. This resulted in broken bones, througout the ribcage and spine.
An execution device designed in ancient Greece, and one of my favorites!
A brazen bull, life-sized, made totally of brass, was hollow, with a door in the side. The victim was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "red hot" and causing the victim inside to slowly roast to death. So that nothing unseemly might spoil the spectators viewing pleasure, the bull was usually designed in such a way that its smoke rose in spicy clouds of incense. The head of the ox was supplied by a complex system of tubes and stops so that the prisoner's screams were converted into sounds not unlike the bellowing of an infuriated ox. It is also said that when the bull was reopened, the victims' scorched bones shone like jewels and were made into bracelets.
In my campaign, the jaded aristocrats of the Empire of A'Thun, 'improved' on this design, by allowing a more intricate set of tubing and piping to emit a sound not unlike music, during the roasting victim's muted death screams. Composers, of a sort, competed among themselves to produce short, inspired pieces of symphony for the amusement of the masses.
A deviously simple tool that was used on victims either cold or red-hot. Built somewhat like a huge scissor with four to six curved prongs in lieu of blades. Suspended from the ceiling, the pincers would be used to lift the victim into the air, using the soft flesh of the buttocks, belly or breasts- or the eyes and ears, much like a bowling ball.
A classic Shaw Brothers Kung-Fu film which featured quite an array of disturbing torture and killing methods.
1- A weakened (from torture) and sleeping victim, is excruciatingly killed by asphixiation, being slowly smothered to death in his cell with several layers of wet paper sheets, placed snuggly on his face. No mess, no fuss. It appears he died from previous injuries.
2- The classic Iron Maiden makes an appearence
3- A breastplate of iron, heated in a fire is forced onto a victim's chest, causing his flesh to burn, bubble and scar permanently.
4- One poor sap, a witness to a killing, is 'silenced' permanently by the murderers, by having his throat ripped out from the inside with a long steel hook inserted through his mouth. The villains killed another chap by jamming a long sewing needle up his nose, and into his brain. A little blood around his nostril was the only evidence of how he died.
Glass Ball
A galss ball is put into the person's mouth, then a belt like thing is put around their head, from the bottom of their jaw up to the top of their head. A pen and a piece of paper are given to them, and they are told to answer the questions. They are also told, in excruciating detail, what happens when that ball shatters and shreads their mouth into ribbons.
If they don't the belt is tightened one hole. Eventually the pressure on the ball will become so great that they don't know if the next lie will be thier last. Also, you can have the ball be hollow, and filled wih a noxious gas that would cause them to gag/puke to prevent them from swallowing the glass shards.
A large-toothed, four-handed woodsman's saw. The unfortunate subject is suspended upside-down, and the saw was used to split the body in two, beginning at the crotch. Because the victim is inverted, the brain remains adequately oxygenated and little blood is lost, ensuring that consciousness was maintained until the saw reached the navel and even possibly the breast.
Less is more...
The purpose of this device is not torture but execution. The apparatus is comprised of a blade which falls between two vertical columns equipped with grooves. Painless perhaps, but scientists discovered (and this has been confirmed by modern neuroscience) that a head that is cut off in this swift manner is well aware that it has been beheaded, maintaining consciousness just long enough to perceive this.
The saq mai (F'lorine, meaning "head drop") is a quite simple but diabolically ingenious tool of torturers. The main component is a simple rack, on which the victim is locked, stretched out, unable to move, but not stretched. The victim's head is covered in a harness of sorts; on the backside of this harness (against the victim's head) are sharp (though not deadly sharp) pins. The front of the mask (which sports no pins) is connected to a chain- this chain runs through a metal loop above the table, and on the other side of the chain there is a huge, spiked weight.
Therefore, summarizing the function of the saq mai, the victim remains in a constant state of paralyzing neck pain and fear; if the victim moves his head down into a more comfortable position, the pins of the head-harness with stab into his skin (they already cause considerable discomfort); if the victim moves his head forward off the pins in an effort to lessen the pain of these pins, the spiked weight will lower into his innards.
The piercing of both wrists and ankles with nails is the key. Also it is vital to position the ankle nails such that the victim's knees are slightly bent. (Note that, contrary the Christian mythology the upper nails were nearly always driven through the wrists rather than the hands as this provides a more secure hold. Similarly the lower nail was typically driven through the ankles rather than the feet, although this was largely a matter of convenience).
It works as follows:
The victim is suspended by his (or indeed her) wrists. This not only causes considerable pain but also tightens the pectoral muscles across the chest, constricting the lungs and making breathing all but impossible.
In an attempt to breathe the victim instinctively straitens his knees, in order to relieve the pressure on the lungs. However, the only support is the nail driven through the ankles, which causes the victim excruciating levels of pain that cannot long be endure.
To relieve the pain the victim relaxes his knees and is again suspended by the wrists. Thus the cycle repeats endlessly.
The perverse beauty of all this is that no active torturer is required as the victim's own instinctive desire the live does all of the work.
Contemporary accounts suggested that a healthy man might take three or four days to die.
Death wasn't always by asphyxiation. Dehydration, blood loss, and simple shock were also ways to die when crucified. In addition, the manner of crucifixion wasn't set in stone. There were constant variations in the specifics, sometimes including piercing through the actual palms.
In addition, in an honor/shame society (as the ANE was), crucifixion would be a most shameful, dishonorable way to die. That was a major part of it's purpose. To degrade and shame, as well as torture and kill. Something to keep in mind if you're going to be using this in a campaign.
For this one the victim is strapped to a chair, with both of their palms face up. A substance such as heroin is heated up to the point where it melts, and a knife is heated until it is red-hot. The knife is then run through the heroin, or any other suitable drug, until the whole blade is coated with a thin film of the drug. The knife is then used to peel the skin off of the victim's exposed arm, in thin strips so that this can be done repeatedly on the same arm.
The knife is then heated again, and the drug reapplied, the process is repeated until the victim caves.
Torture is not always about pain, which the devious posters to this thread seem to know very well...
First you bind the person's hands so that their finger nails go into their other arm. Then you cast a spell on their finger nail alone, something along the lines of 'speed up growth so that 1 year passes in a minute' Soon their nails will grow into their skin causing them undue pain. You then stop the spell, and cut the nail off. Move their hands and re-bind. Repeat until desired results are achieved.
This has reminded me of an actual execution technique from Asia: the prisoner is bound to lie down on earth, on a cleared bamboo field... if you have plants that can grow a few centimeters a day through anything, you do not need to worry about the prisoner or the funeral.
Something feeling 'asian' or not is a foolish criteria for usage.
This technique can only be used in worlds were there is no seperation between clerical and wizard magics, where magic can be used to heal.
The technique is simple. The mage puts a pain block in the target's abdomin. An incision is made and warm to pure charcol hot to warm coals are put in (important as they burn clean and don't need too much 02). The wound is then healed over. The pain block is removed and reapplied as needed to "motivate" the target. If the target "spills their guts", the coals can be removed by a quick incision and some more healing.
This lovely location can be used for more than mere executions of nobility. The ringing of the bells, if not fully rhythmic, can still do serious kinetic damage to the target, as well as deafen them, and can send the target towards madness, but not kill them. So "short doses" of the bell can be used to "loosen" the tongue of most people, who after the second or third time under will do just about anything to avoid it.
This is not a fantasy torture. Execution by bell was practiced in three Asian countries in centuries past.
Pillory : A wooden framework on a post, with holes for the head and hands, in which offenders were formerly locked to be exposed to public scorn as punishment.
The barrel pillory was a device of perfect torture if used correctly.
