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The Wooden Artifacts Conservation Laboratory studies and treats furniture and other objects primarily composed of wood from the decorative and folk art collections. These objects include joined, carved, painted and gilded furniture, architectural fragments, household accessories, picture frames, and folk art. The lab is a large well-lit space with five free standing workbenches and fume extraction capabilities. In addition, there are a full modern woodshop and chemical storage/spray booth in separate rooms. Specialized equipment includes a Fourier Transform Infrared analytical microscope and floor standing stereomicroscopes.
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Hi everyone
There are a few threads dealing with the choice of prop. Came across the attached article, with a fairly thorough comparison of different prop designs. The relevance of testing methodology is -evidently- debatable, and so are the results, but the approach seems sound. Of particular interest to me (I need to change my prop now) were test results for Kiwi prop, which many contributors to the forum appear to consider the best thing next to sliced bread.
Anyway, I found it useful as a reference.

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'Another Happy Day': Ellen Barkin on working with father, son
Ellen Barkin's breakout role was back in 1982 when she costarred in Barry Levinson's theatrical directorial debut "Diner." The film role was an impactful role for the actress, one she was always trying to replicate in Hollywood. And it wasn't until 30 years later that she found a role with equal magnitude, ironically written by Levinson's son Sam, who penned the script "Another Happy Day" in three weeks time.
In this clip from the Envelope Screening Series Q&A, Barkin tells about her shock working on a "B-genre" comedy that she was inspired to do -- after having daily discussions with the young writer, she finally realized he was Barry Levinson's son.
'Another Happy Day': Sam Levinson, a natural-born director (video)
'Martha Marcy May Marlene': Sean Durkin on creating Martha (video)
'Another Happy Day': Ellen Barkin and the mistakes of motherhood (video)
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Freshman Bridgette Skaggs struck out nine batters April 12 as the Lady Hawks defeated Hart County 4-3. She didn't walk a batter in the eight-inning game.
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Just about everyone knows that holiday airfares vary tremendously, depending on which specific days you want to fly. And you also know that if you wait too long, you find nothing left in airlines' seat inventories except the highest-price tickets. The upshot is that you should consider locking in your holiday air reservations early. And, fortunately, you have some good sources of information.
CheapAir is the first website out of the gate this year with a holiday-airfare travel calendar. The initial posting covers the Thanksgiving and year-end holiday periods.
- Thanksgiving: The best days to travel will be November 25, 26, 28 (Thanksgiving Day), and 29, plus December 3. The worst will be December 1.
- Year-End: The best travel days will be December 19, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 31, plus January 1 and 7. The worst days will be December 20 and 29 and January 5.
Priceline posts a similar calendar every year. Normally it doesn't go online until late October, but in response to a request, Priceline's Senior Travel Analyst Brian Ek has already developed some preliminary figures:
- Thanksgiving: The best days to travel will be November 25 and 28 and December 3, 4, 5, and 6. The worst days will be November 27 and December 1.
- Year-End: The best days to travel will be December 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 25, and January 1. Intermediate days will be December 23, 24, 27, and 30. The worst days will be December 21, 22, 28, and 29.
For years, travel on the main holiday days has always been slow—that's when most folks want to be where they're going—and also in those "sandwich" days between a major holiday and an adjacent weekend. I remember, long ago, flying on a 747 from New York to San Francisco on the Friday after Thanksgiving with only four passengers. And I also remember a New Year's Day 747 trip on TWA (yes, it was a while back) from London to Los Angeles with about 60 passengers in a plane that held 460.
Hotel accommodations, of course, are a different story. Resort-area hotel rates tend to remain high during the entire Thanksgiving weekend and the two-week Christmas-New Year's period. The same goes for vacation rentals. Accommodations bargains, if any, will be in big-city business-oriented hotels.
As always, you can never outguess the timing of last-minute sales. All you can do is cast as wide a net as you can for airfare information, sign up for a bunch of deal alerts, and be prepared to act quickly once you spot a good deal that fits your plans.
If you wait until shortly before the holiday period, be prepared to scratch around for anything at less than top dollar. On routes where airlines quickly run out of cheap seats and hotels say they're fully booked, keep in mind that big wholesale tour operators often have reserved inventories of rooms and tour-basing airfares even after airlines and hotels say they have nothing left but full-fare economy or that they're full. Also, if fares to the most popular spots and hotels are either unavailable or expensive, consider an off-the-beaten-path destination.
And wherever and whenever you go, remember that air traffic will be heavy and weather in much of the northern U.S. and Canada could be lousy. That means allowing extra time for anything—and, especially, giving yourself an extra hour or two at the hub anytime you have to use connecting flights.
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Nick Ferguson honors Darrent Williams on Broncos Alumni Day
The Broncos are inducting Rod Smith on Alumni weekend and among the players who returned for the ceremony was Nick Ferguson, the former strong safety for both the Broncos and Houston Texans.
Looking like he could still play, Ferguson was in the north tunnel just off the field prior to the game between his former teams Sunday.
Ferguson wore No. 25 with the Broncos yet he is wearing a Broncos' No. 27 jersey today. I asked him why he was wearing Steve Atwater's jersey. Ferguson turned around and showed that the name on the back was "Darrent Williams." The first name was spelled out as it was during Williams' second season, so as to not confuse him with linebacker D.J. Williams.
"I wanted to make sure Darrent was in the building today," Ferguson said.
Darrent Williams was killed in a drive-by shooting in the wee hours of Jan. 1, 2007. Ferguson, a close friend and teammate, got married a few hours later that same day.
The Broncos have always had one safety who could tackle but in John Lynch and Nick Ferguson during the 2005-06 seasons they had two.


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DescriptionInter-Dimensional Espionage. Inter-Dimensional... because you can "warp" into the body of a living thing in this or any other dimension. Espionage... because there are good guys and bad. And you're a good one... with years under your belt and a multitude of successful missions behind your dark glasses. The payoff? You get a vacation, and the ultimate vacation in this business is to become a goldfish.
Yes, a goldfish. Hey, it's cushy. You swim a little, eat a little, live in a castle. (So what if it's plastic.) Just as you were getting into the vacation mode (umbrella drink and all), the tide turns. The most dangerous group of inter-dimensional anarchists surface - the Seven Deadly Fins. This septic septet will stop at nothing to destroy all forms of life as we know it. And wouldn't you know it, you are drafted to stop them!
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- "Fish!: One Nibble and You're Hooked." -- UK tag-lined title
- "Fish: An Extraordinary Tale in Illustrated Interactive Fiction" -- Tag-lined title
- "Fish!" -- UK title
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|Computer and Video Games (CVG)
|Oct, 1988
|9 out of 10
|Atari ST User
|Jan, 1989
|9 out of 10
|The Games Machine (UK)
|Nov, 1988
|88 out of 100
|ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)
|Dec, 1988
|10.2 out of 12
|Power Play
|Oct, 1988
|83 out of 100
|The One
|Dec, 1988
|80 out of 100
|New Computer Express
|Dec, 1988
|Joystick (German)
|Jan, 1989
|7.5 out of 10
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SalesFish! didn't sell particularly well - not exactly due to the game's quality, but because of management troubles at Telecomsoft at that time (and it's label Rainbird on which Magnetic Scrolls published their games). Those troubles finally led to a sale of the publisher to Microprose UK. But during those final Telecomsoft months, no proper distribution was done according to Anita Sinclair, especially badly affecting Fish!, and Magnetic Scrolls suffered some losses as a result.
