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An Emergency in the Snow
by longformphilly
Pete Dexter | Philadelphia Daily News | February 1983
I was sitting at the window Friday afternoon, watching the blizzard freeze the wood off the woodpeckers in the back yard, when it suddenly hit me that I had to have a package of pinwheel cookies.
"Everything is closing," my wife said, "and the roads are getting worse by the minute." She was just coming out of the shower.
"I know, I know," I said. They listen to KYW radio 15 minutes, they think they understand everything. I put on my coat and my boots and walked outside to the car. There was a coat of snow around it a foot thick, and inside it was dark and quiet. The engine turned over and started and I turned on the radio.
It said the roads were getting worse by the minute.
But when I need a package of pinwheel cookies, I need a package of pinwheel cookies.
There are, of course, two schools of thought on driving in a blizzard. One school holds that you ought to scrape the foot of snow off the windows so you can see what's coming, and the other school is it doesn't matter if you can see it or not—when it's your turn, it's your turn.
And the wind will blow most of it off anyway.
I put the car in reverse and backed out of the driveway. My wife was watching from the front door, and as soon as I was in the street she came running out of the house in boots and a blanket, flashing a little leg as the snow blew up under the blanket. She pounded on my window.
I couldn't see much of her face, but I could tell she wanted to talk to me. It's uncanny sometimes, the way that woman and I communicate. I rolled down the window a couple of inches and she shouted to me, over the wind. "You backed over the mailbox," she said.
I shouted back, "Were you expecting something important? "
And then she was running back through the snow toward the house, and the wind was blowing up the blanket, and covering her footprints in the snow as soon as she got through making them. Her legs were already a little blue.
If I am ever lonely and stuck in the trenches over in France, fighting another world war against Germany, that is what I will remember. Blue legs against the snow. I dropped the car into a forward gear and started up the road, looking for pinwheel cookies.
I don't know if you've ever had a pinwheel cookie. They're chocolate with marshmallow inside, but the thing that separates them from regular cookies is the feel. They have a solid, precise quality that is only found on these particular cookies and on the dials to combination safes.
You can control a pinwheel cookie.
I drove out to the highway, thinking of pinwheel cookies and blue legs. "If you do not have to be out on the roads," the radio said, "then for goodness sake stay off them. It's serious out there now."
The nearest store to my house is six miles away, unless you count the hardware store, which I don't. I got there just as the manager was locking the door. I recognized him from the pictures they hang inside the store. There must be a dozen of them. Produce manager, business manager, meat manager, assistant produce manager. They go down the list of jobs until they have included the pictures of somebody black and somebody female, and I guess if you don't have a leg up on them, you never get to see your picture on the wall.
"I know this is going to sound funny," I said, "but I need some pinwheel cookies. "
The manager finished locking the door. "That doesn't sound funny at all," he said.
I got back in the car and headed farther up the road. There were accidents every two miles, the most impressive of which involved a truck and two cars on the North-South Freeway, coming into Philly. By that time I had tried three more stores, and all of them were just closing. I had that feeling like not being able to find a motel.
Then the truck jackknifed, the car in back of it stopped, the next car didn't. Everybody got out and looked at their back ends and front ends and shook their heads, blaming the weather. The woman driving the car that caused the accident said, "It's their own fault, they can't keep the snow off the highway."
She had been grocery shopping, I could see the packages in the front seat. I said, "You wouldn't happen to have any pinwheel cookies in there…"
The next accident I have to report occurred on Vine Street in the city. A car was coming out of a gas station, another car wasn't going to let it in. They came together at maybe two miles an hour, looking right at each other, and then they bumped fenders.
I didn't stop for it—nobody had any groceries—but I figured out something then that I've wondered about since the day I showed up in this city. Thirty inches of snow can fall on Vermillion, South Dakota, and people get around. Six inches stops everything in Philadelphia or New York. The reason isn't that Vermillion has more snow plows or less cars.
The reason is that in Vermillion, South Dakota, people live different. They give each other a little room.
That doesn't make South Dakota a better place than Philadelphia, of course.
What makes South Dakota better than Philadelphia is that hell or high water, at 5 o'clock Friday afternoon, you can find pinwheel cookies.
Writer bio: Pete Dexter, winner of the National Book Award for his novel "Paris Trout," is also generally considered one of the best writers in city newspaper history. He wrote for the Daily News, mostly as a columnist, for 12 years.


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BC figs say nobody's special
PHILADELPHIA - The Beyer Speed Figures from Breeders' Cup Day reveal what pretty much has been obvious since Ghostzapper retired in June. There is no other-dimension speed-figure horse out there at the moment. There is no horse capable of getting into the rarefied air of 120 and beyond.
The best dirt number was the 114 Silver Train earned in the Sprint.
The best grass number was the 114 Shirocco got in the Turf. Nice numbers by nice horses. Just not overwhelming.
Juvenile Fillies winner Folklore ran nearly two seconds slower than Stevie Wonderboy. Folklore ran slowly after setting fast fractions. Stevie Wonderboy, ran fast after closing behind similar fast fractions. Folklore got an 87. Stevie Wonderboy got a terrific 104, an excellent number for a Kentucky Derby wannabe in late October and a giant improvement on the 86 he got in the Sept. 7 Del Mar Futurity.
Proving again that lone speed at any distance on any surface is always dangerous, Intercontinental got a 107 when loose on the lead in the Filly and Mare Turf. It was a career top. Her previous best was a 103 in June 2004. Defending champ Ouija Board came close to the 108 she got at Lone Star.
Artie Schiller's career-best 110 in the Mile was just enough to get him the Grade 1 win that his career certainly justified.
Leroidesanimaux ran a few points below his typical Beyer level. The 115 he got in the Atto Mile was really the aberration. I took a stand against Leroy by hitting the all button on my pick four.
It really pays to listen in the days leading up to the Cup. Equally as important, you need to know whom to listen to. If trainer D. Wayne Lukas tells you he loves his horse, you ignore him. He loves them all.
If trainer Shug McGaughey says one of his horses should not be 30-1 and is better than she looks, you listen. On Shug's advice, I used Distaff winner Pleasant Home on my pick four ticket. When he speaks and his filly is 30-1, she can be included.
Did I expect what went down? Uh, no.
Her previous top Beyer was 95. I was thinking maybe she could improve a few points in a race in which it was not going to take much more than 100 to win. She freaked, running out of the TV set and earning a 107.
I listened to trainer John Gosden when he said Shirocco would love soft turf and would win the Turf.
I knew nothing about Shirocco, but I listened and included him on my pick four ticket.
I did not need any help with the Classic. I thought it was a one-horse race. I knew Jerry Bailey would find a way to get Saint Liam into a perfect spot. It is what he does. And he does it better than any rider who ever lived. By Tuesday, that was one winner I was sure of. I wasn't listening to anybody. Bailey got the right spot and Saint Liam did the rest, earning a solid 112 Beyer.
Even with some of the long prices, most of the results were not at all outrageous, especially if you were fortunate enough to spread in the races in which an upset was most likely.
I was dead wrong on the Sprint. As a charter member of the Lost in the Fog fan club, I singled him in the pick six and never thought twice about it.
I thought he was lone speed against an undistinguished bunch.
Here is what I know: It is impossible for any horse to run 10 consecutive triple-digit Beyer Figures and not have great talent. When that horse's last two six-furlong Beyers average 115, you know he is something unique. If 10 for 10 were easy, it would happen all the time.
Here is what I don't know: why Lost in the Fog ran so poorly. I have no explanation. The first fraction (22.01 seconds) was not all that fast, yet Lost in the Fog was fourth. He made the lead in the stretch, but he was never reaching out for ground. It was obvious he was not going to win at the quarter pole.
Was it the competition? That's the obvious answer and not unreasonable, yet this bunch, while certainly by far the best the Fog faced, was just not that overwhelming. He got re-passed in the stretch by 45-1 Attila's Storm, an allowance horse.
Certainly, the Fog's critics have ammunition. Still, what is the reality? One bad race or 10 good ones?
I called trainer Greg Gilchrist on Sunday to commiserate. Gilchrist, one of the really nice people in the business, repeated what he had told people Saturday. Something was not right with the colt in the security barn. He was acting differently than ever before. Gilchrist wasn't sure why, but he speculated that maybe all the traveling had finally caught up with the horse, that he had just soured on the whole thing.
Who knows, really? Regardless, it proves what we all already knew. These horses are not machines, no matter how perfect their past performances look.
So Gilchrist, like the rest of us, is going to regroup. Everybody will have an opinion on what happened. I will reserve judgment.
After this year's Derby, I had many people tell me Afleet Alex could not win the Preakness. I thought he got beat because he got bounced around in all that Derby traffic and Jeremy Rose had to ride him too hard for too long. I felt certain that with less traffic and the ability to time his run better, he would win the Preakness.
I don't know exactly what went down with Lost in the Fog, but I am certainly considering what Gilchrist said. I realized a long time ago I don't have all the answers. In time, we will all find out.
"They run this race again next year, don't they?" Gilchrist said.
They do.

