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Calld Cinyras who (had he had none issue) surely myght
Of all men underneathe the sun beene thought the happyest wyght.
Of wicked and most cursed things to speake I now commence.
Yee daughters and yee parents all go get yee farre from hence.
Or if yee mynded bee to heere my tale, beleeve mee nought
In this beehalfe: ne think that such a thing was ever wrought.
Or if yee will beeleeve the deede, beleeve the vengeance too
Which lyghted on the partye that the wicked act did doo.
But if that it be possible that any wyght so much
From nature should degenerate, as for to fall to such
A heynous cryme as this is, I am glad for Thracia, I
Am glad for this same world of ours, yea glad exceedingly
I am for this my native soyle, for that there is such space
Betweene it and the land that bred a chyld so voyd of grace.
I would the land Panchaya should of Amomie be rich,
And Cinnamom, and Costus sweete, and Incence also which
Dooth issue largely out of trees, and other flowers straunge,
As long as that it beareth Myrrhe: not woorth it was the chaunge,
Newe trees to have of such a pryce. The God of love denyes
His weapons to have hurted thee, O Myrrha, and he tryes
Himselfe ungiltie by thy fault. One of the Furies three
With poysonde Snakes and hellish brands hath rather blasted thee.
To hate ones father is a cryme as heynous as may bee,
But yit more wicked is this love of thine than any hate.
The youthfull Lordes of all the East and Peeres of cheef estate
Desyre to have thee to their wyfe, and earnest sute doo make.
Of all (excepting onely one) thy choyce, O Myrrha, take.
Shee feeles her filthye love, and stryves ageinst it, and within
Herself sayd: Whither roonnes my mynd? what thinke I to begin?
Yee Gods (I pray) and godlynesse, yee holy rites and awe
Of parents, from this heynous cryme my vicious mynd withdrawe,
And disappoynt my wickednesse. At leastwyse if it bee
A wickednesse that I intend. As farre as I can see,
This love infrindgeth not the bondes of godlynesse a whit.
For every other living wyght dame nature dooth permit
To match without offence of sin. The Heifer thinkes no shame
To beare her father on her backe: the horse bestrydes the same
Of whom he is the syre: the Gote dooth bucke the kid that hee
Himself begate: and birdes doo tread the selfsame birdes wee see
Of whom they hatched were before. In happye cace they are
That may doo so without offence. But mans malicious care
Hath made a brydle for it self, and spyghtfull lawes restreyne
The things that nature setteth free. Yit are their Realmes (men sayne)
In which the moother with the sonne, and daughter with the father
Doo match, wherethrough of godlynesse the bond augments the rather
With doubled love. Now wo is mee it had not beene my lot
In that same countrie to bee borne. And that this lucklesse plot
Should hinder mee. Why thinke I thus? Avaunt, unlawfull love.
I ought to love him, I confesse: but so as dooth behove
His daughter: were not Cinyras my father than, Iwis
I myght obtaine to lye with him. But now bycause he is
Myne owne, he cannot bee myne owne. The neerenesse of our kin
Dooth hurt me. Were I further off perchaunce I more myght win.
And if I wist that I therby this wickednesse myght shunne,
I would forsake my native soyle and farre from Cyprus runne.
This evill heate dooth hold mee backe, that beeing present still
I may but talke with Cinyras and looke on him my fill,
And touch, and kisse him, if no more may further graunted bee.
Why wicked wench, and canst thou hope for further? doost not see
How by thy fault thou doost confound the ryghts of name and kin?
And wilt thou make thy mother bee a Cucqueane by thy sin?
Wilt thou thy fathers leman bee? wilt thou bee both the moother
And suster of thy chyld? shall he bee both thy sonne and brother?
And standst thou not in feare at all of those same susters three
Whose heads with crawling snakes in stead of heare bematted bee?
Which pushing with theyr cruell bronds folks eyes and mouthes, doo see
Theyr sinfull harts? but thou now whyle thy body yit is free,
Let never such a wickednesse once enter in thy mynd.
Defyle not myghtye natures hest by lust ageinst thy kynd.
What though thy will were fully bent? yit even the very thing
Is such as will not suffer thee the same to end to bring.
For why he beeing well disposde and godly, myndeth ay
So much his dewtye that from ryght and truth he will not stray.
Would Godlyke furie were in him as is in mee this day.
This sayd, her father Cinyras (who dowted what to doo
By reason of the worthy store of suters which did woo
His daughter,) bringing all theyr names did will her for to show
On which of them shee had herself most fancie to bestow.
At first shee hild her peace a whyle, and looking wistly on
Her fathers face, did boyle within: and scalding teares anon
Ran downe her visage. Cyniras, (who thought them to proceede
Of tender harted shamefastnesse) did say there was no neede
Of teares, and dryed her cheekes, and kist her. Myrrha tooke of it
Exceeding pleasure in her selfe: and when that he did wit
What husband shee did wish to have, shee sayd: One like to yow.
He undertanding not hir thought, did well her woordes allow,
And sayd: In this thy godly mynd continew. At the name
Of godlynesse, shee cast mee downe her looke for very shame.
For why her giltie hart did knowe shee well deserved blame.
Hygh mydnight came, and sleepe bothe care and carkesses opprest.
But Myrrha lying brode awake could neyther sleepe nor rest.
Shee fryes in Cupids flames, and woorkes continewally uppon
Her furious love. One while shee sinkes in deepe despayre. Anon
Shee fully myndes to give attempt, but shame doth hold her in.
Shee wishes and shee wotes not what to doo, nor how to gin.
And like as when a mightye tree with axes heawed rownd,
Now redy with a strype or twaine to lye uppon the grownd,
Uncerteine is which way to fall and tottreth every way:
Even so her mynd with dowtfull wound effeebled then did stray
Now heere now there uncerteinely, and tooke of bothe encreace.
No measure of her love was found, no rest, nor yit releace,
Save only death. Death likes her best. Shee ryseth, full in mynd
To hang herself. About a post her girdle she doth bynd,
And sayd: Farewell deere Cinyras, and understand the cause
Of this my death. And with that woord about her necke shee drawes
The nooze. Her trustye nurce that in another Chamber lay
By fortune heard the whispring sound of theis her woordes (folk say).
The aged woman rysing up unboltes the doore. And whan
Shee saw her in that plyght of death, shee shreeking out began
To smyght her self, and scratcht her brest, and quickly to her ran
And rent the girdle from her necke. Then weeping bitterly
And holding her betweene her armes, shee askt the question why
Shee went about to hang her self so unadvisedly.
The Lady hilld her peace as dumb, and looking on the ground
Unmovably, was sorye in her hart for beeing found
Before shee had dispatcht herself. Her nurce still at her lay,
And shewing her her emptie dugges and naked head all gray,
Besought her for the paynes shee tooke with her both night and day
In rocking and in feeding her, shee would vouchsafe to say
What ere it were that greeved her. The Ladye turnd away
Displeasde and fetcht a sygh. The nurce was fully bent in mynd
To bowlt the matter out: for which not onely shee did bynd
Her fayth, in secret things to keepe: but also sayd, put mee
In truth to fynd a remedye. I am not (thou shalt see)
Yit altogither dulld by age. If furiousenesse it bee,
I have bothe charmes and chaunted herbes to help. If any wyght
Bewitcheth thee, by witchcraft I will purge and set thee quyght.
Or if it bee the wrath of God, we shall with sacrifyse
Appease the wrath of God right well. What may I more surmyse?
No theeves have broken in uppon this house and spoyld the welth.
Thy mother and thy father bothe are living and in helth.
When Myrrha heard her father naamd, a greevous sygh she fet
Even from the bottom of her hart. Howbee't the nurce as yet
Misdeemd not any wickednesse. But nerethelesse shee gest
There was some love: and standing in one purpose made request
To breake her mynd unto her, and shee set her tenderly
Uppon her lappe. The Ladye wept and sobbed bitterly.
Then culling her in feeble armes, shee sayd: I well espye
Thou art in love. My diligence in this behalf I sweare
Shall servisable to thee bee. Thou shalt not neede to feare
That ere thy father shall it knowe. At that same woord shee lept
From nurces lappe like one that had beene past her witts, and stept
With fury to her bed. At which shee leaning downe hir face
Sayd: Hence I pray thee: force mee not to shewe my shamefull cace.
