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I'm world-building for a SF-story and need some help figuring out what the ocean tides would look like.
My planet orbits a close binary star system; it does not have any satellites itself. The mass of the binary is 5/3 MSun. The orbit is closer than that of Earth and is highly eccentric (a ~ 1/2 AU, e ~ 4/5), such that the planet orbits at about 0.1 AU at perihelion and at about 0.9 AU at aphelion. The value of e was chosen for plot purposes, while the value of a is simply a result of the requirement that the planetary insolation, averaged over the year, must be similar to that of Earth. The planet rotates once every 60 (Earth-)hours.
Originally, I simply assumed that lack of moons meant that the only aspect of tidal effects I needed to worry about was long-term, namely tidal resonance. According to the 'pedia article, the characteristic time-span for tidal locking scales as a^6, meaning that my planet would be locked to its binary 64 times more rapidly than Earth to Sun*. Given that Earth is nowhere near locked, and that I'm free to choose other parameters which come into play, such as the planet's angular momentum upon formation, in whichever way delays locking, I should be fine in that regard: It's not implausible for my planet to have remained unlocked for long enough for my protagonists, a human-like species native to the planet, do have evolved.
But that initial assumption was nonsense, of course - short-term tidal effects such as ocean tides do have to be carefully considered, moons or no moons. On Earth, solar tides are only slightly (less than an order of magnitude) weaker than lunar tides. The only reason we don't ordinarily notice the former is that they manifest as modulations of the latter, rather than as effects in their own right. So, even around aphelion, my planet would experience ocean tides of a magnitude comparable to those on Earth.
Where things get... interesting, let's say, is around perihelion, however. Tidal forces scale as M/d^3, I believe, where M is the mass of the force-exerting body and d the distance between it and the force-subjected body. Scaling my case to the Earth-Moon one, that gives
Ftidal ~ (Mbinary/MMoon) / (dperihelion/dMoon)^3 * Ftidal|Earth ~ ((5/3 * 2*10^30 kg)/(7*10^22 kg)) / ((0.1 * 1.5*10^11 m)/(4*10^8 m))^3 * Ftidal|Earth ~ 10^3 * Ftidal|Earth
I'm not certain, but I think an increase in tidal force by a factor of one thousand means an increase in the height of the tidal bulge by a factor of one thousand. On Earth, the characteristic amplitude of the tides is on the order of a metre ('pedia), so on my planet, that would mean a characteristic amplitude of a kilometre. Not what one would call negligible.
Okay, that's as far as I've progressed. If someone could check my work and point out any flaws, that would be appreciated. Mainly, though, I need help getting a handle on the final step - translating the abstract idea of "kilometre-high tides" into a mental image of what those would actually do to a planet like Earth. For starters, I'm looking for answers to questions like the following:
- On Earth, tidal amplitudes vary considerably from place to place, by as much as an order of magnitude. Would the same apply in my case, i.e. would there be some coastlines where the Fearsome Flood (Dreaded Deluge? Terrible Tide?) would "only" reach a few hundred metres above normal, and others where it would be not just one but several kilometres? Or would the much greater base amplitude swamp out those contributions which give rise to the local effects observed on Earth, so that there'd be little noticeable difference in my case?
- On Earth, it doesn't seem to be particularly relevant how a coastline is oriented with respect to the planet's rotation. The tides experienced on East-facing coasts aren't noticeably dissimilar to those experienced by West-facing coasts, nor to those experienced by North- and South-facing coasts. Rather, what matters is the size and shape of the body of water bounded by the coast in question. Would this be the same in my case, or would the question of whether a given coastline represents a "leading edge" or a "trailing edge", in terms of planetary rotation, result in significantly different types of tides?
- Would a kilometre-high bulge basically behave like a metre-high bulge, i.e. would it simply flood the land which is less than its height above normal sea-level, and then recede? Or would it be more like a wave on a beach, which has the ability to "climb" a shallow slope quite a long way above its own height, due to inertia? In the former case, highlands should be habitable for land-dwellers, while in the latter, the bulge could conceivably simply keep going across an entire continent and re-join the ocean on the other side - so land-dwellers, if they'd exist at all, would have to have a way to deal with flooding no matter where they lived.
- How violent would the impact of the bulge on a coastline be? Should one be thinking Earth-like flood, scaled up, or rather mega-tsunami? On the one hand, a vertical increase in sea-level by a kilometre over 15 hours (a quarter of one of my days) translates into a rate of a few centimetres per second, which sounds quite benign. On the other hand, the horizontal speed of the bulge with respect to the surface is the same as the rotation speed of the planet, which is on the order of a thousand kilometres per hour, which doesn't sound benign at all. I suspect neither of those two figures is particularly useful, though, except as maybe some manner of upper and lower bound for one's mental image of the process.
