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1st.- The Kickstarter campaign status.
My aim is even highger: I'll try to provide a demo with around 20 minutes of close-to-definitive gameplay.
And I can finally say that I'm really close to get to that milestone! Instead of going with the main game, I focused on this introductory game-play section during these past months.
So, without a dubt, the next post here will officially announce the launch date of the Kickstarter campaign. Maybe within a month. Or two. But always before summer comes, that's for sure. Stay tunned!
2nd.- Important changes.
Putting the Kickstarter issue aside , there are some important changes I'd like to point out.-
A) The game's native resolution has changed from 1280x800 pixels (quite a weird resolution) to a Full HD standard, 1920x1080 pixels. I decided this so the game would look even better on full HD screens. To this day, I'm pretty sure this is the most common screen resolution, and working with native 1080p is allowing me to make more impressive backgrounds and assets. Also, given that the character's sprite is pretty big, having a wider and taller screen allows the player to see more of the room/level he's in.
The downside of it is obvious: what will happen to those using smaller resolutions?
Since I can't waste time making low-quality sprites and assets, I'll have to resize the screen to the selected resolution. I know that's a waste of memory, and of course the overall image quality will suffer.
Once I've completed the level-development stage, I'll try to find a quick way to replace the original sprites with low-resolution copies. I'll tell you more about this in the upcoming months.
Fortunately, the full HD standard resolution is quite popular, and is nowhere close to the higher resolution that PC gamers usually have.
And honestly, the game looks way better like this:
This one is from a cutscene where Hibari and friends go to "claim" their reward for hunting some monster...
B) I successfully ported the game to Game Maker: Studio, after adquiring the pro license. Not much else to say about this, but thanks to GM:S the game's performance will improve, the game will arrive to IOS, GNU/Linux and Android devices, and, last but not least....
C) Playstation 4! Even if it wasn't officially announced until this very week that Sony is working alongside YoYo Games to create a solution to port GM:S games to Playstation, it was pretty obvious that Sony wouldn't let go such a huge portion of independent developers.
So, if nothing goes wrong, Spirit Huntress will make its way to Play Station 4 systems! And man, couldn't I be happier about it.
3rd.- Show us something!
I would love to show you guys everything I'm working on right now. Every sprite, every level design, every background picture, all of it! But I just can't, I have to save something for the Kickstarter campaign (let alone the final game).
But I can't just leave without showing at least something. However, those of you who follow me on twitter might have already seen these images (that's what they get for following me! mwahaha!)
These two screens are from the very beginning of the introduction cutscene. Yeah, corpses being eaten by crows. Classy.
And this one is -again- from another cutscene that would trigger later You can expect it to be fully animated.
And finally, I've noticed it's been a long since I uploaded some original music here... so, let me introduce you a WIP version of another theme from the O.S.T. This one is not for a cutscene, but for some playable segments, usually after defeating a mini-boss and obtaining a new item/weapon/skill. When that happens, the player is usually fond of his progression, and looking forward to learn some new gameplay mechanics! It's then when he likes to hear an optimistic, yet alive theme, that encourages him to keep playing, and makes him wonder what will come next (hence the name, "Your Path Is Open Now").
Maybe that's too much of an ambitious goal for a composer of my level, but you can't say I didn't try.
Enjoy it, and please, notice it's still a work in progress. However, I'd really appreciate your opinions!
And that's pretty much it.
I'll keep working on this really hard. Just wait a few weeks, and hopefully I'll be posting here the link to the Kickstarte campaign, probably including a playable demo!
Stay tunned, and if you want additional information and early screenshots, you can follow me on twitter at @itoaragon.
Thanks for reading me and for supporting Spirit Huntress.
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By Will Swanson
A great many of you reading this probably just got a chill up your spine, and a bit of anger as you move to defend this amazing instrument but those who know the history of the Les Paul guitar as played by its inventor know what amazing sounds he could evoke from it – and how great it sounded – as the jazz came out of it.
Most everyone know this guitar from a very different arena though, whether it is an actual rock show in an arena maybe with Led Zepplin or Guns n Roses or from an exceptional blues experience at the hands of Gary Moore or Joe Bonamassa.
The Les Paul instrument is a tradition in classis rock, the nemesis to the Stratocaster for many, you are for either one or the other in many player's eyes but its not due to lack of respect for either instrument, its just they play and sound so different. There are also a lot of famous people that played Les Pauls but somewhere along the way became known for something else, Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton just to name a few.
The classic LP consists of a set neck, dual humbuckers separated by a 3 way switch, 2 volumes and 2 tone controls. They are usually heavier than most other solid body guitars, something that many feel adds sustain and yet also the crux for a live player that has to hold the thing all night. This is a result of extensive use of mahogany in both the body and the neck usually with a decorative maple cap.
The Les Paul junior is the stripped down version of the LP, it is the same size and scale but offers only one pickup, traditionally a real p90 (a badass screaming single coil design) and also less decorative wood and a lighter weight.
LPs have a 24.75 scale, shorten than a tele or strat, so bends are easier and string tension is slacker, it will feel different if you're not used to it but keep playing it and see how cool that can be.
There are million dollar Les Paul's out there but to experience this unique instrument a six figure income is not required, The more reasonable priced ones, or even the Epiphone ones will allow you to find some of what makes this design so don't be afraid to start there…
But get your hands on a Les Paul (thinking traditional here) and this is what you need to do: play a blues solo with long, warm, bending notes over a 12 bar backing track and listen to those notes carry forever. Play a classic rock chord progression into a heavy smooth show boating session and listen to the collision of notes and the thickness of the sounds and that tone. Next, play some punk power chords and feel it kick back, feel that anger and punch – all of this can be done with a decent amp and smooth overdrive, just play with it and get to know it, you won't regret it.
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It's stormy outside, the fireplace is roaring, Christmas music is playing, tea is in the kettle, and I'm about to get started on wrapping my holiday gifts!
Since I'm in a gift wrapping mood, I decided to create a few printable holiday tags, and I'm sharing them with you (of course!). My favorite thing to do is print them out on 8.5″x11″ sticker paper so I can just cut out each individual label and stick it right to the wrapped gift – easy peasy! Click on the link below to snag a copy for yourself!


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Examples of Mike Holden's PR & Marketing Work
- As the media relations manager for Wolf Trap, helped to launch the performing arts organization's internet radio station and successfully pitched a story to The Washington Post about the way Wolf Trap and other venues were using this and other technologies such as podcasts: "Arts Groups Put on Their Own Shows."
- With D.C. area restaurant company Austin Grill, launched a promotion with the NHL's Washington Capitals that gave fans free wings anytime the team scored six goals or more at home. It received press from Deadspin.com, was mentioned by Alex Ovechkin in a post-game interview, made it onto team owner Ted Leonsis' blog and was featured in this Washington Post article: "Caps Fans Devour Wings." A similar version of the wings promotion lives on today with Glory Days Grill.
- While with education non-profit ABCTE, brainstormed idea with CEO to promote a free trial of our program through a call to action on the main page of our website, which ended up driving in 75-100 sales leads per week for the company.
- In 2009, using this blog at mikeholden.com, helped bring attention to how some D.C. area sports fans were frustrated about a ComcastSportsnet channel not being carried by Verizon FiOS. Verizon eventually added the channel (check out the comments here).
- At the World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA), used a combination of paid ads along with online content and contests to grow the organization's Facebook fans from 9,000 to over 17,000 in less than six months. Worked with the IT team to launch the Kickball Today blog, using it as landing page for emails and social media campaigns. Also oversaw development of a franchise section of WAKA website and a sports franchise microsite.