This particular device was mainly used on those who ere common to befall the disgrace of to much drink. The barrel fit over the entire body of the person being punished with their head sticking out of the very top. Only the head could stick out as the top was usually two parts that were clamped shut allowing only the head through but did not allow the person being punished to dip their head below the opening.
There were two kinds of this particular device. The enclose barrle which forced the person being punished to kneel in their own filth for the length of their punishment, not to mention not being able to properly sit, kneel, or bend to a comfortable position.
And the open barrel where the perons being punished was forced to walk the streets to show their crime to the populace always to open ridicule and scorn.
Often there were scenes painted on the sides of the barrel showing the transgressions of the person being accused of. Drunkenss, fighting, theft were all popular themes.
Not a common item used in a dungeon or torture setting it could however be used for a purpose to punish both men and women.
Other names of this same device were, the girgle of purity, girdle of venus, or the florentine girgle.
The history of this device predates Christianity but its use rose to a high during midieval periods. They were never intended to be worn for long periods of time, more for short jaunts to protect against the possibility of rape.
There are two forms of the belt, the partial pudenda and the full pudenda. The partial pudenda was a metal belt that locked around the waist and had a metal front. The covering around the genital area was left open but was usually covered in small, sharp pins or spikes that pointed outward. Some even had a single edged blade that ran the length of the opening.
The full pudenda was built in a similar manner but instead of a single opening in the front it had one in the rear as well. Both openings had the same spikes or teeth that protected from enterance.
A rarely used torture, but one I would use in my setting to really get into the players heads, was to force a male onto an individual wearing one of these devices. The male usually does not last long with this kind of torture.
It could also, uncommonly, be used against woman who are pronounced shrews or adulterers to keep them from continuing their ways.
Not the piece of armor but ana ctual device made by the germans, who oddly enough gave it a french name.
This was an odd device usually made out of what was lying about the shop of the blacksmith who built them. It was formed of a breastplate surrounded by three or four bands of metal that locked in the back. A locking band would go under the groin of the prisoner to lock in the back as well as bands locking over the shoulders. This was not a custom built device but the bands were able to lock in different positions making it possible for different sized prisoners to use the same device with similar discomfort.
A prisoner would be locked into this device with their arms bound to their sides and the bands locked into place. The weight caused by the breastplate would cause a heavy discomfort but with the inability to bend and stretch or even move the arms, the prisoner was uncomfortable quickly. Sitting in this device was near impossible, and unconfortable to boot.
Reach out and touch someone...
The Tucker Telephone is a torture device of the early 20th century. It used parts from a (now old-fashioned crank) telephone. The electric generator of the telephone is wired in sequence to two batteries so that the instrument can be used to administer electric shocks to another person. The Tucker Telephone was invented by a trustee who acted as the "resident physician" at the Tucker State Prison Farm, Arkansas, in the 1960s.
At the "Tucker Hospital", an inmate was strapped down and electrodes placed on toes and genitals.. When the crank was turned, a charge was shot through the body. Continuing with the telehone euphemisms, 'long-distance calls' referred to several such charges, just before the point of losing consciousness. This was imperfect, however, and other consequences included permanent organ damage and insanity. Its use is substantiated until 1968.
The Tucker Telephone is also sometimes referred to as Radio Moscow, as the same device was used by the Russians in the early to middle 20th Century. There are scattered reports from American Vietnam war veterans that field phones were occasionally converted into Tucker telephones which were used by platoon commanders to torture Viet Cong prisoners.
A Medieval torture classic, as well as a means of punishment.
The victim would place his or her hands and feet in the open device later to be closed. Depending on the crime, a person could be sentenced to many days, or even weeks of staying confined by the stocks.
Even though in movies they portrait the stocks harmless, the reality was quite different. Victims suffered and sometimes those who wanted to save the victim were also tortured by this method.
Generally placed near a town or other settlement, the victim was subject to the public's harm. In most cases, it was limited to public scorn, feces, and rotten fruit thrown in them. However, if public sentiment was against them, the injuries could be more grevious. Punching/ hitting the victim was popular. However, more popular was the more biblical Stoning. This could be a nuicense to actual deep injury. Supposedly, cutting was very common, with a few rare cases of cuting off parts of the victim (such as a hand) to later be burned; stopping him from dying.
Sometimes, death penalty was sentenced by this device. The victim was to be left confined to the stocks somewhere while the public, sun, and animals did their job to kill him.
The victim is tied strongly enough, so it cannot move (the right equipment should be in any decent torture chamber), then drugged with a decent pain-killer - to feel no pain but stay conscious. Then, at a chosen location, usually a limb, or the abdomen later on, is covered by a piece of cloth which is put on fire.
The key is to maintain a slow-burning fire, that will cause the bodily fat to liquify and soak into the cloth. (This is also one reported cause for spontaneous combustion, given time it can burn the whole body from inside!)
Further medicine may be necessary to keep the unfortunate dieing of shock. Then, let the victim watch itself being slowly burned alive, until the sought information is revealed.
personally, i would just rather a bear came along....
I just happened to have come across this site and see this plea for...evil
Here are a few methods of torture/execution
This one works best in a computer-like chair. The victim sits down, with their hands below and outside the armrests. Their hands are put through the armrests, and under their legs. Then they are handcuffed, leaning forwards uncomfortably. Next, their legs are pulled up to the underside of the chair, where their ankles are shackled. Three small-width collars are placed around their neck. The top and bottom ones are chained to the ankle shackles. The center one (with spikes in the back) is chained to the handcuffs. This allows the collar to tighten as necessary, letting the victim choose to apply pressure to the spikes at the back of their neck, or the collar at the front, which chokes them. Much like crucifixion, the victim oscillates between aspyxiation and extreme pain.
This one requires a lot more planning and technical ability, but has the potential to keep a victim in agony for quite a while. It consists of a small array of mirrors. The victim is put in a collar with spikes on the inside. The collar is chained to the post, with the victim standing. The mirrors reflect the sunlight at the victim, varying the angle of the mirrors to account for the sun's movement. This will result in a searing sunburn after just a few hours. The victim not only suffers the extreme pain of an intensified sunburn, but also sleep deprivation and the threat of future skin cancer. The human body can only survive a few weeks without sleep. As for the burns, I have just one unanswered question: is it possible to inflict a third degree sunburn?
A derivative of this would be to chain the victim to a post and have someone hold a concave mirror out in direct sunlight, reflecting the beam at them and searing away their flesh little by little. To kill the victim (which may or may not be the objective) the torturer would have to burn away a significant percentage of the victim's body mass. Since the beam would cauterize the wound instantly, blood loss would be minimal, and death would be slow.
And finally, here's a wicked one. Some exotic metals can be warped, then when reheated, return to their original size and shape. A short metal cylinder could be stretched to several times its original diameter, then applied to a finger or toe. When heated with a hair dryer, they return to their original shape and size...crushing whatever they are applied to. Eventually, the lack of blood flow to the constricted area will cause it to die and eventually decompose. Antibiotics could keep the victim alive, so they would not die from infection. A supply of 20 fingers and toes should keep the torturer busy for several months before having to start on the limbs.
f the light... we need more torture devices."
This one is relatively simple, one simply straps the patient to the operating table and drug the them into immobility then proceeds to take "creative liberties" with a scalpel upon the more fleshy parts of the body. (or if one wishes fore horrific shock factor the genitals)
The key here is to carve shallow wounds the size and diameter of a nickel (about 1/2" across), then place your preferred strain of flesh eating maggot eggs in to the wound.
