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Lukesh, Susan (1999) Early Bronze Age Sicilian Geometric Decoration: Its Origin and Relationship to Vessel Form. In: Interpretatio Rerum. Archaeologia Transatlantica, pp. 1-14.
Holloway, R. Ross and Lukesh, Susan (1999) Ustica: Report on the Excavations of the Bronze Age Site of I Faraglioni. Project Report. Susan Lukesh.
Lukesh, Susan and Howe, Sally (1978) Protoapennine vs. Subapennine: Mathematical Distinction Between Two Ceramic Phases. Journal of Field Archaeology, 5 (3). pp. 339-347.
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Sacramento gets about 18 inches of rain in a typical year. In 2013, it's barely rained 6 inches.
If predictions hold for dry weather during the next two days, 2013 will be the driest year on record for the city, lower than the 6.7 inches of rain seen in 1976, according to National Climatic Data Center records that run back to 1878.
The lack of rain here and elsewhere could lead to more wildfires and trouble for the state's farmers. It's already caused water rationing in parts of the Sacramento region.
This chart shows the amount of rainfall in Sacramento each year from 1878 to 2013. Hover over or click a circle to see details about rainfall that year.National Climatic Data Center
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Thanks a lot for this! I haven't yet tried it out, but I am looking forward to it and will let you know how it goes.
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Hi Brian,
Thanks for doing this. Seems like a great idea. Once you have this setup, I'm wondering now what would be a good workflow to get your Aegir deployed sites to a live server? Do you have any recommendations? Getting sites out of Aegir seems a little tricky to me. Do you collect all the needed files and deploy it freestanding on a server, or do you import it into an Aegir setup on a remote server?
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This week on "The Millionaire Matchmaker" Rosie Pierri of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" tried to find love. Back on Dec. 6, Reality Tea was able to find out if she was still with the person she met on the show. This was about a month ago though. As of today, Rosie isn't saying much on her Twitter account.
Ellen Minkin showed up to an event with Rosie as her date. The two have been seen together more than once in public. They seem to be getting along well, but trying to be quiet about it. Rosie hasn't been in a serious relationship in a long time so it would be great if she has found love.
Do you think that Rosie Pierri has found a girlfriend? More than likely she is waiting to let everyone know about it on "RHONJ" instead of sharing it on a social network or something. They love to do things that will help them out with ratings.
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Efficiency of Large Private Value Auctions
AbstractWe consider discriminatory and uniform price auctions for multiple identical units of a good. Players have private values, possibly asymmetrically distributed and for multiple units. Our setting allows for aggregate uncertainty about demand and supply. In this setting, equilibria generally will be inefficient. Despite this, we show that such auctions become arbitrarily close to efficient if they are "large," and use this to derive an asymptotic characterization of revenue and bidding behavior.
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Bridges are interesting symbols in relationships. We often speak of "crossing" and "burning" bridges as representations of the opportunities and challenges of life.
Does the bridge cost anything to cross?
Is it a secure or precarious bridge to cross?
Is there a known destination, or is it a bridge to an uncertain future? Do you have particular feelings about yourself as you cross or upon completion of crossing the bridge?
Your answers to these questions may reveal a transition you perceive in your life and your feelings about it.
The act of building a bridge is another way to encounter bridges in dreams. (Are you building the bridge to create an opportunity or to escape from trouble?)
The destruction of a bridge is yet another bridge encounter. (What are you becoming separated from and how do you feel about that separation? Are you participating in the bridge destruction or being victimized by it?)


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Practically everybody has heard of carbohydrates and generally associate them with gaining weight. As a result, a type of negative view is held or the notion of restricting carbohydrate intake. That could cause problems if you go too far because your body runs on energy and other life-giving by-products from carbos. There are four basic groups of carbohydrates, and I'll try to spare you the scientific terminology when possible. Of those four, we'll examine two that are also called... Read More ››


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Aaron Fisher -- the young man who first blew the whistle on Jerry Sandusky -- has done an interview with ABC News and says he's not looking for sympathy.
Fisher, now 18, met the convicted child molester when he was 11 at Sandusky's summer camp, Second Mile. A year later, the boy was being sexually assaulted in Sandusky's basement.
Fisher says he kept the secret for 3 years out of embarrassment and fear he wouldn't be believed. When Fisher finally told his school principal about the molestation, she told the boy and his mom to "go home and think about it."
Fisher, who's written a book, will be featured on 20/20 tonight.
Sandusky obviously preyed on the boys without solid
family support, and probably without a father in the home. To chase a young man the way he describes, to entrap him and rape him repeatedly and then not
be heard is beyond belief. It's equally loathsome that Sandusky's wife, who HAD to know a child was
screaming in her basement, and all school officials
who ignored the complaint should be in prison with him.
I hope he gets millions, but even then he will never be whole.
He is extremely courageous for going public. People can be really cruel to sexual abuse victims, especially male victims. I am sure that his story and willingness to confront his abuser -- will help other victims as well.
He is still SO young and so vulnerable at just 18 years old.. I hope this will be cathartic for him and help him heal as much as possible..\
I follow sex abuse prosecutor Staci Honowitz on twitter-- she's amazing.. She has said that by confronting the abuser -- the victim takes back power.. I hope that Mr Aaron Fisher is about to take back his power from THAT evil monster (who I don't want to even mention by name)...