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How to Save for a Down Payment in Seven Simple Steps
Purchasing a home in Metro Vancouver is no small feat. With all the incredible features our great cities have to offer, it should really come as no surprise that so many people desire to make this amazing place their home. And with mountains to our north, ocean to our west, and the border to our south, there is only so much land to go around. Thus as demand increases, so does the price of land and, therefore, the price of real estate.
Saving for your first home can be a challenge. Most Vancouverites are living on fixed incomes, have some consumer or student debt, and have to manage the high cost of rent and all the spending temptations in the city - we do have some of the country's best restaurants and shopping, after all! However, despite how it may seem at times, you can get your foot on the property ladder. It might mean making sacrifices in your life, but if you make it a priority, you can achieve your goal to become a homeowner. As they say: "Where there's a will, there's a way."
Here are a few things to consider that will help to keep your saving on track:
1. Money in, money out
It's a simple concept but one that must add up: you must have more money coming in than money going out in order to start saving. And the faster you want to save, the greater this ratio must be. Accept the fact that it may be time to start prioritizing and making some sacrifices.
2. Pay off all consumer debt
Most Canadians have some consumer debt such as high interest credit cards with balances carried over month after month. Before you start putting any money in a savings account, pay off your consumer debt first so you're not wasting your money on interest payments. The Credit Counselling Society suggests that if you have more than one credit card, start with the one with the lowest balance and highest interest rate. Then when that one is paid off, start applying your previous payments to the next card, and so on and so forth. This will be the fastest way to tackle the debt.
3. Get yourself a TFSA and an RRSP
A Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA) is a must for anyone saving for a down payment. It's exactly that - "tax-free" - which allows you to increase your savings by earning interest tax free. Also, the brilliant thing about TFSAs is that you can withdraw money without penalty if you ever need to in an emergency, so you can deposit the yearly limit of $5500 without worrying about also saving for a rainy-day fund. You can also use your Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) towards your first home. The Home Buyers' Plan allows eligible individuals to withdraw up to $25,000 tax-free from their RRSP to purchase or build a qualifying home.
4. You won't miss money you never had
Once all your debt is paid off, continue to pay the same amount monthly but put it directly into your TFSA or RRSP. If you can increase your monthly payments at this point, that's even better.
5. Prioritize
Start tracking your monthly spending to make sure you know where your money is going (the Mint app is great for this!). Then, start cutting back on the things you can live without. Perhaps you can trade in your car for a transit pass or start packing your lunch to work every day. Or, maybe you can live without the trip to Tuscany and instead spend a weekend in the Okanagan's wine country. Every expense you can eliminate or decrease will quickly add up. And everything you do save, put directly into your savings.
6. Increase your income
Of course, wouldn't we all love to do that? However, if you're serious about saving then you should really look at ways of doing so as it could decrease your saving period significantly. If you're capable of earning more in your field, keep your eyes open for a position with a higher salary. Or, if you're happy with your day job, consider finding a second source of income. This can be anything from serving in a restaurant, working as a movie extra on your evenings or weekends, or picking up some freelance work in writing or graphic design or another valuable skill you have. Get creative!
7. Take advantage of BC first-time homebuyer benefits
With the rising cost of real estate, the Government of BC and the Government of Canada have implemented programs to help first-time homebuyers take the plunge. BC residents who have never owned a home can receive up to $10,000 through the BC First Time Home Buyers' Bonus. All Canadian first-time homebuyers are eligible for the First-Time Home Buyers' Tax Credit (HBTC) up to $5000.
Do you have other saving tips that work for you? We'd love to hear them - tweet to us @BeedieLiving and let us know. Happy saving!
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Saturday, 2 November 2013
Bright on Dark
It's autumn here a time of mists with half seen figures glimpsed within and then vanishing again. The snap of a twig beneath an unseen foot, or the cry of a bird echoing off a bare river bank making sound unearthly. The tress start to undress covering the ground below with layers of fast fading brightly coloured leaves. A time of fires when people gather for safety and warmth, the end of the time of plenty when feasts ensure that non of the ripening foods are wasted eating that which cannot be preserved. While that which can be stored as food for the winter months to come. Longer hours of darkness who knows what is wondering over the land where mortal people do not go at this time, who knows what is lurking behind that tree.
From pre-historic times before our centrally heated homes with bright electric light pushing the shadows away. Before street lights or science giving us knowledge, legends of gods and other supernatural beings began. Tales we still share and scare ourselves with today. We are our cave dwelling mud grubbing ancestors.
On the other hand, Less is More really inspired me this morning with their brand new challenge to use a dark background overlaid with bright colours. Usually I stamp on white or cream colouring the image(s) to add vibrancy, but I do have a stock of coloured card. For this piece I used a piece of dark purple stamped with watermark ink and then covered with bright perfect pearls. Very entertained that Barbara Gray was demonstrating the same mica powders on Create and Craft at the same time! The firework spray has been echoed at the bottom below the word Congratulations and yes the gold borders are peel offs.
Enjoy your week-end
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Looks like an amazing firework filled sky Zoe--a great technique you usedReplyDelete
Love Chrissie x
Beautifully written post Zoe and love your fireworks card, hugs Annette xReplyDelete
What a fab firework inspired card Zoe!ReplyDelete
Love the effect of the Perfect Pearls!
Thanks so much
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Wow! Isn't that stunning?! My first reaction was fireworks but as I look at it longer I see the water fountains on the strip in Vegas (haha, not that I've ever been there). Love it Zoe! xoxoReplyDelete
Thank you for taking time to stop and leave a comment I love reading what you have to say and if there is time visiting you.
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Samuel Parkman built this house @ Bowdoin Square in Boston MA this painting is by Philip Harry in 1847
The Parkman House
Among the many treasures in the Society's collection is an extraordinarily well-preserved circa 1847 oil painting by Philip Harry of a grand Boston home that no longer exists: the late eighteenth-century Samuel Parkman House on Bowdoin Square in the West End.
Founded in 1788, Bowdoin Square had, by the early nineteenth century, become one of the most prestigious residential areas of the city and home to many of Boston's leading families, including the Parkmans. (Samuel Parkman, who built the house around 1789, was a successful merchant who made a fortune in real estate as Boston grew into one of the most important cities in the new republic.)
Sadly, as the nineteenth century progressed, Bowdoin Square became increasingly run-down – an area noted more for its boarding houses and snake oil salesmen than its majestic houses. With the exception of the Harrison Gray Otis House (Boston's only extant free-standing eighteenth-century townhouse, now a world-class house museum owned by Historic New England), all of the great private houses, including the Samuel Parkman House, were demolished.
Parkman House, Boston
The Parkman House at Bowdoin Square in Boston, in 1880. Image courtesy of the Boston Public Library.
Bowdoin Square in 2015:
The Bowdoin Square area was once a prominent residential neighborhood, and these two attached granite houses were built around 1816 by Samuel Parkman, a wealthy merchant who hired Charles Bulfinch to design them. Samuel Parkman's daughter Sarah lived in the house to the left, along with her husband, Edward Blake, Jr., who died in 1817, shortly after they moved in. Sarah lived here until her death in 1847. Parkman himself lived in the house to the right until he died in 1824, and another daughter, Elizabeth, lived here with her husband, Robert Gould Shaw, until around 1840.
Both the Parkman and Shaw families were prominent in Boston's 19th century upper class. Samuel Parkman's grandson was Francis Parkman, a noted author and historian, and Robert Gould Shaw was one of the wealthiest men in the city. When he and his wife left this house in 1840, they moved to the other side of Beacon Hill, to a house overlooking Boston Common at the corner of Beacon and Joy Streets. By 1846, he had an estimated net worth of a million dollars, much of which he had inherited from his father-in-law. Shaw's grandson and namesake, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, would go on to achieve fame as the commanding officer of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the first all-black units to fight in the Civil War (made into the movie "Glory").
The two houses stood here at Bowdoin Square until the early 1900s, when they were demolished and replaced with a commercial building. This building is no longer standing either, nor is anything else from the 1880 photo. The entire West End section of the city, aside from a few buildings, was demolished in the late 1950s as part of an urban renewal project, similar to what was done at nearby Scollay Square around the same time, Even the road networks were changed, and today Bowdoin Square bears essentially no resemblance to its earlier appearance.
Samuel Parkman
Samuel Parkman
|August 22, 1751
|Westborough, Worcester, Masschusetts
|Died June 11, 1824
|Immediate Family:
|Son of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman and Hannah Parkman
Husband of Sarah Parkman and Sarah Parkman (Rogers)
Father of Samuel Bert Parkman; Hannah Tuckerman; Susannah Thomson; John Parkman; Sarah Parkman; Abigail Parkman;Susannah Parkman; Hannah Tuckerman; Elizabeth Willard Shaw;Rev. Francis Parkman; George Parkman, Famous Murder Victim;Samuel Henry Parkman; Daniel Parkman; Elizabeth Parkman andGeorge Parkman, M.D. « less
Brother of Elizabeth Parkman; William Parkman; Sarah Parkman;Susannah Parkman; Alexander Parkman; Breck Parkman; John Parkman; Anna Sophia Brigham; Hannah Parkman; Elias Parkmanand Robert Breck Parkman « less
Half brother of Mary Forbes; Sgt. Ebenezer Parkman; Thomas Parkman; Lydia Parkman and Lucy Forbes
Samuel Parkman
Samuel Parkman (August 22, 1751 – June 11, 1824) and Sarah Rogers had five children: Elizabeth (1785), Francis (1788), George (1790), Samuel (1791), and Daniel (1794). Samuel Parkman had also had six children by his previous marriage to Sarah Shaw.[2] Samuel Parkman, George's father and family patriarch, had bought up low-lying lands and income properties in Boston's West End.[3] He also founded and was part owner of the towns of Parkman, Ohio and Parkman, Maine.[4][5] His sons from his first marriage oversaw theOhio properties, while his second set of boys were responsible for the Maineparcel. Samuel's daughters inherited wealth as well. The most notable was George's sister Elizabeth Willard Parkman, whose spouse Robert Gould Shaw (1776 – 1853), grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863, Union Army colonel during the American Civil War), grew his wife's share of the fortune to become the senior partner in the most powerful commercial house in a city glutted with the proceeds of the China Trade.[6]
The eleven Parkman scions united in marriage with the Beacon Hill families of Blake, Cabot, Mason, Sturgis, Tilden, and Tuckerman. Of his eleven offspring, Samuel chose George as the one to administer the Parkman estate.[7]
With the loss of so much of the West End, the NEHGS painting of the Parkman House transforms from a lovely scene to a valuable record of lost Boston. And there's more than just the documentation of a demolished house in this painting – to the right of the house is a corner of Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, a site occupied today by the circa 1930 New England Telephone & Telegraph Company building. In the bottom right corner are two African American porters (an extraordinarily rare depiction of African Americans in a nineteenth-century painted view of Boston) from the nearby Revere House, one of Boston's most prestigious mid-nineteenth-century hotels. Named after the famous Paul Revere, this luxurious Bowdoin Square hotel hosted many of the luminaries of the day, including Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of Great Britain). Top it all off, the celebrated Daniel Webster (who was a member of NEHGS!) used the hotel's portico to address crowds at political rallies!
The story of the Parkman family is an inspiring and tragic one. Samuel's son, Dr. George Parkman, became one of the leading lights of Boston. He endowed the Parkman Professorship of Anatomy and Physiology at Harvard (his alma mater) and donated a large piece of land in the West End to build Harvard Medical School – home today of the world-famous Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Parkman's friend, John James Audubon, even named a bird – the Parkman Wren (Troglodytes Parkmanii) – after him.
It all came to an ugly end when George was murdered and dismembered in 1849 by Dr. John White Webster. The murder was one of the most sensational events of nineteenth-century Boston and rapidly became an international event via the fast-growing popular press. Ironically, Dr. Parkman was murdered at Harvard Medical School, built on the land he donated to the university. The city was rocked to the core and the Parkman family never recovered (they lived as recluses for the rest of their lives). Like so much art adorning the Society's walls, this painting is both beautiful and historical, and it gives us a link to Boston's rich and vibrant past.


