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I started to volunteer with Girlguiding in 2009 as I thought it would be better to have a second volunteer experience on my university application. I had so much fun as a brownie when I was a child that I decided to contact my old Brown Owl and help out at my old pack. After a few weeks, when they realised I was serious about volunteering, they decided I needed to be assigned a Brownie name. There is a story we tell the Brownies that explains why they are called Brownies and why we have a Brown Owl. However other leaders can be named after an animal.
I was quite excited about getting a Brownie name as that meant I was officially one of the team. As a naive 17-year-old, I thought it would be nice to let the Brownies decide my Brownie name. They had chosen previous leaders names and had given them all awesome animal names such as dolphin and penguin. I thought I was in safe hands. I soon regretted my decision when I heard some of the suggestions! I knew that if the girls spotted me in town they wouldn't remember my real name and I didn't fancy being referred to as snake, mongoose or cockroach either in a meeting or in the centre of town! I think the girls soon got to a stage where they were trying to out-weird each other with animal names. I mean what even is a Katydid? (Apparently, it's similar to a cricket).
So when the name otter was suggested I perked up a bit. Maybe all hope was not lost! When it went to a vote even I voted for otter and happily it won (although as if was my favourite I think the leaders would have let me be otter even If it didn't win). So from that day, I was referred to as otter and although sometimes I get strange looks when A brownie sees me in town and shouts out "hi otter" at least it's not as bad as it could have been.


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You've probably seen the ads and headlines about billions of dollars in lost money held by governments. Unlike most reports promising free money, there's a lot of truth in these reports. Some of the money might be yours or a loved one's.
Even better, you don't have to pay someone to find the money and return it. Most of the time, it's easy to locate the lost wealth and regain title to it. But a few types of assets require a little more work. I learned a lot about this process over the last year or so when straightening out my dad's finances.
Money and assets are most likely to have been lost when you moved. Often, a payment isn't forwarded to you and is returned to the payer. Other times, the postal service simply loses a payment, or an electronic deposit isn't made because the account was closed or a number was entered incorrectly. The payer usually will make efforts to locate you, but not always. Either way, after a period of time most established firms classify the money as unclaimed property and turn it over to the state of your last known address. The state will hold it as a guardian until you claim it.
Another common way money is lost, especially by seniors, is inertia and inactivity. Generally, if a firm holds assets for you and hasn't heard from you or seen any activity in the account for a period of time, it will consider classifying the assets as unclaimed property.
Some states have rigorous rules. Florida, for example, requires that if a business hasn't seen any activity or had contact with you for one to five years (depending on the type of property), the property is considered abandoned and has to be turned over to the state after efforts are made to reach you. Most firms make their efforts by sending a letter stating that if they don't hear from you by a certain date, the property will be turned over to the state.
These processes of identifying property as unclaimed and turning it over to the state are known as escheatment, and the property is an escheated asset. But the most common term used today is unclaimed property. It's sometimes called abandoned property. The state holds the unclaimed property until you file a claim and prove your identity. Then, it is returned to you. But you won't receive any income earned by the property while the state held it. The state uses the income.
These days the claiming process is online and is fairly easy for most states. It should take only an hour or so for most people to locate any unclaimed property and apply for its recovery.
To claim property, you need a list of the states in which you've lived and, preferably, your addresses in each state. In the search box on your favorite search engine, enter the name of the state and "unclaimed assets." For example: "Virginia unclaimed assets." You can enter "escheat" instead of "unclaimed assets."
One of the first listings should be a link to the unclaimed property office of the state treasurer or finance office. Click on that, and on the next page should be a link to a page for claiming property. Florida chose the catchy website address "www.fltreasurehunt.org."
From here, the states vary a little. Generally, you enter your first and last names and sometimes all or part of your Social Security number. Then click "search."
Some states have you click on addresses where you've lived before showing a list of assets they might be holding for you. Others will show a list of names similar to yours with relevant addresses and have you click on yours.
Once any unclaimed assets of yours are identified, most states require you to file a paper application to claim them. Most of the information can be entered into an online form. You print, sign and return it with proof of identity. Proof can include a photocopy of a driver's license or passport. The tricky part is many states require some proof you lived at the old address, such as a utility bill or other document with your name and the address. If you don't have such proof, an alternative process will take more time.
After you mail in the form and the proof, the state will process it and eventually send a check. Processing can take from 60 days to six months, depending on the state, the value of the assets and the proof you provide.
That's the process for most types of assets, but the process is different for employer retirement accounts, annuities and life insurance.
Retirement accounts are most likely to be unclaimed by someone who worked at a firm early in adulthood and forgot about earned retirement benefits or a 401(k) account that was left at the firm. The former employer also might have merged with other firms, disrupting its records, so it lost track of your address. Another possibility is the employer transferred the pension liability to an insurance company.
To locate a lost retirement account, you have to contact former employers. Have the details about when you worked at the employer, where you were located and what jobs you held. You might have to complete a papernform or enter information on the employer's website. The employer should be able to search its records, determine if you have an unclaimed retirement benefit or account and also let you know if an insurance company took over the retirement obligation.
For life insurance and annuities, you need to contact individual insurers with which you have or had a policy. You should have some paperwork from the insurer with basic information about the account.
In my Dad's case, we found unclaimed property in two states totaling over $20,000. My parents moved from Virginia to Florida, and then moved to a second location in Florida. Apparently, after each move some of their mail wasn't forwarded and the senders weren't given their new address. After a while, the firms decided the money was unclaimed and turned it over to the states. It sat there until I did a search and found it.
The claiming process for any of these assets can be more difficult for your executor after you pass away. Do yourself and your loved ones a favor by doing a search now and claiming any property being held for you.

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Oil Spill Threatens Native Land
The Yakama Nation of Southern Washington is concerned about an oil spill caused by a train that derailed last Friday. The overturned oil tankers leaked oil into the nearby Columbia River but the spill wasn't noticed until the following morning. The Yakama rely heavily upon the Columbia River for their livelihood and worry about the long-term effects this may cause.