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Beautiful coastal design for the discerning buyer. Hardwood floors, gourmet kitchen, delightful porches. Efficient Geothermal system. Gorgeous first-floor master bdrm, guest bdrm as well as a second floor family suite with wet-bar. Detached garage also has separate guest quarters with huge sauna, a wonderful artist's studio in attic. Terrific water views - Chesapeake Bay just across the street!
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My daughter's orthodontist's LJ.
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My daughter's orthodontist's LJ.
Nice. Looks like he's running a Zeon as well.
Looks like you pay him too much. Lol
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Nice. Looks like he's running a Zeon as well.
Yes, I think so.
Originally Posted by OverlanderJL
Looks like you pay him too much. Lol
Ya think? Lol! We were talking about my LA and CO kits, but it was funny because he had never heard of EVO/Off Road Evolution.
I'm impressed with the look of those tires.
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I did all the changes but no improvement. the data is getting indexed properly, I think because I'm able to see the results through luke and luke has option for seeing the results in both utf-8 encoding and string default encoding. I tried to use both but no difference. In both the cases I'm able to see the regional text. but no through the browser . How to decoding when fetching the search results throught searcher? Thanks KK On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:05 PM, KK <email@example.com> wrote: > Thanks @Uwe. > #To answer your last mails query, textOnly is the output of the method > downloadPage(), complete text thing includeing all html tags etc... > #Instead of doing the encode/decode later, what i should do is when > downloading the page through buffered reader put the charset as utf-8 as you > mentioned in your last mail. so instead of > BufferedReader reader = > new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( > pageUrl.openStream())); > > I should do this, > BufferedReader reader = > new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( > pageUrl.openStream(), <mention the charset like > Charset.forName("UTF-8")>)); > > right? and remove this conversion that I'm doing later , > > byte [] utfEncodeByteArray = textOnly.getBytes(); > String utfString = new String(utfEncodeByteArray, Charset.forName("UTF- > 8")); > > This will make sure I'm not depending on the platform encoding, right? This > seems to fix my indexing issue. Now regarding searching I dont need to > mention any charset thing there, I'm using stardard anyalyzer? As I know > lucene stores the chars as raw unicode so when I present my query in the > same unicode format lucene will give me proper results. Currently I'm not > using the encoding for HTTP parameters, I'll use that and let you know. > Thank you very much. > > KK, > > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Uwe Schindler <email@example.com> wrote: > >> I forgot: >> >> > byte [] utfEncodeByteArray = textOnly.getBytes(); >> > String utfString = new String(utfEncodeByteArray, Charset.forName("UTF- >> > 8")); >> > >> > here textonly is the text extracted from the downloaded page >> >> What is textonly here? A String, if yes, why decode and then again encode >> it? The important thing is: >> Strings in Java are always invariant to charsets (internally they are >> UTF-16). So if you convert a byte array to a string you have to specify a >> charset (as you have done in new String code). If you convert a String to >> a >> byte array, you must do the same. >> >> As mentioned in the mail before, the same is true, when converting >> InputStreams to Readers and Writers to OutputStreams (this can be done >> using >> the converter). >> >> And: If you get a String from somewhere, that looks bad, you cannot >> convert >> the String to another encoding, it was corrupted during conversion to >> string >> before. >> >> E.g. in a WebAppclcation, use ServletRequest.setEncoding() to specify the >> input encoding of the HTTP parameters and so on. >> >> Uwe >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com >> For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com >> >> >
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Tuesday, May 27
To stay competitive in the ever-evolving construction industry, Huntair takes full advantage of innovative design processes. After seeing potential in the modular construction of buildings, their company began utilizing digital visualization to ensure their airflow solutions would fit airtight into every build. At this stop we'll discuss how CAD, BIM, Simulation CFD, and 3D-printing help Huntair rollout innovative products into various building projects, from operating rooms to data centers.


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March 23, 2011 in Education (E)
[prMac.com] Redmond, Washington - Sean Berry is pleased today to announce Algebra Touch 1.2 for iOS, an update to his educational app for learning and practicing algebra. The app update incorporates additional lesson content, with new support for distribution, factoring out expressions, and the associated complexity boost which comes from them. Algebra Touch features 20 interactive lesson topics and supporting practice problems and the ability to create unlimited new problems. All actions and responses are touch activated and animated. The update includes language support for English, Spanish, German and French.
People are inherently curious, and derive pleasure and satisfaction from mastering new skills and knowledge. Algebra Touch enables the excitement of learning through simplified, interactive, programmed instruction, and employment of styling and functionality usually reserved for electronic gaming.
The principles and problem solving capabilities of algebra are, in themselves, fascinating. By simply facilitating the process of discovery, Algebra Touch makes math fun.
On launch in landscape orientation, the app displays in large white numerals on a black radial gradient "3+5." Beneath is a gray band with the instruction "Tap the + to add 3 and 5." Tapping the plus sign runs an animation where the numerals are reduced in opacity, the plus sign disappears, and the "3" and "5" move toward each other with only an "8" remaining onscreen.
The instruction is accompanied by a "Show Me" button, which will automatically demonstrate the app's method of executing operations by tapping the operator. Immediately, positive reinforcement and further explication appears "Very good! Adding is a form of 'simplifying" - that is, making the expression more simple and less complicated."
Feature Highlights:
* Appropriate for learning or reviewing of algebra
* For students of any age or gender
* Enjoy the wonderful conceptual leaps of algebra, without the tedium of traditional methods
* Drag to rearrange, tap to simplify, and draw lines to eliminate identical terms
* Distribute by tapping and sliding, Factor Out by dropping terms on one another
* Easily switch between lessons and randomly generated practice problems
* Users may create their own problems or edit current ones
* Topics include: Simplification, Like Terms, Commutativity, and Order of Operations
* Additional topics: Factorization, Prime Numbers, Elimination, and Isolation
* Advanced topics: Variables, Solving Equations, Distribution, Factoring Out, and 'More Advanced'
* Features external display support with optional 30-pin, external display cable
* Version 1.2 permits picking up sums and products, transposing them across the equation, and eliminating them in quotients
* Language support for English, Spanish, German and French
From here, the user may choose "Back" to review, or "Next" to continue. Further developing the concept of algebraic simplification, the app goes on to cover such topics as: terms, negatives, multiplication, order of operations, factorization, and crossing out (eliminating) terms in fractions. On this foundation Algebra Touch goes on to explore variables, and solving simple and complex equations.
"I'm 48 and I've wanted to learn Algebra my whole life ... Tried all kinds of books, to no avail. Your app works for me. I'm so excited ... A whole new world opens up. Thank you so much, S. Grace"
Device Requirements:
* iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
* iOS 4.0 or later
Pricing and Availability:
Algebra Touch 1.2 is $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Education category. Review copies are available upon request.
Located in Redmond, Washington in the greater Seattle area, Regular Berry Software is an LLC shell for Sean Berry. He creates custom iPhone apps. Copyright (C) 2011 Regular Berry Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.


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Fractional Reserve Banking explained
What follows is a rather simplified analogy but should help to explain our modern "fractional reserve" banking system…
Once upon a time, people used gold as currency. Gold does not corrode easily and as such is deemed to be a sensible way to represent and store value. The problem with gold though, is that it is not easily transported due to its weight and furthermore it is not easy to conceal large amounts of gold when travelling.
