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so do we srsly need to dl different programmes to use and keep our TC?
So by crowdsale do you mean USD or TC?
Well... i think im out... i cant even conect to http://www.parity.io/
So idk if i understand right. The new toricoins sale will start soon, even we dont know how the new tb will look like and even we dont know if we will like it... i think there should be a thread with progress on the game to see the reaction of the players before starting selling the new toricoins...
What forum options/items will we be able to spend our ToriCoins on? Things we normally wouldn't be change/access/purchase? Different to what we can already spend our USD/TC on?


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Google is reportedly working on a plan to expand its self-driving car fleet, which will involve turning its self-driving car division into a dedicated company. The standalone company would commercialize the project and give Google a driverless rival to ride-sharing services, like Uber and Lyft.
According to Bloomberg, the fleet of self-driving vehicles could be expanded to include both small and large vehicles, which would initially be available on college campuses, military bases and corporate office parks. Eventually the fleet will also be available to cities. The plan would allow "a lot of people to try it out," according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Related: Google asked artists to doodle on their self-driving cars
Google has yet to confirm the plan to create the standalone business, but the latest report also claims that former Hyundai Motor America CEO, John Krafcik could lead the company. The announcement is expected to happen sometime in 2016.
"These potential ride-for-hire services could allow consumers to experience the technology and embrace it in a bigger way," stated Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader at Gartner Inc. "That would help not just Google but the entire industry."
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California's dreadful multi-year drought has left one of the world's most hugely productive agricultural zones in dry and draining desperation.
But a bold new water recycling scheme – greener, cleaner and far more efficient – is offering some urgently needed hope.
In the state's vast Central Valley, a company called WaterFX is developing a practical, potentially game-changing way to reclaim and clean agricultural waste water.
"It's typically thought that, because of the high energy consumption associated with distilling water – which is essentially boiling it – it's not a good use of our energy resources," WaterFX co-founder Dr. Matthew Stuber told Yahoo Canada.
"However, once we couple it with renewable energy, it becomes a different proposition."
WaterFX's upcoming HydroRevolution project in California uses solar energy to turn waste water into steam, which cooks out all the impurities. As clean, fresh water condenses, that energy is released, recaptured and pumped right back into the process.
"So instead of just using it once to boil water – one unit of energy making one unit of water – we have one unit of energy being recycled so many times, we can get 18 or 19 units of water. It's many times more effective."
Even the polluting by-products – salts and agricultural chemicals – can be reclaimed, recycled and put back to work.
"This is actually just the natural water cycle," Dr. Stuber explained.
"The sun shines on the ocean, the ocean evaporates water, it forms clouds, the clouds come over the land and it rains fresh water down. We're doing the exact same thing, except in a closed system."
Traditional desalination methods burn fossil fuel, get limited results, and produce large amounts of brine and toxic sludge. WaterFX is side-stepping all of this – in small, efficient plants that will soon be able to reclaim half a million gallons of water every day.
"You can put these systems at ground zero of water scarcity," Dr. Stuber said.
Of course, California has limitless access to the near-infinite waters of the Pacific Ocean. But heavy regulation and an understandable desire to preserve the beauty of the coastline has made building desalination plants problematic.
That's why a small, clever alternative – that doesn't even need ocean water – is so intriguing.
"We're actually generating a new source of water that's sustainable wherever you need it. In that way, as demand waxes and wanes, we can adjust these systems accordingly."
This is desperately needed. Not only is there no rain, the ancient aquifers that have long been the lifeblood of California agriculture are being rapidly depleted, and may soon run dry.
"No matter what, there's going to be agriculture in California," Dr. Stuber said.
"That's a huge priority for the entire United States. And even though we're talking about massive drought right now and huge water cutbacks, water's still being delivered, and used for irrigation.
"Being that California agriculture consumes a huge percentage of the total water that's consumed – about 80 per cent – making a dent there reduces the agricultural water footprint. It creates new water sources for other uses."
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"I was outside with one shoe on, banging a bottle of wine against the chimney with the other shoe when my 89-year-old neighbor, Fred, walked around the fence to give me some of his freshly grown tomatoes."
This was what my Editorial Manager, Bonnie Caton, said to me last night on the phone after risking public embarrassment to research today's travel tip for you.
I had heard that if you don't have a corkscrew, you can open a bottle of wine by placing the base of the bottle into your shoe and banging it against a smooth, hard surface — just as the Frenchmen is doing in this video:
Turns out, says Bonnie, it's not so easy:
"I ended up with a wine-soaked pant leg and a driveway full of broken glass!"
However, she did find a less-embarrassing, more effective method involving a hammer (though if you forget to pack a corkscrew on your next trip when you venture out for wine, I highly doubt you'll make plans to pack a hammer…and a screw…and a screwdriver, too).
Still, watch how she eventually did it (with a little elbow grease), here:
Over the past few months, I've been saving up loads of strange and unusual travel tips like this one. And what better time to share with you a series of bizarre tips than the most bizarre time of year — the week leading up to Halloween?
Each day for the next nine days, I'll send you a brand new tip you can use to save time, money, or even bottles of wine when you're out seeing the world.
Stay tuned for more. Enjoy!
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Lori Allen
Director, Great Escape Publishing
[Editor's Note: Learn more about how you can turn your pictures into cash in our free online newsletter The Right Way to Travel. Sign up here today and we'll send you a new report, Selling Photos for Cash: A Quick-Start Guide, completely FREE.]


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Are you looking to dress up your 12-valve 5.9L Cummins motor? Try BD's Cool Covers for the 1988-1998 12V Dodge Cummins. Made from cast aluminum and black powder coated with machined fin tops for a clean look, these covers replace the OEM valve covers and add a little more detail to your 12V Cummins engine. Covers come with new gaskets and sold separately or in a set of six.
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Water Damage Restoration in Denver and Surrounding Areas
Water damage restoration is what we do! Since 2003, we have excelled at it and led the field in making customers happy! As a family owned company, we know how important your family is and how concerned you are for their safety. Your concerns are our concerns.
We're available to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. We cover all the Front Range, including Denver, Boulder, Longmont, Castle Rock, and more.
Water Damage is Very Common in Colorado's Front Range
Water always finds a weakness and a way. It goes over, it goes under, it gets in between, and it soaks. It can also cause terrible problems like structural weaknesses and hazardous mold.
Flooding and water damage is very common in the Denver area – as common as rain and snow. In fact, snow melt can be one of the biggest causes of home water damage around here. Once it's in your home, you need it out quickly.
Look for the warning signs regularly. If you discover wet carpets, or unexplained puddles on the floor, or discolored walls, floors and ceilings… contact us right away! We'll do the rest.
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We hire only the best. All our technicians are certified with the IICRC, fully licensed and insured. If you ask us what our best traits are, the answer is very simple…
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Our job is to minimize damage caused by water and then bring your home back to pre-loss condition, if not better. We do much more than merely dry out and cut away or toss out the bad. With modern techniques, we can bring carpets and belongings back to life, but only if you contact us immediately.
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We use advanced moisture detecting equipment to locate, evaluate and document problem areas inside your home. We notice everything from pre-existing issues to the source of the water, then formulate a plan of action to best solve your problem and begin water damage restoration and mold remediation.
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When you know that God likes you, you can start to really like yourself. When you start to like yourself, other people begin to like you too. Liking yourself doesn't mean you're full of pride; it simply means you accept yourself as the person God Created you to be.
