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Jumpers Show Depth in Ramsau
RAMSAU, Austria (Dec. 14) - U.S. ski jumpers continued to show increasing depth with five women in the top 12 at a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Ramsau. Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) led the way in fourth with Jessica Jerome (Park City, UT) fifth - both season best results. Defending World Cup champion Sarah Hendrickson (Park City, UT) was seventh and stands third in the overall World Cup standings. Japan's Sara Takanashi won over France's Coline Mattel. The women's World Cup now takes a holiday break before resuming in Schonach, Germany in January.
- Lindsey Van and Jessica Jerome (both Park City, UT) were fourth and fifth to lead five U.S. women into the top 12 at a FIS Ski Jumping World Cup in Ramsau.
- Defending World Cup champion Sarah Hendrickson (Park City, UT) was seventh and stands third in the overall World Cup.
- Abby Hughes (Park City, UT) was 11th and Alissa Johnson (Park City, UT), who led qualifying on Thursday, was a career best 12th.
- Van had the long ride of the day for the U.S. women with an 89.5 meter effort on her second jump.
- Johnson and Jerome had especially strong performances in qualifying on Thursday, finishing one-two.
- The tour takes a break until resuming in January at Schonach, Germany
Lindsey Van
Of course I'd love to be on the podium, but I am happy with my results. I had three really short jumps in a row in training — I've really been off balance in the in-run. During the comp today I tried to focus on the basics and make it as simple as possible and tried not to over think it. I literally told myself to stand-up at the take off. My body knows what to do better than my mind.
It's pretty amazing and we have great depth and we work really well and feed off each other. It was a hard comp and we have a lot of experience on the team to get through that.
Jessica Jerome
I had really good training on the hill here before Sochi and good training yesterday and so I knew I could do well. That's my best result so far this season and it was night and day from last week. I'm really excited.
I do like the hill. Conditions were a little tough with a lot of tailwind. The American girls have more advantage with tail wind because it feels a lot like how we jump in Park City because of the higher elevation. We know how to handle those conditions better than other jumpers on the tour.
It's so amazing and I'm so psyched for all the girls on our team. No other team to has come close to doing that right now. We do better when we're all closer as a team. We have a good dynamic off-hill and we have a lot of fun and we know each other pretty well. All that translates to good results on the hill.
Paolo Benardi, Head World Cup Coach, Women's Ski Jumping USA
Having five athletes in the top 12 is a really big deal. The other coaches told me yesterday (Thursday) how impressed they were with the team. For me, it's not about the quality of just one athlete, it's the team that makes us strong. We are definitely the strongest team right now.
Last week we trained here a couple days to test the jump because it's a little different and hard to understand. Our strategy has been to relax a little so we could be mentally ready. It was a tough-fought competition with some tough conditions. We had no special secret, just wanted to have a good mindset and rest because we have been spending a lot of time in the van, on the plane and on boats traveling.
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DETROIT -- She started out as a Diva, but Christy Hemme hopes to soon be known as a wrestler.
Hemme awaits the introduction of a full-time women's division in TNA. If it comes, she will be ready.
Since leaving the WWE, Hemme has been training to wrestle as much as she can from the Inoki Dojo in California to Canada with Scott D'Amore. TNA's limited women's roster has left her looking to train elsewhere. Something she has little problem with.
"I have been spending a lot of time training," Hemme told SLAM! Wrestling at the Bound For Glory pay-per-view. "My schedule has me flying all over, but it has also taught me a lot of different styles."
What makes this training different than WWE's training?
"I was on television and training at the same time," Hemme said. "It was difficult, as I still had a lot to learn, yet was wrestling on television on a weekly basis."
She does not want to take a shortcut this time around. "TNA is giving me time to train and learn the skills to wrestle. They do not want to put someone on television that is not ready."
Hemme was introduced to wrestling when she won WWE's Diva Search in September 2004. She was on television, wrestling, just weeks later. Many of her matches were with women who were trained as little as she was.
WWE's wanted to keep Hemme fresh on the minds of the fans. So instead of taking her off television to train, Hemme was quickly thrown into matches with Diva Search runner-up, Carmella DeCesare. By April 2005, Hemme was in the WWE Women's title match at Wrestlemania 21 (losing to champion Trish Stratus).
The WWE look at Hemme's popularity by her looks, DVD sales and her April 2005 Playboy spread. She knew she wasn't polished in the ring, but it wasn't a priority for WWE's women's division.
"Everything went by so quickly."
Although it seemed Hemme was exactly what the WWE wanted, she wanted something different. She wanted to wrestle. She did not want to be known as the girl who modeled and won a contest to gain a job with the WWE. Hemme wanted the fans to respect her skills as a good wrestler.
Her time was with the WWE was cut short when she was unexpectedly released in December 2005. Following her release, she posted the following message on her web site:
"I was willing to put my personal life aside to give everything I had to what I was doing and become better wrestler and performer. Everything happens for a reason and anything that has happened in my life that has knocked me down has only built me back up stronger. I feel stronger than ever and I am hungry for this huge future before me..."
After doing some side projects, including the 2006 Lingerie Bowl, she signed with TNA in April 2006.
Hemme saw immediate differences between the two romotions. "TNA has a different view of women. I feel more comfortable in that aspect (over the WWE). The women's division isn't ready, and that is why there is a limited roster of women with TNA. But I am training and the future will be open for me."
"We are growing," said Steven Godfrey of TNA public relations. "We have very limited television time now but as we grow, we believe so will the women's division."
The TNA women's division has always been a growing debate among the fans. Often told by those within TNA that it will be coming 'soon' but as years passed, nothing has resulted.
"We have one hour of television a week," Godfrey said, "Its hard getting those on there now the time to develop their characters. It would be even harder if we introduced a new division."
Hemme isn't complaining. "TNA is a great company, growing and I will be there when it happens."
Hemme will be making a long flight for the "Queens of Chaos 2" tournament in France on November 12. The tournament will feature women wrestlers from all over the world. This will give her a true test to see if her new training has been successful.

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2010 All-WCC First Team
College Soccer News (CSN) National Player of the Week (11/7/10)
WCC Player of the Week (11/1/10)
Marquette Invitational All-Tournament Team (9/12/10)
2009 All-WCC Second Team
2009 WCC All-Freshman Team
SOPHOMORE (2010): Established himself as one of the best forwards in college soccer while helping SCU win the 2010 WCC Championship ... drew national praise from College Soccer News (CSN) as their 'National Player of the Week' (Nov. 7) ... named to the All-WCC First Team ... also earned WCC Player of the Week honors (Nov. 1) ... led the team with 39 shots and 16 on goal ... also led the team in points (14) and tied for the team-lead in goals (5), assists (4) and game-winners (2) ... had at least one shot in all 18 games he appeared in ... had a season-high five shots in consecutive early-season games against California (Sept. 16) and Stanford (Sept. 19) ... scored his first goal of the year against California (Sept. 16) - one of three unassisted goals of the year, also team-best ... scored and assisted in a 3-1 win over Gonzaga (Oct. 1), during a 12-game Bronco unbeaten streak from Sept. 19 through Nov. 5) ... recorded four shots at Portland (Oct. 3) ... scored two goals in a 2-1 SCU win over San Diego (Oct. 29) ... had at least one point in four of the last five matches of the year to help the Broncos win the league title, including scoring the game-winner vs. St. Mary's (Nov. 5) and assisting against Gonzaga (Nov. 14) ... played 80 minutes in SCU's NCAA tournament match at Sacramento State (Nov. 18).
FRESHMAN (2009): Outstanding first-year collegiate forward... led Santa Clara in virtually every offensive category including goals (7), points (16) and shots (42) ...netted three game-winners ...honored as an All-WCC Second Team player and also earned a spot on the All-WCC Freshman Team ... played in 19 of SCU's 20 matches, starting nine ... brilliant unassisted goal in the 76th minute against Sacramento State (Sep. 13) allowed SCU a 1-0 victory ... split the middle-defense en route to scoring in the first half at No. 7 Cal (Sep. 20) ... credited with an assist on teammate's Rodrigo Da Silva's tying goal midway through the second half at Portland (Nov. 1) ... netted the game-winner over USF (Nov. 6) under the lights of Buck Shaw Stadium in a match televised live on the Fox Soccer Channel as the NSCAA's 'Game of the Week' ... scored in the 86th minute to force overtime at St. Mary's (Oct. 25).