As long as you set up a mirror to provide the victim with a decent view of the afflicted area, (Cutting off the eye lids may be necessary at this point.) they will likely tell you anything and everything you want to know as soon as they realize what will happen when the eggs hatch into larvae and go to work on their vulnerable body parts.
After the victim is suitably restrained one applies a sand paper covered belaying pin to various parts of the body with a brisk rubbing motion. The damage caused from this abrasion will be relatively minor (at first) but the pain would be excruciating. (Topical application of salt/alcohol to the wounds will speed the interrogation process without causing excessive harm to the victim.
For variation one can change the grade of sand paper to more or less coarse as they desire or substitute a cheese grater or metal/wood file.
Using a heating element attached inside a hollow metal spike of desired length and thickness one then inserts this probe into the subjects delicate bodily orifice of their choice and slowly turns up the heat. Depending on the amount of heat applied the tissue surrounding the probe will cook over a manner of minutes, hours, or perhaps longer inflicting horrible agony and eventual sterility. (providing the victim with a proper view of the process will help speed interrogation along of course along with the scent of their own body slow roasting)
For variety one can also apply electric shock therapy through this probe instead of, or during the cooking process, although this will hasten the heat build up and onset of sterility.
This one can be applied with minimal difficulty after the subject has been subjected to any number of other interrogation techniques. (It works especially well on spies, and other covert operatives)
The subject after being rendered unconsciouses then has their head bandaged (providing their eyes are still intact) and brought into a room made up to be a mockery of a hospital. (A small speaker connecting to a device that beeps regularly and another one that "hisses" for the hospital sounds and a pan of disinfectant on the floor for that "hospital smell." Providing someone to feel their wrist as if checking their pulse adds to this deception.
The subject is then awoken by someone impersonating a doctor and fed the simple story their body was "dumped" in a river or whatever and then found by an innocent passer by who called an ambulance.
From there the victim (if a spy or covert operative) can be "be briefed" by someone posing as a superior and the unwitting person will usually divulge their mission, what they found out, and what, if anything, they told their captors while under the strain of torture.
(one can also interpose a "qualified psychiatrist" during the debriefing to speak the person about their captivity and the effect it had upon them. Provided one can find a actual psychiatrist to conduct these sessions all manner of mental problems can be caused and/or taken advantage of.)
For added deception one can provide the victim with a secure untraceable line to the outside and allow them to call their "family" and let them know their okay and recovering in whatever out of the way medical area the interrogators have provided. (Usually in a third world country to prevent them from readily paying them a visit)
After this technique has been used whether effective or not, and the victim has recovered a modicum of health. The psychological impact of having the bandages removed or otherwise finding out they are still in the confinement of their torturers will usually break all but the strongest willed victims.
Simply, Blazing salt is a blend of carefully prepared hot pepper and salt. The peppers are cut just so, as to discard as much of the non-capsaicin containing material as possible, leaving behind only the veins that contain the pungent chemicals. Dried, and then ground into the salt, this mixture is applied to open wounds to create agonizing pain. Further, this mixture cannot be easily removed with water, as capsaicin is generally insoluble in water.
The splits
for this one you need these ankle shackles that are connected to chains and the chains are connected to a crank. The victim's ankles are placed in the ankle shackles and the torturer turns the crank, pulling the victim into split position. If this is used for interrogation, the crank can be turned as slowly or as quickly as the torturer wants.
The splits will be very painful, especially if the torturer turns and rests (to let the pain set in).
Well this consists of a wooden/metal/spiked frame that is in the shape of a human body doing a star jump that had lots of straps on it. The victim is strapped to the frame and if the frame is spiked, it will pierce the body. Otherwise, it is the perfect holding in place tool that a torture chamber can ever have.
A variation might include a drugged and spiked ball that is stuffed in the gentials.
Pull the hair out one by one or together!
If you know torture won't work on someone then do it to their family instead to make the person give in.
In rare cases (holy monks/nuns sworn to chastity) then something like making love to them, kissing, licking, touching their bound bodies, would be a kind of mental torture for them.
i read this article because i wanted to learn some new methods, and you guys are truly devious, which i enjoy. so i had a cruel idea that twists some areas of thought. bind victim in an iron ring, similar to the russian implement of torture "the street sweepers daughter". next, you take a needle, with a small broadhead , similar to a bowhunting shaft, but only an inch and a half from tip to tip, in a cross pattern. put string attached to the other end, maybe 4 feet of string, and start the torture. weave the needle into the victims flesh, all over their bodies making sure to make maybe three or four passes on their genitals, but no more. and weave the needle and string all over ther body. once done with the weave, pull the other end of the string so as to rip out the needle with the head of it ripping through the flesh, making it bleed a little bit. salt the wounds, and then let them recuperate for a time to let the injuries heal. wash, rinse repeat. they will not die from it unless you put the needle too deep. truly heinous.
The Breaking Wheel (Catherine's Wheel)
The victim is lashed upon a large wheel, with joints in paritcular places. They are then beaten with clubs, which combined with the pressure points of the spokes easily break bones and joints. The rubbery usless limbs are threaded through the spokes, and the wheel is placed up high for the victim to die of dehydration days later while being pecked at by birds. Mercy may be extended by strangulation of the victim after several blows, or a coup de grace.
A seventeenth-century chronicler wrote the victim looked like, "A sort of huge screaming puppet writhing in rivulets of blood, a puppet with four tentacles, like a sea monster, of raw, slimy and shapeless flesh mixed up with splinters of smashed bones."
Scavenger's Daughter
This device is the opposite principle of the Duke of Exeter's daughter, more commonly known as the rack, and was created for the Tower of London as the rack was too difficult to move up and down the stairs. Instead of stretching the body, the victim is forced into a compressed kneel and the clamp tightened.
From The Leopard, by Jo Nesbo:
Leopold's Apple.
First devised and created in the Belgian Congo. A smooth metallic ball, slightly smaller than a tennis ball in circumference with tiny apertures along its contours. Made of gold, coltan, and steel, the ball is a minor feat of engineering. An additional small opening reveals a looped wire. The ball is placed in the victim's mouth. When the wire is pulled, 24 tiny antenna jut out from the ball, causing it to lodge itself in the mouth. At this point, though not overly painful, the victim cannot remove the ball, nor can another extract it for them. With a second pull of the wire, 24 needles erupt outwards from the extended antennae in 24 directions, causing severe damage to throat, cheek, tongue, palate, nasal cavity, etc....the victim will usually bleed out slowly in excruciating pain. How was this used for torture? It usually involved 2 victims. One who who was forced to swallow the ball, and the second who was forced to watch the effects. That second person would usually begin talking quickly.
bTreadmill with Hot Metal Sheet:b/ You have a treadmill, or some such device like that. You put a metal sheet behind it, and put walls to either side. The metal sheet is kept hot. Burn your skin off if you touch it hot. Very painful hot. The person walks along on the treadmill until he is slowly burnt to death on the sheet.
This two pronged fork was strapped to the victims neck in order to prevent them from sleeping. They would either have their hands tied behind their back or suspended in air. It would also prevent the person from speaking further and was usually used post confession.
Judas Cradle
This device was mostly used in 16th century Spain. The victim would be placed in a harness atop a pyramid-shaped seat with a sharp point. The victim would then be slowly lowered onto the device, which would protrude into their genitals, often ripping them open. Death would occur from tears in muscle tissue that would become infected, or the victim would simply be impaled.
Lead Sprinkler
The Lead Sprinkler was a ball with holes in it attached to a long handle. The punishers would sprinkle the contents of the Lead Sprinkler onto the victim's mouth, anus, vagina or eyes causing intense pain and even death. This device would contain boiling water, hot oil, molten lead, or molten silver.