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- Here's a sampling of green-tech news and quick commentary.
- Iogen Suspends U.S. Cellulosic Ethanol Plant Plans - Earth2Tech
There are two cases of planned next-generation plants shutting down, an indication of how the smallest changes can throw off the economics of fuel production.
- How Much Is Enough: How Long Should You Keep Your Computer Before Replacing It? - Planet Green
Some advice on how to keep your PC going a bit longer.
- Electricity From The Exhaust Pipe - ScienceDaily
Thermoelectricity is one of the more interesting areas of research and, to a some degree, commercial development.
- Rockport Capital closes third cleantech fund at $450M - VentureBeat
It is said to be the largest clean-tech fund ever. The firm thinks that exits are looking "rosier" all the time.
- Bad ethanol, good ethanol - IRIN Global via Biofuels News Digest
At the global food summit in Rome, politicians try to determine the extent of the impact biofuel production has on food prices.
- SunEthanol brings DuPont exec Frey in as CEO - Mass High Tech
As previously reported. Also on tap for SunEthanol is a $20 million series B venture capital round.


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Lecture 17 Replication & Consistency Last time: Replication issues? Updating replicas Consistency (how to deal with updated data) (luckily) applications do not always require strict consistency How are updates distributed? Replica management How many replicas? Where to place them?
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Updating replicas
Replica management
Scalability --CONFILCT--- management overheads
Ideally: black box -- complete 'transparency' over how data is stored and managed
Management system: Controls the allocated resources and aims to provide transparency
To keep replicas consistent, we generally need to ensure that all conflictingoperations are done in the same order everywhere
Conflicting operations: From the world of transactions:
Problem: Guaranteeing global ordering on conflicting operations may be a costly operation, downgrading scalability
Solution: weaken consistency requirements so that hopefully global synchronization can be avoided
Client A: x=1, x=0
Client B: print(x); print(x)
What are the valid sequences printed by B?
Another example:
Behavior of two processes, operating on the same data item.
A strictly consistent store.
A store that is not strictly consistent.
Any read on a data item X returns a value corresponding to the result of the most recent write on X.
The result of any execution is the same as if
Note: we talk about interleaved execution – there is some total ordering for all operations taken together
Writes that are potentially causally related must be seen by all processes in the same order. Concurrent writes may be seen in a different order by different processes.
Causally related relationship:
Concurrent <=> not causally related
A violation of a causally-consistent store.
A correct sequence of events in a causally-consistent store.
Basic idea: You don't care that reads and writes of a series of operations are immediately known to other processes. You just want the effect of the series itself to be known.
Observation:We can actually talk a about a degree of consistency:
Conit: consitency unit specifies the data unit over which consistency is to be enforced.
Conit: contains the variables x and y:
Goal: Show how to avoid system-wide consistency, by concentrating on what each clientswants, instead of what should be maintained by servers.
Idea: If no updates take place for a long enough period time, all replicas will gradually (i.e., eventually) become consistent.
When: Situations where eventual consistency models may make sense
Example: Distributed database to which a user has access through her notebook.
Note: The only thing the user really needs is that the entries updated and/or read at A, are available at B the way she left them in A.


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After An Accident, I can't (or prefer not to) come to downtown Chicago. Will A Lawyer from Willens Law Offices Come to My Residence or Hospital Bed For A Free Consultation?
Often it is important when you have been injured to retain an attorney promptly so that time-sensitive evidence can be collected and preserved. An injured person might not be able, or prefer not to, come to downtown Chicago. No worries. We'll come to you.
Many individuals who sustain an injury due to someone else's negligence are immediately transported to medical facilities and subsequently hospitalized. Yet, it is often crucial when you have been injured to retain an attorney promptly so that time-sensitive evidence is collected and preserved while you heal and recover. In some situations, though, it is virtually impossible for the injured individual to leave the hospital in order to visit an attorney's office to procure legal services. In other cases, you may just not be willing to make that arduous trip to downtown Chicago, even if your body can probably hack it. No worries. We'll come to you. As the founder of our law firm, Mr. Willens often says, "If you can't show compassion in someone's living room, how can you convince a jury to have compassion in the Courtroom?"
Traveling to the Client's Location
We believe that there is a lot of value in having face-to-face meetings with our clients; it establishes a real connection between the attorney and the client and a lot can be accomplished in a short amount of time. Yet, the attorneys at Willens Law Offices understand that it can sometimes be difficult or very inconvenient for a client to travel to our main office in downtown Chicago for an in-person meeting. As such, our attorneys make a regular practice of meeting with clients at locations that work best for the client anywhere in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. In ceratin situations, we've even traveled to downstate Illinois and other states for an in-person meeting. Situations that require legal representation are stressful enough, and we try to accommodate our clients as best we can so that their overall experience is pleasant and personal. We believe each case we undertake is important and we want our clients to feel valued and significant. I guess you could say that we just care more.
At-Home and Hospital Visits
We understand that some clients can be hospital bound, or homebound, and need for us to come to them. If invited to your home or hospital room, our attorneys are more than happy to make arrangements to set up a meeting with you. Our attorneys always request the client's permission to have an in-person visit, and will never solicit you or harass you while you are in the hospital. Recovery should be about healing, not stressing over legal matters. Our attorneys empathize with your feelings of vulnerability and stress and we will do everything possible to help you get the justice and compensation that you deserve for your injuries.
Contacting A Vehicle Accident or Personal Injury Attorney
If you are in need of an experienced vehicle accident or personal injury attorney and are hospital or homebound, please do not hesitate to contact one of our experienced vehicle accident attorneys at Willens Law Offices today. We can arrange to have an in-person meeting at a location that works best for you. Our office can be reached either online or by telephone by dialing 312-957-4166.