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Westview High School in Beaverton, Ore. ... lead the Wildcats to two straight league championships in 2007 and '08 ... team was state finalists in 2008 ... named Oregon Class 6A and Metro League Player of the Year in 2007 and '08 ... also named first-team all-state in 2007 and '08 ... was a first-team All-American in 2008 by ESPN RISE ... played with the Westside Metros club team, which was the 2007 and '08 State Champions, Regional finalists in 2007 and Regional semifinalists in 2008 ... team's leading goal scorer in both seasons ... played a couple of friendlies in South America with the U.S. U-18 National team.
PERSONAL: Born in Fredericksburg, Va. ... parents are Geovanni and Nicole Hurtado ... has two younger siblings Kohl and Morgan.
Points…4…at San Diego 10/29/10
Goals…2…at San Diego 10/29/10
Assists…1…6x, vs. Gonzaga 11/14/10
Shots…5…2x, at Stanford 9/19/10
Shots on Goal…4…at Portland 10/3/10


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Dancefight is not an inherent ability, but something that must be learnt. But because that means to admit that they are not perfect, most royals don't bother to learn. Stanley, Wanda, Vinny, Charley or Jillian don't have such sentiments. This willingness to improve themselves is also a prerequisite to attune to an arkentool.

Dancefight is not an inherent ability, but something that must be learnt. But because that means to admit that they are not perfect, most royals don't bother to learn. Stanley, Wanda, Vinny, Charley or Jillian don't have such sentiments. This willingness to improve themselves is also a prerequisite to attune to an arkentool.

Stanley put effort into learning dancefight when he was infantry and was so successful that he was promoted to warlord.
Stanley put effort into learning dancefight when he was infantry and was so successful that he was promoted to warlord.
'''Unusual exuberance, you mean.''' Wanda learned to dance-fight in Faq. But because there was no fighting before Jillian, and Faq was such a bubble kingdom, there was only one dance they learned... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6M8D41ZWU The YATTA! Dance.] (Warning: The link should not be watched by the weak of stomach, or in the act of drinking.)--[[User:BarGamer|BarGamer]] 21:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
'''Unusual exuberance, you mean.''' Wanda learned to dance-fight in Faq. But because there was no fighting before Jillian, and Faq was such a bubble kingdom, there was only one dance they learned... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6M8D41ZWU The YATTA! Dance.] (Warning: The link should not be watched by the weak of stomach, or in the act of drinking.)--[[User:BarGamer|BarGamer]] 21:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
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Unfortunately Jillian was naughty and ignored an order to come home in the right time, thus condeming Faq and the predictamancer to obliteration. The arkenhammer felt that, became bored and choose Stanley as its wielder. --[[User:Welf von Ehrwald|Welf von Ehrwald]] 16:32, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Unfortunately Jillian was naughty and ignored an order to come home in the right time, thus condeming Faq and the predictamancer to obliteration. The arkenhammer felt that, became bored and choose Stanley as its wielder. --[[User:Welf von Ehrwald|Welf von Ehrwald]] 16:32, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
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- 1 Serious
- 1.1 Dancefight is a sign of unusual ambition
- 1.2 Decrypted and Upkeep
- 1.3 Perpetual Warfare is not natural to Erfworld
- 1.4 Charlie is not a Thinkamancer
- 1.5 Missing Gobwins
- 1.6 Parson's Bonuses
- 1.7 Portals Don't Kill People
- 1.8 Parson is a Date-a-Mancer
- 2 Silly
- 2.1 Bad Acid
- 2.2 Rejected Uncroaked Ansom
- 2.3 Jillian and Stanley screwed up with fate
- 2.4 Parson will escape to the Magic Kingdom
- 2.5 Charlie is behind everything
- 2.6 Parson really IS an eldritch abomination
- 2.7 Sizemore will rule the world
- 2.8 Missing Gobwins... the remaining 8%
- 2.9 Master of Guile
- 2.10 What the Boop is an Erfworlder, Anyway?
- 2.11 The only possible outcome
- 2.12 Bogroll's not dead, he's just hiding!
- 2.13 Stanley's really a Tool
- 2.14 Keeping Up With the Janises
- 2.15 Not the First Time
- 2.16 Charlie is a Fallen Titan
- 2.17 All of Parson's Players from StupidWorld are represented in the Game
Dancefight is a sign of unusual ambition
Dancefight is not an inherent ability, but something that must be learnt. But because that means to admit that they are not perfect, most royals don't bother to learn. Stanley, Wanda, Vinny, Charley or Jillian don't have such sentiments. This willingness to improve themselves is also a prerequisite to attune to an arkentool.
Stanley put effort into learning dancefight when he was infantry and was so successful that he was promoted to warlord.
- Ansom knows how to Dancefight (or, rather, Dance, Dance, Revolution! Fight) and was unable to attune to the Arkenpliers. I don't think dancefighting shows a "willingness to improve oneself" that distinguishes those who can attune from those who cannot.--Wrecan 21:10, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
- No, Dance, Dance, Revolution!-Fighting does not require the same willingness to improve oneself. Ansom was not able to lead his troops in dance-fighting until he was guided by the Archons. Typical for a noble, he found a shortcut to doing something that would otherwise require a willingness to learn and a commitment to practice. -- Yehonatan 19:34, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Unusual exuberance, you mean. Wanda learned to dance-fight in Faq. But because there was no fighting before Jillian, and Faq was such a bubble kingdom, there was only one dance they learned... The YATTA! Dance. (Warning: The link should not be watched by the weak of stomach, or in the act of drinking.)--BarGamer 21:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Decrypted and Upkeep
Decrypted "steal" upkeep from their original side. Thus, Ansom has no upkeep. However, if Wanda decrypts a Gobwin Knob unit, it has normal upkeep. Only the wielder of the ArkenPliers can disband Decrypted, making a Decrypted unit part of an economic warfare initiative.--BarGamer 18:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- Since Lady Sylvia is still kicking around for Gobwin Knob, and the Uniroyal side was destroyed with Queen Bea, this seems unlikely. --No one in particular
Perpetual Warfare is not natural to Erfworld
Rather than the tabletop rpg setting of constant combat that we see today, Erfworld REALLY started off like a time/resource management simulator, and all the sides were supposed to be racing to see who could create the most profitable society in the least amount of time. Somewhere in the distant past, one side got ahead of itself and kept claiming more cities than it could pay for, and was in danger of going bankrupt (and thus "losing" according to the original game) when it stumbled upon a hack that could save it... attacking other sides. Other sides heard the idea and started to copy it in part or in whole, more sides were forced to join in simply for self-defense, and with all the focus on making it through the war, all resources were turned to making warriors. Tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of turns later, we are at the Erfworld of today... no one even remembers the world's original intent, or that there even was a time when warfare wasn't an option. The only ones who even have an inkling are the Hippiemancers, who dream of a world without conflict... and Charlie, who is only in it for the shmuckers. --No one in particular
- Maybe that's Charlie's true origin: he's the side that started the war?
- Hey, I didn't add that. Use your own name. :p --No one in particular 11:57, 30 October 2012 (EDT)
Alternate Types of Warfare
On the other hand, perhaps Erfworld was meant to be a testing ground for a different type of conflict. Instead of the straight Nation versus Nation conflict it currently is, or the economic arms race proposed previously, Erfworld was supposed to be about class warfare. Royals versus Commoners. The leadership bonus Royals get would have represented the claim to rule by birthright; faster leveling for education not available to commoners, and possibly a better diet. For balance, the Commoners were given a quicker pop-rate and the Arkentools. After all, of the three Tools seen, all have been attuned to non-royals. This would have been representative of the fact that although royalty leads, the commoners are the tool-users, the doers.
Considering that there's no birth in Erfworld and everyone is popped, that would make the Royals belief in their lineage-based divine mandate a... Populist movement? --No one in particular
Charlie is not a Thinkamancer
Charlie is, in fact, a moneymancer. All of his thinkamancy is provided by the Arkendish, rather than augmented and boosted by it. His single-minded pursuit of shmuckers is not just to pay for the upkeep for his Archons, but because they are the source of all his power instead of juice. All of this is, of course, a closely guarded secret. --No one in particular
- Or rather, it's a closely guarded secret that every real Thinkamancer already knows. We see from LIAB Text 38 that Charlie is not part of the "close-knit fraternity of Thinkamancers" --Miment
- In retrospect, thinking you could hide anything like that from the thinkamancers was a really, REALLY silly thing to think. To be fair though, I came up with it before the whole "Thinkamancy as CB radio" thing was mentioned. --No one in particular
- As of IPTSF Text 66, it's been confirmed that Charlie is not a Thinkamancer or a Moneymancer, but a Carnymancer. Ah, well, I was close. — No one in particular 14:31, 5 August 2013 (EDT)
- Or rather, it's a closely guarded secret that every real Thinkamancer already knows. We see from LIAB Text 38 that Charlie is not part of the "close-knit fraternity of Thinkamancers" --Miment
Missing Gobwins
Charlie is, of course, behind the lack of local gobwins. His plan? To deprive Gobwin Knob of a unit that is very useful in a specific type of fight. To whit, tunnel fighting. Once Gobwin Knob loses its decrypted gobwins, through general skirmishes or targeted attacks, Charlie is going to swoop in from the one direction no one would expect the lord of the flying units, the king of the mountain top, the peak of the corporate pyramid to come from... beneath.
