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Which means that it can now be controlled from a cellphone, PC etc. It comes bundled with 'Rolly Remote', software that lets you control the movement of your Rolly. In fact you can control up to 7 Rolly's from the PC. The new Rolly will be available in pink and limited edition black for about $350 on November 21 in Japan.
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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Tana Toraja
Extravagant funeral ceremonies are a social and religious necessity in this Christian-Animist society because families have to impress the gods with the importance of the dead. If not, the soul of the dead person may not be able to enter heaven and will travel the earth instead, causing trouble for the relatives. Families keep the corpse of their kin in their strangely shaped three room houses for two or three years, while they save up for the sumptuous wake.
This fond and funky farewell involves the construction of an entirely new village of bamboo out of town, sometimes with more than a hundred rooms, in which to entertain thousands of guests for up to seven days. A life-size effigy of the dead person is also carved - often topped with the dead one's hair.
Stage One of the event is the transportation of the red and gold covered coffin, and the effigy, from the relatives' home to the funeral village. The coffin and effigy are first put into biers with winged roofs - in the same style as their traditional houses - which then travel to the party on the shoulders of shouting, bouncing, jumping, young men. These and other helpers are fueled by generous quantities of rice, pork, and rice wine drunk from bamboo tubes.
In Stage Two guests arrive at the village to pay their respects to the dead and the living, bringing gifts of live pigs on bamboo poles or water buffalo if they are affluent. Excitement is provided by organised buffalo fights or the escape of pigs and buffalo from captivity, as they run wild through the crowds.
Hundreds of pigs and twenty or more buffalo are killed and eaten during this phase of the celebration.
The buffalo is Toraja's number one status symbol, and some think that the curious shape of the houses mimics buffalo horns, though others believe that it is related to the shape of the ships that brought the original settlers to Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Whatever the reason, the final resting place of the buffalo horns is on front pillars that support local houses.
Apart from eating, drinking, and chatting, guests chant and dance hand-in-hand for hours in a circle around the two biers, a dance that symbolises the human life cycle and at the same time bids farewell to the dead person.
Smoking is popular Indonesia male pastime, and foreign travellers are welcome at this kind of event if they present a carton of cigarettes to the relatives.
Women, on the other hand, chew tobacco, and large amounts of it - so much so that dark brown lumps of tobacco can often be seen protruding grotesquely from their mouths. They are also fond of chewing the narcotic betel nut.
Stage Three is the last day of the funeral when the guests carry the biers for two or three kilometres to the burial site. This will be in a hole cut high in a limestone cliff. Workers climb a bamboo frame, put the coffin into the hole, seal it with stone, then traditionally leave the effigy to guard the body at the entrance to the cave, looking out over the fields of Tana Torajah.
Unfortunately, in the last few years many effigies have been stolen, probably for sale to foreign collectors, so these days the effigies are usually sealed inside the cave with the body.
Nevertheless, there are still many limestone outcrops pocked with holes and dozens of weird, worn faces staring out.
The poor cannot, of course, afford to pay for these kinds of lavish celebrations. They make do with small parties, a minimum of one buffalo , no effigy and coffins left to rot in natural caves. In some favoured spots piles of bones and skulls testify to the many years that this method of burial has been used.
Although the bigger funeral ceremonies are a financial disaster for the families concerned, they play a great part in stabilising and preserving Indonesia's Torajah society.
The wealthier they are, the more spectacular will be their funeral, and the more poor people will be employed and fed for several weeks. The event gives everyone a chance to meet, talk, party and generally blow off steam with guests from all strata of society, in a relaxed atmosphere, while at the same time giving the dead person a rousing send-off and a guaranteed heavenly after-life. Long live Death in Torajah!
So, what do you waiting for? Let's Go visit Indonesia Year 2008 !
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Travel to Indonesia
The people however strangely attired are calm and friendly! The food is wonderful, the wildlife diverse and there is no shortage of activities. Finally, masses of gorgeous, stylish, little ethnic hotels offer chic comfort at the right price.
Where to travel in Indonesia?
Despite high tourism, Bali maintains a rich and colourful Hindu heritage.Ubud is a relaxed and charming rural town with terrific shabby-chic hotels, beautiful rice terraces, fantastic festivals and excellent arts and crafts. Candi Dasa is one of the best soft beaches nearby, or Kuta for huge expanses of hard sand, frequently rough water, superb restaurants and a wild night life. For more Balinese isolation try travelling 3 hours from Denpasar to northwest coast for black sands, turquoise water, grey rocky outcrops and green paddy fields. There's a lot to do here, including birdwatching in Bali Barat National Park, boating and fishing in Gilimanuk Bay and diving or snorkelling 5 miles offshore at Deer Island.
Yogyakarta is an attractive market town, good for local culture and batik, while Pranmbanan, the world's 8th largest Hindu temple complex is certainly worth a day. Then there's Borobudur, one of the finest Buddhist monuments in S.E Asia. Jakarta, on the other hand, we'd prefer to be hanged than spend another night in Java's unpleasant capital city.
Sulawesi [Tana Toraja]
For some really unique and bizarre indigenous customs [especially the funeral ceremonies], boat-shaped housing, lovely rural landscapes and excellent trekking.
Irian Jaya [Balim Valley]
Strangest of all Indonesia's provinces where the Dani people still retain an ancient culture and men wear penis gourds. Hiking here is often damp and accommodation can be basic [e.g. sleeping on straw next to a mummified body] but you won't forget this place.
Kalimantan [Borneo]
Banjarmasin, floating markets and Dayak people or Pangkalanbun as a base for Tanjung Puting National Park walks and boating.
So, what do you guys waiting for? Go pack your self and enjoy the nature of Indonesia!
Visit Indonesia 2009!
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Bringing the Olympics to the PC
Stage 8H is best known as the place where Saturday Night Live is filmed. This week, though, it's been turned into an ad-hoc data center as part of NBC's efforts to stream thousands of hours of live Olympic coverage over the Internet.
Instead of the usual crop of comedians, NBC will have dozens of people watching every hour of the games, looking for highlights that it can chop up and make available on-demand. It's just one piece of an elaborate arrangement that shuttles the events in Beijing back to the U.S.
From each of the dozens of Olympic venues, a high-definition video feed is delivered over fiber-optic cables to the International Broadcast Center that has been set up in Beijing. A bunch of encoders and Windows Media servers get the video into an Internet-ready format. From there, it travels via satellite to NBC's headquarters in New York.
