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Would you buy home kits to test your high-schooler for alcohol or drug use? How about your middle-schooler?
As controversial as that might sound, it's easier than trying to help pull your child out of an intense drug addiction, some say.
With a in Waukesha County and four recent fatal overdoses, youth need stronger tools to avoid drug use in the first place, experts say. Here are suggestions on how parents can provide some of those tools:
Be the fall guy
Youth can pass up offered drugs and defeat peer pressure by complaining that their parents do random home drug tests, said Claudia Roska, executive director of the Addiction Resource Council in Waukesha.
Children can be taught to give that excuse, even if parents don't actually test.
"It gives them an out," said Sandra Schultz of the Waukesha County Drug Free Communities, adding: "I wouldn't hesitate to drug-test my kids."
Roska said parents should start home drug and alcohol testing in middle school as a preventive measure. "You don't want to be doing this at the height of a teen's rebellion," she added.
The trick is to for parents to stress that testing doesn't mean they don't trust their children. Roska said: "They can say, 'We love you so much that we want to protect you. We know how drugs work, how drugs make people lie. We want to make sure that you don't get sick and to protect you. We are doing this because we love you.'"
Breathalyzers can be purchased at Walgreens for $45, Schultz said.
Home drug test kits also are available, Roska said. Schultz said her daughter was aware of some peers whose parents test for drugs.
Lock up prescriptions drugs
Prescription drugs and pain killers are the fastest-growing drugs abused, law enforcement officers and counselors say.
Once addicted, users will look in anyone's medicine cabinets for prescription bottles, whether it be their own house, their relatives, their friends or complete strangers, said Scott Stokes, director of prevention at the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin.
"They often will ask to use the bathroom so they can look in the medicine cabinets," he said. "Grandparents are great ones to look in."
Schultz said she has heard reports of drugs being stolen at open houses, with one person distracting a real estate agent while another rifles through a bathroom for drugs.
Once "free" sources of prescription drugs are exhausted, some move to heroin, which is more readily available and cheaper, Wood said.
Schultz said small cases with "med locks" can be purchased to protect needed prescriptions.
"Drugs are as dangerous as a gun," she said. "You wouldn't have a gun sitting out somewhere. Lock it up."
Get rid of unneeded medications
Unneeded or expired medications should be removed, however, it's not that easy to properly dispose of drugs.
Don't pour them down the sink or flush them in the toilet where they can contaminate the groundwater, Schultz said.
If a local police department doesn't accept medical drop-offs (and few do) and there isn't a community drug collection event, people can grind their drugs and put it in a plastic baggie to be hauled to lined landfills to avoid most seepage, she added.
The Waukesha County Drug Free Communities has held three collection days with numerous drop-off sites around the county, collecting a total of about 10,000 pounds of medicines. They hope to hold another collection in May.
Talk, talk and role model
Parents may think they are talking to a wall but youth do listen, and they watch how their parents behave. If they see their parents use drugs or alcohol to relieve pain or stress, they may mimic the behavior, experts say.
According to the Addiction Resource Council, the average age for youth to start using tobacco is 12, alcohol just before 13, and marijuana at 14.
Parents can use media reports about drugs as conversation starters, Schultz said.
"Say 'Geesh, have you heard of this? Do you know anybody's who's ever tried heroin?' Get the conversation started," Schultz said.
"Arm them with a bit more information. Say, 'Have you heard about this? They say it can cause brain damage.' It's those subtle mentions that might stick with them," Schultz said.
Fight the urge to lecture or "freak out" if children confide in their own or a friend's drug or alcohol use, she added. Don't demand that they never see that friend again, for example.
"If you freak out, they're not going to tell you anything anymore," Schultz said. "Take in as much information as you can, then take a deep breath and figure out the best plan of attack for the information given to you."
Be vigilant and streetwise
"Education is the key," said Capt. Chuck Wood, commander of the Waukesha County Metro Drug Unit, which has seen heroin seizures rise in recent years.
"Try not to think that this only happens to other people's kids," or that it's an inner-city problem, he said. He pointed to the death of Maddie Kiefer, a 15-year-old Whitefish Bay girl who struggled with drugs.
Stokes, prevention director with the AIDS Resource Center, said when the organization began its needle exchange program in the early 1990s, the typical person exchanging dirty syringes for clean ones to prevent the deadly spread of AIDS and Hepatitis C were long-time drug users in their 30s and 40s.
"To have someone under 20 years old was a pretty rare event," he said. "Now we're seeing a lot of 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds. And the racial demographics are changing. Now it's mostly all white kids (injecting drugs). And African Americans are smoking crack."
"It's pretty scary stuff," he said.
Wood and Roska said parents should educate themselves on street terms and paraphernalia and be on the lookout for warning signs, such as this list from the Drug Free Communities.
The Addiction Resource Council website lists these warning signs:
- Changes in sleeping, eating, or grooming habits;
- Hypersensitivity or temper tantrums;
- Unexplained weight loss or gain;
- Red or watery eyes;
- Shaking of the hands, feet, or legs;
- Frequent nausea or vomiting;
- Excessive sweating;
- A drop in grades at school or skipping school;
- Loss of interest in family activities previously enjoyed;
- An "I don't care" attitude;
- Excessive need for privacy or secrecy; or
- An unexplained need for money or even stealing money
Seek help
If a child is using drugs, the Addiction Resource Council is a clearinghouse of information and referrals for treatment and counseling. They are located at W228 N683 Westmound Drive in Waukesha, (262) 524-7921 or email: email@example.com.
Other local resources include the Waukesha County Health and Human Services Department and 211 First Call for Help hotline by dialing 211 or (262) 547-3388.


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ICS prepares for annual auction Featured
Miss Wendy Loeber and her 3rd graders show their hand made canvas paintings that reflect their ICS spirit.
Miss Karly Cross and first grader Bert Fall paint a flower pot with their thumb prints for the auction.
Mitchell Coon and Garrett HIrt show off the chess board they made to be auctioned off.
Mrs. Penny Boyd and 4th grader Levi Schultz put the finishing touches on a tablecloth and napkin set for a picnic themed addition to the auction.
Immaculate Conception School is preparing for its 28th annual spring auction. This year's auction is Saturday, April 26, and the theme is Happy 90th Birthday ICS, as the school embarks on celebrating its 90th year of providing a faith filled education in Port Clinton.
The classrooms are all a flurry of activity as the finishing touches are put on many items that will be auctioned that not only are practical in purpose, but they were made with tender loving care by the V.I.P.'s of Immaculate Conception school - the students. Up for grabs are a beautiful homemade chess board, cork trivets, an Ohio basket filled with Ohio products, and gorgeous crosses made by each and every class in the school. Also available at the auction are the generous donations of many members of Immaculate Conception Parish, area business owners, and the community. There is certainly something for everyone.
Immaculate Conception wishes to thank anyone who donated in any way to make this most important fundraiser a success. Please join us for a wonderful night of celebrating the past and future of Immaculate Conception School. Doors open at 5:30. Tickets are $25 and are available at the school office at 109 W. 4th Street, Port Clinton, Ohio.

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Asia on My Mind and on the Move
Undersea cables are expensive to install. But if you're an Asian Internet hub trying to connect to other Asian Internet hubs across un-cabled waters, what else can you do?
Well, one alternative we see is Internet Providers heading to California, as many Asian providers opt for Internet paths out of Asia to the west coast of the US, and then back to Asia. These tortuous routes, aptly called hair-pinning (observe their supple shapes), may be cost-effective initially, but generate latency, which can be a problem for some businesses (and their end users).
Internet Transit Sales: 2005-10
The view from seat 22A
Long ago in a faraway Internet backbone galaxy
You remember 2005, don't you? Back then you could book wholesale IP transit for about $15 (€18 in Europe) per megabit a month. Data volume commits were much smaller then, as little as 1Gb. Those were the good old days. Today, traffic volumes have increased by as much as 10 times, yet many providers have seen little growth in total IP transit revenues.