- Would it make a significant difference whether the geography of my planet is water-dominated (i.e. has a number of isolated landmasses emerging from one contiguous ocean, as is the case on Earth) or land-dominated (i.e. has one contiguous landmass containing a number of isolated oceans, rather like really big lakes)? I'm thinking that the latter should make the tides somewhat less extreme, as any one body of water would never experience the planet's full tidal differential.
Any pointers would be appreciated. Needless to say, seismic effects should probably also be taken into consideration in all this, but I ultimately feel more comfortable ignoring those for the sake of plot development, if it comes to that. In that sense, the ocean tides are the primary concern, for the time being.
* That's ignoring tidal resonances between Earth and Moon, which is silly in general but should hold for this line of argument specifically, I think.


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Knowledge Management at Hewlett-Packard
Andrew Gannon, Director of UK PSO,
Hewlett-Packard Limited explores the lessons learnt by Hewlett-Packard about the
knowledge management process so far and also a vision of some of the places
knowledge management can take them in the future.
Hewlett-Packard is a leading or dominant
player in various technology markets worldwide. The knowledge it generates
in serving these markets is one of its most important assets and, like most
forward-looking companies, Hewlett-Packard is intent on putting that asset to
use in all parts of the organisation. In the Professional Services Organisation
(PSO), Hewlett-Packard s fast growing consultancy practice, we see
knowledge management as adding to our capabilities in various different ways,
from improving efficiency in current processes to leading the company as a whole
into new business areas. Improving efficiency is the everyday pre-occupation of
all managers and knowledge management is certainly a powerful tool to help in
this process. But we believe it is also fundamental in addressing that other,
much more difficult problem, of creating new sources of value for our customers,
and therefore for HP. This article is a sketch of what we have learnt about the
process so far, illustrated mostly from the experience of the PSO in the UK, and
also a vision of some of the places knowledge management can take us in the
of the engineers
Every company working out how to manage knowledge has to shape its
strategy within the context of its own history and culture. Among the factors
that have most influenced our approach at HP are decentralisation, a focus on
process and a substantial internal infrastructure.
Hewlett-Packard is a true
multinational, with operations spread all around the world. The degree of local
control over operations is extremely high; anyone sufficiently at home in
Hewlett-Packard's culture to be able to rise to a position of significant
independence is presumed to be likely to get things right without head office
breathing down his neck. To rely on culture this strongly means being certain
that the culture is robust; Hewlett-Packard has that certainty. The company is
often cited as the leading exemplar of the shirt-sleeves engineering ethic, well
suited to team work and naturally directed towards problem solving.
One aspect of this
culture is a relentless focus on process; at Hewlett-Packard there is a process
for everything. This is one of the factors that allowed the company quickly and
successfully to adapt to the new emphasis on quality, which came in the 1980s.
The problem-solving power of Hewlett-Packard's culture and its concomitant
concentration on process help to explain how the company has managed to grow
from a turnover of $6.4 billion to $40 billion in 13 years while increasing
employment from 92,000 to 112,000 only.
Almost every one of those workers is
attached to the best established and largest corporate intranets in the world.
HP's intranet experience goes back 15 years or more - by the end of 1996 there
were 750 internal servers all offering a variety of web based servers. Initially
each server was installed just to make things easier for one department or
another, but as the system grew it became apparent that it was taking on a
different character - it had become a company-wide knowledge management tool
spanning the entire business.
The way in which this intranet has
grown clearly reflects the advantages of the company's decentralised structure;
groups everywhere got enthused and turned the web into a way of helping
themselves work better. Guidance at various levels helped turn these enthusiasms
into something all-encompassing, and global decisions supported the change. Any
knowledge management strategy in Hewlett-Packard will naturally make use of this
intranet, and reflect the culture that it grew from. Ours is not an organisation
where change comes only from the top - it also grows from the bottom as we see
ways to make our work and our lives better.
Knowledge flows easily in a
decentralised organisation but harnessing these separate flows and creating new,
more powerful, insights out of this combination is one of the continued
challenges of knowledge management at Hewlett-Packard.
