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Ninth-Inning Rally Stalls as Owls Fall in AMC Championship
SPRINGFIELD, IL -- Despite a furious ninth-inning rally, the William Woods University baseball team came up just short in its bid to repeat as AMC Postseason Tournament champions, falling 7-9 to Missouri Baptist University on Thursday. Brian Carr went 2 for 5 with two RBI in the contest with Austin Clapp also driving in a pair of runs.
WWU opened up the scoring in the top of the first, as Derek Fletcher drew a leadoff walk, moving to second as Jacob Harrison grounded out to third. Damon Adrian came on as a courtesy runner for Fletcher, scoring courtesy of a Carr double. Derek McCawley moved Carr up with a grounder to short, but the Owls stranded the runner as Matt Thomas grounded out to the first-baseman.
Missouri Baptist immediately answered, pouring four runs on in the bottom of the first and adding four more in the bottom of the third courtesy of a pair of two-run home runs.
The Owls pulled one run back in the top of the fifth, but the Spartans were equal to the task, stretching the lead back out to 2-9 with a singlet in the bottom of the fifth.
William Woods broke through slightly in the top of the seventh, as Fletcher led off with a single. Adrian came on as a courtesy runner as Harrison legged out a bunt single to put two runners on. A double steal gave the Owls their first run of the inning, as Adrian was able to continue home after Todd Glime's throw to third was off the mark. Harrison moved up to third as Carr grounded out to second, with a single from McCawley scoring Harrison. A single from Thomas put runners on the corners, but Chris Fletcher grounded into a double play to end the inning.
After retiring the Spartans in order in the bottom of the frame, WWU tried to threaten in the top of the eighth, but Clapp was picked off after reaching base on an error.
The Owls managed to keep MBU off the board in the bottom of the eighth as well, turning a double play and getting Ryan Barban to line out to right after Patrick Johnson reached on an error.
Derek Fletcher opened the rally with a leadoff double, with Adrian advancing to third as a courtesy runner on a wild pitch. Harrison walked to put runners on the corners, with a Carr groundout to short plating Adrian. Walks to McCawley and Chris Fletcher sandwiched a strikeout by Thomas to load the bases, with Clapp looping a single to right center to cut the deficit to 7-9. Unfortunately, that would be the final score as well, as Robert Butvin (Mantua, Ohio) struck out to end the game.
William Woods finishes the season at 36-19. The American Midwest Conference all-conference and Gold Glove teams were announced following the game as well, with the Owls earning four First Team selections and three members of the Gold Glove team.


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September 2015
This is more of a truck stop than anything else. If you want a fairly quiet place to relax and are sensitive to noise, this is not the place for you. Trucks coming in at all hours of the night, running motors/generators and generally making a lot of noise. One of the nicest casino's we have ever seen and a very good buffet.
June 2009
-report from Karen B., June 2009
We stopped at the Ameristar in Kansas City on our way back across country. The current reports are all accurate and I'm sending a photo of the parking lot.
This casino was a pleasant surprise. Very roomy and well ventilated, not what we're used to finding with riverboat casinos. The websites call it a stationary riverboat but in reality it's completely land based. The décor is a little bit Vegas with lots of stained glass, arched sky ceilings and a bricked street shopping and dining area. All of the restaurants are located together so you don't have to traipse through the casino searching for food. We enjoyed it enough that we would have stayed another day if we'd had the time. The fact that we left $400.00 dollars richer may have figured into that though.
May 16, 2009
from Ken, the RV Navigator, May 16, 2009
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This casino parking lot has easy access to the expressway and plenty of parking for even the largest of rigs. No specific RV parking, just a lot for big rigs. It seems to be popular with the truckers as there were about 25 in the parking lot. This did not limit the RV parking at all for our 40 ft motorhome as the lot is plenty large. As mentioned there is no shuttle, but in good weather there is no need. The front door of the casino is only a short (5 minute) walk from the RV parking. Security gave us the thumbs up for staying the night and they drove through the lot several times that we saw. The casino has several restaurants that cover all of the culinary bases and prices.
The buffet is good quality but a bit expensive at $23.
August, 2007
- from Rick and Lucky Lucy, August, 2007
Although we live in the area, we have overnight parked at Ameristar on several occasions. We don't like to drive freeways at night so when we have some special program to attend -- drawing, shows, fireworks, etc. -- we take our motorhome and spend the night.
Ameristar has acres of parking lots plus a 4-story parking garage so plenty of parking space. They ask campers and trucks to park in one lot near the front entrance. You can't miss it, there are always semi trucks parked there and usually some campers. It is a pretty good hike to the casino and no shuttle service is provided. The lot is large enough campers can usually get away from the noise of the trucks.
Our motorhome is small so we normally park in a regular car parking lot closer to the casino then move to the big lot for overnight parking. Sometimes we have a note on our windshield when we come out of the casino telling us where we should park but nothing more serious (or threatening).


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#08: Andre the Giant Winning the 20 Man Battle Royal (Wrestlemania II)
Big men have a strange role in wrestling. They have to dominate, but no one really wants to see them dominate. They love to see them get "upset" and beaten by the smaller guys. And not just the wee guys like Rey Mysterio, but just the normal sized giants in wrestling, like Cena and Hogan.
Andre was already a bona fide legend by the time that 'Mania II rolled around, and at this point he was pretty much winding down his career. Wrestling in '86 was still a few years off from becoming a athletic spectacle. It had its moments, but Battle Royals like this one tended to be just a bunch of sweaty fat guys punching each other.
There weren't many "spots" going on throughout these old Royals and seeing Andre win the thing, knowing he was going to win the thing going in, was just a big letdown. The big guy who's the "favorite" isn't really supposed to be the actual favorite. At this point, the WWE was just throwing him a bone. A big fat giant bone.
Wrestlemania II (P6) Battle royal 1986
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#07: Goldust versus Roddy Piper – Hollywood Backlot Brawl (Wrestlemania XII)
Oh, relevance. When will the WWE ever be able to hold a PPV in L.A. and not try to pretend like they're coming to you "live!" directly from a hooker's a** in heart of Hollywood. Moving pictures! Movie stars! Fat cat producers with cell phones! And this 'Mania wasn't even in L.A., or L.A. county for that matter. It was in "The O.C." In Anaheim.
But let's just pretend that this card was being held in L.A. to keep on topic here. What else was L.A. famous for in 1996? That's right. O.J.! And his White Bronco chase.
