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Paso Robles experienced a dry and warm vintage in 2014. Early budbreak prompted an early growing season and harvest. Whale Rock Vineyard's location in the Templeton Gap exposes it to a cooling marine influence at night, resulting in an extended ripening period. Grapes were harvested just as the first much needed rainfall of the season arrived. Overall yields were good and quality was excellent.
Whale Rock Vineyard was planted in 2001 by Castoro Cellars and is CCOF certified organically grown. The name is inspired by the thousands of petrified whale bones from ancient times scattered throughout the property. The vineyard is located on the west side of Paso Robles in the "Templeton Gap." The climate is characterized by warm days followed by cool nights and mornings, and temperature shifts of more than 50 degrees are not uncommon. Soils are high in limestone and sedimentary rock. These austere conditions create an ideal environment for Zinfandel. The clone used for this wine is Primitivo.
Zinfandel grapes were hand harvested into half-ton bins and crushed into small fermentation bins. Following a two-day cold soak, the bins were inoculated with D254 yeast to initiate the primary fermentation. To achieve maximum flavor and color extraction, the bins were punched down three times daily until the wine reached 6 degrees Brix. When the fermentation reached dryness, the wine was pressed and transferred to two new American oak barrels, two one-year-old barrels and one neutral American oak barrel where it completed malo-lactic fermentation and aged for 15 months.
This wine features vibrant aromas of rich plum, dark fruit and blueberry jam with hints of baked spiced apple and a well integrated smokiness from the American oak. A firm tannin structure and well balanced acidity ensure excellent ageability. The wine culminates in a richly layered, lingering finish.
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Official records and intimate accounts of life in the American navy.
The contents of this collection include items largely created by those who served on USS Constitution. Many of the private journals include terms on more than one ship. They relate the daily routine of ship life. Topics include the World Cruise (1844-1846), the Mediterranean cruise (1853-55), and various diagrams and indexes of ship-related work. Several journals contain sketches and watercolors by the creators. The journal of Master Boat Builder John Wade of the Charlestown Navy Yard details materials and work reports for Constitution and other ships. A surgeon's journal covers time on Constitution and USS New York. The sea journal of Isaac Mayo dates from forty years before his African Squadron command aboard USS Constitution.


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Cooby Dam
This time of year is great for Cooby, the warming weather really brings the yellowbelly on. While the water temp is still a little cool it's definitely heading in the right direction and we have seen the results already with plenty of nice yellowbelly hitting the decks over the holidays and this week. A variety of techniques' haves worked well including trolling, jigging and bait fishing. I found jigging the Ecogear ZX blades the most productive technique while saltwater yabbies have had some good catches also. The usual areas are still holding fish the buoy line, out from the yacht club and off the point near Reflections boat ramp. No significant bite times just right place right time sort of thing.
Cressbrook Dam
Cressbrook like most of the bass dams right now is fishing quiet well although there were a few tough days over the holidays with the excess people around. The fishing is starting to warm back up again with a quality edge bite in the early mornings and late afternoons, while throughout the day the deeper water is holding the better fish. A variety of techniques have worked well, for example trolling deep divers and casting sinking lures into the schools once located has been the best. Live shrimp and live worms are the baits of choice.
Boondooma Dam
Boondooma is firing and with some really big bass. Again there is both a good edge bite with schooling fish also on offer. Your best bet is to look for some steep rocky banks around the main basin which isn't hard to find, casting suspending lures or silent Jackalls to these types of edges has been working really well and is a fun way to fish. You also have the option to find schooling fish with your sounder in the usual haunts out from main lake points and if all else fails there has been some nice yellowbelly caught in the start of the Boyne arm Jigging blades around the trees.
Copeton Dam
Well it didn't take long for Copeton to get itself back on the map after a couple quiet months while the fish were in breeding mode and not really interested in feeding we already knew that when it ends they will be hungry and sure enough they were. Massive numbers of giant cod caught over the past week with anglers landing 6 and more metre cod for the day on a variety of spinnerbaits and swimbaits fished to the edges in Barefoot alley, the Bronx as well as Long Gully. Plenty of good banks and structure to fish and while the big cod are hungry you don't have to go far for a big girl.
Leslie Dam
Leslie is fishing really well, again the warming weather suits the yellowbelly and it will only get better from here. The best area has been in the main creek bed out from the boat ramp basically in the middle of the main basin. Hopping soft vibes in around 30ft through the creek bed has produced plenty of nice yellowbelly while there has also been so good cod landed with them and also down around the rocks near the dam wall area on spinnerbaits. For the bait angler saltwater yabbies and live shrimp are a must for the yellowbelly and cod while worms work well on the silver perch and catfish.
Wivenhoe Dam
A place we don't touch on much but a fantastic lake that holds possibly the biggest freshwater bass and catfish in the country. At times a difficult place to fish due to the volume of water and boating restrictions, usually most anglers stick to fishing nice looking banks with spinnerbaits and Jackalls but right now and throughout the warmer months the bass are schooling up nicely in the deeper water. Using your fish finder or trolling a lure to find the schools is key but you will be surprised at the depth of fish, mostly suspended in 40-50 ft in places where the bottom is over 70ft deep this 40-50ft range is the thermocline and the bass are thick in this region. So when trolling get your lure down as deep as possible and once locating the fish using sinking lures like spoons and tail spinners will be your best bet. The schools are full of bass, yellowbelly and giant fork tail catfish, great fun fishing. Pop in store for more info as there are numerous boat ramps to launch from.
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For a lot of people fishing is only a couple times a year event, generally those couple times result in limited fish. I suggest the coming month to head back out as spring time is the best fishing. The weather is good the water is warming and the fish are biting. This time of year makes a big difference to your fishing experience, just check the wind before you go.
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Sen. Baucus's Health-Care Bill Would Ease Financial Burden on Middle Class
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Seeking to lock down votes before Tuesday's meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Max Baucus began reworking his health-care overhaul to ease the financial burden on middle-class Americans who would be required for the first time to have health insurance.
All of his changes, though, would add billions to the cost of a bill whose chief accomplishment was its relative austerity.
Baucus (Mont.) came under fire last week from fellow Democrats and Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (Maine), the only Republican still at the negotiating table, for a mandate that people buy health coverage, at a price they may not be able to afford.
To address that concern, Baucus said Monday that his revised bill would offer more generous subsidies to low- and middle-income people to buy coverage through a network of private insurance exchanges. He also said he may cut the maximum penalty facing middle-class families who do not buy insurance.
Baucus said he is considering substantial changes to one of his primary sources of funding: a proposed tax on high-cost insurance policies. Some Democrats complained that the tax would strike hardest at residents of expensive urban areas and those with risky jobs, such as coal miners, firefighters and other public safety workers.
In a meeting Monday night with Finance Committee Democrats, Baucus cautioned that lawmakers may have to find additional revenue sources or cost savings, depending on how drastically they seek to change the bill. "The main discussion was, 'Okay, how do we make insurance affordable for people? Because we've got to make insurance affordable.' But the next question was, 'How do you pay for it?' " Baucus said.
One option Democrats were discussing was to expand Medicaid as a potentially less expensive way to cover low-income people.
The last-minute maneuvering came as Baucus prepared to open a week-long debate on health care in his committee, the last of five congressional panels to take up President Obama's signature domestic initiative. Lawmakers have proposed 564 amendments to Baucus's measure, and a vote on the $774 billion plan is not expected before Friday at the earliest.
The bill would expand health coverage to millions without adding to federal budget deficits, and despite criticism of the measure from both parties, it has attracted the support of more moderate Democrats than any other proposal.
After a year-long effort to build a bipartisan consensus around the plan, Baucus has so far been unable to persuade any Republicans to sign on, and fellow Democrats have accused him of wasting his time courting conservative Sens. Charles E. Grassley (Iowa) and Mike Enzi (Wyo.).
The chairman said, though, that he would change nothing about the arduous process, and he continued to work Monday night toward incorporating Democratic and Republican amendments into the bill.
"I felt from the get-go that bipartisan was better than not," Baucus said in an interview. "It's more durable. It's more sustainable."


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Dholak is most popular taal instrument in India. We see every house is having dholak and played on some happy festive occasions. Generally ladies gathered and sing songs like bhajans, film songs, mehandi songs, dance numbers etc. Only few ladies are perfect to play and match the taal with the song. Matching the taal with the song's mood and timing is necessary for any percussion instrument.
Even boys and man also play dholak their style of playing dholak is some different than ladies style. Ladies style dholak has some simple beats. But man have heavy hand and tirkit and alankars are frequently use in playing stylish dholak. Some famous taals like Kaharwa, Dadra, Rupak, Dhol taal are very famous to play. Kaharwa taal is of 8 beats or matra and Dadra taal is of 6 beats or matra, Rupak Taal is of 7 beats or matra. India have variety of taals which is not seen in foreign country. In foreign only Dadra, Kaharwa is played and its kind is played. In India in Tabla so many beats or matra taals are there and learned by students of Tabla like 4, 6, 7,8,9,10,11, 12,14,15,16 and so many other matra taals. It is a sea. You take a dip in the sea of Taals and you will see so many beautiful shankh, seep and even moti of melodius rhythms also which will bound you to dance in different ways.


