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Jherek Bischoff's Cistern
Cistern is an album inspired by time "pop polymath" Jherek Bischoff spent improvising in an empty, two-million-gallon, underground water tank, with a 45-second reverb decay. The unique acoustics of the space forced Bischoff to slow down and adapt his compositional approach — something which, unexpectedly, brought him back to his childhood, and the slow-pace of life he experienced growing up on a sailboat.
Leaf Label, 2016
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Getting Here
Our clinic is conveniently located in the North Seattle neighborhood of Fremont, on the corner of N. 38th Street and Woodland Park Ave N. Being just off highway 99 and one block west of Stone Way, we are able to easily serve patients coming from nearby Seattle neighborhoods including Wallingford, Ballard, Phinney Ridge, Greenlake, Queen Anne, South Lake Union, and downtown. Get directions
We have reserved parking spots in the Bowman parking garage next door. The garage entrance is located next to our clinic on N. 38th street between Woodland Park Ave N and Stone Way. Park in any of the first 6 spots on the right, marked "Reserved for Alpine Physical Therapy." The garage is open 8 AM to 8 PM; please call the clinic for garage access if you are arriving earlier than 8 AM.
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Several bus routes are in close proximity to our clinic. The closest stop is Stone Way N. and N. 38th street. Find a bus schedule and plan your trip.


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A Conversation with Curator Eric Nakamura on the Fourth Giant Robot Biennale
ABE AHN Hyperallergic
AA: It seems like Giant Robot was the first of its kind that presented voices that hadn't been represented in that scene before.
EN: Yeah, that's probably true, but you know, there were more political zines that were Asian American and also having fun. There's one that I always cite called Gidra. It was a zine from the Vietnam War-era late sixties and seventies. I look at that and think, wow, these guys are doing something similar in the 1970s. It was all political and you see Asians with long hair. [laughs] It looked very rock 'n' roll. I mean, they looked like hippies who were fighting The Man. There were illustrations and comics that were hilarious.
One of the coolest things is that I met one of the guys who worked on many of the issues. He knew Giant Robot and told me, if you were there, you would've been with us, working on this. I was just like, oh, my god. [laughs] That was the greatest compliment I'd heard. We weren't anything as good as those guys were. We were writing about pop culture; they were writing against the war and putting it out there. That was really powerful.


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The original house was built around 1857, restored and added onto by the previous owners, Ester and A.R. Hatton in 1942. Through the last 20 years we have maintained, repaired and added few "up-grades", always keeping in mind the charm and character of Ester and A.R. Decorated with many of their own belongings, pictures, books and furnishing, you get a hint into the lives of this unique couple.
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The Case for Federal Preemption—Energy Star and Our National Needs
August 15, 2008
COLUMN : Legal | Codes & Standards, Management, Energy Efficiency
Federal preemption is probably not a concept many would associate with the fenestration industry. I suspect many readers have never even heard the term. It's a concept, however, the industry should understand and promote.
The underpinnings for the principle of federal preemption are found in the U.S. Constitution and the goal is the uniform regulation of matters of strong national interest. The fenestration industry finds itself deeply in the grasp of de facto regulation on matters relating to energy performance. Is it appropriate to pursue a dialogue on federal preemption in the area of claims based upon of regulation of energy ratings for windows and doors? Is it wise?
Under the right circumstances, any federal law–and even a regulation of a federal agency–can override a conflicting state law. Preemption can be express within a statute or regulation; or it can be implied if the federal scheme is meant to "occupy the field." The Supreme Court has also confirmed that the imposition of state law tort damages is a form of "state regulation" which is subject to federal preemption.
Addressing a Crisis
The fenestration industry is evolving to address a national energy crisis. The Building Technology Program of the U.S. Department of Energy reports that energy lost through windows accounts for 15 percent of all the energy consumed by the nation's residential and commercial buildings. This "fact" has accelerated the demand to improve energy performance of windows and doors, largely through the subsidized marketing power of the Energy Star program. Indeed, Energy Star has become a dominant feature of the fenestration marketplace with compliance requirements that have been, and will in the future be, increasingly stringent. With Energy Star criteria driving code criteria (and vice versa), the risk of missing Energy Star qualification can be too great to bear.
We simply need to recognize that the manufacturers and resellers of windows and doors operate within an area of federal prominence, i.e. the U.S. effort to control its energy fate, with the attendant sociological, financial and political implications. In a broad sense, Energy Star is an outgrowth of the application of all these factors. Since the 1990s the window and door industry has responded by improving energy performance with remarkable results. However, as you know, it is being called upon to do more—and I have no doubt that it will. The drive to make the country more energy-efficient is not only prudent but unstoppable.
The following may be "anecdotal," as the conclusions are based on personal observation, but I think on point:
--The drive to meet increasingly rigorous energy standards requires prompt, full-scale implementation of emerging technology which by definition will not have been subject to lengthy "real world" experience.
--Despite good faith and significant investment, the use of emerging technologies includes unavoidable risk of unforeseen consequences arising out of product mass production, variability of applications and the effects of time in the field.
--People within the fenestration industry should be supported in making the investment to adopt and implement the technology needed to develop this aspect of the response to U.S. energy crisis.
At the same time, there exist aspects of existing state law that could readily be used—or misused—to punish the manufacturer/reseller who complies in good faith with all Energy Star requirements but experiences the effect, even if temporary, of one of those unavoidable "new technology" risks.
For example, most states have "unfair trade practice" statutes which provide the basis for liability, irrespective of negligence, if a product is sold on the basis that it contains an attribute which it does not. A minor variation in energy performance, unavoidable as we push the "state of the art" in technology needed to comply with the Energy Star initiative, could cause a significant and widespread (uninsured) liability.
If that liability befell the manufacturer which, on its own, leaped ahead to gain market share, then that is the result of competitive market forces in action. However, if the victim is a good faith participant in a program which is part of the federal response to a national crisis, I suggest that the state law liability is seriously misplaced. Here, federal preemption over claims based upon a products' failure to meet Energy Star criteria should be established.
Energy Star has its own compliance management function. Agency investigations of complaints are made to police the compliance with the appropriate requirements of all products reported as Energy Star qualified. In the setting of such an investigation, a manufacturer can present the work done to meet reach qualification criteria to representatives of the agency responsible for development and implementation of the program. The agency's responsive actions can be fashioned to meet the situation, whether to assure bettering the effort to maintain uniform compliance, de-listing of products or otherwise. The goals of EPA/DOE are better served by making these police powers the exclusive remedy for Energy Star claims.
The effort to establish federal preemption of state law claims based upon the failure of individual fenestration products to meet Energy Star qualification criteria needs serious attention. Energy Star partners should be supported when they act in good faith to achieve and maintain qualification requirements in response to a national need.