So, to lessen the risk of being robbed by outlaws and highwaymen, a goldsmith would take a deposit of gold from someone, who intended to travel from their own village to another, in exchange for a gold receipt. The traveller could then redeem their gold receipt for an equal amount of gold when they arrived at their destination from another goldsmith.
As long as the two goldsmiths had an arrangement to honour the receipts, then the traveller could travel more safely, as they could easily conceal a receipt for an amount of gold that would have been very difficult to hide. Of course, the goldsmiths would charge a small fee to the traveller for availing of this service. So far so good.
In bigger towns and cities people would avail of this service from goldsmiths when they didn't intend to travel. They didn't know all their neighbours and were reluctant to store a lot of gold in their homes, as occaisonally people's homes were robbed. Instead they would store their gold at the goldsmith's place of business as the goldsmith had greater security around the clock to store the much sought after gold.
Over time people started to buy things with the gold receipts rather than redeem the receipts for gold and buy things with gold. The person selling something could just as easily redeem the receipt for actual gold as the person making the purchase. This was essentially the birth of paper money.
Now here comes the "innovative" part. The goldsmiths began to realise that not everyone redeemed their gold receipts immediately. So, if they had some major expense such as buying a piece of land and didn't have enough of their own funds to make the purchase, rather than borrow some gold from someone else and pay interest on their loan, they would write themselves a gold receipt. As long as they honoured that receipt by replenishing their gold reserves with real gold that they earned over time, the system would remain stable and intact.
The only danger was that everyone who had deposited gold would come to redeem their receipts all at once. But because people were now used to using receipts for trading as against using gold, this tended not to happen. So the goldsmiths were able to maintain a fraction of their gold reserves and nobody was any the wiser.
Over time, even more "innovation" took place. The goldsmiths started to decrease the the amount of real gold that they held in reserve and increase the amount of receipts. Furthermore, they started to lend receipts to other people who were short of funds to make their own purchases. This was the birth of fractional reserve banking.
Of course, the goldsmiths or bankers would charge a small fee or interest on the loan of the receipts, to the borrowers, to avail of this service. Lending receipts to other people was far more risky than issuing "fake" receipts to themselves. It was one thing to trust their own ability to pay back their own loans but quite another thing to trust someone else. So of course, they demanded some collateral for the loans from the borrowers, in the form of deeds to their land or homes. If the borrower was unable to pay back the loan for some reason, the banker could always repossess the land or home that was provided as collateral. The banker could then sell the land or house, most likely at a profit and the loan would effectively be paid back.
The real problem though was the matter of charging interest on the receipts. An example should help to illustrate. Let's say that there are two bankers in a city who provide loans of gold receipts or money. They both agree to honour the receipts with gold when someone wants to redeem a receipt. The bankers figure out that they only need to keep a fraction of the actual amount of gold that they hold in reserve as not everyone will try to redeem their receipts at once. They work out that the ratio of gold to receipts is one to ten.
So, if Mr. Smith the goldsmith has 50 pounds of gold in reserve, he will issue 50 pounds in receipts initially to the depositor(s) of gold. But because the depositor(s) will not redeem the receipts immediately all at once, he lends out another 450 pounds in receipts to various borrowers. This brings the total amount of receipts that Mr. Smith has issued to 500 pounds of receipts.
Similarly, Ms. Banks has 50 pounds of gold on deposit for which she issues receipt(s), and lends out another 450 pounds of receipts bringing the total amount of receipts that she has issued to 500 pounds of receipts.
So the total amount of receipts issued now from both banks is 1000 pounds of receipts. Lets say that the loans issued had to be paid back within one year. As long as the borrowers all pay back their loans within that year and the original depositors don't look for their gold back within that year, everything should be fine. There is 1000 pounds of receipts in circulation and the various borrowers should be able to earn enough receipts to pay back their loans.
However the problem is that both Mr. Smith and Ms. Banks have charged 10% interest on the loans that they issued. There are 900 pounds worth of loans, requiring that 990 pounds be paid back (900 pounds of principal plus 90 pounds of interest). Lets not forget, that there were also 100 pounds of deposits (between the two banks). So, by the end of the year, if the loans are to be paid back in full with interest and the depositors also redeem their gold deposits, 1090 pounds have to be returned to the banks. But there is only 1000 pounds in circulation so unless somebody mines another 90 pounds of gold some borrowers will have to default on their loans and thereby loose their collateral and have their homes or land re-possesed.
The modern banking system is far more complicated by the fact that money is no longer backed by gold and fractional reserve requirements are often lower than one to ten, of money on deposit to money loaned out. The musical chairs analogy is very appropriate. When the music stops playing or lending stops for some reason, somebody is going to end up without a chair to sit on. Somebody is going to loose their collateral in the form of their house or land. This is nothing to do with their trust worthiness, credit history or ability to earn money. It has nothing to do with a mortgage being 100% or more of the value of their house. There simply is not enough money in circulation to pay back all loans and the interest charged on them.
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Which is the best way to hit London? Well clearly catching a crack of dawn flight with approximately two hours sleep in the last two days, a slight hangover and a severe cystitis (because you've had a weird sexual intercourse, naturally, but now we're going private…).
So this is precisely the condition in which our two heroines, Gioia Maini and her partner in crime Sara K (usually, or at least in her former life, a fashion communication professional if you please) made their way throughout Gatwick airport and into London Olympia, hosted at Pure London fashion tradeshow with one precise aim: Wreck the whole place up!!!!! Well, no, promoting Gioia's shoes of course.
In order to describe everything that actually happened during the tradeshow (and at night time in London town) ideally I should call a publisher and get myself a signed contract for a very long novel. But I'll try and make it short.
Setting up the booth was the first adventure and because of the previously mentioned state of mind – and body – it proved to be something like adorning a doll's house. Actually finding the booth itself was the first, not so pleasant, adventure but it did gave the chance to get to know (read "disturb") the whole of Pure organization staff.
The second adventure was finding the production room in order to retrieve shoes which hadn't been selected for the catwalk and finding out that…. All of them had been selected and in fact wouldn't we be so kind to provide one more pair!! And, just to be a bit modest and shy and low profile, the catwalk that featured Gioia's shoes was undoubtedly the best.
The third adventure was receiving visits from key figures like Miss Vicky, head of Pure organization, a charming lady with a soft spot for fascinators and brocade, Mr Fabrizio (hereafter known as Biccio), head of sales for Italy, whom Gioia and Sara felt the urge to call (but didn't) whenever there was a problem, form bad wifi to a particularly cold night in Shoreditch. Mrs Sharon, head of customer care, an angel who provided a mobile phone and the number of a courier when they where needed just like water in the desert and, our compatriot Emanuela, last but not least, the guy from the security at the exhibitor's entrance who became Sara's most intimate and close friend due to her frequent trips outside to smoke. They'll be announcing their engagement any day soon. And many more guardian Angels.
And then, well then came Pure itself. Three days which involved attending the catwalk, having lunch in the cafè and discovering you are sitting next to a senior buyer from one of Russia's greatest buying offices, setting up a photo shoot in the middle of the corridor, making one hell of a racket and having people constantly popping by at the booth even just to see what the hell was going on. Definitely people exhibiting next to Gioia Maini didn't have the chance to get bored (they might also hate us a little, but not to much).
Oh and of course meeting the fashion editor from WeAr Magazine, swapping jokes and taking selfies with the big boss of Sakura Malaysia, meeting Mayka, the designer from Pocket London and being asked to lend shoes for their next editorial and having photographers and stylists as Kerrie Newton & Jenn Ross, Adnan Kundi or Patt Lyttle literally pouring over Gioia 's shoes!