He liked little blond boys it seems, holy **** I would have been that sickos type!
I could never bring myself to read book (too heartbreaking)' I hope he makes a fortune. I commend his bravery for speaking out.
May the principal rot in hell just like the rest of the losers involved in this horrible cover up.
Just looking at his sweet little face in the picture of him when he was younger breaks my heart. I hope that monster rots in hell for what he has done to those innocent victims!
As a male victim my self I know the guilt he has went through, being told '' Don't tell anyone because they will never believe a kid like you '' sticks with you for a long time.
It never gets any better even after you tell someone because you still feel ashamed and you have the thought of it's your fault that this happen to me. I still go through that every day of my life It will never go away.
Your mentally screwed up after it happens but A lot of victims tend to abuse drugs and drink to cope with what happen to them or some like myself try to end there life because of the way they feel about themselves. They don't look at them selves the way people who were never sexually abused look at them selves they put on a different face to hide there true feelings.
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That school principle should also be prosecuted since they are required by law to report molesting of a child.
Way too many people like that in the school systems!!!
Why doesn't TMZ tell us the name of the school and the rotten principle who needs to be raped a few times and then told to "think about it".
Good for him!!! The fact that anyone feels like they can't tell someone that they were RAPED says so much about our country. I hope Aaron has a wonderful life and am proud of him for having the courage to tell the world what a terrible and disgusting monster Jerry Sandusky is.
He "blew the whistle on Sandusky?" Really TMZ? Really?
TtHEY ALL SMELL MONEY.
Kudos young man. It takes guts to stand up for yourself and others. You've done a good thing and who knows how many other children you have protected and vindicated.


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Thanks to everyone for reading and sustaining this blog these past three years. It's time to move on. Go here to find out why and join me on the next stage of the journey.
Thanks to everyone for reading and sustaining this blog these past three years. It's time to move on. Go here to find out why and join me on the next stage of the journey.
March 17, 624. Battle of Badr. Green lights. Empire State Building. Last night of Ramadan. Dhimmitude. If you don't know what these things are or how they're connected, you should.
This coming weekend on October 12-14, for the first time ever the Empire State Building in New York City will be bathed with green lights, the color closely associated with Islam, so as to commemorate Eid ul-Fitr, the end of Ramadan... Contrary to what one might expect, however, the last day of Ramadan does not celebrate the actual date of the earliest revelations of Allah to Muhammad but rather the Battle of Badr, the first significant military victory by the forces of Muhammad.All religions are not the same. Tolerance without truth is tolerance of falsehood.
...authorities [in British Columbia, Canada] have benefitted [sic] from a 2006 law allowing BC Hydro, the area's main power company, to share its residential power consumption records with local officials... scanning residents' utility bills to determine who is using a lot more power than the average homeowner... Armed with that information, local authorities cut the power off to the home of the suspected offender... [homegrown pot is] collectively worth nearly seven billion dollars each year, account for a whopping six percent of this province's power consumption.And folks complain about civil liberties encroachments down here!
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Short week. Busy day. Pardon the cryptic style--and apologies in advance for 72 hours of radio silence starting tomorrow night as I depart for an intensive faith-formation retreat. A few items:
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File this one under dispassionate and objective, hard-hitting news... or not:
Don Schwartz, who describes himself as "a super-Deaniac progressive type," decided to back Hillary Clinton - whose centrist views, he concedes, do not necessarily match his own - for a simple reason. He wanted, finally, to be with a winner.Either that, or he knows--as is patently obvious--that she's not really a 'centrist' at all but well to the left of even Mr. Dean. Only in Boston-Globe-Land and northward (i.e., Vermont and its socialist environs) would she be considered as such with a straight face.
When Schwartz, the vice chairman of the Londonderry Democratic committee, started to contact his neighbors, with a goal of reaching 100 people per week, he thought he would have to appeal to their respect for her rather than their affection.Respect for what? Her role as consigliere of her husband's administration? For her gutsiness in proposing the wholesale socialization of the largest share of this country's GDP? (healthcare) For her willingness to stick around through her husband's many affairs? For her ability to weather a list of financial scandals and shady dealings that would have killed a lesser mortal? For her flip-flops on the war? For her boldness in taking money from a shady Chinese national and a former hedge fund operator well to the left of Vladimir Lenin who made his money speculating on the U.S. dollar?
"I was actually surprised how many people said they were for Hillary," Schwartz said. "Now, they're getting to know her, and they're starting to like her. She is a nice person!"Well, now that's a great reason to elect someone president. (Reminds me of the logic used when Jimmy Carter got elected.) This is why I dropped a subscription to my hometown newspaper long ago. What's frightening is that around here, many take their entire world view exclusively from its pages, thinking it to be both centrist and comprehensive. Hillary doesn't need to send them a check. They already know what to write.