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China's Agricultural Investment in Africa: "Land Grabs" or "Friendship Farms"?
The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) held its inaugural public conference on May 16, 2014 and private (invitation only) researchers workshop on May 17, 2014, at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
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2014 Conference Summary:
China's food security, and Chinese investments in Africa, are both subjects of intense global interest. Many believe that the Chinese government is acquiring large expanses of African land to grow food to send back to China. On May 16, 2014, SAIS-CARI hosted its inaugural conference: China's Agricultural Investment in Africa: 'Land Grabs' or 'Friendship Farms'?
The conference was structured into several panels, promoting both depth and a broad comparative understanding of these issues.
The first panel, China's Agricultural Investment: Mapping and Comparisons was chaired by Dr. Robert Thompson, visiting scholar at SAIS and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Deborah Brautigam, director of SAIS-CARI and the International Development program at SAIS, opened the session by offering an overview of her own research on Chinese agricultural investments in Africa from her forthcoming book on the subject. Her findings indicate that popular media outlets and some scholarly research alike have overstated the presence of new Chinese actors in the agricultural sector. Margaret Myers, director of the China and Latin America program at the InterAmerican Dialogue provided an introduction to Chinese involvement in agriculture in Latin America, where most investors are still relatively small and private, despite appearing to operate in line with government food security policies. Dr. Eckart Woertz, senior researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) also supplied a comparative perspective, focusing on investment from the Gulf states in Africa. He argued that, despite the news coverage, highly publicized projects are often never carried out leading to a gap between projections and implementation.
The second panel, Joint Ventures, Transitions and Borderlands chaired by Dr. Yoon Jung Park, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) International Research Working Group Network Coordinator, addressed the evolution of Chinese projects in Africa. Solange Chatelard, Ph.D. candidate at Sciences Po and associate at Max Planck Institute and Jessica Chu, Ph.D candidate at SOAS, discussed their collaborative research on Chinese farmers in Zambia focusing specifically on the rising number of private farmers in the country who are operating independently from the Chinese government. Nama Ouattara, Ph.D. candidate at Université Paris Sud in economics provided an overview of her research on Chinese investments in the sugar sector in Mali and their social and environmental impact. Finally Dr. Xiuli Xu, Associate Professor at the China Agricultural University, contrasted realities and narratives surrounding Chinese agricultural SOEs in Africa and their impact.
The third panel, Business Models and Dreams was chaired by Lila Buckley, senior researcher at IIED, and introduced several case studies of Chinese farm projects in Africa. Josh Maiyo, Ph.D candidate at VU University Amsterdam, provided a survey of the limited Chinese agricultural investments in Uganda highlighting the challenges faced because of language barriers and limited understanding of the local conditions in two case studies (the private Hubei Hanhe Farm and an aquaculture demonstration project supported by China's aid program). Jiao Yang, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Florida, discussed his research in Ghana and Nigeria, where he found no large scale land grabs but rather promising models for improving production and technology transfers. Xiaochen Chen, China Business News Institute, offered an overview of the Sisal Farm project in Tanzania focusing on the evolving relationship between Chinese managers and local managers and workers. Last to present on this panel was Zhou Jinyan, Ph.D. candidate at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, whose research in Angola indicates that several Chinese companies are operating as contractors for the Angolan government, building large state farms. The large Chinese construction companies claim that these contracts are not profitable. Is this a case of political interests outweighing economic ones? China is, however, still a small player in the Angolan agricultural sector.
The last panel Problems and Challenges: Between Business and Cooperation, was chaired by Dr. Peter Lewis, Associate Professor and Director of African Studies Program at SAIS and addressed the social, political and environmental impact of Chinese investments in Africa. To this end Dr. Sérgio Chichava, senior researcher at the Instituto de Estudos Socialis e Económicos (IESE), discussed the Wanbao farm in Mozambique, a large-scale Chinese rice project that has led to significant controversy. The Wanbao investors currently sell to local markets but have long-term hopes of supplying regional and even the Chinese market. Dr. Louis Putzel, senior scientist at CIFOR, provided an introduction to the environmental and social impact of Chinese-backed rubber plantations in several African countries. Dr. Tang Xiaoyang, resident scholar at the Tsinghua-Carnegie Center and assistant professor at Tsinghua University, presented on his research on Chinese contract farming investments working with African farmers in the cotton sector in Southern African countries and their consequences for politics and society. Henry Tugendhat, research officer at the IDS Sussex and Future Agricultures Consortium, talked about his fieldwork investigating Chinese agricultural training courses for African officials. These are having a positive effect on diplomacy and personal development even though technology and skills transfers are limited in practice.
In conclusion, most of the researchers at the conference found little evidence that the Chinese government is directly pursuing food security by investing in agriculture in Africa. While increasing world food production is seen as beneficial to China, market forces seem to play a crucial role in explaining the, still modest, flow of investment towards African agriculture. The variety of the projects, which range from the large Wanbao farm in Mozambique to the small-scale private investments in Zambia, also mean that different drivers will apply to different cases. Moreover, given the limited size of China's involvement in the sector it is still unclear what the future will look like.
Conference Overview
Due to its size, and its rapidly growing middle class, China is likely to play an unprecedented role in the stability of global food prices and access to food supplies. Nowhere is this role likely to be more impactful than in Africa, a continent that suffers from a chronic food deficit. Over the past five years, reports of Chinese interest in large-scale land and agricultural investment in Africa have emerged regularly into the media. Today, many believe that the Chinese government is directing efforts to secure large tracts of land in Africa and elsewhere to ensure China's own food security. This SAIS-CARI conference investigates the realities of Chinese agricultural engagement in Africa, in comparative perspective. Scholars from around the world will present their fieldwork on Chinese policies toward outward agricultural investment, case studies of Chinese investment in Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Angola, Mali, the DRC, Cameroon, Malawi, Zimbabwe and elsewhere, and close analysis of the economic cooperation model and the overlap between business and foreign aid. Researchers will complement this analysis with reports of Chinese investment in Latin American agriculture, and Gulf States investment in Africa. From the grassroots to the boardroom, the realities of Chinese investment in African agriculture are long overdue for an evidence-based analysis and appraisal. This is the aim of our conference.
Friday, May 16
8:30 – 9:00 Sign-In and Coffee
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome: SAIS Dean Vali Nasr, Prof. Peter Lewis, African Studies and Prof. M. David Lampton, China Studies
9:10 – 9:20 Introduction: Prof. Deborah Brautigam, IDEV and SAIS-CARI
9:20 – 10:50 China's Agricultural Investment: Mapping and Comparisons
• Chair: Robert Thompson, SAIS Global Agriculture
• Deborah Brautigam, Johns Hopkins University/SAIS
"China Going Global: Policies, Preferences, Problems"
• Eckart Woertz, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
"Gulf Agro-investments in Africa: Motivations, Implementation Gaps, Politics: Comparison with China"
• Margaret Myers, InterAmerican Dialogue
"China in Latin America: Comparison"
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:40 Joint Ventures, Transitions and Borderlands
• Chair: Yoon Jung Park, CA/AC Network Coordinator
• Solange Chatelard, Max Planck Institute/Sciences Po and Jessica Chu, SOAS,
"New Chinese Agricultural Investments in Zambia: A Grassroots Analysis"
• Nama Ouattara, Université Paris Sud,
"Responsible Agricultural Investment: China's Investment in Sugar in Mali"
• Xiuli Xu, China Agricultural University
"Business Borderlands: China's Overseas State-owned Agribusiness"
12:40 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 Business Models and Dreams
• Chair: Lila Buckley, IIED
• Josh Maiyo, VU University Amsterdam,
"China's Ag. Engagement in Uganda: 'Land Grabs' and 'Friendship' Projects"
• Jiao Yang, University of Florida
"Chinese Agribusiness Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Case Study in Ghana"
• Xiaochen Chen, China Business News Institute
"Adaptation to the Local Environment: the Story of a Sisal Farm in Tanzania"
• Zhou Jinyan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
"Chinese Agricultural Investment in Angola"
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 – 5:15 Problems and Challenges: Between Business and "Cooperation"
• Chair: Peter Lewis
• Sérgio Chichava, Instituto de Estudos Socialis e Económicos (IESE)
"China's Agricultural Investment in Mozambique. The Case of Wanbao"
• Louis Putzel, CIFOR
"Chinese Agricultural Investments in Africa: CSR, Scalar Efficiencies, and Local Folk"
• Tang Xiaoyang, Tsinghua University
"Competition for Loyalty: Chinese Investments in Southern Africa's Cotton Sectors and their Impacts"
• Henry Tugendhat, IDS Sussex and Future Agricultures,
"Chinese Training Courses for African Officials: a "Win-Win" Engagement?"
5:15 – 5:30 Closing Remarks: Conference Organizers
The conference was free, and open to the public, although seats were limited. SAIS-CARI thanks co-sponsors: SAIS International Development Program (IDEV), China Studies, African Studies, and the SAIS International Agriculture Initiative.
We especially thank the International Development Program and Smith Richardson Foundation for co-funding this conference.