There, NBC actually adds a one-minute delay, allowing its cadre of live bloggers in Stamford, Conn., and elsewhere to write their text and have the video and commentary synchronized. Once ready, it goes from NBC to Limelight Networks, a content delivery network, which has 1,000 servers just for the live events sending the content to various Internet service providers, who then shuttle the content directly to their customers. (See chart below)
Limelight Chief Strategy Officer Mike Gordon said his company is prepared for this to be the biggest live event the Internet has ever seen. "I would not be surprised at all to get 1 million viewers," he said. "We're certainly prepared for whatever the audience turns out to be."
That said, there is clearly an element of risk in all this, considering NBC's history of live Olympic streaming has been limited to broadcasting a single game, the gold medal ice hockey match in Torino, Italy, two years ago.
"NBC has always taken risks and is always trying to do more than it has in the past," said Perkins Miller, the NBC senior vice president in charge of the Internet push. "It does keep me up at night when I think about streaming 2,200 hours (of live coverage)."
The massive effort has come together in a remarkably short amount of time. Microsoft's deal to power NBCOlympics.com dates back only to January.
NBC had a pretty good idea what they wanted to do and had built some mock-ups of the player prior to deciding to partner with Microsoft.
Initially, they expected to use Adobe's Flash, given that is the standard for video delivered over the Internet these days. But, as they began to hash things out with Microsoft during a series of all-day meetings at NBC's 30 Rockefeller Plaza headquarters, Microsoft was able to show NBC some ways it could do more using its homegrown Silverlight technology.
Silverlight, Microsoft said, would be key to enabling NBC's vision of a "control room" in which a viewer could watch multiple live streams at once.
Even within Microsoft's team, though, there was some apprehension of whether it was doable.
"Can we actually pull this off?" Senior Technical Evangelist Jason Suess recalled thinking. "Is the user's machine going to be able to maintain four connections at one time?"
The key, Suess said in an interview at Microsoft headquarters last week, is using an approach known as adaptive streaming in which the player has the ability to customize the bit rate of the video stream based on a computer's connection and processing power.
By Valentine's Day, they were ready for a test. It was pretty important that the test work out, given that NBC was getting ready to crate up the gear to ship it off to Beijing.
One of the last pieces to fall into place was the advertising. Initially, NBC and Microsoft were hoping to be able to insert full video ads into the live streams, but doing so is tough work.
As of mid-April, they were still struggling with what to do and began considering that perhaps they would have to just rely on companion advertising around the video stream. Then they came up with an idea. Rather than insert full videos into the live streams, what if they stuck a display ad into the video, particularly during dead times in the action.
That, approach, which is ultimately what's being done, solved several issues. It was less bandwidth-intensive than video ads, but still got the advertiser directly in front of the viewer, all without interrupting any of the coverage. The amount of advertising will vary, Suess said; "It depends what is happening in the sports. We just wait for a dead space."
By early May, NBC made the basic player available on the Internet, using a variety of prerecorded Olympic video, and by early June the enhanced Silverlight player was made public as well. The Olympic Trials, at the end of June, offered the companies and the public a chance for a test drive.
At this point, it's come down to a triage of the few remaining known bugs. Each day, the bar is being raised in terms of what is a big enough deal to warrant such a late change. Suess, meanwhile, sent his wife and kids to visit family in New York so he could work 18-hour days.
In an interview last week, Suess said he had been at work until 1 a.m. the night before and gets in every morning by 8 a.m., so he can chat with the folks in Beijing before they sign off for the night.
Suess said he hopes things will be enough under control that he can actually watch some of the games, particularly sailing, of which he is a big fan. "I sure hope so," he said. "When I got involved in this project, that was one of the reasons."
Friday, January 2, 2009
MIT researchers split water to store solar energy
The idea is to use the energy from solar photovoltaic panels (or another electricity source) to crack water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gas. Those gases would be stored and used later in a fuel cell to make electricity when the sun is not shining.
The concept is a closed-loop system: running the hydrogen and water through the fuel cell creates water, which can be captured and used again.
The hope is that within 10 years, a cost-effective system that combines clean energy generation with storage can be engineered and available cheaply to people around the world.
"I'm open-sourcing this to let everybody run with it," he said. "My plan is that when people see it, they'll see it's easy to do and they'll start working it."
Artificial photosynthesis
The core scientific discovery was finding a way to break oxygen out of the water with a relatively inexpensive and benign material, Nocera said. The catalyst--made of a cobalt phosphate--can operate in plain water at atmospheric pressure, giving it more potential than existing methods, he said.
Commercially available electrolyzers already split hydrogen atoms from water. A hydrogen filling station, for example, could use an electric-powered electrolyzer to break off hydrogen from water.
A finished system that MIT researchers envision would separate both hydrogen and oxygen. Once stored, both gases would be fed into a fuel cell using a second catalyst like platinum to make electricity.
John Turner, a research fellow in photoelectric chemistry at the National Renewable Energy Laboratories (NREL), called the work a "significant result."
But he said that a number of improvements still need to be made before realizing the "hydrogen economy." Right now, systems to produce hydrogen and oxygen from water would require huge amounts of land and materials to make catalysts.
"The initial results look promising but it doesn't answer all the things you need in a catalyst," he said. Turner's research focuses on improving ways of harvesting light energy to crack water molecules.
Using the process of photosynthesis as inspiration, Nocera has spent 25 years researching a way to tap the energy in water molecules' bonds.
He envisions a complete break with existing power distribution infrastructure where each home can produce and store enough electricity to be self-sufficient.
Today, when solar panels generate more electricity than a home is using, the excess is simply fed back into the grid, essentially subtracting from the homeowner's utility bill. In an off-grid application, the excess is put into batteries.
But with radically cheaper storage, remote power plants running on polluting fossil fuels are cut out of the picture altogether.
"It's not totally practical, but because it's easy, people are already all over it," Nocera said. "Being a scientist, I can play outside the rule box."
Active field of work
He said colleagues at MIT's electrical and mechanical engineering departments have already committed to working with the research, which MIT has patented. The work came out of a university-wide energy initiative launched in 2006.
Nocera said that an MIT-Abu Dhabi venture, called Masdar City, to create a self-powering "sustainable city" in the middle east could be a proving ground for the storage method.
On-demand, or "dispatchable," energy storage holds back broader adoption of renewable energy sources like solar and wind. But it is an active area of research and development for centralized power plants.
The newest generation of solar thermal power plants will store hot water or molten salt to provide several hours or even days of electricity. Batteries or pressurized air in underground formations are also considered viable, if niche, technologies for power grid storage.
But wide-scale distributed power generation in people's homes, combined with hydrogen fuel cells, is mostly just a vision at this point.
