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Let's be honest on this one: Sickness from Unwonted Studios is launching tomorrow. That means that regardless of what I say here, it will not be taken into consideration. It was a demoralizing realization as I played the Sickness demo over the past few days, because that means all that is left is a bloodbath. This feature is going to be a bloodbath, the eventual review is going to be a bloodbath, and even those we have enough waterproof clothing to keep the blood from staining our clothes, it won't do anything for the smell of Sickness' dismembered corpse or the inevitable clot that will form in the drain trying to spray down your murder room.
Yeah, I didn't like the demo, but this one has a special dislike that I haven't felt in my time so far as a reviewer. I know that seems strange coming from someone who not only has nearly five years under his belt, but also has experienced the best of what Winged Cloud, Red Panda Studios and AJ Tilley.com have to offer. But here's the thing; those studios didn't leave their comfort zone. I cannot say the same for Unwonted Studios who, for reasons that continue to elude me, decided it would be fun to make a crime thriller visual novel. Yes, the people behind this decided at some point they were capable of making its polar opposite. And it probably would've slid under the radar too if they also didn't think it would be a good idea to insist that a longtime and noted fan of crime thrillers play the demo. 'Because absolutely nothing can go wrong if JP plays it!' They surely lied to themselves.
With all of that said, you all probably have realized I haven't even hit the tip of the iceberg that is this train wreck. I cannot think of a single sentence that was good in this demo. The way my brain works, I just want to drag each and every sentence on the carpet for summary execution, but I'll do my best not to ramble. I suppose that means the best place to start is the beginning when our main character kills his boss.
This was probably the worst possible foot to start on for a few reasons. The biggest one is that it was supposed to highlight Suoh's (our protagonist) mental issues. For those unaware, the premise of this game is that the car accident that killed Suoh and his sister's parents also put him in the hospital for a long period of time, resulting in lapses of memory that tie into violent outbursts. Unfortunately, other than this one scene, it doesn't work that way. Situations like training for MMA and riding along to loan shark with his jackass friend (we'll get to him) actually has him arguing against violence and not wanting to put himself into situations where he or others can be hurt. So it's kind of hard to believe he's on a hair trigger and could snap into a blood mist under the right stimulus.
However, the 'violent episodes' do come in handy if you actually want to like Suoh and, regardless of how it promotes itself, the game wants you to like Suoh. This is backed not only by the fact that his blood rage only occurs when the writing team wants it to, but also in his frequent internal monologues. Our introduction to this game is Suoh narrating to himself about wealth inequality which leads to his excuse to why he killed his boss: he wouldn't give him a raise he asked for. It's still a pretty dark rationale on its face, but then the monologue continues and he reveals the money would have gone to ensuring a comfortable life for his twin sister Sarah. So, what you're left with is a narrative that is supposed to be putting us in the mind of a young man on the sociopathic edge that reads like, 'That greedy bastard was making life hard for Suoh and his sister and society is unfair and corrupt and really if you think about, what he did was kind of understandable because of how bad and unfair the world is!'
The key here is underneath his supposed murderous front, the guy is pretty much your standard issue Generic Male Protagonist: angry about injustice, but also compassionate towards his only remaining family member and averse to violence the plot demands it. He's only a threat to the people the plot deem are truly threatening and that creates character dissonance right off the bat. It gets even worse later on when the game really pulls out all of the stops in order to get you behind Suoh, but that's a rant for another section. And why jump ahead, when I have so much to work with in Suoh's internal monologue?
One of the running themes of the Sickness is that, as bad as Suoh is supposed to be, the rest of society is much worse. Crime is rampant, the corrupt take advantage of the weak, and the poor get poorer as the rich get richer. It's a familiar chestnut and one that is cracked from time to time in this sphere, but rarely is a visual novel as reliant on that theme as Sickness is. As I've already said, Suoh's parents have been killed off via car accident which would make him the only source of income for him and his sister. The game tries to play this up and create a picture of desperation for Suoh. That in order to keep the only family member he has left from being homeless and hungry, he not only snapped but it also led him into a life of crime. Unfortunately, if you've been reading this very feature closely, you've already realized that's not the case.
I don't feel that this is just a problem with Sickness per se, but also a problem with the current generation of anime, manga and the Western works inspired by them. It's a hypothesis we'll have to explore in another feature though, so for now let's just focus on how Sickness in particular deals with a working class protagonist and the struggle Suoh and Sara have to survive in this 'two-class society'. The short version is that they really don't. The examples the game gives us of how hard these two have it are either ineffective because the creative team either doesn't know what it's like to struggle economically or doesn't know how to write character that are working class. What kind of examples are that?
- The oven not working exactly right.
- Only having instant food (instant ramen for example) to eat for a while.
- Only having a few outfits to wear.
- Having to sleep in the same bed because they can only afford one and it's a single bedroom house.
'JP…couldn't one of them sleep on a futon in the living room?' Yes, but trust me; you don't want to dig too deeply into that last example…yet. Sickness loves to tease with hints of incestuous attraction between the siblings, but the heaviest hints you can avoid so it's mostly there for fanservice(?). The full game will show where Sickness decides to take this particular tease, so for now back to their economic situation. Some, honestly, will read the above list and sympathize because they are not used to seeing working class protagonist and assume any lack of luxuries denotes some sort of unfairness. However, to be absolutely clear, luxuries are all these two are lacking.
