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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/4fm4ng/analyzing_the) has announced the addition of the "Analyzing the Global Petrochemical Industry" report to their offering.
The Global Petrochemical Industry is analyzed in detail in this report, which presents a very fundamental understanding of the various petrochemical derivatives underlined with their commercial outlook in the global petrochemical industry. The report also elaborates in detail on the region wise competitive moves and overtures into the global petrochemical industry as well as the emergence of new heavyweights as Asian producers into the top echelons of the global petrochemical industry.
The petrochemical industry of today is an indispensable part of the manufacturing and consuming sectors, churning out products which include paint, plastic, rubber, detergents, dyes, fertilizers, textiles and even solvents.
The 21st century is seeing a paradigm shift from West to East in the Petrochemicals business, with the Middle East emerging as global production hub with natural advantages of low cost feedstock.
Major consumption centers are shifting to Asia given the rapid growth in demand in China on account of chemical intensive and export driven industry & India emerging as global consumption centers.
The report explains the deepening impact of the current financial crisis which has hit the global petrochemical industry before it has progressed onto the other sectors of the world economies. In conclusion, the report presents a deep understanding of major chemical and petro players such as Dow Chemical, DuPont, Total, Exxon, Shell, British Petroleum and others through tools, such as a SWOT analysis and it presents in detail the financial performances of the world majors. Overall, 'Analyzing the Global Petrochemical Industry' is a comprehensive and elaborate study which will equip the reader with a strong fundamental basis of this industry as well as give new insights for further analysis.
Companies Mentioned:
- Akzo Nobel
- Bayer AG
- BP Plc
- Braskem SA
- China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec)
- E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company
- Evonik Industries
- Exxon Mobil Corporation
- Formosa Petrochemical Corporation
- Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corporation
- Honam Petrochemical Corporation
- Huntsman Corporation
- Korea Kumho Petrochemical Co., Ltd
- Korea Petrochemical Industrial Company Limited
- Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd
- Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
- Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC)
- Shell Companies
- Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited
- The Dow Chemical Company
- Titan Petrochemicals Group Ltd
- Total SA
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Why you should ignore the Sensex
Chandnee Sinha | May 30, 2007
When was the last time you saw a stock market analyst saying 'I don't know.'
Analysts always seem to have an explanation for everything. "On why did the market rise today?" or "will the market fall tomorrow?" or, for that matter, "Why nothing happened in the markets today?" This must be the only profession where individuals always have something to say about nothing. Amazes me.
The point is, something that seems sensible can always be said about the stock market. But does it really help? On May 10, 2006, the Sensex touched the then all-time high of 12,612.38 points. There were analysts who remained bullish even then.
If you were the kind who had listened to them and bought into the market at that point of time, 8 days later you would have seen the market fall to 11,391.43 points. This would mean a loss of 10.7% on your original investment, assuming you had invested in the same proportion as the stocks that constitute the Sensex.
If you had held on and sold out in frustration finally on June 14, 2006, when the market touched 8,929.44, and you just couldn't take it anymore, then you would have lost 29.2% of your original investment in a matter of just five weeks.
Between May 10, 2006 and May 25, 2007, the Sensex has given a return of 13.7%. But it is highly unlikely that those who had bought on May 10, 2006 would be still holding on to the stocks.
In the bloodbath that followed after that date, it would have been very difficult to hold one's nerve and stay invested. And more than that 13.7% from the stock market is not a great consider during a time when even one year fixed deposits give a guaranteed return of 10%, for a one year period.
Now during the same time period of May 10, 2006 and May 25, 2007, investors could have easily made 26-28% by investing in the Sensex. And at the same time they could have adopted what I call the 'fill it, shut it, forget it' mode of investing.
All that was needed was to invest an equal amount in the Sensex every month. Now how do you do that? By starting a systematic investment plan on an index fund that tracks the Sensex.
An index fund invests money in stocks that constitute a stock market index, in the same proportion as their weightage in the index.
By investing equal amount every month in the Tata Index Fund - Sensex Plan - Option A, which is an index fund on the Sensex, an investor could have earned a return of 28.40% per annum.
The assumption being that the investor takes a systematic investment plan (SIP) on the scheme and investors regularly an equal amount on the tenth of every month. If during the same period, he had invested an equal amount every month in the HDFC Index Fund - Sensex Plan, another index fund on the Sensex, he would have earned 25.75% during the same period. As already mentioned, the Sensex during the same period gave a return of 13.7%.
So the next time you are tempted to watch a business news channel to try and understand why the Sensex fell on a given day, just remind yourself that there is a better and easier way of investing in the stock market.
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Adult education is a key component of LLL and has a key role within all the EU strategies starting from Lisbon. It's considered a "public good" and a public responsibility, with a cultural mediation role and a support social capital growth in terms of an increase of citizen participation, better health conditions and higher level of wealth and individual realization feeling, which are typical feature of Nonprofit. Despite the increasing attention of the EU towards LLL, today adult education is not developed enough. NOPROS intends to facilitate the access to LLL and the acquaintance of key and transversal competencies by using the Nonprofit sector as a tool.
Target: Adults (aged more than 30)
The main outputs are:
- NOPROS Learning Circles methodology: as a democratic and emancipatory method and arena for learning, particularly among adults. This methodology will be integrated with positive group work skills, to develop self-confidence, strong creative verbal & physical vocabulary, imaginative thinking;
- 5 NOPROS Learning Circles Curricula: each of them dealing with specific feature and areas of interventions of the Non-Profit sector for achieving key & transversal competencies.
Short term impact: advantages of the NOPROS learning circles methodology for both the organizations and stakeholders dealing with LLL and the "adults community" to be involved in the experimentation. Each partner will be in charge of setting up an experimentation environment for testing at least 2 LC curricula.
Long term impact: the further beneficiaries will be reached during the dissemination and thanks to the setting up of the e-Learning Circles for contributing to the EU strategies for enhancing the quality of training offer and for increasing the adults participating to LLL.


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If you have ever suffered a knee or joint injury you more than likely have resorted to a compression sleeve at one point, but what are the benefits of knee compression sleeves exactly? Although there are many benefits of knee compression sleeves, they largely aid in the stabilization muscle tissue and the patella (kneecap), keeping the swelling of muscle fibers at a micro and manageable level, and even helps with aligning your joints. The benefits of compression and the ability of compression to increase oxygen blood flow to the muscles cannot be expressed enough.
The gravity that we are all used to can actually force a build-up of fluid in the muscles and surrounding tissue. This is not solely caused from overuse or repetitive movements of the muscles, but is frequent after and during exercise sessions. This increased swelling will often result in limited mobility and pain due to inflammation. Without wearing compression, the result can be muscle damage, including micro-tears leading to inflammation. Compression helps reduce the inflammation that might slow down the recovery process and therefore helps reduce delayed onset muscle soreness. Many people swear by the use of compression sleeve to alleviate pain in their knees, and even some use them whenever they plan to be on their feet for more than a few hours.
The benefits of knee compression are not limited to just exercise. Many doctors do suggest that after overcoming a knee injury that their patient should begin to use a compression sleeve to help support the injured knee. According to several of the tests that the Department of Orthopedic Surgery in Sweden had done on knee compression, patients that had recently overcome ACL surgery regained confidence of their knees faster. It was additionally concluded that a compression sleeve improved the total integration of the balance control system and muscle coordination. We will go over the injuries that usually require the usage of a knee compression sleeve in our next article which can be found here.


