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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:09:18 PM
December has ended, you can all say good-bye to 2011 now. At the same time, you can say hi to this brand new year, and with this, I'll introduce the first member of the month, and staff member of the month of 2012:
AxemJinx and Alcaro
AxemJinx has been a top-notch member for the most part of 2011. He's helped the userbase in many ways, like giving them advices on their level design and he even wrote a level design guide named "APPALLED" which contains 30 tips to make your levels better. He also heped a lot in the organization of SMWCP2.
Camerin conduced the interview with him. Be warned, this is a very long one:
1. What originally got you interested in SMW hacking and SMW Central?
Like many of my interests, SMW hacking started off on a rather random note. I stumbled upon a TSRP video on Youtube-
most likely this one-
and I was fascinated. Mind you, I had already seen one of those dime-a-dozen
"Mario Bros. Frustration"
videos, so I wasn't entirely unfamiliar with the concept of hacking Mario games. Still, while that video's purpose was more to entertain viewers with optimistic->frustrated commentary, this one looked like it was genuinely trying to be fun to play. It was an exhilarating discovery, because it suggested the author had user-friendly tools at their disposal. After all, the video was labeled "3-4," and there were other videos on that account for later levels, so whoever made this level had probably made at least a couple dozen more, right? Maybe even a full game...
All I had to go on was the name "FPI Productions," so I count myself lucky that the hack's author had their own website. Hell, the romhack section even had "How to Play" instructions right on the main page! I had pretty much zero familiarity with emulators at the time (and even now I use them sparingly), so to have a path laid out so simply for me was reassuring. The setup went very quickly, and TSRP1 became the first SMW hack I ever played- a good note to start out on for sure! The more I played, the more apparent it became how much effort the author must have spent making a coherent game with somewhere around 80 levels. Imagine my astonishment when I realized there was already a sequel! I mean, what the hell? Talk about a productive designer... :b
Around the same time I started to become deathly curious about how feasible it was to make my own levels, I also began to take note of the links section of FPI's website, which seemed to point to various emulation and romhacking sites. At first, I didn't really pay much attention to smwcentral over any of the others- it was kind of an information overload for me. My memory's fuzzy on this point, but I guess the reason I eventually settled here is because it has the name of the game in its title, so it seemed like it would be the most focused on SMW, specifically. In any case, I eventually found FuSoYa's niche and downloaded Lunar Magic 1.63- the latest version back then, which makes me feel old in this community- and tried creating a few simple levels. At first I was concerned about learning the program, but the help file was thorough and the interface intuitive, so before a month had passed I had created the ridiculously difficult yet mildly entertaining
Tornado Zone
, a sadistic love letter to Star Road 1 from the original game. Like most beginners' first levels, it hardly used any ground tiles and wasn't particularly fun. Still, the ability to easily design Mario levels was intoxicating, and before long I had created several variants on the idea- perhaps the most infamous would be
Tornado Castle
(or Torpedo Ted Shed, as I called it later). Apparently Youtube loves watching ridiculously hard levels, because that one probably still has the most views (of the ones I posted). I even learned how to use the old block tool and made an updated version of Tornado Zone with discolored turn blocks (I believe one of them killed players who weren't spin-jumping, to prevent cheating, but then I needed blocks that Mario could only pass through when small).
Of course, in order to post these levels on Youtube I had to find a way to record video through ZSNES. At the time it felt like a pain to get set up- I needed very specific codecs and a compatible version of the emulator, and then I had to learn how to record user input and dump a compressed video file from that (all firsts for me). However, after a lot of frustrating trial and error, I got it to work, and I figured I may as well exploit the opportunity to demonstrate levels from other hacks as well, TSRP1 and 2 being prime candidates. I immediately tried contacting FPI about whether it would be alright to post solution videos for Hotel Horror and Old Aquaria, two labyrinthine stages from TSRP2. I could be wrong, but at the time, I didn't think everyone who was playing these hacks knew where to go for help if they were stuck on a level, so judging by the combined 40,000+ views those videos have generated, I'd say they must have been helpful, which was vindicating for me.
From then on, I lived a dual existence in SMW hacking land- one week I would be posting a TSRP level on Youtube, another I would be working on one of my own. I also started exploring other hacks that smwcentral hosted- Luigi's Adventure, Return to Dinosaur Land, Brutal Mario, and Bowser's Return, among others. To me personally, none of them really matched the overall quality of the TSRP series, but it was fun to see how everyone had a different style. Clearly, even if hacking SMW was fairly obscure, it was something plenty of people who knew about it liked to do. I began to crave something more ambitious. I could see the flaws in many of these hacks and felt like making my own as a tribute to what FPI had accomplished. Could I do that, though? Could I rise to the challenge of making a coherent full-length hack? I really wasn't sure- as much as I wanted to try, it seemed an awfully daunting task.
Still, I finally made an account on the site in which I had been lurking for several months, made a thread about my project, and started designing. I'm not going to talk about the development- this answer is already an autobiography- but it was definitely a roller-coaster experience, and I got a years' worth of first-hand experience making levels
for other people to play
(see question 2 for why I italicized that). At the end of it all, though, I felt a gnawing lack of direction. It was exactly like when I finished reading The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion: what was I supposed to do now? What was supposed to motivate me to keep going? I had achieved my goal; should I still be here? How could I possibly top what I had just done? These questions really bothered me, and I faded away for a while. Apart from brief appearances at the Essence Star release thread and a very theoretical level design thread, I rarely surfaced. You could say I was a SMW hacker, but not a smwcentralite- for whatever reason, I didn't really identify all that much with the community and mostly kept to myself.
In fact, if it weren't for a series of events nearly two years later, I may not have come back to the community at all. A user calling themself Mineyl asked permission to use songs from the RttC soundtrack for a couple of videos, and in passing mentioned a collab hack being run on the forums. After a little investigating, I was delighted to discover that this collab was actually aiming to be THE collab- the one hack to end them all, made by the community (or at least, that's how I imagined it at the time). It was already pretty far along in development, so I figured I could help out as a tester, applied, and was accepted. In the meantime, Mineyl had gone on to post a full-length run of RttC (even after all this time, no less), and another user named Zeldara109, who had apparently discussed the hack at length with Mineyl, sent me an extremely thorough and detailed critique which made the testers I originally had for RttC look...well...unprofessional. I was intrigued. The community must had grown for all of these things to happen- what was it like now? I began tuning in to the forums again.
