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|2013-01-31, 12:15
|Link #361
Anomaly / 矛盾存在
Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
Blunt physical damage. Gold itself is extremely malleable. Wiki: 1 gram can be beaten into a square metre, or thin enough to become transparent. o.o
Electricity: Only silver and copper are more conductive.
Heat: same as electricity.
Weight. This is debatable, but gold is so heavy, only lead and osmium are heavier. In a duel avatar, this works out quite badly because your amour can't withstand physical strikes even though it's so heavy.
-Acid/poison attacks won't work. Gold only dissolves in royal water, mixture of concentrated nitric and hydrochloric acid. Regular attacks aren't getting through.
-corrosion attacks are ineffective as well, gold is extremely unreactive.
-Infrared radiation bounces right off. So in theory, microwave attacks and lasers should be ineffective.
|2013-01-31, 13:03
|Link #362
Anomaly / 矛盾存在
Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
This is negative advertising I'm doing here.
I only let this guy go after he changed it to a crossover. If your bear with his writing style, you'll see Red Hero is broken as hell.
Arrival Of The Red Hero
|2013-01-31, 14:20
|Link #364
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Gold is the metallic color farthest to the "precious" side, and so logically it would have the most physical vulnerabilities while having the most special resistances.
(Not immune, as the LNs have shown me. Silver Crow did take minimal damage from the Immobile Fortress's venier flames, and Heat Blast Saturation -- which took off his arm -- is perhaps literally a heat/fire-based attack.)
And, as I said, Silver is resistant to heat, which is unlike real silver. So the game designer took reality as a suggestion, then made his or her own choices.
It's unknown if poison and disease are considered seperate, but Gold likely is resistant to them as well.
Mirror Masker's defense against "light" based attacks may have included a resistance against heat in general.
|2013-01-31, 14:28
|Link #365
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Rather than Archer, Kaleidoscope Faker would be more like Hamburglar or Ronald McDonald, from YAZA's Touhou crossover doujin.
Yes, that sounds ridiculous. But it is, instead, ridiculously awesome.
Basically, as clown, Ronald can "mime" anyone's power-set, and he's unlimited in the number he can store.
Hamburglar can only store five (or ten?) copies, but as a "thief", he can "steal skill", such that he can use those copied powers "10% better" than Ronald.
The better the quality of your opponents, the better your story. But who wants to spend that much time thinking of a character you'll only use once?
I want to create a pool of disposable characters that really flesh out the Accelerated World.
The biggest challenge would be introducing variety into Blue avatars beyond what kind of weapon they do (or don't) use.
|2013-01-31, 14:52
|Link #366
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Join Date: Aug 2011
"Magic" is not distinguishable in the Accelerated World. If you think it's indirect because it doesn't involve muscle power, then I would point out the guns that Red avatars use.
A direct attack is one that is designed primarily to inflict damage. A sword stabs, a gun shoots.
An indirect attack or move is one that inflicts damage only incidentally. Sand Duct's air-attacks push or pull his opponents, but by themselves likely inflict no damage except when the target smashes into a solid object.
Orchid Oracle used indirect "magic" when she completely changed the environment around her. It surely did place Sulphur Pot and Nidhog at a disadvantage, but it inflicted no damage on them. Rather, the effect targeted the landscape first, and anything that happened to the occupants was merely a side-effect.
If Yellow Radio can irradiate the environment around him, it would be indirect in that it doesn't specifically target anyone, and it would only inflict damage gradually rather than all at once.
On that note, having close-range, direct damage attacks is Blue. Even if it's throwing fire or lightning, if you can only do so at close-range, it's a close-range attack that directly deals damage.
(As opposed to Hailstorm Domination, which very much will directly damage any avatar caught in the blast, even before taking collapsing buildings into account.)
But I did mean "smaller and slender".
|2013-02-01, 15:47
|Link #367
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Bluish Abilities
Dull Pain - One of Blue Knight's powers. The ability to dull the pain inflicted by attacks and wounds is a considerable one. You won't flinch when struck, and you can charge headlong into hazards without fear of pain.
Repair Wounds - By spending SP (or HP if your special meter is empty), you can regenerate your form or weapons. This doesn't refill your HP, but at least you can restore your broken armor or grow back a limb, and continue to fight at full power until the very end.
Reject Wounds - A more powerful version of the ability above; you cannot be broken in the first place. No matter how much HP you lose, your fighting capacity is never reduced by injury. This or or the lesser Repair Wounds could be a property of Aqua Current's water-body.
Vitality Restoration - The flipside to Repair Wounds; does nothing to repair wounds, just restores your HP. Not very useful -- compared to true regeneration or Repair/Reject Wounds, this is sort of a half-baked ability. But it might be very handy for someone whose fighting strategy doesn't rely on strength of limb, fleetness of foot, or external weapons. (Or perhaps, someone's whose strategy RELIES on taking crippling injuries.) This ability might be fueled by your own Special Meter, or by HP/SP drained from someone else.
True Regeneration -- Restore HP and wounds. Fueled by your own Special Meter, or by HP/SP drained from others.
Yellowish Abilities
Voodoo Curse -- Target another avatar; whatever damage and injury you sustain is inflicted on that target as well. With Vitality Restoration, you can afford to lose all of your limbs, because it costs the target his own limbs and you can keep your HP high enough to survive longer. The purer Yellow an avatar is, the more likely that Voodoo Curse is a normal move for them; for avatars with other tricks to rely on, this would be a Special Move.
HP Copy -- An alternative to Vitality Restore and HP Drain. Rather than reducing your target's HP to restore your own, your HP simply increases enough to match the opponent's. Might be based on percentage or actual points, depending on how Brain Burst runs things.
HP Drain -- Obvious. This could theoretically be executed with a long-range attack, but obviously close-range attacks would be rewarded with better returns to compensate for the greater risk.
Demonic Commandeer -- There's no way this isn't a Yellow ability. I'm assuming that the ability to keep stolen abilities even after a fight was the result of a Level 4 or 5 bonus, because it's at Level 4 that Brain Burst expands beyond mere duels.
Copycat / Mimic -- Like Demonic Commandeer, but less powerful in that it doesn't steal a feature from the enemy. Since it cannot turn the tide of a fight so completely, this would most likely be a Normal Move rather than a Special Move. And if Commandeer can upgrade to the point of keeping stolen features even after a fight, this could upgrade to the point of storing a limited number of copied features.
Seal Ability / Lock Tool -- Like Demonic Comandeer, but you don't actually gain anything when you deny one power or tool to your opponent. It is possible for this power to upgrade to the point that the seal remains long after a fight.
Numbing -- Burst Linkers who have serious psychological hang-ups with causing others pain might have an ability like this. Attacks with this property not only do not cause the pain that they normally would, but also begin to reduce the pain that the target feels from any source. This can give unwitting opponent's a false sense of invulnerability up until the effect begins to paralyze them. At full effect, it is indistinguishable from Zero Fill. This effect will wear off in time, but can be countered immediately by a sufficient surge of fighting spirit. Numbing might be accomplished as a poison effect, against which colors like Silver are resistant.
Interface Screw -- Like the real-world "Visual Masking" that got Haruyuki into trouble, but applied to one's Brain Burst display. This includes tricks like making it seem that your Special Meter is suddenly full, or that your HP never decreases, or that you are more injured than you seem. Combined with a way to dull pain, you can seem truly invulnerable or else fool your opponent into believing he took no damage at all even from a severe blow. And of course, imagine their shock when they attempt to use a Special Move they don't actually have the energy for. Playing tricks with the Time Limit display or the Locator Arrow can also be useful.
Deceleration -- "Time-magic." Causes a target to lose the Acceleration effect, such that the Accelerated World continues to move around them while they stand frozen. This would be an extremely expensive effect, or include some failure conditions -- the most reasonable of which would be that the effect is instantly canceled when someone touches or injures the victim.
Ice Conjuration -- Freezing someone physically, with solid ice, rather than incidentally by manipulation Acceleration. Can also allow for creative alteration to the battlefield, as by coating floors with ultra-slick ice, or creating walls of ice to block attacks.
Gravity Manipulation -- Ever see trailers for the video game called Gravity Rush? Go do that.
Magnetism -- Apparently, all Dual Avatars (with possible exceptions like Aqua Currnet or Chocolate Puppeteer) behave as though made of ferrous metals. While not a form of damage, this is apparently an effect that Metallic avatars can be more or less vulnerable to compared to Chromatic colors.
