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Friday, September 3, 2010
Open Friday: The Role of Retro-Clones
I realize this question was chewed over a lot in the early days of the old school renaissance, but a lot has happened over the last three years and I suspect the perspectives of some might have changed in light of how things have played out and I'd like to hear about it.
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I personally don't look at the retro clones as "replacements" for the real thing. I like to think of them as a quick fix for those without the means to acquire the original books, or as a more convenient way to indulge in "classic" gaming (since most of the rules sets are available online for free). So I guess I'd fall on the side of "supplement" and not "replace".
There are a lot of old-schoolers out there with definite dislike for the retro-clones, and don't see any purpose in using them; personally, I'm of the "whatever gets them in the door rolling dice" school of gaming...Retro-clones were needed at one time to keep the game in print. That was the authors' intent for the early clones, unless I am mistaken. Like stock car racing, it uses what came from the factory.
The new generation of clone publishers are like hot-rodders, tinkering with what's under the hood.
Different times, different reasons for publishing a clone.Ugh. What Badmike said, though I think this puts us (me anyway) on the side of replacement.
If B/X was still available, I would certainly be telling people to buy IT, not Labyrinth Lord. But if B/X WAS available would Mr. Proctor have bothered to write LL? I'm not so sure he would. Certainly, the AEC is a brilliant piece of synthesis/game engineering, but I'm not sure LL was necessary to do it. In many ways, the AEC is his (Proctor's) own take on "the Companion book that never was," far different from my own (he adapts the adapted supplements books by adapting AD&D)...but definitely a valid choice.
Now, though the writing of retro-clones (and compatible supplements) appears to have given OSR publishers a "taste" for writing and publishing. Was LotFP "necessary?" Only to communicate Raggi's vision of OD&D (which IMO is no less valid than AD&D which is simply "Gygax's vision of OD&D). Certainly not to play The Game. And the S&W people...wow.
Personally, I think the retros originally satisfied a niche need...re-creating what had been lost so that others could have the chance to play what we were so excited about. Now? I think it's launched a new wave of late bloomer game designers. There are people younger than the retro-cloners who have been writing other RPGs...indies and such. But several of the OSR folks (myself included) missed that 1st wave of independent publishing and are now getting the chance to stretch our creative legs.
And if it helps discover what was great about role-playing...even Old School, wargamey, resource managing role-playing...well, hell I'm not going to argue with anyone facilitating a good time.
; )Retro-Clones also serve to allow people to play old school games cheaply and legally.
Sure most of the old games can be had on-line at game stores or E-Bay but they can be expensive at times and unavailable.
Now less legitimate sources have pretty much everything for free but some people respect IP law.
Its nice to have say B/X and lots of adventures to buy whenever you want.
Also in this recessionary environment, the lure of "free" can be leveraged nicely. Heck I'd say more than a few of our potential players have less ready cash then we did when these games were new. Since most of the games have a free and legal version and this means the chronically broke at the table can have rules and stuff to enjoy too.
Personally as I said before on my blog , if we are smart we can take this from a niche of a niche of a niche into something sizable, we can be the upstart mammals feasting on dinosaur eggs instead slowly going extinct.
The clones and the new games are our entry point.Retro-clones originally came about to ensure that the older games could still be played, despite having been out of print for any length of time. To borrow a phrase, they were system emulators.
However, they are not the same as the old games - indeed, in some cases they bear only a passing resemblance to their parents - and should be regarded as entirely separate games in my opinion. Certainly, games like Labyrinth Lord, S&S and Four Colour Heroes have acquired their own identities and followers who never played the parents.Seems like retro clones are the result of a number of factors:
1. Keeping the rules "in-print" so people can play. Pretty practical, though dubious. It's still easy (and somewhat inexpensive) to buy the original rules (BECM, AD&D).
2. "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." People who are technically-minded express this by repackaging the rules. It's homage.
3. Desire for re-living the experiences they had when they opened a "New Game" and entered a new world that changed their lives.
4. Desire to upgrade and fix things that appeared ill-conceived in the original rules.
5. Finally, desire to infuse a better philosophy into the game. People who are self-conscious about their worldview try to write the rules from their perspective. So there are hard-core nihilistic rules around, and there are more "high fantasy" rules around. To me, this is one of the more interesting aspects of reading new rules.
The usefulness of new rule sets is, to me, a bit uncertain. But I sure enjoy reading Swords and Wizardry or Labyrinth Lord and saying "I like the way they did that" or "Nahhh."
As I read, I find myself saying, "I wish some really judicious fellow (James!)would cull all the really good ideas from all the clones (and from the originals) and put them under one cover." Heh. It'll never happen, and if someone tried, we'd all find some nit to pick. But at least we can all still strive toward perfection. Perhaps that's what it's all about.- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 1:55 AM
Before WotC pulled its PDF downloads, I categorized retro-clones as merely a way to safely publish compatible material. (Which is why I thought it such a tragedy that the OSRIC license was so poorly written. If you can't afford an IP lawyer, use an already-existing license written by one; don't play Amateur Hour like they did there.)
After WotC pulled its PDF downloads, true retro-clones became the only legal way to give new players something other than an old, worn rulebook from a decades-old stock of books that are inevitably succumbing to entropy. (Which is why it's a tragedy that OSRIC includes at least one gratuitous and deliberate change from AD&D 1e that is not actually necessary.) I personally feel that a retro-clone can be judged on one or more of the following factors:
PRICE & AVAILABILITY: replaces what can no longer be found easily or cheaply. If your best bet is to find the thing on Ebay for $75+, then you're not being too keen on paying that, unless you're a collector. So, for a generation of old-schoolers (who may not have their books anymore) or tyros (who may not want to pay that much to try), a retro-clone is the way to go.
REVIVAL OF ABANDONED PROPERTY: If someone no longer wants/needs to reprint a classic game, then a retro-clone should revive the line. This will help if you want to publish supplements for something that's out of print.
SLICKER PACKAGING: Often a retro-clone will look more like a newer game than a copy of Encounter Critical. It's often re-organized too, most times for the better.
LOOK WHAT WE CAN DO: Some are just plain amusing. Look at Mutant Future (Post-Apocalyptic RQ) and Legends of Time and Space (The Fantasy Trip Space-Opera style). Not to mention the OD&D Conan and Barsoom supplements.