We all need changes in our behavior, but accepting ourselves as God's creation is vital to our progress in becoming an emotionally healthy person. If we can mast this on thing, liking ourselves, it will work wonders in helping us to overcome a shame-based nature!~
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This morning I woke up to snow! Beautiful as it may be, by afternoon – my coffee isn't able to keep the chill out of the studio. So I am resorting to re-visiting the photos from one of my favorite weddings. Melissa and Minh just happened to choose one of the hottest days of the year for their wedding. Luckily – no one melted (not even the cake)!
|Can you tell that Melissa is a dancer?
|We created a bridal bouquet of solid gardenias! The fragrance was just intoxicating. But even with all those blooms – a sister steals the whole show!
|Evrim Icoz was the photographer and as always he captured the event beautifully. I love this reflection image.
|The De Soto Rooftop garden is one of the absolute best places to have a wedding in all of Portland. The view opens up to the city on one side and the green trees of the Park blocks on the other. As night falls the light dances though the space – it's magical. Go visit them:
|Ahhhh summer…
|The wedding ceremony was held under a trellis draped in sheer linen and string of blooms that filtered the sunlight beautifully.
|Visit Evrim Icoz to see more of his inspiring work:


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Greenhouse Gases
A funny name, especially since the concept really has nothing to do with
Let's take a look at how they work. Did you ever notice how a car heats up when it's left in the sun with the windows up? Have you wondered how a glass building used to grow plants stays so warm inside? The key to both of these is known as the Greenhouse Effect.
As you know, glass lets light pass through pretty freely. That's why we use it for windows—so we can see out and let the sun shine in. Once light energy passes through the glass and bounces around inside, it loses energy and becomes heat. Heat does not pass through glass as easily as light does; therefore, it gets trapped, builds up rapidly, and the space gets hot. Scientists are concerned this greenhouse effect is happening to our planet.
Using gasoline to fuel our cars and burning gas, coal, oil and other materials to make our homes comfortable releases greenhouse gases. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. As the gases build up in our atmosphere, more heat is trapped and the earth's temperature gradually rises. Using less energy is one way we can all help reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
Copyright © 2009 Apogee | Acknowledgements
Kids Korner is made possible by the creative, talented and dedicated team consisting of the following:
Valerie Williams
Valerie Williams, Apogee's Art Director and Lead Artist is the creator and artistic talent behind Kids Korner. In the late 90s, after producing hundreds of illustrations and animations for Apogee online courses and Internet content over the years, it occurred to Valerie that these expensive art elements could be re-purposed for communicating complicated energy concepts to children. Encouraged by the enthusiastic reaction she received from our utility customers, Valerie undertook the design and began the curriculum development of what has become one of the most elaborate and comprehensive energy education sites around. As the site shows, her artistic flair brings technical topics to life, and her proficiency in Photoshop, Quark, In-Design, Illustrator, Flash and Dreamweaver enable her to create impressive designs in both electronic and print formats.
Margaret M. Aderholdt, a middle school teacher at Wellborn Elementary in Anniston, Alabama, leads Apogee's teacher advisory group. In this capacity, she is the spokesperson for the group, providing input to the curriculum developed for Kids Korner and kid-testing any support materials designed for use with the site prior to them going into production and distributed to customers or schools. With more than 16 years teaching experience, Margaret has been awarded numerous grants and honors for herself and the various schools at which she has instructed. Most recently, she was named the 2004 Teacher of the Year for her outstanding work increasing her student's test scores, expanding their involvement in academic pursuits, and her tireless efforts to stimulate and challenge her students to higher achievement. Margaret spends her summers attending professional development conferences, workshops, and classes to stay abreast of the latest research in science education. Margaret earned her B.A. in Business Administration at Transylvania University and holds a masters degree in International Commerce from the University of Kentucky. After raising two college age daughters, Margaret returned to the classroom herself to earn a masters degree in Elementary Education.
Michael Overstreet is Apogee's Kids Korner Product Manager and the mastermind of the site's programming and navigational design. In his role as product manager, Michael assists utilities with the implementation of their customized Kids Korner application. In addition, he leads Apogee's field testing of all Kids Korner website activities and supplemental material, conducting classroom trials in local schools.
Susan Gilbert brings to Kids Korner and its growing number of support materials her education and experience as an instructional designer and her enthusiasm for energy education. As president and co-founder of Apogee, Susan is the primary architect behind Apogee's online energy courses and web content divisions, effectively translating her nearly 25 years of energy efficiency and training experience into highly interactive, online training courseware and Web site tools. Drawing upon her masters degree in Curriculum and Instruction, Susan directs the instructional design process for all Apogee eLearning initiatives, including her personal favorite, Kids Korner.
Dick Niess is Kids Korner's technical reviewer responsible for assuring accuracy and clarity of the concepts covered on the site. A distinguished Tau Beta Pi graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Mr. Niess earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering. Mr. Niess is a Fellow of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), is immediate past Chairman of the Applied Heat Pump and Heat Recovery Technical Committee, and serves on the Geothermal Energy Utilization and Centrifugal Machines Technical Committees. He is a repeat contributor to the ASHRAE Systems Handbook, and has authored numerous technical publications for the energy industry.


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January 1999 – Emmons Lecture
Wallace Broecker
Newberry Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
Summary: During the last glacial period, Earth's climate underwent frequent large and abrupt global changes. This behavior appears to reflect the ability of the ocean's thermohaline circulation to assume more than one mode of operation. The record in ancient sedimentary rocks suggests that similar abrupt changes plagued the Earth at other times. The trigger mechanism for these reorganizations may have been the antiphasing of polar insolation associated with orbital cycles. Were the ongoing increase in atmospheric CO2 levels to trigger another such reorganization, it would be bad news for a world striving to feed 10 billion people. Major climate changes can occur abruptly in a few years. The oceans likely hold the secrets to these abrupt changes. For the stability of the earth's climate system, the oceans play a critical role, as illustrated by the recent El Niño events.
February 1999
Albert A. Bartlett
Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
With these words, Professor Bartlett starts his one-hour talk. First he gives a very elementary introduction to the arithmetic of steady growth, showing what steady growth of population means in Boulder, in Colorado, and in the world. Then he examines the situation where one has steady growth in a finite environment and the results of this are applied to fossil fuels, particularly to petroleum and coal. Data from the U.S. Department of Energy are used to show that the realistic lifetimes of U.S. coal, U.S. petroleum and world petroleum are much shorter than the optimistic figures that are so often quoted. Reassuring statements from experts, the press, scientists, political leaders, and others, that are wildly at odds with the facts, are examined. The widespread worship of economic growth and population growth throughout the western world is discussed. These facts give the listener a better understanding of the real meaning of "sustainability," which Prof. Bartlett gives as the First Law of Sustainability:
"You cannot sustain population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources."
This allows the listener to appreciate fully the implications of the growth path of western society and in particular, of the United States. The talk closes with a plea for the widespread education of people on the arithmetic and consequences of growth.
March 1999
Paolo Marco De Martini
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica, Rome, Italy
In 1997, a series of devastating earthquakes struck the central Apennines, which are the structural backbone of the boot of Italy. The September 26th earthquake (M6), caught the attention of the world because it caused 12 deaths, 4 from within the Basilica of St. Francis de Assisi. Italian seismologists, geologists, and geophysicists working together have been able to capture 3-dimensional data on the faults that caused these historic earthquakes. Satellite-based laser interferometry shows a striking pattern of general subsidence and localized uplift associated with the faults and geodetic releveling of pre-earthquake surveying stations confirm the same general pattern. These data, plus geologic studies of the surface ruptures, give us a bird's-eye view on the 1997 Assisi earthquakes.
Pat Shanks
U.S. Geological Survey
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April 1999
Emmett Evanoff
University of Colorado Museum, Boulder
The deep canyons cut into the Southern Rocky Mountains have been explained by two scenarios. The first, traditional explanation, is that the region has undergone late Cenozoic uplift. By this model, elevations in the middle Cenozoic were lower than at present and the present elevations result from regional uplift that steepened the gradients of the rivers resulting in the rivers cutting their canyons. The second scenario is that the average elevations of the region were as high as today since the middle Cenozoic, and that climatic change provided the streams with more power to cut their canyons. The apparent uplift of the region resulted from the isostatic adjustment of the mountains to the removal of materials by the rivers and that the mean regional elevation has not changed throughout the Cenozoic.