Wind Manipulation -- Sand Duct's powers to blow opponents away, suck them in closer, and hoverskate around. Presumably, he has not actually revealed his Special Move. One possibility includes a tornado that protects him from harm in the eye of the storm, while throwing enemies around and throwing objects around into enemies.
Camoflauge / Invisibility -- If Silver Crow can possess true flight at Level 1, there simply HAS to be a Yellow avatar who started with this power.
Intangibility -- To become as ethereal as a ghost, walking through walls and physical attacks. If properly limited by SP costs, another power that someone could start with at Level 1.
Target Scan -- To some extent, information on other Duel Avatars is available to the public. This would reveal information that isn't. Perhaps items that they have in storage, or the properties of their items. Would definitely upgrade one's combat interface to immediately
Opponent Detection -- Supplementing the Locator Arrow with a Range Finder will locate most enemies easily. Even better with an Altitude meter, to identify when someone right on top of you is above your head or below your feet. While this largely defeats Invisibility, if you can't actually see your opponent, it's harder to tell if they see you, and whether they are about to launch an attack. Upgrades might supplement with colored outlines to silhouette the target.
X-Ray Vision -- More direct than Opponent Detection, but it's limited by range.
Attack Prediction -- At the least, the ability to better react to (and therefore defend against or counter) an attack that you can see coming. With upgrades, the ability to anticipate attacks that you had no idea were coming -- Spidersense.
Jamming -- According to the Light Novel, this did more than confuse Scarlet Rain's missiles -- it made all victims see double, such that any long-range attack became likely to miss. Likely provides no defense against close-range attacks.
|2013-02-01, 20:32
|Link #368
Anomaly / 矛盾存在
Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
Alright, time to digest each and every one. Some are okay, some are..not. Lemme tell you why.
Bluish Abilities
Furthermore we've only seen AC with that kind of avatar, does that mean it's rare or common? Inconclusive.
Yellowish Abilities
This should be Special Move IMO. I mean, projecting the damage you have onto your opponent? And how does the move hit? Can the opponent escape? Even if he can, it must also mean he has at most a 50-50 chance of escaping, because this move can potentially inflict 99% damage all at once.. Consuming full gauge may not even be enough for this.
A little snippet from V4: Conversation between Fuuko and Haru at the Mile High Club;
Eg. Wolfram Ceberus Left Shoulder, Copies ability so long as he's biting the target avatar.
That's a lot of abilities, man. :P
EDIT: If you reply, Gold, please just do the ones you don't accept first. It was a long post, I made it longer, and all the requoting will be confusing.
|2013-02-01, 22:06
|Link #369
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Green Grande mixes indirect methods with close combat. He avoids getting hit or avoids getting hurt.
Blue Knight is pure direct close combat, which means getting hurt a lot, generally because most everyone else is going to be shooting him at range before he reaches them. And because relying on direct close combat attacks is going to mean leaving himself open to counterattacks in a way that the defense-and-counter Grandee does not.
So I think ways of dealing with pain and injury, so that they do not slow you down, are very much Blue. Much in the same way as superior strength and speed are Blue, necessary as those things are for dominating close-combat against avatars equipped with guns.
This ability does not prevent HP loss. Indeed, it might even drain the avatar's HP if they have no SP to spend on keeping their arms attached, which would effectively increase the damage an arm-removing attack inflicts on them.
"True Regeneration" is meant as a similar blanket concept. It is not meant to refer specifically to a self-healing power that runs on SP AND allows for HP Drain.
I was being clumsy, trying to compare "Heal HP" and "Heal Wounds" against "Heal both HP and Wounds", to illustrate the differences.
Also, I was lumping various ways of paying for True Regeneration. Citron Call is one form which is fueled by one's own SP. Chrome Disaster's HP Drain is another form, which is fueled by HP stolen from others.
SOMEONE might have both methods of paying for True Self-Regeneration, but that would require a LOT of investment at avatar creation (leaving room for basically nothing else) or through level up bonuses.
Did I bother to tell you how Numbing was inflicted? What makes sense for one avatar will not make sense for another avatar.
There could be an Orange archer who shoots numbing arrows. There could be a Green knife-fighter with a numbing poison on her blade. A Yellow avatar might release a cloud of numbing poison gas.
I'm trusting in you to use your own imagination.
The idea is not to impose your current HP Meter on the target, but to prevent him from attacking you any more by making him suffer the same damage he inflicts (future-tense) on you.
This is why using Voodoo Curse late in a fight, as a special move, is fairly useless. Since SP is gained through inflicting or suffering damage, you're either already winning or losing the fight.
You will have to point out the exact place that the canonical material tells us Lime Bell cannot use Citron Call on herself.
Demonic Commandeer was a good way to ruin an enemy, as well to hold something over their head as blackmail. Nasty, but useful.
Simply copying a move does not give you any such power over an enemy. What can you blackmail them with? And if they want revenge for the loss or for having their ability copycatted, then they still have their full potential to use against you.
"Mimic" is a nicer, kinder, weaker power compared to Commandeer. They are similar, but NOT the same.
Specifically, Yellow Radio never wants to lull you into a false sense of security. He wants you die slowly and in agony, stumbling around in a toxic wasteland while he dances and mocks and insults you freely. He wants to rob you of control, and to revel in your fear and frustration.
Of this, I feel sure.
I doubt that he can freeze targets at range, and being able to freeze them up-close would be something of an exotic "grab/hold" skill.
But an avatar that could freeze people at any range, with frost blasts that inflicted little direct damage? Yellow.
(An avatar that hurled blades of ice, but who had only a little ability to freeze targets at range, would be Purple.)
If you didn't know a thing about Black Lotus, and I described her powers, you would immediately begin screaming about how overpowered that was without stopping to consider the possibility that Lotus is Level 9.
Obviously, no avatar with all of those gravity-related powers would be Level 1. Obviously, the game would impose sensible limits to similar powers. Do you think I'm stupid? You're treating me like I'm stupid.
First of all, why ANY attack? If the avatar is visible, then light is being reflected off of him. He is therefore vulnerable to lasers or beams, and possibly any form of energy-based attack.
On top of that, the SP cost for remaining intangible would surely be horrendous, emptying a full gauge much faster than Silver Crow's Aviation.
|2013-02-02, 00:22
|Link #370
Anomaly / 矛盾存在
Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
...I didn't mean to step on your tail. I know these abilities is the embodiment of your time, energy, and imagination, but all I had at first was your post. You knew best how they're going to work, I do not. So hang on to your patience.
As far as I could tell, HP Copy and Vitality Restoration thus have this effect of raising your own health bar, which makes it just like healing. That's why I took it to mean healing yourself.
What I was thinking of was Chrome Falcon's Flash Blink, massless and formless particles that result in pseudo-teleportation.
|2013-02-02, 09:16
|Link #371
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Join Date: Aug 2011
You keep protesting about healing. Is it because you think self-recovery abilities do not exist just because there have only ever been three Healers?
But that's not it. There's no reason for people to fight over the alliegance of a self-healer, because self-healing is essentially no different from having tough armor. It's just a way to endure damage. Indeed, for that, it could be said to be worse than just having adequate armor to prevent damage in the first place. You can't heal if an attack kills you.
Therefore, it's "the power to heal others" that is rare. Because it can be used on others and greatly benefit teamwork, that is why Lime Bell is so valuable. Only that reason.
Even HP Drain isn't something so valuable, so long as the health cannot be shared with anyone else.
And while Haru did think about how, before Citron Call, he had never seen an HP Gauge refill, there were still lots of possibilities in the Accelerated World he had not seen.
|2013-02-02, 12:11
|Link #372
Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 14
Beast was created to fulfill the following purpose:
Besides, if he WAS looking for new wearers, he would never have allowed the Disaster to be obtained by Radio. It stalled his rampage for 2 years.
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|2013-02-02, 12:24
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So Beast is the corrupting influence in the Disaster? Is it self-aware? Even so this still clears up a lot.
Anyway Gold, thanks for pointing out the difference. Please remember, we're just discussing here and there's no intention of personal attacks here. If we're having this much trouble, imagine how much Kawahara had to iron out with his editor for all the canon characters.
Weapon of mass discussion on standby; 1:23am here. Next post in about six hours...
|2013-02-02, 12:33
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When the Disaster was purified and separated, Beast didn't just cease to exist. It simply went somewhere else. Its current whereabouts are unknown but the possibility of it returning one day isn't ruled out by many light novel readers.
|2013-02-03, 01:25
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Age: 14
Beast's purpose is to destroy all Burst Linkers by possessing a single one and kill all the others.
