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Sunday, December 18, 2016
Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing
I can't say enough good stuff about the
GM's Miscellany
series of releases.
GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing
might actually make the top of the list.
Although technically released for Pathfinder, it is 95% plus system neutral and an excellent resource if you want to make your dungeons come alive.
While I previously owned
Dungeon Dressing
in PDF (which you can grab for $9.97 today instead of the regular $19.95),
Raging Swan
has also put the Print plus PDF version on sale for $16 in softcover. Considering that the softcover is normally $24 on its own, $16 is a steal. Yes, they got my $16 today...
What's inside:
Tired of dungeons lacking in verisimilitude? Want to add cool little features of interest to your creations but don't have the time to come up with nonessential details? Want to make your dungeons feel more realistic?
GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing
is for you! This gigantic compilations comprises all 34 installments in the line as well as scores of riddles, new material and design essays by Creighton. GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing presents loads of great features to add to your dungeon. Designed to be used both during preparation or actual play, GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing is an invaluable addition to any GM's armoury!
GM's Miscellany: Dungeon Dressing presents the material originally appearing in:
Dungeon Dressing: Altars
Dungeon Dressing: Archways
Dungeon Dressing: Bridges
Dungeon Dressing: Captives
Dungeon Dressing: Ceilings
Dungeon Dressing: Chests
Dungeon Dressing: Corpses
Dungeon Dressing: Doom Paintings
Dungeon Dressing: Doors
Dungeon Dressing: Double Doors
Dungeon Dressing: Dungeon Entrances
Dungeon Dressing: Dungeon Names
Dungeon Dressing: Fiendish Traps I
Dungeon Dressing: Fiendish Traps II
Dungeon Dressing: Floors
Dungeon Dressing: Fountains
Dungeon Dressing: Gates & Portals
Dungeon Dressing: Goblin's Pockets
Dungeon Dressing: Legends
Dungeon Dressing: Legends II
Dungeon Dressing: Mundane Chest Contents
Dungeon Dressing: Pits
Dungeon Dressing: Pools
Dungeon Dressing: Portcullises
Dungeon Dressing: Sarcophagi
Dungeon Dressing: Secret Doors
Dungeon Dressing: Simple Magic Traps
Dungeon Dressing: Stairs
Dungeon Dressing: Statues
Dungeon Dressing: Tapestries
Dungeon Dressing: Thrones
Dungeon Dressing: Trapdoors
Dungeon Dressing: Walls
Dungeon Dressing: Wells
So What's The Riddle Like, Anyway?
So What's The Riddle Like, Anyway? II
So What's The Riddle Like, Anyway? III
New Material: Three new fiendish traps as well as material focusing on concealed doors, strange growths, illumination, graffiti and loads of miscellaneous dungeon features; also includes nine dungeon design essays by Creighton.
All That Glimmer: Also includes as a free special bonus are treasures hoards 1-20 from All That Glimmers - after all, what's a dungeon without treasure!
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December 19, 2016 at 5:40 AM
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Today was a good for me I had been wanting to get a Lofty Libram ever since I saw my friends. After checking the Forums here and reading all the comments about where to find this companion I was ready to go. When I got to the spot I was going to farm 28.87 - 43.43 I must have killed 200 Rats ( So it seamed ) I did battle 3 rats hoping that a Lofty Libram would be the 2nd pet but I wasn't very lucky . After about 40 to 50 mins I had 2 Lofty Librams spawn both were poor but that was OK with me I'm lucky to have a Battle Stone to upgrade one to a Rare. I hope this information will help someone else get there first Lofty Libram to.
Here is a link to the Lofty Libram here on the site for those who do not know
http://www.warcraftpets.com/wow-pets/ma ... ty-libram/

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If you were scandalized by Miley Cyrus' performance Sunday at the VMAs, get ready to have your shock codified in the English language.
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It joins other pop-culture effluvia like "selfie," "derp," "digital diet" and "Bitcoin" as new additions to the palette of modern language in the online edition.
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But nothing is more ratchet than making the cut at the formal registry of how we speak English, so congratulations are due all around, we suppose. Good work, Anglophone nations. Good work.
