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Table of Contents
- Installation
- Custom Menu
- Custom Background
- Default Layout Configuration
- Specific Layout Per Post/Page
- Set up Homepage Featured Slider
- Custom CSS
- How to Disable Page Comments
- Recommended Image Sizes
- How to set up Blog Page
- Translation
- Social Icons
- Change color scheme
- Footer copyright information
- Other
1. Installation
2. Custom Menu
Travelify supports WordPress Custom Menus. Here is how to use them:
- In WordPress dashboard go to Appearance->Menus.
- Give your Custom Menu a name and build it up using little widgets on the left.
- You can add pages, categories or custom URL's.
- You can drag and drop menu items to arrange them.
- Now simply select the theme location(Primary Menu) in the upper left corner and choose your newly created custom menu. Afterwards, click Save.
For more information see Custom Menus Help.
3. Custom Background
Travelify theme supports WordPress Custom Backgrounds feature.
- In WordPress dashboard go to Appearance->Background.
- You can either set the image or color as background.
- You can see the background preview on the same setting page.
- Click Save Changes when you are satisfied with what you see.
- You can always reset theme default background via WP Customize options.
4.Default Layout Configuration
There are different layouts for Travelify theme and you can set any layout to be your default layout. This theme has several layout options: No Sidebar, No Sidebar/Full Width, No Sidebar/One Column, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar. By default theme uses Right Sidebar. To change default Theme Layout follow these instructions:
- Go to Appearance->Theme Options->Main Options->Layout Options.
- Choose on of the 5 default layouts.
- Click on Save all Changes.
5. Specific Layout Per Post/Page
Travelify theme allows you to choose the specific layout for every post and page display. This will override default theme layout you set on step 5.
- Open any Post or Page.
- You will see a box named "Select layout for this specific Post only" at the bottom of the post editor page.
- This feature might be disabled but you can always enable it via Screen Options.
- If your select Default Layout set in Theme Settings , the layout set in the Theme Options Layout Configuration will be layout for this post as well.
- Select layout you want to use for this post or page and hit Update to save changes.
6. Set up Homepage Featured Slider
- Create Post or Page and add featured image to it.
- Go to Theme Options->Featured Slider
- Choose how many slides you want to display on front page.
- Add all the Post ID that you want to use in the featured slider. Post ID can be found at All Posts table in last column
- Choose transition style and other settings at "Slider Options"
- Featured Slider will show featured images, Title and excerpt of the respected added post IDs.
- The recommended image size is 1018px x 460px.
7. Custom CSS
Theme allows to use Custom CSS. This feature will overwrite the theme's default style.css.
- In the WordPress dashboard go to Appearance->Theme Options->Main Options->Custom CSS(Advanced).
- Add your own CSS and save it using Save All Changes button.
8. How to Disable Page Comments
- Open particular page on which you want to turn off comments via WP dashboard.
- Look for the Discussion box below the post editor box.
- It might be disabled but you can enable it via Screen Options.
- Uncheck Allow Comments in the Discussion box and hit Update.
9. Recommended Image Sizes
9.1 Featured image size
- Width: 1018px
- Height: 460px
9.2 Blog Image Large featured images
- Width: 670px
- Height: 300px
9.3 Blog Image Medium featured images
- Width: 230px
- Height: 230px
10.How to set up Blog Page
You can show your Blog page in three different ways:
- Large image with excerpt content
- Medium image with excerpt content
- Full content display.
You can have a look for examples on Travelify Blog demo Steps to setup blog page:
- Create a new page, give it a name (for example "Blog" but you can use any name) and select Blog page template from Template dropdown.
- Choose between three options: Blog Full Content Display, Blog Image Large, Blog Image Medium.
- Click Publish.
- Now all your posts will be shown as per your template selection.
If you want to use this newly created Blog using Blog Template to be used on front page you need to do these extra steps:
- Go to WordPress Dashboard – Settings – Reading
- Select "A static page (select below)"
- Choose your previously created blog page for "Front page"
- Now save changes and you will see your chosen Blog Template for Blog in homepage
Note: images for each of the post shown in Blog Layout are featured image for that particular post.
11. Translation
Travelify theme is translation ready which means that you can add a new language with ease. No coding skills are required, just plain text input based on existing English queries. More information on WordPress theme translation you can read here.
12. Social Icons
Social icons in the header like you can see in Travelify Demo can be enabled via WordPress dashboard – Apperance – Theme Options – Social. Add full URL to your profile to make icons visible in your website's header. Only icons that have valid URLs added will be displayed.
13. Change color scheme
Since Travelify 2.0 it is available in 16 million color variations. There are 15 color pickers included to change color of various design elements such as navigation, social icons, buttons, text color and other. These settings and color pickers are based on Theme Customization API and can be accessed via WordPress dashboard – Appearance – Customize.
14.Footer copyright information
Footer default copyright information is hard coded and can't be changed. It will change date and title automatically, so you shouldn't worry about that.
However, there is another option to customize footer information. Since Travelify 2.0 we have created a custom field to add custom copyright or any other information in footer. This field can be found via WordPress dashboard – Appearance – Customize – Travelify Footer.
This field can handle HTML markup, so you can even add images, icons, formated text or whatever you can come up with.


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Polygon 90 Set Concept The polygon_90_set concept tag is polygon_90_set_concept The semantic of a polygon_90_set is zero or more Manhattan geometry regions. The motivation for providing the polygon_90_set_concept is that it is a very common special case of planar geometry which afford the implementation of a variety of optimizations on the general planar geometry algorithms. Manhattan geometry processing by the polygon_90_set_concept can be 100X faster than arbitrary angle polygon manipulation. Because the performance benefits are so large and the special case is important enough, the library provides these performance benefits for those application domains that require them. Users are recommended to use std::vector and std::list of user defined polygons or library provided polygon_90_set_data<coordinate_type> objects. Lists and vectors of models of polygon_90_concept or polygon_90_with_holes_concept or rectangle_concept are automatically models of polygon_90_set_concept. OperatorsThe return type of some operators is the polygon_90_set_view operator template type. This type is itself a model of the polygon_90_set concept, but furthermore can be used as an argument to the polygon_90_set_data constructor and assignment operator. The operator template exists to eliminate temp copies of intermediate results when Boolean operators are chained together. Operators are declared inside the namespace boost::polygon::operators.