As such, his actions will be driven solely by this purpose and he will only do things that will help achieve this goal as soon as possible. This means trying to possess another Linker as soon as possible after his current host is dead in order to continue his rampage.
If he had made Magnesium Drake aware of his presence, she would have hesitated to put on the armour, thus delaying his rampage. If he had laid dormant and did nothing, Magnesium Drake would have put on the armour as soon as she recieved it so that she could benefit from whatever bonuses the armour conferred as soon as possible, allowing him to possess her immediately after Falcon was wiped from the Accelerated World.
|2013-02-03, 01:41
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Age: 23
And yet, Radio didn't get possessed immediately because the armour was in his storage. Besides, if Beast possessed another Linker right away, a lot more CDs would have occurred; kill one today, a new one appears tomorrow. There's a time lag, clearly.
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Lol!!! There is no company name what, unless you consider my blog name valid. Then again, my blog doesn't represent everything I do for a living. This has got to be the trickiest survey I've ever done.
Not sure if they will understand my answer. Especially if the ones collating the results are conservative traditional old-fashioned people who thinks a job means an occupation which is part of primary school vocabulary-learning - police, clerk, doctor, nurse, teacher, principal, and the like, plus terms like "manager" and "CEO". Artiste? What is that? Like a painter? 艺术家? (Ok la, 我也算是搞艺术的吧~) Blogger??? Is that a new word? (er...actually, yes, heard of Xiaxue? I'm super newbie la, so I'm no Xiaxue, but yah, blogger as in..like that. And yes, it is a profession, if you know how.)
Last drawn salary: Erm...have I ever mentioned that my sources of income are never fixed? Sometimes I've got gigs, some months don't have, some months got more filming dates than others, from blogging also not fixed.... -.-"
Then there are of course questions easier to answer like job satisfaction as compared to previous job (need you ask??? I'm lovin' it~ badup bap bap ba~~~)
Then yesterday I was at the Pasar Malam outside Yew Tee MRT, and you know la, a lot of these Standard Chartered, Singtel, Citibank, HSBC, or whatever road show guys will be camping around outside MRT stations, assessing your whole look to see if you are a viable candidate whom they can pounce on. This lady, probably unsure, came up to me.
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In the coming weeks you will see me writing about some of Heavenly's latest cakes. The one hogging the limelight today is this Fruit & Nut Bar - Heavenly were so kind to send me a couple of their 75.0g single serve slices which I shared with family over a fine English brew. Aesthetically this wasn't the prettiest looking cake Heavenly have sent my way (that has to be the Billionaire Brownie :D See HERE). On the face of things it looked like a very large flapjack with a variety of whole nut and raisin pieces dispersed through out.
This cake may not be winning any awards for it's aesthetic beauty but in terms of aromas it sure was tempting. As soon as I pierced the plastic packet a whole plethora of nutty scents were forthcoming. To my surprise there was also a detectable hint of spice which subsequently turned out to be cinnamon. After cutting the slices in half the taste test commenced and as one had come to expect these were met with a seal of approval all round. The majority of the cake was a delicious fusion of oats, butter and golden syrup and this provided a tasty and substantial base for each and every bite. What made this cake stand out from similar supermarket propositions however was the quality of the nuts which were all fresh tasting and made the taste differentiated and interesting as it seemed each bit contained a different variety. The cinnamon and sultana elements only further added to the variety of flavours on offer, contributing both sweet and spicy elements to the party. Just as it's appearance had suggested this was a cake crammed full of different flavours due to the variety of it's ingredients. It was lovely.
Overall Heavenly Cakes have made a triumphant return to ChocolateMission and it has to be handed to them that this was yet another very good cake offering. What with their being so many reasonably good flapjack like products out there already on the market it was going to take something special to stand out from the crowd. Heavenly Cakes managed to do this with the use of some top quality ingredients - the addition of the cinnamon to the cake also made a monumental difference to the end quality which is surprising given its relative simplicity. Looking at the back of the pack having now eaten it, my only disappointment was that the dessicated coconut that was billed was not something that came through in the taste. This can only be regarded as a minor thing though, the overall quality and flavour depth offered by this cake was already bordering on sensational - who knows the addition of the coconut may have sent it over the edge. If you like your granola or flapjack snacks this is a must try! Welcome back Heavenly!
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Lady Leopards win 4A state title
Saturday, March 9, 2013 — that is a date that many in this area will never forget, especially not the members of the 2012-2013 Malvern Lady Leopards basketball team.
It was at 11 a.m. that morning that their march toward history began its final chapter as they took the court in the championship game of the Arkansas Class 4A state tournament.
It was the classic story of the fiery new upstart against the established power. Malvern was playing in its first state championship game in school history, while their opponent, the Prairie Grove Lady Tigers, were in the game for the third time in the last four years.
Since making it to the state semifinal game a year ago, the Lady Leopards were considered to be one of the favorites coming into this season, mostly because they returned everyone that played significant playing time with the exception of Ayshia Walsh.
Shortly after last year's loss to Star City in the state semifinal game in Pine Bluff, I sat down with the team to talk about the season, and it was Walsh leading the charge talking up the 2013 Lady Leopards.
Even with the loss still fresh on their minds, many on the team were making bold predictions, many were saying that nothing was going to stop them from winning a state title this year.
As it turns out, the Malvern girls' basketball team not only has players with great basketball abilities, but they are able to see into the future as well.
By the time they rolled into Barton Coliseum in Little Rock on that fateful Saturday morning, anyone who knew the team felt great about their chances.
The team still had its detractors, and in this age of the Internet and message boards, it's hard to separate the players from the hateful messages.
Some of the people dogging the Lady Leopards had either never seen them play or were fans of a team that Malvern decimated this season (and that is a long list).
There were a ton of misconceptions thrown out about the team, such as their inability to shoot the ball from the perimeter or being nothing more than an overly athletic team.
The players on the team admitted they had seen the negativity and that it was fueling their desire to win the state championship.
Shortly before 11 a.m. on Saturday, the arena was starting to fill, with more than 3,600 in attendance.
The teams began lining up to run onto the court for pregame drills. Emotions were running high and one of the Lady Leopards' seniors was having trouble keeping the magnitude of the moment and her emotions in check.
When it was finally Malvern's turn to run onto the floor, the arena erupted in a chorus of cheers. Many of the players tried to keep the "business as usual" look on their face, but most had trouble containing their joy and excitement.
One nice touch to this game was the addition of the student sections behind the basket on both sides of the court.
While the stadium itself was rocking, the respective student sections could be heard above all else.
The Leopards' boys basketball team was in attendance showing their support for their classmates and seemed to be enjoying themselves as much as anyone else in the arena.
The buzzer finally sounded to let the teams know that the warm-up period was over and that the game was just moments from starting.
During the introductions of the starting lineups, you could tell that the Lady Leopards had more energy and enthusiasm, as each player sprung off the bench high-fiving her teammates before sprinting to shake the hand of the opposing coach.
At last, after a year of waiting and planning, the tip-off of the state championship game was upon us and Malvern was ready to write history.
Standing in their way was a team very familiar with this scenario, with a 6-0 star player that was playing in her third championship game.
Malvern's Alivia Huell set the tone immediately by out-jumping the taller opponent to give Malvern the first possession of the game.
Senior Shakara Penix wasted little time in getting Malvern on the scoreboard by hitting a three-pointer to give the Lady Leopards an early 3-0 lead.
Unfortunately, that would be the last time Malvern would score for nearly five minutes.
Prairie Grove built a modest 6-3 lead as it seemed some of the Lady Leopards were still trying to keep their nerves in check.
Akasha Westbrook broke the scoring drought with 3:04 left in the first quarter to pull Malvern within 6-5.
For some reason, the Prairie Grove student section decided to pick on Penix for the majority of the game.
Perhaps they heard too many people erroneously talking about Malvern's lack of outside shooting, but every time Penix would catch the ball outside of the three-point line, the students would scream "shoot it!"
Maybe the Prairie Grove defenders were listening to the student section because they backed off of Penix whenever she caught the ball from that range — granted she was the fastest player on the court and anyone who tried to run out to guard her would have seen her get past them in the blink of an eye.
But the Lady Tigers were willing to give up the three-pointer to Penix and with 1:02 left in the first quarter she made them pay with another long-range bomb to put the Lady Leopards up 8-6.
Malvern would get the ball back and attempted another three-pointer at the buzzer, but it was off the mark, leaving the Lady Leopard lead at 8-6.