And when the nurce did urge her still, shee answered eyther: Get
Thee hence, or ceace to aske mee why myself I thus doo fret.
The thing that thou desyrste to knowe is wickednesse. The old
Poore nurce gan quake, and trembling both for age and feare did hold
Her handes to her. And kneeling downe right humbly at her feete,
One whyle shee fayre intreated her with gentle woordes and sweete.
Another whyle (onlesse shee made her privie of her sorrow)
Shee threatned her, and put her in a feare shee would next morrow
Bewray her how shee went about to hang herself. But if
Shee told her, shee did plyght her fayth and help to her releef.
Shee lifted up her head, and then with teares fast gushing out
Beesloobered all her nurces brest: and going oft about
To speake, shee often stayd: and with her garments hid her face
For shame, and lastly sayd: O happye is my moothers cace
That such a husband hath. With that a greevous sygh shee gave,
And hilld her peace. Theis woordes of hers a trembling chilnesse drave
In nurcis limbes, which perst her bones: (for now shee understood
The cace) and all her horye heare up stiffly staring stood
And many things she talkt to put away her cursed love,
If that it had beene possible the madnesse to remove.
The Mayd herself to be full trew the councell dooth espye:
Yit if shee may not have her love shee fully myndes to dye.
Live still (quoth nurce) thou shalt obteine (shee durst not say thy father,
But stayd at that). And forbycause that Myrrha should the rather
Beleeve her, shee confirmd her woordes by othe. The yeerely feast
Of gentle Ceres came, in which the wyves bothe moste and least
Appareld all in whyght are woont the firstlings of the feeld,
Fyne garlonds made of eares of come, to Ceres for to yeeld.
And for the space of thryce three nyghts they counted it a sin
To have the use of any man, or once to towche his skin.
Among theis women did the Queene freequent the secret rites.
Now whyle that of his lawfull wyfe his bed was voyd a nightes,
The nurce was dooble diligent: and fynding Cinyras
Well washt with wyne, shee did surmyse there was a pretye lasse
In love with him. And hyghly shee her beawty setteth out.
And beeing asked of her yeeres, she sayd shee was about
The age of Myrrha. Well (quoth he) then bring her to my bed.
Returning home she sayd: bee glad my nurcechilde: we have sped.
Not all so wholly in her hart was wretched Myrrha glad,
But that her fore misgiving mynd did also make her sad.
Howbee't shee also did rejoyce as in a certaine kynd,
Such discord of affections was within her combred mynd.
It was the tyme that all things rest. And now Bootes bryght,
The driver of the Oxen seven, about the northpole pyght
Had sumwhat turnd his wayne asyde, when wicked Myrrha sped
About her buysnesse. Out of heaven the golden Phoebee fled.
With clowds more black than any pitch the starres did hyde their hed.
The nyght beecommeth utter voyd of all her woonted lyght.
And first before all other hid their faces out of syght
Good Icar and Erigonee, his daughter, who for love
Most vertuous to her fatherward, was taken up above
And made a starre in heaven. Three tymes had Myrrha warning given
By stumbling, to retyre. Three tymes the deathfull Owle that eeven
With doolefull noyse prognosticates unhappie lucke. Yet came
Shee forward still: the darknesse of the nyght abated shame.
Her left hand held her nurce, her right the darke blynd way did grope.
Anon shee to the chamber came: anon the doore was ope:
Anon she entred in. With that her foltring hammes did quake:
Her colour dyde: her blood and hart did cleerly her forsake.
The neerer shee approched to her wickednesse, the more
She trembled: of her enterpryse it irked her full sore:
And fayne shee would shee might unknowen have turned back. Nurce led
Her pawsing forward by the hand: and putting her to bed,
Heere, take this Damzell, Cinyras, shee is thine owne, shee sed.
And so shee layd them brest to brest. The wicked father takes
His bowelles into filthy bed, and there with wordes asslakes
The maydens feare, and cheeres her up. And lest this cryme of theyres
Myght want the ryghtfull termes, by chaunce as in respect of yeeres
He daughter did hir call, and shee him father. Beeing sped
With cursed seede in wicked womb, shee left her fathers bed,
Of which soone after shee became greate bagged with her shame.
Next night the lewdnesse doubled. And no end was of the same,
Untill at length that Cinyras desyrous for to knowe
His lover that so many nyghts uppon him did bestowe,
Did fetch a light: by which he sawe his owne most heynous cryme,
And eeke his daughter. Nathelesse, his sorrow at that time
Represt his speeche. Then hanging by he drew a Rapier bryght.
Away ran Myrrha, and by meanes of darknesse of the nyght
Shee was delivered from the death: and straying in the broade
Datebearing feeldes of Arabye, shee through Panchaya yode,
And wandring full nyne moonethes at length shee rested beeing tyrde
In Saba land. And when the tyme was neere at hand expyrde,
And that uneath the burthen of her womb shee well could beare,
Not knowing what she might desyre, distrest betweene the feare
Of death, and tediousnesse of lyfe, this prayer shee did make:
O Goddes, if of repentant folk you any mercye take,
Sharpe vengeance I confesse I have deserved, and content
I am to take it paciently. How bee it to th'entent
That neyther with my lyfe the quick, nor with my death the dead
Anoyed bee, from both of them exempt mee this same sted,
And altring mee, deny to mee both lyfe and death. We see
To such as doo confesse theyr faults sum mercy shewd to bee.
The Goddes did graunt her this request, the last that she should make.
The ground did overgrow hir feete, and ancles as she spake.
And from her bursten toes went rootes, which wrything heere and there
Did fasten so the trunk within the ground shee could not steare.
Her bones did into timber turne, whereof the marie was
The pith, and into watrish sappe the blood of her did passe.
Her armes were turnd to greater boughes, her fingars into twig,
Her skin was hardned into bark. And now her belly big
The eatching tree had overgrowen, and overtane her brest,
And hasted for to win her neck, and hyde it with the rest.
Shee made no taryence nor delay, but met the comming tree,
And shroonk her face within the barke therof. Although that shee
Togither with her former shape her senses all did loose,
Yit weepeth shee, and from her tree warme droppes doo softly woose.
The which her teares are had in pryce and honour. And the Myrrhe
That issueth from her gummy bark dooth beare the name of her,
And shall doo whyle the world dooth last. The misbegotten chyld
Grew still within the tree, and from his mothers womb defyld
Sought meanes to bee delyvered. Her burthende womb did swell
Amid the tree, and stretcht her out. But woordes wherwith to tell
And utter foorth her greef did want. She had no use of speech
With which Lucina in her throwes shee might of help beseech.
Yit like a woman labring was the tree, and bowwing downe
Gave often sighes, and shed foorth teares as though shee there should drowne.
Lucina to this wofull tree came gently downe, and layd
Her hand theron, and speaking woordes of ease the midwife playd.
The tree did cranye, and the barke deviding made away,
And yeelded out the chyld alyve, which cryde and wayld streyght way.
The waternymphes uppon the soft sweete hearbes the chyld did lay,
And bathde him with his mothers teares. His face was such as spyght
Must needes have praysd. For such he was in all condicions right,
As are the naked Cupids that in tables picturde bee.
But to th'entent he may with them in every poynt agree,
Let eyther him bee furnisshed with wings and quiver light,
Or from the Cupids take theyr wings and bowes and arrowes quight.
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BALTIMORE – UMBC women's lacrosse opens America East action on Saturday, March 29 when it travels to No. 17/16 Stony Brook. Game time is set for 1 p.m. at LaValle Stadium, with all the action available live free of charge on the America East digital network.
UMBC (5-4) is riding a three-game win streak heading into league play, including a 10-5 victory against Wagner on Tuesday. Junior Abby Wilson (Bel Air, Md./Fallston) registered a goal and an assist in each half for a game-high four points versus the Seahawks. Wilson was one of three Retrievers to score two goals in the contest, joined by classmate Alyssa Semones (Westminster, Md./Westminster/Penn State) and senior Kristen Bilney (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron).