Turner said that many researchers are pursuing the same goal of cracking water to make hydrogen without losing too much energy in the process. Although existing electrolyzers are expensive, the challenge is devising a system that efficient enough to make energy inexpensively.
"If we're successful, then we'll compete with electrolyzers," he said. "If not, we'll have to find another way to get hydrogen."


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For the best possible display, this portrait should be professionally framed.
A frame is not included with this artwork!
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Artwork Panel: 43.8cm x 44cm ≈ 17¼" x 17¼"
Silk/Brocade Border: 53.8cm x 54cm ≈ 21¼" x 21¼"Information about how this Asian painting is mounted
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This depicts cranes frolicking in in front of a beautiful waterfall scene.
This is painted on special xuan paper (rice paper) with then mounted with a silk border.
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The artists of this collection are actually a married couple who travel around China together looking for subjects to paint. Their real names are Chen Yong Ping and Chen Wei Ling but they sign all of their work under the single pen name Xiao Meng.
They work as a team on most of these paintings. One of them does the background and the other will handle the detail work on each painting.
The artists take great pride in the fact that they have developed their own unique painting style which they call "hazy painting" (this is roughly translated - it sounds better in Chinese).
They use a combination of "freehand style" and "elaborate style" in their paintings. The background is done using broad fast strokes and spray with very thin paint. The foreground (cranes) are done with a lot of detail using a delicate technique with a very fine brush.
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Gary's random little things about China:
When crossing a street, or merely making your way down the road, there is a certain law of physics that comes into play: When two forces meet, one must yield.
Here is the general yielding scheme in China:
Cars yield to big buses and trucks.
Bicycles and cars mingle and narrowly avoid each other. When push comes to shove, the bicyclist knows he will lose the fight. But the car driver knows that the bicycle will scratch his car when he runs it over, and will only yield on that premise.
Cars will not yield to, but are required to avoid pedestrians. When you hit a pedestrian at low speed, it does very little damage, and unlike a bicycle, will almost never scratch your car. Therefore pedestrians are given a smaller margin.
Note: Regardless of green or red stop lights, it is against the law to come to a complete stop when making a right hand turn in China (no matter how many pedestrians are in the way). The rule is "honk and avoid, then continue on your way".
Motor scooters yield to no one, not even when they are being driven on a pedestrian-filled sidewalk. Motor scooters zip around like they have nothing to lose - this may be true, as smaller motor scooters require no license of any kind and are very cheap.
If you are driving on the wrong side of the road, or going the wrong way on a one-way street, you do not have to yield to anyone, no matter what kind of vehicle you are operating.
Cars will yield (not by choice) to pedestrians crossing the street in numbers greater than 10 (it is best in China to invite 9 of your friends for an outing if you plan to cross a lot of streets).
In lieu of yielding, drivers are required to honk at pedestrians. I swear to God, this is the law! It's a safety issue: If you are passing a pedestrian that is walking on the side of the road, you are required by law to honk at them to let them know you are there.
Note: All streets in Chinese cities, sound like a New York traffic jam 24 hours per day with all this "safety honking".
I have not been able to find a traffic law that states you must yield to ambulances. And in practice, very few drivers do.
When two large vehicles come face to face on a narrow roadway, and neither can pass, neither will yield. They will sit there, honking at each other for a while. After several cars are lined up behind them, they will decide that they should have yielded earlier, and start to back up. This is to the great dismay of all the cars behind them who will honk in unison. This could go on for an hour or more. It ends when a police officer arrives, tells both drivers what idiots they are, issues tickets to both of them, and then systematically makes the situation worse by insisting that all the smaller cars turn around (rather than back up) by making 162-point turns in the small roadway. Eventually, two of the cars will hit each other, for which both drivers will be cited and fined on the spot.


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Cinema: Body and Brain
The idea comes from Gilles Deleuze: two types of cinema, one tending more toward the body, the other emphasising the brain. It's not a strict or absolute distinction: every film mixes both tendencies in varying proportions. As with all things, it's a matter of degree, of emphasis.
But we know what the philosopher means. The cinema of the body is John Cassavetes, Maurice Pialat, Elaine May, Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel. A physical, visceral cinema, centred on the flesh, on the contact of bodies, on eroticism and violence, on 'corporeal subjectivity'. A cinema where the camera gets in the middle of the messy flux of life.
At the opposite extreme, a cinema of the brain: cool, cerebral, systematic, ordered, rational. The cinema of Harun Farocki, Stanley Kubrick, Alain Resnais, Alexander Kluge, Brian De Palma, Straub & Huillet. Calm, highly structured. An essayistic cinema, whether in documentary or fiction mode.
Godard, Varda, Breillat, von Trier, Eustache, Akerman — many filmmakers alternate between brain-films and body-films, where one or the other tendency is dominant. Or they mix both impulses in the same film. But the recent deaths of two masters reminds us of the polarity between these extremes — and the immense artistry that arises in the tension, the back-and-forth movement between them at the greatest heights of film history.
Stephen Dwoskin and Chris Marker, body and brain. Dwoskin, free-ranging avant-gardist for over 50 years, creating his œuvre in intimate proximity to his own, disabled body — and going all the way to the outer limits of physical (as well as psychical) pleasure and pain, in search of literal and metaphorical nakedness.
Patient portraitist of the individual human face in ecstasy or torment (or both at once); restless map-maker of the confused tangle of human limbs in contact and motion, beyond the conventional limits of identity or gender. Just as we see, for instance, in his Central Bazaar (1975), where an 'encounter group' hippie-Happening results in a complete loss of personal borders — and the face of Carola Regnier (who died last November) registers the ambivalent emotions.
Marker: always the text, written or spoken, effortlessly eloquent, a triumph of rhetoric, wit and poetic association. Words, thought, language guide everything in Marker's work, even though he was (like Dwoskin) someone with a prodigious visual (and aural) sense.
Marker's images — from the earliest films of the 1950s through to his last playful videos, Second Life perambulations and on-line audiovisual gifts — came to us as arranged like a super-size, labyrinthine filing cabinet: compared, cross-referenced, superimposed, and above all subjected to the most rigorous montage. Like when he laid an image of soldiers in formation over Denise Bellon's photo of a glorious nude in Remembrance of Things to Come (2003), with that clever, smooth voice on the soundtrack guiding us through the starkly changing history of 'physical culture' from the between-wars years to the onset of World War II.