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The title said you'd be rewarded with a hot boyfriend. That's why his photo is there, I assume
Response to Jeffree Star Criticized Kim Kardashian And Her Fans Clapped Back By Bringing Up His Racist Past:
Omg I just did. Disgusting and disturbing.
Slip on shoes and I recycled the same 2 pairs of maternity pants: jeggings and plain black tights. They were a godsend. Thankfully I was the biggest as it got colder so I just paired either pair with a tunic style top - which I had a lot of before I got pregnant. Didn't have to buy much in the way of maternity clothes. Oh! And a poncho! Wouldn't spend the money on a bigger winter coat so I got a stylish, warm poncho for under $50 and paired it with some nice gloves.
Am I the only one who loved the ending?
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Saying the motive appeared to be "pure greed," a federal prosecutor recommends at least a year and a half behind bars for a former Maryland lawyer who admitted padding his own personal injury claim with phony medical records.
Ryan Lahuti was accused in connection with the alleged long-established Washington-area practice of recruiting auto accident victims and bolstering their claims with questionable medical treatment.
A chiropractor who colluded with Lahuti to produce a "fake file full of treatment records" was sentenced last week to 10 months, split between 6 months in prison and 4 months of home confinement. The "runner" who hooked up accident victims with Lahuti and other lawyers earlier was handed a 26-month sentence.
Lahuti settled his own accident claim for $11,000 (after an initial demand of $140,000) and paid the chiropractor approximately $3,500 for his participation, according to the prosecutor's sentencing brief.
Lahuti faces sentencing Friday before Alexandria federal judge Anthony Trenga.
Another Washington-area lawyer who has followed the Lahuti case said he is disappointed at a recommendation for only 18 months. Joel A. Skirble said the prosecutor failed to consider the impact of Lahuti's practice on society in general and the Spanish-speaking community in particular.
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The recent communications survey, which many of you completed, clearly indicated a high level of interest in the regional directors' activities. I'm pleased to welcome this opportunity to provide you with a regular update on our direction and happenings within Southern Metropolitan region.
We are further enhancing our communication to the region via a new circulation called 'From the Regional Director' that will replace our current Eight magazine. This will enable us to communicate on a timelier basis within the region, providing information sooner.
This initiative forms part of our regional management team's (RMT) key strategic focus for 2012-13, being our 'People First' strategy. This will see us concentrating on building a vital communication and consultation framework, stakeholder and partnership maintenance regime, and the embedding of CFA's values and behaviours that will be used as part of our everyday business in
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We will also take more opportunities for face-to-face contact between brigade members and RMT. We are doing this through monthly field consultation meetings with volunteers and also working closely with Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria (VFBV) District Council and being involved in their leaders forum on Sunday 9 September 2012.
Many of you will be well aware that we are key contributors to the current emergency medical response (EMR) trial being conducted by CFA. Seven of the 10 brigades across the state in the trial are part of our team. These brigades include Mornington, Edithvale and Berwick (from the original trial in 2008) and joining that group in the latest phase is Dandenong, Hallam, Cranbourne and Springvale. These brigades have attended 371 EMR calls in the 2011-2012
financial year over and above their normal dedicated service to our communities, which is a great effort.
This pilot program is scheduled to conclude in October 2012, after which CFA and Ambulance Victoria will conduct a thorough review. Without pre-empting this review, our participating brigade members have successfully saved several lives and supported many individuals that has resulted in a very positive outcome for the patients involved. I continue to be impressed by the commitment of our participating members in this program and, in terms of community service, it would be good to see this program expanded. This trial has once again proven our ability to take on diverse and challenging tasks in Southern Metro and do it well.


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As we run through our daily to-do lists — go to work, attend meetings, battle traffic, get home, spend time with the family, eat dinner, sleep, repeat — retirement might seem like a lifetime away.
The clutter and work of the everyday often makes us forget that soon we'll be quieting down, moving at a slower pace and enjoying all those things we've been working towards over the past decades.
With that in mind, I have found it helpful to develop a to-do list for those planning to retire in the next five years.
(MORE: How to Declare Your Financial Independence)
This to-do list doesn't involve finishing up projects or returning phone calls. It's designed to ensure that when you retire, you'll see continued financial stability and success and never have to look back.
Everyone's list may look a little different, of course, but below are a few things that should get you moving in the right direction:
1. Pencil out your retirement budget and start adjusting your finances accordingly. When we daydream about our retirements, we like to think about breathtaking vacations and adventures we may not have had time for while working. But you need to take time to consider not only the fun expenses, but the monthly bills and day-to-day expenses you expect to face.
To that end, make sure you have an accurate, up-to-date financial plan. Once you stop working, you're going to have to adjust to a retirement budget that could be tighter than the one you live on now. This could mean a big financial adjustment requiring changes in your lifestyle and some critical money decisions. The sooner you start preparing for them, the better.
(MORE: Plotting Your Next Move for 'Unretirement')
2. Determine a mix of growth versus income for your investment portfolio. While you've been working full-time, your investments may have been focused primarily on growth (such as stocks), which makes sense. When you're five years away from retirement, though, you may want to start shifting your investments to a more conservative asset allocation, raising the percentage of your portfolio in income investments.
Remember though, you'll still want to own some growth investments. Being too conservative leaves little room for market growth potential, but taking on too much risk may lead to some difficult years if markets decline.
It's often helpful to "bucket" assets for different time horizons, with conservative investments allocated for short-term needs, moderate investments for mid-term goals (three to five years from now) and more aggressive for longer-term goals (five+ years away).
Since you'll see a decrease in your employment income in retirement, as noted earlier, your retirement-age portfolio should provide a dependable stream of investment income. Having a diverse set of income investments, from annuities and Exchange Traded Funds to bonds and income mutual funds, during your retirement years will help keep your money working.
Having this "hard working money" can help you become more financially secure and give you more flexibility to travel the world, dedicate more time to family or settle somewhere peaceful and take up new hobbies.
3. Compare your taxes today to what you expect them to be during retirement. When saving for retirement, you may have been putting money away in a 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored plan. The challenge you'll face in retirement is that when you need to withdraw from that account in retirement, the money will be subject to tax. So your retirement income might be lower than you had anticipated.


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"The contributions to the collection present diverse stories and perspectives from the personal to the theoretical and empirical. I finished reading feeling not only more informed but empowered.…Several hundred thousand women are currently employed as post-secondary teachers across North America; all of their Chairs, Deans, and Provosts should read this book and all academic women should know about it."