Wilson has tallied a point in eight of the Retrievers' nine games and leads the squad with 12 goals and 10 assists for a total of 22 points. Bilney has multiple goals in each of the last four games, including three straight hat tricks, to lead UMBC with 15 goals scored. Semones has done a little bit of everything for the Retrievers, tallying 18 points on 14 goals and four assists, while also adding team-bests in ground balls (18) and draw controls (17). Sophomore Rachel Benzing (Ellicott City, Md./Centennial) has stepped up her play in her second season at UMBC, registering five goals, eight assists and 10 draw controls thus far.
Red-shirt sophomore Anna Barnett (Midland, Texas/Midland) and freshman Kelly Gielner (Pasadena, Md./St. Mary's) have split time in net on the season. Gielner is coming off her first collegiate start in Tuesday's victory against Wagner. The rookie tallied three saves in the win and has 30 stops on the year.
Stony Brook (7-2) has won four straight heading into conference play. The Seawolves most recent victory came behind a nine-point effort from freshman Dorrien Van Dyke, as SBU defeated Siena, 19-6, on Saturday. Van Dyke earned Rookie of the Week honors from the America East and WomensLax.com following her effort.
Van Dyke leads the team with 32 goals and 10 assists, while Courtney Murphy (26) and Michelle Rubino (20) have each added 20-plus goals for the Seawolves. Goalkeeper Frankie Caridi has seen the majority of action in net and has tallied 56 saves.
The Retrievers have won their America East opener in each of the last six seasons and are 8-2 all-time in AEC league openers. UMBC holds a 7-3 advantage in the all-time series against Stony Brook, but have fallen in three consecutive games versus the Seawolves since opening the series with seven straight victories.

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8 Things You Need In Your Trunk During The Winter
Winter is far from being over but it's never too late to put these eight things in the trunk of your car for winter traveling emergencies. Thanks to State Farm Insurance for reminding everyone to take the extra junk out of your trunk to add some things that could save your life in a weather emergency.
The fine folks at State Farm and KRC Research asked 1,000 random drivers across the United States if they had these eight things needed for winter weather emergencies in the trunks of their automobiles. 96 percent of the 1,000 drivers asked said that they do have at least one of the items in their trunk, but only five percent of the 1,000 had all eight items.
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Boy Scouts is "Boy-Led." The Patrol Leaders' Council (PLC), not the adult leaders, is responsible for planning and conducting the troop's activities. The Scoutmaster (and assistant Scoutmasters) provide direction, coaching, and training that empowers the boy with the skills he will need to lead his troop. The Troop Committee provides resources to help the PLC.
|— Scoutmaster Handbook p. 12
Through the Patrol Leaders' Council, patrols share the responsibility for the patrol's success. They gain confidence by serving in positions of leadership. The Patrol Leaders are elected by their patrols to representative them at the PLC meetings. Each Patrol is always represented at each monthly PLC meeting. If the Patrol Leader is not able to attend, the Assistant Patrol Leader or another Scout from the patrol will attend the PLC. The Patrol Leaders present the ideas and concerns of their patrols and in turn share the decisions of the patrol leaders' council with their patrol members.
PLC Members
The patrol leaders' council is made up of the Senior Patrol Leader, who presides over the meetings; the Assistant Senior Patrol Leaders, all Patrol Leaders, Troop Guides, and others as determined by your PLC. The patrol leaders' council plans the yearly troop program at the annual troop program planning conference. The PLC then meets monthly to develop plans for upcoming meetings and activities.
PLC meetings used to be called "Green Bar" meetings because of the green bars on some of the youth position patches.
The PLC is composed of the following voting members:
- Senior Patrol Leader (SPL) - Elected by boys in the troop, SPL runs the Patrol Leaders' Council (PLC) meetings.
- Patrol Leader - Elected by his patrol, the PL represents his patrol PLC meetings and the annual planning conference. Reports PLC decisions to his patrol.
- Assistant Senior Patrol Leader - Serves as a member of the patrol leaders' council and fills in for the SPL as needed.
- Troop Guide - Attends patrol leaders' council meetings with the patrol leader of the new-Scout patrol.
- Scribe - Attends and keeps a log of patrol leaders' council meetings. The scribe is a non-voting member of the PLC; however in the practices of some troops, scribes have been granted voting privileges.
At its monthly meetings, the PLC organizes and assigns activity responsibilities for the weekly troop meetings. The troop committee interacts with the patrol leaders' council through the Scoutmaster.
Some troops' PLC includes others who may be assigned tasks and may be voting or non-voting members such as:
- Instructors - May be assigned training tasks or report on previous training
- Quartermaster - May report on condition and availability of equipment and needs
- Librarian - May report on condition and availability of the troop library and needs
- Historian, Chaplain Aide, Bugler, etc.
The PLC is guided by the Scoutmaster and has direct support by key Troop Committee members:
- Troop Advancement Chair ensures that the unit has at least monthly boards of review and quarterly courts of honor.
- Troop Equipment Coordinator - work with the Quartermaster with unit equipment.
- Troop Outdoor/Activities Chair - secures tour permits and permissions and serves as transportation coordinator.
See also
- Patrol Leader
- Star - Life - Eagle Scout ranks
- Senior Patrol Leader (SPL)
- Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
- Troop Guide
- Official BSA Troop Leader Training PowerPoint
Chair: Senior Patrol Leader
Members: Patrol Leaders, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader(s), and Troop Guides
Other Members May Include: Instructor(s), Quartermaster(s), Scribe, and other Positions of Responsibility
Advisors: Scoutmaster, Troop Committee Chair, Assistant Scoutmasters


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Hi guys Iskandar here with my first chapter of the compendium! Lets get started
The game has evolved to 3 obvious scenarios and distinctions for types of players and play-styles:
Speed run play-style
(You like going from titan to titan at a fast direct rate, almost as if it was a track, not necessarily moving properly through, Gameplay from chug)
Typical power showcase
(You enjoy gaining speed to then aim for a direct critical hit with high damage when flying past the nape, at insane speed and acceleration. Which is fine, unless you cant control where you move from then on, Gameplay from Lito).
(You enjoy playing safe, using aggro manipulation to the max and time to safely get from wave to wave, which is totally fine, UNLESS there's a time limit)
(Couldn't really find a video atm with a bad player doing a high survival wave XD, my apologies, but if you want an example take Sunutsu as a player, simple aggro manipulation and he knew only 2 moves and with enough time reached all the waves (1 hour and 30 minutes if i remember)
I am here to tell you this is all meaningless without Flow
)If you are fast at reaching the titan but have to stop and then reach the next one, chances of death are higher and chances are you will complain that you are not hitting hard or have trouble hitting hard.
)If you have power when hitting the titan, your damage will be fine, superb in fact, but at the speed you are flying going past the nape, if you lack control, you will crash like a bumbling baboon and complain that the trees are in the way. Remember this as well: Time spent getting damage is time spent getting kills, and that is your main goal as a player in every mode this game offers (Except annie and CT ofc)
)If you are a survival player, that means you are incredibly safe, and that's fine and all but timed challenges mean you can't do them, what is the point of having a soldier that can't fight under pressure? Answer me that.
What is Flow?
Flow is the term used by players to determine how seamless they go from titan to titan and getting successive kills on each, not stopping, and not slowing, not necessarily big hits just successive hits.
So if you have good flow you will be less susceptible to stop and try to set up for kills and just take the moment for what it is and keep killing, EX:
Good Flow
If you have bad flow, your patterns will look unrefined, and your movement as a whole is diminished and incomplete
Bad Flow
Flow creates good synergy with all these 3 aspects, and derives from them as a whole, if you want to be a better player overall, practice going from titan to titan as seamless and natural as possible at the best rate you can, you do not have to be fast.
Practice makes Better
Just move, move like if you were drawing circles and ovals almost, thats how i imagine it at-least. Reach a focal point of what you consider your most comfortable speed and try to constantly kill at around that speed, dont slow down too much and dont speed up, practice that and you will improve control and flow by soooo much Remember no one is perfect at this game, and everyone messes up on their stride, EVERYONE. That doesnt mean you shouldnt keep practicing, because the less you do it the better
Let me know below what do you prioritize in your playstyle
I will see you guys next session, learn, have fun and reach for the heavens!!!