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It has long been said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. But one woman has taken that adage and turned it into a mission statement.
Stephanie Smith, a New York Post reporter and author of the blog "300 Sandwiches," is midway through a challenge to make her boyfriend hoagies, sliders and banh mi sandwiches under the auspice that when she has reached 300, he will propose.
The mission began in 2012 when, after preparing a turkey-and-swiss for Eric Schulte, he devoured it and told Smith, "Honey, you're 300 sandwiches away from an engagement ring!" according to a personal account she wrote on the blog documenting her project and in a column for the New York Post this week.
Since launching, the recipes and photography featured on 300 Sandwiches have been crave-worthy enough to attract the attention of celebrity chefs such as Emeril Lagasse. But Schulte's original exclamation inspired a wave of Internet backlash from feminists, who say he should make sandwiches for himself. Others claim Smith is merely trying to market herself and her almost-fiance for a book deal.
I'm better than just making #300sandwiches for an engagement ring. Make your own sandwich dammit. I'll buy myself a ring. Lol— Chelle Carey (@ZETAZEN) September 26, 2013
Let's all get real & acknowledge that #300sandwiches is yet another brilliant scheme to get a book/TV/movie deal and it's probably working.— Sam Lee (@samsuperstar) September 26, 2013
Smith responded to her detractors with a follow-up essay in the Post on Thursday.
"Some people read into the article too literally," she wrote. "This project is not about me promoting myself as some gourmet chef, nor a desperate plot to win Eric's love — or a movie deal or Internet fame. It's an idea that made us laugh and made for a good, lighthearted blog with some drool-inducing sandwich photos."
The Post and Smith's publicist declined an interview with ABC News. Perhaps she was too busy in the kitchen. After all, there are 123 sandwiches left to go.


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American Dad: Volume 5 (US - DVD R1)
Gabe tries to convince you that unlike new Family Guy, this is a good show...
In the beginning American Dad was very much 'that other Seth MacFarlane show', but as the quality of Family Guy dipped, leading many fans to realize there wasn't much behind the show to begin with, American Dad surprisingly emerged as the more original, incendiary, and funny show. All shows go throw growing pains, but few shows see a sharp quality increase in their third and fourth seasons. However, I think the reason for American Dad's emergence as the superior MacFarlane show is actually pretty obvious when you look at the release dates of the first good episodes. The show, which was conceived as an excuse for staunch Liberal MacFarlane and his writing buddies to poke more pointed fun at post-9/11 Conservative America, started to click right around the time George W. Bush left office. With their easy target replaced with the relatively unfunny Obama administration (love him or hate him, Obama simply isn't the accidental comedic genius Bush was), the show was forced to adapt or die.
What makes the show better than Family Guy? Well, the lack of cut-away gags certainly doesn't hurt (it's not really a sit-com if it doesn't have any situation comedy, now is it?), but I think it's actually the characters that make the difference. American Dad's characters are no less arch than Family Guy's, but they've been given more room to grow on the whole. Family Guy is basically the Brain and Stewie show these days, and neither character works as a consistent lead. Roger the Alien is an obvious Stewie analogue, but he's kept a B-character more consistently. Roger's major character traits are also more bizarre and original. This volume of American Dad does threaten to over-expose Roger, but most of the Roger-centric episodes feel anomalous among the rest, and the exception rather than the rule. The writers have since widened their canvas to include their entire cast, though Francine is rarely given A-story material to work with minus Stan or Roger. The bigger and on-going problem, even now that the series has official been moved to the 'good' category, is that too many plotlines depend on Stan being generally a horrible person. This approach worked for The Simpsons, Family Guy and longer running Adult Swim favourites like Aqua Teen Hunger Force, but grew old, and is a symptomatic problem for modern sit-coms in general.
