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The man America needs 42
… needs more desperately than ever, speaks in fury.
Stay there and see the next video too. It is about Trump deserving a Nobel Peace Prize. (We think he deserves it more than anyone who has ever received it.)
The Biden regime humiliates America 15
(From 23 minutes) President Trump on the defeat of America by primitive fanatical Muslims in Afghanistan because of "President" Biden's ineptitude: "Our country has never been so humiliated."
(But don't worry – Hannity is praying to "God" to save the thousands of Americans stranded there, and as "God" is omnipotent and good he will do as he is asked, just as he always does.)
A dummy now leads the free world 7
By a tremendous effort of complicated conspiracy, the American Left has elected a demented old man to the presidency of the United States!
The fixer's tale 3
This is all old "news" about the Clintons. Brought up yet again by a vast right-wing conspiracy against Hillary Clinton who has done so much for women and children, orphans. the poor, African-Americans, Hispanics, Iranian mullahs, Arab regimes, and the Clintons.
From the Conservative Tribune:
The man whom Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton, hired to cover up some of their dirtiest schemes has come forward to explain some of the worst secrets about the couple.
Novelist Jeff Rovin appeared on Fox News' "Hannity" show and explained how he was the "fixer" for many of the Clinton escapades. Rovin confirmed what many people have suspected — that Hillary Clinton ran the show and that she was the one who ordered all of the "fixing".
Rovin said he was instructed by Hillary Clinton to smear Monica Lewinsky by leaking false stories about her to his contacts.
That action left Rovin feeling particularly guilty. He told host Sean Hannity that he finally got to apologize to Lewinsky in person after a coincidence made them neighbors.
Rovin also said that Hillary Clinton had an affair with longtime ally and lawyer Vince Foster that lasted for years. Foster was found dead in what police said was a suicide, but speculation has always been that he was murdered.
Part of Rovin's "fixer" responsibilities included helping scrub Foster's office after his death. He also said he was ordered to distract the media while Team Clinton rummaged through Foster's office.
Foster also said he hired Jerry Parks, an Arkansas investigator, to spy on Bill because Hillary was worried about Bill's exploits with so many "sluts" and how that could hurt their political careers.
Two months after Foster was found dead, Parks was found shot nine times at a stoplight in his SUV in Little Rock, Arkansas. Rovin said Parks had to die because he knew everything.
Rovin also said he was told to keep stories quiet in one of two ways: "by trading access to the Clintons for 'positive' interviews or by paying the reporters".
Rovin also told Hannity that the "endless attention" to the alleged indiscretions of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was what forced him to go public now.
"Nothing I have heard comes close to the sexual and moral corruption of the Clintons — many [instances] of which have yet to be revealed," he said.
What's the point of dragging all that up again? The Clintons have moved on to far greater crimes.
On the President's speech 3
Mark Steyn interviewed by Sean Hannity on Fox News, the day after President Obama made his speech deploring the bigotry of American people for which they deserve to be shot and bombed by peaceful Islam:
Justice seen not to be done 18
How passionately, profoundly, unalterably President Barack Obama loves Islam is demonstrated by the story of Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a phsychatrist in the US army, was sentenced to death in August 2013 for killing 13 people and wounding 32 at the military base of Fort Hood in 2009.
He said that he did it for the Taliban, the enemy that the US army was fighting a war against in Afghanistan.
He is a traitor and a mass-murdering Islamic terrorist.
A military court tried him for murder and attempted murder and condemned him to death. He is imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. He will live there for years, in comfortable and privileged conditions, while his case is slowly reviewed by appellate courts.
Due process is being scrupulously observed. Justice is being done.
Or is it?
We quote from an article by Michael Daly at the Daily Beast, dated August 6, 2013:
Nidal Hasan's victims must suffer twice — first when they were shot by the army shrink turned jihadi, and again as the government calls the murder of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood "workplace violence".
As U.S. Army psychiatrist turned jihadi Nidal Hasan finally goes on trial for shooting 13 fellow soldiers to death at Fort Hood … the government continues to classify the 2009 attack: "Workplace violence".
In what might be termed the audacity of nope, the government has declined to call this al Qaeda–inspired mass murder an act of terrorism because to do so would be "unfair to the victims".
Orwell's Ministry of Truth could not do better.
The official reasoning is that it would jeopardize the case because, as stated in a Pentagon memo, "defense counsel will argue that Major Hasan cannot receive a fair trial because a branch of government has indirectly declared that Major Hasan is a terrorist — that he is criminally culpable."
That has not stopped the government from calling the 9/11 attacks anything but terrorism. The 9/11 memorial at the Pentagon has on display the Purple Heart, the medal awarded to all the soldiers who were killed or injured there that day.
But the Purple Heart has been denied the soldiers who were killed or wounded at Fort Hood. And, because they were classified as victims of simple calamity rather than of combat, they and their families have been denied the accompanying benefits. A number of them say they have not even been able to secure adequate care for their wounds.
And, perhaps in part because people assumed that the army would take care of the soldiers as it would any other fallen and wounded warriors, there was no huge outpouring of financial support for them as there would later be for, say, the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.
To her great and everlasting credit, nobody has been more vocal about all this than one of the two heroic police officers who took Hasan down and ended the carnage.
"Betrayed is a good word," Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley has said of the way the soldiers have been treated.
Munley speaks up on behalf of the soldiers even though as a civilian she would be ineligible for the medal or the benefits, even though she was wounded in the attack.
And Munley has more than enough cause to complain about how she and her equally heroic comrade, Police Sgt. Mark Todd, have been treated themselves. …
Maybe you saw them on television seated beside the first lady at the State of the Union address, Munley still in pain from the bullet wound in her leg.
But surely they received something more than that gestural "honor"? Medals? Compensation? Promotion? An award ceremony? Official thanks on behalf of the nation?
You may not know that both of them were subsequently laid off due to budget cuts.
You also may not know that Todd suffered a stroke this past Christmas, two days after returning from Afghanistan, having gone to work there for a civilian contractor when his heroism at Fort Hood failed to save him from being "excessed."
The stroke apparently left him unable to speak, but he has nonetheless been placed on the list of potential witnesses as the trial gets under way at Ford Hood. …
Munley almost certainly will testify at the trial. Her lawyer, Reid Rubinstein, reports that she is as ready as ever to do whatever duty requires.
She is presently honoring a request by the prosecutors to refrain from public comment during the trial. But you can be sure she will have plenty to say afterward. And likely little of it will be about her own troubles.
In the meanwhile, Rubenstein has joined with another attorney, Neal Sher, in filing a lawsuit against the government on behalf of Munley, a number of the shot soldiers, and their families. The suit notes that the army and the FBI ignored repeated warnings that an increasingly militant Hasan was bent on jihadist violence.
The suit charges that, among other things, the authorities "knew or should have known that Hasan was abusing his patients, who were American soldiers returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, by calling them 'war criminals' in the course of psychiatric treatment sessions, and promising criminal prosecution against them because these soldiers had killed Taliban and other terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq."
How nuts is that?
Imagine coming home shaken up by the war and seeking psychiatric help and having this guy call you a war criminal?
Imagine later hearing that this same sick shrink was allowed just to spout lines from the Quran in place of the formal oral presentation required of all new doctors.
And that Hasan's communications with al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki were initially excused as research into radical Islam.
And that Hasan spoke of being "happy" when a fellow jihadist shot an American soldier to death outside an Arkansas recruiting station in June of 2009 — a soldier who would also be denied a Purple Heart.
And that five months later Hasan allegedly went with a gun into an area where soldiers were either returning from a deployment or preparing to deploy [and shot them].
Among those who were shot was Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, a physician who … died while using her body to shield a fellow soldier, an act that should have earned her a medal for valor as well as a Purple Heart.
Also shot was Pvt. Francheska Velez, just back from Iraq, completing paperwork for education benefits and pregnant with her first child.
"She lived for a short time in terrible pain and agony, knowing that she and her child were dying," the lawsuit says.