Polygon 90 Set Data Object The polygon 90 set data type encapsulates the internal data format that serves as the input to the sweep-line algorithm that implements polygon-clipping boolean operations. It also internally keeps track of whether that data has been sorted or scanned and maintains the invariant that when its flags indicate that the data is sorted or scanned the data has not been changed to violate that assumption. Using the Polygon 90 Set Data type directly can be more efficient than using lists and vectors of polygons in the functions above because of the invariants it can enforce which provide the opportunity to maintain the data is sorted form rather than going all the way out to polygons then resorting those vertices for a subsequent operation. The declaration of Polygon 90 Set Data is the following: template <typename T> The class is parameterized on the coordinate data type. Algorithms that benefit from knowledge of the invariants enforced by the class are implemented as member functions to provide them access to information about those invariants. Member Functions
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2010 College of Engineering Awards
The recipients of 2010 College of Engineering Awards for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are:
Jessy Grizzle
Stephen S. Attwood Award
Jessy Grizzle, Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Professor Engineering, is internationally recognized for his theoretical work on nonlinear control systems. He is performing path-breaking research in the feedback control of bipedal locomotion in machines using the robot MABEL; he is working with engineers at Ford Motor Company to reduce emissions and enhance fuel economy in HEVs; he invented a broadband RF sensor for use in plasma processing systems; and he is involved in a project to improve the regulation of blood glucose levels in ICU patients. Prof. Grizzle is devoted to his students, earning him a CoE Teaching Award, and a student-elected Engineering Professor of the Year award. He is co-author of the book, Feedback Control of Dynamic Bipedal Robot Locomotion. The Stephen S. Attwood Award is the highest faculty achievement award conferred by the College.
Amir Mortazawi
Service Excellence Award
Amir Mortazawi has delivered exceptional service to his profession and to the ECE Division, especially as Chair of the EE Graduate Committee, as an undergraduate instructor, and as a graduate mentor. As EE graduate committee chair, he was committed to attracting top quality students, and during a five-year period under his leadership, saw the GPA of incoming graduate students rise significantly. Alumni still appreciate his helpfulness as graduate advisor for the applied electromagnetics and RF area. In addition to other significant service in the professional community, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of the major journal in his field, Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
Greg Wakefield
Service Excellence Award
Greg Wakefield has shown remarkable leadership in two major service activities within the EECS Department. As Chair of the EECS Curriculum Committee, he established an efficient committee structure for all of the degree programs within the department during an important time of internal departmental restructuring. He also oversaw the most recent successful ABET accreditation process for all four degree programs. Greg has been praised for his valuable contributions to a wide variety of service activities, including the Arts of Earth activities, the CoE International Programs Committee, and the Faculty Grants and Awards Program with OVPR.
David Chesney
Thomas M. Sawyer, Jr. Teaching Award
Dave Chesney has made significant and lasting contributions to teaching, curriculum development and outreach since joining U-M in 2001. In addition to his contributions as an engaging teacher in a variety of courses, his interest in social issues and broad approach to computing led him to develop or co-develop the courses: Gaming for the Greater Good, Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, and Ethics and Information Technology. Dave leads the departmental efforts in K-12 outreach in the area of computing, and focuses on developing new software to enhance the students' learning experience. He is a published author on teaching techniques, and he has addressed the U.S. Dept. of Education as a panelist.
Michael Flynn, Yogesh Gianchandani, Khalil Najafi, Dennis Sylvester, Ken Wise, Ted Zellers
Ted Kennedy Family Team Excellence Award
Professors Michael Flynn, Yogesh Gianchandani, Khalil Najafi, Dennis Sylvester, Ken Wise, and Ted Zellers were key contributors to establishing the University of Michigan as a world-renowned research center in the area of microelectromechancial systems and integrated microsystems. The research efforts have focused on two testbed microsystems. The first is a family of implantable neural prostheses for disorders such as deafness, paralysis, epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease, and the second is a wristwatch-size environmental monitor for pressure, temperature, humidity, radiation-level, and air quality.
Michael Flynn has demonstrated new energy-efficient, flexible and capable interface circuits that connect to the neural prosthesis and environmental monitoring testbeds. He led efforts to develop the Wireless Integrated Sensing Platform system.
Yogesh Gianchandani has done pioneering work on micro-electro-discharge machining, which supplies high voltage to the environmental testbed, and which has been used to form smart stents. His work with microplasmas was used to realize a microGeiger counter for radiation detection.
Khalil Najafi, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering, made major contributions in hermetic and vacuum packaging for inertial sensors, infrared sensors, and radio-frequency resonators used in wireless interfaces. His work in wafer bonding processes for biomedical devices has led to the technology being transferred to the start-up company, ePak.
Dennis Sylvester developed the ultra low power Phoenix processor, which can be used with the intraocular pressure sensors developed by Prof. Wise for glaucoma treatment. The processor runs at low standby power (30pW), making it suitable for other power-critical applications.
Ken Wise, William Gould Dow Distinguished University Professor, is the team leader and Director of the NSF ERC for Integrated Wireless MicroSystems (WIMS). His own research includes cochlear implants for the deaf, neural interfaces for presthetic and neuroscience applications, intraocular pressure monitoring for glaucoma diagnosis, and gas analysis systems based on chromatography.
Ted Zellers, from the School of Public Health, was instrumental in the development of the gas chromatograph, overseeing everything from system architecture to component integration and testing. He demonstrated the detection of biomarkers for tuberculosis and lung cancer.


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Find your way around with this walkthrough!
by Alexander Tait
BEGINNING FLOOR (2nd)
Cryogenic chamber room
You wake up in your bedroom. Somehow you've gotten out of the cryogenic tank. Look around. There are quite a number of useful items to be found. At the moment, all you have is your "electronic goaler" (gaoler/jailer), some sort of security device. You'll have to get rid of that as soon as possible.
First, examine the door. It's locked. Notice the smoke detector/fire alarm? A possible way out?
Examine the video to the left of the door several times for amusing misanthropic propaganda.
Head over to the cryogenic chamber. On the right is a pedestal. Push the button on top to open the chamber. A comfy bed. Behind the bed, find the cigarettes. Examine the cigarettes closely. Take one for later use.
On the other side of the cryogenic chamber you notice an attachment on the wall next to a sealed glass chamber with stairs leading upward. Push the button on the "tummy fill up ultrasonic detector". No food detected. Better do something about that!
Go to the table at the right of the door. Open the apple at left (it's fake). Inside one is a "breakfast pellet". Eat it. Behind the bowl of apples, you find some matches.
Look at the other foodstuffs. Need some cutlery? Look under the table to find a spoon. Head back to the table to eat the soup. The drink there is not to your liking-no beer!
Head back to the "tummy fill up ultrasonic detector". Push the button. Now that you've eaten, it allows you access to the stairs. Head up to the bathroom/toilet suite.
Toilet suite
The small chamber up the stairs contains a sink, toilet, and pair of boots. Examine them all closely. Behind the boots you find a chip with an "A" written on it. Under the toilet is a newspaper dated 1984. Above the sink you find a mirror. Take all three items. Head back down to the chamber.
Cryogenic chamber room
Now, you are ready to leave. Get the cigarette. Go to the examine view. Light it with the matches. Use the lit cigarette on the smoke alarm. When the alarm sounds, the doors open and the "vixen" walks in.