Look here. I really liked Goldust Rhodes back when he hit the scene. I like monsters and freaks in wrestling. The best thing ever was when he and Mankind teamed up for that whole summer to form this evil freak duo, and Mankind would hold Goldust's wig and rock back and forth calling it "mommy." I remember going to see Goldust and Mankind face 'Taker and HBK at The Garden.
But this match, well, it wasn't even a match. It was just a running fight that took place over several segments. When it finally did get to the ring it was decent. The whole thing started on a Hollywood "movie set," but then Goldie jumped in his Gold Cadillac and took off…making Piper chase him in his Bronco!
And then the WWF would intermittently cut to the freeway chase going on between Piper and Goldust! See! Reference! The WWF is "with it." They know the "score." They even interrupted the Steve Austin/Savio Vega match to watch this damn freeway chase! In case you, decided to skip that last sentence, here it is again. They interrupted an actual match in progress!!!
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Northern Star
This bracing and beguiling evening resurrects one star and introduces a new one. The lyrical, irreverent voice of the late playwright Stewart Parker sings the audience through the history of the Society of United Irishmen and, as narrator Henry Joy McCracken, actor Jonathan Harden reveals himself as an extraordinary talent whose performance leaves an afterglow like a good whiskey.
The United Irishmen – inspired by the spirit of the French Revolution – believed in Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters joining forces, initially to reform Parliament, ultimately to drive out British Rule. In 1798 they led a failed rebellion in which thousands died. That's why the start of the play finds us in a partly burnt-out cottage deep in the Ulster countryside, which one of the rebel leaders, McCracken (a Presbyterian), is using as a safe house.
The audience walks into the auditorium to see him sitting, half-naked, faced away from them, with a suspended rope tracing a sinister line against his spine. As the play opens he turns and fashions the rope into the noose from which he will eventually be hanged.
Not – you would imagine – a cue for many laughs, but in fact there are plenty in a drama that takes Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a frame for looking back on McCracken's life, and stages each 'age' according to the style of different Irish playwrights including Wilde, Behan and Beckett.
Caitlin McLeod's production deftly navigates the multitude of voices so that it comes across as the bittersweet celebration of Irishness which Parker intended. A slightly uneven cast enthusiastically juggles the many roles, balancing enjoyable caricature with more heartfelt political passion. But it is Harden who burns brightest, showing Parker's play for the lost gem it is.
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Strands of Fate
A ornate Lyre, with threads of gold
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Apollo seeking an instrument of the most perfect quality, to accompany his poetry and tribute to Zeus worked to craft a golden lyre. The body made for the most ancient oaks turned gold by the touch of Midas and the threads of life cut by The Fates, and stolen by Hermes to string the instrument. But at the moment Apollo plucked the threads of the Lyre did he realize the horror he had created. Casting it from Olympus into the sea, he left it to Poseidon so that neither mortal nor god should hear its music.


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From The New York Times:
As it turns out, Americans waste an astounding amount of food — an estimated 27 percent of the food available for consumption, according to a government study — and it happens at the supermarket, in restaurants and cafeterias and in your very own kitchen. It works out to about a pound of food every day for every American.
The Department of Agriculture estimated that recovering just 5 percent of the food that is wasted could feed four million people a day; recovering 25 percent would feed 20 million people.
"We're not talking about table scraps," said Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, explaining the types of wasted food that is edible. "We're talking about a pan of lasagna that was never served"
Read the full article here. You should also check out Jonathan Bloom's web site, Wasted Food.


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Mitsubishi has long been one of the most well-known automakers available to buyers today. With a long history of innovation and advancement, Mitsubishi is truly one of the most impressive automakers around. If you are in the market for a new car that is both affordable and stylish then it is time to visit Avondale Mitsubishi in Avondale, AZ!
When you start looking at our selection of new Mitsubishi models you will be blown away at the variety of cars that we carry. Here we have the Mitsubishi models like the spacious Mitsubishi Outlander or Outlander Sport, stylish Mitsubishi Mirage or the practical Mitsubishi Lancer. Both of these specific models feature refined and sleek styling to go along with interiors that utilize modern technology and a useful interior.
One of the great aspects about visiting Avondale Mitsubishi is that not only will you be finding the new car you have been searching for, but you will also get a chance to work with our staff who is a perfect blend of friendly, professional and knowledgeable. This extends throughout everyone and will make your visit worthwhile.
If you are looking for a car that is stylish, full of the technology you want, and affordable than a Mitsubishi would be the perfect option for you. With our outstanding lease and loan options, we'll set you up for a more enjoyable future on the roads of Avondale and beyond. Alternatively, feel free to browse our used models, which offer outstanding deals for drivers to enjoy. Luckily if you live in Avondale, Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe, or Scottsdale you can come on over to 10555 W Papago Fwy and let our staff help you find your next new Mitsubishi model with ease.


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Hartmann Luggage
$100.00 for set by shall in Porter, Oct 08
Large suit case and shoulder bag. Tweed outside. Suit case has a combination lock. Luggage is in excellent condition.
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ASUS ROG Maximus VII Hero Review
ASUS ROG Maximus VII Hero Introduction:
The ASUS ROG brand has morphed from a purely hardware centric build that featured everything including the kitchen sink, with ASUS now introducing lower entry points into the ROG line-up with slightly less hardware bells and whistles. ASUS pays attention to the feedback given online in any number of forums to get a good idea as to what its customer base is looking for in terms of feature set and reliability. The Maximus VII Hero is ready for sale at e-tailers at $229 and expands on the feature set for the gamer. The board is released concurrently with the Maximus VII Ranger and Gene, with Formula and Extreme models to follow in the future.
ASUS ROG Z87 offerings were excellent performers in their own right and now Intel and its board partners have introduced the Z97 PCH-equipped socket 1150 offerings, which includes the Maximus VII Hero I have here today. Not only do you get improvement through the Z97 PCH, but you get software updates to the ROG standbys, along with new implementations including Keybot, a new UEFI BIOS interface, and improved hardware.
ASUS ROG Maximus VII Hero Closer Look:
The packaging theme for the new Maximus VII Hero mirrors that of previous ASUS ROG releases. A deep red coloring easily sets the ROG Maximus VII Hero apart form other manufacturers' offerings in brick and mortar locations, making it easy to find on the shelves. The Republic of Gamers logo sits at the top left, the Maximus VII Hero is printed across the middle, and the bottom left lists compatibility with Intel's Fourth Generation Core series processors, both NVIDA SLI and AMD Crossfire, and resolutions up to 4K, along with an indication that it is Windows 8.1 ready. The back side of the box shows a breakdown of the I/O panel, the basic specifications, and highlights some of the features that set the ASUS ROG series apart from the competition.