There are also many connections we can make between these two crucial artists — in order to discover how cinema as a medium can build a 'network' spanning the too-often opposed poles of body and brain. After all, didn't Dwoskin describe his own, mobile, trembling 'camera eye' as a form of 'visual thinking' — not simply an expression of a rudely libidinal gaze, as some mistook it in the 1970s and '80s? And didn't Marker carve out, in his daily still-photographic and videographic practice, a store of visual and sensual obsessions (cats, street graffiti, women in crowds and on trains, lovers in the metro — all of which we see in Chats perchés, 2004) that lead us into a singular, personal universe?
A friend remarked, when he realised that Marker made it to the age of 91, productive (like Dwoskin) to the very end: "That's serious history". Each artist, in their distinctive ways, via sensations and reflections, recorded the double trace of changing history: the imprints that the world leaves on the body and in the brain.
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GLRPPR Sector Resource: Wind Farms in Central Illinois
Due to technical issues, the first five minutes of this presentation is unavailable. Randall Lloyd, Agricultural Awareness Coordinator for the University of Illinois Extension, McLean County, is involved with the Twin Groves Wind Farm in eastern McLean County as a land and turbine owner. He and his family have been involved with the project since its inception in 2001 and now have four turbines on their property southeast of Ellsworth. As part of his role as Agricultural Awareness Coordinator, Lloyd has developed a tour program where participants are able to observe the turbines "up close and personal!" The two hour tour includes the geography, geology and history of McLean County and the part these each play in the development of the Twin Groves Wind Farm. He also has a program for audiences unable to actually visit the wind farm. Over the past two years, more than 1,000 people have participated in these two programs, including visitors from six states and 44 foreign countries. He will share this program with us and provide insights about wind turbines and agriculture in Central Illinois.
The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) holds an annual series of seminars, usually one or two per month, presented by researchers, policy makers, and corporate executives on various topics related to Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment. This series is an opportunity to share scientific research with peers in a relaxed, informal environment. Seminars usually last about an hour and questions are welcome. The seminars will be from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CST in the Stephen J. Warner conference room at the ISTC headquarters. A link to a live video feed will be posted on the Sustainability Seminars page of the ISTC web site approximately 15 minutes before the start of each seminar. Windows Media Player 9 (or newer) as well as a broadband internet connection is required to view the feed. Those watching the webcast live will be able to submit questions via e-mail and have them asked at the end of the presentation. Video and slides from previous seminars are archived on the ISTC web site and are available within a few days of the seminar's completion.
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1939 Business lounge
Business travel has had its perks since at least 1939, when American Airlines set up its first Admirals club lounge at New York`s newly opened La Guardia Airport. Now nearly ubiquitous (the website loinge-guide.net offers reviews of more than 800 lounges worldwide),first-and business-class lounges have had to step up their game to compete for frequent fliers, offering more than just usual plasma-screen TV`s, open bars, leather chairs, and Wi-Fi. Qantas's first-class lounge in Sydney, for example, boasts of menus conceived by Rockpool chef Neil Perry and spectacular views over Botany Bay.
1970 Wheeled Suitcase
The wheeled suitcase was first patented after a 1970 "Eureka!" moment, when the owner of a Massachusetts luggage company watched heavy equipment being wheeled through the Aruba airport on a wheeled skid. The concept didn`t take off until 1987, though, when Robert Plath, a northwest airlines 747 pilot and home workshop tinkerer, started selling his two wheeled version, the Rollaboard, to fellow flight crew members. For savvy packers, the easy-to-slow rolling carry-on has revolutionized business travel, smoothing airport transfers and making a wait at the luggage carousel a thing of the past.
1981 Frequent Flyer Card
Since 1981, when American Airlines introduced its Advantage program, the airline loyalty industry has awarded 33.2 trillion miles to frequent fliers around the world; two hundred airlines now offer them. Inspired by Raleigh cigarette coupons and S&H green stamps, they were a boon for business travelers, offering elite perks like lounge access and business cabin upgrades (not to mention inspiring the glamorous pathos of George Clooney`s character in Up in the Air)
1995 Travel Booking Sites
Since Microsoft launched Expedia in 1995 and Travelocity went live the following year, online travel booking sites using the Sabre online reservation system have revolutionized leisure travel. Corporate agents have profited from the ease of access and metasearch engines like Kayak and Cheapflights have facilitated comparison shopping. Your grandkids may not believe you when you tell them that, back in the 20th century, almost every vacation began with a visit to a brick-and-mortar travel agency.
1999 Self-serve kiosk
It wasn`t so long enough that every trip to the airport involved joining a long, snaking line followed by facetime with an often frazzled counter attendant. In 1999, Alaska Airlines, which had pioneered the use of electronic tickets, began to allow passengers to select seats, answer security questions, and print out boarding passes on their home printers. Then came self-service kiosks, and the phasing out of paper boarding passes. Today, travelers flash scannable data matrices on their smartphone screens as they board.
2008 Smartphone
With Skype and iPhone`s face time, the era of the portable picture-phone (as seen on The Jetsons) is truly upon us. But apart from allowing business travelers to connect with loved ones, smartphones allow for constantly accessible emails; text messaging; up-to-the-minute dining, lodging, and entertainment help (Tripadvisor and Yelp); and apps such as Tripcase and Triplt, which consolidate hotel, flight and car-rental information. Indeed, if George Jetson were a 21st-century frequent flier, he'd feel right at home.
2011 Lace-up Shoe
Until recently, savvy travelers knew to invest in a good pair of slip-on shoes to speed passage through security. With the transportation security Administration's Prev program, travelers on five major airlines who have gone through a one-time pre-screening interview can skip scrutiny, allowing travelers to go back to laceups.(U.S. Customs and Border Protection`s Global Entry program allows trusted international travelers to skip the lines)
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Preheat oven to 440 degrees F.
Halve 18 of the grape tomatoes. In a baking dish pour in 1/4 cup olive oil. To that add banana peppers, and 1/2 of the tomatoes. Mix to coat all with oil. Sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon sea salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Bake uncovered (ideally in convection oven) until they start to brown (about 15 minutes).
In a pot heat 1/4 cup olive oil and add 1/3 cup finely chopped red onion, 1/4 teaspoon sea salt, natural brown sugar, 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper, 1/4 teaspoon course ground black pepper. Stir over high heat. Add the remaining whole tomatoes and continue to mix until the tomato skins start to peal (about 4 minutes). Pour entire contents of this pot into a blender. To this add cilantro, the roasted tomato mixture and chicken broth. Blend until fairly smooth (about 15 to 20 seconds).
Pour entire contents into pot, add 6 ounces of vegetable juice, bring almost to a boil and reduce to a simmer.