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This year in Pac-12 men's basketball
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• The ARIZONA Wildcats captured their 13th Pac-12 regular season title, and first since the 2011 season, while the UCLA Bruins won their fourth Pac-12 Tournament title as they defeated Arizona in the championship game, 75-71.
• A league-record eight teams posted 20-wins during the 2013-14 campaign. The highly-competitive Pac-12 season rewarded the league with a record-tying six teams (ARIZONA, ARIZONA STATE, COLORADO, OREGON, STANFORD, UCLA) selected to participate in NCAA Tournament. Arizona obtained a coveted No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. It was the first time a Pac-12 team earned one of the four No. 1 seeds since UCLA in 2008, and the sixth time the Wildcats were the Tournament's No. 1 seed. The Pac-12 showed it was worthy of the six selections as it compiled a 8-6 record in the NCAA Tournament with Arizona, Stanford and UCLA each reaching the Sweet Sixteen, with the Wildcats advancing to the Elite Eight before dropping a one-point overtime decision to Wisconsin. The eight wins in the NCAA Tournament were the most by the league since it posted an identical 8-6 mark in 2008.
• Arizona's Nick Johnson and Aaron Gordon, and UCLA's Kyle Anderson picked up several All-America honors as Johnson earned consensus honors after being selected first team All-America by USBWA, NABC and The Sporting News, as well as the Wooden Award All-America team.
• New look in 2014-15 for two Pac-12 teams as Ernie Kent will take over the reigns at WASHINGTON STATE and CALIFORNIA will have a new successor to replace Mike Montgomery, who retired after 32 years as a college head coach. Montgomery compiled a 677-316 record in 32 seasons (eight at Montana, 18 at Stanford, and six at California). His 282 wins in league play were third only to Hall-of-Famers Arizona's Lute Olson (327) and UCLA's John Wooden (305). On April 15, California hired Cuonzo Martin to replace Montgomery. Meanwhile, Kent returns to the coaching ranks for the first time since he was at Oregon from 1998-2010. Kent's career record stands at 325-254 in 19 seasons as a head coach.
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aw this is just like my sis and our dog!
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Yeah, Lincoln will never give me his toys or bones but as soon as a small child reaches for it he drops it immediately. They just "know"
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My neighbors bring their 4yr old to play with Herman. It's funny how attached Herman is to that kid. Herman would just love on him no matter what happened. It's so cute.


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Digimon Universe (Sub)
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Watch Digimon Universe full episodes online English Sub.
Other titles:Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters
Synopsis: Everyone in the world uses smartphone apps. But inside them lurks unknown creatures called "Appli Monsters," or "Appmon." The Appmon are AI lifeforms with the ability to think and act, and exist in the boundary between the human world and digital space. In the vast sea of the internet, the "last boss AI" Leviathan takes control of the Appmon with a virus and begins hacking every system, thus starting to control the human world from the world of the net. Haru Shinkai is led to acquire the Appli Drive, and uses it to materialize Gatchmon, a search app monster.
Language: English Sub
Status: Completed
Aired: Oct 1, 2016 to ?
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
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KPWT News:
2008 Kiteboard Pro World Tour
ST Gilles Kitesurf Pro
World Cup of Kiteboarding
St Gilles Croix de Vie – Vendee - France
29th April / 4th May 2008
27 000€ Prize Money
Dear Sponsors, Athletes and Medias,
This year KPWT will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the KPWT 1998
Every community in kitesurf is invited to participate in this year-long celebration of KPWT'S
We welcome you to St Gilles Croix de Vie, Vendee, France, for the St Gilles Kitesurf Pro, and only french stage of the 2008 KPWT season.
This french stage of the 2008 KPWT will be the third time in St Gilles Croix de Vie.
Launched in 1999, the Kiteboard Pro World Tour is the professional world cup of Kiteboarding that promotes the sport and its star riders on an international level. The 2008 series of 8 events crowns the men and women world champions, for Senior and Junior divisions.
Congratulations on being invited to be a part of this event, which we hope we'll be memorable for you both, athletes and medias. Enclosed in this manual you will find everything you need to know in relation to the event.
On behalf of the KPWT, the Semvie, The City of St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and our event partners, welcome to St Gilles and good luck to you all!
Thank you for being there with us 10 years ago and thank you for being here with us today.
Without your support, this would not have been possible. Thank you very much. What a ride and it has been AMAZING !!!
Enjoy the show!
Frédéric Gravoille – KPWT Promoter
Event Overview
Event Dates :
28th April REGISTRATION
29th April/ 4th May 2008 : EVENT
The city and area :
The city of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Vendee to a wider extent are well-known for being part of the best water sports centers in France. St Gilles Croix de Vie bears in particular the « France Station Nautique » label, which proves the city's dynamism in water and extreme sports and capacity to offer the required infrastructures to host an international event such as the St Gilles Kitesurf Pro.
The spot of St Gilles :
The beach, called "La Grande Plageâ€, is the main beach surrounding the city.
The wind and wave condition :
St Gilles offer a South to North wind from 15 to 35 knots, perfect for a wave event. It's a good quality beach-break, working at less than 1m - 3ft and holds up to 2.5m+ / 8ft+, swell direction NorthWest, West, SouthWest, wind NorthEast, East, SouthEast.
Disciplines :
The St Gilles Kitesurf Pro will feature the world's top 32 professional kiteboarder's men and 8 professional women competing during two different races and a wave event:
The main discipline for the world championships :
• Freestyle : The winner will gain 1 000pts, taken into account in the world overall ranking. 12 000€ Prize Money
• Course Racing : speed race from a point to another. 4 000€ Prize Money
• Wave Masters : a 100% wave riding discipline. 7 500€ Prize Mone
BONUS end of the year 3 500€
Format of the main wave - freestyle event :
The competition will be conducted in heats as follows :
1st round : heats of four competitors – One/ One if possible
2nd round : heats of four competitors – One / One if possible
quarter finals : heats of two competitors
semi finals : heats of two competitors
final : heat of two competitors
Winner and Loser brackets take 2 days to finish
Judging : KPWT Rule Book on http://www.kiteboardpro.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and available on demand to the race HQ
Judges will use paper copies of the judging sheets then pass them to score keepers who will use laptops PC running the MS Excel spreadsheet to calculate and tally the scores. Each judge uses one sheet per competitor for each heat.
Judging criteria are a balanced mix of the following components, 10 points each :
• Technical difficulty (considering height and power)
• Variety (demonstrate ability to perform on both tacks, rotations in either direction, off-axis, power and high moves)
• Overall impression (considering style, quality vs quantity, innovation and "wow†factor)
On Site Facilities
Accomodation Infos :
Hotels in St Gilles-Croix-de Vie
- Les Astérides : 50 metres from the beach - 00 33 2 51 60 11 11
- Le Marina : on the beach - 00 33 2 51 54 77 17
- Edena : 00 33 2 51 55 30 44
- La Gaillette : 800 ms from the beach - 00 33 2 51 54 77 17
Outside St Gilles :
- Le Montreuil Bellay : 8kms from St Gilles - 00 33 2 51 60 11 11
Transport facilities :
How to go to St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie
- By Car : various highways to St Gilles, depending on your point of departure – refer to http://www.mappy.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The event site, La Grande Plage, is the main beach of the city
- By train : TGV from various cities (Paris with connection in Nantes) – http://www.sncf.fr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- By Plane : the nearest airport is Nantes – then regional trains (TER - high frequency – 1h30 way to St Gilles, about 10-15 €) make the connection to St Gilles.
Contact List
Emergency Contacts :
- Medical center : Centre Medico-Social Conseil Général de la Vendée Direction de la Solidarité et de la Famille
Rue Jules Ferry 85800 SAINT GILLES CROIX DE VIE - 02 51 55 40 17
- Hospital : Centre Hospitalier Loire Vendée Océan : 02 51 55 89 84
Rue de la Paix 85800 SAINT GILLES CROIX DE VIE
- Taxis :Taxi Atlantic : 21 r Henry Simon 85800 St Gilles - 02 51 55 86 59
Taxi Kléber : 7 r Quimperlé 85800 St Gilles 02 51 55 11 05
Taxi & Ambulance Océane : 96 r Calvaire 85800 St Gilles -02 51 55 47 96
- Police / Gendarmerie : 17
- Firemen : 18
Partners Bars – Night clubs :
Night bars :
- Pub le Monte Cristo/ 02 51 54 78 78 – from Friday to Monday night
- Le Sloop /
- L'Aloha (Brétignolles)/ 02 51 90 00 32
- Rochebonne
Day bars :
- La Café du Port
- Le Jambard (on the beach)
Athletes, Medias and VIPs Facility & Hospitality
Athlete Facility
The event will provide an athlete lounge area that will be available as a relax base to all athletes involved in the competition and their guests.