Now that I had started lurking again, I began to notice something strange: SMWCP1 was being delayed a long time. Wasn't I accepted as a tester months ago? I was finally contacted during finals week, but as there was no way I could give a thorough critique in a couple of weeks during such a busy month, I had to decline. Surely the other testers would take care of it, and then the pride of the entire site would be released. As Smallhacker later said, then I played the hack. I won't rant about SMWCP1 here, as I've already done so quite thoroughly elsewhere, but apart from smoldering indignation, it ignited within me a desire to be
vocal- a desire to steer things in the right direction. So, I started speaking up about a lot of things, and when talk of a SMWCP2 spread, I was determined to be actively involved for a change. Since then, I've found myself much more entrenched in smwcentral than perhaps I ever originally intended to be :b
2. Level design appears to be your main hacking specialty. Where did this interest in level design come from? If from video-games, which ones?
I've wanted to make my own levels in video games for almost as long as I've been playing them. When I was younger, in my naivete I just couldn't understand why the games' creators would
include editing tools with their games, especially games like Super Mario World. After all, I'm sure everyone had ideas, and with new levels, the games would never get boring! Despite this self-evident truth, level editing on consoles was rare, so I ended up getting my fix on computers. For whatever reason, computer games seemed more amenable to the idea of modding- perhaps it was because of the burgeoning Doom modding community? I'm not sure.
In any case, I may have mentioned these games elsewhere, but for me, the two big ones were Lode Runner: The Legend Returns (Sierra) and Jetpack (Adept Software), two puzzle platformers that I devoured with more zeal than I did Christmas tree cake once a year. Discovering that both of them had level editors was a dream come true, and I created literally hundreds of levels between the two that have long been lost to my ignorance toward backing up files. Mind you, most of the first ones I made weren't very good, but I didn't care- so long as I could create levels, I made more and more. Over time I began to notice flaws in my designs. Too many of my levels were perfectly symmetrical, which was getting boring; many of them demanded too much precision or went on for too long; some didn't really have pleasing architecture; some were just unfairly difficult. As I noticed these problems and worked on them one by one, I began to make stages that actually looked like they could fit in the original game, which was enormously gratifying.
Still, there was a problem- I was essentially making these levels for myself. Sure, sometimes I asked family and friends to try them out, but I knew that most of these levels would never be played by the outside world. At the time, I really didn't know anything about internet forums, and although there were some repositories holding custom level packs, by the time I actually thought to look for them, they appeared mostly inactive. Around the same time I became slightly fascinated with the question If you were stuck alone on an island, would you still write? I didn't really have an answer. I hung up my designer goggles and told myself I would come back to it later, but I never really did- I suppose other responsibilities got the better of me for a while. I did make my own content for a few other games in the meantime- The Incredible Toon Machine, Icebreaker, and Pinball Builder come to mind- but not with the same passion I used to have. I thought maybe I could make my own games instead, but I had no idea where to start, and perhaps it was simply easier to focus on climbing out of the great heaping pile of schoolwork under which I always seemed to be buried.
And then, many, many years later, I stumbled across Lunar Magic and smwcentral. At first I didn't really think about it, but as I worked on RttC I began to realize that the community filled that hole- I was making levels
for others to play.
Even now, I'm pretty amazed that people are
posting playthroughs of RttC on Youtube- I mean look,
this video
was made only yesterday at the time of this writing. Yesterday. And this is three years after the hack's release! Back in the days of Lode Runner and Jetpack, custom level making seemed like such an ephemeral thing- I made a level, tried it out, and immediately moved on to the next one. Occasionally I would have others try them out, but I knew that I wasn't really leaving any sort of legacy- especially when my hard drive would fail (and it happened multiple times long before I caught on to the idea of backing up data). With RttC, though, it was different: these levels would be
. Knowing that refueled my motivation to create. Moreover, despite the fact that I now look back and think I can do even better, RttC still seems to be held in relatively high regard, something I never could have predicted but which nonetheless inspires me to try to go above and beyond what I've already done.
I should also mention that while I was making Jetpack and Lode Runner levels, I was also playing an inordinate amount of obscure PC games. Back then, my father often took me to a computer fair (at least, that's what it called itself) held monthly at a hotel in the area, and I would find compilation CDs housing hundreds upon hundreds of computer games (among stand-alone titles as well). They went by names such as Galaxy of Games, Leisure Game Pak, and the like, and I still have a couple saved from that time in my life. At the time, shareware versions of games were in ripe abundance, so it was common to see these unofficial collections being distributed either to garner attention for the developers, or to profit impermissibly from their work. At that age, though, I was too young to understand such subtleties- every game was a new experience and had to be tried at least once, end of story. Mind you, these CDs were no Action 52- many held cult classics and other obscure but entertaining games. In fact, if it weren't for the very first one I had, I probably would not have known about Jetpack until much later. However, I won't deny that many of the games were seriously flawed. That was fine, though- the more games I played, the more I developed a very keen sense of what I wanted from them, and a solid understanding of why some games failed to meet those expectations. If all those custom levels gave me first-hand experience, these compilation CDs were the theory that guided my hand.
In any case, if you'd like to see what a custom Jetpack level is like, I made
this video
a while back. The level title is actually inspired by one of those classic Super Solver games. As far as I know, both Jetpack and Lode Runner: The Legend Returns have become freeware at this point, so if you're curious, give them a try. Hell, if ever they garner enough interest here at smwcentral, I'd love the idea of a little level design event for it ^_^
3. A lot of people respect you for your maturity and knowledge. Are there any particular users whom you would in turn respect? Who are some of your friends or comrades on SMWC?