Oil spills due to derailing trains have increased in previous years, and many people in Mosier, along with the Yakama, are fighting to avoid another incident like this. Read the full story here.
Native American Wills & Estates Confusing Even for Law Students
In a culture that shuns speaking about death or those previously deceased, the creation of a will can be complicated, but a team of law students is helping residents of the Crow Indian Reservation of Montana to work through the process. Law students studied the Crow culture prior to the workshops to better understand how to work with the Crow. Read the full story here.
While working through the will process, however, many of the Crow elders struggled. Not with cultural differences, but because of historical administrative confusion. Because the allotment of land to Native Americans was not uniform or always well documented, some people found acres of land they hadn't known they owned. Others found differing amounts based on different resources. Despite the confusion, most of the Crow members who took part in the workshop were happy with the outcome. Read the full article here.
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Another auction house is in the news, this one in Texas. A private owner is auctioning off over 100 Native artifacts and some tribes, namely the Sioux, are angry about a few items including Chief Red Cloud's pipe. As a reminder: it is illegal to sell Native American ceremonial artifacts or any items attained illegally. The private owner claims all of these items are legal, but people still want to see it shut down. Read the full article here. The items are currently on the auction house website, scheduled to close tomorrow morning.
Oren Lyons (Onondaga) is scheduled to speak today at Muhammad Ali's memorial service. Lyons has been a strong voice for Native American rights since the 1970s. He met Ali at the end of the "Longest Walk," a 3,600-mile walk from San Francisco to Washington D.C. to raise awareness for Native Rights. Read the full story here.
State lawmakers in Alaska, Alaska Native or not, are turning Casual Friday into Native Friday. As a nod to the nearly 20% of the population that is Alaska Native, lawmakers, clerks, and pages now wear the traditional kuspuk into sessions on Fridays. Read the full article here.
Sanilac Petroglyphs State Park in Cass City, Michigan is taking steps to better preserve and share the knowledge of the ancient petroglyphs of the Great Lakes Native American tribes. In the future: new railings, educational signage (in English and Anishinabemowin, the native word for the Chippewa language), and a scan of the stones to preserve them as they are, Read the full article here.


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I mentioned in my last post that I've been reading Barbara Johnson's book "Pack Up Your Gloomees in a Great Big Box and Sit on the Lid and Laugh". Mrs. Johnson has lost two sons--one in Viet Nam, one in a car accident. Her third son disowned his family and faith, changed his name, and disappeared into the gay lifestyle for 11 years (he has since returned to the Lord). She knows a little bit about suffering and hard times! She has a paragraph in her book titled "Suffering Is Like Baking a Cake", and I'd like to quote it here:
"I like to compare suffering to making a cake. No one sits down, gets out a box of baking powder, eats a big spoonful, and says, "Hmmmm, that's good!" And you don't do that with a spoonful of shortening or raw eggs or flour, either. The tribulation and suffering in our lives can be compared with swallowing a spoonful of baking powder or shortening. By themselves these things are distasteful and they turn your stomach. But God takes all of these ingredients, stirs them up, and puts them in His own special oven. He knows just how long to let the cake bake; sometimes it stays in God's oven for YEARS. We get impatient and want to open the oven, thinking Surely the cake must be done by now. But not yet, no not yet. What really matters is that the cake is BAKING and the marvelous aroma is filling the house.
I find that people who trust God with their suffering have an invisible something, like the invisible aroma of a freshly baked cake, that draws people to them. As Paul put it, "all things [all the ingredients of pain and suffering] work together for good to them that love God" (Rom. 8:28).
When we believe that nothing comes to us except through our Heavenly Father, then suffering begins to make a little sense to us--not much, I admit, but a little bit, and that's all God needs to work in our lives, just a mustard seed of faith. Then we can see that God is using our pain to work something in us that is redemptive. Every trial or broken relationship goes into God's oven and eventually we begin to "smell" like cake or fresh bread. Even our suffering counts for something!"
Isn't that good? It's great to know that God can take our suffering and our hard times and make something beautiful of them!
We will be sharing the story of our "cake baking" this Sunday evening at 6:00 at New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church in Benton...please pray that God will continue to use Hannah's story to draw people to Himself.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Suffering Is Like Baking A Cake
Written by The Sullivan Four at 5:46 PM
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- Maria Sullivan said...
Perfectly said! I love the part where she says that there is something invisible that draws people to those who are suffering, like the aroma of a cake! That is a perfect way to describe how people are drawn to ya'll and Hannah's story! I love reading your post! Love ya!
- July 10, 2009 at 10:41 PM
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SAN ANTONIO — A federal judge sentenced a former leader of the notorious Bandidos biker gang to two consecutive life terms and another 20 years in prison for directing a violent racketeering and drug trafficking enterprise.
John Portillo of San Antonio was sentenced Monday. The 59-year-old was the national vice-president of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization.
Jurors in May found Portillo and the group's president, Jeffrey Pike, guilty of directing gang members to commit murder, attempted murder, robbery, assault, intimidation, extortion and drug trafficking. Trial evidence revealed the pair's role in violent acts against rivals around the biker club's home turf of Texas.
The three-month federal trial also determined that Portillo was involved in trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine under an arrangement with the Texas Mexican Mafia.
A federal investigation of the leaders arose from the 2006 killing of Anthony Benesh, who was attempting to start a Texas Chapter of the Hells Angels and had ignored the Bandidos' warnings to cease recruitment. Evidence during trial revealed that Portillo and Pike ordered members to murder Benesh.
Jurors also found that Portillo was involved in the 2002 killing of Robert Lara to avenge for the death of a Bandidos member.
Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra gave Portillo two consecutive life sentences for racketeering murder. Ezra also handed down 10-year sentences on each of Portillo's two charges of using or discharging a gun in furtherance of racketeering.
Portillo was ordered to forfeit his motorcycle, three firearms and more than $17,800 seized from his home during a 2016 search.