Access passes (bracelets) will be provided during the registrations.
Internet access will be provided for the competitors – on demand to the race HQ.
Meals : athletes will be issued with lunch vouchers on the first day of the competition. These can be redeemed at the catering van on site each day of the competition.
Sponsors, VIPs and Media Hospitality
The event will provide a VIP lounge area for the Sponsors, VIPs and Medias.
Access badge on demand to the race HQ.
Athletes will not be allowed into the sponsors and VIP lounge unless invited by a sponsor, journalist or official staff member.
Competitors Code of Conduct
The Code of Conduct requires that an athlete must :
- Act with care and diligence in the course of the event
- Treat everyone with respect and courtesy, and without harassment
- When acting in the course of the event, comply with all applicable Australian laws
- Comply with any lawful and reasonable direction given by management of the event.
- Maintain appropriate confidentiality
- Use event equipment and resource in a proper manner
- Not provide false or misleading information in response to a request for information that is made for official purposes in connection with the event.
- Not to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol whilst representing the event.
- All athletes must disclose and take reasonable steps to avoid any conflict of interest (real or apparent) in connection
with sponsor products and appropriate use of said products.
- At all times behave in a way that upholds the event and the integrity and good reputation of the event.
- Athletes will be provided with the competition rashie, which must be worn during competition, interviews, demos and official ceremonies (prize giving, press conference, etc.)
- Above all, have fun!!!
KPWT Team :
- KPWT Promoter : Frédéric Gravoille : email@example.com -
06 12 71 38 15
- KPWT Event Coordination / media liaison / Competitors relations :
- Speaker : Stephen Marret
- TV production : Arrepio
- Photographer : Carlos Delicado
KPWT Race Direction and Judging Team :
- Race Director : William Bogaards (Hol)
- Head Judge : Alex Vliege (Hol)
- Judges : Benoit Declerc (Bel), AdamÃÄek VÃtÄ›zslav (Rep Tech), Grzegorz Wlazlowski (Pol)


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Fifty per cent of the oil and gas companies will have advanced analytics and asset integrity capability by 2016, said Jess Kozman, Asia-Pacific representative at professional Petroleum Data Management (PPDM) association, citing an IDC report
He was the opening speaker on Day 2 of Big Data Analytics for Oil & Gas event, held from 19-21 April, that gave an insight on how businesses can improve and optimise their production and maintenance.
A comment made by Awad El Sidiq from ADNOC Distribution, was that one of the most important aspect in businesses today is the transition from legacy system to Big Data system.
On this note, the seminar aligned its focus on real-time Big Data analytics and how it affects the decision-making process.
Kozman noted, "Analytics is about getting people at the right place at the right time." He elaborated on to say that the acceptable non-productive time (NPT) is 4.9 per cent to 5.8 per cent, whereas in reality actual NPT is 7.9 per cent to 21.3 per cent, which is costing the oil and gas industry US$2.8mn per hour in downtime. Therefore, companies have to determine what are the key performance indicators that analytics is looking to address from Big Data perspective.
He explained how structured data can be extracted from surplus data and the properties then analysed on a software to make sense. "Data analytics is high-value information. It can help predict and prevent losses. However, it is advisable not to overdo predictive maintenance as it may do more damage than repair," he added.
Geoff Nesbitt, group head of Technology Strategy at Petrofac looked at Big Data from EPC value chain. According to him, the adoption to Big Data in businesses will help leverage field development plans for reservoirs and increase production rates, thereby increasing the value of the company. "Big Data can help develop fast varied sensors, accessible storage, machine to machine interface and opportunities include developed meta data metrics, sophisticated modelling, machine learning, remote monitoring as well as certification verification."
He added on to say that companies must make an investment on Big Data to reduce maintenance costs.
Making a note on structuring E&P data to ensure availabilty and business continuity, Sergey Fokin, head of data management & geoinformation at Total E&P, made references to the practices Total has been successfully adopting Big Data in fields of geomatics, topography and geosciences.
He discussed ideas like how data centres can affect business losses and how can Big Data help disaster recovery as well. He also advised that in order to mitigate risks, it is necessary to put in place an 'APP architecture'.
Digital oilfields have the sole purpose to maximise oilfield recovery and eliminate NPT. However, this cannot be achieved without data in place. Abdulhameed Aborshaid, founder and CEO of Sigmoid Knowledge Development Consultancy in his speech assessed the benefits of Big Data applications in digital oilfields for reservoir management. "Reservoir management must understand flow management to help prevent breakage of premature water."
Speaking about geosteering (the act of adjusting borehole positions to achieve more than one target), he analysed in depth the concept of data management in greenfield, brownfield and ifield scenarios.
However, the big picture in all the papers presented and the talks given, had one common point – Aquiring high quality data. Emmanuel Udeh, subsurface data analyst from Beneprojecti Nigeria, reasoned on data quantity matrix applied to the industry as well as unlocking volumes and adding value to businesses. According to him, high data quality is about accuracy, consistency and timeliness. Therefore, the ultimate prerogative of businesses must be to get maximum quality data for optimum performance. "Poor quality data impacts confidence, costs and decision-making."
He advised that firms establish a structured framework for data quality management and develop quality management roles within the company.
Both days of the Big Data Analytics for Oil & Gas event saw high-profile speakers and attendees from Shell, Total E&P, ADNOC, Petrofac, Wipro, Halliburton, LR Synergy, PPDM, CommScope and Sigmoid Knowledge Consultancy converge to one platform and share their opinions on the real-time impact of Big Data in oil and gas industry.
For a more detailed round up of the event, please see the next edition of Oil Review Middle East.
Big Data Analytics for Oil & Gas has been taking place at the Al Raha Beach Hotel in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
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Nancy at the Tattered Garden used two pieces of fabric and cut alternate rings from each piece. This gave Nancy more fabric to turn under. It also means you could use two different fabrics and make a striped piecrust block. Has anyone tried more than one fabric?
Block 21 is on the website now. It's much easier to make - Quilting at the Farm Chris has finished it already!


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Gas - None
Electricity - Rural Electric Coop
Road Access or Frontage - County Road
Road Access or Frontage - Gravel
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Restrictions (Land) - Subdivision
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1) Continue with escalating my wordcount. My goal this week is 1200 a day, and it will up to 1600 next week. I fully expect to plateau here, and I'm fine with coasting there for a while until I catch my breath. My ultimate goal is 3200 a day, but I fully acknowledge it may take the rest of the year to get there consistently.
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Bad reviews can be an indication that the film was good, and vice versus. 'Wound' is not a film for the faint hearted, nor is it some stupid splatter movie that some equally stupid viewers seem to like. At some level the sane message seems to be that sexual abuse and sexual violence leads to total mental breakdown but at another level - especially as visual impact - one wonders why the insane consequences are being acted out on stage when we already know that fact is stranger than fiction. True, classical allusions can be equally grim but they are not acted out, apart from themes in equally classical paintings. Graphic depiction of long scenes of rape and castration are hardly a deterrent for people so inclined - however technically accomplished the cinematography. The film should be shown to students of forensic psychiatry as a case study. After all, Ian Mune - as the psychiatrist in the film - makes the wry comment that this is an INTERESTING case.


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Quake 100 Brush Competition, Version 4.0, Released
Posted by
on 2018/06/10 09:28:29
The fourth iteration of the 100 Brush Competition has been unleashed. Nineteen Quoth maps to whet your single player Quake appetite. Congratulations to WW on his glorious victory.
Download it here:
Composite screenshot:
Final Results
#1 posted by
on 2018/06/10 09:48:56
1st: Deflan'Ka by WW
2nd: Ioian Shorelines by Ionous
3rd: Immortal Reach by Spipper
4th: The Di[g]stortion by Digs
5th: Frostbitten by Ionous
6th: With Apologies to Insomniac by Spud
7th: The Vale of Dream by Redfield
8th: The Teleportation Complex by Newhouse
8th: Beyond and Within by Artistical
8th: Between Dimensions by JCR
11th: Locus Genus by Artistical
11th: Pyro's Barbecue by Newhouse
11th: The Forgotten Station by Artistical
14th: Cerebral Edema by Shotro
14th: The Engineering Department by JCR
16th: The Tutorial by Dumptruck
17th: N-Titties by Shamblernaut
18th: Unwarranted Phlebotomy by DelusionalBear
19th: Ela-V8 by Roman
Wow Crazy
#2 posted by
on 2018/06/10 10:02:13
Congratulations to everyone! I can't wait to play them. Right now I'm just reading the results and laughing my ass off.
#3 posted by
on 2018/06/10 11:47:13
Something in this pack is making the levels hang in the version of Mark_V I am using (version 1.99).