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Just got back from picking up a few things at our local Whole Foods Market. (For those who don't know, it's an upscale organic-oriented grocery chain founded in Austin, TX). The main reason I go there is not for the opportunity to spend wads of cash to feel good about eating vegetables fertilized with cow poo and meat from animals who did yoga and got daily massages, but because our other local grocery store has slid the point that someone transported from Bulgaria during the heyday of Communist rule would complain about poor service.
So I'm standing in the dry goods aisle when I notice it: Ted Nugent's signature tune, "Cat Scratch Fever", with all of the suggestive lyrics intact, playing far louder than the typical background Musak. This all at 10:30 in the morning. I'm not complaining--just observing.
Something has changed fundamentally in our culture when this is seen not only as non-controversial (do they know what the song is about?) but commercially advantageous. In an environment where the apples and bell peppers all seem to have been scrubbed to pristine perfection with a toothbrush, one can't help but musing: in another place and time, that toothbrush would have been applied (along with a bar of soap) to Mr. Nugent's mouth.
Call me a fuddy-duddy if you like. I actually like the song and am not objecting to its being played (WFM can do what it likes). It just seems weird that somehow we've gotten to a place where what was once on the far far fringe* of outrageous culture is now perfectly mainstream.
*(Mr. Nugent once graced the cover of 'High Times', fronting an article about how he had soiled himself and failed to bathe for two weeks in order to avoid the draft. Don't ask how I know that.)
UPDATE: Here's another critique of a different kind of music and its ostensible 'progress' in the 20th century.
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Great piece by Frank Furedi over at Spiked on how, like a stinking sewage effluent pipe, global warming-as-religion is spilling over into, and fouling the clear waters of traditional religion.
In recent years, some in the church have sought to gain the public's ear through the greening of traditional doctrines, and Christ the Saviour is fast becoming Christ the environmental activist... Church leaders have embraced the rituals of eco-morality to demonstrate their commitment to a higher good. Absolution through carbon offsets appears to be the way forward... As far as some Vatican leaders are concerned, offsetting carbon emissions plays a role analogous to that of fasting or self-mortification in previous times... Through an implicit reinterpretation of classical dogma, the sanctity of nature and all creation displaces the traditional focus on the sanctity of human beings.His criticism is not limited to the Catholic church, or even to Christianity, as the following anecdote illustrates (WARNING: swallow coffee before reading).
Eco-spirituality is also seen as a moral resource that can transcend cultural and religious differences. This summer, the 9th Islamic Fayre in Bristol promoted an eco theme. 'Islam is a religion of peace but is also known as a religion of nature', stated Rizwan Ahmed, the event's organiser. And Farooq Siddique, community development officer of the British Muslim Cultural Society noted that the 'event is also about bringing communities together'. The hope that the appeal of eco-spirituality could counteract the influence of radical jihadist sentiments has encouraged British officialdom to support such initiatives. [emphasis added]Well, wouldn't that be nice... if it were remotely connected to reality. The over-arching ethic Furedi depicts calls to mind this.
...many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.It's interesting, now that I think about it, how misplaced worry about things getting warm (and therefore more friendly to life) goes hand-in-hand with peoples' love for God growing cold.
...eco-spirituality cannot really compensate for the loss of traditional moral authority. Indeed the very embrace of the environmentalist agenda can only accelerate the decline of institutions that cannot give meaning to the religious doctrines on which they were founded. The shift away from God towards nature inevitably leads to a world where the pronouncements of environmentalist experts trump those of the priesthood. It will be interesting to see what will remain of traditional religion as prophecy and revelation is displaced by computerised climate models.
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A great dish for entertaining. Very easy recipe, requires 30 minutes to marinate quail. I made extra sauce to drizzle over white rice. I would advise finger bowls! You definitely need to use your fingers to enjoy every morsel of meat.
Asian Grilled Quail
Photo: William Dickey; Styling: Leslie Byars Simpson
Quail gets a hearty dose of Asian-inspired flavor in this game recipe. Grilling the quail brings out the sweetness of the marinade, infusing the meat with moist, bold flavor.
Yield: 4 servings
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- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons chile-garlic sauce
- 3 tablespoons dark sesame oil
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 8 quail, dressed
- 1 (14 1/2-ounce) can chicken broth
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Garnishes: sliced green onions or green onion curls
- Combine first 6 ingredients in a shallow dish or large heavy-duty zip-top plastic bag, gently squeezing to blend; add quail. Cover or seal, and chill 30 minutes, turning occasionally.
- Remove quail from marinade, reserving marinade.
- Prepare fire by piling charcoal or lava rocks on 1 side of grill, leaving the other side empty. Place rack on grill. Arrange quail over empty side; grill, covered with grill lid, 30 minutes or until done.
- Pour reserved marinade intoa small saucepan. Reserve 1/4 cup chicken broth, and add remaining chicken broth to marinade. Bring mixture to a boil over medium-high heat; boil, stirring occasionally, 5 minutes.
- Whisk together cornstarch and reserved 1/4 cup chicken broth until smooth. Whisk into marinade mixture; boil, whisking constantly, 1 minute. Serve with quail; garnish, if desired.
- Asian Grilled Cornish Hens: Substitute 4 (1- to 1 1/2 pound) Cornsh hens for quail. Grill as directed 45 to 50 minutes or until done.