The crocodile shears were used to punish those attempting to assassinate the king. The device consisted of a tube with spikes at both ends that would be clamped down onto the victim's appendages. The arterial damage that would occur often resulted in agonizing death.
"Beware Greeks bearing...penises" :P
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The problem: so far I can't find any good way to stop Poco's send routine from inside the script. I need something like a "StopSending" command. Any ideas?
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — An increasing number of people began calling downtown Chicago home over the last decade or so, as new condominiums and then rental-apartment buildings accommodated all those young professionals and empty nesters interested in downtown living.
In fact, Chicago's downtown population increased by a net 48,000 residents between the 2000 and 2010, according to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report. That was the largest numeric gain of downtown residents seen in cities throughout the country.
"Even though the market in the for-sale sector began to erode after 2005, then you had a transition into the rental sector, so [downtown Chicago] didn't lose a beat in terms of population growth," said Tracy Cross, president of Tracy Cross & Associates, a company that does market analysis and consulting for home-building clients, and is based in the Chicago area.
But the Second City wasn't the only one to post impressive downtown population gains.
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Metropolitan areas with 5 million or more people saw double-digit population growth rates in their downtowns during the time period, the Census Bureau reported. New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington also saw large boosts in the number of residents living within a 2-mile radius of City Hall.
"It certainly confirms what a number of us have been saying about a shift toward central urban living," said John McIlwain, senior resident fellow at the Urban Land Institute. But, he added, the shift isn't happening in all downtowns throughout the country.
Cities including New Orleans and Baltimore as well as Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, actually saw populations decrease in their downtowns during the 10-year time period, the Census reported.
"It's not just about walkable, urban neighborhoods — that is a necessity, but not sufficient" on its own to get people to move into downtown neighborhoods, McIlwain said. "It has a lot to do with the economic development of the city and design and mix of the city," from amenities to employment opportunities.
Jobs attractive to young, college-educated residents need to be in abundance in the area, and a healthy mix of services, restaurants and cultural attractions need to target not only young people but also those in their 50s, 60s and 70s, he said.
While Baltimore's waterfront helps create an interesting downtown environment, for example, the city has failed so far to generate an economic revival, McIlwain said. More than 10,000 fewer residents lived in Baltimore's downtown in 2010, compared with 2000.
Chicago's downtown, on the other hand, can often beat out nearby suburbs for those looking for an entertaining lifestyle, Cross said. Unlike some places, the Chicago area doesn't really have suburbs that meet or exceed the number and quality of amenities in the downtown area, he added. Living in close proximity to work is a draw for others.
And the housing bust is a factor that is keeping some young professionals from moving out of Chicago's core.
"The typical buyer of condo units were singles and also 28- to 32-year-old, two-person professional households," he said. When the couple decided to grow their family, they'd typically move to a suburban market where the schools were more highly acclaimed.
But today, with many borrowers underwater or unable to sell their homes, some of these condo-unit owners are prevented from moving on, meaning the downtown Chicago area is retaining residents who would have otherwise left by now, he said.
Racial mix of movers
The Census report also found that, nationwide, most of the growth in downtown markets has been due to non-Hispanic whites moving in to the areas.
"The Washington metro area is a notable example of this pattern," said Steven Wilson, a co-author of the Census report, in a news release. "We see increases in the non-Hispanic white population, in both numeric terms and share of the total population, in many of the District's census tracts in or close to the city's downtown area." Meanwhile, the share of non-Hispanic whites in the surrounding suburbs of Washington has decreased by 10 percentage points or more in many census tracts.
Minority population growth showed different trends, according to the Census.
The black population increased the most outside of an area's principal city — in other words, its suburbs, the report found. And Hispanic population growth over the time period occurred most in pockets in and adjacent to the principal city's perimeters.
"There are still fair-housing issues in the suburbs, but they are less," and that is opening up the suburbs to more minority homeowners, many of whom are drawn to the areas for amenities such as better schools, McIlwain said.


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In our previous post we talked about superfoods for dogs, to continue the trend we created a recipe using a few top ingredients.
Kale- Now known as a Super Food for Dogs, it has been proven to help at least 5 types of cancers in humans and research has shown it provides the same benefits to dogs. It lowers cholesterol, is full of nutrients, is an anti inflammatory and an antioxidant.
Quinoa- Is thought of being one of the most complete foods in nature. It contains protein, magnesium, fiber, manganese, and copper. Quinoa is NOT a grain so it is easily digestible and good for dogs with food allergies and digestive problems.
Carrots- They are high in fiber, contain beta carotene and vitamin A. A great low-fat snack that is good in raw form too.
Olive Oil- This is an ingredient most dog owners probably don't think to feed their dogs (in small amounts). It contains high levels of antioxidants and is very effective in helping with disease. Adding olive oil to your dogs food can help with premature aging and cognitive decline as they get older. For more benefits and an in depth look at Olive Oil for your dog check out this link...
Kale- 1/2 Ib. cleaned and chopped
Quinoa- 1 C
Carrots- 7 medium peeled and chopped
Olive Oil- 1 T
Chicken Breast- optional
First, in a medium size pot warm up the olive oil on low heat and add carrots (cover pot). Cook for 20 minutes stirring from time to time. Add chicken breast slices at the 15 minute point to get the flavors cooking together. In a small pot cook the quinoa in 2 cups water (cover pot) for 20 minutes on low heat.
Second, pour the carrot mix into a bowl and use the same pot (it has olive oil residue and flavors) to cook the kale in with 8 cups of water (cover pot). Another option is to cook the kale in some chicken or vegetable stock (low sodium) to get more flavors incorporated for pickier dogs. Cook kale for about 20 minutes, until soft.
Finally, drain the kale and mix everything together in a large bowl that can be sealed the fridge. It will last approximately one week.
We try different recipes all the time to incorporate in to Ms. Maru's food. I am not going to lie, but I wasn't sure she would eat kale, as much as I wanted to think she would. The first day I scooped a cup full out and put it over her dry food. The first day the kale took a few extra minutes to chew and landed outside of her bowl, but it was all gone. Day two, everything was eaten in a matter of minutes, this is better than I expected. I did add chicken to the recipe as optional, and thought she might be more inclined to eat it this way. I am ecstatic that she is loving her Super Foods!


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Harvard University scientists have devised a swarm of 1,024 tiny robots that can work together without any guiding central intelligence.
Like a mechanical flash mob, these robots can assemble themselves into five-pointed stars, letters of the alphabet and other complex designs. The researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Cambridge, Mass., reported their work Thursday in Science.


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Wikileaks Exclusive: Dhoni's secret & sensational plot to help India win the World Cup!
By H Natarajan
This is quite sensational – and incredibly bold, bizarre and desperate. One would never have believed it, had it not come from the undercover Wikileaks – no less.
Away from the prying eyes of India's media hounds and even away from Indian team members, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coach Gary Kirsten met at an undisclosed destination whose security would have done Fort Knox proud. This was not just another meeting. It was a Top Secret plot that Dhoni had masterminded in conjunction with the BCCI. There was one hitch: The plan was possible only if one man agreed – Sachin Tendulkar. "Operation TRS" (reverse of SRT and short for Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar) was extremely dangerous.
Kirsten and Dhoni huddled in the conclave to plot a new strategy that would help India win the World Cup. It was a desperate situation and the solutions were desperate. Both men agreed that the World Cup can only be won by Indian by minimizing the reliance on the rest of the Indian team! But what was shocking was the modus operandi unveiled by Dhoni.
