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ASEH 2015 Election - Statements of the Candidates
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Vice President/Incoming President
Graeme Wynn:
I am Professor of Geography in the University of British Columbia but I have had a career-long fascination with and involvement in environmental history. My research is interdisciplinary, and its foci have broadened over time from eastern Canada to New Zealand, the rest of Canada and (to lesser degree) Australia. A fair part of this work has focused on forest exploitation, conservation, preservation and management, but I have also published in rural/ agricultural and urban studies, written on the histories of geography and environmental history, and contributed broadly to Canadian Studies. These perspectives are brought together in Canada and Arctic North America: An Environmental History (ABC-Clio, 2007), and have been recognized by election to the Royal Society of Canada and the award of the Massey Medal for contributions to understanding the geography of Canada. I was one of the co-leaders of NiCHE (the Network in Canadian History and Environment, 2007-14). In 2005, I inaugurated the Nature|History|Society monograph series with UBC Press which now includes twenty-four volumes under my general editorship.
My record of service includes sixteen years in university administration at UBC (successively Associate Dean of Arts and Head of Geography); periods as a Director of the Forest History Society, 1983-1990 (and Program Committee Chair 1985-90); Council member of the Canadian Association of Geographers (1987-9) and the Canadian Historical Association (1990-3) with additional service as Chair of several book prize juries. I have been editor of the Journal of Historical Geography and continue in that role with BC Studies, and I am a member of several editorial boards, including that of Environment and History. Service to ASEH includes a period on the Editorial Board of Environmental History; membership of the Executive Committee (2011-15); Chair of the Rachel Carson Prize Committee (2007-8); membership of the Program Committee for the Toronto Annual meeting (2013) and work as an adjudicator of the Leopold-Hidy award (and its predecessor awards in the 1980s). I chaired the Program Committee for the 2nd World Congress of Environmental History (2014) and the International Scientific Committee for the 16th International Conference of Historical Geographers (2015). I have long regarded ASEH as my "intellectual homeplace" and I am, truly, deeply honored by this invitation to further serve the society, which I will do with energy and enthusiasm.
Executive Committee:
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Colin Coates:
I began my academic career at the University of Edinburgh and moved to York University in Toronto in 2003 to take up a Canada Research Chair in Canadian Cultural Landscapes. I teach Canadian Studies and History. My work sits at the junction between environmental and socio-cultural history. My first book The Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Québec examines the environmental and social implications of settler colonialism at the local level in the French colony and the transition to British rule after 1759. I also work on the history of agricultural commons, landscape history, and the environmental implications of commodity trade. In 2006-2007, I co-taught a joint York-Arizona State University graduate course in North American environmental history with Susan Gray. Susan and I described this initiative in an article for the AHA 's Perspectives on History.
I was a founding member of the Network in Canadian History & Environment (NiCHE) and have served on its Executive since its creation in 2004. The goal of NiCHE has been to expand the field of environmental history in Canada. I organized its first Summer School in 2006. Heading up an important NiCHE initiative, I served as chair of the Organizing Committee for the 2013 meeting of the ASEH in Toronto. Since I began attending the annual conferences in 2009, I have experienced with great pleasure the welcoming spirit of the society, particularly for those of us who work outside the United States. In bringing the ASEH to Toronto, we wanted to show the Canadian commitment to this important field of historical inquiry and to the association which has given us all an intellectual home. In addition to my work on the 2013 conference, I chaired the Alice Hamilton Prize Committee in 2011.
I am particularly keen to maintain strong Canadian involvement in the ASEH, to encourage cross-border exchanges and to foster graduate student enthusiasm for the field.
Fritz Davis:
I teach environmental history and the history of science and medicine at Florida State University. ASEH has been my intellectual home since graduate school. Like many others, I find the blend of personal, intellectual, professional commitment to all aspects of the environment and its histories to be extraordinarily rewarding. I have been fortunate to serve on a variety of ASEH committees. I was the Local Arrangements Chair for the 2009 Annual Meeting in Tallahassee, Florida. It was wonderful to see all activities and interactions that we associate with the annual meeting taking place in Tallahassee, my adoptive home (and please accept my apologies for the weather system that closed the Charlotte and Atlanta Airports at the end of the conference). I also served as chair of the Marsh Prize Committee and chair of the Site Selection Committee, which will result in a future meeting in Chicago, a superb location for any meeting but especially ASEH. I have been fortunate to co-lead many of the birding trips at the meetings. In addition, I serve on the Editorial Board for Environmental History. I have also been active in the History of Science Society serving two terms as the Chair of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Forum (one of the organizations that links HSS and ASEH), the Hazen teaching prize, and the Editorial Board for the Journal, which for more than a century has been called Isis. Recently, I have become more active in the Agricultural History Society reinforcing productive overlap.
My research lies at the intersection of environmental history, science, and health. My second book is Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology (Yale 2014) examines the dynamic between the development of chemical insecticides and the science of toxicology and environmental risk assessment. I have been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Library of Medicine (NIH) and I currently serve on the NLM Grant review panel. I recently received notification that I will be promoted to full professor in August 2015. It would be an honor and a pleasure to serve ASEH as a member of the executive council.
Emily Greenwald:
I am grateful for this opportunity to run for the ASEH Executive Committee. In 2002, after spending eight years in academia (mostly at the University of Nebraska), I joined Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA), a history and cultural resource management consulting firm. I am currently manager of HRA's History Division and a shareholder. I conduct historical research and writing for a variety of clients, primarily in environmental and Native American history. I have served as an expert witness in litigation involving treaty rights, reservation boundary issues, tribal membership, and Superfund sites.
ASEH was an important intellectual home for me as an academic, and my ties to the ASEH community—which I value greatly—keep me coming to annual meetings. As a professional organization, however, ASEH became less relevant to me when I made the jump to public history. I am pleased to see the steps ASEH has taken in recent years to serve public historians better. I want to play a role in solidifying and extending those efforts, and election to the ASEH Executive Committee will give me an ideal opportunity to do so. Like many other public historians in ASEH, I am very involved in the National Council on Public History, having served on its board, consultants' committee, Robert Kelly prize committee, and now on the editorial board of The Public Historian. I believe I can bring the insights not only of my own public history experience, but also those of NCPH more broadly.
Christof Mauch:
The ASEH has long been a touchstone for me in my career as an environmental historian and historian of the United States. I am a founding member of the ASEH's sister organization, the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH). As a member of the ESEH, and during my presidency of the society, I have played a part in establishing the ESEH's article and book prize, its fellowship program, and several research and digital projects. I have served as chair of the local organizing committee of the ESEH meeting in Munich (2013) and as a convener or co-convener of several ESEH summer schools and seminars.
My career has crossed disciplines: I started out as a scholar in literature and turned to political history, social and international history; however during my tenure as Director of the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. (1999-2007), I developed an interest in environmental history and this field has kept me enthralled ever since. After accepting the position of Chair in American Cultural History and Transatlantic Relations at LMU Munich in 2007, I wrote the proposal for the grant that established the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Since 2009 I have served as full-time director of the RCC (together with my colleague and co-director Helmuth Trischler at the Deutsches Museum); I am running the international doctoral program in Environment and Society and the Environmental Studies Program at LMU.
Over the years I have attended the meetings of the ASEH whenever I could, and have continued to foster strong connections between US and European (even Asian) environmental history. I have convened workshops and conferences in Europe, in the United States, and beyond, and in doing so have been able to bring together leading scholars from different continents and disciplines. I am a member of several editorial boards and international academic boards, including the board of trustees of the National History Center, Washington D.C., the academic advisory board of the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn, Germany, and the board of the Center for Environmental and Technological History at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
I enjoy immensely the opportunities that these collaborative positions afford me and would be delighted to serve a society that has strongly influenced the course of my career.