Huell would get Malvern rolling in the second quarter with a two-pointer with 7:17 remaining in the half.
A few seconds later, Prairie Grove would hit one of two free throws to cut the deficit to 10-7, but a couple of free throws by Huell gave Malvern its largest lead of the ball game (at 12-7) and capped off a 9-1 run.
Once again the Lady Leopards would go through a scoring drought. Malvern was held scoreless for the last 6:53 of the first half. During that time, the Lady Tigers made a couple of layups to cut into Malvern's lead.
As the two teams headed into the locker room, the Lady Leopards were clinging to a 12-11 lead.
It wasn't until 1:10 had elapsed in the third quarter before Malvern finally scored again. Penix hit the second of two free throws to give the Lady Leopards a 13-11 lead, but Prairie Grove erased the lead just 14 seconds later on a layup to tie the game at 13-13.
With 6:13 left in the third quarter, Malvern fans witnessed something that reminded them of the Lady Leopards' semifinal game against Star City.
In another tight game, one of Malvern's key players (Huell) picked up a lot of fouls rather quickly before fouling out early in the fourth quarter.
On Saturday it happened again, only this time it was Westbrook picking up the fouls.
She picked up her third and fourth fouls (and the validity of some of those calls could be questioned) within a minute of each other and was forced to sit with 5:15 left in the third quarter.
Her fourth foul came against the six-footer from Prairie Grove on a made lay up. The free throw put the Lady Tigers up 16-13. Less than a minute later, Prairie Grove had made another lay up and the Lady Leopards found themselves down 18-13.
Huell answered back with a three-pointer with 3:50 left (the first Malvern field goal in more than 11 minutes) in the quarter to cut into the lead, but back-to-back lay ups by the Lady Tigers gave Prairie Grove its largest lead of the game at six (22-16) with 2:54 remaining in the third quarter.
Raven Baker finally got in the score book with a three pointer to cut that lead in half with 2:35 to go in the third, followed by a two-pointer by Penix with 1:15 left to trim the Malvern deficit to 22-21 heading into the final eight minutes of the year.
The Lady Tigers started the fourth quarter holding the ball and for nearly a minute it looked like they were content to just hold the ball near mid-court for the entire quarter.
Malvern applied some pressure, but Prairie Grove moved the ball around and hit a three-pointer, seemingly nullifying the momentum the Lady Leopards had been building.
Trailing 25-21, Malvern wasted little time getting their offense going again. The Prairie Grove defense, still listening to their student section, played several feet away from Penix.
She promptly made them pay for the slight by hitting a big three-pointer to pull Malvern back within one at 25-24 with 6:40 left in the game.
Malvern would get the ball back, and again they would find Penix on the wing for another three-pointer that gave the Lady Leopards a 27-25 lead with 6:19 to go in the game.
After that, the Prairie Grove players ignored the student section (who obviously wasn't watching the game) and guarded Penix closely, but the damage had been done.
Malvern was back in the lead and this game was destined to go down to the wire.
Prairie Grove would find a way to get back to the free throw line again with 5:55 remaining and hit both free throws to tie the game at 27-27.
After a failed Malvern possession, the Lady Tigers had the ball with the score tied, looking to drain a little clock, but Westbrook would have none of it. She stepped in front of a pass and had a wide open fast break lay up.
She would later say that she thought about trying to dunk the ball (she along with Huell and Baker can jump high enough for that), but changed her mind at the last second. Her steal and lay up gave Malvern a 29-27 lead with 4:55 left in the game, and that would be one of the last things Westbrook would do in the state championship.
A phantom foul just 27 seconds later sent her to the bench with her fifth foul, and the Lady Leopards would have to play the final four-and-a-half minutes without one of their best defenders and inside threats.
Senior Zoe Ollison would come in to replace Westbrook and did an admirable job guarding Prairie Grove's star player.
Westbrook's foul resulted in just one made free throw for the Lady Tigers, so Malvern still held a 29-28 advantage.
With 2:20 left, Prairie Grove took the lead again, breaking an eight-and-a-half minute drought where they did not make a field goal.
Just saying the last minute of this game was nerve-wracking does not do it justice. The final moments of this game were one of the most intense you will ever see in any game.
Malvern, trailing by one point, was inbounding it from the far sideline on their end of the court. After being unable to find anyone inside to throw it to, they went to their outlet, Baker, in the back court.
The pass was a little over Baker's head and there was a mad dash for the ball between her and the defender.
Baker managed to snag the ball right as the Prairie Grove defender went to the floor to grab it. Baker immediately took advantage of the five-on-four situation by driving the length of the floor.
Her shot in the lane with 1:03 left in the game gave Malvern a 31-30 lead, but when Prairie Grove brought the ball up the court, you would have thought they had the lead.
For 30 seconds they held the ball, letting time tick away.
They finally made a move to the inside with less than 20 seconds on the clock, but Malvern fouled their six-footer (and best free throw shooter) with 17 seconds left on the clock.
She calmly hit both free throws and for the shortest of moments, it appeared as if Malvern's dream of being state champion was over.
Enter Tiffany Murdock. Murdock had been held scoreless for the entire game, but in the last few seconds you would have thought she was the leading scorer in the way she attacked the basket.
Starting at the top of the key, she drove to the basket with determination and hit a strongly-contested basket amongst four Prairie Grove defenders with 3.7 seconds left in the game to give the Lady Leopards a 33-32 lead.
After a time out, Prairie Grove attempted a baseball pass to get the ball down the court to get a good look at the basket. Evidently no one told them that was not a good idea against a team like Malvern as Huell leapt in front of the intended recipient to steal the pass.
After the steal, the last few seconds clicked off the clock and the Malvern bench erupted in celebration.
When the state championship trophy was presented to the Lady Leopards and Queen's "We are the Champions" played over the loudspeaker, there were few, if any, dry eyes on the floor.
Akasha Westbrook was named the Most Valuable Player and had to be pointed in the right direction to accept her trophy.
In the championship game, senior Shakara Penix led all scorers with 15 points (including four three-pointers in 13 attempts). She also had four rebounds (three offensive), one assist and one steal.
Junior Alivia Huell scored seven points with five rebounds (three offensive), one assist and the game-clinching steal.
Sophomore Raven Baker added five points, two steals and an offensive rebound.
Junior MVP Akasha Westbrook scored four points with seven rebounds (two offensive) and four steals.
Junior Tiffany Murdock had two points (the game winning points), five assists and four rebounds (two offensive).
As a team, Malvern shot 25.5 percent from the field (12-47) and 27.3 percent from the three-point line (6-22). They also made three of their four free throw attempts for a 75 percent completion percentage.
Prairie Grove made 12 of its 33 shots (36.4 percent) and one of six three pointers (16.7 percent). The Lady Tigers were 7-9 (77.8 percent) from the free throw line.
The Lady Leopards were out-rebounded 31-24, but had more offensive rebounds (13-9). They had eight steals and forced 15 turnovers in the game while turning the ball over just eight times themselves.


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Greetings from Madrid!
The Skidmore staff in Madrid is excited each year to welcome a new group of program participants to Spain and lead them into the marvelous experience awaiting them. Our goal is to actively encourage students to take the fullest possible advantage of all the wonderful opportunities offered by Madrid, the lively, fascinating capital city of Spain. Here our students find cultural enrichment, academic growth, personal development, extraordinary entertainment and great fun!
Our students enroll directly in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and have the advantage of becoming deeply and meaningfully involved in Spanish society through their individualized family stay, their university friends, their academic studies, and their diverse activities, trips and internships.Our program places great emphasis on each individual student's personal explorations into the Spanish culture in all its unique facets. Through the guidance, structure and support of the Program, most students achieve remarkable growth in their academic, personal, and cultural development, and they often consider their stay in Spain as one of the most rewarding experiences of their college studies. We are pleased to invite interested students to peruse the following program description and to contact Skidmore's Office of Off-Campus Study & Exchanges for further information.
"Skidmore in Spain will take you to new heights in your Spanish language skills, your
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Wild Heart Ranch is located in Claremore, Oklahoma. We provide medical or infant support to any indigenous wild animal in need of assistance and release it into suitable wild habitat once care is completed.
Founders Sandy Brooks and Annette King Tucker with Ned Bruha AKA "The Skunk Whisperer"
Got skunks or nuisance wild animal critter problems and need truly humane wildlife removal and prevention, done right the first time?
I promise, You will be so glad you did and you will have the peace of mind that it was done right the first time without harming our little furry friends.