This volume five collection features fourteen episodes from the fourth season. There are some genuinely good episodes throughout the other seasons, and some of the developed character traits are lost in context, but overall I'd say this is a pretty solid place for viewers to start their American Dad experience. The overall collection is pretty consistent, but features a handful of standouts. 'Phantom of the Telethon' sets things off right with a healthy dose of darkly tinted political satire (Stan is holding a telethon because the CIA's 'torture budget' has been cut), and a good spot for all the major characters, especially Roger, who sees the whole event as an excuse to play Phantom of the Opera. 'Bar Mitzvah' is a fan, and (according to this collection's extras) writer favourite, and a generally great episode in terms of story structure, which apes Soderberg's Ocean's 11 remake, and all the films that inspired it. It's also the only episode in the collection to brush Stan almost entirely aside, including even a joke to point out the character's incidental presence in the story. 'Delorean Story-an' features a rare genuinely sweet father son story with relatively little subversion, and character elements that are specific to the series, rather than well-made replays of older episodes of The Simpsons. 'Weiner of Our Discontent' is, to date, the ultimate Roger-centric episode, and features one of the more satisfying A to B story wraparounds. 'Daddy Queerest' is the strongest episode overall, featuring poignant remarks on the politics of homosexuality, and a hilariously wrong-headed tirade against teen drinking from Roger. 'Jack's Back' isn't my favourite episode overall, but does feature the best dialogue exchange in the collection, when Haley beats Roger at his own game of dress-up and make believe.
American Dad has begun to air episodes in high definition with a widened 16x9 framing this year, but all previous seasons, including the episodes on this collection, were presented in 480i and 1.33:1 framing. It's quite likely the next volume release will be made available on Blu-ray, but until then fans have this perfectly adequate standard definition release to fill out their collections. Up-scaled by my Blu-ray player every episode features vibrant colours, blacks are solid, and elements are well separated. The show features a very simple visual style, with few shading elements, and basic, flat background elements, so detail really isn't an issue, though sharpness sometimes is. The whole print features minor, thin, white edge-enhancement, especially on the hard black lines. There is minor compression noise and blocking throughout, specifically on brighter background elements, and I caught quite a few interlacing effects. Objects and characters in quick, cross-screen motion are a bit 'fluttery', and there are combing artefacts on speedier mouth changeovers.
Each episode in this collection features a solid Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix. The sound isn't much more expressive than a Dolby Surround mix in terms of stereo and surround elements, but the centred dialogue and LFE increase makes a real difference (though the throb of simple footstep effects is a bit overwhelming at times). Directional effects are mostly of the left and/or right to centre variety, but there are occasional rear element effects, like crowd noise, or big echo effects (the end of 'Daddy Queerest' features very effective stadium sound). The opening credit song and interlude music are pretty wide in scope, and just as theatrical as major motion picture scores. I should probably note that the dialogue is uncensored, which means there are plenty of naughty words that were cut from the original television airings.
Every episode in the collection features crew commentary. Participants vary from episode to episode and include creator/producers Matt Weitzman and Mike Barker, directors Brent Woods, Pam Cooke, Joe Daniello, Chris Bennet, Albert Colleros, Rodney Clouden, and Josue Cervantes, writers Brian Boyle, Nahnatchka Khan, Erik Sommers, Matt Fusfeld, and Laura McCreary, actress Wendy Schaal, and composer Walter Murphy, among others. Despite the constant cast change-up these tracks remain pretty consistent in tone. Everyone is dry, self-deprecating, and share a fun rapport with one another. Weitzman, being the one unifying element of all the tracks, acts as moderator as best he can. I can't say sitting through all of them didn't turn into a bit of a chore, but considering the sheer quantity of talking I can't say it's the worst I've dealt with. Disc two also features a 'Fact-Up' mode on 'Bar Mitzvah Hustle', which is a basic approximation of similar trivia tracks that appear on Blu-ray releases. The trivia is actually pretty informative, and covers more than the specific episode.
Disc four finishes the extras off with a collection of deleted/extended/alternate scenes, and the 'Power Hour Drinking Game'. There are twelve episodes that featured deleted scenes, and each episode is divided into its own section of brief chapters These are mostly brief dialogue gags, and mostly presented in the form of completed animation, with actual cast performances. The editors cut a lot of Klaus, apparently. The 'Power Hour Drinking Game' is a disappointment. Instead of an actual 'drinking game', one that requires the audience to pay attention to the on-screen information, this is a series of clips from the previous season. Each clip last approximately a minute, and is followed by an image of Roger drinking, with a prompt to take a drink. It's a nice clip collection, running approximately an hour, but a dumb 'game'.