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Kanye West's Acceptance Speech for 808 Award Is Unforgettably Weird — VIDEO
Award season can be hard. There are so many awards and so many ceremonies and not every celebrity can make it to every single one. That's why the world invented video acceptance speeches, for the celebrity who doesn't necessarily want to have to get out of bed to pick up another statue. Video acceptance speeches can be funny, they can be touching, and they can be short, but they're usually not very memorable. Leave it to Kanye West to fix that. When Kanye West and Rick Rubin prepared their acceptance speech for the Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award, they were in a unique position. In the first place, the award they were accepting wasn't even for them and, in the second place, why say thank you when you can make an experimental video?
The Disruptive Innovation Award was going to the Roland TR-808 drum machine which, according to the video "continues to be responsible for new music some thirty years after its release... and discontinuation". That's one of the few parts of the video that makes any sense. The sound is a mixture of foreign dubbing and snippets of West's Yeezus album while the images jump from Rubin and West's past interviews to scenes from the film version of Pink Floyd's The Wall and a bear climbing an endless flight of stairs. It makes just as much sense in context.
The piece was directed by Mark Romanek and it raises a lot more questions than it answers. For example, if West couldn't be there to accept the award in person, why didn't he just put together a song in the style of the 808 drum machine? Lorde released a remix of one of her songs when she had to cancel a leg of her tour and that's not a bad way for a musician to apologize for their absence. And what was wrong with the video acceptance speech standard? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Then again, it was an indie film festival. A little incomprehension is probably to be expected.
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'Economy is turning,' business marketer says
'Economy is turning,' business marketer says
When you step inside Allegra Marketing Print Mail's Columbia office, it's likely you'll be greeted by President Margaret DeBonis's dogs: A Pomeranian named Cleo and an Airedale Terrier named Winnie.
It's an easygoing setting, but there's serious power between that office and Allegra's O'Fallon branch. The locations have combined to win six monthly International Sales Growth Awards in the last 12 months. It's a big deal when Allegra's parent company — Alliance Franchise Brands — operates almost 600 marketing and visual communication offices in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
DeBonis said the success of her metro-east offices is tangible proof of something she's noticed at an anecdotal level: The economy that was brutally depressed when she opened the offices in 2009 now is finally improving.
Q: What does Allegra do?
A: "We are a full-service marketing and communications company. We focus on small- and mid-size businesses and non-profits that really need help with their marketing and getting their business going, whether it's launching new products or opening a new store or rewarding existing clients. When you go to different vendors for different services, your brand starts to dilute. What you've worked to build is just gone. So we can do it all here, in one location, regardless of the services. We always say if it has print on it, we can do it."
Q: Why is it important to maintain consistency, to make sure a brand isn't diluted?
A: "Take Nike. We see the swoosh going one way. You don't see it in a circle. You just look at it and you know Nike. You look at the golden arches and you see McDonald's, and they're always gold. They're never pink, they're never green. When you market a business, people have to hear about you, they have to read about you, and they have to see you. If you confuse people, people won't buy your product. It's trust; it's relationship."
Q: What's your strategy when meeting with clients who want to market?
A: "We ask them the important question: Who is your best customer? Not just any customer —anyone could be your customer— but who is your best customer? And how do you reach your best customer? What age are they? What do they like? Where do they go? That's always the key to a successful marketing plan, identifying your best customer. Then you start your advertising plan. We want people to step back, stop placing random ads. Clients are in business doing what they do best, that's what they should be doing. Marketing is a whole different area of expertise, so that's why I think that's why we add value and that's why we're growing."
Q: To what do you attribute Allegra's recent success, including these recent sales awards?
A: "I don't think we've been doing anything different. We've always tried to offer quality service at a competitive price. I think the economy is turning. We see it. My husband (Jerry DeBonis) and I run this business, and we can see it improving. Is it totally around the corner? No. But what we joke about, people are peeking. They're definitely peeking around the corner. We're seeing much more confidence in our existing customers; and we're getting a lot of new customers just coming in now and saying, 'Hey, I have to market my business and I need this and I need this and I need this.' For a couple years, you just didn't see that. Ironically, when business slows down, people do less marketing, and they should do the opposite. Because their competitors aren't (marketing). They're the only ones out there with the message. So we just actually think the economy is finally improving."
Q: Obviously, that must encourage you.
A: "Definitely. I just had one customer who wants us to do some work for her and she said the other day, 'I just got an increase on my Visa limit, we can do this now.' Well, why did Visa increase her limit? Because she has more business. It's great when clients are coming in and saying they're doing well, they want to do more. It's very exciting."
Q: Economic growth in O'Fallon helped the Allegra branch there perform so well. Do you foresee Columbia being in a similar position as O'Fallon in the future?
A: "The leadership in Columbia is open. We're sort of a bedroom community. There had been a fair amount of resistance to industry. I think like every bedroom community, we love industry as long as it doesn't impact traffic and there's no noise and there's no pollution. They are building a large office facility on the north end of town. Current leadership is talking about developing the bottoms, right along I-255. So could it happen? Absolutely."
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- Job: President of Allegra Marketing
- Outlook: "When you market a business, people have to hear about you, they have to read about you, and they have to see you."


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'Mystery Lode,' chapter 1: 'A Surprising Discovery'
Welcome to "Mystery Lode," a six-part serial adventure written by Whatcom County residents.
The adventure runs July 11 through Aug. 15, with a new chapter in each Monday's edition of The Herald. The chapters are also online at BellinghamHerald.com/novel.
Next January we will invite readers to write chapters for our 2012 serial story. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy "Mystery Lode." Send any comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chapter 1: 'A Surprising Discovery'
Ben Avery woke to dog drool and a big tongue licking his face.
"Maverick! Gross! Get down!" Ben pushed the black Lab off the bed and looked at his phone: 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, July 5th.
"Oh, damn!" He'd missed class again. Not a great way to advance his prospects for veterinary school. He remembered the awesome party the night before. Too much beer at Boundary Bay. A searing pain shot through his head as he pulled on his jeans and sweatshirt from the pile of clothes on the floor. Maverick was jumping and woofing.
