text: Kaeloree Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 This is the new (new) Crossmod interest thread, originally by Grim and updated by myself (K'aeloree) [Edit: and berelinde]. You'll find it markedly similar to the old one, except this one is more regularly updated! If you have an NPC you are working on or have released and would like to register interest in Crossmod, please post using the format provided below! This list will contain blurb for each of the mods so that authors who want to write Crossmod material have a catalogue of mods to look through before choosing who they'd ideally like to work with. Released Mods These are mods that have been released and the author would like to write some Crossmod material. See a project you like, why not ask the author if (s)he's interested in working on something? -- [G3] Amber (BG2) Author(s): Meira, Darios This mod introduces Amber, a tiefling rogue. Although she may initially appear withdrawn, suspicious and restless, as tieflings often do, she will also make a loyal and honest friend for all who manage to earn her trust. Her inborn curiosity has proved to be both a blessing and a curse: she has learned a lot because of it but it has never kept her out of trouble. Being both a prime - she doesn't recall ever having been to place outside the prime material plane - and a tiefling, she often feels as if caught somewhere between these two worlds. While she could never pass for a normal person, she also lacks the otherworldly grace of a seasoned planewalker, leaving her with a strong feeling of alienation wherever she is. (Friendship/Romance module) Homepage: http://koti.welho.com/vmarttil/amber/ Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=69 -- [G3] Angelo (BG2) Author(s): SisterVigilante, Kulyok Angelo Dosan is the fighter-turned-mage who served as your brother's henchman in Baldur's Gate. You may remember that he sentenced you to death and fought against you in the Undercity, and if you were lucky enough to mine the content, you may remember that he is Shar-Teel's father. Most likely he didn't survive your game, but people in this world seem to have a knack for not staying dead. (Friendship/Romance module) Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=147 -- [sHS] Beyond The Law (BG2) Author(s): Zyraen Kiyone is a known investigator, tracker, and a capable judge, a person fixated on righteousness, truth and law. A focused and pragmatic person, and her view of emotions is that they only serve to ruin objective judgement and cloud the truth, though she does use them to encourage allies and to ensnare villains. Kova, a wanted man, comes across as cynical and sardonic, unwilling to open himself to others and with some caution to adventuring. He despises himself for being "good", despite being on the wrong side of the law almost from birth, but deep down he hopes against hope that there is a way out for him after all. Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=325 -- [sHS] Fade (BG2) Author(s): Mistress Elysia Fade is a Fey'ri (elven tiefling) Shadow Thief working in the employ of Aran Linvail. In the past she has been used as a slave, a whore and a gladiator, and all these experiences have shaped her into the slightly fractured character she is today. She is quick to anger and can be cruel and abrasive, but is also loyal, generous and very keen to please people she likes. She also has those who would hunt her down... (Friendship/Romance module) Homepage: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=322 Forum: http://www.gilalion.com/fademod.htm -- [G3] Gavin (Tutu/BGT released)/BG2 in progress)* Author(s): berelinde Gavin is a human cleric of Lathander. He is friendly, cheerful, and talkative, and generally tries to get along with everybody, but his tolerance become a bit forced in the face of evil behavior, and he can be moody at times. He tries to do the right thing, but sometimes his compassion leads him to questionable decisions. He has no love of spiders! Homepage: http://www.gibberlings3.net/gavin/ Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=128 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [TATW] Haldamir (BG2)* Author(s): berelinde Haldamir is an elven fighter who woke up one morning on the wrong side of Faerun. He's from Cormanthor, and was teleported to Athkatla as the side effect of a wild surge. Now, he's just trying to adjust as best he can. He's got a few obstacles to overcome, however, like his own prejudice and his own narrow world-view. Homepage: http://www.tolkienacrossthewater.com/Haldamir.html Forum: http://www.tolkienacrossthewater.com/forum...x.php?board=5.0 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [sHS] Hubelpot the Vegetable Merchant (BG2) Author(s): SConrad, Bob Tokyo, Bookwyrme Hubelpot is a contented family man, a druid, and a vegetable merchant. He travels with CHARNAME as cook and healer to repay a debt he feels he owes him/her. He does not have nor will develop great angst, deep secrets, or a desire to rule the world. Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=156 -- [sHS] Iylos (BG2:ToB)* Author(s): K'aeloree Iylos is a monk sent by the Monastery of Amkethran to ascertain your intentions. He is sarcastic, blunt, and has a habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Realistic, flawed, and aggravating - will you accept him into your party and befriend him, or show him your fist? (ToB Friendship module) Home Page: http://www.spellholdstudios.net/mods/iylos/ Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=352 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [sHS] The Luxley Family (BG2)* Authors: Feuille, Miss Sakaki (Completed for SoA) Nineteen-year-old Andrei Luxley left the Luxley estate for the first time only a couple of weeks before your meeting. He is a careful individual who makes an effort to not court others' bad feeling. Having lived in comfort with his family for all his life, he is fiercely loyal to them and will not suffer their injury, physically or verbally. However, there is another side to Andrei; he suffers periodically from what he calls a "Dark Rage" which sees him change from his previous persona to an aggressive one. Andrei's older cousin Sebastian seems to enjoy enlightening him about the seedier aspects of Amn. He takes great delight in teasing Andrei incessantly, but beneath that he is protective to the point of fussiness. He is flirtatious with everyone and anyone, to the point of irritating other party members. While Sebastian seems to be content lazing in the lap of luxury and waxing lyrical on the importance of his art, some may have the suspicion that there's more to him than meets the eye. Homepage: http://www.spellholdstudios.net/ie/luxleys/ Forum: http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showforum=324 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod. Also, while the Luxleys are an NPC pair, we're fine with having content for only one of them if you're more comfortable writing for one than the other. -- [?] Kari the Kobold (BG2) Author(s): Tameon the Dragoon Part human, part kobold, with all benefits and problems included. (Friendship/Romance Module) Homepage: None Forum: None -- [bWL] Kari (BG2) (alias Moongaze's Kari) Author(s): Moongaze Kari is an anthropomorphic wolfess and druid, part of a rare and isolated humanoid furry breed that is unknown to most. She is shy, innocent and naive, and has been picked on countless times because of what she is. Not just by fleas, either. Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?showtopic=4074 -- [CoM] Kindrek (BG2) Author(s): nethrin Kindrek is a wizard- and magic-hating chaotic evil berserker who is not native to Faerun. Kindrek kills (or attempts to kill) the PC for taking any single-classed wizard or sorcerer into the party, or if the PC dual-classes into a mage. He destroys any magical item put in his inventory. He will not tolerate the Cowled Wizards. Homepage: http://www.gilalion.com/kindrekmod.htm Forum: http://forums.chosenofmystra.net/index.php?board=50.0 -- [G3] Kivan of Shilmista (BG2)* Author(s): Domi, Hendryk The solemn archer from Shilmista makes his way to Athkatla to find his friend and ally, who had mysteriously dissappeared after defeating Sarevok Anchev. After the reunion, Kivan stays on to help but his heart is longing for a woman in Arvanaith. Will Deheriana walk the Material Plane again? Or could PC reforge a broken heart? (Friendship/Romance module) Homepage: http://www.gibberlings3.net/kivan/index.php Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=58 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [sHS] Mod for the Wicked (BG2) Author(s): Deathsangel Kido is a just plainly a madman with only one focus, the god Cyric. He is more curious then is good for himself, though he doesn't see the danger (of anything). He is extremelly eager to work with the PC, though his motives are unknown at first. Ariena is a Half-Orc with an unusual parent (an aasimar). She was abondend as baby and solded into slavery, where she fought in pits for her live. Ariena trusts hardly anyone and is rude to all. She can see the strength of a group though. Ian Keltor is a man that is over 550 years, for he is a curst. Cursed to live forever, though he wishes nothing more then to forget and fall into oblivion. Sad and calm, determined to take down what brought him down. Mod for the Wicked aims to give evil players a fairer change at roleplay. Note, only Kido is currently released. Homepage: http://www.geocities/fanaticfantasyfan/index.html Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=149 -- [sHS] Nathaniel Aplin-Fletcher (BG2)* Author(s): Miss Sakaki, Feuille Nathaniel is a male-romanceable kensai, formerly of the Flaming Fist of Baldur's Gate. However, he has come to Athkatla in search of a missing friend and now wishes to join <CHARNAME>. His heart can be won by a good or LN human, elf or half-elf, providing they are not a thief, but he is ready to make friends with PCs of other races and alignments. Be warned, however: his past is catching up with him. (Friendship/Romance module) Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=323 