TechnologyAll Magnetic Scrolls games (pre-Wonderland) are actually made up of a 68K CPU emulator and 68k data file.
Their first game, The Pawn, was written for a Sinclair QL. Rather than re-write the game, they just wrote an interpreter (much like Infocoms famous Z-Machine) for each architecture (C64, Amiga, PC, Sinclair, etc).
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- Issue 06/1989 - Winner Golden Joystick Award 1989 for Best 16-Bit Adventure Game (reader's vote)
- Power Play
- Issue 01/1989 - Best Text Adventure in 1988
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- The Magnetic Scrolls Memorial (Fan-page with lot's of information, collectors information, documents & help.)
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Weekly jobless claims drop by 9,000
First-time applications for jobless aid are near their lowest level in five years.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 323,000, near the lowest level since June 2008.
The figure shows employers are laying off fewer and fewer workers, an encouraging sign one day before the government will issue its August jobs report.
ADP report: Private-sector jobs rose 176,000 in August
Weekly applications are just 1,000 above a five-year low reached last month, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four week average, a less volatile measure, declined 3,000 to 328,500. That's the lowest point since October 2007.
Economists forecast that the August jobs report will show employers added 177,000 jobs, up from 162,000 in July. The unemployment rate is expected to remain 7.4%.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They have fallen 5 percent in the past two months, raising hopes that hiring could pick up.
Still, the unemployment rate is well above the 5 percent to 6 percent range associated with a normal economy. And most of the improvement in the job market has occurred because layoffs have fallen. Hiring, by contrast, remains modest. Fewer layoffs can boost net job growth even when businesses aren't filling many job openings.
Nearly 4.4 million Americans received unemployment benefits in the week that ended Aug. 17, the latest period for which figures are available. That's about 70,000 fewer than the previous week. A year ago, 5.5 million Americans were receiving benefits.
Many of the jobs created in recent months have been lower-paying, part-time positions in industries such as hotels, restaurants and retail. Higher-paying industries such as manufacturing and construction have mostly shed jobs since spring.
But some signs indicate that hiring in both industries could pick up. A private survey released Tuesday showed that factory activity grew last month at the fastest pace in more than two years. And manufacturers added jobs, though at a slower pace than in the previous month.
Spending on U.S. construction projects, meanwhile, rose to its highest level in more than four years in July. It was spurred by strength in both housing and commercial building.
The economy expanded at a 2.5% annual rate in the April-June quarter, a modest pace but much faster than the 1.1% annual rate in the first three months of the year. Home construction and business investment spending were two key drivers of growth.
Many economists think growth is slowing to about a 2% annual rate in the current July-September quarter.
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The Lovers (after the Master of the Housebook or Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet), Wenzel von Olmütz (Bohemian, active 1481-1497). c. 1490. Engraving; 16.7 x 10.9 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2010.262.
A rare portrait miniature by nineteenth-century British artist John Linnell, a boldly designed Op Art painting by Cleveland artist Edwin Mieczkowski and a fifteenth-century engraving of which only five exist are among the latest works approved by the Collections Committee of the
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s Board of Trustees. C. Griffith Mann, Ph.D, deputy director and chief curator states, These acquisitions reflect the museums willingness to seek acquisition opportunities in public auctions, to build on historic strengths of the collection, and to make purchases that complement and strengthen the exhibition program.
Portrait of Anne Law (née Towry), 1st Lady Ellenborough (1760-1843) Rare Linnell portrait miniature is one of the only examples outside of Britain
The miniature, Portrait of Anne Law (née Towry), 1st Lady Ellenborough (1760-1843) (British, c. 1815; watercolor on ivory in gilt metal frame; 4 5/16 in. high) is by British artist John Linnell, known mostly for his landscapes but who also executed fine portrait miniatures during the first two decades of his career. Linnell was a celebrated portraitist, and miniatures by the artist are quite rare. There are a few examples of Linnells portrait miniatures in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Royal Collection and the National Portrait Gallery in London. It is uncommon to see Linnells portrait miniatures outside of Britain and the objects seldom make it to the art market. This miniature was featured in a recent auction, where it was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Linnells stipple technique of painting miniatures is distinctive, and he incorporates the use of rich jewel-like tones. He preceded the Pre-Raphaelites, whose attention to detail and lush colors call to mind Linnells artistry and who looked to him as a model. In his early career, when this portrait miniature was created, Linnell was studying and copying the old masters, like Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, while simultaneously exploring his innovative application of paint and artistic language. Portrait of Anne Law (née Towry), 1st Lady Ellenborough (1760-1843) pays homage to the grand tradition of portraiture in which the artist captures the essential nature of the sitter through superb technique but in miniature.
In addition to Portrait of Anne Law (née Towry), 1st Lady Ellenborough (1760 - 1843), the Cleveland Museum of Art owns another work by John Linnell, a landscape titled Noah, the Eve of the Deluge. The museum also owns a number of works by Linnells contemporaries, such as William Blake and Samuel Palmer, and the new acquisition complements this area of the collection. The portrait miniature may also be viewed in context with several nineteenth-century British portraits by Frederick Sandys, William Holman Hunt and George Richmond in the museums permanent collection.
Blue Bloc Cleveland Op artists masterpiece
Blue Bloc by Edwin Mieczkowski (American, c. 1967; acrylic on canvas mounted to board; 121.9 x 121.9 cm.) has come to be recognized by historians and critics as the artists masterpiece and a key work of Op Art in general. Mieczkowski was an important figure in the Cleveland art scene for three decades and achieved international renown for his groundbreaking Op Art creations. While teaching at his alma mater the Cleveland Institute of Art, he co-founded the Anonima Group, the only collaborative in the United States devoted to the Op Art movement. His achievements contributed to placing Cleveland as a vital center for the global Op Art scene during the 1960s, a time when the city operated as both training ground and residence to some of the most significant and successful Op artists, including Julian Stanczak, Francis Hewitt and Richard Anuszkiewicz.
Taking cues from theories in perceptual psychology, Op artists exploited visual ambiguities in their work with a goal to match objective knowledge against sensory observation so that viewers experience and acknowledge unstable aspects of visual phenomena. A clear representation of these ideas, Blue Bloc seemingly vibrates in-and-out of focus while at the same time generating a sensation of the canvas pulsating from within. A rigorously rendered square-format abstraction, the composition features more than 1,200 three-quarter circles in hues of yellows, greens and blues arrayed against a checkerboard background with gradations of black, gray and white. The painting is generously scaled, dazzlingly hued and boldly designed and it ranks among the most visually dynamic and appropriately eye-popping Op Art paintings.
Blue Bloc exemplifies the goals of Op Art to stimulate, challenge,and even confoundvision. Its addition to the permanent collection augments an already strong collection of Cleveland Op Art works, many of which were acquired around the time of their creation. Blue Bloc by Edwin Mieczkowski will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Op Art will be on view from April 11, 2011 to February 26, 2012.
The Lovers (after the Master of the Housebook or Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet) Engraving impression is in excellent condition and one of five in existence
In the fifteenth century, little value was placed on artistic originality. Once a successful motif was introduced, there was no stigma attached to the imitation of one artist by another. Wenzel von Olmütz was an engraver whose 91 prints are careful copies of the work of other masters, especially Martin Schongauer, the Housebook Master.