Kathryn Morse:
I am currently Professor and Chair of History and John C. Elder Professor in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, where I teach U.S. environmental and western history, and courses in the environmental humanities more broadly. A member of ASEH since 1993, I served as Graphics Editor of Environmental History from 2003-2007, on the Program Committee for the 2006 (St. Paul) conference, and on the Nominating Committee from 2009-2012. The ASEH is vibrant academic community for scholars from a range of fields within and beyond history, and my chief scholarly community and home. I would consider it an honor to continue to serve the organization as a member of the Executive Committee. I have seven years of experience on elected college committees and have served nearly four years as chair/director of academic programs/departments.
My first book, The Nature of Gold: An Environmental History of the Klondike Gold Rush (2003) used placer gold mining in the Yukon and Alaska to explore how industrialization changed human relationships to nature. Since then my scholarly interests have ranged widely, from nature in American popular culture, to the use of photographs and other visual culture as sources in environmental history, to the visual history of petroleum in the United States.
Cindy Ott:
Although my work is highly interdisciplinary, the ASEH has always been my intellectual home and community. Along with the book Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon, published with Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books at the University of Washington Press in 2012, I have written articles about urban gardens, northern Plains cross cultural encounters, Lewis & Clark commemorations, weather, and food ethics. In each case, I explore the complex calculus of cultural identity, history and memory, material and visual culture, and the environment. With the support of Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany in fall 2014, Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History during the 2013-2014 academic year, and Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West in summer 2012, and Humanities Montana in 2014, I am currently working on a book and exhibition titled "Biscuits and Buffalo: Squashing Myths about Food in Indian Country."
Since 2010, I have served as Environmental History's co-editor of graphics and the Gallery, which is devoted to visual analyses. I was on the 2014 ASEH George Perkins Marsh best book in environmental history prize committee and the 2015 ASEH conference program planning committee. I currently serve on the ASEH advisory board on professional development and public engagement and, with two other board members, I wrote the guidelines for the new ASEH distinguished public service and public outreach awards. At the request of the 2012 ASEH Graduate Student Liaison, I led a graduate student-writing workshop at the 2013 ASEH conference. In addition, I have presented a paper or served as a commenter or chair at nearly every annual ASEH meeting over the last ten to fifteen years, including three workshops devoted to training environmental historians in the use of visual culture in their work.
I am an associate professor in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University. My approach to environmental history has been strongly influenced by my work as a museum curator and public historian. I have organized public history projects and art exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, community development and urban revitalization programs at the University of Pennsylvania and Saint Louis University, and historic preservation projects at the National Park Service. I have has also built alliances and partnerships between academia and nonprofit environmental groups as the communications director of Rachel's Network, a women's environmental nonprofit organization. I have been a consultant for the National Park Service, assisting national parks to develop or enhance their history programs and I am a regular grant review panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded me a planning grant for the exhibition "Weathering the Years: The History of Winter in the Rockies."
My vision for ASEH is to increase its connections to non-academic organizations as a means to broaden ASEH's reach and environmental humanities influence, to nurture international collaborations and by extension the organization's cultural diversity, and to train students to work in environmental history in fields within and beyond the academy.
Paul Sabin:
I am an associate professor of history at Yale University, where I coordinate a global environmental history working group and serve as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Environmental Studies major. My scholarship focuses on the ways that politics and law transformed the twentieth-century United States economy and environment. I am the author of The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future (2013) and Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (2005). My articles on energy history and international resource frontiers have appeared in Environmental History, the Journal of American History, Pacific Historical Review, and other publications. I have been active in ASEH since 1995, when I presented my first conference paper - on oil extraction and indigenous politics in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
ASEH is my primary academic affiliation and I would be honored to serve the organization as a member of its executive committee. My emphasis as a committee member would be on continuing to strengthen ASEH's finances and finding ways for environmental historians to connect with other academic disciplines, professional sectors, and policy discussions. I would also focus on mentoring up-and-coming scholars and creating collegial venues for intellectual engagement. I convene an annual New Haven conference, "New Perspectives in Environmental History," which showcases global environmental history scholarship by doctoral students at northeastern universities. Over the years, I also have organized workshops to help emerging scholars connect their work to public conversations related to climate change, conservation biology, and environmental justice. I'd like to apply what I've learned in these capacities to the work of ASEH.
I would bring to the ASEH executive committee my experience in non-profit management, fundraising, and governance. For nine years, I served as the founding executive director of the non-profit Environmental Leadership Program, which has trained and supported more than 700 talented public leaders from higher education, government, businesses, and non-profit organizations. I presently serve on the Environmental Leadership Program's Board of Trustees.
Marsha Weisiger:
I am the Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History and an associate professor of history and environmental studies at the University of Oregon. Since 1997, when I attended my first ASEH conference as a graduate student, I've been an active member of the organization. I served on the Rachel Carson Prize Committee in 2004 and was on the Environmental History editorial board from 2006 until 2013. I've presented papers, participated in round-tables and a plenary session, led tours, or commented on panels at nine conferences, and I delivered papers at the World Congresses on Environmental History in Copenhagen and Guimarães, Portugal. ASEH has been significant to my intellectual growth, but more than that, it is a stimulating and welcoming community of colleagues and friends.
My scholarship focuses primarily on the environmental history of the American West. I've published two books, Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, which won the Hal Rothman Book Award and the Norris and Carol Hundley Award, and Land of Plenty: Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942. I've also written on wolf reintroduction, gendering environmental history, and environmental justice, including "Happy Cly and the Unhappy History of Uranium Mining on the Navajo Reservation," which appeared in Environmental History. I am currently conducting research for The River Runs Wild, which explores western rivers to plumb what we mean by "wild," and Danger River, which examines how men and women have narrated their adventures down the Green and Colorado rivers. And I've begun research for a third project, Ecotopia Rising, a collection of essays on the significance of the counterculture to the environmental movement. My work has received two faculty research fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a King Fellowship from the Clements Center for Southwest Studies. I am a senior fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program and serve as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
I have also long been a public historian. I began my professional career as an editor and researcher for an economic consulting firm, for whom I wrote a history of the St. Lucie nuclear power plant in Florida. I worked for many years as a historic preservation advocate, administrator, and architectural historian in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, and this year the much awaited Buildings of Wisconsin, which I co-authored with William Philpott for the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Society of Architectural Historians, will finally see print. Before assuming my present post in Oregon, I was a core member of the public history program at New Mexico State University. And as a scholar, I've endeavored to present my work to broader audiences by creating a traveling museum exhibit and working with educators in the public schools. Presently, I'm a member of the ASEH's Advisory Board on Professional Development and Public Engagement. If elected to the ASEH Council, I will encourage ASEH to expand our efforts to introduce environmental history to a broader audience, including secondary schools.
Nominating Committee:
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Brian Donahue:
I am Associate Professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, and Environmental Historian at Harvard Forest. My courses typically combine environmental history with contemporary issues of sustainable farming, forestry, and conservation. Most of them involve field trips, field research, and farm and forest labor. I chair Environmental Studies at Brandeis.
I have a BA, MA, and PhD from the Brandeis program in the History of American Civilization. While studying at Brandeis I co-founded and for 12 years directed Land's Sake, a non-profit community and educational farming and forestry program in nearby Weston, Massachusetts. My family co-owns a farm in central Massachusetts where we raise and sell beef cattle, hogs, pumpkins, and timber. For three years I was Director of Education at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, and I sit on the boards of The Land Institute, the Thoreau Farm Trust, the Weston Forest & Trail Association, and the Massachusetts Woodland Institute.