Much like most of the ROG line, the front panel opens up to reveal a clear panel that shows off the board inside, providing you a feel for what you get. ASUS takes the opportunity and open space to educate the end user on the technologies that create a point of difference and how they benefit the gamer. In this case, we have: Supereme FX audio, with some new enhancements to both the software and hardware; Gamefirst III improvements, as well as NIC hardware level improvements with LanGuard; Keybot as a new tool to improve functionality, making any keyboard a gaming keyboard; and Gaming Gaurdian, which is a feature most of you will recognize wrapped into a new package.
ASUS ROG boards come with a full set of accessories that are tailored not only to the board, but a gaming feature set. The Maximus VII Hero comes with a detailed manual, "Do Not Disturb" door tag, SATA data cable labels, and the driver/software disk. You get a total of six SATA 6Gbps cables with locking ends, three of which have 90 degree ends. The Q-Shield I/O panel is designed to reduce EMI interference and protect against cuts from poorly cut out openings. Q-Connections have been used and pioneered by ASUS to make installing front panel connections to the motherboard easier. An SLI bridge connection is included in case you decide to run a dual-GPU solution from NVIDIA.
While not included in the package with the Maximus VII Hero, ASUS' newly released ROG Front Base is an available accessory that further expands the ROG feature set by allowing you to have a ton of control at your fingertips on a four-inch LCD panel. You get the normal stuff like speaker, mic and USB connectivity, but ASUS just adds on from there with multiple displays, CPU Level Up function, sound profile changes, and more. In the future we will look to get one of these and put it through its paces. Most readers will be familiar with the ROG OC Panel; an overclocking and monitoring tool available for use with the Z97 ROG lineup. With this tool, you get a ton of extreme overclocking options as a standalone tool. Pricing currently sits at $79 for the ROG Front Base and $99 for the OC Panel. Not bad prices for the added functionality you get. Both the ROG Front Base and OC Panel are fully compatible with all the Maximus VII series Z97 boards.
Since Intel has pretty much gotten out of the motherboard business, it has left all the innovation and build-outs to its board partners. The Z97 chipset launch is the first since this occurred. Intel's Z97 PCH brings support for upcoming and current socket 1150 processors. The chipset includes PCI Express M.2 storage options, which allows transfer speeds of up to 1 GB/s (as fast as SATA Express), are supported with Intel® Smart Response Technology, and can be used as a primary boot device. Intel Device Protection with Boot Guard is a new technology that "prevents repurposing of the platform to run unauthorized software, Protects against execution of boot block level malware and is rooted in a protected hardware infrastructure." Three specific types of Boot Guard are available: Measured Boot, which measures the boot block into the system storage device or TPM module; Verified Boot, which "cryptographically verifies the platform Initial Boot Block (IBB) using the boot policy key"; and Combined Boot, which uses both options. Also new for the Z97 chipset is support for Intel's Rapid Storage Technology 13, which allows "support for a single 16GB SSD to enable dynamic cache sharing". Basically, this allows the system memory image to be dynamically written to a caching SSD during deep sleep conditions. With a "resume" command, the image is written back into the memory and the caching SSD resumes full functionality as the cache SSD.
ASUS ROG offerings have always offered a complete mix of hardware and software options put together to deliver excellent performance, reliability, overclocking, and gaming specific features for gamers and hardcore enthusiasts alike. With this launch, I expect that trend to continue.


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Dear Irene
I just wanted to say a word of appreciation for your hospital radio station. I have been in the N&N twice recently and you played a request for me both times. I love all different kinds of music, and I thought this was a great station all round. I love the way you come round the wards and speak to people. Much appreciated! Long may it continue.
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Surfboard> NEW 6 foot foam starter board/Great to learn on.
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Up for sale are new Liquid shredder foam top shortboard surfboards. These are the BEST foam top shortboards for anyone starting up to 120 lbs. Why? They are light and small enough for a little kid to carry above their head to the beach. They arent as wide as the Costco boards so the little kids can paddle into the wave without you having to push them from the sandbar endlessly. This helps build their upper body strength and coordination so they learn to surf faster. How about price? Amazon sells them for 145 then cons you into joining a magazine subscription for 50 so you end up paying 195 online. Who uses these boards. Several of the surf camps. These boards hold up much better then cheaper online boards or the Costco boards
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Through Feb. 3
Winter Antiques Show
The Winter Antiques Show marks its 57th year as one of the most prestigious antiques show in America, featuring the "best of the best" from antiquities through the 1960s. The show provides curators, established collectors, dealers, design professionals and first-time buyers with opportunities to view and purchase exceptional pieces showcased by 75 exhibitors. Admission: $20. Park Avenue Armory, 67th Street and Park Avenue.
Thursday, Jan. 31
Opening Reception of Via Verde
Via Verde is a housing development in the South Bronx consisting of 222 mixed-income apartments. It was the winning scheme of the New Housing New York Legacy Competition, a design contest initiated by the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, in conjunction with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development, and the New Housing New York Steering Committee. The project was designed by two firms, Dattner Architects and Grimshaw Architects, joined by The Phipps Houses Group and Jonathan Rose Companies as co-developers. The exhibition includes pre-construction photos, copies of the construction drawings, construction photography, the green living guides that assist new owners and renters and striking photography of the recently completed building. 6-8 pm. Free. The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place.
Tuesday, Feb. 5
Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable Series
The Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable is a quarterly luncheon series dedicated to examining, analyzing, reviewing and predicting the critical issues in Brooklyn real estate. This luncheon's speakers are Kenneth Adams, President of the Empire State Development Corporation, Ben Bernstein, Principal, RedSky Capital LLC, and Ken Horn, Principal, Alchemy Properties. All Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable proceeds benefit the Brooklyn Historical Society. Noon. Price for the series starts at $1,000. For further information, call Taina Sanon at 347-381-3705.
Visit www.boconcept.com for locations and hours.
Sale: Through Jan. 31
Storewide discounts of up to 40 percent include dining chairs and stools, rugs and lamps.
75 Grand Street and 876 Broadway, visit http://www.hastens.com for hours
Sale: Through Feb. 17
Hästens beds, made by hand in Sweden, presents its annual floor model sale with beds at extraordinary prices.
