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|Rulayn, Xhanfyr
|Two candidates head out for their chores.
|Spring-Summer, Turn 2711
|Fort Weyr - Center Bowl
Fort Weyr - Center Bowl
The wide center of the bowl is often bustling with activity as riders come and go. Off westward can be seen the entrances for the candidate barracks and the guest weyr, while to the east is a large opening that leads into the dragon infirmary. The bowl stretches off both to the north and to the south, where the sheer stone walls rise steeply to the sky.
Another bright morning greets the Weyr on this particularly warm day, and Rulayn is making her usual trek across the Bowl to her duties. She's been partnered with one of the Candidates whom she'd worked alongside in the stables a few times, but never had they spoken or really communicated until now. "So, how long were you at the Beasthold for before you were given the knot?" The young woman asks, pausing for a moment to lace up one of her loose boots. "I was going on four turns, myself." It's pretty much been casual conversation this entire way - just to break the ice and to distract Rulayn from staring at the younger teen. He is, after all, very pretty to look at.
Yes, morning, and surely warm by Fortian standards. This makes leaving one's coat behind a welcomed loss of weight, to which Xhanfyr seems most pleased by. The boy takes the moment given in the lacing of boots to breath in deeply the air, brown eyes disappearing behind their double lids. The conversation was nice, but Xhan was rather on the quiet side it seems, perhaps explaining why in the two turns that he' lived in Fort, that they had never spoken before. Oh, but with runners it was far easier, heard laughing and talking sweetly in soft tones as he stroked their velveteen noses. "Ten." he gently replies, his warm brown-hued gaze coming back to settle on the older girl, with a tilt of his head. "Family lived in Keroon that long anyway, or so I'm told. I was three, and I don't have a lot of memories from back then." Brows lift and he looks around the area they've stopped in, a touch of concern etching itself on his features. "What exactly is…maintenance duty?"
Rulayn has to appreciate the dedication given by the young man, even if he's quiet. No doubt there's been times where she's witnessed this affection towards runners in person, but never acted upon it. Nimble fingers deftly lace and tighten the boot around Rulayn's ankle and then, once done, she rises back up and brushes herself off. "Keroon? Never been there." A moment is given to pause, as Rulayn then takes the time to sort out her hair, as any girl would. Her brown-blonde locks are swept up into a ponytail, and secured with a tight band. All the while her own blue eyes scan across the Bowl, intentionally avoiding eye-contact. "We're just supposed to help with some repairs, I think. We're meant to meet one of the Crafters down in the lower caverns." Once the hair is sorted, Rulayn's arms drop down and fold themselves against her chest. "How are you finding all the work so far, anyway?"
Xhan's brows lift higher, "No? Beastcraft hall is just outside of Keroon." This is soon dropped in favor of watching boot lacing as if it was the most fascinating thing on the whole planet before their intended path becomes the full holder of his attention. His own hair had the tendency to fall into his eyes given it's style, but either not in possession of a tie or not the kind to use one, his own raven-locks remain unbound. "Uh, repairs?" Those eyebrows of his might not ever go back to resting comfortably ever again at this rate, turning to glance sideways at the girl who was so blatantly avoiding his eyes. Lips are pursed, and then his gaze drops away to the ground before them. "I don't know how helpful I'm going to be repairing things. Never done much outside of tending to runners." The tone of his voice is distant, distracted as if his mind were wandering elsewhere as he spoke but then he perks up quite suddenly and flashes a wide and toothy grin at Rulayn, "I'm no stranger to hard work. Builds character." he says with a laugh, eyes sparkling. "You?"
"Oh.. I think we're getting mixed up. I meant the Beasthold just outside Fort." Rulayn is soon finished with the matter of hair and for once her gaze finally does turn, settling quite curiously upon the lad. "Does that mean you originally came from Keroon?" Rulayn genuinely seems interested in the prospect of hearing about -the- Beastmasterhold, and her sights linger upon Xhanfyr as he talks. His concern about repairs grants him a small, reassuring smile from the woman though. "Hey, don't worry about it! Think of it as learning new skills. They might come in handy when you're a Rider." She grins, gesturing to herself. "I mean, look at me. I'm hardly built for carrying weight myself.. I expect it'll all count towards it in the end." Indeed, Rulayn was rather skinny for her height, which probably would cause more trouble than it was worth if they had to drag heavy loads around later on. "By the way, have you been onto the Sands yet?"
Poor eyebrows, "Oh!" Xhanfyr exclaims, suddenly flushing in a vibrant shade of pink almost up to the tips of his ears. "Sorry, two turns here." Pressing his lips back together, the smile that he had shown instantly disappears and he shifts his weight from one foot to the other almost uncomfortably. "I don't think so. My ma and sisters never talk about where we're from." His eyes fall to the ground at their feet, and he gets that far and away look on his youthful features once again. "All I know is that we moved from wherever we were to Keroon, and then again to here two turns ago." He draws in a quick breath, and gives Rulayn a thinner smile along with a slight shrug. It fades though, if only for a moment when she informs him it was a chance to acquire new skills, quickly turning into soft burst of laughter. It sounded full of life and hope for the future and certainly didn't help with that whole 'pretty' thing he had going on. "Eh, not going to count my runners before their foaled." he says with a wink. He does look at the girl's body as is offered, and again those brows shoot upwards. "I'm afraid I'm not much better off myself." He holds out his arms, showing with this simple gesture that his clothing had clearly been designed to disguise just how slender and trim his own figure was. There was no profound attachment of bulging muscle, making him look rather scrawny in comparison with those that rode dragons. Dropping his arms to his sides, he shakes his head at the final question asked of him. "No. I take it you have?"
If it was a competition between who was the most slender, it was probably an even tie. Rulayn doesn't hesitate to raise her own brows at Xhanfyr's figure and she is indeed reminded of how different in build he was to the rider's she'd seen. At least, the ones with their shirts off. "They'll probably turn us all into muscular heavyweights with these chores." Rulayn chuckles, flexing one of her skinny arms to try and define the muscle there. Alas, there's little aside from skin and the outline of bone beneath. Dropping her arms, she begins slowly walking off towards the Caverns again, hopefully with Xhanfyr still in tow. "Yeah, I was on the Sands. It's.. Well, you'll see." She smiles, looking back to the young man. "Some of the things you'll feel will make you sick, or.. embarrassed." She shrugs, recounting her own experience with the eggs. "If there's any pretty hatchlings amongst the bunch, I think you'll be a perfect fit to them." And that comment is given an added wink, as the girl heads inside.
Other than when offered, Xhanfyr didn't appear to be the type that let his eyes linger for too long on a girl's body, at least not when they were aware of it anyway, because once he had he was polite enough to drop his gaze to meet those blue eyes with his brown instead of standing there and ogling her as others might. "Ugh, I hope not." he says with a crinkle of his nose, "I'm not very tall, being all puffy like that wouldn't be very attractive on a frame like mine." There is a pause, "Or at least so I'm told." There's that laugh again, though its accompanied this time by a certain measure of mischievousness. "Ma's a master weaver." His eyes flick to the arm as Rulayn lifts it though, "I don't know. Girls should be softer I think." The moment those words leave his mouth he colors darkly, clearing his throat and looking decidedly elsewhere all of a sudden. Aloft in surprise with a twist of confusion is the only response that the girl gets for her experience on the sands and cryptic description. However, "Oh! I uh…um…" Xhan stammers, brows then creasing as they furrow down low giving them a break from the height they'd established for most of the conversation. He lingers behind for a spell, perhaps trying to get his color under control after that sideways comment given to him, but eventually breaks free in order to jog on after his work partner.


