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Opinion: What Did Lois Lerner's Deputy Know?
Wall Street Journal Breindel fellow Angela Hunt on Holly Paz, the first IRS employee to learn about political targeting of conservative groups. Photo: IRSvideos.gov
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Joseph L. "J. Les" Volkmer, 96, of Kimball, died in Sidney on Sept. 28, 2012. He was born July 13, 1916 on the family farm near Talmage to Edward and Mary (Sand) Volkmer.
Joseph L. "J. Les" Volkmer, 96, of Kimball, died in Sidney on Sept. 28, 2012. He was born July 13, 1916 on the family farm near Talmage to Edward and Mary (Sand) Volkmer.
He attended a year of high school in Talmage, then took over the family farm with his widowed mother.
J. Les served during World War II. He served in all five of the major battles including the Battle of the Bulge. He was called back during the Korean War for a short time which gave him a total of six years in the service. During this time, he was awarded five Battle Stars.
Les returned home and moved to Kimball in July of 1946, where he became a State Farm Insurance agent (35 years), a real estate broker and appraiser.
In 1947 he married Lorraine Matilda Frederick who grew up in Kimball. He was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, 3rd and 4th Degree Knights of Columbus.
He also served as grand knight and was a member of the American Legion and of the VFW. He helped organize the Kimball Junior Chamber of Commerce and served as its president for four years. He was a member of the Lions Club and worked with Kimball County Fair Board and Irrigation District.
After retiring from State Farm, Les spent 19 winters in Mesa, Ariz., enjoying the warm weather as a snowbird.
Survivors include his wife of 68 years; 12 children: Jeanette and Greg Heinike of Bell Buckle, Tenn., James and Connie (Wackel) of Leesburg, Va., Monica Bordash and Gil Reyes of East Lake, Colo., Theresa and Jim Ward of Cheyenne, Wyo., Arlene and Guy Ott of Mesa, Randy and Jennifer Volkmer of Kearney, Jody and Brian Johnson of Great Bend, Kan., Robert and Deanna Volkmer of Sidney, Mary Sanders and James McLin of Humble, Texas, Virginia and Jon Fessenden of Pampa, Texas, Sheila and Barrick Benson of Snohomish, Wash., and Leslie and Scott Zeilinger of Tucson, Ariz.; 28 grandchildren, 31 great grandchildren, and two great, great grandchildren.
He was preceded by four sisters and three brothers.
Mass of Christian burial will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Kimball with Father Robert Karnish officiating. Burial will follow in the Kimball Cemetery. Military honors will be performed by Kimball VFW Post #2243.
Friends may call at the funeral home on Tuesday from 1-7 p.m. with a Christian Wake Service to follow.
Friends may visit www.cantrellfh.com to view the obituary and leave condolences for the family.
Memorials may be given to the Joseph Volkmer memorial fund.
Cantrell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements

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When will "Good Morning America" anchor Josh Elliott and WABC-TV's beautiful Liz Cho finally go public as a couple? Reliable sources tell us that handsome morning anchor Elliott was spotted leaving Cho's Upper West Side apartment just after lunchtime on Thursday, with one spy telling us, "It seems he heads to her apartment after he's finished 'GMA.' " Page Six revealed last September that the anchors had started dating after Cho separated from her husband, Evan Gottlieb. An ABC source added, "Everybody at the network knows they are seeing each other, but still they are trying to remain discreet." While he has been on many dates with Cho, friends say Elliott remains a "man about town" and feels the gossip about his busy love life is being planted by enemies to derail his career. An ABC rep declined to comment.
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Kenya Airways and pilots agree on new terms
Kenya Airways management and the Kenya Airlines Pilot Association (KALPA) have agreed and signed the collective bargaining agreement.As a result the pilots will now operate as per their schedules and also observe goodwill by extending their duty as per the agreed CBA between KALPA and Kenya Airways management.
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On the first day of summer school I was sitting in my classroom in Oxford, half a world away from home in St. Louis, Missouri. Before getting into our material on European diplomacy, my professor made a point to recommend visiting Berlin. Heeding his advice, a few friends and I would embark on an adventure there a few weeks later.
Aside from historical implications of Germany, such as Bismarck's unification and the more sinister era under the Nazi regime, I knew little about Germany, and even less about Berlin.
The major reference in my mind was when Indiana Jones says to his father, "We have half the German army on our tail and you want me to go to Berlin?! Into the lions' den?" I knew the book-burning scenes from Indiana Jones's The Last Crusade were long gone, yet I didn't know what culture had replaced it.
Expecting the narrow, tight streets that characterized many English cities, I was astonished to find the city of Berlin was made on a monstrous scale. Sidewalks could hold perhaps almost a dozen people walking side by side and the buildings themselves were spread far apart.
As soon as we dropped our bags off at a hostel on a Saturday, we rented cruiser bikes for 12 euros apiece and hit the road with maps in hand.
As we biked through the streets, I felt like I had slipped into a post-apocalyptic world. Although the city was designed around older buildings of the past, many modern glass buildings interrupted the scenery. The capitol building itself was a testament to this non-uniform city. As we passed the capitol, we saw it was a massive, old-looking building but with a beautiful glass dome on top that symbolizes Germany's new future.