Solving problems
Hewlett-Packard's consultancy practice, the Professional Services
Organisation, has quickly grown from being an instrument of technology sales to
a more ambitious and independent role as a provider and enabler of business
solutions (which may or may not include HP hardware). The idea is not to
recreate the capabilities and coverage of the leading management consultancies,
but to focus on particular sectors and particular types of technology; the PSO
aims to become a market leader in the provision of solutions based on
easy-to-use client/server computing. In the past four years the UK PSO has
quadrupled turnover to $100m and doubled its workforce to around 400, of whom
130 are subcontractors.
This success has underscored the need for knowledge management as a way
of avoiding undue stress and burnout. HP is in general a hard working
organisation, but the PSO staff works harder than most. Since consultants are
knowledge workers, better knowledge management is a key to increasing their
productivity, and would be worth a considerable investment in terms of
management effort just on the basis of the reduction in workload that
productivity improvements could bring about. A knowledge management regime which
people associate with a more effective use of their time is much more likely to
succeed than one which is perceived as an added reporting layer or documentation
requirement with no benefit to the worker - an addition to the workload, not a
nature of PSO's consultancy business has influenced our approach to the
knowledge management task in two ways. First, the business's relatively
restricted and specialised range has allowed a focus on repeatability as a
realistic goal. The consultancy sees quite similar - though clearly not
identical - problems on a fairly regular basis, and so has ample opportunity to
test ways of repeating its successes. Like the problems, the solutions are never
exactly the same twice; but the processes which bring them about can be very
much alike. The second specific aspect of the business which influences our
approach is its expansion into new territory. We see knowledge management as a
tool for opening up new markets in the 'knowledge space' adjacent to the
consultancy's current business, new markets where we can add ever more
The key
link between these two demands on knowledge management in PSO is the way in
which knowledge management helps the consultants. The consultants are both the
primary generators and primary users of the knowledge in the organisation. Every
attempt to manage knowledge needs to reflect the fact that however much it may
help elsewhere, the flow of knowledge begins with these people when they develop
it and ends with them when they use it. It shapes their work and their lives,
and that means that they need to see knowledge management as an enabler for
their own personal goals.
Given the culture of HP, there is a problem here; engineers, and those
suffused in an engineering culture, hate solving the same problem the same way
twice. It might seem that the purpose of our knowledge management programs is to
enforce them to do exactly that, setting out cookie cutter solutions from
pre-defined components. And as long as the implementation of knowledge
management procedures such as detailed proposal breakdowns and diagnostic
processes seem to be doing that, there will be a barrier to their
of our greatest successes in knowledge management has been to overcome this view
by creating an approach to work that encourages the consultants to see the
knowledge management tools that offer repeatable solutions as aids to their own
development. All our consultants want careers that progress, and knowledge
management allows them the ability to move beyond their previous experience with
greater speed and effectiveness than has previously been possible.
Navigating the
Knowledge Space
This is where the image of the 'knowledge space' comes into its own. How
you define it doesn't really matter; all that matters is that it is big and
getting bigger, thanks to the efforts of the people working at its edges. How do
those people get to the edges? From the middle; most people come to PSO with a
smaller set of skills than the one they end up with, and often start off with
more nuts-and-bolts technical knowledge. That puts them at the centre of the
knowledge space, in its most well-travelled, smooth-trodden precincts.
The organisation
benefits most from work at the edges of the knowledge space, both in terms of
the value it adds and the new potential business it opens up. So the need is to
get people from the centre to the periphery quickly and easily - in practical
terms, to go from UNIX skills to networking skills to network systems management
expertise to IT management. This progression fits nicely with the consultants'
own goals of improving their skills and their competence. And it offers them the
opportunity to solve new problems, which is their main non-financial
I see
knowledge management in the PSO as the art of keeping the knowledge space
smooth, well mapped, and easily travelled. This means realising that it is not
enough just to know things; we must also know what we know and know how we know
it. If knowledge is well managed in these ways it is easier for the consultants
to travel from the centre outwards and to reach the edges where they can make
the most useful contributions. The idea of constant movement has appeal on many
levels and makes people more willing to document and transmit knowledge. If
someone's career is static, then getting him to document his processes closely
can make him feel as if he's just preparing the ground for his replacement. If
people accept that they are constantly moving on, the feeling that they are
helping their replacement is no bad thing. The idea is to move from what you
know, to what other people know, to what nobody knows - yet.
We pave the well
travelled parts of the knowledge space with well understood processes. Among the
principle paving stones are assignment summaries and the detailed comparison of
proposals with proposals already implemented. This last was an idea developed in
the PSO's German practice, a nice example of how the centralised structure of
the company allows good ideas to develop in one place and then migrate
horizontally to others. Imitation with improvement is one of the aims of the
knowledge management process - it's only fair that some of the knowledge
management techniques should be developed in exactly the same way.
