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Somehow, after a run of increasingly bad efforts capped off by the infuriating The Happening and the appallingly awful The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan is still allowed to make movies. How he's not been thrown in Director Jail remains a mystery, and not only does he remain at large, free to crap out whatever turd of a twist ending he's come up with and call it a plot, he's still convincing major stars to put their names on his pieces of sh-t.
Although maybe not their faces, because Will Smith stars in Shyamalan's latest, After Earth, and he seems to be going to some lengths to be unrecognizable. The first trailer has just come out and in it Smith affects some kind of weird, super-modulated accent so that he barely sounds like himself and there's something wrong with his face. I don't mean wrong like he's been f*cking with it, but wrong like his face has been drawn on with bad CGI. Smith and his son, Jaden, both look like the victims of cheap computer airbrushing—it would be funny if the twist turned out to be that the Smiths were never even in the movie but were Photoshopped in by Shyamalan.
After Earth is yet another post-apocalyptic/dystopian future movie in which the trees at the end of The Happening won and man has abandoned Earth, which is now totally inhospitable to humans. The people-free environment on Earth is disturbed when the Family Smith crash-lands and has to survive amid the horrors of oddly forced acting and cheap CGI. It's hard to register anything beyond whatever is happening to Will Smith's face and wondering why he's talking like that. They both look intensely uncomfortable in every frame they appear in, Will Smith especially. It's like he's trying not to move too much in the hopes that we won't notice that it is actually him appearing in M. Night Shyamalan's latest example of "I'm a genius, you just don't get it" filmmaking.
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J (also known as Pokémon Hunter J) was a ruthless and cruel Pokémon hunter around Sinnoh who captured and stole Pokémon to sell them in the black market to her clients for money.
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J is extremely ruthless and doesn't care about the well-being of the others, even her henchman and her clients, the only thing important to her being money. She became angry when her clients decided to end their deal and decided to never work for those who she considered them as "Contract Breakers". Nonetheless, she always gets proud and underestimates her opponents when she thinks she is about to win, leading herself to her own demise.
J appeared in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, with her army of henchmen whose primary means of transportation were advanced 6-wheeled armored trucks. The trucks were used to take all the Pokémon they captured to J's airship so that they could be sold on the black market. Her airship's capabilities included lasers, a cloaking device, a high-tech visor to follow Pokémon that got away using teleport. The ship had a gun that steamed gold cement, which was used to turn Pokémon into statues, as well as strong glass cases to contain Pokémon.
Hunter J has shown interest in Ash's Pikachu, as well as Team Rocket's Meowth. She managed to turn both Pikachu and Meowth into stone, but Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket members, Jessie and James, managed to save all the Pokémon that J had turned to stone.
Ash and Gary were determined to rescue a group of Shieldon captured by J, Gary said to Ash Ketchum that since they had recovered the Shieldon it was enough. Later on, Ash teamed with a "High Ranked" Pokémon Ranger (in which he's called a Top Ranger) who is protecting a Riolu from J in order to bring it to her client and not even they could defeat her.
J attempted to capture the legendary Pokémon, Regigigas by forcing it to wake up with her Salamence's Flamethrower while the Pokémon was at Snowpoint Temple. Despite this, she was unable to capture Regigigas due to the efforts of Pyramid King Brandon and his Pokémon. J immediately withdrew from the area when her client decided to cancel the deal regarding Regigigas.
Unlike other villains who have appeared in the series, J is one of the few who have not been defeated or been arrested by the police.
J and her goons went down with their ship after it was hit by Uxie and Mesprit's Future Sight attack while attempting to capture the Pokémon for Team Galactic. Team Rocket claimed to their boss, Giovanni, that they were responsible for J and Team Galactic's defeat, causing their promotion. It is implied that neither she or her Pokémon survived the explosion.
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I hope everyone had a great time spending New Year's Eve. I prepared and cooked a lot of food, but when I was watching the fireworks with my kids and Henry, I couldn't help but cry. I really, really miss my dad. :(
When I was younger, my dad was in charge of the fireworks, being the only man in our house and in my aunt's whom we shared the same compound with (one lot with two different houses on it). He'd light up fountains, 'trumpillios,' and when we were kids we'd light up 'lusis' (not even sure how to spell it, lol). We'd be screaming and shouting as the clock striked 12, as old people said you'd grow tall if you jumped, lol. I'm proof this tradition is so not true.
Well, things will be different now whether I like it or not, and there's nothing I can do about it. I called my mom and my sister after the fireworks were over so we could hear each other over the phone, and all I could say was New Year, since we all were lonely.
I made this cake out of Nestle cream, condensed milk, butter, and graham cookies with pieces of fruit on top as garnish. This isn't my first time to make this cake - I've made it twice before and all turned out disastrous. If there's anything good during New Year, it was this cake as I finally made the darn thing right.


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Twins in a Two-Room Schoolhouse
James Wallace, professor emeritus of teacher education, documents the lives of his mother and aunt, Edith and Ethel Scott, twins growing up in Wolfeboro, a New Hampshire village. Using diaries and artifacts inherited from his family, Wallace reconstructs small-town New England life in the first decades of the 20th century.
CreateSpace, 2012. 390 pages.


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The WIU Fire Protection Services Program features a comprehensive major with two separate and unique study options. The Fire Administration program is delivered online and designed for working firefighters seeking promotion to senior leadership positions. The Fire Science Option, with classes delivered on-campus in a traditional setting, is ideally suited for students preparing for a career in the fire service. A fire minor program is associated with each of these two Options.
Why enroll in Fire Protection Services at WIU?
Our History
Western Illinois University has a history of fire service education spanning more than thirty years.
Many leaders in the Fire Service are alumni of our program and are quick to attribute their career success to their degree at WIU.
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University of Alberta researcher David Coltman wrestles with bighorn mountain sheep to gauge their personalities.
Coltman, a U of A biology professor, is part of a team that traps the animals in a plywood enclosure on a mountaintop in the Rockies. He and the research team are trying to figure out if personality type has anything to do with how long a mountain sheep lives or how many offspring it produces.
The extreme ends of the personality measurement are bold and submissive. For example, with the younger male mountain sheep, a typical bold personality will try and steal away a ewe from the older dominant ram. Coltman equates that to a "live fast, die young" mentality seen regularly in the human world.
The animal is given a grade for personality based on how big a fight it puts up when researchers try and get its weight and measurements and Coltman says carrying out a personality profile can be dangerous. The average ram weighs 125 kilograms, but while some captured rams and even ewes put up a fight, Coltman says others are complete pussycats. "With some ewes you just put your hand on their head," said Coltman. "They just sit back on their bums and you can measure and weigh them; it's that easy."
But with others, the research doesn't come that easy. "We were filled with dread when one ram we nicknamed 'Psycho' turned up in a trap," said Coltman. "Year in and year out Psycho's reaction was the same. He tried to kill us."
The Ram Mountain trap-and-release study was originally organized close to 40 years ago to monitor the growth, health and population of bighorn sheep. Coltman is co-author of a recent paper on animal personality published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
For an interview with Coltman and still photos from the research please contact Brian Murphy.


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CBPP3's QE share hits low in October, but front-loading flagged
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'The HTC 10 is a wonderful size for a phone; the 5.2in panel is definitely the new goldilocks standard for me. '
'So this could be the ideal smartphone for hi-fi nerds. '
'Solid flagship specs.'
'The HTC 10 has an elegantly chiseled design, brilliant audio quality and a highly customizable user interface.'
'The M9 is an exceptional phone, but it's just not the best option out there. '
'However, this is still one of the best phones you can get and it just goes to show how far HTC has come in the last few years that we hold its products to such lofty standards. '
'All in all the HTC One M9 is a very desirable smartphone when held in the hand – easily one of the most desirable. '
'the M9 looks JUST like the M8, which is odd because anybody that's being paying attention to HTC's fortunes over the past couple of years knows it needs something BIG like the M7, not more incrementalism. .'
'The HTC One E9s Dual SIM is a good smartphone, no doubt. '
'Premium experience.'
'Latest version of Windows Phone.'
'The Windows Phone OS has a smaller app market, the handset's battery is nonremovable, and like the Android M8s before it, photos aren't as sharp as those from its competitors.'
