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Ethics with Strait and Boerner 2016
3.0 Ethics CLE Credits | WSBA Activity ID#1027354
Two of the most respected and engaging presenters on ethics in Washington again provide a thought-provoking and practical discussion on ethics, your practice and practical advice in assuring you are following the ethics rules.
John Strait and David Boerner, two of the most respected and engaging presenters on ethics in Washington, again provide a thought-provoking and practical discussion on ethics, your practice and practical advice in assuring you are following the ethics rules. Always highly rated as a valuable and enjoyable program, you will enjoy this opportunity to hear from two leading authorities on what is most important for you to know in the domain of ethics.
8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Coffee
9:00 -9:05
Opening Remarks
9:05-10:35 a.m.
Hypothetical situations and discussion
10:35 - 10:45 a.m.
10:45 - 12:15 p.m.
Hypothetical situations and discussion
12:15 p.m.
Course evaluations and adjourn
John A. Strait, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
John A. Strait, Associate Professor of Law, is a graduate of Yale Law School. Professor Strait has served on the Washington Supreme Court's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee, the King County Bar Association Campaign Ethics Committee, the WSBA Rules of Professional Conduct Committee, and the board of the Washington Chapter of the American Judicature Society. He serves on the board of the WSBA Criminal Law Section, and has served as a governor's appointee to the Statute Law Commission. He serves as Adjunct Investigative Counsel to the Washington State Bar Association Office of Legal Discipline. The clinical component of his course in professional responsibility investigated complaints against lawyers for probable cause for the Washington State Bar Association from 1991-2005. The law school received the E. Smythe Gambrell Professionalism Award from the American Bar Association for the clinical component. Professor Strait served as a member and Chair of the Seattle Port Authority Ethics Advisory Commission from its inception until 2009. Professor Strait joined the faculty in 1974.
David Boerner, Professor Emeritus, Seattle University School of Law
Professor Boerner currently serves as chair of the Board for Court Education, chair of the Washington Supreme Court's Time for Trial Task Force, as well as serving as a member of the Washington Supreme Court's Jury Instruction Committee. He has also chaired the Rules of Professional Conduct Committee of the Washington State Bar Association. In addition, he lectures frequently for groups such as the Washington Criminal Justice Institute, Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, and the Federal Bar Association. He joined the faculty in 1981.
General Registration - $90.00
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Two years ago when Rutgers went 11-2, every possible break went its way. Of course it had to have the talent to take advantage of opportunities, and it did. The same could happen over the final two-thirds of this season. Rutgers could – OK probably not – but it could win the Big East Conference championship. And here is how it could happen.
Oct. 4, at West Virginia. Pat White's thumb turns out to be thumbs down, and 2-2 West Virginia plays the way it did in its loss to East Carolina. Rutgers has enough momentum from the Morgan State win and Teel has a big day with all those talented receivers. The noon start confuses Mountaineer fans, who sleep in after Rutgers fraternities spend Friday night tossing sleeping pills into dogs' food pans on all the country road porches. Courtney Greene has three interceptions and RU escapes 27-24.
Oct. 11, at Cincinnati: The Bearcats play the way they did in getting past Akron 17-15 over the weekend, and motivation from the past two years powers the Scarlet Knights to their third straight win. RU, 23-17.
Oct. 18, Homecoming vs. UConn. A loud and relentless sold out stadium fires up the home team. Donald Brown misses the team bus from the hotel and sits out the first half. By then it's too late as Rutgers sacks the second string QB a total of eight times and runs the ball down the Huskies' throat. Geno Auriemma is so disgusted he leaves by halftime. RU, 21-20.
Oct. 25, at Pitt: Greg Schiano out-coaches Dave Wannstedt, and Pitt, more overrated than Clemson, Ohio State and Georgia combined, falls apart. Rutgers wins big, 30-13.
Nov. 1: Rutgers has a bye, and Connecticut says bye-bye to a BCS bid as it is stunned by West Virginia. UConn performs the way it did when taken into overtime by Temple earlier in the year. Pat White has a thumbs-up day, throwing for 2 TDs and rushing for two. WVU wins it on the road, 28-27.
Nov. 8, Syracuse at home. Turner Gill is on the sidelines, getting a close-up look at the team he'll coach next year. The Orange put up clips of Ernie Davis on the big screen, but Rutgers is not fooled. Scarlet Knights make their own movie, 38-14.
Nov. 15, at South Florida. Hey, this isn't a complete fairy tale. Rutgers loses to USF, which by now is 9-0 as Rutgers visits Tampa for the weekend. In a battle of Big East unbeatens, Rutgers can't handle the humidity and wilts 31-20.
Nov. 22, home to Army. Rutgers goes through the motions and still marches through the Cadets, 44-6. The next day Connecticut plays its best game of the year and kicks a game-winning field goal with no time left to defeat South Florida 6-3.
Nov. 28: Rutgers has a bye, and West Virginia says bye-bye to its BCS chances as it is knocked off for the second straight year by Pittsburgh, this time at Pitt. The Mountaineers had celebrated a 22-20 victory until they realized they jumped offsides on the missed Pitt field goal attempt. On the do-over the Panthers drill a 47-yarder and win the game, giving interim coach Tony Dorsett his first win.
Dec. 4, home to Louisville. Rutgers takes care of business early and often on another Thursday night game. San San Te kicks six field goals and Rutgers controls the clock to win 32-16. RU finishes 8-4, 6-1 in the conference. However it is tied with South Florida, which still has one conference game to play. Two days later.
Dec. 6: West Virginia, still smarting from the upset at Pittsburgh, plays spoiler with South Florida. Rich Rodriguez calls the plays from his vacation cottage in the Michigan dunes, and WVU helps Rutgers gain the BCS bid in a 12-9 triumph at Raymond James Stadium. See, it could happen.

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Q. At the point in time of this board
meeting, though, you were relating to the board
that you felt you had a commitment from the Fed and
the Treasury to make good on whatever harm is
caused by the increased losses at Merrill Lynch; is
that right?
A. I had verbal commitments from Ben
Bernanke and Hank Paulson that they were going to
see this through, to fill that hole, and have the
market perceive this as a good deal.
MR. CORNGOLD: Isn't the only way to
fill that hole, though, to give you money,
not to give you money that you would have to
pay back at some interest rate with some
potential equity interest, too?
THE WITNESS: No. I think you have to
separate the fact that, yes, there is still
some short-term paying -it's more
short-term paying now than we would have had
had all this not happened, but longer term we
still see a strategic benefit. So we saw it
as a short term versus a long term impact on
the company.
MR. CORNGOLD; When you entered into the
initial contract with Merrill Lynch did you
get a fairness opinion about the transaction?
THE WITNESS: Yes.
MR. CORNGOLD: From whom?
THE WITNESS; Chris Flowers something.