—Elissa Foster, Director of Education & Program Evaluation, Department of Family Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network
9. "I Should Have Married Another Man; I Couldn't Do
What I Do Without Him": Intimate Heterosexual Partnerships and their Impact on
Mothers' Success in Academe
Andrea O'Reilly
10. From Motherhood, Through Widowhood: The Path to Receiving
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Yvonne Redmond-Brown Banks
11. Non-Tenure-track Academic Work … The "Mommy Track"
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Jill M. Wood
12. Demeter on Strike: Fierce Motherhood on the Picket Line and the Playground
Laurie J. C. Cella
13. Re-Writing the Script
Jennifer Hauver James
14. Being a Mother Academic: or, I Didn't Get a Ph.d. to
Become a Mom
Joanne Minaker
15. Integrating the Personal and the Professional
Rachel Epp Buller
16. Halving It All: Co-parenting in an Academic Couple
Karen Christopher and Avery Kolers
17. Great Expectations for Moms in Academia: Work/Life Integration and
Addressing Cognitive Dissonance
Marta McClintock-Comeaux
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18. Academic Autonomy: Authority, Self-Confidence, and
Sylvia Burrow
19. Being and Thinking Between Second and Third Wave Feminisms: Theorizing a Strategic
Alliance Frame to Understand Academic Motherhood
D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein
20. The Cost of an Education: Exploring the Extended
Reach of Academe in Family Life
Amber Kinser
21. Basketball, Skating, and Scholarship:
or, How to do Research from the Bench, the Rink, and the Car
Elizabeth Podnieks
22. Academic Mother Crossing Linguistic and Cultural Borders
Masako Kato
23. Mothers in Law: Re-thinking Equality to Do Justice to Children in Academia
Isabelle Martin and Julie Paquin
24. Liberalism's Leaky Legacy: Theory and the Narratives of Graduate Student
Jamie Huff, Sarah Coté Hampson, and Corinne M. Tagliarina
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There are many things B.hooked Crochet has to offer from product and yarn reviews, to free patterns, video tutorials, techniques…I thought it would be helpful to create a resource page that you can always come to for your crochet needs. On this page, you will find convenient links to everything I believe will help you advance your crocheting skills. I recommend bookmarking it for your reference and convenience. Enjoy!
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Tulip Etimo Crochet Hooks: I started using Tulip Etimo crochet hooks in in early 2015. For me, they are comfortable and very easy to work with. I have used nearly every crochet hook on the market (and I own more hooks than I care to admit) but these are the hooks I come back to time and time again. I'm very particular about the products I recommend to my readers, but these ones made the cut!
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One of my favorite bits of unusual New York City history is located on the sidewalk in front of West Village's iconic Village Cigars store. It's pretty well known, but I'm going to re-tell it because it's such a great story.
Set into the sidewalk is a small triangle (see my sneaker for size comparison), with the mysterious message: "Property of the Hess Estate Which Has Never Been Dedicated For Public Purposes."
In 1910, the area around Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue was being widened by the city. Over 300 buildings were condemned and razed under Eminent Domain laws, including a 5-story apartment building called The Voorhis belonging to David Hess.
Hess fought the city fiercely to save his building but lost, and by 1914, this small triangle was all that was left of his property. Thinking he'd been suitably beaten down, the city asked Hess to voluntarily donate the minuscule triangle for use as part of the public sidewalk – but Hess refused, and had this mosaic installed on July 27, 1922. Though it inevitably became part of the sidewalk anyway, anyone who walked over the triangle couldn't help but be reminded of Hess' battle.
The sign hasn't been chanced since. In 1938, Hess sold the triangle of land to the cigar store for $1,000, and thankfully, the mosaic was left alone, cracks and all. I love seeing it walking through the Village, a reminder that sometimes the little guys win in ways you can never imagine.
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Recall that the canonical example of a monadic algebra is that of a functional monadic algebra, which is a pair such that is the set of all functions from a non-empty set to a Boolean algebra such that, for each , the supremum and the infimum of exist, and is a function on that maps each element to , a constant element whose range is a singleton consisting of the supremum of .
The canonical example of a polyadic algebra is an extension (generalization) of a functional monadic algebra, known as the functional polyadic algebra. Instead of looking at functions from to , we look at functions from (where is some set), the -fold cartesian power of , to . In this entry, an element is written as a sequence of elements of : where , or for short.
Before constructing the functional polyadic algebra based on the sets and the Boolean algebra , we first introduce the following notations:
for any and , define the subset (of )
for any function and any , define the function from to , given by
Now, let be the set of all functions from to such that
for every , every and every , the arbitrary join
Before stating the next condition, we introduce, for each , a function as follows:
Now, we are ready for the next condition:
if , then ,
if , then for .
Note that if were a complete Boolean algebra, we can take to be , the set of all functions from to .
Next, define by , and let be the semigroup of functions on (with functional compositions as multiplications), then we call the quadruple the functional polyadic algebra for the triple .
Remarks. Let be the functional polyadic algebra for .
is a polyadic algebra. The proof of this is not difficult, but involved, and can be found in the reference below.
If is a singleton, then can be identified with the functional monadic algebra for , for is just , and is just .
If is , then can be identified with the Boolean algebra , for and is a singleton, and hence the set of functions from to is identified with .
- 1 P. Halmos, Algebraic Logic, Chelsea Publishing Co. New York (1962).
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Cephalopods in Action
Vecchione, M. and R.E Young1997
Aspects of the functional morphology of cirrate octopods: locomotion and feeding.
Vie et Milieu, 47:101-110.
ABSTRACT: Cirrate octopods swim by a combination of fin action and medusoid propulsion by the arm/web complex. The fins of cirrate octopods are associated with a unique cartilage-like shell in a shell sac. In cross-section, the fins have distinct proximal and distal regions, both of which are covered by a thin surface of muscle somewhat similar to a typical decapod fin. In the proximal region, the fin cartilage forms a flat central core within the fin and provides skeletal support for attachment of densely packed muscle. Whereas Stauroteuthis maneuvers slowly by sculling with the fins, Grimpoteuthis swims primarily using powerful fin strokes. In Stauroteuthis, the mantle is extensively modified. The mantle opening closely surrounds the funnel, and the posterior mantle muscle is thickened and probably controls water flow for respiration. The "secondary web" in some cirrate species results from a modification of the way the web muscles attach to the arms. The more benthic opisteuthoids lack this modification. The secondary web enables larger volumes of water to be trapped in the web in some postures. The entrapment of water resulting in a bell-shaped posture in Stauroteuthis could be related to predator defense or to feeding. Buccal secretory glands found in Stauroteuthis and the presence of small copepods in the digestive tract, suggest that this benthopelagic species feeds by entrapping planktonic prey in mucus.
| Stauroteuthis syrtensis, JSL I dive 2621. Drifting in a bell-shaped posture, corresponds to Fig. 1b.
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| S. syrtensis, JSL II dive 1997. This is the animal captured and dissected. Animal swims into the bottom, then spreads its web, corresponds to Fig. 1d.
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I often read stories about individuals that are doing unique, interesting, and unconventional things with their lives. Whether it's moving overseas with their children, choosing an unusual career path, studying spirituality in India, being on and winning a reality TV show, or just providing their personal and often spunky view on a topic, these folks offer a peek inside lives that many of us only dream of. And then there's the fulltime RVer.
As a proud, card carrying fulltimer those I meet (and even some friends and family) are either awestruck and a little envious about my lifestyle or, with eyes downcast, concerned about my economic situation. In both cases they are eager to know how I got here (made a conscious choice) and what my plans for the future are (keep doing this until it's time to do something else). While times are difficult across the nation it's important to recognize that many – maybe even most – fulltime RVers are on the road by choice not circumstance and are living their version of the American Dream...carving out their own paths.
For many young fulltime RVers (those not yet retired and eligible for traditional social security and medicare benefits) the decision to break the mold comes from a sense of adventure, self-assurance, and a huge dose of "what-if". Some of us took an early retirement buy-out when our company downsized, were simply let go, or chose to explore a life outside the usual and customary. Living this lifestyle requires a drastic adjustment. Space is tight, alone time is more challenging to find, "things" must be left behind or sold, there's always a new grocery store, gas station, or post office to locate and navigate, your support circle must become a "virtual" safe place, you're always a new patient at the doctor's office, and there's always a new, unknown route to navigate.