'Premium construction that looks very different from other Windows Phones.'
'The HTC One M9+ is good at looking good, but that's about where its appeal ends for us.'
'It's still definitely on the slippery side, though, so it should be handled with care.'
'Great quality build.'
'It's an excellent phone to use and there is no noticeable lag or any performance hiccups. '
'The M8 for Windows is a formidable smartphone that marries HTC's design chops with Microsoft's slick UI to great effect. '
'fantastic, top-notch, and evolutionary design'
'new curvier design'
'With Sense 6.0 the camera app has had a redesign and we like the stylish and minimalist approach.'
'the E8's screen is very bright, and can reach the excellent 524 nits.'
'Powerful innards'
'polycarbonate back panel'
Pros: Powerful handset, battery life is good.
'There's plenty of power for daily tasks, a large screen to consume content and cameras that can offer some great shots, even if the high megapixel count doesn't immediately translate into the best results. '
'Bad. Bad battery life.'
'Plastic is glossy and easily gets smudged and scratched.'
'Not surprisingly, the phone is pretty darn responsive with an assortment of things, like gaming and simple navigation. '
'The HTC Butterfly 2 ticks most of the boxes for an Android flagship in 2014 - the Snapdragon 801 is still more than relevant, the camera has a sufficient amount of pixels, the display is of ample size and 1080p resolution. '
'powerful quad-core processor'
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Volleyball All-Americans Released, Four Cougars Honored
COLUMBIA -- Just two days after finishing the 2012 season as the National Runner-Up, the awards for the Columbia Cougar volleyball team just keep coming. Four Cougars have been named to the NAIA All-American team, released Monday by the national office in Kansas City, Missouri.
Repeating the honor from two years ago, senior setter Paula Ferreira claims NAIA Player of the Year accolades for the second time and is an NAIA First Team All-American for the third straight season of her illustrious career. Ferreira matches former Cougar volleyball player Yang Zhe for being named NAIA/AVCA National Player of the Year twice in their careers. The list of awards and honors is endless for Ferreira; 2-time NAIA Scholar Athlete, 4-time AMC Setter of the Year, 3-time AMC Player of the Year, 4-time First Team All-Conference, 3-time Academic All-Conference, 3-time NAIA First Team All-American, 3-time NAIA National Tournament all-tournament team, 2012 NAIA National Tournament MVP, 2009 NAIA Third Team All-American, 2011 CoSIDA Academic All-America College Division Volleyball Player of the Year. The Rio de Janerio, Brazil native finishes her career at the Columbia career assists leader with 6,280 in four years, including 1,766 this season which is the third highest single-season assist total in Cougar history. With 82 service aces this season Paula also takes over as the career service ace leader with 245.
Leading the Cougars with 503 kills this season, outside hitter Kahoriz Feliz also records First Team All-American honors. In just her first season with the Cougars, Feliz finished the season with a hitting percentage of 0.326 and averaged 3.73 kills per set. In addition, the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic native also logged 177 digs and 51 blocks. Kahoriz ranks 20th in the NAIA in total kills, 32nd in kills per game and 34th in hitting percentage.
Senior Libero Elena Berroteran becomes the first Columbia Libero to be named to the NAIA First Team. Berroteran managed the back court for the Cougars all season, logging 740 digs for an average of 5.32 per set. Elena, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, played in 43 matches for Columbia this season. She had 72 assists and 54 aces while being named the AMC Libero of the Year and first team all-conference in her final season.
Both Berroteran and Feliz were also named to last week's NAIA National Tournament All-Tournament Team.
2012 marks just the second time in Columbia history and the first time since 1998 that three Cougar players were named to the first team.
In addition, Scott City, Mo. native Brooke Simpson collected NAIA Honorable Mention accolades. The junior outside hitter played in 40 matches this season and logged 400 kills. Brooke also added 21 aces, 304 digs and 36 blocks this season. She was named first team all-conference this season as well.
The Cougar volleyball squad finished the 2012 campaign as the runner-up at the NAIA National Championship, falling to Concordia (Calif.) University in the championship match. Under head coach Melinda Wrye-Washington, the Cougars ended the season with a mark of 42-2 and ranked No. 3 in the final top 25 rating. For the second time in her career Melinda has been named the NAIA National Coach of the Year. With almost 600 wins to her credit, Wrye-Washington was named AMC Coach of the Year for the ninth time since starting at Columbia in 2000. Including this year, she has led her team to 12 conference championships and 12 trips to the NAIA National Championships where they have won the crown once and placed in the top four eight times.


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In response to Juergen asking me to show my wet weathering, I thought I would show my girder bridge done that way.
Initially I prime/undercoat with acryllic, preferably grey as it sticks best. This time I ran out so used some dark green. I then paint over with emulsion paint , although acryllic works just as well . Depends what you can get hold of.
As I have been painting a few models, I have some liquid gunge, so aplu some with any old brush. If there is not enough paint in it, I add a dab of grey emulsion, then wash it down before it dries. Model is in position it would expect to be so gravity will take water to cracks as it would in reality.
If it does not look quite right, I just add more gunge and spots of paint, till I am happy.
and closer
To get better rust effect, I think you need some way of engraving the surface, and I have not tried that. I am thinking that painting with a decent thickish coat of grey acrylic, leaving it to dry, then trying to scratch some off might be a start, then wet weathering on top of that. Liquid glue might also etch the plastic. Liquid glue on top of acrylic paint can erode the paint as it is a solvent for the acrylic paint(having cleaned up paint dried brushes that way).
As I said, nothing wrong in buying specialist paints and weathering stuff, but it can be done using left overs, and cheap water based paint. For me availability is just as important as cost.


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President Erickson, Alumni Association to host evening of music in New York City
President Erickson, Alumni Association to host evening of music in New York City
The eighth annual President's Concert will be held Feb. 15 in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Hosted by Penn State President Rodney Erickson and the Penn State Alumni Association, the concert will feature the Penn State Chamber Orchestra, Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
Prior to the concert, the Penn State Alumni Association will host a reception from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. with hors d'oeuvres and a chance to socialize with fellow Penn Staters inside the elegant Hauser Patron Salon, overlooking Lincoln Center's Grand Foyer. Admission to both the concert and reception is $50 for Alumni Association members; $50 for children ages 6 to 17; free for children ages 5 and younger; and $60 for nonmembers. A special seating area will be reserved at the concert for pre-registered reception guests. Register here.
If you are unable to attend the Alumni Association's pre-concert reception but would like to attend the 8 p.m. concert performance, tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. Contact the Alice Tully Hall Box Office at 212-671-4050 to purchase concert tickets.
Please note: Online pre-registration is necessary only for the Alumni Association's pre-concert reception. If you are attending only the concert, you do not need to register at the Alumni Association's website.


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In the world of radio automation, here is a product that will probably announce some changes to come. Google Radio Automation is an all-in-one radio automation system that seems to include everything needed for modern broadcasting including podcasting.
The Google Radio Automation user interface is widget based for easy customization of the workspace.
Google Radio Automation comes packed in a 19″ rack enclosure featuring ability to cope with up to 3 removable drives but can also handle Google's RED external RAID to support up to 12 drives for a max of 7.5Tbytes storage. Considering that one minute of CD-quality audio roughly represents 10 Mbytes, that's quite some room to store audio files.
Last but not the least, Google Radio Automation natively supports Google AdSense for Audio.
If interested, just have a look at the show roadmap planned for the coming year.
What about the relevance to the radio uses, the performance of the product, its business model and finally its adoption by the radio broadcast industry? The future of Google Radio Automation will be interesting to follow.


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There is no one path to recovery.
One size does not fit all.
These sometimes are hard facts to accept, because they mean there are no simple answers; however, they are still a source of hope for people living with mental illness.
More choices mean more hope. When there are several options to choose from, a person has a better chance of getting it right in finding an effective course of treatment. The key is working with a doctor and making decisions based on a person's specific circumstances and life goals. Getting it right also means avoiding unnecessary side effects or risks. It means getting the right help in time.