IP Backbone: Hard sell, not so much
Think you're too busy to blog? Think again. Or just ask your boss. After more than 100,000 miles in coach class this year (so far), my backbone may be aching, but the IP backbone market is as agile and dynamic as ever. Sales opportunities abound, but to take advantage, you'd better be savvy, and just a little cagey.
So, as our gleaming 777 departs Kuala Lumpur, I'll just relax in my fully-reclined, ultra-deluxe coach seat and tell you what this globetrotting sales guy has seen, heard and figured out.
Two new trends
As if the global financial crisis weren't enough, beleaguered NSPs have to rejigger their business plans (yet again) to accommodate encroachment from brazen usurpers and ever more competitive pricing:
- Large eyeball networks (5 million+ subscribers) are selling paid peering to the largest content providers.
- There are big price reductions in IP transit all over eastern Europe – now close to parity with western Europe.
On the road again: Diary of an itinerant Internet transit sales guy
|Bob, the sales guy.
Ditched my #@!%$! cell in Stockholm. Verizon CDMA does not work in Europe! Upside: I now have a shiny, new World Edition Blackberry GSM/CDMA. I call it Trixie.
Road Tip: Just say NO! to mouth-searing kimchi or Indian curry for breakfast. No matter how polite you're trying to be.
With barely enough time to recharge Trixie after calls in Denver, Albuquerque, Stockholm and Bonn, I hopped a jet for Tokyo, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. (Trixie and I barely made it out of KL alive. Cab driver must have been conserving gas; tried to piggyback car in front.) Beginning to feel like Marco Polo on 'roids, but I gotta check out LA and DC before catching a shuttle back home to Boston (close enough).
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After the tragic stabbing death of eight-year-old Thomas Kossow, allegedly at the hands of his own mother, a family member is speaking out to thank the community for its support.
Misty Halterman-Ahrens spoke to the press Thursday afternoon. Her full statement is as follows:
"Thank you for being here today. On behalf of our families, we appreciate the community's support.
When Thomas walked into a room, it lit up with his bright smile. He was actually kind of shy, but when he was around other kids in the neighborhood, he was very outgoing.
When he was younger, we used to call him 'Thomas the Train'. With his red hair and blue eyes, some of his teachers liked to call him 'Howdy Doody'.
Thomas enjoyed school and loved race cars, Matchbox cars, and Lightning McQueen.
Thomas and his dad were best friends and were constantly by each other's side. They were a regular family leading regular lives.
We support Thomas' father, brothers, and sisters as they struggle to cope with what has happened.
We are very grateful for the community's outpouring of support. Friends have set up a website for donations and an account at Associated Bank. People we don't even know are holding fundraisers to help us pay for memorial expenses and rebuild the family's lives.
As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family. Some of us are still too much in shock to truly process what has happened. Tomorrow will be a hard day.
Our family won't be speaking with the media tomorrow. We're speaking to you today with the respectful request to let us grieve in peace tomorrow for our lost cousin, son, grandson, brother, friend and classmate...as we send him on angel wings up to heaven.
We will lovingly bury Thomas with his Lightning McQueen pillow and blanket that he slept with every night.
We love you, Thomas."
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Good Questions: What Do You Think of Jute Rugs?
Hello AT,
I am in the early stages of furnishing a new apartment, and am interested in rugs for the bedroom and living room. For the living room, I love the price, color , and look of this jute boucle rug in "rust" at West Elm, but I'm worried that jute rugs tend to smell.
In your experience is a jute rug a stinky proposition? And if so, can you recommend anything similar in a non-smelly material? Any insights on good, inexpensive rug resources would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks! Nomi
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i have the same rug from west elm but in green. it has never smelled "jutey" :)
The smell is barely noticeable and fades quickly. However, based on personal experience, they get dirty after awhile and if you spill anything, it will stain them. Its the problem with using a rug made out of grass - it pretty much acts like a perma-sponge.
I have a Jute rug (not a west elm one) in my bedroom and it doesn't have a scent... BUT I don't like the way it feels when I walk on it... I can't even sit directly on the rug comfortably...
Just a thought...
I've had a number of lower end jute rugs over the years and never a smell problem but rather a shedding or disintegration problem - which was a problem on hardwood floors as the residue was abrasive. I don't know if a higher end rug with an attached backing might solve this problem, perhaps that is the key.
I had the same concern about natural fiber rugs. Has anyone had success with a particular type of natural fiber rug?
Does a rug pad help with the friction?
I have 2 8x10 tan-ish colored ones from West Elm and love them. They are dirt cheap, look good, and haven't scratched my very nice hardwood floors at all, although I do use a rugpad to keep it from moving. It has frayed a bit in the last 4 years, but it's hardly noticeable and still looks great... and for the price? You can't beat it. Also, mine feels very nice underfoot, very comfortable, although I wouldn't want to lay naked on it. The tan-ish colored one I have is also a favorite of area open house stagers (in San Francisco) and works very well with a variety of styles.
Oh, and no "jute" smell at all (and I have an acute sense of smell... can usually smell smokers lingering out on the street in front of my apartment from the back of my 70' long flat.... I'm not kidding)
If you buy a jute rug, make sure to purchase a good rug pad. I used one of those cheapy, rubbery non-slip pads for my DWR jute rug. The jute rug scratched up the hardwood floors in my living room.
I didn't notice any smell from the rug. I agree with one of the posters above who made the comment that her jute rug wasn't comfortable. Mine wasn't.
Another option is IKEA. I'm not sure if what I got there is jute or sisal, but it looks about the same to me. It is certainly not easy to sit on, but I don't mind it on my feet and it doesn't smell a bit. I have it in my living room and office.
My first reaction was also the question of comfort -- try walking on it in your stocking feet and see how it feels.
boomer, where are you?
i like the look of jute, and the idea of jute, but the feel of jute gives me the willies. i'd opt for wool or cotton with that same sort of weave.
i like wool. wool makes me happy.
I had a jute rug- it was great, no smell, not to uncomfortable to walk on barefoor, great price. BUT, one day my 3 yr old fed the dog and cat an entire jar of cat treats and they both up chucked on it. You cannot clean them. I would replace it if I lived alone or with other adults only, but I can't recommend it if you live with animals (2 or 4 legged)
I had a cheapy one from Ikea. I loved it and so did my cat, who discovered it was great for scratching her claws. I didn't mind, since it was so inexpensive (and disposable) but I'd avoid getting a really nice one if you have a cat.
I'm interested in West Elm's new jute/wool blend rugs - maybe a little softer? And still a bargain.
And to digress a bit, although I've always been a wool fan, this year I got FLOR tiles in my bedroom - AWESOME. I got brown Modern Mix, and had so much fun arranging the tiles. I got samples ahead of time and was amazed at how soft it was. It's no more expensive than any other cool rugs, and I highly recommend it (although get samples first, because some are scritchy-scratchy underfoot).
Thank you everyone, this is extremely helpful and great food for thought. West elm just came out with a jute/wool blend, so maybe that's worth investigating. I will check out the FLOR tiles too.
While we're talking about the downsides of jute rugs... If you do have a pet that sheds, jute is impossible to clean. Fido or Fluffy's fur gets way down in the weave, forever.
Jute is difficult to clean even without pets; dust and all sorts of other ick gets stuck in the weave too.
I have two of these West Elm rugs as well as two four-legged shedding creatures. I didn't notice a smell at all, and I happen to like the scratchy feel. My cats enjoy scratching them, which is too bad, but they seem to take the abuse pretty well. I also find that my Dyson vacuum cleaner is pretty good a sucking up all the fur that accumulates. I definitely recommend.
Carpet can be made into an area rug. The cost is comparable to purchasing Flor tiles and carpet allows you a limitless selection of color and style. A wool/sisal blend carpet could replicate the natural appearance of jute and avoid the "scratchy" feeling some have mentioned. Don't forget to add in the cost of binding the edges when calculating the cost. Binding usually runs about $2 a linear foot (so a 9 X 12 piece of carpet would cost about $84 to bind). Remnants can reduce your costs further. I just got a quote for a 13 X 18 area rug made from a carpet remnant and the total cost was under $500 - half the price of using Flor tiles in the same space.