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- OCCASION: Chinese New Year, Father's Day, Valentine's Day
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Remember Mike from Canada and his AMAZING CBX1000? It was one of the most popular bikes I've ever featured.
Mike sent me some pics of his ex. The Japanese custom shops punch out some amazing SR's (I've featured a few here) but Mike's SR is as good as ANY.
Sure the red frame, red engine, red carby, red everthing is over the top but (and I can't believe I'm saying this…) it's over the top in a good way.
If you think the pictures a good, read the story behind the bike. The muffler is originally from a Toyota Camry!
"While my, beloved, SR has moved on ( whereabouts unknown) here are a few shots of it; Highlights (?!)
- The headlight 'fairing' is an aftermarket, fiberglass, R6 front fender I 'McGyvered'
- GSXR 750 front end
- The oil cooler was a class project a buddy gave me from his machine shop course ( thanks again, Dave). It started out as bar stock alloy.
- RZ350 rear mono. My friend, Joel, dropped off the rolling chassis after he blew up the motor. He figured that I just might have a use for it.
- Mags from a Yammie FZR6
- Rear caliper from a ZX750 on a ,modded, SR500 bracket.
- 'Chin' fairing is a fiberglass copy I fabbed from a RZ350 ( the original,plastic, one didn't hold up long to the SR's vibration). I mounted it using,rubber, radiator mounts for a Toyota.
- More Toyota bits? That would be the 'muffler'. It started life as a resonator on a Camry.The,alloy, vapor catch tank came from another Camry…it was a receiver/dryer for an A.C. unit.
- Kickstarter arm from an XS650. I 'McGyvered' it too, its a stronger bit than the original SR item.
- Clutch lever from a Honda 900RR.
- Rear master from a CBR600.
- Front,radial pump, master from a ZX10R.
- Speedo uses RZ350 innards. I printed the face using the computer I'm typing this to you with, then shot clear coat over it to keep the colors fast.
- I got some end-cuts from a, local, plastics distributor and fabbed the clear cam & clutch 'windows'. I just thought they looked kinda cool.
- Mirrors are metal copies of the, plastic, ones on my mountain bike. More bits I had lying around.
- The tailpiece is a modded RS250 fiberglass bit. It won't challange any Gold Wings for comfort, but it looks 'right.
- TT500 electrics. The, original, SR mag fried and rather than risk another stranding I went for the TT's simplicity. Actually, a fairly easy mod.
- Carrilo rod and (I think…its been awhile, a third over piston). Other than that, the motor is pretty much stock.
- Rearsets are buddy pegs from my old GSXR welded to some, nice, alloy bar stock ( ok a trailer hitch) I found in a parking lot.
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Winnfield (La.) head coach Andy Pyles knows a good thing when he sees it.
Back in 2009, Pyles was sitting in his coaches office one day when in strolled a 6-foot-2, 14-year-old freshman named Michael "M.J." Patterson.
"I got a call from Coach (Bernie) Cooley and he told me I was going to be getting a transfer and he told me about MJ and how much potential he had," recalled Pyles. "I thought, yea right, this kid is just going to walk in and then the next thing I know MJ just walks in. It was a pleasant surprise to say the least."
Patterson had been in the Jena school system prior to moving to Winnfield. Pyles said Patterson made an immediate impact for the Tigers as he was basically a starter during his freshman season. But as it turned out that was just the tip of the iceberg.
As a sophomore, Patterson made his mark on both sides of the ball as he caught 30 passes and was in on more than 70 tackles from his defensive end spot.
Patterson worked hard with the Winnfield coaches during the spring and summer of 2011 and he and the Tigers were poised to have a successful campaign in the fall. Winnfield finished with a 14-1 record with the only blemish at the hands of John Curtis in the Class 2A State Championship Game.
Patterson was a big part of the Tigers' success as he logged 75 tackles and 10 sacks, and picked off two passes that he returned for touchdowns. The accolades rolled in following his junior campaign as he was Class 2A All-State to go along with first team All-District 3-2A honors and a first team All-CENLA selection by the Alexandria Daily Town Talk.
Several college coaches recognized Patterson's skills on the gridiron early on as he picked up offers from Nebraska, Mississippi State, Texas A&M and Louisiana Tech. Once LSU stepped up with an offer, though, everyone else was playing catch-up until he committed to Les Miles a few weeks ago.
Pyles is no stranger to coaching high-profile FBS-level prospects and he feels that Patterson has just what LSU and other major programs are looking for.
"His quickness and feet are exceptional and his long arms are a big asset," said Pyles. "He's blessed with good feet and he has good explosion off the line of scrimmage. That's why LSU loves him so much is his ability to rush the passer.
"He's 6-foot-4, 232 pounds right now and he's going to get a lot bigger when he gets to LSU and is able to get in the weight room year round. When you see him up next to guys like Sam Montgomery, (KeKe) Mingo, (Jermauria) Rasco, and the others you see just how good MJ looks."
Pyles said that one of Patterson's strengths is using his athleticism to make plays from sideline to sideline and he shows that on film. Something else that stands out on tape is his football IQ as he keeps his containment and diagnoses where the play is going very quickly.