MR. CORNGOLD: And did you get a
fairness opinion from anyone about the
transaction that you entered into with the federal government and the Fed?
THE WITNESS: No. MR. CORNGOLD: Did you consider whether you had a legal obligation to do that? THE WITNESS: I would rely on the advice of the general counsel for that.
MR. CORNGOLD: But when you say that, does that mean that you asked and got advice, or that you didn't ask but relied
THE WITNESS: I would rely on somebody bringing that question forth, and nobody did.
Q. Did you ask anyone to look into whether the oral, verbal commitments from the Fed and Treasury were enforceable?
A. No. I was going on the word of two very respected individuals high up in the American government.
Q. Wasn't Mr. Paulson, by his instruction, really asking Bank of America shareholders to take a good part of the hit of the Merrill losses?
A. What he was doing was trying to stem a financial disaster in the financial markets, from his perspective.
Q. From your perspective, wasn't that one
of the effects of what he was doing?
A. Over the short term, yes, but we still
thought we had an entity that filled two big
strategic holes for us and over long term would
still be an interest to the shareholders.
Q. What do you mean by "short term"?
A. Two to three years.
Q. So isn't that something that any
shareholder at Bank of America who had less
than a three-year time horizon would want
to know?
A. The situation was that everyone felt
like the deal needed to be completed and to be able
to say that, or that they would impose a big risk
to the financial system if it would not.
MR. LAWSKY: When you say "everyone,"
what do you mean?
THE WITNESS: The people that I was
talking to, Bernanke and Paulson.
MR. LAWSKY: Had it been up to you would
you made the disclosure?
THE WITNESS: It wasn't up to me.
MR. LAWSKY: Had it been up to you.
THE WITNESS: It wasn't.
MR. CORNGOLD: Why do you say it wasn't
up to you? Were you instructed not to tell
your shareholders what the transaction was
going to be?
THE WITNESS: I was instructed that "We
do not want a public disclosure."
MR. CORNGOLD: Who said that to you?
THE WITNESS: Paulson.
MR. CORNGOLD: When did he say that to
THE WITNESS; Sometime after I asked Ben
Bernanke for something in writing.
Q. When did that occur?
A. Which one?
Q. When did Mr. Paulson state that he did
not want a public disclosure?
A. It was sometime late in the year. I
think it's actually in the minutes.
MR. LIMAN: If you have the next set of
minutes it might help the witness.
Q. What's your best recollection of what
Mr. Paulson said to you on that point?
A. That was the conversation that I
mentioned that I went to Bernanke to ask the
question, and he didn't call me back but Hank did.
The request was for a letter stating what they
would do, and he had those two elements in there.
But the thing that we're talking about is that he
said "We do not want a public disclosure."
Q. A public disclosure of what?
A. Of what they were going to be doing for us until it was completed.
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Well, so much for that "easy" first round series.
The Lakers had to fight for the win — but they proved they can fight. It took the Lakers hitting 50 percent of their shots from three, Kobe Bryant's best game of these playoffs and a last second tip in from Pau Gasol all to squeak by the Oklahoma City Thunder, 95-94. That gives the Lakers a 4-2 series win.
Next up for the Lakers is the Utah Jazz, starting Sunday at Staples Center.
But for a night, the Lakers should revel in a hard-fought series win.
A lot of credit should go to the young Oklahoma City Thunder — can you imagine how good that team is going to be in a couple years? They play hard-nosed defense, something a lot of young teams don't. And they are loaded with talent. But young talent.
The Lakers taught the Thunder some hard lessons. LA's star Kobe Bryant saved his best game for an elimination game with 32 points, Kevin Durant did not (5 of 23 shooting). Pau Gasol knew how to time a sneak inside for a game-winning putback, Serge Ibaka did not box him out. Derek Fisher knew how to step up and hit big threes, Russell Westbrook did not.
The Lakers largely did what they had done in game four — they controlled the tempo and took away a lot of the Thunders' easy baskets. The Thunder had just 13 fast break points, and forced into the halfcourt they shot just 36.5 percent, 26.3 percent from three.
The Lakers, however, were lighting it up from three. The last two games the Lakers did much better about setting up angles for entry passes to the post, or getting the ball inside off penetration, and that led to kick-outs and good look threes for LA. They hit 12 of 24 from three in this one, and shot 46.8 percent overall.
Still the Thunder never went away. It took some last minute heroics from the Lakers.
The Thunder were up one with 15 seconds when Westbrook had a clean look at the jumper from 10 feet baseline. Oh, the midrange game continues to be his challenge. On the season from the right side baseline there Westbrook was shooting just 25.7% (thank you NBA Hot Spots). He missed.
Kobe Bryant grabbed the rebound and was clearly going to take the last shot. The Thunder did not double team him, so he got off a good shot baseline, but one that was destined to miss. When Kobe made his move and started to go up Nenade Kristic and Durant were under the basket wrestling with Artest, while Serge Ibaka was watching the ball, not bodying his man. So Gasol stepped inside Ibaka, got the tip with 0.5 seconds on the clock. Ballgame.
Lakers fans are looking ahead to a Jazz team they dominated in the regular. Because if the Oklahoma series taught the Lakers one thing, it's that there will be no easy outs.
Kurt Helin lives in Los Angeles and is the Blogger-in-Chief of NBC's NBA blog Pro Basketball Talk (which you can also follow in twitter).


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At last the powers that be within the Super City are floating an idea that, if adopted, would give some flesh to all those slogans about liveable and transformational and world class. And, unlike the rail tunnel or the cruise ship terminal, it won't cost a penny of ratepayers' money.
The proposal is to turn the planning rules upside down, and declare every pre-World War II house a protected building unless owners can produce a convincing case for altering or demolishing it. Predictably, the suggestion has caused a few palpitations among those who believe the only thing a local authority should be engaged in is collecting rubbish and building more roads. But to me, it's the breath of fresh air I've been waiting two years for - the first sign of a radical approach to old problems from our new masters.
Not that radical, really. In the early 1990s, Brisbane's "timber and tin" suburbs were succumbing to death by a thousand cuts, as developers began picking off the classic Queenslanders - their equivalent of Auckland's villa - and replacing them with modern structures. In 1995, the city council brought in "a blanket layer of protection", recognising that demolishing one "character" house affected the whole surrounding area, not just the section it occupied.
Google the Brisbane real estate news and you find these rescued "character homes" are all the rage. Jess Boyd from Harcourts was cooing about how she had "recently purchased a worker's cottage in the inner-northern suburbs of Brisbane and can't take the smile off my face". Within 5km of the city centre workman's cottages were selling from $630,000 to $825,000. "Due to the low turnover of these lovely cottages we continue to experience huge demand and competition to secure these types of properties."