In a medium mixing bowl beat egg until it produces a light foam and beat in the lemon juice. To this add the remaining 6 ounces vegetable juice and beat again. Slowly mix in 1 cup of the hot soup. Take soup off the heat and slowly mix this mixture into the soup. Add 2 tablespoons heavy cream and stir over medium heat until it starts to bubble. Remove from heat.
In a skillet add 6 tablespoons butter, melt butter over medium heat, add 2/3 cup of finely chopped red onion and garlic. Saute for about a minute and then add 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper and 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper. Continue sauteing until the onions are soft and translucent. Then add crab boil seasoning and cream sherry. Turn heat up until mixture comes to a bubble then lower to medium heat and stir until it starts thickening to almost a light syrup consistency. Once it has thickened add crab base and make sure it is incorporated well. Then add 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream stir over medium to high heat until it starts to bubble. Then add 1 cup of crabmeat and mix well, once it comes to a bubble again remove from heat.
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Add 1/2 cup of the tomato soup to bowl, to this add 2/3 cup of the crab soup, 1 tablespoon freshly grated Parmesan. And 1/4 teaspoon of the red lump fish caviar and mix well. Float a tablespoon of the crab soup in center
Grate some more Parmesan on top. Add freshly ground black pepper, to taste, and serve
I like to garnish with blue crab claws sauteed in butter and cream sherry and or some caviar. When in season I like to use fresh crab roe.
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This blog began as a join effort of several friends in a ward in Maryland. This site was a place to dicuss the practical application of the Word of Wisdom, the LDS code of health, as given in the 89th chaper of the Doctrine and Covenants, a book of LDS scripture given in modern times. Although this site originated as a joint effort of several friends, that I was not a part of, somehow I have come into ownership here. I was added as an author and contributer in September 2009 and in the year that followed, I just about the only one left. So here we are.
The blog largely marks where I am and what I am doing; how I am applying and making sense of the Word of Wisdom. I post links to articles that I find meaningful and important to the way I feel about food. Sometimes I wax thoughtful and dip into the spiritual side as well. But, most often you will see what I am cooking. I pull recipes from my own collection of cookbooks, from the thick stack of books I check out from the library regularly, some of the cooking blogs I follow and my own imagination.
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I'm Sandra Clark Jergensen, married to Justin, mother to Carter and Lucy. I cook food, create things and attempt to garden. I adore the farmer's market, natural lighting, music, spices, glue and paper. I devour excellent bread, seasonal fruits and vegetables in addition to good books. I'm from Missouri and Texas, studied English at BYU and have since lived in San Francisco and Baltimore proper. I recently moved to Arlington, TX without plans to move anytime soon.
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At 18-4, SMWC Softball Eyes Return Title Run
Head coach Mark Feller has his Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) Pomeroys' softball team at 18-4 after 22 games. For the small college just outside Terra Haute, Indiana, a stellar softball record is a rite of spring. SMWC is the two-time defending USCAA national champion and has earned the honor ten times in total.
"This year is going well. We're blessed to have a very rich softball tradition at St. Mary's," said Feller.
One reason is SWMC's location in Indiana's talent-laden Wabash Valley.
"It's a hotbed for softball, and it's easy to recruit local talent," said Feller. "The big thing is there are a lot of good travel softball teams in Central Indiana. I think that's where you have to give a lot of the credit."
Sarah Burnham, the USCAA Player of the Year in both 2015 and 2016 before graduating last spring, is a Wabash Valley product.
SWMC's facilities also give them a leg up on the competition. The school's athletic amenities include an auxiliary gym and workout facility that allows the Pomeroys to spend extended time working indoors – a necessary commodity during a Midwestern winter.
"It's nice to have the indoor facility. We do a lot of hitting in the winter time, and we do a lot of throwing," said Feller. "We try to simulate some infield, and try to do a little bit of outfield work with crow hops, drop steps and whatnot. We make the best use of our time and let our girls know it's going to be a long, monotonous process."
It's a process that works and quickly loses its monotony as the Pomeroys heat up during the outdoor season in their annual march to the playoffs.
Prior to the postseason, SWMC doesn't typically see a lot of USCAA opponents. This year they caught an early glimpse of three – Carlow University (Penn.), Penn State Hazelton, and Iowa Wesleyan – on a Florida road trip last month. They went 6-0 in the process.
Feller features a three-person rotation on the mound but resists labeling his pitchers as the team's 1,2, and 3 starters. "I like to just list my pitchers as pitchers. They all work hard."
This year sophomore Taylor Andrew (7-2), junior Stephanie Richardson (6-1) and junior Christian Chambers (5-1) comprise SWMC's rotation.
A hallmark of the Pomeroys' 2017 staff is their ability to locate pitches. The source of that talent is no mystery – hard work.
"I think it goes back to winter when we're inside. Pitchers and catchers have extra work to do – going through their routine, working their pitches, working their wrist snap, and hitting their location."
Leading them in their training is a Hall of Famer. Mike Andrew, the Pomeroys' assistant coach, is a member of the Indiana and Indianapolis chapters of the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) Hall of Fame.
"He's been all over the world playing men's fast pitch softball, so I think his experience with our pitching staff has paid huge dividends the last two years," said Feller. Andrew is the father of current Pomeroy pitcher, Taylor.
Offensively, "We lost a little home run power by losing Sarah Burnham last year," said Feller. "But this year is my fourth with St. Mary's and this team is probably the most dangerous team from top to bottom."
Through 22 games, senior and two-time All-American Emma Riffe (pictured) leads the team with a .517 average and has driven in 23 runs. She's also crossed the plate 26 times.
"We've got nice power, and I think we just put a lot of pressure on the defense," said Feller. "That's all we want to do – put pressure on the defense and let the pieces fall where they may."
To that end, the Pomeroys have stolen 49 bases while being caught just seven times. Sophomore Hollie Jones leads the team with 23 thefts and has yet to be thrown out in 2017.
All the pieces point to another deep playoff run for the Pomeroys this season. Feller, befitting a two-time national champion familiar with the difficulty of the task, makes no predictions, but instead modestly acknowledges the success of the program he inherited.
"The tradition was there long before I got here and we've been fortunate enough to keep it rolling."
*Article by Tom Flynn
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Executors of Paul Walker's estate have launched legal action against another friend of the late actor for allegedly taking cars from his collection.
The Furious 7 star died in a fiery crash in November, 2013 with business partner Roger Rodas, and his father Paul Walker III, acting on behalf of the estate, is currently embroiled in a legal battle with Rodas' relatives over his son's 30-strong car collection.