Hmm...let it suffice to say that if there weren't users I respected and enjoyed talking to, I wouldn't be here :b
I don't want to turn this into a I'd like to thank the academy sort of answer, nor do I particularly want to single out a couple of users and leave out others. I will say, though, that working on SMWCP2 has helped me realize just how many talented and upstanding members we have in this community. A giant collab effort like that takes all kinds of people to succeed, and I'm ecstatic that we've come as far as we have. It just goes to show how much we can accomplish as a collective. I think the reason I voted in the mosts this year (for the first time) was simply because I suddenly had a clearer picture of that.
I know I probably sound selfish here, because I'm writing such long answers about myself without specifically mentioning anyone else in this question...but there are just too many people I could write about. Dozens, at least. And it would be easy to focus on just one alone for several paragraphs...Look at it this way: I'm sure many of those people will be Member of the Month, too, and then you can hear all about them (assuming they want to talk about themselves) :b
4. You have an aptitude in music, as you have demonstrated during the weekly music composing activity. Does this aptitude and interest carry over to the rest of your life?
When I was much younger, I attended a piano/organ school for about two years in addition to my regular studies. If you asked me why, though, I'd be kind of hard-pressed to give you an honest answer. Was I genuinely interested in learning to play? Was I just trying to impress/appease my parents? I'm not sure. I'm not saying it wasn't fun in its own right, but in the end, I stopped going. At the time I think I rationalized the decision by saying it would make it easier to focus on my other responsibilities (schoolwork and such), but...I'm fairly certain that, to a degree, I was just trying to escape the expectations and sense of pressure I felt (or imagined) while pursuing that activity. Whenever I watch the episode
from The Wonder Years, I can empathize with the way Kevin feels. My experience doesn't exactly mirror his by any means, but the episode pretty much sums up the ambivalence I've had for a long time about my own abilities...an ambivalence that I've been viciously trying to exterminate over the past few years.
In the meantime, though, the keyboard my parents had bought for me was still there years after I quit that school, so when I discovered sites where people wrote sheet music for themes from video games, I felt drawn back to the field. It was fun to see how the songs I loved listening to worked on a note-by-note basis, and being able to play them correctly built my self-confidence, even if many of them were simplifications or approximations of the real thing. When I was asked to perform in front of people, though- when we had guests or friends over, for example- I became uncomfortable. My ability to play wasn't really something I wanted to showcase; it was more for my own enjoyment, and maybe something to share with close friends, nothing more. This dissonance eventually drove me away again, but this time it wasn't without a sense of regret. I think I just wanted to find a way to explore music without having to deal with the performing side of things.
And then, Rise to the Challenge. Around the time I was finishing up levels, Addmusic was released and I figured I may as well try to make a custom soundtrack. I held no illusions about my ability as a composer- in fact, I was naively convinced you had to take specialized classes or understand theoretical material in order to make any music that sounds good. And yet, for some reason, I still tried to do it. Maybe it was just another aspect of rising to the challenge for me- daring to brave to the unknown and uncertain. I must have been really determined, because the way I composed those songs was extremely circuitous. For the first few, I didn't have any music software, so I ran to the keyboard, tried some notes out, rushed back to the computer and typed them in notepad, saw how it sounded in SMW, and then ran back to the keyboard. A bit later on I switched over to a slightly obscure composing program called ORG Maker that comes with the Cave Story Deluxe package on PC, but it was still quite the back-and-forth process, and sometimes I would still use the keyboard anyway if only because having ten fingers is faster than clicking on notes one-by-one to try out melodies.
Amazingly, I actually made 15 songs- a feat I would have labeled impossible for me at any earlier point in my life. As I worked, I came to despise the notion of talent- to me, all such a word did was make people doubt themselves too much, thinking there's no way I could ever do this or that, even if I wanted to. Sure, I'm sure my songs had flaws, but I did a decent enough job considering I rushed into this endeavor with pretty much no experience or planning. If I wanted to make songs in the future, what could possibly stop me besides my own self-doubt? Unfortunately, the What next? feeling upon finishing RttC extended over to the musical side as well. I suppose you could say I was afraid of my own potential, not knowing where it would lead me. So, for a time, I again withdrew from the wild world of music.
Now, another major antagonist in this short story is the U.S. education system- to me, the great advocate of talent yet the chief executioner of creative endeavors. Every winter and summer break, I was reluctant to try starting a creative project, because I was always afraid school would start again before it was finished, which was akin to the project being slowly yet forcibly drowned in a bathtub, limbs thrashing until finally still. A new school year (or semester) meant a new deluge of busywork, contrived assignments, and group projects that I felt compelled to ace for appearances' sake- after all, if I wasn't getting good grades, I wasn't learning. Yes, that was sardonicism. Eventually (and somewhat recently) I became so fed up with the cycle that I ceased to care- I started to prioritize what I actually
to do over good grades, and now I honestly feel much better for it, personally. But the issues I have with education are a discussion for another time.
In any case, I began to research all manner of things on my own- music software being one of them- and came across FL Studio, which I managed to buy at a discount. Since then, I've been gradually plowing through the last vestiges of my (irrational) self-doubt and am much more comfortable with composing on the whole. I've come to realize that a lot of it is just psychological, and that people tend to have greater potential than they realize. I suppose that's why I sometimes leave feedback for compositions despite not knowing whether what I say is very helpful. You could say I have a personal interest in making sure that people who are trying to compose stick with it and don't get discouraged by a crushing sense of uncertainty :b
5. Finally, what are your thoughts on SMW Central as a whole? What do you think of the community, including the forums and hacking resources? Have you enjoyed your time here? What have been the highlights of your experiences with SMW Central?
That's a lot of questions >_<
To be honest, sometimes I look at smwcentral in the present and- as I'm sure others do- become nostalgic for a time when only the levels mattered- that is, a time when we had to get by with very limited resources, a time when many of us had to impress with nothing more than the nuts and bolts of our designs. Nowadays, we can do just about anything with SMW in comparison, but this also means that the expectations have been raised a lot higher, and it's common to see team projects just because hack production involves so much more nowadays. Having said that, I can never wear my nostalgia goggles for long, because a lot of designers are doing wonderful things with the new resources, and it shows how far we've come. When SMWCP2 is done, I think I'll have fun exploring what everyone is cooking up.