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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
It's been awhile since I've had to personally experience the dark side of humanity, but it happened just this week while sitting in one of the white-washed aisles at Walgreens. I needed something from way up on a top shelf and couldn't reach it from down low in my wheelchair. I debated MacGyver-ing a contraption with nearby materials to get my prize, but then quickly reconsidered after thinking about how much time this may take compared to my odds. It's more likely the object will fall to the floor, even if I'm lucky enough to flip it onto my lap first. So I did the next best thing. I rolled to the end of the aisle to seek help, and without hesitation asked the first person I saw, a tall 50-something wearing a red baseball cap and stone-washed jeans.
"Excuse me, sir. Could you please help me get something from the top shelf over here?" I asked.
"I don't work here," he snapped.
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Tell me this is an April Fool's joke. The link leads to a blank page.
Enavu has launched a jQuery set of plugins that will help make your website look better and have more functionality.
Here at Enavu we like to share and help make the life of a web developer better. We started with 52framework which has helped thousands of web developers to create better websites using the latest technologies in web development. Then we released the first real free project management application Freedcamp.com. Now we are going in one more direction, after having thousands of happy users of our jQuery tutorials we decided to rewrite them to be more optimal, easier to use, and be plugins so you don't have to worry about writing all that code.
Currently the set includes jSlider, jTabs, jPaginate, jSpotlight, jTip, jPlaceholder, and jCollapse. And if you look at our repository on Google we have quite a few more on their way. One of the most important things you should keep in mind is that even though some of our plugins may be already done around the web, we have made them only if they are less lines of code or if they offer more functionality!
We hope you give Vanity Toolset a try!
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... the problem, but I feel like I'm pregnant. (I know it sounds crazy).. I'm sexually active with my partner and we use protection ALWAYS. I'm anxious to start my period and I was wondering what color pill am I subjected to start my cycle? I'm currently on my last light blue pill. I've also change my whole cycle patterned causing me to add an extra 2 weeks to the wait on my cycle. Is there a possibility that I'm pregnant or it's just the side effects?
Hi, I'm new to taking Trinessa 28 and I've been very bloated since. Working out typically helps wit?
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No no no, you can't do that. You have to take your pills in order. If you went to the pills that allow your period you wouldn't have any protection. If you're taking your pills at the same time every day, you aren't pregnant. You don't even need a condom if you're doing that, not to prevent pregnancy. The pill is more then 99% effective. Remember that and don't ever take a morning after pill when the condom breaks.
You're just having some side effects. Relax, you're imagining everything that is happening means you're pregnant. And you won't get your period on the first sugar pill either, so don't panic then. On the average its the 3 or 4th day.
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Graduating senior Demetrius Jackson earns a $10,000 scholarship from the Council of the Great City Schools.
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What Do You Need?
Fun question to explore, isn't it? "What do I need?"
What does it feel like to "need" something? Whether it's better sleep, someone to return our call, a dog to stop barking .. what does it feel like to "need" it?
Doesn't it feel like your peace of mind or happiness was put on hold while you entertain this energy of "needing"?
What if we didn't need anything? And where does the belief that we need anything come from?
Surely we don't. Like some things, sure. Desire lots of stuff, absolutely. But need it? I'm not convinced.
Even oxygen, water, food, shelter … I mean, I don't really need those things, right? Because who I am isn't this body. My survival isn't at risk. Ever. At least, not who I REALLY am.
When I look at it in the calm moments, it's clear that the energy of "need" doesn't serve me. It prevents the 100% allowing energy to be present.
But I'll tell you what – when 3 o'clock rolls around and I'm out of chocolate, I may very well have a different perspective on what I (think I) need.
Maybe this afternoon I'll approach it differently. Maybe I'll recognize I don't need a seratonin fix; maybe I'll recognize I want one enough to go get it. And I can be peaceful in the process.
Hmm. Maybe. 🙂


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B2W Radio - The American System of Governance: Can it Survive the Information Age?
"It is the system of transparency, open discourse and debate, and the election of people to represent all of us that is the key to success." - Dr. Linnea B. McCord
Dear Valued Stakeholders,
I have been fussing over the best way to bring this last show in our series on "systems" to you because for me, it is the most emotional. I am one of those who tear up the minute anyone starts to sing the "Star Spangled Banner" or "God Bless America". I also have a deep sense of gratitude for the privilege of living in a system of governance where inner freedom to grow and become who I can be is as valued as the physical freedom to move about without limitations. For me, the American system of government is a carefully constructed set of integrated laws founded on principles of human nature meant to provide guidance for our actions in the same way the laws of science act on machines to perform. Let me explain.
When Rick and I sat down a couple of weeks ago to record a special radio show recognizing the anniversary of the first moon landing as a significant systems event, we were able to remember clearly where we were when it happened and how lucky we thought we were to be living at the brink of yet unimagined changes in our lives. We talked about the three mechanical systems that had to be integrated by two bicycle mechanics to build the first airplane: lift, control, and power. And we marveled at the similarity of the challenges faced by our forefathers and the great minds of science working on the moon landing when trying to invent a way to settle a new world without knowing very much about it from first hand experience. I think we're facing something similar in our world today as technology consumes our time and our attention, demanding that we integrate it into every aspect of our lives. This too is a whole new world. What is at stake in this stage of adoption of so much technology? Our souls or our physical bodies? What guiding principles or laws of human behavior are needed to help us navigate a world where machines have such a powerful grip on our day-to-day actions?
Dr. Linnea McCord, Associate Professor of Business Law at the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California is an inspirational voice for what many would say are the most important, underlying principles of a government that works: trust, ethics and a shared code of conduct. Without those fundamental values in operation, we can't run our country as we know it.
Consider her "Ten Commandments of Law and Ethical Conduct", soon to be talked about in a book by Dr. McCord:
1. Tell the truth
2. Be Fair
3. Be Loyal – When we do business, represent my interests above yours.
4. If I hire you to do a job, be competent in doing the job and be diligent about getting it done the way we agreed, or I will not trust you.
5. If you do not take care of money and property that I put in your hands and cannot account for it, I will not trust you.
6. Respect private property so that the majority of people can prosper.
7. Respect me at work.
8. Keep your promises.
9. Leader set the example.
10. Enforce one through nine.
Every one of these principles is deeply rooted in the psyche of a nation of people who know that when we do not take care to do right by the people we share our lives with, we risk losing everything down the road. No machines can fix what we fail to do with our hearts and minds in our every day lives. Today's national financial situation needs little commentary as a catastrophe of man and computing machines run amuck. Dr. McCord's 10 Laws give us a way to re-think what we can do differently in the future to make amends to each other and eventually fix what we have broken.
America is a multicultural society blessed with diversity of thought, language, art, and community. We share a system of laws by which we are governed that remain flexible and appropriate no matter what issues we face. Despite our differences, there lies at the core of this nation, a set of common beliefs and values that bind us together. Many might think of the beliefs of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" as the chosen core values. While those beliefs are central, it is the system of transparency, open discourse and debate, and the election of people to represent all of us that is the key to success. Whether at the federal, state, local, or personal level, the same principles of trust apply. At Birth2Work, they are the way we do business.
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Sunday 2nd November
We landed at Haneda Airport just before 8 am and we basically we took our time since our hotel check in time was not until 3 pm. So far so good. We passed security and got our luggage and it was time to get out and explore!
|At Haneda Airport
|Looks so beautiful in the morning
|Information desk
|Heading onto the train
|Just like getting on the tube in London but with loads of ads!!
|At Shingawa Station
|Train approaching on other side
|Arrived at Nihombashi
|Nihombashi Station (but needed to be at Kayabacho!!!)
We actually got lost for a few minutes before a nice guy said it's just around the corner. Hahahah.
|Ice Coffee Frappacino
We went to lots of the convenience stores (konbini コンビニ) and saw a lot of things we could get before we returned back to London. Walking and walking until we finally needed to stop and rest...
|Oden... stinky but tasty!
|All sorts of beers
|And all sorts of drinks!!
|Made Mr Bear jealous!!
|The bike signs look detailed
|They even have cigarette vending machines... ¬_¬
|Watch for the sign たばこta-ba-ko for a cigarette vending machine
|3D origami in a shop window!!!
|Odd shape building
Miss Pinky and I looked at the menu for a long time... And then we realised we had to press this bell for service attention. A bit like Yo! Sushi. This is what we had.
|Denny's Hatchobori
|Press that bell for service!
|Seafood soup without prawns
|Cheese and rice
|Japanese meal
They have an English menu, so don't worry if your Japanese is not good, but ideally look at the pictures in the Japanese menu.
My geeky rating: 4/5
Address: 104-0032 Chūō-ku, Tōkyō, Hatchobori 2-chome, 25-10
Website: http://www.dennys.jp/
Address: 104-0032 Chūō-ku, Tōkyō, Hatchobori 2-chome, 25-10
Website: http://www.dennys.jp/
After this we went back to a convenience store and bought a bun and another drink. We sat at the hotel, used their WiFi (password is at the front desk) and Miss Pinky slept for a bit in the cafe area until we couldn't stand it any longer... I asked at the front desk if we could go to our room early but it wasn't ready yet...
Eventually the lady at the desk who spoke really good English came to us and gave us our key before it was 3 pm! Very grateful!
We were on the 9th floor. Our room looked very compact. No wardrobe! And no WiFi in the room!!!!!!! Arrrrgh! That's not good! But I guess I needed to get away from all the social networks for a while. Miss Pinky and I slept for a very long time (about 5 hours) before we decided to get up, go out and eat. Miss Pinky was unfortunate to get a drunken Japanese guy coming up to her and talking nonsense... I think he was asking if she was American. We made our escape from the hotel and walked around...
We ended up in a backstreet at a place called Nakau なか卯 . They use automated service. So you select and pay at these machines (lucky there was some English), then the cook/waitress comes and takes your ticket. The person prepares your order then serves it. People leave the restaurant without saying goodbye... And Miss Pinky found that depressing. Oh well.
|They leave without saying goodbye
|Chicken Katsu Udon and Karaage
|Looks good!
|Need to make this one day!
|Bento meal
|No idea what this is but Miss Pinky didn't like the radish bits
My geeky rating: 5/5
Address: なか卯茅場町店 Japan 104-0032 Tōkyō-to, Chūō-ku, Nihonbashi, Kayabachō, 3 Chome−1−11
Address: なか卯茅場町店 Japan 104-0032 Tōkyō-to, Chūō-ku, Nihonbashi, Kayabachō, 3 Chome−1−11
Website: http://www.nakau.co.jp/jp/index.html
We went into the Lawson store that was near this restaurant and discovered that this is how the Japanese created the ice cream cone in convenient packaging. No ice cream vans around the corner then.
Finally we returned back to the hotel. No drunk men about.
We went into the Lawson store that was near this restaurant and discovered that this is how the Japanese created the ice cream cone in convenient packaging. No ice cream vans around the corner then.
|The discovery of an ice cream cone... convenient!
End of Day 2 (Miss Pinky wasn't happy about there no being English TV so she went to sleep... Me? I decided to blog! :D).