Managed To Leave My Map Out...
#4 posted by
on 2018/06/10 12:11:04
Correct zip
Mods, if you want to repalce...
Uh, Disregard Prior
#5 posted by
on 2018/06/10 12:14:47
I'm just overwriting orignal file. So no intervention neeeded. In my defense, it's ultra late.
Ok, So I Didnt Read This And Just Realised Its For Quoth
#6 posted by
on 2018/06/10 12:23:07
#7 posted by
on 2018/06/10 13:12:54
First batch of demos, doing these in random order, most demos are on skill 2, a few are on skill 3 when I'm in the mood.
Congrats on everyone who made it, some great stuff in here so far!
2 demos cause I died alot. Fun map, pretty hard, was playing on skill 3 and ended up switching to skill 2. I think I messed up and didn't record the playthrough I actually finished. I hate the spike traps in the hallways, feels like random damage basically.
It's the multi-colored grunt parade! Had fun.
The gug is still waiting for something to happen in his life.
Haha didn't think this would turn out so well, you're becoming the master of gimmicks.
Free telefrags for everyone!
I broke it at one point, had to noclip, fun arena map.
2 Demos, by far my favorite map so far, navigating the structures is super fun, and gameplay was a blast, great work! I want to make am map like this.
Simple and fun, theme works nicely.
Felt like a standard map, very cool atmosphere, not surprised this one, great job!
Good Job Everyone
#8 posted by
on 2018/06/10 14:36:11
Nice variety in style and quality. Thanks to all participants. Fucking Quoth, though - if I ever see a Gug again...!
I more or less agree with the ranking, except I would have maybe put The Tutorial slightly higher and the Teleporter Complex defintely lower.
It seems each one of the judges put their main focus on a different aspect, e.g. gameplay or use of Quoth stuff. I think I would have liked a stronger focus, or at least more detailed reasoning on the ways the brush limit was handled in each entry.
Congrats to WW, a well-deserved win. Atmospheric map and good gameplay.
Spipper's is very good, too. Bit of a coagula-like construction, but a destinct style of its own and competently pulled off.
Digs doing typical digs stuff 100b edition!
I like Artisitical's Beyond and Within for it's weirdness and atmosphere. Like a fever-dream of R'hley and a descent into madness like ionous put it.
Pyro's Barbecue has a good layout, and The Forgotten Station isn't bad either in this sense (except too dark), though they could have featured more brush trickery for some better detailing.
ionousel's maps are good as usual, upper tier material. But not necessarily second place imho, more like fourth.
Redfield's level is a very unique experience and he put a lot of effort into it, kudos for that. Still, I wouldn't have included in the ranking due to all the MDLs. Likewise, Shamblernaut's map should have been out of competition, too, since brush cloning is cheating. And tbh, considering it IS using model hacks, it could have been better.
Honorable mention to Roman. I didn't even seriously attempt the map, because I'm so bad at platforming. But the map does have its place in the pack for sure. Looks like a tech demo of sorts.
#9 posted by
on 2018/06/10 17:12:57
And GG ww. So frustrated to not have access to a pic right now! I'll be playing these soon enough.
Yeah Auto Complete
#10 posted by
on 2018/06/10 17:13:53
#11 posted by
on 2018/06/11 00:41:45
It seems that the start maps's skybox is missing from the pack. It's called Kradegar.
I searched on google and found it here:
#12 posted by
on 2018/06/11 01:55:27
Another one of my fuckups. Whoops. Thankfully I used 'skyvoid', which oddly works within the map.
Some Good Stuff Here...
#13 posted by
on 2018/06/11 12:30:30
Though I'm using quakespasm 0.92. 2-qss-r7-admod with the suggested hooks added and can't play several maps. I'm getting 'Host-Error: Illegible Server Message 110, previous was svc_serverinfo'. Any ideas?
#14 posted by
on 2018/06/11 15:27:04
You need Quakespasm v0.93
#15 posted by
on 2018/06/11 15:29:10
Or Mark V v1.99 Revision 4 2018/05/23 build.
#16 posted by
on 2018/06/11 18:09:17
...and cheers Redfield
Demos For All
#17 posted by
on 2018/06/12 03:17:09
It's amazing what some of you guys did with so little. What a fun event this has been! Congrats to the top chums. Here are some demos for you all- I'll admit I wasn't on my A-game when I first played the maps and recorded these demos, so some of you will have multiple demos.
#18 posted by
on 2018/06/12 03:18:15
I'm still working on beating your map...
Going To Be Playing Through This
#19 posted by
on 2018/06/12 05:15:58
Starts in roughly an hour.
Taking Credit..
#20 posted by Aardappel on 2018/06/12 06:49:47
That's awesome.. I'll have to try them all!
This is the 4th? I missed 2 and 3 :( Links pls.
Here to remind everyone that I was the person to organize the first ever 100 brush compo, and y'all should go play it!
#21 posted by
on 2018/06/12 07:05:18
Stay a while hombre. Your maps on the strlen site look great. Did you see dm4jam?
#22 posted by
on 2018/06/12 10:21:25
thanks for the demo!
#23 posted by
on 2018/06/13 00:40:19
...all played on normal difficulty.
Wasnt able to beat Roman's or Dumptruck's map, but at least I recorded demos of my futile attempts.
Unwarranted Phlebotomy:
The Tutorial:
The Engineering Department:
Cerebral Edema:
The Forgotten Station:
Pyro's Barbecue:
Locus Genus:
Between Dimensions:
Beyond and Within:
The Teleportation Complex:
The Vale of Dream:
With Apologies to Insomniac:
The Di[g]stortion:
Ioian Shorelines:
#24 posted by
on 2018/06/13 17:36:38
Here is my playthrough of The Tutorial by Dumptruck =D
(it's not blind, in my first run took i died too much in the star's room and the video became too long so i recorded again) :P
I didn't play the other maps yet, but since i never played Quoth, i thought that would be smart to start by the tutorial XD
This map is awesome!! Why it only get 16th place? o_O
It reminds me so much "The Stanley Parable". I loved it! XD For those who don't know, stanley parable was a halflife mod (later it became a stand alone game), where a narrator gives instructions to the player, but the player refuses to obey and always make a mess =D
The only thing i have to complain is about the star's room... the narrator never said the room doesn't have gravity, so in my first playthrough i died A LOT in that place, because i didn't knew i could jump to take the goodies :P
Thanks for the awesome experience XD
#25 posted by
on 2018/06/13 19:07:41
Thanks Tribal! I'm relieved at least a few people liked this one after the metric-fuck ton of work that went into it. I've never played the Stanley Parable - I guess I need to now.
I knew this level would be a polarizing experience.
But I had no idea the star room was going to be the big issue. It's come up a number of times so I kind screwed the balance up. For those still who want to play it -
make sure and kill Bob and the Rocketeers first and keep jumping and moving!
#26 posted by
on 2018/06/14 04:52:14
This was a fun experience both to play and to map for, with lots of learning on both sides- i.e. learning that mapping is hard, or learning that Gugs make me cry and curl up into the fetal position. Congrats to ww for his first place victory and to everyone else for making maps anyway, even those of us who decided to bend the rules a bit.
Skill 2 demos and short text blurbs for all here
, individual demos available if the filesize is somehow too large but mega is way faster than Quaketastic for downloads so it shouldn't matter much.
#27 posted by
on 2018/06/14 08:33:05
Two more playthroughs =D
"Unwarranted Phlebotomy" by DelusionalBear
There's a button next to the silver door (it shows on the video at 00:38)... i shoot it many times. what is it supposed to do? :/
"N-Titties" (100b4_shamblernaut.bsp) made by Shamblernaut
Nice re-use of space, making the player revisit the same places again and again, this make the gameplay last longer =D And I love how high the ceilings are. They were perfect for the battles with those flying things, by the way, they're awesome XD
And about "Ela-V8" by Roman... i coudn't even make the fourth jump. so... no playthroug from me, sorry :P
#28 posted by
on 2018/06/16 17:43:58
Oh, man! I forgot to post these here :P
More three playthroughs =D
"The Engineering Department" by JCR:
Awesome gameplay and visuals (i love green fog)! And I think i'm in love with all these quoth's enemies. They are too fun to fight! XD It's hard to believe that this map only got 14th place :P
"The Forgotten Station" by Artistical
Sometimes the map is too dark to see, the gameplay is a little repetitive for my taste (walk, kill an enemy, walk more, kill another enemy, repeat), and it's hard to get kill by the monsters because there's too much cover (even the final shambler can't reach you), the only time i die was because i fell into the lava XD
... oh, and the exit opens before you press the three buttons :P
"Pyro's Barbecue" by Newhouse.
I got a little lost in this map, but it was my fault. I should have paid more attention :P
Okay So.
#29 posted by
on 2018/06/16 22:38:03
I apologise if my comments were terse or grumpy. I'd forgotten I signed up for this, I wasn't in a Quakey mood, and I always struggle with Quoth. There were still some very exciting and impressive interpretations of the theme / restrictions tho.