Why do we do it? Maybe it's the age-old question…what's around the bend. This might and can be interpreted literally but is usually meant in the bigger context of life. For me (and many others) it's freedom - seeking new ways of seeing the world and defining success as a personal matter. The most frequent comment I get from older fulltimers is that they wish they had of begun this lifestyle earlier – when they were healthier and more physically able to explore. One young fulltime couple I know recently left "the road" to move in and financially assist mom. They wrote me saying "We sold our RV and truck and are considering going into business for ourselves. If fulltime RVing and workamping has taught us nothing else - it is that we are able to reinvent ourselves when we choose to." Talk about freedom, right?
So do we get any respect? I suppose fulltime RVers fly under most radar and perhaps we like it that way. We pay our taxes, register our vehicles, carry insurance, spend our money at local groceries, restaurants, and shops, buy tires and have our vehicles maintained at local garages, and are good neighbors. It rankles me when I read stories in the media about us…missives to park owners to beware…our kind (I think they mean those of us that stay in parks seasonally) might not mix well with travelers and could taint their businesses, school districts that might have to absorb a child that does not…gasp…live in a stick home (property taxes are built into our site fees), or political groups that try to amend our rights as US citizens to vote.
You, me, everyone chooses their own life adventures – raising children, developing big careers, experiencing other cultures. Just like any of the remarkable folks listed in the opening paragraph, we young fulltime RVers ask the same questions: Who says that we must live by what today's culture tells us is good and right and who exactly decides good and right anyways? With courage, strength, an ability to let go, a strong sense of humor, and making choices along the way we've designed our very own, personal, respectable American Dream.
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I hated Britney Spears as a kid because 1. She was dating Justin Timberlake and 2. She was dating Justin Timberlake. But I was awful at hiding that I actually did enjoy her music, and bought her albums despite my disdain. I remember giving her a ton of crap for the beach photoshoot pictures included in the CD booklet of her "Oops…I did it again" album.
"Who wears a sweater and shorts on the beach?" I would say.
No really……who?
Which brings me to today's outfit. I would like to publicly apologize to Ms. Britney Jean Spears for all of my super lame 11 year-old insults.
Sweater: Target (similar)
Skirt: American Eagle (similar)
Belt: Gap
Flats: Jeffrey Campbell
Ring: Forever 21
Earrings: Forever 21 (similar)
"Who wears a sweater and skirt on a sidewalk?"
I get colder on top than I do on the bottom and it's not really that cold today and I think this is perfectly acceptable for weather like this and don't look at me like that, Britney!
Okay, so I picture a prospective college student touring their potential future campus in something like this. The stripes that start past the shoulders has such a collegiate feel, and I love it. I rather be outside with the students at my job than inside an office reading GOMI when I should be working. What?
For anyone who may be looking at colleges soon, I put together a Mavatar collection of pieces that I think would suit your tour needs. Mavatar is a handy app that can be used on your handheld device or on Chrome to make it easier to find discount codes while shopping. You add the clothing items that you want from their supported stores, and any possible discounts are applied in your shopping cart. It's a neat way to buy items from multiple stores at once and save money without having to Google discount codes.
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Finally made Calgary last night by midnight. We are looking forward to seeing what Calgary has to eat. BBQ seems perfect for an early lunch. Seafood and snow crab are also featured on the menu. Booker's, a cavernous joint is our first stop. Sufficiently scruffy outside, slick and industrial chic inside, a bank of flatties lights up the bar, funky art and a Jim Beam guitar grace the walls. Buddy Holly, Johnny Rivers, Elvis, SRV and Clapton echo through the towering space.
We order up a couple of local beers, Grasshopper, a nice refreshing wheat beer and an app of burnt ends. The burnt ends arrive quickly. They are tasty, prized cubes of brisket but mostly fat. Rob says this is exactly how they are every time he has tried them. Two are enough for me.
Our mains, BBQ smoked chicken for me and St. Louis ribs for Rob arrive literally on top of our appetizer. Not sure if the poor spacing was due to a virtually empty restaurant at 12:30 on a Wednesday or because we ordered them after we told her what we wanted for mains.
Entrees come with BBQ standards of corn on the cob and baked beans. Whipped potatoes replace potato salad. My perfectly smoked chicken, moist with smoky pink meat, has toughened skin from the smoker. The Kansas City sauce which lends a delicious sweet heat remedies this. Rob's ribs are excellent, tasty and well smoked. A good smoke ring balanced by a sweet maple bourbon BBQ sauce.
The beans are homemade, decent BBQ beans. They are not very sweet and don't appear to have any bacon or brisket added. They are not to my preference and I leave them. The potatoes are bland and unseasoned. They could uses a good deal more butter. On second thought. It's BBQ. stop being creative and serve potato salad as god intended. The corn is a nice surprise. This is usually a throw away item that does nothing more than add colour to a plate full of meat. Bookers corn is dropped into boiling water for 5 when ordered. Fresh, sweet, toothsome. Not mushy like 99% of other BBQ joints. No bread is served. BBQ demands bread.


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Hi to all,
A couple things re this thread (which has wandered quite a way from where it started and which I started out of honest confusion, and some reluctance to create what I'm calling a 'traveling' avatar).
First, no one answered one of my questions from Aug 12 (perhaps it can't be answered), but how many and what kinds of sites might enable gravatar? Just curious as to the thinking about this...
Second, in reply to your question, Sacredpath, from Aug 12, re why it is "so different to have one's wordpress avatar remain limited to wordpress? Is it any safer here?", this is what I'd like to say. It's not so much a safety issue, of course. I've enough knowledge of the web to know that 'any and all' can and do move about it...It's more about having options, and control (or, at least, an illusion of control!).
I'd like to have the choice to create on WordPress an old-fashioned, stick-to-Wordpress avatar image OR to create a gravatar image, and let it blow in the winds of the web.
This also goes to issues of my identity here on WordPress, and on other web sites--the self that I bring to my blog, compared to the self that I bring to my email, or to a social networking site. Don't worry, these selves are all one of a whole, but they are--to some degree or other--different, and that is a good deal of what makes the net fun and different.
This issue really isn't worth getting into an on-going bruhaha over... I would just like, as I think some others would too, the option of a 'non-traveling' avatar.


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"I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down!"Masters of offensive magic, these mages are all about attacking with spells and doing lots of damage with them. Typically these mages will be users of most if not all types of Elemental Powers (one element is not unheard of though), with Fire/Ice/Lightning being particularly common, and may fall under Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards. They do not heal (or only have minor healing spells) and typically pack Area of Effect spells in their arsenal. Very frequently Dark Is Not Evil. The term comes from jRPGs, particularly the Final Fantasy series, and is in stark contrast with its meaning in European tradition which is "a user of evil magic". Black Magician Girl and Lady of Black Magic are subtropes and are often paired up with The Medic, White Mage, or White Magician Girl as a Foil. Specifically paired with a White Mage it's Black and White Magic. Often overlaps with Squishy Wizard and Glass Cannon. Contrast The Medic and White Mage. Not to be confused with Black Magic (which is outright evil rather than merely destructive) or the character Black Mage Evilwizardington (though he is an example of both tropes).
