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John Legend Digs The Buckeyes (Plus Many Others)Posted by jstevrtc on March 23rd, 2010
How far-reaching is the NCAA Tournament? Check out these tweets from famous people in other walks of life — actors, musicians, mostly athletes — who have nothing to do with this year's tournament but are just fans of a particular school, a player, or college hoops in general. We like that John Legend is diggin' Ohio State. Not surprising, since he attended Penn but was born in Ohio. But given Evan Turner's versatility, we wonder if a duet with Legend could be in the works. Anyway, other than one spot where we xxx'd out an innocent person's Twitter ID, every tweet here is presented exactly as it was found on each user's account, and none of them are re-tweets. We think it's pretty cool — you never know who's watching.
Dara Torres (American Olympic swimmer, gold medalist x 4) — U guys watchn college hoops?? Kinda dig when there's upsets…except not when it happens to the Gators!! Hehe!
Joel McHale (ex-Washington, and star of NBC's Community and E!'s The Soup) — Holy crap. Way to go Northern Iowa.
Pete Yorn (musician) — Wow! Kansas. [Ed. note — posted moments after KU's loss to UNI]
Conan O'Brien — Hey sports fans, here's my NCAA pick: bet it all on the Savannah College of Art & Design. Go Fighting Acrylics!
John Legend (musician) — Great day today. Ohio St going to the Sweet 16. I had a great show in Miami Gardens. And the health care bill passed. Happy Sunday
Elizabeth Banks — No, dummies. I didn't go to Cornell. I went to Penn (*cough* better school). But def pulling for the Ivy League team. Big Cornell win!


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Law 2012-287 was published in the Official Journal of France on March 2, 2012. The law, which amended France's Intellectual Property Code, proposes building a free, public database of digitized books that were published in the 20th Century and are no longer in commercial distribution. The Bibliothèque national de France (BNF) would be in charge of creating and administering the database.
Publishers and rights holders will have 6 months to challenge inclusion of a book in the database. It also appears that after raising a challenge, publishers have three years to demonstrate a market for the book, or that they have created their own digitized version.
I did not see a specific appropriation of funds in the bill, so it is unclear to me how the BNF will finance the project.
Reaction on French law librarian mailing lists and blogs has been positive, but muted. Wait and see seems to be the prevailing sentiment.
Whether this bill leads to a free database or not, let's hope that it spurs debate in France, Europe, and across the Atlantic, about the role of digitized books in society.
Law 2012-287 relative à l'exploitation numérique des livres indisponibles du XXe siècle.
Full-text of the bill and links to legislative history materials are available at
Some authors' groups have already criticized the bill for ignoring copyright law. For example, see the petition circulated by writer Yal Ayerdhal:
Additional commentary on the bill from the Rue89 blog


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Three innovative technology start-ups were selected to compete for the EIT Entrepreneurship Award 2013. Pre-selection competition of EIT ICT Labs took place in Paris on April 18th. "Entrepreneurship is at the very heart of the EIT ICT Labs vision and activities. The EIT Entrepreneurship Award is a therefore a great opportunity to highlight and encourage entrepreneurial ventures that are coached and supported by the Business Developers of the ICT Labs" - says Klaus Beetz, Business Director of the EIT ICT Labs.
The EIT Entrepreneurship Award competition was created by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Each of the EIT's three KICs – the Knowledge and Innovation Communities for sustainable energy, information and communications technologies, and climate change technologies – select three ventures to compete for the award. The EIT Award 2013 final will take place in November in Budapest. The award provides financial and professional support to agreed travelling and promotional activities, as well as tailor-made programme attuned to the needs of the venture.
The competition to select best and most innovative start-ups from EIT ICT Labs took place in Paris at the Partner Event 2013. Eleven start-ups from all the nodes presented break-through technologies and innovative technology solutions. All the participating start-ups were selected and nominated by the local Business Developer Team in each Node. You could learn about new car sharing solutions, personal intelligent travel assistant, new tools for instant movie discovery, innovative solutions for secure 3D designers webtop in the safe Cloud, brand new ways of rehabilitation and much more. The winners (Volumental, CoRehab and Quuppa) were selected by more than 200 participants of the partner event using an online voting tool.
CoRehab sells products to rehabilitation centres and clinics with the aim of multiplying time and business opportunity for physiotherapists and doctors. In Paris CoRehab presented the Riablo products, designed for orthopaedic rehabilitation to let patients exercise in a more enjoyable and controlled way (in outpatient centres or at home), thanks to inertial sensors and videogames. According to David Taccioni, CEO, "thanks to ICT Labs CoRehab find direct link with technological partners and research institutions all over Europe, making easier the access to foreign markets".
Quuppa is a young start-up offering a unique localization, tracking, and monitoring technology solution onto the market, also known as HAIP - High Accuracy Indoor Positioning. Quuppa's strategy is to follow a horizontal business model allowing Quuppa to reach different vertical and geographical markets at once. "ICT Labs has been helping Quuppa in many different ways since the beginning – says Fabio Belloni, Chief Marketing Officer – by providing logistic support, offering consultation through its network of professional business developer accelerators and exposing Quuppa to a wide network of companies and business opportunities".
Volumental, simplifies making 3D models of real-world people, objects and rooms through the world's first cloud-based 3D scanner. Volumental started as a robotics research project at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. "The coaching from ICT Labs business developers has been helpful in figuring out our strategy and gaining access to funding - said Caroline Walerud. Furthermore, we hope the ICT Labs network will be valuable in building relationships with potential customers, partners and employees". Great team, exiting technology and strong customer focus are the key elements that lead to Volumental, being one of the winning start-up at the ICT Labs pre-selection competition for the EIT Entrepreneurship Awards.


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The flagship model of EXEDY clutches, the Hyper Carbon Series. In 1995 EXEDY supplied carbon clutch products for use in the pinnacle series of motorsport; Formula One. This same technology is now applied to carbon clutches developed by EXEDY for use on the street and track. These clutches are lightweight, durable and resilient to high heat, contributing to an improvement in track times. Available in single, twin and triple designs with both rigid or damper discs for a full range of power holding capacity.
EXEDY carbon discs are able to perform through long durations of high rotational velocity due to our precise application of carbon. The fibers are set one-by-one in a weaving pattern and baked at more than 3600°F, finalizing the strengthening process. Heat expansion rate is 1/20th of iron therefore eliminating a change in clutch feel that may happen due to distortion caused by expansion during driving. Carbon material also possesses a "non-stick" characteristic that eliminates disengagement problems.
Carbon-D: The next generation of clutch systems by EXEDY is the Hyper Carbon-D, the revolutionary carbon clutch system. Carbon-D was developed to achieve the ultimate goal of comfort and streetability by absorbing noise and vibration emitted from drivetrain components such as the differential, transmission and engine. The Carbon-D system is designed to protect the drivetrain by absorbing and dissipating "shock torque" by utilizing EXEDY Patented Technology. Superior engineering enables the Carbon-D clutch system to posses an ideal clutch engagement position, increased clamp loads and lower pedal effort, while the unique carbon fiber friction material allows comfortable half-engaged clutch operation and responsive gear changes. The EXEDY Hyper Carbon-D is available in both single and twin clutch configurations.
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Sport Racing Clutch Kits from Exedy are for engineered to optimize the performance of vehicles from mildly modified to Race Cars.
EXEDY Stage 1 Organic Racing Clutches only use premium friction materials that are resistant to slippage and burst. Increased clamp loads give the necessary capacity to handle modified engines.
EXEDY Racing cerametallic clutches are designed to handle the abuse of high-power modified engines. Our cerametallic friction material can handle much more abuse than stock type disc assemblies without slipping and fading.