This clash between old and new was somehow cohesive in this unique city. Perhaps the extensive graffiti that covers Berlin from head to toe helps disguise the overwhelming inconsistencies in the city.
We biked along the Berlin Wall and visited Charlie's Checkpoint. It was clear to see that Berlin was still very affected by World War II and put a lot of emphasis on the different I'm-sorry monuments. We biked to all the major war memorials that were scattered along the city center and rode right underneath the Brandenburg Gate landmark. It was a very hot day, so we had to stop several times to buy water. I was shocked (and slightly irritated) to discover that in Germany, a coffee or beer is cheaper than a small water.
Now, I would be amiss if I were to neglect describing the language barrier. I think what made Germany such a new experience was the fact this was the first time I have ever been to a non-English country.
It was not until we went to a restaurant when we hit our first language difficulty. As we read the menu, we found that the German words were long, had lots of vowels, and lacked English cognates. The waitress spoke no English but ended up giving us an English menu. Even then, we couldn't pronounce the meal names and so we just pointed to them instead. With gestures and context, we were able to figure out words like small, medium and large very quickly. With this experience, we added small phrases like "thank you" to our vocabulary as well.
Another language difficulty came when we tried to call for a cab. We had a lot of trouble telling them the street name where we wished to be picked up. Similar to the food on the menu, the streets were very hard to pronounce. Our small group of five stood under the street sign, and passed around the phone trying different pronunciations, attempting to convey our location. As people passed us, some shouted out suggestions on how to say the words. Finally, a stranger took our phone and helped tell the cab company where we were located.
While this may have been a little embarrassing, in retrospect it was a wonderful human moment. It's easy to feel alone in a foreign country that speaks a different language. But the German people really showed us that we were definitely not alone. We could not have made our journey without help. We got directions, suggestions and instructions from those around us. Luckily most people were kind enough to speak to us in English and understood that we were simply visiting students.
To clarify, we were not helpless. Together our group successfully biked to our major destinations and that night we went to a beer garden and ordered the classic German sausages (Rostbratwurst) and pretzels (Laugenbrezel). I ordered a grilled steak sandwich called a Schweinenackensteak.
During our weekend in Berlin we visited markets, viewed art and got a good feel for both metropolitan and local areas. By the time we boarded our airplane back to Oxford, I had decided that I really loved Berlin. I opened my Diplomacy textbook to read for class the next day and my chapter started out by talking about how all of Europe was deeply focused on Berlin in the 1930s.
Studying Berlin at the time of my visit was almost surreal. I was eager to delve into my reading assignment because reading about the history of Berlin helped me greater appreciate this now modern city. It's one thing to visit a country on vacation, but entirely different to take the trip in conjunction with a class. I am grateful for my professor's recommendation to go to Germany. I loved Biking in Berlin.


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- Sweethearts, sidewalks & cyanide
- Does petting a primate during pregnancy produce monkey babies?
- Murder, maiden names and Wild Bill Hickok
- King Burge, or call me Princess, please
- How I found my 6th great grandfather for $40
- The sad story of Godfrey Nims
adventures in finding stories of ancestors. some mine, some not mine, and a little how-to mixed in.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Coming soon!!
I have so many great stories to share here, but have been away from my notes and files lately, and I want to be able to get all my facts straight. But, as a teaser, here are a some of the stories I'm planning to share soon...
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Wow Tami! How do you come up with all those cool titles?!ReplyDelete
I hope you have been fortunate enough to visit Historic Deerfield. It is an amazing museum town. I have several ancestors who lived there, and several who died in the massacres. There were several Nims who married distant Skinner cousins in my family tree. I'm glad I found your blog via the great "interview" on GeneaBloggers!ReplyDelete
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Boulder County and the city of Boulder opened a joint disaster assistance center in Boulder at 5495 Arapahoe Ave. on Thursday for those impacted by last week's historic flooding.
The disaster assistance center is the second in the county after a similar facility opened in the Twin Peaks Mall, 1250 South Hover Road, in Longmont on Wednesday.
Organizations providing information and assistance at the center include the Red Cross, Salvation Army, the Emergency Family Assistance Association, A Precious Child, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Colorado Department of Labor and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The center will remain open until "need subsides," officials say, with hours of 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week. City and county officials are asking the public to bring identification, utility bills, insurance paperwork and other documents that might help determine what assistance they qualify for.
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Seasonal Spotlight: Goat Milk
This time of year means one thing that our family looks particularly forward to: fresh goat cheese! My cousin makes it from their own goat farm and it's some of our favorite. Recently, I checked in on Kathy to discuss her family's goat cheese and other homemade goat milk concoctions:
Goat Cheese
Kathy's cheese she makes most regularly is chevre (a soft goat cheese). Her recipe came from a great resource for cheesemaking recipes and supplies, the New England Cheesemaking Supply Co..
Another cheese she makes is Basic Vinegar Cheese, a recipe from members of the Nebraska Dairy Goat Association. It follows here. Kathy simply seasons it with sea salt, but there are lots of other variations to try:
Basic Vinegar Cheese:
With frequent stirring, heat 1 gallon of goat milk to 185 degrees. Add 1/4 c. vinegar and stir briefly. After 10 minutes, strain through cheesecloth-lined colander. Hang to drain. We cut it in cubes after draining and add sea salt. Again, any herb you like will work. Makes 1 1/2 pounds of cheese. Storage time 2 weeks in fridge. Can be frozen. Melts when heated.