The suit also says that just before the gunfire, Hasan was heard to shout, "Allahu akbar!" …
What happened with that lawsuit Rubenstein and Sher brought against the government on behalf of the victims?
Sean Hannity, a sharp thorn in the side of the Left (and long may he continue to be so), brings to public attention a statement the two lawyers have issued five years after the terrorist crime was committed.
Neal M. Sher and Reed D. Rubinstein, attorneys for over 120 Fort Hood terror attack victims and family members, issued the following statement [November 5], on the fifth anniversary of that attack:
Five years ago today, the terrorist Nidal Hasan yelled "Allahu akbar" and, wearing the uniform of an U.S. Army major, began slaughtering Americans. Fourteen innocent people lost their lives and over fifty were injured. For five years, Hasan has bragged of committing this atrocity in the name of Islam to protect the Taliban.
Hasan's victims saw their lives forever changed that terrible day. But the real tragedy of Fort Hood was that our government could have easily prevented their suffering. The U.S. Army and FBI had long known that Hasan was a jihadist with al-Qaeda connections and, simply by following their own standard policies and procedures, easily could have stopped him before anyone was hurt. Instead, because of what the Senate Homeland Committee's investigation called "political correctness", the government willfully averted its eyes to Hasan's jihadism. Hasan should have been arrested. Instead, he was promoted and given other special privileges.
Incredibly, the government's policies of political correctness and special privileges for Hasan continued even after his killing spree.
The day after the carnage, on November 6, 2009, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that U.S. authorities "were taking measures to quell anti-Islam sentiments" in the U.S. and that Hasan "does not, obviously, represent the Muslim faith".
On November 8, 2009, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said on the Sunday talk shows that the "real tragedy" of Fort Hood would be damage to "diversity" policies and publicly warned against "guessing at Hasan's motive," though the government knew of Hasan's jihadist motive from the start.
The special privileges for Hasan also continued. Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave Wikileaks documents, was kept naked in an isolation cell and charged with aiding the enemy. But Hasan, who killed for the Taliban, was not similarly charged or confined. Instead, he was given uniquely comfortable accommodations and special food; permitted to wear a beard, a privilege denied loyal American soldiers; and allowed to give Al-Jazeera an interview praising anti-American "mujahadeen".
Though the government went out of its way to coddle Hasan, it had no kindness for his victims. First, they were used as props in staged "mourning" ceremonies to benefit political leaders, then they were personally promised assistance by President Obama and top generals, and finally they were shoved down a memory hole. Hasan's terrorism became "workplace violence", meaning that those who survived the charnel house were denied support, benefits and mental health treatment. In some cases, soldiers were physically and mentally abused for requesting treatment of Fort Hood-related injuries.
Five years on, the government has done nothing to help the victims of Fort Hood. …
Now, from our new Congress, we call and hope for action. First, we ask for equity. Congress should provide similar benefits to the Fort Hood victims as it provided to the 9/11 Pentagon victims. The government should not be allowed to dodge its culpability.
Second, we ask Congress hold oversight hearings to investigate and hold accountable the Department of Defense and the White House for their post-attack policies, conduct and abuse.
Will some justice in this case at last be done?
Threatening the freedom of the internet 11
WorldNetDaily reports that yet another Marxist ideologue has been appointed to an advisory position at the White House.
Obama's appointment of Ben Scott as Innovation Adviser shows that he is steadily intent on putting an end to the freedom of the internet.
Ben Scott was policy director of the far left Free Press, which is dedicated to the cause of imposing government regulation of the media in general and the internet in particular. Just as their name "Free Press" is Orwellian Newspeak for their aim of suppressing conservative views in the press, so are their words for internet control. "Net neutrality" they call it.
Obviously the chief target of the Free Press Marxists is any medium of conservative opinion: Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and all of us who speak our minds freely on the internet. But they wouldn't stop there. They want total government control of the media.
Aaron Klein, author of the WND report, writes:
Scott authored a book, "The Future of Media," which was edited by the founder of Free Press, Robert W. McChesney.
McChesney is an avowed Marxist who has recommended capitalism be dismantled.
He is a professor at the University of Illinois and former editor of the Marxist journal Monthly Review. …
The board of Free Press has included a slew of radicals, such as Obama's former "green jobs" czar Van Jones, who resigned after it was exposed he founded a communist organization. …
Free Press published a study advocating the development of a "world class" government-run media system in the U.S.
Now the group is pushing a new organization, StopBigMedia.com, that advocates the downfall of "big media" and the creation of new media to "promote local ownership, amplify minority voices, support quality [ie. leftist] journalism, and bring local artists, voices and viewpoints to the airwaves."
To us it is startling to learn that the far left wants to smash "Big Media" when in our eyes Big Media for the most part bends strongly to their side. But even in the New York Times, MSNBC and so on, occasional anti-left views can be read or heard. That won't do for totalitarians.
Free Press has ties to other members of the Obama administration.
Obama's "Internet czar," Susan P. Crawford, spoke at a Free Press's May 14, 2009, "Changing Media" summit in Washington, D.C.
Free Press is one of the many organizations funded by George Soros and the Joyce Foundation. (Barack Obama sat on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which is one of many charity foundations hijacked by the radical left.)
More on the Free Press can be found at Discover the Networks, including this:
In November 2003, Free Press organized its first National Conference on Media Reform at the University of Wisconsin-Madison … Z Magazine [far left radical] reported that this conference prominently featured "El Salvador and Palestine solidarity activists" who "gave updates on their work."
And this:
While many of its conferences have featured speakers advocating a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine [more Newspeak], Free Press has focused its efforts on advocating for "net neutrality," progressive legislation that would allow the government greater regulatory control over the Internet.
Even while its founders and conferences call for revolution, the overthrow of the capitalist system, and the socialization of America, Free Press has been regularly granted audiences not only with members of Congress, but with those overseeing media policy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). For example, when Julius Genachowski, who worked as a prominent leader in Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, became chairman of the FCC (on June 29, 2009), he promptly appointed Free Press spokeswoman Jen Howard to be his press secretary. By late September, three months into his new job, Genachowski announced his plan to push for net neutrality.
In April 2010, the FCC's net neutrality bid hit a hurdle when a U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the FCC did not have the right to regulate Comcast's network management. …
On May 11, 2010, at a Free Press Summit in Washington DC, Democratic Senator Bryon Dorgan gave the keynote speech and declared that critics of net neutrality were simply engaging in the "big lie that permeates public policy today." He also argued that net neutrality could not be accurately described as a takeover of the Internet, since the Internet was created by the federal government in the first place and already had rules that underpinned net neutrality.
Whatever he meant by "the internet was created by the federal government", it is worth remembering that the World Wide Web was invented by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee. No innovation comes out of a government-controlled environment. Innovation can only happen where the individual is free. The internet is a sphere of freedom throughout the world, and its existence works strongly against the collectivist tendency that politicians, academics, and all the red-winged minions of the left toil at advancing night and day. And that of course is why these totalitarians want to control it.
Oh, please no! 9
Diana West raises a troubling question:
Should Fox News register with the State Department as a foreign agent — an agent of Saudi Arabia?
First off, is that a farfetched question? Not when a leading member of the ruling family of the Sharia-totalitarian "kingdom" of Saudi Arabia, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has made himself the second-largest shareholder of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., Fox News' parent company.
Just as Steven Emerson believes that American universities using Saudi mega-millions (many from Alwaleed) to set up Islamic studies departments should register as Saudi agents, I believe an American news channel part-owned and part-influenced by the Saudi prince should, too.
Alwaleed's long march through U.S. institutions is a mainly post-9/11 progression greased by his purchase of about a 5.5 percent stake in News Corp. in 2005, and his purchases, I mean, gifts, of $20 million apiece to Georgetown and Harvard Universities, also in 2005.