Facilitating the
sideways movement of the consultants towards new areas of knowledge is helped by
disaggregating the management tasks that apply to the staff. Our workers have
project managers, skills managers and community managers. The project manager's
task is obvious. The skills manager is a sort of guru, the deepest part of a
pool of knowledge. The community manager pays you, feeds you and helps you
develop your career. The community manager encourages staff to areas where there
is likely to be growth. Breaking up the direct relationship between our
consultants and their specific assigned accounts so that we can grow specialists
in various knowledge disciplines has the effect of allowing leading-edge skills
learned in one particular account to be spread throughout the knowledge space.
Again, the idea is to make it easy to move towards the frontiers, rather than
being tied to one task structure or skill set forever.
Exploring the already scouted but not
thoroughly mapped parts of the knowledge space is something that requires the
transmission of knowledge in ways for which a precise formula cannot be found.
One technique for this is the creation of a relationship between a more junior
staff member and a more senior one with relevant experience but no direct
authority for the project in question - someone who can advise disinterestedly,
and who can be approached without the fears that go with showing ignorance or
even ineptitude to the boss. Mistakes generate knowledge but not career
advancement, so separating the process that detects them from line management
can be helpful. It can make people more risk tolerant than they might otherwise
be, providing a safety net that encourages novelty without unduly risking
Out at
the edges of the knowledge space is where things get most exciting. One of our
aims at PSO is to find ways to bring the business needs of our clients -
particularly anticipated needs - together with the extraordinary reserves of
knowledge throughout the rest of Hewlett-Packard, especially in its
laboratories. It is here, we think, that we can make the biggest difference,
moving from business solutions to business transformations and the creation of
new markets. By bringing new types of solution into being and leading the market
in their implementation we increase both the market as a whole and our own share
of it. For example, using this process we have pioneered the development of
highly secure environments on the Internet, without which true electronic
commerce would not be possible, and we are currently in detailed discussions
with major clients regarding ideas which will essentially re-define their entire
market for the next decade or so. With the market engagement that comes from the
nature of consultancy, a little innovation and a great deal of replicability we
can homestead more and more knowledge space while also continuing to grow along
the frontiers. And what applies to PSO today will, I hope, become embedded in
the culture of all Hewlett-Packard tomorrow.
Andrew Gannon is the Director of UK
PSO at Hewlett-Packard Limited. He can be contacted at:


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Hot guy, but not a single ass, pubes or vpl shot. #12 is as close as it gets.
Unless you're shopping for a swimsuit, it's the same pic over and over
Ride me cowboy! Pic 3 is hot hot hot! And Marengo @ No.3, no Speedo in this one.
Hmm, first comment didn't go through. Anyway, number sixteen is not a good pic.
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First, I see the "Classic Queerty" option is no longer working, so I'll just limit myself to one visit a day now for Morning Goods since I've always disliked the new cluttered format. As for today's Morning Goods, IMO this guy is a lot hotter with body hair. Love that furry chest. Handsome man, would like to see more of him. A lot more of him!
Hot guy, but better with a little hair. Otherwise whene are you going to show off video VINCE ALLEN (the hot guy in sassy gay friend video)
He could be the poster boy for Nair…..shaved pubes are gross
Beautiful model with the perfect speedos body.
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I think he looks real good on pic 16 because he's not shaved down like a little girl…
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Handsome man, no doubt. But are his abs asymmetrical? Check out pic 8 or any shot that is relatively head on – something funky is going on. I can't say I've seen that before but I'm not necessarily complaining…
@SCOTT, I so agree with yoy, I wish all guys came out of the water looking like that, not even my boyfriend does. I happen to really like Pic 3.
After over 28,000 views and 17 responses, I thought I had to point out that his name is Toby and not Tony – though I see you'd tagged it right. Anyhow, thanks very much for posting this! Toby's a hot and hunky stud.
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His abs are staggered. Some people are like that, it's something you're born with, and hey, if you can 'em that's better'n most people can say already.
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Where: Lombardy, Italy (45.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 8.1° N, 20.9° E)
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When: Buchenstein Beds Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• Reitzi Zone (Avisianum Subzone). "Knollenkalke." Guide event for Anisian-Ladinian boundary is undecided - proposals include the base of the Curionii Zone, base of Avisianum Subzone (Reitzi Zone), and base of Reitzi Zone. These collections use the base of the Reitzi Zone as the A-L boundary.