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [CoM] Saerileth (BG2) Author(s): nethrin, Sillara (of the Tamari) Saerileth of Everspring is a 15-year-old cavalier from Mount Celestia, sent by Tyr to Faerun to seek out the Bhaalspawn. As a paladin of Tyr, Saerileth can be stubborn about the paths the party takes, and she will leave over a point of conscience. Her past in Sigil pursues her in the form of devils, and she will need the PC's help to ever come back to the Prime. (Friendship/Romance module) Homepage: http://www.gilalion.com/saerilethmod.htm Forum: hhttp://forums.chosenofmystra.net/index.php?board=48.0 -- [Weimer] Solaufein (BG2) Author(s): Weimer BioWare's iconic stalwart Drow warrior joins your party and shows his sensitive side. The NPC mod that started it all. Homepage: http://weidu.org/main.html Forum: http://forums.pocketplane.net/index.php?board=39.0 -- [PPG] Tiax (BG2) Author(s): Kulyok Tiax rules all! No longer must he fall to lesser talents in Spellhold--Cyric has promised, and his ascension is near! Homepage: http://www.pocketplane.net/oneday Forum: http://forums.pocketplane.net/index.php?board=9.0 -- [CoM] Tsujatha Melalor (BG2) Author(s): Sillara (of the Tamari) Tsujatha Melalor hails from Gilalion, a world far distant from Faerun. Vengeance has brought him to Toril. Can you aid him in his quest? Will he, a murderous Elven necromancer, ever trust you enough to reveal his dark past? Tsujatha is strong-willed and proud to the point of arrogance, but his love can be won by pure-hearted maiden. (Romance module) Homepage: http://www.gilalion.com/tsujatha.htm Forum: http://forums.chosenofmystra.net/index.php?board=49.0 -- [Weimer] Valen (BG2) Author(s): Weimer Bodhi's lackey joins your party and shows her cruel side. The NPC mod who truly earns her "evil" alignment. Homepage: http://weidu.org/valen.html Forum: http://forums.pocketplane.net/index.php/board,41.0.html -- [bWL] Wikaede (BG2 SoA/ToB) Author(s): Moongaze Wikaede is a respected priest of Helm, serving at the Temple of Helm in Athkatla. He is loyal, trustworthy and dutybound. He is a bit of a clutz when it comes to dealing with emotion, however, hence why he hardly shows any himself. Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?showforum=135 -- [CoM] Willie Bruce (BG2) Author(s): nethrin Originally part of pocketplane's One-Day Bruceday, Willie Bruce is being expanded into a full-fledged mod. He is complete as is, so he is eligible for crossmod banters. Willie Bruce is drunk, racist, sexist, rude, and foul-mouthed. Add to all this humor and some of the funniest one-liners ever written for an NPC mod, and you have a very entertaining NPC. W.Bruce is easy-going and gets along with everyone, though he does occasionally take verbal jabs at people. Homepage: http://www.gilalion.com/williebrucemod.htm Forum: http://forums.chosenofmystra.net/index.php?board=52.0 -- [PPG] Xan (BG2) Author(s): Kulyok We're all doomed, you know. It is hopeless, and cannot end well. (Friendship/Romance/Romance continuation module) Homepage: http://www.pocketplane.net/xan Forum: http://forums.pocketplane.net/index.php?board=84.0 -- [CoM] Yasraena (BG2) Author(s): nethrin, Sillara (of the Tamari) Yasraena Arkhenneld is a drow on the surface, with all the troubles that that implies. She is unexpectedly good-hearted, and, even more unexpectedly, she is a fighter, with no trace of training in Lolth's priesthood. She seeks the master who taught her goodness. Will you help her find him? (Friendship module) Homepage: http://www.gilalion.com/yasraenamod.htm Forum: http://forums.chosenofmystra.net/index.php?board=51.0 Mods in Production These are mods that are still in production but the author has expressed interest in someday writing Crossmod material. Keep an eye on these! -- [G3] Aklon (BG2) Author(s): BigRob Aklon is a veteran adventurer, a fighting monk, whose travels have led him all across the face of Faerun and even into Zakhara and the fabled Kara-Tur. However, he has now fallen foul of Athkatla's slaving ring and languishes in the fighting pits of the Copper Coronet, fighting for his life and the amusement of Lehtinan's wealthy patrons. Will you free Aklon and earn his eternal gratitude, or buy him from Lehtinan and keep him on a short leash? (Romance module) Homepage: http://www.gibberlings3.net/aklon/index.php Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=10 -- [sHS] Darian (BG2) Author(s): Tempest Darian is a warrior of the Avariel, the enigmatic winged elves of whom few remain in the world. He was sent to Athkatla to investigate rumors of an Avariel imprisoned in the city, and will repay the player's assistance by helping him or her recover Imoen. He is quiet and aloof, wary of non-Avariel, and will defend his cause at any cost-including his of life, and the lives of the party, if need be. Though a good person at his core, if his duty demands he sacrifice his conscience and happiness, so be it. However, in his assignment to Athkatla, he will find far more than he ever expected to find in life, and as he attempts to come to terms with a world he does not understand, his life cannot help but begin to change... Homepage: Currently offline Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=422 -- [G3] Delainy/Durlyle (BG2) Author(s): Bri, CamDawg The werewolf from BG I: Tales of the Sword Coast has arrived on the Faerunian mainland. Does her presence portend great changes for the Bhaalspawn? (Romance module) Homepage: http://delainy.gibberlings3.net/ Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=1 -- [sHS] Faren (BG2)* Authors: Feuille, Miss Sakaki (In Progress) Faren Blacknall is in the middle of a break from adventuring, but since he's the first to admit that Trademeet isn't the most exciting of places he's eager to get back on the road. He is laidback, easygoing and enjoys a good time, and while he is quite familiar with the concept of discretion being the better part of valour he will fight tenaciously to defend people who mean something to him. He is perhaps not as careful with his words as he should be, however, and sometimes will put his foot in it without really realising it. Homepage: http://www.spellholdstudios.net/ie/faren Forum: http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showforum=521 *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [bWL] Halbo (BG2) Author(s): Sir_Carnifex Halbo is an over-sized (big for his race) neutral evil halfling thief. He finds enjoyment in the discomfiture of others. He will search around until he finds a particular sore point of the NPCs to run them down, irritate them, or set them against each other. He's definitely not the ideal friend or a person who will bring cohesion to a party already at odds with each other. Despite his sharp tongue and insulting wit, Halbo is not one to back up his words with his actions. He's generally a coward and will do his best to avoid a fight. Forum: http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?showforum=137 -- [G3] Jaina (BG2) Author(s): NiGHTMARE Introducing Jaina, a 21 year old female paladin of Milil, Lord of Song. When the player meets her, she's a pilgrimage, her first quest for the Harmonious Order. She's travelled from her home city of Crimmor to Athkatla, but her final destination lies in Nashkel, north of the Cloudpeak mountains... and the only pass through the Cloudpeaks has been blocked by snowfall. She needs help to find an alternate route, but will it be over or under the treacherous range? Jaina will be an exclusive part of the Lands of Intrigue mod. Homepage: http://www.gibberlings3.net/loi/npcs.php Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=17 -- [bWL] Lockheart (BG2) Author(s): Moongaze Lockheart is a young vocalist and bardess with a sweet, kind, caring and supportive disposition. She is wise beyond her years, intelligent and beautiful. An optimistic companion might come in handy in these dark times, especially if that companion has skills in lore, music and magic. Her early past is shrouded in mystery, which you may or may not unveil during your travels together. And if you happen to be her kind of girl... Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?showforum=133 -- [sHS] Khadion (BG2) Author(s): SConrad and Co Khadion Linvail – the boy and the myth. He is the son of the Shadowmaster himself, Aran Linvail, a daring swashbuckler and a full-fledged Shadow Thief. Dual-wielding scimitars, his handsome face and red hair are in the dreams of all maidens in Athkatla. Khadion knows that he's good enough to succeed without his father's help, and feels angry and ashamed to always be thought of as his father's son, which has left him with burning ambition but also a strong need for reassurance. (Friendship/Romance Module) Homepage: None Forum: http://forums.spellholdstudios.net/index.php?showforum=152 -- [sHS] The Mage Trio (BG2)* Author(s): Bookwyrme and others Larz is the son of a merchant, and a native of Athkatla. As the eldest child, he seemed well on his way to a successful life of running the family business. Prompted by discussions with friends, however, he sought out books of magic and began his own independent studies into the Arts. When his father learned of these studies, he was immediately disowned. With nowhere else to turn, Larz began to study under the tutelage of the Cowled Wizards. He did well, but chafed under the strict discipline they imposed, finding it alien to his nature. He chooses to be a wild mage. Morul is the son of a wealthy merchant of Athkatla. In the course of being educated to follow in his father's footsteps, Morul came across some books left over from his sister's early studies. These books set for the ordered and organized view of magic held by the Cowled Wizards and detailed some of the reasonings behind it. Such a structured view of magic was new to Morul, and during the course of his studies, he discovered an unexpected aptitude for magic. After he finished the basic instruction set forth in the books, he turned to the Cowled Wizards themselves for further education. Morul plans to continue as a member of the organization, even after he inherits