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We're very excited to be able to tell you more about our new Dystopian Wars Version 2.5 Core rulebook. This edition is set to be one of our most important Dystopian Wars releases, helping set the scene for a huge amount of game expansion during 2017.
Delivering a new rulebook is always a busy time for us, and whilst it is exciting it is also slightly nervy at the same time! During 2016 we have been looking closely at what to do next with our rulebook, commonly prompted by the impending deadline of a reprint. This task befell Spartan Derek and his brief was a simple one: make it better, make it cooler, but don't change it too much.
OK, so it sounds like a simple brief, but in fact it isn't. Dystopian Wars 2.0 was a massive undertaking as the game had grown hugely and 2.0 had to draw together several disparate pieces which needed to be homogenised – and we had to re-stat a vast number of models and factions.
So, just what have we done with Version 2.5?
Queue drum roll – we've fixed the text formatting. It's amazing when you get too close to a book that the rules designer mindset sometimes steps in and you get seduced by the mechanics: this part must be bold; this bit must be bold italic… you get the drift. With 2.0 we were guilty of this and as 2.0 isn't exactly light on word count, the result was not ideal for players with its typographic design.
Having learnt from this we have a new page design for 2.5 which we feel confident will enable you to consume the rules more easily. We've gone back to our archive of imagery and added more to the book, we're reworking diagrams, increasing our examples and generally making the book prettier. We have created an array of stunning models which look amazing and so we figured it was time to also add oodles of pictures of them to a new Dystopian book. After all, who doesn't like to look at pretty models!?
The Core Rules
The biggest fear of most wargamers with a new set of rules is that the company which created it changes too much. The idea that in the name of progress you change too much, break this, alter that, make it work differently. We can't say that we aren't changing things, because we are, but the approach we have taken with Version 2.5 is to look at the existing rulebook and we asked ourselves some simple questions:
1) What errors are there? Find and fix them.
2) What is clunky in the game play? And how can we improve it, smooth it out for a better experience.
3) How do we speed the game up? But without gutting the game!
4) How do we enable larger games to be played?
5) What can we add to extend the Dystopian Wars experience, to make things even cooler for gamers?
Using a wonderfully corporate expression now, we set ourselves a Mission Statement for the Dystopian Wars 2.5 Core Rulebook:
"Make it look better, make it play better, but keep everything in the book that makes Dystopian Wars great – and then add more cool stuff that makes it even more GREAT!"
We know it sounds a little fluffy to define it this way, but it boils down to making sure we hit our Mission Statement. In fact, this sentiment is what is driving the Firestorm Armada 3.0 rulebook, but that is a different blog!
The overall rule changes you can expect are few and far between since Dystopian Wars if a very stable set of rules already. However, there are a few areas that will change to better suit the releases planned for later in the year and into 2017, and to re-balance some of the more contentious things that crept into the game over the last few years. Here are some things we have looked at:
Drones Rebalance – During the initial writing of the rules we looked at trying to make Drones more unique and give them their own set of rules to show that. As with all forms of games design there is an element of risk involved in such a move, taking one Factions (and some specialist models from others) and applying a set of rules that are away from the norm – in the case of Drones we didn't get it as balanced as we had hoped, and so expect a change or two there. We won't be amalgamating them into the standard rules for SAS though, as we still want them to feel different, but expect a few tweaks in these elements.
Weapons and Munitions – There are a few very minor tweaks in the rules for certain weapons which allow us to use the variable-MAR system we pushed in 2.0 forwards and removes the blanket rule for certain weapons – for example, Speerschleuders no longer have High Angle as standard. We have also changed a few of the more esoteric weapons to operate a little more efficiently in the rules. We did this because the errata and rules questions from our forum members often circulated around these strange weapons and so we have made some clarification and minor changes to help clear those up.
Deep Diving and Stratospheric Height Levels – the restriction for flyers and submerged models to exist at these Height Levels has been relaxed, with only Small and Tiny models prevented from travelling that high/deep. We changed this to give even more tactical depth (if you will pardon the pun…) to the game. This is especially important as all factions in the game will be getting their fair share of submarines soon… look to the new Kickstarter when it goes live to see what we mean!
Allies – When we originally wrote the 2.0 rulebook the focus was on the creation of Battle Groups to give retailers and players a fixed purchase point for their gaming. Of course, this method has advantages for everyone (retailers know what to stock, customers get everything they need in one box, etc.) but moving forwards as Spartan embraces blisters as a flexible delivery method for Squadrons, it is important to make the taking of Allies a very flexible exercise to reflect our new purchase method.
Allies still come out of your non-Core allowance, but the restrictions on creating a Battle Group with those allies has been relaxed. All other stipulations still apply and there is a penalty for taking models with the Strategic Value MAR (…as the owning Faction is normally unwilling to let these elements out of their sight without proper compensation!) All in all, the new Allies system gives players even more of a reason to take Allies now, freeing up their narratives to develop them as they see fit.
Critical Table Changes – There are a few VERY minor tweaks in the Critical Table to bring the distribution of results more in line with the effects one would expect to see on a damaged element and we have added a few Damage changes to certain results. Hard Pounding now causes 3HP loss for example!!
Other Changes – There are instances of rewording tweaks, changes to the Reserves (Flanking and Rear Reserves), Quick-Launch Scenario (replacing the Competitive Game Builder we had previously), the rewording on certain Generators, etc. We will be exploring these and responding to questions as we get closer to the delivery of the book.
What are we adding that is new?
We have added some cool new Appendixes to the 2.5 rulebook which we feel extend the Dystopian Wars experience. Let's look at three of them:
Appendix 1 – Fleet Action
Launched earlier in 2016, Fleet Action is our entry level set of rapid play rules for the Dystopian Wars community. The idea of the rules is a simple one: enable fast game play and deliver a smooth way to introduce gamers to the exciting Dystopian World of products. It is also a way for gamers to play big games quickly. As it uses the same models as Dystopian Wars it is a more bang for your buck set of rules.
As Fleet Action is inherently important to the Dystopian World we have taken the decision to add the rules to the 2.5 book. Bringing the two games together under one book makes a lot of sense.
Appendix 2 – World Builder Campaign System
A hugely exciting addition to the rules, bringing the framework for running multi-game, multi-player campaigns over the course of several weeks to the Dystopian Wars gaming community.
When we performed our survey, we got a staggering level of response and much of the comment from our gamers surrounded the elements of the game that exist outside simply gameplay: folk wanted scenarios, special characters, roleplay games and coming right at the top of the list…. Campaigns.
The Rules Team at Spartan have been using a type of campaign system for over 3 years now, to give our testing games even more of a competitive edge. For Dystopian Wars, as an example, lately Spartan Derek's Britannian, FSA and Russian Forces have been attempting to maintain their tentative footholds in the African continent and Middle East respectively from the depredations of the villainous Imperial Bond (played by Spartan Neil) and as to those Covenant scoundrels of Spartan Josh, well we shall say nothing more on that subject!
The campaign system utilises what we call a 'Flashpoint' system to allow players to pick parts of the world and build in a narrative campaign around that area. We will provide the map, the resin cities, industrial complexes, military installations, and scientific facilities (or if you want to do the game on a budget you can use paper tokens to represent these areas of importance).
The beauty of creating a 'Flashpoint' is that it provides a smaller, more manageable area upon which the gamers can play. Make a whole world and the exciting granularity and tactical subtly of the Dystopian World would be lost eventually, so we have decided to focus, and give players a chance to tell their own story – which is the essence of a campaign when you boil it down!
Forces will clash in the same way as they do in the Dystopian World on Land, Sea and Air. Players can roll-off on a Battle Table or (more likely) take their battle to the games table to resolve the outcome. This idea of Roll On A Table or Take It To The Table means that players who don't want to resolve small battles can put themselves in the laps of the gods instead and roll on a table……you never know what will happen though! Forces get repulsed, cities can surrender and allow themselves to be captured, fleets can become shattered remnants and are forced to limp back to a base of operations…. All the things you would expect in a campaign. Prepare for the unexpected and ward against disaster!
The Flashpoints will also provide named characters to act as core dramatic personae for the narrative. Notable luminaries include Wolfgang von Eidersburg, Lord Erasmus Hamilton and many others…. Of course, if you don't play the Faction listed in the narrative, it doesn't matter, simply don't use the character or adjust them to fit your ethos of Faction!
The final thing to bear in mind with the campaign system we have created is the marshalling of Time. More important than resources and daring-do, Time is always against you. The game is focused upon the Flashpoint existing for a short period of time to help create drama and provide a defined end point. This is important as anyone who has participated in a long drawn out campaign will tell you that many campaign systems can tend to drone on, losing players over a long period and they tend to lead to an inevitably dull conclusion as everyone's interest has wandered elsewhere… not so in the World Builder Campaign… you have to get your skates on and move fast if you are to triumph in the Dystopian World – Time And Tide Wait For No Man after all.
Appendix 3 – Organised Play
The guys have been working to create a brand new competitive play section for the book, pooling competitive scenarios that will test players' skill and capability to the maximum. This scenario system should allow people to host a tournament right off the bat, and provide those who enjoy the cut and thrust of competitive gaming with a perfect outlet to unleash their wrath.
This section of the rules will also be available as a download to all, ensuring that as time goes by scenarios that are less popular can be replaced with others, effectively creating a living competitive play system that is validated by the very people it is designed for.
And that's it for now. Lots more to come on the 2.5 book over the coming weeks.