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NBC will be bringing "Dracula" to audiences Friday nights in the fall. Today the network put the official preview of the show online, just in advance of the Upfronts, the multi-network previews for media writers and television critics.
"Dracula" has a number of things going for it, including actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers, a director from "The Tudors" and producers from "Downton Abbey." There are fancy costumes, dramatic lighting and, if the trailer is any measure, a very gothy atmosphere.
What's missing is the Bram Stoker part.
Since "Dracula" was published by Bram Stoker in 1897, it has been the source for many, many, many works of vampire fiction -- you might even say it is the source of all of them. The mythology of blood-sucking freaks was around before Stoker, but it has been his combination of quirks and foibles -- sleeping in a coffin, physical transformation, garlic avoidance, sucking blood from the neck of virginal maidens until they are depleted, eternal life until death is brought about by a stake in the heart -- that he rolled into one great story.
Some of these trappings are apparent in NBC's "Dracula" -- the setting in Victorian London, for instance. But the similarities quickly drain away: Our vampire is not from the mountains of Eastern Europe, he's from America, and he doesn't call himself Count Dracula. The vampire (Rhys Meyers) is apparently in some kind of battle with his own kind, a la Angel in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." And while Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray are still brought into the vampire's circle, she's no longer an innocent -- she appears to be an old flame (sorry, that's a bit of a pun, and not a particularly good one).
What with "Twilight," "True Blood" and the rest of the vampire stories that have found avid fans in popular culture, there is certainly room for another vampire fiction. Why call this one "Dracula" at all? It seems to have left Bram Stoker's original work far behind.

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To get a stable income as a writer, consider this. Imagine, finding a client who'd will pay $100-150 for an article. Though that might seem great news, think of it this way: What if the client was worth about $10,000?
If you play the cards right, this might just be. If you convince him/her to pay $100 per article to write about 100 articles, you'll have reached $10,000. It could take one year, or probably more to write such many articles, but its less work than actually writing 100 different articles for 100 clients.
Your goal, while writing, should be to get many quality long-term clients.
Think of this: Would it be better have a client who pays you $200 to write 1 article, or get $10,000 to write 100 articles? If you're wise, you'll jump at that income that's provided by the long term-client.
Clients will always come and go in this content industry. More often when a client comes your way, many tend to follow. Similarly, when a client says bye, many others will go too. This may not happen due to something a writer did. It's just because the writing world keeps the client come-client go kind of flow.
What if you'd get a clients who never say bye? For this to be so, you need to convince the clients that losing you is like a child losing their favorite teddy-bear. Here's a look at tips you'll need to ensure you keep the client for long.
1. Discounts
When you get a client that is worth keeping, prove that you are worth hanging onto. Offering 10% discount on every 4th batch of the articles that you I complete for the client is a great way to keep him/her coming for more. You're actuality, boosting your overall income. It's also good to offer the introductory discount —like 20% off the initial article. This entices the client
2. Blog about relevant topics
Be social to strengthen your client-writer relationship. It's necessary to connect with clients a personable level. Like connecting with them on social media.
3. Always be honest
3. Have the strict-guarantee policy
If the client is not satisfied with the work, he/she shouldn't pay for it.
As you progress as a writer, you'll meet various clients. Following these tips will land you long-term clients.


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Our water license, granted to Syncrude in the 1970s, permits us to withdraw 61.7 million cubic metres of fresh water annually. In 35 years of operation, we have always operated well within these limits. Currently, we withdraw about 0.2% of the river's average annual flow – equivalent to about 18 hours out of an entire year.


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Howard Staunton (1810-1874) is the only British player who can legitimately lay claim to being world champion and is the man after whom the pieces in current use are named.
In Staunton's day the world champion title was not officially recognised. However, by the time of his match victory over the French champion St. Amant at Paris in 1843, Staunton had not only laid the pattern for future championship matches but had also established himself as the strongest player of his day.
He was also the organiser of the first international tournament and was widely regarded as the champion during the 1840s as a result of an overwhelming series of victories against the European masters Saint Amant, Horwitz and Harrwitz.
Staunton was a towering figure, a polymath who edited an entire edition of Shakespeare's plays, commenced a history of the public school system in Britain, wrote numerous books on chess, organised the first international chess tournament at London in 1851 and lent his name to the Staunton patent pieces which are now the standard in international play. Staunton was an archetypal symbol of the heights of Victorian imperial grandeur and optimism.
A considerable amount of material about Howard Staunton can be found on the net and we refer you to our links page.
Of special interest is the book 'Staunton's City', a book celebrating Staunton and the heritage of chess in London:
Readers can read a large extract from the book about the history of chess at Simpsons online (click on the image below):
The same publisher also publishes Staunton's book on the Great
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'This book promotes remarkable and advanced theories on education, many of which seem revolutionary even today. Demonising learning by rote and excoriating the traditional British neglect of science, Howard Staunton, noted primarily as the only British chess master who could lay claim to being world champion of his day, claims that learning can only take place successfully if the active interest of the student is engaged. The classics must not be taught for their own sake - the living force of Greek and Roman civilisation must be invoked - corporal punishment is to be avoided at all costs and fagging should be abolished.Mens sana in corpore sano - a healthy mind in a healthy body is Staunton's ideal.Yet this book was published in 1865! Howard Staunton was a superb example of High Victorian self-confidence, a polymath who in turn acted on stage, became a noted chess writer and champion, edited an edition of Shakespeare and, in this volume, scrutinised the educational system at the core of the British Empire. Staunton organised the first international gathering of chess masters for the inaugural tournament of London in 1851,and for many years his works were the standard teaching tools for generations of aspiring chess players.'
It is fascinating to observe the general handling of the chess openings exhibited by Staunton in the 1840's, typified by 'flank' openings and the indirect control of the central squares that became so popular a 100 years later. Bobby Fischer described Staunton as the 'first modern player' of the openings. It seems Staunton was considerably ahead of his time in more than one field.


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Brinjal Puli looks yummy, creamy and delicious!!
The combo of food with papad, buttermilk with plain rice is a good idea!!
Lovely spread.
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Verification and Validation is not only about tools, methods and processes. Crucial is also people and how they think.
The "Six Thinking Hats" is a thinking and problem solving tool developed by Edward de Bono [1]. Julian Harty at Google has adapted the hats to testing and presents the "Six Testing Hats" [2]. Julian has successfully applied this both in reviews, for checklists and in creating acceptance tests. They can be a good way to structure the thinking involved in V&V.
In general there is a lack of research and results on how the thinking, personality and psychology of testers, affect the testing. However, there is a growing community of people who want to acknowledge and investigate this mental side of software development more [3].
How is your V&V thinking doing today?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats
[2] http://newsweaver.ie/qualtech/e_article000666359.cfm?x=b11,0,w
[3] http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jr/ppig08/program.html
SWELL is a National Innovation Driver for Software V&V funded by Vinnova and a number of Swedish universities and companies.
Verification and Validation is not only about tools, methods and processes. Crucial is also people and how they think.