The EXEDY Hyper Single Series clutch is engineered to optimize the performance of cars that are moderately modified, but do not require the clutch capacity of a multi-plate clutch. For high-powered applications, EXEDY offers twin and triple Multi-Plate clutches. These are designed for high power street action as well as drag, road and rally racing. The new standard for racing clutches is now available, with the EXEDY Hyper Compe Series. The ultralight metal multi-plate was developed with a focus on those interested in racing of all sorts.
The flagship model of EXEDY clutches, the Hyper Carbon Series. In 1995 EXEDY supplied carbon clutch products for use in the pinnacle series of motorsport; Formula One. This same technology is now applied to carbon clutches developed by EXEDY for use on the street and track.
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7 Ways to De-clutter Your Life and Manage the Move to a Senior Living Community
The move to an apartment in a senior living community generally means choosing convenience, socialization and security over lawn care and housework. It is an opportunity to de-clutter and dig out of decades worth of accumulated stuff. But for many, the process some call "downsizing" can be the very obstacle in the way of a simpler, more carefree life.
"Even after making the call to move to a smaller place there are often fears that keep people from getting started," says Ann Armistead of Downsize Designs, a partner with Harmony Senior Services who works with many making the move to senior living communities. "After all, we're not just talking about furniture and belongings, but what makes a house a home." Often, that means tough decisions about what to keep, what to possibly store, and what to do with the rest. That can be a lot of work, both physically and emotionally, so Ann offers these guidelines:
1. The one year rule.
If you haven't used something in one full year, through all the holidays and seasons, it can probably go. Maybe there are clothes we know we will never wear or serving dishes that are nice but just not necessary. Be honest and let the calendar decide if it is something you need or just a collector of dust and space.
2. The replacement rule.
For something you might need, but you are not sure, if it can be affordably replaced then don't keep it. This is often true for small appliances like the never-used wok or the flannel sheets that feel great but the weather is just never right for them. If some day you decide you just cannot live without it, there is always the option to replace. More likely, it won't be missed.
3. Let your smile guide you.
For decorative and sentimental items, now is the time to be honest. Does it put a really big smile in your heart? If not, let someone else love it. Is it a collection? Keep 2, 3 or a small assortment, photograph the rest for an album and consider storage. For really large, sentimental items that will cramp your new space, take pictures and keep those, instead of trying to wedge big furniture into your new space.
4. Don't do too much at once.
Making decisions like this can be an emotional time. Start early enough so you can work at it just a little bit each day, making effective decisions. People who wait until the last minute to get started tend to toss everything, or keeping everything, neither of which will make you happy.
5. Start in rooms used least.
By beginning in a space in your home you don't spend much time in, you keep the mess away from where you're living. As a bonus, when you're done with a spare room, it can be used for sorting and storing items from your heavily used spaces. This will go a long way towards keeping you from being frustrated by the process that is supposed to be helping you simplify.
6. Start big.
Decide on big items first. This will not only start to open up space and see real progress early, it will also help you avoid temptations to overstuff your new living space.
7. Get help.
You shouldn't feel badly if this is all too overwhelming. Many people need help. Someone who is objective can keep you moving, keep you honest with yourself, make everything much less stressful, and save you tons of time. Help can come from family members, friends, or professionals, like myself.
Ann Armistead is Senior Move Manager at Downsize Designs headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Videos | September 14, 2011
Mars Technology Finds Earth's Hidden Water
How do you find water in the driest places on Earth? Scientists use Mars to get answers.
Transcript:Deserts are 20 percent of the surface of the Earth.
We've been trying to search for water in the North African Sahara for decades and decades and techniques after techniques and the success has been very limited.
We are trying to solve a problem that we don't understand, which is where is the water, what depth is that water and how it's changing over this huge desert surface. The main idea behind our project was to use the same technology we've used to map ice on the Martian sub-surface. Mars is a desert environment. We thought that why don't we use this on the Earth to find the water on the sub-surface.
To our big surprise, we are able to find these aquifers. We are able to map the depth of the water table. I mean, the depth which water changes in the sub-surface. We are able to see a recharge location; we are able to see a discharge location. We are able to prove that yes, we can us that radar technology we used on Mars to map water on Earth on a large scale. This is the only technique that can map sub-surface water on large scale that can allow us to see what lies beneath these sand sheets and sand dunes in terms of water resources, but also in terms of geological information that helps us understand why these deserts have transferred to deserts. As we know, before, they were wet environments.


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Doctors for years have urged people with very specific risk factors — a history of intravenous drug use, needlestick injuries, or a medical record that includes a blood transfusion or organ transplant— to be tested for hepatitis C.
But now, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all baby boomers be tested for the disease, saying that people born between 1945 and 1965 have the highest rate of infection and could benefit from early treatment.
But another organization, the US Preventive Services Task Force, last month issued a draft recommendation suggesting doctors only "consider" screening all baby boomers. The group, a government-appointed panel of doctors and health policy experts, gave the practice of universal screening a C grade, indicating that testing an entire generation may have little benefit.
The conflicting advice has upset some advocates of broader hepatitis C screening, who say the recommendation undermines efforts to respond to a "silent epidemic." An increasing number of people are dying from the disease, and treatments, while costly, are improving.
Doctors and patients may be reluctant to talk about hepatitis C risk factors, some of which come with negative connotations. By giving its full endorsement only to risk-based testing, the Preventive Services Task Force "continues the stigma that is associated with the disease," said Martha Saly, director of the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable, a coalition of organizations focused on hepatitis C that is primarily funded by drug makers but with an independent steering committee.
While some projections put the number much higher, the CDC estimates that 3.2 million people in the United States are living with hepatitis C and the majority likely do not know they are infected. Over time, the infection can damage the liver, causing cirrhosis or cancer.
About three of every four people infected with hepatitis C were born between 1945 and 1965, and baby boomers account for a majority of viral hepatitis-related deaths. Many grew up before hepatitis C was identified in 1989, and before rules were put in place to screen blood and tissue products used in medical procedures. Before HIV awareness developed in the 1980s and 1990s, less attention was paid to the dangers of sharing needles or having unprotected sex — a possible but less common means of transmitting hepatitis C.
Further frustrating the advocates of universal testing is the fact that the task force recently recommended that all adults be screened for HIV. More people die each year as a result of hepatitis C than of HIV.
In 2006, the most recent year for which data are available, 377 people in Massachusetts died of any cause within three years of being diagnosed with hepatitis C. With HIV, 45 people died within three years of diagnosis, said Dan Church, an epidemiologist and viral hepatitis coordinator at the state Department of Public Health.
"What our data tend to suggest is that people get into care fairly late," after the hepatitis C has progressed and damaged the liver, he said. Wider screening among baby boomers could lead to more people being treated before the infection does its worst harm, Church said.
Medicare does not cover screening for people without symptoms or risk factors, a spokesman said. It would be required to cover the test, which can range in cost from around $12 to $100, if the task force changed its C grade for baby boomer screening to at least a B, indicating a moderate to substantial benefit. That's something Saly and others are pushing for.
In Massachusetts, the Medicaid program covers any lab test for hepatitis C, and several major health insurers said they cover the cost of screening baby boomers or soon will.
The test looks for hepatitis C antibodies. If the test comes back positive, patients must have follow-up tests to determine whether they remain infected. As much as 25 percent of those infected may clear the virus from their body without treatment.
For others, treatment options are growing. New drugs released this year, including Incivek, made by Cambridge-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals, dramatically increased the chance of curing the disease. More are in development.