I saw a jute/wool blend rug at Pottery Barn; it looked decently made and was very comfortable to the hand. I'd use a good rug pad under it though.
Jute rugs Look great but are a nightmare to keep clean (inhe) - not very comfortable for the feet either. The latter is the greatest drawback for me......
Very difficult to clean, but can be done with time and effort. Don't even bother if you have pets or children.
aladywhoknows makes a good point - jute rugs are hard, sometimes impossible, to clean. (Especially red wine and coffee stains.)
Two yrs ago, I replaced my beautiful jute rug with a water hyacinth rug that I got from Crate and Barrel. Last week, I spilled an entire glass of red wine on it. I took it outside, hosed it down, let it dry in the sun, and it's as good as new. Also, the rug is quite comfortable to walk on.
In terms of cost, durability and quality, I'd say jute is a great transitional (or permanent) rug depending on your tastes. Years ago, I purchased Pottery Barn's 8X10 jute rug, and the only reason I don't have it now is because I didn't have the foresight to hold onto when my last (smaller) apartment couldn't accommodate it. In the interim period, I purchased another one that's alternated between kitchen, living room and office, and all on hardwood floors. It's held up remarkably well over the past five years--even with a crazed and demented kitty.
Although the mildly scratchy texture isn't for everyone, I personally love the feel of it against my soles.
In regards to cleaning, my cat's hair hasn't been any more of a challenge than anything else that will inevitably fall on the floor. My honey is a "grazer" who probably eats a bag of carrots, spinach and walnuts every other day. Of course the crumbs can get caught in the rug, but nothing a vacuum can't handle. Depending on the temperature in your house, natural fibers can and will shed. I've learned that an occasional spritzing with water will definitely reduce the shedding.
If you're looking for something with a more refined texture, the next step up is sisal. Feels wonderful underfoot, has a beautiful rhythmic pattern, but it'll cost 'ya....
Good luck ;)
Crate and Barrel has an inexpensive cotton and wool rug http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=1262&f=24236 - which should be a lot more comfortable and easy to clean. How long a wool and cotton rug will last is anyone's guess. I'd check out the percent wool vs. cotton). They also sell an all wool version, but that costs more.
If you want a rug pad which will not move, EVER, but has no real sponginess, check out Neiman Marcus. Use a secondary email account to buy it - they will send you two advertising emails a day for the rest of your life and you can only "unsubscribe" by mailing them a letter!
I've had a jute rug in my living room for years, from Ikea. I don't remember a smell, and I don't have a problem with staining or getting the cat hair out. I also don't mind the scratchiness on my feet (I live in bare feet), though I no longer enjoy sitting on the floor in my underwear! One thing I've found that the edges seem to curl if you spill water or something on it. They take a long time to go flat again, and I've never been able to get all the curling totally out of the edges.
For super-inexpensive, mono-color rugs, I used to have a lot of luck with Home Depot of all places. I've gotten huge (8x10?) carpet rugs that are much softer than jute for under $100. Of course, they look like uninstalled carpet, which might not be your aesthetic. But unlike some of my Ikea rugs, I never had a problem with shedding (and certainly never had a problem with smell!)
I actually like the feel of my jute rugs (from Pottery Barn) on bare feet.
On bare knees, not so much.
I'd expect a wool/cotton rug to be pretty disposable compared to 100% wool. I'm not sure how it would compare to jute or sisal.
Cotton fibers are typically 1/4" to 1 1/4" long. Rug wools (the good durable ones) are 6 or more inches long. When fibers are that different in length, it's very difficult to keep the shorter fiber distributed well in the yarn. Also, the shorter fibers tend to creep out with wear and form pills or just plain shed. The yarn manufacturer can do some things to minimize these effects, but all of them are a fair bit of work and thus the yarn would cost more. Gotta cover the cost of special machinery to do the job.
IIRC there are also some longevity issues with cotton in rugs, with wool or without. Boomer probably knows more than I do tho.
I bought one for the area infront of my kitchen sink and counter areas...BIG mistake. There's too much regular traffic in my apartment for the rug to look nice for too long. I actually threw it out late last week. I couldn't take the way it looked anymore and it was impossible to clean.
If you have a place to put it where it won't get soiled easily, you should be fine....but if you're going to use your rug like a rug should be then you might want to get something a little more practicval.
This is for Patrick (the other one), from Rupert Brooke's "The Great Lover", because he likes the feel of the jute under his bare feet (which brought Brooke's blankets to mind):
These I have loved:
White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust;
Wet roofs, beneath the lamp-light; the strong crust
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood;
And radiant raindrops couching in cool flowers;
And flowers themselves, that sway through sunny hours,
Dreaming of moths that drink them under the moon;
Then, the cool kindliness of sheets, that soon
Smooth away trouble; and the rough male kiss
Of blankets; grainy wood; live hair that is
Shining and free; blue-massing clouds; the keen
Unpassioned beauty of a great machine;
The benison of hot water; furs to touch;
The good smell of old clothes; and other such -
The comfortable smell of friendly fingers,
Hair's fragrance, and the musty reek that lingers
About dead leaves and last year's ferns. . . .
Since no response whatsoever can compare to those magnificent words, I say only "you rocked my world."
Among the oldest known types of flooring, jute rugs create an environmentally friendly space and is all the rage these days, Jute rugs are one of the many wonderful choices in natural fibers, they have a brightness and a silky sheen that illuminate and invigorate any area. The soft feel of the jute rug makes it ideal for bedrooms and sitting rooms. Because of the organic texture and unique appearance of a natural jute rug, it makes an exquisite addition to any room.
Jute is not recommended for areas with high moisture levels such as bathrooms or washrooms, however. It is also best not to steam clean or wet-shampoo a jute rug. While jute rugs are surprisingly long-wearing, quality floor coverings, they are not suggested for high-traffic areas.
Here we can find some more information about Jute Rugs.
I recently bought a refined jute rug from Dainty Red Bird and its gorgeous…doesn't smell, beautiful pattern, well made and so smooth underfoot! Definitely recommend this rug!


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Throwback Monday: Greece!
It's time for us to leave winter behind and focus our sights on sunny horizons, mainly: GREECE!
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The evolution of school marketing communications in the digital era
Posted by Napatthorn Bel Laoboonchai on 4/26/11 • Categorized as Course 1,Marketing and Communications
Reading the article, "Online Community Manager: A New Position in Education" by Jeff Utrecht was like a reality check for me as it provides reflection on the future direction of my professional career. The article, as the name suggests, talks about a new non-teaching/administrative position in education. Put simply, this person will be responsible for doing the work that the traditional Development/Marketing department does but doing it on the online space. The tasks may include creating online communication strategies to producing the actual content or even to measure the effectiveness of this new way of communication in reaching their targeted audience.
One thing I take from reading Jeff's article is how powerful the Internet has become in education and the fact that integrating social media is now an inevitable agenda of a school. In fact, I first heard about this new position from the CASE Conference I attended in March 2011. Andy Shaindlin, Alumni Futures gave his interesting presentation on "4 Myths & 4 Realities of Social Media for Schools". At the beginning of his talk, he asked us to put up our hands if we've heard of the position 'Online Community Manager' before. About 10 out of 200 people put their hands up. He went on to say that by next year conference, he is confident that more than half of us will put our hands up. I agree with him.
To confirm that Jeff and Andy were right and that the School can no longer ignore their online presence, NIST is now hiring for a newly opened position of Communication, Alumni & Community Relations Manager. One of the main tasks of this job is to monitor the School online presence and to use the online channel as an additional way for communication. Personally, I see a bright future for this position and I see the needs for such position at NIST. Considering how much NIST has invested in technology from wireless campus to one-to-one tablet program, it is crucial that the same message and image are conveyed about the School as a whole. Having someone assigned on such duty will certainly help to promote NIST online presence which will eventually help upgrade the School image and reputation.