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Control your cigarette cravings with self help tips and stop smoking treatments.
Going cold turkey may be appealing, and works for some, but research suggests that willpower alone isn't the best method to stop smoking.
In fact, only three in every hundred smokers manage to stop permanently this way.
Using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and other stop-smoking medicines can double your chances of quitting successfully compared to willpower alone. This is because untreated cravings often result in lapses.
Read more about stop smoking treatments available on the NHS and privately.
According to clinical psychologist and stop-smoking adviser Gay Sutherland, "cravings are without doubt the most important withdrawal symptom to tackle and one of the best predictors of success in quitting smoking is craving control".
Cravings happen because your body misses its regular hits of nicotine. There are two types of craving:
There are three tried and tested ways to tame cravings:
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) gives your body the nicotine it craves without the toxic chemicals that you get in cigarettes, so it doesn't cause cancer.
It helps you stop smoking without having unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. NRT won't give you the same "hit" or pleasure you would expect from a cigarette, but it does help reduce cravings.
NRT is available as gum, patches, lozenges, microtabs, inhalator, nasal spray, mouth spray and oral strips. It's important to use the right NRT product for your lifestyle.
Some products, like the patch, release nicotine into your system slowly and steadily, so they're ideal for relieving background cravings. Others, such as the nasal spray and mouth spray, release nicotine quickly in short bursts, so they're better suited to sudden intense cravings.
"A good strategy is to use the nicotine patch for background craving relief, and carry with you a fast-working product to prevent or treat breakthrough cravings," says Ms Sutherland.
Discuss with your pharmacist the NRT products that are available over the counter, or talk to your local NHS stop-smoking adviser or GP about receiving NRT on prescription.
Read more about nicotine replacement therapy.
The prescription tablets Zyban (bupropion) and Champix (varenicline) are an alternative to NRT in helping you stop smoking. They don't contain nicotine, but they work on your brain to dampen cravings.
As they take a few days to work fully, you need to start these medicines for a week or two before you stop smoking.
Ask your doctor or a local stop-smoking adviser whether prescription medicines may help you.
Read more about prescription stop-smoking medicines.
NRT and stop-smoking medicines can help curb cravings, but they can't completely eradicate them. It's also a good idea to follow these smoking cessation self-help techniques:
Avoid triggers: there will be times that for you have an especially strong association with smoking - after food, with a coffee, after putting the kids to bed, when chatting to a friend or having an alcoholic drink. Try doing something different at these times. You don't have to make this change forever, just until you've broken the association with smoking.
Stay strong: expect your cravings to be at their worst in the first few weeks after quitting. The good news is that they will pass and the quickest way to achieve this is to commit to the 'not a single drag' rule. When you are ready to stop for good, promise yourself 'I will not have even a single drag on a cigarette' and if you feel like smoking then remember 'not a single drag' and the feeling will pass.
Exercise: physical activity may help reduce your nicotine cravings and relieve some withdrawal symptoms. It may also help you reduce stress and keep your weight down. When you have the urge to smoke, do something active instead - going to the gym or local swimming pool are good, as is a little gentle exercise like a short walk or something useful like doing the housework or gardening.
Find out how to do more exercise.
Be prepared: for cravings at special events like holidays, funerals or weddings. You may have never experienced these before as a non-smoker so you'll associate them strongly with smoking. Have some fast-acting NRT with you just in case.
Look at more self-help tips to stop smoking.
Delay: When an urge to smoke strikes, remember that although it may be intense, it will be short-lived, and it probably will pass within a few minutes. "Each time you resist a craving, you're one step closer to stopping smoking," says Ms Sutherland.
Now, read what to do if you relapse after quitting smoking.


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THE NUTCRACKER: 617-695-6955, bostonballet.org Less Disney-esque, more sophisticated: That was Boston Ballet artistic director Mikko Nissinen's goal in re-imagining "The Nutcracker." Mission accomplished. Award-winning set and costume designer Robert Perdziola emulates the elegant Regency period (think Jane Austen) for Act 1, with the cartoonish Drosselmeier now a heartthrob. Act 2 dazzles with lavish colors, sumptuous fabrics, and 200,000 glistening jewels. The new sets are amazing and the freshened choreography charming. Performances run through December 30.
BOSTON FESTIVAL OF INDIE GAMES: bostonfig.com The implosion of Curt Schilling's 38 Studios this year taught us that lavish funding can be detrimental to creating fantastic video games. Luckily, the Boston Festival of Indie Games at MIT helped return game development to its DIY home-grown spirit. In September, some 2,000 participants test-drove garden-fresh video games, as well as board and card games, from nearly 50 local and regional upstarts. Talks, film screenings, and an art show rounded out the festival, which is expected to be even bigger when it returns in 2013.
BOSTON NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK VISITOR CENTER: Faneuil Hall, Boston, 617-242-5642, nps.gov/boston Tourists lost in the Revolutionary streets of Boston once stumbled into a dank, outdated National Park visitor center on State Street to find their way. No longer. In May, a fresh, tech-savvy HQ opened in Faneuil Hall, the city's historical mother ship. Designed and built entirely by local firms, the cheerier digs are chock-full of information kiosks about the Freedom Trail and the Black Heritage Trail, in addition to materials on parks and historic sites throughout Massachusetts. Downloadable smartphone apps and iPad stations let visitors map out custom-designed walking tours, making the center a model for how the Park Service can use technology.
BOSTON PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA: bostonphil.org/bpyo Benjamin Zander's controversial departure after more than 45 years at the New England Conservatory didn't keep the maestro from bouncing back quickly with his next big project. The 117-member Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, with musicians ranging from 12 to 21, debuted just after Thanksgiving at Symphony Hall, drawing rave reviews. Globe correspondent Jeffrey Gantz called the performance "spectacular in every way."
BOSTON TEA PARTY SHIPS & MUSEUM: 306 Congress Street Bridge, Boston, 855-832-1773, bostonteapartyship.com Twelve years after a fire destroyed the original museum, it finally reopened in June at a floating site on the Congress Street Bridge, spitting distance from the site of the actual Boston Tea Party. The fleet of restored ships was expanded to three—although the third won't arrive until late 2013— and a tearoom was added. Actors dressed in period costume and high-tech interactive exhibits fill in the gaps on the events of December 16, 1773—in fact, a major reenactment is scheduled for today. Perhaps best of all, guests at the museum can stick feathers in their hair and toss replica tea crates into the water. Huzzah!
"LE DINER EN BLANC": boston.dinerenblanc.info It's a flash mob with a French twist. In August, nearly 800 picnickers clad all in white gathered in Harborpark at Moakley Courthouse for Boston's first-ever "Le Diner en Blanc." The pop-up event, where diners bring white chairs, a 30-inch table, decorations, and baskets to a surprise location for dinner, originated in Paris more than 20 years ago and has been spreading around the world. Organizers say Le Diner en Blanc will return to Boston next summer in another secret location.
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM'S NEW WING: 280 The Fenway, Boston, 617-566-1401, gardnermuseum.org The outward character of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum changed massively this year with the addition of a wing designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano. Taking pressure off Mrs. Gardner's original, eccentric palazzo, the building has absorbed the cafe, shop, and concert hall, houses artists' studios and a conservation lab, and has space for special exhibitions. The new wing — sleek and transparent, yet also cozy and lived-in — is connected to the original building by a covered glass walkway. Pass through it and the old magic of the museum remains.
FRANKLIN PARK ZOO ARRIVALS: 1 Franklin Park Road, Boston, 617-541-5466, zoonewengland.org Back in October, eagle-eyed Franklin Park Zoo staff members noticed that Skippy the kangaroo had a joey peering out of her pouch. The baby won't fully emerge until it's 8 or 9 months old — sometime in early January — and that's when the zoo will identify its gender and name it. Visitors can usually see Skippy (and, with any luck, baby) when the weather is right, usually above 40 degrees and clear. Also check out the zoo's 10,000-square-foot revamped playground, full of animal-inspired slides, climbers, and swings. It was designed with input from parents and folks who work with children with special needs.


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There are many reasons a webmaster may want to change the look and feel of a web page address. They may have dynamic URLs that need to be search engine-friendly, the page may have moved, the whole site may have moved to a new domain name, or they need to be better for users to view as interesting in the SERPs for more traffic and searchability. Whatever a webmaster's reasons for changing the way a URL is handled, there are definitely good ways to do this in regard to SEO, and then there are some bad ones, too.