Then again, from what we've heard of Charlie's Corollaries, nothing might be beneath him. --No one in particular
Parson's Bonuses
Parson may give low leadership bonuses directly, but being the metagamer he is, his bonuses reflect that. Which is to say, rather than a straight +X bonus to HITS or +Y to DEFENSE, Parson gives a *% to experience. Units under his command learn faster. Just look at Wanda asking her commanders for possible battle plans! Jack's idea of "catching us as we fall"! Maybe it's not EXPERIENCE specifically, maybe it's an invisible thinkamancer stat, but Parson isn't additive, he's all about multipliers. --No one in particular
Portals Don't Kill People
Casters do.
The Magic Kingdom is the most perfectly defended position on Erf, more so than Gobwin Knob, Faq, even CharlesComm. No one knows where it is. It's in the middle of an ocean, allowing for no surprise attacks even if someone did know. The only means of approach is through Portal Park, which is an enormous choke point and constantly filled with more stacks of casters than you could shake a wand at. And most importantly... it has a reputation. "Any non-caster who goes through a Portal croaks." The way it's phrased makes it sound like it's the Portal doing the killing, in the same way that falling from high enough will croak anyone. Just natural shockamancy, or something. This alone keeps almost every single unit from trying to pass through the Portals.
The truth of the matter is that the casters, who are always keeping an eye on the Portals, are quick to act.
Remember, warlords and casters can naturally see unit stats. Just by looking at someone, they instantly know if they're a fellow caster or not. If they are, they are welcomed to the Magic Kingdom, and shown every hospitality. If not... they are hit with so much magic, three Dirtamancers are needed to re-landscape the park.
... but not Hamsters
So why wasn't Parson blasted? Because his stats are invisible! None of the casters present could understand why they couldn't tell what he was, so they held him there, awaiting word from those in charge of the Kingdom. Janis lied when she claimed him as a Hippiemancer, but it was the only way to ensure he would survive to end war on Erf, since who would dare dispute the word of a Grand Abbie about recognizing a fellow Hippiemancer? Once the Sizemore-Wanda-Maggie link-up was broken though, it was discovered that Parson was a Chief Warlord as well, and opinion turned against him. When they wake Parson up to send him home, the casters of the Magic Kingdom seem more disgusted and angry, rather than frightened and confused, which would be the natural reaction to someone stumbling through your perfect defense and not dropping dead. Simply, they felt betrayed. --No one in particular
Parson is a Date-a-Mancer
Parson is not a signamancer, as has been previously put forth, but is actually a date-a-mancer. From what's been said of it, date-a-mancy is about looking at units, comparing them, and trying to understand the underlying numbers of every action. They are "useful in warfare and logistics."
Parson doesn't care what a unit looks like, but he sure cares about what it can DO. After all, in his spare time, he was with Jack running "What if X and Y fought?" scenarios, not designing new uniforms for the troops.
Any Signamancy Parson has been doing has been cross-class, much like Ace's rhyme-o-mancy or Wanda's Dollamancy. Parson shines not when he's dressing something up or interpreting what it stands for, but when he's presented with a situation, sees that it would end badly... then figuring out how to make it end better. --No one in particular
Bad Acid
Ashna spiked Parson's Peeps with some bad acid. Parson's Klog #1 was RIGHT, this IS all a bad hallucinatory dream, a modern-day 'Wizard of Oz' or the more apt 'Alice in Wonderland,' complete with political commentary and bad puns. The trouble is, Parson doesn't get to escape and come back again before Book 2 comes out, because his RL body overdosed on it, or perhaps his immune system is just that weak, and he's in a permanent coma. (Or however long Jamie and Rob can ride this GravyTrain. XD)--BarGamer 21:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Dreamscale time
To build on that, the entirety of book 1 might take place only within a few minutes of real time. Parson dreams very quickly.
Seems the other gamers also had some
One general problem with that theory is that the narrative regularly cuts away from Hamster, showing stuff he doesn't know about. For events within Erf, this could perhaps be explained away as the workings of his subconscious mental gamemaster; but in the last three panels of Erf-b1-p016, set entirely in Stupidworld, the gaming group witnesses and comments on Parson's disappearance.
Rejected Uncroaked Ansom
The authors have really let something slip, here. The Arkenplier's creature focus is not Uncroaked... But the entire Side of Transylvito, which Ansom clearly resembled with his glowing red eyes, black motif, and unhealthy-looking skin. In fact, that was one of the reasons why Vinny and, by association, Transylvito joined the Coalition: Even when not attuned, the bearer of the ArkenPliers can inspire feelings of Loyalty, Obedience, and Duty (LOaD) in Transylvito units. This is proved by Erf-b1-p042--BarGamer 21:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
I mean, Uncroaked are alright, but thinking, active Sides in your Alliance are something else, as proved by the Archon's similar LOaD to Charlie. In addition to being able to be popped like normal units, Transylvito units can also 'convert' others to their Side like Caesar Borgata threatened to do to Jillian in the last comic that he was featured in, by drinking the victim's blood, and making them drink Transylvito blood. If a unit is not Uncroaked, and another Transylvito unit is not nearby to assist in this, the ArkenPliers can do this directly by physically (Ansom's probable favored tactic)or Magically (Wanda's probable favored tactic) pulling on the victim's canines, making them longer.--BarGamer 21:18, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Jillian and Stanley screwed up with fate
It was destined to collect all the arkentools in Faq. Jillian was the supposed wielder of the arkenhammer, and Stanley no more than a tool to bring it to her. Later she was supposed to find the arkenpliers and bring them to Wanda. The arkendish was supposed to go to Jack. A fourth known arkentool was reserved for the unnamed predictamancer of Faq.
Unfortunately Jillian was naughty and ignored an order to come home in the right time, thus condeming Faq and the predictamancer to obliteration. The arkenhammer felt that, became bored and choose Stanley as its wielder. --Welf von Ehrwald 16:32, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
Parson will escape to the Magic Kingdom
And once there, he will form a new side! And they will be composed entirely of hippiemancers! And they will proudly embrace the tuber-like appearance of their leader! Parson and his new side will be called... the Baked Potatoes! Prince Tremennis may be allowed to join, but only if he asks nicely.--No one in particular
Charlie is behind everything
And I do mean EVERYTHING. Every time Jaclyn offered free advice about who was under spells? That was on Charlie's command. Her death at Gobwin's Knob, so as to be oh-so-conveniently unavailable for free consultations later? A clever ploy on Charlie's part for total deniability. And these are just the obvious ones! It goes SO. MUCH. DEEPER.
That extra gem that the marbits found? Charlie knocked it loose. The exorbitant price for the support plan for the "Summon Perfect Warlord" spell? Charlie named it. The idea for the coalition in the first place? Charlie and some of his unmatched thinkamancy at work. Stanley finding the Arkenhammer? Charlie set it up! Parson only being able to get a crappy job at Kinko's? Charlie was a reference on his resume! Jillian and her string of love interests? Charlie is her matchmaker! Bogroll making pigeon pie? Charlie gave him the recipe! And the greatest twist of all..? Charlie is actually none other than... Jack. That's right. The foolamancer has been playing the fool... and playing us ALL for fools. ---No one in particular
- Interesting... You know, that twist ending would work rather well with the theory that the Arkentools were to be collected in Faq Miment
Parson really IS an eldritch abomination
The Summon Perfect Warlord spell failed. Critically. When Wanda cast it, she came up all 1s. This allowed a monstrosity from some unfathomable, unbearable dimension to access Erfworld, where it inserted itself. Just to have some fun with it, the abomination took the form of some random schlub from another dimension, similar in shape to the people of Erfworld but unmistakably different. And I do mean took. It literally stole the form of the person, reducing them to nothingness. Every inconvenience "Parson" has put up with, from obeying Stanley's orders, to not swearing, to not being able to cross hexes or ride mounts... has been an act. "Parson" is not bound by any such limitations. He has just been acting, lulling people into false assumptions and toying with them, so that when he utterly crushes them it will be all the more amusing. In the end, "Parson" will break Erfworld just as Janis hopes... since she is, after all, the head cultist who engineered his summoning. Charlie... Charlie may either be the real hero, guardian of Erfworld, he may be a fellow abomination who doesn't care for another showing up in his backyard, he may simply be another "face" of the abomination that is "Parson"... or he might just be doomed along with everyone else.