The Brisbane City Council's guide to heritage places and character homes explains that owners can add and restore and even lift properties as long as the character of it and the surrounding area is preserved.
The guide says: "While Brisbane can't boast buildings that have stood for centuries or cobbled streets steeped in history, we still have a rich collection of homes, shops, schools and places of special indigenous significance that tell the story of where we came from."
It says the "most significant and stately of our older Brisbane homes, mostly Queenslanders, are heritage listed" but there are too many to list. However, "a grouping of well-conserved houses can tell the story of people long gone equally as a heritage-listed place". It points to older suburbs where "whole streets of Queenslanders remain intact. These streets are among the most charming places in the city."
In October 1995, in the aftermath of the property boom that followed the World Expo 88, Brisbane acted to protect these old suburbs from the white-anting of developers, zoning them Demolition Controlled Precincts (DCP) and labelling pre-1946 dwellings "character homes".
Within a DCP it's difficult to get approval to demolish a character home, or even part of one. "If a character home contributes to the look of a street, has not been substantially altered and is capable of repair, council will probably say 'no' to your application."
There are a few streets in Ponsonby and Mt Eden in old Auckland City that have special heritage zoning, along with much of old Devonport, but the protection in either is nowhere near as comprehensive as in Brisbane. The old Auckland heritage zoning was all about facadism. Old villas could be gutted, the landmark pressed steel ceilings and all the other interior villa features ripped out, as long as a Disneyland approximation of a villa remained as the street frontage. Modern carports and fake pop-top attics with twee dormer windows still get the go ahead.
Contrast that with Brisbane, where there seems a genuine attempt to preserve the old. "Extensions or renovations to pre-1946 homes must ... complement their architectural style and the style of other older homes in the street."
Also, while you can demolish post-1946 homes in these zones, "anything built in their place must complement the older style of the neighbourhood".
Of course, preserving the old runs counter to Auckland Council planners' - and Mayor Len Brown's - desire to intensify. So it's encouraging that Mayor Brown's staff invited Brisbane architect and champion of heritage protection in that city, Peter Marquis-Kyle, to Auckland last week for discussions. Let's hope the message got through.


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We now have the complete root method tutorial for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 / P5110 Android tablet. The tutorial for installing ClockworkMod recovery is already posted, and the next step would be to root or install custom ROMs. You can now root Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 / P5110 on Android 4.0 ICS official firmware using the tutorial below.
As you read further, we will guide you through the entire process of how to root Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 / P5110 on Android 4.0 official stock firmware using ClockworkMod recovery. You need to have CWM recovery installed on your tablet in order to perform this tutorial. Please backup your data from the tools given below. Let's continue below to the tutorial.
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Make sure you have installed all your USB drivers for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 to connect it with the computer. Download Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 USB drivers! Apart from just the USB drivers, there are a few more things that you need to take care of.
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3. Backup all your important data that you might need as soon as your flash a new ROM, or make a backup for just in case, you never know when anything might go wrong. See below on how to backup data:
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Data can also be backed up using Samsung KIES for their devices, but if you backup data manually, you get more options what top choose from and it is very easy to move data across Android devices from different manufacturers, i.e moving Samsung Galaxy S3 backup data to HTC One X.
4. Your tablet should be factory unlocked. Additional instructions for locked Android devices will be added in the tutorial for unlocking devices.
Now, let's proceed with the tutorial on the next page and root Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 P5100 / P5110 on Android 4.0 official firmware.


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Since the late 19th century, the very rich have been paying people to demand less government. The work of Herbert Spencer, for example, was sponsored by Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller and Thomas Edison. Spencer believed that society changed according to evolutionary laws. Humans were evolving towards perfection, but this process was inhibited by interference from the state. By protecting people from the consequences of their own actions (or their own bad luck), it stopped the winnowing process that would otherwise result in the survival of the fittest.
Social security, publicly funded education, compulsory vaccination, laws enforcing safety at work all interrupted social evolution. But a self-regulated free market would swiftly ensure that those who were best adapted would survive and triumph. It's not hard to see why the millionaires loved him. They saw themselves as winners of the evolutionary race, taking their rightful place at the pinnacle of the social order. Any attempt to limit their freedoms would prevent society from achieving perfection.
Today, sponsorship by millionaires and corporations explains why free-market thinktanks outnumber and outspend the thinktanks arguing for public services and the distribution of wealth. Or so I guess. But their absence of accountability means that guesswork is all we've got. As I showed last month, only one of the rightwing thinktanks I contacted was prepared to reveal who funded it. All the others refused on the grounds that they had to respect the privacy of their donors. These organisations exert great influence in public life. But we have no means of discovering on whose behalf they do it.
Revelations about this secret funding network have now brought down a cabinet minister. Liam Fox was enmeshed in a web of corporate influence about which we still know little. The organisation he founded, Atlantic Bridge, was registered with the Charity Commission as a thinktank. Like many others, it looked more like a lobbying outfit, demanding privatisation, deregulation and tax cuts. The key question remains unanswered: who funded it?
As a result of better transparency laws in the US, we know more about Atlantic Bridge's partner organisation, the American Legislative Exchange Council. It claims, like most thinktanks, to stand for limited government and free markets. What this means in practice is lobbying against government action such as regulating tobacco and greenhouse gases. By an astonishing coincidence, it turns out to have been funded by the tobacco companies Altria and Reynolds American, by the oil giant Exxon and by the billionaire Koch brothers, who run a fossil fuel and chemicals empire they call "the biggest company you've never heard of".
Freedom is what all these groups claim to stand for. But the freedom they promote is of a particular kind. They are not campaigning for freedom from hunger or poverty. They are not demanding free access to health and education. They are not lobbying for freedom from industrial injuries, exploitation, pollution or unscrupulous banking. When these libertarians say freedom, they mean freedom from the rules that prevent their sponsors behaving as they wish: mistreating their workers, threatening public health and using the planet as their dustbin.
Like everything else about these lobbyists, the true, unacceptable meaning of the freedom they espouse is hidden behind an acceptable front. Thinktanks and lobby groups are the bane of democratic politics. They are the means by which corporations and the ultra-rich influence public life without having to reveal their hand. Their refusal to reveal who funds them, and the British state's failure to demand it, are deeply undemocratic.
Last week in the Guardian, Michael White wondered why Liam Fox did not make his friend Adam Werrity an officially sanctioned special adviser. Had he done so, Werrity's presence in his department would not have broken civil service rules, and Fox might still be in his post. But it would also have meant that Werrity's activities would have been subject to freedom of information requests, and that could have been fatal to what he was doing.
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What this case highlights is the asymmetry of information in public life. The public sector is now so transparent that we have a right to read the private emails of climate scientists working for a state-sponsored university. The private sector is so opaque that we have no idea on whose behalf the people who appear every day on the BBC, using arguments that look suspiciously like corporate propaganda, are speaking.