If it changes too much then it's no longer a retro-clone. I have a D&D rewrite I'm working on. It's not a retro-clone. It's very compatible with older editions of D&D, but I feel as I've retooled a lot of things so that it's no longer a clone.- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 3:13 AM
I think the emphasis is changing now that market leaders have emerged and are consolidating their positions. Innovation (in an old school way) is now more key to a new clone's success.
BUT there is a tension between innovation and compatiblity - check LOTFP focussing in on exploration/the unknown, it has a an implied setting that is Solomon Kane-ish but still has demihumans so it can be used with other resources.
Will there be more TRUE CLONES attempting to nestrle as close to OD&D/AD&D/B/X as possible but each with minor twists to set them apart from the competition and the originals ?
Or will there be a distancing from the desire for compatibility. Look at the age demographic and I think you have your long term answer. Like most ecologies, when a niche is left empty after it's previous occupant goes extinct (or in this case evolves into something else), something else will attempt to move in and colonise that niche. In gaming, the niche could be genre or stylistic; if it appears unoccupied someone will try and fill it.
For most of the so-called OSR products the niche is both genre and stylistic. In many cases the bias isn't to emulate what has gone before, but is rather in reaction to what evolution has made of the original occupant. For example I see no difference between OSRIC and Labyrinth Lord emulating the early D&D and Pathfinder and FantasyCraft emulating 3rd ed. People enjoy that gaming niche (regardless of which one is under discussion) and wish to continue playing in it. When there is no official support available, the fans will continue to support the game (witness, for example, Runequest during the blight years, which was entirely supported by it's fan base, and in fact represented some of the more active years of it's existence [ones which actually shaped the current incarnations of MRQ amd Heroquest]).
Another example, in genre this time, might be when there is an attempt to reoccupy an old niche. For example, when Sengoku was produced it was inevitable that comparisons would be made with Bushido. In fact Sengoku was made by fans in an attempt to recolonize the Chambarra genre after Bushido had effectively disappeared from the scene.
In a sense we, the readers, are self-selecting the games we call OSR on the basis that they have colonised a niche that we have perceived as having been abandoned by one of the big boys. So a comparison with what has gone before is inevitable. Given that these are amateur [in the true sense of the word, being done "for the love of it"] productions, there is a higher sense of communal ownership of the product amongst the fan community, and an increased degree of self-identification with it.
[There is also a strong reactionary component to OSR gaming, particularly in opposition to current trends in emphasising narrative gaming and rule complexity, which drives people towards an identification with this community. However it is not the reason for the existence of the game products, and should not be mistaken as such.]I always felt the retro-clones were for keeping the classic rulesets alive and encouraging people to play them. They do that by:
1) Making the rules available (often for free)
2) In some cases, consolidating the rules under one cover and re-presenting the rules in slightly clearer language.
3) Making it simpler to publish new material for the systems.
Like many older gamers, I have my copies of 1e, B/X, RC, etc. But those treasured tomes are getting a bit frail from frequent read-throughs. I have 4 copies of LL in my house now (1 printed PDF in a binder, one red haardcover, one purple softcover, and one revised softcover) and two AECs (1 binder pdf and one softcover). I can have friends over and let them paw through those as they sling dice and munch chips without fearing for the original copies that sit on my shelf. Likewise, I can email them a link and they can download the free pdf for a personal copy then decide whether to buy.
(BTW as a publisher, having digital pdfs of the books to do keyword searches on? FTW!)
Are the retro-clones "replacements"? I don't think they are intended as such in spirit, but they certainly fulfill that role on my table, but only in the physical sense. When I play LL, I am playing B/X, even if I err toward the LL version of the rules that are slightly different (which I largely do because A) those are the rules in front of the players, and B) If I'm running a playtest for publication, it needs to match the rule book).For me, I view the original material as a set of primary documents in that I always begin/return to them when starting a new game.
Having said that, the clones (and house-rules) take over from there. The clones are easily accessible, cheap, and have creative communities.
I want to play D&D and have no interest (or time) to play new D&D-type RPGs.As an OSR Publisher, player, and referee the clones mean the following to me.
1) A safer harbor in which to publish my own works based on the games I love.
2) A means of expanding the number of gamers that I can play with by having a product that is easy to find and buy.
There is one store in a 300 mile radius of my town that you can go in and reliably buy a copy of an older edition (Warzone Matrix in Cleveland). Another that may have them (Books Galore in Erie).- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 8:50 AM
For the most part, I still see the clones as a means to publish support material for the real games. I prefer to run the originals. For example, I recently started running AD&D for a group of newbies, and had no difficulty at all acquiring an inexpensive supply of [i]Players Handbooks[/i] for them.
The one original where I find that more difficult is OD&D, itself, simply because it has become relatively expensive to get the original booklets.
I'm glad I own the originals, because as nice as the clones are, I'd rather run the real deal. I think the clones are great, but I also think that each of them has some changes or omissions, and I like Gygax's writing, and in the case of OD&D, I'm still amazed at how much gaming and campaign material is packed into the LBB.
I wish WotC would make the TSR-era PDFs available, again. I don't care if they don't release the 3e and 4e material, but I don't think releasing the TSR material would hurt them at all. It would be good, all around. I think the retro-clones serve all those purposes. However, I do think a transition is happening, where more originality is being injected into the OSR. I have a bunch of the old material, so aside from the retro-clone modules, I never had much need. I am excited about these new interpretations, however. To me old school has always been more about an attitude than the specific material.
ReplyDeleteIn the simplest terms, I'd say that the retro-clones offer opportunities for both supplementation and replacement, dependent on the circumstances.
I love my Basic & Expert D&D softcovers, and I've played them quite extensively as is for the past 30 years, but I also find merit in many of the new retro-clones, which offer what could be either alternate rulesets, or a cornucopia of "house rules" for implantation into an existing campaign run with the original rules.
I've never had the opportunity to play with the three original books, but I love that Swords & Wizardry WhiteBox (my retro-clone of choice) offers me the opportunity to replicate those books (more or less) for my players. I love the simplicity... not that B/X isn't simple, too.
In the end, I'd say that the retro-clones offer opportunities to those new players interested in "old school roleplaying" who don't have ready access to original materials, and they offer a treasure trove of supplemental rules for the grognards of the group.
It's like one of my player's said [upon learning that we were playing WhiteBox supplemented with B/X, Labyrinth Lord, and a couple other rulesets]: "You got chocolate in my peanut butter... no, I got peanut butter in your chocolate!" Not only are the original materials and the retro-clones good on their own, but they can make for some excellent roleplaying rules melanges.