So, in summary:
- The real Parson is dead.
- Erfworld is booped. There is NO hope.
- Janis used Flower Power to plant the seeds of destruction.
- The peeps shall inherit the Erf.
Personally, I welcome our new potato overlords. ---No one in particular
Sizemore will rule the world
Parson is going to have a brilliant idea, and round up all the yellow dwagons. Having them produce as much raw material as he can, he will then order Sizemore to start creating crap golems. For a while this will be all, and Gobwin Knob will have some fun with their new elite Acid Crap golems. But then... then either Parson or Sizemore will get bored and curious, and start experimenting. How small a golem can he make? Would tiny ones be good for spies and surveillance? After that, the obvious next step is... how big?
That's right.
Sizemore will conquer Erfworld, riding on the back of a giant, acid-crap Godzilla. ---No one in particular
Missing Gobwins... the remaining 8%
According to Parson's mathamantic guessing, Charlie is only 92% likely to be the agency behind the lack of Gobwins. So, what are the other possible agents?
- 2.3% - Wild dwagons are being attracted by Stanley's attuning to the Hammer, and one of the units they naturally prey on is... gobwins.
- 1.6% - The Marbits. With all the money they got while a part of the Alliance, they were able to increase their ranks more than ever before. Once the Alliance collapsed though, they were forced to return to mining to pay for their upkeep, and with such overwhelming competition the Gobwins were driven out of the area.
- 1.5% - There are no Gobwins left on Erf. They were all at the Knob when it exploded, and all died. Gobwins, as a unit, are extinct.
- 1.3% - The Hobgobwins are running a cunning plot to get the side renamed Hobgobwin Knob, and are keeping the regular Gobwins out until they can get enough leverage to pull it off.
- 0.7% - The Gobwins themselves. They can't respect a leader who's even shorter than they are, and, well... Stanley. So, they just packed up and left.
- 0.5% - Rogue gwiffons. The eternal war between the green and the yellow has shifted in power again, and plots within plots have been enacted. The megalogwiff casts a long shadow...
- 0.0000000000000001% - Easily missed in rounding errors, this is the possibility that Parson has been gaining move during the night and sleepwalking it all away by killing every single gobwin in a 40 hex radius. On the downside, this is costing the side natural allies. On the upside, Parson has been leveling up like crazy every night, and since no one can see his stats, they don't realize this. In the coming battle at Jetstone, Parson will be revealed to be an unstoppable killing machine.
Guess where Parson forgot to carry the two. --No one in particular
- Well, as of Vurp's Turning, we know that Charlie was in fact the force behing the Goblin Issue. --Fabo
Master of Guile
Jetstone is going to luck out and survive the current encounter SOMEHOW, because the luck that Ansom had during the march to Gobwin Knob is hereditary. However, they will have to start to rely more and more on Ace's accessories as they run lower and lower on raw manpower, and this will catch the eye of Parson, as so many gadgets will not be in the intel provided by Ansom or Ossomer. Once he finds out where they're getting all those wonderful toys, he will set about courting Ace to Gobwin Knob's side. It won't be easy, because Ace is feeling appreciated for the first time and is being allowed much greater creative freedom than he's ever had before. Parson will eventually win him over, though, first by subtly giving him little criticisms or new ideas, tiny things that in the long run won't actually help the war. He'll eventually start charging Ace for better ideas, or witholding them entirely, until Ace is desperate to talk to him again. After enough of this, Parson will mention that if Ace was on Gobwin Knob's side, why, they could discuss designs all the time...
The only thing I see holding Ace back at that point would be if Cubbins was still around. Then again, I bet Stanley would LOVE having a really big, fancy hat, so there could be a place for him as well! --No one in particular
- So as of Book 3, Jetsone survived, but only just, and decrypted Ace is a GK unit, already putting in some work with Parson.
What the Boop is an Erfworlder, Anyway?
They're certainly not mammals, they don't have warm blood or produce live offspring... so what are they?
Long answer: They are the results of horrible genetic melding and splicing by the Titans at the dawn of time, drawing on creatures from all across the breadth and width of reality. So many creatures and variations were used, in order to create the impossible... spiders large enough to be ridden, lizards with wings that can actually fly, things of fabric and stuffing that can move and attack... and men that do not bleed. From what evidence we can gather, all Erfworlders share two traits: they can recover completely from any injury if they do not croak, and they can only be croaked by external forces. Old age is not one of those forces. From this, we can draw the obvious conclusion: the primary animals used by the titans in all Erfworldian genetics were reptiles and sharks. The ability to regrow lost limbs? Just like the detachable tails of lizards! Only dying from violent force? They have never found a shark that died of old age! It's so obvious!
Short answer: They are lizard-sharks. And in cases like Wanda, sexy lizard-sharks with amazing fashion sense. --No one in particular
The only possible outcome
Janis, the Thinkamancers, and a surprisingly large majority of the inhabitants of the Magic Kingdom conspired to summon Parson to end the constant warfare, by breaking Erfworld.
The only one who has an inkling of their plans, and is trying to stop them, is Charlie.
Parson, for all his amazing tactical brilliance, would rather not cause the end of the world. He's for peace, sure, but not the peace of a twice-croaked piker. The hippiemancers disagree, and think that the answer, my friend, is dust in the wind. So..?
So Parson and Charlie WILL team up, albeit on Parson's terms (savagely negotiated by Charlie, though), to save the world.
With the help of a Godzilla-crap golem riding Sizemore, a jet-pack wearing Tramennis, and Bogroll, who has been hiding this entire time, helping the Gobwins mobilize against the Gwiffons. --No one in particular
Bogroll's not dead, he's just hiding!
How has this not been said already? Okay, here's how it plays out: Bogroll was actually a VERY high level twoll, being an absolute monster in battle, but had VERY low WIS or INT stats or something. An intangible stat, only considered by Thinkamancers, I don't know. Point is, he was a good fighter, but easy to fool, so a danger to his own side in any fight against a unit with even the most rudimentary foolamancy. Like, "No, really, I'm on your side and THAT'S the enemy" level foolamancy. Because of this, slightly more tactical minds (Wanda) advised Stanley to stick Bogroll on Garrison duty. And thus things stood, for who knows how many turns.
But then, Bogroll was made the lackey of Parson.
And one of the many, MANY strange, wonderful, impossible things that Parson brought to Erfworld was a leadership modifier that affected these intangible stats, most powerfully upon leveling up. (Future thinkamancers would call this bonus "Lateral Thinking," a phrase they attribute to an ancient foolamancer who disguised his wisdom in riddles and poetry)
The siege of Gobwin Knob proceeded. Running battles were won by running. The walls fell. A parley was called... and in the end, Bogroll leveled up. Twice.
The modifier, doubled upon itself, focused upon a unit who never had a point of view like any other in his race, already absurdly high leveled... it bestowed upon him a special ability never before achieved or even thought possible for his kind.
Bogroll was Erfworld's first natural Retconjurer.
Bogroll survived the fall from the tower, and in his moment of insight, realized that his race's natural ability of regeneration would only invite the hordes of Coalition to make sure that he was obliterated completely. So, using his newly gained abilities, he CHANGED things. He remade the Erf such that twolls never could regenerate, they could fabricate. He managed to sneak away by changing every encounter with Coalition units into a hazy memory of witnessing him being roasted by pretty much every caster unit in the courtyard.
And so, Bogroll survives to this day, his upkeep being paid unnoticed from the vast fortune of Gobwin Knob's vaults. It's unknown exactly what he's been up to... (it's hard to gather intelligence on an enemy who doesn't just change your memories of the past, but literally CHANGES THE PAST) but there are rumors (gossip never paid heed to what happened or was seen) that Bogroll has been busy. VERY busy. Some say he's been rallying the gobwins. Some say he's been conquering Charlie's cities by making it so that he never had them to begin with. Some say he's realized how important some Units are to the future of Erfworld, and has taken steps to ensure their survival, like that mighty scion of scone, Duncan, or the twin ladies of thin ladles, those soup sisters, Firebaugh and Zamussels, or that most revered of Santas, the grandmaster of givers, the apex of accessories... Ace... Some say that Bogroll is dead.
The truth is, of course, all of these. Especially the last one. --No one in particular
Stanley's really a Tool
There may be four KNOWN arkentools, but Stanley is a fifth, UNKNOWN tool. Once Jillian touches him and attunes, the combined might of a FAQing Gobwin Knob will prove too much, and Charlie will just throw up his hands, disband all his Archons, and buy a little bungalow on the beach of the Magic Kingdom. --No one in particular
Keeping Up With the Janises
The Hippiemancers have their conspiracy to end war on Erf.