After draining the choices are unlimited with what you can do with it. You can make cream cheese or ricotta. Or instead of hanging it, press it into a compact shape and roll in minced parsley, ground pepper or chopped nuts. For nacho cheese, put 8 oz. of it in a food processor or blender, add shredded jalapenos and garlic and onion. For dill dip use 8 oz. in an blender again, with garlic, 1/2 cucumber (seeded but not peeled), 1 T. dry dill and salt to taste. For cheesecake add 1/2 cup of liqueur to the milk and then make into cheese.
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When goat milk is in season, its abundance leads to making more than goat cheese - even goat milk ice cream! Use any basic ice cream recipe, simply substituting goat milk for cow milk. The result is a very rich and creamy ice cream, as goat milk is naturally homoginized and doesn't easily separate the cream from the milk.
Goat's milk yogurt, when Kathy has made it, has resulted in a very runny, drinkable yogurt. She sweetens it with honey and says it's delicious, but it just doesn't seem to set up like cow's milk yogurt when she makes it from scratch.
Do you have any experience with goat milk or using it for making other dairy products? What do you like about this seasonal ingredient over the more common cow's milk? Please let us know below. (Thanks, Kathy!)
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|2008-05-15, 09:57
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I recall that a dual intake (air/space) fusion engine is used on VFs......
While they are packed with a lot of firepower, the general rule these days, you do not need armour on what you can't hit. VF are always speedy craft, speed is their main defense.
|2008-05-15, 10:47
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Holy Beast ~Wuff!~
Have your cake and eat it too.
That's the Macross Way!
|2008-05-15, 12:21
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Doesn't anybody find it ridiculous that the human capital gunships has to transform to a humanoid form before firing the main gun?
In Macross it's because the main gun conduits were missing so they had to improvise.
The only great merit of a humanoid configuration is the Daedalus attack.
Then comes in the New Macross class. Instead of a main gun connected to the shoulders it's a shot gun.
Now there's the mini-me Macross Quarter class. Which is more like a giant Valkyrie.
Not that these things are very manueverable in humanoid configuration. SDF Macross was just standing there.
Ditto with the New Macross class just it can better point and shoot now.
|2008-05-15, 12:28
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My only thought would be that the cannon needs to be away from the main body of the ship because of heat or EM discharge when firing. Of course attaching it to a hand would make that pretty moot :P.
Maybe it's due to energy usage, while in "roid" mode the energy that's used for engine thrust is diverted to the cannon. But then that could be counter by saying, "why would they need to be in roid mode for that".
Ok here's one that actually makes some sense. Having the cannon attached to an arm makes it easier to move in position for target acquisition. Basically, instead of having to maneuver the whole bulk of the ship each time they need to readjust aim, it's the lesser mass of the cannon and arm.
|2008-05-15, 13:08
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|2008-05-15, 13:17
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|2008-05-15, 14:01
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But i guess the designers of the "New Macross" Class had a change of heart.
After all, they too thought it wasn't necessary, hence the predecessor "Megaroad" Class.
I suppose when they order came though that they needed a "Battle Ready" Flagship to protect a fleet, they turned to the reassuring design of the SDF and Valkyries.
A.K.A Mankind's Saviour.
Hence why they can transform to the point that they even have "fingers" to pull a trigger on a weapon the size of a small ship.
But there are advantages to a separated Cannon, especially one the size of a ship, versus an integrated system.
Maintenance: It's far easier to service a ship-size weapon as a ship. m9ove it out to a spacedock. etc etc.
Design: It is far easier to devote an entire frame the size of a ship.... within a ship. Why be constrain to an exposed subsystem such as into an arm or backpack? Got more space and potential to devote an entire dedicated ship power plant to the weapon.
Battlefield Practicality: If the ship cannon is damage, just detached and grab another one. No need to worry about a shared power source. It can be used as a physical weapon in emergences, without fear that it will damage the commanding ship itself.
Plus nothing like seeing a giant robot flip one off at the enemy for massive moral boost.
|2008-05-15, 14:27
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Harry-dont worry!We got TEH GIANT MACROSS-ROBOT!
Dick-but they got the Ideon!
Harry-yeah,we are fucked...
Point is,where will all the moral go if aliens have even bigger and tougher robots?
|2008-05-15, 14:30
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Loveable Jerk
It also assumes that the reinforcing armor would scale indefinitely unlikely as it's probably tied to the strength of the armor it's reinforcing to begin with and since the VF needs to be light that armor is going to be limited as is the protection the machine can reasonably mount; never mind the need to cram all the transformation gear inside the thing.
This is "Rule of Cool" take to it's mos illogical and stupid extremes.
|2008-05-15, 14:42
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Ok lets look at the known gunships.
Spoiler for SDF-1 Macross:
Spoiler for Macross 7, Battle 7:
Spoiler for Macross 13:
Spoiler for SMS Macross Quarter:
Non-canon Macross ships
If the SDF connected with the space ships instead they would like this.
Spoiler for Do You Remember Love Macross:
Spoiler for Macross II Lovers Again, SDF-1 Macross:
Though the most alien looking is this one.