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Environment/lithology: basinal (); bioturbated, concretionary, gray, cherty/siliceous lime mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: P. Brack and H. Rieber. 1993. Towards a better definition of the Anisian/Ladinian boundary: new biostratigraphic data and correlations of boundary sections from the Southern Alps. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 86(2):415-527 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details
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Screenplay : Stuart Beattie (based on the novel by James Siegel)
MPAA Rating : R
Year of Release : 2005
Stars : Clive Owen (Charles Schine), Jennifer Aniston (Lucinda Harris), Vincent Cassel (Philippe Laroche), Melissa George (Deanna Schine), RZA (Winston Boyko), Addison Timlin (Amy Schine), Tom Conti (Elliot), Xzibit (Dexter), Giancarlo Esposito (Detective Church)
Part Hitchcockian exercise in ruthless "wrong man at the wrong time" tension and part pseudo-film noir, Derailed tells the story of a beleaguered suburban father/husband who makes one fatally bad decision and then spends the rest of the movie suffering for it. Because his bad decision involves adultery, the film also has some Fatal Attraction moralistic overtones, along with that movie's redemptive ending.
Clive Owen brings a brooding smolder to the role of Charles Schine, Chicago ad executive who meets another married executive, Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston), on the commuter train into work one morning. They dance around their obvious attraction to each other for a while, each casually mentioning how the fire has gone out of their respective marriages; her husband works too much, and his wife is constantly on edge and tense, a situation exacerbated by the fact that their daughter has Type I diabetes and has already rejected three kidneys. One night, Charles and Lucinda finally break down and head to a motel, but their tryst is interrupted by the sudden appearance of Philippe Laroche (Vincent Cassel), a seedy hood who turns their night of potential transgressive bliss into a nightmare.
Without giving away too much, suffice it say that both Charles and Lucinda pay dearly that evening, physically and emotionally. Traumatized, they decide not to go to the police, which turns out to be another big mistake because Laroche doesn't disappear, but rather begins heckling Charles for money, threatening to expose his adulterous liaison if he doesn't pay up. At this point, the film begins to take on the escalating tone of Cape Fear, particularly Martin Scorsese's 1991 version, which also traded on the sinister intermingling of threat and guilt. To protect both his family and himself, Charles must constantly bend to Laroche's demands, but as the stakes increase, the choices become less obvious. If Charles gives Laroche the money he wants, he will have to clean out the savings he and his wife set aside for their daughter's treatment; thus, he may save her in the short term, but doom her to eventual death without medication.
Swedish director Mikael Håfström, making his English-language debut from a screenplay by first-time scribe Stuart Beattie, who adapted a novel by James Siegel (Collateral), does the audience the service of not tacking on too many visual flourishes that might detract from the essential emotionalism of the story. Rather, he puts much of the film's weight in the hands of Clive Owen, who wisely plays the line between Charles the soft suburbanite and Charles the man primed to explode. An actor of less screen presence probably couldn't have pulled off Charles' third-act revenge strategy, but Owen makes it seem plausible because he plants the seeds early in the film, suggesting that his character's descent into violence is not as long a journey as we might suspect. In fact, if anything, Charles comes across like a man who has been waiting for something like this to happen, something that would allow him to unleash all the mounting anger and frustration.
Unfortunately, Derailed goes exactly one sequence too long, tacking on an additional ending that punches home what had already happened, but with less energy and less plausibility. Right up until that point, the film is good enough to keep us from questioning the details; it generates enough of a headlong emotional rush to pull us right along, but then trips over its final 10 minutes, stumbling its way to a unconvincing happy ending that reeks of a "please the focus group" mentality.
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There's a lot of monkey business going on with these laughter-loving primates - sure to become your child's favorite take-along pals. Tickle Buddy is quite lovable. Kids just hang him from their arm or door, and give him a tickle to send him into a fit of giggles. Chuckle Buddy's built-in motion sensor detects when someone is near and makes him start to roll around laughing. Both come with an on/off switch, and their laughter is contagious. Each require 3 AA batteries. For ages 3 and up. From an arm or door, give him a tickle to send him into a fit of giggles Motion sensor detects when someone is near and makes him start to roll around laughing Comes with an on/off switch - each require 3 AA batteries up Size: 3" L x 7" H Available Styles Chuckle Buddy Tickle Buddy Size 3"L x 7"H
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The whole family got a kick out of this guy!We couldn't stop laughing. It was for my 2 yr.old grandson, but my 55 year old husband wantsme to get him one to keep on his desk at work! A winner!
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not what u expect
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it did what it claims but the laugh is that of a human adult which was a bit scary.
Very Cute!! The laughter is contagious
By hairried
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This product is similar to Tickle Me Elmo and is very cute.