The Thinkamancers have their Great Minds That Think Alike who oppose Charlie.
Taken to its logical conclusion, clearly every branch of magic represented in the Kingdom has a conspiracy of their own. Notable examples include:
- The dirtamancers have the Underground Movement
- The stagemancers have the Producers, who rule from their casting couches
- The predictamancers have their Psychic Hotline (the leaders of which just sit around all day saying "I knew it!")
Parson, of course, already has this all figured out, and is just waiting for the best moment to play them all against each other. -- No one in particular 07:16, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
Not the First Time
The Hippiemancers and Predictamancers have tried to end war on Erf before.
Charlie is what would happen if Parson decided he actually liked things the way they were, and decided to play the game. --No one in particular 11:41, 30 October 2012 (EDT)
Charlie is a Fallen Titan
No one's seen Charlie... he's not Royal or Toolist... he makes jokes that no one native to Erfworld would get...
Clearly, Charlie is a Titan that wasn't content to build Erfworld and walk away; instead, he decided to stick around and play with his toys. It's unclear how the other Titans feel about this at the moment... —No one in particular 03:57, 26 December 2012 (EST)
- Welp, that's been pretty thoroughly debunked. -- No one in particular (talk) 15:20, 9 January 2016 (EST)
- Not necessarily. Requires some more convolution, but this page is titled "epileptic twees" after all. It could be that as part of his "fall", he gave up or was stripped of most of his Titanic knowledge. That could even be why he's obsessed with immortality! He wants to recover what he lost.--ManaCaster (talk) 16:38, 9 January 2016 (EST)
All of Parson's Players from StupidWorld are represented in the Game
Probably by some of the protagonist characters - I'd say Charlie, Jillian and Wanda are probably PCs (IIRC he had three players sat at his table). 188.8.131.52 13:34, 2 January 2013 (EST)


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Jesse James always had a soft spot for bad girls.
Now his ex-wife, former pornstar Janine Lindemulder, is behind bars after repeatedly harassing the burly motorcycle dude.
The Hay's County Sheriff's Department arrested Lindemulder in Austin, Texas Saturday after James handed over 300 voicemails, many of which he said were "abusive" and came "all hours of the day and night," according E! Online.
James was married to Lindemulder, his second wife, from 2002 to 2004 before his five-year union with Sandra Bullock.
Bullock left James after it was revealed he had cheated on her with tattoo model Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, who once posed in Nazi garb.
James was recently engaged to 28-year-old tattoo artist and "LA Ink" star Kat Von D.
Selected Reading: PopEater, E! Online, New York Daily News


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COLUMBIA — A freelance journalist from Newberry has sued South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, saying he has intentionally withheld public records she requested in the fight over entertainer James Brown's estate.
Sue Summer's lawyers sued Wilson last month, saying he is violating South Carolina's Freedom of Information Act by not releasing the diary of the woman who said she was Brown's wife when he died in 2006 and the contract between two private law firms handling the lawsuit over a settlement a former attorney general brokered over the soul singer's estate.
Brown's death set off a fight over his will that has lingered for more than six years. The settlement arranged by former Attorney General Henry McMaster remains in limbo after two trustees who were overseeing the estate before a judge removed them sued. The case remains before the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Summer began investigating the struggle over Brown's estate in 2011. She clashed with Wilson's office in the fall after a lawyer associated with the case issued a subpoena against her, asking her to turn over her notes, emails, audio recordings and any other information relating to more than a dozen people involved in Brown's will. Summer vowed to fight the order, which was dropped after several stories were written about the request.
Summer's lawsuit includes three letters she wrote in January, March and June of 2011 requesting the records involved with McMaster's decision to set up the I Feel Good Trust, named after one of Brown's biggest hits. The trust's goal is to pay for scholarships for children who live around Brown's home, just over the Savannah River in Aiken County.
"After all, there are perhaps thousands of young people for whom the James Brown `I Feel Good' Trust might open educational opportunities – and that alone makes these questions of great public importance," Summer wrote in a June letter requesting some of the documents.
Wilson's office said regular public record laws don't apply in this case because the state is being sued.
"Everything that they have asked for, either we do not have it, or it does not exist, or we have already turned it over if we do possess it, or it is the subject of a court order, which we are not allowed to turn over," Wilson said.
Wilson said he has been a strong advocate for releasing as much information to the public as possible. He points out he had his lawyers, without being asked, back a Charleston radio host who sued the South Carolina Association of School Administrators, saying the organization should have to release records because it takes public money.
Summer said she is requesting the diary of Tomi Rae Hynie, who claimed to Brown's wife when the singer died, because she said sources have told her Hynie wrote in it that she isn't sure the couple was legally married.
The former backup singer for Brown fought with the estate for years after the singer's lawyers said their marriage was annulled because she was still married to another man when she and Brown exchanged vows. The settlement approved after the trustees were booted included an agreement that Brown and Hynie's marriage was legitimate.
Summer said she also thinks the documents could dispute McMaster's announcement that a professional money manager who took over Brown's estate managed to pay off more than $20 million the singer borrowed for a European comeback tour. Summer said her reporting has suggested those numbers are inflated and she swore to her sources she would protect them if they talked to her.
Summer is asking Wilson's office to release the documents and to pay her legal fees. In the future, she also wants Wilson's office to follow the advice it gives to local governments on Freedom of Information Act matters.
"When in doubt, release the document."
Wilson said he still believes in that statement, but the orders of a judge and the rules in a lawsuit sometimes supersede that.


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Recently I decided to push my army back into the 11th and 12th century, which has meant losing some pieces (visor helms, heater shields, etc).
Two Normans with a Saxon soldier behind them.
I've been looking at the Bayeux Tapestry and other Hastings-era artifacts and I saw I'll need a lot more kite shields for my Norman-esque army (and I'll do Viking targes for the Saxons, but that's another topic) and I really liked the varieties of pre-heraldic shield designs. I decided I wanted to give decals a try (especially since I have an extraordinary amount of islanders shields) and as long as I'm making a few on an 8.5 x 11 page, I might as well fill it, right?
As you'll notice, not all of these are my design (Anthony Sava's Classic Castle templates helped me a lot) but I'd like to get a little feedback on their designs and also maybe some help with the printing of decals. I don't frequent hobby stores much, but is it likely I'll be able to buy single sheets of waterslide decal paper? Also, will Kinko's let me use their laser printers for waterslide decals?
One final thought: these don't have any metallic colors, but if anyone has one of those fancy dry ink printers, I feel some people would pay for the service of having you print our decals out for us


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Recall – Jimmy Levan and the Austin Church Gap
Certain things live on in the collective memory of BMX. Defining moments that instantly change things, pushing the sport a little bit more forward whether with a small nudge or huge lurch. When I saw James Menard Levan jump the Austin Church Gap I knew something had changed forever.Read more »


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New Year's resolutions are always a tricky subject.
We all know the normal ones: weight loss, get a better job, try something new, etc. And for most of us, those resolutions are broken usually within six weeks.
Luckily, I've been able to keep my personal resolutions of the last two years (I'm showing off, I get it), and so as editor of your weekly paper, I wanted to make some public resolutions for the Era for 2015.
First let me say that this is something I have never done, but certainly have been tempted when reading letters to the editor. Somehow I have always restrained myself and moved on. But not this time. "Disappointed in Light Up" had to be addressed and a "colossal disappointment" really could not go without saying something.
We all know the nature of ripples. We throw a stone and it causes ripples. We say something and it causes ripples. We take action and it causes ripples. We belong to a community or an organization or a workplace (small or large) and our behavior there causes ripples. All those ripples affect other people. All those other people are throwing their stones as well, and their ripples are affecting us.
Another year is coming to a close. It happens so quickly anymore. Year after year passes like an older brother who can't walk by without frogging your thigh or putting you in a headlock. Time itself isn't painful, but the swiftness with which it passes leaves me feeling like I just encountered a vicious older sibling. And I'm left wondering, "What did I do to deserve that?"
A man called his parents to wish them a happy New Year and his dad answered the phone. He said, "Hi Dad, what's your New Year's resolution?" His Dad answered proudly, "To make your mother as happy as I can all year." When Mom got on the phone he asked her the same question and she answered, "To see that your dad keeps his New Year's resolution."
Last month, the people of Kentucky elected me to be their Senator for the next six years and in the process helped me become Senate Majority Leader. I am deeply honored and humbled by the faith the voters have placed in me.
The message from the electorate in Kentucky and nationwide could not have been more clear: the public wants a change in direction and expects things to get done in Washington. I am pleased to report that just in the past several weeks, I have been able to fight for and secure a number of positive measures to help improve the lives of Kentucky families.
