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This month's RPG Blog Carnival is being hosted by Nevermeet Press. The topic is Things to Love, Things to Hate.
The Cleric has always been my favourite class in D&D. I'm not a spiritual person in real life but there's something I've always found appealing when it comes to playing divine characters. I think a big part of it is knowing that my character has to very power of life and death in his hands. With just a thought he can call forth his deity's power and heal wounds. Having this power, a power until 4e that was limited to divine character, is like having insurance that the rest of the characters don't. No matter how bad things get I know that I can use my class powers to heal wounds and stay on my feet. This is not to say that I'm a selfish Cleric, but if I go down no one else gets healed which certainly makes a compelling argument for serving my own needs first.
In my opinion, the most significant improvements to the Cleric class in 4e was making the ability to heal a minor action, thereby allowing the Cleric to still participate in combat. Until 4e Clerics often did nothing but heal the wounded while all the other classes did amazing things. Not so with 4e. The combination of the healing surge mechanic and Healing Word as a minor action made Clerics a lot more powerful because they could be a lot more involved. This is a big reason why I still find Clerics among the best classes in 4e D&D. It's also the reason that I choose healing surges as the focus for this article, my contribution to this month's RPG Blog Carnival.
Things to Love About Healing Surges
Healing surges changed the way characters are healed in D&D. Every character has his own supply of healing surges that replenish every day. Second Wind allows every PC to heal himself during combat and expend a healing surge without any help. After that it's the leader's job to let wounded PCs expend more healing surges as necessary. But this is a shared venture. Each player needs to be mindful of how many healing surges he has left. A Cleric may have healing magic left in his repertoire, but if you're out of surges he can't help you. The healing surge has madding healing a shared responsibility.
I love that healing is now based on your healing surge value and not on a few random rolls of the dice. In previous editions a Cleric's level 1 healing spell only restored 1d8 hit points and was practically useless at higher levels. Now the number of hit points regained is based on a fraction of the recipient's total hit points which means the power scales nicely as the PCs level up.
Gone are the days of the Cleric trading in his most potent offensive magic for a meager healing spell. Now the Cleric has a wide assortment of powers that can trigger healing surges above and beyond any other offensive damage he may inflict on an opponent.
Characters who find that they consistently have extra healing surges at the end of the day can find other ways to put those unused healing surges to use. Spellcasters in the group can take 5 minutes to use the ritual Comrades' Succor and redistribute those unused healing surges at any point in the day. This lets the PCs who generally stand back and take less damage share the wealth with those who take the brunt of the hits. It also allows Con-based PCs to dump the surges that they'll never burn through.
Another way to put those unused healing surges to better use is to invest in consumables. Many low-level, cheap consumables require the user to expend a healing surge, and the rewards are often extremely beneficial. If you're not going to need the surges anyway, why not stock up on said consumables. At low levels the PCs may not be able to afford a lot of consumables, but after they've leveled up a few times there's really no excuse not to be carrying around a wide assortment of consumables.
Things to Hate About Healing Surges
Now it's time to look at the flipside of the healing surge mechanic. In truth it's not healing surges I hate, rather it's players' misunderstanding the importance of healing surges to their own character and to the game going on around them. I'm not suggesting that everyone jump on the "love healing surges" bandwagon, but many players need to put more time and consideration into the importance that healing surges make to their character and to the party.
I wasn't playing 4e D&D for very long before I saw first hand how important healing surges actual were. My first 4e character was a Paladin so I was fine in the healing surge department, but the poor guy playing the Rogue wasn't as fortunate. As a frontline striker he was always getting into the thick of things. The party's defenders (my Paladin and a Fighter) tried to keep opponents off the Rogue by marking them, but inevitably the monsters would realize the threat this deadly striker posed to team monster and they'd still attack him. When they did they acted together, focusing fire on what they realized was the biggest threat on the board.
More often than not the Rogue ended combat way below his bloodied value, sometimes unconscious. With Constitution as his dump stat he was limited to only 6 healing surges. Despite what the Rogue brought to the table as far as offense, he sorely lacked when it came to defense. Even with two leaders providing overflow dice to his surge value and my Paladin offering a Lay on Hands every combat, the Rogue still ran out of healing surges faster than anyone else in the party.
Recognizing this sever deficiency the player took the Durability feat to give himself two more healing surges by the time he reached level 4. He also learned the value of more advanced tactics. In this case the player changed the way he played to overcome his character's limitations. It also illustrated to the whole party the down side to a low Constitution. Since then I don't think we've had a PC with an initial Con score below 13 (and it's almost always bumped to 14 at level 4).
What I hate (and I can't emphasize hate enough in this circumstance) are players who go through the same experience that I've described above and make no effort to remedy the situation. Instead, what I see over and over again are power gamers who continue to play strikers (often the classes that begin with the fewest number of healing surges), leave their starting Con at 10 (or possibly even lowering it to 8.) and then running out of healing surges after one combat encounter. One! Suddenly the party needs to take an extended rest because one PC is out of healing surges. My usual response is along the lines of "too bad, suck it up" and the party continues adventuring. Before the end of the next encounter the inevitable happens and the PC who began the encounter with no surges falls unconscious.
You reap what you sow. If you choose to take a 20 in your primary ability during character creation and that means you don't have enough points to bump up your Con, then that's a decision you made. No one forced your hand. You wanted your PC to be a bad ass and he probably is; however, if you don't drop your opponents quickly you're going to feel the pain that comes from short-changing the other ability scores (like Con). If you're not willing to take Durability because you'd rather take a feat that gives you +1 to attack or +1 to damage, then again that's your decision and you have to live with the consequences.
Don't get me wrong, I want players to make the characters they want to make and I want everyone to have a good time, but when this kind of deficiency takes your PC out of the fight it affects everyone. Now the DM has to figure out how to keep the train on the rails. The other players don't want to be pressured into resting for 24 hours after every fight just because you are soft. Anyone who ignores the importance of healing surges to the game is disrespecting everyone at the gaming table, players and DM alike. You choose to be selfish and as a result the game suffers.
Now that I've ranted I think it's important that I emphasize that I'm not this harsh on brand new players. This hate is reserved for players who have some 4e experience and have likely played multiple characters. I reserve an extra dose of hate for players who make character after character with this same deficiency. I'm not kidding; I see this at D&D Encounters almost every week. A player shows up with a PC who has 6 healing surges, blows through them all in one session, and then brings a brand new character the following week. Oh, did I mention that the replacement character (usually a different class) also has only 6 healing surges? No respect at all.
Healing surges have changed the way we look at hit points and how characters are healed. It may not be a perfect system but in my opinion it's a huge improvement over what we had in previous editions. We'll see if this is a mechanic that is carried forward into the next iteration of D&D or if it's one of the modular options that we've been hearing so much about. I think healing surges are an important staple in D&D and love them or hate them they're going to be included in the future of D&D.