The community has always struck me as somewhat close-knit, and while I don't object to growth, I hope this is a quality the site protects. I've been on other forums where there is simply too much noise, where the staff members can hardly ever address things on a personal level, and it's harder for me to feel connected to a place like that. Smwcentral, though, is closer to a home away from home sort of place. Everyone's trying to
something fun; there's a lot of feedback flying around, and I feel like it's a great avenue for personal development and growth, in a way. I'd go as far to say that some of the relationships between people here border on familial. I think those things are part of what make a lot of people stay (though obviously I can't speak for everyone).
Overall, it's just been fun seeing people create, helping each other create, and having a fun time creating, all the while participating in close-knit chats and discussions. I guess that's what this site is really about in the end, right?
Alcaro has been a very hard-working staff member, not only he's been doing a good job on the forums, but he's also been taking good care of many sections of the site. Here's my interview with him:
1. How did you find about SMWC and SMW hacking?
A friend told me about Lunar Magic in middle school, which I'd guess was about five years ago. I'm not sure how that lead to SMWC, but I'd guess the same friend showed me that too.
I found that SMW is programmable pretty quickly (though I did keep writing machine code for many months), which lead to me spewing out large amounts of weird and useless codes (and trying to figure out a way to stick progress reports in my avatar without exceeding the size limit), as well as many dubious claims of being able to do anything I wanted to. I did eventually learn my place, but not after getting stuck on about a million different projects.
2. Why did you decide to specialize in ASM?
It's the task around here that fits my thought patterns best. Everything else (graphics, levels, music) requires picking one of 5000 pretty much equivalent options (should this Koopa be here, or should I move it one tile to the right? Or maybe it should be a Goomba?). Programming feels much more obvious for some reason.
But my favourite task is making tools; ASMing requires annoyingly many commands to do a certain task, and the debuggers are annoyingly limited.
3. So, besides ASM, you know a lot of programming languages like C++ and HTML, what got your interest into coding?
My first encounter with programming was an Acorn Basic emulator my dad showed me when I was nine or ten or something, but it didn't really stick. The real start was Game Maker, which a friend showed me (I think it's another friend though) a few years later.
A few years later, after SMWC had become an important part of my life, I decided to try to toss together an LM clone and grabbed Game Maker again (using a lot of weird tricks that aren't very GM-like), but it got horribly slow when I tried rendering the graphics dynamically. In an unexpected flash of intelligence, I blamed it on Game Maker and grabbed a C++ book instead (and got stuck thrice more due to me finding wrong functions, misunderstanding them, and various other problems). Since then, I've learned my limitations a bit better, and I rarely take on stuff I don't know I can handle these days (but at the same time, my skills have grown, so I could probably succeed with those projects if I wanted to).
4. So, from all the tools, patches and other things you've coded, what do you think your best creation is?
That's probably AlcaRobot. It helps a lot when I'm working on some ASM (or, more commonly, when I want to help someone else with their ASM), and it's frequently used by others too.
5. As a staff member that was promoted around a year ago, how do you feel about your rank after all this time?
I feel a bit too lazy section-wise, but I believe I'm pretty good at keeping requests, reviews and the forums under control. Being a staff member is far from as interesting as various newcomers makes it sound.
6. So, to end the interview, is there anything you would like to tell the community?
Do you eat all your green rocks? If you don't, you won't grow up big and strong!
Congratulations Alcaro and AxemJinx, you both earned your positions.
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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:21:23 PM
Grats to you Axem.
I'm assuming Alcaro was chosen due to some sort of muncher bias?
Grats to him anyway...
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Originally posted by marioVSshadow
I'm assuming Alcaro was chosen due to some sort of muncher bias?
Anyway, there's a huge difference in how much the MotM winners wrote this time. Reading it was interesting, though, and I'm reminded of the time when I still was looking at videos on Youtube, and I still remember watching Tornado Castle by AxemJinx, amazed at his skill at playing.
Oh well, lots of congratulations to Alcaro and AxemJinx.
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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:35:51 PM
Congrats Alcaro and AxemJinx!!
Do you eat all your green rocks? If you don't, you won't grow up big and strong!
I love green rocks!
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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:43:08 PM
Congratulations, AxemJinx and Alcaro! What a perfect way to start off the new year. (Now I feel like I should get to know AxemJinx better...he seems like a pretty cool guy anyway.)
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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:53:45 PM
Congratulations to both! I definitely feel you guys have earned this!
"I wouldn't change a thing about you. I love you dearly, my friend."
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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:58:14 PM
I've only read about half of AxemJinx's interview, but I'll finish it a bit later because its friggin
You wrote up a good tutorial on level design.
Congrats to the both of you
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Posted on 2012-01-01 03:59:57 PM
Axem definitely earned it. He even gave me a few words of wisdom when I was about to finish my first level for SMWCP2.
And like him, I've wanted to make my own SMW levels since I was little.
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Posted on 2012-01-01 04:13:14 PM
Originally posted by marioVSshadow
I'm assuming Alcaro was chosen due to some sort of muncher bias?
You are quite obviously just jealous of our beautiful teeth.
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Posted on 2012-01-01 04:26:15 PM
Originally posted by Alcaro
Originally posted by marioVSshadow
I'm assuming Alcaro was chosen due to some sort of muncher bias?
You are quite obviously just jealous of our beautiful teeth.
You think so?
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Posted on 2012-01-01 06:21:42 PM
Took me some time to read the interwievs, but was worth it.
Congratulation to AxemJinx and Alcaro. You're putting a lot of effort to make this site better than it is.
By the way I'm eating green rocks right now...
ouch, my teeth broke
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Congratulations, AxemJinx and Alcaro!
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Congratulations to you both AxemJinx and Alcaro! You really deserved it too, keeping a vigilant watch over the site =) *duna duna duna duna batman!*
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Congratulations to both of you.