My goal in life with my work at Hosparus and in my ministry projects is to care for others with great conviction and passion. But sometimes I have to be reminded by my dear wife to take care of myself. Sometimes I have to tell other hospice workers and ministers to take care of themselves.
Many of us who are care providers are far more anxious about having to confront whatever will come up in the empty space, when we are quiet and alone. Who knows what terror lurks in the anonymous solitude? What voices will arise in the silence?
Dear Santa,
Ed. note: Ask the Expert is a column submitted by the Oldham County Chamber. The question and answers are solicited by them.
QUESTION: My arthritis is worse in cold-weather months. Tips on how I can manage this?
ANSWER: "Many people experience a worsening of arthritis symptoms in cold, wet months during the fall and winter," shared Jeremy Statton, MD, who is with Baptist Northeast Orthopedics, part of Baptist Health La Grange. "The arthritis itself isn't worse but the pain associated with arthritis is often more intense.
I don't know where this story came from, but I love the way an unsuspecting traveler finds himself in the middle of a miracle. Jerry is on his way to Chicago on business and prays, "Please God, do me a favor. Let there be an empty seat next to mine, I don't need any distractions." Instead, he is seated next to a young boy named Michael, who is traveling unattended and he is scared. As the jet prepares for takeoff Jerry says to Michael, "Right about now, I usually say a prayer. I ask God to keep the plane safe and to send angels to protect us."
The prophet Isaiah writes, "This is what the LORD says to me: "As a lion growls, a great lion over its prey - and though a whole band of shepherds is called together against it, it is not frightened by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor - so the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights" (Isaiah 31:4). Who is this great lion, the Lord God Almighty, who fights these great battles?
How are you doing? My neam is Abigail. I am six. I am a stdut at Harmony Elementary. How are the effs? I wot a love dog for Christmas. I dzrv it bkuss I do the deshis. I wil lev you six ceoos. Medre Christmas.
Love, Abigail
Dear Santa,
How are you doing? My nam is Laurel. I am five yers old. I am a kid at Harmony Elementary. How are your elfs? I want a zmre for Chismas. I dzf it becuz I hlp my momy in the kihn. I like it whn you brg the paznts. Santa I wil giv you three coces with milk. Merry Crismas.
Love, Laurel
The holidays are just around the corner, bringing many joyous gatherings and heaps of delicious treats that show up everywhere. Often, we resign ourselves to the many weeks of inevitable indulgence and resolve to get back on track after ringing in the New Year. This year, why not make a resolution now to adopt some healthier habits through the holidays?
Disappointed in Light Up
I tried to hold onto what I knew to be absolute truth, but the hardcore facts were staring me in the face.
I pride myself on my vast knowledge of Barry Manilow lyrics. I became a fan over 30 years ago, at an age when my hearing was intact and my thirst for pop culture knowledge was at its strongest. So, I was a bit surprised when someone stated that "dictuend" is not a word.
"Oh, yes it is," I argued. "It means to dictate or orchestrate."
"Use it in a sentence," they challenged.
Holiday season is here, there is not a better time to focus on food like Christmas sweets and Christmas meals. Maybe your memories are of ham, turkey, venison, sauer bratten, tamales, ravioli, pierogies or whatever. We all have memories of Christmas that may include special cakes, pies, gingerbread or candies. Fellowship with family and friends with good food is what makes the season special. It seemed like we ate all day on Christmas.
There are four dimensions of life (length, breadth, depth and height) that we must consider as we take advantage of continued learning. The beginning of power and wisdom is consciously opening our minds and being receptive to the countless wonders that abound.
In response to the question, "How long do you want to live?" I always reply, "As long as I can." One dimension of life is length, and most people want to live in that dimension.
I would like to thank Discover Downtown La Grange Main Street and its Board of Directors for the lovely evening it provided for Light Up La Grange and in particular Donna Sabo for leading the way and her tireless efforts under difficult circumstances this year.
Michael and Vonnie Glover did another fabulous job again this year putting up the lighting. Countless people came out to enjoy the festive occasion and welcome Santa back for the 27th year to our city.
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When Should I Start Benefits?
It's a tough question, with a different answer for each person
En español | Q: What's the best age to begin my Social Security benefits?
A: You've asked a simple question. But sometimes simple questions have complicated answers — especially where Social Security is concerned. In this case, the answer is complicated because every person can have a different "best age" for starting benefits.
Remember that the earliest you can start Social Security retirement benefits is age 62. You can also start it at any time up to age 70. At 62, your payments will be reduced. If you start at full retirement age, now 66 for many people, you'll get your full payment, based on your highest 35 years of earnings. At 70, you'll get your full payment plus a 32 percent bonus for waiting.
See also: AARP Social Security Calculator
Concerning your start date, there are several factors that you should consider:
- Your current age, your occupation, your number of years working in Social Security-covered employment and your desire and physical ability to keep working. Generally speaking, the longer you work, the more financially stable your retirement is going to be.
- Your financial situation. Do you need additional income at 62 or can you wait a few years in order to increase the size of your Social Security payment?
- Your health and the health history of your family. This boils down to whether you can expect to live into your eighties, nineties or even beyond. When you postpone benefits to increase the size of your check, you're betting on your ability to reach an advanced age. It's possible to lose that bet. For instance, if a worker decides to delay benefits until 70 but dies at 67, he or she would have lost years of potential Social Security payments.
The Social Security folks point out that if you live to an average age for a person in your age category, you'll receive about the same total amount of money no matter hold old you are when you begin. You can't control how long you'll live, but you can control when you get your money and how big the payments will be. For instance, if you decide that at age 70 you'll need the largest check possible to pay your retirement expenses, then it would make sense to hold off on benefits until 70.
There are also some special benefit strategies to consider. For example, a married man can file for benefits at 66, and then suspend payment of that money until age 70. That enables his 66-year-old wife to file for a spousal benefit, which will give her an amount equal to 50 percent of her husband's basic benefit. The same would hold true for a woman filing and suspending at 66. Her husband could get the spousal benefit. Social Security is gender-neutral.
Stan Hinden, a former columnist for the Washington Post, wrote How to Retire Happy: The 12 Most Important Decisions You Must Make Before You Retire. Have a question for the Social Security Mailbox? Check out the archive. If you don't find your answer there, send a query.
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Chapter 447, Florida Statutes, provides for collective bargaining by public employees. The majority of our support staff employees are currently represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). University police officers are currently represented by the Florida State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police, Inc. (FOP). In-unit faculty members are represented by the United Faculty of Florida (UFF).The links below contain the labor agreements between the University and the applicable unions representing various University employees:
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Just ten years after the introduction of television to the world, it promised to jump into 3D. So why have decades of attempts to launch 3DTV tried and failed?
Prediction is a tricky art. Those that dare peer into the future often find themselves ridiculed by those with the benefit of hindsight. But without individuals who are willing to stick their neck out, we would not have such a rich record of the hopes and fears of previous generations.
These forward-looking archives – in newspapers, magazines and films – have led to a new kind of historian – the palaeofuturist. And from where we sit now, we can sift through this scrapheap of lost futures and try to make sense of the present.
Take 3D television (3DTV). At last month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas – the annual convention where consumer technology companies come to show off their future wares – the floor was buzzing about the next great technological hope: the TV. But of course, tomorrow's TV is voice-activated, web-connected and 3D. If that last part sounds familiar, it might be because the big television manufacturers were all banking on 3DTV as the saviour of their stagnant industry at last year's CES, and the one before that and… well you get the picture. But this is not a recent phenomenon. We have heard these promises about the 3D future of TV repeated time and again throughout the 20th Century.
In the 1930s, for example, smokers were treated to a glimpse of this future. Stephen Mitchell and Son, a cigarette manufacturer in Glasgow, Scotland, produced promotional cards for their cigarette packs called The World of Tomorrow. The black and white picture cards featured fantastical illustrated predictions of the future: robots, spacesuits and streamlined vehicles of all types.
There is also one of a 3DTV. The card shows a gigantic television image from the 1936 film Things to Come. The card proclaimed that one day, television images would be transmitted, as if by magic, in colour and three dimensions.
Coming less than a decade after the introduction of broadcast television, it was a big claim. But the makers of the cards had reason to be confident that this technology was just around the corner.
In the mid-1920s, John L Baird of Scotland tinkered with the transmission of live television images, making the first public demonstration of the medium in January 1926. His "radio movies" were shown on his "televisor", as the Oakland Tribune called it, and only two years later he was already tinkering with "stereoscopic", or 3D, television.