NAMI needs your help now to send a message to the federal government's Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which has proposed limiting access to certain psychiatric medications under the Medicare Part D program for seniors and people with disabilities. We are preparing to file a formal "comment" this week along with thousands of signatures on a petition in opposition to the proposal. We hope to have at least 10,000 signatures. Please help by signing here and sharing it with family, friends and others. We also urge you to send comments to CMS with your stories and those of people you know and love.
It doesn't matter whether choice involves medication, therapy, a support group, help from a peer, or an exercise routine. The principle is the same. Access is critical and barriers should be minimized. Choice is important and so is timing. As one woman who communicated with me explained, it can take time to find the right treatment. "What I learned is that different people respond to different medications differently. It is not a one size fits all. It took 10 years for me to find the right balance of medication and I had a very skilled doctor that cared and a lot of medications to choose from until we got it right. Taking away (these) choices limits a person's ability to find the right combination."
Currently under Medicare Part D, health care plans must include "all or substantially all" medications in six protected classes of medications in their "formularies," i.e., the list of medications the plans cover. This requirement has prevented insurers from imposing prior authorization, "fail first" requirements or other restrictive mechanisms that limit access to other options.
CMS's new rule proposal would eliminate protections for antidepressant medications in 2015 and antipsychotic medications in 2016. Overall, choices of medications would be greatly narrowed for individuals with depression, schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. For too many people, steps would be taken backward, rather than toward recovery—and stepping back means pain and risk of increased hospitalization, criminal justice involvement and despair.
Early effective treatment often hinges on making a smart choice at the outset rather than depending on a cheap cookie-cutter option. In addition, people with disabilities, including mental illnesses, have to wait two years to get onto Medicare, and by then many of these individuals have experience and know which medications work and can be tolerated well. We shouldn't make them jump through a number of hoops the get the right help. We know from experience that imposing complex processes interferes with good treatment.
In response to one of my previous blogs, I received a comment from a mom whose son's medication dosage was arbitrarily reduced by a private insurer after many years of stability and over the objections of his doctor. She asked for help and did not know where to turn. Placing the burden on doctors, individuals and families to overcome barriers to treatment makes no sense. The CMS proposal flies in the face of scientific knowledge and the personal experiences of many people living with mental illness. Prescribing decisions must be individualized, based on clinical history, side effect profiles and personal preferences.
Medication is usually just one part of the foundation needed to support a person's recovery from mental illness. Weaken any one part of the foundation and years of progress, are put at risk. Make sure that CMS knows the impact of this rule on real people and real lives. Join the NAMI movement and take action today – sign a petition, submit a comment, and tell CMS why Medicare Part D must continue to support recovery.
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New photos of Boston bomb suspect's surrender
Photos of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect's surrender have been posted on the Boston Magazine website. The additional images, made public Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013, were among those released to the magazine last month by a state police photographer.
By Sean Murphy / Massachusetts State Police
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Book Review: 'An Ideal Wine' by David Darlington
An Ideal Wine
One Generation's Pursuit of Perfection — and Profit — in California
David Darlington
Harper: 356 pp., $26.99
The California wine business is full of contradictions. Little wonder.
On the one hand, the industry cultivates an image of wine being an almost accidental beverage, a product of a munificent nature that takes ripe fruit from sun-dappled vineyards and somehow, magically, transforms it into a liquid symphony that can ennoble not only those who consume it but also those who make it.
On the other, it is a ruthless, cutthroat business, one that accounts for more than $18 billion in sales every year — 80% of which goes through fewer than a dozen large corporations. And as important as the image of a rustic vigneron might be, the specialty equipment and chemical enhancements used in most modern wineries are capable of spinning neutral grape juice into salable product.
This is the radically separated right-brain, left-brain world described so ably by David Darlington in "An Ideal Wine," one of the best books written about how modern wine is really made and sold.
Darlington is a fine reporter and writer whose earlier books have covered subjects as varied as the Mojave Desert and Area 51. He previously assayed the wine world in "Angels' Visits," which pondered the mysteries of Zinfandel. In this book, he approached wine more from the point of view of a besotted admirer. Now, 20 years later, his gaze is a little more distanced and his appreciation a lot more nuanced.
This is not at all to suggest that "An Ideal Wine" is a tell-all screed. One of Darlington's strengths is that he is able to pull back the curtain on the wine business without ever losing sight that the beverage itself is capable of great magic. He takes us into the worlds of utterly opposite wine figures — or so it seems.
The first is Leo McCloskey. He is Mr. Left Brain: His influential company, Enologix, claims to be able to predict critical scores and potential sales for wines based strictly on a chemical analysis of the grapes — even while they are hanging in the vineyard.
Has there ever been a more right-brained winemaker than Darlington's other subject, Randall Grahm? One shudders to think. The founder of Bonny Doon Vineyard, originally in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Grahm plays the vinous butterfly, flitting from here to there, dabbling in hermetic biodynamic practices, inventing new wines from old, underappreciated grapes, and selling them all through marketing materials that can best be described as Mad magazine meets Jacques Derrida. (Of course, underlying this seemingly quixotic nature is a canny salesman who pushed Bonny Doon to produce as much as 450,000 cases a year at its peak, making it one of the couple of dozen biggest wineries in the country.)
It does become fairly clear that Grahm is the subject who captured Darlington's heart — is there a wine writer so cold he has not been seduced by Grahm's magic? He's the smartest, funniest, most introspective and, quite often, wisest geek you could ever hope to meet.
But the book's core strength is the way Darlington is able to regard both characters sympathetically without ever falling for either's shtick. This is true whether he is describing McCloskey's proprietary calculations that turn esoteric measurements of an immature grape's tannins, flavonoids and other chemical compounds into predictions of potential sales, or Grahm's penchant for biodynamic "crystallizations" that purport to show "wine's degree of connectedness to the soil, to its organizing and growth forces."
Surprisingly, the two winemakers seem pretty close on the existential wine question of the existence of terroir (the notion that the flavor of a wine can reveal a sense of the place where the grapes were grown, often derided as touchy-feely by analytic winemakers). For Grahm, this is the be-all, end-all of his wine quest. And, it seems, McCloskey is sympathetic — to a point. After all, his doctoral dissertation was in chemical ecology, based on the idea that plants change chemically in response to the areas in which they live. In the end, then, it seems that McCloskey and Grahm — whose approaches seem so different — may have more in common on some key points than you (or they) might have expected.
Still, the two are on different planets when it comes to terroir's necessity, or even desirability, in a fine wine. Given the choice between gobs of jammy ripe fruit and a mineral-laden sense of place, it's easy to predict which each man would prefer.
On a more fundamental level, though, they also seem to agree on wine as a metaphor, though for starkly opposing world views. For Grahm, wine at its best allows the sensitive taster to glimpse the hidden workings of nature, to revel in unseen connections and to better understand his place in the universe. For McCloskey, to be at its best, wine requires the skilled technician's ability to transform the imperfect raw materials nature provides into a product that gives pleasure to the masses (and income to its producers).
To really understand California wine today, you have to be able to hold both ideas in your head at the same time. Is it any wonder, then, that winemakers seem so eccentric?
Parsons is The Times' food editor.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Kenny Boynton and Mike Rosario both scored 14 points Wednesday night and No. 6 Florida romped to a 72-47 victory over Florida State.
It took the Gators just 5 minutes to take a 12-2 lead and the rout was on. Boynton's layup with 8:57 left gave Florida its largest lead, 62-25.
Florida (7-0) has held five opponents to less than 50 points this season while taking its fourth straight win over the Seminoles (4-4) who have lost three straight home games. This is their most lopsided defeat to Florida since a 96-61 loss in 1999.
Michael Frazier added 12 points and Patric Young finished with 10 points and eight rebounds for the Gators, who cruised to a 35-15 halftime lead in their first road game of the season.
Michael Snaer led Florida State with 10 points, all in the second half.
No. 10 GONZAGA 71, WASHINGTON ST. 69
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) - Kevin Pangos' layup with 2 seconds left gave Gonzaga its best start as a Division I team.
Elias Harris scored 23 points and Kelly Olynyk had 22, all in the second half, for Gonzaga (9-0). The Bulldogs had been tied with the 1994-95 team for best start.