The Labour government weakened the rules on lobbying transparency. The ministerial code published in 2007 dropped the requirement that meetings between ministers and lobbyists should be recorded. It also rebuffed MPs' demands for a register of lobbyists. You'll be surprised to hear who the villain was: Tom Watson, then a Cabinet Office minister, now a heroic campaigner for corporate accountability. He brushed aside the call for a register with the claim that "we have a pretty good system in the UK". In fact, we have no system at all: the Commons public administration committee has pointed out that "Lobbying activity in the United Kingdom is subject to no specific external regulation."
Thanks to the Fox scandal, the coalition government will now be forced to do something. But unless new legislation also applies to the thinktanks, their funders will keep using them to promote their interests without disclosure. The law should insist that all organisations which seek to influence public opinion should reveal sources of funding greater than £1,000.
The government might also take a look at charity law. It seems remarkable to me that groups such as Policy Exchange, the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have charitable status. The Charity Commission disqualified Atlantic Bridge on the grounds that "it is not permissible for a charity to promote a particular pre-determined point of view". Should this not disqualify all of them? Can you imagine the IEA deciding that private companies should get their noses out of the NHS? Can you picture Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation announcing that climate change is an urgent threat and fossil fuel companies need stricter regulation? Is it credible that these organisations do not have "a particular pre-determined point of view"?
And shouldn't it be a basic requirement of charity law that we know who, as taxpayers, we are subsidising? How can an organisation qualify as a charity if we don't even know whose interests it is promoting? I strongly suspect that we are granting tax breaks to multimillionaires and corporations to help them change public opinion. I invite the thinktanks to prove me wrong.
Let's also demand that the BBC reform its editorial guidelines, so that no one working for a group whose purpose is public advocacy can take part in a programme unless it has published a registry of interests. Otherwise the BBC is granting free airtime to corporations without disclosing who they are or what their interest in the question might be.
So come on you free-market libertarians, let's hear your arguments against transparency and accountability. And let's hear how you reconcile them with your professed love of freedom.
• A fully referenced version of this article can be found on George Monbiot's website www.monbiot.com


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|System: 3DS, DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Vita, Wii, Xbox 360
|Dev: Traveller's Tales
|Pub: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
|Release: November 11, 2011
|Players: 1-2
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Cartoon Violence, Comic Mischief
by Shelby Reiches
The LEGO video game series, at this point, extends well beyond the original scope of the Star Wars franchise that bore it all. That game was an unexpected gem, popping up just in time to cash in on the as-of-yet unreleased third prequel movie, yet containing the content of that film in LEGO-ified form. It begot a sequel, as well as games set in the Indiana Jones continuity and a Batman outing. By the second Indiana Jones entry, though, the formula was starting to wear thin.
And a formula it is. LEGO games have unique settings, based on their particular franchise, and the characters change—as do their specialized mechanics—but the titles are all a combination of loose, forgiving combat and light puzzle solving in a world inhabited by LEGO people and objects. There's usually a hub world of some kind and the ability to revisit completed levels with your choice of characters, granting access to previously unreachable areas.
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 has all of that. It also, however, happens to be the sequel to the game that breathed new life into an ailing franchise. In the wake of LEGO Star Wars III and LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, can it do it again?
First, the good: LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 is a beautiful game. The environments are well-textured, incredibly faithful to the appearance of the movies, with sparkling particle effects and bright colors shooting forth as appropriate. Everything animates smoothly, from the characters to the jumbles of disorganized blocks and the fanciful devices they construct. A particular favorite animation: when players "carve out" a shape from a red wall, using the Diffindo spell, it peels out of the rest of the wall before crumbling to pieces.
The characters are expressive, too. It's amazing the amount of personality Traveller's Tales injects into the onscreen mini-figs. It's not just their mouths and their eyes, either. All of their body language, from slumping in dejection to Ron's cowardly shivering when spiders are present, makes it perfectly clear how they're supposed to be feeling at all times. Which is good, since no one talks. The mini-figs do communicate with a nonsensical murmuring, but they tend to speak mostly with their actions. You'll see them flirt with, chastise, and support each other in equal measure. Oh, sure, a bit of the story gets lost in the process (particularly if it's been a while since you've read up on your Harry Potter), but it's easy enough to tell what's going on, and who's supposed to be whom.
The audio, too, is wonderful. The spells sound powerful when they shoot out, whether the explosive blast of Reducto or the low thrum of Expecto Patronum. Gathering studs and golden bricks is as addictive as ever specifically because the game rewards you with a satisfying clinking clatter or a booming surge that tells you that you've accomplished something. Even destroying the many LEGO objects in the environments feels like you're actually picking up a handful of the Danish building blocks and letting them tumble onto a hardwood floor.
So, thus far we've mentioned Diffindo, Reducto, and Expecto Patronum, but there is a full complement of base spells the players gather over the course of the game, learning to use them under the caveat that, at least for the first two chapters, they are students at Hogwarts. When controlling a wizard, the spells may be cycled at any time, which allows for puzzles to have multiple steps demanding judicious use of more than spells to destroy and reconstruct objects, fill them with water, carve them from red bricks, even read a character's mind to find out which trinket he desires. More of the puzzles, however, rely on a specific character's, or type of character's, special ability. These are also formally introduced as they become important to one's advancement through the story.
Of note, the hub worlds become increasingly menacing as one proceeds through the game. I thought this was a nice touch, particularly when, by the end, one is traipsing through Hogwarts while Death Eaters apparate in all about, students and faculty running willy-nilly with their arms in the air, the school's architecture severely depreciated.
That's the good. Now for the bad: LEGO Harry Potter has a terrible difficulty curve. I understand that this is a game designed with players of all ages in mind, but the entire fifth year and most of the sixth consist almost entirely of single-note puzzles, where it feels as though the designers were afraid to do anything other than have you repeatedly reuse that one ability they just taught you. Speaking of which, due to all of the teaching sequences between levels in the Hogwarts hub, those years feel interminable. It's strange when The Deathly Hallows, which is split into two parts (all chapters of the game are six levels long, each, meaning that we're talking about what is purported to be half of the game), goes by incredibly quickly, in comparison. Late in the sixth year and throughout The Deathly Hallows, the puzzles open up considerably and expect players to figure out more from context, which makes the process of completing levels less like checking items off of a list and more like actually playing a game. It's particularly frustrating that the initial puzzles are so puerile, because there really isn't anything else there.
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It may be advice often given to writers, but is the idea to "write what you know" always understood, and valuable for creating good work?
In his post "Write what you know" – the most misunderstood piece of good advice, ever., Jason Gots comments that writer Nathan Englander "says that 'write what you know' is one of the best and most misunderstood pieces of advice, ever.