"He's a smart guy, and we watch a lot of film, but to his credit he absorbs everything he sees," Pyles said. "Him being intelligent is another big plus. You don't have to show him something 20 times because he gets it pretty quick."
Along with being an exceptional talent on the field, Patterson is just as impressive outside the lines. He shows just as much dedication to his academics and with being a role model for his younger siblings and loved ones.
"I think his behavior patterns had already been established by the time he got to us and that's a credit to those who had worked with MJ, and he has a real good mom and dad and is well taken care of," Pyles said." He's got a younger brother and a little sister that is autistic so he feels that he has to be a good role model and he does a great job of being one.
"His mom is a nurse and has done a real good job of stressing education and how important it is to succeed in life. MJ sees the things she has done and that has helped him become the young man he is."
Patterson has shown that he can handle success as he has remained very humble about his accomplishments and the road he has taken. He has also shown that he can overcome bumps in the road, such as not being able to be with his father during this exciting time as he resides a couple of hours away.
"His dad has been and is a big part of MJ's life," Pyles said. "He stays on him about his grades and decisions in life and has been there for him during the recruiting process. When MJ wanted to commit to LSU he made sure he went and talked to his dad first to get his approval and they have always been and remain very close."
Pyles has enjoyed being around Patterson for the last three years and he's excited to have his star defender for one more year as the Tigers seek a return trip to the Superdome. After that, Patterson will embark on a different journey for another set of Tigers.
Expectations will be high once he steps foot on campus in Baton Rouge with the success that LSU has at turning high school prospects into NFL-caliber defensive linemen. Whether or not Patterson lives up to those expectations remains to be seen, but it would not be wise to bet against him.
"He's going to be afforded a great opportunity but he's going to be the one to determine how good he can be," Pyles said. "It's his opportunity to seize.
"He definitely has the ability and if he gets after it in the weight room his potential is very high. He has the tools. He just has to take the bull by the horns and go with it like he's done."
Note: Pyles said Patterson has a GPA in the 3.2-3.5 range and took the ACT for the first time on April 14. Pyles also stated that Patterson will not have any problems being a full academic qualifier.


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March 6, 2006
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I brought my hound plushie to the office today! Since nobody seemed to be around this early in the morning, I quickly asked GM Laxus to take a photo of me at the office entrance.
Well, that's me in real life! Please don't beat me up if you see me outside ok? :'( Like I mentioned in my 1st post, I'm not the guy who goes around banning players. Don't ever forget that fact! :P
I was feeling a little bored, so I decided to go into the game again to explore some of the new upcoming dungeons that are going to be released in the new patch - and guess what I found?
Yes!!! It's the entry pass to Cerberus Nest!! Shhh… don't tell anyone! I shall take this opportunity to check it out while there's still nobody in the office yet.
Before checking the Nest out, I decided to check my mailbox as I received some mail notifications. It seemed that some of the other GMs had sent me gifts. Guess what I got? A full set of Cerberus equipment for the Sorceress!
You know what's great about this set? The Cerberus Helm is a dog's head!! I love it! What other helmet is there in Dragon Nest that can stand out more than this! It is so huge that I am sure anyone who walks past you will notice it! How cool is that? LOL!
And I love the staff too, it's purple and has a funky design! I love purple! :D
If you looked at the screenshot above carefully, you will notice that I said the top for the sorceress has a bare back design! Sexy isn't it? Hehehe… I know you guys love it!
The last thing I love about the set is that it's main colour scheme is brown! ~I love brown because I love chocolates. Do you guys love chocolates? Hahaha, enough of my nonsense, let's get back on my journey to Cerberus Nest.
Yes, it exists! The Cerberus Nest is definitely going to be available in the next patch! I'm able to enter! Let's go!
Omg, I'm so excited! XD
Seriously, this nest is definitely way harder than Minotaur Nest. The journey in is long and harsh. The monsters here are tough and powerful. It is not going to be an easy job if you are attempting this alone. You need at least a party of 4, and even then it's still hellish at level 32!
The monsters here are really terrible. They are not just fast, their attacks really hurt and there are so many of them! It's unbelievable! Countless times I have did nothing but scream at them in an effort to prevent them from coming closer to attack me as I need to take screenshots for this post.
At last, after a long gruelling battle, I saw the 3 headed dog! Cerberus!
It looked very intimidating. Really fierce. I knew Cerberus was going to hit like a truck before he even attacked me. So I decided to try to talk to him in the hopes that he won't kill me!
I wonder if dogs understand human language???
Well, it completely ignored me and immediately attacked me -.-"
I guess even being a GM does not help to prevent my death from those massive jaws! Hahaha!
That's all guys! Remember to spread the word around! Cerberus Nest is coming on the 18th of October!!!
Check out http://dn.cherrycredits.com/info.php#game-play if you want to know more about Cerberus Nest!
cute!!! Hahaha. Fangirl mode! Uhhh, wait I just remembered, I'm a guy. XDDDD
GM Adriano, why are you sooooo cuute?! >ω< ♥


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This has been a long time in the making. I have always been passionate about food, cooking and animals, since becoming vegan that has only been enhanced. There are sooo many reason to adopt a vegan lifestyle; compassion for animals, concern for our environment, and better health.