American Dad keeps improving with time, and until it begins the same descent in quality that has brutalized Family Guy (which I fear is inevitable) I'm going to continue championing the show, and demand fans of animated comedy give it a proper shot. This volume five collection is a good place to start, and features some of the best episodes to date. Previous volume releases are not quite as satisfying, but are interesting if viewers are looking to watch an awkward series find its footing. I'm very excited for the next volume, which won't only feature my favourite episodes ('In Country…Club', 'Home Adrone', 'Rapture's Delight', 'May the Best Stan Win' and 'A Bully for Steve'), but should be released on Blu-ray disc. Until that time, this standard definition collection does fine, despite some interlacing artefacts. The commentary tracks are a big plus in the collection's favour, even if they don't match those of the Futurama or Venture Bros releases.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th June 2010
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Extras: Cast and Crew Commentaries, Bar Mitzvah Hustle Fact-Up Trivia, Deleted Scenes, The Power Hour Drinking Game
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Dee Bradley Baker
Genre: Animation and Comedy
Length: 306 minutes
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Severe Post Partum Haemorrhage (PPH): A Randomized Trial on Transversal Intervention in 6 French Perinatal Networks
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00344929
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified April 2007 by Hospices Civils de Lyon.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : June 27, 2006
Last Update Posted : April 27, 2007
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Hypothesis A "multifaceted" intervention program aimed at increasing the responsiveness of care givers, the adequacy of care provided, and the efficacy of organisation of care, in presence of abnormal blood loss in the immediate post partum has more impact on the incidence of severe PPH and on the costs of care than the current methods of dissemination of clinical practice guidelines.
Intervention Intervention group. The intervention includes three components: (1) outreach visits with local presentation of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for management of PPH, and discussion of their applicability in the context of local organisation; (2) during these educational visits, reminders - check list, "PPH emergency case" containing appropriate materials – to be used in case of PPH, will be proposed; (3) finally, cases of severe PPH will be reviewed during peer review sessions organized in each participating unit, to help identifying weaknesses in care provided, and needs for improvement.
Control group. The proposed guidelines for management of PPH will be disseminated through the participating perinatal networks; then each unit will be free to implement them at its own convenience.
Randomisation procedure The trial follows a cluster randomised trial design. Randomisation of maternity units will be stratified by region, status (public versus private) and size (annual number of deliveries). The stratified design will guarantee the comparability of the two arms of the trial at baseline.
Outcome measures The primary outcome is the incidence of severe PPH (number of severe PPH to number of deliveries). A severe PPH is defined as a PPH that was associated with one or more of the following: peripartum haemoglobin drop greater than 4g/dl, blood transfusion, arterial embolisation, surgical procedures such as hysterectomy or arterial ligation, transfer of the mother to intensive care unit, maternal death.
Secondary outcomes include the cost of care and the cost/efficacy ratio, and the incidence of adverse effects of uterotonic drugs.
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|Severe Post Partum Haemorrhage (PPH): A Randomized Trial on Transversal Intervention in 6 French Perinatal Networks
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|November 2005
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|15 Years to 45 Years (Child, Adult)
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For maternity units All maternity units belonging to one of the six perinatal networks of the study are eligible.
For women All women delivering at a gestational age greater than 22 weeks, in one of the participating maternity unit during the study period, will be eligible.
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00344929
|Contact: Cyrille COLIN, MD
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|Lyon, France, 69003
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|Principal Investigator: René-Charles RUDIGOZ, MD
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|René-Charles RUDIGOZ, MD
|Hospices Civils de Lyon
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|April 2007
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Pathologic Processes
Obstetric Labor Complications
Pregnancy Complications
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American WCL '10
How much does a clerkship make up for mediocre grades?