"Oww, Maverick! Shush! " Ben headed for the kitchen and downed two aspirin with gulps of OJ.
Twenty minutes later, Ben had a tall double latte in one hand and Maverick's leash in the other as he headed south on the trestle from Woods Coffee toward Fairhaven.
He was normally busy with schoolwork at Western and his evening job at Sehome Veterinary Clinic. There were lucrative dog-sitting jobs from vet clients, and Ben loved the excuse to take long walks, especially with Maverick. He had to give Maverick back to his owner at 5 that night when he started work. He would miss the dog.
Usually, Ben looked for birds and other wildlife along the beach. Today he noticed substantial erosion along the streambeds emptying into the bay. Record rains the past few weeks had exceeded any in Bellingham's history, so the seawater below the dock was brown with sediment washed down from the nearby hills.
Back on the roadside south of the dock, Maverick suddenly veered onto a washed-out deer path leading toward the beach. Ben followed, slipping down the steep side of the bluff, grabbing branches for support as he went. Maverick was headed for the shore, just beyond the railroad tracks.
A "Keep Out" sign warned they shouldn't be down there, but Ben let Maverick off leash for a romp in the water while he looked for an easier way back up to the road. He noticed a dozen or more bathtub-size concrete footings, obviously very old, barely visible in the vegetation between the tracks and the bluff. He climbed onto one of the footings to look around.
The trees there were younger than others nearby, suggesting a clearing in the past. He saw remnants of brick walls embedded in the lower edge of the bluff. On the face of the bluff, partially hidden by Indian plum and salmonberry, was a large, circular area of soil much darker than the surrounding soil - black, in fact.
Ben walked over to look, calling to Maverick to keep up, and saw shiny black reflective surfaces in the texture of the soil. On the ground, by his feet, were chunks of what looked like ... coal!
A coal mine! he thought excitedly. He remembered learning about the extensive network of mines dug under Bellingham during the late 1800s and well into the next century. Bellingham was settled, in part, because of coal and plentiful timber that was shipped to San Francisco.
Ben pushed deeper into the thick brush and saw fresh black soil and loose gravel spilling from the cliff face, with an opening above. He scrambled up and cautiously peered inside. It was dark and cavernous, with a damp, sharp smell he didn't recognize.
The gravel beneath him shifted, and he lost his balance, falling backward. As he struggled to his feet, he felt Maverick bound past him, into the opening. " Maverick!" But the dog was gone.
On his knees this time, Ben used the flashlight app on his iPhone to look inside again, but it only gave him a few more feet of visibility. "Maverick!" No response.
Ben crouched down and squeezed through the narrow opening on all fours, grateful for his slender runner's body. He slid over gravel to the floor inside, looking around anxiously. The walls and ceiling sparkled with reflections of his light. He saw massive wooden beams along both sides and across the top of the passageway.
He called to Maverick again as he crept forward, his hand touching the damp wall for balance. The floor was uneven. His feet slipped on gravel and wet rocks. His heart pounded.
About 10 yards in, a tunnel branched off to his left and steeply downward. He could smell before he could see the rank surface of fetid water in a pool. He turned his light back to the main tunnel, sloping steadily downward. Carefully, he crept deeper into the earth, swinging his light back and forth over the shiny, rough surfaces.
Ben heard a small sound ahead. He froze, listening. The stones from his last steps rolled noisily, then stopped. Silence. "Maverick!"
From the corridor beyond, he could hear a whimper and barely heard stones sliding. "Maverick!"
Rushing forward, Ben stumbled and fell. Pain shattered his consciousness, and the last thing he saw was a dull yellow gleam and blackness beyond.
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Is Donald Trump Celgene's Biggest Risk in 2017?
Celgene's high-priced medicine has helped the drugmaker deliver investors significant growth, but growing pushback on pricing by Donald Trump this year could make the company's shares riskier than they've been in that past.
If biotech investors were hoping that the election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States would mean an end to the risk of drug price controls, they might be mistaken.
During a press conference last week, Trump called out drug companies for "getting away with murder" in terms of drug prices, and his jawboning on drug prices could mean that companies marketing expensive medicines, including Celgene Corp. (NASDAQ:CELG), could find themselves in Trump's crosshairs in 2017.
Digging into the details
Revlimid is widely used in first- and second-line multiple myeloma treatment, and it represents about 60% of Celgene's revenue. While Revlimid is a lifesaving medicine used in thousands of multiple myeloma patients every year, its six-figure annual price tag means it's a far cry from inexpensive.
So far, high-cost cancer therapies like Revlimid have avoided a lot of the pushback on pricing out of Washington, but that could change given that the cost of these medicines has drawn the ire of cancer-care providers, including the highly regarded Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, in the past.
For example, 100 leukemia experts joined together in 2013 to question the morality of "astronomical" leukemia drug prices, and in 2014, Memorial Sloan Kettering singled out Celgene's Abraxane as an example of a drug that delivers modest benefits in pancreatic cancer at a "steep cost."
Cancer-drug makers haven't avoided the sting of rebuke from Washington altogether, either. Although Trump hasn't singled out any one cancer-drug maker on pricing, former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has. In October, Sanders lambasted Ariad Pharmaceuticals for a history of price increases on its leukemia drug, Iclusig, which costs $199,000 per year.
Trump takes aim
Trump is famous for shaming companies on Twitter because of their policies and practices, and automakers and defense contractors are among his favorite targets so far.
Since his election, Trump has blasted General Motors for producing vehicles in Mexico, and just this weekend, he took on BMW, claiming that the German carmaker could face 35% import taxes, if it plans on making its cars south of the border and selling them in America.
Trump has also taken on Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the makers of Air Force One and the F-35 fighter jet, respectively, because of their history of high costs.
In these cases, Trump's public lambasting has seemed to produce results. General Motors reported earlier today it's investing $1 billion in the United States, and previously, both Boeing and Lockheed Martin have suggested they're going to get more aggressive at keeping their costs in check.