A wide variety of evidence has been presented for and against both interpretations. The traditional view has been largely supported from evidence of geomorphology, while the second model has been supported by paleobotanical interpretations. Supporters of each explanation have regarded the two scenarios to be mutually exclusive, but both models may be acting in the region. Climatic change has occurred in the late Cenozoic and did affect the drainage systems, primarily by integration of the large river systems. Erosion has been a large factor, but primarily in the basins adjacent to the mountains. Isostatic rebound may have occurred from erosion of the basins. Finally, river drainages have had major readjustments from the middle Cenozoic to the late Cenozoic, that could not have been from climatic change alone. Thus, the models may be the end members of a complex interaction of events that produced the modern topography in the Southern Rockies.
Robert M. Kirkham
Colorado Geological Survey
Geologic mapping of 7.5-minute quadrangles in west-central Colorado in the vicinity of Glenwood Springs has led to the discovery of widespread active collapse that is a result of dissolution and flowage of underlying Pennsylvanian evaporitic rocks. Neogene extrusive rocks preserved in the region provide an excellent datum by which the extent of the collapse areas and style and timing of deformation can be evaluated. A cooperative investigation of the Neogene igneous rocks by the Colorado Geological Survey and U. S. Geological Survey involving large numbers of Ar40/Ar39 dates, major and trace element geochemical analyses, paleomagnetic determinations, and petrographic studies allows for individual lava flows to be correlated across the collapse areas.
The Neogene igneous rocks are downdropped as much as 3,000 to 4,000 feet in the Carbondale collapse center. Laramide structures bound the Carbondale collapse center, but the direction of collapse is generally opposite to movement during the Laramide. For example, the Laramide Grand Hogback Monocline has "unfolded" or collapsed during the Neogene as evaporitic rocks dissolved and/or flowed from beneath it. A variety of unusual geologic features related to salt tectonism occur within the collapse area. They include sets of parallel bedding-plane faults, orthogonal fault patterns, sag structures, sharp monoclines, intrusive contacts between sedimentary formations, valley anticlines, complexly deformed collapse debris, and locally thick accumulations of sediments. Faulted and folded surficial deposits indicate the collapse continued into the Quaternary, while historic sinkholes and the high salinity loads of streams in the area suggest dissolution is ongoing today.
May 1999
Growth of Gold Nuggets During Active Mountain Building
Dave Craw
University of Otago, New Zealand
A series of broad antiformal ranges and intervening synformal basins is forming to the east of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary in southern New Zealand. Ranges are rising at ca. 1 mm/year, principally by folding above thrust faults at depth, in an arid rain shadow with low erosion rates. The ranges are asymmetrical, with steep southeastern slopes and gentle northwestern backslopes. Miocene gold-bearing quartz-pebble conglomerates are preserved on the backslopes and in the synformal valleys, but are eroded from the steep southeastern slopes. Debris flows consisting of recycled Miocene sediments and fresh basement detritus are shed sporadically from the rising ranges, especially on the steep southeastern slopes. Groundwater percolating through debris flow material has low oxygen content, is locally acidic, and authigenic pyrite or marcasite is forming with authigenic clay minerals. Miocene gold flakes (ca. 300 microns) are locally dissolved and gold is reprecipitated onto neighbouring grains, enhancing the gold grain size. Secondary gold has distinctly lower Ag content (ca. 1 wt %) than primary gold (ca. 5 wt %). Continued uplift results in further erosion and recycling of gold particles with continued grain size enhancement up to 2 cm nuggets. Chemical processes in the alkaline soil also remobilise gold during erosion and recycling, contributing to the grain size enhancement and nugget formation, but Ag is conserved. The grain size enhancement has been important for the economics of placer mining, by facilitating higher recovery than would be possible with finer gold. Similar processes might be expected to occur, at slower rates, along the eastern margin of the Colorado Front Range as topography, climate, and erosion processes are similar.
The history of El Niño and its impacts: Lessons from the paleoclimate record
Julie Cole
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
How unusual was last year's El Niño event? This question can't be answered with the existing instrumental climate data, which span only the past several decades over most of the tropical Pacific. This lack of data presents a challenge to paleoclimatologists, who are learning to decipher the climate record preserved in ancient corals that grow throughout the islands of the Pacific. New coral data from the central Pacific show a strong warming trend over the past 150 years, as well as changes in the strength and the recurrence interval of El Niño events. Other paleoclimatic records, notably tree-rings, offer information on the impact of El Niño on North American climate, particularly regional drought. Climate reconstructions from corals and tree rings indicate that the past century has witnessed long-term changes in both the El Niño system and its extratropical impacts.
September 1999
Why is Mount Sopris So Big?: A Middle Tertiary Pluton Caught With Its Pants Down
Randall K. Streufert
Summit Geology & Consulting, LLC, Silverthorne, Colorado
At 12,953 feet, the twin summits of Mount Sopris loom nearly 7000 feet above the confluence of the modern Crystal River with the Roaring Fork River near Carbondale, Colorado. Exposure of this magnitude rivals or exceeds that of some of the 14,000-ft peaks throughout Colorado, and is interpreted to result, in part, from Neogene deformation in the lower Crystal River valley that involves widespread collapse due to dissolution of Pennsylvanian evaporitic rocks. Evidence of collapse occurs 1 mile north of the Mount Sopris stock near Potato Bill Creek where thick Tertiary sediments are in contact with Mesozoic rocks across a normal fault. The collapse area contains thick surficial deposits that cover bedrock and conceal the structure of the collapse margin.
Rock Glacier History of Mount Sopris, Colorado
Peter Birkeland
University of Colorado, Boulder
Rock glaciers are prominent in the large valleys facing northwest through east on Mount Sopris. Some are nearly 2 km long, and at least parts of all of the rock glaciers are still moving. Aspect plays a major role in both the length of the rock glaciers and the lower altitude of their moving fronts. Several ages of rock glacier formation can be distinguished on the basis of post-depositional alteration of surfaces of the rock glaciers. Such alteration includes the progressive development of lichen growth on and weathering features of the clasts, and loess thickness and soil development of the rock glacier mantle. It is difficult to date the mantles of the rock glacier deposits, but they seem best correlated with the latter part of the Pinedale Glaciation and several cool episodes within the Holocene. These criteria can be used to suggest ages for rock glaciers in other parts of the Rocky Mountains.
October 1999 – Family Night
Dig a Hole in your Backyard: New Discoveries in Denver's Geology
Kirk Johnson
Denver Museum of Natural History
Denver is built on bedrock that contains dinosaurs and the remains of ancient rain forests. As construction has followed the economic boom time of the 1990s, excavations have created amazing opportunities to find fossils literally in our own backyards. Join Kirk Johnson, Denver Museum of Natural History's curator of paleontology, as he describes the museum's effort to save these fossils and to understand the amazing geological history of our home town.
November 1999 – Student Night
The Importance and Characterization of Pseudotachylytes from the Outer Hebrides Fault Zone
Trista Thornberry
Department of Earth Resources, Colorado State University
Pseudotachylytes from the Outer Hebrides Isles, Scotland have been characterized on the basis of mineralogy, texture and chemical compositions. This was done using a petrographic microscope, back-scattered electron imagine and microprobe analysis. Every method indicates an entirely crystalline matrix, with no glass yet seen. Intermediate (sodic oligoclase to labradorite) plagioclase microlites are arranged in a crude spherulitic fashion and can reach lengths as long as 300 microns. Intergrown with the plagioclase lathes are slightly aluminous amphibole/clinopyroxene microlites and magnetite dendrites. Partially melted quartz clasts are the most common host rock remnants of these pseudotachylytes. Sparse apatite, zircon, and rutile clasts also persist in the matrix. Altered veins are scarce and easy to identify by their different textural and mineral components. Commonly altered veins show replacement minerals such as epidote, adularia, and chlorite, and a lack of microlites. Chemically, the pseudotachylyte groundmass shows SiO2 percentages as low as 48.06. This is in marked contrast with the rather felsic Lewisian gneiss host rocks and could indicate incomplete melting and a low viscosity melt. Also important for dating, is the fact that volatiles are low and the K2O percentage is moderately high. In conclusion, the microlitic matrix indicates only a moderately high cooling rate. This, in conjunction with high temperature microlites, could point to a mid-crustal, high ambient temperature source. The large microlites could be useful in applying a quartz-plagioclase-hornblende thermobarometer. Lastly, the unaltered pseudotachylyte with ample K2O concentrations provides a likely candidate for 40Ar/39Ar dating.