Annoying toy
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Bought for a two year old grandson, and he liked it for about 5 minutes and has ignored it since then. This is one of Grandma's "mistake" purchases.
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The whole family enjoys this toy, as it makes us smile and laugh right along with it. The first one we ordered stopped working after one day. We returned it and ordered another one, which we have not used as much but so far it is working well. We would recommend the toy and this seller[...].
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I am giving this to my 47 year old daughter, who has always liked monkeys, for her birthday. She has 4 children and they will enjoy it too. It is such a happy item!
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The sensor looks like a third eye in the middle of the monkey's forehead! But in a wierd way, it adds to how funny this thing is!
Good for the 60 year old
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Gave this to my brother for his 60th birthday he was roaring with laughter as soon as he opened it and soon everyone was errupting into fits of laughter a great gift!
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I personally don't see the problem with 'mini tornado' myself..
Mostly cloudy here in south Notts today so very limited convection giving only light showers (so far)
Same here Jerry.
Dark here and strong gusty winds!
Heavy downpour just passed to my south/southeast very close though.
Dark here as a heavy shower approaches.
Excellent Squally showers this morning
Virtually raining like stair rods at one particular point, was very impressive.
Rain seemingly so thick that I stopped driving for awhile, afterwards I encountered localised flash flooding.
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Rain seemingly so thick that I stopped driving for awhile, causing localised flash flooding.
Were you blocking a drain or something?
Very heavy downpour in York this afternoon, no electrical activity though. Just crudvection around now, but the rainfall totals continue to climb...
Morning convection fans! Already a line of showers across c southern England, something meaty to the west of Guildford, plenty more coming up from the channel! Heavier stuff over south Wales into the Midlands.
Ok, it's a fair cop, my grammatical sentence has gone to pieces
Had a prolonged shower of almost biblical proportions between 8.30 and 9.15 this morning.
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dirkgentry2000 wrote:we give the M&M3e Random Character Generator a test-drive
In this podcast, regular guests James Dawsey of Shadowchaser Studios and frequent Green Ronin freelancer Jack Norris test out the soon to be released Random Character Generator for Mutants and Masterminds 3e. The Character Generator will be included in the upcoming GM Toolkit which will include a Quickstart Guide and GM Screen.
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PhelanMahoney wrote:Dan did a great Gardner. Weird Question if I wanted to get the ICONs Villainomicon and convert the characters to M&M 3E how difficult a process might that be?
dirkgentry2000 wrote:PhelanMahoney wrote:Dan did a great Gardner. Weird Question if I wanted to get the ICONs Villainomicon and convert the characters to M&M 3E how difficult a process might that be?
There's really only the most basic mappings from ICONS to MnM3e. They're very different systems. I'd say that you'd basically be generating all the Villainomicon characters from scratch while using their ICONS writer-ups as a loose guideline.
So, a lot of work. IMHO
PhelanMahoney wrote:Great finish, I love how Guy was played especially. And threatening to have his wife say something to him was amusing. One wonders how such a dude with such a big mouth and who constantly acts like a jerk can find room in his mind and/or heart for anyone but himself. But from what I can tell he honestly does care for Ice, who knows maybe she is the eye of this hurricane of belligerence that is Guy Gardner.
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Dec 18, 20120Quite possibly the worst game ever made. The graphics look like they are from a Sega Dreamcast at best and this is 2012 making these graphics completely unacceptable. Just so everyone knows, the screenshots shown are not taken from the game. And the last thing every potential player needs to know, there is a 1 HOUR RESPAWN TIMER when you die and you LOSE ALL YOUR GEAR!
Dec 18, 20124Gameplay is fun, but cant say much else. Most unprofessional DEV team I've ever dealt with. Break deadlines regularly, called players a **** on official forums,spawn in guns, teleport in public servers, etc.
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Mar 7, 20130Its mechanical foundation - like this Foundation Release - crumbles at the lightest touch. [March 2013, p.94]
Feb 22, 201317The War Z has about as much value as its crappy in-game melee weaponry and that's not much at all. At least it doesn't cost anything to play after you buy it, and the cash shop items are fair enough, so you won't see people running around with machine guns just because they spent money. If you're going to give your money to a zombie-survival game, grab ArmA II and a copy of the DayZ mod, or wait for the full retail version of DayZ to arrive on digital store shelves and check that out. Do not buy into The War Z.
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PINE BLUFF, AR -- Police are investigating a Sunday night shooting that left one man dead.