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Hello everyone and welcome to the re-read of A Storm of Swords! This is going to be a long one, but since The Winds of Winter is still nowhere in sight, I figure there's no real rush. We'll start this week off with the prologue, which takes us way up north, beyond the Wall and in the mind of Chett, a man who very few people really care about. His POV is an unpleasant one, full of petty bitterness and spite but it shows us a great many things that will have repercussions down the line within this book itself and the next few. For instance, the Others become a major plot point for the first time since Game of Thrones but on a slightly smaller level, seeds for the mutiny against Mormont are also laid out here. It's a fairly long prologue, as they tend to be, but I don't think there's any need to analyse every minor interaction between characters that honestly, we won't be seeing again.
But the hounds only huddled closer, whining.
The first few paragraphs already establish that Chett isn't a particularly pleasant person. His grievances against Jon and Sam are perfectly rational and understandable but nevertheless, he doesn't exactly cut a sympathetic figure. It is easy to chalk his inability to get the dogs to listen to him to incompetence but it's more likely that the dogs have already caught a scent of the Others and the wights and beginning to get a little antsy.
"Mormont will be dead before daybreak, remember?"
The interesting thing here isn't that there is a mutiny against Jeor Mormont, but that there is one planned so early on. Think about it; it's not like the Night's Watch expedition thus far has faced any enemies, whether Wildlings or Others but a few weeks out in the cold and they're already ready to mutiny. It puts the real mutiny a little later into proper context – it wasn't that the men of the Night's Watch went from absolute loyalty to mutiny just after one clash with the dead but rather that their loyalty had already been compromised long before the Others attacked and that just ended up forcing the issue. Of course, at this point, the 'mutiny' is limited to Chett, Small Paul and Lark the Sisterman but it's not unreasonable to think that if these three thoroughly unremarkable individuals are thinking it, then it's on a lot of the other men's minds as well. Also, Small Paul reminds me of Lennie Small from Of Mice and Men. Just saying.
"Many and more. Twenty, thirty thousand, we didn't stay to count. Harma had five hundred in the van, every one ahorse."
I can't quite remember what the true strength of the Wildling army ended up being; I remember that in the two show it was around a hundred thousand, but given the estimates being thrown around in this chapter, that might be a little too many. However, it's plausible that Mance has twenty to thirty thousand fighting men and that the rest are just the families and the rest of society that the moving population is bringing with them. I fail to understand how such a gigantic population is a being supported in an environment as hostile as this. Sure there are berries to forage and deer to hunt, but enough for that many? It boggles the mind, but I'll suspend my disbelief for now. In fact, I'm amazed that there are horses north of the Wall. I always figured that horses lived on the plains – sure, it could get cold on the plains but not this cold. Where are these herds of horses that the Wildlings are capturing? Furthermore, surely, the horses offered no strategic advantage in snowy, slippery terrain like the Frostfangs or the even the forest just on the periphery of the Wall?
Three hundred against thirty thousand.
There's a debate going on at this point; Smallwood arguing that offence is the best defence and Wythers arguing that defence is, in fact, the best defence. Honestly, if the Night's Watch had maybe a thousand people, I could see the logic in Smallwood's argument, but three hundred versus thirty thousand is just a bridge too far. Presumably they wouldn't be facing thirty thousand at once and the ones they do face would be poorly armoured, poorly armed and poorly trained. Yet, it's not like the Night's Watch has the crème de la crème of fighters either – for every Qhorin Halfhand (RIP) and Jon Snow, you have people like Chett, Lark and Sam. It's a tough fight even if the Watch catches the Wildlings unaware but in the end, the whole argument was pointless because the Others end up catching the Night's Watch unaware.
The next long bit covers Chett's backstory. What I found most remarkable, relatively speaking at least since most of it is inconsequential, is that Chett and his gang didn't really have a good plan for where to go. Each member of the band planned to go their separate ways but honestly, their biggest challenge would be actually getting to the other side of the Wall. Jon and Ygritte make it later in the book with equipment and support but Chett has neither. Of course, Chett plans to set himself up as the new Craster, not realizing that the Night's Watch keeps Craster alive for its own purposes, not because Craster is a power unto himself. Furthermore, it seems that Chett would need to work out an arrangement with the Others for himself if he is to be suffered in the lands beyond the Wall. Soon, we see Sam being Sam – he is failing miserably doing anything remotely useful. It's hard not be dismissive of Sam, honestly; there isn't really anything that Sam can do that Jon can't do, better. If Sam's entire value to the Night's Watch comes from being able to read, I think the Watch might be better off forcing some fighter's to learn their letters. It's not like they're doing anything else up there in their free time.
The big lout Grenn laughed, and even Samwell Tarly managed a weak little smile.
This sort of draws up the battle lines where we establish the two groups in the Night's Watch as 'Jon's friends, the good guys' and 'Jon's enemies, the bad guys'. Not to be too critical of Martin here, but it's a little strange that the dichotomy is so clear here – all of Jon's friends happen to be honourable, stand up guys who stick up for each other and seem merry and happy while the bad guys have none of these qualities. I guess it isn't that much of a stretch given that the majority of the people joining the Night's Watch are bad people – I mean, sure some people might have gotten screwed by the system but from the looks of it the majority of them are rapists, thieves and murderer. Chett himself shows precious little remorse over his murder of his childhood crush and shows absolutely no inclination towards living on the straight and narrow even after all his time in the Watch.
It seemed to him that it was growing even colder, which he would have sworn wasn't possible.
We all know what this means, but I like how in the context, it doesn't really seem all that ominous. With all the bitching that Chett has been doing so far, the additional cold just seems like another on the list of things that are making Chett unhappy and bitter. The additional cold combined with the absence of all animal life makes it a dead (heh) giveaway that the White Walkers are on their way. The Others are being set-up here as an anti-thesis to life, the enemy of all that is living and natural. I can't wait to see if we will ever find out just what they are and what they want, or if they're just a force of nature that don't really think about such things.