462 Broome St., 212-414-4332
Hours: Mon- Sat 11-7; Sun 12-6
Sale: Through Jan. 31
At Ochre's winter sale take 15 percent off select accessories, glassware, select ceramics, textiles and candles. Save 50 percent on all holiday decorations. Clearance merch is up to 70 percent off.
Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St., 212-752-9000
Sale: Feb. 6-10
Hours: Wed.– Fri., 10-9, Sat. 10-8, Sun., 10-9
Stark, the legendary home furnishings company whose designer carpets, area rugs, fabric and wallcoverings are usually only available to the trade, will hold its first warehouse sale in years. Save up to 75 percent off regular prices on carpets, area rugs, fabric and wallcovering. The sale will include specially priced fabric by Scalamandré. Deliveries and installations will be available and a staff of experts will be on hand to assist you in your selections.
ABC Carpet & Home, 888 Broadway, 4th Floor, 646-602-3273
Hours: Mon-Wed, Fri-Sat, 10-7; Thurs, 10-8, Sun, 11-6:30
Sale: Through Jan. 31
At this winter sale, furniture, lighting and vintage items are up to 50 percent off. Mars Chair, reg. $2,095, now $1,676; Fleet Semaphore Scatter Cushion, reg. $99, now $49.50.
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Search engine marketers must be aware of several things in black hat SEO from a security perspective. Some black hat search engine marketers exploit faulty or lax software to place links from your site to theirs in order to increase their rankings. This can be either through a bulletin board post, a blog comment, or a generally faulty script. Frequently, black hat techniques employ automated software to seek and exploit such weaknesses.
A black hat marketer may also use some sort of signature in a web application to find many sites using a search engine, such as a version number or tagline. Therefore, it is imperative that any web developer understands this, because being exploited may be to your detriment in rankings, not to mention corporate image. It's clear that nobody wants hundreds of links to spam sites on their forums or comments. Security not with standing, the first step to protect your web site is to keep software that is not under your auspices, that is, third-party software, up-to-date. For example, not too long ago, many blogging applications did not apply the rel="nofollow" attribute to links in comments — because it had not been adopted yet! This weakness had been exploited extensively in the past by black hat SEOs.
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Sprinkler fitting system renamed
Victaulic renamed the AquaFlex Sprinkler to the VicFlex Sprinkler Fitting System.
The AquaFlex Sprinkler System product line by Victaulic has been renamed the VicFlex Sprinkler Fitting System. This global change comes with the introduction of the Style AB1 Bracket and Series AH2 Braided Hose and will affect all products within the system. The VicFlex Series AQB Fitting System, featuring the Style AB1 Bracket and Series AH2 Braided Hose, is fully engineered and manufactured by Victaulic for consistent installation and performance, reducing hands-on time by as much as 39%. The system also comes preassembled for VicFlex Series AQB (braided) or Series AQU (corrugated), saving up to 60% of jobsite time and reducing the risk of leaks during the installation process.
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Trustee taxes are taxes that are collected and remitted by an organization on behalf of the individuals who actually pay the taxes. In essence, the organization collecting and remitting the tax is serving as a trustee or agent. Sales, use, meals, withholding, and room occupancy taxes are trustee taxes.
You are required to register with the Department of Revenue if you:
- Have people working for you in Massachusetts;
- Withhold from a pension or annuity plan or from retirement distributions;
- Sell or rent taxable items in Massachusetts;
- Sell taxable telecommunications services in Massachusetts;
- Serve meals and/or beverages in Massachusetts;
- Provide lodgings in Massachusetts subject to the room occupancy excise;
- Make regular or frequent out-of-state purchases on which a use tax must be paid;
- Seek exemption from the Massachusetts sales and use tax as a charitable, nonprofit or governmental organization;
- Are licensed by any city or town in Massachusetts to sell alcoholic beverages and are organized under Chapter 180 of Massachusetts General Laws;
- Collect any of the convention center financing surcharges; or
- Sell, acquire or import cigars and/or smoking tobacco or hold cigars or smoking tobacco for sale or consumption in Massachusetts.
Important Note: Electronic filing requirements are in place for trustee taxes. Refer to Technical Information Release (TIR) 04-30 for detailed information. Learn more electronic filing and payment methods, visit MassTaxConnect.
Things to remember:
- You must register all business locations.
- You also need to register to collect any taxes you were not originally registered to collect. For example, if you operate a motel and you are adding a restaurant to the motel, you must register for the meals tax.
- You are required to re-register if the way your business is owned or organized changes. For example, if you start your business as a sole proprietorship and later decide to become a partnership, you must cancel your registration as a sole proprietorship and reregister as a partnership. You may do so using MassTaxConnect.
If you are registering for sales tax, meals tax, or room occupancy excise, MassTaxConnect will allow you to print a temporary registration certificate. The temporary certificate will allow you to operate your business until the you receive your official registration certificate(s) from the Department of Revenue. You must display the certificate(s) in a conspicuous location on your business premises. Note, if you are only registering for withholding tax, you will not receive a registration certificate.
If any of the principal officers of the business do not have a Social Security number, but have applied for a Taxpayer Identification number through the Internal Revenue Service, you must contact Customer Service for information on registering your business.
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Project Description
Dioxide Materials, Inc. will work to combine technology from three companies to develop a process for the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into transportation fuels (e.g., gasoline, Avgas, etc.). Efforts will focus on scaling and integrating the three process components to produce an integrated pilot plant design. Dioxide Materials' electrochemical process will be used to convert CO2 to carbon monoxide (CO) and oxygen, with renewable electricity as an input. Water electrolysis, such as 3M's electrochemical process, will be used to create hydrogen (H2). A mixture of CO and H2 (i.e., syngas) will be sent to Primus Green Energy's Syngas-to-Gasoline Plus (STG+™) process for refinement to transportation fuels. Dioxide Materials and 3M will work to develop manufacturing technology to scale electrolyzers so that they can be constructed at a size appropriate for integration with a power plant. Primus Green Energy will re-optimize the STG+™ process to account for the absence of methane in the feed stream. Other process components, such as pumps, valves, and heat exchangers, will be designed and integrated into the process to account for the lower temperature and pressure of the outputs from Dioxide Materials' and 3M's electrolyzers.
Project Benefits
This project is focused on a novel electrochemical CO2 conversion process to produce gasoline, which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and yield a highly marketable gasoline product via a process that does not compete with food supplies. The synthetic gasoline will require detergents and other additives in order to be used directly in an automobile, but would not need further processing.