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Axem's answer to the first question is more than twice as long as Alcaro's whole interview, golly!
Congratulations to both of you, either way!
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Congratulations, AxemJinx, for probably saying more in an interview then I could in 100 posts. T.T
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Congratulations to both of you! Woah, AxemJinx's interview is pretty long.
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Cool for you, both of you!
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< sarcasm> I totally didn't see this coming < /sarcasm>
Congrats to both of you.
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Congratulations you guys.
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Shantress Hurston, 41, of 969 Kelley St. passed away on Sunday at West Georgia Medical Center.
Shantress Hurston the daughter of the late Shirley Hurston Johnson was born in LaGrange.
She was a member of St. James C.M.E. church and a graduate of Lagrange High School Class of 1990.
Shantress studied at Fort Valley State College and accounting at West Georgia Technical College.
She was a long time employee at Interface Flor of West Point.
Survivors include: a loving sister Shamonica(Eric) Fannin of LaGrange, two aunts Kasandra Jackson and Diane Hammett of LaGrange, one uncle James (Jeanette) Shavers of Grantville, three nieces; Noliyanna Ector, Nigeria Fannin and Nariah Fannin all of LaGrange, cousins, and friends.
She is preceded in death in addition to her mother by grandparents Willie Lee and Julia Mae Hurston and uncles; Lorenzo Shavers and Julius Hurston.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 3pm at Bethlehem Baptist Church in West Point with the Rev. L. K. Allen officiating .
The interment will be in Restlawn Memory Gardens.
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House Bill 524 by state Reps. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, and Mary Gonzlez, D-Clint, would force lawmakers to report all contracts they, their spouses or their close relatives have with any government entities, from state agencies all the way down to municipal offices, public universities and taxing districts. The disclosure would also require lawmakers to report if they or any close family members have more than 50 percent ownership in a business that has a contract with such a government entity.
Capriglione said the bill -- the first filed for both freshmen -- is designed to close a gaping hole in the state's disclosure forms, which haven't been substantially modernized in two decades.
"It gets to the crux of the distrust between the public and elected officials: Where there's a lack of transparency, they assume the worst," Capriglione said. "I want to see who doesn't vote for this."
Gonzlez said the goal isn't for lawmakers or their relatives to have to give up such contracts. "But those relationships need to be transparent," she added.
The current disclosure form requires basic reporting on property holdings, broad ranges of stocks and mutual funds, and sources of income, from employment to business interests. It also requires reporting of gifts -- which relatively few lawmakers denote -- and interest in common with lobbyists, though the lobbyists do not have to be named.
The measure filed by Capriglione and Gonzlez would also require lawmakers to report contracts with government entities on behalf of themselves, their spouses and some of their blood relatives, from children to siblings. The bill would not apply to federal government contracts. But it would apply to all other government contracts, like consulting or engineering agreements with hospital and water districts and business before local community colleges.
The lawmaker would have to report the exact amount of the contract in the preceding year down to dollars and cents, Capriglione said, unlike the outdated ranges they currently have to report on financial disclosure forms for things like stocks and mutual funds.
The measure would not provide an exception for lawyer lawmakers, who argue they are prohibited by attorney-client privilege from reporting their public-sector clients. Capriglione says taxpayer-funded entities that knowingly hire lawyers who are lawmakers to represent them should have to waive that privilege.
Both lawmakers acknowledge moving the bill will be challenging; they're new to the Legislature, and more senior members have been loath to tighten up the disclosure forms in sessions past. They hope the fact that they're polar opposites on the political spectrum could give them a credibility boost.
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Pegasus Restaurant and Taverna in Chicago's Greek Town pulled out all the stops at a recent dinner co-hosted by premier dining club ChicaGourmets!
Owner Yanni Melidis plied guests with appetizers of tiropitaka (flaky filo triangles stuffed with feta cheese), beefteki ala Smyrna (mushrooms stuffed with ground beef, marinara sauce and cheese), and eggplant iman (braised eggplant with feta cheese).
We had a little break with a salad of chopped romaine, tomatoes and olives in the style of the Isle of Crete. But then it was on to the big guns – honey-roasted leg of lamb with orzo, yiaourtava (chicken breast with pasta and yogurt sauce), and sepia (cuttlefish similar to calamari with spinach).
Each course was presented with a Greek wine from Stellar Imports and Diamond Importers. Melidis, an expert on the diverse ethnic groups that have contributed to the unique cuisine of Greece, gave commentary on the food and libations throughout the meal.
Desserts included chocolate baklava and bougatsa (custard-stuffed filo pastries dusted with cinnamon-sugar) and scrumptious butter cookies, all from Artopolis Cafe, a sister business to Pegasus, at 306 S. Halsted St., and owned by Maria Melidis.
In addition to wowzer desserts, Artopolis is known for housemade artisan breads, wood-fired pizzas, crunchy salads and specialty coffees.
Guests received a gift bag of Artopolis' fabulous stone-ground, hearth-baked bread, recipes of the dishes served, a small carafe of Ouzo, and a bottle of Greek olive oil.
ChicaGourmets!, celebrating its 10th anniversary and founded by Don Newcomb, hosts more than 70 events like this each year for its 400 members. The group has dined at the likes of Quartino, Va Pensiero, Smoque, Naha, 160 Blue at deep discounts off regular menu prices. The Pegasus dinner, for example, was $59 per person.
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Since we've gotten the bye out of the way for most teams and 9 games are under everyone's belts, who do you think is the MVP and why?
Since we've gotten the bye out of the way for most teams and 9 games are under everyone's belts, who do you think is the MVP and why?
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Not to be a homer, but AP is a legit MVP candiate. Won't win though obviously. Right now I vote Manning.
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I homer voted but at this point, might go with Matty Ice.
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Right now I say Rodgers, but I have a suspicion that Brady might be it by season's end.
Peyton has the stats (and is certainly in the running), but I feel like people are acting like the Broncos were terrible last season. The only place Denver was bad at last year was QB and TE, and they still made playoffs.