#30 posted by
on 2018/06/19 11:42:14
Two more playthroughs =D
"Locus Genus" by Artistical:
Simple, but very fun to play! This is my second run on the map, my first one was much more epic (in the last enemy my ammo ran out, and i had to take him with the axe only) XD but somehow OBS doens't recorded my playthrough, so i had to play again, this time saving ammo for all the enemies :P
"Cerebral Edema" by Shotro.
This one took me a while to finish... my ass was kicked so many times in my first run that i rage-quit the game. Days later, i tried again and rage-quit again... On my third try i played in "normal" mode and i was able to finish the map, then i noticed that the difference between "normal" and "hard" is just one enemy (normal=65 hard=66) so i tried again in hard mode and i won this time \o/
At first i hated this map, now i love it because it makes me feel like a real champion XD
#31 posted by
on 2018/06/19 15:10:34
Thanks for the playthrough. I'm surprised you had like 50+ rockets yet still decided to use the shotgun. That poor grenade launcher needed some love!
#32 posted by
on 2018/06/19 18:05:26
To be honest, i didn't remember that i had the grenade launcher at that point. Thinking about it now it would be easier to kill the vores with grenades too XD
#33 posted by
on 2018/06/20 11:53:33
Two blind playthroughs =D
"Between Dimensions" by JCR:
Action packed from the start to the end! I love it! =D
But at the end i noticed that i didn't find any secrets and i played it again, and this time i got them all... but the last fight became too easy with all the goodies from the little floating island, i killed all the enemies in seconds, that's why i decided to upload my first run when my last fight was way more exciting... sometimes powerups just ruin the fun :P
"Beyond and Within" by Artistical:
Gloomy, lovecraftian and more slow paced, i love it too XD
I just didn't get why the judges were complaining about fight the Droles with a shotgun, since they are weaker than shamblers and we fight shamblers all the time with a shotgun. A single shambler can take more than 25 shots before die, and droles only taken 17 to 20, so they are easy to kill ;)
After i finished the map i noticed that i missed 3 enemies (i killed 8 of 11) so i noclipped back to the map to find them, but i didn't found any. Maybe they got stuck in the geometry? I don't know :P
#34 posted by
on 2018/06/22 00:00:55
thanks for the demos and the videos guys :)
#35 posted by
on 2018/06/23 12:56:15
Four more playthroughs =D
"The Teleportation Complex" by Newhouse:
After this map i want those flying robots in every base map. They are so cool and fit so well in the theme XD
"The Vale of Dreams" by Redfield:
Beautiful, psychedelic and surreal... i didn't even know that quake palette could be so colorfull =D
"With Apologies to Insomniac" by Spud:
Somehow it reminds me a Doom or a Chasm map, maybe it's because it doesn't have any vertical fights.
"The Di[g]stortion" by Digs:
Brutal! I barely came out alive XD
#36 posted by
on 2018/06/23 12:57:43
This is the correct link to "The Di[g]stortion" by Digs, sorry :P
QUAKE: Quoth ⚡ 100b4 Playlist
#37 posted by Kills Alone on 2018/06/26 11:30:19
#38 posted by
on 2018/06/27 00:09:51
"There's a button next to the silver door (it shows on the video at 00:38)... i shoot it many times. what is it supposed to do? :/ "
given that this is very small map, I boldly assumed that it will be easily associated with one secret this map contains.
as for secret itself, there is somewhat visible, but not accessible area with nice bonus.
I thought it will be easy. I was wrong.
#39 posted by
on 2018/06/27 23:11:01
Finally I was able to upload the last four playthroughs =D
These maps are incredible! Hundreds of enemies, huge scale and epic fights!
"Immortal Reach" by Spipper:
"Ioian Shorelines" by Ionous:
"Deflan'Ka" by WW:
"Frostbitten" by Ionous:
The last playthrough is Frosbitten because it was the last map that i played from this pack. It took me several tries to finally finish it! On my first run, i didn't read the text about the moving platforms, so i missed them. I even managed to make a grenade jump from the mountain to it, but the enemies didn't spawn and i had to restart the map. On my second and third runs i just rage-quit after dying so many times falling from the platforms XD
On my forth try i didn't have any ammo at the end to kill the Gug to trigger the exit door :P
So, this playthrough is my fifth try, and i made it XD
Awesome maps! Thank you everyone for this amazing journey =D
#40 posted by
on 2018/06/27 23:15:39
I knew it was a secret, but i couldn't see or hear what was being triggered :P
Maybe a text saying "I hear something moving on the upper floor" would help =D
Defied Expectations
#41 posted by
on 2018/06/28 07:59:35
The 100 brush limit is so low that I wasn't expecting too much from this pack but even if my expectations had been high, I still would've been impressed. It was hard to believe that some of these maps managed to stay within the limit.
Ideally I'd say a little bit about every map but frankly, I don't think anyone cares and enough has probably already been said at this point. Dumptruck's, Redfield's, and ww's maps were pretty big standouts for me. I've never seen a map with voice acting and I thought it was really cool how Dumptruck's map had a lot of interactivity and a sense of pacing, as well as a story. Redfield's map was on another level. One can clearly see how much effort he put into the tiniest details. The models were extremely well done and I'm a sucker for maps that fall outside the scope of traditional Quake maps. It wasn't long into ww's map that I began wondering how he managed to accomplish so much while staying within bounds of the rules.
It seems like the limits led to a more abstract approach by many, and this is a very good thing. Even some of the more lower ranked maps were oddly pleasant. Bear's map kind of had a nightmarish quality to it, as did Artistical's Beyond and Within. I also really enjoyed Locus Genus. Something about the sunset atmosphere and the huge brushes lent to a sense of surrealism - that's the best way I can think of putting it.
Ionous has a gift for getting the most out of a relatively small space. This is evident not only within this pack but also from his previous works. I could say the same about JCR's Between Dimensions - good use of space. Newhouse has a talent for abstract brushwork and layouts, and his signature style surfaced here again.
Very enjoyable maps overall. Some of them felt like full-fledged maps where the author laughed in the face of the brush limit. Digs and ww pulled that off really well. Props to everyone who submitted something for this.
Apologies In Advance For My Fucked Up Demo Filenames.
#42 posted by
on 2018/06/28 14:14:25
I finally finished playing the bronze winning entries.
Really sorry that I don't have a demo for you after the map itself had a sign asking for them, but I simply cannot even pull off the first several jumps, let alone complete the map. :( Props for doing something completely different to everybody else, and doing it well too. I did like how the map looked, it's as if Quakeguy ended up in some UE4 test map after a spectacular slipgate accident.
I think the judges were exceedingly harsh here since I don't think this map was anywhere near the worst of them all. Obviously it wasn't perfect, even considering the 100 brush limitations (ran out of time for a betatest?) but I found it enjoyable.
Second attempt demo
, the first one ended in the void rather quickly.
If you're going to bend the rules in the most ridiculous way, at least make something interesting instead of a box map with a worse version of Qonquer for gameplay.
No demo, sorry not sorry.
Perhaps you should have tried to make the worst map, so everybody would try out the "last place in the contest" to maximise the actual education potential. ;-) Fun concept, and the map looked fine for 100 brushes, but the rocket room was far too hard for a tutorial, and the invisible room wasn't the best way of showing changing gravity. Good work on the sound effects across the map too.
I made a first attempt demo but I somehow misplaced it, sorry. I gave up recording after dying several times anyway.
JCR map 1:
Nice map, I tend to agree with the judges that while visually the map wasn't much (though props for attempting a base setting with non base textures), the gameplay was pretty fun, and fast paced. The thick green fog and Quoth enforcers abundance tickled my Warp Spasm nostalgia bone well.
Skill 2 demo
, I missed the only secret.
Cerebral Enema more like. Felt very much like a sequel or a b-side to your jam 9 map, with the difficulty and rather unique texture combinations. I had to come up with some creative ways of avoiding damage, gave me flashbacks to playing some Orl maps. I cheesed some of the Vermis fights but I don't see how else would they be beatable.
Three skill 2 demos.
Artistical map 1:
No offense but I'm rather surprised by how this map scored higher than some of the ones I've just covered. It feels like there was no effort put into either the visuals (extreme darkness) or the gameplay. I ran to the exit as soon as possible (which was too soon?) as I wasn't very enticed to explore.
Skill 2 demo.
My favorite so far probably, the first map of this bunch that I played with an actual sense of place. The "barbecue" was a nice touch but I think I'd have preferred a map with strictly non-base monsters. The layout was interesting in how it looped around itself. Quite surprised it all fit within 100 brushes.
Two skill 2 demos.
Artistical map 3:
Still pretty dark, though not unbearably so. I appreciated that the map attempted a monolithic visual, very appropiate for the quothic monsters, though I don't think Quake pulls off extreme minimalism too well. I go into more detail in my
three skill 2 demos
What a fucking long write up. The other half of the demos will be coming today or otherwise soon.