The Lovers (after the Master of the Housebook or Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet) by Wenzel von Olmütz (Bohemian, c. 1490; engraving; 16.7 x 10.9 cm.) depicts a well-known motif. The garden of love was a popular setting for romance in chivalric literature and so was the most frequently represented secular subject in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Olmützs image is a visual interpretation of the literary ideal of chivalric love as a noble and inspiring relationship. The tender feelings of the couple are evident in this engraving; the young woman has a lapdog, a symbol of faithfulness, and gently covers the young mans hand on her knee with her own hand. Olmützs copy is very faithful to his model and preserves the charm and delicacy of the original. The Lovers is in excellent condition and one of only five impressions of this scene in existence, with one other (in the Albertina, Vienna) being as fine an example as this engraving.
A notable strength of the museums print collection is the superb group of fifteenth-century Italian and German engravings and woodcuts that represent the beginning of printmaking in Europe. The collection includes the only first-state impression of Antonio Pollaiuolos Battle of Nude Men and ten outstanding engravings by the Master ES among other significant works. In fact, The Lovers by Olmütz offers a vivid contrast to a print in the museums permanent collection, the Master ESs The Garden of Love from about 1465. In this impression, the Master ES satirizes the ideals of courtly love and warns against the immoral behavior outlawed by the imperial cities of Germany at the time.
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Perfect Californian Creekside Retreat by Amy Alper
Dreaming about a weekend retreat surrounded by appealing and enticing natural elements? Then this gorgeous architectural project including remodeling and additions will revive your inspiration. Recently send to us by architect Amy Alper, the Creekside Cabin located in Santa Rosa, California was a challenging project that brought a modern atmosphere in the old construction and opened up the interiors to receiving natural light and exceptional views. As described by the architect, the Creekside Cabin is an example of building alongside nature: "Beautifully situated among shady firs and redwoods, the layout of this 1920?s shingle-style cabin nonetheless precluded views to the nearby boulder-strewn creek. Stringent regulations limited new construction to only ?previously disturbed? riparian areas around the existing cabin and no more than thirty-three percent additional conditioned space was allowed.
The new living room and hallway addition roughly follow the outline of an underutilized exterior deck. Structural steel beams and posts, set at deck support locations, carry a cantilevered floor, achieving maximum allowable new square footage with no increased site disturbance. The dismantled redwood deck members were reused on site as were two period windows removed to allow the connection between old and new. The original cabin exterior is preserved and featured as a backdrop to the new spaces. The living room is set under an extension of the existing roofline while the hallway is defined by a shallower roof pitch that gestures toward the creek. Smooth white walls contrast textured dark shingles, fireplace contrasts watercourse and reclaimed beams visually echo the surrounding woods. Large pane window walls maximize views to the ever changing natural setting beyond."


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FRISCO, Texas -- Damontre Moore's dream was not unlike that of a lot of kids who grew up in the Dallas area.
He wanted to play for the Dallas Cowboys one day. As he worked a concession stand at Texas Stadium with his youth football team from South Oak Cliff, he let his mind wander to what that would be like. He sat in the stands for a couple of games too.
"We played there one time, too," Moore said. "Raiders against the Cowboys, and we all imagined one day we would play for the Cowboys. So it finally happened."
Moore signed a modest two-year deal with the Cowboys last week that included a $100,000 signing bonus. This was not the way he anticipated his homecoming.
He was a third-round pick by the New York Giants in 2013 but he was released in his third season following an incident with a teammate over headphones. He ended the 2015 season with the Miami Dolphins. He signed with the Oakland Raiders last spring but was an early cut in training camp.
He had a summer workout with the Cowboys, who were starving for defensive line help because of injuries, but the team passed. He was out of football until November, when he signed with the Seattle Seahawks. He had a half-sack in four games, earned praise from Pete Carroll, hurt his foot and had an arrest for driving while under the influence.
The Cowboys are his fifth team in five years. He has 10 career sacks. He is yet to start a game in his career.
"I look at it as my last chance," Moore said. "Nothing's promised in the game we play. You can be there today and see you later tomorrow. You've got to take every snap, every rep, every practice like this is your last opportunity to prove yourself."
The Cowboys gave Moore the chance because they need pass-rush help, just as they did last summer. They took the chance because he does not turn 25 until September. They took the chance because it does not cost them much.
He grew up watching DeMarcus Ware get after the quarterback for nine seasons with the Cowboys. Moore was a middle linebacker in youth football before he moved to defensive end. He starred at Rowlett (Texas) High School.
The Cowboys can't expect Moore to be what Ware was. But they hope he can be another in a list of unheralded defensive linemen to find success, like George Selvie, Jeremy Mincey, David Irving, and Benson Mayowa.
His workout last summer with the team gave him a brief introduction to Rod Marinelli's ways.
"You see how intense he was," Moore said. "He was saying, 'Run here, run there.' It always starts with yourself but it helps when your coach has all the energy and a lot of experience. He's coached great players and he's turned a lot of people around. You just trust that process."
Moore will be at The Star Tuesday for the unofficial captains' practices run by teammates. He has been working out in San Francisco with Frank Matrisciano, better known as Hell's Trainer. He has transformed his 6-foot-5, 252-pound body, adding upper-body strength that he did not have at Texas A&M or in his first few years in the NFL.
"I've definitely noticed a big difference in my strength as far as holding myself up a little longer and having body control," Moore said. "I feel a lot more powerful and explosive and I've been able to lose the bad weight I had and gain it all back and turn it into muscle mass."
Moore shares an agent with Von Miller, who has become a mentor of sorts since their time together at Texas A&M. They have worked out the last few years with Matrisciano. Miller's renaissance as the NFL's best pass-rusher after a suspension and knee injury in 2013 has given Moore a map to success.
"His career says it all," Moore said. "That's my brother. For him, he's constantly encouraging and telling me the stuff I want to hear and telling me stuff I don't want to hear. It hasn't been like I wanted to, but he knows at the end of the day you can still bounce back. His career shows it. Everybody loves a comeback story."
Even before the signing became official, Moore's cell phone kept buzzing.
"I think I heard from everybody and their mama," Moore said. "You got everybody coming out of woodwork congratulating you. It wasn't just about congratulations about me signing. It was everybody saying, 'We see how hard you're working and we're psyched you get to come back and have this opportunity.' That's the best thing."


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Five days a week for nearly four years, Oakland, Calif., resident John Raines has watched more than 1,000 hours of old home movies, television-station news reports and other audio-visual archival materials of LGBT historical significance.
Each weekday, Raines sits down at a desk in a converted bedroom in his apartment, boots up his computer and AV equipment and sets about preserving the LGBT footage and recordings by transferring them to a digital format.
The celluloid images run the gamut from gay Halloween parties to leather and drag contests to the inaugural voyages of gay cruise company RSVP to endless coverage of gay Pride parades and athletic events.
"It can be a little tiresome to watch the nth round of the Miss Continental contest. But it is also fun because little surprises will pop up," said Raines, referring to the annual female impersonation pageant that has been held in Chicago since 1980.