They know, thought Chett. You bloody old pus bag, they know, certain as sunrise. Qhorin Halfhand hasn't come back, has he? Nor Jarman Buckwell.
He's not wrong, he's just an asshole in how he says it. The curious thing here is that while I don't really have any reason to doubt Mormont's tactical sense, you do have to wonder whether he's aware of the kind of reconnaissance that the Wildlings have available to them. With the wargs, they can scout the Night's Watch position out with relative ease and with very little risk. If your entire plan relies on the element of surprise then it's probably not the best of plans. I think Sun Tzu said that.
"Many of us," the Old Bear said. "Mayhaps even all of us."
Like Theon before him, I don't think the Old Bear really realizes just what kind of people he is leading. These are not the kind of men the Night's Watch is supposed to have – these are not the brave, honourable, dutiful men who would rather death before dishonour. Instead, they are made up of people like Chett – petty, small-minded filth who would rather save their own skins than give their lives up for the greater cause. In trying to appeal to their sense of honour, the Old Bear is only digging his own grave. Yet, surprisingly, the backlash isn't immediate – these men haven't been broken and for enough of them, I'm guessing, the risks don't seem real enough. When the Others come however, it will be a different story entirely.
"Three," he squeaked to Chett, "that was three, I heard three. They never blow three. Not for hundreds and thousands of years. Three means -"
You have to think that the hornblower paused a long while between that second and third call. No one's seen the others in hundreds of years – how would the hornblower be sure that what he was seeing was Others and not just some Wildlings? Yet, even Chett doesn't really stop to question the third blow of the horn. There is no thought of 'Oh, some guy made a mistake' – there is no momentary confusion, just instant panic. I wonder if the cold also creates a sense of panic or irrationality. Chett's entire thought process was turning a little weird towards the end of the chapter – getting more and more abstract and disjointed. It would seem that the cold was partially responsible but I wonder if that was all. Either way, here we are – A Storm of Swords has officially begun!


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"I am pretty tired from today's stage. But obviously we are pretty happy here at the BMC Racing Team. It is a pretty special day when you win. It was a hard start and a really tough stage. Greg fought hard to get in a good breakaway and showed he was the strongest by going to the end. It was a hard day no matter where you finished, or no matter what part of the race you were in. So seeing what Greg did in riding away by himself like that was really inspiring and exciting for us to have him take yellow.
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If We Share Everything, What Do We Have Left?
There is a power in secrets. A deep mystery that something is not yet known. It's part of the allure when a first date happens and the chemistry begins to build as different aspects and quirks are revealed to one another. If there is a connection, a second one is scheduled because almost as powerful as the mystery is the need to find out the answer. The same is true in film, TV and other narrative mediums where a story-line is unfolded overtime and not all at once.
Yet, here we as a society stand in 2017, a nation, a world, of chronic over-sharers. Our every intimate detail can be discovered by logging onto facebook, snapchat, instagram or twitter. We post when we are having good or bad days, rant about every slight from Presidential outcomes to the fact that it's cold outside. It's become a world devoid of actual secrets, things we keep to ourselves and only share with a select few if at all.
Several studies have been conducted about why exactly this phenomenon has unfolded, including one piece in The Wall Street Journal, which concluded that we tend to overshare as a means of compensating for anxiety. Worried about making a lasting impression on a stranger, boss, date or friend, we just continue to give and give and give until the desired result or impression seems given. Yet, instead, in the rush to appear so cool and open, something embarrassing might get revealed and then can't be taken back. It's the same way with social media posts. Take a look back at anything that was posted from 2 or 3 years ago and see if that person would still post the exact same thing again today. We all grow, we all evolve, but what we post and share lives on forever as a sort of collective permanent record.
That's not to say that we should instead all sequester ourselves and share nothing at all. But, especially with art, part of the power and joy is in the reveal of new work. It's why new movies have spoiler embargos and people wish death upon anyone that posts too soon about what just happened on Game of Thrones. The thrill of the discovery is still powerful and should be cherished. Such is true with work in progress. Sometimes, it can be fun to get a sneak peek into a project as it is being created, to build anticipation, but showing too much too soon takes away the magic and inevitably creates a feedback loop that can keep a project from being finished.
In that same way, a similar approach might be worthwhile in our everyday lives. Rather than spending every waking moment trying to cultivate an image of constant improvement, perhaps it's best to only allow glances into our own lives as it unfolds. Instead of daily selfies and updates about the gym for the world to see, take them just for yourself and release them judiciously. When they're actually showing something worth noting. When we treat each and every life event, no matter how mundane as status worthy, then it diminishes the ones that actually are. Quality over quantity as the saying goes.
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and the species was formally described in 1969 by Belgian botanist
Subsequent field studies in Zambia and DR Congo have shown this to be a
widesread and common species.
Distinguishing features:
One of a group of dwarf central African species (the E. poggei complex)
that also includes E. delucanus, E.
marunguensis and E. schaijesii. Distinguished by the short
bluish green leaves with almost no clear petiole and the dark green to
bluish green cones.
Distribution and habitat:
DR of Congo and Zambia, in the catchment of the Luapula River.
1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants
status Endangered (E).
Plants acaulescent; stem 0.3 m tall, 20 cm diam; 9 leaves in crown.
Leaves 40-60 cm long, blue green, semiglossy, strongly keeled; rachis
green, straight with last third sharply recurved, not spirally twisted; petiole
straight, with 1-6 prickles; leaf-base collar not present; basal leaflets
reducing to spines.
Leaflets linear, weakly discolorous, not overlapping, not lobed,
insertion angle obtuse (45-80°); margins flat; upper margin entire (no
teeth), or lightly toothed (1-3 teeth); lower margin entire (no teeth), or
lightly toothed (1-3 teeth); median leaflets 10-14 cm long, 8-10 mm wide.
Pollen cones 1-3, ovoid or narrowly ovoid, bluish-green or green,
8-10 cm long, 3-4 cm diam.