How Gioia and Sara managed to arrive alive and – apparently – undammaged at the end of their British sojourn is another story which involves medical prescriptions and running psychotherapy.
For now let us just say Good-bye London! Thanks for your effusive welcome! We are ready to hit the next fashion capital hoping that –quoting our current hero, Karley Sciortino – next time we won't end up at 2 am wasted outside a Zoo shouting obscenities to a giraffe.
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JOPLIN, Mo. — By 9 a.m. Friday, Greg Scheurich already had fielded his fifth call of the day from a metals importer trying to determine how President Trump's new tariffs would work.
"It's really confusing, tough to understand," said Scheurich, president of CNC Machine Products, a manufacturer of bearing components.
For Scheurich, the perplexing thing about Trump's tariffs on imported steel is that, in the name of helping U.S. steelmakers, the president may be dooming some other American companies such as his.
In the nation's capital, the new import taxes are viewed as a turn by the United States toward economic nationalism and a chance for the president to deliver on a promise to his working-class constituency.
For Scheurich, 69, whose production of industrial parts depends almost entirely on importing specialized steel from Japan and Sweden, the restrictions on foreign-made metals pose a direct threat to his business. Though the president insists tariffs will force companies such as his to "buy American," Scheurich confronts a more complex globalized reality.
"What people don't understand about the steels I use is it doesn't have anything to do with price. I've tried to find domestic sources," he said. " . . . I'm not importing it because of price. I'm importing it because of quality and [because] I can get it."
Scheurich said he has to buy from foreign companies because decades of consolidation in the domestic steel industry have left few U.S. mills producing the high-quality steel he requires. The limited amount of American steel he can obtain too often has obvious flaws, he said.
The president's 25 percent import tax will effectively cut Scheurich off from his steel suppliers and starve his business. CNC's customers will buy their parts from manufacturers outside the United States rather than absorb his higher costs, he said.
"If they would give me options about where to go domestically — no problem!" he said. "I don't think they understand. I got nowhere else to go."
CNC is among scores of U.S. companies that depend upon foreign steel mills for specialized products they cannot obtain — or cannot obtain in sufficient quantities — at home. In the weeks ahead, they all will be lining up at the Commerce Department to seek relief from the president's new trade barriers.
To endure a bearing's wear and tear inside a construction vehicle, wind turbine or even a dental drill requires specific materials. The bars, tubings and forgings Scheurich uses to produce his components are made of a specialized steel bolstered, or alloyed, with elements such as nickel or chromium to enhance their strength and corrosion resistance.
As the domestic steelmaking industry has shrunk to a smaller number of companies, such specialized production has gotten squeezed. Only 7 percent of U.S. production is of alloy or stainless steel, according to Platts, a market research firm.
Oil pipeline companies, which need special gathering lines, casings and tubing made of alloy steel, have no choice but to look overseas. according to John Stoody, vice president of the Association of Oil Pipe Lines.
"Higher production costs for a niche market subject to cyclical swings in the oil sector led U.S. producers to shift to more higher-volume and reliable products and markets," Stoody said via email.
The U.S. migration away from such specialized production has been spurred by intense import competition. The United States last year imported more than 6.3 million tons of steel alloy products, up nearly 75 percent since 2002, according to the Commerce Department. That is a far faster rate than steel imports overall, which rose 16 percent during the same period to 34 million tons.
Even as U.S. demand for such products has grown, the number of specialty steel producers in the United States has dropped by half since the 1970s, Denny Oates, chairman of an industry trade group, testified in a Commerce Department investigation last year. The industry blames dumping by foreign producers, especially from China.
"These producers have suffered from the problems of competition with subsidized and dumped imports, abetted by excess capacity abroad," said Ron Lorentzen, a former Commerce Department trade official.
In November, the Commerce Department concluded that companies from Russia, Belarus and the United Arab Emirates were guilty of dumping carbon and alloy wire rods in the United States and assessed duties that exceeded 400 percent on some products.
Over his three decades at CNC's helm, Scheurich has adapted to competitive challenges.
In the late 1990s, Scheurich bought about half of his annual steel needs from U.S. mills. But today, he can obtain from U.S. mills only about 2 percent of his $10 million in annual steel purchases.
The quality of the domestic steel that Scheurich can acquire is often disappointing. Showing a visitor around his 50,000-square-foot factory, Scheurich points out the differences between immaculate steel forgings from Japan and an American alternative.
"Look at this!" he says, pointing to visible imperfections in the surface of the U.S. product.
Along with foreign materials, Scheurich relies upon foreign technology to produce his customized parts. A new $1.5 million Japanese automated machine tool turns generic steel bars into precision-crafted parts. A $275,000 robot is on order. Scheurich said he tries to replace his equipment every four or five years, to keep abreast of technology — something he says U.S. steel producers have failed to do.
Developing CNC's border-straddling supply lines took time and was not without headaches. Scheurich's customers require him to use certain mills, and securing approval for a new one involves a cumbersome process that lasts at least six months.
He nurtured ties with his Swedish suppliers on annual moose-hunting excursions and forged relationships with Japanese executives over endless rounds of golf. When he first turned to Japanese mills, his father, Raymond, who fought in the Pacific during World War II, stopped talking to him for a time.
Concern over the tariffs' impact is evident on the factory floor, where workers average hourly wages of $16 to $20. Some wonder about the cost of the president's effort to boost employment at steel mills and aluminum smelters.
"I can kind of see what they're trying to do — make more jobs," said Bobby Beyer, 21, a machine operator. "But at the same time, it's also taking jobs away from other people."
Across the floor, machinist Michael Elabed, 27, gestured toward his bosses and said, "If it hurts these guys, it hurts me."
As the tariff imbroglio flared over the previous week, Scheurich found himself monitoring events in Washington, including Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven's visit to the White House. Trump used the occasion to reassure his guest that he would impose the tariffs in "a very loving way."
In his announcement, the president invited U.S. trading partners to haggle over whether they could find other ways to address U.S. security worries other than paying the new import taxes. He also set in motion a bureaucratic process that could determine whether CNC Machine Products lives or dies.
The company's fortunes rest upon one paragraph in the proclamation the president signed Thursday, authorizing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to establish a process for excluding from the tariffs any steel products "determined not to be produced in the United States in a sufficient and reasonably available amount or of a satisfactory quality."
The Commerce Department has until Sunday to determine how to adjudicate exclusion requests. In 2002, the last time the United States imposed tariffs on imported steel, a similar process was established four months before the tariffs went into effect. President George W. Bush included the first group of exempted products in the tariff proclamation, allowing Scheurich's production to proceed without interruption.
Today, he has enough inventory to cover the next few months, though less than he would like. He suspects his next shipment from Japan, due Thursday, will be smaller than usual.
"It's a bump in the road, but it's a big one," Scheurich, standing in his factory, said of the tariffs. "If I can't figure something out, we could close her down."
Scheurich and many of his employees voted for Trump and remain supporters. He even likes the idea of tariffs, just targeted more narrowly at China. The president's policies have aided the company, which booked about $22 million in revenue last year, he said.
Now, along with his son, Jeff, the company's vice president for manufacturing, Scheurich is banking on the notion that the tariffs are just the visible element of a presidential negotiating strategy.
"I'm hoping there's something behind it, which I think there is," said Jeff, alluding to Trump's self-image as a master negotiator.
"We're hoping," Scheurich said.
"We're hoping," his son repeated.