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KYC Analyst is responsible to ensure efficient identification and monitoring of suspicious activities and transaction in the Bank and ensure timeous reporting of suspicious transactions to the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Compliance agent, and the Financial Intelligence Centre at Bank of Namibia.
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Investigate and assess alerts for potential money laundering risks in the Bank.
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Career Colleges » Kentucky » General Studies » Theology
Looking for accredited career colleges, technical schools, and universities in Kentucky offering Theology degrees. Do you want to studies important world religions? Theology shapes the history and the world we live in from politics to culture and social practices.There's more to life than bourbon, race horses, and country music in Kentucky, but that's not a bad start. This jewel of Appalachian America still has pockets and ?hollers' where simple country folk continue to follow their traditional ways. It is also home to cities like Lexington and Louisville, where you can enjoy a night out on a par with that of any typical American city. Whatever your interests, you will find studying in Kentucky to be a memorable experience.
A theology degree may sound like an antiquated course of study. You may be surprised to learn that theology is possibly one of the most relevant degree programs in modern times. After all, religion shapes the world we live in: From politics to culture and social practices. If you want to understand the modern world and its history, you have to understand religion. And that's what a theology degree can help you do.
Theology is a demanding, challenging, stimulating academic subject that touches on a wide range of intellectual disciplines, such as:
Many theology programs focus on a specific religion, while others examine a range of faiths. Some theology programs are designed for students, who plan to follow a career in religious practice. These programs may include an internship or opportunities to get involved in the local community. Others are less practically focused on a specific career path.
You don't have to be planning a career as a member of the clergy or a religious profession to choose theology as your major. A theology degree can provide you with skills that are in demand in many careers, such as:
In 2010, 42,820 people were employed in the clergy and 16,840 people were employed as Directors of Religious Activities and Education in the U.S.
Enroll in a Theology degree program and you can learn more about yourself and the world you live in, while preparing yourself for a rewarding future.
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As fresh January comes to a close, that means February is here! The sun is starting to peek from the clouds, love is in the air, and those special deals on chocolate for your special someone are everywhere!Xoxo... Suzanne
1. Crazy In Love by Beyonce feat. Jay Z
4. Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen
5. We Found Love by Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna
6. I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
"You may have the universe if I may have Italy" - Giuseppe Verdi
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I never stop dreaming about traveling! Great photos!ReplyDelete
Oh, Italy seems so lovely when you don't live in it, ah ah!ReplyDelete
Oh Jennifer your probably right but I have to say I enjoy being a visitor.ReplyDelete
Love your photos. I've never been to Italy but it's on my "places I must visit one day" list!ReplyDelete
Sigh - I want to go. These photos are amazing. I wish I could see the things you see...ReplyDelete
Such a wonderful world. I was in Italy last July also! Who knows, we may have eaten in the same cafe. WReplyDelete
oh Italy... it's been so long since i've been in my heaven on earth.ReplyDelete
these brought me back to the SUMMER OF MY LIFE.
Beautiful images! I love travelling and hate the money factor involved!ReplyDelete
Greetings from Greece!
oh so pretty. i want to go there before i die. LOLReplyDelete
SNAP it seems Megan! Just what I have been posting about too. Well you can have Italy if I can have Greece - fair swap??ReplyDelete
I have never been to Italy but my Mum adores it.
I AM GOING THERE IN JUNE!!! AHHH! Any tips???ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! Seeing those makes me want to travel too. And my bro and his new wife will be there soon. Sigh!ReplyDelete
Such beautiful cities! I can't wait to travel to Europe counting down the days!!ReplyDelete
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The Hillbrooke Subdivision is located in North Fulton County, City of Johns Creek, just east of Alpharetta GA 30005. Most homes built in the traditional style. Hillbroooke is a 263 home community and a pool and tennis amenity neighborhood. List price ranges from $143,500 to $339,000.
Homes For Sale In Hillbrooke
A Great 5 Bedroom Home For Sale In Hillbrooke
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Middle: TAYLOR ROAD
High: CHATTAHOOCHEE
Home Owner Association Fees, at time of post, are $600.00 a year with a $100.00 initiation fee and include:
Club House Playground Swimming Pool Sidewalk 4 lighted tennis courts Basketball Courts
More Neighborhood Homes For Sale In Johns Creek GA
Streets in the subdivision of Hillbrooke include Glenmoor Path, N. Hillbrooke Trace, Hillgate Crossing, Johns View Street, Bristle Stone Lane, Gladewood Drive, Abbotts Close. Located Just North Of Abbotts Bridge Road and South of Sargent Rd.
Directions: 400N to Exit 10, RIGHT on Old Milton Pkwy, LEFT on Kimball Bridge, cross over Jones Bridge Rd, LEFT into Hillbrooke Subdivision.
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It's that time to generate some Good Karma!
We're joining 200 other businesses, designers, and companies to help Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday feel more generous.
A motto around The Mother Love is 'you get what you give'.
From now until Monday, November 27th at midnight, when you buy the LMH Postpartum deck or app and you use the discount code GOODKARMASALE16, you will get 20% off your order.
In turn, at the end of the weekend, we will tally up the orders and split 20% of total sales and donate proceeds to:
Circle of Health International - A stellar non-profit of incredible humans ensuring quality care to moms and babies in crisis situations around the world.
Sacred Stone Camp - The Spirit Camp is dedicated to stopping and raising awareness the Dakota Access pipeline, the dangers associated with pipeline spills and the necessity to protect the water resources of the Missouri river.
We are happy to be of service to both of these organizations more than ever, especially when our world has shifted and we are all feeling the need to do more good for the planet, our people, and for future generations.
This is a great time to buy some decks for the women, friends, and moms-to-be in your life and give to two causes fighting everyday to make the world a better and more beautiful place.
Rise above and keep activating!
Big Love and happy shopping.
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This sturdy wooden Tower Bridge puzzle fits together without glue to make a model of the most famous bridge in the world. Made of 100% responsibly sourced wood, it is a perfect gift for anyone looking for their next challenge and is great fun for both children and adults alike.
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It is Advent and I like to follow this reading guide for reading in this time of year.
The reading from Isaiah 1:10-20 today calls out the importance of the heart. We can go through the motions of our worship, but it is the heart that matters. The heart set right before God has certain actions. Outward indicators. And it isn't getting "worship" right.
16 Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.
The heart set right looks out for the margins of our world. God's heart is always toward the margins. The people of God are always called to the margins. It's not a Christmas thing. It's a Kingdom thing.
(Justice isn't our narrow American idea of "law and order," by the way. This word and concept are well worth your time to do a study throughout Scripture.)
Justice is always a good idea. Justice that brings in the margins.