October 08, 2009, 03:28:47 PM »
First of all, this is totally not a flame - so don't turn it in to one, please. During the spring semester of my 2L year, I interned for a Sr. Judge at the US Court of Federal Claims. As it became apparent that no firm was going to hire me as a summer associate, I offered to stay with the Judge through the summer. After 8 months of service, I was offered a clerkship for 1 year after I graduate. I want to practice government contract law, which is an area of law that the COFC has primary jurisdiction to hear.
My other credentials aren't super impressive. I'm in the top 40% of my class, no journal, no moot court/mock trial, but am currently participating in our school's Civil Practice Clinic. The field of law I want to practice is somewhat limited to large Vault firms, with only a handful of smaller firms in the practice area. I have tried to network my ass off with the partners in many of the larger firms. QUESTION(S): How much will this clerkship do for my resume absent other credentials? Do I have a prayer with larger firms after my clerkship?
big - fat - box
Re: How much does a clerkship make up for mediocre grades?
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October 09, 2009, 03:57:51 AM »
If the clerkship offer is genuine, you should take it no matter what. Worry about the effect on large firm jobs later. If you weren't going to get one of those right out of school anyway, you have nothing to lose by doing the clerkship. I doubt anyone on this board is going to have a straight answer for you. You're going to have to find a mentor in your field who can give you the info. My gut reaction is that the clerkship alone isn't going to be enough, and that you'll probably need a few years of work experience to look attractive to a big firm.
Also remember that many branches of the federal government deal with FAR/government contract issues. A lot of agencies will not hire outside the honors programs except for attorneys with several years of experience, but it's something to keep in mind for later. Basically, make connections now and hold onto them so you can draw on them later. I would definitely not limit myself to networking only with large firm partners. Find out who the smaller firms are and get close with the people there. Lastly, you could try to get a job working for one of the actual contractors.
American WCL '10
Re: How much does a clerkship make up for mediocre grades?
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October 09, 2009, 12:37:31 PM »
The clerkship offer is genuine - and I accepted it today. There was never a question of NOT accepting it.
Thanks for the tips. I have probably met, and kept in contact w/, 20-30 partners at top law firms that have a decent practice in government contracts. I'll definitely keep in contact with them and see where we go from there. Hopefully the hiring market will change a little bit in the next 1 1/2 years and MAYBE, just MAYBE, I'll land at a good firm!
big - fat - box
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October 09, 2009, 01:38:57 PM »
Congrats on the clerkship. I imagine the judge will open some doors and maybe pull some strings for you. Just keep expanding your network and keep in touch with the contacts you have.
Like I said just don't focus on only large DC firms. They are very elitist in terms of grades and school name. Even moreso than large firms in other large cities. And they are hurting big time from the economic downturn. They just might not have a need for additional hiring in that practice group in the next 1.5 years. Or they may have a surplus of candidates who are experienced govt. contract lawyers, former fed. agency lawyers, or grads of top schools.
Believe or not, firms with practice areas in your field exist in other states, even states on the opposite side of the country. Maybe try to find people who are established in their legal careers that clerked for your judge back in the day. I'd imagine there are some working in areas outside DC biglaw. Also, try to get connected with the other COFC judges. They may be able to help you also.
Re: How much does a clerkship make up for mediocre grades?
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November 03, 2009, 04:28:06 PM »
Agree with everything BFB said above. Also, a minor but salient point: in interviews, conversations, etc., never pitch your clerkship experience as an asset that counterbalances your grades. You're not compensating for what you did in law school -- this isn't a tit for tat exchange.
Phrases like "at least," "but," "luckily," etc. will all convey that you know you have some bad history behind you and you're eager to whitewash with your future actions. And that kind of attitude may come across as defensive or weak. Also, it encourages people to draw false and ridiculous comparisons (e.g., arbitrarily deciding that a clerkship "excuses" three Cs, or something equally inapt).
Draw a firm line between your academic career and your professional career. While you may have struggled in law school (due to XYZ reasons), make it clear that you have NEVER struggled professionally. Your work product is excellent, your demeanor professional, your skill set is well above your peers, and you have the respect and admiration of judges and seasoned attorneys. You know what you want, you go after it, and you're a success.