But the benefits of screening to get people into treatment earlier is not entirely clear, said Dr. Michael LeFevre, a vice chairman of the US Preventive Services Task Force and of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Missouri. There is not enough research to show that treatment prevents problems that could come later in life as a result of having been infected, he said.
Treatment can cause serious physical and psychological side effects. The US Food and Drug Administration last week issued a warning that Incivek can cause severe, sometimes fatal, skin reactions. And there is still no way to distinguish between those for whom the disease will progress to cirrhosis or cancer and those who will experience few effects of infection, LeFevre said. That's an important distinction from HIV. "The certainty with which we know [those with HIV] will suffer the consequences from that is much higher," he said. "It's not exactly a fair contrast."
Still, some providers are working to implement the CDC recommendation now, and working to destigmatize the screening. Dr. Chris Bositis, clinical director of the hepatitis C program at Greater Lawrence Family Health Center, said the ability to explain to patients that they are being offered a hepatitis C test based on their birth date alone, rather than assumptions about their past behavior or medical history, simplifies the conversation.
The screening becomes "very routine, like being tested for your blood sugar or your cholesterol or any other preventive maintenance thing we do in primary care," said Dr. Virginia Palazzo of Belmont Medical Associates, who offers the test to baby boomers who come in for a physical exam.
The CDC's recommendation, if implemented, could be expensive. Testing baby boomers and treating those who are infected with the newest drugs could add an estimated $19 billion to health care costs, according to an analysis funded by the agency and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
But that cost in relation to quality years of life gained through treatment is comparable to some other preventive measures already common in primary care, such as cholesterol screening, the study found.
For people like Paul O'Hara of Boston, such a calculation is no abstraction. In 1996, a former girlfriend contacted O'Hara to say she was infected and he later tested positive. After beginning to notice his strength waning as a result of the disease, the 57-year-old recently completed a grueling 11-month treatment that included the drug Incivek. Treatment caused gastrointestinal trouble and paranoia. He lost 20 pounds of muscle, he said, but today the virus is undetectable in O'Hara's body.
O'Hara talks readily about his prior intravenous drug use. In addition to reaching people like him who have not been tested before, the CDC's policy is aimed at those who may be unaware they have risk factors, or are reluctant to talk about them. O'Hara said it makes sense to test more baby boomers for hepatitis C.
"I really didn't know anything about it until I contracted it," he said. "Then I ended up knowing everything about it."
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The University of Houston is one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to a new survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The results, released today in The Chronicle's fourth annual report on The Academic Workplace, are based on a survey of nearly 44,000 employees at 310 colleges and universities.
UH joins 84 other four-year institutions and 26 two-year institutions on the annual list, which recognizes the best practices of elite groups of colleges based on enrollment size. UH received recognition among large universities for its policies in four areas:
- Diversity
- Collaborative governance
- Teaching environment
- Respect and appreciation
"This recognition is very satisfying and affirms that the University of Houston is a quality workplace made up of Tier One faculty and staff," said UH President Renu Khator. "We appreciate all of our employees for everything they do – not just to make UH a great place for an education, but also a great place to work."
The "Great Colleges to Work For" survey included a two-part assessment process: a survey administered to faculty, administrators and professional support staff, and an institutional audit that captured demographics and workplace policies and practices. The primary factor in deciding whether an institution received "Great Colleges to Work For" recognition was employee feedback. To administer the survey and analyze the results, The Chronicle worked with ModernThink LLC, a strategic human capital consulting firm.
"Even in a down economy when many colleges are freezing salaries or having layoffs, employees still find good in their work," said Jeffrey J. Selingo, The Chronicle editor. "Just like colleges market to recruit students, they are now realizing they need to do more to attract quality employees. The 'Great Colleges to Work For' survey is meant to help both employers and potential employees by giving them vital information about workplaces."
The workplace honor comes on the heels of two other prestigious academic designations bestowed to UH in 2011. In January UH was ranked as a Tier One research university by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and in March UH earned the distinction as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review.
"We are honored to be named among the 'Great Colleges to Work For' by The Chronicle of Higher Education," said Khator. "We must continue to foster an environment where people feel appreciated and we remain steadfast in our commitment to recruiting Tier One talent to the University of Houston."
Now in its fourth year, the Great Colleges program has become one of the largest and most respected workplace recognition programs in the country. For more information and to view all of the results of the survey, visit The Chronicle's Website at http://chronicle.com/academicworkplace


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A superb gift for any chef, this block set consists of a 3-1/2-inch paring knife, eight 4-1/2-inch steak knives, 6-inch boning knife, 7-inch Granton Edge Santoku knife, 8-inch slicing knife, 8-inch chef's knife, 9-inch bread knife, a sharpening steel, kitchen shears, and a bamboo storage block. All Forged cutlery should be washed by hand for best care, and Victorinox covers the collection with a lifetime warranty against manufacturer defects.
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3-1/2-inch paring knife, eight 4-1/2-inch steak knives, 6-inch boning knife, 7-inch Granton Edge Santoku knife, 8-inch slicing knife, 8-inch chef's knife, 9-inch bread knife, sharpening steel, kitchen shear, bamboo storage block.
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Victorinox knives have regularly appeared as highly ranked and recommended kitchen tools in Cook's Illustrated, Men's Health, The Cincinnati Enquirer, New York Magazine, and Natural Health, just to name a few. In 2009, the company announced a partnership with professional chef, Daniel Humm, of Eleven Madison Park in New York City. In addition, building on the success of its cutlery business, Victorinox has brought all the same quality and expertise to a wider range of products and accessories, including other kitchen tools, pocket tools, watches, luggage, and clothing.
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What knives do I need to own?
Knife choice or selection is determined by many factors--size, function, style, and preference. The most important factor is function. Different knives have different uses. It is important to use the proper knife for a specific task, since proper knife selection and the use of a proper-sized, sharp knife make for safe cutting. General kitchen tasks and the knife to use for them are as follows:
Paring: The most common to own and use, a paring knife is generally for small cutting jobs and peeling of vegetables or fruit. The blade size is usually from three to four inches. Choose the shape and size to fit your hand. Since this is one of the more versatile knives, owning more than one is recommended.
Chef's: The most important tool and essential to every cook, a chef's knife is most often used in a rocking method to mince, dice, and chop vegetables and herbs. This one is known as the chef's best friend.
Slicer: Most commonly used to slice meats, poultry, and seafood, the slicer is an important companion to any host or hostess.
Boning: As its name suggests, a boning knife is used to trim or remove meat and fish from the bone.
Bread: Designed with a special edge, a bread knife makes easy work of cutting through crusty bread, pastries, or any item with a crust and a soft interior.
Fillet: Most often used by pros and seasoned home chefs, the fillet knife is used to fillet meat and fish.
Cleaver: An important addition to any collection, a cleaver is often used to cut or chop through bones.
Santoku: This knife combines the features of a cleaver with a chef's knife. The curved blade helps the rocking motion used for chopping, and the wide blade works well for scooping sliced food off a cutting board and for crushing garlic. The santoku can also be used to slice meat and has a narrow spine for making thin cuts.
Utility: An all-purpose knife often referred to as a sandwich knife, the utility knife peels and slices fruits and vegetables, and even carves small meats.
Shaping: With its curved blade, a shaping knife is great for small precision cuts where control is essential, such as peeling, trimming, or garnishing.
What are the different knife edges and what do they do?
Straight: The vast majority of Victorinox knives come with a straight or fine edge. This means it has a perfect taper along the blade and no serrations. It is designed to cut without tearing or shredding.
Serrated: An edge designed with small, jagged teeth along the edge.