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I could make a big batch of pimiento cheese and fruit salad on Sunday and eat pimiento cheese sandwiches and fruit for lunch every day. I don't find that delicious food becomes less delicious after I've had one serving of it. But my family isn't crazy about repetition, and unfortunately that goes for leftovers as well. Luckily, I don't mind reinventing leftovers as star players in the next day's lunch. Chicken salad (especially this version with smoked chicken) is a favorite with the adults. I'm convinced the kids will come around at some point, but for now, they get a smoked chicken and cheddar grilled cheese sammie instead.
Smoked Chicken Salad shown here, open-faced, on soft white sandwich bread
- 1 C mayonnaise
- ¼ C Dijon
- 3 T chile garlic sauce
- ¼ C soy sauce
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1 C grated Parmesan
- 4 C pulled chicken
- 4 hard-boiled eggs,* diced
- 1 bunch scallions, sliced (about a cup)**
- Salt, tt
- Pepper, tt
In a large bowl, whisk together first 6 ingredients.
Stir in next 3 ingredients. (If you have smoked chicken on hand, use that. If not, plain ole roasted chicken or rotisserie chicken will do just fine.) Taste for seasoning, then add salt and pepper as desired.
This is great as a sandwich, but it works well in a tortilla wrap, in a lettuce wrap, stuffed into a pita, or even as a dip with hefty crackers. Enjoy!
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There are about 18 methods to create perfect hard-boiled eggs and most of them work. But in the end, you've gotta pick one. Here's how I do it:
In a medium saucepan, cover old cold eggs with cold water by about an inch and add plenty of salt. (Old eggs are easier to peel. Using lots of salt in the boiling water makes them easier to peel.) Bring to a boil, cover, turn off heat and set aside for 12 minutes.
Pour off hot water, then cool under a trickle of cold water for 5 minutes. Crack and peel, holding the eggs under water and using a spoon to free the egg from the shell when necessary.
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The Kremlin earlier denied the searches were retribution for revelations about people close to President Vladimir Putin that were published by a newspaper controlled by Prokhorov.
The searches of the offices of Onexim, which manages Prokhorov's assets, were conducted together with the tax service as part of a criminal investigation related to Tavrichesky Bank in St. Petersburg, the Federal Security Service said on Friday.
A year ago, the central bank selected IFC bank (International Financial Club), in which Onexim has a stake, to rescue Tavrichesky Bank and granted a 10-year loan of 28 billion roubles ($422 million) to Tavrichesky for the procedure. Tavrichesky is supposed to merge with IFC Bank in 2022, the Central bank has said.
Onexim and IFC bank, which was one of the Onexim's businesses at which searches were conducted, were not available for immediate comment on Friday evening.
The Federal Security Service said it had obtained data on tax law violations at "a number of commercial structures" after the searches and handed over the documentation to specialists for further investigation.
The Service did not say whether these unnamed commercial structures were part of Onexim and did not say how the rescue programme could be related to tax violations. It is also not clear which criminal investigation the service means.
RBK newspaper, controlled by Prokhorov, has in the past few weeks published reports about the commercial interests of Putin's son-in-law, and about associates of Putin implicated in the "Panama Papers" leaks about offshore assets.
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Walk south from Broadway on Fourth Avenue and you'll find it—a sprawling red brick warehouse built in 1936 as a Coca-Cola bottling plant. Groups of four and five people cluster in the courtyard outside. Twinkle lights cast warm orbs of light. A disc whooshes across a shuffleboard. Misters release a stream of cool fog—"Actually, we've gone back and forth on that one," says Chris Squires, the builder behind this dreamscape and the cofounder of Ten 55 Brewing. "Probably no misters." No misters. Instead, patrons press cold pints to warm foreheads while they await orders of house-made artisanal sausage—"Probably not at first, but we plan to pack our own sausages within the first year or two," says Squires. Inside the exposed-brick warehouse, below vaulted wood ceilings, bartenders pull taps and fill pint glasses with beer fermented 50 feet away.
Squires stops and looks around the empty 11,000-square-foot warehouse. Today, there are no taps, no fermentation tanks or chattering patrons. There's only the vision that Squires and John Paul Vyborny, Ten 55's cofounder and head brewer, have for this space and for the brewery they founded four years ago.
They just have to raise $1,999,363 before they can build it.
A month before Squires had walked me through the quiet warehouse—which is still on the market—I'd sat with him in two camp chairs crammed in the back of their tiny brewery in an industrial park near South Dodge Boulevard. "The crux of it is that we are constrained by capacity," says Squires. "Demand has outpaced our ability to produce supply." So, half an hour later, I signed a contract authorizing the purchase of 500 Series A Preferred Membership Units issued by Ten 55 Brewpub LLC. And just like that—quicker than I could finish my pint of cherry-infused XOXO Coffee Stout—I became an investor.
Ten 55 is the first and only company in Arizona to utilize an intrastate crowdfunding exemption to fund an investment offering. Passed in April of 2015, H.B. 2591 allows companies to raise up to $2.5 million in equity capital through crowdfunding.
"This is the strangest subject to most people. You can go online and raise money for your church group, or to launch a project. But as a general rule, you're not allowed to sell shares of stock in a company," says Jonathan Frutkin, the founder of the Phoenix-based Frutkin Law Firm and the author of Equity Crowdfunding. "That surprises people."
That's been true since 1933, when the United States passed the Securities Act, the first major federal legislation to regulate the offer and sale of securities. (A security is an intangible investment, like a stock or bond.) The logic behind this regulation is obvious—to protect the public from investing in shady offerings and losing all their money. Companies that sell on global exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange are subject to strict regulation and accountability standards. But for a small business—a local brewery, say, or a hair salon—the legal fees and paperwork required to register an investment offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are cost- and labor-prohibitive.
The SEC has long offered regulatory exemptions with these very small businesses in mind. Each exemption comes with its own set of rules—namely, how much money a company can raise, and how and to whom they can advertise the offering. Most of these offerings are accessible only to accredited investors—that is, someone with an annual income of at least $200,000 for a single person or $300,000 for a married person, or a net worth of more than $1 million. The U.S. House of Representatives recently included as accredited those investors who pass certain "measures of sophistication" in their financial knowledge.
Basically, to be an accredited investor—to have access to most of the investment offerings in the United States—you have to have money to lose or the knowledge to lose it smartly.
Most of us are nonaccredited investors. My net worth hovers somewhere around the sticker price of a new Subaru Outback; my business credentials include an E-Trade account and a dog-eared copy of Suze Orman's The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke. People like me are mostly excluded from investing in anything except the stock market—no matter how we might feel about sending all our savings to Wall Street.
In 2012, President Obama passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which included a provision to allow equity crowdfunding, or the sale of securities to nonaccredited investors through a publicly solicited crowdfunding campaign. When the rule-writing required by this new legislation stalled, states took matters into their own hands and passed intrastate exemptions.
"We thought it was a very unique idea to allow these smaller companies, or even bigger companies, to be able to get funding and not go into debt right away," says Arizona Representative Jeff Weninger, who introduced Arizona's equity crowdfunding law. He says that the current investment structure is elitist: "They're basically saying, let the big boys handle this; you just sit there and you can invest in stock, but you're not sophisticated enough to invest in this"— to invest in your own community. Under the law, businesses can only accept money from Arizona residents. "This is a huge buy-local program," says Weninger. "You're being forced to stay within the state and invest in companies in the state. We're growing companies here."