There have been other eye-catching displays of Alwaleed's largesse — $500,000 in 2002 to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Hamas- and Muslim-Brotherhood-linked entity, and a whopping $27 million, also in 2002, to the families of Palestinian "martyrs," aka suicide bombers. These, along with Alwaleed's self-described "very close relationship" with Murdoch son and apparent heir-apparent James, a left-wing global-warmist with virulently anti-Israel views, should only deepen Americans' concerns about Fox's ties to "the prince." Recently, Murdoch and Alwaleed have discussed expanding their business relationship through the Murdoch purchase of a substantial stake in Rotana, Alwaleed's huge Arab media company.
Before entering his Murdoch association, Alwaleed gave a remarkably candid interview in 2002 about what Arab News described as his belief that "Arabs should focus more on penetrating U.S. public opinion as a means to influencing decision-making" rather than boycotting U.S. products, an idea of the moment.
The Arab News reported: "Arab countries can influence U.S. decision-making 'if they unite through economic interests, not political,' (Alwaleed) stressed. 'We have to be logical and understand that the U.S. administration is subject to U.S. public opinion. We (Arabs) are not so active in this sphere (public opinion). And to bring the decision-maker on your side, you not only have to be active inside the U.S. Congress or the administration but also inside U.S. society.'"
And active inside U.S. society living rooms — even better. Alwaleed would seem to have hit on a Fox strategy some time after Rudy Giuliani refused to accept, on behalf of a 9/11-shattered New York City, his $10 million check-cum-lecture that essentially justified the al-Qaida attacks as having been a response to U.S. foreign policy. This was "such an egregious, outrageous, unfair offense that I would have nothing to do with his money either," Sean Hannity said at the time on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes," his remarks (and those of other Fox personalities) recently re-examined by the left-wing group Media Matters. "This is a bad guy," Hannity said. "Rudy was right to decline the money." Bill Sammon called Alwaleed's check "blood money," adding, "we're better off without it."
How terribly ironic that this same "bad guy" is now a News Corp. blood-money bags, a boss who must be handled with care as, for example, Fox host Neil Cavuto did in a deferential interview with Alwaleed last month.
How does this influence Fox News coverage? It's impossible to say. Alwaleed has bragged that it only took a phone call to ensure that Fox coverage of Muslim rioting in France not be described as "Muslim" rioting in France, a boast News Corp. has never denied….
Meanwhile, spokesmen for terrorism-linked and Alwaleed-endowed CAIR still appear on Fox shows, for example, while Dave Gaubatz and Paul Sperry, likely Fox guests as conservative authors of the sleeper-hit book "Muslim Mafia" (an expose of CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood), get zero airtime. The more important question becomes: How does Alwaleed's stake in News Corp. affect what Fox News doesn't cover?
If they don't report, we can't decide. This, for a Sharia prince, could be worth millions.
This is very disturbing.
For TV news we watch Fox almost exclusively. We are hugely entertained by Glenn Beck who's doing a great job exposing the bad policies and bad policy-makers in the Obama administration. We regularly watch Bret Baier's 'Special Report', eager to hear the opinions of Charles Krauthammer, Brit Hume, and Stephen Hayes. We quite often watch Sean Hannity. We bear with Bill O'Reilly because he brings us conservatives like Michelle Malkin who inform and interest us. We need Fox News. If it is to become a propaganda instrument of the soft jihad we will be losing a highly valuable resource, irreplaceable as far as we can see.
Rupert Murdoch, what are you doing to us?
Hope to reverse the change 0
Because who comes to power in the US and with what policies inevitably affects the rest of the world, we're posting this article on the Republican Party – whose prospects at present look good for the 2010 elections – without apology to our much valued readers in other countries.
Some ruminations in the dark of the year.
The Democrats are doing badly. It must be good for the GOP. What should the GOP do to take maximum advantage of Obama's steep fall in popularity and public revulsion against the (misnamed) stimulus and the deplorable health-care legislation?
One opinion is that Republicans will rise without having to do anything: 'They have Obama', as Charles Krauthammer said on Bret Baier's 'Special Report' on Fox News, disagreeing with Mort Kondracke's view that they need to offer positive ideas.
Newt Gingrich opined to Sean Hannity that the GOP needs to be 'the alternative party, not the opposition party', and announced that he'll soon present another 'contract with America', the first one having worked well for him and the Party.
So who's right? Just let the Democrats fail and the GOP will have an easy ride back into power? Or make promises, set out a program, announce policies?
Some say a change of leadership is needed; that Michael Steele is lackluster and bereft of ideas.
That may be the case, but ideas are not what Republicans need. They've always had the right ideas and only lack the resolution to stand by them and implement them. A reminder of what they are: small government, individual freedom, strong defense, a free market economy, low taxation, strict constitutionalism, rule of law.
Perhaps the less innovative and exciting the Republican Party looks and sounds, the better.
Am I murmuring into the ear of the GOP, 'Be passive, be negative'? Yes, I am.
Conservatism is, at its best, the politics of inertia. Change is not good, rarely a necessity. Stability is liberating. People should not have to think much or often about the res publica, but be enabled by the state to go about their business freely, without fear of having to adjust to new circumstances; confident that they, their families and possessions are protected by laws reliably enforced, and distant inconspicuous military might. Conservative rule should ensure such ease for them, keeping itself unobtrusive, so the citizens may expect peace-and-order to be as natural a condition of their lives as the air they breathe.
The only active step that the GOP should energetically take as soon as it's back in power is to undo the wrong that the Democratic regime has done. Shrink government. Repeal socialist legislation, such as the health-care act if it is passed.
It's a very hard task. Once an entitlement has been granted it's almost impossible to take away. Governments of West European welfare states have known for at least three decades that maintaining state pensions is actuarially impossible now that people live longer and have fewer children, but what are they doing about it? Nothing. Helplessly they go on borrowing or printing money, and getting poorer.
It's too late for Europe to save itself. But here in America, imagine if brilliant new leaders were to arise who had the nerve to say to the people: 'Stand on your own two feet. Don't look to government to provide you with anything, not health care, not food stamps, not "affordable housing", not even education.' We'd be on the road back to full employment and prosperity. But – nah! These are just figments of fireside dreams.
Jillian Becker January 8, 2010


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ENnie Awards for Best Family-Friendly Game, Best Cover Art, and Best Interior Art
Nebula Award for Best Game Writing Finalist
Polygon's Best Indie Tabletop Games
Gayming Award for Best Queer Tabletop RPG Finalist
Tabletop Gaming UK's Best Indie Game Finalist
Wanderhome is a pastoral fantasy role-playing game about traveling animal-folk, the world they inhabit, and the way the seasons change. It is a game filled with grassy fields, mossy shrines, herds of chubby bumblebees, opossums in sundresses, salamanders with suspenders, starry night skies, and the most beautiful sunsets you can imagine.
You might be a tamarin who dances with small and forgotten gods, a leporine mail carrier who relies on moths to get packages where they belong, a little lizard with a big heart and a mysterious past, or a near-endless number of other thrilling possibilities. No matter what, we're always travelers—animal-folk who go from village to village and get to see the length and breadth of all the world of Hæth. The seasons will change as we play, and we will change with them.
A game about finding Belonging Outside Belonging
Wanderhome is built on the Belonging Outside Belonging engine by Avery Alder and Benjamin Rosenbaum. That means there's no dice, no math, no Game Masters, and no complicated rules. It's all about getting you into game as smoothly as possible, and filling your imagination with richly developed worlds and evocative text.
The game is designed for any length of session, and with any number of folks. Whether you're sitting down with a couple of friends for a cozy after-dinner hangout or throwing a party for a decade-long campaign, Wanderhome always has space for your experiences and needs.
The World of Hæth
Wanderhome is set in the wholly original fantasy world of Hæth, inspired by the works of Brian Jacques, Tove Jansson, and Hayao Miyazaki. The game hints at and builds a mythological language around forces like the bitter King of the Floating Mountain, the Lily Rebellion, the Slobbering God and the blade that killed her, and the fall of the great dragons of old, but refuses to elaborate or define them—leaving that exercise to the players through the journey itself. Instead, Wanderhome is focused on the lives of ordinary people, and the world that exists for farmers, merchants, and crafts-folk.