Excerpts from the conclave:
Dhoni: Gary, we have to accept it: this team cannot be relied upon any longer to win the World Cup and make our common dream come true. We have to think of something revolutionary.
Kirsten: Hmmm…
Dhoni: Sachin has to do more than what he has done so far.
Kirsten: What?! What more can he do? He has scored two scored hundreds in this World Cup , has thrown himself on the field like a 22-year-old and has been sharing with the team all the wisdom that he gained over 22 years in international cricket. What more can he do?
Dhoni: This may seem bizarre, but this is the only way I think India has any hopes of winning the World Cup.
Kirsten: Hmmm…
Dhoni: You got to get Sachin to bowl… not as stop-gap, but as a front-line bowler… ten full overs.
Kirsten: Are your crazy?! He is not a bowler, MS.
Dhoni: Says who? He has got 154 wickets in ODIs. Jog your memory to the Hero Cup semi-final against South Africa. None of India's frontline bowlers wanted to bowl that decisive last over against South Africa. Just six runs were needed and South Africa had Brian McMillan at the crease. And Sachin bowled India to victory in the cauldron of Eden. How could you forget that! You are a South African!
Kirsten: But Sachin can't run through sides with his bowling.
Dhoni: Not true! He has taken five wickets in an innings – against Australia and Pakistan. Besides that, on four other occasions he has taken four wickets in an innings.
Kirsten: But that was long time ago… Anyways, if that's what you want, I'll ask Sachin to bowl 10 overs.
Dhoni: Gary, that's not all! You need to ask Sachin to bowl more than 10 overs!
Kirsten: Did you have one peg too many, MS!
Dhoni: You know I don't have alcohol - milk is my favourite drink. I have read the rule book well. And after consulting a high-powered legal team of the BCCI, I'm advised that we can punch holes in the wording of the rule book which will allow Sachin to bowl 10 overs of left-arm!
Kirsten: I'm convinced, you have not had alcohol; you are on drugs!
Dhoni: I come from a very principled family whose value systems are very strong. I don't even know what drugs look like. I'm merely punching holes in the rule book, much like Greg Chappell did when he asked his brother Trevor to bowl underarm. By the time the ICC makes amendments to the rules, we would have achieved our goal of winning the World Cup. I'm convinced that if Sachin bowls left-handed at 50% of his ability, he would exercise greater control than Ashish, Munaf and Sree. And what's the big deal about being left-handed? Sachin is left-handed as well. Everybody knows that. The world has seen him signing autographs left-handed.
Kirsten: So you want me to ask Sachin to bowl 20 overs? Anything else?
Dhoni: Yes!
Kirsten: Yes!!!!
Dhoni: I want you to get Sachin to bowl 30 overs.
Kirsten: I think you need to get a MRI of your brain. NOW! You have lost it, MS. No doubt about that. Stop reading the newspapers, watching TV and giving so much importance to what's said on Facebook and Twitter and you will be less stressed out.
Dhoni: Chill, Gary. Just hear my plan in it's entirely… Sometime during the course of the game and before he has bowled a single ball, Piyush (Chawla) will leave the field to go into the dressing room and a substitute will take his place. In the next over, Sachin will also go inside the pavilion and another substitute will take his place in the field… an expert quick-change artist, flown especially from America, will be in the dressing room…
Kirsten: Can we talk tomorrow when you are sane - hopefully?
Dhoni: All visionaries who thought out of the box have been laughed at, so I don't blame you for laughing at me. Allow me to complete what I have to say…
Kirsten: You think nobody would find out that it's Sachin masquerading as Piyush?
Dhoni: Nobody in the world would ever doubt Sachin's credibility. He is God! How can God lie? Oh, I forgot… During the makeover, a Hollywood whiz who will be part of the operation would stretch a Piyush-lookalike rubber mask over Sachin's face. Trust me, even Piyush's mom won't recognize that it's not her son!
Kirsten: What's the big idea of making Sachin look like Piyush?
Dhoni: I want you to get Sachin to bowl 10 of Piyush's overs as well!!!
Kirsten: I think I'm going to faint. Let me leave…
Dhoni: Relax, Gary. Sachin turns the leg-spin long way more than Piyush can ever hope to. With Sachin bowling 30 overs, Zaheer and Ashwin bowling 10 each, our bowling would suddenly look brilliant. As a backup, we have Yuvi.
Kirsten: This is crazy.
Dhoni: No, this is cricket's Mahabharat. You should have been the Krishna, but somehow I have to be the Krishna and you are the Arjuna. I know Sachin is very correct and extremely conscientious, but sometimes white lies have to be told if Dharma has to prevail. Even Yudishtra – the epitome of truth - had to lie to his guru Droncharya on the advice of Lord Krishna. Tell Sachin that his Dharma is towards his motherland. It's his duty to defend her at ALL COSTS. Ask him to reflect at the number of times he was given out by biased umpires. Ask him to think of the times the Kalyug ka Raavans adopted foul means to get his wicket. All that I'm imploring you is to ask him to protect Team India from outside forces… and, if I may say so, even inside forces! Sachin is very patriotic and he is also very devout Hindu. Appeal to those two reasons.
Kirsten: I'm confused…
Dhoni: All is fair in love and war. And the World Cup is cricket's World War!
Kirsten: But the batting problem remains, MS. The team has embarrassingly collapsed far too often in the qualifying stage of this World Cup.
Dhoni: I have a plan for that as well!
Kirsten: Now what else?!!
Dhoni: My plan goes thus… Unlike his normal practice, Sachin will take strike to the first ball of the innings. And then take a single off the last ball… and he will have to be asked to continue keep taking singles off the last ball of every over … till the 50th over if we bat first or till our target is achieved, if we are chasing!
Kirsten: I saw a Hindi movie recently… (scratching his bald head) what is the name? …. yes, Sholay! In that there is a dialogue (Kirsten says in his South African accent) …"Gabbar ko pakkadna hai, aur who bhi zinda! Gabbar koi bakri ka baccha hai?" You made it sound as sound so simple MS!
Dhoni: Look at the mountain of records Sachin has created. Did anybody in his wildest of fantasies ever think all those were possible? Yet he achieved it. There is nothing Sachin can't. There is always a first time, and for that first time there is nobody better than Sachin! If you get Sachin to follow my plan, he can bat 50 overs all by himself! Now see the probability of India winning the World Cup with Sachin batting the FULL 50 overs and bowling 30 overs! That's 80 overs in Sachin's control! Wow!
By the way, this is the plan for the quarter-final game against Australia. If you can get Sachin to implement my plan and win the game, then India lifting the World Cup itself is assured. The semi-final and final have been taken care. Now I don't know how, but I'm told they have been! We don't have to do anything other than just go out and play without any pressure of winning! It's difficult to strike deals with Australia, hence my master plan is for Australia.
I would like to reveal a secret. The Aussies will be forced by the umpires into going for their two UDRS very early in the game. After which decisions will be in our favour as they would have exhausted their two referral options. Everything has been planned to perfection. It's a high-powered operation involving lot of power people in high places.
Kirsten: What if your grand plan fails. Is their a Plan B?