Fault Slip Rates, Structural Style, Seismic Moment and Magnitudes of the Last 2.3 Ka – Lake County Uplift, New Madrid Region
Jocasta Champion
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado
Trenching, geomorphology and structural analysis of subtle, fault-related folds in the Lake County uplift (LCU) suggest uplift is accommodated mostly by fault-bend folding above the blind Reelfoot thrust. Trench exposures indicate the Reelfoot scarp is comprised of 2-3 east-facing kink bands that dip 5-16°. These form above bends in the underlying blind thrust, collectively accommodating ~20-25° flattening of the thrust at the top of a ramp dipping 55° west. Seismic profiles image the scarp as a monocline comprised of overlapping kink-bands (multibend fold). Additional shortening is defined in trench excavations and seismic data as a ~4 km wide fold that forms above a fault tip (i.e. a fault-propagation fold). Fault-related fold theory and radiocarbon dates on folded sediments allow slip rates on the thrust to be determined. The average width of kink bands in the trenches is ~14.0 m. Limb width is equivalent to fault slip; this and the age of folded sediments (~2.3 ± 0.1 ka) yields a slip rate of 5.8 ± 0.7 mm/yr. Another method uses the 9.1 m of total structural relief across the Reelfoot scarp, the age of folded sediments and uplift on a 55° thrust to yield a slip rate of 4.8 ± 0.2 mm/yr. Vector transformation of these rates onto the strike slip Cottonwood Grove fault (CGF) indicates slip on the CGF of 1.8 ± 2.2 mm/yr. This is in conflict with recent assertions based on GPS that New Madrid is now inactive. Seismic moment and moment magnitude calculations for faults in New Madrid used fault geometry from our model, slip inferred by fold geometry and published recurrence intervals. For a period of 500 years, seismic moment for the thrust is 8.37 X 1026 dyne-cm (Mw = 7.25); for the strike slip CGF, moment is 4.93 X 1026 (Mw = 7.10). This is consistent with historical records from the 1811/12 sequence where greater shaking was felt over the LCU.
Variations in the Au-Bearing L1 and L2 Liese Quartz Zones, Pogo Deposit, East Central Alaska
Keri Moore
Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Gold at the Pogo deposit (estimated 10 million tons, average grade 0.52 opt) is hosted in the subhorizontal, subparallel L1 and L2 Liese quartz zones. These zones crosscut Proterozoic (?) to Paleozoic amphibolite-grade gneisses and Cretaceous granitoids of the Yukon-Tanana terrane. The quartz can be divided into three types based on color, texture, and mineralogy. The quartz types are correlatable across the deposit and appear to be closely related in time. Type 1 is massive, milky white quartz with sulfides dominated by pyrrhotite and pyrite; biotite alteration occurs locally along wallrock contacts. Type 2 is massive, gray, and commonly mottled. Locally, however, this type is dark gray and highly strained. Sulfides are dominated by arsenopyrite and pyrite, and feldspars and micas in wallrocks have been altered to ferroan dolomite and sericite. Type 3 is pale gray to white with a distinctive "granular" texture consisting of subrounded to subangular quartz grains with intergranular potassium feldspar. It is not clear whether this texture is primary or secondary. Pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, and pyrite are all present in type 4. Gold, with or without various associated Au-Bi-Pb-Te±S-Ag minerals, is found in all quartz types, though visible gold is preferentially concentrated in type 2.
December 1999 – President's Address
The Yellowstone Hotspot, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and Human Geography
Ken Pierce
U.S. Geological Survey
The landscapes of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE) are shaped by geologic processes of volcanism, faulting, and uplift, all of which we associate with the Yellowstone hotspot. As the North American Plate moved SW, hotspot volcanism progressed NE and arrived at Yellowstone 2 Ma. Thousands of feet of recent uplift of the GYE have resulted in ongoing erosion of deep, steep-walled valleys in readily erodible rock.
Modern and Pleistocene weather and resultant vegetation patterns strongly relate to hotspot topography and its Snake-River-Plain track. Moist Pacific airmasses traverse the Snake River Plain and rise onto the Yellowstone Plateau and adjacent mountains to produce deep snows, and east of the mountains, a precipitation shadow. Such deep orographic snows produced extensive Pleistocene glaciers that covered the core GYE and produced many of the landscape features on which modern soils have formed, as well as outwash gravels (commonly covered with sagebrush-grassland) and silty lake sediments (commonly covered by lush grassland such as Hayden Valley).
Rhyolitic hotspot volcanism constructed the Pleistocene Yellowstone Plateau. Streams eroding the steep edges of this plateau form scenic canyons and waterfalls. Rhyolite is poor in nutrients and forms sandy, well-drained soils that support the monotonous, fire-prone, lodgepole pine forest of the Yellowstone Plateau. Older andesite and other rocks surround this plateau and support more varied vegetation, including spruce-fir and whitebark pine forests broken by grassy meadows. Upwelling waters heated by hotspot magmas drive Yellowstone's famed geysers, hotsprings, and mudpots which provide habitat for specialized, primitive ecosystems of algae and bacteria.
Human settlement and use of the GYE reflects the hotspot processes of uplift, volcanism, and faulting. Uplift formed a remote highland from which streams drain radially outward like spokes from a hub. Humans have settled around Yellowstone along these drainages and established roads, irrigation systems, and political associations along them. Decision-making involving the GYE is complicated by multiple jurisdictions athwart this hotspot highland, including 18 counties, seven National Forests, three states, and two National Parks.
This talk is based on a manuscript written with co-authors Don Despain, Lisa Morgan, and John Good.


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Check out this report and related animation. This object is highly metallic and cigar-shaped. There is also a big red spot in the middle of it.
What do you think it is???
Check out this report and related animation. This object is highly metallic and cigar-shaped. There is also a big red spot in the middle of it.
What do you think it is???
At this point it resembles Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama . . .
Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-kilometre (31 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries
Wouldn't be the fist time Clarke predicted an event of this sort . . .
Oumuamua was was featured on Coast-to-Coast last night with the following quoted from their C2C website:
"For the first time ever, astronomers have observed an object that entered our solar system from the outside and the odd asteroid is quite remarkable.Spotted by researchers in Hawaii, the weird 'visitor' boasts a strange, elongated shape where the quarter-mile length of the asteroid appears to be around ten times its width.
This is particularly amazing to astronomers who say that the ratio is seven times greater than anything seen in the past.
Although such objects have long been theorized to exist coming into and out of solar system, the newfound asteroid constitutes confirmation of that hypothesis.
Researchers are now scrambling to observe the asteroid since they believe it could provide tremendous insight into the formation of objects around stars other than our sun.
In a nod to the location from which the asteroid was discovered, it was given the name 'Oumuamua, which is Hawaiian for "messenger from afar arriving first."
UFO enthusiasts concerned that perhaps the interstellar object is not an asteroid at all and, in fact, an alien invader can rest easy knowing that 'Oumuamua is already headed away from the Earth and en route to leave our solar system in the next few years.
So either the object really is an asteroid that is simply passing through our solar system or the alien scout ship took one look at Earth and concluded that an invasion really wasn't worth the trouble."
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this statement is the observation that no other object has ever been spotted that exceede a length to width ratio of 1.4:1. Ouamuamua has a length to width ratio of 10:1.
It would be great if we could send a probe to study this asteroid. But I think that by the time we could get one built that it would be too far away and moving too fast to catch up with.
My inner Mulder wants to believe, but my inner Scully remains skeptical.
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Contributing Editor
Ultimately, when you stop and think about it, isn't satisfying our clients about doing the right thing?
We are smack in the middle of the most challenging economic times our 20-year-old company ever has seen. Sales are hard to come by, and overhead reductions and layoffs have left an atmosphere of fear and anxiety. It is just this sort of atmosphere that can create the perfect storm for reduced client satisfaction. This situation is not unique to us; companies all over the country are feeling the pinch, and none that I know of are immune.
|Often, a one-year warranty is looked at as a "must provide" to clients, and companies breathe a sign of relief when that year goes by without a call. This is a lost opportunity!