Wanderhome is a world filled with animal-folk and their buggy livestock. Unlike many worlds with animal-folk, there is no morality or judgement ascribed to the various animals of Hæth—a snake is just as capable of being a kindly farmer as a rabbit, and you can't assume much about someone based on what animal they are. You might find a fluffy shepherd with a herd of bumblebees, a shrewish merchant riding a stag beetle the size of a house, a lonely fox riding a grasshopper from place to place, or a praying mantis that hangs out in a gecko's pocket.
A book full of art and expression.
More than a dozen artists came together to create Wanderhome, from a huge variety of backgrounds. This art brings the pages to life, giving you not only a glimpse into the world of the Hæth, but endless inspiration for your own creations within the world.
"[Wanderhome] positions the drama of the Redwall series alongside Animal Crossing's endless Sunday afternoons, and displays the competence to juggle both of those vibes in a single game."
— Polygon Magazine
"I grew up reading books about Redwall. The opening pages were full of lavish descriptions of the communal feasts that mice were scurrying about preparing, and the playful merriment that all the rabbits and other woodland creatures were getting up to. I loved those opening pages. But they always gave way to long chapters about war, pillaging, and slaughter. The meadow was monotonously besieged by evil, violent forces. Wanderhome asks a question I wish more games would ask: what if the meadow gets to stay safe and happy this time? What if those opening pages get to last forever?"
— Avery Alder, designer of Monsterhearts
"Wanderhome looks to be a marvelous game: warm and insightful, kind but not purely forgiving, nostalgic to a time and place I've only ever glimpsed. It brims over with whimsy and wonder, yet its core is profound humanity. I can't wait for this game, and in ways I feel like I've been can't-waiting for it for a long time."
— Vincent and Elliot Baker, Lumpley Games
"[Wanderhome] is a patchwork clockwork machine that paints a universe in strokes both broad and minute, and gives authority to the player to establish their own foothold within. The world of Wanderhome is hard, but not grim; kind, but not saccharine; unreal, but not plastic."
— Grant Howitt, Creator of Spire and Honey Heist
"Who knew a game about being on the road could feel so much like home?"
— Brennan Lee Mulligan, Dimension 20
"Absolutely incredible."
— Matthew Mercer, Critical Role
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Project team: Andrea Marcante, Valter Camagna, Massimiliano Camoletto with Davide Volpe
Collaborator: Luca Ramello
Photographer: Emilio Conti
The location on the steep slope with an orchard and an uninterrupted view of the Alps, brought the idea to organize new spaces as a series of "filters" that would attenuate the passage from the building's introverted spaces towards open spaces of the surrounding landscape.
The aim was achieved by adopting an architectural language inspired by the traditional vertical and horizontal wood panel assembling techniques, reminders of balconies and loggias.
Architecture is thus not only a technical mean of defining space but also a way to perceive a place through the senses.
The external world becomes filtered: landscape (considered a product of human mind) is imported inside, treated as a sequence of framed pictures emerging from the openings of the building and enhanced by the "optical pathway" ending up in a large glass wall on the western side of the house. On this side the full size two sliding door glass panels substitute the partition wall and clad the concrete wall as well.
The glass wall, by creating reflections, wraps up the interior that in turn riemerges outdoors.
The house acts as a filter for the perception of space, memory and present. Rythm and sequence of the wooden planks anticipate a future extension of the existing building.
The borders and limits are not clear-cut; emphasis falls on the intermediary space, something quite similar to the Japanese "shakkei" technique ("borrowed landscape"), a technique of incorporating elements of the surrounding landscape by making use of background set in a relationship to the foreground (interior one) and concealing what lies-in-between.
It gives a visible form to the relationship between nature and culture.
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LOS ANGELES (January, 2008) _ Acclaimed singer/songwriter Cory Branan has been chosen as the headliner for the DIY Music Festival Bug Music/Windswept music showcase, which takes place as part of the 2008 DIY Convention in February.
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This summer in our Parables: Jesus the Storyteller sermon series we will learn to unlock the meaning of the parables and discover how these simple tales can revolutionize your perspective on God, salvation, purpose and life in the kingdom of God. As you read the gospels it becomes clear that Jesus loved to tell stories! Scripture records 40 parables told by Jesus. What was the purpose of these often-misunderstood stories? Were they morality lessons? Riddles designed to challenge those seeking truth?


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BETHESDA, Md., April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The rate of developing esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) nearly doubles in those who both smoke and drink compared to those who only smoke or drink, according to new research published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Although multiple studies have identified risk factors for the development of ESCC, notably, exposure to alcohol and tobacco, this research is the first meta-analysis to look at the interaction between alcohol and tobacco in the risk of ESCC, a class of esophageal cancer that begins in the flat cells lining the esophagus.
"Our study suggests that not only do alcohol and tobacco play an important role in the development of esophageal cancer, the combination of their use markedly increases their potency as carcinogens. As a result, we as physicians should focus efforts directed at controlling the burden of esophageal cancer on those who consume both of these substances," said lead author Anoop Prabhu, MD, Advanced Endoscopy Fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, NY.
Dr. Prabhu, and authors Drs. Kenneth O. Obi and Joel H. Rubenstein at the University of Michigan Medical School, performed a systematic literature search in multiple electronic databases and looked at population-based case-control or cohort studies of ESCC that assessed the effects of tobaccos and/or alcohol. A synergy factor was calculated from each study to estimate the interaction on a multiplicative scale between tobacco and alcohol on the outcome of ESCC.
"Our systematic review confirmed the expected exposure-dependent relationship of both alcohol and tobacco with the risk of ESCC, as alcohol use and tobacco use were both independent risk factors for the development of ESCC," stated Dr. Prabhu.
According to the National Cancer Institute, it is estimated in 2014 there will be over 18,000 new cases of esophageal cancer in the United States, and over 15,000 deaths from the disease. To learn more about esophageal cancer, visit ACG's Patient Center: http://patients.gi.org/topics/gastrointestinal-cancers/
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Facebook shocked the tech world last March by diving into virtual reality with the $2 billion acquisition of a niche start-up called Oculus VR. Funded initially through a 2012 Kickstarter campaign, Oculus created a slick high-end headset called the Rift that gave game developers—and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg—immersive viewing like nothing they'd ever experienced.
Despite the hype, consumers have yet to see a gaming device from Oculus. When they do, it will likely cost hundreds of dollars and require some technical know-how to operate.
Google, meanwhile, is sending a very different message about VR: It's ready, it's affordable and it's for everyone.
Google's product, unveiled at its developer conference in June, is called Cardboard, and it's exactly that. The concept is shockingly simple. With an Android phone and a few bucks for materials (cardboard, lenses, a magnet, a rubber band and velcro), virtual reality is available to the masses, right now.
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"Where we are in the whole VR space, consumers need a Model T Ford, they don't need a Lamborghini," said Patrick Buckley, co-founder of DODOcase, a San Francisco-based company that got its start making iPad cases in 2010 and now sells Cardboard headsets. "There are 2 billion smartphones in the world that are basically VR devices, and consumers don't realize it."
(EMarketer predicts the number of smartphone users will climb to 2.2 billion in 2016 from 1.9 billion this year.)
There's palpable excitement brimming among a vocal VR community that's been longing for the day when passion projects could become viable businesses. From builders of stereoscopic panoramic cameras and motion controllers on the hardware side to developers of applications for virtually watching concerts, visiting museums, teaching remotely and storytelling, more techies are rallying around Google's Cardboard.
And unlike Google Glass, which never really took off and was pulled (albeit temporarily) from the consumer market last week, Cardboard is gaining steam.