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March 20, 21, & 22, 2015
Carlson Center – Fairbanks, Alaska
The Interior Alaska Building Association's Home Show has become a major community event for people interested in every aspect of northern living. It is the only home show in Fairbanks and has become the unofficial kick off to spring and the building season in our community. From financing to new construction to remodeling to refurnishing…it's all there in one location on one floor with lots of free parking. There are free seminars all weekend long with tips and advice on improving your home and saving you money!
The 2015 IABA HOME SHOW will be an excellent chance for vendors to market goods to a wide cross section of our community. Early registration indicates another sold out event. Don't miss this once-a-year opportunity to be part of the excitement, profit, and fun.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain is moving forward with a long-awaited pension reform which will tightly restrict index-linking of pension payouts and aims at saving 33 billion euros ($44 billion) over the next decade.
Rises in pension payments will no longer be automatically indexed to annual inflation, a 30-page government document obtained by Reuters showed on Tuesday.
This is something the European Union have demanded for years but Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had resisted until now to avoid upsetting some 9 million pensioners.
The reform, which the government plans to present in the next few weeks and hopes will be passed by parliament before the end of the year, will help square the circle of next year's budget, with expected savings of 800 million euros in 2014.
It will also boost Spain's efforts to deflate one of the highest public deficit in the euro zone. The country, which may soon exit a two-year recession, has committed to meet deficit to Gross Domestic Product targets of 6.5 percent in 2013, 5.8 percent in 2015, 4.2 percent in 2015, and 2.8 percent in 2016.
"For years, the pension systems of the member states of the European Union have been faced with different risks which question their viability and financial sustainability in the medium and long term, because of demographic and economic reasons," the document says.
"This has led to new gaps in the accounts of the social security system, which have added economic tensions in the short-term... All this makes necessary, in order to maintain the public pensions system, to adopt new measures to those already existing," it says.
From 2014 onwards, pension payments will rise by a minimum of 0.25 percent every year, well below inflation rates expected to be between 1 percent and 2 percent, while maximum increases will be capped at inflation rates plus a 0.25 percent top up.
A complex formula will be used to calculate annual pension rises. This formula for the first time does not directly take into account inflation and rather uses a series of criteria such as the number of pensioners, the financial situation of the social security system or the level of pension payments over many years.
The government will also start using in 2019, eight years earlier than expected, a so-called sustainability factor which, in link with the evolution of life expectancy in the country, will also limit future rises, the document shows.
But it has decided not to speed up the planned increase in retirement age to 67 from 65 currently, a possibility it had initially envisaged.
This increase, passed in 2001 as part of a previous reform of the pension system, is due to take place over 15 years. ($1 = 0.7491 euros)
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A national icon that goes by the nicknames "The Stars and Stripes", "Old Glory", and also "The Star-Spangled Banner", the American flag is among the extremely identifiable signs worldwide today. This is primarily due to the standing of the United States as one of one of the most prominent countries in history. The American Flag is the 3rd oldest of the National Standards of the world – older than the Union Jack of Britain or the Tricolor of France. It is distinct in the deep and honorable value of its message to the entire globe. It represents a message of national independence, of specific liberty, of optimism, and also of patriotism.
Who designed the American Flag?
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Where can I buy American Flags?
Who designed the American Flag?
According to popular stories, the first American flag was made by Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress who was an acquaintance of George Washington. In May 1776, so the tale goes, General Washington as well as 2 people from the Continental Congress visited Ross at her furniture store and showed her a sketch layout of the flag.
In 1777, the Continental Congress passed an act that provided our country a main flag. In those days, the flag was not the like we understand it today. Instead of the 50 white stars in the field of blue, there was a circle of 13 white stars to stand for the 13 colonies. The act mentioned, "Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue area, standing for a brand-new constellation."
Exactly what does the American Flag represent?
The flag initially rose over thirteen states along the Atlantic seaboard, with a populace of some 3 million people. Today it flies over fifty states, expanding throughout the continent, and over multiple islands of both seas; and many owe it loyalty. It has been given this happy position by love and also sacrifice. People have progressed it as well as heroes have actually died for it.
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The American flag is very crucial since it symbolizes the independent federal government as explained under the United States Constitution. The flag also signifies the various successes of the country as well as the pride of its people.
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Where can I purchase American Flags?
You possibly already noticed this, but there are a great deal of locations where you could obtain American flags. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the flag you are wanting to acquire should be "Made in USA".
Based on data, Americans spend over 5.3 million dollars on imported flags annually – a lot of which are made in China. Probably a lot more disconcerting is that during 2001, in the wave of patriotism that washed over America after 9/11, Americans acquired $52 million US dollars in imported flags. The flag must signify the blood, sweat, and also tears of American men and women who brought this country right into existence, not our debt to China as well as the fatality of the American manufacturing sector.
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Fisher House to help veteran families coming to SC
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The families of tens of thousands of veterans in coastal South Carolina and Georgia will one day be able to be near their loved ones receiving Veterans Affairs medical care without having to pay pricey Charleston hotel rates.
Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., and the founders of a local nonprofit announced plans Tuesday to build a Fisher House in the city's historic district near the Ralph Johnson VA Medical Center.
Fisher Houses are lodgings where the families of vets or active duty service members stay for free while their loved ones receive care. They are named for the real estate developer who built the first two houses almost a quarter century ago.
There are now 64 in the United States and Germany serving 22,000 military families each year. The Charleston Fisher House will be the first in South Carolina.
The Charleston VA Medical Center serves more than 4,500 in-patient veterans each year from Myrtle Beach to Savannah.
A building in Charleston's historic district with an acre of land has been purchased with the help of the national Fisher House Foundation. Now $3.5 million must be raised to pay off the debt, deed the property to the VA, demolish the building and begin construction.
The house will have 16 suites for families and a common kitchen. With average hotel costs in Charleston of about $200 a night, the Fisher House is expected to save the families of veterans a combined $1 million a year in lodging costs. The nonprofit hopes to begin construction in 2016.
Truxtun Emerson, who with his wife Durbin founded Fisher House Charleston, said the facility will ease the minds of veterans families.
"The purpose is so military and veterans' families can be near their loved ones when a medical crisis arises and focus on what is most important and that is the healing process," he said.
Riley said many of the veteran patients come from miles away.