In this article I want to look at a few ways you can utilize a few simple server tools and redirection elements to provide your site with static-looking search engine friendly URLs.
Dynamic URLs
There are two types of URLs: dynamic and static. A dynamic URL is a page address that results from the search of a database-driven web site or the URL of a web site that runs a script. In contrast to static URLs, in which the contents of the web page stay the same unless the changes are hard-coded into the HTML, dynamic URLs are generated from specific queries to a site's database. The dynamic page is basically only a template in which to display the results of the database query. Instead of changing information in the HTML code, the data is changed in the database.
Because of the way that dynamic URLs are created, they sometimes create nightmares in the area of search engine optimization (SEO). Search engines do not like to index dynamic URLs. There are multiple reasons for this, one of them being the non-standard characters like ?, &, %, =, and others in the URL. Many times, anything after the character is disregarded. For example, we may have URLs that look something like this:
Well, you get the idea. So if the part of the URL after the first character is disregarded, the URLs look like this to a search engine:
Any URL that is viewed this way to a search engine is going to essentially be nothing more than a bunch of duplicate URLs. And we all know how much search engines just love duplicate URLs. (Okay, I was being sarcastic, as they don't). They would much rather index a URL that looks like this:
In other areas, many times dynamic content is hard to spider, especially if it is pulled from the database with client-side code like JavaScript. If you can't view the page source and view the content of a web page, there is a very good chance that a search engine spider will not be able to either. While search engines are getting much better at indexing dynamic URLs, they would still prefer static URLs.
So the challenge of dynamic URLs is clear: how do you keep the dynamic site without compromising the indexing of your pages with regard to SEO? By creating search engine-friendly (SEF) URLs, that's how! Let's look at a few methods we want to be familiar with in our quest for SEF URLs. Quite frankly, it may sound like a daunting mission, but it's certainly not a mission impossible.
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The first and most obvious way you could do this would be to rename every page in your site to reflect a static URL with keywords and make those pages static. If you have only a few pages in your site, then you probably don't need a dynamic site in the first place, so this would be fine. But if you have a dynamic site that produces hundreds or even thousands of URLs, then doing this by hand is an unreasonable task to undertake. So you will either need to figure out a different way to accomplish the same thing, or find a tool to do it for you.
Using .htaccess
In the next couple of items I'll explain a bit further. The .htaccess file is basically a set of instructions in a simple text file with the extension .htaccess (there is no file name) on the server to give parameters to the browser when a request is made, put quite simply. More specifically, it is a web server configuration file that contains commands known by the server that tell the server how to behave in certain instances. The place you would utilize mod_rewrite or other redirect-type tools available to you will most likely be in your .htaccess file.
Some of the most common uses of an htaccess file include the capability to restrict access to certain files or directories on the Internet (or intranet) through password protection. Additionally htaccess is used to automatically redirect users, ban or allow certain IP addresses access to the server, and to call a custom designed 404 error page rather than the standard error 404 file that usually appears in your browser. Apache Web servers and other NCSA compliant Web servers can use htaccess.
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Most search engines, especially all major ones, will not index pages with query strings because it may also indicate that the content of the page is not static and it prevents spamming to some extent. There's multiple ways to disguise the query string though. The easiest and probably most used involves mod_rewrite on Apache servers.
If your server is hosted on a Linux or Unix (*nix) server, then you may have access to Apache's module called mod_rewrite. This is a nifty module indeed. What it does is return to the browser a URL that appears to be the actual web address of the page, when in fact the URL itself is not being changed in any way. It's more of a mirror effect.
When a request comes in to a server for the new static URL through mod_rewrite, the Apache module redirects the URL internally to the old, dynamic URL, while still appearing to all the world, search engines included, as the static URL. The web server compares the URL requested by the client with the search pattern in the individual rules. For example, when someone requests the SEF URL:
The server looks for and compares this static-looking URL to what information is listed in the .htaccess file, such as:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule index-forumid (.*)/(.*)/(.*).htm$ index.php?forumid=$1&=$2&=$3
So what if you are on a Microsoft IIS server? Well, there is another way to accomplish this using code, but it's far more painful to use than mod_rewrite. But it can certainly be done. Unfortunately for the time being, that is outside the scope of this article.
301 vs. 302 Redirects
Redirects can either be good or bad as far as SEF URLs are concerned. 302 redirects are temporary redirects. These tell a search engine spider that you've moved this page only temporarily and to index it later when you have moved it to a new home for good. While this may not be what you actually had in mind to do, that's how a search engine reads a 302 redirect. Use instead a 301 permanent redirect. It's the 301 redirect that informs the search engine of the new URL and to start indexing it instead of the old URL. 301 redirects are also fairly seamless, so your visitors will also probably not be aware of the move, and if they've bookmarked a particular page, this will be especially helpful.
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If you are not willing or don't know how to write a script to reprogram your dynamic URLs into static ones, then you are in luck, because there are many tools available on the web that will help you produce the code you need to enable you to create SEF URLs. You might want to consider a Windows code generator if you are on an MS IIS server.
Incorporating Keywords
You may be thinking to yourself, "Well, okay, the rewritten URL looks a bit better, but it doesn't contain any keywords, and certainly doesn't mean anything to me or my visitors. Now what?" Search engines are 66% to 85% more likely to list your web page in its top ten results if you utilize a keyword or phrase in the URL. So not only should you master the techniques of creating SEF URLs, you should also try to get a few highly targeted keywords placed in that SEF URL. Now, we're just making this whole thing too complicated, right? Not necessarily. Keep in mind that it is up to you to decide how your URL will ultimately look.
So while we are creating our SEF URL, we simply plant a few of the keywords into the code for redirection or rewrite. Let me show you a little bit of what I mean. Let's say we want our URL to look like this:
We'll have to take our earlier code and expand it a bit more, make it URL specific and cover multiple parameters. We may just need to add a few tweaks to incorporate the keywords where we want them. You will probably do better to find information on the specific code to do this by doing a search for mod_rewrite, as it is outside the scope of this article. Essentially there are three key steps to any mod_rewrite directive:
RewriteRule thisfile changedfilename
There are clearly more things that will go into all of this that I haven't covered, nor do I have the time and in the case of mod_rewrite, the knowledge to do everything you need to create the perfect SEF URLs. This article is not necessarily intended to give you all the specific instructions to utilize mod_rewrite completely effectively on all of your pages, for example, but it's a fair start.


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Student: Hilka (15) Newark, NJ
Program: Saturday Live
Precollege Course:
HAR 016 Fashion Art for Fashion Designers
Describe your personal style?
My style is very urban with a side of class. I'm always being told that my style changes from day to day.
Where do you go on your breaks from class?
I go to Dunkin' Donuts because Starbucks gets really packed. I try to look for a solace place to read a book.
What is your favorite thing about FIT?
I love the diversity here! People from different places and cultures fascinate me.
Who or what inspires you?
The feel and vibe of the city. Also my mother, who is the most stylish woman I know.
What do you want to do after you graduate from college?
I hope to become a fashion stylist.


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Misha's coffee now available at Whole Foods in Old Town, Vienna and Fair Lakes!
Misha's now has free wireless. Come on in and enjoy the web with your joe.
Misha's sells wholesale - add our artisanal blends to your store or boutique today.
We now carry About Time protein shakes, protein bars, and brownies.
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Artisanal coffee roasted daily in Old Town Alexandria.
Some things deserve time, care, and attention to detail. At Misha's, we think coffee is one of those things. Our beans are hand-picked, hand-roasted in small batches every day, by a master (and mistress) roaster. All those steps really do make the best coffee you'll ever have. That's not hyperbole - it's true.
The coffee will draw you in and bring you back, as will the neighborhood atmosphere, the great location (right on the corner of King and Patrick Streets) and a selection of fantastic pastries and other baked goods from local providers.
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It is very easy to take in more energy than we need. We generally eat larger portions. Our lives are busier, thus we eat more fast foods and ready made meals, which can be high in calories. We also do less physical activity.
Two-thirds of UK adults are overweight. Of these, 22% of men and 23% of women are obese.
Childhood obesity is increasing. Now, 10% of six year olds and 17% of 15 year olds are obese.
Obesity is a serious disease. Being obese can reduce life expectancy by up to 9 years.
There is increased risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, heart disease, stroke, and arthritis of the back, hip, knees and ankles.
Being obese and inactive contributes to up to one-third of all breast, kidney, colorectal and oesophageal cancers. In the UK, that represents between 20,000 and 30,000 cases of cancer each year.