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To push things along, Google published the hardware specs for building a headset as well as a software development kit for app creators. The Mountain View, California-based company also readied some of its own services for VR viewing. Popular YouTube videos can be seen as if in a movie theater, Google Earth gives the feeling of flying through space and Photo Sphere lets users look at 360-degree picture streams created on their phones.
It's already gaining significant traction. In December, six months after the introduction, Google said that more than 500,000 Cardboard headsets were in users' hands.
Google, incidentally, is not the main manufacturer, leaving that task to others. DODOcase, which makes cases for mobile devices, jumped on the opportunity right away, and has sold more than 125,000 viewers at up to $25 a piece. Another, Knoxlabs, started by an entrepreneur in Los Angeles, is making similarly priced cardboard headsets, and has sold around 10,000 units. Knoxlabs also has an aluminium viewer that will go on sale for $45 this week.
Compare that to Samsung's Gear VR, which just started selling last month. The headset, with software from Oculus, costs $200 and can only be used with the Galaxy Note 4, a $700-$800 Android smartphone if purchased off-contract.
Sensing an opportunity to play to the masses, some Google employees in Paris conceived Cardboard as part of their 20 percent time—the one day a week staffers have to work on their own projects.
"There's a very low bar for people to take their Android device and unlock a new set of experiences they never had access to," said Andrew Nartker, a product manager for Cardboard. "There are new areas of interesting storytelling and development and content creation that developers can get excited about."
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Android has more than 200 VR apps in its Play Store, with some of the more popular ones easily found through the Cardboard shortcut. Jaunt, a Palo Alto, California-based developer, recorded a Paul McCartney concert in August and created an app for the song "Live and Let Die."
Imagine sitting on McCartney's piano, with his band in front of you and tens of thousands of screaming fans at San Francisco's Candlestick Park all around. Not satisfied with just putting you right next to an ex-Beatle, Jaunt also built an app that puts the viewer inside the scene of a short horror story and another that follows a World War II special operations unit.
Building an ecosystem
In downtown San Francisco, longtime game developers Drew Skillman and Patrick Hackett are hard at work on software called Tilt Brush, aimed at giving designers and artists a 3-D 360-degree virtual canvas for creating VR art and entertainment.
Tilt Brush is comparable to the tools Adobe sells to illustrators, photo editors and graphic designers, but instead of creating on a static computer screen, the artistic surface is everywhere. Skillman demonstrates the imaginative capabilities by importing a photo of Hackett and turning him into a fire-breathing devil.
The goal of Skillman & Hackett, the name of their fledgling company, is to promote an ecosystem by showing the world what's possible with virtual reality.
"As every new medium comes out, we have to recreate how to make things that look compelling without any of the tools we're used to using," said Skillman, who met Hackett at gaming studio Double Fine Productions, their previous employer. This project "is almost building itself and we're along for the ride because it's so cool."
While numerous VR apps are available on Android phones today, technical challenges stand between Cardboard as a novelty and it becoming the next big media platform. VR viewing is data heavy, which could challenge phone batteries, and the apps are big enough to clog up and slow down devices.
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Smartphones still don't have the horsepower and sophistication needed for the kind of user that Oculus is targeting. Positional tracking, for example, which enables the user to move any direction within the virtual world, isn't supported in Cardboard.
That leaves Skillman & Hackett in the same boat as most VR hopefuls, who are wondering how this will all play out. The market is so nascent that, aside from headset sales, there's currently very little revenue to go around. Some VR apps in the Google store cost $1 or so, but most are free.
Skillman and Hackett just want people using and testing their free product to generate some buzz and provide feedback. On Cardboard, they have an app called Tilt Brush Gallery, which at the moment is solely for viewing creations. To keep the lights on, they're doing some consulting work for companies that are getting started in VR hardware.
Jaunt is also giving away its content for now, but has plenty of cash to fund development, thanks to more than $34 million in venture financing from the likes of BSkyB, Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Highland Capital.
Jaunt has 32 employees focused on two main areas. Part of the crew is out partnering with musicians and film companies to develop highly immersive content, or what CEO Jens Christensen calls "cinematic VR." The other side of the shop is manufacturing proprietary panoramic cameras. Jaunt has built or is in the process of building 16 such devices. The machine sits on a tripod and looks something like a robotic disco ball.
The company could end up in the business of leasing its cameras, and down the road it may open a Netflix-style subscription service for VR content.
"We see 2015 about creating a lot of content," said Christensen, a serial entrepreneur with a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University. "When somebody gets the headset, they need something to watch. We thought it would maybe be a few years before people have headsets en masse. We think now that's definitely pulled in."
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Google's entrance into the market is accelerating everything. Christensen was drawn to the business after seeing the Oculus technology, and then purchasing the Oculus DK1 (Development Kit 1) off Craigslist, the only way at the time to get one quickly. Skillman & Hackett likewise started Tilt Brush for Oculus and still see it as the probable platform of choice for the hardcore gamer.
But nobody outside of Facebook seems to know when a consumer device from Oculus will be released, especially after CES, the giant consumer electronics show, came and went with no update.
An Oculus spokesman declined to comment for this story and said in an email that the company isn't doing any interviews "outside of trade shows or events."
Even if Oculus becomes the next great gaming platform, it's unlikely to be at the expense of Google. Already, companies like HBO, Volvo and Red Bull are using Cardboard to help promote their brands, and DODOcase is partnering with several businesses to customize cheap headsets for wide distribution.
Read MoreMicrosoft & Sony: The virtual reality future
Software is being developed to run lighter VR apps in the mobile browser, and Knoxlabs, in addition to selling a variety of viewers, is working to create simple consumer applications like greeting cards and holiday cards for VR devices.
So don't be surprised if before long you attend a wedding that has Cardboard cases as party favors.
"These are going to be pervasive," said Peter Oberdorfer, president of San Francisco-based Tactic, which is building its own VR camera and also partnering with brands to help produce content. "We can provide a similar experience to what you do on one of these much more expensive and rare platforms on something that could essentially be a giveaway."
Oberdorfer, whose small team has expertise developing for gaming platforms like Microsoft Kinect, leans over a coffee table covered with multiple VR headsets, and picks up a DODOcase Cardboard viewer.
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A young boy's snack time is interrupted by a visit from an elephant. As soon as he moves over to make room, they are joined by a tiger… and a hippo… and a big blue whale … and soon a full menagerie, each insisting there's room for one more. With his trademark marriage of story and song, children's entertainer Bill Harley tests the boundaries of his young hero's patience—and hospitality. Young readers will delight in counting candles on the birthday cake that is among the many favorite foods to be found in Kitty Harvill's vibrant, kinetic cut-paper collages, which capture the energy and rhythm of Harley's cumulative tale.
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Veggie Meatballs By: Laurel D.
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My son is 16 months old and has CF. We have struggled with how to keep his weight gain steady while teaching him to eat a variety of foods. These meatballs have been a savior. I have experimented and used a variety of veggies in the meatballs and he seems to love them all. The coconut oil and applesauce make them very moist and they are easy to freeze. I sometimes serve them to him with some of a vegetable pouch on top as the "sauce." Anything for those extra calories!!
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 3 c sweet potato
- 2 c green beans
- 3 c spinach
- 2 c broccoli
- 8 eggs
- 2 c bread crumbs or quinoa
- 2 apples
- 2 c cups apple sauce
- 3 fl oz coconut oil
- 3 fl oz heavy cream
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- Prep Time: 15-20 minutes
Steam sweet potato, green beans and broccoli. I like to use veggies that steam in the bag to cut time.
Use your food processor to chop sweet potato, green beans, spinach, broccoli and apples.
Mix in large bowl with turkey and beef.
Add applesauce, eggs, coconut oil and cream. Mix well.
Add bread crumbs or quinoa to thicken the mixture
Mix well until consistency is ready for scooping into meatballs.
Scoop into tablespoon-size balls and bake on a greased foil-lined cookie sheet for 10 minutes at 450 degrees.
These are great for freezing once they have cooled from baking.