The preservation work is a labor of love for the gay retiree, who turns 53 Oct. 19, as he has been doing the work on a pro-bono basis for the GLBT Historical Society based in San Francisco.
"I treated it like a job Monday through Friday," said Raines. "In seven hours, I can transfer six, one-hour reels."
When the historical society opened its first museum space in the gay Castro district back in 2009, Raines signed up as a volunteer. Part of the display featured video screens in the window showing archival LGBT footage.
Having a background in audio-video post-production, Raines offered to assist with fixing the visual presentation shown on the monitors.
"I enjoyed it. It was fun to learn about preservation and conserving analog media," said Raines, who worked for several San Diego radio stations in the 1980s and later at a cable TV advertising firm in Los Angeles. "I am self taught."
Impressed with his work, the archival group's executive director asked if Raines would be interested in diving further into its audio-visual collection to help convert it into a form accessible to modern-day filmmakers, researchers and academics.
Raines accepted the offer, only to discover that the preserved material was in various formats, largely uncataloged, and some reels in better condition than others. He decided to start with a relatively easy task — picking a collection of old radio programs donated by journalist Randy Alfred.
"Randy had donated them in 1996 and there they had mostly just sat in boxes. There were 250 reels, most one-hour long, so it was over 200 hours worth of material," recalled Raines. "I started with it because it was audio, a format I was familiar with. Also, they were in really good condition."
Not only had Alfred kept the documentation for his LGBT radio show, which aired on KSAN-FM San Francisco from 1973-84, he also had meticulously stored the collection.
"It was about as tidy as it gets," said Raines, who over the course of three months brought the equipment he needed to do the work into the archives, which are stored in a building in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood and can be publicly accessed by appointment. "I had no difficulty with that collection."
Eventually, the Alfred tapes and those of the "Fruit Punch" gay radio program that aired on KPFA Berkeley in the mid-1970s were made available online through the "Gayback Machine" portal on the historical society's website. The material has since been downloaded 8,997 times from the site and an additional 3,376 times directly from the Internet Archive, where they are also held.
Having earned the trust of the archive staff, Raines began bringing the archival tapes and reels to his house in order to do the conversion work at home. He also started acquiring the machinery he needed to convert the older formats into digital copies by scouring hobbyist websites and eBay listings.
The video material held by the archives was shot in various formats, such as Betacam, U-matic, VHS, Video Hi8, DAT (for digital audio tape) and the obscure Sony CV Skip-field. Each requires its own player in order to be converted; it took him months to secure a machine that can play EIAJ-1 half-inch open-reel videotape.
He even acquired a phonograph player, as the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus released, in 45-rpm record format, a cheer song for the 49ers football team.
"Maybe I've spent $5,000 altogether," Raines estimated.
By volunteering his time and services, Raines has saved the historical society tens of thousands of dollars in what it would cost to have the material commercially transferred. One collection of old films, from what was known as the Queer Blue Light video collective, would have cost $21,000 if the archives had to pay for it, said Raines.
"I did it for zero dollars after spending a few hundred to buy the machine," he said.
Once he has the necessary equipment, Raines will "babysit" the old footage through the conversion process. He watches every second of each film to ensure it is not damaged.
"I have only had one tape I handled and caused any damage on it, but it was unforeseeable," said Raines.
One trick he learned for certain film formats that can soak up water over time is to dry it out first by using a Nesco food dehydrator and jerky maker. Otherwise, when it is played back, it can leave a watery mess in the machine.
"It is round and perfect for putting flat reels of tape in it," he said. "It can take six-24 hours to drive enough water out of the tape so you can play it."
For now his priority is transferring the videos "as is" to a digital format. He does not edit the tapes in any way.
"The goal right now is preservation," said Raines. "We want to get as good a digital copy as we can that is faithful to the original copy as possible. We are not trying to change anything on it."
Nor does Raines expect he will be able to digitally copy all of the archive's audio and visual collection, since he still doesn't know how big the AV collection is. Some of the remaining footage is not as well kept, with loose tape unspooled in boxes.
"There is a lot more to do," he said.
The work Raines has quietly undertaken since 2009 caught the attention of gay Bay Area filmmaker Stu Maddux, who decided to make a documentary about preserving old gay home movies and other LGBT archival footage. Titled "Reel In The Closet,: the movie features Raines and is scheduled for a 2014 release.
"Watching this stuff is a virtual time machine," said Maddux, who is launching a crowdfunding campaign this month to raise $39,000 to offset the cost of finishing his film. "Not only is it fascinating to view, it's going to get people fascinated in the history sitting in their closets too."
By publicizing the work he has been doing behind the scenes, Raines hopes others will volunteer their time and service to preserve the material before it becomes unsalvageable.
"Some of it is disintegrating and others are on obsolete formats. It is not something we can let go for another 20 years and let sit in the box," said Raines.
The next step would be to have individuals who were around during that timeframe view the material to see if they can identify people in the films, said Raines.
All of the converted media files are only available, for now, on a computer in the archives' reading room. While the historical society has posted a few snippets of video on its YouTube channel over the years, most of the footage won't be released for such public viewing.
"It is financially benefitting the archives to digitize this material," said Raines. "But we want to strike a balance between making it available and maintaining some control."
Matthew S. Bajko is an assistant editor with the Bay Area Reporter. For more information about the GLBT Historical Society's archive, visit http://www.glbthistory.org/research/index.html. Its YouTube channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/glbthistory.
To learn more about the documentary "Reel In The Closet" and how to support the film, visit http://closetreel.com/.


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MacNaughton Mountain Climber's Log
JimWallace - Jul 27, 2010 10:24 pm Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2010beauty bushwhack
Great hike.First time through Indian Pass.Bushwhackrd in from Wallface pond.Hit the false summit on the left ,then hiked the ridge to the marked summit.Great day hiking in the Adirondacks
BrookTroutLeiphart - May 17, 2010 12:56 am Date Climbed: Oct 21, 2001#118 (4,000'er) for me!
#118? Yes,I'm counting the NE 111 (below the St. Lawrence), plus the 2 added in 1976 in NH, plus the 2 added in 1996 in ME (now the 111 is 115). Mt. Jacques Cartier on the Gaspe. Wildcat "E" (before 1976?) Wildcat "D" (after 1976?).
(I'm #400 on the NE 111 club & USA 50 State Highpoint club #111).
I'm glad there was a sign on the top, so I didn't have to keep walking around!
chilkoot - Mar 9, 2009 11:30 am Date Climbed: Nov 9, 2008Lost Camera
Rough, wet trail even by ADK standards. The bushwack was actually a bit easier than the trail into Wallface Pond because there was so much standing water on the trail. Our day turned out to be a minor disaster including broken trekking poles, torn gaiters, falls into rapid streams, and a lost camera. If it weren't for the GPS, we would have had a hard time even getting back from the peak as we were caught after dark and a steady rain had turned into wet, heavy snow. A late, late return home coupled with the lost camera ensured I was in deep doo doo. If anyone finds the camera in the spring, please let me know. It's a Pentax and is somewhere near where the trail ends around Wallface Pond.
woodstrider - Jul 27, 2005 7:44 pmRoute Climbed: 5/97 From the Loj and Indian Pass the Wallface Ponds/ 3/03 Indian Pass from the south and then up the Drainage of Wallface ponds Date Climbed: 5/97 and 3/01/93
First trip with friends as a day hike and the winter trip as a solo backpack bushwhacking up from Indian Pass just above the Wallface Lean-to.
hillman - Nov 5, 2004 10:33 pmRoute Climbed: from the loj-indian pass- wallface ponds Date Climbed: 8-04
This is a great hike. I highly reccomend it to anyone up for an adventure. Really no herd path, so bring a compass. The summit sign is up there, and spelled incorrectly.