— Black Mage, 8-Bit Theater
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Anime and Manga
- Mahou Sensei Negima!: there are two classes of normal mages. A "Wizard" focuses on attack magic while others protect, whereas a "Magic Knight" fights up front and uses spells. Negi chose the latter, but Yue has chosen the "Wizard" style complete with the Final Fantasy style Black Mage outfit.
- Although Kagura from Inuyasha has shown herself to be very fit physically (being a demon, it comes naturally for her), she always fights using wind-using spells and magic. She also has no issues cutting up your best friend and then turning them into a zombie to lure you into an ambush.
- In the .hack//Legend of the Twilight anime and manga. Hotaru would be the battle mage of the group, except she's afraid to hurt the monsters.
- Fatina, from The Tower of Druaga: The Aegis of Uruk. She uses a large staff that resembles a cannon for nuking things with her fire magic.
- Kuesu from Omamori Himari.
- While her bubbly and polite personality is perhaps more in line with a White Magician Girl, Magical Circle Guru-Guru's Kukuri dresses in black and uses demon summoning magic.
- In Slayers, black mages (like Lina and her sometime-sidekick Naga) are specifically wizards who call on Mazoku for their spells; both they and shamans (like Zelgadiss) can get very, very destructive effects. In fact, many "elementally offensive" spells, like the classic Fireball, are shared by both forms of magic.
- Hayate Yagami of the Lyrical Nanoha franchise, who as the Queen of the Night Sky, comes with the widest variety of nuke-level offensive spells in the cast. These range from releasing city-wide spheres of darkness to creating massive icebergs that dwarf space ships.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! has the Dark Magician. An excellent example of Dark Is Not Evil, as he fights to protect Yugi, and in his previous life, he was a priest who (Mahad, who sacrificed his own ba (life force) so he can fuse with his Illusion Magician) sacrificed his life for the Pharaoh.
Comic Books
- In Supergirl story Demon Spawn the titular heroine fights Nightflame, a sword-wielding sorcerer who can open dimensional portals, use fire-spells, fly and steal souls. Since Supergirl is vulnerable to magic, it is not an easy battle for her.
- Trisana Chandler from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic. This is actually a downside of winning the Superpower Lottery: Her extremely powerful weather magic (where "weather" also includes natural disasters) would put her in high demand as a war mage, but she'd prefer to be a healer, something which she's simply too strong for. To paraphrase, "it would be like performing surgery with a mallet."
- All four kids, and some of their students, can put their magic to spectacular offensive use when they need to, though Tris is the most naturally suited to it.
- The Saga Of Recluce inverts this and White Mage; those who use order magic (which can improve health, speed healing, and strengthen and protect) are called black mages, while those who use chaos magic (which is, as the name implies, very destructive) are the white mages. On the grand scale, however, the black mages have easily the greatest destructive potential because they can manipulate weather patterns, which makes the nation of Recluce with its numerous black mages a (highly resented) world power.
- A few examples from The Wheel of Time:
- The Green Aes Sedai are known as the "Battle Ajah." In the final book, they are on the front lines of the Last Battle.
- Ashaman are trained to think of themselves as weapons first, and men second. There are a few who learn healing spells, but they're generally the exception. They also notably wear black uniforms, and live in a fort called The Black Tower.
- It is implied by some of Tuon's actions and dialogue that Damane don't learn Healing, and would not be trusted to use it, if they did know it. They are kept on leashes, and outright referred to as weapons.
Live-Action TV
- The BBC/Starz series The White Queen portrays Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to Edward IV, as a witch with actual supernatural powers. Throughout the series, she is able to call down terrible thunderstorms on her enemies at strategically critical moments, cause her enemies' deaths through magical curses, and otherwise wreck terrible destruction with her magic. When her husband, King Edward, lies dying of a fever, another character, Margaret Beaufort, says that the king will be fine because the queen will just brew some magic potion to heal him. Needless to say, that is not one of Elizabeth's powers, and Edward dies. That being said, Elizabeth (and her mother and her eldest daughter, also portrayed as witches) are shown to have some non-offensive powers, including divination magic; also, Elizabeth did use her magic to make Edward fall in love with her in the first place, or at least to help the process along. Still, it would appear that the Woodville women in this show are at least partial examples of this trope.
- Norwegian black metal band Emperor take this literally in one of their most well-known songs, I am the Black Wizards.
- This is the title of the song Чёрный маг, by Russian band Epedemia.
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- The Forgotten Realms setting has the Cormyrean War Wizards, masters of combat magic, who have made it as both a 3.x edition Prestige Class and a 4th edition paragon path.
- The 2nd Edition Complete Wizards Handbook had the militant wizard kit, which concentrates on offensive spells.
- The 3.5 Complete Arcane and Miniatures Handbook Sourcebooks both featured the Warmage class, which is this trope to the exclusion of everything else.
- Evocation specialists in general tend to take this role.
- In 4th edition, the Wizard class can be built this way — although there are certainly alternative options. The Sorcerer class is arguably closer to the spirit of the trope, especially the very "blasting focused" Dragon Soul and Storm Soul variants.
- Spheres of Power: Any mid- to full-caster with a focus in the Destruction sphere.
- Vampire: The Masquerade generally avoided this (overt magic use being a breach of The Masquerade), but there were still a couple paths of Blood Sorcery based around massive eruptions of magical energies, such as Path of the Levinbolt, Lure of the Flames, The Fires of the Inferno, and the incredibly fun Koldunic Way of Fire.
- The magic-focused World of Darkness property, Mage, has the forces sphere, which is all about throwing around elemental forces that are increasingly destructive, blatant, and generally terrifying. Low levels start out with redirecting natural fire and electricity into damaging effects, and increasing mastery gives the caster the ability to grab increasingly fundamental physical forces like gravity and radiation and use them to blow things up. Even non-damaging uses of the sphere like flight and invisibility are usually so blatantly supernatural that spell backfire is going to do something dramatic and damaging anyhow.
- Because their effects are generally ignored by people to begin with, a lot of changeling powers also fall into this category in the New World of Darkness edition. Elemental ones, obviously, but many goblin contracts fall into this category too, doing things like dropping the wild hunt into a scene at random.
- Magic: The Gathering: Instant and sorcery focused decks tend to function this way, as opposed to the Summon Magic of creature-based ones. Red is your go-to colour for this, since it's the colour of "kill it with direct magical damage", with maybe a bit of blue mixed in for card draw, instant/sorcery recursion and the occasional counterspell. Black can do okay, with a lot of effects that instantly kill creatures or drain life from the opponent, but the other two colours tend to be much more focused on summoning and as a result rarely have a place in this kind of deck. Of course, virtually every red-aligned mage will have direct "kill it with fire/lightning" spells, but a lot of the time they're used to open up a hole for the monsters to go through and occasionally as a finisher, rather than being the be-all and end-all of the player's strategy.
- Ammo: Almost every player character that knows magic at creation will use an offensive spell (Air, Water, Earth or Fire). Learning more elements later is helpful because of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors being in effect. The fifth option is Life that, while loved by the team, is serious crap for the character himself. ALL demons that know magic will spam elemental attacks like rain at a funeral.