The funny thing about all of this is the game doesn't even bother to hide this. After getting a few thousand dollars delivered to their home for no particular reason, Suoh and Sara discuss briefly what to do with it and none of it focuses on ensuring their own stability. In fact, a good portion of that money went into buying new clothes. I'm sorry, but I have a hard time believing a character or group of characters is struggling financially when they get a windfall and their first thoughts are on luxuries, not their survival. Even if you want to make the argument that they are not mature enough to take proper financial care of themselves, you'd then have to concede that any judge in his right mind would either submit them to foster care or move them to a relative because not having a relative 'living nearby' doesn't mean they don't have any who can step in. Bloody Hell, even Ace Academy got that much right.
Adding to this point is the screenshot above us where the writers put themselves into an even bigger hole as they try to flesh out Suoh and Sara's situation later in the game. Seem their parents left behind a will with a considerable amount of money and real estate along with having no outstanding debts upon their deaths. Even if, for some unbelievable reason, their parents did not make a clause in their will on how their children can access their money upon their deaths, even a completely crap probate lawyer can make the case that the parents would have wanted their own children to be cared for in the case of their untimely demise. So yeah, the only reason Suoh and Sara have to deal with the evils of their corrupt city is because the writers want desperately to have social commentary in this game, but they don't know how to pull it off and it all comes off as contrived BS for the sake of forced drama. Great.
After the murder Markus, the friend he calls upon to help with his boss' remains, pulls him into a life of crime. As of this writing, I'm still not completely sure that the criminal organization Suoh is pulled into is a threat to anyone but themselves. Let's take a few good examples so I can better contrast how they introduce their criminal organization versus how Sickness introduces its own. In The Godfather, the first shot is of Amerigo Bonasera from Vito Corleone's point-of-view. Bonasera is clearly distraught as he tells his story and the camera backs out slowly as he talks to behind Don Corleone's back. We don't even see his face until Bonasera says, 'For justice, we have to go to Don Corleone.' This conversation and cinematography puts on Don Corleone because our question isn't 'Why is Bonasera here?' it's 'What is Don Corleone going to do about his situation?' So, inside of a single conversation, we know that Don Corleone is a powerful man and the organization he runs is outside of the law.
In my opinion, the only thing that tops The Godfather's opening scene is Goodfellas' opening line which tells you everything you need to know about the movie in a single sentence. 'As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.' We all know what gangsters are and the violence and destruction that comes with that life. And even with that knowledge, because of how young Henry Hill has mythologized his neighborhood's mobsters, we too are drawn into this particularly twisted hero worship. This is especially true because Hill was the amoral character Suoh is trying to be, unless you think it's perfectly normal to watch a completely innocent man get threatened with being shoved into an oven because you've been skipping school.
So we have Goodfellas and Godfather: two of the most influential crime films of all time to use as a contrasting point with how Sickness shows us its crime family and what life Suoh can expect to live. Some would argue that happens at the beginning, but that's doesn't' really delve into what Markus and his superiors deal with. That actually happens shortly after the starting incident, when Markus takes Suoh with him on a loan sharking expedition. In my humble opinion, this is where we first really get an understanding of Suoh's new life and the criminal organization he belongs to. Was it effective? No; not even close.
I get the feeling this was yet another example of, 'Yes Suoh is bad, but look how much worse everyone else is so you have to like Suoh!' And yes, there are criminal as dumb as Markus in this world who thinks that this is how you send a message to people. However, let's go back over this again. Markus killed a Chinese money launderer for pocket change. Ignoring the fact that by killing him, he cut off his boss from the services and financial network one would need to run even a half-decent money laundering enterprises, by killing them all Markus made it impossible to get the money he knows is hidden up somewhere in the restaurant. And when other people find out what happens their reaction isn't going to be fear, it's going to be anger because NOW they realize that they're screwed no matter what they do.
And it gets even worse if you can believe it.
Markus' direct superior is a guy named Andrei who not only teaches Suoh how to fight but also oversees the body clean-up of the murders Suoh and Markus commits and their loan sharking. One of the key businesses of this criminal organization is providing this particular type of 'service'. He allows Markus to do whatever the Hell he wants for reasons that are never properly discussed or even hinted at. Even when he goes to clean up after Markus slaughters an entire family for less than one hundred bucks, his response is to sigh and shrug his shoulder as if he just found out Markus accidentally hit a baseball through his neighbor's window.
If he has his own reasons for not caring about getting caught or enforcing any type of discretion or discipline if only to preserve the hierarchy and financial well-being of the organization, that's fine BUT you have to show it goddammit! You actually have to show WHY Andrei doesn't give a damn. And, for that matter, you have to show why their boss Karasu doesn't give a damn either because he doesn't actually intervene in this nonsense until irreparable damage has been done to his organization: at least on the street level. Markus attempts to do the loan sharking thing on his own and fails miserably when his target fought back. When he and Suoh go out together again to another target after his failure, he gets killed when that person tries to fight back. Suoh manages to fight back but the damage, in any well-written crime story, is done.