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Our family just got back from a day of hiking the trails at Hanging Rock State Park. I truly believe that the area we live in is one of the most beautiful places in the world. We have so many opportunities to enjoy nature, from canoeing and fishing on the New River, to biking on the New River Trail, to hiking through many of the numerous state parks and national forests in the surrounding area. We are truly blessed to see such beauty on a regular basis.
On our recent hiking trip, we were able to able to hike to the top of Hanging Rock. The hike to the top is a little over a mile, but it is listed as a moderate hike and can be steep in places. It was challenging, but not too hard for our kids. After getting back to the real world, I decided to share a few lessons from the hike.
1) Enjoy the Journey
I'm a fast hiker. I don't like to stop and I especially don't like going slow. It's always a challenge to see how fast I can reach the destination. While hiking, my wife and kids are constantly reminding me to slow down. My kids don't mind letting me know that my legs are longer and that I need to stop and enjoy the scenery. They remind me to enjoy the journey. I hate to admit it, but my family is right. There is joy in the journey.
For me, hiking is a metaphor for my life as well. I'm constantly going somewhere and it seems like I stay way too busy. Sometimes we are in such a hurry to get to where we are going, that we miss God given opportunities along the way. Our society has conditioned us to constantly stay busy. Our families operate like a taxi service transporting the kids to all their activities and our churches aren't much slower. Almost every night of the week there are practices, meetings, and studies. In Scripture, we see that Jesus withdrew from the crowds and spent time alone. Jesus also saw opportunities that the disciples missed. As they traveled from town to town, we see Jesus talking, sharing, healing, and loving the people he met. We need to do the same.
But there is another important lesson that I needed to be reminded of.
2) We Can't Stay on the Mountaintop
After resting and soaking in the views from the top of the mountain for a while, I reluctantly decided that I had to get back to the real world and hike back down. I was reminded of the story of Jesus and Peter, James, and John at the Transfiguration. All three of the synoptic gospels share this story about a mountaintop experience (you can read it in Matthew 17, Mark 9, and Luke 9) After they had an incredible experience in which they saw Jesus literally transformed and glorified on the mountaintop, they didn't want to leave. In fact they wanted to build an alter so they wouldn't forget what happened. But Jesus didn't let them stay on the mountaintop. While we are refreshed and encouraged while we are on top of the world, we have to re-enter the real world. There is work to be done, and it's our job to do it.
Sometimes our life seems like a mountaintop. The view is incredible and everything seems to be going our way. However, as most of you have experienced, there are points in our life when we are far from the mountaintop, when life is not what we expected. It's in those times we are in the valley that we must look up to God and rely on Him. Billy Graham once said that it's while we are on the mountaintops that we need to be praying the most, because we can be sure that a valley is coming.
Let me just challenge you in your thinking. Our joy and contentment is not based on whether we are on a mountaintop or in a valley. We need to remember that there is joy in the journey.
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Ayurveda is used today as a generic term for traditional Indian medicine. By combining organoleptic (sense-based) empirical medicine with religious ritual perspectives, Ayurveda is a complete medical system. It deals with health in all its aspects; physical health, mental balance, spiritual well-being, social welfare, environmental considerations, dietary and lifestyle habits, daily living trends, and seasonal variations in lifestyle, as well as treating and managing specific diseases. Ayurveda teaches respect for nature, appreciation of life and the means to empower the individual. It is holistic medicine at its best.
Ayurvedic herbal is an overview of the wonders of ayurvedic pharmacology: how Ayurveda understands plants, how it prepares them and how these preparations are used. Ayurveda is literally translated as science of life but it can also be described as the way of living with awareness and promoting longevity. Ayurveda tells us which substances, qualities and actions are life enhancing, and which are not.


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Fossil-fuel push must be rebuffed in NH
Last week, the United Nations reported that an area of Arctic sea ice larger than the United States melted. At this very moment, a tanker carrying natural gas is making its way through the normally frozen Arctic Ocean from Norway to Japan, where the natural gas will be burned, releasing carbon dioxide that will fuel global warming and speed the melting of sea ice.
Capped so far by damage from Hurricane Sandy that could approach $100 billion in New York and New Jersey alone, the past two years have racked up the biggest bills for natural disasters in America's history. More damage, exacerbated by climate change and rising sea levels, is inevitable. Even if the world's nations do all they can to curb greenhouse gas emissions now, the globe's temperature will continue to increase.
But pessimism that paralyzes government could prove fatal. What can be done to curb climate change must be, which makes the renewed campaign to weaken or eliminate laws requiring the increased use of renewable energy so insidious.
The American Legislative Exchange Council, the Heartland Institute and other groups that receive funding from the fossil-fuel industry are engaging in state-by-state campaigns to convince consumers that energy from fossil fuels is affordable and power from renewable sources needlessly expensive.
Power from solar panels, windmills and biofuels does cost more than electricity generated by burning natural gas, coal or oil, but only because the true cost of fossil fuels is paid but not accounted for. That cost comes in higher health care bills, lower life expectancies, poisoned lakes, a warming planet, rising seas, more powerful storms and all the other ills associated with rapid climate change.
ALEC and its New Hampshire allies attacked New Hampshire's renewable fuel standards in the last legislative session and tried to convince lawmakers to pull out of the regional greenhouse gas compact. They will try again and must be rebuffed. This state, this nation, and indeed all nations, will have a hard enough time coping with the effects of climate change without making the problem worse.
A poignant story in the Nov. 28 New York Times described a problem that an increasing number of coastal communities will encounter. Some of the neighborhoods hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy were home to middle-class and low-income residents, most of whom lacked flood insurance.
Those who can afford to rebuild, presumably with government help, will then face federal flood insurance premiums that will double over the next five years and continue to increase to pay for future storms.
Unless those seaside property owners get even bigger subsidies from taxpayers, they will be priced out of their homes, yet it doesn't makes sense and isn't fair to repeatedly bill others so some can live beside a rising ocean.
One alternative would be to sit back and watch while people with the financial ability to pay high insurance premiums gobble up oceanfront vacated by the hoi polloi. But there is another option worth considering: the planned acquisition of oceanfront property by state and federal governments using the national seashores as a model.
A half century ago, to preserve for posterity precious oceanfront property threatened not by rising seas but a tide of residential development, lawmakers sponsored, and President John F. Kennedy signed, a bill creating the Cape Cod National Seashore.
Many private homes, subject to strict zoning standards, remain in the seashore, but most of it is owned and open to the public. Perhaps that should be the fate of properties and communities almost certain to be inundated over and over again.