You need to work quickly. When she walks in, move the cursor over her mouth until it becomes a mouth shape. Click on her to kiss her and send her head over heels, literally! Down she goes, with legs spread-eagled "where you belong"!?! Hurry out the door to the corridor.
This corridor is shaped like a "T", with the long end pointing to the right. To the left, note the lasers preventing entrance to the rest of the corridor where a first aid kit sits on one wall.
Using the mirror on the lasers short circuits it, allowing you access.
To your right, there is a door with a button to the right for access, leading to the Waste disposal room.
To the left, when you have disarmed the lasers, there is a door to the left and right. The left is marked with a box/arrow symbol. The right is a police area. Neither can be accessed at this time successfully. Go on, try!
Open the first aid kit and retrieve the gas mask inside.
Waste disposal room
A noxious scent fills this room. Head in. On the right is a box marked "Litter". Open it to reveal a spool of green thread. Take it for later use. Beyond that is a barred gate which won't open.
Moving forward, there is a series of garbage containers. Read the graffiti above the containers.
Open the container. Be sure to wear your gas mask! Proceed down the revealed chute to the incinerator.
The chute deposits you in an antechamber off the incinerator room, rapidly filling with smoke. On your left is a fire door. On the right is the incinerator, the source of the smoke. It is too hot to open!
To the left of the incinerator and opposite where you entered is a mine car ("just so-so a truck"). In the mine car is a poker. Take it.
Move around the other side of the mine car. Give it a push. Note it rolls a short distance before rolling back. Where the car was sitting, however, there is a discolored rock. If only you could shift the mine car long enough to look at the rock!
At the front of the mine car, there is a brake switch. Switch it on. Then push the mine car again. It stops when it gets to the end of the track.
Now, to the rock! Underneath is a frightened mouse. Pick him up.
Exit through the door to the workshop.
On entering, note the stairs to your right and the tool bench directly in front of you. The door you entered through is now sealed and cannot be opened.
The bench consists of a drill, vice, and protective mask. The drill is the only useable tool. Use the chip in the drill to create a hole in it. Use the thread on the chip.
Under the bench top is a drawer. Open it to reveal a hammer. Add this to the inventory. Turn around. Examine the bucket. Inside is a metal pin. Take this too.
Head up the stairs to the landing.
At the top of the stairs is a barred gate. You saw this gate in the waste disposal room. It cannot be opened from this side.
To the left of the gate is a cupboard used for storage of clothes and tools. Examine this carefully: the top part is empty. The lower cupboard contains a protective glove.
Under the bottom cupboard (easily missed) you will find a key. This is the key to the barred gate. Open the gate, head back into the waste disposal room and back down to the incinerator room.
Go to the incinerator. Use the glove on the left door. Get rid of the electronic gaoler in the flames. (I don't know if this is necessary to complete the game).
Head out through the fire door into the workshop, and go upstairs. Go through the waste disposal room back to the corridor.
The door to the Thought Police has an old inscription above a slot on it. There is an entry button to the right of it.
Put the mouse into the slot. The "vixen" inside panics, opens the door and promptly falls over after which she heads into the toilet at left. Enter the interrogation room.
On entering the room, note the prison cell to the right. It is secured in a protective beam and is secured with two magnetic locks.
Go to the desk, directly across from the entrance. Examine the lit desk lamp and a top-secret file. Take note of the names in the file.
There are two drawers under the desk. The right one is locked and cannot be opened. The left one, when opened, reveals a key. Take the key.
Go over to the cell. Use the key to shut off the beam by putting it to the magnetic lock. Look inside the cell. There is a note out of reach. Use the poker to get the note. It reads, "She pressed 3871", the code to the safe under the monitors at left.
Go to the desk at the left of the room. It has three monitors over it. In the drawer is a touch pad.
Use the code to open the safe. There are two switches inside. Ensure they are both pulled up. You will hear two metallic clunks. This will switch off the electronic bars that block the door opposite the interrogation room.
Exit the interrogation room and proceed forward to the elevator lobby.
Elevator lobby
On entering, you see a brownish door with a green transparent window. To the right is a brown door (inaccessible). At left is the control panel.
Go to the control panel. There is a slot. Use the thread on the chip. Then use the chip on the slot. The string makes it recoverable.
Trial and error reveals the buttons are "O", "D", "A", and "N", reading left to right. Recall the names on the top-secret file. Only one used those four: "DONA". Press the letters in accordingly: 2-1-4-3. A voice states you have access to the elevator.
Proceed to the elevator (the brownish green door). Head in. At left is the control box which has four level buttons. However, the fourth button is just a fake. Push the first button to go up to the top floor.
(Sometime, you need to turn around in the elevator and inspect the niche above. If you look closely, you find a screwdriver.)
When the elevator comes to a halt, push the button to the left of the control panel to open the doors. Go out to the first floor.
Teleportation chamber room
Exit into the tiled room. Walk forward and to the left. There is a teleportation chamber down there. Use the buttons on the control box to open it and go in. Look behind the chair to find a rope.
At left there is another control box with a slider on it. A voice tells you to dismantle it. Use the screwdriver to open the control box. Remove the chip inside.
Go back to the elevator entrance. This time head right. There is a funny green object at left, an air lock at right, and a "wicket gate" in between.
Knock on the wicket gate. It opens to reveal a vixen requesting your pass. Kissing her does not let you pass this time. Go back to the elevator and go to level three.
As you exit, you may note the "Department of Archeology" sign overhead. There are a number of doors lining this corridor but only a few are accessible.
Any attempt to proceed down the corridor brings on the "Iron Maiden" who knocks you flat. The Iron Maiden is very unstable and connecting the rope between the columns will trip her and put her out of commission.
The left room has a seat that you can break but you cannot enter.
Go straight down to the Archeological Institute.
Archeological institute
At first you cannot enter this room. But the chair can be used to climb up. However, you will need to put the newspaper down first-I don't know why. Above the door is the key to the door. Now you can enter the room.
This room is full of historical treasures. Examine them for laughs and the following: the temple hides a chisel. Further around is a mechanical stamping device. On the wall a painting hides a safe that has a fluorescent detector.
Go to the desk. The first drawer is locked. Use the chisel on it and collect the membership card.
The second drawer holds a pass. Take the pass. Use the stamping machine on the pass. Then use the stamps on the desk for a second stamp.
The third drawer has a paper clip.
Head back to the elevator and go to Level 1.
Teleportation chamber room
Go back to the vixen. Show your membership card and pass to get through the airlock. (She doesn't seem to notice you are male! Although, if you look at your image in the mirror, it is rather feminine.) Go into the storeroom.
At left are the vacuum containers. Use the poker to open them. One holds a blue glove. The other is empty.
Opposite the containers are the radiation suits. Examine them. The left has a pocket. Use the glove to get the remote control out.
Move over to the left where a metal door is. At left and right are control box type things. Use the remote control on the left box. Both open.