Dhoni: Of course! If things go completely awry, Plan B is to fake a terrorist attack! "Terrorists' would be taking positions at strategic places in the ground before the game against Australia starts. A Supreme Commander appointed for this very purpose will be told if and when to give the green signal to the 'terrorists' to create panic – mind you, there will not be any killings. Once the 'terrorists' swing into action, a Swift Action Force (SAF) would huddle the Australian team into safety. The Australian team management would be informed about the 'terrorists' and give them the choice of staying back or getting airlifted out of the country in a waiting chopper next to the stadium. You know the Aussies… they chickened out of the Sri Lankan leg in the 1996 World Cup due to fear of terror attacks. They WILL leave. Once we know that they are well and gone, it would be announced that the 'terror' attack was a prank – an advance April 1 joke. Of course, the 'terrorists' would be 'captured' and taken to an unknown destination. In reality, the 'unknown destination' is Andamans, where they will be on a fully-paid vacation with their families! Since the Aussies would have packed off, the match would be forfeited to India.
I know you can be trusted and that's why I'm confiding what I'm going to tell you now. Please don't reveal it to anybody. Actually Sharad Pawar is part of the master plan. He wants India to win the World Cup during his tenure as ICC president. He also wants to get back at the Aussies by ensuring that they can't shove him off the stage during the post-presentation photo-shoot by the global media! And for that to happen, the Aussies would have to be stopped in the quarter-final itself!
When the nation of 1 billion celebrates India's World Cup triumph, the terror prank will be forgotten… and the IPL that starts six days after the end of the World Cup will ensure that!
You and Sachin can go back to your respective families and live happily ever after with your common dream of winning the World Cup fulfilled! And, yes, my dream to figure in the Forbes List of richest men in the world would also take a giant leap!
(Disclaimer: The above piece is pure fiction. It's just a spoof and none of the incidents mentioned ever took place nor anything about the people mentioned in the article is true)
(H Natarajan is the Executive Editor of www.cricketcountry.com)
Labels: 2011 World Cup, Gary Kirsten, H Natarajan, MS Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar


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Perkins & Marie Callender's Inc. operates two restaurant concepts. Perkins Restaurant and Bakery is a full-service family dining restaurant that serves a wide variety of high quality, moderately-priced, breakfast, lunch and dinner entrees. Marie Callender's Restaurant and Bakery is a mid-priced, casual-dining restaurant that specializes in the sale of pies and other bakery items. The company also has a bakery goods manufacturing division, Foxtail Foods, which manufactures pies, pancake mix, cookie doughs, and muffin batters for in-store bakeries and third party customers.
Founded in 1958, Perkins is the leading operator and franchisor of nearly 500 full-service family dining restaurants located primarily in the Midwest, Florida and Pennsylvania.
Fifty years after its beginning as a single pancake house in Ohio, Perkins continues to offer guests personalized service and high quality food at a great value.
• The Perkins system includes 163 company-owned and operated restaurants and 320 franchised units. More than 50% of Perkins Restaurants are located in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Wisconsin.
• The Company and its franchisees employ approximately 25,000, encompassing both full and part time positions.
• Core menu items at Perkins include its famous pancakes, unique premium omelettes, juicy USDA choice steaks, salads, and signature melt sandwiches. Perkins menu development and innovation ensures that all product offerings recognize and address consumers changing tastes and preferences.
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Before dawn last Aug. 28, Tonya Smith said, she heard two shots and pulled her 13-year-old daughter under the bed. Then came the sound of tactical officers pounding up the stairs.
Baltimore County police were looking for Smith's teenage son, Rasheed Stanford, in connection with a nearby shooting, but he wasn't there. Another boy in the house attempted to flee, sparking a chaotic scene that ended in the shooting deaths both Smith's nephew and a veteran officer.
Stanford, now 17, was in court Wednesday on charges from the earlier shooting, and his mother spoke afterward — providing the first detailed account from someone inside the house of the fateful raid.
Smith said her son, who sought unsuccessfully to move his case to juvenile court, is being unfairly held responsible for the death of Officer Jason Schneider, a 13-year veteran. Schneider and a second officer returned fire, killing the shooter, Smith's nephew, 25-year-old Tevon Smith.
Stanford's mother also criticized the surprise raid, saying if officers had knocked, she would have told them Stanford wasn't home.
"It's bad two people had to lose their lives. It could've been prevented," Smith said. She questioned why police used a no-knock warrant, arguing that her then-16-year-old son did not pose a threat to officers.
Critics say such deployments can be overused, resulting in danger for officers and the people inside targeted homes, but police officials say such tactics are necessary when dealing with potentially armed and dangerous suspects.
Police were seeking Stanford on a warrant accusing him of shooting a 29-year-old man in the neck outside a Winters Lane bar on Aug. 19.
In court documents, police said members of the tactical unit made it clear that they were police officers. They also said Schneider held a ballistic shield with the word "police" written across its front.
"The goal with any tactical situation is to minimize risk to personnel and civilians and to avoid destruction of vital evidence," Baltimore County police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said in an email. "Each incident presents the unit with different challenges regarding terrain, physical structures, number of suspects, weapons and the presence of bystanders or hostages. There is no one-size-fits-all approach."
Mark Lomax, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association. said police have to determine their approach based on what they know: Is the suspect at home? Does he or she have a gun? Is he or she likely to use it?
"It's kind of like doing surgery; every situation is different," Lomax said.
Armacost said the homicide investigation is continuing, as well as the investigation into where the guns came from and whether they were obtained legally.
Stanford's defense attorney, David E. Williams, argued Wednesday that his client is amenable to treatment and would benefit from rehabilitative services offered to juvenile offenders.
However, prosecutors said there would be few programs available to him because he faces gun-related charges.
Judge Robert E. Cahill Jr. ruled that the case should stay in adult court, a decision he said was "not even close."
Williams has consistently pointed out that Stanford was not home during the raid, urging the court to consider his case independently.
At his client's bail review hearing, Williams fought against prosecutors playing a portion of Stanford's recorded interview with detectives where he disparaged the slain officer, telling detectives, "[Expletive] him and his family."
Williams said Stanford had expressed concern and remorse during other portions of the interview, and pointed out that Stanford was also mourning a relative.
Smith said Wednesday that "this case should just be on the facts of the case," referring to the nonfatal shooting.
She said she was unaware that police had been searching for her son. He had been staying with his father in Baltimore to be closer to a GED work program, Smith said.
Police said six people were in the house when officers entered shortly after 5 a.m., including 17-year-old Taquan Barney, who allegedly tussled with Schneider while trying to escape.
Smith said she, her teenage daughter and her sister — who is Tevon Smith's mother — were asleep upstairs when officers burst in. Tevon Smith, Taquan Barney and another nephew were asleep downstairs.
Court documents said Barney fled from the living room into the kitchen, where Schneider forced him to the ground with his ballistic shield. Police recovered a Taurus PT22 .22-caliber handgun in his left front pants pocket. He was charged with illegally possessing a handgun and is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to appeal a denial to move his case to juvenile court.
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Proposal #5 - Change to the Imperial Exchequer Handbook.
Change section Disbursement of Funds
"2. The ruler of the territory [a Kingdom] can approve any expenditure up to $200.00 per month. [This
power may be passed onto the Territorial Ruler by 2/3rds approval of Kingdom Estates.] A local group
[territory] can request up to $200.00 seed money from the sovereign territory [Kingdom] to open an
account and the sovereign can approve the request. Any other expenditures must be approved by the
territorial [Kingdom] estates."
Reasoning- All expenditures within the ECS are coming from the organization as a whole. There needs to
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Kingdom level. However, due to different Kingdom/territory needs, this power can still be granted to the
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As relief workers fly to Rangoon (Yangon) with a ray of hope after three weeks of frustrated efforts to get into Burma (Myanmar), aid efforts are gathering momentum in the cyclone-damaged Irrawaddy Delta. Yet many workers are voicing fresh complaints about bureaucratic restrictions and government efforts to move people out of shelters and back to their devastated villages.