"It paralyzes aspiring authors into thinking that authenticity in fiction means thinly veiled autobiography. If you're a drunken, brawling adventurer, like Hemingway, no problem.
"But Englander, who grew up in the Orthodox Jewish community of West Hempstead, New York, says he spent a lot of his childhood watching TV, playing videogames, and dreaming about being a writer. Was he required to write about the Atari 2600?"
"Write what you know" isn't about events, says Englander. It's about emotions. Have you known love? jealousy? longing? loss? Did you want that Atari 2600 so bad you might have killed for it? If so, it doesn't matter whether your story takes place in Long Island or on Mars – if you're writing what you know, readers will feel it."
The image above is from the post "Write What You Know" Does Not Mean What You Think It Does, by Icy Sedgwick, who says, "Don't take it so literally – I'm pretty sure Tolkien didn't have to go to Middle Earth, and JK Rowling never went to Hogwarts! The fundamental fact is that what you know is humanity, and how the world works, and human nature is fundamentally the same."
Diablo Cody has written successfully about human nature; her script for "Juno" earned her an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She also wrote screenplays for "Young Adult" and "Jennifer's Body" among other movies.
Cody has commented, "I never intended my work as a springboard to anything else. I write because I'm addicted to it. It's my confessional."
From my Inner Writer post Writing Honestly – Diablo Cody on Being Confessional and Totally Candid.
Tony Kushner on the writing process
A Creativity Post article comments that Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner "thinks rehashing events from your life can be just plain lazy writing.
"The resulting work ends up condescending to the audience, and boring you—the writer— because you're just going over information you already had. However, this doesn't mean you should completely ignore your experiences.
"Your writing should reveal things about yourself you didn't know before you put your pen to paper (or your hands to the keyboard). Rather than just recycle popular themes like 'it's okay to be gay', dig deeper into the subject and find that unknown tension or truth that will surprise both you and your audience."
Kushner says: "Part of the exciting thing about being a writer in any medium is that if you start to dig around in there and use words and the muscular activity of writing, you discover things inside of yourself, people inside of yourself, knowledge inside of yourself that you didn't know you had."
The post continues, "The best writing is usually a journey into the unknown for both the author and the audience, and, according to Kushner, no one is conscious enough of their own interior to know what choices they may or may not make before they begin to write. This discovery process, it turns out, can also be therapeutic for the writer."
From post Should You Write What You Know?, by THNKR [a YouTube channel].
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Tony Kushner's plays include Angels in America.
Journaling as therapy
Psychotherapist Daniel Mackler speaks about the values of journaling: "Writing down the truth of your feelings, your point of view, your fears, your angers, your hopes, your expectations, your desires, your fantasies, your hatreds, your regrets, your thoughts, your memories, your prejudices, your secret loves, your painful experiences, your humiliations, your past traumas – requires massive intimacy with yourself. This self-intimacy is the essence of good therapy, and yet is also what makes good therapy so difficult."
From post: Journaling and other strategies: Eleven Ways to Be Your Own Therapist.
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Ricky Ponting announces retirement from Tests
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting Thursday called time on his Test career, announcing this week's clash against South Africa in Perth will be his last
Australia's Ricky Ponting called time Thursday on a 17-year Test career that made him the world's second-highest run scorer, announcing this week's clash with South Africa will be his last.
"I know I have given cricket my all, it's been my life for 20 years. There's not much more I could give," he said at a hastily-called press conference at the WACA ground in Perth ahead of Friday's match.
Ponting, who turns 38 next month, has failed in three innings against the Proteas during draws in Brisbane and Adelaide and pressure has been building on the veteran ahead of the crucial series decider.
He will continue to play for Tasmania in the domestic competition this summer.
Perth will be a fitting place for Ponting to end a remarkable international career: it is where he debuted against Sri Lanka in 1995.
By playing Friday, he will equal Steve Waugh's mark of 168 Test matches, the most in the history of Australian cricket.
After being made captain in 2004, right-hander Ponting went on to become one of the country's greatest cricketers, winning more Tests as skipper (48) than any other Australian.
The Tasmanian has 13,366 Test runs to his name, including 41 centuries at an average of 52.21, with only Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar scoring more. But he said he knew it was time to call it a day.
"Over the last couple of weeks my level of performance hasn't been good enough," said Ponting, who had already been dumped from the one-day and Twenty20 international squads.
"My passion and love for the game hasn't changed but at the end of the day (the decision) was based on my results.
"In this series so far they have not been up to the level required of batsmen and players in the Australian team," he added.
"I'm glad I have got the opportunity to finish on my terms."
Ponting insisted the decision was entirely his own and he had not been pushed by selectors. The normally stoic batsman, affectionately known as Punter, said he was highly emotional when he told his team-mates.
"I tried to say a lot but I didn't get much out," he said. "They'd never seen me emotional before, but I was this morning."
Michael Clarke, the current captain, was close to tears following Ponting into the press conference, saying he would be sorely missed and the announcement took him by surprise.
"I didn't have a feeling it was coming," Clarke said of his friend and mentor. "Ricky spoke to me after Adelaide and obviously made his decision over the last few days.
"The boys (in the team) are obviously hurting right now. He's been an amazing player for a long time."
Clarke said later he attempted to persuade Ponting to change his mind. "I certainly tried to," he told Channel Nine.
"Like all of the players in the changeroom we would still like him to be there."
Clarke said the announcement would only fire up the side to win the third Test, where the number one ranking in Test cricket will be on the line.
"It will only give us more inspiration," he added.
In a statement, Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland described Ponting as one of the best players ever to pad up for his country.
"Ricky has had an extraordinary career and has made an extraordinary contribution, including through the example he has set for other elite players and through the excitement he has given fans, young and old," he said.
"I think his record until he retired as captain was outstanding but my respect for him since then has actually increased, seeing first-hand how he stepped back to become a total team player."
Ponting said he would take time to decide what to do in his Test retirement, but Sutherland said he hoped he would remain connected to the game "in an official capacity".
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Aquarius Horoscope
For The Week Starting March 26, 2012
This can be a very creative week for you and you could invent something to make it easier for you at the work place work or around your house. You have already built a good solid foundation for yourself and now it is working in your favor. Do not adjust or change your tactics because the path you are now on will not work in your favor. Stick with what you are doing. This is a good time to seek property for a later purchase.
And how is yours?
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I'm puttin' my house on the market! Apparently it's going to sell immediately! And my future is going to be "first class", tho I'm in no financial shape to apply for a loan...hmmmm.....
This next week is a good time for buying or selling property. You should be slowly building toward a first class future and slowly building yourself a good reputation through the work you are doing. Do not make promises to anyone now because for some reason you may not be able to keep them when the time comes to show action. Forget trying for a loan now because your financial situation is not yet up to snuff.
- March 26, 2012 at 7:45 AM
- annbb said...
That anonymous comment, above, is from moi...