Prevention of obesity
The best way to prevent obesity is to eat a healthy, balanced diet and perform regular exercise.
A healthy, balanced diet contains lots of fruit and vegetables, and unrefined carbohydrates such as wholemeal bread, pasta and rice. A diet that is high in fats will be high in calories. Foods high in fat can include fast foods, pastries, cakes and biscuits, cheese, cream and butter.
It is recommended that at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables should be eaten each day. Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables to get a balanced intake of vitamins and minerals. Eat a rainbow of colours!
Develop a regular pattern of eating and cut down on snacks in between meals. Many processed snacks include high levels of fat and sugars. Examples of healthier snacks include dried and fresh fruit, low fat yoghurt and whole grain crackers. The more calories you eat, the more energy your body needs to use up in order to prevent excess energy being stored as body fat, so taking regular exercise is very important to help control body weight.
It is recommended that everyone do at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise on at least 5 days of the week. Examples of moderate exercise include brisk walking, cycling and swimming.
Alcohol is very high in calories. Drinking excess alcohol can be associated with weight gain. Drink alcohol only in moderation and keep to the guidelines for sensible drinking 14 units per week for women and 21 units per week for a man. (1 unit = half pint of beer or larger or a standard glass of wine)
Treatment of obesity
Calorie control
To lose weight, you must reduce the amount of calories eaten and increase physical activity.
Start by keeping a food dairy, for one week, of what and when you eat and drink. This will help to identify where you can make changes. The recommended daily calorie intake for a man is 2550 calories per day and 1940 calories per day for women.
Aim for a slow weight loss, of about ½ kilogram per week (approx. 1 lb). Reducing calorie intake by 500 calories per day will help to achieve this. There are lots of books and internet sites which can tell you the calorie content of different foods. But most food labels on packaging now lists the total amount of calories and saturated fat contained in each portion.
Change the balance of what you are eating, to a diet high in carbohydrate and fibre and low in fat. Eating wholemeal bread, pasta and rice with lots of fruit and vegetables will increase carbohydrate and fibre. Look for foods with hidden saturated fats, and replace them with healthier options, such as lower fat versions of dairy products (half-fat cheese, semi-skimmed instead of full-fat milk, low-fat yoghurts). Cut down on creams and spreads, dressings and sauces. Eat less takeaway and snack foods.
Try different cooking techniques such as grilling and steaming foods. If you do need to fry something, use a non-stick pan with low calorie oil spray.
Always drink plenty of fluids. The recommendation is to drink about two litres of fluid each day. Ideally this should be water, however always check for the calorie content in juices, smoothies and always choose the diet or no sugar option.
A slow, long-term weight loss will allow eating habits to change, so that when weight loss is achieved, it should be easier to then maintain that weight loss.
If you have a medical condition, always seek medical advice before starting a diet.
Increase the amount of moderate exercise. To help lose weight, exercise should ideally increase from the recommended 30 minutes per day, to 60-90 minutes per day. The level of exercise should aim to increase the heart rate, and make you feel a little out of breath.
Slowly build up the amount you exercise. Aim initially for 30 minutes of walking a day, and then increase gradually. Always check with your GP that the level of exercise planned is safe for you.
Other dietary options
Meal replacements
Meal replacements usually consist of milk shakes, soups, bars or portion-controlled ready meals. They are designed to replace two meals or one or two snacks each day. They can be convenient to use, and for some people, they can help to reduce calorie intake, to enable weight loss.
Fad diets
A fad diet is one that:
There is no evidence that these help to control weight in the long term.
Commercial slimming clubs
These provide regular support and practical information through group meetings.
Drug therapy
Under certain circumstances, a GP may prescribe certain medications to help with weight loss. However, drug treatment must always be regarded as one part of a weight loss programme, which must include eating a healthy, balanced diet and increasing levels of physical activity.
As with all drug treatments there can be side effects of liquid or oily stools and wind.
Ask your pharmacist if you would like more advice about anti-obesity medication.
Referral to a dietician
If there is an existing medical condition, which requires more detailed advice, a GP may refer you to a dietician, who will help develop a specific dietary plan. Surgery is a final option if extreme obesity becomes life threatening, and all other treatment has been tried. As with all surgical procedures there are risks.


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1. Re: Adobe MAX PreConferencedan at Adobe Jun 23, 2010 4:27 AM (in response to JohnJ)
The pre-conference LiveCycle training will be similar to the introductory training that was offered last year. This training is targetted at those developers new to LiveCycle, or looking for a refresher on the fundamentals. Of course, the developer labs that are being planned for MAX 2010 will offer deeper level training.
2. Re: Adobe MAX PreConferenceJohnJ Jun 24, 2010 8:51 PM (in response to JohnJ)
Thank You look forward to another year at MAX
3. Re: Adobe MAX PreConferencegbone2000 Sep 2, 2010 7:28 AM (in response to JohnJ)
Still very new to LC, looking forward to attending MAX, including the pre-conferences, but worried that it will quickly be over my head and I'll just be sitting there trying to get what I can. When they say new first time users, to what extent do they expect what knowledge I should walk in with?
4. Re: Adobe MAX PreConferenceChantalRichard Sep 2, 2010 7:38 AM (in response to gbone2000)
The LiveCycle@MAX preconference "Developing a LiveCycle ES2.5 Application" session is our introductory workshop to LiveCycle. The prerequisites to successfully complete this class are as follows:
• Have a basic understanding of XML terminology and structure
• Be familiar with basic programming concepts, processes and constructs
If you feel comfortable with the above concepts, then you will do just fine.
Now hurry and sign up
5. Re: Adobe MAX PreConferencegbone2000 Sep 2, 2010 8:10 AM (in response to ChantalRichard)
Already signed up including the pre-conferences, hotel room reserved,
airplane ticket purchased. I just want to know how smart I need to be
walking in as opposed to having done this for years.
For what it's worth, the company I work for is installing touch-screens in
the production area. They want to be able to provide live build documents to
the assembly people, as well as providing a feedback field, so we can fix or
update or replace build steps on the fly, including parts callout.
I'm looking to show them that Adobe has everything they need to make this
happen, and we're fast moving to an all Adobe company. Now I have to pull
out my wizards hat and show them I have the answer, initially with a proof
of concept, and finally with a fully functional assembly manual. There are a
ton of things they want, and I'm swimming up to my neck trying to find all
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Of course I'm that much of a freak I can look at a plant and relate it back to fashion- it reminds me of this knit brain bag Undercover's Jun Takahashi did for Fall 07....right?
Blessing in disguise
Of course I'm that much of a freak I can look at a plant and relate it back to fashion- it reminds me of this knit brain bag Undercover's Jun Takahashi did for Fall 07....right?
13 comments:
- somewherebetweenwakingandsleeping said...
i just made the most disgusting noise when i saw on my bloglovin feed that these shoes were sitting in your apartment.
never really understood what people meant on blogs like jak&jil where they start exclaiming 'i die' but right now i am just filled with the most insane jealousy.
amanda why do this to me for?
ps. love the way they look with those tights
- January 25, 2010 at 4:28 AM
- Asami said...
OMG. I love those sandals
It remains me of the sandals you show on here last year in summer.
I don't remember the name but I think it was really cheap like $30.
- January 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Amanda said...
s.b.w.a.s: i know project no. 8 is the only bless stockist in nyc and i haven't seen these sandals anywhere else, so if you really want em, call up the store cause i know she had a few random pairs left in the back (i know there was at least a black 39 or 40. i'm a size 8 and the 40 fit me cause they are cut big)
- January 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM
- Lecon de vetement said...
Exquisite taste!! I really want those sandals!
- January 25, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- me melodia said...
You fckng got them?! I love those bastards. I want/ed them so bad. Of course when I went to Bless in Berlin they were on a 14 day holiday. I sat there weeping in front of the shop window. They're so awesome.
Congrats to you.
I have a tiny foot but I waaaaant them. grrr.
- January 25, 2010 at 8:03 PM
- Tiffany and Christina said...
awesome finds, I love the brain cactus, I must check out Sprout Home myself.
- January 25, 2010 at 11:28 PM
- Susie Bubble said...
Those shoes are supremely amazing....
- January 26, 2010 at 7:53 AM
- somewherebetweenwakingandsleeping said...
ah but i live in the netherlands and im sure shipping would cost an arm and a leg not to mention the ridiculous tariffs the netherlands places on international purchases.....though i am considering it.
Im a size 38 with wide feet so do ya reckon the 39 would be too big?