Scalloped: A blade with waves along the edge generally used to cut breads with a hard crust and soft interior, as well as tougher-skinned fruits and vegetables.
Granton: This edge has hollowed-out grooves or dimples on the sides of the blade. These grooves fill with the fat and juices of the product being cut, allowing for thin, even cuts without tearing. Even with the grooves, these are still straight-edge knives and can be honed with a sharpening steel.
How should I care for my cutlery?
After use, knives should not be allowed to soak in water. The best practice is to hand wash and dry them immediately. This is especially true if they have been used on fruit or salty foods, which may cause some staining, even on stainless steel. Most knives require very little maintenance and it is worth the effort to protect your investment.
Though Victorinox knives are dishwasher safe, this is strongly discouraged. The dishwasher's agitation may cause damage. Additionally, harsh detergents can be harmful and cause pitting and spotting on the blades. The handles may also discolor and develop a white film with constant use of the dishwasher. Plus, intense heat associated with dishwashers is not good for the temper of the blade.
How do I keep my knives sharp?
All quality knives require proper maintenance to keep them in perfect cutting shape. The best of edges will quickly dull if it strikes metal, glass, or formica. A wooden cutting board makes the best cutting surface. And, if a slip occurs, a proper cutting board is safer for the user. Frequent use of a Victorinox sharpening steel will keep blades in tip top working condition. All straight-edge knives need steeling to keep their edges.
How to Steel a Knife
1. Hold the steel firmly in your left hand with the guard positioned to stop the blade should it slip.
2. Hold the knife in your right hand and place on top part of steel as shown.
3. Raise back of blade one-eighth inch.
4. Now, moving the blade only, draw it across the steel in an arching curve, pivoted at your wrist. The blade tip should leave the steel about two-thirds of the way down.
5. Repeat the same action with the Blade on the bottom side of the steel. Always maintain the same pressure and angle on both sides of the steel.
6. Repeat five or six times.
When a sharpening steel no longer does the job, it's time to take the knife to a qualified knife sharpener who will place a new edge on it. This, along with use of the sharpening steel, will give you many years of sharp, safe blades.
Please note that electric knife sharpeners can be harmful. They have to be used carefully as they remove too much metal, can harm the temper of the blade, and most important can change the factory-applied edge angle.
How should I store my knives?
Safety is the biggest concern of storage, both to the user and to protect the knife's edge. Choices include a knife magnet, knife block, drawer insets, and also individual knife protectors.
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And – I guess I just wanted to say THANKS?! The great comments you posted in the Q&A (in addition to the great questions) really make my job fun! I really wouldn't do what I do if it weren't for everyone's great support!!!
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Total revenue grew to RM1,151.19 million, which was 12.34% or RM126.46 million above the RM1,024.73 million recorded in the previous year's corresponding period, mainly due to an increase in total passenger movements which also contributed to stronger commercial sales.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) improved by 24.14% or RM88.40 million, from RM366.15 million during the same period last year. Net earnings for the nine months to 30 September 2008 rose 35.59% or RM65.09 million to RM247.97 million from the RM182.88 million recorded in the nine months to 30 September 2007.
Commenting on MAHB's improved financial performance, its managing director Dato' Seri Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid attributed the increase in revenue and PBT to the improved contribution by both its airport operations as well as its non-airport operations.
"Our total revenue growth of 12.34% was almost double that of overall passenger growth of 7.33% for the first nine months of 2008 resulting in a PBT improvement of 28.83% attributed to overall better costs management, despite higher operating expenses relating to staff costs, repairs and maintenance and administrative expenses. Non-aeronautical revenue commands a higher proportion against aeronautical revenue at 57.58% and 42.42% respectively for the nine months ended 30 September 2008 compared to 53.88% and 46.12% during the previous corresponding period."
"Total passenger volume at all airports reached 35.39 million supported by a 7.26% growth in domestic passenger volume to 19.60 million and a 7.43% growth in international passenger volume to 15.79 million."
"For the airport operations, following these higher passenger numbers, aeronautical revenue improved by 3.33%, or RM15.72 million whilst the non-aeronautical revenue recorded an even stronger growth of 18.57% or RM72.96 million", he added.
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In addition, MAHB's non-airport operations grew by 23.71% whereby the agriculture segment recorded an improvement of RM26.41 million, up 76.96% to RM60.73 million as a result of higher total crop harvested and the increase in FFB price. The hotel business also recorded a commendable 14.55% growth, improving by RM5.82 million to RM45.84 million.
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I have a six-month-old whom I expect to begin crawling at some point, so I'm beginning to worry about child-proofing the main level of the house. Many of my pending child-safety issues have easy solutions, but I'm having trouble figuring out what to do with our notebook computers. We tend to leave our computers on the tables and counters with the power cords dangling precariously to the nearest outlet. (WiFi reduces some of the clutter, but wireless power doesn't yet exist.)
The best I've been able to come up with is long battery lives and a cabinet with a latching door where we can store the computers as they charge.
What are good strategies for reducing incompatibilities between crawling babies and notebook computers?
asked 29 Sep '09, 01:14
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MagSafe has been a lifesaver for me, but it's Mac-only.
Aside from that, charge your laptops somewhere where the child can't get to: past a gate or upstairs. If you leave a cord dangling, he or she will pull that cord eventually and it's not going to be pretty.
Also, if you're using a laptop, be very careful about a child coming up from behind it and pulling the LCD screen down towards himself. My oldest daughter broke mine off when she was about 10 months old and it was pretty awful.
Older kids (like my 18-month old) respond well to aversion techniques so I spank his hand if he pulls on any cords and tell him "no." That's about all I've got. It's a constant battle keeping one's gadgets safe from children who are curious what Daddy is doing.
answered 29 Sep '09, 01:46
Some of the nicer desks out there have cable runners and powers strips on the tops. It won't eliminate all the risks, but it will make it much harder for little ones to pull electronics down off the desk by yanking on (or getting caught in) the cords.
If you don't want to splurge on a nice new desk, you can fake it. Just buy a surge protector that has eyelets for screws and screw it to the top of your desk at the back. Then plug all your equipment (computer, monitor, printer, speakers, &c.) into that surge protector.
LifeHacker has a nice list titled Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control that you might find useful.
answered 30 Sep '09, 03:16
I keep my power cord behind my desk where my infant can't get at it, and then make sure that my laptop is not at the front edge of my desk when I leave it to charge.
answered 29 Sep '09, 03:58
We have 3 notebooks in the house and they are rarely on desks. My work laptop, when its home is on the coffee or end table in the living room. Same goes for my wife's. We have a third that spends most of its time in our bedroom as we are "got to look it up Now" people.
We also have a 6-month old who has figured out buttons (thanks to BabySmash). As object permanence is kicking in, he also is starting to recognize a laptop with a closed lid as something of interest.
For my laptop, I have put a power strip behind a sofa I can reach behind. I thread the cord up behind the sofa and into the laptop when in use and store it on the end table next to that sofa when not in use (which is rare). For my wife's we're going to have to give her a separate charging station once the little guy is mobile. For upstairs, I think we're just going to have to put the laptop on a desk somewhere and deal with the delayed gratification.
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I keep my laptop up on the back of the couch with the cord running down behind between it and the wall where its out of reach if I have to leave the room. My child is a year old and still cannot reach anything up on tables (as long as its not right at teh edge) or up against the back of the couch. I don't recommend taking everything away or how will they learn? You cannot completely child proof everything for the first 2-3 years of their life and then expect them to know what not to touch when you want to un-childproof everything later. I would say child proof most stuff but don't be afraid to use your laptop around them and teach them 'no' or 'agh' or whatever your deterant word will be - they are smart cookies and can understand no as early as 6 months.