Vegan food does not have to be bland, I think this is one of the biggest misnomer's there is. I will be sharing tried and true recipes in my blog. I really hope to educate people through food and the various and mass information I have received through books, documentaries, and the vegan web community.
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2012 could be a good market year
Stocks typically perform well in years when the White House incumbent is seeking another term. Often, the market's direction even predicts an election's outcome.
Greece is burning, Italy's imploding, and the U.S. economy is limping along in a recovery so weak it's barely stronger than a recession. And investors are reeling.
But next year may turn out to be pretty good for stocks.
How can I say that? Because from here on, the market's historic calendar is in investors' favor.
And if we can stay out of recession in the United States and avoid one in the developing world, earnings of U.S. companies may hold up well enough to support somewhat higher stock prices. (A recession in Europe is already baked into the cake.)
Most of all, 2012 is a presidential election year; since 1948, markets have gained in every presidential election year except 2000 and 2008. In fact, stocks have, on average, put in their second-best performance in the fourth year of a president's term. (The third year has been best.)
And during years in which incumbent presidents run for re-election, the market has beaten its average election-year performance significantly.
It doesn't matter if the incumbent wins or loses (though no investor can know that in advance) or how good or bad a president he was. The market has just done better in "incumbent" election years than in "up for grabs" elections, like Bush vs. Gore in 2000 or McCain vs. Obama in 2008.
The data are remarkably consistent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) posted average returns (not including dividends) of 5.7% during all presidential election years from 1944 to 2008, according to S&P chief equity strategist Sam Stovall.
The Stock Trader's Almanac, using the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) and earlier proxies, calculated nearly identical presidential election-year returns, 5.8%, from 1832 to 2008. (The Dow itself averaged 7.4% annually in election years from 1900 to 2008, according to the Almanac's figures.)
And I looked separately at years in which an incumbent president was running for re-election. It didn't matter if the president was running after a full elected term, like Ronald Reagan, or took office after the death or resignation of the previous incumbent, like Lyndon Johnson or Gerald Ford.
The results? In the 14 election years since 1928 that included an incumbent president, the S&P 500 rose an average of 14.6%. In all the incumbent election years since 1900, the Dow gained on average 9% -- substantially besting the averages' performance during all election years.
When he heard these results, Stovall said, "People feel more comfortable that at least you know how to drive the bus. You're not facing (one of) two people taking over who lack total experience."
In other words, one devil you know is better than two you don't.
Stovall, incidentally, is pretty bullish on the market for the rest of this year as well as next year. He wrote that the S&P "barely escaped" a bear market when it closed at 1,099.23 on Oct. 3 and then bounced back strongly, "suggesting the bull market is still alive."
Research he's done on the four severe corrections (15% to 20% declines) and the four mini-bear markets (20% to 25% sell-offs) since 1945 indicates that "the S&P 500 gained an average 23% in the six months after these eight market bottoms . . . (and) was higher by an average of 31.7% a full year after these market declines had run their course."
So it's not surprising that S&P's Investment Policy Committee recently raised its 12-month target for the S&P to 1,360 from 1,260.
You say 2012 might be a good year for stocks.
Here is my opinion;
2012 might be a good year,
however 2012 might not be a good year,
but on the other hand it might be a pretty good year,
however it might just be a mederoker year,
but it could be a very good year,
however it might be a very bad year,
but perhaps a good year the first half,
and a bad year the second half,
however, maybe just a fair year,
but it could be a real good year,
then again maybe not a very good year.
I just thought you would like to know my opinion. I am kinda an expert on advice.
The United States is heading off a cliff and we have Congress to thank; Congress no longer serves the People it serves Wall Street Bankers [. . ..]
It seems more appropriate to "blame" (to make a moral play of causality) the overall course of America, its citizens, its military-industrial complex, and its elected officials.
We shopped till we dropped, lived on borrowed money and borrowed time, paid no heed to the danger of a polity run by and for an empire-building machine, and voted so seldom that the winners in offices and issues was usually the result from fewer than half of eligible voters casting a ballot. We didn't complain when referred to as "The Consumer."
We got fat.
We forgot that what keeps a free people free is not found at the mall.
Here's my best guess. 2012 will be so-so for the market, poor for Main St, terrible for the unemployed and average guy and gal.
America has no process for reshaping Washington and the political ruling class will remain at the top and in charge, operating as usual for their own personal interests. 2012 will continue to be good for the political class, especially the Washington class.
And I guess I'm missing something,from all the history and charts I have known, this and next year are supposed to have been banter years, 3rd.&4th. year of "any" sitting presidents term.
Although we are still in recession this year, it should have been better.
Sorry, but I'm really not buying any of this sh!dt, UNLESS our Congress get's their head out of their collective azzes.
And Europe is not the only excuse or even a good one.
hmmm... 2012 a good year for the market?
Is Obama resigning?
Did Congress balance the budget and being paying down Obama's 5+ trillion in new debt?
Did Europe stop borrowing to support it's socialist programs?
Did the FED stop printing massive amounts of new dollars?
Somehow, I am not optimistic...