I am author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town (Yale University Press, 1999), which was awarded the book prize from the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities; and The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale Press, 2004), which won book prizes from the New England Historical Association, the Agricultural History Society, and the Marsh prize from ASEH. Therefore, I also served on the ASEH Marsh committee. My latest book is American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture and the Land (Yale Press, 2011), an anthology co-edited with Edwin Hagenstein and Sara Gregg.
Lately I have been looking for a useable future. Working with a wide range of scholars, I have co-authored two widely distributed booklets that envision the possible future of forests and farms in New England: Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape (Harvard Forest, 2010) and A New England Food Vision: Healthy Food for All, Sustainable Farming and Fishing, Thriving Communities (Food Solutions New England, 2014).
Phil Garone:
I am Associate Professor and Director of the History M.A. Program at California State University, Stanislaus. I have been a member of ASEH since 1997 and have presented regularly at ASEH conferences since then. I tremendously enjoy both the camaraderie and intellectual expansiveness of the ASEH—my primary academic home—and that has inspired me to serve the organization. I chaired the Samuel Hays Fellowship Committee for three years from 2010–13 and served on the Alice Hamilton Prize Committee in 2013–14.
My research interests have been centered on the environmental history of California and the American West, although my teaching extends more broadly to global environmental history. I am the author of The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley (University of California Press, 2011), which examines the ecological transformation of the state's heartland, and changing attitudes toward reclamation and conservation statewide and nationally, since the nineteenth century. Other publications include a Forum on Climate Change and Environmental History, which I recently co-organized for Environmental History (2014), and which includes my article on climate change and public lands management. Currently, I am working on a book project on the history and ecology of the terminal lakes (remnants of Ice Age Lake Lahontan and Lake Bonneville) of the Great Basin.
Having attended a liberal arts college as an undergraduate, completed my graduate education at a large research university (University of California at Davis), and now finding myself working at a smaller state university that requires a very substantial amount of teaching, I think I can bring to the committee a range of perspectives that reflect the experiences of a wide cross-section of our membership. I would hope to help recruit members from a variety of institutional backgrounds for committee positions. I would welcome the opportunity to serve ASEH in this new capacity.
Kevin Marsh:
Kevin Marsh is professor and chair of the History Department at Idaho State University, where he has taught since 2003. His research and teaching focus on environmental history in western North America in the twentieth century. Over the past decade, much of his emphasis has been on building interdisciplinary and collaborative programs on digital and environmental history. He helped to create an M.A. program in applied digital history at ISU, which began in 2007. Over the past two years, he has contributed as a researcher and supervisor to a statewide, multi-disciplinary study of urban environments, focusing on the changing impacts on ecosystem services. It is an ideal opportunity to weave environmental history research into a very large, NSF-funded consortium, working with scholars from various biophysical and social sciences. He is also very active with the Idaho Humanities Council, having served on its board of directors for two terms and working as a presenter and consultant on various projects promoting public engagement with the humanities. In all of these endeavors, and in his own writing, Marsh tries to cultivate collaborative connections between different research cultures in a way that directly addresses critical social and environmental issues. This is one of the strengths of environmental history as a field and of the ASEH as its leading organization, and Marsh would emphasize these opportunities as a member of the Nominating Committee.
Professor Marsh is the author of Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest, published in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series by the University of Washington Press in 2007. He has published articles on western environmental history in the Western Historical Quarterly, Oregon Historical Quarterly, and several anthologies and encyclopedias. In 2014, he contributed a chapter "Crossing Divides: An Environmental History of Idaho" in the new anthology, Idaho's Place, published by the University of Washington Press and the Program in Pacific Northwest Studies at the University of Idaho. He is also the editor of the refereed journal Idaho Yesterdays. His research currently focuses on groundwater management in the twentieth century.
Marsh has been involved in the ASEH since the Tucson conference in 1999, having presented papers and posters at multiple conferences since then. He served on the Program Committee and was co-chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the 2008 ASEH conference in Boise. At that meeting he helped to coordinate the plenary session on climate change and a workshop on using GIS for environmental history, in both cases bringing in contributors and sponsors from outside traditional academic history communities.
Jay Turner:
I am an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Wellesley College. Although my training and scholarship span environmental history, history of technology, and environmental policy, my academic home has always been ASEH. I have been a member of ASEH since 2003 and I served on the Rachel Carson prize committee in 2011.
My publications include The Promise of Wilderness: American Environmental Politics since 1964, which was awarded the Weyerhaeuser Award from the Forest History Society in 2014. More recently, I have been researching the environmental history of batteries. That project focuses on the material history of batteries, the social justice issues intertwined with their production and disposal, and new methodological approaches to the history of commodities. My first paper on batteries, "Following the Pb: An Envirotechnical Approach to Lead-Acid Batteries in the United States," has recently been published in Environmental History.
I have always considered ASEH's collegiality and commitment to an interdisciplinary approach to environmental history great strengths of our community. I would be excited and honored to serve ASEH as a member of the nominating committee.


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Shaoken posted a topic in World of Darkness IIFor some upcoming games I'm planning on running a Metal Gear campaign using the New World Of Darkness rules. I would have thought someone beat me to the punch with making a conversion, but as it turns out either my google-fu is weak (which it probably is) or nobody has done such a thing before. My idea was to just use the main rulebook, the armoury books and maybe Dogs of War for the military aspects of it. It would really just be reworking the merits system into something more suitably Metal Gear (mostly replacing the supernatural stuff with Metal Gears technology and..supernatural stuff), with games more geared towards stealth. I also was looking for/planning on a Resident Evil conversion, but that's a bigger challenge.
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JAnderson789 posted a topic in World of Darkness IIThe release schedule mentions that a Demon game will be released next year. This is what we've been told so far: The game will tie into the God-Machine mythos seeded throughout the previous books [source] The game will draw from Judeo-Christian sources, but not in the same way as Fallen [source] The demons' morality statistic will, apparently, determine how well they can impersonate humanity [source]
The Tier system across games
JAnderson789 posted a topic in World of Darkness IIWhen I went through the books discussing Tiers (Hunter: The Vigil, Geist: The Sin-Eaters, Mage Chroniclers Guide, and Danse Macabre), I noticed that the relative influence between the tiers were often quite different across gamelines, sometimes dramatically so. For example, Vampire Conspiracies qualify as a tier above Hunter Conspiracies, even though both are considered tier 3. Orders would also qualify as more influential than Hunter Conspiracies, but less influential than Vampire Conspiracies. An example of what I mean is this: a Hunter conspiracy would be the Cheiron Group, an international corporation. They aren't globally influential. The Diamond Orders each have reach across entire continents, but don't control world politics. Vampire Conspiracies, like the Prima Invictus, are essentially the Illuminati: secretly puppeteering world politics. Essentially, there are tiers within tiers, if we're trying to compare the games while maintaining the divisions already in place. Tier 1 is the same across all games: Coterie, Pack, Cabal, Throng, Motley, Cell, Krewe. Individual troupes, basically. Tier 2 is noticeably different. Covenants are not comparable with Consiliums and Freeholds, which are not comparable with Compacts. Therefore, I'd divide Tier 2 into three tiers of its own: Tier 2-1 is the Covenant and Sin-Eater "factions," Tier 2-2 is the Consilium and Freehold, and Tier 2-3 is the Compact and the Sin-Eater "conspiracies." Tier 3, as mentioned before, is the most dramatically different across games. Tier 3-1 would be Hunter Conspiracies, Tier 3-2 would be Diamond Orders and Seers of the Throne, and Tier 3-3 would be Vampire Conspiracies (aka "the Technocracy with a new coat of paint" as someone once put it). Tier 4 doesn't officially exist yet, but it can be assumed to include Archmastery. I'm not really sure why the Tiers are so different, but I assume that it is due to power creep, which is an inevitable process so I have no room to complain.