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One of the many places I've wanted to see and visit was Mackinac Island, and I finally got that chance! While we took our trip to Northern Michigan, we spend a good amount of time on the island, a first for all of us!
Mackinac Island is a fantastic place to visit, especially if you want to escape from the world today. There is nothing new on the island, you are not allowed to drive vehicles there, and there are lots to explore and learn while there. Yes, you read that correctly! There are no motorized vehicles (other than emergency vehicles) allowed on the island. You do all of your travelings by foot, horse, or bicycle.


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Actor Josh Duhamel got his hands dirty by helping New Yorkers clean up the city's Franz Sigel Park as part of a new volunteer initiative.
The Transformers star cleared litter and hauled new soil and woodchip material to invigorate the inner-city park in the Bronx area of the Big Apple on Saturday (12Apr14).
The clean-up was part of painkiller company Advil's Relief in Action drive, which promotes volunteer services across the U.S.
The star says, "Rather than putting on a suit and going to events, I wanted to actually do something, and Advil's Relief in Action is really about getting people to participate in the community and we're hoping people will pledge... to volunteer."


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1Weather Guru: Widget Forecast Radar 4.0.1 Apk
1Weather Guru: Widget Forecast Radar
1Weather is a stunning weather app made by OneLouder, the heads behind programs like BaconReader and Tweetcaster. Similar to the other apps in the OneLouder catalog, 1Weather is full of helpful features, all presented in a pretty package that adds a bit of class to any Android home screen. Not only does 1Weather show you that the weather, in addition, it provides real-time upgrades and societal integration that helps you stay on top of their ever-changing atmosphere.There are plenty of weather apps on the marketplace, so what exactly makes 1Weather any different? According to the folks at OneLouder, their weather program brings a "special animation and images to make a more stylish experience." The app isn't simply pretty (did I say that already?) , it is also packed with useful features and a gaggle of content that is informative, topped off with an intuitive user friendly interface which just about anyone can manage. As a matter of fact, 1Weather is only available for higher-end devices because of resolution, source, and cartoon requirements.Enough Talking about how nice 1Weather seems — let's take a look at a few screenshots.
When you first run 1Weather, you have the choice to either choose a location manually or use your current location. The 1Weather Now page displays an overview of what's happening right now with the weather in your chosen area. This screen can be dominated by an animation of the present weather conditions: the sun appears to twinkle and rotate, clouds slide from the left, rain drops, etc. You are able to add numerous places to 1Weather and change between them by tapping the current place in the top left.Tapping on the Main area of the very first screen where the current weather animation displays gives you a 48-hour weather forecast. This includes a breakdown for each period of the day: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night. It includes the projected temperature, precipitation, and wind speed alongside an icon describing the weather conditions.
Tap on Today The 24-Hour prediction gives a combined graph of the projected temperatures and precipitation for the next 24 hours. It's somewhat confusing when you first glance at it, but makes sense with a bit of explanation. A bar graph displays the precipitation for every period and is overlayed by a line graph showing the temperature.
There are seven other primary screens that you could access inside the program. Switching between them is as simple as a swipe or picture of a finger either in the primary content area or using the menu at the base.
7-day Forecast:
This is much the same as the 48-hour forecast, but is divided into the next seven days. The general design of this display is the same. Again, tapping the name here switches into a combined graph displaying the projected temperature and precipitation over the next week.
Severe Weather:
1Weather keeps track of major severe weather Alerts and will notify you of them on your status bar. The severe weather display provides the particulars of any existing alarms. If nothing exciting is happening, 1Weather informs you that this is a great thing (unless you are a mad storm chaser).
This screen gives you advice about precipitation for the next 7 days. Each day is represented by a bucket, which divides based on how likely it is to rain. If you watch this display for a little, it will switch to what seems to be how many inches of precipitation to anticipate.
Sun & Moon:
If you're looking to find out the sunset, Sunrise, moon set, moonrise, or what phase the moon is in, this is where you'll find it. An animation on this screen provides a slick visual representation of the condition of the moon and sun.
This is the social component of 1Weather. It Displays tweets related to the weather in your area from anyone across the twittersphere. It's not a perfect feature, but nevertheless turns up useful information from your location. (On the flip side, you will often find some pretty random tweets.) Even though you can click any links contained in such tweets, this port is otherwise not as interactive as it might be, but that may be for the better.
Top Weather Pics:
This is another interesting screen that also includes a somewhat social aspect. It's a grid of photographs related to the weather in your place. Tapping any 1 photograph opens up the complete size and allows you swipe through the whole gallery. Again, this is not an exact science so you could see some pics which don't fit, but it's still a very interesting and useful feature.
The radar feature of 1Weather is unquestionably among the coolest regions of the app. It permits you to see your standard weather radar map, which updates in real time. You can also switch between the Air Quality Index and UV Indicator. Each radar map can go complete screen with complete pinch and zoom performance so that you can see exactly what's happening in your immediate area.
The very adored weather app on Google Play. The testimonials speak for themselves, so which makes it the highest-rated free sport app one of Android consumers… along with also the critics agree.Why do they really enjoy it? In a note — Layout. Even the app includes a simple, yet attractive interface which makes receiving the weather tasteful and enjoyable. The revolutionary UI, along with a potent set of weather programsthat makes 1Weather the #1 option.
"Number1 Greatest Weather Program for Android" — Phandroid
"Very Best 25 apps you ought to download right now" — CNN Tech
"The maximum Beautiful, Feature-Packed Android Weather App We Have Ever Seen" — Lifehacker
"The beautiful climate app we have ever seen" — Android Police
FEATURES:-LRB • real life community weather and forecasts globally (Present + 48-hour)
• 10-day long forecast and precipitation data
• 36-hour plus 7-day interactive graphs
• Hourly prediction and precipitation data
• Live weather history, lively photograph wallpapers (cats, pets, cars, sports and much more!) , or make your own customized wallpaper
• Practice my place — your own weather automatically updated if you're on the go
• LIVE revived radar and intense weather layers such as fire, flooding, freezing, storm, snow, ice, tornados, end, and winter (US only)
. Detailed map layers: clouds, radar, outside temperature, dew point, relative humidity, wind velocity, and UV Indicator
• Animated sunrise, sunset, along with midsize stage
• Save a number of places to gain rapidly and quickly
• Magnificent reconfigurable home monitor widgets, such as 3 clock configurations
• Share weather data (like screenshots and awake text) together with family and friends through email, text, and Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc.)
• National Weather Service Area Forecast Discussion provides summary to your region from NWS meteorologists
• Authentic server-based push alarms for NWS supported places having detachable notification options by alert and location degree (watches, warnings, and advisories)
• Configurable Ongoing telling shows current terms and adds warmth to your telling pub for lively "My Location" or a place of your choice.
• DashClock integration letting you choose a place of your choice
• Daydream style service (Android 4.2+)
• Android Wear service (Android 4.3+ / Requires Google Play Services 5.0+, only launching 1Weather and Present Conditions and Forecast will show up on your wearable apparatus)
• Over 25 distinct languages accessible
• Customizable Units:-LRB- Illness: Fahrenheit or Celsius
Wind: mph, kph, m/s, knots and Beaufort scale
Stress: Length of germ, millibars, millimeters of mercury
Distance: Miles, Kilometers
• Entertaining and instructional weather truth and movies
• Upgraded Material Design Interface
• More information available on "Now" display
• One faucet access to channels during
• Wallpaper upgrade improvements
• Abbreviate lengthy places in drawer
• Chat icon additional to weather alarms
• Fixes for Blu R1HD Apparatus
• Other Bug Fixes
Program Information:-LRB-
Program name : 1Weather:Widget Forecast Radar
Bundle Title : com.handmark.expressweather
Apk Md5 : 6afb36afc8cfa416f5fcc98eea14156b
Apk Size : 13. 140106)
The Widget:
Last, but Certainly not least, 1Weather has among the coolest home display widgets around. It packs about as much weather info as you could possibly think of into a clean and elegant 2×2 widget. It shows you that the current high and low temperatures, precipitation data, date and time, place, and two rapid indicators demonstrating which type of day it is and whether the weather umbrella and requires. All this in a widget that is circular in shape as opposed to the standard boxy widgets you may be accustomed to. While the 1Weather app as a whole is awesome, I am all in it to the widget.I grudgingly Score 1Weather a 9 out of 10. I'd really like to give this app a 10, but there are just two problems that seem to irritate me. They could be related to my aging Evo, but I have not seen similar behaviour in different programs. The first issue is that the Radar display will sometimes be blank for no apparent reason. The next problem is that the widget will go clean, saying that the location was eliminated. Tapping the widget still heaps the 1Weather app and lets you place your location again; however, the widget stays dark and has to be re-added.
These are pretty minor annoyances and I am sure they are easily addressed. The bottom Point is that 1Weather has no equal in the Play Store up to features and Implementation goes. In addition to the fact that the app is useful and beautiful, additionally, it is free. There's no reason not to put in this one instantly.
Prerequisites: 4.0+
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The briefing has concluded.
O has said himself how inspired he as been by the Pope.
O shares values with Pope, don't agree on all issues. Not all.
WH may have more incite of what the Pope may say.
Josh was asked why so a wide range of different people that were invited as well.
Huckabee wrote this morning that o was being hostile to Catholics and Christians inviting certain people. Josh didn't respond, or I did not hear his response.
Next person.
O approach to welcome Pope to U.S. There is so much Pope wants/has to say.
Next person.
Syrian issue: Josh mentioned the number we expect as far as migrants. The U.S. committed over 4 million dollars. Largest thing would be food, water, etc. o wants to be the largest in this. Role to be the largest doner and scale up the migrants.
NO one is asking him of what danger may arrive from even one of them being a terrorist. All Countries should be a part of effort.
Next person. Carson comment and Trump lack of comment regarding that man. Don't compare to citizens values.
He was asked about them stoning woman, hanging, etc. Joshi could not answer to that.
Has the pope scolded Obummer for making Catholics pay for abortions, yet?
Keith, did you ever wonder why no-one responds to the videos of this moron ?
No offense Keith…We readers of WhiteHouseDossier can ask 100+ better questions than this useless, lazy, biased & sycophant "WH press corps" that you share the room with.
-Does any "White House reporter" at ABC, CBS, CNN, FNC & NBC, etc. know how much We despise them for being so lazy, sycophant and biased..???
I try emailing the networks but no one reads viewer emails anymore.
I have mentioned many times, I can only take Joshi so long. I have always watched the press conferences. I keep hoping one Reporter stands up and states enough is enough. My readers, viewers and the American citizens what to know….
Josh the Smiling Spokemouth is long overdue being hung by his BVDs on a locker room door. Long overdue.
Did Josh just announce who Obama has appointed to be Biden's VP? My money is on Jarrett or perhaps Obama in drag or the Ayottolah?
Clarabell the Clown has made it known he'd like the position. Even promised he'd bring his own seltzer. Apparently, the Biden campaign is considering the possibility. Fox may have an "ALERT" on this soon, one of the 2,000 ALERTS they have each day.
"FOX News Alerts"…FOX News bimbos/pornstars… It all becomes a blur after awhile
Yep, it does. Fox News seems to be floundering all over the place these days. Silly news interviews, boring hosts, strange choices of what's news and what's not news.
Off topic, but I just saw on CNN ( and RT ) that Netanyahu and Putin are meeting. They are discussing "coordinated military action" in Syria. I also learned that many other supposedly US allies have met with Putin in this matter, the Jordanian king, the Emirates leader, the leader of Egypt etc. What´s happening ? So they finally found out that no other than Assad, with the help of Russia, can deal with the big threat in the region, ISIS ? On RT they said that Putin is very aware of the threat of ISIS spreading north, to the Russian backyard, if no one is doing anything. Well, they can even go further, to Europe, so I say, thank you Russia, for finally taking some action. And Obama can snooze on.
From Aesop's Fables:
The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion
The Ass and the Fox, having entered into partnership together for their mutual protection, went out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far when they met a Lion. The Fox, seeing imminent danger, approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the capture of the Ass if the Lion would pledge his word not to harm the Fox. Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it. The Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox, and attacked the Ass at his leisure. — Never trust your enemy
Spot on.
And Netanyahu brought some very high level people with him to the Putin meeting–military, Intelligence, etc. This was no ordinary meeting. Putin has already warned Iran to leave Jerusalem alone! (by which he meant Israel, of course). So there seems to be a growing coalition developing there, in light of Obama's less than statesmanship-like treatment of Israel for the past seven years. Obama creates a leadership vacuum, and Putin just steps in that space. The question is (if any of my supposition is correct), what is Putin demanding from Israel in exchange?
OT Scott Walker dropping out. Too bad, I was hoping he had a shot. Maybe there will be a role for him to play — labor perhaps?