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Personal Branding for Service Professionals and Entrepreneurs
Crafting your own personal brand allows you to show the world your best true self. It helps you align every part of your life with your characteristics, strengths, values, and goals. By doing so, you create a meaningful, lasting impression on everyone you meet. That impression can translate into success on the job, in a new business, and in every aspect of your life.
Sell your personal brand to each client
Personal branding was made for service professionals. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, consultants, and other professional service providers sell their expertise, usually as an intellectually based service. Selling something that you can't see or touch is always harder than selling something tangible. In order to survive, let alone thrive, you must learn to sell your intellectual expertise and sell who you are.
In the professional services, you exist to serve your clients. If you don't perform, your clients will go elsewhere. In order to get clients, you must be able to clearly articulate your unique promise of value. That requires not only communicating what you can do for a client but why you are the person that client wants to do business with.
As a service professional, even if you work for a large firm, you have a lot in common with a small business owner. Essentially, yours is a business within a business, and you must think of yourself in an entrepreneurial way.
That's because your clients do business with you, not just your firm, and it's up to you to keep the client happy. You are there to solve problems, provide expertise, and have a positive professional relationship with each client. Your brand is highly visible at all times.
If you have not carefully dissected the components of your personal brand, that's your first step. Having a well-positioned personal brand sharpens your focus on how you can best grow your business and serve your clients.
Connect personal brand with your business plan
As a small business owner, entrepreneur, or solopreneur, your personal brand is the heart and soul of your business. Your brand is intertwined with the business; it's how people experience both you and your business. The image, energy, and expression of your business are how others perceive you.
Personal branding shares a lot in common with creating a business plan. As you work through the personal branding process to reveal your authentic self, align your personal brand to your small business plan because everything you do becomes important to the business.
If you're in business for yourself, you've probably created a business plan either formally or informally. Much of the process that you use to develop your personal brand is mirrored in the business planning process, as shown in this table. A smart entrepreneur aligns the two processes to make the business and the personal brand congruent.
|Business Plan Components
|Personal Brand Components
|Executive summary
|Personal brand statement
|Company overview: mission, vision, values
|Defining who you are
|Competitive analysis
|Knowing your niche and target market
|Marketing plan
|Communications plan
Building your network
|Strategies: people, operations, network
|Communication toolbox
Social media
Visual identity
|Action plan
|Goal setting
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as in "integrated tug-barge," as distinguished from "articulated tug-barge," now in greater favor. Here's the tug Philadelphia uncoupled in GMD drydock from its intimate partner barge. Yes, that's a tug.
For a sense of scale, watch the self-propelled crane aka "man basket" at floor of dry dock.
Yes, there is a dock worker in the man basket.
For a company diagram of this vessel to see tug integrated with its barge, click here.Top down view fascinates me.
USS Philadelphia has an LOA of almost 700 feet!
More on this vessel later.
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Lyrics:First verseThere's a dear old gray-haired lady, with tear dimmed eyes, In her cottage home she's waiting, 'neath the southern skies; Often by the gate she's standing, when summer moonlight shines, And thinks of one who loved and left her 'mid the Georgia pines; She cant believe him faithless, tho' years have come and gone, For her love is a secret and her grief her own; She recalls the sad, sweet parting On that morning, long ago, When he said, ""Goodby, my darling!"" And she answered, sweet and low:RefrainWhen you come back to Georgia you will find me true, Wander where you may my daily prayer's will follow you; You will find me true and constant with the faithful few, When you come back to Georgia and your darling Sue.Second verseForty years have pass'd the wandrer, he ne'er returned, Long and weary years of heartaches, while her love lamp burned; But on England's soil her sweetheart, who's sleeping 'neath the sod, Tho' every night a prayer for him went to the throne of God; A bunch of faded letters A picture worn with wear, Are fondly read before she says her goodnight prayer; At the sound of passing footsteps Her eyes with rapture glow, And the same old words she whispers As in days of long ago.
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News & Trends in Management
Workplace Cultures Come in Four Kinds
What kind of company do you work for?
LeadershipIQ, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm, identified four distinct workplace cultures, defined as the way an organization functions internally, in everything from communication to decision-making to how it handles promotions: "Hierarchical" companies are built on tradition and rely on clearly defined roles; "dependable" companies are process-oriented, where change happens slowly; "enterprising" companies are creative, competitive and meritocratic; "social" companies emphasize collaboration, trust and relationships.
Turns out, employees engage differently in different workplace cultures, too.
LeadershipIQ had expected to find that employees would be most excited about being in a social environment where everyone gets along, says Mark Murphy, the firm's chief executive. Not so.
Enterprising cultures fostered the highest levels of employee engagement—the degree to which employees give 100% effort and recommend their firm as a great place to work. On a seven-point scale, engagement at enterprising firms was rated 5.1. At social companies, the engagement score was 4.8. Dependable firms came in at 4.6, and hierarchical companies had engagement scores of only 3.9.
"Employees wanted meritocracy and competition more than they were concerned with everything being very collaborative and harmonious," says Mr. Murphy.
In total, most executives surveyed (1,463 total drawn from U.S. companies) said their work forces were under-engaged (43%) or disengaged (10%). Of those who said their employees were disengaged, the majority (52%) were at hierarchical firms.
LeadershipIQ also found that hiring an employee at any level—from CEO to rank-and-file—who doesn't fit into a firm's culture can spell disaster. For example, a lawyer who is risk-averse and thrives on rules might loathe working in the legal office of an enterprising firm that values new ideas and creativity.
The costs can be far higher at the executive level. When new leaders don't explicitly grasp their firm's culture, they often work at cross-purposes and then wonder why change is so difficult. "When you see a real CEO flameout, it's often a cultural mismatch," Mr. Murphy says, citing, for example, Bob Nardelli's rocky tenure at Home Depot Inc. Home Depot declined to comment.
—Lauren Weber
Mean Bosses Should Work Out, Study Says
Even a little weekly exercise can tame a testy boss.
Just a half-hour of exercise once or twice a week can reduce a manager's tendency to put down, humiliate or snap at underlings, according to a study released by Northern Illinois University's College of Business.
Researchers selected 98 full-time employees from a wide range of professions—including accounting, engineering and banking—and asked them to anonymously rate the verbal abusiveness of their bosses on a seven-point scale. In a separate questionnaire, the bosses were asked to record their level of work-related stress and frequency of exercise. The employees were selected from a pool of part-time M.B.A. students in the fall of 2010.
The merged findings showed a strong correlation between a manager's aggressiveness and frequency of exercise. While exercise didn't necessarily lead to reduced stress, it seemed to temper bosses' reaction to stress, thereby acting as a behavioral "buffer," says James Burton, the study's lead researcher and an associate professor of management. The type of exercise didn't seem to matter, he adds.
—Leslie Kwoh
M.B.A. Applications Rise at Penn State
Students are still interested in Penn State. Even in the wake of the sexual-abuse scandal that rocked the campus in the thick of college-application season, Pennsylvania State University's Smeal College of Business is seeing a significant uptick in applications for both its undergraduate and M.B.A. programs this year.
Through Jan. 31, undergrad applications at Smeal were up 7.4% to 7,265 from the same date last year. Overall, undergrad applications to Penn State are up nearly 2.6%. At the M.B.A. level, applications have spiked 17%.
"Before the end of 2011, we thought we may get hit pretty bad," said James B. Thomas, Smeal's dean. "We weren't really sure what was going to happen."
Interest in Smeal's undergraduate program has been growing recently as the school rises in national rankings, thanks in part to a concerted effort to address recruiters' demands and an overhauled curriculum. After falling by 12% in 2010, applications more than bounced back last year, gaining 23%. "If it hadn't been for the events, the increases [this year] could have been even bigger," Mr. Thomas said, referring delicately to the fall's scandal.
Smeal isn't the only business school with undergraduate applications on the rise. Through the end of January, applications were up nearly 19% from the prior year at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. The job market remains tough for undergraduates, and schools say students are beginning to weigh their college majors more carefully to improve their employability after graduation.