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Methodological Quality and Reporting of Ethical Requirements in Phase III Cancer Trials
Tuech, J.J.
Pessaux, P.
Moutel, G.
Thoma, V.
Schraub, S.
Herve, C.
Bibliographic Citation
Journal of Medical Ethics 2005 May; 31(5): 251-255
BACKGROUND: The approval of a research ethics committee (REC) and obtaining informed consent from patients (ICP) could be considered the main issues in the ethics of research with human beings. The aim of this study was to assess both methodological quality and ethical quality, and also to assess the relationship between these two qualities in randomised phase III cancer trials. METHOD: Methodological quality (Jadad score) and ethical quality (Berdeu score) were assessed for all randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published in 10 international journals between 1999 and 2001 (n = 231). RESULTS: The mean Jadad score was 9.86 +/- 1.117. The methodological quality was poor in 75 RCTs (Jadad score
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Role Des Groupes Cooperateurs Dans La Qualite Ethique Et Methodologique Des Essais De Phase III en Cancerologie / Methodological and Ethical Quality in Phase III Cancer Trials: Role of the Cooperative Group Tuech, Jean-Jacques; Pessaux, Patrick; Moutel, Gregoire; Thoma, Veronique; Schraub, Simon; Herve, Christian (2004-10)


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DescriptionForge is a class-based multiplayer action game. The story justification for the fighting is that a few gods need to regain their power and they do so by sacrificing their followers in battles. The most important aspect is that it uses skill mechanics known from MMORPGs: Each class has nine unique abilities which have cooldown timers and are activated by pressing the associated button. However, it is still an action game because is uses free targeting and has free movement, including wall jumping. The classes are Assassin (stealth), Pathfinder (bow), Pyromancer (fire mage), Shaman (healing and buffing), Warden (tank) as well as the later patched in Tinker (uses traps to hold an area) and Ravager (a fast, mobile fighter). The abilities are balanced so players need to work together in order to be effective.
The game features four game modes: standard Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill (capturing towers), Capture the Relic (a Capture the Flag variant; the amount of points per capture is determined by how many towers the team holds) and Arena (Team Deathmatch with one life per player; another way of winning the round is to capture the tower which spawns after a few minutes). After gaining enough experience, players level up and can improve their resistances, speed or energy (required to jump, block and sprint) and unlock more abilities. The character's offensive effectiveness does not improve.
While the game is primarily a competitive game, there also bots available to play against (either alone or together with multiple players).
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Business model changeThe game was originally released commercially, but became a free-to-play title on August 19, 2013. Then an item shop was introduced which allows players to buy optical enhancements for their characters with real money.
FundingAn unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign ended on September 08, 2012. They asked for $300,000 but only received $76,211.
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Some Things to Do if You or Your Child is Experiencing Guilt
If guilt is not the result of an action precipitated by you or your child, it is often is the result of feeling powerless and having to deal with your own vulnerability. It can also result from feeling ashamed, which stems from a belief that we should be a perfect child or parent; a result of factors beyond our control, like what others did at the time. It can also be the result of our mid-brain response to this threatening and terrifying experience. We have no ability to control our mid-brain response. We may wish we did not respond the way we did. Try to answer the following questions.
How to Relieve Guilt
- Identify what about this situation makes you feel the most powerless/helpless.
- Identify the personal reactions you had about this situation that caused you to feel ashamed.
- Answer the following
about these two issues:
- Realistically, was there anything you could have done to foresee this happening?
- Do you believe you should have been able to do something to prevent this?
- What prevented you from acting differently?
- Have you asked yourself what your condition was at the time? Were you hungry? tired?
- Did other conditions at the time distract you or prevent you from acting or responding differently?
- Have you considered that how the brain responds to extreme stress and trauma determines your initial responses and you had no conscious control to determine your responses? (You weren't trained and conditioned to respond to situations like this.)
- Have you considered the fact that trauma distorts the events of the actual situation and that we reacted to these distortions, not necessarily the reality of what actually happened?
- Where is the evidence that if you responded differently the outcome would have been different?
- Have you considered that a trauma is called a "trauma" because it is a situation we can never be fully prepared for and that it terrifies us in such a way that we are left feeling powerless and uncertain as to what to do?
- Are you taking this one experience and condemning your entire life?
- Have you focused on the positive reactions of your behavior during this time? What are those positive reactions?
- Can you accept that your guilt may be a way to avoid your own vulnerability? We can't prevent everything that happens.
- Can you accept that the choices you have available to you now are related to how you are going to respond, or fight to survive this terrible experience?
- After answering all those questions, is there information you need to forgive yourself? How can you obtain this information?
- If you were helping a friend who was feeling guilty what would you tell the friend to help them? Can you take the same advice?
- If you continue to blame yourself, ask yourself, "How am I helping my child by punishing myself?" How would you help your child by forgiving yourself?
- If your guilt persists, you owe it your child, your family, and yourself to seek help from a trauma specialist.