Many companies in our industry are struggling for survival, no longer enjoying the relative excesses of years past. It is during times like these that it takes foresight, well-planned cash reserves and, most importantly, internal fortitude for leaders to see the big picture and do the right thing.
What kind of warranty does your company offer? About 10 years ago we extended ours, so that now we provide an industry-leading three years on all material and labor, and I know of no other companies in our market that meet or beat it.
Often, a one-year warranty is looked at as a "must provide" to clients, and companies breathe a sigh of relief when that year goes by without a call. This is a lost opportunity! We use our warranty as just one more reason to partner with our clients. We tout the fact that we have a dedicated handyman who, in addition to doing small projects for us, also quickly and efficiently handles warranty calls. We have made the investment in this person because it shows commitment to our clients and ensures that we can walk our talk.
Recently we ripped out a custom tile shower that was eight (!) years old, well over our generous warranty period. However, there had been a recurring problem, and while we had always addressed the issues, we ultimately realized there were some underlying problems in the installation that we could not properly address unless we removed everything. The client was blown away and has talked to us about doing more work for him, and he even referred other clients.
All the industry pundits advise maintaining a commitment to a disciplined and well-funded marketing program, especially when times are tough and leads are thin. This commitment to marketing is the same as committing to maintaining and even stepping up your warranty. Saying you will take care of something and then getting it done in a timely and efficient manner will generate business for you (and take it away from your less-than-accommodating competitors). But it takes discipline and a long-term view.
Every referral is like water in the desert, especially in a down market. Doing the right thing — even when it is tough — will ensure your clients' long-term satisfaction and faithfulness. They'll come back to you and send others in your direction as well.
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Practically every Moroccan home has a favourite meskouta recipe. In fact, Moroccans will tell you meskouta is more than just a dessert. It's popularly consumed as breakfast, lunch or a teatime snack. At GOLD Restaurant we serve ours as a dessert with a sprinkling of 24-carat gold dust and a lightly sweetened crème fraiche. Delicious!
Recipe by: GOLD Restaurant
Serves: 10 (as a dessert)
Difficulty: Easy
Preparation: 10 minutes
Cooking: 70 minutes
T = tablespoon
t = teaspoon
Cake: 1½ cups sugar
4 eggs 125 g butter softened
3 cups cake flour 2 T bicarbonate of soda
2 T baking powder
3 cups butter milk
½ cup whole walnuts (at your discretion)
¼ of the grated rind (zest) of one orange
Pinch of salt Crème fraiche: 250 g crème fraiche
1 to 2 t castor sugar (to your taste)
2 to 3 T plain yogurt (to your taste)
Preheat the oven to 180°c.
Cream sugar, eggs and butter.
Add flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, buttermilk and mix.
Stir in whole walnuts and grated orange rind (zest).
Pour the batter into a greased cake pan and bake for 70 minutes.
To ensure your cake is done, insert a knife gently into the middle – it should come out clean.
Serve warm or at room temperature with the sweetened crème fraiche.


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It's an imprecise term for a very specific, endemic problem in game development, one often (but not always) caused by the industry's proclivity for crunch.
Being a game developer is often an exercise in endurance: working on a creative project for years on end, there's a constant pressure to push harder to see the thing through. A sense that the task is endless, but that more work might just get it done quicker. Financial, social, and cultural reasons make developers throw themselves into it, feeling guilty or lazy or afraid of what will happen if it doesn't get done quicker.
Those pressures can and will wear a developer down, slowly crushing them without them even knowing it until it — is far too late. Burnout is an extremely serious issue for game developers as they work themselves ever-harder to see their passion projects brought to life, or through buckling down to get that huge game released on time. It is an insidious thing that devours minds and bodies with overwork, breaking the wonderful, creative people who want to bring their incredible visions to the world.
"Whenever you care about someone or something more than yourself, your risk of burnout takes a big leap forward." says Jonathan Holmes, licensed independent clinical social worker. "Burnout is a slang term for when people get stuck in a behavior pattern that they were once able to thrive in, but over time makes them more and more anxious and/or depressed. Think of when a car spins its tires at high RPMs without going anywhere, and all you get from it is the stink of burnt rubber, but instead of your car, it's your brain. That's burnout."
These overworking behaviors, often lauded or worn like badges of honor in the game development industry, often only serve to leave its creative minds in ruins, breaking people down. In an industry where people seem proud of working twelve, sixteen, twenty-four, or more hours during crunch periods that never seem to end, there are endless stories of burnout.
"I got thrown into the deep end and found myself trying to code multiple games by myself in a short amount of time, without any real guidance," says Quang Nguyen of UK game dev Asobi tech. "As time went on, the time pressures grew and grew, as each milestone had to be reached, regardless of the various issues I was running into due to my inexperience. I went from working from home to moving into a small bed and breakfast so I could be closer to the office, meaning I could code from the first thing in the morning to the very last thing at night. Rinse and repeat."
"My burnout spiral began when I felt like my experience as a teacher wasn't being recognized by my peers – whether that was true or not doesn't quite matter. I decided to work on games outside of my regular 9-5 hours," says Jennifer Scheurle of Opaque Space. "I kept taking on more and more gigs outside of my full-time job to seek legitimacy and I never felt like I was quite doing as well or as much as others in my industry. A lot of regional awards and official recognition include questions on what a person does besides their regular job, e.g. 30 under 30 lists, so there is a general consensus on asking people to work more than the regular 40 hours a week."
"On the worst nights, I would lay in bed with my laptop, glowing with GameMaker open," says James Earl Cox III of Seemingly Pointless. "I was trying to sleep with it next to me, hoping that maybe I would wake up refreshed and ready to code something, but it mostly existed as a reminder that I wasn't making anything anymore. There was an overwhelming wall of guilt. I'd fall asleep in a panic and wake up the same way, one day closer to whatever trivial deadline I was currently dreading."
These stories can be the end of a game, though. The last straw for a project, and for the person behind it. As an industry, how can we identify the warning signs in our own behaviors? How can we sense burnout coming before it hits, and what can we do about it when it's here? Most importantly, how can we stop it from happening to begin with?
Gamasutra spoke with a handful of developers about their personal stories of burnout, and how, as an industry, we can hope to heal and better protect from the awful practices that lead to it.
"Within the game industry, burnout is especially common"
"In graduate school, I was pushed to work myself to the bone, and I did — it was a year and a half accelerated Master's degree program at the Guildhall at SMU," says Tanya Short of Kitfox Games. "Although classes were of a standard length, assignments and projects easily ate up 60 to 80 hours every week for the whole 18 months. I've become very sensitive to how the quality of my work suffers when I'm not well-rested, physically and mentally."
"In the latter half of 2016 and the first half of 2017, I took Sausage Sports Club to several PAX conventions. These being big marketing and networking opportunities, I of course wanted to push to make the game as polished as possible," says Chris Wade of Luckshot Games. "Each time one of these events would come around, I'd spend 2+ weeks before the show overworking myself every day. That means long hours, not spending time with friends and my then girlfriend and just generally failing to take care of myself and living space. Then the event comes and there's more crunch-like living with booth prep, setup and then having to be ON all day every day demoing the game."
"At each convention, all of that combined to make me a ball of stress and anxiety and dead-brain and then I'd get home and be useless for a few days. And then close to useless for a few weeks. And oops now the next PAX is in a month. Here we go again." he continues.
Every developer reached out to for this article could rhyme off at least one story of a time they had worked themselves into burnout, struggling to meet deadlines or fighting to push themselves to certain goals. It took minutes to find enough developers to fill an article, and their examples could easily go on for pages and pages.
"The medical community is intimately aware of [burnout], as many of them suffer from it themselves."
Holmes illustrates a bit of what is happening to these developers, and many others, in burnout. "Though I'm not a medical clinician, I'm pretty sure that burnout has not yet become an official medical term or diagnosis. It's a sad irony, but it makes sense given that it's more of a slang term, one that the medical community is intimately aware of, as many of them suffer from it themselves. That's especially true of people who work in the fields of psychiatry and behavioral health, where burnout among clinicians is both highly prevalent, and largely met without any sort of intervention for positive change."