New college graduates who majored in business have a 7.4% unemployment rate, according to Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce. Humanities majors notch a 9.4% unemployment rate, while the rate across all majors is 8.9%.
But not all schools are experiencing such a marked upswing. University of Michigan received 3,771 applications expressing interest in "preferred admission" to the Ross School of Business as of Feb.1, up just 1% from last year. Applicants to Michigan can indicate interest in more than one school. So far, the university has accepted 1,246 applications that Ross is now reviewing, up 9% from the prior year.
Just as encouraging to Smeal as applicant interest is enthusiasm from recruiters. Mr. Thomas said he's received "a lot" of unsolicited calls from executives at Fortune 50 companies saying that they will continue to support hiring at Smeal. So far, it's not just talk. There was a 27% increase in the number of companies participating in a January job fair for supply-chain positions, while an upcoming event for marketing jobs is expected to be double last year's size.
Mr. Thomas said that while recruiters might mention the fall's events as "small talk" during an interview, "They're not getting 'What would you [have done]' questions."
—Melissa Korn
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Hitting the road for the Faroe Islands
British Council Cultural Leadership International Programme - building international links and inspiring a new Curated Place residency programme
In October 2011 I was lucky enough to be taken to Istanbul by the British Council as part of their CLI programme. From over 180 applications seven of us from the UK were taken to Turkey with the aim "to engage the new generation of cultural leaders around the world in the discussion and development of common strategies to tackle global cultural issues".
The seven of us taken from the UK were Haidee Bell, Innovation Programmes Manager, Creative Economy, NESTA; Daniel Gorman, Director, Firefly International; Rohan Gunatillake, Lead Producer, Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, (now Sync) ; Karena Johnson, CEO/Artistic Director, The Broadway; Laura McDermott, Joint Artistic Director, Fierce Festival; Elhum Shakerifar, Creative Producer, Postcode Films; and me.
The programme revolved around two key areas: management and leadership development. On the one hand the programme focussed on developing core cultural management skills of participants, through quite traditional seminars and workshops. However, where most people found most benefit was through the chance to get to know their peers - all emerging cultural leaders looking to develop their international exposure and experience.
Alongside my participation in the programme Curated Place also sent out a documentation crew to capture the ideas behind the events. Again we sought not simply to capture digital footage that was relevant only to people around the immediate time of the events but to interrogate the experience and knowledge of those involved in the programme - both presenters and the remarkable CLI participants.
By filming more intimate discussions with interviewees, instead of simply capturing raw footage of scripted conference presentations, we wanted to get a personal insight into the professional worlds of those in and around the CLI programme - creating a resource that would give longer term insight into what connections could be made from the programme across international arts communities rather than just those within the room. By ensuring these videos and that knowledge was available to anyone with an internet connection we aimed to dramatically increase the impact of the programme and the longevity of the investment made over the week of the programme.
Later this year as part of the programme I'll be travelling to the middle east to establish new reciprocal residency programmes for UK artists and curators to develop collaborative projects with local artists at a similar point in their career - seeking to extend their creative horizons out of the regional and national to an international programme. All of it building on the insight and relationships started by CLI in Istanbul. More on this next week...but if you're desperate to know follow us on Facebook and Twitter to hear the latest.


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Master of Accounting (MAcc)
Made possible by a generous grant from the PNC Foundation, Inc.
The Master of Accounting (MAcc) program is designed to help prepare students to take advantage of the many opportunities available in the field of accounting and play an important role in the preparation for taking the CPA and/or the CMA examinations. Whether a student desires to work in private industry, the not-for-profit sector, or governmental entities, a degree in accounting can lead to a dynamic career with skills that are highly valued in the marketplace. The MAcc is a flexible program designed to fit students' career goals and is available to college graduates of all majors.
Program Design
The MAcc program requires students to take 30 credits (approximately ten courses). These include eight required core courses (24 credits) in the accounting curriculum and two elective courses (six credits.) The electives may be accounting courses or approved courses from Chatham's Master of Business Administration (MBA) curriculum. For students who do not have an accounting or business background, four additional pre-requisite courses will be required. Learn about the MAcc curriculum »
MAcc courses at Chatham alternate class session weeks throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. Non-session weeks require coursework equal to the credit hour requirement for the course. This hybrid schedule makes the program more flexible and convenient for our students while offering the same academic rigor of typical courses.
The Department of Business and Entrepreneurship at Chatham University has received specialized accreditation for its business programs through the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education (IACBE) located at 11374 Strang Line Road in Lenexa, Kansas, USA.


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In this article, I'll show you how to create a custom messagebox user control in Silverlight 3, so that you can use it in any Silverlight application instead of the default messagebox.
In order to be able to complete this tutorial, you should know a little about Microsoft Expression Blend, which we are going to use in creating the MessageBox user control. I assume that you are familiar with Expression Blend and with its UI.
There's no doubt that the messagebox control is used massively in any application whatever it was desktop or web as you may need to ask the user for something, warn him for some dangerous operations, or just display an information to the user, and so on... The control must be very flexible to handle all of these scenarios. Moreover, it must be a modal dialog which prevents users from accessing the background of the page until the dialog is closed.
Start Expression Blend and choose Control library project template (in order to generate a DLL so that it can be added to in any Silverlight application), then remove the MainControl user control from your solution and add a new Child Window. This child window will be opened as a modal dialog, so we are now ready for changing the style of the child window and make it look like the screen shot.
In Objects and timeline panel, right click on the ChildWindow node, then choose Edit Template, then Edit a Copy. Now we will be able to customize the layout of the child window to meet our requirements. You will realize that the 5th Border is the most important one that includes all the UI elements.
Expand the 5th border control and choose the Chrome node; the Chrome node is the header of the messagebox, so we are going to change its background color using the gradient brush using the following XAML code:
After finishing the header style, we are going to add a background image to give it a better appearance, so add an image in the grid that hosts the chrome element, or you can just adjust the background color of that grid, so it's up to you.
At this point, we have finished styling our custom messagebox layout, but we want to display the text message and add some buttons to the body of the messagebox, so back to the childwindow we are going to add the following items:
So the final UI tree should look like this in the Objects & timeline panel:
So far we've finished all the design work for the user control, so let's add some options for the user. We are going to add two enums in our namespace (MessageBoxButtons & MessageBoxIcon), in order to enable the user to select the correct message type, for example he/she may want to display an error message, so we should display the error icon in the message.
public enum MessageBoxButtons { Ok, YesNo, YesNoCancel, OkCancel }
public enum MessageBoxIcon { Question, Information, Error, None, Warning }
One last thing we want to know is which button was clicked by the user, so what about making a public method Show(string message, string title); that returns the DialogResult exactly like the messagebox class in the Windows Forms? Unfortunately this is not applicable in Silverlight, because in windows forms the messagebox waits for a response from the user so that the program can complete processing, but this is not the same case in Silverlight. The modal dialog will be opened and the rest of code will be executed as well, so the application is not waiting for the user to close the dialog in order to complete its work. In order to overcome this issue, we are going to handle the close event of the messagebox control so that we can know the clicked button.
Show(string message, string title);
I declared a delegate function with one parameter of type MessageBoxResult in order to know which button was clicked.
//delegate to get the selected MessageBoxResult
public delegate void MessageBoxClosedDelegate(MessageBoxResult result);
//event will be fired in the Close event of the usercontrol
public event MessageBoxClosedDelegate OnMessageBoxClosed;
//property to keep the result of the messagebox
public MessageBoxResult Result { get; set; }
private void MessageBoxChildWindow_Closed(object sender, EventArgs e)
if (OnMessageBoxClosed != null)
First you will need to add the generated DLL from this class library to any Silverlight application. The child window class has a public method called "Show()" so we are going to use it for opening the messagebox, but we want to set its title, text message, icon & number of buttons according to user choices; so we can send these parameters whether through a public method or through an overload for the constructor, I chose the 2nd option and created another overload for the default constructor and passed the parameters through it, so use the following code to open the messagebox:
//displayed message
string msg = "An error has occurred and the operation was cancelled,
Are you sure you want to continue?";
//creating new instance from the MessageBoxControl
MessageBoxControl.MessageBoxChildWindow w =
new MessageBoxControl.MessageBoxChildWindow("Error", msg,
//define the close event handler for the control
w.OnMessageBoxClosed +=
new MessageBoxControl.MessageBoxChildWindow.MessageBoxClosedDelegate
//open the message
I've attached a test application that displays the messagebox dynamically, so that you can test all of its capabilities.