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Redeemer Radio This Friday!
Dr. Richard Barcellos returns as our guest this Friday on Redeemer Radio. Our topics will include the creation of man, the image of God in man both before and after the Fall, and how Christ will repair human nature and bring about a new creation through redemption. Dr. Barcellos will also discuss his new book, "Better than the Beginning: Creation in Biblical Perspective." Be sure to tune in for what promises to be an informative and Christ-honoring broadcast.
Redeemer Radio can be heard on KCAA 1050 AM or on-line. Tune in to Redeemer Radio 1050 AM at 5:00 pm Friday or online. Edited versions of all past broadcasts are available here on the website or at SermonAudio.
Worship with us Sunday at 2:30PM!
Pastor Massey's sermon this Sunday will be on the theme of redemption as it unfolds in the New Testament book of Revelation. Two portions of Scripture that will receive special attention are Revelation 1:5-6 and Revelation 5:1-10. Come learn more about the work of our Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, and what we as His redeemed people are called to do. To Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen!
Sunday Worship Report – April 6, 2014
Heart-felt praise and attention to the preached Word characterized our worship this past Lord's Day afternoon. Pastor Massey preached from Hebrews 9:11-14 on the superiority of Christ's high priesthood and he stressed the power of Christ's blood to cleanse the guilty conscience. After the service many attendees gathered in nearby Sylvan Park for a meal and some fellowship! Thank God with us for His goodness to our newly forming congregation.
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O. velox was named in 1890 by Othniel Charles Marsh on the basis of a foot and partial hand from the Maastrichtian Denver Formation. Another seventeen species have been named since, though most of them have subsequently been assigned to new genera or shown to be not directly related to Ornithomimus velox. The best material of species still considered part of the genus has been found in Canada, representing the earlier Edmontonian-age O. edmontonicus (named by Sternberg in 1933), known from several skeletons. However, on some of these the new genus Dromiceiomimus including Dromiceiomimus brevitertius (Parks 1926) has been based, causing taxonomic problems of priority and identity that are still unresolved.
Ornithomimus was a swift bipedal theropod which fossil evidence indicates was covered in feathers, equipped with a small toothless beaked head that may indicate an omnivorous diet.
Like other ornithomimids, species of Ornithomimus are characterized by feet with three weight-bearing toes, long slender arms, and long necks with birdlike, elongated, toothless, beaked skulls. They were bipedal and superficially resembled ostriches. They would have been swift runners. They had very long limbs, hollow bones, and large brains and eyes. The brains of ornithomimids in general were large for non-avialan dinosaurs, but this may not necessarily be a sign of greater intelligence; some paleontologists think that the enlarged portions of the brain were dedicated to kinesthetic coordination.[1] The bones of the hands are remarkably sloth-like in appearance, which led Henry Fairfield Osborn to suggest that they were used to hook branches during feeding.
Ornithomimus differ from other ornithomimids, such as Struthiomimus, in having shorter torsos, long slender forearms, very slender, straight hand and foot claws and in having hand bones (metacarpals) and fingers of similar lengths.[2]
The two Ornithomimus species today seen as possibly valid differ in size. In 2010 Gregory S. Paul estimated the length of O. edmontonicus at 3.8 metres, its weight at 170 kilograms (370 lb). One of its specimens, CMN 12228, preserves a femur (thigh bone) 46.8 centimetres (18.4 in) long. O. velox, the type species of Ornithomimus, is based on material of a smaller animal. Whereas the holotype of O. edmontonicus, CMN 8632, preserves a second metacarpal eighty-four millimetres long, the same element with O. velox measures only fifty-three millimetres.
In 1995, 2008 and 2009, three O. edmontonicus specimens with evidence of feathers were found; two adults with quill knobs on the lower arm, indicating the former presence of pennaceous feather shafts, and a juvenile with impressions of up to five centimetres long primitive feathers in the form of hair-like filaments covering the rump, legs and neck. The fact that the feather imprints were found in sandstone, previously thought to not be able to support such impressions, gives new possibilities for future feather finds. A study describing these fossils in 2012 concluded that O. edmontonicus was covered in plumaceous feathers at all growth stages, and that only adults had pennaceous wing-like structures, suggesting that wings may have evolved for mating displays.
Classification and speciesEdit
First species namedEdit
The history of Ornithomimus classification, and the classification of ornithomimids in general, has been complicated. The type species, Ornithomimus velox, was first named by O.C. Marsh in 1890, based on syntypes YPM 542 and YPM 548, a partial hindlimb and forelimb found on 30 June 1889 by George Lyman Cannon in the Denver Formation of Colorado. The generic name means "bird mimic", derived from Greek ὄρνις, ornis, "bird", and μῖμος, mimos, "mimic", in reference to the bird-like foot. The specific name means "swift" in Latin.[4] Simultaneously, Marsh named two other species: Ornithomimus tenuis, based on specimen USNM 5814, and Ornithomimus grandis. Both consist of fragmentary fossils found by John Bell Hatcher in Montana of which it is today understood they represent tyrannosauroid material. At first Marsh assumed Ornithomimus was an ornithopod but this changed when Hatcher found specimen USNM 4736, a partial ornithomimid skeleton, in Wyoming, which Marsh named Ornithomimus sedens in 1892. On that occasion also Ornithomimus minutus was created based on specimen YPM 1049, a metatarsus,[5] since recognized as belonging to the Alvarezsauridae.[6]
A sixth species, Ornithomimus altus, was named in 1902 by Lawrence Lambe, based on specimen CMN 930, hindlimbs found in 1901 in Alberta,[7] but this was in 1916 renamed to a separate genus, Struthiomimus, by Henry Fairfield Osborn.[8] In 1920 Charles Whitney Gilmore named Ornithomimus affinis for Dryosaurus grandis Lull 1911,[9] based on indeterminate material. In 1930 Loris Russell renamed Struthiomimus brevetertius Parks 1926 and Struthiomimus samueli Parks 1928 into Ornithomimus brevitertius and Ornithomimus samueli.[10] The same year Oliver Perry Hay renamed Aublysodon mirandus' Leidy 1868 into Ornithomimus mirandus,[11] today seen as a nomen dubium. In 1933 William Arthur Parks created a Ornithomimus elegans,[12] today seen as either belonging to Chirostenotes or Elmisaurus. That same year, Gilmore named Ornithomimus asiaticus for material found in Inner Mongolia.[13]
Also in 1933, Charles Mortram Sternberg named the species Ornithomimus edmontonicus for a nearly complete skeleton from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, specimen CMN 8632.
Reclassification by Dale RussellEdit
At first it had been common to name each newly discovered ornithomimid as a species of Ornithomimus. In the sixties, this tendency was still strong as is shown by the fact that Oskar Kuhn renamed Megalosaurus lonzeensis Dollo 1903 from Belgium into Ornithomimus lonzeensis (today understood to be an abelisauroid claw),[15] and Dale Russell in 1967 renamed Struthiomimus currellii Parks 1933 and Struthiomimus ingens Parks 1933 into Ornithomimus currellii and Ornithomimus ingens.[16] At the same time it was usual that workers referred to the entire ornithomimid material as simply "Struthiomimus".[17] To solve this confusion by scientifically testing the separation between Ornithomimus and Struthiomimus, in 1972 Dale Russell published a morphometric study showing that statistical differences in some proportions could be used to distinguish the two. He concluded that Struthiomimus and Ornithomimus were valid genera. In the latter Russell recognised two species: the type species Ornithomimus velox and Ornithomimus edmontonicus even though he had trouble reliably distinguishing it from O. velox. Struthiomimus currellii he considered a younger synonym of Ornithomimus edmontonicus. However, Russell also interpreted the data as indicating that many specimens could not be referred to either Ornithomimus or Struthiomimus. Therefore he created two new genera. The first was Archaeornithomimus to which Ornithomimus asiaticus and Ornithomimus affinis were assigned, becoming an Archaeornithomimus asiaticus and an Archaeornithomimus affinis. The second genus was Dromiceiomimus, meaning "Emu mimic" from the old generic name for the emu, Dromiceius. Russell assigned several former Ornithomimus species named during the 20th century, including O. brevitertius and O. ingens, to the new genus as Dromiceiomimus brevitertius. He renamed Ornithomimus samueli into a second Dromiceiomimus species: Dromiceiomimus samueli.
Final species namedEdit
The first Ornithomimus remains ever found may be two tibiae from the Navesink Formation of New Jersey belonging to diverse material named Coelosaurus antiquus ("antique hollow lizard") by Joseph Leidy in 1865. The tibiae were first attributed to Ornithomimus in 1979 by Donald Baird and John R. Horner as Ornithomimus antiquus.[19] Normally, this would have made Ornithomimus a junior synonym of Coelosaurus, but Baird and Horner discovered that the name "Coelosaurus" was preoccupied by a dubious taxon based on a single vertebra, named Coelosaurus by an anonymous author now known to be Richard Owen in 1854.[20] Baird referred several other specimens from New Jersey and Maryland to O. antiquus. Beginning in 1997, Robert Sullivan regarded O. velox and O. edmontonicus as junior synonyms of O. antiquus. Like Russell, he considered the former two species indistinguishable from each other, and noted that they both shared distinctive features with O. antiquus.[21] However, David Weishampel (2004) considered "C." antiquus to be indeterminate among ornithomimosaurs, and therefore a nomen dubium.[20]
In 1988 Gregory S. Paul renamed Gallimimus bullatus into Ornithomimus bullatus.[22] This has found no acceptance among other workers and presently the name is not used by Paul himself.
Present interpretationsEdit
Even after Russell's study, various researchers have found reasons to lump some or all of these species back into Ornithomimus in various combinations. In 2004, Peter Makovicky, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi and Phil Currie studied Russell's 1972 proportional statistics to re-analyze ornithomimid relationships in light of new specimens. They concluded that there was no justification to separate Dromiceiomimus from Ornithomimus, noting that Dromiceiomimus must therefore be considered a synonym of O. edmontonicus.[23] However, they did not include the type species of Ornithomimus, O. velox, in this analysis. The same team further supported the synonymy between 'Dromiceiomimus and O. edmontonicus in a 2006 lecture at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting,[24] and their opinion was further supported in a paper by Nicholas Longrich in 2008.[25] Makovicky's team also considered Dromiceiomimus samueli to be a junior synonym of O. edmontonicus, though Longrich suggested it may belong to a distinct species also represented by Ornithomimus remains from the Dinosaur Park Formation which have yet to be described.[25]
Apart from O. edmontonicus dating to the early Maastrichtian, two other species are presently considered to be possibly valid, both from the late Maastrichtian. O. sedens was named by Marsh in 1891 from partial remains found in the Lance Formation of Wyoming, only one year after the description of O. velox. Dale Russell, in his 1972 revision of ornithomimids, could not determine which genus it actually belonged to, though he speculated that it may be intermediate between Struthiomimus and Dromiceiomimus. In 1985 he considered it a species of Ornithomimus.[26] It has since been referred to mainly as Struthiomimus sedens, based on complete specimens from Montana (as well as some fragments from Alberta and Saskatchewan), though these yet have to be described and compared to the O. sedens holotype.[25]
The other is the original type species: O. velox, at first known from very limited remains. Additional specimens referred to O. velox have been described from the Denver Formation and from the Ferris Formation of Wyoming.[27] One specimen attributed to O. velox from the Kaiparowitz Formation of Utah, was described in 1985.[26] Re-evaluation of this specimen by Lindsay Zanno and colleagues in 2010, however, cast doubt on its assignment to O. velox, and possibly even to Ornithomimus.