Related reading:
- Your Best Resource: Healing Surges
- I'm Your Cleric, Not Your Bitch!
- Adventure Hooks for Divine Characters (Part 1 | Part 2)
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The patriotic Mary Alden (Mabel Taliaferro) works in a department store with her pacifist brother Matthew (Earle Brunswick) and her sweetheart, John Graham (Walter Miller). German agents (this was, after all, a World War I film) use Matthew for their own ends and ask him to address a supposed "peace" meeting. Mary insists on making a speech there and she harangues the audience with vivid tales of Americans heeding the call to arms throughout history. Her younger brother George (Eugene Borden), who has been drafted, makes sure that she is allowed to talk. But Amiel Van Bierman, the head of the spies, has his henchmen overpower George and kidnap Mary. Matthew finally realizes that he's merely been a tool for the Germans, and when he protests, he is tied up and gagged. George escapes from the Germans and gets soldiers from a nearby army camp to come to the rescue. They capture the agents and free Matthew, who is inspired to enlist. John, now in uniform, is the one who rescues Mary. This, like a previously released picture, The Slacker, was a propaganda film to raise America's fighting spirit during World War I.
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Many people love to eat gourmet salad greens, but you don't have to pay a fortune for them if you grow your own.
Most of our salad greens are cool-weather crops. I know it is still hot but the cooler weather is just around the corner. We can typically begin sowing salad green seeds around the middle of September, and you can continually plant through late October. You can go ahead and get the seeds and start making plans.
Seeds of salad greens are sold as mixes or separately. The mixes might contain any combination of lettuces and greens. Some are tangy while others are mild or bitter.
- Arugula has a toasty, pungent flavor and is a favorite for mixes. It's rich in beta carotene and higher in vitamin C than almost any other salad green.
- Endive is in the same family as lettuce. With smooth, pale, long heads, it has more flavor than many lettuces. Curly endive, sometimes called chicory, has green leaves with curly edges.
- Escarole has broad, wavy green leaves with a pleasant, slightly bitter flavor.
- Radicchio, or red chicory, adds color and a mildly bitter flavor to salads.
- Mache, also called corn salad, has velvety leaves and a mild taste.
- Watercress has pungent sprigs that look like parsley. Cresses have a peppery flavor.
Plant salad green seeds a quarter-inch deep in rows 18 to 24 inches apart. You can space them as close as 6 to 12 inches if you plan to harvest young, immature leaves.
To keep those fresh salads coming, plant about 5 feet per week through the fall.
Salad greens can be grown in semishade but do best with at least three to four hours of sun. Fertilize your greens moderately with one side-dressing. The growing season for lettuce varies with the cultivar. Most will be ready to harvest within 40 to 60 days.
Harvest the greens with scissors when they're young. Cut the young leaves a half-inch to an inch above the soil and the leaves might regrow for a second harvest. Cut them at ground level for a single harvest.
Look for the salad green seed packets at your garden center. If you have problems finding what you want, here are some seed companies that offer them for home gardeners:
- Johnny's Selected Seeds, 955 Benton Ave., Winslow, ME 04901, (207) 861-3900 (www.johnnyseeds.com).
- Nichols Garden Nursery, 1190 Old Salem Road N.E., Albany, OR 97321 (www.nicholsgardennursery.com)
- Territorial Seed Co., P.O. Box 158, Cottage Grove, OR 97424-0061, (800) 626-0866 (www.territorial-seed.com/stores/1/index.cfm.
- The Cook's Garden. P.O. Box C5030, Warminster, PA 18974 (catalog $1), (800) 457-9703 (www.cooksgarden.com).
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Golden-Crowned Kinglet – Regulus satrapa – also known as Indianergoldhähnchen (German), Le Roitelet à couronne dorée (French).
I only had one or two views of this bird and only got this one blurry photo. I assumed it would be a throw-away photo of another Yellow-Rumped Warbler, but it turns out it is a Golden-Crowned Kinglet, a first for me. Thus, it gets posted. The Golden-Crowned is a winter visitor to Iowa. From Cornell: "Tiny bird. Dull, olive-green on back. Whitish below. Wingbars. Black stripe through eyes, white eyebrow. Crown yellow, orange centered in male (often hidden), bordered in black."
Photo taken with the Canon Digital Rebel XT / 350D and a Sigma 70-300mm Lens on October 17, 2009, near Maysville, Iowa.


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Stewardship Statement. The stewardship statement adopted by the Rector and Vestry is:
All that we are, all that we have, are gifts from God We are stewards of these gifts – the time, talent and treasure that God has entrusted to our care. In thanksgiving we joyously return a portion of these giftsto God Stewardship is our response to the baptismal covenant to minister to others, to spread the good news and to further God'skingdom on Earth.
Stewardship at Church of the Advent is neither a season nor a specific new but a Lifetime commitment to Christ.
We, the Rector and Vestry of Church of the Advent, endorse proportional giving of our time talent and treasure to God and the spread of God's kingdom, and we adopt proportional giving as our own personal statement of stewardship.
Stewardship Activities. In the fall of each year, the need for Christian stewardship is examined at a church-wide family dinner, small groups meetings, church services, and individual conferences.
All members are then asked to thoughtfully and prayerfully consider the gifts that God has entrusted to their care, and to return a portion of their bounty to God through a time, talent and treasure pledge to Advent. New members are asked to pledge upon transferring their memberships to Church of the Advent.


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Well, I saw the film, and I enjoyed it. There are characters who don't appear in LOTR that don't really have resolutions to their stories, so I regretted that a little, but maybe the extended edition will touch on that. Also, I feel the film lacks the punch of Revenge of the Sith and Return of the King, which really are great finales, but "Battle" doesn't disappoint. Lots of it is straight from the book, and it's quite fun to see pure Tolkien on the big screen. I'd say the characters the film focuses on in order are: Thorin, Bilbo, Bard, Gandalf, Azog and Thranduil, with the rest (including Legolas, Tauriel, and Bolg) getting less screen-time. The story is a bit drawn out, but there aren't too many slow spots. Billy Boyd's closing number is very pretty and a nice way to end this second journey.
Still, I miss that high from seeing The Return of the King for the first time and kind of wish this was more in the ballpark. At least I have LOTR on Blu-ray so I can reminisce. And when I watch both trilogies back to back, it will all end with ROTK.


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The harm of paper logs
The Trucking Attorneys
The Atlanta-based Truck Accident Attorneys at Fried Rogers Goldberg, LLC have decades of experience handling traffic cases on behalf of injured motorists. Our attorneys have lectured about trucking laws across the nation to attorneys and trucking professionals. We believe staying informed helped keeps people safe. By knowing what goes wrong on our roads, we can work together to prevent them from happening.