Inside is a row of switch connectors. The last two are removable and need to be placed in the box at right.
Now, doing all this doesn't open the door. You are required to press the buttons in the right box in a certain order. Notice they are all different shapes-each has a different number of sides. Push them in ascending order of number of sides. The door opens to the Cage lift room.
Cage lift room
There is a cage lift and a power box visible from the door. Examine the power box to find it is locked.
Look closely at the ground below the power box. Find the socket wrench and a small rock. Use the wrench to open the power box. Make sure you wear the glove to avoid "shock" when you switch on the power.
There is another control panel to the left of the main power box. Playing with this shows you it is the lift control.
Go over to the lift. Note the rusty latch. Use the hammer to open it. Then open the cage. Go in. Turn to the power control. It's too far to reach. Throw the stone to switch on the lift. Up you go.
At the top, there is a manhole with a slot in it. Use the metal rod you found in the workshop in the slot. Use the rod to unlock the manhole. Then proceed upward into the hole.
Painting Room
A very dark room-so dark you can see nothing at first. Light a match to illuminate the room. Another control panel. Push the green button to light up the room. Go into the room.
There is a device in the middle of this garishly painted room. On top of it sits a video camera. Go to the rear of the device. Open the panel there. Inside you find some phosphorus next to some radioactive waste. Use you glove to knock over he waste and take the phosphorus.
Further to the right is a rock. Crush it with the hammer to get a cockroach.
Go back over to the left of the machine. Examine the wall to find that there is a weakness in the painting wall. No way to get through at this time.
Go back to the second floor.
Use the cockroach on the slot like you did the mouse earlier. Again the vixen panics and heads to the toilet.
Go over the desk. You now find the cupboard at left, previously locked, is now unlocked. Open it and take the knife inside.
Now go back to the first floor.
Archeological institute
Go back the Archeology Directorate. Go over to the safe behind the painting. Use the phosphorus on the detector. It unlocks. Open the safe and take the lighter.
Return to the room with the painting on the third level.
Painting room
Go back over to the weakness in the painting wall. Use the knife to cut a hole to the outside. Go through.
Wall and gate
Go out past some ferns to a gate. There is a villa beyond it. However, the gate is electrified and there is no power box to disable it.
At left as you exited into the outside, on top of the wall (difficult to see) is a spike. Throw the rope up to the spike. Now climb over into the villa grounds.
Villa grounds
At the right is a gazebo. Push the sundial close to it and climb up. Get another rope.
Head over to the left to a bench. Then go toward the moat around the villa. Travel under the bridge through the water. On the other side, back up to a fern. Near the fern are some twigs.
Head over to the bridge leading to the villa. Examine the left pot plant to find a key. Use the key to get into the villa. Head into the foyer area.
The foyer has an assortment of rooms and a large fountain in the middle of it. Examine the fountain to find it full of radioactive water. Examine the side of the fountain-there's a nut that can be loosened to drain the water. When drained, take the shotgun cartridge out.
The two left-hand doors are inaccessible.
On the next wall are two shields. Move the left one to find a flashlight. Unfortunately, examination reveals no batteries.
The right shield, when moved, hides two fuses, one of which can be removed. The fuse is blown.
Take the door at right to proceed into the living room.
Living room
Central to this room is a large open fire. Put the paper in the fireplace. A voice suggests you start with something else. Put the twigs in, then the fireplace. Light a cigarette. Use it to light the fire.
Get the wet cartridge out. Put it on the mantelpiece briefly. Back away and return to find it dry.
To the left is a sofa. Behind the sofa, find the wire. Use the wire on the fuse to repair it. Put the fuse back where you found it to restore power.
Go out the right door into the study.
Go over to the books. Remove a book. Examine the book to loosen a page that has "Orbium Solestium" on it. It also has writing in invisible ink. The space has a dial on the wall. Go over to the plantstand. Not visible from this angle (but visible once you look behind the plantstand) are the batteries. Pick them up. Combine the batteries with the flashlight. Return to the living room.
Living room
Move to the fire. When you near it, the warmth reveals the text on the page: "5 right, 7 left, 3 right".
Return to the study.
At the right of the room is a footstool. It has a piece of moldy bread in it-purpose unknown. Stand on the footstool to retrieve the shotgun. Load the shotgun with the cartridge.
There's a button behind and under the bar (which you'll need your flashlight to expose) which switches off the security gate (although the game states you "enabled it"). Now you can proceed to the gate and recover your other rope.
Go over to the dial in the bookshelf again. Turn the dial to the "12 o'clock" position. Then follow the directions on the paper: 5 right, 7 left, 3 right.
A secret door is opened behind the books. It contains a lift. Go down to the basement to a door marked "Genetics".
Door to Genetics Laboratory
Upon opening the door, there is a vixen robot waiting for you. Blow her away with your shotgun-it's a shattering experience!
There are two levers, one on either side of the door, that must be depressed to open the door to the lab. However, your arm span is not enough. Us the two ropes-one on either side-on the levers to open the door.
Proceed into the lab.
Genetics laboratory
There's no one in this room; just some heavy equipment designed to create people-a way of stopping procreation that produces men.
There are 4 gauges: one marked "X chromosome", one marked "Y" chromosome, one marked "garbage", and one that has sexless genetic material.
Set the gauge on the X and Y-chromosomes to 50%, the garbage control to 100%, and the other to 0%.
Sit back and watch the end movie and the return of MANkind!
This walkthrough was written December 17, 1999. Credit must be given to the "Gambler Packa", who wrote a Polish walkthrough, which helped me past the spots where I was stuck. Thanks to Mary de Fries and Derek for translation!


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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Famed Bay Area musician Mickey Hart has long believed that music is the best medicine. Now he's helping uncover the science to prove it.
Hart is best known for the rhythms he created with the Grateful Dead. But lately, he's more concerned with a different kind of rhythm.
The rhythm in the brain, finding out what rhythm central sounds like," Hart said. "It's the master clock. It makes everything go."
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The improvement lasted only a moment, but Hart says it changed his direction in life forever.
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It's the beginning of something much bigger.
It all started by accident, when Hart was asked to do a speaking engagement with UCSF neuroscience professor Adam Gazzaley. Gazzaley was studying how to retrain the brain using video game technology. But using that technology to look at the brain was an entirely new idea.
"This concept that rhythm might be therapeutic has been around for a long time; there's just really not studies that have carefully controlled a rhythmic experiment and looked for changes in the brain," Gazzaley said.
Only now are computers powerful enough to show those changes live.
Now, Hart is the first subject in a new experiment: seeing his own brainwaves as he drums. He tries to control the rhythm of his brain by changing the rhythm of the music.
"I move into its time, and try to do what it's doing and go with it and I try to entrain with it and stay there as long as possible, and then move it slightly, you know, turn it to the right, turn it to the left," Hart said.