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Personal Assistant Needed At Gigastreams Consulting
Gigastreams Consulting is a people development and training organization devoted to helping professionals and organizations develop through our highly specialized Project Management and Human Resource trainings. Our array of seasoned and certified trainers and resource persons offer a unique bouquet of value to each of our clients. As a value-adding organization, we provide resources to our clients that enhance each participant's individual effectiveness, and their organization's productivity.
Gigastreams Consulting is recruiting to fill the position of:
Personal Assistant to the Managing Director
Gbagada, Lagos
Department: Office
Reporting to: Managing Director
Job Purpose
- To provide an efficient and responsive administrative, organizational, and logistical service to the MD,
- helping him to manage and prioritize his time. You will be responsible for providing full secretarial
- assistance to the management team during absences to ensure a high level of service is maintained. This
- position will be of key importance within the organization and the successful candidate must have
- previous secretarial and administrative experience within a fast-paced customer facing environment. You
- will be able to demonstrate the ability to effectively plan and organize your workload and the initiative to
- resolve issues quickly in an appropriate manner.
Main duties:
- Manage and maintain the MD's diary and email account.
- Filter emails, highlight urgent correspondence and print attachments.
- Organize inbound emails into the appropriate folders and any relevant information to be copied
- into the correct file on the hard drive.
- Respond to emails as much as possible, dealing with appointments, requiring Bio or photos etc.
- Ensure busy diary commitments, papers and travel arrangements are managed effectively including
- producing a daily folder with diary, necessary papers etc. and troubleshooting problems.
- Conduct weekly diary meetings with the MD to discuss upcoming engagements, invitations and
- other requests.
- Schedule on behalf of the MD meetings between him and his direct reports and the committees
- and groups to which he is a member.
- Coordinate travel and accommodation requirements in connection with others and ensure
- arrangements in place for the MD match his requirements.
- Filter general information, queries, phone calls and invitations to the MD by redirecting or taking
- forward such contact as appropriate.
- Ensure the MD is fully briefed on, or prepared for, any engagements he is involved in. Keep and
- maintain an accurate record of papers and electronic correspondence on behalf of the MD.
- Prepare correspondence on behalf of the MD, including the drafting of general replies.
- Minute general meetings as required and complete research on behalf of the MD.
- Keep and retrieve files.
- Ensure guests meeting with the MD are well taken care of.
- Provide a service that is in line with the MD's work habits and preferences.
Additional Duties:
- To attend supervision, training and meetings as and when required. You may be required to perform
- other ad-hoc tasks around the factory that may be deemed necessary.
Desirable Skills
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent experience in risk and credit control manager.
- Self-motivation.
- Commercial awareness.
- Initiative and the ability to work as part of a team.
- Excellent problem-solving.
- Excellent analytical skills and insight.
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Manly is most notable for its beaches and is a very popular destination with tourists
- Manly Beach are an iconic strip of sand and has been, and still is, the breeding ground for many surf champions. The easy spilling waves and large sand banks on the South side is ideal for beginner surfers, where the up to 5 meter high waves in the North suit the more experienced surfers. The advanced surfers find their 'Punchy Barrels' to surf in the middle of the beach, where the 'North Steyne Surf Club' are situated, and all the way up to Queenscliff.
- Queenscliff Beach is the Northern Headland of the famous Manly Beach. Queenscliff Beach includes an offshore "bommie" which can handle seven meter high waves. This is where you will find the Pro Surfers. Other beach activities includes, Scuba diving, Beach Volleyball and kayaking.
- Forty Baskets Beach is a beautiful little enclave set in the protective landscape of Manly Cove in North Harbor. It has offerings of wonderful views, gentle waters and shaded grass areas. You will find picnic and barbeque facilities, a swimming enclosure as well as swings.
- Curl Curl Beach is located 'Dee Why Beach' and 'Freshwater Beach on the Northern Beaches side. This beach is one of the best beaches for surfing. A lagoon is situated in the Northern part and an Ocean swimming pool in the South. The beach also offers good swimming and Body Board conditions.
- Freshwater Beach is part of 'Manly-Freshwater National and World Surfing Research'. This is a stunning family oriented beach wedged between two Headlands. A 50 meter, salt water, swimming pool, is a favorite with lap swimmers, are at the North end. Surfboard riding was found here by a Hawaiian, 'Duke'.
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The CRCEES Placement Scheme
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CRCEES offer two types of internship or placement. These are:
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While we offer specific placement opportunities, CRCEES also invites postgraduate students, researchers and academics in the humanities and modern languages to submit proposals to work with a placement partner of their choosing. The placement proposals should be designed both to generate genuine benefits for research and promote the dissemination of knowledge emerging from that research. This includes addressing need in key areas of policy concern including health and wellbeing, migration, energy and the environment, social mobility, and defence, intelligence and international diplomacy.
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|Reviews for Shinobis of the Wastelands
| CosmicBeing chapter 1 . 4/20/2015
Fuck off and die you pathetic Kishimoto loving piece of filth.
| NikkaPlz chapter 2 . 4/11/2011
I don't know if your still planning on writing this but despite it's silly premise I'm enjoying it very much as a comedy.
| Agato - The Hadou Inari chapter 2 . 3/21/2011
Continue at one point and let me know if you want help and an OC of mine.
| Bloodyredshade chapter 2 . 1/15/2011
Great job. Look forward to the next chapter.
| Captain DEagle chapter 1 . 11/24/2010
Lol i forgot to guess... Hmm so kakashi is in spirit world, naruto and sakura are in fallout, so judging by the tragectory of the moon and the sun id say sasuke is in the teletubby universe. (insert devilish grin here)
| Captain DEagle chapter 2 . 11/4/2010
Please i needs more i love dis story
| Espionage1911 chapter 2 . 11/3/2010
It has potential but please proof read this. AKA, Lone Wanderer instead of Loan. But other than that, it has potential and that's better than some other stories.
| Shadow Spirit Dragon-Wolf chapter 1 . 10/30/2010
Not bad, I almsot want to say Star Wars but that actually doesn't make sence so that's not what I'm guessing.
| Habu2010 chapter 1 . 10/23/2010
I say it's xmen for sakura, and bleach for naruto? please update soon
| NinjaJudai19 chapter 1 . 10/22/2010
This sounds like an intresting story
But gomen I have no idea where they r at
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North Hills: Two Seriously Injured in Head-on Crash
3/19/2012At around midnight on Friday, March 16th, two people were seriously injured in a head-on crash in North Hills. While traveling eastbound on Parthenia Street, a Buick sedan veered into opposing lanes of traffic and collided head-on with a Mitsubishi SUV, the impact causing the driver of the Buick to sustain trauma to the face, chest, and ribs and the driver of the Mitsubishi to suffer broken ribs, a bruised lung, and fractures to her femur and sternum. Authorities do not believe alcohol was a factor and are investigating the accident.
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"In California, when one driver's negligence causes an accident that harms another, the at-fault driver may be liable for the victim's property damage and injury-related expenses," explained personal injury attorney James Ballidis.
In 2009, 390 motor vehicle occupants were killed and 64,178 were injured in traffic crashes in Los Angeles County, according to the California Highway Patrol's Statewide Integrated Traffic Records Sytem. Compared to that year, there where 11.9 percent fewer traffic fatalities in the state in 2010, 3,081 versus 2,715, the lowest level recorded since the federal government began tracking traffic fatalities in 1975.
All of us at Allen, Flatt, Ballidis, and Leslie would like to wish the two drivers who were seriously injured in the head-on crash in North Hills a full recovery.
The Los Angeles Times originally reported this accident.
Resources for accident victims and their families, including books and articles on the process of pursuing an injury claim, are available to the public free of charge.
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Jun 27, 2017
So, it's about that time…
What is Google O going to be official called?
Yes, this is serious business, y'all.
Oreo? Orange Cream Soda? Ontbijtkoek?
We hear it might be something related to groats.
Jun 27, 2017
So, it's about that time…
What is Google O going to be official called?
Yes, this is serious business, y'all.
Oreo? Orange Cream Soda? Ontbijtkoek?
We hear it might be something related to groats.
Jul 2, 2016
As is usual at this time — when a new version of Android is nigh — the world gets into a frenzy with regards to the new nickname that Google assigns to it. Even with the alphabetical convention and tendency to name them after sweets narrowing down the choices, the guessing is still usually wild and… well… interesting.
This time, Google even had a cyber suggestion box to spur discussion.
In any case, it's official: Android 7 is Nougat.
Let the debate about Android O. Oreo? O Henry? Orange Julius?
Time will tell…
Jun 27, 2016
You get what you pay for.
It's a maxim that more or less rings true. Better made products created from better sourced raw materials tend to command higher prices than competing merchandise made with less care, exacting standards or less exotic materials.
Other things come into play of course. Some brands command more of an asking price than others, be it based on reputation, or location, or an immeasurable metric held in esteem by the purchasing public — doesn't really matter; positive mindshare is like gold. Nordstrom acolytes are used to hearing the fable of the returned automobile tire, and it's the basis of Nordy's legendary customer service. Just as well, because the stuff on its racks ain't exactly cheap.
But it arguably has earned that privilege.
Still, I love getting a lot for a little. Ethically, though. It's so enjoyable to find legitimate discounts and special sales… heck, even previously owned gadgets and make the most of saved cash. I feel an unquenchable joy that, for instance, I am typing up this article on a cheapie RCA tab with keyboard case, and will be doing the heavy lifting editing on an Unbranded (no, this is the true brand name) Windows Tablet. Both cost less than $100 together (albeit with Swagbucks and Bing-derived Amazon credits).
But that's where Android really made headway. The open nature allowed (and continues to allow) OEMs to look to pack in a lot at bargain prices. The result is an OS with a true range of hardware across a competitive range of prices.
It's a mixed bag, of course. There are some devices that are not worth pennies, and others that are wildly over-priced. Still, for folks who are willing to look hard to gain a lot, Android almost has to be the platform of choice.
Got to run. Slickdeals is humming…
Sep 28, 2014
First world problems…
True Android adherents know that guessing Android version code names is discipline to be enjoyed. Since Cupcake, gaining bragging rights by figuring the name of the next alphabetized sweet is serious stuff.
Of course, Google wrecked many a bet by usurping the last fan favorite (Key Lime Pie) with KitKat.
Well, where up to "L" now, and Google fanned the flames by putting out the next developer's preview — code named L — and Android geeks worldwide are in a naming frenzy. Licorice? Lemon Drops? Lemon Meringue Pie? Something with Lemon in it?
No doubt, there is a pooled bounty going on somewhere.
The eagle-eyed folks at Phandroid just might have figured it out.
Phandroid notes the atypical lollipops at the top of the cake. Yes, that looks like a good sign right there:
Phandroid, quite familiar with Google's penchant for red herrings, is careful to hedge its bets. Layer Cake maybe? In any case, hats off to Phandroid if this guess is indeed correct.
I could get used to Android Lollipop…
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May 28, 2013
Samsung and Intel's Tizen OS may not have materialized in any real form, but a recent announcement means that for the common person, it's likely to be a real possibility. See, Unity has announced that they will support exporting to Tizen. This is a huge deal because Unity is a cross-platform game development engine that supports PC/Mac/Linux, the current-gen consoles, and iOS/Android. If the powers that be behind Tizen are striking deals to ensure that developers can easily put their apps on the platform, then the odds of Samsung heavily pushing a Tizen device in the near future seems more likely.
While Tizen's Android compatibility layer will mean that games will have a support leg up from the outset, getting native content will be a boon for support. And if developers have ways to easily export to Samsung's newest phone on Tizen, it may well be worth the push. It seems to be a similar initiative as 100% Indie – entice developers with a juicy fruit to go to their store and to ensure that they have a bigger library.
So, if and when the first Galaxy Tizen phone materializes, and it could be in a month at Samsung Premiere 2013, then there would be no excuse for it to not have content. Be prepared.
Sep 7, 2010
According to the latest published statistics by Quantcast, (a company that loves charts more than Ross Perot) Android continues to increase its share of the mobile web consumption market while Apples iOS cotinues to decline. The month of August brought with it Androids largest gain since November 2009 bringing its total mobile web market share to 25%.
The mobile web content leader is still Apple with a total of 56% but the way things are going I don't think it will be long before Android levels out the playing field. This past year alone we have seen Android gain 18.6% while Apples iOS dropped it's shares by 11.4%. So what does this all mean? Well, it means that the Android OS and the newest barrage of Android powered phones are just plain AWSOME!