his father's estate. The education he has undergone in preparation for this day have made him a natural leader, and have enabled him to be comfortable in most situations. He hopes that traveling with <charname> will give him the experience he needs to carry out both of his goals. Nara was a foundling, taken in by a Temple of Oghma when she was but a baby. She enjoyed her life there, and the priests encouraged her natural appetite for knowledge with great pride. Life as a cleric of Oghma seemed a natural fit for her, but shortly after she became a novitiate, she discovered a partially destroyed book of magic. During the intense study needed to understand the book, Nara developed a fascination for magic. After some time, she shifted the focus of her study to the magical arts. With the blessings of the priests, she moved to Athkatla to study under the Cowled Wizards. Her early role in the faith of Oghma still shapes her thinking, and she believes that no form of knowledge should be destroyed or kept hidden. She is endlessly curious and hopes that traveling will increase her knowledge. Homepage: TBA Forum: TBA *Note: modder permission not required for crossmod -- [G3] The Tiefling Sisters (BG2) Author(s): BevH, Dancer Fitz, Grim Squeaker An exciting mod that'll add two new, romanceable tiefling NPCs - Keli, a Silverstar of Selune and Inara, a swashbuckling thief. Expect serious sibling rivalry! (Romance module) Homepage: http://www.gibberlings3.net/tiefsis/index.php Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=26 -- These are mods where the author has expressed interest but haven't given us anything to work with. Come on guys, sell your mods! BG2: Alassa, Cailean, Chrysta, Elai, Gavin, Ghareth, Goo, Hessa, Kitanya, Mage Trio, Neh'taniel, Solaufein, Tashia, Valen Expansion, Yikari Tutu: Finch, Gavin, Indira, Mur'Neth Key BS = Blacksheep Mods BWL = Blackwyrm Lair CoM = Chosen of Mystra G3 = The Gibberlings Three PPG = Pocketplane Group RPGD = RPG Dungeon SHS = Spellhold Studios TATW = TolkienAcrossTheWater Weimer = Weimer's Mods BG1 = Baldur's Gate 1 (Without Tutu) BG2 = Baldur's Gate 2 BGT = Baldur's Gate Trilogy Tutu = BG1tutu IWD1 = Icewind Dale 1 IWD2 = Icewind Dale 2 PS:T = Planescape: Torment Some parting words... If you want to add some information to this list and put your mod up for Crossmod inclusion, thats great! Just post in this thread in the following format so we can update the list. e.g. -- [G3] Henry the Halfing (BG1/BG2/Tutu) Author(s): Grim Squeaker This mod gives us an exciting little halfling called Henry. Imagine he's gonna be exciting! (In Production) Homepage: http://www.gibberlings3.net/fake/ Forum: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showforum=X -- The G3 bit means its being worked on at The Gibberlings Three (see the the key above). 'Henry the Halfling' is obviously the name of the mod. The brackets say what this is for, in this case Baldur's Gate 1, Baldur's Gate 2 and BG1tutu. The author is of course me. The mod is 'In Production' as opposed to 'Released' and the bit in italics is the description. There's also a link to the hiomepage and forum of the mod (if any). Obviously Grim is not actually making this mod, but you get the idea. Try and write an interesting blurb. Remember, you're selling your mod to other people! Don't make it too long but obviously we need more than just 'Yeah, he's a dwarf. Nuff said.' Enjoy! Link to comment


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Elite Greeks and Romans reclined to dine, and ordinary people copied them when they could. Although the practice seems strange to us, it must have been both comfortable and convenient, since reclining during meals spread throughout the Mediterranean and survived for over a millennium!
At the Getty Villa we revived Greek and Roman practices of drinking and dining for a recent gallery course, which provided the opportunity to reenact (and, of course, photograph) ancient lounge-drinking practices. I'll talk about Greek customs, moving to the Romans in a follow-up post.
Greek dining couches of the archaic and classical periods were intended for men and, sometimes, their female companions (courtesans or prostitutes—like the woman on the painted vase above—but not elite wives and daughters). The couches were "single beds" that could accommodate an additional person, especially during a symposion (symposium), the after-dinner male drinking party.
From seven to fifteen beds were arranged against the walls of the andron, the male dining room, each bed with its own little table and often a step stool. Rather than actually lying down, the men reclined on their left elbows and used their right hands to eat and drink. They propped themselves up quite high on pillows and kept their balance by bending their right knees and bracing them against the left (and probably by leaning against the wall, when necessary). This pose requires a flexible waist!
After dinner, the drinking party began. Often high-toned symposiasts—Socrates, for example—held educational as well as convivial conversations; other times, the drinkers got down to partying ASAP.
If additional people joined the drinking party, they could be squeezed onto the couches. Since the room was designed for right-handed people, lefties had to accommodate to the layout, or turn and face the wall.
The area in the middle of the Greek dining room was left open for serving food and drink, for entertainment, and for a stand to be placed during kottabos, a drinking game in which the drinker tossed the lees in his wine cup to knock something off the stand. Wine was not filtered and strained as it is today, and the dregs were left in the bottom of the cup. In this video I demo the basics.
The painting on the cup at the top of this post shows a naked slave woman playing kottabos, hooking her forefinger into one handle of her skyphos as she prepares to toss her wine dregs toward the stand in the middle of the room.
There won't be any drinking games, but this Saturday, we're offering another homage to ancient Greek drinking with a lecture and wine tasting celebrating the symposion that combines erudition and wine. Or try kottabos at your next dinner party, recreating the Greek dining couches with benches and lots of pillows.

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text: This year's Web 2.0 Summit will focus on the critical role that online data plays in the Internet economy and on how its use and misuse can make the difference between success and failure in markets like online gaming, Web advertising, search, social media and mobile.The CEOs of Intel, Microsoft, eBay, Salesforce.com, Twitter and Dell, along with officials from Facebook, IBM, Google and LinkedIn, will be among the speakers at the conference, an influential and select gathering of 1,000 executives, entrepreneurs and investors.O'Reilly Media's Web 2.0 Summit, which runs from Monday through Wednesday in San Francisco, will identify best practices for leveraging online data and pinpoint pitfalls and challenges related to its use, such as privacy concerns.Susan Etlinger, an Altimeter Group analyst who plans to attend the conference, said organizers chose an important and timely topic to explore.With the explosion of content posted in social media sites and services by individuals, businesses have to gather, analyze and act upon a massive amount of unstructured and public data about their companies, brands, products and industries.Doing this effectively requires new technology tools, organizational techniques and analysis skills at multiple corporate levels, beyond the traditional data analysts, and business intelligence and data mining software."Social data is so ubiquitous that everyone in the organization needs to be able to 'speak data' in some way or another," Etlinger said in a phone interview. "This is one of the biggest issues for companies today."PulsePoint Group, a communications management consulting company, has sent executives to every edition of Web 2.0 Summit, and the company is particularly enthusiastic about the focus on data this year, since its services cover the effective use of social media by corporations. PulsePoint will have four executives at the event and will also host a dinner."The exchange of innovative ideas with other business leaders is top of mind. Now is a time for great companies to step up to the plate and provide brands with the game-changing solutions they need to succeed today. It's these solutions that will later be reflected upon as the change agents that drove their tomorrows," PulsePoint said in a statement.Meanwhile, Australian company Roamz will officially launch its eponymous mobile app at Web 2.0 Summit, and its CEO, Jonathan Barouch, will participate in a panel discussion.Barouch feels that the data focus at this year's show ties in well with the Roamz application, which aggregates and filters social media content about places within the location of users, with the goal of helping them discover interesting spots."We decided earlier in the year that this would be a great forum for us to both meet global tech leaders and influencers as well as showcase the intelligent technology that we have built in Sydney, Australia. Web 2.0 Summit is a really unique forum where global tech leaders gather for three days to discuss trends and discuss what the future looks like," Barouch said via email.


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There are approximately 2,500
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How many lead to entanglements?
A WHOI researcher proposes to
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With research and cutting-edge
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The Northwest Atlantic Seal Research Consortium grew out of a series of workshops that included scientists, resource managers, and recreational fishermen to address issues and concerns related to increasing seal populations along the New England coast.
MMC helps to maintain specialized facilities at WHOI that provide our researchers and collaborators with the tools and platforms they need to conduct rigorous research. MORE...