He believes Rodas' estate sold off some of the luxury vehicles belonging to Walker and is seeking compensation.
Walker III has now launched a new legal battle by filing a lawsuit against his son's friend Richard Taylor at Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday (11Jun15).
According to the suit, several pals of Taylor allegedly took a number of cars from Walker's storage unit within 24 hours of the actor's death and have concealed their new location.
Walker III claims Taylor, who was put in charge of the collection's ownership records and registration certificates, left a number of automobiles off the inventory for his own benefit. Seven cars are reportedly missing.
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A longtime former employee of Clyde's Restaurant Group who stole more than $640,500 pleaded guilty in Washington federal district court today.
Nancy Preston, formerly the corporate controller at Clyde's, where she oversaw the company's centralized accounting function, was charged in August with mail fraud in a decade-long embezzlement scheme.
Preston, a 55-year-old resident of Vienna, Va., agreed to turn over $258,000 in stock awards and must pay back an additional $389,069, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said today. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras scheduled sentencing for December 12. Preston's plea agreement said the trial judge will determine the punishment.
Prosecutors said Preston diverted money from Clyde's to make payments on a personal credit card. Preston was also accused of using a company vendor to buy goods for personal use. Preston was the corporate controller at Clyde's, which owns restaurants in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, from 1992 to 2011.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said Preston tried to hide her role in the scheme. Preston, according to the government, changed invoices to show that Clyde's had purchased different items. Credit card purchases, prosecutors said, were categorized as corporate officer training expenses.
Preston's attorneys, Peter Greenspun and Jonathan Shapiro of Greenspun, Shapiro, Davis & Leary, in Fairfax, Va., were not immediately reached for comment.
Greenspun said in court papers that Preston "has been cooperating fully with the United States in this matter" for nine months, meeting with FBI agents and prosecutors.
Virginia Cheatham, an assistant U.S. attorney in the fraud and public corruption section, declined to comment. The U.S. Attorney's Office did not provide comment about the case.


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(Memphis) A mistrial has been declared in the trial of an accused serial rapist.
Quantez Person, 37, was arrested in May 2012 accused with three rapes.
Person is accused of raping three women in his car in April, 2012.
In each case, the victims told police the rapes happened in Person's convertible with Dallas Cowboy dice hanging from the mirror.
Person is charged with one count of aggravated rape and two counts of rape, along with aggravated robbery.
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I did one of these sets back in 2008 / 2009 I think. I used to watch the Z cars episodes I have on it, but got bored with it's boring (to me appearance) And went back to using my 1400 / 1500 sets.
Good luck with it.
AidanLunn wrote:I also noticed that R102 I had accidentally put in a 220K as opposed to 820K. In the early stages of this restoration, the only service literature I had to go off before I obtained the ERT sheet was the RTVS 1959-60 book. In this it has the original QV30 but it acknowledges the QV30/1 in a footnote as having "a number of minor variations". In fact, this is somewhat misleading as most of the frame stage is different!! I only ordered the ERT sheet once it became clear that the circuit in the RTVS book had more than just "minor" differences and resembled very little the frame circuit of the set I had in front of me. So that is another possibility I will need to look up, any components changed to the wrong values because of Newnes' reluctance to include a separate entry for the QV30/1 in that year's book!
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Question: Why do you not change 'like for like'? Surely if you find an 820K (which is obviously original) in the set and the circuit you have (which is known to be different) says 220K, you change it for an 820K anyway! Suppose you didn't have a circuit at all and you were tracing through the frame stage and found an 820K had gone high. With no other reference you would replace it with another 820K wouldn't you? Or would you say....'Haven't got one of those so I'll stick a 220K in as that's the highest I've got'......no I don't think you would.....or would you?
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Milwaukee Defeats No. 21 Butler, 63-60
Feb. 18, 2009
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. (AP) - Avery Smith had 13 points and 10 rebounds, and Wisconsin-Milwaukee appeared to benefit from a clock malfunction in the closing seconds of a 63-60 victory against No. 21 Butler on Wednesday night.
With 5.9 seconds left, Butler's Gordon Hayward passed the ball to Willie Veasley behind the baseline and the clock appeared to start prematurely. Veasley passed the ball to Zach Hahn who never got a shot off before time expired.
Officials looked at a replay, but said they couldn't determine if the clock started early and ruled the game was over, giving the Bulldogs (22-4, 13-3 Horizon League) their first back-to-back losses in more than three years - a span of 111 games.
After losing Sunday to Loyola, Butler failed again in its attempt to clinch a tie for the conference title for the third consecutive year. However, the Bulldogs rallied after trailing Milwaukee (15-11, 10-6) by as many as 13 with 8:16 to go.


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James Schrader's sensational try saving tackle in the opening round of the ITM Cup
Fantastic, I love it ! Like the commentator said, unreal !
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Australia stun New Zealand to win the 2015 Rugby Championship in Sydney
I believe you both remember the 3 games in June tests between Ireland and NZ in NZ ? If yes, the second match was in Christchurch and Ireland only lost by 2 points. And at the third match, the ABs were so furious that they thrashed Ireland with a score like 60-nil ?
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Brilliant Richie McCaw lineout move first done vs Springboks by Samoa in 2013
Thanks alot, PD, for your link. Pictures speak more clearly than text. So Richie McCaw was at the right place.
@calvdog: the ABs were not poisoned in 2012, half of the English population had the virus that same week. But it's true that the first thing that popped out of my mind when I learned the ABs were sick (again) was "Suzie!", lol.
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Toulon play the France '98 FIFA WC squad in Half Football, Half Rugby charity game
I believe you are too hard with Delon Armitage. And he was actually enjoying the match.
3 Years, 2 Weeks ago
All Blacks score late to deny Springboks in another Ellis Park classic
Do you know which French clubs are taking young NZ players to France ? And how can this be accepted by NZ rugby ?
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Flyhalf Lima Sopoaga set to make All Blacks Test debut against Springboks
Hansen will know if he can take him for the World Cup and at what rank. He looks like a very nice guy.
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Levani Botia smashes Tonga to set up great Fijian try in Pacific Nations Cup
Afree with you, Boybath. And at the World rankings, they are above Italy and Scotland who play in the 6 Nations. Definitively not a small team by size nor talent.
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André Watson looks back on 1999 RWC final in Referee Perspective feature
In 2011, Christophe Dominici (winger 14) admitted in an interview that after the semi-final, the French team celebrated the win until the Thursday when they eventually realised that they still had one match to play, that the competition was not finished yet.
I still do not understand how their coaches and staff could let the players do.