Compensate the owners, relocate them and reclaim the oceanfront for public use and wildlife. That way, though people forced by nature to relocate would lose a cherished place to live, the public would be richer
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I am an alcoholic. I am not the least bit ashamed to say so. My father and uncle also have a long history of loving the bottle. I have attended some AA meetings through the years. I have read their "big book" front to cover and despite their claims to be non religious I have found the organization to be very religious. Scary religious. Many of the beliefs and messages expressed at meetings do more harm than good to their members. For me the attraction to AA has nothing to do with searching for an answer or a cure for alcoholism. I know addiction is a physical disease. Instead of the genetic code for diabetes, breast cancer, or multiple sclerosis the roll of the DNA dice predisposed me to drink in excess. In order for diabetics to maintain good health they either limit or exclude sweets and other carbohydrates from their diet, likewise, if I want to be healthy I can not drink. My attraction to AA has been based on a desire to associate with other people who are also alcoholics. The same reason I seek out atheist groups, I like to associate with people who share the same beliefs, goals, and life experiences that I have experienced. The problem is the ONLY group of recovering alcoholics is Alcoholics Anonymous.In the Northern United States agnostic groups exist, however, the AA central office and many of their members refuse to acknowledge these groups as apart of AA. In Canada several agnostic groups where criticized and removed from the meeting schedules they distributed. I live in the deep south, rural Georgia. (No I do not like country music, yes I have all my teeth) The message from AA seems to be "we are here only to help the religious or those willing to become religious". Atheist alcoholics seeking support are out of luck, especially in the southern states. For several months I have searched for a true non religious group of recovering alcoholics and have come up empty handed. So I have decided to be honest about my atheism within the rooms of AA. What I realized is my presence and continued success at not drinking will disprove the popular belief in AA that only "God" can keep you sober. I can not be the only atheist alcoholic on the planet! If no place in Georgia exists to offer peer support for the recovering alcoholic who is also an agnostic/atheist then I will just create a place. Wish me luck!
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The big book flip flops quite a bit in the beginning it does say "the only requirement is a desire to quite drinking" it also gives reference to "a power greater than yourself"....in the beginning of the big book it does not sound extremely religious and defiantly sounds more tolerant but as the book progresses the person who is trying to recover has to believe in a god that micro manages all aspects of their life if not that person will not stay sober...the tricky part is this god can have any name buddah, jesus, yoda, etc. but in order to recover the person has to "turn over their will and their life to the care of God" ...now just because they did not give god a name does not mean the underlining religion is not present...in my opinion any ways....it is kinda like a bad sales technique you know saying you are getting one thing then after you sign up you get something different...I put into google every kind on name for a non religious support group and the search resulted in pages of treatment centers and AA...in order to find sos it seems you have to type the name in the search bar....
I bought a time share once that reminds me of aa....I was 25 the sales women showed me and my ex husband all these really fabulous photos of this incredible time share condo on the beach....we bought....then our first trip to the condo we realized the place was a crap hole....the beginning of the big book paints a really fabulous picture of the program loving tolerant, in the beginning addiction is a physical illness as the book progresses alcoholism is attributed to a spiritual sickness only cured by god pray to god daily or drink and die....I was like woooooohhhhh hold up......wtf? where did the tolerance for all beliefs go?
man Jared 11 years they did a number on you, argumentative and you sound very angry....I am defiantly starting an SOS group.......Do you write so much to prevent people from being able to respond? I am just wondering bc I do not know where to start lol.... I did read, I did think, I twisted nothing, and I have no agenda besides not drinking....I am going to call your way of arguing "flooding" the definition will be- someone who writes enormous responses to statements in order to a) appear intelligent or b) out of fear they will not stay in control of the debate.....thanks for your feed back defiantly contained some good stuff
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/genetics-addi... oh and they have not pinned down the exact gene yet but good old science is getting closer....they have found some biological differences between people who become addicted and those who do not......I did not twist this or interpret it in my own way I just read it.....the way it was printed...the black letters on the page and those little numbers and grafts and other science thingies....
Thought you might enjoy this piece.
I read about this one too but I am a women sooo the study was not about me...if I twisted the article and interpreted it in my own way I could put an imaginary w and o in front of the men word and that would make the article about me.....
Addiction and impulsivity have a genetic link in men, according to a new study.
The gene, a snippet of DNA called NRXN3, has previously been linked to nicotine dependence, as well as alcohol dependence, opiate addiction and obesity. The new research suggests a common denominator of impulsivity underlies all of these troubles.
"The other studies basically showed the NRXN3 seems to be associated with some addictions and with obesity," said study researcher Scott Stoltenberg, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. But our study is really the first to flesh out the mechanism by looking at behavioral control, looking at impulsivity."
Behavior and DNA
Ha Ha Ha korsan thats fantastic! I love it..... thanks! Oh my Darwin.. I have not heard this clip of his before and I had the same thought about higher power....I thought along the same lines well if I am powerless over alcohol and i need a power greater than myself....alcohol is a power greater than me per the first step....ummm...the gwinnet county judicial system is a power greater than me (especially when i was hand cuffed).....ha ha ha
Hi I have been in your spot I got sober and became an Atheist at about the same time in fact getting sober really led to my Atheist awakening. I left religion at 15 after get caught drinking a clear violation of my father's church he asked if I wanted to continue going and I said no and I never looked back. I spent the next several years partying and not even thinking about what I believed about god and religion until I entered rehab at 22. I was told all about AA and the belief in a Higher Power and I had a real problem from day one after the life I had lived and the things I had seen and done there was no way I could believe in the god of my childhood. I did what I felt I had to at the time and kept my mouth shut I said the prayers read the book and tried to work the steps and it worked at first. About two years in I started to really identify myself as a Atheist but only to a few close friends we did not have the worldwide presence we do today. There is a phrase in the rooms "Take what you need and leave the rest " this really captures the spirit of what I did I took just what I needed from AA and left the other BS behind. AA has great fundamentals for the newly sober to learn so do that but keep your wits about you there is a cult like atmosphere in AA and it can be hard to avoid. I stopped going to AA after about six years they taught me what I needed to know and I thank them for that but it is not the only way by a long shot. I have been sober for 18 years now and I have only attended one meeting in the last 10 years to help a friend who needed to go. Any way I have a happy rich life today I am by no means a dry drunk I have balance and serenity and I deal with my problems as they come. My point is that you are not alone and you do have valid concerns about the program and their blatant abuses of people's weekend state to push religious belief just know you don't have to take it all you can leave what you don't want. Oh and feel free to contact me if you have any questions or just need a sober Atheist to talk to.
Denise: Easy does it. What ever works right?
My first six years in the program were doable because of my false belief in god. I really could not do it alone. I look back on it today and call it my very own personal mind fuck. It was! I convinced myself that the mental aspect of my disease was best left to a "Higher Power". The first six years were spent identifying with others in the rooms and not really getting much work done on myself.
I've been off the hooch for 22 years now. Haven't had a taste since April 10, 1990. I do it one day at a time. I stay close to my wife and children. I heed "People, places, and things". That's a biggy right there! Someone once told me, "you don't go to the dentist to get your eye's checked so why would you go to a bar to have a coke?"…..
Coming out of rehab I had nowhere to go. My first wife had kicked me out of the house and, for the first time in my life, I found myself alone. I spoke to a roommate at the rehab and he said: "You got the world by the balls. You don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of but you can start over!"…… He was so right. My life is so much better today….
I get that we don't believe in the whole higher power aspect of AA. But most people that attend those meetings do. And it's what get's them through their Ism's and addictions. I can identify with you and our atheism when it comes to dealing with our disease with out the crutch of a higher power. They feel that they can't do it without their higher powers help. What ever works...