Spoiler for Macross II Lovers Again, Macross Cannon:
|2008-05-15, 15:38
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hehehe! FUN!
its thermonuclear, hence Fusion. plus its Protoculture, hence we don't really know much about it, so no point going into detail over it.
Valkyrie chest plate armour from the Vf-1 era is equivalent to that of a traditional main Battle Tank.
The armour by it self is light, and is only activated when in battlroid form.
Light enough that it can FLOAT in sea water when it's turned off, as seen in Macross Zero.
Your assuming they are using circular 1990-2008 weapon technology, hence you think they are similar to APC.
I assume they are using 2059 circular weaponry and i think they would shrug off APC like paper.
Hence Valkyrie armour is INCREDIBLY tough, by our standard, but is the best they can do against advance weaponry of the future.
It was only by chance that the module fabrication of the ship, that made it possible that they could change form.
After Space War I they went back to conventional thinking.
why do you think we had NO OTHER transformable ship except the the original, New Macross and now Macross Quarter?
All others were ship form.
But obviously, having no transformable robot, then this series would be just another space opera without a name.
There are reasons why there is transformable ships, and it's a valid one. either nostalgia by humans who were saved from extinction from a vaguely humanoid form ship, to transformable planes design to fight GIANTS.
sure it's writers, but that is part of the Macross history. it's nothing "moronic" then having Gundams all over the place, that doesn't have any logical explanation as to why they have big robots.
I mean...why? do they have to fight against Giant Aliens too?
When in ship form the Guncannon is for all practicality, a "module" part of the ship.
The only difference is that it has it's own separate system in terms of mobility and power. The guncannon actually feeds power off the main ship, this makes absolute practical macross sense. After all you are talking about a culture of paranoid with survivability. The mentality of redundancy is hammered into every fabric of life.
After all, you never know when a race of giants might drop by to wipe you off the face of your home planet, as unlikely as this might seem.
I'm not saying the enemy won't be doing that, but separating the main anti-ship weapon from the main ship, means the enemy must divert it's attack to TWO targets.
halving the enemy strength, the enemy will have to make a choice, destroy the guncannon? or the Ship controlling it? first? and if you survive the first assault will you have enough forces to attack the secondary one?
But if you concentrate your attack purely on the guncannon, risking irreplaceable forces to get past the firing ship, they will have a dilemma whether this will effectively disable these two threats?
It make sense in this context that the controlling ship will be heavily defend against anti-ship/fighter attacks and the enemy won't really know if there is another MASS anti-Ship weapon on the ship holding the guncannon?
Of course im talking of an enemy who has not encountered a battle flagship of a fleet before, but so far in the Macross universe, unless your facing enemies who are familiar with humans, all this counters in the battle of survival and tactics.
What you mean too big? The guncannon is about the same size as a medium frigate, the same ships you see around as escorts.
If they didn't, did you know the factory ships of the fleet are capable of building new frigates for the escort ships?
If they can build new ships of this size, what makes you think they cannon service or build a new gun cannon?
Seen the size of the city ships? the Island ships?
It's not impossible.
In the dangerous Macross universe with the power of the protoculture technology, don't underestimate the ability of factory units that are able to manufacture ships and equipment on a GIANT Scale.
Plus, if you don't have the resources, just call up a neighbouring fleet or colony planet and ask them to FOLD out a spare guncannon, i mean what are friends for if they can't spare you a guncannon ship or two?
like wise, if a Battloid flagship is involved in a battle that it finds itself in a desperate situation that NO ONE CAN IMAGINE (INVASION BY GIANTS???!!?! NNEEEVVEEEERR!!!)
Then swing around a guncannon the size of a spaceship doesn't sound far fetch,
oh, if you want an INSANE mental image, imagine it throwing a guncannon at the enemy, or even more funny, using it to hit asteroids.
...or pitching them.
|2008-05-15, 15:45
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Besides, you can't punch through capital ships without the SDF transforming, because that was pretty cleaver, and fun!
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The New Macross Class (and presumably the Macross Quarter Class) doesn't actually need to transform to shoot the Macross Cannon. In fact, the Macross Cannon unit is self-contained and could even maneuver separate from the Battle section.
That didn't stop them from transforming every time they fired it in Macross 7 though =/
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Well big bad ships that can transform to a robot may be a form of psychological warfare.
Pray that your flagship weapon isn't turned against you.
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JONESBORO — Former state Sen. Paul Bookout, who resigned last year after being cited for multiple ethics violations involving campaign spending, has begun returning contributions made by individual contributors to his 2012 re-election campaign, his attorney said.
Attorney Bill Stanley said most of the individual contributions were returned late last month and that Bookout still is in the process of refunding contributions made by political action committees.
Bookout, a former state senator from Jonesboro, resigned Aug. 20 after the state Ethics Commission ruled that he spent more than $53,000 from his re-election bid on clothing, home theater equipment and dozens of other personal items. He was fined $8,000 and reprimanded by the panel.
"Paul chose to do this on his own. If you noticed the ethics report, the ethics commission did not order him to reimburse anyone. But Paul decided to do it on his own," Stanley said.
Special Prosecutor Jack McQuary has been appointed to determine whether Bookout, who previously served as the Senate's president pro tem, should face any criminal charges. The Jonesboro Sun reported Wednesday that the criminal investigation into Bookout's actions is pending. A spokeswoman for the FBI declined to comment on whether a federal investigation is underway.