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- Servings: 40
Amount per serving:
- Calories: 132
- Fat: 6 g
- Sodium: 44 mg
- Protein: 8 g
- Calcium: 28 mg
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Google Photos will no longer backup images and videos saved from folders created and managed by social media apps by default (via Android Police). Previously, Google's photo backup platform would automatically upload all images saved to your Android or iOS device, including those files stored in folders created by apps like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Now, Google says that feature is turned off, and you'll have to toggle it on for specific apps or run manual backups on specific folders.
Google is citing the surge in image sharing happening since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. "People are sharing more photos and videos due to COVID-19. To save internet resources, backup & sync has been turned off for device folders created by messaging apps like WhatsApp, Messages, and Kik. You can change this anytime in settings," reads a support page detailing the change.
Google is stressing that any photos already backed up and organized via social media apps are unaffected by the change, and that you can still go to individual folders within the Google Photos app and turn on the "back up & sync" feature. Google has a handy guide here for finding your existing social media-related images and videos on Google Photos, for running manual batch backups, and for turning on the automatic backup feature. Some of the affected platforms include Facebook's family of apps, the default Messages client on Android, Snapchat, and Twitter, among others.


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Fundamentals of Management-Coaching-Leadership & The Interviewing, Hiring and Termination Process for Great Talent Management
Fundamentals of Management-Coaching-Leadership & The Interviewing, Hiring and Termination Process for Great Talent Management
Essential building blocks for interacting with the five diverse generational segmentations in today's work place. Ideas of ways to interactively build greater understanding among business units will be discussed.
Module #5:
Coaching for Impact: Resolving Conflict & Confrontations for Team Effectiveness and Change Success
The fifth month explores why individual and groups fall into conflict, disagreement, passive-aggressive behaviors, and confrontational situation with one another.
Module #6:
Coaching for Impact: Developing High Performers & Solution Oriented Achievers in Your Organization
Developing individuals into continuous solution oriented, forward thinking catalysts of change, success, greater efficiency, and senior leader capable individuals.
Module #7:
Service Leadership: Enabling Exceptional Customer Care Internally & Externally to Your Organization
Explore perspectives from the outside-in on how your constituents/clients/stake-holders/customers (externally and internally) measure you.
Module #8:
Service Leadership: Growing Your Business Through Engaged Internal & External Constituents
A group-facilitated discussion of how to find, get, and keep more business while growing every interaction in the process.
Module #9:
Service Leadership: Increasing Profitability for Long-Term Planning in a Short-Term World & Ensuring Brand Equity
A group-facilitated discussion that builds and expands upon how to find, get, and keep more business while growing every interaction in the process. This is why you have or do not have market presence and leverage, this is what your Brand is really all about, like it or not.
Module #10:
Performance Execution: Succession Planning, Succession Management, Succession Development & Mentoring Human Capital as a Talent Management Strategic Advantage
The unique competencies of today's most explosive managerial-leaders and executives from behind the scenes of what has given them impactful authenticity.
Module #11:
Performance Execution: Long-Term Planning in a Short-Term World & Ensuring Right Talent In Right Place Every Time
The eleventh session of LAE takes the managerial-leadership team through an evaluative series of Q&A exercises that allows assessment at the end of year one.
The twelfth and final session of LAE will recap best practices for the year and establish a measurable action plan for the coming 12 months.


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The Korean bw scene gets pissed off, Sonic gets pissed off and promptly bans him from all SOSPA events.
Conclusion: Terror is an idiot who will probably get a visit from the police sooner rather than later.


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Control orders quashed, compensation claims may follow
29 July 2010
AN v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2010] EWCA Civ 869 (28 July 2010) – Read judgment
The Court of Appeal has held that control orders of three men suspected of terrorism revoked by the Government should in fact be quashed altogether. The decision opens the door for the men to claim compensation, and deals another blow to the controversial control order scheme.
This is the latest in a long and tortuous series of court judgments which have chipped away at the controversial control order scheme. This latest decision arises from a 2009 House of Lords (now the Supreme Court) decision that it was a breach of the right to a fair trial under Article 6 (the right to a fair trial) to hold someone under a control order without sufficient information about the allegations against him, even where the case against the "controlee" was based on closed materials, the disclosure of which would compromise the country's national security (see our summary).
After the House of Lords decision, the Secretary of State decided to revoke the control orders rather than revealing the sensitive evidence which had formed the allegations against the controlee. However, the question for this hearing was whether in fact it was not enough to revoke the orders but rather the control orders should be quashed with effect from the dates upon which they had been made.
This may seem a rather technical point, but as Lord Justice Maurice Kay pointed out, it was of great significance to the three men involved:
The point is not merely academic. AN is the subject of criminal proceedings for breach of his control order. If it were to be quashed ab initio, the prosecution would fall at the first hurdle. AE and AF do not face criminal proceedings but they wish to claim damages in respect of the period of about 3½ years for which they were subject to their control orders prior to revocation.
The court ultimately held that revocation was not enough. Since Convention rights were at issue (in particular, the right to a fair trial), it was crucial that the men received a proper remedy which would justly satisfy the original breach:
It must be plain from what I have said that, in my judgment, the appropriate remedy in all these cases is one of quashing ab initio as held by Silber J and not simply revocation as determined Mitting J… I agree with the submission made on behalf of the controlees that, if the appropriate remedy were merely revocation, there is a risk that a breach of Convention rights would go substantially unremedied. This is best illustrated by the situation in AN, who still faces prosecution and potential imprisonment for breach of his control order prior to revocation. I say nothing about the prospective damages claims of controlees because they are not before us and it is said on behalf of the Secretary of State that they raise difficult issues at common law and under the Human Rights Act.
The judgment has been widely reported. The Guardian highlight that the men could now claim damages, but also quote a Home Office spokesman, who said:
We note the judgment of the court of appeal and have applied for permission to appeal. We will resist strongly paying damages to former subjects of control orders wherever possible. We have already made clear our intention to review the control order system while taking whatever steps necessary to protect the public. That work is under way as part of the review of counter-terrorism legislation.
There are only 12 control orders currently in force and there have been under 50 since the system was created in 2005. This court decision creates further headaches for those administering the system, and will add to calls for it to be reduced or scrapped altogether in the coming anti-terrorism review.
Read more:
- Control order breached human rights say Supreme Court
- Joint Committee on Human Rights calls for control order scheme to be discontinued
- Suspect terrorist on bail entitled to continued anonymity in his own interests
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|main menu | youngsters categories | authors | new stories | search | links | settings | author tools
|Writer's profile for 'Siobhan'
|Email address
|Marital state
|Blessingly single
|Aspiring Writer, can't you tell?
|Writing, painting, jetskiing, riding quads, and dancing.
|Short bio
|Have sought to be a professinal writer since I was in 3rd grade and I will continue to pursue my dream till I die. I write all sorts of stories, horror, sci-fi, romance, comedy, and others. And soon, I shall rule the world, ha ha ha ha!!!
|I welcome all comments, must have constructive critisism in order to grow as a better writer. Thanks.
|Thou Shall Not Fall (standard:horror, 10686 words)
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|Added: May 03 2001
|Views/Reads: 3573/2296
|Story vote: 0.00 (4 votes)
|Fern, a night teen who can only sleep during the day, lives in a tiny suburban town where the residents are forbidden to wander out at night. Her curiosity and teenage rebellion gets the best of her and she disobeys the rules. What she finds is a group
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|Story vote: 0.00 (2 votes)
|Leslie is kidnapped and taken to a frozen realm where Queen Courtney forces her to be her servant. Leslie attempts to escape and falls in love with the queen's righthand man. Tempers flare as the temperature cools, who will snap first?