Howdy Dooty:
You hit the nail on the head brother. The jerks that write this stuff have absoutely no idea what will happen. Their "advice" changes with the wind. When you finish reading it, you realize they have covered all CYA bases. Then when you try to think about what they just said, it's like analyzing an Obama "hope and change" speech; it sounds so good, but he doesn't say a damn thing.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- A type of treatment to help build up resistance in people with peanut allergy might leave telltale signs in the people's immune-system DNA, a new study reveals.
The findings suggest that a blood test for these DNA changes could be used to monitor the long-term effectiveness of so-called "immunotherapy" in patients allergic to peanuts, according to the researchers.
There is no cure for peanut allergy, but researchers are examining whether consuming increasing amounts of peanut powder helps desensitize people to the peanut allergen. After participating in this doctor-supervised therapy, patients typically are told to eat some peanuts every day for the rest of their lives.
However, it's not possible to test patients to determine if they can safely stop eating peanuts every day, study senior author Dr. Kari Nadeau, an associate professor of pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said in a university news release.
"At first, eating two peanut butter cups a day might seem fun, but it gets a little boring and a lot of people might stop," said Nadeau, who also is an immunologist at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. "Our new finding can help us try to determine whether, for the long term, someone's allergy has truly been shut off so people can eat ad lib."
The study included 20 children and adults with peanut allergy who had spent two years building up their immunity. They were able to eat a 4-gram serving of peanuts each day without suffering a severe allergic reaction.
The participants were told to avoid peanuts for three months, and then the researchers gave them a small amount of peanut powder to determine if their allergy had returned. The allergy came back in 13 patients, while seven remained allergy-free, the study authors said.
The researchers then analyzed blood samples taken from these two groups, as well as from people with peanut allergy who had never received oral immunotherapy. The investigators found that the DNA in white blood cells, which help reduce allergy response, was different in each of the three groups of patients.
Nadeau said this test might one day help doctors in deciding whether a person "can safely go off of immunotherapy, or if they need to continue to eat the food every day." It could also help determine whether a person might benefit from a longer course of immunotherapy, she said, but more study is needed.
The study was published online Jan. 31 in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
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AbstractThis paper considers a three-stage game of a differentiated oligopoly: firms first make their entry decisions, then they choose production technologies and in the third stage of the game they decide product prices. The technology choice can be understood as selecting a technology from a pool of recently available technologies as well as developing a new technology by innovative activities. The market equilibrium outcome is then compared with the social optimum.
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I started this bool last year but couldn't get into it. I am SO glad I gave it another try...
This is not an easy book to read, but it is well worth the effort. Set in Japan in 1799, Jacob de Zout is a young, ambitious and sincere Dutch East Indies clerk determined to make his fortune so that he can marry back in the Netherlands. In this strange world he meets hardened and often unscrupulous employees of the company, Japanese interpreters, and other Dutch merchants out to make their fortunes or on the run from dark pasts. By chance encounter, he meets Orita Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor who is training her as a midwife. The opening chapter of the book presents Orita as the midwife who saves the life of an important concubine to the city of Nagaski's magistrate. The contrast between East and West play out on so many different levels.
There are many characters in this book often called by various names so it can be difficult to follow and the dialogue between the merchants and sailors is sometimes confusing. However, Mitchell is an excellent writer who can create a very exotic setting and environment in which the reader is drawn. The book follows the life of Jacob as intrigue within the company draws out his stay. Eventually, the British arrive determined to take over the trade with Japan and Jacob finds himself at the forefront of this encounter.
The very ending of the book tells of Jacob's final days; an ending not foreseen at the beginning.
For me, the appeal of David Mitchell is his ability to write in any voice and nail it. It's a skill, but I'm sure it also requires significant research. In most of his novels, the reader is entertained by several of these voices from beginning to end. In a couple, Mitchell employs more traditional means and keeps to one story, one time period. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is one of the latter. It's a fairly straight-forward historical novel. But of course Mitchell had to break up the narrative somehow. And this was when the book fell apart.
In The Thousand Autumns..., Mitchell opens a window onto Japan during its period of isolation. The research is clear in the writing, and Mitchell's talents are obvious. Had the narrative stuck with de Zoet, as it does for the first 175 pages, I would've been pleased. But then we're transported to a mountain cult which didn't lend much to the story. Then back to de Zoet briefly, then an English ship, then we're just all over the place for the rest of the book. It's Mitchell's signature style, and it certainly could've worked, but the problem was I didn't care about Orito and her shrine days, I didn't care about the English, I wanted Jacob de Zoet. Wasn't this book supposed to be about him?
I get that Mitchell had set up a chess board here, that certain pieces needed to make certain moves, that other pieces had to fall. I get all that. Largely, I think I understand what he was doing here. But the story became so overwrought that it forgot the most important part: the story. I've always been entertained with Mitchell's writing. Even when I think the story is a poor hack of another author's style (number9dream), or is a bit dry ("The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing"), or is difficult to read ("Sloosha's Crossin' An' Ev'rythin' After"), I am entertained. Here, I was frankly bored. I know entertainment isn't everything, but it's a big something, and The Thousand Autumns... could have used more of it.