Hart says it's a dance, one Gazzaley says could hold great promise for patients whose brains have lost their natural rhythm.
"If we could help reorganize those rhythms, re-entrain them, then hopefully we can improve cognition along with that," Gazzaley said.
A drug of sorts with huge medicinal promise — that for Hart is also recreational.
"You might say it gets you high because you're connecting with the real you," Hart said.
– By Jonathan Bloom
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Some people go to Melaka just for the food. Others go there to visit the historical sites. If you are a first timer to Melaka, then you must visit the historical sites as Melaka is now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage City.
Last April, I brought my Filipino friend Joey to Melaka. As he had never visited Melaka before, I decided to be his tour guide even though I was not that familiar with this city. Besides the historical sites, I also brought him to savor some of Melaka's famous food. I think he did not really like the satay celup, but that's a story for another day.
After our visits to Melaka Clock Tower, Christ Church Melaka and The Stadthuys, we climbed the St. Paul's Hill to visit the famous St. Paul's Church located at the summit.
A statue of St. Francis Xavier greeted us. Francis Xavier was a Roman Catholic missionary from Spain during the Portuguese rule.
This statue was erected in 1952 in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of St. Francis Xavier's sojourn in Melaka.
Did you notice that broken right arm? Well, something strange happened a day after the statue was consecrated. A large Casuarina tree fell on the statue breaking off its right arm! Interestingly, the right forearm of Xavier was actually detached back in 1614 as a relic! Coincidence?
Behind the statue is the ruins of St. Paul's Church.
Built in 1521 by a Portuguese nobleman, the original structure was a simple chapel but was later further enlarged with the addition of a second floor and a belfry tower.
This is how the interior of the church ruins look like.
See those rectangular objects leaning on both sides of the wall? They are actually tombstones!
There's a burial vault in this church and many people of distinction were actually buried here. However, there were also many graves scattered around the vicinity of this church. During an excavation done in 1930 by the Malacca Historical Society, the tombstones that were uncovered were then affixed to the walls.
Then I saw some people peering into a strange looking structure at the back of the church ruins. I was wondering what they were looking at!
I remember Joey asking me what that structure was and I really could not give him an answer. What a lousy tour guide I must be! Haha!
I did not see any information there that could help me out so that I could at least give an intelligent reply to Joey. Later however, I learnt that it is actually an open grave where St. Francis Xavier was once buried!
Xavier had used the church as his base for his missionary journeys to China and Japan. In one of those journeys, he fell sick and died in Shangchuan Island, China. His body was brought back and buried temporarily in this church before it was finally shipped to Goa in India.
As we left St. Paul's Church and walked down the hill towards the A Famosa ruins, we passed by the Dutch Graveyard.
Can you see Melaka's famous revolving tower, Menara Taming Sari in the distance?
Soon we reached A Famosa. I took a picture of this cannon.
A Famosa (The Famous) is a fortress built by the Portuguese to defend themselves after capturing Melaka. It however suffered severe destruction during the Dutch invasion. The British later completely demolished it except for this small gate house called Porta de Santiago.
Sadly, the Porta de Santiago is the only remaining part of the whole fortress still standing to this day.
Here is a photo of my Filipino friend, Joey posing in front of the fortress gate.
It was a nice historical trip for us, but our stomachs were growling. So we decided to head to Jonker Street next for some food!
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Here is a chart that plots out the distribution of annual returns of the US stock market as measured by the S&P Market Index*. Guess where 2008 is so far?
This chart does a great job to fix the assumption that some have that the 8% or 10% annual returns we hear about come every year. Nope, those are just historical averages. Sometimes we lose 40% or more, and sometimes we gain 40% or more – in just one year! So you can't say today that it will take X years at 8% per year to get back to what you had before. It could take longer, or it could take a lot less.
* The source for this data is a bit vague since both the S&P company and the S&P 500 index did not exist in 1825. Most sources quote Value Square Asset Management, Yale University. I found it via Daily Kos through Bogleheads and Get Rich Slowly. Here is another similar graph. It is not clear if the chart is based on total annual return, or simply a percentage change in price each year, but it looks like the latter. This paper (also from Yale) with data from 1815 to 1925 might be related.


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Roughly five months since massive protests first spread through Hong Kong, unrest has flared anew after a student died of injuries sustained during a protest. Chow Tsz-lok, a 22-year-old student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, died Friday of brain injuries he suffered in a fall as police dispersed protesters from a parking garage earlier this week.
Chow is believed to be the first person to die in violence directly related to the protests.
He had been hospitalized since early Monday, when he was found unconscious in a pool of blood after police teargassed protesters in the parking garage. Police say it appears he fell one story, though what caused his fall is disputed. The circumstances of Chow's death remain under investigation.
Mourners gathered across Hong Kong to remember Chow. Hundreds of people solemnly assembled at the spot where he fell. They snaked through the cavernous parking garage carrying white bouquets and laying them on what grew into an altar of flowers beneath Chow's photograph. They stooped to light small votive candles, and sang hymns in memory of the young man whose death is intensifying public fury.
Many did not even know him, but they told NPR about how their sense of him as family — as a sibling — linked him to them.
"We are shocked and grieved," said Genki Yeung, a 24-year-old surveyor who joined the mourners. When asked what Chow represented to them, Yeung found himself overcome with emotion.
"Before the movement, we assumed that Hong Kong people were selfish and cared for themselves. But in these five months, we showed that people are connected. We care for each other. [Chow] is like one of the family members in Hong Kong," Yeung said, adding: "We will keep walking this path not only for Chow but all people who share the common value."
HKUST president Wei Shyy wipes away tears after asking for a moment of silence over the death of student Chow Tsz-lok
— SCMP Hong Kong (@SCMPHongKong) November 8, 2019
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At the university itself, which was celebrating graduation the same day, school President Wei Shyy called for a moment of silence. And that night, demonstrators also observed a candlelight vigil on campus.
Others across the semiautonomous region saw the young man's death as a grim new item on their list of grievances against Hong Kong's Beijing-backed government. First prompted by an unpopular bill that would have allowed extradition of suspects from Hong Kong to China, the widespread protests have continued to roil the region despite the bill's formal withdrawal last month.
Now, protesters are calling for Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam to meet a much wider range of demands. These range from the particular — an independent probe into the police's alleged use of excessive force — to the vast — an overhaul of Hong Kong's electoral system to open it up to more voters.
Chow's death is likely to fan those angers. Mourners on Friday, for instance, mingled their expressions of grief with anti-government chants, according to the Los Angeles Times: "Murder must be compensated with life! A debt in blood must be paid in blood!" and "Hongkongers, revenge!"
Authorities in Hong Kong, for their part, denied that police had a direct role in Chow's death: "There are accusations that police officers chased after the man before his fall," said Suzette Foo, a police superintendent in the district of Kowloon. "We must clarify that it is certainly false."