The Fool on the HillRealistically? I don't think they really have a purpose at this point. A lot of cool, creative material has come out without the stamp of one retro-clone or another on it, as much as has been released under the OSRIC, LL, BFRPG or S&W banners.
There is objectively no need for Labyrinth Lord or OSRIC as games; B/X D&D and AD&D manuals are easy to find and wind up being cheaper than a hard copy of the clones. The only utility they have are as free legal PDFs, and I hate reading things in PDF. For me, the big problem is actually Swords & Wizardry; it poses as a clone of OD&D but is actually a game with significant differences. OD&D is the only edition with major rarity issues, and as such a genuine clone like OSRIC or LL would have been useful. S&W, while not a bad game in and of itself, fails completely at being this for OD&D. I couldn't substitute it for the 3 little books when running a game without changing a dozen fiddly things, which you cannot say about OSRIC or Labyrinth Lord.
For me, the utility is in the "non-clones." That would mean LotFP, Spellcraft & Swordplay, Dragons at Dawn and so on. (Swords & Wizardry really should fall under this category, but because of its marketing it doesn't.) These I view as legitimate parallel games that ideas can be cribbed from, much like Tunnels & Trolls was seen in the very early days of D&D. I think people should come out with this kind of game.
The only other thing I'd be interested to see is a clone of OD&D other than Swords & Wizardry. Unfortunately that game has created a meme that it "is" OD&D, and it doesn't seem likely that this will happen.S&W WB has replaced OD&D, B/X D&D, and AD&D as my game of choice. In fact, I recently sold all my pre-2nd Edition D&D stuff to a local collector (having bought the PDFs when they were legal) and bought a couple of new guitars and an amplifier with the proceeds.
S&W has the basic framework and I have no problem adding to and tweaking it to suit my needs. I have no need of the older games -- the "clones" (which I view as separate games in their own right) are (IMHO) better written, better organized, and better for introducing newbies to the hobby....all this from someone who started in 1977 with OD&D. ;)@Wayne Rossi:
In the past 33 years I've never seen any two OD&D games run the same -- there is no definitive ruleset -- some hewed closer to "by the book" and others were way out in left field. In the end, they were all OD&D. This is the way the game has always been played.
S&W is close enough to OD&D for most, so...if you crave a "pure" OD&D clone that badly, maybe you should step up and write it. You could just use S&W as a starting point and "change back" the few things that were altered or cut. ;)@Wayne Rossi
I agree with Wayne. I really wish there was a true OD&D clone available. There are just too many differences between OD&D and S&W WB that I would never refer to it as a OD&D White Box "clone."
Most old-schoolers I know, including myself, play OD&D core with no supplements, because we prefer the rules as they were with room to house-rule as we saw fit. Unfortunately, S&W has many house-rules written into the game system which doesn't sit well with me. I would have preferred a "less is more" approach", with less house-rules and more room for players to house-rule themselves.
I would love to see something as close to the original source material as possible without tweaks and/or house-rulings.
Just my two cents!
--Fandomaniac RobJust one story. I was in the local game store about 2 mo. ago, and saw a group playing OSRIC. The group had a GM who was in his 30's ish. The party was 5 teen-agers who looked like they were having a BLAST!
It gives the chance for the first time small publishers to get into the field. I dont know what the royalties to WoTC are for 3.0, 3.5 or 4.0, but i'm sure their hefty.Retro-clones definitely served the purpose of helping to keep out-of-print rulesets alive.
That being said, I am looking forward to the sort of houseruling publishing (such as AEC, LotFP, etc) that allows these games to develop beyond artificial limitations of nostalgia or blind reverence. Many of the older systems have plenty of excellent ideas. They also have plenty of horrible ideas. Allowing the groups who like certain ideas to develop them in an organic fashion will add a lot of value to game tables around the world.Labyrinth Lord allows me to share a copy of the rules electronically with new players. LL means that I always know that for the rest of my life a new player to my group will be able to easily have a fully legal copy of the rules.
LL allows me to print out as many copies or subsets as I like.
LL allows me to have a PDF of the rules on my iPad. It allows me to have a copy on all of my computers. It allows me to search the rules!
LL doesn't have the "split into two volumes" issue that B/X does.
I love B/X D&D. I honor the people who created and contributed to it. I treasure my copies.
(Now I treasure my Lulu hardcopy of LL too!)
B/X, however, is only an expression of a game, and LL is, for me, a more practical expression of the same game. (I'd say "near enough", but the fuzziness of interpretation and house rules is wide enough that I don't need to.)
That is the role of retro-clones for me.
I still reference my OOP library. I still use OOP supplements. So I wouldn't call it only replacement, though. Call it both supplement and replacement."So, just as a point of argument, let's say that WotC were to make a PDF or some other electronic version of 1981 B/X available as a free or inexpensive download."
Free? I might very well switch back. It could depend upon the quality of the PDF and the details of the licensing.
Inexpensive? Maybe. Probably not.
Now that LL is here, it has to "compete" against it. Plus, MF, OEC, and AEC give LL some features that B/X lacks. As much as anyone might say that LL was unnecessary, a situation was created in which Dan felt LL was needed enough that he took the time to create it. When that happened, B/X lost some value, if only just a tiny bit.In the UK, OSRIC is far cheaper than 1e AD&D.
OSRIC in paperback costs around £10.50 + p&p from Lulu.
I've been trying to get a 1e demon-idol PHB off PHB to replace my falling-apart Wizard-cover reprint. I'd have to bid over £15, + p&p. Add similar for MM + DMG. And OSRIC has a bunch of monsters from the later manuals, as well as the PC-class bit being much better written for reference in play.I guess you can add me to the "S&W has too many rules changes/additions" chorus. I'd love to see a new stab at the game where the author decides to look more to Labyrinth Lord and OSRIC for examples of proper faithfulness to the source material and to leave his own "improvements" in his house rules binder where they belong.
I'm not worried about anything "replacing" classic Gygaxian-era TSR D&D. That game (collectively, in all its iterations) is a masterpiece.
Clones are just a way to distibute classic D&D rules for free in an aesthetically-pleasing form and to encourage the publishing of new classic D&D support materials. I don't see them as their own games at all.S&W WB is one of my all time favorite games. I like ascending AC and having one saving throw. A lot. However, as to its ultimate role- I don't care.