Brock Motum had 23 points and DaVonte Lacy added 22 for Washington State (5-4), which saw its three-game winning streak snapped.
Motum hit a 3-pointer with 14 seconds left to bring WSU within 68-67.
Gary Bell Jr. made a free throw for Gonzaga, and Lacy made a layup to tie the score at 69.
That set up Pangos' game-winning drive that gave him eight points.
Olynyk had 10 points in the first 8 minutes of the second half.
No. 18 NEW MEXICO 75, USC 67
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Hugh Greenwood hit five 3-pointers and finished with 17 points to help New Mexico recover from an early double-digit deficit.
Alex Kirk added a double-double for the Lobos (9-0) with 13 points and 13 rebounds, while Kendall Williams had 13 points and a season-high nine assists.
Five Trojans scored in double figures, led by 14 from Eric Wise, but USC (3-5) still lost its fourth straight.
New Mexico's biggest lead was 59-42. The Trojans closed the gap behind a 13-2 run that made it 70-65 with 2:13 left. But Williams followed with a 3-pointer to break the streak.
No. 19 MICHIGAN ST. 76, ARKANSAS-PINE BLUFF 44
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Garry Harris scored 13 points, Travis Trice had 12 and Branden Dawson added 10 for Michigan State which held Arkansas-Pine Bluff scoreless for almost 10 minutes at the start of the game.
Michigan State (7-2) started the game with a 14-0 run, led 38-12 at halftime and kept a comfortable lead in the second half.
The Golden Lions (1-7) missed their first 13 shots and didn't score until 9:48 into the game.
Arkansas-Pine Bluff's DaVon Haynes scored a season-high 20 points - all after halftime.
The Golden Lions had seven points over the last 2:20 of the first half to finish with 12, the fifth-lowest total at halftime by a Division I team this season, according to STATS LLC.
No. 23 OKLAHOMA ST. 61, SOUTH FLORIDA 49
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) - Marcus Smart scored 15 points and Markel Brown added 13 for Oklahoma State which bounced back from its first loss of the season.
Smart, the Cowboys' playmaking freshman, nailed a 3-pointer from the left wing to launch a 16-5 run that put Oklahoma State (6-1) in control in the second half. He finished it off by hitting another 3, then making a quick steal in the backcourt before setting up Brown's layup for a 48-34 lead with 7:29 remaining.
The Bulls (5-3) couldn't get closer than nine points after that.
Victor Rudd had 14 points for South Florida, and Anthony Collins scored 12. The Bulls were held to a season-worst 34 percent shooting and had their lowest scoring game of the season.
Philip Jurick grabbed a career-best 14 rebounds as Oklahoma State held a 41-28 edge on the boards.
Oklahoma State lost to Virginia Tech on Saturday.


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For example (just an example, I don't own any of these domains):
I have a main website chocolate-dessert.com
I also own some other chocolate-related domains:
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- chocolate-snack.com
For SEO purposes, I want to forward the two additional domains to chocolate-dessert.com, the principle being that I can better capture keyword searches for "chocolate treat" and "chocolate snack" with those other domain names.
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Florida Snake Identification Key
Mud Snake
Scientific name: Farancia abacura (HOLBROOK 1836)
The following will separate the two Mud Snakes found in Florida. If you are unable to distinguish between them based on the characteristics in the key below, you probably can do so using the geographic location alone.
Select the box below that is the closest match to your snake:
The ends of 53 or more red to pink bars from the belly extend onto its sides; found throughout Florida, except the Florida Keys.
Your snake could be an Eastern Mud Snake, Farancia abacura abacura.
The ends of 52 or fewer reddish pink bars extend from the belly onto its sides; extreme western panhandle.
Your snake could be a Western Mud Snake, Farancia abacura reinwardtii.
I'd like to start over from the beginning
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Let $\operatorname{frac}(x) = x - \lfloor x \rfloor$ be the fractional part of $x$.
Then, for $\alpha$ irrational, $\operatorname{frac}(n \alpha)$, $n=1,2,\ldots$, distributes
randomly in $[0,1)$, which can be viewed as the circle $\mathbb{S}^1$.
Weyl's Equidistribution Theorem establishes the uniformity of the distribution.
$\operatorname{frac}(n \pi)$ for $n=1,2,\ldots,100$.
Is there an analog to $\operatorname{frac}(n \alpha)$ for $\mathbb{S}^2$? Is there a function $f(n,x)$ with the behavior that, for some point $x \in \mathbb{S}^2$, $f(n,x)$ for $n=1,2,\ldots$ fills $\mathbb{S}^2$ randomly and uniformly?
A pointer would suffice if this is well known. Thanks!


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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Brandon Roy has returned to practice on a limited, no-contact basis with the Minnesota Timberwolves a month after arthroscopic surgery on his right knee - an accomplishment by itself given the chronic problems he's had.
The former NBA Rookie of the Year and All-Star decided to revive his career in Minnesota this season. Roy said the latest knee trouble didn't prompt him to consider retirement, like he did a year ago when he was with Portland.
``I never thought about walking away. It was just, for me, do I want to go through another procedure? Or do I want to play through it?'' Roy said Thursday.
Roy said he felt fine in training camp, but he banged knees with another player in an exhibition game against Milwaukee on Oct. 26, and the discomfort worsened after another collision in a game against Indiana on Nov. 9. He had the operation on Nov. 19.
Roy has been doing light drills with the team but said there's no timetable for his return to the lineup. The Wolves have four games in the next five days, so he won't be back for that. He said he'll start to practice at full speed next week.
``The goal was to try to come in and help this team out, so I still have a lot of time left to try to do that. You can't prepare for something like that, but now I've gone through it. About a month later, I'm happy we got it done, and I feel better,'' said Roy, who played in five games before the surgery.
Roy acknowledged ``that small concern'' in the back of his mind that he'll never reach 100 percent strength in his knees again but said several times in a post-practice interview with reporters that he feels good and the pain is gone.
Whenever Roy retakes the court, he'll be overshadowed by certain other backcourt player coming off a knee injury. The Wolves host Dallas on Saturday, when point guard Ricky Rubio could make his season debut. The standout from Spain has been practicing at full speed and is simply waiting for clearance from the team. Coach Rick Adelman said Rubio hasn't had any setbacks.
``I really have no idea. Every day they're testing. They're doing work on him, to see where he's at. I'm sure we'll make that decision come Saturday,'' Adelman said.
Backup point guard J.J. Barea spoke eagerly of Rubio's return, echoing the sentiment of everyone on the team and around it.
``He wants to be out there with us and help us win, so I think for the whole city and for us it's good to have him back,'' Barea said.
Malcolm Lee, who has been starting at shooting guard lately with Roy out, left Wednesday's game with a hyperextended right knee. He didn't take part in Thursday's light workout, and the team said he wouldn't travel to New Orleans for Friday's game.
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PRIME MINISTER Julia Gillard, can be criticised for a number of things but a lack of courage is probably not one of them.
For the second time in a week, the woman described by her outgoing ministers as "the outstanding politician of her generation", pulled an unorthodox move, the timing of which was within her gift to decide.
And it came, apparently from the blue, just days before what is shaping up to be a very difficult parliamentary session.
While it had been a tightly held secret, the reshuffle was necessary because frontbenchers Nicola Roxon and Chris Evans wanted out.
As the self-deprecating Senator Evans pointed out, nobody in government is indispensable, irrespective of their position or ego.
For Ms Gillard as for any leader, a reshuffle itself is not a bad thing.
The trick is in getting the mix right and the timing right. Here, she did markedly better on the first count than on the second.
Up and coming talent meant she could slot strong performers into key roles such as Mark Dreyfus, QC, as her new Attorney-General.
Other changes also make a lot of sense such as: shifting the tiring Chris Bowen from Immigration into Senator Evans's role of Higher Education; the elevation of the classy Jason Clare as Cabinet Secretary; and the promotion of the former military man Mike Kelly as Minister for Defence Materiel.
Tellingly, all three, Bowen, Kelly, and Clare, belong to the powerful NSW Right faction which remains central to her grip on the leadership.
So, on content, Ms Gillard did well, not so on timing however.
Her declaration of an election on September 14 was a bold play.