"Most veteran families can't afford costly accommodations and they miss dreadfully their loved ones and the veterans miss the love and the comfort and the healing benefit of having family nearby," he said.
Durbin Emerson said Fisher House Charleston is a labor of love.
"Trux and I have grandparents who were involved in the military but we have no direct military experience ourselves" she said. "But we love this country. We love what the military has done for us and we thought it was time for us to do something to give back."
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Mighty Green Car: 1969 MG MGC
Criticism of the MGC is typically piled on the heavy inline-6 up front for messing up the weight distribution and tossability of the classic chassis, but lackluster sales may have been as much about perception as anything. If you picked up a big Healey you got something that looked the part of a speedy inline-6 powered sportscar, but with the MGC it just looked like a 4-banger powered MGB to most buyers.
Under the MGC-specific hood bulge (this was only real clue aside from trunk badges) is a 2.9 liter 7-bearing crank equipped version of the C-series inline-6 originally used in Austin-Healey 100-6, 3000s, and various Wolseley, Riley and Morrises. The C-series engine added 209 lbs of mass to the front of the vehicle (requiring different suspension) but was good for 145 horsepower (50 hp more than the 2 liter MGB engine).
This MGC has spent the past few decades off the street, which is good when you consider it won't have the wear/tear and dings/dents of everyday use, but bad when you consider that seals and fluids will need replacement and rust doesn't sleep when you put a car in storage.
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- BobinottNovember 10, 2015 at 8:04 AM
Has anyone here ever driven both an MG-B and and MG-C? I would like to hear about the differences.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think I have but who can remember it was so long ago? Other than the obvious elements (engine, handling and top), I don't recall there being an enormous difference. But the truth is, I don't really recall. That's not real helpful, I know. I always was more of a Spitfire and Midget fan over these cars but there's no arguing their charms.Delete
GIANNI! Scope out those dollies!ReplyDeleteReplies
@ K2 - these are Harbor freight specials. I have a set. They work quite well but those caps on the nuts that secure the wheels to the dollies like to come off. No big deal, won't puncture a tire, but will cut the crap out of your hand if you're not paying attention.Delete
Thanks RyanM. I know that G was considering buying these (he might have already) and I'm sure he'd like to hear what you thought of them.Delete
In the FWIW category, they make shuffling my 4Runner and 240Z around in the garage really easy. Only thing easier would be those foot-actuated hydraulic dollies that cost an arm and a leg but don't require you to jack the car up to use them.Delete
The caps I mentioned above are cast into the metal of the nutand will come off if you look at them funny / overtighten and you can't re-attach unless you feel like gluing.
Thanks again, RyanM.Delete
Any time - and welcome back.Delete
I haven't bought any yet. I have 8 - 12 weeks to decide, so I have been putting off a trip to Harbor Fart to take a look at what they have on offer.Delete
Still wish I had bought the MGC-GT I took a look at a few years ago. Plowed like a pig but I found the "big" 6 to be smoother on the ears and the posterior than the 4 cyl.ReplyDelete
A classic example of head-up-the-backside-era British Leyland.ReplyDelete
The MGBGT V8 fits into the 'even a blind nut occasionally finds a squirrel' category.
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— This is the script of CNBC's news report for China's CCTV on June 6, Wednesday.
Welcome to the CNBC Business Daily.
Cyber space is like the wild wild west, complete with men in white hats and black hats. The black hats rarely talk, but we did. CNBC's Scott Cohn found a convicted felon who said the heavy-duty crackdown on cybercrime may be going too far and hurting innovation.
[Sound on Tape by Scott Cohn, CNBC: Stephen Watt sure doesn't look like your stereotypical hacker. He's seven feet tall, a fitness buff, and lives in Manhattan's trendy West Village. Things were different growing up in Florida.
Sound on Tape by Stephen Watt, Hacker: Being a little bit anti-social, I sort of found a refuge in computers.
Sound on Tape by Scott Cohn, CNBC: He wrote his first code at the age of six. soon, computers became his main social outlet.
WATT: Interacting with all sorts of different characters around the world really sort of filled a void for me when it came to meeting people with similar interests.
COHN: He became a hacker. and like other hackers, had an online persona.
WATT: I guess you had an identity, a handle ... I'd say that the one most people know me by is the U-T, the Unix Terrorist.
COHN: He insists the nickname was tongue-in-cheek, though it would come back to haunt him later on. In his first television interview, he explains how hackers choose sides - white hats versus black hats:
COHN: The sort of reflexive "white hat" approach to that was well yes, all this information needs to be publicized so people can fix and patch their software //the sort of black hat mentality was like, ok, you can publicize these vulnerabilities, but every time you do make these issues known, there are people out there who are immediately going to start exploiting them.
Where did you fall in on all this?
WATT: It was certainly the side far opposite the white hats.
COHN: He won't say exactly what kind of hacking he did, but ironically that's not what got him in trouble. He had grown tired of hacking...and in 2005 got a job on Wall Street developing software for Morgan Stanley. He still kept up with his computer friends though, and says in 2008, as a favor, he wrote a simple piece of software--known as a "sniffer" program, for his buddy Albert Gonzalez.
WATT: It was not hardwired for any particular target. In fact, it would have worked perfectly well to capture many kinds of different data, from instant messenger traffic, to email, to web traffic, file sharing networks.
COHN: Gonzalez used the program to pull off the largest credit card fraud in history -nicknamed "operation get rich or die tryin'" -which stole tens of millions of credit card numbers from retailers like T-J Maxxx.
Gonzalez pleaded guilty to 19 criminal counts, and is serving a 20 year sentence.
As for Stephen Watt...he pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy. A judge called Watt's crime "childish" and "morally irresponsible," sentenced him to two years, and ordered him to pay $171 million --the cost to repair the breach--even though it was Gonzalez, not watt, who made money from the scheme.
If you had known what he was going to do with the code, would you have written it for him?
WATT: You actually might be surprised to know that I haven't thought about that much. It is -- it's a done deal, it's something in the past, I can't go back and change the past so ultimately I don't see much value in going back and hypothesizing about how I might go back in time and change things.
COHN: Prosecutors came down hard on watt, pushing for a stiff sentence. Under federal sentencin guidelines based on the money involved, he could have received life.
WATT: I think that you know the world probably would be a richer place if some of these people were given more lenient sentences or given a chance to find a different course rather than just being pounded into the dust.
I'm Chloe Cho, from CNBC's Asian headquarters. Thanks for watching.