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October 12, 2007
Gmail's Storage Increases, 6 GB in January 2008
Gmail will increase the free storage gradually in the next days. On October 23, you'll get 4321 MB of storage, then the growth will slow down until January 4, when you'll have 6283 MB of storage. From January 4, you'll receive 3.3 MB every day, that's 10 times bigger than the current rate of growth.
Another good news is that Google Apps mail accounts will have the same quota as standard Gmail accounts, while Google Apps Premier Edition will have 25 GB mail accounts. Previously, Google Apps accounts had 2 GB of storage, while the business edition offered 10 GB per account.
Gmail didn't abandon the paid storage option, but you'll get around 50% more storage for the same price: 10 GB for $20/year, 40 GB for $75/year, 150 GB for $250/year and 400 GB for $500/year. The paid storage will probably become more attractive when Google adds more services, like Google Docs, JotSpot or GDrive.
"In April 2005, we started increasing Gmail storage as part of our "Infinity+1" storage plan. At that time, we realized we'd never reach infinity, but we promised to keep giving Gmail users more space as we were able," explains the Gmail Blog. Meanwhile, Yahoo and Microsoft also increased the storage (Yahoo even claims to offer "infinite" storage) and Gmail became the top webmail service with the least amount of free storage.
43 comments:
Great! And I like your graph. One thing, though, is that despite the counter on the login page my inbox still reads 2911 at the bottom. Does that always happen? Is there a glitch?ReplyDelete
Yes, the storage will increase gradually to reach the two targets mentioned in the post. For example, until October 23, the growth rate will be around 128 MB a day. From October 23 to January 4, the growth rate will be 23 MB a day. Then it will decrease to 3.3 MB a day.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the post. Just noticed that I'm at :ReplyDelete
"You are currently using 701 MB (24%) of your 2910 MB."
i am at:ReplyDelete
You are currently using 2589 MB (88%) of your 2937 MB.
How does that effect the Google Apps for Edu? Currently it's capped at 2GB. Will that go up as well?ReplyDelete
Google Apps for Education has the same storage as the regular Google Apps and Gmail.ReplyDelete
There are three categories of Gmail users, if you look at the storage:
- regular Gmail users: 6 GB in January, +1 Gb/year from that point. You can pay for more storage.
- non-paying Google Apps users: the same as before, except you can't pay for more storage.
- paying Google Apps users: 25 GB ($50/year - the price includes more than just Gmail's storage).
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2007 at 11:30 AM
I recently purchased some extra storage space (after filling Gmail up 3 times and getting sick of deleting so many emails)... I wonder if they'll automatically bump me up to the amount offered then, at what I've already paid....ReplyDelete
Wow, this is great.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2007 at 2:46 PM
I have three domains with Google Apps. One of them (the newest one, like two months) already says:ReplyDelete
"You are currently using 399 MB (13%) of your 2911 MB."
The other two (that were created in the beginning of Google Apps) still saids:
"You are currently using 1445 MB (70%) of your 2048 MB."
I guess it will take some time to be applied to all domains.
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2007 at 3:39 PM
Great news!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2007 at 7:19 PM
Your counter is really dramatic.What i have written went wrong.?Still happy guys..!ReplyDelete
His is going at the same rate as the gmail's login page, guys.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2007 at 3:18 AM
ymail with infinite storage beats thisReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 13, 2007 at 8:11 AM
Terrific post, I thought it was a bug in the Google software that showed me as having 2910 mb for my domain today. With 500 accounts, I may never, ever run out of space in my lifetime. I love Google, long live Google!ReplyDelete
Google always save the best for last . More surprise will be install Google FansReplyDelete
Thank you .
Anonymous said...ReplyDelete
ymail with infinite storage beats this
Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:18:00 AM PDT
there's nothing as limitless. Everything has its own limit (have you ever heard unlimited space hardics?). The "infinite" terms used by yahoo is just absurd.
From Yahoo Help:ReplyDelete
"Users that follow normal email practices and comply with our anti-abuse limits can consume an unlimited amount of free email storage. (...) The purpose of unlimited storage isn't to provide an online storage warehouse. Usage that suggests this approach gets flagged by Yahoo! Mail's anti-abuse controls. Unlimited storage gives normal email account users like yourself an opportunity to not have to worry about hitting a storage limit."
I suppose sending/receiving 30MB of email a day is not excessive. But 30MB*365 days=10.7GB for a year, and that's much more than Gmail offers.
Do you know more about Yahoo Mail's limits and policies?
Storage: 3.1 GB (23%) of 13.2 GBReplyDelete
I should have wait a bit before buying additionnal storage :-(
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2007 at 10:12 PM
Is that really true, I read about thisReplyDelete
Is it possible that this is a coding error?
So you read the post and now you think this is a coding error...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 18, 2007 at 2:45 AM
the guy at cmat331.blogspot is an idiot. If you take a look at the source code of the gmail webpage, you see that the "dynamic part" starts at 2757, but then there's the rest of the code that will add an increasing amount to that number... I know that I didn't explain myself properly, but programming is not my game. Anyway, if you check out the source code of the page, you can find:ReplyDelete
Mais de [span id=quota]2757.272164[/span] megabytes (e esse número vai aumentar)
So that's the number he sees if he stops the rest of the code from loading.
- AnonymousOctober 20, 2007 at 11:55 AM
this is disappointing. i was hoping that gmail will offer 10gb by september 2008 in celebration of google's 10th birthday.ReplyDelete
I wouldn't worry about mail storage. It will definitely grow again, but the numbers are already irrelevant. In September you had less than 3 GB, in January you'll have 6 GB. That's a huge growth and the new storage should be enough for many years (at least for most people).ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 22, 2007 at 12:08 AM
Yes! More space for archiving about everything... Thanks Google!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 30, 2007 at 3:17 AM
I signed up for GMail for my office purpose, but it is offering me only 2.4GB of storage. I thought I will get more than 4.8gb. Is this offer only for existing GMail users??ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 31, 2007 at 9:11 PM
I guess they gotta keep up with Yahoo...ReplyDelete
The thing is...I doubt Google actually has 4 Gigabytes of space set aside this very MINUTE for EVERY gmail user.
After all, it's only text on a webpage ;) Who knows....but I mean, I can't see it. I think most people are still using probably around (less than or equal to....) 10% of their gmail space.
With their whole Gmail Upgrade plan they released a while back, I'm wondering why they are still increasing our space....you'd think they'd keep it as it is, and let people just buy more space if they need it?
I just think it's a competition though, obviously....a competitor is claiming near unlimited e-mail space (which if I recall, they "released" the change after Gmail posted their Gmail storage upgrade plan(s)?)...
I'm not bashin anyone though, More space is great :)
- AnonymousNovember 9, 2007 at 9:49 AM
its amazingReplyDelete
why don't you increase the free storage on picasa, as well ??ReplyDelete
1 gb is not enough
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2007 at 4:58 PM
If anyone can make a difference here, increasing picasaweb storage would help.ReplyDelete
I wonder if the Gmail storage space growth rate would have been increased if Hotmail had not upgraded its free email accounts to 5GB on august 13th, 2007?!ReplyDelete
I wonder if the Hotmail storage space would have been increased from 4 MB if Gmail had not offered 1 GB in April 2004.ReplyDelete
New Hotmail is in its functionality, design and user frendliness still lightyears behind Gmail.ReplyDelete
As far as I was willing to submit myself to test it Yahoo Mail is just a very poorly working New Hotmail clone and its features that are not copied from Microsoft are even worse.
Gmail still remains the best free email provider worldwide.
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2008 at 9:33 PM
Three Kudos and Cheers to the Googlers!ReplyDelete
This is THE reason that Google Mail is my PRIMARY free email service...I do have Yahoo...and it really pales in comparison to GMail...
Thanks GMail and the Google Guys...and this blog's moderators...
ALL of you deserve the success you have! ;)
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Gmail is better than yahoo, even if given unlimited spaceReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 12, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I both Gmail and Hotmail than yahoo! but hotmail designed colors better than Gmail.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 27, 2008 at 3:49 PM
hotmail is betterReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 1, 2008 at 7:11 PM
gmail is better, once you are used to its interface.ReplyDelete
The counter here seems to be 174 MB above the official GMAIL counter:ReplyDelete
I wonder why?
The explanation is simple: Gmail updated the formula that determines the storage quota and the increase has slowed down.ReplyDelete
From Gmail's source code:
// Estimates of nanite storage generation over time.
var CP = [
[ 1199433600000, 6283 ],
[ 1224486000000, 7254 ], - 7254 MB, Oct. 20, 2008
[ 2144908800000, 10996 ], - 10996 MB, Dec. 20, 2037
[ 2147328000000, 43008 ],
[ 46893711600000, Number.MAX_VALUE ]
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I tried to send a short video to my son, but I receive an e-mail back from the postmaster saying that the message is larger that the current system limit. Will my chances of sending larger messages increase when my storage limit increases?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 9:24 PM
Your video was probably larger than 20 megabytes.ReplyDelete
The per-message size limit remains at 20MB, unless otherwise announced. It typically does not grow together with the per-account space quota.