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Tom is a medical device executive and entrepreneur, currently serving as CEO of Aqueduct Critical Care, Inc. He is an advisor to and board member of numerous technology companies, as well as a founder of the Medical Technology Angel Network, WINGS. Tom himself has had active involvement in clinical and regulatory strategy, product development, operations and quality assurance. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and an Executive MBA from Stanford University.
JW is a physician leader with over fifteen years' experience with sedation capnography. As a practicing anesthesiologist, he founded Monitor Mask to reinvent standard respiratory devices for the procedural and safety requirements of modern practice. A graduate of Dartmouth, JW was selected to attend one of the most selective medical schools in the United States, UCSF, where he was also selected to undergo his residency in anesthesiology, JW later earned his MBA through the Physician Executive MBA program at the University of Tennessee. JW has led Monitor Mask from device design and production to FDA clearance, fundraising, global patent prosecution, team formation and sales.
Bill serves as Monitor Mask's CEO. With over 20 years' of leadership experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, Bill leverages his deep understanding of the global healthcare environment to drive strategic business decisions, accelerate performance, and inspire operational growth. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Bill has served as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Counsel for various Fortune 500 companies, honing his expertise with regulatory law, medical products, compliance and sales. Presently, Bill serves on the board of WINGS, the Medical Technology Angels, as well as several advisory board for local med-tech startups. He is a member of the company's Board of Directors.


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Progress Report June 2017
We've been making a lot of progress both visually and with systems & features since our last update. We just finished up the basics of the last major systems that we were planning to implement before closed Beta (the Knowledge system and the Surgery system), so all the core features are now in the game, which is very exciting. Now we can really focus on making sure we have a polished, relatively bug free game for our Beta testers that has a lot of fun content.
We were planning on a closed Beta release this spring but we want to make sure there is enough content and minimal known bugs before we invite folks so we can all get the most value from their time. We're currently targeting later summer for the closed Beta, but we want to make sure we're happy with the state of the game first so it may get pushed out.
New Player & Clothing
We've implemented a new player with skin tone and face shape variations. We've also added a ton of clothing variations, a few of which can be seen below.
Our new player also has hair and beard variations. One step closer to real-time beard growth!
We've finished the production version of the Frameshift exoskeleton and implemented it in-game. When you have an exoskeleton installed, you can hit harder and run faster (depending on the limbs that are augmented). We're excited to add even more benefits related to the exoskeleton and its various parts. For example, we'd like the camera augmentations to provide various overlays to help navigate (distance or gps, infrared vision, etc.) If you have ideas for cool enhancements, post them in the comments!
Also, our concept artist Andrea Chiampo was featured in 3D Artist magazine for his work on the Frameshift exoskeleton concept. Check it out!
We've added a cool player dirtiness shader that will dynamically apply dirt to player clothing as you run/crawl around:
Our new player model also has better variations for starving and gorging. Essentially you slowly get skinnier and skinnier as you starve to death and you can also overeat and get fat :)
We've upgraded our gore and decals to a new system, so battles look a lot cooler now with blood splatters and wounds.
Improved Stalker
We've been working a lot on enemy interactions in general, and a big part of that is improving the AI for the Stalker enemy. It can now leap at you and take you down, as well as attack with its claws. It also has a hunting behavior (STALKING if you will) where it will follow you and try to get close as long as it thinks you haven't spotted it.
While the player is disabled, the Stalker sometimes will pick him up and drag him away:
The Stalker has a custom shader with dynamic blood:
We've added vehicles to the game, with a damage and repair system, a fuel system, and specific attributes per vehicle. Currently we only have one placeholder vehicle but a taxi is in progress. More vehicle variations to come.
And More!
- Backpacks! You can now increase your inventory capacity by wearing a backpack. It is also its own container so you can store stuff separately if you want.
- Interaction delay system. Some actions now take time to finish.
- More Frameshift tech, including a outpost-type building called a Substation. Low level Frameshift technology can be found here.
- Bodies of water. There are now lakes that you can swim in and drink water from, though the water is dirty so you have a chance of getting sick.
- New custom terrain shader that blends well at far distances and dynamically gets wet when it rains.
- Combat Improvements
- We've been working on polishing the combat system, just generally improving animation transitions and attacks so the melee attacks feel responsive and satisfying.
- There are now reaction animations when a Lurker leaps onto you and attached to a limb.
- You can perform a curb stomp attack if you're looking all the way down at something on the ground.
- We've implemented shields that you can hold in your off-hand to block damage. Upgraded shields can be crafted.
- Lurker improvements
- Networking now uses interpolation so their movement appears smoother.
- They try to predict where you will be and leap in that direction when they attempt to attach to a limb.
- Now has an emissive texture and light source that changes if the Lurker is dead or aggroed.
- Knowledge System
- You can now can knowledge points from reading books that you find in the world.
- You can spend your points in a knowledge "tech tree" to improve your abilities and unlock crafting recipes.
- There are different knowledge categories, but the system is completely open: you can allocate knowledge points however you want and there are no set "classes".
- Salvaging. You can now salvage old electronics to find ingredients for crafting. Also, since the enemy mutants are a cybernetic blend of technology and biology, you can salvage their bodies for more advanced technology items.
- Added a bunch of cooking recipes that use wild plants as ingredients.
- Added survivalist items: bow drill, snare, and dew collector. These all respond realistically to their environment when performing their function. The bow drill doesn't work as well when it is raining, the snare must be left alone for a certain amount of time to catch something, and the dew collector must have low temperatures (and it collects faster when overcast or raining).
- Added some makeshift crafted weapons like glass knuckles and scrap machete.
- Added Smelling Salts item that you can use to temporarily clear your vision and boost energy, so you can run around for a short time even when badly injured.
- Lots of new props and buildings: Barn, fences, new residential houses, new roads, a convenience store, and a motel.
- Settings menu. You can adjust your key bindings, screen resolution, visual detail, and audio settings.
- Account creation, login, and character persistence. Characters are now saved to your account so your progress is saved across sessions.
- Region and Landmark discovery. Areas of the game can now be classified as regions or landmarks (i.e. points of interest) and your area discovery progress is tracked and saved.
- You can now give another player food or drinks to help starvation and dehydration. Previously you could only cure yourself of these effects.
- Created a custom octree-based level of detail system. The existing ones out there and the Unity LOD weren't efficient enough to deal with the high number of LOD objects that we have.
- Improved road system intersections. Added dynamic street sign system that populates street names on signs and calculates distances to landmarks for mile marker signs.
- Clothing now has a thermal insulation rating that helps from getting too cold. Excess body fat also provides some thermal insulation!
- Being wet will negate all clothing thermal insulation, and make you even colder.
- Body parts exposed to less than 32° now get frostbite and progress to gangrene. Gangrene can only be survived if the limb is amputated.
- Players can now contract the common cold which can turn into pneumonia. Being near another player when sick can pass along the virus.
A New Team Member
Last but not least, we'd like to welcome Paul to the team! He's helping out with the programming side and has already fixed a ton of bugs and implemented some new features. He's doing great and we're super happy to have him. Welcome! Some words from Paul himself about why he decided to join the project:


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GOLF: Kevin Guth and Scott Reinick lead the Baumann Old Fort Ex-Hi League after three weeks with 40 points. Prize holes went to Ron Rau (closest to pin No. 2), Guth (longest putt No. 3) and Greg Molyet (closest third shot No. 6).
n The team of Dutch Edeburn, Gary Kroeger, Bill Kraut and Gene Sherer tied the team of Rufus Tyree, Brian Krauss, Dick Rochester and Dick Best at 4 under to win Thursday's Retirees League at Seneca Hills. Kroeger had the long putt (No. 3) and was closest to the pin (No. 2).