Bookout previously has said that he would reimburse his campaign $49,000 and repay contributors over the commission's findings.
The Ethics Commission said Bookout's spending included $5,043 for women's clothing and accessories, $8,402 for home theater equipment and installation, and $1,305 for golf equipment at a country club. The panel also said that more than $18,000 from the campaign was transferred to Bookout's personal bank account.
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A Rolla man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to seven years in prison earlier this month.
A Rolla man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl was sentenced to seven years in prison earlier this month.
According to the Phelps County Prosecutor's Office, 19-year-old Damon L. Downer pleaded guilty to the charge of deviate sexual assault, a class C felony, in the Pulaski County Circuit Court Oct. 9.
Downer admitted to subjecting the 14-year-old victim to deviate sexual contact in Rolla on May 9, 2013, without her consent.
Phelps County Senior Assistant Prosecutor John Garrabrant explained that because of Downer's age, the prosecution was required to prove that the victim did not consent to the contact.
"Statutory sodomy, where consent of the victim is not relevant, only applies when the victim is between 14 and 17 and the defendant is over 21," Garrabrant said. "Charging sexual assault requires that the state prove the additional element of lack of consent. However, evidence supporting lack of the victim's consent in this case was clear."
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Tyler Smith is a loser. After quitting his supermarket job in a fit of pique, he finds he can't get work anywhere else. With no prospects and the rent overdue, his only choice is to pick up the hunting rifle stashed in the corner and embark on a new career as a professional assassin.
As Tyler, you shuffle around an empty apartment. The interface is simple, and there's not much to do. You can look at a newspaper, go out to see some underground boxing or visit the gun shop, or get to the important part: reading your mail and going on missions.
Each mission gives you a situation and the distinguishing features of a target. (Most of the time, the target is the only person visible on the mission, so it's easy to tell who's who.) If you accept the mission, you equip your weapon and go shoot the target. If you don't, you go back to the apartment and shuffle around until you decide to accept the mission after all.
The missions are simple. You look at the scene through your sniper scope, then line up your shot, taking wind and distance into account. The game shows you how to adjust for these factors, and gives you plenty of time to shoot. It's almost impossible to fail.
After a successful mission, you collect your money, return to the apartment and start over. A few missions throw in variations, like a car bomb or an interrogation, but these are rare. The 20 missions are repetitive, and there are no significant decisions to make along the way. The game even tells you what weapon to choose and when to upgrade it.
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Several parts of the game feel unfinished. Printed dialogue sometimes appears in confusing locations, leaving you to figure out who said what. There is little music and no ambient background noise, which means the visuals have to do all the work. Misspellings appear throughout the text, and a cut scene where you visit a friend in the hospital doesn't make sense chronologically.
Add all the flaws up and you have a game that shouldn't work– but it does.
The empty apartments and desperate messages evoke a compelling feeling of despair. The expressive stick figures have a lot of personality, even when you're staring at them through a sniper scope. The characters grew on us, and when the game ended abruptly on a cliffhanger we wanted to find out what happened next.
Say what you will about games as art, but generally we look at games for how they play rather than as some kind of performance. But there is a place for games that use play to create a mood, and Clear Vision does this.
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In the fall of 2010, the Andrews University International Development Program (IDP) began a new cohort group of 38 graduate students in South Africa. Master of Science in Administration (MSA) students working in diverse non-governmental organizations such as ADRA, UNICEF and Save the Children are among those enrolled to study on the campus of Helderberg College. This is the first time the course has been offered in South Africa, allowing professionals from the African continent to study part-time without leaving their jobs.
"The program has a balance of theory and practice with each course having a focus to strengthen project cycle management skills in planning, assessment, implementation and evaluation," explains Dawn Dulhunty, director of the IDP. More importantly, students know that this master's gives them a competitive advantage in the humanitarian assistance job marketplace due to the unique teaching model of evidence-based practice, she says.
The MSA program encourages global humanitarian leadership development through intensive sessions, work-related learning, networking skill development and field-based location. As development practitioners in training, it asks students to address extremely complex societal issues. For example, topics from the 38 different research projects being planned by new students include: "What are the factors impacting premature marriage among Sudanese girls?"; "Exploring cultural and community integration of Congolese refugees around Johannesburg"; "Improved access to HIV/AID Antiretroviral treatment in Zambia"; and "What church leadership dynamics influence the dedication of SDA members in the Pacific Islands?"
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The program is doing more than meeting students where they are; it's also filling a need in South Africa. Clifford Nhlapo, an IDP student and one of the organizers behind the South Africa cohort, says, "Following the demise of Apartheid and the birth of a new socio-political dispensation in South Africa, it has become urgent that the country adopt a development paradigm which is designed to enable especially the previously disadvantaged communities to develop themselves. The International Development Program is a unique platform which government and civil society can and should utilize in order to make the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) a reality."
Students may join the program in any given year and are required to attend four three-week intensives over a three-year period. The MSA is the second largest graduate program at Andrews (the Master of Divinity program has a few more students) and is also offered in Chile, Japan, Italy, Ghana, Kenya and Canada (pending approval).