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Wallabies snatch dramatic victory after Springboks fail to run down the clock
Agree with you on this one. The referee cannot blow the whistle each and every time there's an infringement, because there would be no game at all. And that makes them look inconsistent. Sometimes the ref are actually inconsistent, sometimes not. And we will always scrutinize the refereeing when both teams are close.
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Exactly. Owens warned them before acting, he could have penalised them immediately.
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It brought us Swedish meatballs, Billy bookshelves and endless queues on the London North Circular on Saturday afternoons. Now Ikea is going one step further and opening the Ikea Hostel, where customers can stay overnight if they haven't finished their shopping.
Later this month, Ikea Norway will let shoppers sleep overnight in one of its two Oslo warehouses, an operation that will last a week. "It will be like an alternative hostel," said company spokesman Frode Ullebust.
"There will be the regular dormitory with lots of beds stacked up together. We will also have a bridal suite, with a round bed and a hanging chandelier, and the luxury suite, where customers can enjoy breakfast in bed," he said. Family rooms will also be available for parents and children to join into the Ikea fun. None of the guests will be charged for their stay.
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I always have to switch up my face cleansers & scrubs because after a considerable amount of time of using them my skin seems to get used to the formula and doesn't show the glowing results like it did at the start. Does this happen to anyone else...? Or is it just me ?! I feel like the same goes for hair products as well...maybe its just because I get bored of them too.
Anyway, I was in Priceline as per usual about a week ago and needed to get a new face scrub and cleanser because 1. I had ran out of my Neutrogena face scrub and 2. My face cleanser at the time (The Nivea Daily Essentials, Review below) was just plain useless.
I was having some breakouts around my chin and seemed to be getting quite a lot of blackheads (I know, ew) around my nose so I thought I would try Clean & Clear again because it always cleared my skin when I was younger. I spotted their Advantage Blackhead Clearing Scrub which I used to use ALL THE TIME and decided to get the Morning Burst Cleanser too.
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The reason I got this was because the formula looked nice with the bursting beads in the packaging and I really believed from this that it would be a brilliant wake me up cleanser. I can't describe the smell but...it reminds me of cleaning products! I don't know what it is...it just isn't very refreshing. It does do a good job however taking off makeup.
The other downfall is that the product literally comes out a million miles an hour! As you can see from the photo, that is how much I have used in just under 1 week. No joke! I guess they want this so I'll have to buy another one in a few weeks time. That won't be happening though. Overall, I'm a big person on how something smells and feels and when I apply this I feel like it is stripping my skin (even though it doesn't sting or anything) but just the smell makes me feel like I'm applying detergent to my face!
|Clean & Clear Advantage Blackhead Clearing Scrub
This product was the reason why I am doing this post on face washes/scrubs. I actually first tried this scrub about 6-7 years ago when I was a teenager and was getting the usual breakouts around my chin. This product, no joke, is amazing. I re-purchased this product just under a week ago because at the time I was getting a lot of spots on my chin and around my nose as I said at the start. They were sore and they just didn't seem to be going away. However, I can now honestly say, all spots have disappeared and my skin looks so much better.
The packaging says that there is a "special cleansing ingredient that is deposited into the skin, working deep down to clear pores". The formula has done exactly that. My nose is completely blackhead free and just feels and looks so much better. I have been using this every day like it says and it hasn't dried out my skin in the least (and I have really sensitive skin). The product also feels really great on my skin and you know as soon as you start using the product that its working its magic straight away. HIGHLY recommend!
|Nivea Daily Essentials Gentle Cleansing Cream Wash
Okay, so this product definitely isn't a favourite. I'm all about saving time and I want a product that is going to remove majority of my makeup whilst cleansing my face. Usually I'll use a face wipe before I hop into the shower at the end of the day to get majority of my eye and face makeup off. I'll then get into the shower and use my face wash to take off the remaining traces and really cleanse my face.
I have never really liked Nivea products, they all have that distinct smell and none have really stood out to me throughout the years. The reason I bought this was because it looked calming to my skin and the fact it was especially for Dry and Sensitive Skin, it gave me reassurance that it wouldn't irritate me. However, all in all, this product is just so weak. I would get out the shower and would use a face wipe to make sure I had no left over traces and would see a swipe of makeup. So annoying! Also, at the time I was using this, I was getting the spots on my chin and this was doing nothing to help combat them or 'purify my skin' like it states.
However, If you look at the photo, I've pretty much used all of it. That's because I just put up with it until I thought enough is enough and got the Clean & Clear ones! Overall: Don't recommend!
Have any of you tried any of these and what are your thoughts? Do you have any recommendations for any other drugstore face cleansers/scrubs? Please tell!


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I made a height extension with three sides. 2 sides and a back. It would be best to screw and glue to the bottom cabinet but the way mine was constructed made it not really possible. So it is just glued. But don't worry. A little reinforcement comes later.
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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 24, 2012) - Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM)
Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM), a proven global expert in data protection and big data management, today reported results for the second quarter of fiscal 2013 (FQ2'13), ended Sept. 30, 2012. Revenue for the quarter totaled $147 million, down 11 percent from the second quarter of fiscal 2012 (FQ2'12) primarily due to lower-than-expected OEM and branded tape automation revenue. However, total revenue was up $6 million, or 5 percent, sequentially. In addition, Quantum reported record revenue of $42 million from disk system and software sales (including related service), which increased 18 percent from FQ2'12 and 38 percent sequentially. Both DXi® and StorNext® revenues were also the highest they have ever been for a quarter, growing 14 percent and 27 percent, respectively, over FQ2'12.
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This includes acquired intangibles such as purchased technology and customer relationships in connection with prior acquisitions. These expenses are not factored into management's evaluation of potential acquisitions or Quantum's performance after completion of the acquisitions because they are not related to Quantum's core operating performance. In addition, the frequency and amount of such charges can vary significantly based on the size and timing of acquisitions and the maturities of the businesses being acquired. Excluding acquisition-related charges from non-GAAP measures provides investors with a basis to compare Quantum against the performance of other companies without the variability caused by purchase accounting.
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A brief intro-
Mordekaiser was the first character I really decided that I liked and wanted to excel at. I've read countless builds across three sites during my early Mord experiences until I became comfortable experimenting with him in matches. I've recently been testing CDR vs defense builds, and decided I like them both very much. In blind pick, I set my ruins and masteries the same. Then, depending on team comp I build differently. If the game starts out awesome and your team is steam rolling the other, the most fun build to run is the CDR build (#2). If your team needs a tank, or you feel that you die too quickly build the Defense Mord (#1).