It does what I need it to do, which is provide a simple platform on which I can build (and easily share) my own stuff. I've recently read through a portion of one of the LBBs and I can't say that I'm interested in using them at the table. White Box did something that I wouldn't have thought possible: it brought me back to classic D&D (or within spitting distance, anyway): and that's pretty awesome.- AnonymousSeptember 3, 2010 at 8:30 PM
"If a game tries to be anything other than a completely faithful reproduction of an out of print game, then it is not a retroclone. "
Think of it as a retro-cousin. Shared genetics, but not identical. "Think of it as a retro-cousin. Shared genetics, but not identical."
And that's great. I'd just like to see as-slavishly-accurate-as-the-law-allows "clone" versions of every classic D&D rules set on the market first, before their cousins start proliferating.
I'd like to see the community as a whole insure that faithful reproductions of the legacy rules are available free to all before we start worrying about propagating our own individual house rules. It's just a matter of priorities.As you might imagine, I have strong feelings on the subject.
I feel the clones should exist to allow work compatible with out of print editions of D&D, to the extent that such are allowed under the OGL.
I think such compatible works serve a role in keeping older games fresh and interesting.I'd just like to see as-slavishly-accurate-as-the-law-allows "clone" versions of every classic D&D rules set on the market first, before their cousins start proliferating.
Me too. LBB OD&D is admittedly difficult to clone, because it's so idiosyncratic, but I think it can be done and I think it's worth doing. It's definitely a project I've often considered, but I simply lack the time to take it up right now.Having started gaming under Original D&D, I'm struck by how offended people get by various minor variations or changes introduced by the retro-clones. I don't recall anybody playing Original D&D exactly as it was written, and practically everybody I knew "back in the day" made their own rules modifications to suit the game they wanted to play. At this stage of things, I think the variety of retro-clones is actually something of an advantage - it ensures that gamers have choices about what to play.
I rather suspect there are similar debates going on about how much Pathfinder varies from the original 3.5 Ed. rulebooks (with about as much actual effect)."I don't recall anybody playing Original D&D exactly as it was written, and practically everybody I knew "back in the day" made their own rules modifications to suit the game they wanted to play."
Of course they did. Why wouldn't they? They all started from the same place, however: The TSR rulebooks. My thesis is simply that that "place" is worth preserving as it was.


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"I don't want strangers going in and getting them out of there. I want to be the one that gets to go in there and get them out of there. It's a horrific honor to go in and do that."
That's Prescott, Ariz., firefighter Conrad Jackson talking to The Arizona Republic about what it was like to be among those who collected the remains of their 19 colleagues from the site of the wildfire where the highly trained "hotshots" died on June 30.
Jackson and fellow Prescott firefighter Mark Matthews were among the 12 men — 11 of them from the Prescott Fire Department — who carried the bodies (which had been placed in bags and draped with American flags) from the scene the next day.
"We knew these young men, these kids," Matthews tells the Republic. "And they were the cream of the crop. You couldn't ask for better guys. It was tough, but I was glad I was there. I was glad I had the opportunity to honor them in a small way and bring them back down. I'll never forget it. I'll never forget it. It's something you never want to see again."
We don't want to take too much from the Republic's piece, out of fairness to the work it put in to tell the story. We do recommend giving it a read. It's not graphic about what the men saw. It's a heart-breaking, but ultimately uplifting, look at the bonds between those who put their lives at risk for others.
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Few students will pay the full advertised sticker price of Ellsworth Community College. The Net Price is an estimate of how much the average student actually pays to attend college for one year.
To calculate this number we take the total cost of attendance of Ellsworth Community College including tuition, fees, room, board and other expenses. Then we subtract out the average amount of aid awarded per student.
We wanted to talk about the net price for all undergraduates (not just freshmen), but that information was not available for Ellsworth Community College.
56% of freshman students paid in-state tuition. Of these in-state students, 93% received an average of $4,535 in grants and scholarships. This resulted in an average annual net price of $13,733 for on-campus students.
The following table explores the likelihood that you too will receive some common price-reducing aid, based on percentages.
Net Price by Aid Group | On Campus | Off Campus | At Home |
248 Total Freshmen | |||
29 (12%) did not receive any grants or scholarships. | $19,204 | $19,204 | $12,204 |
219 (88%) split a total of $1,111,425 for an average of $5,075 each | $14,129 | $14,129 | $7,129 |
138 In-State Students | |||
10 (7%) did not receive any grants or scholarships. | $18,268 | $18,268 | $11,268 |
128 (93%) split a total of $580,480 for an average of $4,535 each | $13,733 | $13,733 | $6,733 |
The above refers to grants and scholarships from the college and/or the state, federal or local governments. Other sources of grant aid such as private scholarships are not included.
Use the College Cost Estimator to get an idea of how much money you may have to spend out of pocket to attend Ellsworth Community College, and how many loans you may have to take on.
Select the factors that are true for you.
Estimated Cost for You This is what the college will likely charge you in this scenario. | $19,204 |
Aid (Grants and Scholarships) Money given to you to offset the cost of college. | $5,075 |
Estimated Net Price This is what you can expect to pay (or pay back). | $14,129 |
Loans Money you borrow to cover the cost of college. You will have to repay this eventually. | $4,829 |
Out of Pocket Money you need to come up with each year to attend college. | $9,300 |
Research the average amount of loan debt students take on from this school.
Family income can have a large impact on the amount of aid you receive, and thus, your net price.
The table below shows the average net price freshmen paid based on income level. Note that if the school offers in-state tuition, the lower in-state tuition has been used in the calculation.
Net Price by Family Income Level | In-State Net Price |
0-30k | $8,576 |
30k-48k | $9,192 |
48k-75k | $11,407 |
75k-110k | $13,392 |
110k + | $13,733 |
The above table only includes the calculated net price for students that received some form of Title IV aid.
Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 establishes general rules that apply to the student financial assistance programs covering grants and loans.
Over a period of three years, the average net price paid by all freshmen at Ellsworth Community College has increased by an average of 2.0% per year.
An overall average net price of $13,193 puts Ellsworth Community College below the national average of $20,398.
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"That's not one of our corporate colors."
The words hit you like a whiff of smelly cheese. You try to explain that, yes, the corporate colors are baby blue and yellow, but that combination isn't optimal for building the main menu of a website.
"Maybe, but we really need to stick to the brand guide approved by marketing. Maybe we could use different shades of baby blue and yellow."