Protesters say police directly contributed to Chow's death, not only by tactics to roust protesters, but also by delaying first responders, who they say had to proceed to the scene on foot after police cars reportedly blocked the ambulance.
"We don't trust them at all," said Denze Lai, a 27-year-old medic who attended a vigil held at the parking garage. "The fire service department and Medics both have conflicts with the police. The police obstruct the ambulance work, but they deny it."
Last month, a police officer shot and seriously wounded a protester, while other deaths have been less directly linked with the months-long protest movement. In June, a demonstrator fell to his death while unfurling protest banners, while several young people involved in the protests have killed themselves.
"In recent weeks the Hong Kong authorities have granted themselves sweeping new powers to suppress protests, and invoked the Emergency Regulations Ordinance to ban face coverings at public gatherings," Man-Kei Tam, the director of Amnesty International Hong Kong, said in a statement Friday. "Tactics deployed by the Hong Kong police has been increasingly alarming, marked by an apparent thirst for retaliation."
Chow's death is likely to animate rallies this weekend. But as people paused to remember him, there was little doubt his death has moved the city, and deepened its determination to find answers.
"I feel regret and sorrow," said Wong, 18, who asked to be identified just by one name. Her shoulders shook as she cried quietly. "He's around my age, but he passed away like this. He could have had a bright future, but now he has nothing. I hope that he can rest in peace."
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Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos
His Eminence the Most Reverend Archbishop Vsevolod (Maidansky) of Scopelos was a titular bishop of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA (Ecumenical Patriarchate) serving in the United States. He was the presiding bishop of the Western Diocese of the Church, headquartered in Chicago Illinois.
Archbishop Vsevolod was consecrated to the episcopacy on September 27, 1987, as primate of the body known as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America, which included those parishes of Ukrainian heritage in the United States under the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. In 1997, when the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the USA came under the omophorion of the Patriarchate as well, the two bodies merged and Bp. Vsevolod moved to Chicago to assume authority of parishes in the western part of the country. When the two churches joined, Abp. Vsevolod was elevated to the rank of archbishop, and on April 14, 2000, the Holy Synod of Constantinople officially elevated Bp. Vsevolod to that rank.
Abp. Vsevolod reposed on December 16, 2007, at 80 years old.
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The U.S. saw a record weekend in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, according to White House officials.
Cyrus Shahpar, the White House's COVID-19 data director, says the U.S. distributed more than 4 million doses of vaccine on Saturday, marking the first time the country had broken the thresholds since the distribution began in December.
"Millions coming together to accelerate our progress toward controlling the pandemic!" Shahpar tweeted on Saturday.
The Easter holiday also did little to slow the current record pace of vaccinations. Shahpar says that the U.S. had administered 3.37 million doses on Sunday — its highest-ever output on a Sunday, and the fourth consecutive day where at least 3 million doses were administered.
According to Shahpar, 40% of adults in the U.S. have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. About 25% of the country is now fully vaccinated.
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+3.37M vaccine doses reported administered over the total yesterday, new Sunday high, 4th consecutive day at 3M+. Now over 40% of adults with at least one dose and nearly 1 in 4 adults are fully vaccinated. @CDCgov will share details and trends here: https://t.co/Bdxgob9E2y
— Cyrus Shahpar (@cyrusshahpar46) April 4, 2021
The increase in vaccinations comes as states begin lifting restrictions as to who is eligible to receive the vaccine. In March, President Joe Biden requested that all states drop restrictions as to who can receive the vaccine by the beginning of May, and said the country would have enough vaccines by the end of May to inoculate every American.
But as vaccine distribution continues its astounding pace, the COVID-19 case rate is continuing to tick up throughout the U.S. In the last two weeks, the seven-day rolling average of new daily COVID-19 cases has risen from about 53,000 a day to about 64,000 a day.
Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky issued a stark warning about the rising number of COVID-19 cases, adding that she was "scared" the U.S. could be headed for an avoidable fourth surge of the virus — just as much of the country prepares for vaccination.
"I'm going to lose the script, and I'm going to reflect on the recurring feeling I have of impending doom. We have so much to look forward to, so much promise and potential of where we are and so much reason for hope. But right now, I'm scared," Walensky said. "I'm speaking today not necessarily as your CDC director, not only as your CDC director, but as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, to ask you to just please hold on a little while longer. I so badly want to be done. I know you all so badly want to be done. We are just almost there, but not quite yet."
The rising case rates come as states lift mask mandates and other COVID-19-related laws requiring social distancing against the advice of the CDC and other public health institutions.
The entire White House — including President Joe Biden, Walensky and other top health officials — publicly urged state governors and other local leaders last week to keep mask mandates in place for just a few more months in the hopes of avoiding another surge in cases.
Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly stated that 40% of Americans have received at least one dose of vaccine. It has since been updated to reflect that only 40% of adults have received a vaccine dose.


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Today, Sarah of Fantastical Sharing of Recipes, has challenged us to compile the entire year's most popular recipes. This was quite the project and I almost didn't join in but my right hand guy sat down with me and gave me a hand compiling all the stats. I am sure that is exactly how he wanted to spend his evening! It was difficult as well because my posts often contain content in addition to recipes so I don't know if the visits were for the food or the content. I finally settled on including the most popular posts that contained recipes.
The most popular by far was my post "A Double Celebration". In this post we had a birthday party for Ting featuring 5 recipes and the party finished up with Tony's wedding proposal. It is a great post and it features some great food.
BBQ Ribs, Roasted Red Skin Potatoes, Baked Beans, Rice Mingle Salad, Fried Chicken.
Coming in second place was my second post for SRC, featuring Cheese and Spring Onion Scones.
In third place was a creation I made for #BundtBakers when the theme given was caramel. This was the most decadent cake I have ever made. Introducing my Milky Way Bundt Cake.
Another Birthday Celebration placed 4th. This one again featuring several different recipes.
Carrot Spice Muffins, French Toast Casserole, Cheezy Potatoes and Buttercream Frosting.
We took a Day Trip to Poland in February that came in 5th place.
This post featured Angel Wings and Lazy Pierogi.
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I created a Pumpkin Spice Cake.
Earlier this month, Colleen of The Redhead Baker hosted a Cupcake Day Challenge.
My Gingerbread Cupcakes were the 7th most popular post on my blog this year.
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Coming in at #9 is another Secret Recipe Club selection.
This Veggie Pizza Appetizer was taken from Turnips2Tangerines who I was assigned in September.
I also featured this recipe on Day 3 of the #10DaysofTailgate Challenge.
And last but not least, placing in the #10 slot is yet another club selection.
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I never expected to work in associations. Frankly, they weren't even on my radar. But I was leaving one career and in search of another. I took an association job just to have some stability and income while I figured things out. Little did I know, back in 1999, what a rewarding and fascinating profession I was about to enter.