One of the leading causes of trucking accidents is driver fatigue. Because of this, the federal government has issued Hours of Services laws that regulate how many hours truck drivers can operate a vehicle without a rest. These regulations cover not just trucks carrying property but also those carrying people, such as commercial and school bus drivers. A driver's time is monitored in logs, usually by the driver themselves and not by device or company.
The purpose of these laws is to ensure that truck drivers are awake, aware, and alert. It is the same reason that airline pilots also have laws regulating their required rest between flights. However, unlike the airline pilots and the aircraft they fly, trucks are not as easily monitored. Because of this, truck drivers keep a paper log of their hours. This is the weakness of the current system.
Our world today is a fast-paced, competitive, commercial world in which customers always want their goods delivered as soon as possible. Customers also want it as cheap as possible. Given our current economy, doing both often proves challenging to trucking companies and truckers. And because of all of this, sometimes both truckers and trucking companies break the rules on rest. With the paper and pen logs still kept by many truck drivers today, it is easy enough to put in false times or even to keep two sets of logs, one for the company and the other for the DOT inspectors.
Electronic logs, called electronic on-board recorders (EOBRs), automatically record driving time and location and are more difficult to manipulate. However, while their equivalents are required for use in all trucks in Europe, EOBRs are required only for companies with a proven history of problems in the United States. Because of this, the majority of U.S. trucking companies relies on paper and pen logs — and is subject to the same temptations and pressures to fudge them.


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Situated in Golden, this lodge is within 3 miles (5 km) of Kicking Horse Pedestrian Bridge, Golden and District General Hospital and College of the Rockies Golden Campus. Golden and District Museum and Golden and District Recreation Centre are also within 3 miles (5 km).
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This lodge features an indoor pool, a sauna and coffee/tea in a common area. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include Laundry facilities, A 24-hour front desk and multilingual staff.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Travelodge Golden Sportsman Lodge provides a waterslide and a sauna. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Golden's lodge also offers a BBQ, multilingual staff and a picnic area. On-site self parking is complimentary. The property may provide extended parking privileges to guests after check-out (surcharge).
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Picnic area
- Waterslide
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Free breakfast
- Laundry facilities
- Total number of rooms - 77
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Number of floors - 2
- Steam room
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- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Multilingual staff
- RV, bus, truck parking
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A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
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Recreational amenities at the lodge include a waterslide, an indoor pool and a sauna.
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On Friday, Dec. 7, M attended the red carpet of Z100 Jingle Ball in New York City's Madison Square Garden -- we got the latest scoop on your fave stars!
Yep, that's right! We're going to fill you in on One Direction, Ed Sheeran, Olly Murs, and Cher Lloyd. We're also going to share some other awesome pics we took of Taylor Swift and The Wanted! So...are you ready?
First thing's first. Here's our close-up pic of Harry Styles -- look at his GORG smile:
Now here's a pic of Zayn Malik and Niall Horan:
So, here's the dish about the lovely lads. When asked what the difference between their stage make-up and normal make-up was, Louis responded: "We don't wear make-up!" They also spilled that for they love wearing track suits! When asked what they were going to wear the next day, Niall replied: "We're going back to London, so I'll probably be wearing a track suit all day." Why, we ask? "Because they're comfortable!" he said.
Another one of our fave celebs, Ed Sheeran, stopped by M on the carpet to chat!
We learned what he does when he can't sleep. "I watch loads of YouTube videos." Hmm... maybe we should try that!
We also wanted to find out about Ed's hairstyling tips. When asked if he uses hair products when it's his day off, he said: "No, only if someone's coming around."
Let's talk Olly Murs! Check out our Q & A with him below, and an adorbs pic!
M: What's your favorite date? Olly: McDonalds!
LOL! Then we got more serious and talked about girls...
M: What's a quality you like in a girl? Olly: Lovely eyes.
M: What's about a pet peeve? Olly: If they eat with their mouth full and then they speak with their mouth full. Not attractive.
M: Who do you want to be your New Year's kiss? Olly: This lady standing right there! (Pssst...Olly was talking about one of us from M! Now THAT'S swoon-worthy!)
And lastly, here's our convo with Cher Lloyd:
M: Do you have a Christmas tradition? Cher: I make the placemats for my grandma for the table. I make them myself and I give them to her to put on the table.
M: What's your favorite fashion moment? Cher: I've got to say the pictures from tonight. This is my favorite outfit! I have to get my stuff custom made because I'm really small.
Here's some more photos from the red carpet! First up: Taylor Swift.
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Full record of aeronautical progress and of the accomplishments of pilots in the years of the War would demand not merely a volume, but a complete library, and even then it would be barely possible to pay full tribute to the heroism of pilots of the war period. There are names connected with that period of which the glory will not fade, names such as Bishop, Guynemer, Boelcke, Ball, Fonck, Immelmann, and many others that spring to mind as one recalls the 'Aces' of the period. In addition to the pilots, there is the stupendous development of the machines - stupendous when the length of the period in which it was achieved is considered.
The fact that Germany was best prepared in the matter of heavier-than-air service machines in spite of the German faith in the dirigible is one more item of evidence as to who forced hostilities. The Germans came into the field with well over 600 aeroplanes, mainly two-seaters of standardised design, and with factories back in the Fatherland turning out sufficient new machines to make good the losses. There were a few single-seater scouts built for speed, and the two-seater machines were all fitted with cameras and bomb-dropping gear. Manoeuvres had determined in the German mind what should be the uses of the air fleet; there was photography of fortifications and field works; signalling by Very lights; spotting for the guns, and scouting for news of enemy movements. The methodical German mind had arranged all this beforehand, but had not allowed for the fact that opponents might take counter-measures which would upset the over-perfect mechanism of the air service just as effectually as the great march on Paris was countered by the genius of Joffre.
The French Air Force at the beginning of the War consisted of upwards of 600 machines. These, unlike the Germans, were not standardised, but were of many and diverse types. In order to get replacements quickly enough, the factories had to work on the designs they had, and thus for a long time after the outbreak of hostilities standardisation was an impossibility. The versatility of a Latin race in a measure compensated for this; from the outset, the Germans tried to overwhelm the French Air Force, but failed, since they had not the numerical superiority, nor - this equally a determining factor - the versatility and resource of the French pilots. They calculated on a 50 per cent superiority to ensure success; they needed more nearly 400 per cent, for the German fought to rule, avoiding risks whenever possible, and definitely instructed to save both machines and pilots wherever possible. French pilots, on the other hand, ran all the risks there were, got news of German movements, bombed the enemy, and rapidly worked up a very respectable antiaircraft force which, whatever it may have accomplished in the way of hitting German planes, got on the German pilots' nerves.