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After you install security update 3134814 for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows Server 2012 R2, sites that are specified in the Enterprise Mode Site List may not load in Enterprise mode.
To resolve this issue, install the February 2016 cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (MS16-009) or the most recent cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. Update 3141092 is included as a bundled update together with update 3134814 for Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and Microsoft Catalog customers. Please review the deployment information in update 3134814 .
For customers who use Enterprise mode, we recommend that you install update 3141092 when you install security update 3134814.
For customers who use Enterprise mode, we recommend that you install update 3141092 when you install security update 3134814.
TroubleshootingIf you experience any problems when you try to use the Enterprise Mode Site List, you may be able to resolve them these by using any of the following methods:
- Increment the Enterprise mode site-list version number.
- On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, click Delete under Browsing history on the General tab, select the Cookies and website data check box, and then click Delete.
- In Internet Options, select Reset Internet Explorer's settings on the Advanced tab.
- Delete the CurrentVersion value.
ImportantThis section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:322756 How to back up and restore the registry in WindowsDelete the CurrentVersion value found in the following registry subkey, and then restart Internet Explorer:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\EnterpriseMode
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Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.


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Cray Wanderers announce signing of Mitchell Nelson for 2017-18
Cray Wanderers are pleased to announce the signing of right back, Mitchell Nelson on contract. Mitchell is an experienced player who last season started out at Welling United in the National South making 17 appearances before going to Tonbridge Angels in December where he played 30 games scoring 4 goals. Mitchell started out as a…Details


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Neal Gabler: The GOP's McCarthy Gene
The creation myth of modern conservatism usually begins with Barry Goldwater,...But there is another rendition of the story... It is a less heroic story, and one that may go a much longer way toward really explaining the Republican Party's past electoral fortunes and its future. In this tale, the real father of modern Republicanism is Sen. Joe McCarthy, and the line doesn't run from Goldwater to Reagan to George W. Bush; it runs from McCarthy to Nixon to Bush and possibly now to Sarah Palin. It centralizes what one might call the McCarthy gene, something deep in the DNA of the Republican Party that determines how Republicans run for office, and because it is genetic, it isn't likely to be expunged any time soon....
In a way, Goldwater was less a fulfillment of McCarthy conservatism than a slight diversion from it. Goldwater was ideological -- an economic individualist. He hated government more than he loved winning, and though he was certainly not above using the McCarthy appeal to resentment or accusing his opponents of socialism, he lacked McCarthy's blood- lust. McCarthy's real heir was Nixon, who mainstreamed McCarthyism in 1968 by substituting liberals, youth and minorities for communists and intellectuals, and fueling resentments as McCarthy had. In his 1972 reelection, playing relentlessly on those resentments, Nixon effectively disassembled the old Roosevelt coalition, peeling off Catholics, evangelicals and working-class Democrats, and changed American politics far more than Goldwater ever would.
Lots more at the link. Let's hope this analysis is way off. Clearly the old formula no longer works and the GOP will move away from the far right. Question is, where will extremists go now? The guns and violence sorts bother me most. We have nut cases over here on the left, but not generally the killing sort.
Richared Holbrook: "The Doves Were Right"
Book review of "Lessons in Disaster" by Gordon Goldstein. Yet another retrospective of the Vietnam misadventure.
For today's readers, what's most important about "Lessons in Disaster" is not the details of how the United States stumbled into a war without knowing where it was going; that story has been told in hundreds of other books. Goldstein's achievement is quite different: it offers insight into how Bundy, a man of surpassing skill and reputation, could have advised two presidents so badly. On the long shelf of Vietnam books, I know of nothing quite like it. The unfinished quality of Bundy's self-inquest only enhances its power, authenticity and, yes, poignancy.
Holbrook comes to the subject with personal experience.
As it happens, I was part of a small group that dined with Bundy the night before Pleiku at the home of Deputy Ambassador William J. Porter, for whom I then worked. Bundy quizzed us in his quick, detached style for several hours, not once betraying emotion. I do not remember the details of that evening — how I wish I had kept a diary! — but by then I no longer regarded Bundy as a role model for public service. There was no question he was brilliant, but his detachment from the realities of Vietnam disturbed me. In Ambassador Porter's dining room that night were people far less intelligent than Bundy, but they lived in Vietnam, and they knew things he did not. Yet if they could not present their views in quick and clever ways, Bundy either cut them off or ignored them. A decade later, after I had left the government, I wrote a short essay for Harper's Magazine titled "The Smartest Man in the Room Is Not Always Right." I had Bundy — and that evening — in mind.
Matthew Alexander: I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
Yet another sad look at America's most recent excursion into the swamp of moral depravity.
I know the counter-argument well -- that we need the rough stuff for the truly hard cases, such as battle-hardened core leaders of al-Qaeda, not just run-of-the-mill Iraqi insurgents. But that's not always true: We turned several hard cases, including some foreign fighters, by using our new techniques. A few of them never abandoned the jihadist cause but still gave up critical information. One actually told me, "I thought you would torture me, and when you didn't, I decided that everything I was told about Americans was wrong. That's why I decided to cooperate."
Torture and abuse are against my moral fabric. The cliche still bears repeating: Such outrages are inconsistent with American principles. And then there's the pragmatic side: Torture and abuse cost American lives.
I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me -- unless you don't count American soldiers as Americans.


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From Staples Mill Rd. to the far West End, we've been closing our eyes and hoping that this is just imagination / But all the while [we] hear the creature creepin' up behind ….
*ahem* But all the while, we created "Thriller" videos!
Vote once for your favorite dancers!
(1) West End Teen Advisory Board
(2) Northside Teen Advisory Board
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However, NASA has three orbiters on hand, and the space station is lacking in several capabilities that the orbiters possess.
Why not modify the orbiters so that they could fly attached to the ISS for extended periods of time, and leave one up there to provide boost, environmental, and emergency crew return capabilities to the station?
We could even continue to launch ISS components in the other two orbiters in the face of potentially fatal damage, by flying unmanned, or (if flying unmanned is not practical) by having seats available in a lifeboat orbiter on station so that a second orbiter could be abandoned with no loss of life.


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Hi Everyone, Sara here…
I am currently sitting in the airport in Brussels waiting to fly home and I am overwhelmed… in a good way. :)
We just wrapped up our first-ever OnStage Live event and our 11 world-wide Local events are concluding as well. Words cannot adequately express my feelings of gratitude, unity, and hope. I feel so blessed to be a part of such an inspiring Stampin' Up! community.
I don't think I will be able to capture all that went on around the world, but I have loved watching social media and seeing all of your comments and posts with friends. This is exactly what we were hoping for when we announced these new events!
We began our event here in Brussels with an opening General Session that unveiled the new Occasions (Spring/Summer) catalog! Our CentreStage event came after that later in the evening where we boarded a boat, had a "walking dinner" and a chance to visit with everyone.
Day two of the Live event included General Sessions and Product Spotlight where it actually felt like we were walking through pages of the catalog and being introduced to the amazing products inside. So awesome!
Day three brought with it the tragic events in Paris from the night before. Hearts were heavy, but the outpouring of love strengthened us and brought all of us together.
We concluded our event here with a final General Session and CenterStage Leadership.
All in all, an epic OnStage experience and new chapter in the history of Stampin' Up! Hugs and love to all of you until we meet again in April!