"There is a glucomate in our brains that gets burned every time we have to make a decision, with the more stressful decisions requiring more of the stuff than minor or inconsequential ones." he continues. "Run out of that glucomate, and people may find themselves staring at wall for hours at the end of the day, unable to even decide to get up and go to bed, as they've run out of the chemicals you need to make even minor decisions like that."
Medically, a developer that has been working themselves to the bone to accomplish a task in a far-too-small window may well have run out of the chemical in their brain that allows them to make decisions. They have pushed themselves into a position where even the smallest call is just about impossible. Considering how taxing this is on the mind, it's a frighteningly common problem for game developers and the industry.
This can happen for financial or employment reasons, according to Holmes. "Any big money industry that a lot of young, optimistic people want to join is going to end up having a high burnout population. When supply for eager and willing applicants is larger than the demand for those jobs, employers will inevitably squeeze their staff as tightly as they want, without risk of ending up with unfilled positions in the company for any prolonged period of time."
"Expectations within our industry, fear or missing out and crunch culture seem to be the most common themes around burnout," says Scheurle. "We are constantly told that we are lucky to work in games, that our jobs are dream jobs and that we should be grateful to work in the field – this is especially true for prestigious franchises where there is a long line of developers waiting to take your place if you can't take the pressure."
This puts pressure on developers to perform. In the indie space, there will always be someone out there pushing to have a game out there before you, forcing you to work doubly hard to get your game out in a time when it will succeed. Otherwise, all of the years developing it will have been 'wasted'.
In larger companies, a developer may feel that they're easy to replace should they stop working so hard or complain that they are being overworked, as there are so many others looking to work in the industry.
"Our corporate structures encourage trading in the quality of life of our workers in exchange for increased value to shareholders. As individuals, we buy into it because it's a one-two punch of starving artist meets Silicon Valley," adds Short. "We're ambitious, intelligent, creative, and both North American and Japanese culture confuses industriousness ("working hard") with actual productivity (producing results). I wrote an article on why some people choose to destroy themselves, from plausible deniability to sunk cost fallacy, but none of those are particularly unique to games."
"We're ambitious, intelligent, creative, and both North American and Japanese culture confuses industriousness ('working hard') with actual productivity (producing results)."
But pushing oneself too hard has become a part of games culture itself. In a culture that lionizes the all-night coding session there's an almost romantic quality to overworking, when it is anything but healthy.
"Within the game industry, burnout is especially common," says Holmes. "It may have to do with the fact that for a long time, embracing or even glorifying a lack of self care has been a big part of games culture. Of course, there really isn't just one 'games culture' anymore, but that's a whole other conversation."
Of course, there's that alluring feeling of "flow" that so many game makers push themselves to achieve during marathon work sessions. Once you're there it's great, but the effort you put in to do so may pave the way to burnout.
"People who love to play, and eventually, to make video games are almost always driven by the urge to enter the 'flow state'," says Holmes. "The frame of mind where you are being challenged at just the right level to keep you fully engaged in an activity, a place that exists in the balance between being under-stimulated and overwhelmed."
"For athletes, getting to that flow state can mean jogging at just the right pace, which can be great for their health… until they blow out their knees and can't run anymore," he continues. "After that, running will just damage their bodies more, while not running will leave them depressed and listless. Their ability to hit the flow state through running is destroyed by the physical pain and related anxiety that comes from their injuries."
Ashley Godbold, senior programmer with GameSmart, can vouch for this. "Many developers, myself included, can get so hyper-focused on a task, that their own bodily needs are forgotten. I constantly forget to eat or drink, because I've been so 'in the zone'. As you can imagine, my mental health is also forgotten."
"Gaming and game development are different in that they offer both an opportunity to enter the flow state, and a naturally occurring anesthesia to any psychological injury you may sustain along the way," Holmes concludes. "Anything that causes you to forget that you physically exist, and that your physical existence comes with physiological and emotional needs, can be like a pleasant-smelling poisonous gas. The smell masks the damage being done to you as you breathe it in. Similarly, the way games and game development transport us and immerse us can make us forget to take care of ourselves."
The reasons burnout can occur are beyond numerous, and again, almost any developer can call up a time when they've overworked themselves for any number of them. It's a constant problem.
Knowing the signs of burnout could help, in theory, but it's very tricky because the circumstances which lead to burnout make it often hard to perceive what's happening, or hard to justify taking time for self-care due to the pressures that made the developer feel burnt out to begin with.
"What's terrible about burnout symptoms is that it makes you feel exactly the things that push you towards burnout in the first place: You are irritable, constantly tired, hopeless and terrifyingly: unproductive," says Scheurle. "Ironically, the more you burn out, the less work you actually end up doing while constantly feeling like and telling people about how much work you do. Burnout keeps you from working well, making you feel lazy and untalented. In that manner it is also hard to believe your friends when they notice these signs."
Even so, developers owe it to themselves, and the work they're trying to complete, to watch out for many of these signs.
"The most obvious sign of burnout is when someone seems flat and frustrated while engaging in activities that used to inspire excitement and optimism."
"The most obvious sign of burnout is when someone seems flat and frustrated while engaging in activities that used to inspire excitement and optimism. It's when people appear to be weighted down with a sense of burden as opposed to being lifted up by the feeling of opportunity when approaching a task that used to thrill them," says Holmes.
"When things went wrong for me, I turned to making games. This worked fine as an undergraduate student when my university work was spread across multiple disciplines. Game making was mostly a hobby back then," adds Cox. "When I started at USC, it became both a hobby and my full-time study. Now that I'm graduated, it's a hobby and my job. It's fine to include game making in both my personal and professional life, but there needs to be alternative releases."
This is often how it goes: someone with a deep passion for making games suddenly finds that feeling turning to ash inside them.
"For me, burn out always sneaks up on me. It's days before I realize I haven't taken any breaks and have been working 10-13 hours each day on it," says Tyler Doak, developer of Aces Wild. "It usually starts with me running into a difficult concept or implementation. Each day I make a tiny bit of progress, but if I work just a BIT harder, I can get through it. But that turns into a month of that and eventually I burn out."
"On the other hand, it can happen when things are going great as well," he continues. "I'm excited to work on it every day, so I put in a dozen productive hours each day, the game is gonna be great, but then eventually my body gives in and I'm burnt out."
"Emotional instability, irritability, general tiredness, dullness, disaffectedness…some people report a dread of going to work, or insomnia, but for me it manifests more as a narrowing of focus, an inability to process things like what is important and what is not important," recounts Short. "I become a hard-shelled body, walking down a corridor of ice, towards some distant destination, unquestioning, just working. Some people seem like they always feel this way, but I wonder if some people have been burned out for years and never managed to heal completely. In a creative industry, if you can't be excitable, curious, imaginative, analytical, intrigued, I'm not sure you're actually doing your job well."
"In a creative industry, if you can't be excitable, curious, imaginative, analytical, intrigued, I'm not sure you're actually doing your job well."
"My sure signs of burnout are not wanting to get out of bed and the feeling of my brain actively resisting being at a computer or doing work. I'm generally excited to make things and be around people in an office, so when that changes I know something is wrong." says Wade.
"Honest reflection of your mindset and health may help you to recognize your burnout more quickly. I tend to use 'avoidance' tactics when I first start feeling any mental or emotional strain. It takes me a little longer to notice my symptoms, because I am actively trying to ignore them," says Godbold. "Because I know this about myself, I like to do 'emotional spot checks' occasionally, where I reflect upon my current state versus my 'normal' state. I try to be as honest with myself as possible with these reflections. I have found this to be really helpful."