The International Development Program began in 1996 and offers full-time professionals the opportunity to earn their MSA by taking coursework on a part-time basis. The program is open to all non-governmental organizations, pastors, educators and health professionals. It aims to build staff capacity in humanitarian leadership through field-based graduate education.


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"You simply cannot afford to stand still," Robinson told the city officials who'd hired him, or the city's growing population would cause an unacceptable rise "in congestion, in ... discomfort and ugliness, and in paucity of municipal effectiveness."
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This modules provides rudimentary natural language generation (NLG) utilities. That is, generating natural language from a machine representation. Initially, only English is supported at all. Representations are implemented for:
- countable nouns (plurality); and * lists of clauses (foo, bar and/or baz).
englishNum :: Countable n => Int -> n -> ShowSSource
englishNum 0 (Noun "watch") "" == "watches" englishNum 1 (Noun "watch") "" == "watch" englishNum 2 (Noun "watch") "" == "watches"
Things that have a plural and singular spelling
This only distinguishes between nouns with a final -ch, and nouns which do not. More irregular nouns will just need to have their own type
plural (Noun "batch") "" == "batches" plural (Noun "bat") "" == "bats" plural (Noun "mouse") "" == "mouses" -- :-(
singular This (Noun "batch") "" == "this batch" plural This (Noun "batch") "" == "these batches"
orClauses :: [String] -> StringSource
Given a list of things, combine them thusly:
orClauses ["foo", "bar", "baz"] == "foo, bar or baz"
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titanium_s_spec replied to Nightowl's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubFord will finally give us an official hot version of the Fiesta, due to arrive next year. The Fiesta ST will sit above the current fastest Fiesta, the rather lukewarm Zetec S. This contradicts Ford's original line at the launch of the current car that there wouldn't be an official hot version. It is thought that this change of heart has been brought about due to the introduction Fiesta in the WRC this year in order to comply with the new S2000 rules that have come into force this season. The Fiesta ST will get a 180bhp version of the 1.6-litre Ecoboost engine, which is broadly (and we mean very broadly) similar to the one found in this year's WRC car. The Fiesta ST is set to compete against rivals such as the Renaultsport Clio 200, the Seat Ibiza Cupra and the Volkswagen Polo GTi. Whilst there is no official word on performance, it is a saf(ish) bet that it will be on a par with the Clio, giving away 20bhp but weighing in at almost exactly 200kg lighter than its French counterpart. There has been no official word on price, but expect it to go on sale at around £16,500 pounds, undercutting its Renault rival by £300 against the Cup version and £1300 against a highly specced model. Ford is also dipping its toe into the hot hatch water first with a limited run of 500 'warm' 134 bhp S 1600s. This will be used to test the market for a small hot(ish) Ford.
Fiesta Mk 7 MPG
titanium_s_spec replied to Chris Ecc's topic in Ford Fiesta ClubOk i am posting my latest mpg from my car 1.6 140mountune,and it is 50mpg which i have a photo to prove.But !Removed! hell ooops for swearing it was boring, i drove back from bournemouth on sunday at 60mph on the old cruise control and did not even touch the brakes untill 3 miles from home. at ont stage it topped 51.2 mpg and it cost me 14 £ in fuel.beet that public transport.
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Renal Failure and Cat Grass
My cat is 15 years old and she has just been diagnosed with renal failure. The vet said that usually by the time it shows up on tests, the kidneys are 2/3 to 3/4 failed. This was about a month or so ago. We have her on a diet now that is specifically for feline renal failure as well as a vitamin powder and a phosphorus binder - all of which she is consuming with no problem. She does go outdoors but mostly is indoors. When she is outdoors, we are out there with her and she does not wander. She eats grass outside, which I understand is quite normal. I am wondering if anyone knows if she is allowed to have 'oat' grass. I have a message in to the vet but she is not back to the clinic until early next week and I am just looking for information while we wait, though I will wait for the vet's reply before I actually give my cat the grass. Thank you to anyone who may have some input. It will be much appreciated
Totally fine for her to eat grass.
That prescription renal diet though, leaves a lot to be desired. There are much healthier options with way better ingredients (that won't cause muscle wasting like the low protein ones do), although most vets don't endorse them (probably cause they aren't making money off them). Do you know what her lab results (blood and urinalysis) are?
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
So, the oat grass is okay (as opposed to the outside grass)?
I was wondering about her having less protein...I'd like to look into that. Any tips on where to research "other options"?
Yes, I have her test results. Biochemistry: Urea is increased at 15.4 as is her creatinine at 319. Anion gap is 26.6. Haematology: White cell count 4.0 (decreased with normal 4.2-15.6) - she has always had low white cell count... Her hematocrit is 0.46. Decreased neutrophils and lymphocytes.
Her urinalysis showed sediment (moderate amorphous debris and transitional epithelial 1-5/HPF).
CBC: Mild neutropenia - cells have mild toxic change. May support foci of pooling or increased tissue demand. Stress lymphopenia. HCT - dehydration. T4looks ok.
Urinalys: Isosthenuria.
Biochemistry: Renal azotemia.
Obviously there is much more on the results that I don't understand but these are the values which are out of normal range.
P.S. Thank you so much for your reply...
love those pics!! Makes me think I need a much larger cat grass growing pan!! My guys would appreciate that very much. Haha maybe a kiddie pool!!