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When T-Mobile launches the iPhone 5 next month, the device will be a little different than existing handsets, with support for AWS bands so it's compatible with the carrier's brand new LTE network. That means if you currently have an AT&T iPhone 5 and want to hope over to T-Mobile's new UNcarrier plans, you wouldn't be able to take advantage of the fresh LTE speeds. Unless you jailbreak your device.
Some very crafty individuals have figure out how to modify current handsets to play nice with T-Mobile's LTE network; anyone with an unlocked and jailbroken model from AT&T (Verizon won't work) simply needs to install a small tweak through Cydia to enable the correct LTE band.
Unfortunately, if you decide you absolutely want to use T-Mobile's LTE network, you won't be able to connect to the carrier's excellent HSPA+ network. One of the advantages of T-Mobile's iPhone 5 is that it falls back to HSPA+ where LTE isn't available (which is plenty of spots around the U.S.). It's not like purchasing a device specifically for T-Mobile, but the option is there if you don't mind jailbreaking and doing a bit of leg work.
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The Fall of The House OMalley Built?
Now that the hangover from last November's Maryland General Election is becoming a memory, and Marylanders have begun to put away the Christmas lights and joined a local gym to shed those holiday pounds, many are beginning to set their sights on January 12, the beginning of the 2011 session of the Maryland General Assembly.
As it has for (too) many years, the focus of attention by legislators, political junkies, local government leaders and the average family huddled in fear at the kitchen table, is what will be done with Maryland's perennial structural deficit.
Those with short – politically expedient – memories would have you believe that Maryland's budget shortfall of the last several years is the result of a protracted downturn in the economy that has persisted across the nation since 2007.
Certainly the recent recession has taken its toll on the state's pocketbook; however, those of us old enough to remember can recall that the tired conversation over the Maryland state budget has been around since the mid-to-late 1990s, if not before.
Much of the state's budget problems have persisted over the years, not because of a revenue problem, but an addiction to spending that Maryland simply has not been able to shake, no matter how dire the warnings or consequences.
Unfortunately, the budget gimmicks, funds transfers, and sleight of hand approaches that have been glossed over by a sympathetic press have taken quite a toll. At this point, getting out of this mess will take fiscal discipline and planning that has escaped the state's leadership for decades.
Taxpayers may be reminded, at a time like this, that repeating the same plea for fiscal discipline from our state's elected leadership over and over again, and expecting a different result is a definition of delusional psychosis.
However, a recent "bad" combination of a dire report by the state's Spending Affordability Committee on December 21, 2010, coupled with the release of the Report of the Maryland Board of Revenue Estimates on Estimated Maryland Revenues, submitted to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on December 15, 2010, along with an equally foreboding Public Employees' and Retirees' Benefit Sustainability Commission set of recommendations on December 20, 2010; may – just may – sober up our state's leadership to realize that something must be done now – beginning with this session of the General Assembly.
Whether or not the recent November election will empower Maryland's elected leadership to act now is subject to speculation. On the one hand, the fact that both Maryland's executive and legislative branches were held harmless by the re-election of most incumbents could work for us – or against us.
Having been returned to office, coupled with the dire financial straits of the state's pocketbook, could possibly allow the state's legislative and executive branch to make the painful decisions necessary to put the Maryland financial house in order – without considerable fear of repercussions from the citizens of Maryland.
Not to be overlooked is the fiscal dynamic that the conservative tsunami which swept aside our nation's great two-year experiment in ultra-liberal fiscal approaches, the new Congressional leadership in Washington will probably not extend any additional federal stimulus aid to states such as Maryland.
The Spending Affordability Committee's report indicates on page 29 that the current budgetary shortfall is $1.633 billion and the structural deficit looms at $2.103 billion.
This, in spite of the draconian increases in taxes boldly set into motion by the special legislative session that Governor O'Malley shepherded through in the fall of 2007.
If bold and difficult decisions need to be made, the conventional political wisdom is for the current administration to make them as early as possible in hopes that the Maryland electorate, aided by a sycophant press, will totally forget about it before the next election.
That strategy certainly worked like a charm last November.
Riding a wave of public backlash against public sector employees and unions, as has – surprisingly – been recently reported by The New York Times, "Public Workers Facing Outrage as Budget Crises Grow," January 1, 2011, and "Strained States Turning to Laws to Curb Labor Unions," January 3, 2011. Look for the governor's office and the General Assembly to take a hard look at spiraling pension and public employee benefit costs.
Actually, as we learned from last November, Maryland's unions and state teachers will support the state's elected leadership no matter what they do; so they might as well do whatever is necessary to take the proper steps for meaningful financial reform.
The flip side of the coin is not good news for anyone living anywhere in the state outside of Montgomery, Prince Georges, Howard, and Baltimore City. The voting bloc within those jurisdictions is the only thing that matters to Maryland's political elite.
The good news and the bad news is that this session of the General Assembly is facing the perfect storm if the state's financial house is not put in order by significantly cutting spending.
People who rant and rave about how raising taxes and increasing entitlement programs drives jobs and businesses out of the state are delusional and wasting their breath.
Just as the state has systematically destroyed the horse racing industry in Maryland, the state's political elite simply does not care about the business of agriculture or small businesses in the state, because agriculture and small businesses cannot cause the powers-in-charge to suffer any consequence for their behavior.
As long as the nation's capital is located in Washington, Maryland's leadership is free to raise taxes on alcohol and gasoline and shift a large portion of the state teacher's pension burden back on to the counties and therefore, cause local governments to have to raise property taxes.
As we will soon learn, elections have consequences and those of us who live in the feudal outback, outside of the "One Maryland" polyglot, will be the only ones suffering that consequence.
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London: Singer Jennifer Lopez has revealed she is the strict parent in her household unlike her husband Marc Anthony who likes to 'mush' around with kids.
"I`m the one who keeps everybody on schedule, like, `Got to go to bed at this time, got to eat something. He`s(husband) a passionate person and he`s the same way with the kids and I love it. When it comes to all his kids he`s mush, whatever they want." femalefirst.co.uk quoted her as saying.
However, Lopez reveals leaving children behind is torturous for her.
"It`s very difficult for me to leave them in the morning. It just tortures me. I`m like, `It`s been hours; are they wondering where I am? Do they know that I love them so much and I`m thinking only about them," she added.
Lopez has two-year-old twins Max and Emme with husband Marc Anthony.