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No pesky elephant vs donkey, here, the election is about your favorite female movie star:
data Star = MarylinMonroe | AngelinaJolie | BrigitteBardot | EmmanuelleBeart | ClaudiaCardinale
deriving (Show,Read,Eq,Bounded,Enum,Ord,Ix)
Note the "deriving Ix" (from Data.Array.IArray) so we can use the stars as array indices.
We have six elector profiles: each profile has ranked the stars in order of preferences, and we have the numbers (in millions, say) of electors for that profile. For example, 7.2 million people prefer MarylinMonroe, then Emanuelle Beart, then Claudia Cardinale, 4.8 millions prefer Angelina Jolie, etc. Here's the full data:
votes :: [(Double,[Star])]
votes = [
With this we need a few helper method before we're ready to implement our voting algorithms.
We need a way to tally votes for stars, taking into account that several profiles may vote for the same star at the same round (Claudia Cardinale at the first round, say). We use an array with the addition as accumulation function, sorted my popularity
accumVotes :: [(Star,Double)] -> [(Star,Double)]
accumVotes v=let
arr=(accumArray (+) 0 (MarylinMonroe,ClaudiaCardinale) v):: Array Star Double
in sortBy (\a b -> compare (snd b) (snd a)) (assocs arr)
For some reason I needed to tell GHC about the array type, it couldn't infer it.
We need a way to get the votes for a given round (even if we'll only be using the first round this way)
roundResults :: Int -> [(Star,Double)]
roundResults r=let
v=map (\(a,b)->(b !! r,a)) votes
in accumVotes v
And a simple extraction function to get the winner's name from accumulated votes:
bestVote ::[(Star,Double)] -> Star
bestVote v= fst $ head $ (accumVotes v)
Now we're ready. The first algorith is a simple one round voting election:
oneRound :: Star
oneRound=bestVote (roundResults 0)
This makes Marylin Monroe the clear winner. But a lot of countries use a two round system: the most popular candidates after the first round make it through to the second round:
We first need a helper function that retrieves the first element from a first list found in a second list (is there a standard method somewhere?)
findFirst :: Eq a => [a] -> [a] -> a
findFirst toFind (a:rest) = if elem a toFind
then a
else findFirst toFind rest
Then it's straightforward: we get the first two candidates after the first round, and accumulate their results over all the profiles
twoRounds :: Star
twoRounds= let
(fr1:fr2:_)=(roundResults 0)
allScores=map (\(a,b)->(findFirst [fst fr1,fst fr2] b,a)) votes
in bestVote allScores
Angelina Jolie for President! A third method we can use is to proceed by elimination: at each round, we drop the least popular candidate, until we get only one:
elimination :: Star
elimination= fst $ elimination' (roundResults 0)
elimination' :: [(Star,Double)] -> (Star,Double)
elimination' (a:b:[])=a
elimination' l= let
firstRound= map fst $ init l
in elimination' $ filter (\a->(snd a) >0.0 ) $ accumVotes $ map (\(a,b)->(findFirst firstRound b,a)) votes
This little recursivity yields Brigitte Bardot. Borda suggested another method: we assign a weight to each candidate depending on its ranking, that weight is used as a multiplier of the votes. First choice gets a total tally of the votes times 5, second choice 4, etc.
borda :: Star
borda = bestVote $ concat $ map (\(a,ss)-> map (\(s,mul)->(s,mul*a)) (zip ss [5,4 .. 1])) votes
And this time, Emanuelle Béart comes on top! Last method we will survey is from Condorcet: we look at each match bewteen two stars in isolation. A match is won if more votes put the first star in front of the second star. We first calculate all the possible matches than consider each won match as 1 vote, and accumulate as before:
condorcet :: Star
condorcet= let
matches=[[x,y] | x <-allStars, y <- tail [x .. ClaudiaCardinale]]
matchResults= map (\match->(bestVote $ map (\(a,b)->(findFirst match b,a)) votes,1)) matches
in bestVote matchResults
And, behold, the winner through this method is... Claudia Cardinale! Five methods, five winners!
Of course these are really quick draft of voting methods, they should take into accound draws, etc... Do not use this code to elect the president of a real country!


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Freedom Road - Plans for major road improvements to Freedom Road, a state road that connects Rts. 19 and 228 with Beaver County to the west of Cranberry Township, have been under active discussion since the mid-80s. After Cranberry's long-range comprehensive plan was adopted, the one remaining piece of its land use component was adopted by the Board of Supervisors in October 2010. The zoning overlay proposal, which affects the westernmost portion of the roadway in Cranberry, tries to balance the interests of property owners.
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Ever since my boys began going to school on the Front Range, I text or talk to them every morning on the phone. Recently, the conversation between my youngest and I hit a snag, and it reminded me again that prayer is a conversation.
Last week, his cell phone went a little wacky. Whenever he called me, I could not hear his voice. He heard me just fine, but I could not hear him.
After about the third day of that mess, I said to him (I think), "You know, Matt, this is parent heaven. I can lecture you to my heart's content, and you can't respond." I thought I was pretty funny, and fortunately I couldn't hear his response.
In the short term we solved the problem by either texting or he borrowed a phone and used that for our morning chitchats. Now, finally, his phone is working again. But all the trouble started me thinking.
I don't know about you, but all too often my prayer life is a one sided lecture, rather than a conversation with the Lord. I talk and talk and talk and don't take time to listen. It has nothing to do with faulty technology, or the fact that the Lord is not speaking.
In the perfect prayer that our Savior taught us, he commanded us to pray "Thy will be done." How can we know the will of God if all we do is talk at God?
It is the rare believer, and usually on rare occasions that we can actually hear the voice from heaven like hearing a person on the other end of phone line. We "hear" God's voice in gentle nudges of our spirits. We "hear" God through feelings and intuitions. We "hear" God through the voice of other believers.
Like Matt having to text or borrow a phone to talk to me, sometime in our prayer lives, we need to do something a little different in order to help us hear the voice of God. Pray at a different time or in a different place than usual. Try something new in prayer or journal.
Prayer is a conversation. This is what the Psalmist wants us to remember in Psalm 95:6-7. "O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker! For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. O that today you would listen to His voice!"
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The paradox of democracy is this: those who don't have it fight tooth and nail to get it while those who have it watch football.
I realize this statement is hyperbolic, but I wanted to make a point. On President's Day, I began thinking about the tremendous impact political freedom has on our lives, and I realized that this thought may not have occurred to many of my compatriots. President's Day is a time to honor the achievements of our most distinguished citizens, but it is also a time to celebrate the democratic process that wrote these men into our collective history. We live in a country that embraces civic engagement. We have the right to vote. We have the right to assemble in protest of our government. We have the right to write and say what we want, regardless of political affiliation. While these freedoms are rights guaranteed by our Constitution, we need to think of them as privileges too often taken for granted.
Less than two thirds of eligible voters cast ballots in the 2008 presidential election. Fewer of us write letters to our representatives or even to the editors our local newspapers. Democracy may be alive and well in this country, but it is only alive for the people who choose to participate.
As a teacher, I would be remiss if I didn't teach my students that their voices matter. An education is a powerful thing to waste on apathy and disillusionment. What good is having an informed opinion it if it is never expressed? While many of my students will not be able to vote in this next election, there is nothing preventing them from engaging in political discourse right now. In the age of blogging and Facebook and Twitter, we all have a presence online. Why not use that presence to effect positive change? Instead of tweeting about what we had for breakfast, why don't we tweet about what really matters to us?