Oh, the agony and ecstasy of brand orthodoxy. Designers have a love / hate relationship with branding documents and style guides. After all, it's nice to have a defined style and brand manual. Accepted colors, approved iconography, exhaustively documented gradients and image libraries all make life easier for designers. They cut down on revisions and give us a place to start working. Unfortunately, most corporate style guides are not created with interactive experiences in mind.
Unless you are lucky enough to be working for a company that was born digital, you're likely to be faced with a lot of branding requirements that were created for the print world, not the digital realm.
When corporate marketing departments dream of brand design, they only dream as far as they need. The expensive and time consuming process of extending the brand into an interactive concept is usually pushed off until it becomes absolutely necessary.
Unfortunately, by the time some serious rethinking is required, a lot of people have gotten stuck in the mud of static branding. It's completely natural for companies to resist straying from the handful of predefined styles that were never meant to address web forms, widgets, calendars and menuing systems.
Whose fault is it really?
As designers and user experience professionals, it's easy to blame faceless corporate bureaucracy. It's management's fault; they don't think about users. It's marketing's fault; they don't understand the difference between a brochure and a web app. It's the art department's fault; they didn't explain the difference between print experience and multimedia experience. Sure, there's a lot of blame to go around, but the buck stops here. This is our job, and our fight, and ultimately our responsibility.
There are a lot of designers and UX architects who are happy to go with the flow and let marketing dictate the terms of the design. If a poorly dictated design ends up crippling the user experience, well, that's not their fault. But blame has a way of trickling down to the people closest to a project. Who's going to take the bullet? The senior marketing executive who oversaw the project, or you, the worker in charge of actually executing it?
Fault doesn't matter. Responsibility does. At the end of the day, as user experience professionals, it is our responsibility to advocate on behalf of the user. That means we have to be champions of the user experience, and sometimes that means going against the status quo.
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Of all the arguments for modifying brand attributes to better suit a digital experience, the most compelling is this: The way users feel about their experience is inseparable from the way they feel about your brand.
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Spring is finally here. Days are warmer, flowers are blooming and winter ice has melted on Lake Auburn.
Many of us eagerly anticipate summer, when fishing, boating and swimming can happen at a favorite lake. This year, though, there may also be a bit of trepidation — what lies ahead for Lake Auburn? Will we see another fish kill?
Last summer, hundreds of economically valuable, fun-to-catch trout died at Lake Auburn. Some people blamed this event on "global warming," but were they right to do so? It's hard to say for sure, but the early ice-out and warm summer temperatures in 2012 did probably play a role, in combination with other, locally controlled factors.
To understand what happened to the fish, we need to know a bit about how lakes work.
During the summer, deep lakes stratify — divide horizontally — into a warm, well-lit upper layer and a cold, dark lower layer. Sunfish, like bass and bluegills, grow fastest at water temperatures around 80 degrees F, so they tend to live near the surface of the lake. However, lake trout and other salmonids live in the deeper layer, since they grow best at temperatures around 48 degrees F and cannot tolerate temperatures above 75-80 degrees F.
Last summer, a large bloom of phytoplankton — algae and cyanobacteria (sometimes called blue-green algae) — developed in Lake Auburn. Phytoplankton growth got an early start when the ice went out in late March 2012, which was the second-earliest ice-out ever recorded for the lake.
When those algae and cyanobacteria died, they sank to the bottom and began to decompose. Decomposition consumes oxygen, which fish and other animals need to breathe. When the oxygen levels in the bottom waters got too low, more than 200 fish were forced — gasping for air — into the warm surface waters. But the temperatures there were too high, and the fish died. Most of the dead fish were trout, some of them nearly 3 feet long and likely more than 20 years old.
Unfortunately, this kind of die-off is not unique to Lake Auburn, and it may begin to happen in lakes across the northern states with increasing frequency.
Oxygen levels in the bottom water of Lake Auburn have been going down for several years, perhaps as a result of the longer ice-free seasons, but also due to the decomposition of phytoplankton that have grown in response to the movement of sediment and nutrients from the watershed into lakes during large storms.
The number and frequency of extreme precipitation events — storms that drop more than 1-2 inches of rain in 24 hours — have been increasing over the past decade. Think back to the Mother's Day storm of 2006, the Patriot's Day storm of 2007, and the one just last June.
Remember Great Falls, the flooding of the Auburn Riverwalk, and the water up on the grass at Heritage Park? Each of these storms was of a magnitude that we used to expect only once every 50 to 100 years, and yet we've had three of them in the last 7 years.
Watershed development adds to the problem of storm-induced washing of nutrients from watershed soils to lakes in numerous ways. Lawn fertilizers and animal manure increase nutrient availability in runoff. Increasing the amount of paved or cleared areas means that more water flows into streams and lakes, carrying nutrients with it. In addition, trails down to water bodies and the deliberate removal of trees and shrubs along stream and lake shorelines accelerate erosion of soils during intense storms.
Nutrients sound like a good thing and, in relatively small doses, they are. But, as in so much else in life, too much of a good thing can create problems. In this case, it means too much algae and too many cyanobacteria.
So what can we do for the fish of Lake Auburn?
Certainly any action that helps curb global warming is worthwhile, such as reducing use of fossil fuels by setting the thermostat a few degrees lower or making fewer trips in your car. But we also need to look even closer to home, to the way we treat the land in the watershed.
Laws that limit what we can do along waterways are there to protect water quality, and in this world and its changing climate, they are more important than ever before. In short, we need to think globally to deal with climate-related changes, but we also need to act locally to keep dangerous levels of nutrients out of our water.
Kathryn L. Cottingham, Holly A. Ewing and Kathleen C. Weathers are environmental scientists studying cyanobacterial blooms in Maine and New Hampshire lakes. Ewing is an associate professor at Bates College and witnessed the fish kill last September.


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44 comments:
- NessaKnits said...
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- September 14, 2010 at 11:09 PM
- Tinkie said...
It has been such a pleasure to see you grow in your many talents! These beautifully published patterns are a tribute to that talent and tenacity my friend. I guess I'll have to sideline 'instant gratification' and not immediately download your wonderful designs...in exchange for a lovely keepsake. Keep 'em coming Kiddo! Stephanie
- September 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM
- Drop Stitches Not Bombs said...
What perfectly lovely patterns! I adore the scrapbook look - it seems to strike just the right balance between being clean and professional, and being homey and charming. This seems like an exciting new development: you are quite right to be proud!
- September 15, 2010 at 12:47 AM
- juicyknits said...
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- Sara said...