Seed cones 1, ovoid, blue-green or green, 20-25 cm long, 10-12 cm
Seeds ovoid or oblong, 20-25 mm long, 20-25 mm wide, sarcotesta


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"Why aren't you swimming, Colton?" I said as Colton is kicking his legs and bobbing his head in and out of the water. "What is wrong with you? They're not going to believe that you can swim if you keep touching the ground, Colton! Do you want to pass the swimming test and go on the slide? What are you doing? Don't grab the edge of the pool! Swim, Colton, swim! Why can't you do this? You do this all the time, Colton! Stop your crying! Are you kidding me right now?"
Tears streaming down his face, Colton finally finished his lap of swimming. Still in shock, he obediently doggy paddles to the edge of the pool. I've already turned away, shaking my head in disgust. I walk the entire length of the swimming pool distraught and angry, barely able to look Colton in the eye.
The 18-year-old lifeguard with shaggy brown hair and relfective sunglasses, uncomfortably shuffles from the edge of the pool. No one is talking at this point. As we stand around and wonder what just happened to all of us, the lifeguard decides to break the silence. "You can just meet me outside and he can get his wristband there."
As my daughter, my son Colton, and I find our way to the outside swimming test shack, I meet with another teenage lifeguard. Amber colored hair that cascaded to the end of her back fell over her shoulder as she wrote Colton's name on the "Passed Swimming Test" sheet. She awarded him his yellow colored bracelet, as he fidgeted with the edges poking the surface of his skin. He spun it around his wrist as he looked up at me with big brown eyes that appeared to be asking, "Can I take this off, Mommy?" Before he could say a word, I had to explain to Colton that although uncomfortable, the wristband was required to ride on the slide. Not a moment too soon, Lilianna grabbed Colton's hand and whisked him off with a big smile on her face encouraging him that he had passed the swimming test.
Although Colton had managed to move from one fiasco to the next, I had not. I was so broken in that moment. I kept thinking, "If he could just listen to me and do what we had practiced so many times, everything would have worked out great for all of us." But Colton couldn't listen. He was over-stimulated, missed his medication, thirsty, and cognitively slower that Saturday. Some days are easier than others. Some days days are definitely harder. This was one of those days. Some days I forget Colton is special needs at all. Some days it seems like we are a perfect, happy family.
Thinking back to that moment in the pool, I step back from myself and replay the scene in my mind. What did I teach that teenager who watched me yell at my special needs son? Distracted and hustled, I was so focused on people moving from point A to point B to accomplish result C, I totally missed all of the hearts involved in the process. How did I bring Jesus there?
What I love about these moments is the Bible reminds us that God's grace is sufficient for us in our weakness. When I don't have it all together, I don't have to, because I can use that moment to prune my heart of the negative, the discouragement and the evil that resides, and seek the face of Jesus to get me through the rest of the day. Then I wake up and His mercies are new every morning.
This morning after church I picked up my son from Sunday school. He ran up to me with a big smile on his face and shouted, "I love you, Mom!" I found myself going back to the moment at the pool yesterday, burdened for the way I treated him, while he looked up at me without a trace or thought of who I was yesterday. Before I knew it, Colton grabbed my hand, looked at me, and said, "Jesus can do anything, Mom!" My heart softened as I started to tear up. But before I could speak another word he continued, "He took all my sins, Mom!"
I let that sink in. My son who doesnt' notice when others are making fun of him, who can't manage to put on his underwear the right way, who asks the same five questions all day long, understands the message of the gospel. Suddenly I realized it's not just me fighting this battle with Colton. Jesus sees him, too. It isn't only me fighting against a "normal society" trying to to make my "not normal" son fit in. It is God meeting me where I am, showing me that He sees my struggle and reminds me that no matter who we are or where we come from, Jesus sees.
And that is enough for me. That is enough for me to make it through the day the next time my son is throwing a temper tantrum and flailing in the middle of Walmart at almost nine years old. That is enough for me to get to work, rushed and unkempt because we were fighting about if he could watch jet air planes for the 365th time in a row before school. That is enough for me to lay down my desires of having it always put together, wanting to arrive on time with well-behaved kids, wanting to do a million things I had planned, but just loving my kids for who they are, and who God made them, special needs and all.
But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Cor 12.9)


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T.A.G.G.'s first collection UTOPATRA is inspired from Cleopatra's power and The Eye of Ra's protecting and perfectionist evolution.
Cleopatra as an inspiration of the collection in terms of her powerfulness, opulence and regality supports the core value of the brand's attitude with confidence. The name Cleopatra is derived from the Greek name which meant "she who comes from glorious father" or "glory of the father" in the feminine form.
While Cleopatra represents the shapes and the silhouettes in the collection, The Eye of Ra and Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph alphabet became the statement pieces. The Eye of Ra is also used as an accessory because of its psychic condition as a protective amulet. It is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, perfection and power. The jacquard made from the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph alphabet is the designer's signature for the first collection. It is made by delicate yarns exclusively for this collection.
T.A.G.G. offers a timeless, convertible garderobe gathering uncluttered basics and manifesto pieces. The brand solves the equation of a garment that is completely wearable for a diverse range of individuals looking for pieces both quiet and singular.
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- 2013 – One Year Ago:
Lewis Hamilton takes his first podium for MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS at the Malaysian Grand Prix
- 2010 – Four Years Ago
Nico Rosberg takes his first podium for MERCEDES GP PETRONAS at the Malaysian Grand Prix
- 2007 – Seven Years Ago
Lewis Hamilton sets his first fastest race lap in Formula One at the Malaysian Grand Prix
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27 March 1994 – 20 Years Ago:
After almost 40 years away from Grand Prix racing, Mercedes made its full Formula One return for the 1994 season: working in tandem with partner Ilmor to provide engines for the Sauber team. On 27 March of that year, the Sauber-Mercedes C13 made its debut in the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos.