- March 26, 2012 at 7:46 AM
- I Am Woody said...
Woohoo! I am now expecting an unexpected financial gain. Wait...did I just cancel out my gain?
- March 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM
- LL Cool Joe said...
Okay so now we have to invent something?? We could be rich!!
- March 26, 2012 at 9:08 AM
- Daryl said...
I hate the commercial .. it is insultingly stupid .. but I love the horoscope ..
- March 26, 2012 at 10:02 AM
- Debbie said...
I'm different. I absolutely love to hear that pig. I'm demented too.
- March 26, 2012 at 1:35 PM
- Unknown said...
OH, I hate these new Geico commercials and that PIG! But not your horoscope!
- March 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM
- Chesapeake Bay Woman said...
I actually love those commercials and that silly pig. Cracks me up every single time. But I also laugh at burps, so there's that.
- March 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM
- Kathleen... said...
Horoscopes fascinate me.....'cause they're kinda creepy. ;-) Who's been spying on me?
- March 26, 2012 at 5:18 PM
- Country Girl said...
I love that Geico pig! Off to check out my horoscope now.
- March 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM
- Snooty Primadona said...
The first time I saw that commercial it made me laugh but I knew it would make me insane from there on out. It does.
I've given up on horoscopes. They seldom ever nail me.
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If the soul and the ego were objects we could look at, the soul would be a translucent heart beating.
George Condo
Forgive me for asking, but why in this mottled world would you expect another? Eccentric pilasters stand in the rain: ruins for remaining ruined. My dreams meanwhile occur in mercantile factory houses whose shelves represent gaps in the Now Culture. Reduced, though not so enervated today, the reality of dingy parlor casements helps me parachute to bed for lack of better thing to think or do. The lanky, still sun ravishes an arching colonnade.
When the sun fails off harbor and I'm still second-rate, arborisms notwithstanding, will you still love me? When noxious flax falls from the ledge and hedges wink back to their indubitable brink, will you still etc.? I trek nominal distances, districting perfumeries. My port rolls hard to ruddy, slapping waves. Tongue depressors are whatever's left of the city—its lisping fantasia of blue parades, airy sundries, exotic krill, mercenary hand-goods.
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I go into the houses of little angels and almost leave a good man.
Refer to whatever you want. Just make it local and habitually assuaged with sprockets, hanging or inserted in profound manner, like naked feet passing across skies. (It was a museum of accidents but also accents: Chicory, chromium, bone-yellow something.) Our seductive spills were brought out back near a hose, unbuckled, stripped, meant to bend over, describe English riding coats, thumb through tax slips, recite cardboard delicacies.
Please know from the crackpot of my canary affections, authority junkie that I am, my honeydew hairdo is not so much new as new to you. A pair of underwear restores you to its sense. Dreams autofluff off the bed like quizzical ladykins. You clasp dry racks. You snort a little tune to yourself, chthonic as ever. You lean into a grudge and out plops, intricately, a pidgin civilization: smoke without color, window without testament, needlessly attained.
Adam Fitzgerald is the founding editor of the poetry journal Maggy, and teaches at Rutgers University and The New School. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Conjunctions, Fence, and elsewhere. His first book of poems, The Late Parade, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton's Liveright imprint in June. He lives in the East Village.
Esteban Longoria was born in Galveston, Texas. He studied at the New York Studio School, Brandeis University, and received his MFA from Boston University. His work has been shown in San Francisco, Oakland and Boston. He lives and works in Oakland. You can find more of his work here.
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Caramel cheesecake
Molasses flavour from muscovado sugars and a topping of thinly sliced fudge... this make-ahead pud is pure indulgence
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal498
- fat35g
- saturates22g
- carbs40g
- sugars30g
- fibre0g
- protein8g
- salt0.59g
- 50g unsalted butter
- 140g plain digestive biscuit
For the filling
- 4 gelatine leaves (I used Supercook), cut into wide strips (or 1 x 11g sachet, see Know-how, below)
- 400g crème fraîche
- 100g light muscovado sugar
- 50g dark muscovado sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 400g ricotta
Ricotta is an Italian cheese made from whey and traditionally a by-product of…
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This internationally known and popular soft sweet treat is based…
- icing sugar, for dusting
Gently melt the butter in a small pan over a low heat. Place the digestives in a plastic bag and crush to fine crumbs using a rolling pin; you can also do this in a food processor. Tip them into the pan with the melted butter, stir to coat, then transfer to a 20cm springform cake tin (9cm deep). Using the back of a spoon, press them into the base, making sure you seal the edges. Place in the fridge while you prepare the next stage.
If using leaf gelatine, place in a bowl, cover with cold water, soak for 5 mins, then drain. Pour 3 tbsp boiling water over the soaked gelatine and stir to dissolve. If using a sachet, see Know-how, below.
Place the crème fraîche in a small pan with the muscovado sugars and a pinch of sea salt, then gently heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture liquefies and the sugar has dissolved. Give the mixture a quick whisk to get rid of any lumps. It should be warm, roughly the same temperature as the gelatine solution. Stir the gelatine and vanilla extract into the crème fraîche mixture, transfer to a bowl and cool.
Place the ricotta in a food processor and whizz until smooth, then add the crème fraîche mixture and whizz again. Pour this on top of the cheesecake base. Cover with cling film and chill overnight.
Run a knife around the sides of the tin, then undo the clip and remove it. Transfer to a plate or leave the cheesecake on the base for ease of serving. Pile the fudge flakes in the centre and dust with icing sugar. Cover and chill until required.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Officially speaking, Steven Beitashour hasn't missed a league match for the San Jose Earthquakes since making his season debut on April 21.
Yet it's only been in the last few weeks that Beitashour has once again felt like the right back who delivered 13 assists over the past two years. That's how long it took the 26-year-old to fully recover from a sports hernia that required two offseason surgeries to repair.
"I feel 100 percent now, that's the main thing," Beitashour said after volleying a looping ball to Chris Wondolowski for the only goal in the Quakes' 1-0 victory against Sporting Kansas City on Sunday. "You get opened up in one spot twice, there's a lot of scar tissue. I did a lot of work with the physical therapist here. I did a lot of work with the trainers, a lot of work on my own, just trying to get all that scar tissue gone."
Beitashour made like a shortstop taking charge of a pop-up before delivering a lunging volley off a deflected ball originally sent goalwards by Sam Cronin. The pass dipped down right on top of Sporting's penalty spot, where Wondolowski met it with a smart header, using Kansas City goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen's momentum against him and tucking the ball inside the near post.
"I don't know who was in front of me ... but I definitely called them off," Beitashour said of teammate Rafael Baca. "I said, 'I got it, I got it.' It sat up perfectly and I just tried to put it in the mixer."