The increase rate was reduced by GOOGLE.ReplyDelete
The GMAIL quota right now is only 7332 MB.


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When I saw Helen's dish of New Potatoes, Crispy Salami and Watercress Salsa Verde, I was positively giddy with excitement. I thought to recreate it in some manner.
Of course, we didn't have potatoes. We have a source for salami and we dropped by there earlier in the day. But, of course, getting home, I realized that I forgot to get salami! Hmph.
Well then, I guess it's just the salsa verde for us!
I decided to make my salsa verde really verde, so I only put green things in. ;)
I didn't put watercress; it was a strictly herby kind of salsa verde. In went
green onions,
lime juice and
extra virgin olive oil.
I really, really, really wanted to put anchovies in, but JS vetoed that. I still don't know why.
I was afraid that it was going to taste too anchovy-ish, given that the anchovies were not going to be "melted" into the sauce with heat. Maybe I was wrong: there's a marinade with anchovies that we'd like to try soon.
Now to find a way to use our very verde salsa. We rolled out some leftover tomato pasta (from our Ravioli "Caprese") and made fettuccine. We tossed the pasta with our salsa verde. Simple.
In the same meal, our mother made one of her soy-braised dishes. In this case, it was soy-braised pork spareribs, with the ribs cut into 1" pieces. I imagine it was made the same way as her Cilantro Beef Shin, except without the cilantro. Oh, and of course, without the ginger as well, since, as mentioned, pork and ginger are not to grace the same dish together.
I used a small bowl to eat the pasta. Afterwards, I decided to eat the pork, adding it to the empty-but-with-residual-salsa-verde bowl.
A revelation!
The salsa verde and the soy-braised dish went so well together!
I rarely eat soy-braised pork spareribs (don't like the pork bones much), but I kept eating this, eventually getting some white rice to go with it and the salsa verde.
There was a salty-sourish punch to the salsa verde that really highlighted the flavor of the meat. I believe I added a tad "too much" cornichons than necessary, making this salsa verde function the same way as the salty-sourish pickled greens that are served on top of Taiwanese beef noodle soup.
A post of Taiwanese beef noodle soup is something that we have been working on for a long time now. We have not been able to settle on a Taiwanese beef noodle recipe that we like, because we have not been able to figure out what exactly those pickled greens are.
Asking around, some say they're "tong chai," others say "suan chai." I don't know if they're cabbage or mustard greens or maybe some other greens.
Whatever pickled vegetable they are, they go well with rich meats like soy-braised beef (in beef noodle soup) or a fatty pork belly sandwich (gua bao) with cilantro and peanut-sugar.
Maybe we have found a "cheater's" way now -- we can use this salsa verde to sub in for the Taiwanese pickled vegetables! Teehee.
Gua Bao is soooo good! That soft white bun, the pork, the pickled vegetables(!!!), the cilantro and especially the peanut-sugar mixture.
I did a little search right now and found that people are calling it "Taiwanese hamburger". That is just wrong in so many ways. Why even bring up the hamburger?!!?!?! Wrong, wrong, wrong.
There isn't much information on gua bao online it seems, and not a lot of pictures. Here are some of them: here, here, here and here. I guess we'll have to buy some and take pictures. =)
update: We made our own! Here's our Gua Bao.
We're submitting this post to Weekend Herb Blogging, a world-wide food blogging event created by Kalyn's Kitchen with the goal of helping each other learn about cooking with herbs and unusual plant ingredients.
If you'd like to participate, see who's hosting next week. WHB is hosted this week by Srivalli of Cooking 4 All Seasons.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Salsa Verde (and a surprising application)
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oh my goodness my goodness...that beef...mm mmm mmmm!ReplyDelete
i want the anchovies hehe
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2008 5:16 AM
The beef dish looks like a comfort food dish. I am so glad the anchovies were vetoed. Fabulous!ReplyDelete
:)) Must be the first one who only had eyes for the pasta dish. Yum!ReplyDelete
wow what a packed post. don't you love when you stumble on a new combination?!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 18, 2008 7:19 AM
This looks wonderful. I love salsa verde, and this is an interesting new take on it. I love the idea of adding it to the tomato pasta, too.ReplyDelete
I love all the stuff in the salsa verde.ReplyDelete
I'm drooling at the mention of fatty pork belly in white steamed bread.:)
Interesting salsa. Have you ever tried salsa verde made with tomatillos? Oh, that is the best salsa ever!ReplyDelete
Salsa verde is one of my very favorite condiments. I could just sit and eat it with a spoon. Your post has inspired me to be more experimental and try it on lots of things!ReplyDelete
Whoa, I bet the salsa verda makes good Taiwan beef noodles! Yes, they use "suan cai" a lot in TWnese beef noodles.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2008 11:11 AM
The flavour in this one is unbelievable ... I will order this dish if I see the photo at a restaurant menu! :DReplyDelete
I know! Anchovies rule! =D
Why the hating on the anchovies? Teehee. ;)
The pasta got overshadowed, hehe.
That gua pao really is so good.
This is a faux-Italian salsa verde. We've made Mexican salsa verde (tomatillos) for our taco nights. =)
Taco nightsReplyDelete
The salsa verde looks amazing! yum! I can think of a whole bunch of things I'd like to smother it on!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2008 10:52 PM
Glad I found you on tastespotting. It's nice to see fellow Vancouverites in the food blog world. You have a very nice blog!ReplyDelete
That sauce looks wonderful! It must go perfectly well with a good steak...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2008 7:12 PM
Interesting salsa verde! Love the idea of throwing in a bunch of stuff with the same color and blending it together.ReplyDelete
Those spareribs look incredible!
The anchoives sound good in it. Maybe a splash of nam pla would have been more agreeable? The salsa on the pork looks really awesome.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the lovely entry..I sure learnt a lot today!ReplyDelete
Your salsa verde looks and sounds sooo good. I'd like the anchovies too. They would give the salsa an extra punch.ReplyDelete
Sorry I am so slow at catching up on the WHB entries. I had a very rough week going back to school! The salsa verde sounds good, but I think you made the right decision on the anchovies!ReplyDelete


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There's some great news for supporters of The Sarkeesian Effect, the seemingly random collection of badly filmed interviews with assorted people who dislike Anita Sarkeesian that is allegedly being edited into a film of some kind!
In a new video, Jordan Owen — the hairier of the two Sarkeesian Effect impresarios — has announced an amazing new opt-out opportunity for the alleged film's backers to donate money to him and his pal (then enemy, then pal again) Davis Aurini.
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Imagine a tyrannosaur weighing one and a half tons, completely covered in soft, downy plumage. Even its tail is fluffy with feathers. Though we've known for a while that many dinosaurs were covered in feathers, a group of Chinese researchers have now provided direct evidence that gigantic, deadly tyrannosaurs might have looked a bit like wuffly birds. Three nearly complete, well-preserved fossils give us a glimpse of tyrannosaurs the way we've never seen them before.
The fossils were found in the Liaoning Province in China, in the "Yixian formation," a package of rocks that is known to date to the early Cretaceous period. Described today in Nature magazine, the creatures are in the subgroup Tyrannosauroidea, which is part of the Therapod family that includes both the iconic T. Rex as well as winged dinosaurs who eventually evolved into today's birds. The animals that paleontologist Xing Xu and colleagues dubbed Yutyrannus huali would have been quite large for tyrannosaurs (the largest, an adult, likely weighed almost 1.5 tons) and were probably the apex predators of their region.
The researchers write:
Most significantly, Y. huali bears long filamentous feathers, thus providing direct evidence for the presence of extensively feathered gigantic dinosaurs and offering new insights into early feather evolution.
In these fossils, you can see the long, downy tail feathers that would have trailed out behind these huge beasts. Their quills make a distinctive pattern of lines around the tailbone.
And here's one of the tyrannosaur skulls, also with distinctive impressions of feather quills on the crest of its head. The question that Xu and his team ask is why these large dinosaurs would have needed feathers. Usually feathers and fur are used for insulation, but creatures with large bodies often lose their hair because they generate enough body heat that insulation is unnecessary. Y. huali is by far the largest dinosaur known to have had feathers, and there is plenty of fossil evidence that other large tyrannosaurs had scaly skin.
The researchers speculate that these tyrannosaurs may have been adapted to extremely cold environments, while other tyrannosaurs lived in more tropical regions. Another possibility is that Y. huali didn't have feathers all over its body — it might have had some areas of bright plumage for display, but scales elsewhere.