#43 posted by
on 2018/06/28 20:05:45
Thanks for the write-up. And no apologies necessary. I have only played two of these so far! It's a lot of content.
#44 posted by
on 2018/06/28 23:34:20
No worries. I just finished playing the silver medalists and I'm knackered.
Demos within 12 hours guys.
Here Come Dat Writeup.
#45 posted by
on 2018/06/29 16:01:26
JCR map 2:
This was cool, still a bit rough around the edges but better than the first map. Still had that same frantic Quoth 2 gameplay to it. I wasn't too enthused by the jumping bit at the start (though I admit it was clever). The visuals in the area past the slipgate were good, surprisingly effective in their simplicity.
Skill 2 demo.
Artistical map 2:
I understand this map is supposed to be Quakeguy living in a dream, and the general atmosphere was appropiately dreamlike, but I'm not sure the anoxia-level brushwork was the best way of conveying the feel. The sky textured door was cool, I was under the impression it wasn't doable but I suppose modern compilers can do miracles. Shame the gameplay was basically nonexistent.
Skill 2 demo.
Newhouse map 2:
Didn't find it as impressive as map 1, the single slipgate idea felt a bit contrived to me, and I prefered exploring one cohesive area instead of small fragmented bits (even if the two of the bits form one area, in theory). Very boldly red without looking garish, which was an interesting design choice (especially with the contrasting green sky).
Skill 2 demo.
A Coagula Contest 4 map in disguise. Lots of platforms in the void is
way of dealing with the 100 brush limit, but not really the most inventive. (And neither is the obvious cheating, for which this map should have been entirely disqualified, IMO). Pretty amusing overall but also tries too fit too many monsters into crampt areas. At least falling wasn't instant death.
Skill 2 demo.
Another void map, but this time a single solid piece that just happens to float in the void - that's preferable. No idea what was the deal with all the ridiculous hacks employed in this map - but some areas really suffered for it, in particular the cavern with the cages. Otherwise it was a pretty fun and good looking map, though! I managed to mess up the ending, as is evident in my
Two skill 2 demos
Ionous map 2:
Lots of good improvements since the beta, but still quite unpolished a bit. The layout really evoked some older maps I played, with the revisiting of old areas from above, so that's my Quake nostalgia bone tickled. I understand the concept behind the four-fold flying platform but overall I don't think it works very well - the platforms moving diagonally and clipping into eachother makes it feel buggy. I think I was wrong in my old demos about removing the linearity at start - it would make more sense to keep both ways open, considering how the platform needs both keys to activate and not just one.
One skill 2 demo and one skill 1 demo
Saving maps 4-1 for dessert (aka the weekend).
PS Redfield.
#46 posted by
on 2018/06/29 16:21:10
Not being able to gib Alice at the end was a big foul.
#47 posted by
on 2018/06/29 21:54:18
Gibbing Alice is how you make American McGee wake up in a old sweat on his boat in China, knowing someone has defiled his daughter-fu.
Wow, Haven't Had The Time To Check The Play Throughs
#48 posted by ShoTro on 2018/06/30 04:28:39
Thanks everyone who played amd liked or got engaged at my map. I put it together in the final few days from scratch. No intention to win, just push some limits with the concept.
Auto Correct
#49 posted by Shotro on 2018/06/30 04:30:00
You can guess what I meant. It's late.
#50 posted by
on 2018/06/30 14:58:11
On getting engaged in the map. When is the wedding date?
#51 posted by
on 2018/07/01 02:28:09
That was like the best puzzle I've seen in a long time, the clipping could have been better but it was totally awesome!!
Great Maps!
#52 posted by
on 2018/07/01 03:13:12
All of the maps in this pack were quite unique, had fun with them.
@OTP this is what happens to people that think they can gib Alice!!!:
#53 posted by
on 2018/07/01 17:19:45
You've stumbled into a really dark corner of YouTube there :(
19 New Maps!
#54 posted by sunkissed on 2018/07/20 16:42:04
Woow, so many great mappers participated. Looking forward to play all the maps this weekend. Cheers!
My Personal Rating, 1-5
#55 posted by Quake_autist on 2018/08/05 09:20:56
2 100b4_roman
3 100b4_DelusionalBear
3 100b4_shamblernaut
3 100b4_dumptruck
4 100b4_jcr
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2 100b4_Artistical01
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4 100b4_redfield
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3 100b4_digs
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4 100b4_ionio
4 100b4_ww
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Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU, TSX:LLL), the Vancouver-based yoga-wear retailer reported earnings today and announced some surprising news: they're shutting the doors of their Japanese stores. Their first store opened in Japan in 2005 and operated through a joint venture with Japanese apparel company, Descente, Ltd. There are currently 4 stores, which will be shuttered before the end of the second quarter. Lulu CEO Robert Meers has filled us in on the reasons, noting that Japan represents less than 1.5% of revenues, yet "[takes up] a disproportionate amount of management time/attention" to warrant its existence. Lulu management is going to continue on with their strong US expansion, and they're rolling out their e-commerce platform, which they have high hopes for. Lululemon plans on opening 35 stores in the US next year.
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At this week's Special Meeting of Southend Council's People Scrutiny Committee (20/12/16), I put questions to the committee concerning the very likely prospect of Southend hospital having its A&E services downgraded under the proposals set out by the Mid and South Essex Success Regime & STP. Looking at the range of options offered within the latest report, there will inevitably only be one, Type 1 hospital providing Specialist Emergency care out of Southend, Basildon and Chelmsford hospitals. The other two hospitals will be downgraded to either Type 2 or even possibly Type 3 hospitals, providing only basic emergency care. This means patients in need of complicated emergency treatment having to be taken many miles across Essex's often very congested roads for highly time-critical life saving treatment.
I sought assurances from the Executive Councillor for Health & Adult Social Care, Cllr Lesley Salter, that the Committee would recommend the Council should reject any plans that would risk the health and lives of any of the people of Southend in what, on the face of it, appears to be a Tory government plan to cut £22 billion from NHS spending. I was told "that the Council will only support proposals which will lead to improvements in health service in our area." This sentiment was echoed by the Committee's chairman, Cllr James Moyies. I hope these Councillors stick by their words, stand up for the people of Southend and protect our precious NHS when the time comes.
You can see for yourself the latest report – here – The proposed types of hospitals are explained on page 23, with the options for how Southend, Basildon and Chelmsford could be configured on page 25.
After the meeting Cllr Cheryl Nevin (Labour) presented a petition from the Southend branch of Keep Our NHS Public (KONP), signed by over 900 residents of Southend, opposing these cuts to our local NHS services.
Below are the transcripts of both the questions I asked, and answers I received from Cllr Lesley Salter:
Question 1
Would the relevant officer/post holder agree with me that all of the proposed options for the configuration of new types of hospitals, contained within the Mid and South Essex Success Regime STP, will inevitably lead to at least a two tier, and possibly three tier, standard of accident and emergency medical provision for residents within this region?
I would firstly like to thank Mr Fieldhouse for his questions about the Mid & South Essex Success Regime and STP. This is an important issue and I do understand the concerns expressed.
As I sure we all do, I want good health service for Southend. The plans are still at the pre consultation stage however and as I understand it, no decisions have yet been taken. Any proposals for service change will be the subject of full consultation by NHS England. Scrutiny as well as other stake holders will be able to respond to the consultation as will members of the public, to judge the proposals on their merit.
I would like to reassure you that at this stage i will need to be comfortable with what is proposed. I start from the position that the Council will only support proposals which will lead to improvements in the health service in out area.
Question 2
By its very nature, emergency care is time critical and the prospect of already overstretched emergency vehicles transporting gravely ill patients from Southend to Basildon or Chelmsford along often heavily congested roads can surely not benefit those patients. In view of this, will the relevant officer/post holder also agree with me that, in the best interests of the town's residents, the Committee should propose the rejection of the purely cost cutting recommendations of this plan to ensure the people of Southend will not suffer unnecessary risks to their health and lives?
As I gave in my first answer, the STP & Success Regime is still in the pre consultation phase and that there are no firm proposals in the draft plan for Southend A&E. This evening's meeting is an opportunity to understand further what is being proposed.


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Facebook Posters Encourage Employees to Dump iPhone for Android
Facebook is holding the Android torch, requesting its employees to turn to Android instead of iOS. They are even using posters to encourage employees to make the transition from iPhone to Android.
The company's walls, at headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., are being adorned with posters that say "switch today".
This new inclination of the social networking giant had been reported back in August, when the company reportedly "nudged, cajoled, and even ordered" their employees to dump their iPhones for Android devices.
This actually is quite a contrasting sight from the past. Earlier, Facebook used to give their employees iPhones rather than Android. But now, the move, they say, is due to the growing utilization of the Facebook app on Android.