Pine Bluff Police responded to a shooting call in the 3000 block of Ash Street just after 8:30 Sunday night, where they found William Roby, Jr. suffering from a gunshot wound.
Paramedics took Roby to the Jefferson Regional Medical Center, where he later died.
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The citing counts on Ashton's record as a yellow card, taking his tally for the season to three and triggering a disciplinary hearing.
The Saracens wing was shown yellow cards for dangerous charging in the matches against London Irish on September 1 and Exeter Chiefs on September 23.
A Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel of Jeff Blackett, Jeremy Summers and Peter Budge will consider the matter in London on Wednesday evening.
Ashton has been in this situation before, during his first season with Northampton in the old National League One.
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"Hildegard Gunzel has been internationally awarded many times, including three times for her lifetime achievement. She especially remembers the first Jumeau award for her lifework ... the award she received from the American magazine Dolls as the first artist, and the Pandora award in Russia. Hildegard Gunzel's anniversary collection of Classic Dolls of this year ... expresses the special and creative spirit of the artist, dedicated to tradition and craftsmanship and endowed with comprehensive knowledge of the cultural history of the peoples as well as the history of art and textile. It was created with heart's blood, says Hildegard Gunzel. " - excerpt from introduction by Karin Schrey to Classic Collection 2012 by Hildegard Gunzel
Internationally acclaimed for her artistry, German artist Hildegard Gunzel combines sculpting perfection and exquisite apparel, assembled from the finest fabrics, laces and trims in her creations. More masterpiece than doll, each creation radiates a rare beauty that could only come from gifted genius. Hildegard is truly one of the leading doll artists in the modern age of dollmaking! Her dolls stir wonderful emotions within each of us.
With a pensive, all-knowing look and a flowing blond mane, the enchanting "Ger-da" is pure confection in white - a modern day Bo Peep, of sorts - adorned in a garden of delicate white flowers.
Gerda is just part of the enchanting world of artist Hildegard Gunzel - in fact, it's one of her favorite dolls - highlighting her 2009 Once Upon a Time porcelain collection. Others in the line continue the fairytale theme - including "Arlecchino," tipping her hat as an elegantly appointed harlequin; "Klara and the Nutcracker Bear" and "Antoinette," complete with shepherd's hook and sheep.
Gunzel may work on her ethereal designs from her home in Germany, but her vision resonates around the globe - bringing to life her dreams and inspirations in the form of resin and porcelain dolls.
"For me, creating a figurine is like a sculpture, only that you can move some parts of it and there are glass eyes," says Gunzel. "I want to keep closest to the human being. Every observer is able to interpret his own emotion, and that creates differences in the character of every doll. Collectors or enthusiasts can, with their own feeling and their personal way of life, hand the doll a real life with their impressions."
Miriam is Hildegard Gunzel's latest from her 2010 resin line. The bundle of joy is 22 inches long and wears a white cotton-and-lace dress with a silk yellow underskirt, and a knitted bolero jacket, baby shoes and cap. The baby has resin head and limbs, with a soft body, and lies on an embroidered ruffled pillow.
Gunzel, a former fashion designer, created her first doll in 1972, when she "tried to create a little person for my eldest son." That was all it took - soon, Gunzel got what she called the "virus" and "never gave up. This moment reflected my childhood, when I played with dolls."
When she started her dollmaking career, Gunzel considered it "fun," but she especially enjoyed the 1980s as a time when the collector market was developing. "I arranged seminars all over the world," she says.
Gunzel's true joy of dolls, though, is in the inspiration, followed by the creation. "Everything that is realized by me [inspires me]," she says. "[It could be] some scene from my youth or just images." For examples, check out Gunzel's Web site archives, which show in stunning detail her porcelain creations from 1994 to the present and her resin collection from the past few years.
Her 2008 puppenkollektion (doll collection) was themed Passion and Inspiration. It, like most of her lines, is a fine example of how no detail goes unmissed - such as a pointy gold crown atop tightly coiled curls of red or a teddy bear companion. In 2007's Romantic Highlights, white ruled the collection, with dolls wearing finery of all kinds swathed in white fashions. That was a noted change from the 2006 La Vie en Rose collection - which was a bit more playful and upbeat and noted by color, even the occasional green/yellow plaid.
Gunzel herself is very involved in the dolls' costumes. In her new book about Gunzel (see "New Book Immortalizes Gunzel" sidebar), author Karin Schrey writes, "Each of Hildegard Gunzel's collections is a composition of color, in which harmony and contrast play a charming game with each other. Her designs would do any couturier proud."