Read the whole scientific article in Nature


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Mark Cherniack directs IlEC's regional office in Bangkok and helped to develop the Demand Side Management (DSM) Master Plan for Thai utilities: International Institute for Energy Conservation, Racquet Club Building, 8 Sukhumvit Soi 4919, Bangkok 10110 Thailand; fax 66 2 381 0815
Ogunlade R Davidson is Director, Research & Development, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone; fax 232 22 224439
Peter du Pont works with the Asia Office of the International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) in Bangkok to implement a major energy efficiency initiative in Thailand: International Institute for Energy Conservation, Racquet Club Building, 8 Sukhumvit Soi 4919, Bangkok 10110 Thailand; fax 66 2 381 0815
Peter Hayes is a researcher on security, resource, and environmental issues related to Asia Pacific, at Nautilus Pacific Research, 746 Ensenada Ave. Berkeley, CA 94707, USA; fax 1510 526 9297
Stanislav F Kolar is a consultant specializing in energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions in Eastern Europe: Kolar Associates, 1527 Q St, NW, Washington DC, 20009, USA; fax 202 3877701
Jose Roberto Moreira is Executive Director of the Biomass Users Network, an NGO dealing at the international level with rational use and production of biomass: BAN, Rua Francisco Dias Velho, 814, Brooklyn Novo, 04581-001-S. PauloSP-Brazil; fax 55 11 5435494
Somthawin Patanavanich is a research associate in the Natural Resources and Environment Program at the Thailand Development Research Institute. She has done extensive research on the link between deforestation, energy use, and climate change: TDRI, Rajapark Building, 163 Asoke Rd. Bangkok 10110 Thailand; fax 662 3810815
Michael Philips recently completed a major report on the energy-lending activities of the multilateral development banks for the International Institute for Energy Conservation, Racquet Club Building, 8 Sukhumvit Soi 4919, Bangkok 10110 Thailand; fax 66 2 381 0815
Alan Douglas Poole is an independent consultant for energy, transport and environmental planning in developing countries: Rua Marques de Sao Vicente 86, apt 211, Gavea, 22451, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil; fax c/o WEE, 552 11233 4334
Amulya Reddy is President of the International Energy Initiative 2515 Borebank Road, Benson Town, Bangalore, 560 046, India; fax 91812 346 234
Hugh Saddler led Australia's first major study of the economic impact of energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reductions at: Energy Policy Analysis Pty Ltd. Suite 105, 55 Townshend St, Phillip ACT 2606, Australia; fax 616 2853583
Jayant Sathaye is Co-Leader of the International Energy Studies Group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Bldg 90, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA; fax 1 415 4866294
Kirk R Smith works on environmental risks in Asian developing countries, especially those relating to unprocessed biofuels for cooking and spaceheating. He is Senior Fellow at the Program on Environment at the East West Center, 1777 East West Rd. Honolulu, Hawaii, 96848, USA; fax 1 808 944 7298
Susan Subak coordinates the climate change work at Stockholm Environment Institute's Boston office, and is a technical reviewer and modeller for the IPCC's Task Force on Greenhouse Gases; SKI, 89 Broad St, Boston, MA 02110, USA; fax 1 617 4267692
Joel Swisher is an engineering economist specializing in resource planning and greenhouse economics at RISO National Laboratory, PO Box 49, DK 4000 Roskilde, Denmark; fax 45 46 321999
Michael Wilford is a solicitor with experience in maritime law and insurance law. He is a consultant to Clyde & Co, an international law firm, and a Senior Associate of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, King's College, Manresa Road, London SW3 6LX, United Kingdom; fax 44-351-6435


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Banzai Wild Waves Water Park Box Picture Vs Reality
Hey kids, want to spend the summer with five of your friends in your very own backyard pool? Then stay the hell away from Banzai's Wild Waves Water Park! David Ng juxtaposed Banzai's box art with a picture of his disappointed kids standing next to the fully assembled "water park." He wasn't the only one deceived, according to the reviews on Amazon…
Here are several representative snippets:
"I have two preschoolers (ages 2 and 4) and this pool is just the right size for them."
"It is the worst product I'd ever bought from Toys R US and I'll never go to Six Flags! Don't buy it."
"One person can't slide down the slide while one person is in the pool let alone have 2 people sitting in it! The slide is so small and when you turn on the hose to let the sprinklers come down the orange top collapses and has no use!"
"As every one else has said this pool is tiny maybe good for 1 or 2 toddlers. Picture on the front is NOT accurate. A 6 year old can't go down the slide with his legs out because they hit the wall. My 3 year old hardly fit. Buy a sprinkler for $5.00 my kids had more fun with that."
The box admonishes buyers "product may not be as appears on image;" a gross understatement for a gross distortion.
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The Secret Beyond Matter
In the Name of Allah, the All-merciful and Most Merciful
The Creation of Weakness and Illness is from Allah's Endless Mercy
And Ayyub when he called out to his Lord, 'Great harm has afflicted me and
Those who do not follow the Qur'an's morality interpret every anxiety, hardship, or illness as a disaster that upsets their orderly lives and destroys their dreams. This is because their plans for the future, which they expect to realize, deny such possibilities, even though such things happen every day. There is no place in their plans for a sudden illness or an accident. Many, even though they have a healthy body, think that they cannot confront these kinds of misfortune that happen to thousands of people every day. As a result, when confronted with such events, they become rebellious and begin to question Allah's destiny for them.
Seeing the cause of illness only in terms of germs and viruses, or traffic accidents as the result of bad driving, they remain unaware of the fact that Allah creates, and therefore controls and has knowledge of, every cause. If a person becomes very ill because of a virus, this illness is included in Allah's knowledge. If a person is hit by a car and is left paralyzed, this is also subject to the fate that Allah has created. People are free to do whatever they want, but they cannot change their destiny, for it surrounds them on all sides. Those who submit to Allah's eternal power and trust in His endless wisdom and mercy view each illness, accident, and disaster as a temporary test that will end in good.
What is important in such instances is that the believers show their good moral character while submitting to their destiny with great patience, morality, and desire to draw even closer to Allah. Illness and accidents are periods when believers can show their patience and good moral character and they are important opportunities for them to draw close to Allah. In His endless mercy, the Lord has created illness, anxiety and hardship as tests and He desires by these means that everything will turn out for the good of His faithful servants. In the Qur'an, Allah has determined the period of illness and told us about the importance of showing patience in the face of hardship.
Rather, those with true devoutness are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day, the Angels, the Book, and the Prophets; and who, despite their love for it, give away their wealth to their relatives, orphans and the very poor, travelers and beggars, free slaves, and who perform prayer and give alms; those who honor their contracts when they make them, and are steadfast in poverty, illness, and battle. These are the people who are true. They are the people who guard against evil. (Surat al-Baqara, 177)
As the period of illness has already been determined, we need to realize that we must endure that particular test in a way that pleases Allah, for He has created both the test and the cure. We must not falter in the face of seeing no good in the situation; rather, we must submit to Him in complete sincerity and wait to see what happens, sure in our knowledge that He will reward us with endless beauty in the Hereafter. Most importantly, when we are passing through any given test, we must bear in mind that it is happening for a reason, which may or may not be known, that somehow will benefit us. Therefore, it must be kept in mind that all illnesses that happen to people happen for a reason. If Allah willed, no one would ever be ill or feel pain. But even if a person encounters these difficulties, he must realize that experiencing them is good for him because they enable him to understand the transitory nature of this world and the eternal power of Allah. In addition, such tests help us understand this world's transitory nature and Allah's eternal power.
In times of illness, a healthy person's body falls victim to invisible germs and viruses and may experience weakness and pain in various areas. Perhaps they may even become bedridden. Their inability to overcome a microscopic virus reminds them of their inherent weakness and complete need for Allah. Perhaps they may remember this truth when they regain their health and strength or recover their lost possessions, for those who do not suffer often give it no thought. As a result, they may acquire a greater appreciation of the Creator's endless mercy, compassion, and power.
One of the things we do not think about in our daily life is how much of a blessing health is. An individual who has not had a long term illness is not used to feeling pain or discomfort. But when he becomes ill, he realizes that being healthy is a great gift from Allah. Some people, when they are stricken with a health-threatening illness or lose a limb, think of it as something bad for them. They do not consider that Allah may have sent it to them so that they would turn toward Him and begin thinking about the real meaning of life and the reality of the Afterlife. Perhaps they will realize how senseless their attachment to the world really is and how they could die at any moment. This new awareness, gained through an unexpected illness, may lead them toward salvation and engender within them a desire to start trying to earn Allah's good pleasure. When considered from this point of view, we can better understand that illness is a source of good for believers, a great gift from Allah to humanity.