Mr. Mitchell is a very smart man. I feel very, very not-smart next to him. Having read two of his books now, I believe he writes fiction for the pun. Every opportunity he has to exploit the potential for a pun is taken. In fact, I would bet (but I'm not smart enough to determine) that he writes certain scenes to encapsulate puns. ("Let's see, there were 10 in that chapter, that's probably enough, next chapter!")
Not that I don't enjoy it. It's mounds better reading a story that the author is enjoying the hell out of telling versus one that is labored, overly trite, obtuse or any of a number of other plagues that befall authors.
This particular story is not as layered as Cloud Atlas, but it does have layers, so beware in advance. We are supposed to love our protagonist immediately because of his Christian, moral, upstanding ways - which of course are surprisingly similar to the thoughts and feelings of the denizens of his host country. The Japanese in the latter half of the 1700s, and their efforts to encourage and absolutely not encourage trade with the Dutch, sounds like a minute section of history. It is not. It is entrancing and mysterious and disgusting and bizarre and lovely and holy. Mitchell may have taken 500 pages to tell all that, but I dare anyone else to try.
And by no means miss the Reader's Guide at the end of the book. There are several pages devoted to the origins of historical fiction, how it can be difficult to write it, and why we all still love a good historical novel. You'll laugh out loud, believe me or not.
The central chunk was a good read but there was so much extra material that added nothing to the book that it just became a tedious slog. It reminded me in many ways of what I disliked about The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo.
There are no easy answers or facile connections in "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet." In fact, it's not an easy book, period. Its pacing can be challenging, and its idiosyncrasies are many. But it offers innumerable rewards for the patient reader and confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearlesswriters alive.
Another Booker Prize nomination is likely to greet this ambitious and fascinating fifth novel—a full-dress historical, and then some—from the prodigally gifted British author
For his many and enthusiastic admirers — critics, prize juries, readers — the fecundity of Mitchell's imagination marks him as one of the most exciting literary writers of our age. Indeed, in 2007, he was the lone novelist on Time' s annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. Through five novels, most impressively with his 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas, Mitchell has demonstrated flat-out ambition with respect to testing — sometimes past their breaking points — the conventions of storytelling structure, perspective, voice, language and range. The result, according to Mitchell's rare detractors, is an oeuvre marked by imaginative wizardry and stylistic showmanship put on offer for their own sake. For most everyone else, however, Mitchell's writing is notable because its wizardry and showmanship are in the service of compulsively readable stories and, at its best moments, are his means of revealing, in strange places and stranger still ways, nothing less than the universals of human experience.
Though direct in its storytelling, Jacob de Zoet marks a return to full amplitude. That means occasionally over-long scenes and one or two rambling monologues. But it also guarantees fiction of exceptional intelligence, richness and vitality.
With "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet," David Mitchell has traded in the experimental, puzzlelike pyrotechnics of "Ghostwritten" and "Number9Dream" for a fairly straight-ahead story line and a historical setting.
He's meticulously reconstructed the lost world of Edo-era Japan, and in doing so he's created his most conventional but most emotionally engaging novel yet: it's as if an acrobatic but show-offy performance artist, adept at mimicry, ventriloquism and cerebral literary gymnastics, had decided to do an old-fashioned play and, in the process, proved his chops as an actor.
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1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the city's powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacob's worst imaginings.… (more)
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I would agree that those sentences are rather strange. As you suggest, the correct forms would be:
1. When he (de)parted that morning from the old man's cell, he paused to
behold him | who held open the heavy-timbered door.
2. "Woe unto him | who rises in the morning to following strong drink."
It seems to me that the writer may indeed have decided that the case of the relative pronoun should somehow affect the case of the antecedent; on which basis he would presumably recast (googling at random on "he whom"):
3. "For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God".
4. "For him whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God."
Or perhaps it was a case of hypercorrection, after the pattern of:
5. "He who laughs last laughs loudest."
On your second question, I would take "my", "your", "his", etc. as "possessive determiners" or "possessive adjectives", while "mine", "yours", "his", etc. are possessive pronouns, e.g.
6. It's my book, not yours.
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David Simmonds, director of business development at MindArk, joins CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari via Webcam to discuss how "Entropia Universe" differs \r\nfrom Linden Lab's creation "Second Life," how people make a living on Entropia, and what lies ahead for the virtual landscape. Three-year-old Entropia has nearly 500,000 users.
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Groupon isn't immune to the wave of patent lawsuits hitting the technology industry.
Both Groupon and Living Social, both promising stars not long ago, both ran into financial and legal trouble in 2012.
A 30 year-old Sydneysider has amassed a small fortune by trading virtual items for real cash in the online game Entropia Universe. What next, though?
Planet Michael will combine social networking, musical legacy of King of Pop late next year. The game will also focus on global issues championed by the singer.
Azentek builds a PC for your car
A so-called upside-down mountain in France has become the focal point for New Age types who believe it contains an alien spaceship that will save them when the world ends.
Next spring, Fabien Cousteau, grandson of the legendary Jacques, will lead a 31-day mission, living in an underwater lab and exploring the mysteries of the deep. And you're invited to come along.
The virtual world developer has decided to focus its main business on building tools, and the spin-off will manage the in-game side of things.