It has already been detailed how Britain sent over 82 planes as its contribution to the military aerial force of 1914. These consisted of Farman, Caudron, and Short biplanes, together with Bleriot, Deperdussin and Nieuport monoplanes, certain R.A.F. types, and other machines of which even the name barely survives - the resourceful Yankee entitles them 'orphans.' It is on record that the work of providing spares might have been rather complicated but for the fact that there were none.
There is no doubt that the Germans had made study of aerial military needs just as thoroughly as they had perfected their ground organisation. Thus there were 21 illuminated aircraft stations in Germany before the War, the most powerful being at Weimar, where a revolving electric flash of over 27 million candle-power was located. Practically all German aeroplane tests in the period immediately preceding the War were of a military nature, and quite a number of reliability tests were carried out just on the other side of the French frontier. Night flying and landing were standardised items in the German pilot's course of instruction while they were still experimental in other countries, and a system of signals was arranged which rendered the instructional course as perfect as might be.
The Belgian contribution consisted of about twenty machines fit for active service and another twenty which were more or less useful as training machines. The material was mainly French, and the Belgian pilots used it to good account until German numbers swamped them. France, and to a small extent England, kept Belgian aviators supplied with machines throughout the War.
The Italian Air Fleet was small, and consisted of French machines together with a percentage of planes of Italian origin, of which the design was very much a copy of French types. It was not until the War was nearing its end that the military and naval services relied more on the home product than on imports. This does not apply to engines, however, for the F.I.A.T. and S.C.A.T.
were equal to practically any engine of Allied make, both in design and construction.
Russia spent vast sums in the provision of machines: the giant Sikorsky biplane, carrying four 100 horsepower Argus motors, was designed by a young Russian engineer in the latter part of 1913, and in its early trials it created a world's record by carrying seven passengers for 1 hour 54 minutes. Sikorsky also designed several smaller machines, tractor biplanes on the lines of the British B.E. type, which were very successful. These were the only home productions, and the imports consisted mainly of French aeroplanes by the hundred, which got as far as the docks and railway sidings and stayed there, while German influence and the corruption that ruined the Russian Army helped to lose the War. A few Russian aircraft factories were got into operation as hostilities proceeded, but their products were negligible, and it is not on record that Russia ever learned to manufacture a magneto.
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Fringe hit Minsk Set for Manchester's Contact, 6 June
Glenn Meads • Blackpool, Bolton, Chester, Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Salford • 30 May 2012
This new work from Belarus Free Theatre shows Minsk as a "sexy city", where irrepressible urges to perform, party, love, kiss, touch, look and celebrate human sexuality meet government repression, violence and bureaucracy. Fast paced and witty, a series of scenes portray examples of life in Belarus: the communist factory where illegal parties for the gay community are held in secret at night, the government inspector of strippers, police cars disguised as ambulances who arrive to arrest rather than help. A love letter to a home that exiles those willing to fight for it, Minsk, 2011 celebrates and mourns a land that has lost its way.
Belarus Free Theatre was founded in 2005 in Europe's last surviving dictatorship by husband and wife team Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, joined shortly afterwards by Vladimir Shcherban. All company members together with audiences have been arrested, lost their jobs, been forced into hiding or exile for making theatre.
Despite this, the company continues to develop award-winning work with the support of artists around the world. They were nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Being Harold Pinter after they performed in New York with the Public Theatre and LaMama, and in May 2011 they were awarded an OBIE, the most prestigious American Off-Broadway Award for Being Harold Pinter, Discover Love and Zone of Silence.
Their Global Artistic Campaign has attracted the support of thousands of artists internationally including Tom Stoppard, Steven Spielberg, Jude Law, David Lan, Kevin Spacey, Mick Jagger and Vaclav Havel.
Founded in 2004 and led by Louise Blackwell and Kate McGrath, Fuel is a producing organisation working with contemporary theatre artists to develop, create and present new work. Their recent productions include work by Inua Ellams (The Black T-Shirt Collection); Melanie Wilson (Autobiographer); Requardt & Rosenberg (Electric Hotel) Sound & Fury (Going Dark) and Uninvited Guests (Love Letters Straight From Your Heart, Make Better Please).
Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker is at Manchester's Contact Theatre from 6 - 7 June.
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Lloyd's Register Hull Inspection - Damage & Repair (Victoria)
- Dates: February 27 to March 01
- Time: 8:30am - 4:00pm
Course Description:
Identifying defects and damage to ship structures can often be difficult, and deciding if a repair is required is not always obvious. This course will equip you with reliable inspection techniques used by Lloyd's Register surveyors worldwide.
You will learn how to identify different types of damage and defects using practical examples and case
studies, and gain an understanding of their causes.
The course will benefit anyone who carries out inspections of hull structures including superintendents, shipyard personnel, masters, first officers, chief engineers, ship officers, and independent surveyors.
Upon successful completion of the course, you will:
• understand the classification and statutory requirements for hull structural integrity
• understand the requirements for maintenance of class
• understand the basic structural concepts of a ship's hull
• appreciate the process of fatigue defects
• know how to inspect structure for damage and defects using specific tried and tested techniques
• be able to identify specific types of defects and damage and understand their causes
• understand the need for thickness measurements
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The novel I'm currently shopping around to literary agents is best described as women's fiction, a genre I haven't read as widely as I should. I'm working (well, it's fun, really) to remedy that. "What is women's fiction? you ask. "Don't you mean romance novels?"
Women's fiction may contain romantic elements, as can sci-fi, fantasy, horror–just about any genre you can name. But the central focus of women's fiction is women's personal growth, transformation, and relationships–often family relationships or friendships. There is not necessarily a "happy-ever-after" ending, but there will be a life-affirming message in there somewhere. Chick lit fits nicely into this category but, thank goodness, the protagonist need not be young, chic, and living in NYC for a novel to qualify as women's literature.
Jennifer Weiner's name comes up on several lists of recommended authors of women's fiction. This is the first of her novels I've read, but it won't be the last. Weiner's protagonist is a very sympathetic character–mother of a difficult child, wife of an indifferent husband, daughter of a helpless mother and a father with dementia, and author of a wildly popular blog. I squirmed and winced and even teared up a bit as I watched her life unravel due to her addiction to painkillers. Weiner gives us an insiders view of rehab–very gritty and frustrating. Though the subject matter is grim, Weiner writes with humor and touching insight. Read this!