Looking back, I wish I had asked for advice. It took me several years to find my way. If we were to have a "learn from my mistakes" conversation, it would go something like this:
Never stop learning. You will succeed in this profession if you live to learn. This is the most important piece of advice I can give you. Don't shortchange yourself. Make time for learning even if it's on your own time. Your older self will thank you.
Be observant. Listen to and watch people. You have to understand human behavior, both individual and group, if you want to motivate, manage and lead staff and members.
Give yourself time to think. You need time every week to plan ahead, set and review goals, and let your brain work its way around challenges and issues.
Develop a DIY professional development habit. Set aside time to read association management blogs and publications, participate in Twitter's #assnchat (Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. Eastern), and attend association events. If your boss doesn't give you the time or budget to do these things, do it on your own time. Put aside a small amount of every paycheck, even if it's only $10, toward professional development. It's an investment in your future, just like your 401K.
Join your state SAE even if you have to spend your own money. You'll meet a network of peers that could become lifelong friends.
Look for mentors. Find people in your office or at another association who are active in your SAE or ASAE. They might not consider themselves mentor material so don't even use the word "mentor" around them. A conversation with them could develop into a mutually satisfying relationship.
Find association peers. If you're surrounded by colleagues who are only there for the paycheck, don't be discouraged. Don't follow them down their boring, soul-deadening path. Find people either in your office or other associations who are around your same age and career level. Twitter makes this so much easier now. Arrange monthly meet-ups. Make them your mastermind group.
Make friends all over the building. Avoid eating lunch alone. Don't isolate yourself in a departmental silo. Learn about the work your colleagues are doing. How can you help them? How can they help you? What member stories can you share? What can you teach each other?
Pause and reflect before reacting. Expect stressful times. You might start the day expecting to work on specific tasks and projects, but find yourself dealing with other pressing problems, issues and people that weren't on your list. You will constantly juggle a variety of deadlines and demands.
It's natural to react quickly and emotionally to these stressors – those same reactions save us in life and death situations. But in the workplace, you must develop the habit of pausing before reacting, and thinking rationally, not emotionally. It's not easy. Yoga helps, but I don't expect you to practice yoga as a professional development tool – although it's not a bad idea.
Become aware of your reactions to your own behavior (self-judging), other people's behavior, stressful situations and change. If you learn to pause and reflect before reacting, you won't stress yourself out so much and you'll be a positive influence on the people around you.
Don't be a workaholic. Never put in crazy hours because you think you should, except, of course, for those special times in the meeting, magazine or budget cycle that require it. You and your brain need time off to recharge. You know the people who are always boasting about how busy they are and how late they stayed in the office? They're not paragons of virtue to emulate. They're doing it wrong -- "it" being life.
Never be defined by your job. If you develop that limited mindset, retirement will be rough. Yes, your job is a huge, rewarding part of your life, but it's just one part of your life. Make sure it doesn't get in the way of the relationships and experiences that add color and passion to life. Find people, causes and hobbies to love. You'll be a happier and more interesting, creative person and professional.
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A man accused of walking from Indiana to Wisconsin to have sex with a teenager was arrested and released a month earlier.
32-year-old Tommy Lee Jenkins was arrested last week after prosecutors said Jenkins tried to meet a 14-year-old girl in Neenah, Wisconsin. The girl named "Kylee" was a Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputy working with the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. When Jenkins arrived in Winnebago County he was apprehended by local and federal authorities.
Newly obtained reports revealed Jenkins was arrested in Winnebago County in September. He was initially charged with child abduction and disorderly conduct. A child sexual assault charge was added days later. However, those charges were later dropped. It was unclear as to why. A reporter reached out to the Winnebago County District Attorney's office, but did not get a response.
Records show Jenkins was arrested in September after he was found at a storage unit just outside Oshkosh. There were two naked kids with him.
The children, their mother, and another woman were living with Jenkins at the time, and he occasionally took care of the kids.
Initially, Jenkins told investigators he got into a fight with the mother of the children, left with the kids, and got caught in the storm. He said they looked for shelter then had them take their clothes off because he did not want them to get hypothermia. Jenkins said they took shelter in a storage unit where a passerby saw them and called law enforcement.
Deputies heard differing stories as to what was going on in the home where Jenkins stayed. However, according to the report, Jenkins admitted to leaving with the kids that night without permission because he was scared that their mother would take them away.
Less than a month later, Child Protective Services filed a complaint with the sheriff's office. The CPS complaint said the kids' father was getting threats from Jenkins on Facebook and that Jenkins was posting pictures of the kids on the social media site.
This article was originally written by Mary Jo Ola for WTMJ.


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Elton John Settles $3.9 Million Legal Dispute With Ex-Wife
Elton John and his ex-wife, Renate Blauel, settled their legal dispute over his memoir Me and his biopic Rocketman, a representative for John announced.
Blauel had filed a lawsuit claiming that her appearance in the works breached an agreement the pair signed after their divorce in 1988 that prevented them from discussing their marriage. John's lawyers had argued that the details he included were public knowledge and that the contract applied only to "private and confidential matters." She asked for damages and costs estimated at $3.9 million.
"The parties are happy to announce that they have resolved this case, in a way that acknowledges Renate's need for privacy," a statement said.
"For her part, Renate acknowledges that Elton has acted in a dignified and respectful way toward her in the last 30 years and has always been happy to help her. They will not be discussing each other, or their marriage, in the future and will be making no further comment about the case."
The couple met in 1983 and married the following year, during work on John's album Breaking Hearts, for which Blauel served as a recording engineer. After the split, her lawyers said, she made a point of avoiding the limelight, going so far as to change her identity and move to a small village in England.
In 2017, John described her as a "wonderful woman for whom I have so much love and admiration. ... I wanted more than anything to be a good husband, but I denied who I really was, which caused my wife sadness, and caused me huge guilt and regret."


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I had serious doubts about these muffins. For one, I don't even LIKE Earl Grey tea (despite the Captain Picard connection), plus I thought they seemed a little off when I was scooping the batter into the muffin tin. I'd mucked around with the recipe without even a trial run, which is not a good baking process. I was worried about the texture. I was worried about the smell, and therefore the flavor. I was a muffin worrier.
I needn't have worried. These muffins are so good, so perfect, that I looked forward to waking up this morning so I could eat another one. (And when I say another one, I mean another one in addition to the two I'd had after dinner the night before.)
The texture I was so worried about ended up being part of what makes them so magnificent. They're just … soft. Beautifully soft.
The flavor? I boosted the bergamot in the tea with Meyer lemons, using more zest than the recipe specified, and adding in a little juice as well. The smell that concerned me was, I think, the baking powder, because it calls for a full tablespoon, and in the batter that smelled stronger than the lemon, but once they were baked, that problem disappeared.
Now my problem is that I'm going to run out of them too quickly. I might have to make these again, just so I'll have enough to share after I finish devouring my current inventory.