Yet the very next day it was ambushed when Craig Thomson was charged with 150 criminal offences.
Rudd supporters are saying the government is clueless. Mystified voters may be inclined to agree.
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Refeshing Chopped Italian Salad
Raise your hand if you like salt…? Yup, I see a few hands out there.
Salty or Sweet…???? I count myself in the salty category and in fact have been given various nicknames that reflect my affinity for the natural crystal, including 'old salty'. I would much rather snack on tortilla chips or popcorn than have a cookie. I crave salt. This salad is just perfect…a fresh (and a little bit salty) salad for summer with a hint of sweetness from golden raisins.
I was inspired to make this salad after dining out with my husband here and enjoying a dish very similar…we both remarked "why don't we eat more chopped salads?" This is, in fact, a very good question! Salads can be tricky…I like them dressed and tossed; they can be awkward to eat if the greens aren't cut to an appropriate size; and they can so easily be ruined by too much dressing. The chopped salad is the answer to all of these issues.
Chopped implies a certain size…so no worries with the giant lettuce leaf sticking out the side of your mouth smearing dressing up and down your cheek. Chopped salads also typically are chock full of ingredients going beyond greens…which makes them heartier (better as a whole meal), and more flavorful…so the need for a lot of dressing is significantly reduced. Chopped salads are also a great way to use up leftovers…perhaps you have one baked sweet potato left and a couple crumbles of blue cheese along with some pecans…add greens and a light vinaigrette and poof – dinner.
This particular chopped salad is distinctly Italian with dry salami, black and green olives, radicchio, and feta. The saltiness is countered with golden raisins and the unexpected but totally necessary nutty component – pistachios and a good handful of Italian parsley.
Nice Chopped Italian Salad
1 head iceberg lettuce
1 head radicchio
½ cup of golden raisins
1/3 cup of canned black olives, sliced
1/3 cup of green olives, sliced
¼ to 1/3 of a small dry salami, cubed
½ cup of pistachio meats (shells removed)
1/3 cup of feta cheese, crumbled
handful of chopped flat leaf parsley
Slice green and black olives and cube the salami. Next, slice and chop the iceberg lettuce and radicchio and put in a large salad bowl. Throw in all the toppings – olives, raisins, pistachios, and salami. In a small bowl, whisk your dressing together. I went with a very simple red wine vinaigrette which I never measure…just eyeball the amounts and always taste as you go…it consists of olive oil, red wine vinaigrette, a tiny bit of salt and some pepper – just whisk it all together before drizzling it over the salad. Make sure to err on the side of too little dressing as you can always add more. Once dressed, add in the feta and most of the chopped parsley, toss again and then serve up with another sprinkling of parsley and some toasty crisps.
Do you like chopped salads? What are your favorite additions?
PS: Don't underestimate the importance of the raisins!!! I'm not always a giant raisin fan…but I wouldn't imagine eating this salad without them.


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Forces of Flight Lesson Plan: CSI Flight Adventures
Grade Levels: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
In this forces of flight lesson plan, which is adaptable for grades 3-12, students will use BrainPOP resources (including two online games) to explore the properties and physics of flight.
Students will:
- Explore the properties of flight using models and online simulations.
- Explain how an aircraft overcomes its weight and the push of air to fly.
Preparation:This lesson plan uses two online games from The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: CSI: Flight Adventure's Forces of Flight and CSI: Flight Adventure's Flight School. First, students will explore Forces of Flight, which allows them to experiment with basic terms and concepts of airplane flight and physics. Students can build planes with a variety of bodies, wings and engines and then test their creations to see how well they fly. Next, students will explore the Flight School game, learning and practicing the basics of flight by learning how to fly an FPG-9 (Foam Plate Glider 9). Students will also learn how to direct planes and then test their skills in the Flight Challenges tab as they move the control surfaces on the glider to hit targets. Portions of this lesson plan have been adapted from the Teacher Resources provided by the The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
To prepare for this lesson, preview the BrainPOP Flight movie and make photocopies of the Activity, as well as any resources from The Children's Museum that you may want to use. You may also want to review the CSI: Flight Adventures Resources for book and website recommendations.
Lesson Procedure:
- Play the BrainPOP Flight movie to build students' background knowledge.
- Pass out the Activity and encourage students to talk with a partner about the control surfaces of a plane without marking anything on their papers.
- Play the Flight movie through a second time and provide time for students to complete the activity either after the movie is over, or during key pause points.
- Tell students they will have the opportunity to design their own plane through an online game and using 3D materials. Project the Forces of Flight game and show students the variety of bodies, wings and engines they can choose from. Have a student volunteer design a plane and explain his or her choices. When the plane is built, the volunteer will be able to test the creation by clicking the "FLY" button. If the plane fails the flight test, students will learn why the plane could not properly fly, and how they can improve the next plane.
- Allow students to explore the game independently or with a partner for 5-10 minutes. You may want to have students take screenshots of their plane designs to share with the class afterward.
- Bring students back to a whole class discussion. Which plane designs were most successful? Least successful? Why? Help students make connections to what they know about the physics of flight.
- Next, project the Flight School game for students, and explain they will use what they have already learned from the movie and Forces of Flight game to learn how to fly an FPG-9 (Foam Plate Glider 9.) You may want to complete the beginning of the game together as a class so you can talk with students about the basics of flight, how to direct planes, and basic glider history and terms. Be sure to demonstrate how students can also keep track of their flight records and observations in the "Flight Research Card" tab at the bottom of the page.
- After learning the basics of glider flight in the Flight School tab, show students how they will be able to test their skills in the Flight Challenges tab. Students will be presented with a variety of challenges to participate in. In each challenge, they must move the control surfaces on the glider to hit targets. These challenges can be played as many times as desired. Explain that once students have learned how to control and direct their gliders through the Flight Challenges tab, more complex challenges will be presented. After all missions are completed, students will earn their gold wings and take the bonus mission to unlock the space shuttle landing challenge.
- Provide approximately 30 minutes for students to play the Flight School game. You may want students to print out a record of their flight school exercises and how they did on the flight missions.
- Talk with students about what they learned through game play. How does an aircraft overcome its weight and the push of air to lift into the air and fly?
- Use the game quiz to assess student learning.
Extension Activities:Challenge students to create a paper airplane that will fly the furthest! Provide time for students to try out different designs. Allow students to access the BrainPOP Flight Experiment for help as needed. Or, use the instructional videos and templates provided by The Children's Museum. More in-depth science investigations and explorations can be found in the Flight Adventures Unit of Study, including instructions for guiding students to construct different types of kites and paper rockets.
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I have written an extensive java program that works on my unix workstation.
When I try to use it on a webserver, I run into permission problems when
trying to
read files. I wanted to read the files on the SAME server where I store
the classes and html. However, now I find out that java must be COMPILED
with these file paths verbatim or the files are not accessible.
Is there a way to read server copies of files? I was previously using
HTML with <PARAM NAME=model VALUE="xyz"> and letting the java program read
based on the 'model' parameter.
Is there a javascript or html construct that I can use to set up these files
rather than passing in a model name? The java program currently uses the
name and appends file attributes, like:
xyz.animate, xyz.macros, xyz.ordering, etc. How else can I read these files
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I met weave designer Eleanor Pritchard at Maison et Objet a couple of years ago and immediately fell for the vibrant colours and intricate patterns of her traditionally-woven Welsh blankets. Joe and I called in on Eleanor and her assistant Holly as they were hard at work on designs for their new collection to explore her South London studio and find out more about the inspirations behind her work.
Tell us what you think of our first video too!
Where did you learn your craft?
I initially did a history degree and worked in bookselling and publishing for a while. I went back to college as a mature student and studied weaving for a second degree. I had always loved making things, but going back to college really gave me the skills to develop my own design process as well as the technical grounding in weave. I studied Textile design, specializing in weave at Chelsea and set up my own studio almost as soon as I left college, with a helping hand from the Crafts Council who gave me a grant to buy my first loom. For a number of years I taught at Central St Martins alongside my studio practice, but now work on my weaving business full time. Our blankets are sold in 25 countries, and we have also just launched an upholstery line so there's plenty to keep us busy.