However, I tried to visualize the ideal person for this position and I have to admit that it was a difficult task. The first question that pops up in mind was if the person should have a PR/Marketing background or IT background. I then came across an article on "Social Media Staffing" by Elizabeth Allen which she tried to address the same issue. I completely agreed with Elizabeth that this person should "know a lot about building relationships and engaging in conversations". The person should also "have strong, high-level understanding of school's organization's mission, values and goals". Having this in mind, I imagine that the successful candidate should preferably have a background in marketing and PR but he/she should be tech savvy. At the end of the day, the collaboration must come from all parties in a school from the Development Department to the IT Department. Most importantly, whatever content that will be published online must be genuine and reflect what really goes on in classrooms so the raw content should come from students and teachers. Then it will depend on the Online Communication Manager on how to best present those information in the digital form. In conclusion, creating a positive online presence is a whole school effort and perhaps this serves as a perfect opportunity to break that barrier between teachers and the Administrative Office.


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Harry starts his 5th year - AU, eventual H/Hr. MildlyPowerful!Harry, Smart!Harry, TakesInitiative!Harry. See chapter one for more detailed summary.
Friday, 24 May 1996
Great Hall
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
The fifth year students sat in the Great Hall at many individual desks, the tables having been moved to the walls. They were 15 minutes into their written Charms OWL, and Harry was currently confident that he would pass with flying colours. As he moved onto the next question, he was reminded about his charms class in first year.
What is the spell for levitation of an object, and its wand movement?
Harry answered smiling, remembering his use of wandless magic and teaching Hermione to do it as well.
The spell is 'Wingardium Leviosa' and the wand movement is a 'swish and flick'. I have found that the spell works just as well when you leave out the verbal portion and the wand movement. Of course, when I learned this spell, I had mastered the effect wandlessly years previously.
Moving on, Harry completed the written exam with ten minutes to spare. That afternoon found him taking the practical portion of the DADA exam. He guessed his examiner had probably been born sometime in the late Cretaceous.
"Now, Mr. Potter, if you could just run through some spells for me, just show me what you know."
"With or without wand?" asked Harry. "I can do almost all the spells equally well either way."
Surprised, the examiner noticed his use of 'almost'.
"Almost all?"
"Well, the patronus charm is one I can't seem to do without a wand."
"Well, if you'd like to do the spells without a wand, feel free. I just need to see that you can do the magic, how you do it is not so important." said the examiner.
After Harry had run through the various DADA spells he had learned and several others, the examiner spoke again.
"That was most impressive, Mr. Potter. I've heard tell that you can produce a corporeal patronus, can you demonstrate for me?"
"Certainly, though there are at least 15 others taking their tests today who can as well." said Harry, before taking out his staff in its wand form. Unable to choose between several very happy thoughts, he shrugged and held his wand out. A silver stag, lion, and snake emerged, causing his eyebrows to disappear into his hair. The examiner was equally surprised, as were the rest of those testing.
"Um, that's never happened before. There being three of them, that is. I suppose maybe picking just one happy thought is what limits it."
As the members of the DA and ADA in the room heard this, they too tried thinking multiple happy thoughts. The room was filled with silvery animals, stunned examiners, and grinning students. The examiners took to asking all the students they tested if they could produce a patronus.
Monday, 22 April 1996
Great Hall
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Harry was sitting his History of Magic OWL. As he answered questions about a variety of things, he wondered why the only subject Binns seemed to lecture about was the Goblin rebellions. As Harry neared the end of the exam, he was sure that it could be prescribed as a cure for insomnia.
Saturday, 1 June 1996
Hogsmeade Station
Hogsmeade Village
Harry stood with a team of ADA members in grey CUs, explaining the security for the trip to King's Cross. The Ministry, in a fit of efficiency, had managed to arrange for the use of a Muggle diesel locomotive and some coaches, along with a squib crew. The partially rebuilt steam engine was currently sitting on a side track.
As they boarded the train, Harry went to find Ron and Hermione. As the train pulled out of the station, the unusual (to hear in Hogsmeade, that is) two-tone horn of the engine marked the end of an unusual year.
Nodding to ADA members in their grey CUs, Harry made his way along the train until he found Ron and Hermione with Neville and Ginny reading the rear of the train.
"Hermione, did you make the emergency portkeys for your parents?"
"Excellent. I don't want to have to worry about them being attacked because of you and us not knowing about it. The portkeys should let them escape. You don't mind if I come with you and help with the wards, do you? I'd like to talk to your parents about the whole ADA thing." said Harry, before turning to the others in the compartment.
"Now, on Wednesday, I plan to use my position as Head of the House Potter to see what properties I own, and what security they have. If any of you want to come with me, I plan to look at these properties if I have them, and decide where to reside. It's likely to become the headquarters for the ADA."
"I'll talk to Gran, but I don't see why I wouldn't be able to." said Neville.
"If Ron can get permission, I can too." said Ginny.
"Of course I'll come." said Hermione.
As they all looked at Ron, he looked up after a moment of silence.
"Huh? Oh, yes, I'll come."
"Okay. Meet me outside Gringotts around 11 on Wednesday, then."
Saturday, 1 June 1996
Platform 9 ¾
King's Cross Station
The Express pulled into the station. As the ADA got off and made their way off the platform, they changed their CUs to the normal green style, drawing only cursory glances from the Muggles, who assumed that they were in the Armed Forces, the effect helped along by the ADA choosing rank markings that were very similar those of the British army.
Saturday, 1 June 1996
Riddle Manor
Little Hangleton
Voldemort was still trying to make a new plan. A Potter-Proof plan. Unfortunately, the only plans he could think of that were Potter-Proof were the ones that didn't involve doing anything.
"Damn you, Harry Potter!" yelled Voldemort.


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Geth self sabotage
Ignoring for now (it's discussed later in the page) that the geth design their fighters to be usable by organics, why do the Geth also include in their military bases essentially unguarded machines that let organics enter their network with virtual guns that can shoot and destroy probably sensitive code/runtimes? Why even build the machines in the first place?
Everyone walks forward while shooting
In several cutscenes, characters shoot at their targets while moving towards them. Why? I can't imagine how that would improve their aim, especially when they could have done better to back away from their targets. Think of how the fight between the Virmire Survivor and Evabot would have gone, if the VS didn't charge forward only to get their face bashed in, but instead backed away or held their ground so that they can get more shooting time in. Thane would have benefited from this too: maybe he would have actually landed a shot against Kai Leng if he wasn't walking and shooting at the same time.
Cerberus power level discrepancy between Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3
Seriously, I know it's because they're villains now and we need something to fight that isn't husks or giant floating spaceships, but where were the giant mechs and legions of commandos in Power Armour when Shepard was fighting for his/her life in Mass Effect 2?
Vanishing Kid
Normandy's Leaving Earth
Ashley's Rank/Appearance
No Turian Infiltrators in multiplayer?
Quarians and Geth
Casual Outfits Beyond The Normandy
Flash Back Spoilers:
Really, Virmire Survivor?!
Last Mission
Submachine Guns
Cerberus Attack on Sur'Kesh
Ah, yes, "ducking"
When Kai Leng and Shepard have their stand-off at the Citadel, why doesn't the Salarian Councillor duck so you can get a clear shot at him? Instead Valern/Esheel just stands there and makes it impossible to attack Leng.
The Citadel and Relay Network
The Illusive Man move in elusive ways
Sins of the Fathers
Asari Biology
Legion and the Reaper Code
Exact number of Ardat-Yakshi
Reapers attack on Sanctuary
"They used to eat flies."
Neutral Options
Why does the dialog wheel never have neutral options anymore? It's always straight Paragon or Renegade now. Did just no-one ever use them so they didn't bother recording them or what?
Male divinities in the asari pantheon?
In the Temple of Athame we see statues of male angel-equivalents who were credited teaching the asari about civilization. Shouldn't this have ringed some bells in the heads of every anthropologist in existence concerning the origins of the asari culture? Where would they have learned about the existence of masculine entities at all, outside alien contact?