The Android version of the app has come under the radar for being slow and scarce on useful features, so the company is looking to improve its Android functionality.
Encouraging its employees to switch over to Android is one way they are looking to improve their experience on the platform.
Android, incidentally, has the largest marketshare of the social networking site. The platform has under its belt 68.1 percent of the smartphone market while Apple's iOS has got only 16.9 percent.
One of the posters on the site's HQ walls displays the IDC data predicting Android's dominance of the smartphone market.
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The 20 Most Fascinating People in the Poker World
Today we handpick the 20 most fascinating, accomplished and original individuals in the wide world of poker.
Today we handpick the 20 most fascinating, accomplished and original individuals in the wide world of poker.
There's plenty of talent to choose from and as we've seen so often, success at the poker table is usually mirrored by success in other areas.
From astronaut-billionaires to childhood chess-prodigies this list gives a brief glimpse of the brilliant and unique characters that make up the poker community.
Keep reading to learn more about the 20 most fascinating people in poker and chime in using the comments to tell us who we forgot.
The 20 Most Fascinating People in Poker
Steve Albini
If you were alive in the 1990s chances are you've heard Steve Albini's work, even if you've never heard his name.
A musician and audio engineer with credits like Nirvana's In Utero and the Pixies Surfer Rosa on his résumé, Albini estimates he's worked on as many as 2,000 albums in his career.
And, contrary to the industry standard, he never charges royalties for his work.
Away from the studio Albini's passion is poker, specifically Seven-Card Stud and Razz.
He's published coaching videos on the subject on Cardrunners.com and narrowly missed a final table at the 2010 WSOP in a $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event.
Jeff Sarwer
Few can boast the kind of eclectic background that molded Jeff Sarwer into the man he is today.
At age four Sarwer learned chess and by the time he was six he had so impressed the manager of the Manhattan Chess Club in New York he was granted a lifetime membership usually reserved for grandmasters.
At age eight, he was a world champion.
"Jeff at nine is stronger than Bobby (Fischer) was at 11," said Allen Kaufman, head of the American Chess Foundation.
Sarwer's childhood was anything but conventional as his father home-schooled him and his sister and traveled across North America living anonymously to stay ahead of social services, who had once taken custody of both children.
Now Sarwer plays poker and has racked up $630,000 in earnings on the live tournament circuit.
Heather Sue Mercer
Heather Sue Mercer has cashes at the WSOP and WPT but it's her back-story that makes her one of poker's most fascinating people.
In 1994 Mercer made history by earning a spot on Duke University's NCAA football team but was cut from the roster in 1996.
Mercer sued the school for discrimination and in 2000 was awarded $2 million.
Mercer was an all-state placekicker in high school but according to the school, and six other Duke kickers who testified in court, she lacked the skills necessary for Division I football.
But the jury agreed with Mercer, ruling that her sex was the motivating factor in how she was treated.
Mercer now runs a bakery in New York City with her two sisters and plays poker in Atlantic City and Las Vegas.
Michael Phelps
Michael Phelps has been called a freak of nature, a machine built to swim, but poker players know him as an easy-going, approachable guy who loves poker.
The all-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer has been playing cards for years and he's been spotted playing live poker in London, Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
He also recently played his first-ever $10,000 tournament at the PCA in the Bahamas.
TMZ even reported that he won $100,000 in a high-stakes cash game in Las Vegas although Phelps denied the story.
If he needs more of a tie-in to poker, just consider that the bong in those infamous photos actually belonged to WCOOP winner Carter "ckingusc" King.
Andy Beal
Extensively detailed in the wonderful poker book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King, Andy Beal is a self-made billionaire who played some of the highest-stakes poker in history against the toughest group of professionals to ever team up.
Beal's story is too long for a list like this.
A few of the highlights include winning $13.6 million from players like Doyle Brunson, Ted Forrest and Phil Ivey, and then losing $16 million back to Ivey just a week later.
He also funded his own space program with the intention of privatizing the space transportation industry and has a standing $100,000 prize for anyone able to disprove his complicated math calculations, known as "Beal's Conjecture".
Forbes estimates put Beal's net worth at $7 billion, good for 133rd on its list of the world's richest people. Suffice to say, Beal's mystique far transcends a simple poker list.
Griffin Benger
We've been shining the spotlight on Canadian Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger for a while now, including in an episode of our short documentary series Easy Game, but he's worth it.
Benger first found fame playing CounterStrike, a multi-player first-person shooter video game that took him around the world.
After making the switch to poker Benger has become the top-ranked online tournament player on the planet with over $4 million in earnings.
Benger is our number one pick for a major live win in 2013.
Fatima Moreira de Melo
One of two Olympic medalists on this list, Holland's Fatima Moreira de Melo took gold in Women's Field Hockey at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
She's now a professional poker player and a member of Team PokerStars Pro -- not to mention the recent winner of Benelux's Survivor.
As if those two things weren't enough to earn her a spot on this list, she has a Masters Degree in Law, has worked as a TV presenter for local and national stations in Holland and has a career as a singer.
To date de Melo has earned $232,000 playing live poker tournaments.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Canada, Chamath Palihapitiya has been playing high-stakes poker and making big waves in business for the last decade.
A part-owner of the Golden State Warriors and former VP for companies like AOL and Facebook, Palihapitiya got his start in poker while working in Finance on the East Coast.
Just a few years later he was skipping work to play the $200/$400 game at the Borgata.
Last year Palihapitiya entered the first-ever $1 million tournament, held at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Jon Finkel
According to poker pro and Magic: The Gathering veteran David Williams, if there was a Phil Ivey of MtG it would be Jon Finkel.
"In my eyes Finkel is the very best," Williams told PokerListings.com.
Finkel is so legendary in the MtG world they even put his face on a card.
But while Finkel is extremely successful playing Magic, blackjack and poker, he's perhaps best known for two dates he had with Gizmodo.com reporter Alyssa Bereznak
The two were matched through dating site OKCupid and Bereznak ultimately posted a devastating review of her date that blew up all over the internet.
Vanessa Selbst
Vanessa Selbst is unquestionably one of the great poker minds of her generation.
She's the winningest female tournament player in history with two WSOP bracelets and over $7 million in earnings.
Incredibly she even won the NAPT Mohegan Sun main event two years in a row.
She was also the first openly gay poker pro. Ever.
Selbst has a law degree from Yale Law School and was head of the Queer-Straight Alliance at that school and hopes to earn enough money from poker to create a foundation to fight for civil rights in the US.
David Einhorn
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is fascinating for many reasons, perhaps the least of which being his participation in the world's first $1 million buy-in poker tournament.
Einhorn finished third in the Big One for One Drop and donated the $4.3 million prize to City Year, an inner-city mentoring program operating across the US.
It wasn't too surprising considering the precedent he set in 2006 when he finished 18th in the WSOP Main Event and donated the entire $659k prize to the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
If that's not fascinating enough, his company is also one of the biggest shareholders of one of the world's most notable companies, Apple.
Guy Laliberté
The 11th-richest person in Canada and the first Canadian space-tourist ever, Guy Laliberté could easily find himself on a list of most-fascinating people worldwide.
From his roots as a street performer in Montreal to his development of the circus/acrobatics leviathan Cirque de Soleil, Laliberté has been an original his entire life.
In 2009 Laliberté visited the International Space Station and dedicated the trip to raising awareness for the water issues facing humankind.
Laliberté pledged $100 million of his own money to his charity One Drop, and also organized the world's first $1 million buy-in poker tournament to benefit the same organization.
Laliberté finished fifth in that event, donating the $1.83 million prize to One Drop.
Nate Silver
American statistician Nate Silver has absolutely blown up in the media this year after correctly predicting the outcome of every single state in the last presidential election.
Truth is, he's been making dead-on predictions in politics, sports and at the poker table for years.
Author of the New York Times best-seller The Signal and the Noise, Silver played poker professionally online in the mid-2000s.
For more info check out the interviews we did with him at the World Series of Poker and the Aussie Millions.
Jennifer Tilly
Born in LA but raised on a small island near Vancouver, Canada, Jennifer Tilly has been a fixture on the poker scene since she won a WSOP bracelet in 2005.
Formerly married to Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon and now with poker pro Phil Laak, Tilly plays big buy-in tournaments and televised cash games around the world.
Tilly brings an impressive acting resume to the table including an Oscar-nomination for Best Supporting Actress in the Woody Allen film Bullets Over Broadway.
In 2008 Tilly announced that she was giving up her dream of playing poker professionally, but that she'd continue to play recreationally.
"I love poker but greatness in poker is an elusive dream. There are too many variants. Trying to find validation in poker is like trying to find a virgin in a whorehouse.
"I'm not giving up poker entirely – gambling is an addiction after all. I'm just going to treat it more like a hobby and less like a career," she told Bluff Magazine at the time.