Pay homage to the profession and your career goals; explain that your success now is because you're in your element, in a way that you weren't during law school. "The thing I was bad at, back then? It required particular skills, which I didn't have at the time. The things I'm good at now? They require these particular skills, which I have in abundance and which you really want."
By your attitude, your word choice, and your general confidence, you can indicate to colleagues and potential employers that you don't think you need to "make up" for your poor performance back then. That was then -- a different place, a different beast. School really is completely different from the working world. You are a success in ONE of those arenas. In the other, you didn't do as well as you would've liked. Oh, well.
Even attorneys who did well in school (and who may be skeptical of your XYZ reasons) will still approve heartily of the maturity of your perspective. They all know that law school doesn't prepare a person for legal practice, and obviously they're all in legal practice now. So, play up to their ego and to your strengths: tell them that what they're doing now, which they're obviously proud of, is what you're good at and what you want to do.
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More seats on Wairarapa peak hour train
Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council
Wairarapa peak hour commuters are enjoying a less crowded train home now that an extra carriage has been added to the 4.25pm service from Wellington to Masterton. The train now runs with eight carriages instead of seven.6 December 2012
More seats on Wairarapa peak hour train
Wairarapa peak hour commuters are enjoying a less crowded train home now that an extra carriage has been added to the 4.25pm service from Wellington to Masterton.
The train now runs with eight carriages instead of seven.
Peter Glensor, Chair of Greater Wellington Regional Council's Economic Wellbeing Committee, says he's pleased the extra carriage has been added as the overcrowding on that particular service has been happening for quite some time.
"Concerns about insufficient capacity on that service came through pretty clearly when we started a review of Wairarapa public transport services in 2011. A survey we did as part of that review found that 50% of all north-bound passengers use the 4.25pm service each day. For a few months now people have had to stand all the way to Featherston. So it's great that with KiwiRail's cooperation we've been able to increase capacity on that service. Regular commuters have told us it's making a real difference.
"We're aware that the overcrowding on that service has deterred people from taking the train and they've reverted to their cars. I'm sure that when word gets out about the increased capacity, people will come back to rail. It's a lot cheaper to take the train than drive that distance every day and it saves quite a bit of wear and tear on your car."
Peter Glensor says the Regional Council has also recently let the contract for the conversion of six carriages, previously used on the Hutt Valley Line, for use on the Wairarapa Line. "Having more carriages available will give Tranz Metro a bit more flexibility, particularly when carriages have to be taken off line for maintenance or repairs."
These additional carriages are expected to be ready for service on the Wairarapa Line around the middle of year.
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Welcome to the Tournaments Discussion Forum
i have a question, if i and somebody else will finish the group with the same number o points, and i have a lower rating than he does, who's gonna go further?
I am new to this site and so far I like it. My question is about having a tournament created for geographical location. Is it possible?
Is there any tournament I can enter with a time-out rate of 50 percent??
Yes, some special ones do, and the title will help you with that decision.
I mistakenly enrolled in two chess.com tournys. One for 1600 - 1800 and then later 1400 - 1600. My rating now fits 1400 - 1600. Will I be eliminated fron the 1600 - 1800 without showing up twice on the 1400 - 1600. thanks, scut
Would there much appeal in optionally allowing a breathing space (of a day, say) between the end of the first game and the start of the second game - when the two games are not concurrent?
Would it be possible to invite a whole group to a tourney you have created for that group? instead of either having to invite 450 members or constantly delete members who dont read the 'team england only' text and enter mistakenly?
I've got the Women v Men tournament starting over at We Chat Global. I want six women v six men...but I've got seven women in one: is there a way to kick players off the roster before it starts?
Or should I just ask someone to leave?
Question on the Quick Knock-Out tournaments. It specified that your average time per move must be under three hours. My question is this; does that refer to your current average time per move or does it refer to the average time per move in the tournament?
I'm in the 4th Chess.com Quick Knockouts (<1000) tournament in group 5.