Sometimes, having someone else who is also looking out for these signs can make a huge difference. "We don't notice it right away- but usually Adam [Saltsman] is the first person who notices something is super off," says Rebekah Saltsman of Finji. "I don't eat as much because it makes me sick. He has to talk to me about my parenting because I am not interacting with the kids in a positive and encouraging way when they are being mischievous (or let's be honest- they are being awful). He notices I am not making dinners or planning dinners or we are super behind on grocery shopping. I yell a lot more. I notice I am burning out because I can't manage my stress. I stop running which means I stop sleeping. I can't catch up on emails- even the simple ones."
Diagnosing burnout in yourself can be tremendously tricky, but Holmes says self-awareness is key if you want to stop it before it hurts your work or your life.
"Make it a habit to take your temperature in terms of your levels of stress and depression," he says. "Even if that means just rating how much you got out of life that day on a scale from one to ten every night before bed, and taking a look at your cumulative scores at the end of each week, it's still a start towards upping your self awareness. Watching your back can do a lot to keep burnout from sneaking up on you."
Of course, this is easier if you have a friend or loved one watching out for you as well.
"It's even better to have at least two people you can talk to about how you're doing who can reflect to you what they see about your mental state," Holmes continues. "Make sure they are people who you respect, and be willing to accept that they may be able to see aspects of your burnout that you are blind to. Like that line in John Dies At The End (and forgive me for paraphrasing), if your eye isn't working, you won't be able to use your eye to look in a mirror and see what's wrong with it. You'll need someone else to look for you. The same is true for your perception of yourself in the midst of burnout, so having someone you trust to help fill in the blanks can be a life saver."
Short concurs, and recommends devs do their best to identify symptoms and course-correct early before they start to burn out.
"The earlier I catch it, the better. Even if there's still work to be done, it helps me to be aware of when I maybe shouldn't push that extra hour today, and explicitly push my brain to think about other things when I'm at home," she says. "Sleeping is magic, but I find putting energies into hobbies (cooking, writing, sports) gives back more than you put in. My partner (who's also a game developer) can help look out for me too, making sure I don't check my work emails at home, and maybe even stay off the computer entirely."
Game makers shouldn't shoulder this burden alone. If you work as part of a larger company or even just a group of devs, the organization itself has a responsibility to help ensure the health of its employees.
"When a project starts it is imperative that there is team buy-in on how many hours you will work together," says Saltsman. "If you are working remotely, spend time just working while in an online hangout. Keep your Discord voice chat on during the day. Don't be alone. When you are up against a deadline, communicate when you are going to do reasonable development sprints. For example, when we have shows for Overland, we prep for 2 days of cleanup which might be 10-12 hour days instead of 8. We schedule this so everyone is capable of working together."
"When you go too far and you can't get yourself out of the hole- when you are burned- it is time to take an honest look at things," she adds. "Are you almost done? Should the scope change immediately? Should you hire on someone ASAP? Is what you are trying to do possible with the resources you have?"
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After months of delays, mobile payment took another step forward this week with the launch of the Isis system in Salt Lake City and Austin. Isis allows consumers to make payments with their smartphone by waving it at a check-out terminal.
Wireless carriers are testing the Isis Mobile Wallet and attempting to ignite the adoption of mobile payment systems that have been slow to find success in the United States.
The tests in Austin and Salt Lake City are starting small: 500 retailers can accept Isis in Salt Lake City and 470 in Austin. According to Computerworld, there are approximately 200,000 of the newer point-of-sale terminals that accept mobile payments in place in the United States, a very small percentage of retail stores. That number could grow significantly over the next three years as retailers could pay a penalty if they don't upgrade to point-of-sale terminals with better security by October 2015.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Junior goalie Tori DeScenza had 10 saves, while senior attack Katie Chase collected three goals as the No. 20 Ohio State women's lacrosse team rallied in the second half to win 9-8 at Hofstra Saturday afternoon in Hempstead, N.Y. With the win, the Buckeyes improve to 6-3 overall in 2014, while the Pride fall to 5-3.
Chase, a native of Woodbine, Md., scored the eventual gamewinner at 4:27 for her team-best 20th goal of the year when she cut in front of net and sent a shot between the legs of Hofstra's goalie to make it 9-8 Buckeyes. DeScenza then sealed the victory for Ohio State following a key save with 3:07 to go, giving Ohio State its 14th good clear of the day. Chase picked up a loose ball with 1:38 on the clock to help the Buckeyes run out the remaining minute of the contest.
Junior midfielder Kelsea Ayers had her third multi-point contest of the year with a pair of goals and an assist. Senior Kaila Gottlick, juniors Jennifer Porretto and Mary Kate Facchina each posted a goal vs. the Pride. Sophomore Cian Dabrowski also extended her goal streak to four-consecutive games when she tied the game, 8-8, with her 15th goal of the season. The Buckeyes were 2-for-2 on free position shots with Facchina and Gotlick capitalizing. DeScenza (6-3) claimed a game-high five ground balls, while junior Taylor Donahue had three ground balls.
After Hofstra took a 1-0 lead, the Buckeyes tallied back-to-back scores to go ahead, 2-1. Chase scored at 22:13 followed by Gottlick at 22:13, respectively, on a free position shot. After Hofstra found the back of the net three-consecutive times, Ayers made it a one-goal margin when she sprinted around the net from the far side and fired in an unassisted goal at 12:21. The Pride rebounded with a goal at 9:15 before Porretto made it 5-4 heading into halftime, scoring with just 19 seconds remaining on the clock. At half, shots were 12-9 in favor of the Pride with both teams collecting eight shots on goal.
Following halftime, the back and forth battle continued in the non-conference matchup. Ayers scored her second of the afternoon at 27:53 to tie the game, 5-5, on a man-up advantage. Facchina then tied it for the fourth time of the afternoon on the Buckeyes' second free position shot vs. the Pride, 6-6.
After Hofstra made it 8-6, the Buckeye defense held strong led by DeScenza, who collected seven saves in the second half. She denied an open shot from the near side at 9:01 before Chase netted in an OSU goal at 7:50 to cut the lead to 8-7 in favor of Hofstra. The OSU momentum continued at 6:50 when Porretto found an open Dabrowski on, who sent in a low shot into goal to tie the game, 8-8. The goal was Dabrowski's 11th score in the last four games this year.
Overall, Hofstra held a 12-7 advantage on draw controls and a 26-19 lead in shots.
Ohio State returns to Columbus to prepare for a three-game homestand, beginning with a conference matchup March 22 vs. No. 4 Florida at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.


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The Maryland football team had many of its top area targets on campus Monday for the Terps' basketball game against Syracuse, including 247Sports' top-ranked player in the state for the class of 2015: Damascus High athlete Jalen Christian.
The country's No. 11 athlete and No. 89 overall prospect, the 5-foot-10, 165-pound Christian enjoyed being back on campus in a great environment.
"The game was packed," Christian said. "I enjoyed it a lot."
The Terps coaching staff had a message for Christian and the other recruits in attendance, and it stuck with Christian after he left.
"The stay-at-home movement," said Christian, adding that he liked "everything about the coaches and football program."
Besides Maryland, Christian holds offers from the likes of South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Duke, Kentucky, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin. The Terps have had a chance to make perhaps the biggest early impression.
"They stand somewhere mixed in my top list that I don't have yet," Christian said.
Christian was a two-way standout as a junior and earned Consensus All-State Honors.
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Cirque du Freak
First edition
|Darren Shan
|United Kingdom
|The Saga of Darren Shan
|Vampire Fiction
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|January 2000
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|Followed by
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Cirque du Freak (also known as Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare) is the first novel in The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan, published in January 2000. The story begins with Darren Shan and his best friend Steve "Leopard", who visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices that neither of them could have ever thought possible.
A feature film adaption of the novel, directed by Paul Weitz and starring Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Ken Watanabe, Josh Hutcherson and Willem Dafoe was released on October 23, 2009.[1]
Darren Shan starts narrating the story by saying he was always fascinated by spiders. When he was young, he used to bring spiders from the garden and let them loose in his house despite what his mom said about never bringing them in, and at the age of 9, he received the greatest gift of his life: a small tarantula. However, the joy of that gift was crushed when he, after watching a cartoon, killed the spider with a vacuum cleaner. As the book unfolds, the reader finds out that the story is true. Darren says he doesn't expect the reader to believe, but if he hadn't lived through it, he wouldn't believe it, either. He explains, "life, unlike a cartoon, is naturally evil, doesn't care about happy endings, and is always out to kill you. You just have to be careful." He also explains that everything written is true, except for the names.