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Testing alternative methodologies for modeling species' ecological niches and predicting geographic distributions
Principal Investigators:A. Townsend Peterson, and Craig Moritz
Knowledge of world biodiversity remains sparse, with millions of species left to be described, most species' geographic distributions poorly understood and the ecological and evolutionary processes that underpin geographic patterns of diversity still far from resolved. Many large-scale conservation projects, however, depend critically on more complete descriptions of species' distributions and there is increasing interest in incorporating process as well as pattern into biodiversity evaluation. The inferential step that leads from incomplete present... more
Knowledge of world biodiversity remains sparse, with millions of species left to be described, most species' geographic distributions poorly understood and the ecological and evolutionary processes that underpin geographic patterns of diversity still far from resolved. Many large-scale conservation projects, however, depend critically on more complete descriptions of species' distributions and there is increasing interest in incorporating process as well as pattern into biodiversity evaluation. The inferential step that leads from incomplete present knowledge to a explicit prediction of geographic distribution is presently made via diverse methods which have not been tested against each other to establish which would provide the greatest predictive ability for different types of questions and data. We propose a NCEAS working group that will review and compare diverse predictive modeling approaches with the goal of producing an ideal strategy for modeling parameters related to ecological niches and predicting geographic distributions. collapse
Participants and Meetings
|Further Information
|Working Group
|28th May—2nd June 2002
|Participant List
|Graduate Student
|1st August 2002—31st July 2003
|Participant List
|Working Group
|27th—30th April 2003
|Participant List
|Working Group
|17th—21st March 2004
|Participant List
|Working Group
|5th—9th January 2005
|Participant List
Participant Contact Information
|Ted Case
|case [at] biomail.ucsd.edu
|University of California, San Diego
|Thomas C. Edwards
|tce [at] nr.usu.edu
|Utah State University
|Jane Elith
|j.elith [at] unimelb.edu.au
|University of Melbourne
|Simon Ferrier
|simon.ferrier [at] csiro.au
|New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service
|Catherine Graham
|cgraham [at] life.bio.sunysb.edu
|University of California, Berkeley
|Chrissy Howell
|chowell [at] jinx.umsl.edu
|University of Missouri, St. Louis
|Falk Huettmann
|fffh [at] uaf.edu
|University of Calgary
|Raul Jimenez-Rosenberg
|Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
|Bette Loiselle
|loiselle [at] umsl.edu
|University of Missouri
|Craig Moritz
|craig.moritz [at] anu.edu.au
|University of California, Berkeley
|Miguel Nakamura
|nakamura [at] cimat.mx
|Centro de Investigación en Matematicas
|A. Townsend Peterson
|town [at] ku.edu
|University of Kansas
|Karen Richardson
|krichardson [at] zen.uq.edu.au
|University of Queensland
|Ricardo Scachetti Pereira
|ricardo [at] cria.org.br
|Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA)
|Jorge Soberon Mainero
|jsoberon [at] ku.edu
|Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO)
|Stephen E. Williams
|stephen.williams [at] jcu.edu.au
|James Cook University
|Mary Wisz
|msw [at] dmu.dk
|Denver Zoo at City Park
|Antoine Guisan
|antoine.guisan [at] ie-bsg.unil.ch
|University of Lausanne
|William K. Michener
|william.michener [at] gmail.com
|University of New Mexico
|Jake Overton
|overtonj [at] landcareresearch.co.nz
|Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
|Robert P. Anderson
|anderson [at] sci.ccny.cuny.edu
|City College of New York
|Richard Aspinall
|richard.aspinall [at] asu.edu
|Arizona State University
|Robert J. Hijmans
|rhijmans [at] ucdavis.edu
|University of California, Berkeley
|Anthony Lehmann
|anthony.lehmann [at] unine.ch
|Jin Li
|jin.li [at] csiro.au
|Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
|Steven J. Phillips
|phillips [at] research.att.com
|AT&T Labs-Research
Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations
|Products of NCEAS Research
|Journal Article
|Dudik, Miroslav; Schapire, Robert; Phillips, Steven J. 2005. Correcting sample selection bias in maximum entropy density estimation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Vol: 18. Pages 323-330.
|Journal Article
|Elith, Jane; Ferrier, Simon; Huettmann, Falk; Leathwick, John. 2005. The evaluation strip: A new and robust method for plotting predicted responses from species distribution models. Ecological Modelling. Vol: 186. Pages 280-289.
|Journal Article
|Elith, Jane; Graham, Catherine. 2006. Comparing Methodologies for modeling species' distributions from presence-only data. Ecography. Vol: 29. Pages 129-151.
|Journal Article
|Elith, Jane; Graham, Catherine; Anderson, Robert P.; Dudik, Miroslav; Ferrier, Simon; Guisan, Antoine; Hijmans, Robert J.; Huettmann, Falk; Leathwick, John; Lehmann, Anthony; Li, Jin; Lohmann, Lucia; Loiselle, Bette; Manion, Glenn; Moritz, Craig; Nakamura, Miguel; Nakazawa, Yoshinori; Peterson, A. Townsend; Phillips, Steven J.; Richardson, Karen; Scachetti Pereira, Ricardo; Schapire, Robert; Williams, Stephen E.; Wisz, Mary; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Soberon Mainero, Jorge; Overton, Jake. 2006. Novel methods improve prediction of species' distributions from occurrence data. Ecography. Vol: 29. Pages 129-151.
|Journal Article
|Elith, Jane; Leathwick, John. 2007. Predicting species distributions from museum and herbarium records using multiresponse models fitted with multivariate adaptive regression splines. Diversity and Distributions. Vol: 13(3). Pages 265-275.
|Journal Article
|Graham, Catherine; Ferrier, Simon; Huettmann, Falk; Moritz, Craig; Peterson, A. Townsend. 2004. New developments in museum-based informatics and applications in biodiversity analysis. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Vol: 19(9). Pages 497-503.
|Journal Article
|Graham, Catherine; Elith, Jane; Hijmans, Robert J.; Guisan, Antoine; Peterson, A. Townsend; Loiselle, Bette. 2008. The influence of spatial errors in species occurrence data used in distribution models. Journal of Applied Ecology. Vol: 45. Pages 239-247.
|Journal Article
|Guisan, Antoine; Graham, Catherine; Elith, Jane; Huettmann, Falk. 2007. Sensitivity of predictive species distribution models to change in grain size: Insights from a multi-models experiment across five continents. Diversity and Distributions. Vol: 13(3). Pages 332-340.
|Journal Article
|Guisan, Antoine; Elith, Jane; Graham, Catherine; Peterson, A. Townsend; Phillips, Steven J.; Zimmermann, Niklaus E. 2007. What matters for predicting spatial occurrences of trees: Techniques, data, or species' characteristics?. Ecological Monographs. Pages 615-630.
|Journal Article
|Huettmann, Falk; Linke, Julia. 2003. An automated method to derive habitat preferences of wildlife in GIS and telemetry studies: A flexible software tool and examples of its application. European Journal of Wildlife Research. Vol: 49(3). Pages 219-232.
|Journal Article
|Huettmann, Falk; Linke, Julia. 2003. Assessment of different link functions for modeling binary data to derive sound inferences and predictions. LNCS-International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA). Vol: 2669. Pages 43-48.
|Journal Article
|Peterson, A. Townsend. 2006. Uses and requirements of ecological niche models and related distributional models. Biodiversity Informatics. Vol: 3. Pages 59-72.
|Journal Article
|Phillips, Steven J.; Dudik, Miroslav; Elith, Jane; Graham, Catherine; Lehmann, Anthony; Leathwick, John; Ferrier, Simon. 2009. Sample selection bias and presence-only models of species distribution models: Implications for background and pseudo-absence data. Ecological Applications. Vol: 19(1). Pages 181-197.
|Journal Article
|Wisz, Mary; Hijmans, Robert J.; Li, Jin; Phillips, Steven J.; Peterson, A. Townsend; Graham, Catherine. Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models. Journal of Applied Ecology.