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- A Terrorist Promoting Mosque In Washington DC
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- Iran: Regime Escalates Repression. Where's The International Reaction?
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A Terrorist Promoting Mosque In Washington DC
Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:21 PM PST
By Barry Rubin
Well, not exactly in Washington itself but just across the river in northern Virginia. And the mass media is largely ignoring the story, certainly as part of a pattern of how Jihad is being spread in America. Patrick Poole has the detailed, documented story.
New York Times' Promoting Muslim Brotherhood; Hilary Clinton Promoting al-Jazira: It's Beyond Satire!
Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:25 PM PST
By Barry Rubin
I have pointed out several times how the New York Times has been whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood, including the publication of a terrible set of lies by Tariq Ramadan. Now, without having to my knowledge published a single piece pointing to the Muslim Brotherhood's radical Islamism, anti-Americanism, antisemitism, and terrorism, the Times published on February 10 still another op-ed by a Muslim Brotherhood leader in the newspaper. Once again we are told they are great, moderate guys.
Things have gone beyond anything I ever would have believed. With Secretary of State Hilary Clinton holding up al-Jazira as a role model for the American media, I think I've seen just about everything wrong being said and done. Is she aware of how al-Jazira slants the news? I still remember their reporting that the United States had used a nuclear weapon in Baghdad during the 2003 war.
Does she have any idea what goes on in the discussion shows, where a radical faces off against a moderate, the host sides with the radical, all the telephone callers side with the radical, and some make death threats against the moderate? When al-Jazira began it was staffed by radical Arab nationalists. At a certain point several years ago, as Qatar moved closer to Tehran, they were almost all replaced by Islamists.
In the "good old days" must of the American intellectual and sometimes governmental establishment sided with the Arab nationalists–including Yasir Arafat–against Israel. I at least could understand that. But now we see many of these people siding with revolutionary Islamists against both Israel and the Arab nationalists!
Nowadays the political line of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times doesn't seem all that different from al-Jazira on many issues.
We have gone beyond all satire. What's next? Yusuf al-Qaradawi hosting Saturday Night Live? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad getting the Nobel Peace Prize?
Here's an eight-minute film on the Muslim Brotherhood that has some good material.
Iran: Regime Escalates Repression. Where's The International Reaction?
Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:20 PM PST
By Barry Rubin
It is now confirmed that the Iranian government–taking advantage of the world being distracted by events in Arab countries–has kidnapped the two leading opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. They are being held in an undisclosed location and, since their abduction has not been made official, could be facing torture or even death.
This is the most serious single act of repression there in recent times. The situation demands the strongest possible reaction from the U.S. president, the Western world, the media, and everything else in what is so often called the "international community."
If the Iranian regime gets away with this and there's no significant cost, no one in that country is safe from the most dire treatment. The Iranian government is denying the kidnapping but their families say they haven't seen them in 18 days. Here's a protest by an Iranian human rights group on the issue.
Incidentally, the president of the United States has called so far for the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan ruler Muammar Qadhafi. When is he going to call for the ouster of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose fradulent election brought congratulations from the State Department, and Syrian President Bashar al-Asad, who backs terrorists in Iraq to kill Americans?
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The changing face of credit
It's true that our national financial crisis has made obtaining credit a little more difficult, making a great credit rating more important than ever. However, in spite of or because of our housing crisis, defaulting on your home may not be the end of the credit road that it once was.
The magic credit score scale of 300 to 850 has been crucial in most American's lives. The closer you can get to 850, the better your chances of getting a car loan, student loan, good insurance rates, mortgage loans and even jobs. This is still true if you need credit in the foreseeable future, but if you have time, a credit catastrophe may not be fatal.
Bankruptcy was always considered the pinnacle of credit problems. Generally, a bankruptcy filing has serious ramifications for your credit rating and typically stays on your credit file for 10 years.
However, after your bankruptcy is discharged, you will start getting credit card offers and other loan solicitations within a year. It may also be possible to get a government backed FHA mortgage while you're still in bankruptcy with the understanding that you will repay some of your debt, can come up with a down payment and have made 12 on time payments to the bankruptcy trustee.
Even if you find yourself up against a bank foreclosure, your homeowner days may not be over although your credit score is taking a hit. A common misconception is that a short sale (in which you sell a home for less than the mortgage and the bank accepts the discounted price); or a deed in lieu of foreclosure (where you turn over your house keys and work with your bank instead of just walking away) is somehow better for your credit than a full-blown foreclosure.
According to Fair Isaac Corp. which creates FICO credit scores, all of these foreclosure options are treated equally negatively and are considered not paid-as-agreed accounts. However, when it comes to buying another home, a short sale or deed in lieu does give you the option to rebound faster and buy another home in the future more quickly.
Traditionally, a foreclosure sale locked you out of the housing market for about five years since lenders did not want to do a loan that was not eligible to be sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. But in late April, Fannie Mae announced it was relaxing its rules toward people who went through short sales or deeds in lieu of foreclosure. Starting in July these borrowers can be eligible for a government-insured loan in two years.
On another note, unfortunate homeowners who are trying to do the right thing and have applied for the government's loan modification program are facing reductions in their credit scores by as much as 100 points. Even homeowners who are still paying their mortgage and other bills on time can get hit with lower credit scores by just applying for a modification. Apparently this signals a potential problem and is enough to drop the credit score.
In spite of everything stated above, your goal should be to keep your credit scores in tip-top shape. You never know when either a crisis or an opportunity will put you in a position of needing credit in a hurry. A bankruptcy or mortgage default may not be the end of the credit road, but it's a road you should endeavor not to go down.