After notching just one assist through his first 15 MLS games of 2013, Beitashour has two in his last three, including Sunday's effort. Beitashour said he finally started to feel like his true on-field self four games ago, which coincides with his statistical resurgence.
"When you've been off for five months, you don't train for two weeks and you're 100 percent match fit," Quakes interim coach Mark Watson said. "It takes a couple of months sometimes. I think [Beitashour] is getting progressively better every week. He's getting fitter, he's getting stronger and his performances have been good of late."
San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch said he could see Beitashour's resurgence as it unfolded in front of him.
"I've been there, after surgeries, and it's tough," Busch said. "It's tough physically, it's tough mentally and you just have to work your way back in, day in and day out and do all the hard work. And he's done it. And now you're seeing the rewards for the team from it. He serves a great ball in there for Wondo tonight, and we get our goal.
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In an early scene in Joss Wheden's superhero epic The Avengers, team leader Nick Fury bets a newly thawed Captain America that he won't believe how insane society has become since the supersoldier was freeze-dried in 1945. An hour into the film, Cap slips Fury a ten-spot.
Small moments like these make The Avengers, opening Friday in the United States, one of the best comic book movies in years, despite the third act's inevitable CGI explosions and seen-it-all-before fight scenes.
Whedon became a geek icon by refreshing moldering genres with smart-talking characters — notably in TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the sci-fi movie Serenity. With Avengers, his first big-budget Hollywood blockbuster, the writer-director wields his tool kit deftly to cram four misfit superheroes, a catsuit-clad assassin, a sharpshooting archer and a demented Norse demigod onto the same big screen without everything unraveling into a disorganized mess.
(Spoiler alert: Minor plot points follow.)
The PG-13 plot of the Avengers is straightforward. Thor's murderous bastard brother Loki (played by Tom Hiddleston) steals the Tesseract, a cosmic energy cube capable of fueling world domination. To foil Loki, S.H.I.E.L.D boss Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) needs Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and the Hulk to overcome their personality differences and work together to defend the planet from annihilation. Helping out is Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanoff, who draws in reluctant teammates like a latex-clad human resources recruiter who can kill you with a chair.
In previous pictures, arrogant Iron Man, straight-arrow Captain America, man-child Thor and moody Hulk specialized in solo heroics. Here, the fun comes from watching these isolated freaks, played respectively by Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo, butt heads en route to a third-act Götterdämmerung in which they fight to save New York City from a massive swarm of Loki's insectoid aliens.
Marvel acolytes who've immersed themselves in the previous movies and comic books will appreciate throwaway lines that reference the characters' overarching back stories. But first-timers who never saw last year's stodgy Captain America: The First Avenger or suffered through Edward Norton's depressed version of The Incredible Hulk should have no trouble grokking the clash of temperaments that drives The Avengers' "why can't we all just get along?" theme.
As Loki, Hiddleston spits out his lines with the nasty crispness we've come to expect from formally trained British actors ever since Peter Cushing first held Vader's leash, whether he's taunting Black Widow or shape-shifting into his antler-helmeted form to command a German crowd to kneel before him.
Black Widow, played by Scarlett Johansson, is more nuanced. The most serious character of the bunch, she shows off the same wicked fight moves she displayed in Iron Man 2, even as Whedon infuses her character with a slender shred of vulnerability.
Lurking on the periphery is loner S.H.I.E.L.D. archer Clint Barton, aka Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner). He gets entangled in a bit of Loki-administered brainwashing before showing off his killer bow-and-arrow skills.
The most riveting Avenger is Ruffalo's Bruce Banner, who strikes a primal chord each time he loses his temper, turns green, busts out of his civilian clothes and goes nuts as the bulked-out Hulk. "I'm an exposed nerve!" he cries at one point.
The green muscle man's CGI tantrums steal the scene every time. However, much of the airborne mayhem in The Avengers' climactic battle could have been airlifted right from Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon or Battle: Los Angeles. Nearly every Hollywood action movie can do a pretty good job of blowing up stuff on an epic scale: The been-there/done-that laser beams, robots and crumbling skyscrapers that crash through The Avengers' final fight scenes fail to match the originality found in the film's character-driven buildup.
Still, Whedon succeeds in crafting the wittiest superhero movie in years. Instead of cranking out a generic narrative that forces each character to plod through predictable bits of "growth," Whedon reinvigorates the clutch of Marvel Comics superheroes that first came together in 1963, with a script bristling with sly surprises while remaining true to each character's essence.
The Avengers also serves as rare proof that every now and then, a master plan actually leads to masterful results. After releasing Iron Man in 2008, Marvel Entertainment peppered a string of standalone superhero flicks with brief appearances by Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury. Those snippets set the table for this all-star smackdown. It was the most meticulously orchestrated tease in Hollywood history, and the payoff for this five-year rollout was well worth the wait.
WIRED Joss Whedon's secret weapon: entertaining dialog.
TIRED Run for your lives, a big American city's being invaded by aliens — again.
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Agenda: to see and to do, attraction and maritime in Ostend
New Year's Fireworks 2020
The fireworks display at the end of the year has become a tradition in Ostend. Thousands of people gather at the beach to celebrate the new year with spectacular fireworks!Read more
Once upon a time…
During the autumn break we transform the Leopoldpark into a fairytale world full of elves, trolls, princes and princesses. Every day there are various street acts, theater performances, workshops and stories to discover. A fairytale walk for the whole family to enjoy.Read more
Winter in the Park 2020
In the midst of a beautifully lit up Leopold Park, visitors will be able to ice skate on the pond, which will be surrounded by over 50 wooden stalls selling typical Christmas products. During the Christmas holidays, children will be able to enjoy special entertainment acts and activities each day, which will make this an unforgettable experience.Read more
Santa's House and Magical Christmas Tree 2020
Have you always wanted to know what Santa's House looks like? This autumn, he will be setting up his house on the Ostend Wapenplein. Santa's House is the ideal spot to take your Christmas photo.Read more
Christmas Village
The cosiest square in Ostend bathed in the Christmas spirit. Enjoy the Christmas animation, the music, mulled wine and Flemish gin. The Christmas Village is surrounded by more than 150 Christmas trees.Read more
Ostend at Anchor 2021
Ostend at Anchor is the must-attend event for all who are interested in maritime history. More than 150 ships set sail for Ostend: from three- masters to inland barges to the smallest clinker-built longboats. The streets and squares around the docks are buzzing with activity.Read more
Museum Amandine
April 3rd 1995. On this day the Amandine entered Oostende harbour for the last time. On this day it dropped anchor for the very last time. The crew disembarked, swallowed hard and went home without looking back. The last page in Oostende's book on Iceland Fishing had been turned. Now, 13 years later, the Amandine has started her second career, a career as an interactive museum. It has taken two years of hard and concentrated work in the old shipyard 'Seghers' to restore the...Read more
Arctic traveller Adrien de Gerlache designed this three-master which was built in Scotland. The Mercator had only two commanders and made 54 voyages. In 1956 it repatriated the remains of Father Damien from Molokai. In 1960, it sailed into the harbour of Antwerp and in 1961, it was equipped as a museum ship. Since 1964, it has been the pearl in Ostend's crown. Like to visit this attraction at a discount? Print your free Coast Pass now on www.kustpas.be/home/registerRead more


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I know not why God's wondrous grace
To me he hath made known,
Nor why, unworthy, Christ in love
Redeemed me for his own.