The new patterns are lovely, just like the patterns themselves! Does that make sense??? :-)
- September 15, 2010 at 3:25 AM
- Jessica said...
Your patterns were always lovely- now they are STUNNING!! I'm so happy for you- your excitement is infectious!!!
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- Ruth said...
They are so beautiful! I hope you sell all of them immediately!
- September 15, 2010 at 7:12 AM
- Julie said...
wow, the whole collection is so dazzling!!! absolutely amazing pattern design, you've really outdone yourself. Great job, Alana!!!
- September 15, 2010 at 7:12 AM
Positively stunning. Great job.
- September 15, 2010 at 7:19 AM
Congrats on your new line. You need a distributor in Illinois and Missouri (or just the St. Louis area) :-)
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- September 15, 2010 at 7:38 AM
- Nic said...
Of course they look professional. They ARE professional. Congratulations to you and all the team.
I think they look like fabric swatches too. Wouldn't they make a fantastic quilt? - September 15, 2010 at 7:47 AM
- ctexas said...
You are right they look like a scrapbook. What a beautiful way to show off your designs.
Always on the cutting edge. - September 15, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Unknown said...
You definitely should be proud, they are gorgeous! And very unique so they will certainly stand out amongst other patterns. I continue to be impressed and amazed at the things you bring forth. Wow!
- September 15, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- MaryLou said...
Can a book be far behind?
- September 15, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Denise said...
Your patterns look gorgeous, (I love scrapbooking, so these are totally my style) you've done for knitting patterns what 'The Pioneer Woman' did for cookbooks:) I can't wait to get to the store near me to buy some.
- September 15, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Faith said...
Beautiful! I love all of the thought and care you put into them!
- September 15, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- knittinglane said...
I LOVE your pattern designs. They truly are works of art. As a graphic designer myself, I am envious that you beat me to this wonderful idea! ;)
- September 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM
- Ertman-Trowbridge Family said...
These look fabulous! I wish I had a stockist by me, but I guess I will settle for the downloaded pdf's!
- September 15, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- drMolly, the BeanQueen said...
Those are great!
- September 15, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- Julianne said...
They are just beautiful! Congrats!!
- September 15, 2010 at 5:14 PM
- Nancy said...
Absolutely beautiful.... the care you have taken to make these so appealing to the eyes make me want to knit them all! I'll be watching for them at a store near me soon!
- September 15, 2010 at 5:42 PM
- Michelle B said...
- September 15, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- Rene Sharp said...
Congrats, from what we can see your patterns really are each a little work of art. So happy for you, you have worked really hard to get to this point :)
- September 15, 2010 at 7:52 PM
- Every day adventures of the Hirschfeld-Salmons said...
These are beautiful. It's so much fun to see someone pay so much attention to the detail and create an amazing experience!
- September 15, 2010 at 9:07 PM
- Unknown said...
Oh Alana, those are soooo pretty! I love, love, love them.
- September 16, 2010 at 4:30 AM
congratulations!!! they look so pretty. you are so talented!
- September 16, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- margaretk said...
I just bought the Shawl Collared Cowl pattern at Twisted in Portland - the printed pattern is really lovely - great photos and instructions, beautifully presented! I look forward to the knitting!
- September 16, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Anne Marthe said...
So many nice patterns:) Wish I could buy them in the shows aswell, but guess they probably wont find the way to norway;)
I`ve made shawl collarded cowl..making my 3. now..love em:)
Good luck with ur patterns! - September 16, 2010 at 11:31 AM
- Mare said...
beautiful pattern cards! I love to knit scarves in the round... fast, simple, easy.
- September 16, 2010 at 1:11 PM
- lylandra said...
I love your patterns! They look so pretty. To think we get a work of are to make a work of art.
- September 16, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Unknown said...
The new patterns are SO well done, YAY YOU!
I love to knit sweaters. Except on days I love to knit shawls/scarves/cowls.
Big help, eh? - September 16, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Julie said...
These are just so pretty!
- September 16, 2010 at 5:18 PM
- FiberValleyGirl said...
We have a great Barn Store at our alpaca ranch in VA and would love to carry your patterns! How can we become one of your stockists? They look fantastic!
- September 16, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- rinebird said...
I love to knit baby & toddler tees & sweaters.I have your Garden Tee pattern.I can't wait to make it.I had to worry about patterns that only go to 24 months.if at all.Alana you have patterns that first many sizes, now the Garden Tee.I can make it for both of my grand girls.Have you ever been to Philadelphia?I got to loopyarn for my MadelineTosh.
Thank you! - September 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM
- Puddytat purr said...
I love to knit shawls - especially shawls with my own handspun! They're so versatile and can be worn with anything!
- September 17, 2010 at 1:15 AM
- Ipu said...
Never not knitting patterns - they never will be not knitted:-)
As this has happened to me!
Sometimes it happens that I am so sure that I will do something and then I purchase the pattern, but even that, they just don't ever get done.
I am already now ready with the coming winter here in Finland, with the latest pattern of your cawl. And it did not remain unknitted...the patterns are so delicious that it is a joy to knit them. And not to mention that those cawl will appear this Christmas in many packets in my family:-) - September 17, 2010 at 3:28 AM
- Meriam said...
Pattern love! Fingers crossed that I win!
- September 17, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- peepla said...
Hello this is peepla7 on twitter.
These are so pretty...I just adore the borders. I love scrapbooking but I'm lousy at it. Love knitting...good at it. I find a knitting pattern on a scrapbook format intriguing! That's just brilliant. I may have to give scrapbooking another try as well. My favorite things to knit is anything that catches my eye so while I have many w.i.p.'s I always make something small like earrings, socks, purses...just so I can see a start, middle and finish of stuff every now and again. Otherwise you burn out and put the needles down. I have 2 projects that I've worked on for more than a year...a wedding dress...no longer motivated as I've given the ring back. And a seed stitch shrug....can't seed st...didn't know it was seed until after I started and the person whom it's for does not want a variation....in that time, I've knitted 42 pairs of socks and even more than that on earrings, necklaces and 3 purses. Guess you could say my projects range from long and lasting to short and quick. Ha ha. Even though I'm a wishwash...hope that helps in some way, form, or fashion. Stay blessed. - September 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM
- desiree66 said...
Just found your site, VERY nice :)
Maybe it's a pleasure to read that there are people from allover the world reading your messages.
I am from Holland ( tulips, cheese and wooden shoes)--> according to tourists - September 20, 2010 at 5:06 AM
- RubyC said...