Reaper Tech and Indoctrination
Isn't anybody worried about people in the Alliance, Council, or other races being indoctrinated during the main story? The Reaper tech you picked up during the N7 Sanctum mission goes straight to Alliance researchers and nobody thinks that might be a problem? The Derelict Reaper from Mass Effect 2 proved that Reaper corpses with any kind of power can still generate enough juice to indoctrinate organics ... yet nobody seems to be bothered by giant Reaper corpses now sitting on Tuchanka and Rannoch?
Scions and Praetorians
Why the absence of these enemies? Being made from Husks, there should be plenty of materials on hand for the Reapers to make more of them, and we know that the Scions, at least, are not Collector-dependent, as they show up on the Derelict Reaper.
War Asset oddities
Much of the process of gathering war assets seems completely arbitrary. Why are there random warships and commando teams hanging around planets without either reaper presence or installations to defend? Why was the Volus dreadnaught Kwunu orbiting a random gas giant instead of defending the homeworld or linking up with other fleets? It is also possible to gain Asari assets before the invasion of Thessia that are for some reason NOT recalled to defend the homeworld.
Vendetta (Prothean VI)
Vendetta was programmed to reveal the Citadel as the Catalyst only once the Crucible was completed. He explains this is to avert the Reapers� learning of the threat in advance and then taking control of the Citadel to prevent the Crucible�s use. But isn't �taking control of the Citadel� usually the very first thing the Reapers do? Why would he have been programmed with safeguards that assumed otherwise? The only Protheans with reason to believe the following cycle would prevent the Citadel-trap were the Ilos team, and they worked in complete isolation. Are we meant to assume the Citadel is normally left undefended after the Reapers make use of it?
The Reapers' Rachni Queen
"Chemistry of Life"
The Lawson Family
Late in the game, we learn that Miranda and Oriana's father is a man named Henry Lawson. Now, while it's very strange to think Miranda would keep the surname of the father she despised it can, perhaps, be justified. But why on earth does Oriana, who was kidnapped as a baby, raised by foster/adoptive parents and then hidden from her father again carry the Lawson name?
Normandy's weapons
Several missions(the academy one comes to mind) involve the Normandy not being able to drop you closer or pick you up because a Cerberus ship is running interference. The Normandy still has those massive guns from Garrus' upgrade that tore through the collector ship like butter. Has Cerberus' tech upgrades gotten to the point that those aren't working anymore?
Legion's Sacrifice
How come Legion still dies if you make peace between the quarians and geth? It babled something about "disseminating personality matrix" before dropping dead. Even if his physical body experienced terminal overclocking, shouldn't his programs be able to upload themselves away offsite, just fine? To me, it seems as if Bioware wanted to make it a Bittersweet Ending just 'cause.
The Crucible and the Conduit
Earth Death Toll Numbers
Missed a step, Doctor?
When Thane is fatally wounded by Kai-Leng, he stays alive long enough to be carted to the hospital and recieve rudimentary treatment. It couldn't save him, but it gave him time to say his goodbyes. However, his clothes in the hospital were still the one he'd gotten stabbed in. Did the staff remove his bloodstained and torn coat, perform surgery, and then put it back on later. It's not as if they don't use hospital gowns, since the Virmire suvivor recieves one and a human/asari gown would fit just fine. So, why not?
Have to space it?
If you betray Wrex, he comes at you with a shotgun but ultimately ends up getting shot to death through a window. Bailey comments that Wrex may be too big for a coffin and they'd have to space him. Why? The Citadel has Krogan passing through there fairly often, and Elcor, which are bigger than Krogan, are Citadel members. Surely they'd have those guys die every so often. Do both Krogan and Elcor not have a tradition of burial?
Tarquin Victus big screw-up
What, exactly, was Tarquin Victus major screw-up that he is repeatedly accused of by his soldiers and your squad members? As far as I can tell, he was faced with two equally bad alternatives: Attack a dug-in enemy head-on and suffer guaranteed casualties OR try a risky approach which has at least some chance of surprising the enemy troops at the price of high vulnerability before the landing. I just don't see how he is supposed to have screwed up for chosing caution over suicide. The only reason I can think of is that he acted against the Turians main strategy to attack the enemy head-on with overwhelming force, or am I missing something here?
Tali and spiders
How does Tali even know what a spider is? Has she encountered some on the Citadel? On Omega? In human colonies?
Piloting a Geth Ship
After the Geth Dreadnought mission, Legion pilots a Geth fighter to get Shepard and his two squadmates back to the Normandy. It does so by having its mobile platform physically operate the controls, just like any organic would. Why the heck are Geth ships built with this kind of controls? A race composed of software processes would have a much better response time if they cut the mechanical middle-man, and simply uploaded themselves into the ship. The same goes for the many terminals found throughout the dreadnought.
Ruined Suit, Perfect Face
When Harbinger shows up before the conduit and blasts the entire ground force apart, Shepard takes a direct hit reflected in his/her damaged armor. But how the hell is his/her pretty face just fine afterwards, even if you weren't wearing a helmet? Hell, Shepard's armor melted off the tough bastard, and there's not even burn marks or lacerations or anything. It's not as if it can't be rendered (think Virmine Survivor in hospital, bloody face during opening), so what caused Bioware to overlook that?~
Why are they roughly 7� feet tall when asari are all generally the same height as human women, other huskified species mirror their organic counterparts in size (yes, brutes are significantly larger than krogan, but that's attributable to visible cybernetics)?
Indoctrinated Access to Vendetta (Thessia Beacon)
How was Kai Leng able to download the data from the beacon on Thessia? When he arrives, the VI notes that "an indoctrinated presence has been detected". Given that Shepard and Co. had to convince it to give them information on the Catalyst, why doesn't it shut down or otherwise refuse to give Leng the data?
Fleets getting through the relay
Air Car Brakes
Liara's pre final battle Asari merger "gift"
Liara and the Shadow Broker
Blood Pack
In Aria's mission, you assassinate the Blood Pack leader and replace him with one loyal to Aria; problem being, both leaders are vorcha, where as ME2 made it clear that the vorcha had no authority in the Blood Pack, and were just cannon fodder for the krogan bosses. Did Shepard whip out every krogan in the blood pack in 2(hyperbole)? While we're on the subject; the Blue Suns leader; I'm playing on an import where Vito survived Zieed's misison; how did he lose control of the Blue Suns?
Why don't you just shoot him?
To be clear, I know the narrative reason this didn't happen, I just can't think of a logical in-universe one; during Thane's fight with Leng, Leng is knocked prone for several seconds by Thane's biotic PAWNCH. I assume the reason Thane didn't press the attack is that he was out of breath from the exertion and needed a second to recover. My question is why the hell didn't Shepard start unloading on Leng while he was on the ground? During the fight, he didn't have a shot because of Thane and Leng tussling, plus he and his squad had to secure the councilor. But really, your squadmates could handle securing the councilor while Shepard backs up Thane, and while Leng is on the ground, Shepard has a clear shot; Thane's not in the way, he's off to the side out of Shepard's line of sight, and there are several feet between him and the target. Not to mention, Shepard is an extremely good shot. Leng should have been swiss cheese at this point.
The quarians and the Treaty of Farixen
After Admiral Shala'Raan admits that many quarian ships are technically dreadnoughts, then Shepard has the option of chewing them out for breaking the Treaty of Farixen and Shala'Raan accepts that they broke it (although somewhat flippantly). Why? The quarians are not a Council race and the Treaty is between Council races only, so the quarians are not actually subject to the treaty.
Shepard can't hold his/her liquor?
In Mass Effect 2 it takes three shots of the green stuff, one shot of batarian ale and one shot of ryncol to drop him/her. S/he also managed to survive deliberate poisoning from the batarian bartender on Omega. In Mass Effect 3 it only takes three shots to make Shep fall asleep on the couch. I know it's the end of life as we know it and people will be drinking pretty heavily, but are they really just slinging out shots of krogan liquor to the average patron? Or is Shepard just getting old?