- January 26, 2010 at 6:21 PM
- Amanda said...
well i'm usually a 38/39 (US 8) and i needed a size 40 cause they are cut way small. not sure what they have left, but ring or email the shop and see!!
- January 26, 2010 at 6:57 PM
- polarnna said...
wonderful connection
- January 27, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- josephine said...
as a knitter, let my just say - that brain purse is incredible!
- January 27, 2010 at 7:23 PM
- Obscura said...
AMAZING sweater.
fuck yeah!
- February 18, 2010 at 12:25 AM
- jason bouwmeester said...
I'm not sure if my message went through because I'm not sure what I pressed.. Sorry if you get it twice!
If you ever feel like you could part with the Bless sandals I would pay $$$$!! I've been after the grey so badly for so long! I would appreciate it so much. Rhiannon (firstname.lastname@example.com)
- June 26, 2014 at 10:38 PM


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Under Tax-Free NY, any new business will be able to operate tax-free on a SUNY campus for 10 years
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo Tuesday unveiled "Tax-Free NY," a game-changing initiative that will transform SUNY campuses and university communities across the state into tax-free communities that attract start-ups, venture capital, new business, and investments from across the world.
Cuomo said Tax-Free NY will entice companies to bring their ventures to upstate New York by offering new businesses the opportunity to operate completely tax-free - including no income tax for employees, no sales, property or business tax - while also partnering with the world-class higher education institutions in the SUNY system.
"Over the past two years, we have cut middle class tax rates to their lowest rates in 60 years, cut taxes for small businesses, while at the same time investing like never before in our institutions of higher education," Cuomo said. "With unemployment at its lowest in years and more private sector jobs in New York than ever before, we are beginning to see the results of our efforts. Tax-Free NY will supercharge our efforts to grow our economy by transforming localities in upstate New York into virtual tax-free communities for new businesses and new jobs. Under Tax-Free NY, communities across upstate will become a magnet for new businesses, new startups, new venture capital, and new jobs, taking our economic development and job creating efforts to a level never seen before."
Temporary President of the New York State Senate Dean G. Skelos said, "The most important thing we can do is provide more jobs for New Yorkers so they can provide for their families. This initiative has the potential to make New York more economically competitive, help us attract businesses from other states, and grow our economy for the future. The solution to so many of the concerns we face is the need for more jobs, and I believe that we should spend the rest of the legislative session working to cut taxes to reduce the cost of doing business so we can empower the private sector and create new jobs."
Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader Jeffrey D. Klein said, "In order to compete in today's hyper-competitive global marketplace, we need to continually develop bold and creative ideas to attract the best and fastest-growing companies. Tax-free zones are the next frontier in this effort. These zones hold the potential to provide jobs and upward mobility to thousands of unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers while building a brighter economic future for communities across our state."
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, "Our colleges, universities and community colleges are New York's greatest competitive advantage and should be the engines that drive our job-creation efforts. Through the Tax-Free NY program, we will transform vacant campus space and land into new jobs and all of the related opportunities that spring up around areas of economic activity. Using the world-class College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering as a model, this program will enhance the academic missions of our colleges and universities, ensure that local graduates can find rewarding opportunities at home, and promote the advancement of emerging technologies."
SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said, "The governor has said many times that SUNY is the economic engine for New York, and these new tax-free zones will further our campus' ability to innovate, create jobs, and attract new companies through public-private partnerships. I want to thank the governor for supporting SUNY and for continuing to raise the bar for higher education in New York state."
Tax-Free NY includes:
•Tax-Free Communities: All SUNY campuses outside of New York City and designated private colleges north of Westchester will be tax free (no sales, property, or business/corporate taxes). Up to 200,000 square feet surrounding the campus will be included in the tax-free community.
•Employees Exempt from Income Taxes: Employees of businesses that open in Tax-Free NY communities will be exempt from paying income taxes.
•Additional 3 Million Square Feet in Commercial Space at Private Universities: Under Tax-Free NY, 3 million square feet in commercial space will be available at New York's private universities and 20 strategic state assets will also be designated tax-free.
•Businesses Eligible for Tax-Free NY: Eligible businesses include companies with a relationship to the academic mission of the university and companies creating new jobs, including new businesses, out-of-state businesses that relocate to New York and existing businesses that expand their New York operations while maintaining their existing jobs.
SUNY's 64 campuses are located in all corners of New York state, and most New Yorkers live near a SUNY campus:
To find a nearby SUNY campus, visit New York's transparency website at www.Open.ny.gov:
Map of campuses: https://data.ny.gov/d/cfb3-a8v8
Tax-Free NY continues the governor's work to reverse New York state's reputation as the "tax capital" of the nation. Since taking office, Cuomo has cut middle-class tax rates to their lowest rates in 60 years, enacted the state's first-ever property tax cap, eliminated or greatly reduced the MTA payroll tax for nearly 300,000 small businesses, and provided middle class families with a child tax credit.
The governor has focused on growing New York's economy, particularly in upstate, where decades of decline and decay have taken their toll. In this year's State of the State address, Cuomo expanded on his economic agenda with a focus on innovation. Building on his successful Regional Economic Development Councils and NY SUNY2020, the governor launched the Innovations Hot Spots Program and created a $50 million venture capital fund to help bring to market the technological innovations born at New York state's internationally renowned research institutions.
Tax-Free NY will replicate the economic success of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in the Capital Region. By partnering with the University at Albany and the state, CNSE grew to become not only a pre-eminent research college for nanoscale technology, but it also attracted billions of dollars in private sector investment, transforming the Capital Region into the international epicenter of the commercial nano-industry.
Modeled on this success, Tax-Free NY will entice potential start-ups to bring their new business ventures to upstate New York, where they will benefit from resources offered by partnering with higher education institutions as well as the ability to do their business completely tax-free for a decade.
"The groundbreaking Tax-Free NY initiative further demonstrates Gov. Andrew Cuomo's strategic vision and bold leadership in establishing New York as the epicenter of the global nanotechnology industry," said Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, senior vice president and CEO of the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. "This pioneering initiative builds on the governor's success in harnessing the power of education and innovation to attract jobs, companies and investment from the leading high-tech companies around the world and, in the process, creates exciting career and business opportunities for New Yorkers."


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Miranda Kerr: Victoria's Secret Holiday Campaign Sneak Peek!
Miranda Kerr gets all wrapped up in this behind-the-scenes look at the Victoria's Secret 2011 Holiday Campaign.
The 28-year-old Aussie actress was joined by fellow VS models Lily Aldridge, Erin Heatherton, Doutzen Kroes, Adriana Lima, Lais Ribeiro, and Candice Swanepoel at the fun shoot by photographer Russell James!
Be on the lookout for Bombshell Seduction, a new Bombshell fragrance, and Victoria's Secret's Very Sexy Push Up bra for a super sexy look this season!
Also, don't forget to check out Victoria's Secret's Facebook page next week for tips on the art of seduction this holiday season.
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The Future of the Dairy Food Market in the United Kingdom to 2019
|英文 198 Pages
|英國的乳製品市場預測 The Future of the Dairy Food Market in the United Kingdom to 2019
|出版日期: 2015年02月27日
|內容資訊: 英文 198 Pages
The Future of the Dairy Food Market in the United Kingdom to 2019 is the result of Canadean's extensive market research. The report presents detailed analysis on the Dairy Food consumption trends in the United Kingdom, historic and forecast Dairy Food consumption volumes and values at market and category level, brand share and distribution channel data. This report brings together Canadean Intelligence's research, modeling and analysis expertise in order to develop uniquely detailed market data. This allows domestic and foreign companies to identify the market dynamics to account for Dairy Food sales overall and to know which categories and segments are showing growth in the coming years.
This report examines the components of change in the market by looking at historic and future growth patterns, including the effects of consumers' behavior on total volumes, values, brands selected and types of product chosen.
The report provides the latest, detailed data on dynamics in the United Kingdom Dairy Food market, providing marketers with the essential data to understand their own, and their competitors' position in the market and the information to accurately identify where to compete in the future.
Detailed category coverage is provided, covering six product segments that include: Butter and Spreadable Fats, Cheese, Cream, Milk, Puddings/Desserts, Yogurt.
Detailed product sales segmentation (for both volumes and values) is provided, including brand data, and sales by distribution channel, at the product category level.
Future forecasts allow marketers to understand the future pattern of market trends from winners and losers to category dynamics and thereby quickly and easily identify the key areas in which they want to compete in the future.


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