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I dream of the the day that I finally have a house with a powder room, what a serious luxury. My tribe and I share a bathroom (two littles and the husband) and it gets a little cramped. There's also the lack of privacy and the mess - I literally cannot keep it clean for more than a couple hours which is pretty much not ideal.
But for now, I'm happy to settle on living vicariously through my clients'. Here is what I'm thinking for the small (very small) powder room that hangs off their kitchen. Initially, their priorities did not include the powder room so we really have to be mindful of where we spend. It would be fun to go nuts but I think that we can totally turn this place around without having to spend one million dollars.
The client is pretty traditional and doesn't love a ton of color. I started with that gorgeous bucket sink and then the sconces. I happened to stumble upon the wood and jute mirror and I think it will help warm up the space a bit, it might actually be my favorite part of the design. I went with a ticking woven rug for the floor even though I secretly want to do something bright and vintage in there.
So long for now.... ohh, if anyone can tell me how KJ and I should celebrate our seven year (what? really?) anniversary on Friday I am currently taking suggestions. I kind of just wanna go to our favorite watering hole and eat sardines with salsa verde and drink bubbly but that's what we always do.


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How do you fix a carbon frame? Should you fix a carbon frame? And why does it cost a man his skin and finger nails?
SPRAWLED on tarmac by a kerb at a busy junction in Dublin's rush hour, people swarmed to my aid.
They picked up my rucksack, gathered fallen belongings, gave me a coat, a bottle of water, a KitKat for later.
They rang an ambulance too. But my racing bike was left, alone, in the middle of the road. I couldn't see it. Nobody would let me get up. They just thought I was insane.
But when a bike has won a race for you, it's no longer just a bike. That's my first carbon fibre racing bike. The first bike I had any attachment to. So after calling my boss to tell him I wouldn't be in, my next call was to Carbon Tec – the man who mends carbon fibre.
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Via Stuck on Stupid, some numbers slipped out concerning Al Gore's personal energy use:
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.And that's just one residence; he's got at least three. And that's not counting his jetting around the country in private planes.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore's average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore's extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore's mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
"As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk the walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use," said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
Hey, I don't begrudge his energy use. He's got the money; he can light big cigars with hundred dollar bills for all I care. What I do care about is him telling me I've got to burn less while he's out there fuming, and out-gassing, and dripping volatile hydrocarbons with every step he takes. Does Al not believe in man made global warming? Or does he believe in it, but think he's too good to make the sacrifices he's asking everyone else to make? Same question for Leo "let's put the party on a plane and fly it to Rome" Dicaprio.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while you're out there splashing the hoi polloi with your big ass yacht Al?
-parts of that are from the bible


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Armando Salguero
Can Cameron Wake break odd year career pattern?; Peers show respect for Jay Ajayi
Miami Dolphins talent finally joined the NFL Network's countdown of the top 100 players on Monday when running back Jay Ajayi was listed as the league's 69th best player and defensive end Cameron Wake was listed as the 62nd best player.
The listing, voted on by players themselves, has become an annual subject of conversation at a time the league doesn't have a whole lot else to throw out for discussion. But the addition of Wake this year, after a one-year absence in 2016, does raise an interesting issue:
Can Wake be consistent at age 35?
(When Wake reads this he'll look skyward, mumble to himself something like, 'Of course, you dummy" and then use the question as fuel for his next super human workout regimen bench pressing, like, a boat or something.)
But the question has merit because Wake's career is marked by amazing seasons followed by less spectacular seasons. Wake throughout his eight-year career has had great years in even numbered seasons followed by less spectacular and more mundane seasons in odd numbered years.
Wake had a breakout season in 2010 when he collected 14 sacks. He had three forced fumbles. He had 57 tackles. He had four passes defensed working out of the Dolphins old 3-4.
And in 2011, an odd numbered year, he couldn't keep up the pace. His sack total dropped to 8.5. His tackles went to 42. No forced fumbles. He had twice as fewer passes defensed with only two.
The next year, an even number year, Wake picked it up again. He turned in a career high 15 sacks. He had three forced fumbles again. He had 53 tackles. The Dolphins went to a traditional 4-3 under Joe Philbin and defensive coordinator Kevin Coyle in 2012 so Wake didn't factor in passes defensed out of the defensive end spot. But no one was complaining with the outstanding job Wake did in '12.
In 2013? An odd numbered year. Another down year. His sacks dialed back to 8.5. He had two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery.
In 2014, Wake ratcheted his production back up again.
Do you see a pattern here?
Wake had 11.5 sacks in that even numbered season with three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. He also turned up his pass defensed stat -- mostly by knocking passes down at the line -- with three after having none the year before. Excellent.
The year Wake suffered a season-ending Achilles' tendon injury, 2015, was obviously not only a bad year statistically because Wake didn't get complete what he began, but it was a challenging year because it threatened his career.
But Wake recovered in 2016, which I remind you was an even numbered year, with 11,5 sacks, a career high five forced fumbles and two passes defensed. Yes, his tackles totals of 29 represented a modest total, but that could be explained by the Dolphins unwillingness to play Wake early and often in games to start the season through Week 5 or 6. Indeed, Wake only started 11 games in 2016 while authoring his revival season.
The intriguing thing about this pattern is that 2017 looms and that, according to informed sources, is an odd numbered year.
So can Wake break the curious pattern of regressing in odd numbered years? Was it all just circumstances? Obviously 2015 was. So is a down year on the horizon for Wake?
You probably won't hear the Dolphins worry if Wake's pattern holds and he does not reach double-digit sacks in this odd numbered year as long as he's disruptive to some obvious degree with QB hits and hurries.
But if that becomes the case, then, again the pattern will be something that continues.
And I would be willing to bet Cameron Wake doesn't want that.
By the way, the fact Ajayi is ranked at No. 69 by his peers after only his second NFL season is truly impressive.
Yes, we know the running back gained 1,272 yards and that marked the first time a Dolphins RB gained over 1,200 since 2003. And that was impressive.
But, to me, when Ajayi rates higher than Phillip Rivers (73), Julian Edelman (71), LaGarrette Blount (80), and Kirk Cousins (70), it shows the respect players have for what Ajayi accomplished last season despite running behind what was at times a makeshift offensive line.
Interestingly, Ajayi thinks he's ranked too low.
"Forty or thirty would be reasonable for me," he says in the video below. "I'm definitely shooting for the No. 1 spot."
Follow Armando Salguero on Twitter: @ArmandoSalguero


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Before I was a fiber artist or an illustrator I was a painter, so I suppose I have always been a painter in my own way.
It was my drawing teacher my freshman year of college who first suggested I might be interested in fiber, and I made the jump in switching my major with hardly a second thought. That hasn't stopped me from seeing most things I make as paintings, namely the things that I weave.
I'm comparatively new to knitting, having been working studiously as a knitter for a mere two years, and knitting, more than any other skill I have, has always presented itself to me in purely practical terms. One knits to clothe oneself. A skein of yarn becomes a hat.
But I cannot deny that the above piece is really a painting masquerading as a knitting swatch. My husband, encountering this small study blocking in my studio immediately remarked, "Oh, that's just like a painting." And a switch went off in my brain. For the entirety of the knitting processes, I had known that this piece was different, that it was meant to live a different life, I just didn't know how, or even what that could fully mean. If a weaving, which is just a piece of cloth that can unravel as easily as any piece of knitting, can hang proudly on the wall as Art with a Capital A, then why not this craft?
So what I've found in my practice over the years is that sometimes you make the art, you drive it, mold it, shape it, breathe it into being. You have directions and a map and you make it so. Conceive, plan, execute.
But sometimes you find that the art shows you what it wants to be. Sometimes your art bosses you around and you have to take the time to hear it out. A lot of the time, these things that are new to us seem so obvious once they reveal themselves, and that's okay. This knitting really being a painting is a simple solution to a belabored question about what my art does and what my art means. Change the title, change the context. But I don't have to do anything differently to make it into a painting. It's already true. What I have to do, what I have to remember, is to not force it into something that isn't true. It's knitting, but it isn't practical knitting. It's a block, but it isn't a pillow. Such a novel idea for this maker!
And what this maybe means for me is a whole new way of working. That's twice over in the span of a week that log cabin knitting has changed my life. Karen Templar, what have you done to me?!