There are 3 games left in our group and I'm in all of them. If I win 1 of the games there will be a tie in points and a tie in the tie break. Only one person can advance, so how is it decided?
this may sound like a silly question to anyone reading but i am totally confused with tiebreak in a tourney how does it work as sometimes a player lower can have a higher tie break score .
please help confused jules
if there is a tie on points and on tie breaks then both players advance
Hi everybody,
I am just creating a Tournament, I would like to set 5 groups to advance 3 members per each one.
The questios is: Can I establish new groups in the second stage or is going to be ones against one another?
Thank a lot
you sould not be able to go on extended vacation during a tournament. Some in our tournament went on vacation for a month, lost some games do to time, made a few moves and go back on vacation. holding up the whole tournament and they have no chance to win. rethink the whole vacation thing.
There's a fault in the calculation in the 7th chess.com Tournament 1800-2000 for player Lebeast
how can he get 3.5 points when he won 3 times and 2 draw, in his pairing he also hasn't played 2 draw but only 1
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1) Alternate tiebreak methods would be good such as allowing the lower ranked player to progress in the result of a tie.
2) Also allowing us to choose how many games each player plays against each other as I'd quite like to do a match style knockout tournament where each player plays 8 games against each other with the winner progressing to the next round.
This is just an idea...
If we want to view all the upcoming tournaments, it would be easier if there is a tournament option where we can search for tournaments suitable for our rating. Just like how there is an option of find a group by typing a keyword in the All Groups and Teams, there should be an option for tournaments where you can type an particular rating.
Eg. If I type <1500, then all the tournaments below the rating range of 1500 will appear making it easier to find tournaments to join.


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Gray Matter is Branching Out
In an effort to provide something that is relevant to both Moonkin and Resto's I took a look at the gear changes in WotLK. In the past, Moonkin have had to fight tooth and nail with clothies to get decent gear. All of that is about to change. With the abundance of Leather Caster gear in WotLK expect that debate to change. Not only will clothies resist us rolling on cloth even more, but know we will be competing for the good leather items with all the tree's running around.
However, it doesn't have to be a big fight. It is my belief that each caster item leans more towards a DPS role or a Healing role. In my article I look at each of the stats and show how both Moonkin and Trees value them. Hopefully, this will prompt some good conversations with in our guilds so that we can plan our upgrades,have fewer arguments, and spend less DKP.
You can find the article here.
Thanks again to Phae for allowing me to spend some time on her blog. Hopefully I didn't leave to many feathers in the couch.
3 comments:
- Phaelia said...
Thank YOU for the fantastic article, Gray. :-D
- October 28, 2008 at 5:51 PM
- Keeva said...
When the changes to spellpower were announced, there were a lot of hands thrown in the air and cries of "OMG, now we'll all be wearing the same thing! Everyone will want my gear!" But you're right - gear will lean (sometimes heavily, sometimes not so heavily) towards being a dps item or a healing item... then it's just up to people to recognise what kind of role it is best suited to.
Whether or not people are courteous enough to use commonsense when rolling on items remains to be seen, though. Hopefully articles like yours will help them to understand that not everything with spellpower is made for them.
- October 28, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Glad to hear things are going so well for you graylo.. Don't forget about us little people.
- November 2, 2008 at 6:28 PM


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Hello everyone,
A friend of mine is a pretty die-hard Christian (shock horror, both of his parents are missionaries/vicars) and he often posts little sayings of some kind or another on Facebook, which I usually ignore. However, today he posted something that really irritated me for some reason:
"The more I look at science, the more in awe of God I become."
And just to make that worse, one of his Christian friends commented "Boom" as if he had made some kind of infallible argument. Somehow, I feel as though nothing I say will make any difference because they must be incredibly deluded already to believe that God just "invented" science. Basically, this is the guy who thinks he's a "modern and intelligent" Christian by saying that things like Noah's Ark are "just stories and aren't meant to be taken seriously by Christians". But if that is true, then why take ANY of the Bible seriously and where does he draw the line between stories and (what he believes is) the truth?
In the past I asked him and his friend where the evidence was. He claimed science (yes, seriously) helped prove Christianity and that Christianity was about "opening yourself" to it and believing, and then you "feel God" or whatever. How do you argue with someone like that??