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My Tilt-Point and Recovery
I used to think I'd never tilt. Not me. Then, about a year after I started playing extensively, I was into the-session-from-Hell and I reached my limit. Argh! I probably wound up losing an extra $500 during that relatively short session. As I was cashing out and licking my wounds, I realized: Hey, I can tilt too. Caused me to recognize this and occasionally blow off steam rather than going really over the edge.
This past Presidents' Day weekend, was one of those rare instances when I reached my personal tilt-point. I was in Atlantic City playing the Borgata's $20 / 40 limit game and was taking the nastiest losses, over hours. One of many examples was losing with my flopped top-set, to a fellow who'd PREFLOP four-bet me with a suited 7-4 of hearts hand. He flopped one heart and then made runner, runner hearts to win with a straight-flush. Amazingly, I finished 3rd in that hand, as the 3-bettor made a heart flush too (made the beat even more ridiculous, as their hands held four of the thirteen hearts). Crazy stuff!Anyway, after losing that brutalizing hand, I had to let off steam.
About three hands later, I was dealt 2, 3 suited. I preflop 3-bet a really tight player, who'd raised from early position. Well, at least I held position on him. It was heads-up, after no one else called. We went to the flop: Ace-Ace-Jack. He checked and I did too. Perhaps because he sensed weakness, he bet into me when the turn brought a Jack – making the board Ace-Ace-Jack-Jack. Sensing that he might have a counterfeited pre-flop raising hand – like a 9-9 pair, and more significantly just tired of losing, I raised (with nothing and no flush draw). Won it, when he folded!Best part, my steaming play not only cleared my head, I made money off it. Went on after that to recover and walked out with a win.
Bottom line, either blow off steam and get over your tilt when it happens or end your session. Playing tilted for any long stretch is often costly.Postscript: I thought about the hand and realized its surprising quirk. Played out (rather than won via betting), there's no hand I could ever beat with my 3 kicker playing (I might at best tie, by playing the board). Even if a 2 opened on the river, making the board Ace-Ace-Jack, Jack and 2, I'd still be left in a tie against a theoretical 2-3 held by my opponent (if we had the same hand) and losing to every other hand he could have, including 2-2 (where he'd have made a winning full house). Strange twist.
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We completed this trail yesterday and found it very enjoyable. It should be known that when looking at the elevation profile the steep incline / decline in the middle is not necessary to view the falls; it leads to an alternate access point. You could start there and only have a three mile hike to see the falls. However, it wasn't the falls that was the highlight of the trip for me. We left the car at 9:45 am, spent 45 minutes falls for lunch, then we're back at the car by 5:30.