Because the best way to teach citizenship is to do citizenship, I am inviting my students and your students across the country to write letters to President Obama about the issues they care most about. On March 15 students will engage in a national day of civic action by posting their letters to a website I have created called Dear Mr. President. Mailing letters to the White House is an option, but students have a better chance of winning an audience by publishing their views online. Furthermore, they can use social media to send letters out to their social network. Who knows? If we get enough people to participate, they just might get a response from the White House. What could send the message that democracy works more powerfully than a word from the president himself?
Please visit Dear Mr. President at www.dmpstudent.blogspot.com for more information on how to participate. For updates on the letter-writing campaign and links to published student letters, follow @DMPStudent on Twitter. To help spread the word about the project, tag your tweets with #dearmrpresident and #studentvoice.
Thank you for your dedication to creating powerful authentic learning experiences for students.
Kelly Dillon is a high school English teacher in Saint Louis, Missouri.


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Brief Summary of PAS history in Sonoma:
First Year of Sonoma (1998):
KD founds PAS by placing PAS hq1 (a large smithy) in a small valley west of Chaos shrine in April 1998.
PAS becomes a charter and founding member of the Sonoma Alliance (SA) in May 1998. This alliance was formed so good guilds could cooperate together to help other players, and to "Fight evil, in whatever form that may take". SA started with 8 guilds, and peaked a year later with 24 guilds in it, including 9 of the top 10 guilds in size in Sonoma.
The first SA Council meeting was held at the YMCA in Yew, and this helped in a small way to get the YMCA to be "blessed" by the gms soon thereafter.
SAS (Saints against Sinners) were one of the biggest evils of the land, and mortal enemies of PAS.
SA guilds formed the first of Sonomas shard wars, where multiple guilds fought on opposite sides.
PAS hits 50 members, and continues to grow, hitting the top 5 in guild size by year end.
The Insane Army of Sonoma (IAS) was born, as an alt stone for evil rping PAS. The first IAS-PAS fights in PAS Valley at hq1 begin.
Second Year of Sonoma (1999):
PAS and SA field 75 players to battle the evil UO gms in the Battle of Trinsic. Sonoma was the first shard to defeat the UO gms of Trinsic, thanks to unprecedented cooperation among Sonoma players. The Battle of Trinsic had the largest ingame battle ever witnessed. 75 good players ran smack into 20 red players patrolling Trinsic. In a short battle, no blues died, 7 red died, and the rest recalled away. The lag was incredible.
PAS fought in a shard war with 9 other guilds (PAS plus 3 guilds vs. 5 other guilds).
PAS-IAS fights now get more popular, and more common, as more PAS add IAS alts to that stone.
SAS were still around, causing problems at any public event in Sonoma, targeting the YMCA and other "public" facilities.
PAS becomes the #1 guild in Sonoma in size of vets. While a very misleading stat, since most guilds allowed their members to add multiple chars for each player to their stone, inflating their numbers, PAS limited our members to one char in PAS, and other chars went to the alt stones that we began to use more frequently. We were forced to spread out our characters among multiple guild stones due to a bug in Sonoma guild stones. Once we had 175 characters on the stone, the system chose a random gm for the guild. We ended up bringing everyone to the guild stone and kept adding members until someone present was the gm. Then that person deleted 8-10 characters from the stone, until it randomly chose another gm. We had to repeat this process for 45 minutes until we had control back on the stone. Ems said they were aware of the issue but did not have a fix yet. So we created several other guilds for our alt characters (for example, our crafters all went to PAC (PAS Crafters). The guild stone bug only went away when guild stones were removed from the game with a new guild system that did not require a placement of an actual guild stone ingame to access options).
PAS joined the "evil" side of the Followers of Armageddon (FOA) scenario that UO ran. The scenario had the FOA as a group of traitors that Lord British wanted dead. Of course, as Lord British was the traitor to KD and the people of Sonoma (in the KD story), it made perfect sense to join that side. Our logic was maybe LB feared that the armageddon spell that the FOA were working on might counteract his spell over the people of Sonoma that made them forget who KD and PAS were.
PAS was in two battles in the FOA scenario, and both times FOA "won" the event. This caused some panic on the part of the UO gms, as that side was not supposed to win. KD was summoned to discuss negotiating having PAS drop from the FOA side, as we were seen as "ruining the balance". Soon thereafter the scenario ended in Sonoma.
UO Renaissance was launched, adding trammel as a second facet option to felluca. There was much rejoicing from good players, and much whining and crying from pks. Their easy targets (miners and lumberjacks) immediately moved to the red-free facet.
SA begins a dormant stage soon after tram was born, as most good players left fel and went to tram to live their UO days.
PAS members go to other shards with various themes like "bob invasion" where we all created chars named Bob, and went to a place in fel to charge road taxes for other players. It was all for fun, and it was amazing to see 30 Bobs jump one player, who was able to kill a Bob every second with one blow.
Third Year of Sonoma (2000)
UO launches the Third Dawn, adding Papua and Delucia and the Lost lands to UO as another facet option.
PAS does the first Auburn Quest, where we rp that PAS seeks out pieces of an old manuscript that purportedly predicted the future of Sonoma. PAS wanted to find the portion that told what Lord British did to make everyone forget about PAS and KD, with hopes of finding an antidote to the spell.
PAS participates in another shard war, this time against Arcadian First and their allies.
The SA officially goes dormant, as the need for protecting good players in fel no longer exists, as most good players left fel for tram.
The Red Monkey Horde (RMH) is born. This alt PAS stone is for red noob archers that tame gorillas, and go find players to fight in fel. The group can only loot hats and bananas, and never tries to hurt people that don't really want to fight (miners etc). it's a fun rping evil group that gives good guys a fun target to play against. And since the RMH was always in stat loss, they could never be very good archers, so they did very little real damage.
PAS peaks with 130 members, and the guild goes to 3 events per night for most of the year. While it allowed many more types of events to be done per week, it wore out a lot of PAS, so PAS scaled back to one event per night by year end. PAS had expanded so fast that we had 90 recruits and 130 members at one time, and it became impossible to monitor the recruits. So 9 recruits were added to the PAS stone, the rest were booted and PAS implemented a recruit stone (PAR) for the first time.
IAS goes dormant for a period of time, as PAS members find other events to take part in for pvp.
PAS forms the Cross Shard Alliance (CSA) with 7 other guilds on various shards.
PAS hosts the first cross shard pirate event, where our CSA allies came from other shards (primarily Nappa) to roleplay as pirates at Bucs Den (20 cross shard players in all). PAS provides their newly created pirate named characters with cutlasses, skullcaps, and other pirate style clothing, as well as gm made purple potions. PAS also provided the pirates with 3 chests, full of gold. The roleplay is the pirates went to Buc's Den to bury their treasure, and ran into 20 red characters there. A fight ensued, and tons of purple potions flew in all directions. The pirates were able to kill several red characters (much to their dismay), before the reds finished off the pirates and ran off with their gold. Everyone had a blast.
UO adds power hour to the game, where players gain skills fastest during that hour.
Fourth Year of Sonoma (2001):
The Temple of Mondain (ToM), friends of KD, come to Sonoma from Great Lakes, and provide the enemy forces against PAS in a series of rp battles ingame.
PAS adds a potion cabin at Occlo fel, filled with kegs. PAS members can be friended there and refill their potions for free.
RMH is disbanded.
UO tweaks power hour for players (which is soon removed with a new skill gain formula).
PAS adds Dungeon Protectors (DP) to the Enemies of the People list. DP "rpd" that they owned the dungeons, which was creative and positive, until they began using tactics like luring creatures to kill others (a bannable offense in tram, and certainly a very unethical practice).