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Jeff Green (writer)
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Jeff Green
Green at the 2009 Penny Arcade Expo.
|[1]October 12, 1961
|Berkeley, California
|Writer, video game journalist, video game designer
|Hit Detection,[2] formerly PopCap Games, Electronic Arts, Ziff Davis Media
|Known for
|Editor-in-chief of Computer Gaming World and Games for Windows: The Official Magazine
Jeffrey Green (born October 12, 1961)[1] is an American writer and video game journalist, and the last editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Games for Windows: The Official Magazine (formerly Computer Gaming World), which was published by Ziff Davis Media. As of November 11, 2013, Jeff left PopCap Games, where he served as a director of editorial and social media. He was employed by the Sims division of developer Electronic Arts, where he has served as a designer, producer, and writer. Green kept his job at Ziff Davis after the closing of GFW for several months, before announcing his departure from the company. While an employee at Ziff Davis, Green hosted the weekly CGW Radio podcast (which later became GFW Radio), and hosted The Official EA Podcast.[3]
Early career[edit]
Green graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English;[4] in 1991 he joined Ziff Davis Press, a subsidiary of Ziff Davis Media which published computer books. Later, he moved to the weekly Macintosh trade journal MacWEEK as a reviews editor. While getting the opportunity to write professionally, the magazine's subject matter was "frankly [something I] didn't give much of a shit about."[5] At the time, MacWEEK was published by Ziff Davis Media, which also ran the monthly video game magazine Computer Gaming World. Green "begged, cajoled, whined, and threatened" editor-in-chief Johnny Wilson to give him the opening for Associate Editor that arose for the magazine in 1996. He got the job, although was forced to take a cut on his salary to make the move, which he considers "totally worth it."[4]
Computer Gaming World[edit]
In 2001, Green became editor-in-chief of Computer Gaming World.[6] By 2004, every person on staff at CGW when he first joined had left.[7] Green contributed writing to The Art of Warcraft, published in 2002 by BradyGames, a book detailing the art and design of the Warcraft series of real-time strategy games.[8] Looking back on the job as "essentially a shill job", Green procrastinated on his writing for Brady so long that the publisher reduced his pay for the work.[9] Green considers the late nineties to be the "peak years" of Computer Gaming World. Issues were over 300 pages in length, and because the Internet was not as prevalent then, "magazines were all that there were. If gamers wanted gaming news, you read the magazines."[5]
Games for Windows: The Official Magazine[edit]
In August 2006, Ziff Davis announced that they would be partnering with Microsoft to rebrand Computer Gaming World as Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. The move was done in order to market the magazine to a wider audience. At the same time, Green insisted that the publication would remain a "hardcore PC gaming magazine", and that Microsoft would have no editorial influence on the magazine's content.[10] In a June 2007 interview, Green said that gaming magazines were in a "period of transition", as the increasing prevalence of the Internet meant that print was no longer the primary source of information for enthusiasts. "[We're] all trying to figure out what that means, then—how to stay relevant, vital or even necessary at all." Green believes the rise of the "Digital Age" has forced print outlets to rethink how they produce content. The GFW staff considered how to write for an audience that regularly visits gaming websites, and how to write articles that are "better[,] different[, or] deeper than what everyone has already done online, weeks before us".[11]
Magazine closure[edit]
In April 2008, Ziff Davis announced that Games for Windows would be closing down. The magazine's seventeenth issue, the April/May 2008 issue featuring The Sims 3 on the cover, was its last.[12] While the magazine's art team, Michael Jennings and Rosemary Pinkham, were laid off, the editorial staff, which included Green, as well as Shawn Elliott, Sean Molloy, and Ryan Scott, were kept as editors of 1UP.com. Specifically, the staff aimed to improve 1UP's coverage of PC games.[13] Games for Windows relaunched in May 2008 as the "PC door" of 1UP.com, a section of the site dedicated to the coverage of computer games. It also served as an area to archive columns from CGW and GFW, such as Greenspeak and Tom vs. Bruce. Green became editor-in-chief of this part of the website.[14] However, as time passed, Green found that he was less interested in contributing to the website as he was to the magazine.
The Web job itself—my regular job—in the post-magazine world turned out to be something of a mixed bag for me. While I saw Shawn and Ryan every day at the office and on the podcast, they were spun off into different directions when GFW closed, and so that close, creative bond that Sean, Shawn, Ryan and I had formed to make the magazine did not persist unfettered on the Web. We were not an "online version of the magazine." We were four guys absorbed into the greater good of the website...What became increasingly clear to me over the last few months...is that the concerns of a website, the concerns of this website, are not really my concerns at this point in my life.[5]
Green announced in September 2008 that he would be leaving Ziff Davis and 1UP.com to pursue a career in game development at Electronic Arts. Specifically, Green would be working in the Sims department of EA, under the direction of designer Rod Humble.[15] The two met when Humble was a guest on GFW Radio, and when considering where to work and who to work with, Humble was "at the top of my list". Green described him as being "a totally brilliant, smart, funny guy, and those are the kinds of people we like to be around."[16]
Electronic Arts[edit]
Monday, September 22, 2008 was Green's first official day as an employee of Electronic Arts.[17] Green began contributing to an unannounced project, but within a month was transferred to another project. "I am seeing some of the volatility of the game biz."[18] In November 2008, Green said he was helping to research future games in the SimAnimals line.[19] Within six months of his employment at EA, Green had been moved to a new project three times.[20] Green wrote dialogue and other text for SimAnimals and MySims Agents,[21] and helped promote MySims Agents at the 2009 Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.[22]
Green has said that the transition from writing about games to making games was difficult, but that the work is "incredibly rewarding…simply for the fact that it is challenging me".[20] The collaborative process of developing a game is what he has found most fascinating. "It becomes clearer and clearer to me just how complicated the business of making a game is, and the near miracle it is to get all the people involved aligned and understanding of what it is you're trying to do."[23]
On October 23, 2009 Green announced via Twitter that he had been named editor-in-chief of EA.com.[24] Green further explained his new position at the company on his blog, saying that he would be producing new editorial content for Electronic Arts. At the same time, he wrote that this would not be a return to the games journalism field for him: "Let's not kid ourselves. I'm the EIC of a corporate website whose primary goal is to sell games."[25] Jeff wrote on Twitter that his new role at the company would be "not quite PR, and not quite editorial. Some kinda odd hybrid."[26]
EA departure[edit]
On August 14, 2010 Jeff Green updated his blog with the following:
"I've left EA. The details of the hows and whys and wherefores are mostly better left unsaid, for all sorts of reasons. But to get the one thing out of the way that everyone wants to know—did he quit or was he fired—the answer is: Kind of neither. The folks who run the website wanted to change directions. That direction didn't include the creation of original content. So my job description was changed. And since what I do best (well, other than play games, eat pizza, and lay on the couch and do nothing) is create content, it clearly was no longer the best fit for me. So I'm out."[27]
Green has hosted and appeared on a number of podcasts. The first episode of CGW Radio was released on February 16, 2006, hosted by Green, and featured a cast of editors from Computer Gaming World.[28] The magazine's staff, made to produce a show along with other Ziff Davis publications, including Electronic Gaming Monthly and Official PlayStation Magazine, initially approached the idea with apprehension. "The podcast started out as something alien and unwanted to us, but then quickly morphed into something we loved, as we realized the opportunities it gave us to entertain folks and connect with our audience in an entirely different, and much more immediate way."[5] CGW Radio was renamed to GFW Radio with the rebranding of Computer Gaming World as Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. GFW Radio developed a "fiercely dedicated listener base" over the years; the show's last episode came after Green's departure from Ziff Davis, as well as that of GFW editor Shawn Elliott.[29]
At Electronic Arts, Green approached his employers with the prospect of creating an EA-centric podcast. Green believed hosting a podcast would allow him to utilize past talents developed at Ziff Davis while hosting CGW Radio and GFW Radio. On his blog, Green wrote that while such a podcast would promote Electronic Arts products, he would strive to create a well-produced show. "So, while, yes, from the perspective of my employers the goal, of course, is to "sell" EA, for me, the goal is to actually have a good show that I can be proud of and that you will want to listen to."[30] The first episode of the EA podcast was released on June 19, 2009.[31] Green is also a regular on Out of the Game, a podcast featuring current and former game journalists, including Green, Shawn Elliott, Robert Ashley, N'Gai Croal, and Luke Smith.[32]
Jeff Green has appeared as a special guest on Giant Bomb's Giant Bombcast (on Aug 17, 2010,[33] Dec 14, 2010[34] and Dec 11, 2013[35]) and on Episode 87 of RebelFM.
Personal life[edit]
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Green lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and daughter,[36] and has written game reviews for Games for Windows in the past.[37] Green is in the process of writing his first novel, The Cudgel of Xanthor. The book is based on a column he once wrote which was a parody of videogame previews. In the book, a videogame development company is working on the third installment of the Xanthor series of games – the first two being the Blade of Xanthor, and the Sword of Xanthor. Green has stated in podcasts that his inspiration for the book derived from his two years working for Electronic Arts where he saw, first-hand, how games are developed. The book cuts back and forth between the company and Xanthor himself, living in the world the developers are creating. Xanthor must deal in his own world with the myriad and arbitrary changes the developers make. Jeff stated in a recent interview that he is not currently working on finishing it.[38]
- ^ a b Green, Jeff (October 12, 2011). "@Greenspeak: And thank you for all the ..." Twitter. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
- ^ Jeff Green LinkedIn page
- ^ "Interview: EA.com's Jeff Green on Corporate Podcasting, Lost Franchises, and More". VentureBeat. June 30, 2010. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ^ a b "Interview with Jeff Green". The Armchair Empire. October 4, 2000. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
- ^ a b c d Green, Jeff (September 6, 2008). "Ripples". 1UP.com. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ "Jeff Green (CGW) Interview: Part II". The Armchair Empire. June 29, 2001. Archived from the original on November 27, 2005.
- ^ "Jeff Green (CGW) Interview: Part V". The Armchair Empire. October 1, 2004. Archived from the original on July 4, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
- ^ "The Art of Warcraft (Paperback)". Amazon.com. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
- ^ "Jeff Green (CGW) Interview: Part III". The Armchair Empire. June 20, 2002. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2009.
- ^ Callaham, John (June 2, 2008). "CGW's Editor Talks About Move To Games For Windows Mag". FiringSquad. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ Sands, Sean (June 27, 2007). ""Game Magazines Have Sucked for Forever": GFW's Jeff Green on the Future of Print Media". The Escapist. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jeff (April 8, 2008). "CGW/GFW 1981–2008". 1up.com. Archived from the original on April 9, 2008. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ Cox, Simon (April 8, 2008). "The end of an era?". 1up.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jeff (May 15, 2008). "Hello and welcome!". 1up.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ McElroy, Justin (September 5, 2008). "GFW's Jeff Green leaves 1UP for Sims team". Joystiq. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ Ashley, Robert; Elliott, Shawn; Gallegos, Anthony; Green, Jeff; Scott, Ryan (September 10, 2008). GFW Radio weekly podcast – 9/10/2008 (mp3) (Podcast). 1up.com. Event occurs at 57:20. Retrieved October 22, 2009.[permanent dead link]
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- ^ Green, Jeff (December 7, 2008). "Fun with animals". Blogger. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
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- ^ Green, Jeff (May 13, 2009). "This morning". Blogger. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jeff (September 20, 2009). "Together through life". Blogger. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jeff (January 15, 2009). "Game design is hard". Blogger. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jeff (October 23, 2009). "Ok! It can finally be told…". Twitter. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
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- ^ Green, Jeff (October 23, 2009). "It's not quite PR, and not…". Twitter. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ http://jeff-greenspeak.blogspot.com/2010/08/where-im-at.html
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- ^ Pfister, Andrew (September 18, 2008). "The End of GFW Radio". 1up.com. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Green, Jeff (June 20, 2009). "Me, My Life, and the Official EA Podcast". Blogger. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ "Samanthix" (June 19, 2009). "Introducing the EA Podcast!". Electronic Arts. Archived from the original on September 10, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
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- ^ "Giant Bombcast". Giantbomb.com. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ^ "Giant Bombcast". Giantbomb.com. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
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- ^ Green, Sarah Jaisser (April – May 2008). "The Sims 2: FreeTime review". Games for Windows: The Official Magazine. No. 17. p. 72. ISSN 0744-6667.
- ^ McDaniel, JP; Green, Jeff; Lee, Garnett (June 12, 2013). Real Talk w/ Jeff Green – The Younger Years (Part 1) – 12/06/2013 (avi) (Video). itmeJP. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
External links[edit]
- Jeff Green's blog
- Jeff Green on Twitter