For Masteries, Mordekaiser benefits most from the utility tree. With 6% reduced cooldowns, +3% move buffs, 15% reduced Ignite CD, increased experience, a little health regen, and increased neutral buff duration it blows the other two out of the water. With your other 9 points aim for the 15% magic penetration (and additional CDR!) in the Offense tree. Its nice to have when your starting+boots penetration no longer reduces the opponent's resistance to 0.
Your marks should be mag Greater Mark of Magic Penetration: no ifs, ands, or buts about it. With the offensive tree talent or magic penetration quint in conjunction with your Sorc's boots you'll hit 30 armor penetration very quickly - which just so happens to be what most champions roll around in (your 15% should get rid of the per level MR they get). MPen is very important to the Master of Metal as his AP scaling is horrid. UPDATE: Morde's AP scaling just got quite a bit better! I still prefer CDR > MP > AP however, it just works out very nicely.
Your seals should be Greater Seal of Evasion, simply because all the other yellow ones are lackluster. Dodge will help you survive, and that is a good thing.
For glyphs you have three choices: Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction, which works very well on Mord, Greater Glyph of Magic Resist, or Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power. I use 2 Focus because when you buy your Shurelya's Reverie and Randuin's Omen they add up to 30. With your 2 Focus runes and masteries, your CDR hits the 40% cap. With the rest of the slots I buy x7 Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power, because now that our metallic friends AP scaling isn't too terrible, they are a great boost to damage.
For Quintessences you have several options.
1) Greater Quintessence of Health: A lot of Mordekaiser players run 3 health runes and this is a decent setup as it allows you to take a couple hits early game (when they can penetrate your shield all too easily). This with a starting Doran's Shield is a very nice boost early game.
2) Greater Quintessence of Cooldown Reduction - Don't buy these unless you never run the Shurelya build above. With that build you'll already cap your CDR without these quints.
3) Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed for a little extra speed. I recommend these over the others, they help Morde fly across the map like a mad men. Since I recommend Sorcerer's Shoes over Boots of Swiftness, this buff to speed is nice.
4) Greater Quintessence of Magic Penetration - Because MP is the bees knees. I run 1, because with your Sorcerer's Shoes, Marks, and masteries you shouldn't need any more than the 1 of these.
Feel free to mix and match quints to match your play style :)
With Mordekaiser you have a very simple skill leveling system, which goes by priority:
Children of the Grave > Siphon of Destruction > Creeping Death > Mace of Spades
Like every other champion you learn your ultimate at levels 6,11, and 16. During this time you level Siphon whenever possible, followed by Creeping death then Mace of Spades. I recommend you put a single point into Mace at level 4, otherwise its follow the priority system above :)
Mace of Spades (Q) is a *decent* skill, dealing nice amounts of AoE damage to multiple enemies, or okay burst damage to a single target. It really is a good skill, just lackluster when compared to our hunk of metal's other 3 abilities - which is why you should skill it last.
Creeping Death (W) provides a small armor / magic resist buff which is helpful during team fights but its main purpose is AoE damage. Pop it on yourself (Alt+W) and Siphon a flock of minions and you've earned yourself a pile of gold in no time. Between this, siphon and late game Mace of Spades you'll rake in minion kills netting you massive amounts of gold. The main reason to get a Sunfire Cape is to synergize with Mord's AoE capabilities and tear through minion waves in mere seconds.
Siphon of Destruction (E) is your best friend! It harasses, farms, charges your shield, deals significant damage mid->late game, and all this on a fairly low CD. What more could you ask for? Because it is our bread and butter skill, and it does all of this for us is why we Mord players need to rush Lv 5 Siphon as fast as we can.
Children of the Grave (R): Children of the Grave steals a nice chunk of your targets life and hands it over to you on a silver platter. Also, if the affected person dies during your ultimate's duration you get a companion to help kill the next baddie or tear down a tower with. While its alive it gives you decent buffs, so you shouldn't always just throw him into the nearest tower to die alone. That being said, your ghostie friend can do an amazing job absorbing tower or even enemy fire :) This skill is so amazing because it can turn 3v3s into 4v2s. No Mord guide is complete without mentioning how awesome this ultimate is with Ignite (both of which can no longer be cleansed :)). Two very decent DoTs mixed with nice burst and AoE. <3 Mordy
UPDATE: The update changed the way damage is applied with this ult. It is a lot harder now to depend on the DoT aspect of Children of the Grave to kill somebody.
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Don't do it very often. Grab the buffs occasionally if you don't have a jungler, but otherwise your main source of the buffs come from killing your opponents. Both buffs are decent on Mordekaiser -- even though he doesn't benefit from the mana regen the CD reduction on golem buff is very helpful.
Your Role
Mordekaiser is an off-tank, in the sense that he can soak up a large amount of abuse. He doesn't, however, have any natural CC or taunts. Therefore, you usually will either a) be ignored for squishier targets (in this case, your first mission is to ghost a ranged dps) or b) be stunlocked and bursted into oblivion. You very rarely can help your friendly with 10% life... it never hurts to try but the small amount of armor/magic resist from creeping death won't save em. Your best bet is to slow them with Rylai's or a Mallet.
It is important to remember that Mordekaiser LOVES being in the middle of a hundred minions. Fighting near enemy creeps actually helps him! If your opponent fails to notice they recharge your shield, make sure to abuse it. But because he is reliant on this mechanic, Mord can be quite squishy when team fighting in the jungle.
Last, but not least, is the fact that since you'll be swimming in gold - You're responsible for placing wards. Try to keep them up around Baron after 20-25 minutes, and also near dragon. These two are the minimum you should think of. The wards are cheap, especially with how much you'll be making. Also because of this fact, don't be afraid to buy blue pots from the store when you have a little extra gold after purchasing a build item.
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Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, already facing three charges of murder in two separate cases, pled not guilty to an alleged assault on another inmate and asked the court to dismiss one of the murder charges today.
The former football superstar appeared in court on Monday, June 16, after being indicted on charges of the assault and battery of another inmate. He is also charged with making threats against the life of a guard while in jail. Hernandez pleaded not guilty during his appearance in court on Monday.
After being brought up on charges of murder last year, prosecutors leveled more murder charges this year against Hernandez in a wholly separate case. A Suffolk County grand jury indicted Hernandez for a double murder in May.
Along with pleading not guilty on the assault charges, Hernandez' attorneys also filed what is being described as a "Hail May" request demanding that evidence removed from his mansion–including surveillence footage–be thrown out in the murder case of Odin Lloyd.
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