PAS does the first of its Gold Caravan series, where we loaded defenseless packies with 200k gold each week, advertised where in fel we would start and end, and our route, and time, etc, and then we would try to get the packies safely to the destination.
PAS participates in the last shard war held in Sonoma, with Golgotha on the evil side.
ToM moves to Siege.
PAS first adds Thraximus Zog to the Enemies of the People list. This player has scammed so many others in Sonoma that it was time for PAS to step up and provide some justice for those players he scammed. Thraximus never amounted to more than a very small nuisance, but PAS took every opportunity to kill him ingame whenever he showed himself in public.
PAS does another series of Gold Caravans as the year came to a close.
Fifth Year of Sonoma (2002):
PAS does the last of its Gold Caravans.
PAS begins awarding Medals for each of the virtues, each named after a retired PAS Elder that exhibited those traits ingame in past years.
Arcturus of PAS opens his vendor house for other PAS vendors, the first time PAS has a house designated just for vendors.
PAS adds Karena as the Territorial Marshall for fel, appointed by KD, and she in turn appoints several Sonoma Rangers, each with the ability to swear in deputies to help them fight reds in fel.
PAS Rangers begin anti pk patrols in fel.
KD steps down as PAS gm on the fifth anniversary of PAS, to play the game more with his PAS characters. PAS chooses Grey Wolf as the next gm for PAS.
Sixth Year of Sonoma (2003):
UO adds Champ Spawns to fel dungeons for the first time, and power scrolls are born that can now take players to max skills above 100 for the first time.
Grey Wolf steps down as PAS gm, and PAS chooses Almond Joy to be the third ever PAS gm.
Moonglow is invaded.
UO launches Age of Shadows, and paladins and necromancers are born, along with Malas, a new facet. Doom gauntlet provides a "champ spawn in a can" that players can trigger on their own at any time.
KD and Mountain Dew stay up for 6 hours during the horrible lag of the land rush to place houses in the new lands of Malas. They are able to place 8 of the largets houses, and over the next week, those are transferred to PAS players that were never able to login due to the lag of the land rush.
The Sonoma Rangers ends its rp.
PAS Bagball is born, as players can create custom houses now. It's the first ever indoor Bagball Arena, and doubles as the PAS vendor house in Malas.
UO adds minor artifacts to Ilshenar, and paragon creatures. New items and colored chests are added as well.
PAS adds a vendor rune library to Bagball, so players can recall to 130 vendors from one location. The vendors are sorted by quality, making shopping easier.
Bubbles and Slim mark runes for all treasure map spots in tram, and PAS adds it to the house next to Bagball, and makes it available to all players.
Carmen finishes work on a rune library for PAS, but then leaves UO, donating the rune library to KD. It is placed at the house next to bagball, which now acts as the PAS potion house, tmap rune library, and rune library.
Seventh Year of Sonoma (2004):
UO launches Samurai Empire, bringing Ninjas and Samurais, and new creatures, along with a new facet, Tokuna Islands.
PAS Ninja stone is born (PAN).
Paragon creatures are added to Ilshenar by UO. All monsters can now spawn as paragon versions with much higher stats and skills, and they potentially drop chests with the name of the creature on them, becoming a mini-collectible item for some players.
UO adds 7th anniversary items and a sixth char slot for UO.
PAS makes many ventures to Tokuna to explore the Champ Spawn there and the other creatures.
AJ steps down as the PAS gm, and KD returns to lead the guild as the gm.
UO invades Britain fel and tram with monster spawns in quantities never seen before, soon overrunning both towns.
UO adds minor artifacts to Tokuna for two months, "never to spawn again." (note that they did return to spawn again in a future publish)
Eighth Year of Sonoma (2005):
UO launches Mondain's Legacy, which brings Elves to UO.
Features of Mondain's Legacy:
New Race: Elves, with Racial Abilities added for both races.
New Quest System - Hundreds of quests
New Community Collections - Turn in items for new rewards.
Crafting: Ingredients for Recipes to craft dozens of new items.
New Skill: Spellweaving
New City: Heartwood
New Special Moves: Bladeweave, Force Arrow, Lightning Arrow, Psychic Attack, Serpent Arrow, Force of Nature
New Dungeons: Bedlam, Blighted Grove, Labyrinth, Painted Caves, Palace of Paroxysmus, Prism of Light, and The Citadel
Peerless Bosses: Extremely tough monsters giving valuable loot
Housing: New Elven House Tile Sets, 20% Increased Storage, Aquariums, and Parrots
PAS adds dungeon romps to the new dungeons to the event calendar. The goal in the dungeons is to bring about the Peerless Bosses at the end of each trip.
UO adds an invasion of Britain, which becomes one of the most difficult invasions to fight. In the end, PAS led Sonoma to the following number of defeats of the invading hordes (each shard is listed, PAS participated in every one of the 25 wins that Sonoma was credited with):
Napa Valley 26
Sonoma 25
Chesapeake 24
Lake Superior 20
Great Lakes 20
Atlantic 19
Pacific 12
Catskills 11
Baja 10
Ninth year of Sonoma (2006)
PAS begins running public auctions. The 2% fee of the winning bids goes to PAS and helps us pass along more gold and items to PAS members during our events.
PAS loses Mastica, who passes away in RL.
A small group of unhappy PAS leave the guild and form a new guild, MOFO (My Own Friends Online). In retrospect, this was a very good split for PAS. We don't want players to feel they need to stay in PAS if they are unhappy. PAS was not a good fit for these folks, and unhappy players in a guild tend to look for ways to create more and more problems (drama). We stayed on decent terms with a few of MOFO, but most we never heard from again. MOFO's numbers faded away over the next 1-2 years.
The best side effect to losing some PAS to the new MOFO guild was the loss of their leader, Aramus. PAS had just proven that Aramus was stealing the elite drops from peerless hunts (he was typically chosen to loot the corpse for PAS), and was about to confront him about the thefts. Fortunately, Aramus left and took some folks with him to form MOFO. A few months later, Aramus sold the MOFO Luna house account, loaded with most of their loot from doing champ spawns and peerless events. We never saw Aramus again ingame.
Updated list of PAS-KVP stone alliance guilds includes PAS, KVP, KMG, THB, PAC.
Tenth year of Sonoma (2007)
A small group of unhappy PAS leave the guild and form a new guild, SM (Sonoma Mafia). This also ended up being a very good split for PAS, similar to the earlier MOFO split. We stayed on decent terms with a few SM, but never saw the rest again. SM's numbers faded away over the next 1-2 years.
ArS and {DT} added to PAS-KVP stone alliance.
Mother Lode event allows players to gain skills faster (.2 to .5 per gain rather than .1) when they were near blackrock in the Lost Lands.
UO announces that the 3d client will no longer be available, to be replaced by the Enhanced Client. The Classis client will remain an option for UO players.
Destruction of Old Haven and creation of New Haven occurs ingame.
PAS Museum opens, with a large number of unique items from the history of UO on Sonoma.
UO sends invading monsters into Magincia. PAS sends troops to battle the invaders on a regular basis.
UO launches Kingdom Reborn.
New Interface.
Everything about the interface has been rebuilt and redesigned to make UO easier to play. Fewer clicks and actions to get things done are a high priority for the development team.
Players will have a new page in a Paperdoll which allows them to view all item properties affecting their character.
Clothing and armor will be separate pages on the paperdoll.
Containers will work with lists and slots to make organization easier. A classic interface option is being considered for implementation also.