- The 4th edition Champions supplement Mystic Masters makes the observation that superhero comic book wizards in general usually lean in this direction, since what we'll typically see them do most prominently with their magic is fight while at the same time healing or regeneration magic is (barring dedicated healers, who then in turn tend not to fare too well in combat on their own) noticeably not much in evidence in their personal arsenal. It consequently advises keeping that convention in mind if one wants one's game to feel like the comics themselves.
- The Bright College of Wizardry in both Warhammer and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. The other seven schools all have some kind of offensive magics but also include things like healing, illusions, or prophecy. The Bright College wields the Lore of Fire; of its seven spells, six can be summarised as "set your enemies on fire and watch them burn". And the seventh is "set your allies' weapons on fire so that they can set your enemies on fire".
Video Games
- Final Fantasy is the Trope Namer and possibly Trope Maker. Black mages are a staple class in the series, appearing in almost all of the games.
- Final Fantasy III also has the Magus job, which functions as a stronger version of the Black Mage job.
- Final Fantasy IV has Palom (in contrast to his twin Porom), who is from Mysidia, a town full of mages. Rydia also possesses black magic, though she primarily focuses on Summon Magic.
- Black Mage is one of the first jobs obtained in Final Fantasy V.
- Black Mages are an entire race in Final Fantasy IX. One of your party members, Vivi, is a black mage.
- In Final Fantasy X, Wakka even refers to Lulu as a Black Mage in one of the tutorial fights.
- Final Fantasy X-2 has the Black Mage dressphere.
- Final Fantasy XIV has the Thaumaturge Class, which can unlock the Black Mage Job.
- World of Warcraft:
- Mages fulfill this role. No self healing while nuking from a distance.
- Destruction Warlocks are all about throwing hellfire at things until they fall down.
- The Dragon Quest series is fond of this trope.
- In Dragon Quest III, the Wizard class specializes in casting destructive spells.
- In Dragon Quest IV, Both Maya and Borya fit this.
- In Dragon Quest VIII, Jessica fulfills this role till late in the game when she gains pretty decent healing spells.
- In Dragon Quest IX, the Mage class has all attack magic with a few debuffing spells overshadowed by the Sage class which has both better attack spells and gets healing spells, though the mage gets better stat growth for casting offensive spells.
- Disgaea has both male and female magic users (they're coloured differently according to element). They learn spells of increasing power and area of effect that deal damage within their element (so fire mages learn fire, mega fire, etc; ice mages learn ice, mega ice, etc and so on). The highest level mages can learn most of all the elemental spells, but cannot master the strongest spells of each type.
- Touhou:
- Most wizards and magicians are expected to be specialized in incredibly powerful magic. Their main drawback is that, while powerful, they're not much stronger than a normal human, taking them into Glass Cannon territory most of the time. In fact, it is implied that the reason Marisa can beat the crap out of supernatural entities and gods on a regular basis (even outside of Spell Card duels) is because she is just that damn good at casting spells while not having her head vaporized/blown/burned/etc. All because she studies her magic very carefully.
- Ragnarok Online has the Mage first class which branches as follows:
Sage - Professor - SorcererWizard - High Wizard - Warlock
- They both use damaging spells and for the most part perform no healing or support spells. The Wizard branch uses area spells with special effects like a chance of stun or freezing and the Sage branch can cast two streams of bolt spells at once with Double Cast as well as endow weapons with an element to increase weapon damage.
- In Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale there's Calliou, the Squishy Wizard who has a grand total of one utility spell, with the rest being solely for offense and no melee combat ability whatsoever. To a lesser extent there's also Arma, who's later weapons are pretty much Magitek WMDs.
- Aion: Tower of Eternity has the Mage Class, which at level 10 branches off into either the Sorcerer (Direct Heavy Damage, AOE Damage, Crowd Control) or the Spiritmaster (summons pets, not as much direct damage)
- Shadow Era's Mage Heroes (both Human and Shadow) are this.
- La Tale has the Sorcerer class, one of the two advanced classes after Wizard, which abandons all healing magic for pure offensive magic.
- Imoen from the Baldur's Gate series, a friendly and upbeat sort who starts out as a thief in the first game but then becomes a black mage.
- Rune from Phantasy Star IV is a full-on 'blast everything until it dies' type, whereas Kyra is a warm and friendly sort who appoints herself Cool Big Sis to the hero but can still blast things (and heal a bit).
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope gives us Lymle and Myuria.
- Star Ocean has Ronyx, who is the only caster not to learn any healing magic and also the only one who can cast Dark element spells.
- Angela of Seiken Densetsu 3, right down to the weapon and personality.
- Genis Sage from Tales of Symphonia.
- Grune from Tales of Legendia
- Jade Curtiss from Tales of the Abyss.
- Ana from Earthbound Beginnings and Paula from EarthBound: They both use offensive spells such as PK Fire and PK Freeze (Ana also has PK Beam). Kumatora from MOTHER 3 also fits.
- Gwen, an NPC in Guild Wars, is first encountered as a happy-go-lucky little girl who befriends the player in an idyllic countryside. Fast-forward eight years of game time, and she's a powerful Mesmer described as being driven primarily by hatred and anger.
- Cierra in Riviera: The Promised Land.
- Chelsea from Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils.
- Magus from Chrono Trigger.
- Also, Gil/Magil from Radical Dreamers and Guile from Chrono Cross. Whether these three people are one and the same is another matter entirely.
- Dragon Age
- Dragon Age: Origins: although you have freedom to spec her as you wish, Morrigan starts off as a Black Mage as well. It's also possible to turn the player character, The Warden and Hawke, into Black Mages as well in both games.
- Dragon Age II: Merrill, who despite being much nicer than Morrigan, practices Blood Magic which is considered one of the most dangerous forms of magic, and has no healing magic other than using said blood magic to steal others' life force for herself.
- This is the role of the Rift Mage specialization in Dragon Age: Inquisition, which maximizes offensive ability.
- Delphine Jend in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. A sweet little woman who likes to kill cute woodland creatures with Expert-Level destruction spells.
- And the Master destruction magic trainer Bralsa Andaren, who is actually out doing said killing of woodland creatures. Bonus in that she's also a Dark Elf.
- The Sorceress in Diablo II, who focuses entirely in Fire/Ice/Lightning offensive spells.
- Breath of Fire I and Breath of Fire II give us Deis/Bleu, the nagaesque Person of Mass Destruction. Nina as well, with the exception of the first game.
- Sira of Albion. Her spells are destructive (coming dangerously close to becoming an instant 'I Win' button), but she's rather gentle and friendly. The spells themselves are also nature related as she conjures thorns, fungi, and ice splinters that grow like flowers.
- Khunag also qualifies, if not more so. His spells are all about dealing damage, with only a couple of exceptions that seem like an afterthought.
- Donald Duck is somewhere between this and The Red Mage in the Kingdom Hearts series: his starting staff even resembles the classic Final Fantasy Black Mage. The Magic Knight hero Sora's spells tend to pack more of a punch, though.
- Mallow from Super Mario RPG is another "somewhere between this and The Red Mage" example, and like Donald, his appearance borrows elements from the Final Fantasy Black Mage (in Mallow's case, the striped pants). He gets an early healing spell, but that gets eclipsed once Princess Toadstool joins you, and his specialty is in combat magic and rounding out the party's Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors with Mario (between the two of them you can take advantage of every elemental weakness in the game).