Fall of Thessia
The Reapers haven't watched The Terminator
Ok, by now we all know the reapers' plan. What I see as the biggest flaw in the Catalyst's logic is that it makes the assumption that organic life will conquer ftl travel sooner than it will develop artificial intelligence. Now, assuming this was to happen and the worst case scenario were to occur with the A.I. killing the pre-spaceflight organics that created it, would it not be possible if not probable for the A.I. to become itself spacefaring and potentially cause the destruction of galactic life halfway between reaper harvesting?
Salarian contribution to the war assets
If you choose to sabotage the genophage cure, the only exclusive reward that you receive is the Salarian First Fleet war asset, which is worth 150 points in military strength. If Wrex is alive, you will be sacrificing a total of 405 points from the Krogans (30 from Wrex, 300 from Clan Urdnot, and 75 from the Krogan Mercenaries) in exchange for token Salarian support. This totally removes the entire supposed moral dilemma of pragmatism vs. idealism and instead, making anyone that actually sabotage the genophage cure into Stupid Evil territory. Also, the Dalatrass promised you that the Salarian Union will provide the Alliance with both full military support and their best scientists to work on the Crucible project, yet said scientists never shows up in your war assets.
Asari ignorance and the beacon
In Priority:Thessia it's revealed the Asari have been in the possession of a fully functional Prothean beacon for the last 50,000 years. In Mass Effect 1, even a broken Prothean beacon is able to transmit enough information to make the existence of the Reapers immediately known to Shepard, even before he got the Cipher. So even without any further action, anyone who came close to the statue of Athame would have had visions of the Reapers and have been utterly convinced of their existence. So why didn't the Asari do anything? Hell, even if you argued that the beacon didn't send out those signals because it worked too well, they should still have gone after the Cipher for the same reason they're stated to have kept the beacon hidden: to aid their own development. Another matter of less importance is who are said to be involved. The Asari councillor says that only higher functionaries in the Asari government know, but the Asari work through a direct e-democracy without representatives except a handful in the Citadel Council for interspecies affairs. How would politicians manage to constantly leak revolutionary technology without anybody finding out, when they don't even have the authority to distribute scientific funds? Then it becomes even worse: Liara says Matriarch Benezia was also involved in the conspiracy, but she's got nothing to do with any formal position in Asari government, she's just an Asari with a lot of private power and wealth, and her status as Matriarch is granted because of her age. The entire conspiracy plot reveal just makes no sense.
Just use Lift on him
Anyone Genre Savvy knew that Lieutenant Victus was going to die disarming the bomb, but the way they did it left a big gaping hole in logic. As far as drama goes it was a good cutscene, really played up the whole Redemption Equals Death and Heroic Sacrifice tropes, but a few hours later I realized that it didn't make sense. Hey Shepard: when the bomb detonator is falling and Victus is going to be squashed by several tons of metal, why don't you call one your biotic teammates to grab him with a mass effect field and pull him to safety? You can't even argue a Gameplay and Story Segregation here, because biotic powers are a main part of the universe and are frequently used in cutscenes. Yeah, there would be a problem if you didn't have a biotic squadmate on that mission, but hell, Bioware did something similar in Dragon Age II: if you don't have Anders with you and you take your brother or sister into the darkspawn caverns, they invariably die. If they really definitely wanted Victus to die, they could have just changed the scenario to make his death less preventable.
Thane's Final Moments
Not sure if it was just my playthrough, or if it's been actually fixed yet, but during Thane's final moments in the hospital is something of a wallbanger, at least when I got to it. When you go to read from the book with Kolyat, and Thane turns to face the window before he dies, he was clearly still breathing through the entire scene. Just that little glitch, which makes Bioware seem a little absent minded about a supposedly emotional scene, makes it all hard to connect with anymore. I mean, he's likely not wanting to face the two when he actually dies, but with him continuing to breath it actually looks like he's just getting more comfortable to rest...then they essentially assume He's Dead Jim, while he continues to breath even as Shepard leaves.
Ashley knowing about Shepard's romance interests
Recovering the Citadel (Ending Spoilers)
Tali's ship name
The problem with Legion VI
Dark interiors of Alliance ships
How does synthesis bring about peace?
So, do wars stop happening for reasons other than "We think at the speed of light and you don't?"
Why no first name in Shepard's memorial?
This would have been a perfect opportunity to feature Shepard's first name on screen for the first time in the franchise, but for some reason it wasn't taken. Why, Bioware, why?
How does Synthesis make any sense?
I have several issues with Synthesis(including in the Extended Cut).
The Crucible
How does anything about it make sense? The Catalyst describes it as a power source. OK. Power for what? What were the designers hoping to do with it? When it docks with the Citadel, we find out that it alters the Catalyst. But the Catalyst also seems to say that Shepard is the first organic to learn about it. So the Crucible was built to interact with something no one knew existed?
Wrex's sudden knowledge
Curing the genophage
Doctor Eva's biotic immunity
Shepard's obsession with Earth
What about Organic Technology?
The Catalyst claims that a technological singularity is inevitable and that organics will lose the fight when it happens because synthetics are innately superior. But why should that be? Why the complete disregard for the potential of organics? Granted, in this cycle the Council outlawed cloning of sentients and extensive genetic engineering, but was this seriously the case in every cycle?
Final Sur'Kesh Scene
So during the final scene on the Salarian Homeworld, Shepard storms up to a Cerberus Trooper Eve has shot with Wrex's shotgun. After talking to the Trooper (Who says nothing becuase he's been SHOT), he dies. Sorry Shepard, but what did you expect talking to an implanted zealot?
Size Distortion
Leviathan (Unmarked Leviathan Spoilers)
Matriarch Aethyta - Dead or Alive?
You get more War Assets for letting Kirrahe die
Multiplayer enemies
Mainstay of the Turian Military?
According the the lore, the Phaeston assault rifle is the weapon used by the Turian military, where it is held in high regard for its rapid fire and low recoil. However, when we go to Menae, the moon of Palaven, we see regular Turian infantry using the human counterpart Avengers. Did they all discard their arguable superior rifles for the weapons cargo of a downed transport? Or were the developers just lazy?
Did Hackett know about the Luna AI?
The duration of war.
When you first visit the Citadel, an asari there tells about how she was assigned to Tiptree to help the evacuation. She spent at least a few days there. Now, she is in the Citadel hospital, and it seems like it is not her first day there either. Then, toward the end of the game, Joker says the Reaper only invaded Tiptree "A couple of weeks ago". Ehhh... Does anyone else find something wrong with the math? Because I certainly didn't get the impression the events of the game only lasted a week.
Why does Shepard not realise/question certain things?
Is it me, or does Shepard carry an idiot ball in the third game?
The Second Rachni Choice
The choice in the third game strikes me as incredibly out of character for Shepard if the renegade option (killing the queen) was chosen in the first game. If you spared her in the first game, she's captured in the third and the paragon choice is to free and recruit her. Makes sense. Renegade choice is to kill her. Also makes sense, if an originally Para Shep has slid more towards being a ruthless and distrustful Ren Shep (and there's a risk of Grunt dying if you free her). However, if she was killed in the first game, an indoctrinated breeder is there in her place. For reasons that make no sense, the options are reversed. Para Shep's option is to kill her. This could be explained away by the fact that the breeder is obviously crazy, Shep's original choice was to kill rachni and s/he isn't changing now, or just a higher loyalty to Grunt. But I don't actually recall a Para Shep option to kill someone before when there was the faintest possibility of saving them (even Saren), so it's still a bit iffy. Ren Shep's choice of recruiting the indoctrinated breeder makes even less sense. With the exception of the Morinth choice (which was similarly strange), Ren Shep always kills anyone/anything they find remotely untrustworthy. Caution and ruthlessness are pretty much his/her thing, so why would s/he decide to recruit the suspicious breeder of all things? Especially when balanced against other potential renegade choices - like sabotaging the genophage cure because the krogan are dangerous. It's even lampshaded by Joker - Shep kills the sane queen and recruits the insane breeder? So what was Bioware's reason? Is it just that they couldn't be bothered making the two scenarios (queen/breeder) that different from each other, and decided that Ren Shep would be the moron/jerkass in both? Or they couldn't be bothered with a third option - where the paragon and renegade Sheps would kill the breeder in different ways (one more merciful, the other harsher), and a neutral option to recruit it? Or is there some logic in there somewhere?