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PbP Start Date: 9/13/2009
MT Session Date: 9/12/2009
Adventure Date: First-day, Tarsakh (The Claw of Storms) 1, 1479
Base Location: Town of Loudwater
Adventure Module: Menace of the Icy Spire
Session Number: 2.1
Pregame Notes
- MT 1.3 b57
- Need to Level up to L2
- MT tokens
- Used equipment can be sold for 50% of its value
- Iris can learn up to (12) 1st or 2nd level rituals
- The Loudwater apothecary will sell Gweena any 1st or Second Level ritual she wants to learn or she can learn them from Iris.
First-day, Tarsakh (The Claw of Storms) 1, 1479 DR, the Year of the Ageless One…
Six days has passed since the CFP last made peace with the High Shaman Sancossug and the goblins of the Southwood. Thus far, Sancossug seems true to his word. No goblins have been sighted in the vale and nothing has mysteriously gone missing. However, there has been one rumor of a child kidnapping from a farm located near Secomber.
At first, the CFP were regarded as heroes, not having to buy a single draft, but having to recount their exploits to a countless number of patrons in the Tankard. Today, the CFP's heroism seems almost non existent, albeit, the children a still ask to hear about the High Shaman Sancossug, but not often.
Two romantic interests have come to light over the past days. Megana Nistral, head of the Loudwater smithy is a brawny human female who is as broad as a dwarf. She enjoys drinking with the CFP in the evenings and is good company with her hearty laugh. The end of every night is much the same with Megana offering her skills as a blacksmith to Digi. Apparently she wants to forge him a great axe.
The other is Lady Moonfire, the town leader, a female half-elf who seems more interested in adventure than civic-duties. Lady Moonfire has been showing up at the Tankard every night, and eventually makes it over the CFPs table. With her elverquist in hand, she constantly prods Amagar about his past exploits. She also seems very interested in Amagar's heritage, especially the demonic side.
Curuvar the Brazen seems no longer interested in the Skull Totem, and after hearing the CFP's tale of the goblin shaman and his ritual, he replied with, "Goblins… what a dull race."
Curuvar now has bigger fish to fry with the Gray Vale's weather turning for the worst. The past 6 days have been miserable, with temperatures in the Gray Vale dropping to levels that would normally be typical during the Feast of the Moon. Things have become too dangerous for travelers, and to all indications, winter is not going to end. If that occurs, the ground will never thaw, thus no crop will be planted, putting the entire area's food supply at risk.
There is precious little information in Loudwater to be had. However, some local woodsfolk report that the cold temperatures appear to be more pronounced in the area of the Dire Wood. Some claim it is the work of evil faeries, but rumors have it that the town's leaders believe that a more likely source of the problem is Draigdurroch Tower.
Welcome to Menace of the Icy Spire, Session 2.1…
Closing Location Details
Nation: Gray Vale
Town/Area: Delimbiyr Route, 3 hours NE of Loudwater, before the confluence of the Heartblood River
Building/Level: n/a
Module Location Number: J1. Chauntean Caravan
Time: Morning
Weather Condition: 7 F, None, Scattered fluffy clouds, Wind 19 mph
Other Information: The CFP are invited to a dinner party at Lady Moonfire's Manor Home. After dinner the CFP meet with Curuvar the Brazen, Lady Moonfire, and Brother Griffon to discuss the Gray Vale's latest dilemma, the unnatural weather which brings with it the promise of a never-ending winter.
Curuvar mentions Draigdurroch's Tower and recounts its history…
About 30 years ago, a dwarf warlock named Draigdurroch came to the Gray Vale. Draigdurroch was part of a cabal of warlocks, and his particular research dealt with the creation of new types of eldritch pacts. He believed that the Dire Wood contained a particularly potent source of untapped energy—the remains of a failed deity. Thousands of years before the Spellplague, a Netherese city called Karse stood in the area, and the demigod Karsus was its patron. Karsus tried and failed to ascend to full godhood, dying in the process, and his city (along with the rest of the ancient Empire of Netheril) fell not long thereafter. Draigdurroch's research suggested that the petrified remains of Karsus yet lie beneath the forest's heart. Draigdurroch hoped that he could tap into the latent energy that Karsus had accumulated and use it to power his new pact. The dwarf warlock built a tower about a mile outside the Dire Wood and began his experiments in earnest.
Draigdurroch's hunch turned out to be correct. A powerful nexus of magical energy is beneath the heart of the Dire Wood. However, the fey spirits who dwell within the Dire Wood have long been aware of how dangerous the remnants of Karsus could be if the demigod's power fell into the wrong hands. They have appointed themselves as guardians to ensure that no one tampers with the failed deity's resting place. When Draigdurroch's efforts began to bear fruit and the dwarf warlock drew upon the latent echoes of Karsus's power to form a dark pact, the fey approached him and warned him to cease his meddling. The warlock was confident in his powers and ignored the warning. For his temerity, the fey punished him. Draigdurroch was imprisoned within the Feywild and his tower was sealed in a block of magic ice as a warning to others. The fey set a powerful gemstone holding a spirit of winter to act as the keystone holding the icy barrier.
Character Situation/Location
|HP: 20/34 Surges: 8/10
|HP: 19/37 Surges: 10/11
|Bloodied HP: 9/28 Surges: 7/7
|HP: 17/31 Surges: 9/9
|HP: 30/30 Surges: 7/7
|HP: 24/24 Surges: 2/2
Last Major Events
- [Major Quest – Fix the Weather]
- Discover the source of the unnatural winter like weather and remove it so that the seasons return to normal.
- Lady Moonfire rewards the PCs 500 gp on behalf of teh the grateful citizens of Loudwater for completing this quest.
- [Minor Quest – Find Draigdurroch's Research]
- Bring Draigdurrock's ritual books and his research notes to either Lady Moonfire or Curuvar the Brazen.
- Either NPC is willing to pay up to 100 gp per item retrieved for these items.
Last Minor Events
- CFP encounter a Chauntean Caravan on the Delimbiyr Route
- Gweena recognizes her fellow priests and informs the rest of her crew that it is common of the Pastoral Faction of the Great Mother to disperse seed in the early spring to the local farmers.
- When the CFP get closer they discover that the Pastorals have suffered major frostbite and have been mysteriously changed into undead.
- CFP defeat the Undead
Other Information
- 625/5=125 ea.
- Treasure
- Magic Holy Symbol of Chauntea +2
- Iris' Endure Elements Ritual ends in 21 hours


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