Anyone else wish they'd hold off on MVP voting until after the SB? I feel like you see who is more valuable to their team in January that way.
Adrian Peterson should be on this list.
1. Manning
2. Peterson
3. Ryan
4. Roethlisberger
5. Rodgers
6. Brady
Luck MVP talk is premature. If the Colts keep it up and make the playoffs, than maybe...but right now he isn't in my top 10.
Peyton will win it. The Broncos' schedule is a cupcake from here on out. They could go 12-4 or even 13-3 and I wouldn't be stunned. They lost 3 of their 4 tough games this season, but there's only one more left (@ Baltimore).
funny that no texans are in this pole. not trying to be a homer but cmon. we beat denver in denver, chicago in chicago, and destroyed the ravens. 8-1.
watt and foster deserve some recognition here.
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OMG, I didn't see this part of the game, all I am seeing is this video. If you don't think this is as dirty as it can get, you are looking thru rose colored glasses and are extremely bias. That right there is TERRIBLE without even discussing helmet to helmet!!!! That player is as defenseless as one can be.
I hate rude behavior in a man, won't tolerate it. Captain Woodrow Call
Way off topic here. You've never seen me condone such actions anyway so it's a moot OFF TOPIC point.
Feel better? It wouldn't make me feel better b/c I really have no care in the matter.
My issue is with you condoning such a hit. I never said it was illegal but it was indeed unwarranted and dirty and you see nothing wrong with it. Just pointing that out. he could have NOT led with his helmet just as easy and pushed him down.
Football is tough and I like it. Hits like that happen and are legal I know and I get it, but that doesn't mean it's not Dirty. it's your choice to approve of not of such plays.
I for one think it's absolutely no different than a sucker punch.
Oh Dustin, LSU to The Cotton Bowl to play Texas. It's unfortunate The Capital One Bowl Committee has enthroned TAMU as well as political movements in TX to keep TAMU from destroying Texas in Jerry's World. It doesn't matter as both LSU & TAMU would dismantle Texas or NU.
Such a simple fix for the head hunting hits. Make facemask illegal. Stop all the leading with the head. Technology has made the helment a protector and a weapon.
I did enjoy watching a good hard hitting football game. Congrats to both teams for providing a good game.
'I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.' - Bear Bryant / Alabama
Yea I thought it was going to be Okla. St but forgot the Head to Head was Texas. The Alamo Bowl still likes Texas too. Guess we'll find out soon enough.
Same here. I REALLY think he should have been a contender AGAIN. Shows you just how fluid the Heisman Voters can be.
When a Running Back breaks that kind of Record how can he NOT be mentioned? Politics ....
He'll win something though for sure, or better.
Just for the heck of it before the National Championship game since ND is 11-0 and ALABAMA IS 12-1 I think that to have equality in the numbers ND should have to play either Florida, Georgia, LSU or TAMU to even up the records. On TV this morning Lou Holtz says that ND will have a cakewalk with Alabama ....what a CROCK. This was TRULY one of the best games I have seen lately. Alabama and Georgia. If ND had the 5 abovementioned teams on their schedule they would be at best 7-5 and not even in the BCS picture. I think that football has been always a violent sport and having played back in the late 50's with a single bar on the facemask they are trying to take too much out to be PC .
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Completely aside from the game last night, I still wouldn't doubt Bama over Notre Dame.
Notre Dame has never seen the size and speed like Bama has on 'D'. Notre Dame has also let some mediocre RB's put yds on them. Lacy/Yeldon far from mediocre. Plus Notre Dame's D-Line is not even as strong as UGA's from what I've seen.
If it were up to the Stats Notre Dame doesn't stand a chance. But it's not and this is where Nick Saban comes in. Who has more experience? Bama players will indeed be ready to play and play like there hair is on fire. Notre Dame? Might be so glazed over to be there it might take them by storm.
Going to be a long month once again waiting around. But where most are getting it wrong is assuming Bama trains the whole time. Nick said they don't do that. They'll start training in a few weeks only for a few weeks to prepare for the game. That's what they've done in the past and said he see's no reason to change it. Training for weeks up to the game leads to burn out.
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Typical problem, to many good SEC teams and not enough quality bowl spots. Dont think for a min that the Cotton Bowl folks wouldnt love a TAMU - t u matchup. Aggies would enjoy the chance to beat up on a pitiful tu team, but we would also like to go someplace new. Welcome to Disneyworld!
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Where can I flee from your presence?
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
and the light become night around me,"
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
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When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
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- FORA lets go of auditor in wake of traffic ticket controversy
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- FORA puts Preston Park up for sale, Marina protests
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The days of free lunches and home DSL appear to be over at the Fort Ord Reuse Authority.
FORA's executive committee on Wednesday accepted the recommendations of an appointed subcommittee to exclude all local meals from the list of acceptable expenses. The proposed policy must be approved by the full board.
A recently completed audit also states that reimbursement for FORA Executive Officer Michael Houlemard's home DSL is a misappropriation of public funds under IRS guidelines.
The expense reimbursement policy is the work of Del Rey Oaks Mayor Jerry Edelen and Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Kampe, who were appointed to review the policy after revelations about Houlemard's DSL, as well as his reimbursement for the costs of a traffic violation in Carmel and dozens of lunches and dinners at local restaurants justified as business meetings.
"There will never again ever be a free lunch or free dinner for local meals," Edelen said. "I think other agencies and committees and boards in Monterey County should do the same thing. It's ridiculous to allow public officials to go out and eat on the taxpayer's dime."
Over his 15 years with FORA, Houlemard has been reimbursed hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars for lunch meetings with area officials. The Aptos resident was also reimbursed for dinners when he had to stay on the Peninsula for a night meeting.
It was the nearly $400 that Houlemard was reimbursed for his traffic fine that really inflamed the public's ire.
The firm of Moss, Levy & Hartzeim LLP was retained to conduct the 2012 audit. Included in the agenda packet for Friday's FORA board meeting, it states that the DSL reimbursement has been discontinued and "personal charges are reimbursed to FORA."