Gaëlle Garcia Diaz
Born of Spanish and Belgian parents supermodel Gaëlle Garcia Diaz has been the Belgian TV presenter for the PokerStars European Poker Tour for the last couple years.
She's also appeared in such wonderful publications as Playboy and Che Magazine. We can't remember at the moment whether her clothes joined her in those appearances.
Diaz first appeared on the poker world's radar when she got a PokerStars commercial. From there she made it onto the EPT presenting team and can now be found in front of the cameras at most EPT events.
Video is the best way to get to know her so we'll just go ahead and post that.
Dan "Jungleman" Cates
In terms of online poker success stories it doesn't get much better than Dan "Jungleman12" Cates.
In 2008 he made a small deposit and started working his way up the stakes. In 2010 he profited roughly $5.5 million on Full Tilt Poker alone.
Particularly impressive was his absolute domination of Tom Dwan in the yet-to-be-completed durrrr Challenge.
Cates is a nomad, traveling the world playing online and live poker for astronomical stakes. Originally from Maryland, the last time we saw Cates he was leaving Malta bound for Morocco, with a 16-hour layover in Libya along the way.
It was right after we shot an episode of Easy Game with him in the streets of Valletta.
You might as well throw a dart at a world map if you're looking for Jungleman. He could be anywhere.
Dutch Boyd
If Hollywood was looking for a life story to put to film they could do worse than Russell Aaron Boyd, known to poker players as Dutch.
Boyd started college at 12 years old and had earned a law degree by age 18.
But instead of becoming a lawyer Boyd began playing poker. Over the next few years he won two WSOP bracelets and finished 12th in the Main Event in 2003, the year of Chris Moneymaker's historic victory.
During this time Boyd had opened an online poker room, PokerSpot, which eventually went bust and failed to refund customers roughly $400,000.
He made news recently by being turned down for a job at a call center.
Isai Scheinberg
For someone as instrumental in making the poker world what it is today surprisingly little is known about PokerStars founder and head honcho Isai Scheinberg.
He has zero interaction with the poker community or the media but, nevertheless, if this was a list of the most powerful people in the poker world, he'd be number one.
This Israeli-Canadian pioneered an international computer code when he worked for IBM in the '90s and started Rational Entertainment Enterprises, the company that would birth PokerStars, in Toronto circa 2001.
Since then Scheinberg has steadily grown his online poker room into the single biggest poker brand on the planet.
Almira Skripchenko
The second chess player on this list, Almira Skripchenko has been playing poker since the early 2000s.
The daughter of a Ukranian father and Armenian mother, both chess coaches, Skripchenko holds FIDA International Master and Woman Grandmaster titles in chess.
She was ranked 44th in the world among female chess players in the 2012 FIDE World Rankings.
In 2001 she was named "Best Sportsperson" in Moldova and awarded the country's Order of National Merit.
As a poker player Skripchenko has earned over $260,000 playing live tournaments. Her biggest result to date was a $84k third-place finish on the France Poker Tour in 2010.
Until early 2012 Skripchenko was a member of Team Winamax. She plays online using the screen-name chessbaby
Nolan Dalla
It's safe to say the World Series of Poker would not be what it is today without Nolan Dalla.
Poker author, historian and self-proclaimed contrarian, Dalla has worked behind the scenes at the WSOP for years coordinating media and players.
Dalla has also contributed to PokerListings.com including his groundbreaking interview with poker legend Amarillo Slim.
The author of One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Ungar, Dalla took a very unusual route to the poker world.
In the late 1980s Dalla worked for the US Department of State and worked at the American Embassy in Bucharest, Romania.
He was there for the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the end of Communism in Eastern Europe. He also reportedly hosted the most popular poker games on the Eastern European diplomatic circuit.
Dalla returned to the US in the early 90s to work as a speechwriter and information officer at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC.
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You don't think a guy who started college at 12 is kinda fascinating? Must be a pretty elite group of people you know.
I second Haralabob for this list!
Surprised Bob Voulgaris wasn't on the list tbh.
how come roberto luongo wasnt on the list?
What's so interesting about Isildur beyond being good at poker? Never heard the guy say two words.
Dutch Boyd ripped players off from his Pokerspot failed site. He has no business being on this list. He's not fascinating, he's hated.
no isildur that's a joke
Didn't know that about Nolan Dalla interesting past
Very varied list. Would have liked to see some more hard-core poker players in there like Dwan, Ivey, Isildur. I think those guys qualify as "fascinating" on basically any list. Like your choices though!
My guess is this really only scratches the surface of fascinating people. Haven't even hit on the criminal underworld yet.
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All eyes are on Iron Man 3: As if being the third movie in a ridiculously successful franchise wasn't a big enough deal, the film will also be the first solo outing for a Marvel Studios post-Avengers. Lots of people want to see how that will shake out, especially considering that Jon Favreau, who directed the first two movies, has stepped aside, and Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is filling his director's chair.
Needless to say, people want to know what's going on, so expect a lot of posts like this one on The Daily Blam that shows photos from Newscom of the film's Florida set. Here you can see Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Mark XLVII armor as well as the Iron Patriot-style suit that will be filled out by Don Cheadle's Rhodey. The other images show a few more shots of the armors as well as Downey's Tony Stark carousing.
Co-written by Black and Drew Pearce (No Heroics), Iron Man 3 takes borrows from the 2005-2006 "Extremis" story arc by Warren Ellis and Adi Granov and reportedly finds Iron Man and Iron Patriot facing off against the Mandarin's Ten Rings terrorist organization, which now includes goons imbued with Extremis, a technorganic take on the Super Soldier Serum.
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Posted 12 Jul 2006
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We have wasted hours combing through examples trying to discover the declarative syntax for Telerik controls. We have not found the declarative syntax documented for any of the controls we use. We have often found properties that were actually supported but were not shown on a Properties page and some that were shown while in Design mode but not in Source mode (when they would actually be useful). Microsoft does not do a careful job documenting the syntax of their controls, but at least they list all the properties. We use this information often and are badly handicapped by the lack of comparable information for Telerik controls. It is turning what was supposed to be "rapid application development" into just the opposite -- a nightmare of experimental programming and code combing.For example, from "Web server control syntax" in Microsoft MSDN, here's the start of the listing for the <asp:Menu> control --<asp:Menu AccessKey="string" BackColor="color name|#dddddd" BorderColor="color name|#dddddd" BorderStyle="NotSet|None|Dotted|Dashed|Solid|Double|Groove|Ridge| Inset|Outset" BorderWidth="size" CssClass="string" DataSource="string" DataSourceID="string" DisappearAfter="integer" DynamicBottomSeparatorImageUrl="uri" DynamicEnableDefaultPopOutImage="True|False" DynamicHorizontalOffset="integer" DynamicItemFormatString="string" DynamicPopOutImageTextFormatString="string" DynamicPopOutImageUrl="uri" DynamicTopSeparatorImageUrl="uri" DynamicVerticalOffset="integer" Enabled="True|False" EnableTheming="True|False" EnableViewState="True|False" Font-Bold="True|False" Font-Italic="True|False" Font-Names="string" Font-Overline="True|False" Font-Size="string|Smaller|Larger|XX-Small|X-Small|Small|Medium| Large|X-Large|XX-Large" Font-Strikeout="True|False" Font-Underline="True|False" ForeColor="color name|#dddddd" Height="size" ID="string" ItemWrap="True|False" MaximumDynamicDisplayLevels="integer" OnDataBinding="DataBinding event handler" OnDataBound="DataBound event handler" OnDisposed="Disposed event handler" OnInit="Init event handler" OnLoad="Load event handler" OnMenuItemClick="MenuItemClick event handler" OnMenuItemDataBound="MenuItemDataBound event handler" OnPreRender="PreRender event handler" OnUnload="Unload event handler" Orientation="Horizontal|Vertical" PathSeparator="string" runat="server" ScrollDownImageUrl="uri" ScrollDownText="string" ScrollUpImageUrl="uri" ScrollUpText="string" SkinID="string" SkipLinkText="string" StaticBottomSeparatorImageUrl="uri" StaticDisplayLevels="integer" StaticEnableDefaultPopOutImage="True|False" StaticItemFormatString="string" StaticPopOutImageTextFormatString="string" StaticPopOutImageUrl="uri" StaticSubMenuIndent="size" StaticTopSeparatorImageUrl="uri" Style="string" TabIndex="integer" Target="string" ToolTip="string" Visible="True|False" Width="size">
-- Craig Bolon Brookline, MA, USA
Posted 14 Jul 2006
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Hello Craig,All public properties that are available for declarative settings are listed in the properties grid in VisualStudio. You can find more help on them either by reading their description (shown under the properties grid) or by pressing F1, which will open the help file.The list of classes and their properties, methods, etc. is available in the product manual. Our products are much more complex in comparison to their ASP.NET counterparts and such a list of properties (for r.a.d.grid for example) would be really huge. That's why we have not considered inserting such a list in our manuals at least until the next quarterly release.Kind regards,