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|Brenda recieves a rose from a mysterious stalker but when she goes to camp, the giver becomes known and a malicious chase begins.
|Haunted (standard:poetry, 0 words)
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|Added: Jun 04 2001
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|Falling in love when one is in denial
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|Updated: Oct 01 2002
|Views/Reads: 4782/3498
|Story vote: 0.00 (4 votes)
|Karla has been accepted into the top knotch school of the universe,Tokateka. She is following in the footsteps of her rebellious brother and going with her best friend. She has no clue what she is in for but she soon will.
|Confessions of a Serial Killer (standard:horror, 722 words) [1/2] show all parts
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|Views/Reads: 3887/0
|Story vote: 0.00 (4 votes)
|Gina Roberts, only 23, has been brought to trial upon the murder of 39 victims of all races, ages, and sexes. Her motive, unknown, her attitude, indifferent. She tells of her adventure in the world most would never venture into in this morbid story.
|Invitation to a Better Life- Prologue (standard:drama, 11233 words)
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|Added: Sep 24 2002
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|Story vote: 0.00 (1 vote)
|Everything is going ok for Jessica, she is surviving her dad leaving her and her mom, schools out and she's got the boy of her dreams, that is until her mom elopes with a stranger to change their lives forever.
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|Just a poem, like any other poem, full of the love and hate that makes the world go round.
|Invitation to a Better Life (Ways to Society's Heart Chapter 1) (standard:drama, 12698 words) [1/8] show all parts
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|Updated: Oct 01 2002
|Views/Reads: 3307/2108
|Story vote: 0.00 (1 vote)
|Jessica begins high school and is sucked in by the popular group. She is invited to a party and when she is arrived is struck by the feeling that something is very wrong with the whole picture.
|The House of Dark Secrets (Part I) (standard:horror, 1653 words)
|Author: Siobhan
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|Views/Reads: 3320/2121
|Story vote: 0.00 (1 vote)
|She only was enjoying the ride home from her sister's school as she did everyday, but the house that reeked of death demanded her attention unlike anything ever before. It's call begs for her to enter, and she cannot resist.
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|The deadly truth has hit me today, my friends who I love are leaving for war.


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Date is 2013-10-18, times are UTC+10.
--- Day changed Fri Oct 18 2013 07:03 < whot> alrighty, shall we get started? 07:03 < keithp> indeed! 07:04 < mupuf_> whot: I guess so :) 07:05 < whot> items on the list: additional repayments for sponsorships, update on bank status, umbrella decision vote, XDC co-location options 07:06 < whot> you guys already know this bit, but for the public record: we now have a google+ account 07:06 < mupuf_> don't forget the logo contest / what is our identity and goal 07:06 < mupuf_> yeah, and speaking about this, we have around 100 followers 07:07 < mupuf_> (99 to be precise) 07:07 < mupuf_> and so far, 17 posts 07:08 < mupuf_> 11 real posts 07:08 < whot> oh, and of course the twitter accout @XOrgFoundation 07:09 < whot> mupuf_: you ok with maintaining the G+ account? i know we all have access, but having one person responsible is more effective 07:09 < stukreit> ok, on the sponsorships: I do not blame the bank. on 10/10 I looked up the exchange rate online in order to pay the european folks in euros, saving them the exchange rates&fees. The rate I got at the time was 1.4073, pretty far from the 1.354 than Matthias quoted. I can calculate out the difference and make them whole. And going forward, we need to state policy for payment, e.g. who's quote for exchange rates we'll use, and the intent to pay 07:09 < whot> alanc: same for the twitter account? 07:10 < stukreit> and, naturally, the receipts I get outside of the US are in other currencies. 07:10 < mupuf_> whot: yeah, having maintainers is the way to go. I'm ok with it. Please submit me ideas if you would like anything 07:10 < whot> stukreit: the banks will give you two different exchange rates anyway. if I pay something in US, the bank takes X, and if you then give me US back, I end up actually getting X - something, even if the exchange rate doesn't change 07:11 < stukreit> I'm aware of that. Exchanging currencies is a big business. However, in this case, the rate I used was just way off from what Matthias found at bankrate.biz 07:11 < whot> other than that, I think the policy should be to re-pay what people spent in their money 07:12 <+emmes> stukreit: if the rate was 1.40, then it looks ok. i just googled for the exchange rate, took the first hit. 07:12 < stukreit> emmes: plz forward the link you got for that. And recall, I did the calc on oct 10. 07:12 < whot> stukreit: does the bank let you pay in other currencies? then you can just go and say I need X EUR to arrive, tell me how much USD that is 07:13 <+emmes> whot: will be difficult, because the exchange rate will always be different between original payment and reimbursement. That's ok, sometimes you win, sometimes you loose. 07:13 < stukreit> whot: BofA lets you pay in $$ or Euros, so other currencies are SOL 07:13 <+emmes> whot: at least I can't do that here. tried this once, didn't find the possibility anywhere. 07:13 < whot> emmes: afaik it's the sending bank that charges, not the receiving one 07:14 < stukreit> correct, we just need a rule on this so the action can be fully explained and verified 07:14 < agd5f> knowing banks, they both probably charge some fee 07:15 < stukreit> oh, and we had one win: The $35 wire txfer fee apparently got charged only for the first of the 3 transfers that day. Still, fees like this make it hard to "do the right thing". 07:15 < stukreit> BitCoin/SilkRoad anyone? 07:15 < whot> i'd say request a receipt that states how much the recipient was actually charged by their bank, then go to our bank and give that much back 07:16 <+emmes> stukreit: I used http://www.x-rates.com/graph/?from=EUR&to=USD&amount=1.00 and checked the graph for min and max manually. That's why I didn't give an exact amount, but it was way below 1.40 (approx. 1.35). 07:16 < whot> so e.g. if the flight invoice says 100 USD and my bank takes 140 AUD out, then that's kinda what I'd be wanting back 07:17 < whot> emmes: better to check the credit card statement and go from there next time 07:18 < stukreit> There can be 2 rules: 1) agree on who quotes exchange rates, and I calculate from $US receipts to Euros (if you're eurozone) 2) Use the number in your bank statement. Does this sound reasonable to people? 07:19 < whot> can we agree that we should be reimbursing people for what they actually paid? 07:19 < whot> stukreit: +1 07:19 < marcoz> +1 for reimbursing people what they paid, in their own currency 07:19 < mupuf_> I agree, but it delays the process a bit because we need to wait for the bank to actually display the transaction 07:19 <+emmes> stukreit: for the record: http://www.exchangerates.org.uk/EUR-USD-exchange-rate-history.html shows it was 1.3544, and the rate never exceeded 1.365 for the last month 07:19 < mupuf_> it may take some time 07:20 < whot> emmes: that's still not the rate the bank gives you though 07:20 < stukreit> I think we need the 2 rules. Also, I can logon and see my credit card and bank activities almost immediately. 07:20 < whot> stukreit: that's a per-bank thing though. I can do that for one of my CC, not for the other one 07:20 < stukreit> reminder: in this case, I did the calculation. The bank is not at fault. 07:21 < stukreit> whot: That's the difference in services that makes this so maddening. 07:22 < mupuf_> stukreit: let's try best effort. We will never be able to know how much to actually send 07:22 < mupuf_> don't worry about it too much 07:22 <+emmes> whot: depends. I got it when I withdrew money from my account. 07:23 <+emmes> I'm fine with any rule we come up with. I just wanted to know where the difference came from, and it's clearly the exchange rate the bank was using. 07:23 < whot> I think stukreit's proposal is good and the best attempt we can do, there will be minor differences here and there but nothing extreme 07:24 <+emmes> right +1 07:24 < stukreit> I still need a mechanism to make up the 100E or so for 3 payments. 