- Adepts in the Mass Effect series focus on devastating and disabling enemies using biotic powers. Recurring squadmate Liara T'Soni is a prominent Adept, with Jack in Mass Effect 2 also qualifying.
- At the beginning of Duel Savior Destiny Lily is the strongest member of the Savior class, but she looks down on healing magic as worthless. This really comes back to bite her in the fifth chapter when the regular healer is incapacitated and she can't heal her or the other injured people, thus forcing what remains of your party to retreat, apart from Rico. Apparently, it's actually rare to see mages who specialize to this extent in pure combat and within a few more chapters she has begun picking up standard healing spells.
- The elemental magic skill tree in The Secret World is dedicated primarily to blasting anything and everything into little pieces. Not that the other skill trees don't have perfectly viable means of damage-dealing, either, but they're often a little more diversified. Elementalism is classic Black Mage material.
- Though her mode of dress resembles something else, this is Rita's role in Tales of Vesperia.
- Nico Minoru is this in Marvel: Avengers Alliance — most of her spells have various debuffing effects and her strongest offensive attack takes advantage of enemies being given a lot of debuffs first.
- Lester Deth in Charlie Murder combines this with Summoning Magic.
- The Fire Emblem series has the Anima mage class, sometimes simply called the "Mage" class. Anima mages specialize in the three Elemental Magic types (called "Anima magic" in a few games) in the series: Fire, Wind, and Thunder. Anima mages most often promote into the "Sage" class when at a sufficient level, and gain the ability to use healing staves alongside damaging tomes.
- Dark Elf Warlocks in Heroes Of Might And Magic V specialize in Destructive Magic, and their racial abilities are aimed at enhancing its damage, lowering the enemy's resistance to it, and replenishing mana quickly.
Web Comics
- Black Mage from 8-Bit Theater, naturally. Parodies his character class, just like his teammates—he has several incredibly destructive spells, but rarely uses anything other than his once-per-day hadoken, and just as rarely manages to actually hit something with it. His real weapon of choice is his seemingly endless supply of daggers, mostly used for stabbing his teammates when they do something annoying.
- Ariel from Drowtales, though she prefers shapeshifting to her offensive spells.
- Richard from Looking for Group is as black as they come, and deadlier than he is dead.
- The Order of the Stick:
- On the subject of liches, Xykon. Other than the occasional hold spell, he tends to leave all non-hurty spellcasting to menials.
- Vaarsuvius was initially this, mostly going for powerful and destructive spells like Fireball. However, after a brief stint as evil, a chat with Xykon of all people, and a Heroic B.S.O.D., V is trying to be a little more rounded, creative, and strategic, and use support spells more. It was off to a rocky start, but helped with the return of Zz'dtri.


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This week, instead of a snippet from a manuscript, I thought I'd introduce a couple of important worldbuilding details that will come into play in Elysian Fields and as the Sentinels series progresses.
Today, we'll look at the organization of the wizards. Over the coming weeks, we'll see the power structure of the elves and the vampires–both of which groups become very active in Elysian Fields.
A basic deconstructed organizational chart of the wizards is:
First Elder
Congress of Elders (one per continent)
Heads of the four Congresses: Red (physical magic); Green (ritual magic); Blue (creation magic); Yellow (mental magic)
Licensed sentinels (usually Red Congress, but a few others, such as DJ); report to the Congress of Elders
Licensed wizards (meet certain skill requirements set forth by the congresses and report to the heads of the Congresses)
Unlicensed wizards, minor mages, witches
Sixth-sensers (humans with some magical skill)
Outside the organization and reporting directly to Congress of Elders: Enforcers
In Royal Street and River Road, we see only a glimpse of this structure through Gerry and DJ (Red and Green Congress, Sentinels); Alex (Enforcers); and Willem Zrakovi (member of the Congress of Elders representing North America), based in Boston. We briefly meet a Yellow Congress wizard (when DJ visits the temporary morgue set up after Katrina).
In Elysian Fields, we will get a better look at a Blue Congress wizard, and some of the type of magic he can do. We'll also get a look at the magical skill of necromancy, which is a stray genetic ability that isn't limited to a single Congress. The First Elder will come into play, in a peripheral way, and Zrakovi is back as well.
(Trivia! Elder Zrakovi is named after one of my neighbors in New Orleans; I thought it was the coolest last name, so I had to use it. My neighbor was from North Dakota originally, and I'm not sure what the etymology of the name is. Sounds East European, maybe? Not sure.)
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Analysis Essay
To Write a Good Analysis Essay Requires Analytical Thinking
An analysis essay is written by analyzing a particular subject, object, a concept or any other thing. Students are familiar of analyzing many things on a daily basis in day to day life. Analyzing is done in order to try and understand something. However when it comes to analysing a subject for writing an academic essay, the depth of analysis is expected to be much more than what is usually applied in to daily decisions. However, essay writing in general taps on to the student's analytical skills. Therefore, writing this essay involves taking the general writing skills to a higher level. This is probably why some students find writing this type of essay more challenging than any other type. This is why a clear understanding of what entails analysis and how this is to be applied in to writing an essay can be extremely beneficial for the students.
Analysis is defined as the sseparation of an intellectual or material whole into its constituent parts for individual study of such constituent parts and their interrelationships in making up a whole. While this may sound too complicated, it is like taking up an orange and dissecting it in to its separate sections and then analyzing each section separately as well as how in combination it can form the whole orange again. However, while the orange has more or less similar segments, in general analysis, these constituent segments or parts will have many differences and variability which makes the analysis more complicated. This is what the students are expected to do when they have been set with the task of writing an analytical essay.
An analysis essay will be written by analysing a certain topic or an idea. Hence the introduction of the essay must describe and define the whole prior to it being spereated in to its constituent parts. For effective analysis, the writer's own ideas and opinions must be incorporated in to the writing along with sound evidence and examples. Comparison with other similar subjects or objects can be a medium used to illustrate the analysis being carried out.
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Did you guys watch The Voice on Monday? I love the battle rounds almost as much as I love Adam's old man sweaters. Ok here goes…a recap of sorts. A fashion recap. First up, some men's shirts…later we can address the crazy.
In rehearsals Tony Lucca wore a light blue snap shirt, kind of like this Lucky Brand Snap Shirt.
And our man Blake wore a redish brown one like this Rough Stock Long Sleeve Shirt.
During the battles Blake wore classic black. Try this Rock and Roll Cowboy one. It has a bit of embroidery on the back, so still classic, but with some detail.
Let's stick with the men here for another minute. I wasn't a big fan of the pleather member's only jacket that Chris wore for his performance. He seems like a Pendelton guy to me. I mean, look…he even looks a little like this model!
As far as the men's fashion that had me a bit confused….CeeLo, of course. But…red santin Pjs?!?! He cracks me up. And the grey sweatshirt thing that Anthony wore…what was that?
Ok, on to the women.
RaeLynn wore a peasant type shirt in some of the rehearsal scenes. It kind of reminded me of this Ariat Chiffon Shirt as far as style goes.
Miranda came to help out on set and wore a red and black plaid shirt. She is so darn cute it kills me. This Cowgirl Up Button Up Shirt would achieve the same look. Wear it open over a tank or tee like she did.
Adley wore a big belt buckle in some of the rehearsal scenes. I love some good western bling! How about this Ariat Belt Buckle?