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Not a Steam Key for some reason. That said, the game itself is the tip top of fun and humor. As someone who's not a fan of Borderlands OR Telltale games, I enjoyed the heck out of it. It's not perfect and the middle bit isn't as strong as the opening and closing acts, but overall, it's the best thing Telltale and Borderlands have produced.


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The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation is conducting a สมัครฟรี consultation on a human rights based approach to housing that was introduced as part of the National Housing Strategy in November 2017. The consultation seeks feedback on a discussion paper, including input on proposed new legislation that would require future federal governments to maintain a National Housing Strategy.
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- A Federal Housing Advocate to address systemic barriers to affordability,
- A National Housing Council including representatives from CMHC, the provincial and territorial governments, and municipalities, among others,
- A Community-Based Tenant Initiative to promote inclusive communities and build awareness of the challenges facing vulnerable groups, and
- A Public Engagement Campaign in 2020 to address discrimination in housing type and tenure and build more inclusive communities.
The proposed approach has been met with some criticism because it will not involve amendments to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to officially recognize housing as a human right. On the other hand, a requirement to be enshrined in the new legislation that would see a report to Parliament on progress every three years has been viewed favourably as helping to ensure accountability.
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Happy Friday everyone! Wow, what a week it has been. I was juggling a board meeting, staff retreat, meeting at the UN and a million other things at work and home, all while struggling to get enough sleep to do it on. This weekend a lot of catch-up sleep is on the agenda. Along with a couple sessions at the gym, a trip to the farmer's market, some hiking and cooking of course. Lots of that too! But first, I'm bringing you a really great raw cracker recipe.
Since I have started experimenting with raw food "cooking", one thing that has really struck me is how essential umami, or savoriness, is. The best raw foods are just packed with intense flavor. And dehydrating foods often intensifies it even further.
These little crackers do not disappoint in this department. They are like a cheesy flavor bomb! And they are totally addictive too. I can barely walk into the kitchen without popping one, or two, or three into my mouth. But that's okay, because they are full of nutritious, whole food ingredients.
Because they are so flavorful, they are wonderful on their own. But they are also perfect for dipping in hummus or, for extra cheesiness, topped with raw cashew cheese.
- 1 cup ground flax seeds
- 1/4 cup hemp seeds
- 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp basil
- 3/4 cup water
- Add dry ingredients to a medium mixing bowl and stir with a spatula to combine well.
- Add water, stir and let sit for 5-10 minutes to allow the flax seeds to gel.
- Pour the mixture onto a teflex-lined dehydrator tray and using an offset spatula, spread it out evenly until it is between 1/8 and 1/4 inch thick.
- Dehydrate at 105 degrees for 2 hours until the crackers feel dry on top.
- Flip over onto a mesh-lined dehydrator tray and peel off the teflex sheet.
- Score into small squares using a knife or a pizza cutter (I find the latter far easier!)
- Return to the dehydrator and dehydrate at 105 degrees for another 4-6 hours, until they feel firm and a little crispy.
- Break into individual crackers and return to the dehydrator for another 8 hours or so, until they are nice and crunchy.
- Try not to eat them all at once!
- This recipe makes about six 1 ounce servings.
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Annual to shrubs, generally glandular, some green root-parasites
Stem generally round
Leaves generally alternate, simple, generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: spike to panicle, generally bracted, or flowers 12 in axils
Flower bisexual; calyx lobes generally 5; corolla generally strongly bilateral, generally 2-lipped (upper lip generally 2-lobed, lower lip generally 3-lobed); stamens generally 4 in 2 pairs, generally included, a 5th (generally uppermost) sometimes present as a staminode; pistil 1, ovary superior, chambers generally 2, placentas axile, style 1, stigma lobes generally 2
Fruit: capsule, generally ± ovoid, loculicidal or septicidal
Seed: coat sculpture often characteristic
Genera in family: ± 200 genera, 3000 species: ± worldwide; some cultivated as ornamental (e.g., Antirrhinum, Mimulus, Penstemon ) or medicinal (Digitalis )
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include only Buddleja, Scrophularia, and Verbascum in CA; other genera moved to Orobanchaceae (Castilleja, Cordylanthus, Orthocarpus, Pedicularis, Triphysaria), Phrymaceae (Mimulus), and Plantaginaceae (= Veronicaceae sensu Olmstead et al.)
Key to genera by Elizabeth Chase Neese & Margriet Wetherwax.
Annual to shrub, glabrous to hairy
Stem generally erect
Leaves opposite, generally ± sessile, generally toothed or generally entire, reddish or generally green
Inflorescence: raceme, bracted, or flowers generally 2 per axil
Flower sometimes cleistogamous; calyx generally green, lobes 5, generally << tube, equal or not, generally uppermost largest; corolla generally deciduous, white to red, maroon, purple, gold or yellow, limb width measured at widest point looking into flower, lower lip base sometimes swollen, ± closing mouth, tube-throat floor generally with 2 longitudinal folds; pollen chambers spreading; placentas 2, axile or parietal; stigma lobes generally leaf-like, generally included
Fruit generally ovoid to fusiform, generally upcurved if elongate, generally ± fragile, loculicidal near tip (sometimes hard, indehiscent); chambers 12
Seeds many, generally < 1 mm, ovoid, yellowish to dark brown
Species in genus: ± 100 species: w North America, Chile, eastern Asia, s Africa, New Zealand, Australia
Etymology: (Latin: little mime or comic actor, from face-like corolla limb of some)
Reference: [Grant 1924 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 11:99388]
Annual, 118 cm, puberulent
Leaf 432 mm, linear (rarely > 3 mm wide)
Flower: pedicel 325 mm; calyx 3.58.5 mm, minutely puberulent, membranous in fruit, lobes equal, 0.52 mm, obtuse to rounded, with small point at tip, ± glabrous to ciliate; corolla yellow, purple, or yellow with purple upper lip, tube-throat 1016 mm, lobes often each 2-lobed; placentas axile
Fruit 36 mm
Ecology: Disturbed areas along streamlets, generally in granitic soils
Elevation: > 1800 m.
Bioregional distribution: c&s Sierra Nevada (s of Madera Co.)
Distribution outside California: near Carson City, Nevada
Synonyms: M. barbatus Greene; M. discolor A.L. Grant
Complex; corolla colors mixed in some areas, uniform in others; plants with purple corollas at lower elevation much like M. palmeri
Horticultural information: TRY.