Talk us through your design process when you work on something new…
I always start by making a storyboard, which can contain anything from postcards and drawings to bits of packaging and postage stamps. Once the ideas come together I begin sampling on the Dobby loom I have here in my studio. I often thread it with different colourways in the warp so we can try several options at once. When I can see what's working well, I weave a larger sample of the ones I like the look of.
The loom looks very complicated! How do all these threads actually become a woven fabric?
Looms work on the principal of binary codes… the first computers were actually based on looms. The woven pattern comes partly from the order you thread the loom up in and partly from the order you lift the warp threads up and down in as the weft passes through. A lot of the planning happens before you even start, and with experience you get to learn what will happen when you thread the loom in a certain way. You need to follow certain rules to make sure that the fabric has a structure that will hold together, but there's still lots of room to experiment. I enjoy the discipline of working within those parameters.
Do you weave each blanket here, by hand?
Not anymore. I sample the new designs here on my hand-operated loom, then the blankets are woven in a mill in Carmarthenshire in Wales using a power loom. A power loom works the same way but is much quicker. It's an area where weaving used to be a huge industry – the steep little valleys were filled with hundreds of water-powered mills – but now the mill I use is one of the only ones left.
How important is tradition in your work?
I am very interested in vernacular British textiles – traditional Welsh tapestry blankets are woven using a technique called 'double cloth' which are woven with two sets of warp and weft threads so that the front and back are exact opposites of one another. A lot of my blankets are woven using the same principal. The patterns are all my own but the technique is the same one that has been used for hundreds of years.
Describe your workspace… what can we see from your window?
I have a lovely bright and sunny studio at the top of the Cockpit Arts building in Deptford, South London. I overlook the creek and can see over to the Greenwich Observatory in one direction and Canary Wharf in the other. It's a fantastic place to come to work each day.
How do you spend your tea breaks?
There are a lot of designer-makers here working in a wide range of disciplines: ceramics, jewellery, wood carving, metalwork. It's a really nice community and we often call in on each other. Whether you want feedback on a new design or advice on couriering a parcel to Japan, there's usually someone here who can help.
What sort of wool do you use?
I love yarns that are 'fleece dyed' which means that the wool is coloured before it's spun, then fleece from different batches is blended together during the spinning process. This gives a variety of different tones within each thread, which creates a lovely subtlety and depth of colour. When the yarn is spun first and then dyed the colour is much flatter.
Tell us a little more about your approach to colour…
I have quite an instinctive approach to colour. I love trying different combinations and responding to what works. I always use a little white in all my designs as I find it lifts the pattern and makes the other colours clearer and more vibrant. I like adding bright and unexpected accents in my palette, and often mix these with 'grubby' or chalky shades. I don't use very sweet, sugary pinks for example. One of the nice things about my business growing is that I'm now able to order enough yarn to have some colours dyed to order. I work with a company in Aberdeen who have revived some of the colour recipes in their archives for me.
Can you explain the inspiration behind a few of your blanket designs?
'Easterly' is a vibrant yellow blanket with a graphic pattern inspired by the wind direction arrows on weather forecast maps, while 'Northerly' has the same pattern but in shades of sage, grey and white. These three – '405 Line', '625 Line' and '525 Line' – are all based on the shape of old television screens and the names come from the number of scanning lines per inch in the original black and white, colour and American sets. 'Signal' was inspired by the pulse of sound waves and 'Quail's Egg' is a real old favourite, with a small-scale pattern that gives a speckled effect from a distance.
{Photographs and video © Joe John for Decorator's Notebook}
Find Eleanor's vibrant 'Easterly' and '635 Line' blankets at Decorator's Notebook (free next day UK delivery) and visit her website for her other designs. You can also visit Eleanor's studio yourself during Cockpit Art's open studios twice a year – click here for forthcoming dates.


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Underage drinking has traditionally been a problem and, with today's technology, "fake identification" can be hard to spot. The Lewiston Police Department is taking steps to be proactive and work with local businesses to deter underage drinking.
LPD Chief Chris Salada and officer Anthony Nicoletti recently attended the 2013 Prevention, Law Enforcement and Coalitions Conference to Prevent, Combat and Reduce Underage Alcohol Consumption, held in Rochester. The theme for the seminar was "Underage Drinking, Not a Minor Problem."
LPD also purchased booklets in order to provide employees of bars, restaurants and stores in the community guidelines on what to look for when identification is presented to them.
"Over the past few weeks, officer Nicoletti has been out on foot reaching out to several businesses in the Village and Town of Lewiston, educating our local businesses that sell alcohol, passing out the identification books and other literature," Salada said. "LPD is proud to partner up with our local businesses to combat this ever-growing problem. "
Above, Nicoletti is shown talking to Ken Scibetta of the Lewiston Village Pub and Restaurant about underage drinking, and how the community can work together to prevent it from occurring in the future.


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To Mercy Hallows:
You do have to drop the villager in the exact spot to start clearing the leaves. Here's a screenshot of the location that may help you:
I have an elder at age 62 about ready to die and I am trying to get him to be a Jack of all Trades. However, the builders are too slow and stubborn and the hut won't be built, so my Elder can't finish his parenting (right now he is an adept parent) and the stories aren't moving his status any. How do I get his parenting skill to improve so he can be a jack of all trades?
To Wes:
Parenting is the most difficult skill to master, for sure. However, the building of a hut doesn't have anything do to with it, so I'm not sure what you mean about that part. The best way to get master level at parenting is -
Drop your elder on a female who is too old to have babies. You can do it over and over to gain parenting skill without worrying about overpopulation. Just remember, it's slow going and it will look like you're making no progress on the bar, but you really are.
I believe I have ran into a glitch in the game. I have completed a ton of the puzzles but I can't seem to find anyone who fits the robe, thus I am without a Tribal Chief. I have googled like crazy and so far I have yet to find a solution (I can't even find anyone else who has this same issue!) I have 17 people and no one will fit the robe! Help!
To Stephy:
Actually, many people have asked this same question here. So many, in fact, that we put it in the FAQ at the top of this page. Check question #6 for some help. :)
In addition -
With only 17 people, you should be able to find the chief. It's when the village grows to nearly a hundred people that it really gets hard!
In your case, if none of your people fit the robe, maybe you have a nursing mother. The mother and the baby cannot try on the robe until the baby is two years old and the mother is finished nursing.
I hope this helps and you find your chief!
To Dustin:
Try exiting your game and restarting. And here's a screenshot to help you:
I dont know how to use spoiler tags. I've tried, but it's not working so please don't read this if you dont want to know. So sorry. Thank you.
Hi everyone. I've used this site loads, but this is my first comment and I don't know how to do screenshots, but will try and explain without them.
There are two seperate piles of rocks under the medical center. The one closest to the bath cannot be worked on. This is simply where your villagers will get rocks from to fix your bath, whereas the pile next to it nearest the grave yard is where they will move the rubble.
I believe that the lectures are there to educate the children as they only started working once I had purchased leadership 2. I just wasnt expecting the adults to join.
I've had the game for a few weeks now and got pretty far. Only 2 days ago, I checked in like I have every day and went out. I came back today and found that everything had turned back to the beginning apart from the tech points that I have got and brought all the puzzles I had completed had disappeared. I've had to start almost from scratch I was just wandering why this happened and how to fix it if I can. Also I've been trying to bulid the statue, but everytime I drop anyone on it just says s/he sees a fallen statue. I have the plans made up and master builders. What am I doing wrong?
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If your beehive and 3 trees run out of food, your village is probably going to die before you can do anything about it. I recommend buying level 2 faction to get the special herb and drive away the sharks with the shark potion ASAP!!! My first village died, but in my second one I got the level 2 faction just in time and now have an unlimited supply of fish (at least, I now have 66565 food, and still growing!)
To Virtually Addicted:
There are two kinds of lectures: regular village lectures and the children's education lectures. Everyone is referring to the regular lectures as not doing anything. When the chief lectures the children alone, however, they each have a white sparkle on their heads when they learn some skill. :)
weird.. I thought somebody mentioned it on this chat board a while back... maybe I don't know what I'm talking about.
My builders have just started pushing the statues. I've got 7 masters on the job. Still... 17 whole hours just to push a statue?!?