If you can't find any secular groups to stay sober in, my advice is to continue making AA meetings and make allowances for the whole religious part of the meetings. It's like an article I read where more and more well off Islamist, in the middle east, send their children to Catholic university's because, despite the difference in religions, these universities offer the same strict adherence to issues of behavior that their own islamic religion's dictate. If attending AA meetings helps you to stay sober, one day at a time, then, right now, that's the most important thing. One other alcoholic told me once, "chase your sobriety like you chased your addiction. This is how bad I want to stay sober; I'll jump out that window and I don't know what floor I'm on…."
Good luck. Keep it simple….
Thank you Bill and Noel! I appreciate the suggestion!!!
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Shakugan no Shana Terminology and Metaphysics Discussion Thread
As the name suggests, this thread is used by users to provide information as well as post questions and answers concerning the terminology and metaphysics seen in the Shana-verse, as envisioned by series author Takahashi Yashiro.
This is more or less an "ad-hoc encyclopedia", as I have tonnes of stuff I can write about but not sure where to start.
I'll start with a few today then, my preference is to use an English equivalent name wherever possible, since most of the terms are just adjectives:
Crimson World (Guze)
A world that is adjacent to our own. Residing there are Crimson Denizens (Guze no Tomogara) and the more powerful Crimson Lords (Guze no Ou). The name "Crimson" is just a metaphor, coined by a certain Flame Haze ages ago, and does not necessarily mean the world is crimson in colour. Their world is not as "physical" as we would normally perceive ours to be. Overall, a very abstract world. For various reasons, Crimson Denizens and Lords decide to physically manifest themselves in our world. (See entry below)
Crimson Denizen and Crimson Lord
There are various reasons Crimson Denizens and their more powerful counterparts Crimson Lords physically manifest themselves. Some to fulfill all sorts of desire that they are not able to achieve in the Crimson World. Mostly it has something to do with love, or a twisted form of it, like Friagne and the Aizen siblings. Though there are others, like Bal Masque, whose purposes are entirely unknown.
In order to physically manifest themselves, they require Powers of Existence (Sonzai no Chikara) found in this world. Think of it like the MPs (Magic Points) of the Crimson World. It is the power that keeps this world in existence.
There are two ways to acquire PoE (I'll be using this abbreviation from now on): one is to "devour" a human being's PoE, causing his/her existence to be "forgotten" after becoming a Torch; another is to "borrow" the existence of a human being, i.e. living in "symbiosis" with that human, these humans are known as Flame Hazes.
The difference between the former and the latter is that the former acquires PoE indiscriminately just to fulfill their desires. If too many PoE have been extracted, then it could upset the balance between our world and the Crimson World. Some of the more concerned Crimson Lords decide to stop their own kind from going too far, hence they form contracts with Flame Hazes.
There are also certain Denizens/Lords who are neither and do not affect the overall balance of the two worlds. One example is Rami, the Bone Collector (AKA The Spiral Harmonica). He resides inside a Torch, hence he does not take away anybody's PoE, and he only extracts from other Torches, which does anybody no harm (from the "Balance World" PoV anyway).
That's it for now. Feel free to fire any questions you may have.
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Rami is different because he doesn't tap much of PoE and actually feeds himself slowly.
Meanwhile, "good" Guze-O who are willing to fight require a proper host, not only a capable fighter, but also a refined container.
A simple torch would be crushed by any usual Guze-O dormant PoE, but would hardly be able to tap enough PoE for the Guze-O and they would die => disappear. (I don't even know if actually anything except flame haze wouldn't be squeeshed during the ceremony of the contract)
Even though Flame Haze are more similar to a Torch than a human, they are quite different in "spec"
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Power of Existence
The basic power that keeps everything in our world "in existence". Every person is born with such PoE. Some people have larger "existences" than others, in that they have more "contacts", "friends", or are just "popular".
In a nutshell: For an average popular person, his "existence" grows as he meets more people, and is at its climax during the person's prime. Once he ages (i.e. goes into retirement), his "existence" would gradually shrink as he gets out of touch with the people he normally comes into contact with, though it never disappears, even after death.
This changes when his PoE is forcibly taken by a Crimson Denizen/Lord. In which case, he is devoured and is deemed to have "died". However, unlike death, he will not be mourned, because since his "existence" is taken away, no one will know he even existed.
However, while humans normally won't even detect whether one of their own is devoured by Denizens. Overconsumption of PoE would mean people would begin to question the very fabric of their world as more of more people "disappear", this would lead to great distortion, and eventually a collapse in the balance.
Flame Haze usually seek out Denizens by searching for these "distortions". Once a battle is over, these "distortions" are then adjusted and repaired, with the help of a local inhabitant, by a certain group of veteran Flame Haze known as Tuners.
In order to hide their presence, Denizens invent the idea of using Torches to replace the devoured victims. This buys them time to escape before the Flame Haze arrives. Though sometime Flame Haze also create Torches themselves in order to utilize their PoE to repair areas damaged after battles in a Fuuzetsu (Sealed Barrier).
PoE is also the basis for both Denizens and Flame Haze for their Unrestricted Spells (Jizaihou).
That's all I can remember about PoE for now. Any feedback or questions are most welcomed.
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Just to add some "explanations" of the concept, just in case:
As shown by Kinny's explanations, Power of Existence is completely different from "life span".
Even though one should live , let's say, roughly 80 years (think "Death note" life span, which is the common concept of most people), this person disappear if their PoE runs out (which happens only when it is forcefully cut short by a Denizen).
PoE is rather another "variable" which is the representation of the "existence", not "life" of that person (well, the word is "self explanatory")
As result, when a Denizen eats the PoE of someone, the said person doesn't have a "normal" existence, as the existence is conflicting with the prior interactions with other humans. Existence which shouldn't be shrunk in the first place are simply irregular in the world, and therefore, instead of being "harder" to realize (conflicting again with previous connections of the said person's existence), the existence itself cannot "exist" just like prior the intervention of a Denizen, and thus, it is steadely vanishing, until it is turned into a Torch.
As denizen usually don't create torches since they are only interested in their wishes (and so the PoE), the balance of worlds is disrupted. Even though devoured existences are forgotten, living humans still can sense inconsistencies due the abrupt disappearance of "existences".
Flame Hazes use a temporary method to lessen the impact of this, by creating Torches from the remnants of Existence.
A Torch is somewhat an "avatar" of the deceased human, as its existence is just a placeholder to prevent any abrupt disappearance. The torch "lifespan" depends on the remnants of the eaten PoE. This of course can vary from some days to weeks or even years.
Since eaten existences cannot stay in the world in such state, the Flame Hazes just recreate the persons under Torches, who will only live on with a degrading PoE.
Once an existence is turned into a Torch, it is no longer considered as a "human existence", and the said human is "officially" dead, as the Torch will never be able to turn back to a true living existence.
Flame Hazes aren't able to "repair" eaten PoE because PoE can only be "fixed" with PoE, and so, "helping" a torch would mean to tap the PoE from someone else. Therefore, they are unique and cannot be "replinished" until a specific power is designed for such purpose. (There is currently only one thing which has the power to do so, the Hougu named "Reiji Maigo")
Thus, Torches are replacing the presence of eaten people, but as their existence is fading, the impact of this disappearance is lessened since the existence of the torch is gradually degrading, leaving the humans with a near-perfect impression the person never existed from the beginning.