When it comes to eating grass I kind of side with SCM allowing the cat to eat grass. With that being said you don't want to do anything that's going to upset the stomach, or upset the stomach acidity especially with your cat suffering from renal disease. I'm enclosing a few websites that might be of interest to you to have look at. The first one is just an article on cat grass that is interesting reading. The following 2 deal with renal failure, foods and alternative medicines.
I hope these websites will shed some light on your problem, and hopefully some of the other members who have more experience in this than I have will add their comments too.
Regards the low protein, some of the vets are having 2nd thoughts on it. The vet that I am using for Jet's Renal Failure, handed me a can of prescription diet food and stated that she was not happy with the protein level in it, and suggested that I add some cooked chicken to it to increase the protein level.
after looking at those pics of the cat grass, I got myself a big foil lasagna pan and filled it with dirt and cat grass seeds!! Right now it's hidden in the back porch to germinate. I figure if I let Coco know before it's ready, he'd be beside himself wanting it. He gets excited enough about the small pans I've done! I promise to get pics of them enjoying themselves!
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In Romania they-at least where I come from-they often keep the newly ordained deacon or priest at the cathedral for about 40 days to serve there daily, since it is the only place that has daily liturgy anyways.A friend though, went much faster through the process, since he had a wife with a small kid at home, that needed him.
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|2006-08-31, 10:22
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Gone for Good
Join Date: Apr 2004
For a while I was playing Star Ocean 3, but I was put off by its way too steep learning curve. I'm more of an "old-school" RPGamer, and I prefer the old-styled turn based stuff. Plus the older one gets, the less time one can concentrate on any RPGs, especially one so complicated as SO3. So I've decided to just pull all my resources (i.e. free time, besides anime of course) on one RPG franchise - the Suikoden series, starting with Suikoden V.
I know it's out for nearly half a year now, but its release coincided with a wonderful light-novel based anime about an eccentric cute girl and her supernatural antics (no prizes for guessing). Anyway, I've finally gotten myself to start playing, and oh yes, Suikoden V definately has that Suikoden feel to it again, something that was plain absent in III and IV, especially IV.
(This also means Haruhi-ists will be calling for my head for not translating the novels lately. )
I don't know if this place includes Bishoujo Games as well, but at the moment, I'm also trying to finish Tick! Tack!, the Nerine spin off to SHUFFLE!, before the Kaede spin off Really? Really! comes out sometime next month.
|2006-08-31, 14:15
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I just worked on Suikoden V yesterday.. how was it for you? It's got wayyyy too much loading times for me. It even has a loading screen after battles.. however, the characters in the first 4 hours are compelling me to play on. Even FFXII has fewer loading times than this..
|2006-08-31, 14:49
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If you like V already arias you'll be fine. Waaay too many people who seem to hate the first 8 hours for 'being too slow' (hello? it's character development, and good character development at that). Whole game needs more Miakis though, she wasn't in it anywhere near enough. You'll get used to the loading times, I'd forgotten about them but they did kinda bug me when I was playing, especially when you've got an emotional scene going, the music suddenly cuts off and you have to watch people run/viki teleport while it loads.
Also, how is ICO? I know nothing of it other than it's by the same people as Shadow of the Colossus. I think.
|2006-08-31, 15:52
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It's highly naturalistic (I don't mean setting) and bareboned. For a 2001 game, it has very few loading times and gameplay is often seamless.. the graphics are also quite gorgeous. Parts of it are dated like the lack of textures, but overall it was really sometimes stunning. This ties in with the naturalism I talked about; maps are often huge in scale and you really get a sense of things..
Because there are no NPCs, no (real) equipment, no other complex systems like menus and such, the game keeps you very focused on the characters. It is often very intense, and the lack of bg music makes it all the more so. There are also very subtle character interactions... I don't know how far I should talk about this but as you know, there are two characters and you play one of them, guiding and protecting the other. Although the designer didn't make "co-operation" a big intent in his design, it turns out it's quite striking to the player.
If you're a loving person, I'm sure the game will spike your instinct to protect. I certainly had my filling to protect a beautiful, aloof, white ice princess onee-san
The game is admittedly minimalistic. The richness doesn't come from density of in-game material but the clarity and intensity of what is there. It uses music rarely, but I've had the save-game song on constant loop on my Winamp for the past two days (I'm sometimes obsessive for my muzak ;p).. it's whimsical and beautiful. Controls are rather sharp but at times the platformer-aspect of it annoys. The game plays out rather beautifully towards the end. If you can get it for cheap and try it, I recommend you to do so. Would be worth it. Space-wise also fits on a CD.
I've been vigorously engaged with finding out more about its ending and its overall plotline the past two days, and it certainly still is on my mind now.
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ok a little update, I've basically scrapped all other games I've posted before and am currently tackling Star Ocean: Till' the End of Time before my boot disk arrives...
...anything to tide over the urge to watch haruhi another 3 times over...
|2006-08-31, 22:45
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Can't wait to sink my teeth in =B
|2006-09-01, 12:57
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Day Dreams...