By the way, if your tribe can run for, like, forever, can you have over 2000 villagers (that would be really funny; ever inch would be covered by villagers :P)
In other words, is there a max population once all of the huts are built?
Also, a tip for those of you going for the jack of all trades award:
1) Choose a guy; he's easier to get the master parent with
2) Use the potion orchid + rose + lotus to make villagers sick so your chosen guy child can start healing them at like ages 2 to 13 and become a master of healing
2) Start at age 14 working them in the other categories; I suggest having him build first if you have any available projects or having him research. If you don't have the ocean yet as a food resource, then farming is also an option to start whenever the trees are full
3) At age 18, immediately start working on the parenting skill; remember, you don't actually have to wait for the guy to go indoors. Instead, just keep dropping him. Mine went from an adept parent to a master in about 30 minutes (yes it still is a lot of work)
4) If you have the ocean as a food source, definitely save farming for last; he can farm until he's 70 if necessary.
5) Once you've mastered 3 skills, the title of your villager will become "Esteemed Elder" instead of "Master _________" You will then have to check his detail to make sure he is improving on the skill you want him to.
6) Don't forget to change your villager's preference to whatever skill you have him improving on
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To Virtually Addicted:
Max population -
The maximum population starts at 90 and can go as high as 115 if you have Science Faction and complete all four sets of collectibles.
Moving the statue -
Yes, it takes many builders many hours to move the statue. I usually put 12 or 15 on it. They don't have to be Master Builders, they just need to be trained. That just means that need to be at least Trainees to work on the statue. Also, be aware that there was a bug in earlier versions of the game that made the statue get stuck halfway up the path. If that happens, you just need to go back to the site where you originally purchased the game and download the game again to get the most current version.
The chief -
If the chief dies, you just need to drop your new chief on the statue to start directing work again. It should be fine.
Tech points -
You're far enough along in the game that it doesn't really matter which of those last three you buy first. I usually purchase science last. If you like to mix a lot of potions, do Alchemy. If not, then Nature Faction would be good because it increases their longevity.
Thank you so much Pam!
One last question about the end of the game:
what is the deal with the mural inside the sundial room? IS there anything behind it or something like that?
By the way, for some reason my statue was built ahead of time. I'm not complaining, believe me, but no more trained builders worked on it and it was supposed to be finished in 4 more hours... weird... well, at least I got a "lucky" glitch, if it is one ;)
hmm.. I seem to be having a lot of "last questions"
one MORE question...
My "jack of all trades guy" is one notch away in building from being a true jack of all trades. Besides fixing huts, is there anything else that could help me get him trained??
(I wanted to put a screenshot of him on here, but I don't know how O_o)
To Virtually Addicted:
Once you're inside the sundial room -
The last puzzle is to talk to the spirits that appear. There is nothing else behind the wall and no other reason to be in the room after seeing the spirits.
There is one other thing that may help you train builders.
Notice I said MAY help them. There's a potion you can make that gives them a burst of energy and they start doing lots of exercises. At the end of the exercise, they will SOMETIMES an increase in building skill, too. It's not 100% effective, but it does happen from time to time. The potion is:
Cacus+Tiger Lily+Black Orchid
Uh. Question, I don't know if this is a glitch, bug, or a major oopsie. So, I just recently finished the last hut thing, the one that looked like a square of rocks before, and so I had a lot of trained builders. I fished out a master builder from the crowd and dropped her on the chalkboard, which was now blank after repairing the bath. And.... I had level 3 restoration but level 2 leadership, and I THINK, I can't really tell, but I THINK she drew a plan of a bath. And no, restarting the game doesn't help. Recap: I already FINISHED the bath, and putting people on the statue doesn't work.
To That One Girl:
You've found one of the bugs in the game. The new drawing on your chalkboard is supposed to be of the statue, but it's both the statue and bath together, which looks like a scrambled mess, right? It will still work for repairing the statue, though. There are a couple of steps you need to follow before dropping builders on it -
A master builder has to build the scaffolding. Fly a master builder over the path above the fallen statue and you'll see a spot the looks good for the scaffolding.
Next, you have to drop the chief onto the statue to begin directing work. After that you start dropping as many trained builders as you can get. They don't have to be master builders; even a trainee builder will work.
I seem to have found a glitch... I went on to the game today... an found that my adept parent was nursing for 0 minutes. Now I know that it might mean less than 1 minute left but I waited for 5 minutes and still nothing. I just got the milestone for 15 people and I am wondering if my village is full until I get another house?
Ok, I left my game until after school, my jack of all trades-to-be was dead, so I'm starting from scratch. I was going to use my youngest male to start training him in medicine, but he's part of a triplet set that all walk really slow. Why do some kids only walk at an elder's pace? I've had it happen before, and it follow them throughout their life. What should I do?
To That One Girl:
You'll have to wait until you have level 3 Leadership to start the statue and see if the plans on the board will work.
To JIGuest:
It may be a glitch, but it's common for the timer to be at 0 minutes for nursing mothers and sit there for several minutes. It should reset itself.
To Virtually Addicted:
Check on their details screen. If it says they dislike running or something similar, that's the reason they're slow. There's nothing to be done about it, either.
oh my gosh...
something terrible just happened...
I just logged on to my tribe and...
30 people died just like that because of a tsunami, but the roster said that they died of old age...
Anyways I was watching one of my elders bury the dead, and all of a sudden she disappeared..
When I looked over at the amphitheater, there was a fresh skeleton...
I also have no children, and only 2 girls under the age of 50...
What a shocker!!!
Also, the roster of the dead says that 52 people have died, but there are only 50 graves... did my graveyard fill up?
OMG I just checked on my villagers 5 seconds after they finished burying my dead and...
The ruins for the sewing hut appeared! What next?!?! I'm going to wait until I have I child boy to start working on it though so I could get the jack of trades...
To Drew:
One of your villagers is absolutely the chief. You have to try the robe on every single villager in the tribe. Please check question #6 in the walkthrough located at the top of this page for more help.
To Virtually Addicted:
You had a tragedy for sure! Those kinds of things don't happen often, but they do happen.
The cemetary only holds 50, but the Roster of the Dead will go almost indefinitely.
The Jack of All Trades can be a female. Just don't let her have any babies and wait until after she's 50 before she goes indoors.
Except you'll need all females to reproduce like rabbits once they are adults. xD
that's why I prefer to use a male... which, in growing into a master parent, will help my villagers reproduce like rabbits O_o
I've finally got a male child. His name is Molo, and he is already almost an adept doctor and has learned a little bit of building from my chief's lecture.
By the way,
What does the clothing hut do exactly? I'm not going to work on it until my "jack of all trades to be" is old enough to. But I want to know exactly what he will be working on. Also, is there anything else you can use the tech points you earn once you purchase everything in the tech area? I have almost 2 million tech points and I don't know what to do with them!
(2 million tech points would have been really helpful when I was actually trying to earn them :P)
Hey, Pam. I just wanted to say that I appreciate all the time you spend on here answering everybody's questions. It must be really hard work! I truly appreciate it! Thank you!
By the way, I have a question. O_o :P
I was wondering what exactly is the point of the awards page. What is the award you get when you complete a reward or is the reward the reward within itself (sorry about the bad sentence structure) I've already completed all rewards except 3 (jack of all trades, fungus among us, and alchemy r us)
To Virtually Addicted:
The sewing hut -
Once the sewing hut is complete, you can drop a villager on it and he/she can get a new set of clothes for 5,000 tech points. You get to choose from a fairly wide variety of clothes for both males and females. It's fun, plus you can give them uniforms to make it easier to keep up with a large village. For example, I would put all of my doctors in black and white. My builders would wear blue. Farmers would wear green. Etc.
If you've purchased absolutely all of your technology, the tech points don't have much use except to buy new clothes. See spoiler above.
The awards page is just something to do. The reward is the satisfaction of completing the award. You don't get anything special for it.
And... you're welcome! I'm very happy to answer questions, and you always have good ones. :)
Ok...not sure if this is a spoiler or not. Maybe just a glitch. I got an event pop up that said something about a crystal that was familiar and I chose to keep it and it creates a clone of the chosen person in the event. Well, my chief was the person in the event and now I have two cheifs. How is that possible? I can create food twice and lecture twice. Is this just a lucky glitch for me?