"The government is a bit more relaxed now that the [constitutional] referendum is done," says Marvin Parvez, who has been working in Rangoon with a number of agencies. "They were so fixed on the referendum, especially [junta leader Gen.] Than Shwe, it was blocking everything else. Now aid is getting there.
"The level is still not where it should be," he continues. "But given the unique context of Burma, it's good. Things are moving, maybe not at the speed aid agencies are used too, but it's moving now."
At the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok, an immigration officer wears a jacket labeled "United Nations," while others peruse a list on a computer screen of reporters banned from Burma. Though many exasperated missionaries and members of smaller nongovernmental organizations are told to come back in two weeks, Burmese visa officers have largely upheld the promises of General Shwe and allowed larger numbers of aid workers, especially United Nations staffers, to obtain entry permits.
Given the scope of the cyclone – according to the Burmese government, it killed 78,000 and left another 56,000 missing – aid groups say an influx of fresh relief workers is badly needed to bolster, or replace, overworked staff. An estimated 2.4 million people have been left homeless and without adequate food.
"We're trying to replace staff who've been in the delta the last three weeks," says James East, Bangkok-based spokesman for World Vision, which has 50 staff and 50 volunteers in the devastated area. "It's exhausting working in that environment. Seeing children killed by disasters is probably the highest stress point. It builds up over time. We need to care for our staff, as well as the survivors."
In a written account from Doctors Without Borders, a young doctor described the travails of helping victims in the delta area of Ngapudaw. She and 15 others spent the first week on a rain-soaked boat, showering in salty water, with only one cellphone to call family and friends for support. "Our team spirit was very good," the doctor wrote. "But at night it was very difficult to fall asleep. I kept thinking about the horrible stories I had heard and at times I felt very unsafe, because of the bad weather and the fear of another big storm."
She said her team would wake at 5 a.m., put on damp clothing, and have some instant noodles and coffee. Taking smaller boats, they would pass dead bodies and animals in the water.
Excited villagers, seeing outside assistance for the first time, helped the team find houses to set up distribution systems. Doctors treated many patients with physical problems and those struggling with grief from losing parents and children. One patient's back was covered with lashes from winds that whipped him while he clung to a tree, tied by his longyi, for five hours while his family drowned below. "It is very sad," the account stated. "They are still afraid and many people come to talk to us just so that they feel a bit reassured that somebody has come to support them. It makes them feel a little bit safer."
While some villagers cooked meals for doctors, others had nothing to offer.
One elderly lady had lost everybody but her husband, and had consumed only a small amount of rice in five days. In a monastery, doctors met the only 14 people – a man, woman, and some children -- from a village that disappeared in flood waters. Some had no clothing at all.
After long days of consultations, the doctors returned to their big boat to share experiences. "During the first week in the delta, we still felt quite heroic, like we were really helping people in difficult circumstances. But during the second week, we all started to become much more depressed," the account continued. "Every day, we heard more stories, and saw more destroyed houses and more dead people. We were getting tired and the sheer scale of the destruction started to feel overwhelming."
Relief teams in remote areas are likely to encounter further challenges, as the government steps up efforts to move victims back to their original villages. The United Nations Children's Fund said Friday that Burma's government is removing victims from eight camps in Bogalay town, and others in Labutta town, and returning them to their ruined villages with meager rations or no supplies at all for people who lost their identity cards, the Associated Press reported. "The government is moving people unannounced," Teh Tai Ring, a UNICEF official told the AP.
Terje Skavdal, head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told reporters in Bangkok, "Any forced or coerced movement of people is completely unacceptable."
According to previous reports, people have been moved ahead of visits by foreign dignitaries, to separate them from monks at monasteries, or to clear the way for voting places during a recent constitutional referendum.
Human rights and aid groups also complained Friday about bureaucratic procedures that hinder their access to victims. One foreign aid worker said that, in practice, it took at least four days to obtain permission from the Ministry of Social Welfare to travel to the delta, while others said it took 48 hours' advance notice. The International Red Cross was waiting for permission to send 30 of its foreign staffers into the delta.
Still says Mr. Parvez, the aid worker, "The ASEAN initiative [a donor conference] and the UN secretary-general coming down [to Burma] was a very good combination. It's a model that can be looked at for other solutions."


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To begin thinking or considering very carefully and seriously (about something). If we all put on our thinking caps, I'm sure we can come up with a way to earn enough money to go to the baseball game this weekend. A: "Well, boss, what do you think we should do?" B: "Just let me put on my thinking cap for a minute."


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The blockade was a crucial part of what the North called the "Anaconda Plan." As its name suggests, this strategy intended to squeeze the Confederacy until it surrendered. The Union Navy would cut off overseas trade by a tight blockade and divide the Confederacy in two by diving like a snake down the Mississippi River with a combined land and naval force. Together these two pressures would hopefully show the South that secession was futile and that it should surrender.
Blockade running became so important to the South that one historian called it "the lifeline of the Confederacy." Successful blockade-runners helped the South receive much-needed goods, while the ships' crews and owners received rich rewards to compensate for the risks taken. It was so vital to the Confederacy that while most of the vessels were privately owned at first, later in the war the state and Confederate governments became co- or full owners of the ships. However, the risks were great. If the Union captured a ship, it became Union property and its captain would spend the rest of the war in a Union prison.
The same limited industrial facilities that made the South need these ships meant it could only produce a limited number, which left the Confederates at a disadvantage on the seas. As the North worked hard to tighten its blockade, the South began to look to Europe for procuring not only ironclads to keep Union monitors from closing ports, but fast cruisers to keep trade flowing. British shipyards were building blockade-runners with more powerful engines; they also built what were known as commerce raiders, which attacked Union trading ships and took their goods. Yet pressures from the United States on these foreign countries limited the South's ability to secure the number of vessels needed for a successful blockade-running operation and for organizing a strong Confederate Navy.
The North continued to gain advantage as the war continued. By 1863, large blockade-runners could only operate in and out of Wilmington, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Mobile, Alabama; and Galveston, Texas. Southern ocean trade dropped to one-third of its original level, and the Confederacy began running out of clothing, weapons, and other supplies.
In an attempt to counteract the Union Navy, especially the ironclads, the Confederates introduced the torpedo, which became very controversial. Before the Civil War, explosive devices had been floated towards enemy ships, but these could be seen on the surface allowing time for reaction. Torpedoes, on the other hand, remained hidden below the water, which provoked complaints from the North that no civilized country would use an "invisible" weapon. Union Adm. David Farragut explained the dilemma the North found itself facing: "Torpedoes are not so agreeable when used on both sides; therefore, I have reluctantly brought myself to it. I have always deemed it unworthy [of] a chivalrous nation, but it does not do to give your enemy such a decided superiority over you."¹
All of these issues converged at the Battle of Mobile Bay, which began on August 5, 1864 when Admiral Farragut's fleet moved into the torpedo-filled Mobile Bay. The fleet included 14 wooden ships (including the flagship Hartford), four monitors (the Tecumseh, Manhattan, Winnebago, and Chickasaw), as well as several gunboats that stayed nearby if needed. As the fleet neared Fort Morgan, the Tecumseh hit a torpedo and quickly sunk.
This loss did not stop the Union attack. Seeing what was happening, Admiral Farragut ordered his fleet to press forward through the underwater minefield into Mobile Bay. The 13 other ships made it past Fort Morgan, then, after some resistance, forced the Confederate ships in the bay to surrender or flee. Over the next three weeks, fire from Farragut's vessels and the Union Army finally forced the defenders of Fort Morgan to surrender. Though the city of Mobile would remain in Confederate hands into 1865, the port was now closed to blockade runners.