Squires and Vyborny always knew they wanted to brew big. They were both working business jobs—Vyborny in I.T., Squires in corporate recruiting—when they caught the homebrewing bug. In 2011, Vyborny and his cousin entered a Double IPA in the Oktoberfest Homebrew Challenge. Out of 87 entries, their beer won first place. Although they'd been brewing together for years, "It was the first time that other people also said, 'Whoa, that's good beer,'" says Vyborny. "Once that happened, we were like, 'Let's go.'"
Squires and Vyborny traveled around the western United States looking at other breweries and comparing concepts. They knew they wanted to build a large production facility with the capacity to distribute beer across the state, but they soon realized that they also wanted to build a gathering spot in downtown Tucson. "When you're at a brewery, you're drinking beer," says Squires. "Which makes you want to talk to people. And your friends and neighbors are the people there with you. Breweries fill this unique role that I think the community has an interest in supporting. There is a social value outside of the purely economic value."
In 2012, they rented a small space in an industrial park and started churning out beer. This small startup was intended to be a proof of concept, a way for Squires and Vyborny to gain valuable experience and expertise. It was quickly proved. "Almost immediately, within six months or a year, we were working this poor little three-barrel system harder than it was designed to do," says Squires.
They were debating how to capitalize their expansion when Squires went to a craft brewing conference in Portland and learned about equity crowdfunding. "We liked the idea of raising money in our own backyard," he says. "The people that stand to gain the most from having a brewery downtown are our most likely investors."
To some extent, they've been a crowdsourced brewery from the beginning, starting with that first Double IPA. "I have a lot of friends who do research and development for us," says Vyborny. Their Betts' Brown Ale began when Vyborny's friend brought in a recipe he'd tested at home. They honed the recipe over four more rounds of home brewing; a year later, it's one of Ten 55's bestsellers. "There's no recipe I haven't tweaked in some way, but it's still important for us to incorporate others in our recipe development," says Vyborny. "Both on the small scale with homebrewers and friends and family, and also on the large scale with collaborations with other breweries."
So as soon as Arizona passed its crowdfunding legislation, Squires and Vyborny jumped. They hired a lawyer, wrote a 132-page prospectus, and launched an online investment portal. They set the minimum investment at $10,000, which is also the maximum a nonaccredited investor can contribute. (They've offered numerous exceptions to this minimum, including to beer-loving reporters with $500 to spare.) If they raise less than $1.6 million—80 percent of the offering—all investors will have to reauthorize funds before the project can proceed.
By late August, they'd raised almost $950,000.
There have been two kinds of investor so far, says Squires. The first is already connected to Ten 55—to the beer and taproom, and to Squires and Vybrony. "They don't care about the financials," says Squires. "They know our beer, and they saw us going places. A lot of these investors just came in and handed me a check."
The investors that do dig into their financials find a small brewery breaking even or losing money. That's common for a company at their stage and scale, says Squires. "We were never going to make a lot of money at our size," he says. "We break even most of the time. Last year, on a balance sheet of $200,000, I think we lost five grand."
Instead, these investors ask, "Are we adding value to the marketplace?" says Squires. "And will we act in the best interest of the company?" In this sense, what most investors, accredited and nonaccredited alike, are assessing is Squires and Vyborny. "People are assessing J.P. and me before they look at any financial statement," says Squires. "Someone told me early on that people weren't going to invest in the plan. They were going to invest in us."
The criticism that's been leveled at equity crowdfunding is that it enables unsophisticated investors to sink their savings into risky and illiquid offerings. But if what Squires says is true, and that most investors simply want to know if they can trust the people behind a business, then what equity crowdfunding does is democratize access to community capital. Assessing trustworthiness is a skill most of us practice every day—except when it comes to investing our money. With new, localized options for investing, we can again decide whom to believe in, and to what extent. We can either see the vision, or not.
"What these community capital projects enable is shared expertise," says Squires. Someone in the final investor group might know a lot about media relations, while others might contribute project management skills or marketing expertise. "The group will learn together," says Squires. Investors are owners forever; we can sell our shares back to Squires and Vyborny after five years, but there's no buy-out clause in the offering. As Ten 55 grows, so do we.
"This concept of fundraising is not unique. The concept is the same as it's always been," says Squires. "Have a good idea, convince people it's a good idea, and find ways to prove it."
The idea is patio games, craft sausage, and a historic warehouse in a thriving downtown. But for Ten 55, the proof is in the glass. ✜
Ten 55 Brewing. Invest.1055Brewing.com.
Megan Kimble is the editor of Edible Baja Arizona and the author of Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food.


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Learning how to navigate the special education system can be difficult for any family, but it can be an even greater challenge for military families whose educational environments are constantly changing. Military OneSource offers tools and resources to help make things easier for you and your family. Start here to learn about the special education process, including:
Special education is specially designed instruction provided to meet unique needs of children with special needs, ages 3 through 21. Let's take a look at some of the basics.
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up a meeting with your child's teacher to discuss your concerns if you feel your child is having trouble reaching his or her educational goals.
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Children qualify for special education based on guidelines set by the state and Department of Defense.
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The U.S. Department of Education uses specific regulations that implement the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in public schools in the United States and its territories. States then create guidance to supplement these regulations. You can find state regulations on state education agency websites.
The Department of Defense school system operates under Department of Defense policy as outlined in Department of Defense Instruction 1342.12, "Implementation of Early Intervention and Special Education Services to Eligible DoD Dependents," June 17, 2015.
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Bring current copies of your child's IEP and eligibility records before transferring to start similar services immediately in your new location.
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The Department of Defense Education Activity special education website lists special education relocation suggestions and contacts for families moving overseas. Parents should contact the responsible special education coordinator if a child receiving special education also requires:
Young adults with disabilities can find a number of continuing education and work opportunities within their communities. You can help find these opportunities by calling your local state vocational rehabilitation program.
Understanding and navigating the special education process can be overwhelming, so make it as smooth as possible with these tips and resources.
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Austin Chiang, a gastroenterologist at Jefferson Health in Pennsylvania, was recently tapped to take on a new role at the health system: chief medical social media officer. It's a unique position that isn't common at many medical institutions across the country. Chiang talked with Healthcare Dive to explain more about the job and his vision for… Read More »


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The whole world will be watching from home (or wherever they end up with their mobile device) as they guys rock a full concert. While we're anxiously awaiting the new album here in the States, it's gotten a huge reaction already in Australia and the UK. From what we hear of it, it's pretty amazing. Check out The Temper Trap's Karate Kid-inspired video for the lead single "Need Your Love."
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NOTE: To commemorate the holidays, different Crave experts will be posting their top 10 gadget picks for the season. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's the latest installment.
When Caroline McCarthy isn't tracking Mark Zuckerberg's every move for CNET News.com, she enjoys reading great books (the paper kind, Amazon!) and finding fun new things to do in her home city of New York, which may or may not encompass karaoke and mechanical bulls. She believes that excessive glitter text on MySpace profiles is the root cause of global warming. Al Gore, are you listening?
10. Carbon offsets. Yes, I know it's true--purchasing carbon offsets absolutely doesn't count as a substitute for legitimate conservation measures like walking instead of driving or installing compact fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent ones. But this is what I'm getting for several relatives and friends this holiday, and it's also just a thoughtful gift in general if you're trying to keep consumption to a minimum. You can learn more at TerraPass or Carbonfund.
9. Design Within Reach's Airstream. Earlier this year, Design Within Reach created a chic, pimped-out version of the classic camper for "young modernists" like "rock-climbers, surfers, (and) dot-com guys." Since I totally fit into that niche (ha, ha) I'd love it if some kind soul would cough up $49,066 and get me one of these this holiday season. I'd come visit you!