Wraith: The Arising Rulebook Draft now available on Scribd!
JAnderson789 posted a topic in World of Darkness III was reading this thread about revising Wraith, when someone asked about a nWoD incarnation. Apparently no one was aware of Tremlett's remake of the game. For everyone's convenience, I've uploaded the last draft onto Scribd, plus the rules for Ossification I got through email and two character sheets by MrGone and Renfield. Comments? EDIT: I've also included this example character converted from the one in the Oblivion rulebook.


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This week Howie and I attended a new conference in Nottingham, New Adventures in Web Design, organised by Simon Collison, or Colly as he's better known.
Since Colly is possible the nicest guy on the internet and well respected, finding quality speakers wasn't going to be a tough job, and for the conferences first show, the list was impressive. There were gripes from some quarters that all these speakers have been seen before, it's the usual industry pundits, but I think that's just sour grapes and being picky for the sake of it. Out of the ten speakers, I'd only seen five before.
In an effort to make conferences affordable and accessible, the venue was Colly's hometown of Nottingham, which is in a great location, allowing access to people travelling from all points of the UK, the likes of Cole travelling from near Edinburgh, or Remy from Brighton, plus of course the foreigners who always make it over.
We hung out with Chris Mills, Dan Donald, Rob O'Rourke and of course, my long term partner in crime, Phil Sherry. On a side note, it was Phil's 40th birthday last week, and I needed to get him a present. What can you buy a loud mouthed smart arse who likes to make his opinion or cutting wit known, especially in a crowded venue? Why, a megaphone of course! The look on a few people's faces (especially the ones who know Phil) when we unveiled it before the conference kicked off was utter gold. Any situation is instantly made ten times more funny by adding a megaphone. Even the bouncers in the boozer the night before had to agree.
The Speakers
Dan Rubin – The New Language of Web Design
Cool, calm, collected, with a great delivery, Dan was an inspired choice to kick things off. His talk was about the language we use to define our trade, and how it's about time this language matured and became "ours" instead of borrowing phrases or meaning from other trades, such as "page", "fold" and "bleed".
Mark Boulton – A New Canon
Mark talked about the need for a New Canon, a new set of rules for design interactive content in today's digital age. Screen sizes and content delivery devices are all different sizes and shapes, meaning a lot of old ideas and methods are clunky. We need to design from 'content out' – not 'canvas in' as traditionally is done – to create connectedness and bind the content to the device. Mark's delivery was a little nervous to begin, as he himself has acknowledges on tweets, but he soon found his stride. I'd not seen Mark talk before, and admire his design and typographical approach, so found this enjoyable.
Sarah Parmenter – Crafting User Experiences
I missed Sazzy's talk at DIBI, having stayed in a Build track, so it was a first for me. Sarah focused on the more emotional level of design and UX. Rapid cognition, sensation transference and how to connect on an emotional level to influence actions and reactions. A few good branding examples involving Coke and Pepsi showed where she was heading, and the colour chart that maps colours to different emotions around the world was great (for instance, while red may mean love in the West, it's green in some Eastern countries). Unfortunately, I think the session lost it's way a little towards the end, a few more strong examples of execution would have been good as Sazzy alluded to how you could use the emotional ties in UX for a shopping cart system, but while the ballon and card marketing for her agency was good, but I'd have preferred a more recognised brand, and not self-focused.
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Elliot Jay Stocks – With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
I like Elliot. He's one of these people who can design, program, draw, play musical instruments and basically – I think – turn his hand to anything creative. He's also really bloody modest. His session was a rant, a rebellion against the over use of the Web 2.0 look that is prevalent in online design. He calls it the "distraction of the real", trying to make everything look like a real object by overuse of bevels, shadows and no real consideration to content. Good examples about traditional design styles, a look at print design, humour, typography and actually admitting that "giving in was ok" when a client wanted some of these drop shadow and real adornments, based on their audience. He'd get on well with our Creative Director who bloody hates the over embellishment by designers who've learnt "on the job".
Jon Tan – Language and the Lizard Brain
A comment Jon's friend made to him, about the brain having a small area that literally had no language. This struck a chord with Jon, and he talked about connections on an emotional level, and how we can elicit response from colour and shape, without knowing meaning. He used a couple of typographical examples for this with the words love and hate (written in a foreign language) in fonts that said exactly the opposite. He showed how the designer for Blue Note records could design a cover that spoke volumes about the audio content of the record, despite not particularly liking jazz, because someone had written what kind of emotional response and feeling the record should produce. He even wove in a Bruce Lee slide and quote to illustrate his points. Good stuff!
Q&A session 1 –
A few questions that had been sent in via the twitter back channel, and a few from the crowd.
Lunch –
Interesting point about lunch. Because the conference was running a little behind schedule, Colly and the organisers had been following the back channel on Twitter – #naconf – and adjusted timings accordingly, cutting things short when people were complaining about being hungry around 1ish. Very smart.
Tim Van Damme – Designing On Solid Foundations
Tim tackled the issues of one hit wonder, pixel heavy sites compared to relatively clean and minimal design on sites that keep you coming back for more. Calling us all Web Bums, for doing the same kind of job and getting paid as we do for free for our own projects, he urged us to make lists about the Good and Bad after a project, see where we can refine our processes. He talked a lot about best approaches for handling clients and the process in general. Tim's delivery was a bit stilted, not because English is not his native tongue, but because it felt like this talk was brand new, and he was still getting to grips and trying it on.
Greg Wood – Art Direction & Editorial Design on the Web: Does it Work?
One of Greg's first slides had us laughing, about being able to piss a 50 mile bike ride, and his slides were all beautifully presented. Greg set out to illustrate the connection between seeing and experiencing, and how good art direction will connect and resonate with a reader with greater impact. And he was right, as he backed it up with stats from his own personal test with styled and unstyled content. Very interesting results, and I know Howie really got a lot from this talk. I think this may have been Greg's first talk to a big audience, as he began brightly, but his delivery dried a little as he neared the end. Biggest reason for this, I reckon, was that he literally read out what was on the (well designed) slides. Still, the actual message and stats were very enlightening.
Veerle Pieters – Unraveling the Mysteries of Inspiration
Veerle's choice of subject was going to cause problems. Inspiration is unmeasurable and almost indefinable, you set the conditions up time and time again, sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. Her artwork and illustration was beautiful, and I found her lilting accent a little hypnotic, but it certainly did not get in the way of the delivery. Veerle talked her way through a piece of work, how she got started, how she was inspired, how she mixed it up to change track and put her mark on it. Good slides but nothing earth shattering. I think the best takeaway from Veerle's session was the sources of her inspiration, her Firewall. She chose a tough subject to articulate, and that did show at times.
Refreshments –
Andy Clarke – Once Upon a Time In The West
Like him or loathe him, Malarkey can tell great story. Confident, well dressed and sharp wits and words, he is a great speaker. I've seen him twice before at Speak the Web and DIBI, and enjoyed them immensely. This talk was different. There wasn't one slide with code on. There was no rant about supporting IE and designing in a browser. He talked about telling a story, using comic books formatting to speed up, slow down and give sense of size and space through clever boxing of content. He did apply this to how design can be expansive and let the brain fill in the blanks and how this may work on new devices like the iPad, but generally, we were there to think a little differently than we may normally do, sans grids.