This victory brought a tremendous boost to Northern spirits, but at a high cost. Monitors were widely believed to be unsinkable--yet it took the Tecumseh just two minutes to go down. In the end, only 21 of the 114 men aboard escaped death. In addition, while clearing the many torpedoes, seven more Union ships, including two ironclads, sank. Their loss provided a particularly painful illustration of how changing technology affects the men fighting a war.
Questions for Reading 1
1. Why was it important for the Union Navy to close the port of Mobile?
2. Why did captains and ship owners run the blockade? What risks did they face?
3. What technological advantage did the North think they had over the South in the Battle of Mobile Bay?
4. What new pieces of technology did the South use in the Battle of Mobile Bay?
5. Admiral Farragut said that "chivalrous nations" would not use a weapon like the torpedo. Why did he say that? How can some weapons be more civilized than others?
6. What did both Confederate and Union soldiers discover about ironclad ships?
7. If the city of Mobile remained in Confederate hands, why did the North consider this battle a victory?
Reading 1 was compiled from Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., Confederate Mobile (University Press of Mississippi, 1991); E. Merton Coulter, The Confederate States of America 1861-1865: A History of the South, vol. VII (Louisiana State University Press, 1950); John Coddington Kinney, First Lieutenant, 13th Connecticut Infantry, and Acting Signal Officer, U.S.A., "Farragut at Mobile Bay," in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Retreat with Honor, vol. IV (Castle Books, a division of Books Sales, Inc., 114 Northfield Ave., Edison, NJ 08837); Blanche Higgins Schroer, "Fort Morgan" (Baldwin County, Alabama) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1975; Stephen R. Wise, Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988).
¹John Coddington Kinney, 380.


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You need this aqua colorant in your collection. It looks amazing in handmade soap, lotion, bath bombs, and scrub.
- Ingredients (Common Name): Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxide, Chromium Oxide Green
- Ingredients (INCI Name): Mica (CI 77019), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxide (CI 77491), Green Chrome Oxide (CI 77288)
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- Recommended for Cold Process: yes
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Nuclear Disaster: Who Foots the Bill?
As the costs of dealing with contamination from the failing reactors of Fukushima continue to mount, we should re-examine not only our decision to build new nuclear power plants, but what to do about our own 104 aging reactors—and the spent radioactive fuel stored near them. Due to the liability protections that U.S. taxpayers currently provide, they represent not only a safety risk, but a financial one as well.
In 1957, before there was commercial nuclear power, Congress passed the Price-Anderson Act, which provided catastrophic risk insurance to the fledgling nuclear industry. Congress intended this taxpayer-backed insurance policy to be a temporary measure, a ten-year shelter that would give the industry the chance to mature enough to find private insurance companies to cover the cost of potential disaster.
Fast forward fifty years, and Price-Anderson is still in effect, having been renewed several times. Despite the industry's assurances that its reactors are safe, it continues to demand this unique liability protection. As a result, taxpayers cover all costs exceeding $12.6 billion associated with a catastrophic accident or attack on a nuclear power plant. As Vice-President Dick Cheney famously declared, without Price-Anderson "nobody's going to invest in nuclear power plants." That's because—as the crisis in Japan shows us—the costs and risks of operating nuclear power plants are so great that without the taxpayer financial guarantees, nuclear power corporations couldn't afford privately provided risk insurance.
Does this situation sound familiar? During last summer's horrific BP oil gusher, many Americans were outraged to learn that the financial responsibility for oil spills of companies such as BP is capped at $75 million under federal law. That amount didn't come close to covering the cost of clean-up and damages to victims. BP, with prodding from the federal government, established a $20 billion escrow fund, which many still believe to be inadequate. But we can't count on nuclear power companies doing the same, in part because major oil companies like BP have far deeper pockets than even the biggest U.S. nuclear utility; in 2010, BP had revenues of $309 billion compared to $18.6 billion for Exelon, America's largest operator of commercial nuclear reactors.
What can be done? In addition to requiring nuclear power companies to obtain their own catastrophic risk insurance, the Obama Administration should put a halt to all nuclear loan guarantees (Obama has proposed $36 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees to build new nuclear reactors) and support an effort empowering state elected officials to determine the future of aging reactors in their states.
Japan's disaster is a reminder that we ought to be investing the public's money in wind, solar, and energy efficiency—methods for reducing our dependence on fossil fuels that don't feature the kind of deadly risks posed by nuclear. And given the inherent risks associated with our aging reactors, state lawmakers should be given legal authority to have a say in how long those old reactors should continue operating.
Nuclear power provides 20 percent of our electricity needs; we can't simply replace all reactors today with wind, solar, and more efficient use of energy. But we can stop subsidizing what we know to be a dangerous fuel source (and one that has not, even in half a century, matured past the need for government support) and instead invest our resources in clean, renewable energy as we once did in the fledgling nuclear energy industry.
- : Rebecca Solnit: When disaster strikes, don't forget your compassion and critical thinking—but leave your panic, cliches, and stereotypes at the door.
- : The combined devastation of Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear plant explosion begs the question: Doesn't Mother Nature provide enough forces of destruction without humans adding one of our own?
- : Investment in energy projects will total $16 trillion in the next two decades. Sarah van Gelder lays out over a dozen sustainable energy policies and technologies that can make our infrastructure more climate friendly.


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Dates // November 3rd – December 22nd (No class November 24th, December 15th)
This class is perfect for those out there who have always had an interest in ballet, but may have never had a chance to take classes. It will feature all the elements found in a tradition ballet class. This includes barre and center work, as well as stretching and cool down to prevent injury. It will feature an emphasis on the terminology and music used in classical ballet. Learn next to other adult beginners in a supportive, fun way.
About the Artist: Kristin Gall started her dance training at the age of 5. She studied primarily classical ballet as well as modern, jazz, and tap. After high school she went on to study dance at Columbia College Chicago. Over the years she has performed with groups such as The Central Iowa Dance Youth Ballet, Iowa Dance Theatre, and Ballet Des Moines. She also danced professionally with The Des Moines Metro Opera, The Keith West Illusion Show, The Rumba Dreams dancers, as well as several freelance opportunities. She has also taught at several studios including Central Iowa Dance, Glaza Studio, The Dance Place, BU Dance Company, and Des Moines Social Club.


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Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Examine how elements of teaching for understanding are incorporated in a lesson. Enter your examples of how the element is used in the lesson, and then compare your answers to other teachers' answers.
Assess two drafts of students' letters using criteria presented as a four-point-scale rubric.
Connect themes and content to teaching strategies and activities. Practice developing lesson ideas by listing new concepts you would teach and activities you would use to teach them.
Analyze three classroom segments and identify teaching strategies that illustrate authentic instruction. Give examples to support your answer and compare your answers to those of other teachers.
Use the triangle model of the cultural framework to explore how products, practices and perspectives are interrelated. Compare two different products, practices and perspectives and see sample answers for each from two different cultures.
Connect teaching goals with strategies that enhance learning. Select teaching goals, review the tips provided, then brainstorm and list strategies you would use to help students make connections. Compare your answers to other teachers' answers.
Read the description of each segment, then identify up to three elements of powerful teaching and learning best represented in the segment. Once you've identified the elements, explain your answers.
Analyze teaching strategies used in four classroom examples. Describe how the teachers incorporated themes of unity and diversity into their lessons and compare your answers to the sample answers provided.
View an engraving and two photographs from U.S. history. As you view these resources, think about what you can identify and interpret through the images, and what kinds of questions you might generate if you were using these images to teach your students.
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