8. Hello Kitty paper shredder. I need a paper shredder. You know, to get rid of all the correspondences I have with Vice President Cheney when he's in his latest 'undisclosed location,' and the cease-and-desist letters I get from Stephen Colbert's lawyers. (Stephen apparently doesn't understand the basic concept of "fate.") Having a Hello Kitty paper shredder would be just too hilarious. And out of all the Hello Kitty products out there, this one is--dare I say--borderline tasteful? I thought that would be impossible.
7. Wave Chaise. This is weird-looking and undoubtedly wouldn't fit in my apartment, but I don't care. It's cool and I want one. It's got a computer desk, a massive TV, and a large comfy area for reclining, so it really packs in the features for both work and fun time. It also is a design prototype that doesn't exist yet. Oops.
6. Planet Earth on DVD. I swear, the BBC uber-series Planet Earth is the new Dark Side of the Moon. I haven't actually seen it yet, but everyone tells me stuff like "Dude, turn the lights down really low, and get some mind-altering substances, and put those DVDs on." We here at Crave absolutely do not advocate the use of mind-altering substances in any form whatsoever, but Planet Earth is still on my holiday wish list. It's also available on both HD DVD and Blu-ray, but I haven't chosen sides in that battle yet. Call me indecisive.
5. Clear Pass. If shucking over the cash (about $100/year to start) for one of these means that I could get a little bit of extra sleep before those early morning flights to San Francisco in order to
annoy spend time with my lovely West Coast colleagues, I'm willing to take the plunge.
4. DeLonghi Retro Panini Grill. I really need to stop ordering pizza so much, so I'd ideally like to stock my kitchen with some gadgets that will help me make tasty food without too much hassle. Like this panini grill, which kind of looks like a spaceship.
2. The coolest bar ever. Right now, my apartment's "bar" consists of a few bottles stashed on top of our fridge. But this holiday season, I'd like to turn things up a notch. Namely, I would like to have a beautiful bar made of brushed steel (it'll match my Mac laptop!) with both a sink and bottle cooler built right in. And on the front, there are luminescent panels that make it look downright fantastic--yeah, unfortunately, it's $7,365. What can I say? I'm like Steve Jobs. I like beautiful things. On that note, I'd also like a
1. A penguin. I really would like to have a sweet little penguin whom I could keep in my bathtub and walk on a leash when it was snowy outside, and maybe we could eat anchovy pizza together, but I've been wishing for that every holiday since I was three years old and I figure it's about time to give up. Fortunately, there are lots of cool ways to help protect real penguins in the wild, which I suppose is the next best thing. Web sites like ChangingThePresent.org will allow you to donate in a friend's name in lieu of a traditional holiday gift, and one of the things you can do is help penguins. You can also help cute bunnies and piglets. Awww!


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The former family relationship between the Upgraded Original Vampire, Marcel Gerard, and the witch, Freya Mikaelson.
Despite not interacting much throughout the second and third seasons of The Originals, they appeared to be platonic with one another and were allies being they were both a part of the Mikaelson family. However, when Freya, along with Elijah Mikaelson, led the plan to use Davina Claire's spirit in order to kill Lucien Castle, this effectively ends Freya's friendship with Marcel. Also, this sparks Marcel plans to try and destroy the Mikaelson family after Elijah helps enact the serum within Marcel to turn into an Upgraded Original Vampire. Freya desperately tried to thwart Marcel's plans from succeeding in destroying the Mikaelson family by throwing herself and her siblings into a temporary slumber so that Hayley Marshall-Kenner could help the rest of the Mikaelson family be cured of Marcel's wrath.
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In Exquisite Corpse, Marcel worked with Freya to rid Rebekah Mikaelson's new host body of the powerful, vengeful witch, Eva Sinclair. They were successful; Rebekah now has complete ownership of Eva's body.
In Ashes to Ashes, they ally to stop Dahlia once and for all. During this time, Freya attempts to kill Marcel, but eventually stops because she wants to be a part of the Mikaelson family. They win against Dahlia's rage eventually.
In You Hung the Moon, Marcel and Freya converse about the best clubs in New Orleans. They appear closer in friendship at this point in the series and no longer enemies/frenemies.
In Beautiful Mistake, they allied together to infiltrate the Strix, which worked out in the end.
In Where Nothing Stays Buried, Freya and the rest of the Mikaelson Family (except Kol) betray Marcel by using Davina Claire in a spell, which ultimately killed Davina. Marcel blames Freya and the rest of the Mikaelsons for Davina's demise. This episode marks the end of Freya and Marcel's alliance and familial relationship. This episode also sparks Marcel's revenge plan against Freya and the rest of the Mikaelson family.
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In Haunter of Ruins, they do not have any direct interaction with each other, however, Freya believes that Marcel will still come after her family, despite the fact that he chose to show them mercy, as she is still using Keelin to make an endless supply of antivenom for the Upgraded Original Vampire's venom, believing he may have given his followers his venom to be used against her siblings, later, she realizes the only way to cure the symptoms is to destroy the source; as she wants Keelin to help her find a way to permanently kill Marcel.
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- Marcel and Freya considered each other family.
- They helped each other look for both the White Oak Stake and Esther's ashes.
- She once almost killed him; she was about to kill Klaus which, in turn, would of killed Marcel as well. She then stated that she didn't want to kill Marcel or Klaus.
- Freya cast a spell to send Marcel and Vincent into Rebekah's mind to save her from Eva Sinclair.
- Marcel healed her after the Strix's attacked and stabbed her.
- In Where Nothing Stays Buried, him and the entire Mikaelson family become enemies, after Freya (and Elijah) betray him and sabatoge his only way of resurrecting Davina, in order to kill Lucien.
- Marcel : "Look who got lucky!"
- Freya : "Either you have a curious definition of luck, or someone got to those ashes before we did."
- Marcel : "Freya, we can find another way!"
- Freya : "I'm sorry, but I see no other way."
- Marcel : "No! No! No! You kill him, you kill me, too!"
- Freya : "I don't want to kill you!"
- Marcel : "Need a break from the family drama?"
- Freya : "Thank you! Mmm! See, I've been trying to get my brothers to mend fences, but Elijah remains bitter, and Klaus remains obstinate. Thus, tequila!"
- Marcel : "Thing is, it's almost midnight."
- Freya : "Well, I'm not wearing glass slippers...Do you have to turn the best club in town into your personal blood bank?"
- Marcel : "We feed on tourists, compel them to forget, locals turn a blind eye. That's how NOLA works. Has been for a long time. So, unless you want to become an appetizer--"
- Freya : "--Pass!"


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Poland's religious education battleground: the 'Secular School' initiative and other issues with religious education
By Katarzyna Zielińska and Ben Koschalka
By the time they graduate from school, the average Polish student will have taken almost twice as many hours of Catholic catechesis classes as of biology, chemistry and physics combined. These religion lessons are funded by the state, at an estimated cost of around 1.2bn zloty a year. This is something that the 'Secular School' (Świecka Szkoła) initiative hopes to change, and this week it declared success in its effort to secure 100,000 signatures in support of an amendment to the relevant legislation. Yet, with a conservative government likely to be elected this month, and a Polish population keen for religion to play a visible role in public life, Poland's secularists face an uphill struggle. In a guest blog, Katarzyna Zielińska and Ben Koschalka discuss the Secular School project, as well as broader questions regarding the presence of religion in Poland's eduction system.