Brendan Dawes – Produced for Use
I've known Bren for about 15 years. I've seen him on his soap box and riffing in a studio and on stage, but bloody hell he was on fire at #naconf. Bren's been trying to declutter his life, and get rid of consumer products he doesn't use, but get excited about the inherent beauty in products that do their job well. Crap tea strainers and paper clips from different countries, delivered in his "favourite uncle" style, I tell you, he had us all in stitches. Stand out line was when advocating a bit of digital play time, he said "Yeah, it's in Flash, and guess what? Nobody died!" to which we gave him a round of applause. Bren's approach to work is very creative and not tied to a platform or medium. He just makes things. A few glimpses at actual live projects and his latest acquisition, a Maker Bot, added oomph to his ranting, and showed he's not full of shit. Great pick to be on last, he really gave the conference a massive, massive finish.
Q&A session 2 –
Again, a few questions that had been sent in via the twitter back channel, and a few from the crowd.
Thank you and goodbye –
After party –
The after party was at Escucha (Spanish for "listening") where we got to catch up with all the online friends you don't see often, or have yet to meet. Great bunch of people, from luminaries like Jon Hicks (taller than I thought) and Elliot mixing it with the crowd and chatting, to a bunch of Irish design students, who had the balls to introduce themselves and listen intently to industry advice.
Thoughts –
Colly has undoubtedly given the best inaugural birthing to a conference he possibly could (sorry DIBI, he just about pinched your newly acquired crown!) A brilliant community feel, great mix of speakers, lovely venue and exceptionally good price point made it all very worth while. If I could change anything, I'd move the date, as so soon after Christmas, some people's pocket have taken a pounding, but I am really looking for a reason to be pick on here. I'm very much looking forward to next years event, and seeing how other people can up their ante in the aftermath of such a high quality event.
Thank you Colly and team, it was awesome.
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This morning I walked a few miles to the lighthouse at the end of the land at the end of the world (Finisterra) here. It was a beautiful walk in the cool wind and sun and clouds. But the rain comes in batches here. I wrote the following as I waited in a glassed-in bar at the lighthouse for one of those rains to pass.
Rain beats against the windows. Fog builds up on the inside. I can almost not see the ocean below. To the east only a wall of grey white, to the west some clearing but the rain continues to run heavily down the windows. I can barely see the big rock in the water below. Two walkers come in water flowing off their raincoats and backpacks. We will be all together for a while, the ten or so that wandered in before the rain and the two who just arrived…. But maybe not so long; the sky is already getting lighter in the direction where the rain is coming from…. A german couple ventures out. The rain is less. Only a few drops on the ground now. Two more, no three, venture out. It's over. I can head bck to Finisterra. Looks cold. Not so as I walk out. The sun is already shining brightly and the yellow flowers on the mountainside are brilliant. A 15-minute shower is history.


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Diamante Blackmon, better known as Carnage, is a DJ who currently resides in Los Angeles. Known for his upbeat and high-energy performances, Carnage has quickly scaled the ranks to be one of the most recognizable DJs in today's Electronic Dance Music industry.
As a teen, Carnage was a rapper, but learned how to DJ by observing some friends and watching videos online. Carnage got an opportunity to collaborate on a music video in New Orleans while still in high school, and his career took off from there. Some of his most popular songs include "Incredible", "Signal", and "Michael Jordan", and he has also collaborated with artists such as G-Eazy and Migos.
Although his primary genre is Electronic Dance Music, Carnage is a diverse musician with multi-genre abilities. He enjoys and impulsive lifestyle and does not feel the need to be constrained to one genre of music. He plays whatever he is feeling and is truly a free spirit.
Carnage continues to stay in touch with his fans on Facebook and Twitter, where he started the hashtag of #ChipotleGang after his favorite place to eat. It was quickly trending worldwide, and was rewarded by Chipotle by receiving free Chipotle for life. Today, Carnage spends a lot of time on the road performing all over the country and of course will be making a stop in Cancun for Inception Music Festival 2015!
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Conduct & Discipline
Failure of the candidate in making full and correct Statements in the application form and/or suppression of any information and/or submission of false documents shall lead to disqualification of the candidate for MHT-CET Exam, or even at later date during the Admission Process. Such a candidate will be debarred from the examination as well as the entire selection process. Therefore the candidate is required to make only such claims which could be substantiated by relevant original documents.
Adopting any unfair means or engaging in malpractice in the examination shall render a candidate liable for punishment under, "Maharashtra Prevention of Malpractices Act, Universities, Board and Other Specified Examination Act, 1982" and disqualify him/her for MHT-CET Examination.
If any person(s) or officer(s) dealing with the conduct of the MHT-CET are found engaged in act(s) that would result in the leakage of question paper or attempt to use or help in the use of unfair means in this examination he/she shall be liable to prosecution under Indian Penal Code.
Any issue not dealt here-in above will be dealt with, when arising, fully and finally by the Competent Authority.
Notwithstanding anything contained in these Rules, if the Govt. takes any policy decision pertaining to F.E. admission, then the same shall be brought in to effect at that point of time as per the directives from the Govt. from time to time. Students while studying in any college, if found indulging in anti-national activities contrary to the provisions of Acts and Laws enforced by Government or in any activity contrary to rules of discipline, will be liable to be expelled from the college without any notice by the Principal of the college.
Condition of minimum attendance: The Students will not be allowed to appear for the examination if he/she does not attends minimum 75 per cent classes of theory, practical, drawing etc.


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Today WKN World office is very proud to introduce you our NEW WKN IRAN official Representative
NEW WKN REPRESENTATION : Mr NASER KHORASANI IN CHARGE TO DEVELOP WKN IN IRAN
Tale of the tape of NEW WKN representative in IRAN :
- Name: Naser
- Surname: KHORASANI
- Date of Birth: 29/12/1968
- City : Mashhad
- Profession: Coach / Trainer
- Family Status: Married
Personal History in Fight Sport / Martial Arts Qualifications of Naser Khorasani :
· Taekwondo :
Black Belt (1992)
· Sport Kick Boxing (SKF) :
Black Belt (Dan 4)
Iran Martial Arts Federation
· WAKO Kick Boxing:
Black Belt (Dan 4)
Iran Karate Federation
· First Degree Trainer
Iran Boxing Federation
· First Degree Referee
Iran Martial Arts Federation
· First Degree Trainer
Iran Martial Arts Federation
Why Have You Chosen to Represent WKN : Since kickboxing is getting very popular in Iran we are going to cooperate with one of the best organizations in the world and that is WKN because it is very active and well known.
What are your projects in future with WKN in IRAN ? Considering that Iran is a big country with a lot of potentials in martial arts the population of Iran is over 70 million so I am going to get kickboxing known to everyone by promoting various events all over the country in different provinces such as national championships and participating in World championships and international events.


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Qiao Anxia faced a room full of people and joking said, "You can call me Da Qiao, and my sister Xiao Qiao."
"Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao, honestly you are a beautiful pair of sisters."
Qiao Anxia's personality had always been outgoing. After talking with new people for no longer than three minutes, she could already be getting along well with them. And so, her arrival, not only did it not kill the mood, it actually lifted it. All that could be heard in the entire party room were, "Da Qiao, which university did you graduate from?", "Da Qiao, how did you meet Chen Yang?", and "Da Qiao, why don't you sing us a song?".