Alana, can we purchase the full complement of patterns as a complete set from your pattern store? Would love to see that option made available.
- September 20, 2010 at 3:35 PM
- Alana said...
Hi Ruby!
Do you mean purchase all pdfs together in a set?
-Alana - September 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM
- Unknown said...
I love knitting baby sweaters, shawls and scarves. I really want to do the shawl collared cowl and the sprin tee! The patterns are so pretty -- knitting art!
- September 21, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Alana,
I'm a brazilian knitter and I loved your printed patterns, they are very, very beautiful. I'll go to NY in november and hope still to find your patterns in the indicated yarnshops.
Thank you,
Silvania - September 29, 2010 at 2:16 PM


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Late-winter storm sweeps into New England
Published 12:00 am Friday, March 8, 2013
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — A late-winter storm that buried parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic swept into New England on Thursday, bringing snow, rain, strong winds, big waves and fears of coastal flooding.
The region braced for the brunt of the storm overnight Thursday and into Friday. Powerful waves and high winds were expected to cause more trouble than snow from Rhode Island to Maine.
In the seacoast town of Scituate, Mass., about 30 miles south of Boston, about a dozen streets were closed after Thursday morning's high tide sent 2 to 2 [1/2] feet of water washing into some areas.
Emergency management officials said the evening tide brought fewer problems, but they worried about getting through Friday morning's high tide before the storm was expected to wind down. No severe flooding was reported elsewhere.
"There are no mandatory evacuations, but it is strongly advised," said Scituate Police Chief Brian Stewart. "Why put yourself at risk? Folks have been through this before, and they know what happens in these areas. We're recommending that people in areas that have experienced coastal flooding to evacuate three hours before high tide."
In Salisbury, Mass., on the New Hampshire border, officials ordered evacuations for homes along several beachfront streets.
The National Weather Service predicted up to 7 inches of heavy, wet snow in southeastern Connecticut and wind gusts up to 50 mph. A coastal flood warning was in effect for east-facing shores in Massachusetts, with up to a 3-foot surge at high tide in some areas. Central Massachusetts was bracing for 8 to 12 inches of snow, with predictions for Boston and nearby areas of 6 to 10 inches.
"We are watching a conveyor belt of wave after wave of snow coming in over the Atlantic," said Alan Dunham, meteorologist with the weather service in Taunton, Mass. "That will be continuing all night."
On Cape Cod, where the storm was expected to be mostly rain, officials were concerned about beach erosion. The area suffered extensive erosion from Superstorm Sandy in October and a major snowstorm last month.
"We've really gotten more erosion in the last six months than we've experienced in the last decade," said Sandwich Town Manager George Dunham. "These three storms are really taking a toll."
Some in Massachusetts were taking the storm in stride.
Mail carrier Stephen Manning didn't even wear a coat as he delivered mail along Dorchester Avenue in Boston. Instead, he wore a hooded sweatshirt.
"This is warm," Manning said. "You wear a jacket when it's cold."
Dozens of car crashes were reported across Connecticut on Thursday morning. A FedEx tractor trailer overturned on Interstate 84 in Tolland, causing a chain-reaction crash involving about nine other vehicles, including a state police cruiser and two other tractor-trailers. No serious injuries were reported.
The storm pummeled the nation's midsection Tuesday, killing at least five people in weather-related traffic accidents.
On its way north, it called on Mantoloking, N.J., the shore town hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy. A pounding surf broke through a temporary dune during the early-morning high tide Thursday. The dune breach forced the closing of a major coastal highway for several hours.
In Virginia, three people were killed, including a 22-year-old man who died Thursday after his vehicle ran off an icy road, went over an embankment and landed upside down in a creek. No details were immediately available on the other two storm-related deaths.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell declared a state of emergency and National Guard soldiers were sent to help clear roads. Up to 20 inches of snow piled up in central and western parts of the state. About 120,000 customers remained without electricity by mid-day Thursday, down from more than 200,000 outages at the height of the storm.
The storm dumped 2 feet of snow in parts of neighboring West Virginia, closing schools in more than half the state and leaving more than 20,000 customers without power.
A Coast Guard search for a missing North Carolina man and his nephew was called off Thursday. The Coast Guard said it had searched over 560 square miles of the Atlantic before suspending the search for Walter and Steven Tate, both of New Bern, N.C. A third crew member was rescued Wednesday afternoon.
Their 67-foot Seafarer became disabled Wednesday and was being towed by another ship about 15 miles east of Assateague Island when the two vessels became separated in heavy seas.
Associated Press writers Wayne Parry in N.J.; Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C.; and Bridget Murphy in Boston contributed to this report.


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- Murugan
Anjampatti Murugan Temple
- Amjampatti,Tamil Nadu
- View on map
- Tell us about this temple
Anjampatti Murugan Temple is Murugan temple located at Amjampatti,Tamil Nadu
Devotees visit this temple to seek fulfillment of the following:-
- Salvation
- Wealth
- Relief from diseases
- Purchase of vehicles
- Gain Knowledge
Shadaananam Chandana Liptha Gathram Mahorasam Divya Mayoora Vaahanam Rudrasya Soonum Suraloka Naatham Brahmanya Devam Charanam Prapadye
Meaning -I always take refuge in the 6 faced Lord Guha, who has sandal paste smeared over his body, who is broad-chested, whose vehicle is the peacock, who is Lord Shiva's son and who leads the army of the Devas.
Heyswami Natha Karunakara Dheenabandho Shree Parvatheesha Mukha Pankaja Padmabandho Shree Saadhi Devagana Poojitha Padha Padma Vallesa Nadha Mama Dehi Karaavalambham
Meaning -O! Merciful Lord Swaminatha, who cares for the poor, who is the sun to Lord Shiva's lotus face, whose lotus feet are acknowledged by Lord Vishnu and the others, Valli's Lord, please uplift me by lending me your hand.
Ariru Thadanthozh Vazhga Arumugam Vazhga Veppai Kooru Sei Thanivel Vazhga Kukkudum Vazhga Sevvel Yeriya Magnai Vazhga Aanai Thun Anangu Vazhga Maarila Valli Vazhga Vazhga Seer Adiyar Yellam
Meaning -Oh Muruga, we hail your 12 strong shoulders for they protect us from our enemies, we hail your 6 faces, we hail the Vel, your weapon that broke apart the Krounja mountain to reveal the asura in it. We hail the bird, the cock, that is part of your symbol in the flag. We hail your peacock, that takes you all over the world, we hail your consort Devyani, who was brought up by Indra's white elephant, Airavadam, we hail your other consort, the flawless Valli. And we hail your Bhaktas who worship you as a prayer.