"Testing alternative methodologies for modeling species' ecological niches and predicting geographic distributions" is project ID: 4980


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Alan S. Reynolds has filed to run for Lieutenant Governor of California. He is registered into Americans Elect, so that label will be on the ballot next to his name in the June 2014 primary. He has been endorsed by the Reform Party, which is not ballot-qualified. Here is his campaign web page.
If AB 2351 passes as it is currently written, and if Reynolds gets at least 2% in the June primary, that will keep Americans Elect on the ballot for the next four years. Its position on the ballot could be important in the 2016 presidential race.
So far, there are also at least four Democrats running for Lieutenant Governor, at least one Republican, and a Green. Jim King, of the American Independent Party, may file, but he has not done so yet. The deadline for filing is March 7. Candidates must pay the filing fee and submit 65 signatures of registered voters, but the party affiliation of the signers is immaterial.


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Sylvain Denis is a photographer born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Currently residing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he works as a freelance photographer specializing in portrait, fashion, physique, and promotional-commercial work.
Sylvain's interest in photography began at a young age, influenced by his own experience as a model for a fitness publication based in New York City. While living in New York City, Sylvain's work encompassed a wide spectrum of commissions, running the gamut from assignments for Time Magazine, photographing athletes in the USA and Europe for American and European publications to shooting high fashion, collaborating with top stylists and designers.
Sylvain's commercial work has appeared in magazines both nationally and internationally.
Sylvain studied at the International Center of Photography in New York City. He did further study at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, mastering his skills in photography, lighting, graphic design, and Photoshop techniques.
In 2018, Sylvain will be returning to Philadelphia as a photography guest speaker at the University of The Arts, PA.
Sylvain Curated a show called Art With A Heart sponsored by the foundation called Poverello who operates as a not for profit critical needs food pantry. The mostly all-volunteer organization enhances and promotes life by providing food to youth, women and men living with HIV / AIDS who are at poverty level or below and residing in Broward County. Sylvain donated portion of his art to the foundation to be auctioned off November 5 – 2016. The proceeds went towards the foundation, which will continue helping children in our community.
After its great success the event will be taking place again on October 3rd 2018 at our gallery, 1310 SW 2nd Court, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
In 2014, Sylvain was a finalist in the prestigious One Eyeland worldwide award competition. His photographs appear in the Best of the Best Photographers 2015, One Eyeland Book Volume 5. Sylvain's work was featured in the Scope SeeMe Exhibition at Art Basel 2014 in Miami, Florida.
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I FINALLY have a new yoga bag :)
My class provides yoga mats but I wanted my own (in purple of course) which I got last winter. But I didn't have a bag so I just carried it around like that. Very inconvenient. Then I was given a yoga bag which I consequently also managed to break, the bottom came apart and no matter how many times I sewed it back up it just wouldnt stay together! I guess it was the sewing gods telling me I should really get started on that bag... I still had all the fabric from the tote bag I made for my teacher so it was really just a matter of sitting down and start sewing.
A few years ago, I made this bag for someone else who then never collected it so I gave it away for my one-year blogaversary. It's an Amy Butler pattern and can be downloaded for free here. AND... I was so impressed with myself because when I made the first bag many years ago, I was still much more organised and I made patterns for everything, even plain squares. Oh my how things have changed ;) Not that I don't need the patterns anymore, I just don't make them anymore ;) But with this one I actually had a pattern and it made such a difference! I made this bag in 3.5 hours, completely lined and everything :) Well it did help that my machine didn't have a crisis and managed to run smoothly all the way through. See? Sewing gods, am telling you. Let me show you:
The original pattern doesn't have a closure on the top, but I just made the top a bit longer, folded it over and stitched it closed creating a tube. I used laces from some boots (really who wears yellow shoe laces) and one of those squeezy things to stop it from moving.
I only had one choice for the strap and I only had one piece long enough for this. I love the little frog in the Lotus pose but alas it didn't end up on the strap.
I made sure it ended up on the bottom though!
The inside has a layer of linen and this printed cotton. Black with grey swirls to match the yoga fabric. Even if you don't really see it, I know it's there :) And with all these layers, this bag is bound to be sturdy and not break in the near future!
The bag has three pockets which are super handy for things like my mini towel, yoga socks, tissues, keys etc. The pockets are of course also lined.
Random picture of the fabric, this is just so cute! Sadly the girly yoga mouse fabric was sold out, but this is a good second. :)
The bag can be worn on the shoulder or across the back. I think across the back is super comfy (and it doesn't cause my dummy to fall over when taking pictures!) so I wear it like that all the time.
Impromptu photo at yoga class. This would be the one occasion where I should have worn the bag just over one shoulder, but it was already done. Oh well...
And just one more thing, I finally managed to grab my feet! Whoohoo! Yes, it had to be photographed as evidence hihi... It's far from perfect but it's great progress for me, when I started I couldn't even touch my ankles :)


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I don't understand how categories and tagging work. Can you help with tagging and categories? I have created 3 blogs but can not figure out tagging and categories. How do I do that?
The blog I need help with is animalartbyjodi.wordpress.com.
In the post editor, when you create a post, you can choose to put in keywords that give an indication of what your post is about. This is primarily to help your readers, but is also useful if you're interested in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to help your posts be found on Google, Yahoo, etc. Using them also help you to show up on WordPress.com's internal pages, like Topics (providing your blog is open to search engines).
To exlain the difference between categories and tags, imagine you're sorting books according to subject, and you have ones about dogs, cats and birds - those would be categories (umbrella terms for all that follows), then the dogs one would be about Alsations, poodles and Spaniels. Those would be tags (keywords). The Cats one could have tags of Persian, Burmese, Siamese... those would be tags. The birds could have tags of parrot, sparrow and hawk.... and so on.
Basically you decide the one or two main themes of each post and make use those keyword descriptions as categories, and look at the more general content and make those keywords tags.
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Kilimanjaro has become an icon of the African people. We as Africans are proud of our mountain. Uhuru Peak on Kibo, the highest point on this the highest freestanding volcano on earth, aptly translates to 'Freedom Peak'.