Qiao Anhao sat quietly next to Lu Jinnian She was used to these kind of scenes. After she found out her parents had pa.s.sed away, she couldn't go back and had to live at her uncle's house, so she gradually lost the same confidence and cheerfulness that Qiao Anxia had in her bones. In most cases, whenever Qiao Anxia and she went out, Qiao Anxia would always easily get along with others. Yet, she would always sit quietly to one side, and smile as she watched her.
The sounds of drinking, chatting, singing, and laughing were all over the lively party room. Yet, all this commotion seemed to have no affect on Lu Jinnian beside her. He maintained a calm posture where he sat on the sofa, staring at his phone.
Next to him, Qiao Anhao would sneak a peek at him every now and then. When she unintentionally caught sight of his phone screen, she learned that he was looking through Huan Ying Entertainment's reports.
Even in a noisy place like this, he still managed to work! Qiao Anhao couldn't help but quietly let out a sigh. From the bottom of her heart, she silently thought, 'If he had to work, what was the point in coming here?'
Qiao Anhao sat in the party room for quite some time, and grew a little bored. She stepped out to go to the restroom. Coincidentally, coming out from the cubicle, she b.u.mped right into Qiao Anxia.
"Qiao Qiao." Qiao Anxia reached out and patted Qiao Anhao on the head.
Qiao Anhao rubbed the part where she was touched. She fixed her hair up, then quickly grabbed Qiao Anxia, who was about to enter the cubicle, "Big sis, what's actually going on? How come you're with Chen Yang?"
"We b.u.mped into each other at a charity event the week before last. We exchanged numbers, got talking, and we felt like we both got along quite well, so we started dating," Qiao Anxia said in a light-hearted tone.
"But awhile ago, didn't you say that you liked Lu Jinnian..." Qiao Anhao genuinely cared about Qiao Anxia, but she also wanted to know how she actually felt about Lu Jinnian.
When Qiao Anxia heard the two words, "Lu Jinnian", she thought back to the image of her being rejected by him not so long ago. Immediately, she pursed her lips and interrupted Qiao Anhao. "He said he has someone he likes, and that person isn't me. If the love from one is unrequited by the other, why should I waste any more time on him?"


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If any of my readers hunger and thirst for information concerning the descent of the cat through marsupial ancestors and mesozoic mammals to the generalized placental or monodelphous carnivora of to-day, let them consult St. George Mivart, who gives altogether the most comprehensive and exhaustive scientific study to the cat ever published, and whose book on the cat is an excellent work for the earnest beginner in the study of biological science. He says no more complete example can be found of a perfectly organized living being than that supplied by the highest mammalian family—Felidae.
"On the whole," he sums up, "it seems probable that the mammalia, and therefore the cat, descends from some highly developed, somewhat reptile-like batrachian of which no trace has been found."
Away back in the eighth century of the Hegira, an Arab naturalist gives this account of the creation of the cat: "When, as the Arab relates, Noah made a couple of each animal to enter the ark, his companions and family asked, 'What security can you give us and the other animals, so long as the lion dwells with us on this narrow vessel?' Then Noah betook himself to prayer, and entreated the Lord God. Immediately fever came down from heaven and seized upon the king of beasts." This was the origin of fever. But constituents in Noah's time, as now, were ungrateful; and no sooner was the lion disposed of, than the mouse was discovered to be an object of suspicion. They complained that there would be no safety for provisions or clothing. "And so Noah renewed his supplication to the Most High, the lion sneezed, and a cat ran out of his nostrils. From that time the mouse has been timid and has hidden in holes."
In the Egyptian gallery of the British Museum there is an excellent painting of a tabby cat assisting a man to capture birds. Hieroglyphic inscriptions as far back as 1684 B.C. mention the cat, and there is at Leyden a tablet of the eighteenth or nineteenth dynasty with a cat seated under a chair. A temple at Beni-Hassan is dedicated to Pasht or Bubastis, the goddess of cats, which is as old as Thothmes IV of the eighteenth dynasty, 1500 B.C.; and the cat appears in written rituals of that dynasty. Herodotus tells of the almost superstitious reverence which dwellers along the Nile felt for the cat, and gravely states that when one died a natural death in any house, the inmates shaved their eyebrows as a token of grief; also, that in case of a fire the first thing they saved was the household cat. Fortunate pussies! /
It is thought that cats were introduced into Greece from Egypt, although Professor Rolleston, of Cambridge University, believes the Grecian pet cat to have been the white-breasted marten. Yet why should he? Is not a soft, white-breasted maltese or tabby as attractive? The idea that cats were domesticated in Western Europe by the Crusaders is thought to be erroneous; but pet cats were often found in nunneries in the Middle Ages, and Pope Gregory the Great, toward the end of the sixth century, had a pet cat of which he was very fond.
An old writer says, "A favorite cat sometimes accompanied the Egyptians on these occasions [of sport], and the artist of that day intends to show us by the exactness with which he represents her seizing her prey, that cats were trained to hunt and carry water-fowl." There are old Egyptian paintings representing sporting scenes along the Nile, where the cats plunge into the water of the marshes to retrieve and carry game; while plenty of mural paintings show them sitting under the arm-chair of the mistress of the house. Modern naturalists, however, claim a radical difference between those old Egyptian retrieving cats and our water-hating pussies. There are no records of cats between that period in Egypt, about 1630 B.C., and 260 B.C., when they seem to have become acclimated in Greece and Rome. There is in the Bordeaux Museum an ancient picture of a young girl holding a cat, on a tomb of the Gallo-Roman Epoch, and cats appeared in the heraldry of that date; but writers of those ages speak rather slightingly of them. Then for centuries the cat was looked upon as a diabolic creature, fit company for witches.
"Why," says Balthazar Bekker in the seventeenth century, "is a cat always found among the belongings of witches, when according to the Sacred Book, and Apocalypse in particular, it is the dog, not a feline animal, that consorts with the sorcerers?"
In Russia even yet the common people believe that black cats become devils at the end of seven years, and in many parts of Southern Europe they are still supposed to be serving apprenticeship as witches. In Sicily the peasants are sure that if a black cat lives with seven masters, the soul of the seventh will surely accompany him back to the dominion of Hades. In Brittany there is a dreadful tale of cats that dance with unholy glee around the crucifix while their King is being put to death. Cats figure in Norwegian folk-lore, too, as witches and picturesque incumbents of ghost-haunted houses and nocturnal revels. And even to-day there is a legend in Westminster to the effect that the dissipated cats of that region indulge in a most disreputable revel in some country house, and that is why they look so forlorn and altogether undone by daylight.
1. New Mexican hairless cats: owned by T.J. Shinick,
A canon enacted in England in 1127 forbade any abbess or nun to use more costly fur than that of lambs or cats, and it is proved that cat-fur was at that time commonly used for trimming dresses. The cat was, probably for that reason, an object of chase in royal forests, and a license is still in existence from Richard II to the Abbot of Peterborough, and dated 1239, granting liberty to hunt cats. This was probably the wild cat, however, which was not the same as the domestic.[1]
That cats, even in the Middle Ages, were thought much more highly of in Great Britain than on the Continent is proved by the fact that the laws there imposed a heavy fine on cat-killers, the fine being as much wheat as would serve to bury the cat when he was held up by the tip of the tail with his nose on the ground. So that pet cats stood a fairly good chance in those days.
One of the good things remembered of Louis XIII is that he interceded as Dauphin with Henri IV for the lives of the cats about to be burned at the festival on St. John's Day.