Uruvai Aruvai Uladhai Iladhai Maruvai Malarai Maniyai Oliyai Karuvai Uyirai Gadhiyai Vidhiyai Guruvai Varuvai Arulvai Guhaney
Meaning -O Lord Muruga, you have form and you are formless, you have everything and have nothing, you who exist in the smallest, in flowers, in a bell's ring, in the light. You are the embryo, the life, destiny and fate. Bestow your blessings on us as our guru.


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Nadine Gordimer's trademark characters live for politics, the Struggle. You get the feeling they would be sick to their collective stomachs if they ever even tried to bite into a gourmet cupcake.
And yet, the dilemma of Gordimer's latest novel, No Time Like the Present, is this: that with the end of apartheid and the creation of something like the promised "better life for all" in South Africa, also come the well-deserved rewards of retreating into the private realm, pursuing personal ambition, and even succumbing to the occasional frivolity. Gordimer's characters here live in what they keep referring to as "the Aftermath," which turns out, for them, to be a much more morally ambiguous place than the land of apartheid.
The complex and conflicted main characters in No Time Like the Present are an interracial married couple named Steven Reed and Jabu Gumede. They met as combatants in the fight against apartheid: Steven, who is white, used his professional skills as an industrial chemist to concoct explosives for sabotage operations; Jabulile, the daughter of a Zulu Methodist minister, spent hard time in prison for her activism. When Steve and Jabu first fell in love, their relationship was illegal; now, they're married, and the personal life they fought to enjoy threatens to swallow them up.
The novel follows them over the course of about 20 years as they become parents and achieve professional careers. Steve becomes a university professor, Jabu a lawyer. Along the way, they deliberate between themselves and with a ragtag community of former comrades about the ethics of taking a vacation, sending their kids to private school, and buying a nice house in the suburbs when so many of their fellow citizens still seek shelter "under tin and cardboard."
No Time Like the Present is not so much a novel about "selling out" as it is about sanely navigating around the pitfalls of normalcy; about remaining committed without fossilizing into a zealot. And, as this novel, underscores, there's still plenty of reform needed in South Africa before anyone can fully relax into self-righteousness. Gordimer weaves in topical commentary here about the ongoing AIDS epidemic, the refugee problem and the country's sky-high crime rate. A horrific home invasion all but shoves Steve and Jabu into the decision to immigrate with their kids to Australia.
Like Steve and Jabu and their friends, Gordimer herself refuses to kick back in the La-Z-Boy and let up on the intensity of her social vision and language. So many quick passages in No Time Like the Present convey the jolt of authenticity. Thinking, for instance, about his disappointment in politics, Steve contents himself with the thought that at least his teaching is going well. But Gordimer slyly prods us readers away from sharing Steve's complacency. She writes: "What's called in psychological jargon job satisfaction's a distraction from political disillusion."
Most novels these days don't look further than their front yards for their subject matter, or sometimes just the bottom of the protagonist's shot glass; Gordimer, however, like her great Eastern European contemporary Milan Kundera, sees history, power and a gnawing desire for something secular, yet entwined in every mundane gesture. The personal remains political even when the great political fight has been won.
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I feel like my brain is just Helter Skelter these days. I have so much going on that it's hard for me to have one complete thought. Do you ever feel like that? Between Christmas and planning Harper's first birthday and just normal keeping up the house/laundry/cooking and blog stuff and a few new projects I am taking on - my mind is all over the place.
I got a huge blessing today. My parents came to town to go the Razorback basketball game tonight. (I think they are 2 of the only 500 people there tonight. We are THAT bad). So they came and spent the day with us and kept Harper for several hours so I could get a little "mother's day out".
Harper just ADORES her grandparents. You should have seen how she lit up when she saw them. Well - you can probably tell in these pictures. My little day out was just what I needed. So refreshing. It's been so cold that I hate getting her out so we've been cooped up a lot. I went to Hobby Lobby, Target, Starbucks and T J Maxx. My four favorite places outside of Sonic and Wal-Mart.
- WEIGHT LOSS - anyone trying to do early December weight loss? I told you last week I would report in every Monday. Well - I did lose 2 lbs. I only worked out once which I'm trying to improve that this week. I did do a little better with my eating. The best thing I can do is just NOT buy any sweets. If they aren't here - I can't eat them. ha! That's pretty simple. ha!
- This is SO random but when I was in El Salvador - I turned on the TV and there was my favorite movie of all time in Spanish - "Steel Magnolias". I have to tell you - without the southern accents - it loses a lot of it's charm. So I was talking about that and two of the girls we were with had NEVER SEEN STEEL MAGNOLIAS. Say it isn't so! I was gasping for air. So today - Molly tweeted me to say her book club was possibly reading it tonight and she was making southern treats (she is in MN). I tweeted back to tell her to PLEASE Promise to see that movie. And then I was wondering - how many of you out there have never seen it? Please tell me you have. And which one is your favorite character - if you can even choose. (Mine is Truvy of course). (But I also love Ouiser)(and Shelby).
- I am doing one more giveaway HERE. Go check it out. And come back on Wednesday for a give away YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE!!!!!!
- Last thing - today on twitter - people were listing out good holiday snacks and I was reminded of these awesome ranch oyster crackers. My mom always made these at the holidays and I LOVED them. I haven't had them in years but now I want them SO bad. If only I wasn't on a diet............maybe some rules are meant to be broken. ha! Anyway - I put the recipe HERE in case you want to try them. You will thank me!


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Resolution of Generic Safety Issues (Formerly entitled "A Prioritization of Generic Safety Issues") (NUREG-0933, Main Report with Supplements 1–35)
Publication Information
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) periodically updates NUREG-0933 by issuing supplements to the original report, which was entitled "A Prioritization of Generic Safety Issues." To date, the NRC has issued 35 supplements, which included instructions for incorporating the revised pages of the document. This online compilation incorporates the latest revisions through Supplement 35 of NUREG-0933. The title of this document was changed to "Resolution of Generic Safety Issues" in Supplement 32 of NUREG-0933.
Manuscript Completed: September 2011
Date Published: December 2011
Prepared by:
M. Reisi Fard
Division of Risk Analysis
Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001


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