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Calvaart family
Calvaart (Calvaerdt, Calvaert, Calwaert, Kalvaart) is a Mennonite family name found in Flanders and Holland. Daniel Calvaer was an Anabaptist martyr. In the 17th century members of this family are found in the Mennonite congregations of Leiden and Haarlem. Both Crijn Pietersz Calvaart and Joost Calvaart were deacons of the church at Leiden about 1675. Adriaen Calvaert, who in the early 17th century was a preacher of the Flemish church at Haarlem, published Vertooninghe ende Verantwoordinge tot dienst van allen onsen Medegenoten des Gelofjs (Haarlem, 1619). The Calvaerts stemmed from Flanders, Belgium.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Calvaart family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 19 Oct 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Calvaart_family&oldid=133601.
APA style
Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1953). Calvaart family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 19 October 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Calvaart_family&oldid=133601.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 494; v. 4, p. 1069. All rights reserved.
©1996-2019 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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With an election due next year, the voting public appears to have made up its mind and is sticking with it, if the latest Newspoll in The Australian on Monday is anything to go by.
The poll shows little has changed since the previous poll two weeks ago - the Coalition will win the next election, Tony Abbott is unpopular and Julia Gillard remains the preferred prime minister.
The poll shows Labor's primary vote has plateaued at 36 per cent, after growing steadily, and the coalition's support remains the same as it was at the last election - 43 per cent.
It means the coalition continues to hold an election-winning lead of 51 per cent to 49 per cent, based on the flow of preferences at the last election.
Despite growing unease about Ms Gillard's role in an AWU slush fund in the 1990s when she was a lawyer, satisfaction with her performance among voters polled over the weekend is unchanged at 37 per cent, with dissatisfaction also the same at 52 per cent.
Mr Abbott's support has lifted slightly from the previous poll but at 30 per cent - up three points - he remains deeply unpopular.
Dissatisfaction with his performance eased from a record 63 per cent to 61 per cent.
On who would make the better prime minister, there was no change from the last poll - Ms Gillard is ahead 46 per cent to 32 per cent.


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Liquid propulsion
Liquid propellants are stored in the launcher tanks and fed to the engine. As they chemically react and expand in the engine combustion chamber they are forced through the nozzle to provide the thrust that propels the vehicle.
Liquid propulsion technologies under study
Upper-stage engine technologies
A number of new technologies are being developed for an advanced cryogenic expander cycle engine. These include:
- advanced turbopumps for expander cycle applications
- an improved chamber cooling system
- ignition system capable of several re-starts
- ceramic matric composite extendible nozzle
Dual technologies for high-thrust cryogenic engines
Cryogenic engines utilise propellants that are liquid under cryogenic conditions, i.e. at a temperature much lower than normal ambient conditions. The advantage of cryogenic propellants is that they provide the highest performance.
Technologies that can be applied to both low-cost expendable cryogenic engines and reusable cryogenic engines include: fluid bearings, valve electric actuation, new impeller designs, high mass-flow-rate injectors, nozzle sandwich technology and advanced manufacturing methods such as powder metallurgy and casting.
High-thrust liquid oxygen/hydrocarbon engines
Hydrocarbon fuels such as kerosene and methane have the advantage of having high density; this makes their use promising for providing a large thrust in booster applications.
A number of specific technologies need to be developed for this type of engine. These include:
- the mastering of injection, mixing and combustion of hydrocarbon fuels
- turbopump design
- technologies for the pump, turbine and bearings
- injectors and combustion chamber cooling systems
- specific technologies for a LOX-rich (liquid oxygen) environment
High-performance reusable engines
A reusable engine is one that can be reused on a launch vehicle for a new mission. This calls for advanced components such as:
- valves and igniters
- simplified and more robust turbo-machinery (advanced inducers and turbines)
- new injectors, gas generators/preburners and long-life thrust chambers (new materials and new designs)
- systems to monitor engine health
High-thrust demonstration programme
Most of these innovative technologies will be progressively integrated on a high-thrust engine demonstrator of representative size to validate high-performance engine cycles, such as staged combustion.
Reaction control system/orbital manoeuvring system
These systems are needed to help stabilise the launch vehicle on its trajectory, control the attitude of the vehicle during manoeuvres and change the orbit or give the decelerating boost to re-enter the atmosphere.
Technologies for reaction control systems/orbital manoeuvring include:
- the use of green propellants to allow safer handling and more efficient ground operations
- the development of advanced thrusters and ignition systems


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How the Race for In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Taking Off
The launch of a satellite specifically targeting airlines is increasing competition among carriers to provide in-flight Wi-Fi. Marietta Cauchi discusses how airlines hope to open a new revenue stream by offering services and goods through the Wi-Fi system.
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My usual gaming habit is to wildly bounce between consoles, computers, arcade, retro, current-gen, etc. with no real rhyme or reason, but lately I've been hitting the Spider-Man pinball pretty much exclusively so forgive me if my posts are a bit pin-centric for a while. Along those lines I'd like to point out to you fine folks that the 2012 installment of the Texas Pinball Festival is rapidly approaching - March 23-25 - a mere two months away!
The Festival is being held at the Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center in Grapevine, Texas which is on the north side of the Dallas-Fort Worth area. That's like a 5-hour drive for me so... not exactly right around the corner, but I've been considering making a road trip to this thing ever since I discovered it a few years back and since for me personally 2012 is the Year of the Pinball, well, I do believe I'm finally gonna make it happen this year! Gnome and Mik - can I expect to see you guys there? What? Atlantic shmatlantic c'mon, hop on a plane and you'll be there before you know it. Fallguy, you only have to cross the Red River so that's completely doable - I'm putting you down as an attendee right now. And Onion and Twiggamortis, you guys are no farther away than I am so I'm marking you down as well.
With two months to go the games line-up is still preliminary, but it's already shaping up quite nicely with tons of great pinball machines (surprise!) including a premium and four limited edition models of Stern's soon-to-be-released AC/DC pin.
Steve Ritchie, the designer behind Stern's Spider-Man, also designed AC/DC so I'm guessing I might like it. There will also be a lesser, but still decent, selection of video games which will include some rarities like Quantum (1982), Lunar Lander (1979) and Gun Fight (1975). Over 250 games on free play all weekend!
Speaking of Steve Ritchie, he is going to be making an appearance and will be signing autographs, so I think I might bring my Spidey translite and get him to autograph it. I'm wondering if I need to bring my own pen for something like that or if they will set him up?
George Gomez will be their special guest speaker on March 24 - he is behind some great pins like Monster Bash, Corvette, Revenge from Mars, Lord of the Rings, Batman and the new one from 2011 that I just played recently for the first time - Transformers. There will also be pinball technicians, hobbyists and vendors giving seminars and/or selling their wares as well.
Speaking of Transformers - there will be several pinball tournaments going on throughout the event and one of the tournament machines will be a brand new Transformers Pro and after the tournament is complete it will be raffled off with proceeds to benefit the American Red Cross.
I'm normally not a big buyer of raffle tickets, but I'm getting one (or quite possibly three) of these. And even if you don't win the Transformers the raffle tickets qualify you for many other drawings throughout the weekend for prizes like translites, t-shirts, pinball DVDs, magazines, flyers, etc.
There is also going to be a swap meet on March 24 starting at 8:00 AM. I might swap some of my time at that for another hour or two of sleep, but it goes through noon so I'll check it out.
Should be fun so I'll see you there!
Festival Hours
Friday, March 23: 5pm-1am
Saturday, March 24: 10am-1am (swap meet from 8:00am-Noon)
Sunday, March 25: 9am-2:30pm
Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center (in the Texas Grand Ballroom)
1800 Highway 26 East
Grapevine, Texas, 76051
Reservations: 1-800-984-1344
Friday, January 27, 2012
Texas Pinball Festival Right Around the Corner
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Monday, January 23, 2012
My Very First Pinball Machine!