Baird's experiments, however crude, proved successful. But ultimately his 3D television had no commercial potential, because it could be viewed by only one person at a time standing directly in front of the screen. Not great for a social activity.
But Baird was not the only one tinkering with 3DTV. In 1931, Modern Mechanics magazine ran Television in Three Dimensions, a profile of a radio engineer in Connecticut named Leslie Gould. The piece claimed that Gould had developed a way to televise 3D images using neon tubes, a revolving shutter drum and a TV receiver. History shows that his ideas did not take off either.
The lack of 3D did little to hamper the take-up of television sets. A headline from 1953 declared that the city of Chicago now had more television sets than bathtubs.
This rapid emergence of TV in the 1950s was seen as a threat by the movie industry, since it allowed people to be entertained in the comfort of their own homes. They needed a new weapon to lure people back, and they too turned to 3D. The release of Bwana Devil in 3D in 1952 sparked a craze, and it was said to be "Hollywood's answer to television".
But not long afterwards, the fightback began. A 1953 edition of Ohio's Marysville Journal-Tribune ran a story about the debut of 3DTV: "Three dimensional television, described as television's answer to Hollywood's answer to television, makes its debut today at a press conference." Later that year, the first experimental 3DTV broadcast was attempted on the Los Angeles channel KECA with a science fiction programme called Space Patrol.
Yet in the late 1950s and early 1960s, 3DTV was still just around the corner. The beautifully illustrated Sunday comic strip Closer Than We Think ran in newspapers across the United States and Canada.
At its peak, the strip reached 19 million newspaper readers and is one of the great techno-utopian artifacts of the post-war era. The 21 December 1958 edition of the strip was titled Pop-Out TV Programs and was based on an idea by no less than the father of modern science fiction, Hugo Gernsback. The wildly imaginative inventor and TV pioneer – who is often mistakenly said to have coined the word television – claimed these Pop Out TV Programs would not only make television three dimensional, but would complete the illusion with real-life odours.
Even after the public had grown weary of 3D cinema and the craze had largely fizzled out by the mid 1950s, a few still had their eye on pushing the televised world into 3D. A 1958 article in the Daily Telegram of Columbus, Nebraska described one such process:
Unlike the 3-D movie process that blossomed briefly, "depthagraph" does not utilize polarization to fuse a double image. Viewers wearing special glasses see the depth dimension. Those without glasses continue to receive a clear, two-dimensional picture. In TV patois, the system is completely compatible. "Depthagrap"' was developed by ex-actor William Free who predicts future TV shows will be strictly 3-D. "At first, kiddie shows and commercials will take advantage of my process," Free said. "Then, when there are 100 million pairs of glasses in the homes, dramatic shows, Westerns and musicals will move into 3D."
But those pairs of glasses, as it turns out here in the futuristic world of 2012, would not work on competing 3DTV sets. Just as the format wars have historically frustrated consumers during the introduction of a new technology – think Blu-ray versus HD-DVD or VHS v Betamax video formats – the use of glasses means that many 3DTVs do not play nicely with each other. Want to invite your friend over to watch the big game? Tell him to leave his Panasonic 3D glasses at home, because they will not work very well with your Sony 3DTV.
The coming decades saw fewer futurist predictions for 3DTV, with most of the home entertainment market enamoured with the emergence of home video. It was not until the 1990s, with the home movie market firmly established, that HDTV and 3DTV were again taken seriously as the next step in the evolution of television.
James Carnes, president of research outfit the David Sarnoff Research Center, predicted that 3D television could again become a reality by 2005 and reach a million viewers by 2010. That did not come to pass, but Carnes did correctly predict that the popularity of 3DTV would not outpace the amount of quality programming offered. Today there is a serious lack of programming, with just a handful of channels available in 3D for these hi-tech sets. No-one seems to know if 3DTV usage will simply level off after being taken up by early adopters, never to become a mainstream staple of home entertainment.
Ultimately, the big question consumers seem to be asking of 3DTV is simply "why would I want to see this in 3D?" And – with rare exceptions – there seems to be no good answer.
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Super Junior confesses their thoughts on Kangin and Hankyung
The members of Super Junior made a recent appearance on MBC's Chuseok special, "Radio Star Super Show," and revealed their honest thoughts on the controversies surrounding Kangin and Hankyung (Hangeng).
Super Junior stated, "When Kangin first became involved in an assault case, we thought that we needed to shield him and protect him. Kangin showed that he was sorry to us and really did reflect that on his actions, but we couldn't help but feel a sense of betrayal when one month later, he became involved in another drunk driving accident."
They went on to state, "But we believed that we are all one, so we tried to protect him as much as possible. They say that time is medicine, and as time passed, our feelings softened up as well."
The members also confessed their feelings on fellow member Hankyung's decision to terminate his contract with SM Entertainment.
"We still can't get in contact with Hankyung. We were all very close with him but we are unable to contact him separately. We honestly felt disappointed when reports said that his life in Korea was difficult and that the Super Junior members didn't take care of him."
Leader Lee Teuk continued, "It would've been nice if he discussed his problems with the members first because we honestly had no idea. None of us ever thought that Hankyung would act like that."
The members all agreed by stating, "We still miss Hankyung right now."
Lee Teuk concluded, "We leave an empty space for Hankyung. My one dream is to stand on stage with all 13 of us and perform before I leave for the army. I hope for it to happen."
Lee Teuk still have some years left before the age limit (35) where Korean male citizens must serve a mandatory 2 years in the military. However, most celebrities tend to serve around the ages of 28-30, so they can still be relatively young and continue their careers when their tour of duty is over.
Netizens commented, "Whenever something bad happens, members are afraid to speak the truth on broadcasts. I like that they're being honest.," "I miss Hankyung as well," and "Super Junior shines the brightest when it's 13."
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Update 2:
Congratulations, Brandon, for being the first person to solve all 8 levels!
This contest is now over but you can still attempt to solve the puzzles for the next week. In a week the puzzle pages will be removed from MDA. I will remove the passwords from each puzzle page now so you can jump from one puzzle to the next at your will. Thanks to everyone for participating. Read on for answers to some of the more troubling puzzles.
Level 5 Conundrum:
You had to think outside the box for this one. It required that you look around MDA for clues. At the bottom right hand corner of each page on MDA there is a section that reads "Or maybe you'd like to browse posts about:" Below that is a pull-down text box. In that box there is a list of all MDA categories along with the number of posts in each category. The string of characters given on Level 5 are associated with a string of categories that contain that number of posts. The next one in the list is the category "PLAY" and is the solution to Level 5.
Level 6 Confusion:
You may notice that Level 6 did not have a link to "Proceed to Level 7". The URL for Level 6 had the word "answer" in it. To move on to Level 7 you had to substitute the answer to the Level 6 puzzle for the word "answer" in the URL. The answer also acted as the password to Level 7.
Level 7 Explained:
It's all about finding the pattern in a bunch of noise. One and only one letter is found in each row – the letter "R". The letter "R" isn't significant in itself, but its placement in the grid is. The first "R" is in column 8. As is the second and third. Continue in this manner and you will have a string of numeric digits: 8887746259. Does this number mean anything to you? "888" numbers are toll free numbers. 888-774-6259 is the toll free number to my office. Call the number and you're given the password to Level 8. Only 2 people solved this Level and made the connection, and only after Hint 4 was dropped.
Since the launch of this contest yesterday I've received numerous reports of tears shed and teeth gnashed. The consensus seems to be that Levels 1-3 were a little challenging, but mostly fun. That Levels 4-6 were difficult, but doable. And that Level 7… well, Level 7 has proved infinitely frustrating and impossible to crack. (Hence the weeping and grinding.) A small group of front-runners went so far as to create a chat room last night to share their observations. Not a single person has broken the code, so I've added two hints to Level 7 and will add a new hint every hour on the half until someone has either won this contest (solved Level 8) or I've all but explained how to solve it. Thanks for playing, everyone!
The Prize:
This one is just too cool. A fitting prize for today's brain challenge, it's called an Isis Puzzle [1]. ThinkGeek [2], the folks behind the miracle fruit [3] and homo sapiens kitchen tool [4] prizes of yore are now offering up this beautiful, elegant, difficult, titanium, hand-made puzzle sphere to the winner of today's contest. As a decorative piece, it can smarten up even the pulpiest of bookshelves. As a brain teaser, it will dazzle the minds of everyone in your Sunday afternoon Mensa papercraft parties. But this little ball is also a gateway to adventures most grand. Solving the Isis unlocks a code which leads to more puzzles, keys, and eventually real world treasure. A puzzler's Everest. Learn a little bit more at Isis Adventures [5].