The audit also faulted FORA for allowing Houlemard to approve his own expenses and for allowing employees to text — at least once internationally — and download ring tones on their cell phones.
Edelen said the proposed expense policy resolves the matter by paying qualifying employees a $50 monthly stipend for their cell phones.
Edelen said he expected the item to be considered at the next board meeting, though it was not included on the agenda released Friday.
The agenda did include another item of recent controversy. The election of FORA officers will be repeated Friday.
Monterey City Councilwoman Libby Downey and others objected that the board did not allow public comment on the nominations at its Jan. 11 meeting, then voted in secret. After conferring with FORA attorney Jerry Bowden, outgoing Chairman Dave Potter had board members pass their votes forward on slips of paper, an apparent violation of the Brown Act.
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Between 10 and 20 centimetres of snow fell during a spring blizzard, prompting Environment Canada to issue a travel advisory for areas north of Calgary, May 5.
Members of the Airdrie Integrated Traffic Unit (AITU), Alberta EMS and area fire departments responded to at least five separate collisions on Highway 2 between Calgary and Didsbury.
Although no one was seriously injured, several cars were flipped over in the collisions.
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Fourteen coils of copper wire, with a value of more than $30,000, was stolen from a locked compound in Airdrie, April 6.
In the early hours of the morning, unidentified persons cut United Oilfield Incorporation�s front gate lock and cut a hole in another part of the fence to gain entry to the property. The unknown suspects then drove onto the property in a pickup truck and stole the wire.
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This month, the AITU will be keeping a watchful eye on novice drivers.
�Fatal collisions involving young people are particularly difficult for everyone involved, for family, friends, and emergency responders alike,� said Sheriff Jason Graw, with the AITU.
�Youth between the ages of 15 and 24 are more likely to be injured or killed on Alberta highways than any other age group and we would like to see those rates drop significantly.�
Motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of death and injury among Alberta�s youth. In 2012, 36 Albertans under the age of 20 were killed and another 3,160 were injured in vehicle collisions.
�Young drivers have less experience to help them cope with complex driving situations such as poor weather or emergency manoeuvres, are more likely to have distractions in the vehicle, are more likely to participate in high-risk driving behaviour, and tend to take their friends with them when they drive.
All of these factors contribute to high casualty rates on our highways for Alberta�s youth,� said Graw.
To prevent future death and injuries, officers will be monitoring for probationary drivers on the road between midnight and 5 a.m., probationary and Graduated License Drivers (GDL) with more occupants than the vehicle has seatbelts and those with alcohol in their system.
They will also be on the look out for Class 7 (learner�s) drivers without a non-GDL adult driver sitting in the front passenger seat and Class 7 moped drivers under 16 years of age carrying a passenger.
In addition to novice drivers, officers will focus on impaired driving, occupant restraints, speed and aggressive driving, intersection safety, intercepting travelling criminals and holiday long-weekend enforcement.
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"I wish we could bring Hailey home before they left but, we're going to keep going," said volunteer searcher April Wehba.
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I know there was already some post about Trelawney, but I just wanted to sum it up.
Her two known prediction that came true both connected to Voldemort:
"It will happen tonight. The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his followers. His servant has been chained these twelve years. Tonight, before midnight… the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master. The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever he was. Tonight… before midnight…the servant…will set out…to rejoin…his master…." (POA )
Pettigrew escapes and rejoins Voldemort and a year later he helps him get his body back
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches.…born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies…and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not.…and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.…the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…" (OOTP)
I don't think it has to be explained.
Her minor predictions:
- Neville is going to break a tea cup > Neville did break a cup
- Something Lavender Brown was dreading would happen on 16 October > Lavander's bunny was killed by a fox on 16 October
- Around Easter, one of her students would drop the subject.> Hermione left the Diviation class after an argument with Trelawney around Easter.
- She told Parvati Patil to beware of a red-headed man. Parvati immediately suspected Ron. At the Yule Ball,Harry and Ron, Parvati's and her sister, Padma's dates, ignored her and her sister. Two years later, Ronstarted going out with Parvati's best friend Lavender Brown, who started to ignore Parvati.
- When Dolores Umbridge was appointed Hogwarts High Inquisitor during Harry's fifth year, she insisted that Trelawney demonstrate her abilities by prophesying something. Trelawney replied that she saw dark events ahead for Umbridge, which Umbridge immediately dismissed as nonsense. Later, Umbridge was dragged off and imprisoned by centaurs in the Forbidden Forest.
- In Harry's sixth year he saw Trelawney coming, and hid from her. As she passed, he saw that she was examining a pack of cards and muttered, "A dark young man, possibly troubled, one who dislikes the questioner." She dismissed her own words as nonsense, unaware of Harry's presence or his dislike of her. Later in the year, Harry saw Draco arguing with Snape when he questioned Draco on the progress of his mission for Voldemort.
Harry's death:
The big black dog she sees in Harry's cup either is not the Zordo but represents Sirius, ( the dog star, Sirius's animagus form ) or is the Zordo, the omen of death looming over Harry till his actual death in 1998.
"Professor Trelawney was now teaching them palmistry, and she lost no time in informing Harry that he had the shortest life line she had ever seen." GOF
Also Harry dies at 17.
"He therefore had to endure over an hour of Professor Trelawney, who spent half the lesson telling everyone that the position of Mars with relation to Saturn at that moment meant that people born in July were in great danger of sudden, violent deaths. "Well, that's good," said Harry loudly, his temper getting the better of him, "just as long as it's not drawn-out. I don't want to suffer." GOF
Harry's death scene quite violent but sudden and painless.
13 people at the table:
- At the Christmas lunch, Trelawney at first refused to join the table, since when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley got up from the table first together, but Albus Dumbledore was the first among those at the table to die. Also, she did not take into account of Peter Pettigrew, who was at the time disguised as Scabbers the rat, which would in fact count as fourteen people. However, she was right: before getting seated, there were thirteen people at the table (counting Scabbers) and Albus Dumbledore rose to greet her, which confirms that he was the first person to die.