Reaper Blackstar: What's with the handgrip?
It just seems odd that the Reapers would make a weapon with a human-style handgrip and trigger when they could easily integrate it with a husk's body instead, like with the Scion's shockwave cannon in ME2. Otherwise, it's like they're just begging for someone like Shepard to pick it up and turn it against them. Also, if the Blackstar is such an effective weapon, why don't we see the Reapers using large-scale versions of it as anti-dreadnought weapons, instead of spamming Thanix beams all over the place?
Reapers Don't Know How to Aim Rockets or Ballistics (Thessia)
On Thessia, at the very beginning of the mission Sheppard gets to an Asari post headed by Lieutenant Kurin. The perimeter is soon breached, an Asari blocks the breach with a biotic bubble and Sheppard has to get on the turret to shoot Brutes and Husks. When this fight is over there's a cut scene. During this scene, the reaper forces launch rockets at the biotic bubble. If we look at the rockets' paths closely, we can see their trajectory is curved, in both the horizontal and vertical planes. This implies guided flight. Why can't the reapers just aim to hit the area behind the bubble? Actually, if one of the rockets had just been aimed a little bit more to the right (seen from our perspective during the cut scene), it would have been able to fly over what remained of the original fence and hit behind the fence, right in the middle of the courtyard. In the cutscene this rocket hits the biotic bubble but the bubble is higher than the fence. For that matter, have the Reapers ever heard of mortars? It is true that there are major difference between a mortar and a bazooka. A modern fighting unit equipped with self-propelled rockets might not be able to accomplish what a unit equipped with mortars could. However, the Reapers are leagues ahead of us technologically: using a rocket as a mortar round should be nothing to them.
Shepard's Spectre Status and the Alliance
Jacob cheating on Shepard
Motivations of Citadel's Dragon
EDI, Eva's body and the Normandy in Citadel DLC
Shepard forgetting the importance of wartime secrecy in the Citadel DLC
A key part of military intelligence is the control of information, as this World War 2 poster◊ demonstrates. As a experienced officer, Shepard should be well aware of this. However, as shown in this video, not only does Shepard openly discuss the Alliance's plan to assault the headquarters of Cerberus soon, she/he did so in a public event, with a dozen civilians listening. All it takes will be a single Cerberus sympathizer or Reaper indoctrinated agent in the crowd to leak that information to Cerberus, and the entire assault on Cronos Station will be turned from a Curb-Stomp Battle for the Alliance military into a total disaster that will cost countless lives (not to mention crippling the Alliance Navy, making the Battle of Earth even more risky). What on Earth was Shepard thinking?!
Tuchanka: Bomb
I have two questions about this mission.
Citadel DLC: general questions (spoilers!)
The effects of the Reaper War being non existent in the Citadel DLC
Vega romance-able.
Amount of Random Husks
Why didn't the Reapers just... wait?
Jack's rack
Why were the Keepers and Saren even necessary?
If the Catalyst is the Citadel, why couldn't it have just activated the relay itself? Why bother with the Keepers and after they failed, sending in Saren and Sovereign to activate it manually? I mean, christ, that combined with TIM being a recycling of Saren makes me wonder if Mac Walters knows a damn thing about the series lore.
Huge Guns
This is meant more of an out-of-universe developer question. Why are guns in the Mass Effect universe so enormous? Aside from shotguns and maybe SMGs, every gun seems to be several times larger than its (for lack of a better term) real-world counterpart. Even the smallest pistol is roughly the size of a Desert Eagle. And yes, I know that these are magic sci-fi guns and they don't have to conform to real-world gun aesthetics. I'm not an idiot. But my question is why did the developers choose to make the guns so big? They could have made the guns as big or as small as they wanted, but they went with big.
Kirrahe saving the councillor
If Thane died during the suicide mission, during the cerberus coup Kirrahe will instead save the councillor by taking a bullet. Is it ever explained what Kirrahe was doing in executor's office, or did I miss something? The last time we saw him he was on Sur'Kesh. Why was he on the Citadel in the first place?
Phantom Sync-Kill
This troper doesn't seem to understand why the Phantom's instant kill move, "Impale" is even lethal at all. The Phantoms sre purpotedly armed with Monomolecular blades, which is fine and all, but shouldn't that therefore do the most damage when slashing/cutting? Assuming it holds its edge, the real damage from a blade comes directly from the area in which you do your damage, or the size of the wound. The Phantom seems to simply impale Shepard/Multiplayer Character in the Abdomen, which (s)he could easily survive; as in a monomolecular inch-sized stab wound. The damage doesn't come from the size of the wound either, as the tip of the blade is only about an inch or so. What irks me more is that the other instakill animations make sense. The Atlas's crushes with a huge claw, applying trauma to a very large area, and the Banshee sticks a larger-than-monomolecular hand through its victim. Why doesn't the Phantom just slash its victim, something, imho, that would cause far more bodily trauma than a "monomolecular stab".
Kalros and the maw hammers
How come Kalros wasn't attracted by the Reaper's steps before the hammers were turned on?
Who's imprisoned for working with Cerberus and who isn't
Ken and Gabby are arrested just for serving on board the Normandy, despite having not committed any serious crimes. The only way for them to get free again is if you arrange for them to be pardoned by using your influence as a Spectre. Meanwhile Jack, who's been a criminal pretty much her whole life before ME2, is not only forgiven for her crimes and for being part of your crew, but is offered a job at Grissom Academy. Wouldn't it have made more sense the other way around, with Gabby & Ken getting a slap on the wrist and Jack being locked up again? Sure, Jack turned out to be trustworthy, but the Alliance had no way of knowing she would be and every reason to believe she wouldn't be, given her history.
Why does Miranda hold out on Shepard?
Citadel DLC No-shows
Ardat-Yakshi Commandos
When did everyone on the Normandy get so introverted?
In a talk with Liara, Garrus mentions putting rugs down in the weapons CIC and basically living in there. This got me thinking how most of your squad mates, instead of being in the normal soldier bunks, go to great lengths to make their own rooms on a military vessel with limited space. Garrus is off calibrating, Liara takes over Miranda's office, Vega has his nook in hangar, Javik has Grunt's room, and I wanna guess Tali is sleeping in Jack's hidey-hole. Again this is a military vessel, what allows them to take up large spaces for themselves instead of sleeping in crew quarters with everyone else?
FemSheps Gaydar
LI choices for Fem Shep
Krogan reproduction
Samara and Falere's epilogue
If both Samara and Falere survive Lesuss, in the Extended Cut they're seen in a big asari city on what looks like Thessia. Whuh?.. I thought Samara only let herself live because Falere agreed to stay in the now-empty monastery, thus escaping the prescriptions of the Justicar Code on a technicality. So Falere leaves the monastery, and Samara knows, does nothing about it, and actually looks happy on that picture?
Too Many Reapers
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Presidium Elevators
During the Cerberus coup on the Citadel, Shepard takes an elevator to try and beat Kai Leng to the Council. This shaft sequence takes a long while, with the elevator ascending a huge distance. And then when Shepard and co. pop out, they're... still on the Presidium? What? There's no way that logic could possibly work as the Presidium is nowhere near tall enough to fit the entire sequence in even if you were super quick in taking enemies and elevators out on the way up. Even going to the Wards, the expected result, wouldn't make any sense since you'd have to go down to achieve that.
Sex with Javik
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The Kid
Legion and Reaper code
Rachni queen clone
Organic/Synthetic cycle
Citadel arcade
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The Phoenix Suns put an end to their five-game road losing streak against the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday night with a 114-106 victory at the Staples Center, and they'll look to continue their skid-snapping ways Friday night when the Sacramento Kings come to town.