When people believe that death is approaching, they begin to consider what such an event means. They may pray sincerely to Allah for good health, even if they have never prayed before. This may draw them closer to Allah and, if it causes a real change in their worldview, will have been a great boon for them by causing them to begin a new life. And, if this person continues to pray with the same sincerity and reacts with gratitude when the illness is past, his illness will have been a great blessing for him and the means by which he will lead a blameless life. Illness, therefore, is a great mercy and a gift given by Allah, designed to lead people toward seeing the possibility of good in everything, to make them think on a much deeper level than they are used to, and to take resort in Allah in every situation. In the Qur'an, Allah tells us that there are people who resort to Him in times of such difficulty. In Surah Yunus, it is revealed as follows:
When harm touches a person, he [or she] calls on Us, lying on his [or her] side, sitting down, or standing up. Then when We remove the harm, he [or she] carries on as if he [or she] had never called on Us when the harm first touched him [or her]. In that way, We make what they have done appear good to the profligate. (Surah Yunus, 12)
We learn from this verse that it is not enough for people to pray in times of hardship. Just as they pray when they understand their own weakness in relation to Allah, they must also pray and take refuge in Him when they receive a blessing from Him. Perhaps this illness and anxiety may be the means by which they finally understand their weakness, repent, and begin a new life of complete submission to Him. In this case, our All-Merciful Lord's mercy will use this test as the door to the Afterlife's eternal blessings. In the Qur'an, Allah gives the example of the afflictions of Job (pbuh). Job (pbuh) was a patient believer who always turned to Allah, and as a manifestation of His mercy, Allah was pleased to show him the way, help him and grant him blessings.
We learn from this verse that it is not enough for people to pray in times of hardship. Just as they pray when they understand their own weakness in relation to Allah, they must also pray and take refuge in Him when they receive a blessing from Him. Perhaps this illness and anxiety may be the means by which they finally understand their weakness, repent, and begin a new life of complete submission to Him. In this case, our All-Merciful Lord's mercy will use this test as the door to the Afterlife's eternal blessings. In the Qur'an, Allah gives the example of the afflictions of Job (pbuh). Job (pbuh) was a patient believer who always turned to Allah, and as a manifestation of His mercy, Allah was pleased to show him the way, help him and grant him blessings. (Surah Sad, 41-44)


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L.A. Unified teachers decry new student tracking system
Los Angeles Unified spent about $112 million on an online student tracking program a decade ago but dumped it two years ago in favor of another one that promised a streamlined way to manage enrollment, attendance and grades for the nation's second-largest school district.
The new $20-million system faltered at some campuses just as the school year opened last week, prompting cries from teachers of packed classrooms, vagabond students wandering the halls and a lack of accountability for what went wrong.
Meanwhile, the school district says problems have been solved and that the system mostly is working.
United Teachers Los Angeles, the teachers union, has used the bungled rollout as a rallying cry and an opportunity to sharply condemn Supt. John Deasy.
UTLA has consistently criticized the district since the first day of school, likening the problems to that of the $1-billion iPad rollout, which also was beset by challenges and controversy at the start.
The issues with the computer database, known as the My Integrated Student Information System (MISIS), came as the union launched a campaign Wednesday calling for smaller class sizes, higher staffing levels and raises for teachers amid contentious contract negotiations with L.A. Unified.
L.A. Unified officials contend that the union is simply exaggerating the issues to score political points.
Teachers have described a litany of problems with the database. Some classes had more than 70 students enrolled. Rosters were missing or inaccurate. Students were without class schedules. Some instructors were forced to return to the old days and take attendance by hand.
"From the Valley to the Harbor, it's been nothing short of a nightmare," said Colleen Schwab, a UTLA vice president. "It's frankly unbelievable that this was allowed to be rolled out and affect so many students. It's a disaster."
Jay Gehringer, a computer science teacher at North Hollywood High School, also serves as the campus technology coordinator and has been assisting his colleagues in trying to navigate around the problems. Issues with the system were first evident during summer school, when report cards could not be printed and counselors had difficulty enrolling students, Gehringer said.
Once the school year began, it slowed to a halt. "You largely couldn't do anything in the system," he said.
Counselors could not access records to make sure students enrolled in the right classes to graduate. About 100 students without schedules were stranded in the cafeteria.
"There aren't enough directions, there wasn't enough training, the software doesn't work as advertised, and there are too many missing features right now," Gehringer said. "We just don't have the information to manage the school."
The information system was required as part of a settlement in a class-action lawsuit that families of special education students brought against L.A. Unified in 1996. Among other issues, the district admitted to losing the records of a student, causing her to repeat 10th grade three times. As a result, L.A. Unified has been under federal court oversight in the years since.
Ron Chandler, the district chief information officer, said that with a massive undertaking such as this, some stumbles are to be expected.
"We do have issues, but the system is working and getting better every day," Chandler said. "This is going to be a blip we're going to get through."
Chandler said while the database has been slow for users, about 99% of students are now in the system and in class — a figure union officials strongly contest.
The district spent about $112 million developing another system with an outside vendor but it did not include all the features the district needed. In 2012, the district broke from the vendor and developed the software that is now in use. The previous version would have cost the district initially about $1.8 million with a 5% increase annually for maintenance.
Parents across the district will now be able to view and monitor their children's grades and attendance online, Chandler said.
"We're going to a better place with these systems and we knew that there would be a learning curve," he said.
UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl addressed the issue at a news conference Wednesday at Palms Elementary school, where he announced a "school blitz" in which union officials will visit more than 400 campuses to discuss their negotiation demands with the district.
Caputo-Pearl bristled at the suggestion that union members were overstating problems with the system for political purposes.
"We're not exaggerating anything," he said. "We don't have anything to gain from exaggerating — we want the problem fixed."
At the request of Los Angeles Board of Education member Tamar Galatzan, the district's inspector general has begun an audit of the system's rollout.
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Captain Olimar has returned to marshall new colors of Pikmin in a wild, open-ended adventure — and this time, he's brought an assistant.
The company he works for is going bankrupt and, to save it, Olimar has come to salvage the treasure buried below the surface of the planet. His company's debt is a whopping 10,000 Pokos. Luckily, his trusty assistant has joined him, so if the two of them can delegate their work well, they should be able to repay the company's debts in no time. Of course, they'll need the help of the Pikmin to do that, since these two can't accomplish anything by themselves!
- Alternate controlling the main characters, Olimar and his assistant, as you command your Pikmin to defeat enemies, propagate more Pikmin, collect precious doodads, and solve puzzles.
- Take advantage of new colors of Pikmin and use new items strategically—with more than 60 different species of enemy characters and randomly generated dungeons that span the planet, the game features even more game play than the original.
- Command red, blue and yellow Pikmin, as they all make a return, each with special abilities, like water resistance, bomb-carrying skills and invulnerability to fire. Watch for new Pikmin colors to make their debut, and their special skills become integral, as you battle your way toward the valuable doodads strewn across the planet.
- Head straight for the action or spend as much time exploring as you please, as time in this game is limitless.
- Open up brand new game play possibilities by playing cooperatively with a second player.


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For the first time in 17 years, Congress failed to provide the funding to keep the entire government running. So now you have two classes of government service and two classes of employees: "essential" and "non-essential."
If you run a national park, you aren't essential. If you work in a government lab, you might be non-essential too. Even a staffer working in the office of a member of Congress can get the non-essential tag. The essential/non-essential sorting doesn't really make much sense, but then again a government shutdown doesn't either.
Individual agencies determine whether a function is essential. If you work at an agency funded by fees, like the Patent and Trademark Office, everyone keeps working until the fee income is exhausted. In some offices, one employee is arbitrarily singled out to keep the lights on while the rest are sent home.
Even the ones working may have their paycheck deferred until Congress does its job.
And that's what this is all about. Congress doing its constitutionally mandated job. As much as the budget debacle gets wrapped up in repealing or defunding or delaying the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), which is being implemented even as the shutdown continues, we wouldn't be at this point if Congress had done its job over the last several months.
Both the House and the Senate adopted their versions of the federal budget — topline dollar amounts — back in March. That means they had six months to write, debate, conference, and pass the dozen separate spending bills that fund government.
The House Appropriations Committee approved 10 and four were passed by the full House. But when the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill for the 2014 fiscal year, dubbed "THUD," landed with a thud on the House floor, the House majority couldn't round up the votes. House leaders pulled the bill.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved 11 bills. But when they brought their version of THUD to the floor, they failed as well and never tried to bring up another version of that bill. Out of a dozen bills required, the Senate adopted precisely zero. Neither the House nor the Senate even attempted to pass a spending bill in all of September.
It was legislative gross negligence.