I didn't mention it at the time, but my previous post about Marvel Pinball was a bit of foreshadowing as not quite two weeks ago a couple of gentlemen delivered my new 250 pound member of the family - the Stern Pinball Machine Spider-Man!
I've always wanted to own my own pinball machine and now, following an arguably foolhardy expenditure of funds to a gentleman in Georgia, that dream has become a reality. I was going to make my own gameplay video, but as you know I'm a sucker for game trailers and Stern made one of their own for the machine when it came out in June 2007 (to coincide with the theatrical release of Spider-Man 3) so I decided to go with that instead:
The machine was designed by Steve Ritchie and programmed by pinball champion Lyman Sheats. I'm not exactly a pinball industry expert so I admit that I hadn't heard of either of these two guys until I happened to catch the pinball documentary Special When Lit a while back in which they were both featured so I was surprised when I discovered later that they were responsible for Spider-Man.
Kevin O'Conner did the artwork for the cabinet and the first thing that grabs your attention on the machine is his great looking backglass:
I might have positioned the super villains so that they were facing Spidey in attack mode instead of radiating out from the center, but debatable nitpicking aside I really like it. Check out that foreshortening and dynamic action! I bet Kevin read "How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way" when he was younger. I still have my copy.
If only I'd stuck with art maybe I could be creating artwork on pinball machines too! But I digress...
The Spider-Man pinball is based on the movie franchise and combines pieces from all three movies, most importantly the four super villains that Spidey fights in them - the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman and Venom. Each of the villains has his own scoring area and strategy shots on the playfield and you must defeat all of them to wage "Battle Royale".
There are a ton of different modes and scoring opportunities in the game, but I don't think it would be too interesting for me to document all of them in detail here. I will just talk briefly about the four super villains to allow me to include a photo of these nicely detailed toys.
In the upper-middle part of the playfield is the Sandman. He stands behind a motorized bank of three targets and you must hit all three to cause his protective wall to drop and start the first Sandman Stage - "Slammer Time". Now you can hit Sandman himself or his "whirlwind of targets" and every time you do the yellow flasher lamps light up, big punch sounds and Sandman dialogue pump through the speakers and some digitized footage from the movie shows on the display. After you've hit him enough times Sandman raises up off the playfield to reveal the hole he was guarding. When you sink the ball into the hole you complete "Slammer Time". Sandman then lowers down to again protect the hole, the 3-bank wall of targets rises back up and the ball is launched straight up and over an arch called a web-slinger back onto the playfield for play to continue. This also sets up the next and progressively more difficult Sandman stages - "Subway Storm" and then "Dunes of Doom".
In the middle right part of the playfield is my favorite villain/shot on the machine - Doctor Octopus. Doc Ock starts in a raised position over a hole and when you sink a ball in it to start "Fusion Malfunction" he lowers to block it and a red flashing lamp glows as the movie scene plays - "Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts" then the ball launches straight up and over a webslinger back onto the playfield. When you hit Doc Ock the next time the ball bounces off him and a magnet below the playfield stops it cold in the middle of a picture of the sun, all the lights go off, the red flasher glows and you hear "the power of the sun, in the palm of my hand" then the lights come back on and the magnet flings the ball back at Doc Ock and then towards you as a 2-ball multiball ensues. This is one of my all-time favorite pinball sequences - just so cool. The other two Doc Ock stages, "Bank Bust" and "Armed at the Dock", introduce a few new twists.
Venom is in the back left corner of the table and to reach him you have to make a somewhat challenging cross-field ramp shot with the upper right flipper. When you are able to hit it solidly enough to hit Venom's target his blue flasher glows brightly and Venom screams out to start the "Goo On You" stage where you have to hit Venom's ramp several times to complete it as a timer and your bonus points for the stage quickly run down. Venom's two other stages are "Brock's New Suit" and "You Ooze You Lose" (spelled 'Loose' on the sign).
The final villain, the Green Goblin, is on the lower left side of the playfield. He is hovering on his goblin glider over five pumpkin bomb targets. Once you have hit all five targets "Unity Day Festival" begins. You have to hit the targets six more times to complete the stage, with the Goblin shaking in pain after each hit. The other two Green Goblin stages "Suffer the Children" and "Godspeed Spider-Man" introduce other twists such as moving lit targets that you have to hit.
The sound for the machine is outstanding. Hard pumping tunes for the various stages that really seem to flow well with the playfield action. Great sounding movie dialogue is also seamlessly sewn in at just the right times. Stern also hired J.K. Simmons, the actor who played J.Jonah Jameson in the movies, to record a wide variety of pinball-specific dialogue in-character so they all have that J.Jonah Jameson edge to them - "Extra ball is lit! What are you waiting for?!", "Who do you think you are? Spider-Man?", etc. works perfectly.
And in my opinion the machine is gorgeous - the artwork, the lights, the cool movie scenes that play on the dot matrix video display. A real spectacle. Mix all that with my old comic book loyalties to the subject matter and the fact that it is a really fun pinball machine to play and it goes at or near the top of my all-time favorite pinball machines list - along with the likes of Medieval Madness, Scared Stiff, Monster Bash and Lord of the Rings. Suffice it to say I love it! I also recently learned that Pinside members rank Spider-Man as the 10th best pinball of all-time (just a hair below Scared Stiff) on their weekly updated list of top 100 pinballs. So it's somewhat reassuring to hear that my high regard for the machine is not inconsistent with the views of pinball insiders.
So anyway, if you happen to be in a movie theater or somewhere and see this pinball in the corner you ought to go pump a few quarters into it and give it a go. It's a lot of fun!
Oh - as I was putting this post together I stumbled across a nice interview with the designer Steve Ritchie in the June 2007 edition of the dearly departed GameRoom Magazine. Popbumper.com has the interview posted online here if you care to check it out. See ya!
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Spidey's Got Such a Supple Wrist!
It's no secret that I like arcades. Historically I have spent most of my arcade time on video games and just a passing amount of attention to their older brother the pinball machine. But in recent years I have refocused a good deal of my attention to these wonderful machines. I think a big part of the reason for this is that I have visited more and more retro arcades and started getting my fill of a lot of the more commonly recurring classics like Asteroids, Ms. Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, etc. Don't get me wrong I still love those games but at this point I've seen them enough that I'd rather trade some of my time on them for some time with the silver ball. Also, one of my friends greatly prefers pinball over video games and is very knowledgeable about them and after quite a few pinball matches I'm guessing some of that interest probably rubbed off on me as well.
Thanks to the unfortunate demise of my beloved 60GB backwards-compatible PS3 and my subsequent purchase of a 320GB Uncharted 3 Bundle PS3 (that was on sale) I am currently a member of Sony's PlayStation Plus. One of the benefits of membership is that you get to download a free PS3 game each month and the game of the month in December was Marvel Pinball. I haven't paid much attention to console video pinball games in a long time so I didn't even have it on my radar before I got it as a freebie but I must say I am quite enjoying it and would heartily recommend it to anyone who enjoys pinball, arcade style video games, or Marvel comics - and especially to those individuals like myself who are a fan of all three!
Playing it reminds of my first experience with a video-oriented pinball game which was Video Pinball on my trusty Atari 2600 (cue wavy curtain flashback effect). Much like driving games, video pinball technology has come quite a ways in 30 years but the general gameplay mechanic remains more or less the same.
Hey, she may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts kid! I guess I liked it so much that I asked my parents for it twice because I have 2 copies of the cartridge at home.
And speaking of pinball from my childhood, I was recently over at my mom's house and I brought back a box of old goodies (I always leave my mom's house with a box of old stuff) which included a Viewmaster, an 8-track tape player and carousel, a Star Wars jigsaw puzzle, and Wildfire Pinball - a handheld pinball game released by Parker Brothers in 1979. Did anyone else have this thing?
I think it was actually my brother's so I didn't play it nearly as much as I did Video Pinball, but I figured it would fit nicely in the game room on the shelf next to the Merlin and the Game Boy.