Oddly enough, the Kings have a four-game winning streak against the Suns dating back to the 2012-13 season, including two victories over them in November on back-to-back nights. In fact, Phoenix accounts for a third of Sacramento's win total so far this season.
With a win Friday night, though, the Suns won't have just put an end to their losing ways against the Kings, they'll have put together a four-game win streak for the first time since Dec. 2012.
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Does Bledsoe make the difference?
It should be noted that in the two teams' prior meetings this season, Suns guard Eric Bledsoe was in street clothes rather than in a uniform because of a left shin contusion.
Bledsoe has now played in six straight games and looks to have fully recovereed from his injury, meaning that either Isaiah Thomas, Marcus Thornton or Ben McLemore could have their hands full Friday night. The fourth-year pro out of Kentucky leads the team in scoring and has put up at least 16 points and seven assists in his last three outings.
While the backcourt wasn't an issue (Goran Dragic and Gerald Green combined for 54 points) the last time Phoenix and Sacramento met back on Nov. 20, Bledsoe, as illustrated in the win over Los Angeles, Bledsoe simply provides a different dynamic — especially in fast break situations.
Over/under 22 points for Marcus Morris?
Okay, while that number may be hard to duplicate, Morris is coming off his most efficient and arguably his more impressive performance in a Suns' uniform, scoring 22 points on a career-high 10-of-13 from the field against the Lakers.
He was incisive with the basketball, confident from three-point range and competent getting to the basket — a combination that has not always been present since he arrived in Phoenix last February.
While Sacramento has a decent front line with DeMarcus Cousins and Jason Thompson, after that it gets pretty thin. If Jeff Hornacek decides to play him more at three Friday night, Morris could find himself with a matchup advantage against the likes of recently-acquired Derrick Williams, Quincy Acy or Travis Outlaw. In two his two prior performances versus Sacramento this season, Morris combined to score 32 points (12-of-19 shooting) and grab nine boards.
Different team, same result?
Rudy Gay, who was acquired by Sacramento last weekend in a seven-player trade with the Toronto Raptors, will make his Kings' debut Friday night at the US Airways Center.
Gay is no stranger to Phoenix of late, having just played in the Valley of the Sun last Friday night in a 106-97 loss. In that contest, his last for Toronto, Gay had 17 points but shot 6-of-15 from the field. Suns small forward P.J. Tucker was his typical stingy self, and only giving up one basket to Gay when assigned to the veteran swingman. To make matters worse, Gay struggled to keep up with Tucker (18 points) at the defensive end, even picking up his second foul in the first three minutes of the contest trying to run out at him off of a screen.
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Buddy's Pancit Lucban and Longganisa
Looking for your regular Filipino food favorites? Well, Buddy's may have them on the menu, but their food surely tastes more than regular. In fact, because their food is so homey and delightful, we have been coming back whenever we can.
Buddy's features well-loved Filipino dishes from across the country (plus a few other extra food items), but they are well-kown for their Lucban pancit. I rarely eat pancit as a person, but only Buddy's can make me give pancit a chance because they've got extremely flavorful ones, totally different from those that I've tasted in my whole life. Seriously. :) Their food is also surprisingly affordable! Most of the items on their menu are also good for sharing. Isn't it so amazing, you can enjoy the different flavors of the Philippines all in one place, in very good quality, without having to spend so much?
The interior of the restaurant is also something new. It's got a fiesta-esque feel to it, with the kiping or edible rice paper leaves, wood details and paintings depicting Filipino ways of celebrating. The slightly dim lighting against the yellow walls make it feel homier, thus eating is made more enjoyable.
Our favorites include bulalo, sisig, Lucban longganiza and chopsuey. Oh, and their pizza is amazing, too. Never, ever leave Buddy's without trying any, or better, all of those. Oh yeah, almost forgot, for dessert you should try their cassava cake. I remember getting two of them only for myself because grabe it is so deliciously sweet!
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A new era in retail: Private-label production by national-brand manufacturers and premium-quality private labels
AbstractPrivate labels have witnessed considerable growth in grocery retailing. While existing academic studies have provided valuable insights concerning the evolution of private labels, several issues remain largely unexplored. First, in the face of these large private-label volumes, private-label production opportunities arise. Due to increased private-label competition, national-brand manufacturers increasingly pursue a dual-branding strategy and engage in private-label production next to their national-brand activities. In chapter two of this dissertation, a major motivation for national-brand manufacturers to engage in private-label production, namely whether it creates retailer goodwill, is investigated. It shows that private-label production is indeed rewarded: national-brand manufacturers involved in private-label production for a discounter have a higher likelihood of obtaining national-brand shelf presence at that discounter. The third chapter focuses on one of the main reasons why retailers push private labels, i.e. because they generate high margins, and considers how a retailer's private-label margins vary within categories. It demonstrates that a retailer's private-label margins depend on the nature of the private-label supplier-retailer relationship, that they differ across quality tiers and package sizes, and that they are affected by a supplier's extent of national-brand focus next to its private-label production for the retailer. Finally, this dissertation concentrates on the recent premium private-label trend. Even though premium private labels are seen as "one of the hottest trends in retailing," retailers are selective in picking their battles with top-quality national brands and do not feel the need to extend their standard private label with a premium private label in every category. The fourth chapter provides insight into why retailers offer premium private labels in some categories, but not in others. The research presented in this dissertation is among the first to empirically investigate the phenomenon of private-label production, and to shed light on the recent trend of premium private labels.
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The hugely talented D'Alessandro returns with another installment in the Mayhem in Mayfair series. Humorous, heartwarming, sensual and exciting, her story combines the allure of the vampire novel with the high jinks of a delightful heroine and a stalwart hero.
At her wits' end, in need of money and/or a wealthy husband, Lady Emily Stapleford writes a sensual novel with a female vampire heroine (à la the latest selection of her Ladies' Literary Society). Rejected by publishers, Emily decides to engender interest in her novel by posing as a vampire.
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Crushed New Potatoes with Crème Fraîche and Cracked Coriander
Photo: Maria Robledo
Yield: Makes 4 servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calcium: 65.27mg
- Calories: 243.87
- Calories from fat: 44.36790093%
- Carbohydrate: 31.11g
- Cholesterol: 27.7mg
- Fat: 12.12g
- Fiber: 3.6g
- Iron: 1.73mg
- Protein: 4.58mg
- Saturated fat: 7.41g
- Sodium: 30.26mg
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 1/2 pounds new potatoes or fingerlings, scrubbed
- Kosher salt or table salt
- Sea salt (such as Fleur de Sel)
- 1/2 cup crème fraîche
- 2 tablespoons unsalted European-style butter
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons snipped fresh chives (optional)
- Scatter the coriander seeds over the bottom of a small skillet. Toast over moderately low heat, shaking the pan frequently, for 3 to 4 minutes or until you get just a whiff of their fragrance. Place a sheet of paper towel on your work surface and pour the seeds onto it. Use the side of a chef's knife or the flat bottom of a heavy glass to crush the seeds. Carefully tilt the seeds into a small bowl; set aside.
Place the potatoes in a large pot with enough cold water to cover them by 2 inches. Add kosher salt to taste (about 1 teaspoon per quart). Bring to a boil, reduce heat to moderate, and cook until the potatoes are tender when pierced with the tip of a knife, 25 to 30 minutes. Drain the potatoes and return to the pot. Cover and keep warm until ready to serve. Just before serving, transfer them to a shallow casserole. Using a paring knife, peel the potatoes, if desired. With a fork or potato masher, crush the potatoes gently to just split them open. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt. Stir the crème fraîche until smooth and spoon it over the potatoes. Cut the butter into small pieces and sprinkle it over the potatoes. Scatter the coriander over the top and sprinkle with more sea salt and freshly ground pepper. Top with the chives, if desired, before serving.
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Listen to the story of a tiger who goes on a birthday adventure.
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