(adapted from Serious Eats)
1 cup 1% milk
3 Earl Grey teabags
1 1/3 cups whole wheat white flour
2/3 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup cane sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 teaspoons Meyer lemon zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
2 tablespoons low fat vanilla yogurt
1 teaspoon Meyer lemon juice
1 egg, lightly beaten
Heat oven to 400 degrees, and prep a 12-cup muffin tin.
Pour milk into a saucepan and heat on medium low until hot, just shy of bubbling. Add the tea bags, swirling them around gently, then remove from heat and cover. Let steep for 20 minutes. Check to make sure the milk stays warm; if it cools off too much, gently warm again just before using, with the heat on low.
Melt the butter, so it's cool by the time the tea milk is ready.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, wheat germ, cane sugar, baking powder, lemon zest, and nutmeg.
Beat the egg (lightly). Add the tea milk, the butter, the yogurt, and the lemon juice, and mix well.
Pour the liquid mixture into the large bowl with the dry ingredients and mix just enough to incorporate. Pour batter into muffin cups, distributing as easily as possible.
Bake at 400 for 5 minutes, then reduce temperature to 375 and bake for another 10 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Let cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then move to a wire rack.


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If the child is more than 3 months and less than 5 years of age, it is still possible to fly alone, using TAP's personal companion service. From check-in at the airport to meeting with family at the final destination, a TAP employee will accompany the child, going through check-in, customs, and during the flight.
All children under 3 months of age must always be accompanied by an adult older than 18 years of age.
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A service charge for unaccompanied minors will be added in addition to the cost of airfare, taxes, and fees.
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Greyhound Racing
Greyhound racing, as we know it today, evolved from an old sport called coursing, in which a dog runs after a live game animal - usually a rabbit or hare.
Scenes of what seem to be coursing have been found on Egyptian tombs. These scenes date back to 2500 BC and the dogs depicted looked very much like modern greyhounds.
Greyhounds are brilliant hunting dogs because of their speed and vision. Greyhounds can run up to 45 miles an hour. But unlike most hunting dogs, greyhounds don't have an acute sense of smell. Instead of smelling a prey, greyhounds tend to chase moving objects, which they can spot from long distances.
Coursing was originally a sport that exhibited a single greyhound's skill in sighting and catching a game animal.
During the 16th century, coursing became a competitive sport, with two dogs matched against one another in a race for the game. The owners of the dogs usually had a sizeable bet on the result. At some coursing races, spectators also gathered and placed side bets on one dog or the other.
The first official coursing meet was held in 1776 at Swaffham, Norfolk, England. The rules of the Swaffham Coursing Society specified that only two greyhounds were to course a single hare and that the hare was to be given a head start of 240 yards.
Greyhound racing with an artificial lure was introduced at Hendon, England, on September 11, 1876. Six dogs raced over a 400-yard straight course, chasing an artificial hare riding on "an apparatus like a skate on wheels" along a single track, according to a newspaper account.
Called "coursing by proxy," the race drew little interest and the idea was abandoned. But it was revived 31 years later in the United States.


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An island prison. An ocean full of monsters. No chance of escape.
Sailors are afraid to land at the prison colony of Skythe — instead they throw the convicts overboard. The heretical scholar Bon Ugane might make it to the shore, but will he survive the island itself?
Among the prisoners competing brutally for survival and wildlife warped by fallout from an ancient war, something else waits on Skythe: a living weapon whose very existence is a heresy. Destroyed many years ago, now it silently begins to clutch at life once more.
As I said in response to a comment on my review of Tim Lebbon's first fantasy novel for Orbit, I don't look back on Echo City in anger, but I do wish it had been a little less derivative. It read like bootleg China Mieville, and given Mieville's characteristic refusal to repeat himself, perhaps there's a place for that... a particular niche to appeal to. That said, if authors are going to beg, borrow or steal from such a master craftsman, they've got no-one to blame but themselves when their work, like Lebbon's last, falls short come the comparison.
To put it politely, then, Echo City had its issues, yet I enjoyed it enough that I was prepared to give its author another shot. This week, I did exactly that, and I'll say this about The Heretic Land: the premise, at least, is unbelievably appealing.
An island prison, like in Lost or Shutter Island, except staffed and surrounded on all sides by monsters and mutated men? Yes please. A man of science sentenced to serve a term because he dared to profane something as sacred as faith? Sure thing. And last but not least, a fallen god - or a being so superior to we mere mortals that it is virtually indistinguishable from a fallen god - born again into the world after untold centuries dead, or only dormant? Well alright!
Sadly, the blurb is probably the best thing about The Heretic Land.
It begins as clumsily as it continues: with some awkward worldbuilding and an at best sketchy rendering of our cast of characters, as on the prisoner transport over the sea to Skythe, our hapless protagonist Bon Ugane whispers with his inevitable love interest Lechmy Borle... about his life story, her more secretive interests, and what to expect of the infected isle when they finally get there. Like the premise, this gloss is superficially promising:
"Some [prisoners] would be political dissidents like him, banished by Alderia's rulers, the Ald, for questioning their word and the tenets of their rule. Others could be religious exiles sent away for being too vocal in their own beliefs; some fringe religions were allowed, but if they actively challenged belief in the Fade they had gone too far. Perhaps there were murderers, rapists, or terrorists. He would not ask, and few people seemed willing to betray their crimes. They might all be classed as criminals by the Ald, but in many cases that would be all they had in common." (p.10)That said, these introductory elements appear so transparent that for a time it feels like we're reading notes for a novel instead of a completed piece of work, and though The Heretic Land doesn't get any worse than that, nor, as it goes on, does it get a great deal better. The dialogue is dreary; the prose pedestrian. The plot is plodding, and predictable. Rather than representing agency, our characters, such as they are, are dragged along by the narrative - quite literally in one case - sorely testing one's investment in their perspectives.
However, The Heretic Land has a few redeeming features. Once it's been established, the setting for this struggle between science and spiritualism is impressive. "Alderia's use of forbidden magic had not killed Skythe, but had destined it to a future of weakness, mutation, and steady, slow decline. It had been six hundred years [since the war], and it might be six hundred more until this land was truly dead." (p.58) Thus the monsters, and no small quantity of rather visceral violence; here, the former horror author plays to his strengths, giving The Heretic Land a firm, if ultimately inconsequential foundation.
I still say Tim Lebbon is a talent - he may write a great novel one day - but for the time being, I can only conclude that The Heretic Land is amongst his weaker works. My feelings about Echo City were mixed anyway, and I dare say Lebbon's latest is still less impressive. I certainly didn't despise it, but I didn't adore either. Instead, a fate worse than hate: it made me meh.
The Heretic Land
by Tim Lebbon
UK Publication: August 2012, Orbit
The Heretic Land
by Tim Lebbon
UK Publication: August 2012, Orbit
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