To Cash:
About the statue -
If you're certain you have the most current version, it's probably a case of not getting your chief to the right spot. And remember, the chief has to be directing work before you can put any builders onto the statue. Fly your chief over the path up to the door and look for a spot that says something about being a good place to direct work. If it doesn't show up directly above the statue, try at the base where it started.
To Tracy:
What you describe is not a bug. It's one of the random island events that happen, well, randomly. You just got lucky that it randomly cloned your chief. :D
ISeeDeadChickens -
Up in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)question #1 there is an answer about the location of the herb with screenshots to help locate it. The type of herb itself depends on whether you are playing the magic faction or the nature faction. The general location is:
To the left of the alchemy lab where the kids go when "nature is calling". If you are playing the magic faction it is a berry, if you are playing nature it looks like a pitcher plant.
To ISeeDeadChickens:
I believe you are talking about the herb you get after purchasing level 2 of your faction. For Nature Faction, you get the Pitcher Pland. And for Science Faction, you get the Berry Bush. Both are located to the left of the Alchemy Lab. Here are a couple of screenshots to help you.
Ok, I think I am stuck... I have all technologies, finished all but 1 puzzle, and have most awards, after finishing the all the buildings I had only a few builders. Most of them were very old and so when I went onto the statue it was finished with only 1 builder. I made the builder fix the pearl but he died before he could finish, so now I have no way that I know to train builders and I have no builders to use... Is there any way to make them get building skill?
Chubysnow -
The pearl:
Needs to be finished by two people, a master builder and a master scientist. If your master builder did his part, drop a master scientist on it and see if he will finish it. If not, the only way to train a builder if all building projects are finished is to have them fix the huts over and over again. This can take some time, but eventually they will get there.
Hope this helps.
Tricia -
You already have the chalkboard, it is in the alchemy lab just to the left of the kettle. If you mean how to use it:
You need a master builder and level 2 building technology. At level 2 drop a master builder on it and he/she will draw up the plans to restore the broken tub. At level 3 building technology drop a master builder on it and he/she will draw up the plans to restore the statue.
Is there any way to get honey again? I'm having a really hard time getting to faction 2 and I have no food. My leader has already created magic food and can't make anymore for about 12 more hours. And my trees go bare as soon as fruit appears. The only thing I can seem to do is constantly make it rain and get a little fruit at a time and send my kids for mushrooms. Please help!
To Lily:
The fruit will grow back, but it takes a pretty long time. You need to get other sources of food set up. Check the FAQ located at the top of this page for some suggestions.
To Emz:
You purchase Level 2 faction on the technology screen. You'll need to purchase Level 1 before you can purchase Level 2. You choose between Nature and Magic factions. They each offer different things.
Emz -
Are you using an adult on the lift? I've never seen one jump off the lift before when it's going up.
Kristin -
You have to water it down. Grab some unoccupied kids or adults and start throwing them in the waterfall where they do laundry. They'll haul water over to the diamond. Keep doing this until they no longer will haul water, the diamond will then be safe to pick up.
Hey, I've used your walkthrough all the way though the game and it has helped me a lot. But I can't seem to get the lift to work.
I've rebuilt it and everything and this is the last puzzle I have to complete.
I put my villager on the lift, on the tree, on the end of the lift. I've tried a master farmer, my chief, builder.. What do I have to do please?
Hi. I have a problem with the awards. I already had 3 villagers who died older than 80, but in the awards it doesn't show. This the only award that I have not completed in all of my 5 tribes so I'm kind of desperate because I want to finish the game completely, but I don't know what is happening. In the rock with the names it shows 3 or 4 dead people over 80, but in the awards doesn't. What can I do??


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The Fort Lewis College mens cross country team stepped into rarified air when the Skyhawks qualified for the NCAA Division II National Championships this season for only the second time in school history.
The FLC men finished sixth at the South Central Regional in Denver to earn their first trip to nationals since 1995. They will take the starting line Saturday with the NCAA Division IIs best in Joplin, Mo.
And the Skyhawks will thank the power brokers of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and the South Central Region for pulling them along on their historic journey to southwest Missouri and the national championships.
Its difficult to fathom ... hard to put into words really, first-year FLC head coach Mark Dutro said of the Skyhawks first trip to nationals in 17 years. (The FLC womens team qualified in 2006.)
For some of us, it hasnt really sunk in how big of a deal this is, Dutro said as the Skyhawks prepared to take their No. 26 national ranking to Joplin.
For one thing, the region we are in is the toughest region in Division II in the country. The top two teams are the top teams even for Division I, Dutro said of the dual cross country powerhouses, Adams State University in Alamosa and Western State Colorado University in Gunnison.
Then, the last four or five years, youve got (Colorado) Mines ranked and Colorado Springs ranked, Dutro said.
Oh my gosh, to be able to pull into that group is really humbling. Its humbling to be mentioned in the same breath, Dutro said.
Since Adams State and Western State joined NCAA Division II, the two Colorado schools have combined to win 16 of 20 mens national cross country titles eight for Adams State and eight for Western State.
The Mountaineers of Western State ended Adams States three-year reign of national titles last year.
The two are expected to battle for the title again Saturday.
They (Adams and Western) are definitely the foundation of the success in the region, Dutro said.
Because of their success, I think were getting more notice; because of the strength of our region, were getting attention, Dutro said.
In this weeks NCAA Division II national rankings, there are four RMAC teams in the top nine.
It feels good to have a cross country team such as ours and given where were at making an impact, especially in the RMAC, FLC sophomore Christian Gering said.
This national berth long has been in the making after a couple of years of hard work, Gering said.
Adams State is ranked No. 1. Western State is ranked No. 2.
Colorado School of Mines is ranked No. 3 nationally, with UC-Colorado Springs at No. 9.
Add FLC at No. 26.
(The FLC runners) are excited. They know what this can do for Fort Lewis. Its an opportunity to show there are other strong sports here, said Dutro, an FLC instructor who coached the Durango High School cross country and track teams for a decade.
Its like the whole school is watching, Skyhawks senior leader Kiprono Mutai said.
As a team, were just wanting to do better than were ranked, just to prove we deserve to be there, former Bayfield High School standout Derek Laue said.
The guys dont seem to be intimidated. They know were going to be a part of the show. In fact, were right next to Western in the (starting) box assignments. That will be great, Dutro said.
He credited a strong pack finish with an outstanding lead performance by Mutai for the Skyhawks national-qualifying effort at the Denver regionals.
Kip definitely helped us out at regionals. He placed higher than he had been ... and I think it gave him confidence, he said of the Kenyan native who finished 15th at regionals. He ran the 10-kilometer course (6.2 miles) in 32 minutes, 53 seconds, earning All-South Central Region honors.
Its so exciting, Mutai said. It was one of the goals I jotted down at the beginning of the year.
They rely on me. The better you do, the better for the team. Its the best role to play, said Mutai, even if it is a little scary sometimes, too.
The rest of the guys ... feel like they can be up close to him, Dutro said.
The other thing is well be going down in elevation (at Joplin). We know well have a little advantage there, Dutro said.
Mutai said training at nearly 7,000 feet so hard when it comes to breathing and climbing the hills should provide a boon when the Skyhawks shoes hit the road at just 981 feet.
Train hard, and win easy, he said.
Other FLC national qualifiers (with regional finish and time) are Garrett Sapakoff (33rd, 33:52), Gering (36th, 33:58), Jimmy Mohrbacher (43rd, 34:31), Joey Brenner (52nd, 34:47), Laue (71st, 35:31) and Alex Kilman (110th, 36:45).
This year weve really bonded as a team, Laue said. If youre by yourself, its exciting. But if you go as a team, its exciting and fun.
Dutro said Sapakoff, a freshman who formerly competed at nearby Littleton High School, had an outstanding qualifying race in Denver last week.
He was definitely running for the home crowd, Dutro said.
Its kind of cool because Ive never really been on a team that could qualify for anything, Sapakoff said.
Durango Herald sports writer Jim Sojourner contributed to this report.


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