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The Hail That Hit Dallas/Fort Worth Looks Insane [VIDEO]
Hail no, I wouldn't be out in that stuff.
Hail, it's something we have to deal with during storm season. Wichita Falls got hit pretty bad a few years ago if I remember. All those hail dent repair shops popped up all over town. I am sure some of those are going to be opening up in Dallas after this.
These videos are nuts.They say it's softball sized hail. I like at the 41-second mark in the video below, you see a car driving away from the apartment complex. That person was probably like f*** this, I am finding shelter for the car.


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AUSTIN, TX—SpareFoot, a self storage marketplace, will be offering help to those affected by the tornadoes in Oklahoma. The Texas-based company will be donating a month's-worth of storage to families, businesses, and organizations in need of room to store their belongings in the wake of the tornadoes. SpareFoot will mail the rental fee in the form of a check to cover a victim's first month of rent (up to $100). The fee will be good for the rental of a storage unit within a 50-mile radius of Oklahoma City, OK. Customers will be required to move in by June 21, 2013. Additional details in regard to this offer are available at the SpareFoot website.
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In 1998 this rare Moorish/Victorian style building in downtown Troy was so deteriorated that the city was on the verge of demolishing it. Originally built as a six-story office building in 1871, The Rice Building was damaged in a serious fire in 1916. The 6th floor and three spires were completed destroyed. During the 1980s the building had been foreclosed for taxes and subsequently sat vacant for over twelve years. Pieces of masonry were detaching from the structure and falling to the street.
In the late 1990s the building was acquired by a consortium of preservation-minded organizations including RPI, Troy Savings Bank and TAP, who commissioned its redevelopment for use as an incubator for new technology-oriented businesses.
The interior was reconfigured to accommodate contemporary office needs while preserving many historic features. Since the future tenants would be making intensive use of computers and data facilities, extensive flexible vertical and horizontal wireways were incorporated to enable the use of the latest technology. The exterior was restored to its five-story 1916 post fire appearance.
The restoration was certified by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation and received a New York State Historic Preservation award in 2000.


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With aromas of freshly cut grass, nettles and tart gooseberriers. Which are followed by rich tastes, a good concentration of fruit and a typically dry Sauvignon. This wine has a great balance of freshness and ripeness with a nice underlying of minerality which is exactly how a Touraine Sauvignon should be.
Bronze (2013 vintage)
Bronze (2012 vintage)
Silver (2012 vintage)
Fresh and aromatic, with nettles, herbs and minerals alongside spice and citrus notes. This is full and rich, with a good finish.


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Understanding the difference between self-defense and reckless homicide
- Written by REUBEN MEES
Read the news on any given day and it's evident that violent acts are becoming ever more commonplace in American society in recent years.
The news of a mass shooting at the Columbine High School that left 12 students, a teacher and the two teenage shooters dead just days before I started at the Examiner in 1999 once shocked the nation. School shootings now seem to happen a couple times a year somewhere in the United States.
It seems as if people are becoming numb to the idea of death by shooting — especially the notion of teenagers using weapons to kill one another.
It's unfortunate to say, but we, as the residents of Logan County, are now facing one such case that raises interesting questions and has the ability to set a precedent about our treatment and attitudes toward acts of violence in this community.
Do not get me wrong, this column is not about advocating for gun control and it is not about the Second Amendment.
It is about the God-given, constitutionally-protected and inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that underpin the entire Bill of Rights. It is about holding irresponsible individuals accountable for death they cause by reckless use of weapons.
To be succinct, a 20-year-old man recently shot and killed a 16-year-old boy. The shooter is currently in jail for allowing an underage drinking party.
What troubles my sensibilities is that some members of our community have been very quick to buy into the admitted shooter's claims of "self-defense" and invoking of the "castle doctrine."
While these are handy catch phrases that tend to incite the passions of individuals who support the ownership of firearms and the rights to defend oneself, one's family and one's home from intruders, they are also claims that must be carefully weighed and not simply taken at face value when used to justify a homicide.
The right to take a life when one's own life is threatened is by no means a right that should be taken lightly and it is our job as responsible citizens of a free country to understand this first and foremost.
In the case at hand, the young man who has admitted to firing the shot that killed the teen has also admitted that he was running an illegal bar for underage drinkers.
And it was out of that blurry relationship between the shooter's role as the resident of a family-owned home, his role as the bootlegger who was also admittedly drinking with his patrons and his role as the "bouncer" (as he described his occupation on his Facebook page) that this shooting death occurred.
A young man provided alcohol to a teenage boy with no regard to the irrational behaviors that consuming alcohol in quantity can cause. The same young man in his own admissions to dispatchers on the night of the crime and on the record in Bellefontaine Municipal Court said he consumed probably too much alcohol to safely drive on the night in question.
When the chaotic situation the young man had set into motion with his own reckless and irresponsible actions became too much to handle, he found his shotgun and loaded it.
If this young man had truly feared for his life, he had ample time to place a call to the Logan County Sheriff's Office. But with a house full of underage drinkers, a young man who was admittedly intoxicated himself did not call the authorities and risk the possibility that they would hold him responsible for his illegal actions.
Instead he waited until trouble returned and escalated once again and he fired his weapon into the abdomen of an unarmed teenage boy — a boy he calmly called his friend in the ensuing 911 call. But in that same call, the young man had already begun presenting his case for "self-defense."
This case is no more a case of self-defense than the owner of a drug house killing an addict after inviting him inside and getting him so jacked up on illegal product that the addict is no longer acting as a sane and rational human being would. The only difference is the drug in question is alcohol — a drug that is legal to be sold and consumed in licensed bars and restaurants, but not at all in the manner it was the night of the party in question.
More significantly, however, what the young man does not seem to understand about the "castle doctrine" is that the defense of one's home begins long before a shot is fired.
Protecting a castle begins by not allowing criminal activity in it to begin with. A responsible defender of a home also affords society and its authorities an opportunity to come to his or her assistance before the situation escalates to the point of deadly force.
A person in possession of a deadly weapon should also understand how to use it appropriately to instill the fear of death or severe bodily injury in the individual who it is pointed at. If a situation permits it, a responsible person defending a home might allow fear to settle over a human target before he or she decides whether taking a life is truly necessary.
Then and only then is a person ever justified in stripping another human being of the God-given right to live.
From what I have heard of the evidence in this homicide, it is hard to justify self-defense in any fashion. And the castle doctrine, really? We have a young man clearly treating his property more like a speakeasy than a castle.
I have no teenage children of my own, but if I did, I would want to be able to sleep soundly at night knowing that despite any bad choices they could make regarding drinking or drug use that their lives should not be cut short by an irresponsible individual in possession of a deadly weapon.
I would, moreover, hope that the authorities we have elected or otherwise installed would not allow such deaths to be minimized by the political pressure of appeasing gun owners.
It is time the people of Logan County who will consider this case take a serious stand on senseless violence in our community.
There are things far more sacred than the right to keep and bear arms.
The right to live is the big one.
Reuben Mees is an Examiner Staff Writer and proponent of the right to keep and bear arms if one so chooses. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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April 2, 2010 – A federal jury yesterday found Medtronic's CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve willfully infringes on patents owned by Edwards Lifesciences.
Edwards said it intends to seek a permanent injunction. The jury also awarded Edwards $74 million in damages, and the willfulness finding allows Edwards to seek increased damages of up to three times that amount, the company said.
The patent involved in this suit is part of the Andersen family of patents, which relates to a valve prosthesis for implantation by means of a catheter. Filed in February 2008 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, this suit was directed at the manufacture or sale of the CoreValve ReValving System in the United States.
Two previous courts said CoreValve did not infringe the patent. In January 2009 the Patents Court in the United Kingdom found CoreValve's specific product design did not infringe Edward's patent. In October 2008, the District Court of Düsseldorf, Germany, also found no infringement of that patent by CoreValve.
For more information: www.edwards.com