Kilimanjaro represents Africa's emanicipation into the modern, global world. Tens of thousands of people aspire to climb it every year. From trekkers to mountaineers, it is one of the revered '7 summits' - the highest mountains on each of the continents.
People also use the ascent to further good causes, or challenge themselves regardless of their own disabilities. In the past ten years all sorts of celebrities have climbed the peak for all sorts of good causes, while heart-transplant patients, cancer survivors and physically challenged individuals etc have uesd it to show what people with disabilities can achieve, and raise funds to help others in similar situations.
Many a time, Kilimanjaro articles have focused on its diminishing glaciers. Its high reaches, glittering with some of the last of the world's last equatorial ice, has caught the imagination of millions, as it is one of the clearest and most obvious examples of rapid climate change.
Kilimanjaro is more than a mountain or mountaineering challenge. It is one of the best examples of how we as people make sense of our world through identifying with the high places we call mountains. It is a place where people's lives are tranformed for the better.
One of my favourite Kilimanjaro projects of recent times is the Dare to Dream project. I have copied these two brave climbers request for help to get them on the mountain in December this year again below. Let us use the mountain for more than it is, by supporting causes such as theirs.
Khayelitsha climbers Loyiso Koyana and Luwanda Mxosana hope to show other young people from the townships that their dreams should not be discouraged by their background or circumstances, by climbing Kilimanjaro this December.
Luwanda, 22-years-old, is a business administration student in his 3rd Year at TSiBA Education. Loyiso works as the Student Development Officer at TSiBA Education and is also a passionate entrepreneur.
Motivated by TSiBA Education's philosophy of Paying-it-Forward, these two young men believe that despite life's challenges they have been given some opportunities and would like to create opportunities for others.
The Tertiary School in Business Administration, TSiBA Education, is a tertiary institution that was founded in 2004 and awards tuition scholarships to deserving students who demonstrate strong leadership and entrepreneurial qualities.
The institution is based on a strong philosophy of paying-it-forward and produces graduates who are agents of social change.
Besides inspiring other young people to dream, the aim of this project is to provide opportunities for school children by making their educational experience better. It is a well known fact that through education we are able to create opportunities and inspire a better future.
In their press release they stress the importance of school children having the access to the right resources that will allow them to successfully complete their studies. The Dare to DREAM team will raise funds that will be dedicated towards paying school fees, buying school uniform and stationery for school children in the townships.
"For many young people who come from the townships life is negative. Life is dominated by dark images of HIV and Aids, crime, high unemployment rates, lack of proper educational infrastructure etc. As a result of this, dreaming in the townships is considered a mere luxury with increasingly a number of these young people engage in anti-social activities that destroy the future of this country. Without a dream what is one's purpose for living?"
Koyana feels there is a dire need for young people who will be become good role models that inspire some positive changes that will create a better future for South" Africa, for young people in particular. There is even greater need for other young people who see opportunities to not empower themselves but also empower other young people as well.
"It is about time that we realise that the solutions that will aid in solving these problems will come from other young people, who might have better knowledge, or experience if you may, and provide them with opportunities that will allow them to do so."
If you would like to help support this initiative contact Loyiso Koyana at firstname.lastname@example.com or 078 203 9223; or Luwanda Mxosana at firstname.lastname@example.com or 073 313 2944. The pair hope to climb Kilimanjaro in December 2010.
Image: Kilimanjaro from the air, an awesome sight- by Ray Moore


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Private vs. State Universities
Attending a private university can cost as much as five times that of a state university.
Is it worth it?
In terms of getting a job and future earning power, probably not.
It has long been assumed that the expense of attending a top university like Harvard, Yale or Stanford is worth it in terms of future "payback."
A recent Wall Street Journal survey casts doubt on that assumption. It has been found that corporate recruiters are increasingly hiring from the big state universities. They see the "quality gap" between state and private universities as having narrowed to the point of no longer being significant.
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The Screen Actor's Guild has just awarded Best Actor to Daniel Day-Lewis tonight, in apparent compensation for not adequately appreciating John Huston's performance in "Chinatown." He was doing a sort of routine, too, of course, but at least Huston got there first with it.
Wow. They really have gone completely insane.
Julie Christie won for "Away from Her." That's OK, I suppose.


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I guess Diminishing returns set in.
I really don't know anyone who quit because they just got bored, most was because of the reasons you guys like to bash, I know 10 people. (Small sample I know) quit because the game was too easy for them.
In the end, it has to be considered a good possibility casualification wasn't reactionary to sub loss. It was an attempt to get even more into the game.
I come with this theory because I remember blizzard basically saying things that elude to that in the ICC Cata era.


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Look at the world today....everyone is one way or another depressed or has anxiety or some label for their issues. But what did people do hundreds of years ago with all of these issues
Originally posted by amc621
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Buddy, let me tell you something. ENJOY what you are doing right now. I felt THE EXACT same way about sitting in a class room that I didn't think there was going to be anyhting I would use the rest of my life.
What you can do is watch people interact, watch how the teacher tries (or doesn't try) to get his message across. If you can't stand the class, try to learn about the people around you, it will go a long way in life.
Believe me your life is NO WAY as bad as you think. No one will ever be able to convince you (no one convinced me), but I wish I could go back to those days now knowing what I know now.
Originally posted by mossme89
Originally posted by Pentothal
ideal != observation = unhappy.
Pay attention to how you think for the next hour. Try not to drift into your thoughts and daydreams. Try to stay at the edge of your perceptions (listen to every sound, feel every little sensation on the surface of your body).
You may last less than a minute. You may drift into the mind made narrative. Simply bring yourself back to the cutting edge of awareness and try again.
After an hour of this, try and calculate the percentage of your life you spend in your mind made reality rather than awake. It shocked me greatly. I have been walking in a dreamworld most of my life. I can now see that almost everyone is on autopilot.
Be aware and observe where you are as intensely as possible. Do not judge what happens. Just observe and act consciously. Unhappiness is when your demands are not met. When things do not happen the way you want them to. Do not make the demands and one can not be made unhappy when they are not met. Awake and pure observation.
You definitely have a point. I know i spend a ton of time in my head, but my biggest issue is how do i get out of my head and into what's going on? My mind just seems to have a tendency to wander. It always has.
Originally posted by mossme89
I'm so sick of going to school and learning about things that other people deem important, being indoctrinated. I only do it because i feel like i have to in order to do anything in society. Nowadays, you can't get a good job without a college degree. I'm still in HS btw. Plus, being in school gets me around people, which is really one of my only pleasures, socializing. But secretly, i resent the bureaucrats and elite who make me do this. Why should i have to learn Spanish to graduate? I feel helpless and powerless against this machine we call the system.