- In 1995, thirteen members of the order dined together, and the first to rise was Sirius, who later died.
- Also, after the Battle of the Seven Potters, thirteen people (Mr. and Mrs. Weasley, Bill, Fleur, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Lupin, Tonks and Hagrid) gathered in The Burrow to mourn the death of Alastor Moody. Afterwards, Lupin stood up and offered to look for Moody's dead body. Later in the Battle of Hogwarts, Lupin was killed by Antonin Dolohov. Fred and Tonks were also killed, but as the time of Lupin's death is unknown, it is possible he was first.
Other deaths:
Later Trelawney again met Harry in the corridors, and this time complains that Dumbledore had been repeatedly dismissing her warnings of impending disaster. She looked at some Tarot cards and saw,
"… the lightning-struck tower… Calamity. Disaster. Coming nearer all the time…".
This seems to predict the events of Dumbledore's death on the Astronomy Tower. The Lightning-Struck Tower tarot card (The Tower) is generally considered representative of disaster or life-altering change.
"Yes," said Professor Trelawney, nodding impressively, "it comes, ever closer, it circles overhead like a vulture, ever lower… ever lower over the castle… ." GOF
Cedric death?
From Trelawney to Harry:
"You are preoccupied, my dear," she said mournfully to Harry. "My inner eye sees past your brave face to the troubled soul within. And I regret to say that your worries are not baseless. I see difficult times ahead for you, alas… most difficult… I fear the thing you dread will indeed come to pass… and perhaps sooner than you think…" GOF
Before the class Harry tells Hermione that he is worried about Trelawney's prophecy about Pettigrew and that Voldemort will return.
"I was saying that Saturn was surely in a position of power in the heavens at the moment of your birth…your dark hair…your mean stature…tragic losses so young in life…I think I am right in saying, my dear, that you were born in midwinter?"
Later on we learn that Voldemort was born in mid winter, and that part of his soul - what Trelawney felt - was in Harry.
My dear, you were undoubtedly stimulated by the extraordinary clairvoyant vibrations of my room!" said Professor Trelawney. "If you leave now, you may lose the opportunity to see further than you have ever -" GOF
Right after Harry falls aslep and gets a vision about Voldemort.
Harry and Ron's predictions:
From Harry to Ron "so you're going to suffer but be very happy…." POA,Ron is attackted by Sirius, loses his rat but at the end of the book he is happy because Harry gets back his godfather and it turns out his rat was Pettigrew the traitor.
From Ron to Harry: "There's a blob a bit like a bowler hat," he said. "Maybe you're going to work for the Ministry of Magic…" POA
Harry becames an Auror working for the Ministry.
"'A windfall, unexpected gold." POA
Harry wins the Twizadry Tournament and the prize is gold, he inherits Sirius's gold too.
At the final Divination exam Harry has to look into the crystal ball, he does not see anything but he lies that he can see a hoppogriff flying away free and as we know he frees Buckbeak a few hours later.
Harry and Ron making up their homework:
"I will be in danger of- er - burns." / "Lose a treasured possession," / "Why don't you get stabbed in the back by someone you thought was a friend?" / I think I'll come off worst in a fight." / "Okay, I'll lose a bet."
During the Triwizard Tournament all the predictions come true: Harry gets burned by the Hungarian Horntail / looses a treasured possesion meaning his friends getting kidnapped by the mermaids / Ron thinks he is a liar and ignores him / looses in a duel against Voldemort / Bagman loses a bet on Harry
- Sybill Trelawney's great great-grandmother was named Cassandra. In greek In Greek mythology, Cassandra was a princess of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions.=> no one believed in Professor Trelawney's predictions either.
- Both her name and her surname are related to her future telling ability. "Sibyl" was a priestess in ancient Greek mythology. A sibyl (one "l") is a woman who could look into the future. A sibyl also can be any female prophet. The name is from the Latin sibylla, seer. While "Trelawney" may come from the oculist and seer Dr. Trelawney, from Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time.
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All HCPL branches will be CLOSED Monday, May 27. Cy-Fair will also be CLOSED Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26.
According to another blogger here, November is Native American Heritage Month. I had no idea. I started looking up movies I'd seen that featured Native Americans and was pleasantly surprised to find several of them in our collection. For the most part, I've concentrated on movies and television series that feature recent generations of Native Americans and the choices they face.


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Club competitions
National team competitions
Nationality: LTUBorn : 06.11.1985Place of birth: Kaunas (LTU) Height: 1.93mPosition: PF
Having started playing in Kaunas at Merkurijus basketball school before heading to the NCAA, Sipaviciute has established herself as very much a role player for the National Team and someone capable of delivering some really nice cameos when required. She was impressively efficient during the Qualifying Round last summer and showcased why she is an important element of the team. After her NCAA career with Syracuse, she also now has a couple of seasons of EuroLeague Women basketball under her belt as well as experience of playing in top European leagues in both France and Italy. Having been replaced at Tarbes mid-season, she moved to Italy and regained her confidence quickly to produce some nice numbers with some great work inside the paint and a real boost on the defensive end of the court where she came up with plenty of steals. Her good form might persuade Coach Paulauskas to give her more court time.


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Escaped prisoner John Loveridge may be in Somerset, police say (From This is The West Country)
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Escaped prisoner John Loveridge may be in Somerset, police say
12:49pm Monday 4th March 2013 in News By Newsdesk
A CRIMINAL who escaped from a prison in Lincolnshire may be in Somerset.
Police say that 28-year-old John Loverdige may be in the Avon and Somerset area after his escape from HMP North Sea Camp on February 11 and are urging members of the public to remain vigilant.
Loveridge is described as white; around 5ft 8 to 5ft 9inches tall, of a slim build, with short black hair and hazel coloured eyes.
He has a four inch scar on the back of his left hand, a tattoo stating 'Stacey' on his right arm.
It is possible that he may have a beard or be clean shaven.
Anyone who sees John Loveridge or knows where he may be is asked to call 999 immediately.