Fast forward to maybe 8-9 years ago or so when I discovered Visual Pinball, a freeware pinball simulation program. When coupled with PinMAME (which emulates the pinball ROMs) it allows you play pretty much any real pinball machine you can think of right on your computer - basically the pinball version of MAME. If you are interested in pinball and have never tried Visual Pinball you ought to check it because it is cool! (and free!). The tables that this community of pinball enthusiasts have developed are very impressive. Be forewarned though that it is even less user-friendly and documented for the novice to set up than MAME. Here is a video with some very brief glimpses of a bunch of Visual Pinball tables in action:
And finally this brings me back full circle to Marvel Pinball - released late 2010 by Zen Studios and finally checked out by me just last month. It is like Visual Pinball on steroids. Here is the trailer:
It has the same authentic-feeling pinball play and great realistic physics of Visual Pinball combined with some really cool animated 3D action by the super villain set pieces that of course wouldn't be possible on a real pinball machine. The art/graphics are gorgeous and the sound is very good. The game comes with 4 tables installed - Spider-Man, Iron Man, Blade and Wolverine. They're all good but my favorite so far is definitely Spider-Man. Least favorite is probably Iron Man. That mirrors reality because I love the real Stern Spider-Man pinball but have never really cared a whole lot for the Iron Man.
The gameplay, if you enjoy pinball at all, is very addictive. Like real pinball it is simple to play but challenging to master. You basically only use 3 buttons - the left and right shoulder buttons for the flippers and the X button for the launch which you can vary to try and get skill shot points. As a pinball fan I can definitely say this game feels like the real thing with the added bonus of the realistic interaction with the various villains on each table who are bent on bringing you down. For instance on the Spider-Man table that includes Mysterio hitting you with hallucinogenic gas which reverses your flipper controls, the Green Goblin flying around and throwing exploding pumpkin bombs/pinballs on the table and Doctor Octopus grabbing your pinballs with his mechanical arms. Each villain attack feels like something you might see on a real pinball table even though the action is too complex for it to actually be mechanically possible outside the video world. Other features include online multiplayer play and several different camera angles you can choose. You can also nudge the table with the motion detection of the controller, although I found that particular control to be somewhat difficult to use and mostly just distracting so I pretty much ignore it.
I already liked this game quite a bit when I first started playing it last month despite a slight lag on the flippers which annoyed me, but then I remembered my TV has a "game" setting so I turned it on and that fixed the lag - so now the game went from really good to great! If you aren't in PlayStation Plus the main game with 4 tables only costs $10 and in my opinion well worth the money.
They also offer a Fantastic Four and Captain America table as downloadable content for $2.99 each with one for the Hulk in the wings. I just love these little video trailers so here are those.
Finally, in mid-December they released a DLC 4-pack of tables called Vengeance and Virtue that features Ghost Rider, Moon Knight, Thor and the X-Men which costs $10. I collected Ghost Rider, Moon Knight and X-Men comics back in the day so I'm particularly curious about those. Here is a look at the Vengeance and Virtue pack - I might just have to get it at some point.
So obviously I think this game is pretty darn good. One of the things I like about PS+ is that it basically forces me to try out games that I most likely wouldn't have ever gotten around to trying out otherwise. This has introduced me to a few stinkers, but has also allowed me to find a few gems as well, of which this is one. If you think pinball is boring and repetitive then you should definitely stay away from it as it wouldn't be for you, but if you like pinball like I do then this game is definitely worth buying.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Hello folks and a 4-day belated happy new year! There seems to be a pattern emerging with me wishing folks a happy holiday 4 days after the holiday actually occurs. Oh well, as anyone who's ever waited for me to arrive at a party or at work or for an appointment will tell you - I'm typically late. Always have been, and if past performance is any indicator, always will be.
I'm working up a post on my new game Rocksmith (spoiler alert - I like it!) but haven't finished it yet so today's post is admittedly a gap-filler to keep my posting wheels rolling.
As I've mentioned before, I missed out on the NES gaming craze so I never developed much love for Jumpman, er... Mario. And frankly there is such a tremendous amount of love for him out there from Nintendo fans that I grow a little weary of him sometimes, but nevertheless I stumbled across these 2 Mario-related videos the last few days that I thought were worth a nod. If only I could learn that there Twitter gadget I could just tweet a link, but for now I'll just have to make do with an embed post!
First from Dorkly.com is an early meeting between Mario and his slimy agent.
And, yet another floppy drive music video - this one from Silent's Homepage. I don't know why these fascinate me so, but this one features an entire symphony of (i.e. 8) 3.5" floppy drives belting out the Super Mario Bros tune. Enjoy!
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Amanda Knox Verdict Not Guilty of Murder!
The Amanda Knox verdict is in and she has been found not guilty of the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007. Amanda Knox will be released immediately and allowed to leave the country and return home to her family in America. Knox's former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, has also been declared not guilty in the murder of Meredith Kercher and will be released.Read More..>>


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In Guatemala IUCN is fostering positive change by uniting landscape restoration with poverty reduction. It does this through its Livelihoods and Landscapes Strategy (LLS), combining incentives and employment creation, environmental governance and market development.
Lachuá is an area of tropical rainforest and rich biodiversity in northwest Guatemala, with distinct socio-cultural, environmental, economic and political attributes. It is home to the Laguna Lahua National Park and to 11,000 Qeqchi indigenous people. The Qeqchi are subsistence farmers and are represented by six local indigenous organizations. IUCN Mesoamerica works to bringing together these indigenous groups, government representatives and national forestry institutions, to improve the management of natural resources and the livelihoods of local people.
The successes are many. New projects for local pineapple, honey and cocoa production have created employment and income for Qeqchi people, while decreasing the pressure on the National Park. This in turn serves to maintain forest cover in important biological corridors within the park. These corridors, vital for the movement of wildlife, are further strengthened by reforestation undertaken by 150 indigenous farmers.
Involving local communities in the management of the protected area means they can also benefit from the sale of environmental 'goods and services' such as carbon and eco tourism. The Qeqchi women have built on this by expanding their weaving activities, providing additional income for their families.
IUCN also works in the Tacaná water catchment in the Guatemalan highlands where marginalized populations are highly dependent on hill farming and are suffering from degraded forest resources. The overall goal in Tacanà is to restore the natural resource base so that it can support a high population density of minifundistas - rural poor who have limited ownership or rights to land.
Already, the forest restoration strategy has been completed for four 'micro' watersheds in the upper Suchiate and Coates rivers. Success is partly due to the development of a business plan for the production and sale of Christmas trees (Abies coatemalensis species). With the landscape being restored, local people are benefting from sustainable income and employment.
IUCN combines its LLS work in Tacanà with another strategy, the Water and Nature Initiative (WANI). WANI also aims at the sustainable use of natural resources, while improving access to safe drinking water for inhabitants.
By promoting these combined participatory approaches to natural resource management IUCN is not only conserving valuable forests and biodiversity, it is also bringing about meaningful change to the lives of the rural poor. The challenge for IUCN and its partners is to extend this work beyond the protected area.
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China's Corruption Crackdown Reaches Macau
Police in mainland China and Macau have recently detained people from at least three of Macau's biggest junket operators. The WSJ's Kate O'Keeffe discusses the jolt to Macau's lucrative gambling industry.
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I have multiple Google accounts including a personal account, and a Google Apps account for work. I want to create a bookmark will send me to my work Google Reader account directly where I have subscribed to several feeds related directly to my job. Right now I go to http://www.google.com/reader/, then I have to click 'Switch Account' to access the work account.
From my work computer my personal account is logged in as the default and I have used the multiple sign-in feature to login to a couple additional accounts. The obvious answer would be for me to log into to my work account as default, but I do not want to change my default account to my work account since there are still a couple services not available to Google Apps customers, the multiple sign-in is not fully supported for all Google services, and I use my personal account for more services that I use during the day.
Our Google Apps at work has been updated to use the new infrastructure.
Generic answers that apply to all Google services and not just Google Reader would be very useful. Google Reader is just the most to me currently, but I would like to create bookmarks to open other services with a specific account.