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Bayern won another game in impressive manner by crushing Hamburg in the domestic championship by eight goals to none. The more they play, the more obvious it becomes that they have no real contender in the Bundesliga this is only a training for the Champions League. Even here, they start as overwhelming favorites regardless of where the game is played and the same happens tonight when they travel to Ukraine. Shakhtar will be the ones opposing them but they don't have reasons to be optimistic.
At least on paper, Shakhtar has home pitch advantage but the game is actually played in Lviv so the fans won't be that numerous and the atmosphere less than impressive. Ukraine is troubled by conflict these days, with football being far less important for the inhabitants and this will be obvious in this fixture. The home side will still do its best to score goals and the former champions, but they don't have the squad to do it and not playing in Donestk doesn't help either.
In fact, Lucescu is expected to field a single striker because he needs five defenders and a strong midfield to maintain ball possession. Even so, the visitors will probably take the initiative and pass the ball around as they see fit, given the fact that Guardiola has practiced this strategy over and over again. Less than one week after scoring eight goals at home, the offensive is entitled to be cheerful and aim for a similar results, even if you were goals are scored.
Sorting qualification in the first leg is not that difficult and by scoring twice in Ukraine, the Germans will be more or less assured that they will be playing in the quarterfinals. They have no injured or suspended players, after resting those who were doubtful over the weekend and it is very likely for some of them to be pulled out in the second half. It all depends on the result at half time, but past performance suggest that they have what it takes to score an early goal.
The host will need to counter Bayern with direct attacks, because on the flanks they are outgunned and outplayed, so it will all come down to how the only striker performs. Shakhtar is under no impression that it could cause a major upset, but will defend its chances frantically, while aiming for a single point. If opportunity presents itself and the host get to score on the counterattack, then they will have at least your ethical chances of advanced the next stage.
The top priority would be to keep a clean sheet and this is the thing that punters should have in mind when betting on this match. The +1.5 Asian handicap on the home side is a bit risky but the odds are tempting and even value, so it makes sense to place such a bet.


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In this group you will also find unique lyophilizants which are characterized by low weight, so that they are perfect for a trip or an expedition under a tent or for a camping trip as they won't be too heavy. The all instant meals and meal substitutes have been designed in such a way that they provide the body system with high-value proteins, carbohydrates, fats and necessary vitamins and microelements. They effectively satisfy hunger and at the same time are tasty and easily digestible.
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Moving people toward compassionate living
Your letters and calls do help!
|Originally Posted: 7 Sep 2010
Protect Turtles and Dugongs from "Traditional" Cruelty in Queensland, Australia
FROM Animals Australia
Populations of Australian sea turtles are on a fast decline. But currently in Queensland, these animals, along with vulnerable dugongs, can in some circumstances be legally subjected to a slow and torturous death. Help ensure that this cruelty doesn't continue.
Sign an online petition
And/Or make direct contact:
The Honorable Tim Mulherin
Species of endangered turtles and vulnerable dugongs in far north Queensland have more than dwindling population numbers threatening their survival -- they are also often the victims of a barbaric traditional hunt. Whilst under most circumstances the cruel methods used to hunt and kill these animals would be illegal, exemptions in Queensland's Animal Care and Protection Act has permitted this cruelty to continue unchecked.
Recent footage of a turtle hunt reveals the extent to which the deaths endured by these animals is excruciatingly slow and painful. Once caught, a turtle can be kept alive until meat is required. They may be piled on top of each other, or turned onto their backs for days -- cruelty that often results in death even before the animals are slaughtered. Worse still, they may be butchered while still alive, remaining conscious as their flippers are hacked off and their plastron (underside of the shell) is sliced off.
Dugongs may be harpooned in the back (or in the head if they surface for air). They will then drag the boat in an effort to swim away. It can take several hours for an adult male to tire from this exertion. He may then either be drowned by having his head held underwater, suffocated after having his nostrils plugged, or dragged under the keel of the boat until he dies.
Sea turtles and dugongs subjected to these cruel hunting methods, along with other animals that are traditionally hunted such as kangaroos and goannas, all feel pain, fear and distress -- regardless of who the perpetrator is.
Cultures the world over are now acknowledging that tradition is no excuse for cruelty. With Queensland's Animal Care and Protection Act due for review soon, please ask the Queensland Government to show compassion to all animals in all circumstances by removing the Aboriginal tradition and Island custom exemption from the Act.
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So.. I have no idea about what I want to study or even the options to study.
I am from Tunisia. I have been studying in university (medicine) but because I haven't finished my studies there and don't have the Doctor degree it means nothing.
I moved to Finland last January to live with my husband and I am learning Finnish now. But I'm wondering about the next step so much. Because everything I do matters and I want to gain time.
The question is, is it even realistic to think of applying to medicine and pharmacy? It takes many years to study medicine plus during those years, economically we wouldn't be doing well (yes, I know, i can speak about higher studies once I get fluent with Finnish of course and it is hard and stuff. I am fluent in 4 languages already so I got an idea about how to learn languages
I have A2.2 level in Finnish now after studying it for 3 months)
But anyway, would it be more realistic to go for nursing for example then?
And if you have any idea, what are the best careers to avoid being unemployed? (Yes, I dont want to live on Kela's help, I would like to have a job and help in the family so that we can live, well.)
Sadly the career choice is not always about what we want and enjoy, there is a huge factor which is unemployment. I have a lot of potential to give to the world. Call me a villain but I did not come here to be a cleaner. (With all my respect to that job)
I have always been an excellent student in my home country and I don't want to end up in a bad situation just because im a foreign.
I still have no idea about the best options for careers (to higher the chances for employment). Therefore any help or piece of information would be highly appreciated.
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Unless your interests are very outlandish ("I want to be an astronaut"), I think you should follow those, you'll be not only happier but also more successful. Doctors, lawyers, software programmers,... there are jobs in various fields that will be in demand for any foreseeable future, just pick one that you find the most appealing.
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Tesla Model S Sedan for 2015
If you like sports cars, you hate the environment. At least this was the thing before Tesla. The reason why sports cars are not good for the environment is their engines. They are big, they use a lot of fuel and they make a lot of pollution. Tesla, changed this. It is a sport car that runs only on the electricity, so it doesn't cause any pollution at all. People usually believe that electric cars are slow and ugly, but this isn't case with Tesla.
Tesla model S has an excellent battery range. Much better that other electric cars. Also, it has impressive performances. In many cases it is better than petrol powered cars.
It has some potential reliability issues and many people avoid it because it is an electric car.
This car has 1-speed Direct Drive transmission. Because it has a lot of torque, the acceleration is much better than on conventional cars. Tesla Model S has independent suspension on all 4 wheels, so it is very good in cornering. Inside, you have bucket front seats that are 8 way powered. In order to feel nice, passengers have at their disposal: clock, trip computer, external temperature display, 4 one-touch power windows and cruise control. Of course, this isn't all what this car has.
The main purpose of Tesla Model S is to save the environment. It doesn't make any pollution at all, and it is practical. With one charge, you can travel 208 miles. And this is for the cheapest version. Also, you get 4 years of warranty or 50.000 miles. The battery has a 8 years warranty.


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