I guess I'm playing just about as anime a game can get, Disgaea 2 (which came out yesturday, although I had no idea. I was just crusing the internet and it had peaked my interest before; I just liked Final Fantasy Tactics Advance a lot back in the day (last year...) and figured that this would be a new twist on that). It's pretty fun so far although the voice acting and story definitly makes me feel a little too old for it heh. But oh well thus the escapism. And no, I never played the first.
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BTW- I recommend turning on the japanese voice acting- I don't know how people stand the dubs
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|2006-09-01, 14:16
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I tried Disgeae too, it's a great game with a nice story but FFT better.
And I don't know why it's called SRPG, it's tactics not strategy, hell when the hell people started using SRPG? All I remember are RPG, tactical RPG and real-time RPG.
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Plot-wise, I'll grant that Disgaea is charming.. but FFT was ambitious, and a real work of art. Anyway, I'll grant you that some people would think it's the "best strategy RPG of all time", but plenty plenty plenty more will disagree ; )
|2006-09-01, 22:31
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Well since my computer is dead I can mercifully refrain from that list.
Let's see:
Super Robot Wars F/Final/MX/Impact/Alpha3/GC/OG/2,3,EX Complete Box
Metal Gear Solid 1 & 3.
Castlevania Dawn Of Sorrow
Trauma Center Under The Knife
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Advance Wars Dual Strike
Front Mission 4
Another Centuries Episode 1 & 2
Phantom Brave
Makai Kingdom
Xenosaga Episode 1
Devil May Cry 3 SE
Tales Of Legendia
Gundam MS Saga
Kingdom Hearts II
Prince Of Persia Sands Of Time
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
New Super Mario Bros.
Mario and Luigi Partners In Time
Metal Saga
Metroid Prime
Super Mario Sunshine
Fire Emblem Path Of Radiance
No, That's not a list of all the games I own, these are just the ones I'm actively playing, and this does not include the list of computer games I was playing before my computer's power supply imploded.
Oh and wouldn't Shuffle! be considered more of an experience then "Playing A Game".
|2006-09-03, 00:41
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Calming Everyday Life
Join Date: Dec 2004
Age: 31
All the FFT fans should really play Tactics Ogre : Let us cling together.
Completely stellar game. As for Disgaea being the best SRPG ever, well, simply opinion. A lot of people didn't really like Disgaea due to it not being...y'know. Serious.
Plus I love the Front Mission series to death to say that. Especially for PS2 strategy, FM4 is quite good.
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The thing with NIS games is that they have alot of ways to customize and level your character (beyond normal level caps) and some maps that were made for massive XP farming. As such, with proper preparation, you can literally bulldoze through story maps. But that is exactly the charm of NIS games IMO.
Story-wise, NIS games are more comedic and wacky; while FFT is dead serious. Can't really do a comparison for that since both games target a different set of people.
Guitar Freaks Drummania Masterpieces Silver (or something like that)
First impression was that there wasn't enough songs that were good. After going through most of the songs, I found that the average playability of all the songs in GFDM MS is higher than GFDMV. So I guess it's baibai to GFDMV. ^^
|2006-09-03, 05:22
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As for Orge Battle, I heard it was the prototype for FFT, really. The character relationship template (brothers & sisters) was built in OB by Matsuno and polished up in FFT. Regardless, I might play it one day.. might.. ; ) Right now I'm still slaving away on Suikoden V, FM V and Vagrant Story.
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Technically speaking, I'm playing Quake1 (yep the old classic FPS game, still fun to play after all these years). But not in its original form. I'm playing using a TC (Total Conversion) known as Minako Quake which turns your character into Sailor Venus (albeit with powers of almost all the other senshi as well as her own, and she even has Sailor Saturn's Silence Glaive, which serves as a last resort attack by blowing everything up). See these screenshots of the Senshi Attacks.
Thanks to that mod I'm fragging those monsters with the cool senshi attacks - my favorite is the Jupiter Oak Evolution, which can kill most monsters with one shot (the Shambler can be taken down with two J.O.E.'s), followed by Mars Burning Mandala (good for killing groups of weak enemies like the grunts, enforcers, and knights), and the Venus Crescent Beam (good for blowing things up, like groups of zombies - just stay out of the blast radius or you're really gonna get hurt!). And there's the Venus Love Me Chain, which is used like the Grappling Hook in the CTF games so you can get around to normally impossible-to-reach places.
Apparently the author of the mod has a thing against Sailor Chibi/Mini Moon, and somehow turned the Wizard/Scragg (the flying armless thing) into Quake2's Technician (the barrel shaped flying thing) and renamed it the "Pink Spore Monster", except that it shouts "Pink Sugar Heart Attack" when fighting and even shoots those tiny pink hearts to add to the effect.
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I saw commit log, github.com/openmediavault/open…6b96f3abbc99ec9e1586405a4
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I'm curious about your plan
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i'm interested in joining /authenticate users to a W2012R2 ActiveDirectory, but i'm not able to get this link: forum.openmediavault.org/index…-Directory-Domain-V2-pdf/
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I saw the Guide to "Upgrade to OMV 2.x" Is it possible to upgrade OMV 2.2.8 to 3.x and if so is there a Guide or post that describes the process? I searched but didn't find. Thanks!
Have a look here, it is the same vor OMV3: forum.openmediavault.org/index…10049-Upgrade-to-OMV-2-x/
But check your plugins if they are ported to OMV3 already before upgrading.
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