I think every day of why i'm this way. Why i'm able to see how messed up society is, and why i just can't seem to buy into a 9-5 job and schooling. Why i resent authority. Why I'm OCD and have a temper. Why I'm a bit of a loner, introvert yet am happiest around people (a bit of a paradox).
I'm rooting for the whole 2012 thing because frankly i can't stand it anymore. But the rational part of me tells me that nothing will really change. I don't know what will happen.
I keep trying to envision a society that i would like to be in, but think of a logical way to get from here to there (open, free society, abundant resources, free energy, live and let live approach, etc.) The world I'm in and the world i want to be in are 2 different worlds. Perhaps being 17 has something to do with it. i'm at that age where the identity crisis is at it's peak and i can see that. But i just get so down when i start to think about my future. With things the way things are now, i can't do anything without money. What i want is to be able to be free to do as i please (without harming anyone). To be able to travel and meet people. To be able to relax at the beach if i feel like it. To just have fun. Yet i can't do that in our current world without money.
I try to have fun with the little things in life, yet it's so hard when the world is so messed up. If I try to forget about what's going on in the world, and have a good time, i feel like i'm turning a blind eye to the world and feel guilty. If i mess up, i beat myself up and feel guilt for a while. With OCD, i get random thoughts sometimes, like unwanted, crude and disgusting thoughts. It's a dark side. I feel like such a bad person because i have these thoughts.
I'm not going to kill myself or anything, but i'm just so tired and worn out of everything. I'm posting this here because I'm hoping you guys can give me some advice. I don't think I'm mentally unstable, I'm just really depressed over how our world is. The nature of my depression is that of a more complex and philosophical nature, which is why i thought ATS would be a good place to post this.
Originally posted by TheEnlightenedOne
I have gone through some of the same feelings in life and trust me, discouraging yourself from what life can give you, is not the answer. I know that right now it seems that no matter what you do is 'useless' because no-one has or tries to have the common sense we all need to realize how messed up this world is. One thing you have that a lot of your friends/colleagues don't have is the fact that you already KNOW that this world is corrupted.
The only thing I can say to you is that don't give up on life. LIFE gives everyone an equal opportunity to excel in this miserable world, it is up to US to see that, and educate people on the negative things everyone concentrates on. I feel it is our journey to awaken people to feel and see what you see, but if you give up on those basic principles for yourself, how can you expect to change the world|people?
Hang in there, think positive no matter how challenging life turns out to be. Help others by helping yourself so that you can start making a difference in this world. BE A LEADER and NOT a FOLLOWER, lead those around you so that you realize that your knowledge is what is making this world a better place.
Every morning when you get up and go to school, say to yourself that TODAY you will make a difference in your life and in others. Don't get discouraged if someone don't listen to you or don't follow you, all it means is that THEY are not ready for change but YOU ARE.
Don't let that light you are seeing right now, diminish to full darkness. Keep that torch going and pass it around.
Be safe and take care!
Originally posted by rai76
reply to post by mossme89
I think you should see someone professional. If I read this I get afraid that you either do something to yourself or one day do some crazy act to hurt other people like take a gun to school or something like that. If at this ago you already feel worn out and look at the world like this, you should seek help immediately! Sorry this is my opinion.
Originally posted by mossme89
Originally posted by rai76
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I think you should see someone professional. If I read this I get afraid that you either do something to yourself or one day do some crazy act to hurt other people like take a gun to school or something like that. If at this ago you already feel worn out and look at the world like this, you should seek help immediately! Sorry this is my opinion.
Trust me, that's definitely NOT on my to-do list. I'm serious about that. Not gonna happen.


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ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) - Three Albuquerque teenagers pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of first-degree murder in the beating deaths of two homeless American Indian men that shocked New Mexico's biggest city.
Alex Rios, 18, and two other suspects aged 16 and 15 are being tried as adults and face life in prison if convicted for the July 18 attack, which disfigured the victims so badly it took days for them to be identified.
Police say the three teenagers set about the homeless men after finding them sleeping in an abandoned lot, beating them with kicks, punches, iron bars and cinder blocks.
According to a criminal complaint filed by a detective, one of the teenagers confessed to officers they had beaten more than 50 people in random attacks over the past year. They are being held on $1 million bond each.
Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry set up a task force after the killings to try to address the problem of chronically homeless American Indians in the city, whom studies show are more at risk than others from street violence.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Wide receiver Arrelious Benn suffered a torn ACL in his left knee and will miss the Eagles' season.
Benn, serving as a blocker on a kickoff drill during Tuesday's practice session with the New England Patriots, is the third Philadelphia veteran to suffer a year-ending knee injury in coach Chip Kelly's first season, joining receiver Jeremy Maclin and linebacker Jason Phillips.
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Benn was acquired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March in exchange for draft picks. In his fourth season out of Illinois, Benn has 862 yards receiving and five touchdowns in his career.
The Eagles also released wide receiver Dave Ball on a day that they opened a week full of practices with New England. On Friday night, the two teams will meet at Lincoln Financial Field in the preseason opener.
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Larry Wallace of Starkville and Jim Gregory of Louisville have been awarded a $2000 Folk Arts Apprenticeship Grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC).
This grant is a portion of the $1.5 million in grants MAC will award in 2012-2013 and will be used to carry on the heritage of old-time 5- string traditional banjo playing in our state. The grants are made possible by continued funding from the Mississippi State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
"The Mississippi Arts Commission is proud to support artists across the state. They are a key component to the growth of the creative economy across Mississippi Their artistic gifts, as well as their participation in local activities, provide a fertile ground for each community to grow its own unique story," said Malcolm White, Executive Director of MAC.
"Traditional music in the state of Mississippi has always played an important part of the state's rich musical culture. During my life I have felt very fortunate to have had the opportunity to experience and learn first-hand the sounds of old-time, country, and bluegrass genres of music here in my home state," states Wallace. "Jim Gregory is a very talented musician. He understands music and has a great appreciation for the old-style of traditional music. The skills he will learn from me during the apprenticeship period will help him greatly to carry on the traditional style of banjo playing as he performs with the Red Hills Strings Band of Louisville. I am excited to have this opportunity to help him by passing on the knowledge and skills I acquired at the hands of my ancestors," added Wallace.
The Mississippi Arts Commission is a state agency serving residents of the state by providing grants that support programs to enhance communities; assist artists and arts organizations; promote the arts in education and celebrate Mississippi's cultural heritage. Established in 1968, the Mississippi Arts Commission is funded by the Mississippi Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation, the Phil Hardin Foundation, the Mississippi Endowment for the Arts at the Community Foundation of Greater Jackson and other private sources. The agency serves as an active supported and promoter of arts in community life and in arts education.
For information from the Mississippi Arts Commission, please contact Susan Dobbs, 601-359-6031 or email@example.com


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