Nowadays, there is a current superstition that a black cat brings good luck to a house; but in the Middle Ages they believed that the devil borrowed the form of a black cat when he wanted to torment or get control of his victims. There are plenty of old traditions about cats having spoken to human beings, and been kicked, or struck, or burned by them in return; and invariably, these tales tell us, those who are so bespoken meet some one the next day with plain marks of the injury they had inflicted on the froward cat,—which was sure evidence of witchery and sorcery. Doubtless full many a human being has been put to death, in times past, on no stronger evidence of being a witch. Humanity did not come to the rescue of the cat and bring her out from the shadow of ignominy that hung over her in mediaeval times until 1618, when an interdict was issued in Flanders prohibiting the festive ceremony of throwing cats from the high tower of Ypres on Wednesdays of the second week in Lent. And from that time Pussy's fortunes began to look up.
To-day, travellers on the edge of the Pyrenees know a little old man, Martre Tolosan, who makes and sells replicas of the original models of cats found among the Roman remains at a small town near Toulouse. These are made in blue and white earthenware and each one is numbered. Mine, bought by a friend in 1895, is marked 5000. They are not exact models of our cats of to-day, to be sure, but they express all the snug content and inscrutable calm of our modern pets.
The Chinese reproduce cats in their ceramics in white, turquoise blue, and old violet. One that once belonged to Madame de Mazarin sold for eight hundred livres. In Japan, cats are reproduced in common ware, daubed with paint, but the Chinese make them of finer ware, enamelling the commoner kinds of porcelain and using the cat in conventional forms as flower-vases and lamps.[1] These are among the laws supposedly enacted by Hoel Dha (Howell the Good) sometime between 915 and 948 A.D.
The Vendotian Code XI.
The worth of a cat and her teithi (qualities) this is:—
1st. The worth of a kitten from the night it is kittened until it shall open its eyes, is one penny.
2d. And from that time until it shall kill mice, two pence.
3d. And after it shall kill mice, four legal pence; and so it shall always remain.
4th. Her teithe are to see, to hear, to kill mice, and to have her claws.
This is the "Dimentian Code." XXXII. Of Cats.
1st. The worth of a cat that is killed or stolen. Its head to be put downward upon a clean, even floor, with its tail lifted upward and thus suspended, whilst wheat is poured about it until the top of its tail be covered and that is to be its worth. If the corn cannot be had, then a milch sheep with a lamb and its wool is its value, if it be a cat that guards the king's barn.
2d. The worth of a common cat is four legal pence.
3d. The teithi of a cat, and of every animal upon the milk of which people do not feed, is the third part of its worth or the worth of its litter.
4th. Whosoever shall sell a cat (cath) is to answer that she devour not her kittens, and that she have ears, teeth, eyes, and nails, and be a good mouser.
The "Gwentian Code" begins in the same way, but says:—
3d. That it be perfect of ear, perfect of eye, perfect of teeth, perfect of tail, perfect of claw, and without marks of fire. And if the cat fall short in any of these particulars, a third of her price had to be refunded. As to the fire, in case her fur had been singed the rats could detect her by the odor, and her qualities as a mouser were thus injured. And then it goes on to say:—
4th. That the teithi and the legal worth of a cat are coequal.
5th. A pound is the worth of a pet animal of the king.
6th. The pet animal of a breyer (brewer) is six score pence in value.
7th. The pet animal of a taoog is a curt penny in value.
In the 39th chapter, 53d section, we find that "there are three animals whose tails, eyes, and lives are of the same value—a calf, a filly for common work, and a cat, except the cat which shall watch the king's barn," in which case she was more valuable.
Another old Welsh law says: "Three animals reach their worth in a year: a sheep, a cat, and a cur. This is a complement of the legal hamlet; nine buildings, one plough, one kiln, one churn, and one cat, one cock, one bull, and one herdsman."
In order that there might be no mistake in regard to the cat, a rough sketch of Puss is given in the Mss. of the laws.
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The Labor Day holiday is traced back to the Knights of Labor and a parade they organized in New York on September 5, 1882. There's a good article from the Detroit News though about another laborer who developed the idea and organized his own parade earlier that year. It got got the attention of the Knights of Labor who moved the idea forward.
History has almost forgotten Peter McGuire, an Irish-American cabinet maker and pioneer unionist who proposed a day dedicated to all who labor. Old records describe him as a red-headed, fiery, eloquent leader of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
McGuire introduced his idea formally at a meeting of the Central Labor Union on May 18,1882. "Let us have, a festive day during which a parade through the streets of the city would permit public tribute to American Industry," he said.
The following September New York workers staged a parade up Broadway to Union Square. Few, if any, workers got the day off. Most were warned against marching in the parade with the threat of getting fired. Despite the warning, more than 10,000 workers showed up for the march. Led by mounted police, bricklayers in white aprons paraded with a band playing "Killarney." The marchers passed a reviewing stand crowded with Knights of Labor: a holiday was born. McGuire's holiday moved across the country as slowly as did recognition of the rights of the working man.
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Value Creation Partnership (Wertschöpfungs-Pakt Chemie)
With their chemical materials and processes know-how, the 260 members of the Chemie-Cluster Bayern (The Chemistry Cluster of Bavaria) provide numerous opportunities to respond to current industrial issues. Particularly in the fields of mobility, consumer goods and heavy industry, many urgent technological requirements from system integrators could be addressed with chemical solutions. It is only the "gap" between chemical suppliers and industrial OEMs in the value creation chain which prevents the efficient development of such "hidden markets".
In the "Value Creation Partnership – solving today's problems", chemical companies and universities volunteer as innovation partners for companies from other industries. Through the joint discussion of current issues, the Cluster's members can take advantage of a service function for industrial user segments, especially for those who are not closely involved in chemical supply chains. The aim of this dialogue is to create added value through chemical product enhancements – as new opportunities are created for both chemical suppliers and industrial users.
The label "Value Creation Partnership" first and foremost stands for a confidential, highly efficient, worldwide industrial network. Its partners are committed to a defined process in order to advance technology intensive cooperation on the basis of IP protection and strict market rules.
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During Michael Gove's tenure as Secretary Of State for Education, he was reported to be the least popular politician in Britain. His reforms to the education system were met with opposition by teaching unions, and his policies led to strikes, protests, and eventually to Prime Minister David Cameron moving him sideways to the post of Chief Whip during a recent government reshuffle.
One of the most common criticisms of Gove was that he was an ideologue; that his reforms were rooted in an immutable belief system - an ideology - without taking into account the evidence of research studies or the opinions of either experts or the public. (Interestingly, if your main opposition to a policy if that it is 'ideological', then it follows that your opposition to it is also rooted in ideology - but that is probably a topic best explored another time.)
Strangely, however, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrat party Nick Clegg has also received a lot of criticism during this parliamentary term - but for exactly the opposite reasons. Clegg has been branded a 'sell-out', and cruelly mocked online and in the popular press for appearing to ditch his principles and beliefs for a slice of power in a coalition government with David Cameron's Conservatives.
Often, it is in fact the same people who attack Gove's dogmatic idealism on the one hand, and Clegg's political expediency on the other. These inconsistents need to make up their mind about what they actually want; do they really want politicians who act out of principle and conviction, and stick doggedly to what they know in their hearts to be right, even in the face of fierce opposition - or do they want politicians who listen to the public, and to activists and focus groups, and supplely bend with each shift in prevailing opinion, adapting their world view to suit what the voters want?
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Unfortunately, in politics people will disagree with you sometimes - often, in fact. Now, you can prefer the idea of politicians who are principled and do what they believe is right, or politicians who are pragmatic and listen to people, but wanting the best of both worlds all the time is not very realistic - and, frankly, a little immature.