But "I know whom I have believed,
And am persuaded that he is able
To keep that which I've committed
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I know not what of good or ill
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I know not when my Lord may come,
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Father Who Carried Son's Ashes 1,400 Miles: 'God Is in Charge'
It's been several years since Barry Adkins has been able to celebrate a Father's Day with his son, Kevin, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2005 just hours after moving out of his father's home. Though Adkins was initially angry with God following his son's death, during a long journey he came to terms with a statement he had heard many times before: "God is in charge."
Kevin was a "good kid" who rarely got into trouble and was willing to offer a helping hand to those in need, Adkins told The Christian Post. A few weeks after Kevin's high school graduation, Adkins co-signed a loan on a new truck for him, though the young man would not live long enough to make a single payment.
Shortly after purchasing the truck, Kevin told his father he wanted to move out of their home in Gilbert, Ariz., which is just outside of Phoenix. He made plans to move into a rented house where he would have three other roommates.
The night he moved into his new home his roommates threw him a party. After binge drinking, Kevin passed out and some of the other people at the party moved him to his bed and laid him on his side in case he vomited. As a joke, they also shaved his legs and head. A friend checked in on him periodically throughout the night.
When the friend checked on him again around 4 a.m., Kevin's skin appeared blue. The first 9-1-1 call indicated he was having trouble breathing. The second said he wasn't breathing at all. Before he ever made it to the hospital, while Adkins was sleeping at home, Kevin died.
The next morning seemed like a normal Sunday morning, Adkins says, until two police officers and someone else in plain clothing showed up at his home and, once inside, shared the news with him.
"I freely admit that I was not happy with God," said Adkins. "I thought: Why do this to me? But eventually, when you come to accept the fact that He really is in charge – you are not – and that being a Christian doesn't guarantee you that you won't have any adversity, it gives you the tools to deal with adversity and accept the fact that He is in charge."
Kevin, who was just 18 years old when he died, enjoyed the outdoors and had talked about moving to Montana someday, so his family decided it was an appropriate place to take his ashes.
Later on he decided to walk the 1,400 miles from Arizona to his destination in Montana with Kevin's ashes in his backpack, and would stop along the way to share his son's story and warn people, particularly students, about the dangers of alcohol poisoning.
"One of the things that I understood early on was that I didn't want to be a victim," said Adkins. "I didn't want to be considered a victim. The world is full of victims, as you well know, people that are more than happy to take on that role. And I knew that the most that I could hope for was to make something very good come from it."
It was during the long trek, which is the subject of Adkins' book, Kevin's Last Walk: A Father's Final Journey With His Son, that Adkins says he discovered the freedom that comes with understanding that God is in charge.
"Fourteen hundred miles gives you a long time to come to grips with things like that," he said. The humbling experience of losing a child, he says, opened him up to understanding that principle with his heart, not just his mind.
Adkins also says he had to learn a lesson about forgiveness following his son's passing. He found it easy to forgive Kevin, whom he says was "ultimately responsible" for his own death. He also found it "relatively easy" to forgive those who were at the party that night. He struggled to forgive himself, however, wondering if there was something he could have done differently to prevent the tragedy.
"It gets back to faith," he said. "And Jesus forgave us for our sins before we even committed them, and we need to do the same thing. We need to be able to forgive those around us and forgive ourselves."
As Father's Day approaches, Adkins also offered some advice for dads. He talked to his children a great deal about drugs, he says, though he did not talk to them specifically about alcohol as much. He suggests using the media as a teaching tool, because parents can point to examples of celebrities and other "good kids" who have done serious harm because they drank too much.
"The advice that I would give fathers is: You're the head of the household, in a lot of cases, and it's up to you to start that conversation, however you decide to do it," he said.
Adkins continues to spread his message through speaking engagements at schools, churches and other venues, and by promoting his book. According to his website, he has shared his story with more than 75,000 students and parents nationwide.


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Can you watch a full length movie that has no dialogue?
Posted by Jan-Christian in France, Movies on October 30, 2010
Do you think you can watch a movie of over one hour where the characters don't talk? I didn't think it was possible, but I took the challenge and watched the French movie The Triples from Belleville. The only words uttered in this movie are the refrain on the song in the beginning of the movie (see the clip) and some voices in radio and TV. However, you can safely watch this movie in the original language even if you don't know French (I don't either).
The story is about a grandmother who loses her grandson to kidnappers while he is racing in the Tour the France. He is taken over seas and she follows him to rescue him. She gets unexpected help from a group of old French singers from the Fred Astaire period.


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I'm in Saskatchewan, Canada. Plastic recycling is virtually non-existent here, but I found a company that will take 1-7. The catch: they charge $2.50 per bag, even when it's dropped off to them! This is just one more reason to cut back, though, because I can no longer in good conscience throw it in the trash.
Total items: 17
Total weight:
Items: Recyclable
French fry bag (#4 I believe)
Honey container
Spice container
Tofu container
plastic bag (x2)
Items: Nonrecyclable
Bob's Red Mill bread mix bag and yeast packet
Ketchup packet
Styrofoam container (x2, only one shown)
cd wrapper
wine cork and label/cover
feminine product wrapper
ground almonds wrapper
chocolate bar wrapper (recycled plastic)
What items can I replace with plastic free or less plastic?
CD wrapper – Should buy music online.
Chocolate – I tend to forget which ones come in plastic.
What items would I be willing to give up if a plastic free alternative doesn't exist?
Takeout containers and bags – I am ashamed.
Ketchup packets – I rarely eat the stuff
Bread mix and almonds bag – purchased a long time ago, would rather make from scratch (and have switched to bulk)
What Items are essential and do not have a plastic alternative?
wine, tofu, honey (although I plan to ask at the farmer's market this weekend if I can get my honey in a jar).
What lifestyle change(s) might be necessary to reduce my plastic consumption?
Take reusable containers to restaurants for the rare occasions when we eat out, and get over the embarrassment.
Stick to buying bulk, even if it's not always convenient.
What one plastic item am I willing to give up or replace this week?
None of these things are things I consume regularly
Are there any other conclusions I can draw?
Although I have been much more conscious of my plastic consumption in the past month or so, there is still a lot of it hanging around… and it will hang around long after I am done with it…