The Contest:
Time to Use Your Brain. I've devised a series of riddles and puzzles to be solved for today's contest. The first riddle is below. Generally puzzles become more difficult as you move from one level to the next. The first person to correctly answer the FINAL riddle (Level Eight) in the comments section of this post will win the Isis puzzle. There will be no random drawing, no judging. This one is a test of skill and speed. The first one to finish wins. Answers to the puzzles act as passwords for subsequent puzzles. For example, the answer to the following riddle is the password for the Level 2 puzzle, the answer to the Level 2 puzzle is the password for the Level 3 puzzle, and so on. When entering a password, use all caps and no punctuation or spaces (i.e. if the answer is "Mark Sisson," enter MARKSISSON into the password field). Anyone leaving an answer to a riddle other than the final riddle in the comments section will be disqualified (the final riddle will be obvious if you reach it). Please refrain from leaving hints in the comments section as well. Last, remember to think outside the box.
Begin now.
Level 1
What can run but never walk
Has a mouth but can never talk
What has a head but never weeps
And has a bed but never sleeps


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Oscars Watch: Look Who's Presenting
Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry — the cast of "Bridesmaids"? The Academy has begun rolling out its list of presenters for Hollywood's biggest night with greater frequency and it's a roster fit for the runway. In addition to the above fashion plates — and the cast of "Bridesmaids," sure to be smashing and hilarious — the Academy has named Toms Hanks and Cruise presenters for the Feb. 26 fete. Whom do you want to see onstage at the Kodak come Oscar night?
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A heavily armed mob of Maoist rebels ambushed and killed 73 Indian policemen in one of their jungle strongholds in central India on Tuesday, sparking concerns about the effectiveness of the government's massive counterinsurgency operation launched against the rebels last year.
This is believed to be the worst attack ever from the leftist guerrillas, who have a presence in 22 of 28 states and pose one of India's greatest threats to security.
"The casualty is very high, and I am deeply shocked at the loss of lives," said P Chidambaram, India's home minister. "This shows the savage nature of [the rebels] and the brutality and the savagery they are capable of."
India's Maoist insurgents, also called Naxalites – after Naxalbari in the state of West Bengal, where the armed rebellion was first launched by local communists in 1967 – claim to champion the rights of India's poor and disenfranchised tribal population. Many activists claim their violence is motivated by socioeconomic deprivation.
They were once dismissed by India's political class as a ragtag rural insurgency. But last September Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called them the country's "biggest internal security threat." According to official estimates, the Naxalites have seized nearly a third of India's land, setting up parallel governments. In recent years they have attacked police forces, hijacked trains, and carried out beheadings. Last year they rejected government overtures for a cease-fire and negotiations.
Calls for retaliation
The rebuff came even after the government mobilized nearly 100,000 troops late last year to launch Operation Greenhunt to try to seize 40,000 square kilometers of Maoist-controlled territory and to capture "dead or alive" 20 top rebel leaders and 30 commanders who operate mainly in the remote and often inaccessible jungles of central India with some 12,000 gun-toting rebels. The government has been tightlipped about its progress so far.
Tuesday's killings provoked angry reactions from military analysts and opposition politicians, who are asking the government to retaliate strongly.
"Killing 73 … police personnel in a short span of time in a single battle is no longer subliminal violence," Nitin Pai, editor of the monthly "Pragati – The Indian National Interest Review," wrote in a blog post.
"In all likelihood the Naxalites have crossed a threshold – this incident is likely to stay much longer in the public mind and increase the pressure on politicians to tackle the Naxalite threat with greater resolve."
"This was a ghastly attack…a senseless bloodbath," Rajiv Pratap Rudy, a spokesperson for the opposition Bharatiya Janta Party, told reporters. "There is a war within and the entire country is affected by it. The entire nation is furious over the incidents. We have to hit them hard."


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Prince Harry goes to the Arctic: of course the press go too. Smart guy. He's doing what great donors do best: bringing to his charitable passions the most valuable and most unusual resources he can access. Raising the profile and … Continue reading


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Golden Globes Beauty: Dianna Agron./
Pantene Celebrity Stylist Danilo styled Dianna Agron's hair for the Golden Globes. This was Danilo's first time working with Dianna, who he called a "total sweetheart." Congrats to Dianna for Glee's win for Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical!
See a complete step-by-step below on how to get this show stopping look.
Danilo and Dianna decided on a half-up glamour set to complement her strapless J. Mendel dress. "When you style hair for the red carpet you have to take into account that it must look good from every angle," said Danilo. "I wanted her hair to have the ability to be undone, have movement, and be shiny, but didn't want her to worry about it all night which is why a half-up style was the perfect choice." Although she was out the door before he knew it, Danilo thought of the style – "It was very simple, very pretty hair that was clean, contemporary Hollywood glamour."
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Although dairies are still assessing the monster storm's aftermath, reports from Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia indicate no major dairy damage.
Hurricane Sandy, which slammed into the Northeast U.S. yesterday, appears to have caused relatively little damage to dairies in Vermont, Pennsylvania, Virginia and New York.
While farms and dairies throughout the area are still assessing Sandy's aftermath, the storm's impact seemed mostly confined to power outages, damaged buildings, and downed trees and telephone poles at dairies, according to several reports today.
"In our area, it's mostly cosmetic damage," said Justin Burdette, whose 110-cow dairy near Mercersburg, Pa., sits about eight miles from the Maryland border.
Burdette spent this morning helping a neighbor whose heifer barn had been completely knocked down by 80 mph winds that tore through the area last night. The animals were unhurt, Burdette said. But just four miles away, he said, damages were still being assessed at another heifer barn that had been blown down. Burdette reported his area had received 5" to 10" of rain in the last 24-36 hours.
Early reports from Vermont, home to 961 cow dairies, indicate relatively little damage in the state or to dairies from Hurricane Sandy, which has been downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone.
"Sandy rolled through but was very mild," said Alison Kosakowski, marketing and promotions administrator with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.
"So far, no flooding and the winds have been manageable," Kosakowski said. "Last year, [Hurricane] Irene was an absolute terror, and virtually shut down the dairy industry. But no major issues here. Some communities have lost power, but I expect those dairies are running on generators. There have been a few fallen trees, but the roads department has cleared things up quickly. We are so relieved."
Yesterday's monster storm came just 14 months after Hurricane Irene barreled through the Northeast U.S., flooding fields and pastures, knocking out bridges and roads, and impeding dairy deliveries. Disaster experts are saying Hurricane Sandy could be costlier than Irene.
Since emerging out of the Caribbean late last week, Hurricane Sandy has left millions without power, caused widespread flooding that may shut New York City's subways for days, and killed several people. With much of lower Manhattan without power and some streets flooded, U.S. stock exchanges remained closed today for a second consecutive day. President Obama has approved major disaster declarations for the states of New Jersey and New York.
"At this point, there has been minimum impact on our members as a whole," said Jennifer J. Huson, director of communications for Dairylea Cooperative Inc. in East Syracuse, N.Y. Dairylea markets milk for more than 2,000 dairy farms throughout the Northeast.
"Mostly the impact has been intermittent," Huson said. "The largest impact we have had is on the plant side. From Sunday through Tuesday, we have had approximately 200 loads of milk turned back. The network we have set up enables us to handle this kind of situation, and we have been successful in finding homes for all this milk."
"Right now we have fared much better than those to the North of us," said Amber DuMont Sheridan of Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association. "Our five plants are all operating and didn't have much, if any, storm damage. We have one customer without power in the Philadelphia area."
The Virginia-based cooperative markets milk for 1,500-plus dairy farmer owners throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.
"We'll know more later today once haulers can pick up milk," Sheridan added. "We're expecting lots of trees down and closed roads due to flooding, so it's going to be a long day for our haulers."
Pennsylvania dairy producer Glenn Gorrell said his area had escaped major damage. "We up here in the northern half of the state are doing fine," said Gorrell. "We have had strong winds, but only 1.5 inches of rain. Some trees [are] down, [there's] a ripped roof on the greenhouse for calves. The storm should have done the most damage in southeast Pennsylvania."
Gorrell, who also serves as president of Professional Dairy Managers of Pennsylvania (PDMP), said he had spoken with the organization's board members in central Pennsylvania, and they reported they were fine. One dairy in northern Lancaster Co. had received 4" of rain, but did not lose power. Gorrell had not been able to reach another PDMP member whose dairy sits near the Delaware/Maryland line. That dairy, Gorrell said, "was in direct path, and should have gotten 6-10 inches of rain and hurricane force winds."
"Very little disruption that we are aware of at our end of the state," reported dairy advisor Chris Noble of Linwood Management Group near Rochester, N.Y. "No flooding to speak of (1.5" here overnight) and relatively minor wind damage."