07:24 < stukreit> And a statement of the exchange rate during each XDC 07:24 < whot> stukreit: ask everyone for the difference in monies received and pay that 07:24 < stukreit> k 07:25 < whot> everyone in agreement with stuart's propsal up there? 07:25 <+emmes> i'd be fine to pospone that until next year, before we have xxx$ of wire transfer costs again. but that is only my opinion. 07:26 < stukreit> I already have a folder in my homedir for XDC2013, I will make a note of that 07:26 < mupuf_> same here 07:27 < mupuf_> and this is travel assistance 07:29 < whot> so, what's the outcome? +1s or postpone? I count two +1 and a few indecisions :) 07:29 < mupuf_> keithp: you are the 100th follower on the G+ account, you just won ... nothing ;) 07:32 < mupuf_> whot: I guess this is a per-person thing to vote 07:32 < whot> again: what's the outcome? +1s or postpone? I count two +1 and a few indecisions :) 07:32 < marcoz> +1 07:32 < agd5f> +1 07:32 < mupuf_> I mean, I personnally am ok with not getting back all the money or delaying the delta payment 07:32 < mupuf_> but that may not be the case of david for instance (who is a real student) 07:33 < whot> mupuf_: the delta payment is just this time, for next time not needed if we can agree on the amount + exchange rate. I know with the changes the AUD had several months ago, that could've been 20% of my travel costs. not easy for a student 07:33 < mupuf_> right 07:34 < stukreit> yes, and he is less likely to attend next year's conference, so I'll contact him and see if he'll take paypal or something. 07:34 < mupuf_> stukreit: why isn't he likely to attend next year's conference? 07:34 < whot> ok, I count 5 + 1, that's enough to pass (I'm assuming stuart +1 his own proposal) 07:35 < whot> vote carried, for next reimbursment request agree on 1) the exchange rate and 2) the actual recipient's amount beforehand to avoid discrepancies 07:35 < whot> stukreit: any updates on the bank switch? 07:35 < stukreit> just because. I don't want to speculate, but not all GSOC or EVOC students stick around. Hope he does though. 07:36 < stukreit> no updates 07:37 < whot> ok, thanks 07:37 < mupuf_> stukreit: well, he has been involved for quite a while 07:37 < whot> As for the umbrella org merger: we will need a member vote, the current by-laws require it as I sent out to the list 07:38 < whot> What's our timeframe, plan, etc. to get that done? 07:39 < agd5f> I gotta step out. 07:39 < marcoz> Do member votes like this fall into the same timeframes as elections? 07:39 < agd5f> do we have an election this year? 07:41 < marcoz> yes, every year 4 of the 8 are up for election. (for 2 year terms). I think mupuf_ is running it this year 07:41 < whot> agd5f: the last election was completed in April 2013 07:42 < whot> which brings up the next question, do we have enough steam to get this done before the next election, or should be attempt to combine the two. I think the latter 07:43 < mupuf_> I don't think we should wait until the next election 07:44 < mupuf_> we should start the referendum/vote pretty soon 07:44 < mupuf_> then take our time to actually move to SPI if it was accepted 07:44 < stukreit> good plan 07:46 < mupuf_> any other +1 on this? 07:46 < mupuf_> if not, any reason? 07:47 <+emmes> +1 from me 07:47 < whot> mupuf_: how much work is it to get an election set up and completed? 07:47 < marcoz> mupuf_: are we able to move the election this year back to Dec where it should be? or is that too big a jump (Apr to Dec) ? 07:48 < whot> mupuf_: because to vote, we'd also need to know what to vote on, i.e. revised bylaws 07:49 < mupuf_> whot: no idea, let me think. We need to send an email asking for people to become candidates, ask some people personally, update the wiki with all the candidates, send an email asking for members to vote then annoucing who got elected. That should be about it, right? 07:50 < mupuf_> marcoz: I was thinking about this, when was the delay introduced? 07:50 < mupuf_> we can move it to january 07:50 < mupuf_> and next year, make it happen on december 07:51 < mupuf_> not sure december is the best month for that though 07:51 < mupuf_> whot: why do we need to revise the bylaws? 07:52 < marcoz> slowly over several elections. I added about 3wks myself this last year. 07:53 < whot> mupuf_: mostly because I suspect several of the by-law paragraphs won't make sense if we're part of an umbrella org 07:53 < whot> however, given that our time is nearly up, I'm happy to punt that to you to report back at the next meeting :P 07:54 < mupuf_> whot: well, this part of the bylaws doesn't impact the election process, so that should be orthogonal 07:54 < mupuf_> our time is not nearly up, we have been onboard for about 6 months :D 07:54 < whot> meeting time, I mean :) 07:55 < mupuf_> oh, crap 07:55 < mupuf_> can we move on to the items I added? 07:55 < whot> also, I just quoted that one paragraph that requires us to vote, there are more that would need to be at least reviewed first. so I'm assigning that part to you. congratulations :) 07:55 < mupuf_> whot: you are too kind! :) 07:55 < whot> I've got two more items on the list. First is just a FYI, I've received requests to co-located XDC with other conferences next year to save on travel costs. This is ongoing, I'm looking into costs, etc 07:56 < whot> mupuf_: logo contest? your floor 07:56 < mupuf_> well, let's first tlak about the conference 07:57 < mupuf_> if we were to co-locate with LinuxCon, then XDC would move to the 10th of October 07:57 < mupuf_> that's a significant change in the schedule 07:57 < mupuf_> and may not be convenient to students 07:57 < whot> let's not talk about the details here, because co-location can carry significant costs, and until we know them there's not much point discussing them 07:58 < mupuf_> how are you evaluating the costs? 07:58 < mupuf_> oh, you mean really physically co-locating 07:58 < whot> so as I said, this is just a FYI/heads-up so it's not a surprise when details come later 07:58 < whot> yeah, like an extra room at the LPC, or whatever 07:59 < whot> and getting them to organise most, except possible donuts :) 07:59 < mupuf_> ack 07:59 < whot> anyway, let's move on. logo 07:59 < mupuf_> so, logo contest then 07:59 < mupuf_> the idea was that every year, we seem to bring up the issue of the aging X.org logo 07:59 < mupuf_> so, I decided to have a look into it 07:59 < whot> aging logo? matches the code then :) 08:00 < mupuf_> my plan was to start a new contest, a serious one (not one organised by Michael from phoronix) 08:01 < mupuf_> and to prove it to be serious, I would like to kindly asking distributions/vendors to propose a logo (since they have a pro team of graphics designers) 08:01 < mupuf_> but while thinking about this, the problem of the scope/role of X.org kept arising 08:02 < mupuf_> and apparently, some people (FOSDEM) still think that the X.org foundation is only about X11/X-Server 08:02 < mupuf_> that led me to believe that a potential name change could be a good idea, but that is out of the question 08:03 < mupuf_> so, I thought about fd.o. What is our relationship to them? 08:03 < mupuf_> it seems like the X.org foundation covers many fd.o projects 08:04 < mupuf_> (DRI, input, windows managers, cairo/pixman?) 08:04 < mupuf_> so, I started this idea of a logo contest and ended up with an identity crisis 08:04 < mupuf_> I guess we really need to communicate on our role 08:05 < mupuf_> insiders know we are more open than X 08:05 < mupuf_> but the name suggests otherwise 08:05 < mupuf_> and so does our wiki 08:06 < mupuf_> so, if you don't mind, I would like us to discuss about what should be the scope of our organization 08:06 < mupuf_> and how we interact with free desktop (which is a good name IMO to explain what we are doing!) 08:07 < mupuf_> this is also important for me, as a G+ administrator since i need to be able to define what I should cover or not 08:07 * alanc has returned from his 2-3pm meeting 08:08 < mupuf_> since we are talking about changing our legal status, I guess it will also be the perfect time to introduce our new role more publicly 08:08 <+alanc> whot: yes, I'm fine taking care of the twitter account 08:08 < mupuf_> (all that because I wanted to make X.org shirts for the next XDC :D) 08:11 < whot> uhm, I don't think this is something we can reasonably discuss today. We're already over time and I have to go really soon 08:11 < mupuf_> sure sure 08:12 < mupuf_> we can schedule that for the next meeting 08:13 < whot> yeah, let's do that 08:14 < mupuf_> great, thank you 08:14 < whot> alright, let's call it closed for today. thanks everyone for attending