And after a flurry of bills that were intended to convince the public that they are serious about avoiding an October 1 shutdown at the start of fiscal year 2014, budgetary trench warfare between the House Republicans and Senate Democrats has returned. The House spent the weekend after the shutdown began in session to show that its members are serious. If they were serious they would have worked the rest of the year.
The latest tactic is to pass rifle-shot single-issue spending bills. Instead of broad appropriations bills that fund several agencies, the House has adopted narrow bills to fund the military and those supporting war operations, Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Park Service, and National Institute of Health, and other discrete parts of government.
Cherry picking popular agencies and programs to re-open government is a cynical ploy and doesn't make any sense.
Instead of hostage-taking and tactics to try to gain the upper hand in the court of public opinion, lawmakers need to simply do their job. The strangest thing about this whole affair is that the House and Senate agree on the topline budget number to fund government for several weeks, by when Congress should be able to reach a longer-term solution.
The debt ceiling — the statutory cap on how much the Treasury can borrow — is fast approaching. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has indicated that it will be reached on October 17. As bad as a shutdown is, a default would be economically catastrophic.
Congress needs to pass a continuing resolution, deal with the debt limit, and responsibly finish appropriations for the 2014 fiscal year so it can start work on the 2015 budget on time. It's time for the finger pointing and cacophony of criticism to stop.
Instead of a shutdown, Congress needs to shut up and do its job.


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History of Nampa
The Beginning
In 1883, the landscape of what was to become Canyon County was changed forever, when the Oregon Short Line Railway (a subsidiary of the Union Pacific) made its way from Granger, Wyoming to Huntington, Oregon. The sagebrush-covered ground was cleared and leveled so tracks could be laid, providing an opportunity for safer travel to the emigrants of the east. Towns sprung up about every 10 to 15 miles along the tracks. Nampa is one such Town.
City Name
It is not known for certain where the name "Nampa " came from, but as the Oregon Short Line was built through Idaho, unusual names were given to some of the stations. Many of these unusual names were believed to be of Indian origin. Annie Laurie Bird, Nampa Historian, concurred with research previously done by F. G. Cottingham of Nampa and others, that the Shoshoni Indian word "namb" means "footprint" or "moccasin". Indians of the region were known to stuff their moccasins during cold weather with sagebrush. This would make their footprints larger than usual size. However, contrary to what many people thought, Nampa, Idaho, is not the only place in the world with this name. For example, there is a Town in Canada named Nampa.
Land & Improvement Company
Alexander and Hannah Duffes, with the encouragement of James McGee, saw the possibilities in the land east of Caldwell, and in 1885, homesteaded on 160 acres with the express purpose of creating a Town. On September 8, 1886, Duffes, McGee and James M. Stewart formed the Nampa Land and Improvement Company, dividing the property into lots. Duffes was a very religious man and dreamed of a Town with no saloon. He refused to sell Town lots to anyone who intended to build a saloon on them. This caused people to refer to the Town of Nampa as "New Jerusalem". It is interesting to note that "The Nampa Progress", Nampa 's first newspaper, lists in June 1888, that there were 28 businesses in Nampa, of which three were saloons. Ironically, twenty-one years later, the Duffes home was moved and a brewery built in its place.
Boise had been bypassed by the Oregon Short Line as they built west, but in 1887, the Idaho Central Railway was built, connecting Boise with the main line of the Oregon Short Line at Nampa. A wood frame structure was brought in from King Hill to serve as a passenger depot in Nampa .
But it was the promise of irrigation that brought many emigrants to homestead in the land surrounding Nampa. During the season of 1890, the Phyllis Canal brought irrigation water to Nampa and surrounding areas, and in 1891, the extension of the Ridenbaugh Canal was completed. With the completion of these canals, an estimated 150,000 to 300,000 acres of prime farmland adjacent to Nampa could be cleared of sagebrush and put under cultivation.
On April 17, 1891, a municipal government was formed and the Town of Nampa incorporated. (View document)
Nampa Builds
By 1900 the Town of Nampa had a population of about 800.
Colonel W. H. Dewey, a promoter and wealthy mining man from Silver City, became interested in Nampa. He built a railroad line, the Boise, Nampa, and Owyhee Railroad, from Nampa to Murphy, Idaho, and also promoted another railroad which was built from Nampa to Emmett and eventually to Lakeport (McCall). With Nampa now a junction for four railroads, an elegant hotel was needed. Colonel Dewey built the Dewey Palace Hotel, which when completed in 1902, was acclaimed as one of the finest in the West.
By 1900, ten passenger trains a day were coming through Nampa. Nampa needed a larger train station. In September 1903, a new passenger station was completed. This same train station is now the Canyon County Historical Society and Museum.
Downtown Fire
Nampa continued to grow and build, but had to rebuild a large part of the downtown after a devastating fire July 3, 1909. The entire downtown block between 12th and 13th Avenues and 1st and Front Streets, was destroyed when a fire cracker exploded in a wood frame cigar store.
Harvest Festival
A successful street fair was organized in 1908, by a group of church ladies. It led to a popular local event called the Harvest Festival. Local farmers would bring their fruits and vegetables, poultry, etc., to sell in downtown Nampa. Music, games, and other activities were enjoyed by families. In 1913, a bronco bucking contest was added.
Snake River Stampede
Over the years, the Harvest Festival faded away, and in 1937, the rodeo portion of the festival, known as the Snake River Stampede, broke away and has continued to this day. It is one of the top ten rodeos in the pro rodeo circuits. Water was an essential commodity in this sagebrush desert. In 1909, the Bureau of Reclamation brought a water storage site to Canyon County farmers. The Deer Flat Reservoir would bring water to approximately 2900 farms by 1910. It continues to serve Canyon County farmers today.
Nampans were able to travel the surrounding communities by an electric interurban railroad beginning in 1909 until 1928 when the popularity of travel by car put the interurban out of business.
In 1913, the Nazarene church built an elementary school for 13 students. Later, in 1915, the school offered college classes. Eventually the school became known as the Northwest Nazarene College and is now Northwest Nazarene University .
In 1911, work began on a facility, now known as the Idaho State School , for the feeble minded and epileptic. It was opened seven years later in 1918.
In 1925, the Union Pacific built a new passenger depot on the north side of the tracks. In 1971, passenger service was discontinued by Union Pacific; however, Amtrak took over the nation's passenger service in May of 1971, but was discontinued in Idaho in 1997 due to a lack of funding and use.
Railroad Development
The development of the large Pacific Fruit Express ice plant led to the construction of a major refrigeration shop in 1926. The PFE Shops also built and repaired railroad cars. The Pacific Fruit Express shops refrigeration units in Nampa were closed in 1982, and by 1988, the former PFE buildings were used only for repairs on grain trains.
The Later Years
In 1942, the agricultural industry gained increased importance in Nampa with the construction of a large new sugar factory. The Amalgamated Sugar Factory is still in operation today.
Main Street America
In 1946, Nampa was named "Main Street America". In a campaign known as "Know Your Own Strength" sponsored by Pathfinder Magazine and Nampa Chamber of Commerce, Nampa set out to prove that it had the buying power and retail base to keep sales local. In one year's time, Nampa 's main street retailers increased their sales 121%.
Shopping Mall
Treasure Valley got its first indoor shopping mall when Karcher Mall opened in 1965.
Businesses & Industries
Many businesses and industries have come and gone throughout the years, and Nampa has grown steadily from its initial population of 799 in 1900 as the 2020 Census lists Nampa's population as 100,200. Two of the original industries in Nampa continue to serve our community. Nampa is still an important part of the Union Pacific main line operations and will most likely continue to be significant to Nampa and the surrounding area in the future. In 2020, Nampa became the first location in Idaho to host an Amazon fulfillment center. Agriculture has been and remains a key element in the economy of Nampa and Canyon County. The dedication and perseverance of the early settlers of Nampa and Canyon County have given us a rich heritage and paved the way to a brighter tomorrow.
Canyon County Historical Society
This historical overview and images were graciously provided by the Canyon County Historical Society.


text: From Focus Features, the premiere global brand in original and daring cinema, comes FOCUS WORLD. Charged with finding the most exciting voices in international and independent film, Focus World is proud to bring you BOMBAY BEACH, winner of the Best Documentary prize at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. Decades ago, the Salton Sea, two hours outside Los Angeles, was a tourist hotspot and a symbol of 1950s-era American optimism. Now, a victim of environmental decline, it stands mostly abandoned, its boomtown communities now decaying relics of a bygone era. Visionary filmmaker Alma Ha'rel investigates one such town – Bombay Beach – and weaves together the stories of its inhabitants with surreal poetry and beauty. Set to the music of Bob Dylan and Beirut, this is the story of a place where the American dream has faded, but where the dreams of those that stayed behind are alive and well.