The Brixworth-built Mercedes-Benz 2175B V10 engine was tailor-made to suit the C13 and – in keeping with Mercedes tradition – broke the mould in its sole use of pneumatic valves as opposed to the more traditional spring valves; much like its ancestors of the 1950s with their revolutionary 'Z-Drives'. The performance parameters of the unit were equally impressive. Producing 745 hp in qualifying trim and 730 hp for racing, it propelled the C13 from 0-100 km/h in around 2.5 seconds, up to 200 km/h in six seconds and eventually on to a top speed – with appropriate gearing and wing settings – of over 330 km/h.
A mixed debut season saw the Sauber-Mercedes Formula One partnership take eighth place in the Constructors' World Championship, with season-best finishes of fourth place for Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Karl Wendlinger. This marked the beginning of 20 continuous seasons in Formula One; a longer unbroken run than any major manufacturer apart from Ferrari. 2014 will be the 21st season of the modern era and promises to be the year when the modern Silver Arrows truly come of age…
Mercedes-Benz Heritage
- 26 March 1884 – 130 Years Ago:
Carl Benz applies for a patent in France for an improved version of the controlled flame ignition which he developed for his two-stroke gas engine. His invention is protected by French patent no. 161 209.
- 30 March 1904 – 110 Years Ago:
The 'Original Benz' logo encircled by a gearwheel, which had been filed by Benz & Cie. on 4 September 1903, is registered as a trademark by the Imperial Patent Office.
- March 1904 – 110 Years Ago:
Ateliers Mercédès-Daimler S.A. is established in Puteaux, near Paris. The company is to act as a repair workshop and sales outlet for products not covered by the sole distribution rights held by Emil Jellinek.
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Lexi Gordon has a new home.
The former guard for the UConn women's basketball team will continue her career at Texas Tech of the Big 12 Conference, it was announced by the Lubbock-based school. The 6-foot sophomore from Fort Worth, Texas, made her decision to leave UConn public earlier this month.
Gordon also visited Texas A&M, Kansas State, and Northwestern before deciding on the Red Raiders and first-year coach Marlene Stollings.
"I chose Texas Tech because I felt at home on my visit," Gordon said in a statement. "Every person I met made me feel valued and loved here. I strongly believe in Coach M's vision. I'm ready to start my new journey as a Lady Raider."
Lubbock is a 4½-hour drive from Fort Worth.
Gordon played in 26 games as a freshman at UConn, totaling 97 minutes. She had 11 points, 13 rebounds, and six assists. She was named to the athletic director's academic honor roll for earning a 3.0 grade point average during the Fall 2017 semester.
She saw action in four games (10 minutes) this season. Her last appearance was against Purdue in the final game of the Paradise Jam on Nov. 24.
"She brings exceptional ability to score and will thrive in our high-octane offensive system," Stollings said in a statement. "Lexi's tireless work ethic and high basketball IQ are characteristics that will help catapult our program into the national spotlight."
Spring semester classes at Texas Tech start on Jan. 16.
Gordon is the second player from UConn's recruiting Class of 2017 to transfer. Andra Espinoza-Hunter left UConn a year ago after the fall semester and landed at Mississippi State.
Texas Tech already has two transfers sitting out the 2018-19 season - Andrayah Adams (St. John's) and Emma Merriweather (Long Beach State).


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Tyskie Beer Museum - tour from Cracow
The Museum of Tychy Brewery Tours
During the two-and-a-half hour long walk along the spacious rooms of the brewery, the guide will show many interesting things to the visitors. You will see renovated 19th century buildings that are owned by the brewery and large fermentative tanks. One of the main attractions is a documentary movie, made in 3D technology, which is shown in a special cinema in the Museum. It shows the fascinating history of the Princely Brewery in Tychy, which dates back to 16th century.
At the end of the visit you will be invited to the beer tasting, when the beer straight from the brewery will be served is special high quality mugs.
Day trips from Krakow.
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Duration of the trip: about 7 hours
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2017 Founder's Award: Glenna Shelby
The "Founder's Award" is a way of recognizing individuals who have significantly contributed to the field of probation in general and specifically to the POPAI organization. The recipient need not be a Probation Officer or POPAI member. The selected person however, shall be characterized by his/her commitment of influence and promotion of professionalism to Indiana probation.
This year's recipient is not a probation officer; however, she and her colleagues have significantly contributed to the success of our association over the past 20+ years. This person is an experienced lobbyist that monitors legislation affecting probation and the criminal justice system in the State of Indiana. She keeps the POPAI organization informed about legislative bills and issues that affect our profession.
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3D printers are all the rage these days, and it's all I can do to keep myself from picking one up. The trouble is, for most of the design work I typically do, I think I'd just be creating a headache for myself if I did.
I spend a great deal of time prototyping boardgames. One of the things I've learned over the years is that you can't get too invested in the visual design of your prototypes early on or you'll be afraid to iterate on the interaction, for fear of losing your investment. And since I spend the vast majority of my time on the interaction—that's a dangerous proposition. I fear that if I picked up one of these magical devices, I would spend all my time fine-tuning their appearance in 3D software rather than determining if the bits are needed at all.
Instead, I've come to love craft foam—the stuff you can pick up at craft stores like Michael's. While it's often pre-cut into horrible holiday craft kits, you can also get it in simple rectangles with a layer of wicked-strong, pre-applied adhesive. Craft foam is light (which makes it cheap to mail), cuts like butter with a sharp x-acto knife, drills easily, and comes in a thickness that is both easy and pleasant to pick up off the table. If you've ever suffered the frustration of trying to pick up thin card stock components, you know how important this can be.
But best of all, you can layer it up to just about any thickness you desire, to make cheap, crude, disposable game components. I used craft foam extensively for the pegboards in Roll Through the Ages: The Bronze Age, the treatment center in Pandemic: The Cure, the tiles Forbidden Island, the sand in Forbidden Desert, and all the vehicles in Thunderbirds.
So, hooray for craft foam! Try it out in your next prototyping project.
Build your own models! Here's the Thunderbirds vehicle kit (PDF) I created and sent to the modelers for scale. (Colors specified my vary from the final product.)