Christina showed one of my favorite go to looks, a denim jacket. She wore it with a long black maxi dress. Everyone needs a denim jacket for spring. It is a go-to easy look. Try this Levi's Denim Trucker Jacket.
Chessa had some fringe going on in the performance part. Not exactly this, but in the same vein. This Miss Me Tank is one I could see her wearing for sure.
And lastly, my girl Jordis. She is my favorite going into this thing. She struggled with the song and it wasn't great – but she is still my fav. And the shoes she wore….Oh WOW. I want those heels. Loved them. But as far as day to day, we need to get her to rock some Dingo Boots. They are perfect for a rocker like her. These 7″ Dingo Zipper Harness Boots are perfect for her.
So I counted like 2 or 3 pleather member's only type jackets in this episode, 2 pairs of satin pants on CeeLo (a full red PJs set, and black ones with a black sweater), a couple of old man sweaters and one flying saucer. Oh yes, we had to mention Xtina's flying saucer facinator. The fashion was entertaining as always, and the performances too. As far as those…
Tony v. Chris….I agree. I like Tony Lucca. And I think when saying his name you have to say both first and last. It just sounds right that way.
RaeLynn v. Adley…I knew Blake would go with RaeLynn. He likes artists he can work with and help. He can really watch her grow over these next few weeks. I also agree, I think she is the better pick. And I love Adley too – but that girl needs to reign in those curls. Great great hair but styled not so great.
Angie v. Chessa…I knew he would pick Chessa. I would have picked Angie. To me Chessa is more acting like she is singing verses singing. Does that make any sense? It is just too forced and over the top for me. But so very CeeLo.
Monique v. Chris….Chris got the nod. I am not sure here. I think she could have been fun to watch, but I also think he will be interesting. This was a tough call. much like….
Anthony v. Geoff….Geoff got it. He is kind of like Chessa for me. A bit too into it. I just didn't believe him as much as Anthony. But….who am I? Clearly not a judge…at least not until the later rounds where our votes count!
So that's it for a recap. Let me know your thoughts!!!


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(Reuters) - Drybulk shipper DryShips Inc (DRYS.O), which reported a quarterly loss, said the shipping market is "severely depressed," and that it is looking to reduce and prolong its capital expenditure program amid a funding crunch.
Shares of DryShips, considered to be a bellwether stock for the industry, fell nearly 8 percent in extended trade. They closed at $2.08 on Wednesday on the Nasdaq.
"The optimization of our drybulk and tanker newbuilding programs is our top priority right now and we are in discussions with the shipyards in this respect to reduce and prolong our capex program," Chief Executive George Economou said in a statement.
The company planned to build eleven drybulk vessels and 7 tankers, it said in a regulatory filing in March.
The worsening situation in Europe has led to a number of banks that lend to shipping companies exiting the sector after a series of restructurings and payment defaults.
"Both tanker and drybulk spot charter rates have been at historic low levels -- well below cash breakeven rate -- for some time," Economou said.
The time charter equivalent -- average daily revenue performance of a vessel on a per voyage basis -- more than halved to $12,727, from $26,732 a year earlier.
Debt-laden Overseas Shipholding Group Inc (OSG.N), the world's No. 2 independent tanker operator by fleet size, filed for bankruptcy protection earlier on Wednesday as questions about its financial statements shut it out of credit markets.
DryShips contract coverage is very low, with 33 percent of calendar days for 2013 and 22 percent for 2014.
The Greece-based company reported a net loss of $51.3 million, or 13 cents per share, in the third quarter, compared with a profit of $25.0 million, or 7 cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding certain items, loss was 9 cents per share.
Revenue rose 8 percent to $343.6 million helped by a 26 percent jump in revenue at its drilling unit, Ocean Rig UDW Inc OCRG.NFF.
Analysts on average had expected DryShips to post a loss of 2 cents per share on revenue of $331.52 million, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Reporting By Thyagaraju Adinarayan and Vishal Krishnan Menon in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila


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Real time user update
Need a help from gurus,
I are going develop this web application, front end will be written in Flex, middle tier will be Spring with core java, and the DB will be oracle, We have this requirement which is say while a user is working in front end (has to be a registered user with access roles), if the db admin goes and changes the user's details (say access role) that change should be notified to the user immediately,
I need solutions from u guys to answer this problem, dont worry about the flex part but how to do it in java of course with some built in functions with oracle?
Your ideas are highly appreciated.
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You can't push from a straight web app.
If the web app makes frequent calls to the server to decide what it can and cannot do then a change of permissions shouldn't pose a problem (assuming you aren't cacheing the user data). Unless you expect the front end to suddenyl kick the user out of a screen they're already in?
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Improved Extension Table
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Poetry and Patents
Dyers' Recipes
From Haserick's Secrets of Dyeing.
The Ancient Brewers of New York
Oak Graining
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Perpetual Motion- February 25, 1871
W. Mattieu Williams on the Bessemer Process
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Interesting School Statistics
Hand Sewing Machine
Toughening and Refining Gold
The Largest Gun in the World
The Hudson River Railroad Disaster
A Remarkable Geological Discovery
The Pecuniary Prospects of the East River Bridge
Progress of Foreign Invention- February 25, 1871
Intelligent Legislation About Medical Prescriptions
How the Ice Bridge is Formed in the East River
Recent Decisions at the Patent Office- February 25, 1871
The Present and The Past- February 25, 1871
Scientific Intelligence- February 25, 1871
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New Patent Law of 1870
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Pimbley History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Anglo-Saxon name Pimbley comes from the name Euphemia where it is a short form of that name. The surname Pimbley originally derived from the Old English word Pymma which came from Euphemia. The surname Pimbley referred to the son of Euphemia which belongs to the category of patronymic surnames.
Early Origins of the Pimbley family
Somerset where the family can be "traced to Philip Pym, of Brymmore, 12 Edward IV." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lowe, Mark Anthony, Patronymica Britannica, A Dictionary of Family Names of the United Kingdom. London: John Russel Smith, 1860. Print. Indeed, there is much debate about the origin of this name. Another reference claims "considering that Eufemia is fairly common in the Hundred Rolls, that Pimme is feminine, and Phemie is still the nickname, it all but certain that we have here the solution of the name in question. Personally I have no doubt that this derivation is correct. " [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X) The Hundred Rolls of 1273 lists the following: Eufemmia de Neville in Lincolnshire; Katerina Eufemme in Norfolk; Pimme, widow of Peter Seman in Cumberland; Bartholomew filius Pimme in Hunts; Chun Pimme in Cambridge and finally Henry Pimme in Cambridge. Later the Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379, list Agnes Pyme and Johannes Pymson. [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Early History of the Pimbley family
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Pimbley Spelling Variations
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Migration of the Pimbley family to the New World and Oceana
At this time, the shores of the New World beckoned many English families that felt that the social climate in England was oppressive and lacked opportunity for change. Thousands left England at great expense in ships that were overcrowded and full of disease. A great portion of these settlers never survived the journey and even a greater number arrived sick, starving, and without a penny. The survivors, however, were often greeted with greater opportunity than they could have experienced back home. These English settlers made significant contributions to those colonies that would eventually become the United States and Canada. An examination of early immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Pimbley arrived in North America very early: Henry Pym, who settled in Barbados in 1668; Mary Pym, who settled in Virginia in 1673; Richard Pymm, who settled in Barbados in 1667; Charles Pym, who arrived in New England in 1715.
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