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State employees in the north country are donating more than $119,000 to nonprofits this year as part of the annual State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA).
During a Feb. 24 awards luncheon in Watertown, four chapters in Jefferson County were honored for having major increases in giving this year. The top campaigns were Watertown Correctional, Cape Vincent Correctional, Thousand Islands State Park and Department of Environmental Control.
In St. Lawrence County, the top campaigns were Riverview Correctional, SUNY Canton, St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and New York State Police. A celebration event in Canton is being planned for later in the year.
Altogether, the 5,649 state employees in the region increased their giving by more than $8,000 this year. The number of donors increased by 30 in the three counties, even though the number of state employees dropped by 435.
"This was one of the largest percentage increases in giving for SEFA in New York," said Bob Gorman, CEO of the United Way of Northern New York, which administers the SEFA campaign. "I hope our citizens realize how benevolent state employees are. These donations come right out of their own pockets."


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Jewish SoulYonatan Miller
Inspiring interpretation of Klezmer tunes colored by the experiences of a lifetime.
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Yonatan (Jonathan) Miller, born in London, England in 1959, son of a Rabbi, grew up in New York City from age 2 studying classical violin (Blanche Levy, Yuval Waldman, Robert Cannetti, Peter Marsh) for 13 years as well as some recorder lessons earlier on and a few years of clarinet (Jane Hamborsky). All this in addition to the finest educatoin New York public schools had to offer in the '70s and Hebrew and religious school studies.
Here is a bio I use nowadays
You can see many of my Israeli exploits as a TV star and rabble-rouser
The inspiration for this CD came when i bought myself a small 8-track recording device and my wife and kids went to visit her family in Israel in the winter of 2009
These tunes being folk tunes, public domain, i took advantage of the fact that i was living alone in an empty house, temporarily, and by January 2010 I had finished most of the project. I simply went through the list of songs, in no particular order, recorded a line here. Chose a different instrument for this or that one. Found a line I liked and went through the piece adding harmonies. Making a chorus of countless mandolins, a horn section of clarinets. It was a tag team match of the tunes and my memories versus my wits and imagination, I ploughed through the month and a half recording in my garage during every spare waking moment.
Liv Khalsa Singh of Invincible Records, that i had done some work for previously agreed to help me mix the thing so i transferred all the tracks to him and we went to work, taking eventually about six months and about 80+ hours of hard work working on equalizations etc... An accidental installment of new software during the project forced us to change all of the effect presets, but that turned out for the better and Liv's wonderful creative use of his studio and equipment helped me realize a dream and i am forever grateful.
Being able to realize this dream of producing a musical project entirely my own has been a cathartic experience and hopefully only the first step on the way to more
If you hear this music you hear thousands of years of Jewish History but you also hear the history of music and human emotions. No one religion holds the true truth, but only a version of it. Being Jewish has its unique experiences that you share with so many alive and so many that have lived. And it echoes humanity.
While i was recording i came up with the name Klezmo-Cowboy Folk/Jazz to describe this new eclectic style.
Working alone in your garage you can come up with some wonderful subtle touches by multi-tracking re-recording bits and erasing others. I had a lot of fun and I am totally satisfied with the result. It is me. It is a reflection of me and my life and everything that I have done up until now. Who knows what the future has in store?
My inspiration to do this project was also based on my life for two special albums. Chick Corea had a wonderful album (one of my all time favorite albums) My Spanish Heart which showed his own heritage through the music he played. Paul McCartney recorded a wonderful album after he left the beatles recording all the tracks himself. I had always wanted to have my own version of those.
There were some people that i had offered to come over and lay down tracks but in the end
A famous Jewish song says that the main thing in life is not to be afraid
But I say that the main thing is to smile , be happy, make the most out of what you have and go from there...
the pieces were numbered 1-13 and there were no names for the tunes given
I also i added the bonus track that i had recorded years
So the entire process the numbers were simply 1-13 and then at the very end i decided i didn't like the way they sounded in order so i flipped them from 12 counting down to 1 and then 13 at the end and liked the way they sounded in that order
Just for CD baby since i didn't know the actual names of the tunes i had some fun and made up some cute names
Violin (my violin was made by Israel Schmidt, an Israeli luthier
On the bonus track I am playing another electric violin i had - some cheap japanese thing that looked like a stick with strings on it - but it looked cool and i actually liked that thing - and a lovely hollow body epiphone electric mandolin that i had purchased at Mandolin Brothers in Staten Island NY (and was stolen from the Penny Lane club in Jerusalem during the Sukkot Holiday in 1983 and it still hurts me to think about it), a funky Hagstrom electric guitar and an even funkier hollow body acoustic/electric bass
Please enjoy and please spread the word
I hope to get to work on futher projects in the not too distant future
Thank you for reading and listening
I am dedicating this project io the memory of four great musicians and people that I had the honor to work with.
Erik Eisen was a talented harmonica player that played in our "progressive bluegrass" band Old no. 7 back at SUNY Binghamton in the late 70's (a great time to have been a college student).
March 31, 2011
My friend Rahel interviewed me for this project and to celebrate its release


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Engineers Rules
Combat Engineer units were used throughout WWII to increase the combat effectiveness of the Corps. They provided mobility, counter−mobility, survivability, topographic and engineering support.
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An Engineer unit moves and battles like a Standard unit.
Most rules are on the following reference card:
- In Close Assault Combat, an Engineer unit ignores all terrain Battle dice reductions, i.e. their enemies are not protected by their terrain.
- An Engineer unit that is on a hex with wire will reduce the number of Battle dice it rolls by 1 and may also remove the wire from the hex on the same turn.
- An Engineer unit that moves onto a Minefield hex and that is eligible to battle must clear the Minefield hex instead of battling. If the Engineer unit cannot clear the Minefield, it detonates.
- An Engineer ordered by Infantry Assault, may move 2 hexes then remove wire or clear mines.
- An Engineer may clear a Roadblock obstacle instead of battling.
Nations and Badges
The "Fp" arm badge shown here was for fortification construction engineers.
The history of Italian Engineers dates as far back as the early 16th century. With the introduction of gunpowder and cannon, a new design had to be found for fortresses
so that they would better resist these advances in warfare technology. The result was the "trace italienne": star-shaped fortresses surrounding towns and even cities with outlying defenses. In the 1530s and 1540s, this new design spread from Italy throughout Europe, and Italian Engineers were in high demand. The concepts were refined over
the centuries, and were still used durind the 1914-1418 Great War.
Royal Engineers have played an important role in all of the conflicts where Great Britain participated. For this reason, King William IV awarded them their 'ubique' motto in 1832, to explain that they had taken part in every battle fought by the British Army. During WWII, the Royal Engineers skills were extensively used for bomb disposal, mine detection, bridge building, etc.
The turreted castle is the symbol of the US Army Corps of Engineers. In heraldry, this symbol was used to describe men who overcame walled fortifications. The US Army started using this symbol in 1840. It was then used on various clothing elements such as epaulets, belt plates, caps, shoulder knots, buttons, etc. Even though the general shape would evolve, it has remained the distinctive symbol of the Corps of Engineers.
Combat Engineer units were used throughout WWII to increase the combat effectiveness of the Corps. They provided mobility, counter−mobility, survivability, topographic and engineering support.