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How to Test a Mobile Website
Mobile browser usage is increasing every day. According to StatCounter, phone and tablet usage accounts for about 30% of web traffic. This means that consumer expectations for mobile websites are higher than ever. Even with smart techniques like mobile-first responsive design, testing a site before delivery is critical due to the overwhelming variety of mobile devices that are available to consumers.
There are many different ways to test websites on mobile devices, but they are not all created equal. Here are five different methods to test a mobile site, ordered from the most ideal to the least favorable.
1. Test on Real Mobile Devices
It's always best to test a website on real devices, because there are many parts of the experience that simply can't be emulated or faked. The user experience contains many factors like variable network conditions, pixel densities, the relative size of tap targets, and real page load times. In a perfect world, every website would be tested on every mobile device that it might be viewed on.
Of course, comprehensive testing is not practical, because time and money are always a factor on any project. However, it's still a smart idea to invest in a mobile device test suite. If you're running a client business that's any larger than just you, this is essential. A mobile device test suite typically consists of a few of the most popular web browsing devices. This enables physical testing under real-world conditions and allows near 1-to-1 parity with what a user will actually experience. Brad Frost wrote an excellent article about which mobile devices to test (the article is a few years old now, but the general principles should remain the same).
If a mobile device test suite is out of your budget, the next best thing is to use your own smartphone and mobile devices. Most likely, you're using an iOS or Android phone, which will at least give you some idea of what a large portion of the population will see. If you have some friends or family members that are using other mobile platforms, then you can probably quickly check it out on their devices, too (ask nicely).
2. Use the iOS Simulator and Android Emulator
There's no substitute for the physical hardware, but software emulators are still pretty decent. The emulators for iOS and Android are mostly designed for testing native apps, but they also include the default web browsers for each device which will show you a very good approximation of how pages will be rendered. I say approximation because they still won't show real network conditions, page load times, the relative size of tap targets, and other details that can be gleaned from physical devices. However, the rendering engines will still be functionally equivalent which can help you spot cross-browser issues.
The iOS simulator is a tool available within Xcode. First, install Xcode from the Mac App Store. Then, go to the Xcode menu and select Xcode > Open Developer Tool > iOS Simulator. Unfortunately Xcode is Mac only, so if you're on Windows or Linux, you'll have to test with another method.
The Android emulator is included with the Android SDK. You can read more about the Android emulator here.
3. Test on BrowserStack
If you can't get your hands on a device testing suite and installing the iOS and Android software emulators doesn't work out, there are still more options. BrowserStack is a web service that provides access to desktop and mobile devices so that web professionals can test their sites.
It is a paid service, so for completeness, I should mention that this is not a paid endorsement. However, I have spotted a few free screenshot services over the years, and as the idiom goes, you get what you pay for. BrowserStack is more than just screenshots, because they also make it possible to interact directly with web pages on test devices. Even if you do have a device testing suite, BrowserStack is still pretty great to fill in any holes that you might have missed.
4. Check using Responsinator
You should always strive for testing on real devices or at least an accurate simulation of those devices. However, if for some reason that's not possible, the solutions start to open up quite a lot, because it basically just involves resizing a desktop web browser. There are many fancy tools that will do this, but one of the most straightforward tools in this category is Responsinator.
Simply visit the Responsinator website, type in your own URL at the top of the page, and it will generate live previews for you that are resized to the same resolutions as many popular devices. This can be helpful for a quick "sanity check", but remember that this is not a substitute for real device testing or even using a simulator, because it's using the same rendering engine as your browser. In other words, it doesn't magically render sites using mobile browser rendering engines. Rather, it's just the same as resizing your browser to a specific size.
5. Resize the Browser
While developing a site, it's very common for designers and developers to quickly check responsive behavior by resizing a desktop browser. This works perfectly fine while coding and should be encouraged. However, it's the most basic form of testing and really shouldn't be called "testing" at all. While it can be helpful for quick checks when making responsive code changes, it doesn't even begin to compare to all the other testing methods. The browser sizes are arbitrary, the rendering engines are different, there's no network delay, and so on. There's too many differences for this to be substituted for real-world rigor.
How do you test?
This is not a comprehensive list. While this covers most of the major categories of mobile website testing, there are still a few in-between that I may have missed, and certainly a huge number of responsive testing tools that were not mentioned. If you have a unique way of testing mobile sites or you test in a way that's not mentioned, I'd love to hear about it in the comments!
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Hey there! I could have sworn I've been to this website before but after reading through some of the post I realized it's new
to me. Anyhow, I'm definitely delighted I found it
and I'll be book-marking and checking back often!
I usually resize for a fast way but more comprehensively I use the Google Mobile-friendly test tool https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/.
Jay Parker
I use several tools form form testing and ui, but i find myself always using the spider/crawler tools like https://www.crawlmonster.com more than any other.
You could also try setting up an ad hoc network, its really straightforward on mac and pc, then you can just use the phones browser to navigate to the local IP of the machine, and voila, you can see your local development on a live device.
Do it all the time.
Google Chrome Canary is the best testing platform / browser I have ever used.
Its pretty much spot on. And being responsive web design focused developer, it makes my life easy.
I use http://websitequality.zomdir.com to test my mobile website. Better said, I use the tools recommend by Website Quality at a Glance.
I have a few tablets and smartphones to test sites with real devices as that's still the most accurate way. Lately I've been using Ghostlab to make device testing even easier, even locally. A nice way to save a bit of money is to buy some second hand devices which are a bit older. They are also great to test several software versions like Android 3.x/4.x and iOS 6/7
I test on devices as soon as possible. I covered some possibilities of testing within a responsive project in a slidedeck. See http://maddesigns.de/responsive-testing/ maybe it's helpful.
I can not wait to try out the Responsinator! One thing that I have always used on top of trying on an actual device is the Resizer tool, its really cool: http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer. Viewport resizer is a browser-based tool to test any website's responsiveness.
Nick Pettit
Thanks for mentioning this. There are definitely a lot of browser resizing tools out there. One I like to use is this Chrome extension called Window Resizer: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/window-resizer/kkelicaakdanhinjdeammmilcgefonfh?hl=en
Chris Gray
Another really good tool is Ghostlab(http://vanamco.com/ghostlab/), it works by creating a local web server which you then browse to on your respective devices. It then mirrors your interactions on one device across all of them. They also offer a really handy device stand call the Devicelab (http://devicelab.vanamco.com/) which allows you to put all of your devices on one easy to see stand.
Here you can create a free website http://www.glu7.com/
Steve Barnett
If you can't afford (or don't want) to get a set of devices to test on for yourself, you should also check to see if an Open Device Lab (http://opendevicelab.com/) is near you. You get free access to a variety of devices, and there are labs all over the world!
Nick Pettit
Definitely a great resource to mention!
Samiullah Khan
Browser Stack is paid service, Android Emulator is hard to set. So we are left with real devices, but they all aren't available to any one. So we are left with browser resize, or in browser emulations
Nick Pettit
Yep, it's definitely tough. Mobile testing is something where you just have to do the best you can.
Samiullah Khan
I wish every OS have those simulator built In. So that we can link that simulator with our favorite text editors like sublime text. Open File in Simulator***
Chrome dev tools is also a great tool that I think should be considered when testing for multiple device sizes.
Nick Pettit
Definitely! I plan to write a post about this at some point in the future.
Erin Brown
Be wary of Dev Tools. I was developing a responsive design and when I tested it on Dev Tools and then on the iPhone and an Android device, the results were very different.
I could understand the rendering for iPhone possibly being off, but Android surprised me.
Perhaps Google is fixing the issue?
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Alex, Bruce and Pat break down USA v Canada, the DIA and Elite Cup Finals, and look ahead to the CRC. All in one show!
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