But no matter what collection or what costume one looks at, the faces are what draws one in. When asked where Gunzel brings such joy and personality to the dolls' faces, she says, "Passion and positive mental attitude for living. I have been modeling dolls for 37 years - and one part is ability, and the other part is artistic donation godsend."
Schrey adds, "As if in a delicate, dazzling cocoon, they are enclosed by their own particular aura, from within which they seem to communicate."
To create her art of designing dolls - which is about one year from initial idea to production, Gunzel says - every creative person needs a special atmosphere. "I find it in my studio at home with its gorgeous view of my romantic garden," she says. In fact, gardening is one of Gunzel's greatest joys outside dollmaking. "Gardening, sculpting and fashion are things I'm living for," she says.
Schrey actually speaks much about Gunzel's inspirational garden in her book, which includes lavish photographs of Gunzel's dolls, sculptures and busts in the striking and rather palatial surroundings. "I feel a kind of secret understanding with my garden ... [it] is my pride and joy. In a garden, I can find the secret of nature in its full beauty," Gunzel is quoted in the book. "My garden and nature then give me the necessary leisure and calmness to process all impressions in my oasis and transfer them into dolls and sculptures. Here everything gets its right and final form."
Both resin and porcelain have been successful lines for Gunzel; her first resin line debuted in 2006 and was well received.
She enjoys all mediums, but resin does have its benefits, as she mentions in the book. "Resin dolls may be touched, they are real 'touchable children' and do not mind being arranged in different poses," she says. The author adds, "Resin, the artist thinks, is made for giving her dolls a rosy, delicate complexion which looks like that of children who often get fresh air."
Gunzel will introduce additions to both the resin and the porcelain lines in 2010. The first new doll of the resin line is the 22-inch "Miriam" debuted on the cover of this issue of DOLLS. The sleeping baby with closed eyes and closed mouth features a jointed head. She is dressed in a white cotton dress trimmed with lace and an underskirt made of delicate yellow silk.
"The porcelain dolls for the new line are still in my head - not modeled or created - so be surprised," she says.
"I would like to work with my dolls as long as I am able to do it, as long as God keeps his eyes on me because it is a passion - I won't stop before I have to go," Gunzel says. "Dolls belong to nearly every culture for a long time - because to play with the doll and take care of the doll teaches children to become diligent and thoughtful adults."
For more information, visit www.HildegardGuenzel.com.
The book published in Germany (written in both German and English) uses large, stunning photos and elegant prose to describe prolific doll artist Hildegard Gunzel. Passion and Inspiration: Hildegard Gunzel's World of Dolls by Karin Schrey traces the artist's work from 1998 to the present. The title was inspired by Gunzel's own words used to guide her 2008 doll line. Although Gunzel's first doll dates to 1973, another book, Enchanting Doll Journey, traces the early history and work of the artist. In her 144-page book, Schrey says, "Hildegard Gunzel's dolls are deceptive; they invite to dream and at the same time are willful. Sometimes they provoke, but it is always the mysterious innocence of the little creatures that attracts and captures the onlooker so much."
Doll artists generally give a stock answer when asked, "Which of your dolls is your favorite?" They often say, "That's like trying to choose a favorite child." But Hildegard Gunzel did offer a short list of some of her favorite creations:
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The Spirit Program at ORU is a student athletic program consisting of a co-ed cheer team, our mascot, ELI the Golden Eagle and an all-female dance team. Hard work, dedication and excellence are characteristics of our program. Members are expected to have a good attitude, strong work ethic and the ability to adapt and excel in various situations.
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In addition to performing at home volleyball, soccer and basketball games, the Spirit Program maintains a travel schedule supporting the team and competing. Each summer, Spirit Program members are back on campus working hard before the start of fall classes preparing to travel to a collegiate summer camp to sharpen their skills, learn new routines as well as compete. In March the team travels to the Summit Tournament to support our athletic teams as they vie for a spot in the NCAA tournament. Annually, members of the team are off to Florida to compete in a national championship.
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- 2011: Third Place in NCA Collegiate National Championships
- 2010: First Place in Rally Routine, NCA Cheer Camp
- 2010: Bronze bid to 2011 NCA College Nationals
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- 2009: First Place in Sideline Routine, UCA Cheer Camp
- 2009: Second Place in Fight Song Routine, UCA Cheer Camp
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- 2008: Partial bid to 2009 NCA College Nationals
- 2008: Second place in Rally Routine, NCA Cheer Camp
- 2008: Mascot--Best All Around Mascot, Most Collegiate and All American
- 2008-2009: Eighth Place, NCA College Nationals
- 2007-2008: Third Place , NCA College Nationals
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