I'm not exactly sure if Denizens do care about the balance, but i really doubt it, so the use of Torch for them is quite limited, except some stuns like Friagne and Rami used.
Feel free to correct me etc
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Here is my definition of a Torch.
According to the novels, it was the Denizens who first came up with the idea of creating Torches to buy themselves time to escape from Flame Haze, who sniff their trail by following the "distortions" that they leave behind. Over time, Flame Haze also install Torches in the case where they've already killed a Denizen before he could make a Torch, or after a "massacre" has occurred and they want to reduce the damage caused to the world as much as possible.
Anyway, once a person is "devoured" of his PoE, a small fragment of that PoE is used to form a "temporary replacement". However, this is but a mere shadow of the original, who for all intents and purposes, should be considered "dead".
This replacement looks like the original, talks like the original, thinks like the original, and even has the memories and personality of the original.
In the early stages, a torch would still behave like any other human being. However, this is where their true function really begins. Slowly, as his flame slowly burns away, people around would stop paying attention to the Torch, and slowly the Torch behaves as though he's a zombie. When his flame finally runs out, he "extinguishes" without anybody noticing.
Torches are not meant to last forever, hence they are not designed with "aging" in mind. Think of it like creating a robot clone for yourself that doesn't age but his batteries will expire in a few months. Thanks to the Hougu inside him, the Mistes Saki Yuji is the sole freak exception in that he is able to maintain his flame perpetually, hence making him technically immortal.
(Separate entries for Mistes and Hougu later)
An interesting question arises concerning Torches: When a person disappear, what happens to his family?
Let's consider the following example:
Unlike time travel, where you go back in time and kill your grandfather, you end up killing your existence.
If a Denizen ends up devouring your grandfather, you will not disappear, because nothing will change the fact that you're "born". Rather, your perception of who your grandfather was will change.
You will wonder "I wonder who my grandfather was?" Your grandmother would struggle to remember how on earth did she have children, etc. But they would then come up with a "rational explanation" to explain away this "unnatural distortion" to their perception of the world.
The same applies to a Torch's physical possession. Take the hapless Hirai Yukari for example, after she disappeared (along with her just as unlucky parents), her apartment does not become vacant overnight. Rather, the stuff inside would continue to remain there, collecting dust. Neighbours would wonder "Did someone ever live here? No one's ever gone in and out for ages." (Not counting the fact that until recently, Shana never bothered staying there. )
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Note that most of the info I wrote are based on novels, where everything else (anime, manga, game) is based from.
Flame Haze
Concerned with the overconsumption of PoE, some Crimson Lords decide to take it upon themselves to stop their own kind from disrupting the balance between the Crimson World and our world.
Physically manifesting themselves is impossible, however, as this means they have to consume other people's PoE as well, which totally defeats their purpose of "preserving the balance". So they decide to "borrow" the existence of certain humans, forming contracts with them, and lending them their power.
Which humans are qualified to become Flame Hazes? Basically, since these are powerful Crimson Lords, so they require "vessels" large enough to contain their existence. Usually, people with such "large existences" tend to be very influential people in society, like nobles and royalty. Example: Khamshin was a prince of a long forgotten kingdom, while Wilhelmina Carmel was a princess in medieval Europe. This may also imply that Shana, who "is large enough to contain [Alastor] with room to spare" may be of noble heritage or descended from someone influential, despite her being "an orphan", but we'll see.
After forming a contract, a Flame Haze would receive tremendous power from the Crimson Lord that he has lent his existence to. He would stop aging physically as well, becoming immortal in their eternal pursuit of Crimson Denizens.
The price of becoming a Flame Haze is that he would lose everything that he has and the world that he once lives in. His existence would be "forgotten", no one would know of his existence, besides other Flame Hazes and Denizens. Thus, as Shana puts it "Flame Hazes are no different from Torches in a way".
Most Flame Hazes tend to be avengers - those that bore a personal grudge towards Crimson Denizens as they have lost their loved ones to the Denizens. It is based on this hatred that some Crimson Lords choose their vessels as it drives the fire in their pursuit of Denizens.
The downside is that the Flame Haze may end up being subjective and too emotional. Margery Daw is a prime example of a Flame Haze driven to extremes by her hatred of Crimson Denizens.
The Crimson Lord Alastor, the Flame of Heaven, wishes to avoid such a situation, hence he chooses to raise a girl from childbirth and instill in her the knowledge of this world without any hatred attached, to allow her to understand the true meaning of "Maintaining the Balance of the Worlds".
Crimson Lords communicate with their Flame Haze via a Device (Jinki) (I forgot what it's actually called, can someone help?) It comes in any shape the Flame Haze desires. (Shana chooses a pendant for Alastor, Margery a book for Marchosias, Wilhelmina a ribbon for Tiamat, and Khamshin a hand ornament for Behemoth) These Devices act as the eyes and ears of the Flame Haze in our physical world, and can be summoned (teleport) any time even when its not physically by the Flame Haze's side.
That's all for Flame Haze for now.
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But how could Baby Shana acquire so much PoE?
I mean, think about the most famous baby in the world. Who's that? I don't know. And I'm sure lots of people don't know either. Does it come close to, say, a Britney Spears? (And before people harp on me for saying she'd make a good Flame Haze, think of the upside: if she did contract a Crimson Lord, it'd be as if she never existed!)
Short of coming out of the womb speaking in tongues and telling us she's here to guide us to the Kingdom of Heaven, how could a baby be important?
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Here's my take on this:
Maybe she could be some royal baby that somehow went missing after she was born, and Wilhelmina somehow picked her up and said she was "an orphan". The "Muggle" (a convenient term, no? ) authorities probably spent years trying to look for her, but they (and maybe Bal Masque) were wasting their time, since she's staying in a giant floating island with a Cloaking Device.
The moment Shana made the contract with Alastor, the "Muggles" would probably completely forget that a human princess baby went missing for years.
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Yeah, I got that part.
I was asking how a baby, even a royal one, could acquire a "large existence". Especially one raised in isolation. Babies are usually important to their relatives, and not many else.
So I was wondering if, if Shana really was a kidnapped royal, a televised search, like the one that occurred for that child whose name, ironically enough, escapes me, could have increased her existence. By having people wonder how that princess got disappeared, and where she was... Even if they never met her, or had any "real" reason to give a damn.
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quote:Originally posted by MikeS.From Scarlett;Pork RoastSmall whole sweet potatoes One 3-pound pork roast 1 can (16 ounces) whole-berry cranberry sauce (use the jelly if you don't like the seeds from the cranberries).1 can (5.5 ounces) apricot nectar 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped 1/2 cup coarsely chopped dried apricots 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper Place the potatoes in a 3 1/2-quart (or larger) slow cooker, then place the roast over the potatoes. In a large bowl, combine the remaining ingredients; mix well and pour over the roast. Cover and cook on the low setting for 5 to 6 hours. (check temp with meat thermomete) Remove the roast to a cutting board and thinly slice. Serve with the potatoes and sauce/gravyI use a cooking bag made for slow cookers. I drain of the liquid into a sauce pan and while the roast is resting reduce and thicken the gravy.
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