His best friend, Steve "Leopard" Leonard, has grown up reading horror comics and stories of the Wolfman and Vampires. One day, their other friend Alan comes across a flyer (which he has stolen from his older scary brother) advertising "The Cirque Du Freak", and eagerly shows it to Darren, Steve, and Tommy (Darren's other friend). All the boys wanted to go. Each flyer could only get two tickets, however, so they play a game of chance to see who will go with Steve (because he put the most money towards it). During Darren's turn, he hears a voice inside his mind telling him to "close his eyes and grasp". He does so, and ends up winning. Darren proceeds to accompany Steve to the Cirque.
Darren and Steve are mesmerized by the fantastic and disturbing show, especially by the act of the mysterious Mr. Crepsley and his giant spider, Madam Octa. Mr. Crepsley's act consists of him letting the highly poisonous spider out of her cage and controlling her actions via telepathic communication, using a small flute to focus his thoughts. One bite from Madam Octa will kill a human being after several days.
After the show is over, Darren sneaks backstage, having been completely fascinated by Madam Octa. His plan was to steal her, leaving a note for Mr. Crepsley that told him he was stealing his spider, and if Crepsley came looking for him, he would tell everyone about Mr. Crepsley's true identity (after Steve had recognized Mr. Crepsley's face from one of his vampire books): Vur Horsten, the vampire! While hiding and waiting for Mr. Crepsley to leave Madam Octa unattended, Darren witnesses a confrontation between Mr. Crepsley and Steve, in which Steve asks to be made a vampire. Mr. Crepsley tastes Steve's blood and immediately spits it out, declaring that Steve has "bad blood" and is "pure evil". He tells Steve he will not blood him, and Steve is enraged, swearing to the vampire that when he is older he will become a vampire hunter and kill him.
Darren's plan succeeds, and after a few weeks of training Madam Octa, he is fully comfortable with having it in his bedroom, using Mr. Crepsley's flute as an excuse for privacy. During this time, he grows more and more detached from Steve due to overhearing Mr. Crepsley stating that Steve has bad blood and is not good enough to become a vampire's assistant. Steve figures out that Darren lied to him and witnessed what he did, but still chooses to be friends with him.
One day while Steve is at Darren's house playing with Madam Octa, Darren's younger sister Annie barges into his room unknowingly and shocks him, causing him to drop the flute and lose control over the spider, which bites and fatally wounds Steve.
Steve's only hope for survival is if Darren makes a deal with Mr. Crepsley to become his assistant and pay off the cost of the spider antidote. Steve lives, but Darren is turned into a half-vampire, and is forced into the dark world of the vampires. In order to successfully free Darren of all previous bonds, including family, Mr. Crepsley helps his to-be apprentice fake his own death by numbing Darren's entire body, breaking his neck, and throwing him out of his bedroom window, perfectly simulating a fatal fall (his neck heals very quickly, now that he's half-vampire). During an open-casket funeral, Steve recognizes the small hidden scars on Darren's fingertips—the marks left behind when Mr. Crepsley transformed him into a half-vampire. Following the events of Darren's funeral, Mr. Crepsley returns and digs Darren up. Unbeknownst to Crepsley, Steve tries to kill Darren, but fails, instead swearing revenge on Darren for stealing his rightful place of being Mr. Crepsley's vampire assistant and betraying him. Steve cuts a cross into the palm of his own hand, and swears on it, saying that the scar left behind will always be a reminder of Darren and Mr. Crepsley's betrayal.
- ↑ Sellers, John (8 October 2009). "Movie Alert: Cirque Du Freak". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 10 August 2014.


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LAHORE: The Federal InvestiÂgation Agency (FIA) arrested on Sunday six suspects for allegedly running the illegal business of hundi and hawala in the city and recovered over Rs300 million in foreign and Pakistani banknotes from them.
An FIA corporate crime circle team headed by Deputy Director Jamil Ahmed Khan Mayo conducted a raid on the Pracha currency exchange in Anarkali and arrested the suspects for running the illegal business.
Those arrested were identified as Nauman Sultan, Zahid Malik, Saghir, Ishtiaq, Qadeer Malik and Amin Khan.
An amount of over Rs300m — including Rs140m in Pakistani banknotes, 5m Iranian riyals, 47,045 Qatari riyals, 69,020 Swiss francs, 14,550 Indian rupees and 1.3m US dollars — was recovered from the suspects.
A case under section 4, 8, 23 FER Act, 109 PPC, 4 AML Act has been registered against the suspects.
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Indian Creek mansion sells for $30 million
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A five-bedroom mansion on ultra-exclusive Indian Creek Island sold for $30 million on Monday, $5 million less than the asking price.
"There's actually a lot of value in this property," said Nelson Gonzalez, a senior vice president at EWM Realty International who handled the sale. "A vacant lot of the same size went for $23 million last week. But this lot has more waterfront because of its shape, and it includes a Palm Beach-style estate with beautiful bones."
Gonzalez said the buyer did not want to be identified to protect his privacy. "He is foreign-born but lives in the D.C. area and wants to spend more time in Florida," Gonzalez said. "This will eventually become his permanent residence."
The two-story house, with an address at 17 Indian Creek Dr., sits on 80,000 square feet and includes an elevator, a ten-seat movie theater, a wine cellar with room for 800 bottles, a four-car garage and a boat dock.
It had originally been listed at $35 million.
The previous owner, mutual fund mogul Charles Johnson, built the house in 2002.
Indian Creek — a private island with its own police force and some of the highest property taxes in Miami-Dade County — has just 86 residents. Many are fabulously wealthy, including activist investor Carl Icahn, fund manager Eddie Lampert and car dealership owner Norman Braman.
Previous sales on the island include a 30,000-square-foot mansion purchased by a Russian billionaire for $47 million in 2012. Last summer, steel tycoon Leroy Schecter sold his 22,686-square-foot for $28 million.


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5 AUDACIOUS and CREATIVE WAYS to reach your goals
Overcoming Human nature and other stumbling blocks
1. BOB = Bum On 'Bankie'. Procrastination is the mother of all evil. I have spent more time and energy on finding convincing excuses for not writing that book than I have writing. Then, while in the midst of household predicaments, adolescent foster child upsets, general penury, and a summer from hell when every insect that sucks blood, bites and stings descended, I wrote a whole book in the space of three weeks – because a deadline loomed. Let's face it folks, as a species we do not really pray until forced to our knees, diet before we only have one pair of stretched tracksuit pants left that we fit into, or install solar panels unless ESKOM lets us down. Do what you want/have to do NOW! The eventual goal starts with the first step.
2. BAG= Be Always generous. Do more than what is asked for. Walk the extra mile. This way you will keep the joy and spirit of abundance in your task. Nobody has a mediocre goal – keep your eye on it, and you will not get bogged down in suspicion and make yourself small and grasping.
3. AND= Avoid Negative Drips. It is all good and well to believe that you should know who you are sufficiently to not be discouraged by people that denigrate your ideas or are critical of your methods, but who is that confident, really? If you feel that some people drain your energy, steer clear of them.
4. BAT= Be Accountable Trooper. It is easy to blame others for things going wrong, but even if some culpability is required, one cannot force others to acknowledge their share. The best way to move forward is to shoulder the accountability fully. Then others may do so too, but successful people have more often than not become so in spite of the inadequacies of others. Persevere! Blame is counter-productive.
5. BAFOF= Ban All Fear Of Failure. "Bafof" – nice word! Well, it isn't a word but it should be. "Oh bafof, you gremlins that erode my faith!" Effective people are not afraid to fail. If you read the biographies of successful people you will see that they have all failed at some point, learnt from their mistakes, and overcome disasters. You can too. Just do not not reach for you goals because there is a chance of failure.
Summary of 5 audacious tips to reach your goals: BOB, BAG AND BAT shout BAFOF!
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