On a baking hot first day of September this year, a new intake of Polish six-year-olds set off for their first day at school in their crisp best clothes, many of them heading for mass first. But what can they expect to learn in their school careers? The top four subjects in terms of hours, according to a 2013 Polityka article, are mathematics, Polish, a foreign language, and religious education. The average pupil will take almost 860 hours of catechesis, compared to just 160 each of biology, chemistry or physics. This is a status quo that is taken for granted by many parents. Increasingly, though, questions are being asked not just about the volume, content and form, but also about how this instruction is funded.
As the month wore on, the temperature became more autumnal but the rhetoric heated up in readiness for the October general elections; meanwhile, the organisers of the Secular School (Świecka Szkoła) initiative were redoubling their efforts. Their target was a hundred thousand citizens. A small drop in the ocean of Poland's population, perhaps; but assembling the signatures (in ink, not online) of this number of people, the minimum required for a civic legislative initiative to be lodged for debate in parliament, is certainly a major undertaking. Justifiably, then, it was with some satisfaction that the initiative's organisers revealed that they had reached that magic number (with the postbags still continuing to arrive) days before their September 30 deadline. While there is a good chance, especially given the likely victory of the conservative Law and Justice party in the forthcoming election, that proposed legislation will subsequently find itself cryogenically frozen, the very process of collecting signatures has again brought the issue of state financing of religious instruction in schools firmly onto the table. The media coverage it has attracted has reignited debate on the topic, both deepening and straddling the usual cleavages in Polish society.
A "citizen's bill", or civic legislative initiative, is one of the tools of direct democracy guaranteed by the Polish constitution. To launch such an initiative, a committee numbering at least 15 Polish citizens must first be appointed on the basis of 1000 signatures. This committee then drafts a proposed bill or amendment and sets about the task of collecting the 99,000 further signatures required for it to be presented to the Marshal of the Sejm, the lower house of parliament (which Secular School will do on 5 October). In recent years, such initiatives have led to legislative action on both sides of the political spectrum, with the attempted introduction of gender parity measures and tightening of abortion laws being two prominent examples.
The Secular School initiative is the brainchild of Liberté magazine, and particularly its editor Leszek Jażdżewski, as well as Katarzyna Lubnauer, a candidate for the new Modern (Nowoczesna) party in the October elections, whose article "High time to get religion out of schools" was its direct inspiration. The actual initiative tones down her assertion a little, with the organisers at pains to point out that they are not anti-religion per se, but would like to see a change to the system that sees almost 1.4 billion zloty annually spent from the state budget on (mostly Roman Catholic) religious instruction. They argue that this money could be better spent elsewhere, citing the examples of additional foreign-language teaching, IT labs and support for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Secular School proposes an amendment to Article 12 of the 1991 Law on the Education System, which states, "Public pre-schools, primary schools and lower-secondary schools organise teaching of religion at the request of parents, and public upper-secondary schools at the request of pupils themselves". The initiative would add that "the costs involved in organising teaching of religion may not be partially or fully met from public funds," and that the Minister of Education, in conjunction with the relevant Churches, is responsible for determining the way in which costs are covered and accounted for.
Of course, state-funded religious education is by no means confined to Poland. Religion classes of various kinds are found in curricula throughout Europe. It is interesting to note, in fact, that in Western European countries we can witness post-secularist claims for the return of religion to the public sphere. Poland, on the other hand, is at a different point: there is a rising tide of demands for greater secularity and removal of religion from the public sphere. The issue of funding of religious education from public money provides a good starting point for looking at other controversies associated with religious education in the public sphere in the country. Several issues are particularly problematic.
The first of these is itself a strong argument for the aims of the Secular School initiative. Owing to the denominational character of religious education, in practice it is the only school subject over which the state does not have any control in terms of the curriculum and the personnel entrusted to teach it. The content of classes and way they are taught must be approved by the local religious authority of the relevant religious organisation, with the state authorities being informed only later. Furthermore, instructors, having fulfilled the required education and/or training, must be approved by the religious authorities in question – only then may they be employed by school/pre-school authorities. Of course, Poland's mono-religious landscape makes the Roman Catholic Church the main beneficiary and executor of these regulations. Having said that, we should remember that those minority religions which are entitled to organise religious education in schools often also benefit (especially in the areas where religious minorities are concentrated), and would be similarly affected by any changes in funding regulations. Interestingly, however, a Polish Protestant magazine has lent its support to the Secular School initiative.
The second big question is the available alternatives. What do pupils who choose (or whose parents choose for them) not to attend religion classes do in those hours? By law, they are entitled to take a voluntary class in ethics. However, in practice the numbers of pupils interested in studying ethics has tended to be small: 98% of primary school pupils attend religion classes, for example. As a result, schools have failed to offer this option. The new ordinance of the Ministry of Education from 2014 (the result of a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which viewed the lack of access to ethics courses in Polish schools as an infringement of the freedom of belief and prohibition of discrimination) states that such education should be organised for each pupil. To make this possible, classes may be taught to groups containing pupils from various year groups, or even schools. According to newspaper and NGO reports, however, owing to organisational constraints and the small number of pupils interested in ethics, what usually happens is that religious instruction is given in the middle of the day, with non-attenders not offered alternative lessons in ethics. Instead, ethics classes are on offer at different times (often as the last hour in school or early in the morning), making them the preserve of determined or desperate students and their parents.
The third issue, again related, is that of the certificates awarded at the end of the school year, on which, to date, grades for religion (or ethics) have been included. Any students opting not to attend religion class and unable or unwilling to take ethics instead are thus left with a blank, which de facto could be read as an indication of their religious beliefs and convictions. This might infringe a citizen's constitutional right not to reveal his or her convictions, or could serve as the basis for discrimination (such was the case with the grievance to the European Court of Human Rights mentioned above).
Finally, NGO reports have highlighted the overwhelming presence and promotion of Roman Catholicism in public, secular schools. Religious celebrations serve as a framework for the important moments and rites in a child's education, such as the beginning and end of the school year. Religious services are organised during class time, with celebrations being centred on Catholic symbols and patrons. Classrooms often have a Christian cross hung permanently on the front wall. Some argue that the conditions this creates are disadvantageous, or even discriminatory, for children of other faiths and those not adhering to any religion.
Yet, while the prominence of religion in Polish schools may cause concern for secular activists, amongst ordinary Poles – among the most religious people in the EU, for whom the Catholic Church remains an important and respected institution – the issue is relatively uncontroversial. Recent polling data suggests that 82% of Poles have no problem with the teaching of religion in schools, while 88% don't mind crosses being displayed in public buildings. These numbers have been consistently high in recent years. There does appear, however, to be greater concern over who foots the bill: another poll published this year found that only 16% think religion classes should be paid for by the state (as they currently are) while 62% favour churches themselves picking up the tab. Moreover, a large number of Poles reject direct interventions of religious authorities into the social and political spheres. According to recent polling data, the majority of respondents are against the Church expressing opinions on legislation and some 84% are opposed to priests telling people how to vote.
This all suggests that those behind the Secular School initiative have judged their approach well: not demanding the end of religious teaching in schools outright, but instead calling for it to no longer be funded by taxpayers. The drop in the ocean made by their efforts might bring only a ripple on the political scene, rather than making major waves, but they have certainly raised awareness of the issues involved and got people talking about them. And at some point, the signatures of those 100,000 citizens might have an impact on the way that the education of those smartly dressed six-year-olds is organised and, above all, paid for.
Katarzyna Zielińska is a sociologist at the Jagiellonian University, specialising in issues of religion and gender.
Ben Koschalka is a British translator based in Krakow.


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