Hot bars will replace loose spell and skill icons. Drop in the actions you want to preform. Up to 5 hot bars are currently allowed. Potions can be added to the hot bar.
Skinning the client may be possible, but is not definite.
Targeting is described to be a "whirly 3D effect".
A loot all button for corpses was mentioned as a possibility.
Speech text will now be activated by pressing the Enter key first.
Revamped housing placement and design tool
Eleventh year of Sonoma (2008)
PAS sets up an account with UOStock.com, where PAS members can enter the guild account code, and PAS will get 5% of the money spent at UOStock.com. This credit allows PAS to purchase even more gold and special items to use for guild events.
Spring Cleaning 2008 takes place, where players can turn in items for points that are then used to purchase some new items ingame.
Scrolls of transcendence added to fel champ spawns (giving immediate skill gains for using the scroll).
Twelfth year of Sonoma (2009)
FOXX is added to PAS-KVP stone alliance.
KD steps down as the PAS gm and Tarie is the new gm for PAS.
Treasures of Tokuno is reactivated ingame.
Warriors of Destiny event leads to the invasion and destruction of the town of Magincia.
UO adds the Enhanced Client for UO.
UO launches Stygian Abyss
New Skills
Imbuing - A new crafting skill that allows players to manage the properties added on a crafted weapon or armor piece. This will also include the ability to harvest magical properties from existing items.
Mysticism - A Gargoyle form of spellcasting complete with its own set of spells.
Throwing - A new ranged weapon skill utilizing throwing weapons and consumes no ammunition. Can only be learned by Gargoyles.
New Features
Basket weaving - A new sub-skill that allows tinkers to create colored baskets.
Staining - A new system that allows gardeners, cooks, and alchemists to turn player-grown plants into special dyes.
Custom Carpets - Complete a quest to gain access to a carpet vendor.
Battle Chicken Breeding - Raise the perfect chicken and send them into battle.
Snake Charming - Using specially made instruments, command serpents to do your bidding.
Pet Resurrection Changes - NPCs can now raise dead pets for a fee.
Stabling Slots - 2 additional stabling slots for every character on an upgraded account.
Scroll Binder - Combine power, stat and transcendence scrolls into more powerful ones.
Gargoyle Architecture - Nine new housing tile sets showing off the style of Gargoyles.
New Areas
Ter Mur - The Gargoyle homeland. Players will be able to place Houses in this area.
Stygian Abyss Dungeon - The largest and most intricate added to date. Based off the one seen in Ultima Underworld, the entrance is found on Fire Island on both facets. Creatures found inside include the Medusa, Primeval Lich and the Stygian Dragon. There will also be non-consensual PVP combat areas inside the abyss.
Underworld - The staircase to Stygian Abyss Dungeon is found here. A quest must be completed in this area of goblins and undead to pass into Stygian Abyss Dungeon
Thirteenth year of Sonoma (2010)
KD does the first "Who wants to be a millionaire? 1.0" in June 2010. PAS members list items that are on vendors on Atlantic they want, up to a cost of one million gold, and PAS buys them and returns to Sonoma to give them the items.
KD does "Who wants to be a millionaire? 2.0" in December 2010, and decides to make this an annual Christmas event for PAS.
UO randomizes treasure chest locations and adds new loot.
Scrolls of alacrity are added to treasure chests. These grant a 15 minute period where each skill gain gives the player from .2 to .5 gain, rather than the normal .1 gain (like the old blackrock ingame event).
Bard mastery systems introduced.
UO launches high Seas expansion
New Ships
A new class of ship, the Galleon, which comes in three varieties:
Orcish Galleon - 3 cannons per side
Gargish Galleon - 3 cannons per side
Tokuno Galleon - 2 cannons per side, faster speed than other ships
Britannian Ship - 4 cannons per side, 2x 1 tile house add-on placements, slowest boat out of all
Boss Encounters
Corgul the Soulbinder
Scalis Enforcer
Also added was the Pirate bounty quest system, and major changes to fishing.
PAS loses Ariel Joy, RL wife of Tarie, as she passes away in RL.
Tarie steps down and Chalnoth becomes the gm for PAS.
Fourteenth year of Sonoma (2011)
KD does "Who wants to be a millionaire? 3.0"
Magincia housing lottery takes place for the limited slots for housing in New Magincia. 4 PAS are fortunate to win those lotteries and place houses in new Magincia.
PAS loses Mystique/Sky, as she passes away in RL.
Spring cleaning 2011 returns to stay as a continuing opportunity to trade in items for new items ingame.
Gothic and rustic theme packs are added to UO.
Chalnoth hosts the first PAS Super Bowl Super Roll party, held throughout the Super Bowl game. It includes trivia questions related to pro football, among other activities. This event quickly becomes a favorite for PAS members each year.
Fifteenth year of Sonoma (2012)
Chalnoth hosts Super Bowl Super Roll II.
KD does "Who wants to be a millionaire? 4.0"
UO makes changes to dungeons Covetous, Wrong, and Despise.
Sixteenth year of Sonoma (2013)
UO adds the ability for players to run for Mayor of several UO towns, and elections are held. Several PAS are elected as Mayors. PAS also helps several other friends of PAS members win elections on other shards.
King's collection theme pack added to UO.
OSG is added to the PAS-KVP stone alliance.
KD does "Who wants to be a millionaire? 5.0"
Chalnoth hosts Super Bowl Super Roll III.
Seventeenth year of Sonoma (2014)
Chalnoth hosts Super Bowl Super Roll IV.
Chalnoth steps down as PAS gm, and KD returns as the PAS gm.
PAS loses Bael, who passes away in RL.
UO announces upcoming changes to the UI (user interface), and that they will work with Pinco on the new UI for the enhanced client.
EA announces that Broadsword has made an investment in UO, and will be taking the lead on UO now.
New PAS Sonoma Public Ventrilo Server opens July 2014 (free to any UO Sonoma players to use, with the hope of encouraging more participation in EM, PAS, and other Sonoma events).
Jax and others begin "Around the World" events where they used shard shields to take a character to many other shards, and back to Sonoma at the end (collecting items on the various shards that PAS members wanted to bring to Sonoma).
PAS opens a new Sonoma public Ventrilo server. The goal is to increase the enjoyment (by being able to talk to others while playing UO), and increasing participation in EM events, PAS shard events, and other events (since those events can limit communication when everything has to be typed ingame for players). PAS also encourages other Sonoma players to use the Ventrilo server.
PAS holds the 2014 Goober Olympics (10 silly events over 7 nights). Aidan won the gold medal and the title of Uber Goober for 2014, Malachai comes in second, and Ploy comes in third. Engraved pegasus statues were presented to the three medalists, and duplicate statues were placed in the PAS museum.
Eighteenth year of Sonoma (2015)
Nineteenth year of Sonoma (2016)
Twentieth year of Sonoma (2017)
Twenty first year of Sonoma (2018)
UO added "Endless Journey", where UO players could play the game for free, with a number of notable exceptions (such as no bank usage, no house placement). The hope is that new players would enjoy playing on "Endless Journey" accounts so much that they would upgrade to fully paid accounts.
After major changes to Doom Gauntlet, which made defeating the Dark Fathers there almost impossible, PAS takes down 4 dark fathers on a 50 minute event.
PAS gm history:
KD 1998-2002 (4 years)
Grey Wolf 2002-2003 (1 year)
Almond Joy 2003-2004 (1 year)
KD 2004-2009 (5 years)
Tarie 2009-2010 (1 year)
Chalnoth 2010-2014 (4 years)
Chalnoth 2015-2017
Brig din Em 2017
KD 2017-present


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