What do you all say to religious people (not necessarily just Christians) who claim that science is just an invention of God? Is there a specific way to argue with someone who twists everything to awkwardly suit modern day thinking?
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well. this is what i'd do. id start posting stuff too. if he can, so can you!
While you are dealing with someone pursuing a higher formal education it must always be remembered that the vast majority of religious people have no interest in the details of their religious belief system. They use god(s) as a necessary crutch for getting through everyday life. They don't want to consider issues of evidence or inconsistency. Their god is their imaginary friend that they call upon as life's events warrant. And most will not be open to scientific scrutiny that dissects their spiritual world and lays it open for discussion.
Basically, Ed, and I agree with you completely, you're saying that when anyone tries to confuse them with the facts, they stick their fingers in their ears and go, "La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La!"
Ed and arch....
I couldn't agree more. But the same is true of some very educated types. It never ceases to amaze me that some very intelligent and educated scientists i know will totally ignore their education and practice voodoo or whatever on a whim. ie: vitamin crazes, latest herbal concoctions or bat dunk in a wound cus bubba said it would help.
It appears there is an inherent part of our brains that not only allows inconsistencies to flourish, it even cultivates them.... This crosses much more than just religious view points.
In a manner of speaking, yes. Most members of this site thrive on reason and logic and rightfully so. But when religious individuals make illogical statements in reference to god(s) they don't think about the possible absence of logic in their comment. For example: the Newtown murders of little tots. Theists will say "God called them up and needed them more than we do." That sounds nice and cozy and all that but upon examination it makes no sense that a benevolent god would require a small child, or anyone for that matter, to experience the horror and pain of a ballistics round penetrating their face. Why would he not opt to just take the child in a little more endearing manner? It's nonsensical but the average theist does not ponder things from a logical perspective. It's sad really.
I asked a religious zealot about the Newtown kids, he said "god works in mysterious ways". It was all I could do not to use my power drill and let some of the pressure out of his head because something is clearly wrong in there.
Make that a titanium bit as some of those heads are extremely hard to penetrate....
Do what Matt (Dillahunty) does; "Yours is an arguement from ignorance and I refuse to participate".
Get him to read the god delusion,
If he was brainwashed from an early age it may not be possible to budge his views, i do not always think that you can teach all old dogs new tricks
Ps just found this this to show him
"Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real.
Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real."
-- Dan Barker --
Perhaps instead of focusing this troubling level of attention on your friend's "delusion" you should be turning that examination around and evaluating why you feel compelled to argue this point with her.
Natasha - you agreed earlier that you would get him to divulge his beliefs, then bring them to us - that was nearly two months ago. Did I miss that post?
Here's an idea that might work for you Natasha - he's already told you what he doesn't believe (the OT fantasies) - remind him of that, then ask what he DOES believe. Whatever he says, copy and paste his comments into a text program and bring them to us, maybe we will have ways of refuting his arguments that possibly you haven't thought of.
Good idea. If I see him any time soon I will definitely do that, thanks!


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My first detailed (so-called) caricature 😀
It's all started just because of Great Artist Jason Seiler's (http://jasonseilerillustration.blogspot.com) caricature of Gaddafi..saw it on facebook and thought i should try it too..
just searched Gaddafi's photos in Google and stared working on my first caricature..i didnt want to paint his body because i had no idea about the concept yet..so started refining his face..i was thinking about Gaddafi's caricature even at work, traveling, doing other things..this was never happened to me before..damn Gadaffi…i was possessed by him
so suddenly i thought about Machete's poster..BINGO ! i was like..YESS ! and you can see what i did
i tried to show him stupid and funny at the same time..that's why i added a fork, spoon, butter knife & scissors…as you all know about his nature, i painted that "I love me" text on his underwear..and a pack man ghost to add some more personality
Thanks to Jason Seiler for the inspiration !
hope you enjoy this…please feel to free give any kind of feedback/critique/comment
here are some details, wip images and ref. images and the inspiration !
p.s. typography hates me so i've used the same letters from the Machete poster with some tweaks T__T
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