The people who owe you money know that they can fight back and have a good shot at getting away with it, so why should they be afraid when one of your representatives come knocking? Hell, why should rivals or enemies be afraid of you if you are so ignorant of your own organization that crap like this can happen for so long without the boss intervening to restore order? Why should the police or any law enforcement agency put up with Karasu's organization when he's clearly barely holding everything together? A teenager who has binged watched Law and Order could convict all of these morons within a day yet somehow I'm supposed to believe that this organization is a threat? Bullshit.
Speaking of bullshit, where in the blue Hell is the police? The authorities aren't even mentioned until the final act of the game and we have seen several public murders, an underground fighting match and there hasn't been one investigation into any of it. And it's not like Andrei is a master cleaner who is so thorough that there is nothing for the police to work with. Suoh literally walks home covered in the Chinese family's blood after Markus kills them. On top of that, they would have a mountain of physical evidence if someone decided to investigate Suoh's boss' disappearance because they were, at the time, the only ones in the office. There would have been security cameras, logs, witnesses, something more than just the body and blood to show that the disappearance was suspicious. Hell, the disappearance in and of itself would be suspicious! The creative team may be trying to yet again ineptly show us how seedy and corrupt everything is, but even then you still need to have the police present to show that they're corrupt. They are largely absent in the majority of the game and when you consider just how juvenile and incompetent Suoh, Markus and every other criminal in this game is, that is mind-boggling.
That brings us to it doesn't it? Everything else I've talked about so far leaves the Sickness demo a broken mess of bad writing and worse ideas, but this demo saved its lowest blow for last. From the beginning, it was clear that Sickness was pushing hard to be dark and edgy for the sake of being dark and edgy. With the violence, casual racism and constant wealth inequality commentary, the world the creative team desperately wants to paint is one where every evil is commonplace. So, of course, at some point that would also include sexual violence and it becomes one of the subplots near the midpoint of the demo.
Suoh notices that Sara has been acting more emotionally unstable over a few days and she seems to want to get out of town in a hurry. Suoh decides to look into this and sees that she's being harassed and stalked by two guys on her way to school who have less than pure intentions for her. Now, the demo doesn't outright say this, so it is admittedly conjecture on my part. However, taking into account Sara's behavior during and after this subplot, she acts like someone who has been sexually assaulted. This is made plausible by two scenes. The first is when the two jackasses abduct one Sara's classmates and take her to an abandoned building to rape her and film themselves doing it. This is critical because when Suoh brings up the fact that they were recording everything and ponders out loud what could be on the tapes, Sara's mood instantly changes and she becomes melancholic and tries to avoid details about the subject.
Here's the thing. If they had just been verbally harassing her up to that point, someone with Sara's personality would have been very clearly relieved to have avoided that bullet. Although the game's synopsis tries to frame her as a selfish brat, she shows none of that behavior during the course of the game. In fact, she also more than likely would've been emphatic with the ones that were assaulted since that could have been her. Instead, when Suoh brings up the camera Sara appears to experience a traumatic flashback and, after she recovers, begins to openly idolize the person who stopped the two from raping her classmate. That isn't the behavior of someone who has only had to put up with verbal harassment. It's the behavior of a victim of physical attack.
The second reason that led me to the conclusion that Sara was assault by these two jackasses is because of an overarching narrative thread in this game: the creators want you to like Suoh. No matter how wicked and violent the rest of the world is, Suoh is always cast as a decent person with some amoral tendencies. In this particular subplot, right before the rape occurs Suoh springs into action and takes them both out. It's the only other time his blood mist episode thing is invoked in the demo and the results of him following through on it turns him into an anonymous vigilante. However, by game's end he shows that he's willing to kill the girl he saved in order to remain anonymous. So, what was the point here if he's just going to kill off the girl? Revenge for his sister by killing her assailants. Having Sara as a victim here accomplishes what this scene is here to do: make you like Suoh and think that he's cool.
And that is disgusting.
Am I saying you can never, ever include sexual assault in fiction? No. You know who did it right in the EVN community? Cupid. If you have played that game you know there is a scene that centers on a sexual assault and it is one of the best written scenes of 2015 because the creative team understood what they were getting into and the characters who would be involved. It built tension and drama without feeling exploitative and even invoked sympathy for people you didn't think it would. It's how any sexual assault should be handled if you're going to cross that line and Sickness doesn't do it.
In Sickness, sexual assault is a shock tactic. Unable to construct a meaningful cast or plot, this game goes full 'dark and edgy' not to create emotional resonance and development, even cheap development at that, but to force us to side with its bland protagonist because the creative team couldn't think of any other way to do it. Whenever anyone else in media and entertainment uses sexual assault this, people rightfully lose their minds because of how cheap and pathetic it is. Using it in an EVN doesn't suddenly make it a good creative device. Shame on you Unwonted Studios for allowing your name onto this.
Sickness is out tomorrow and this is how it will begin. A badly written cast, a terrible plot, anvicilous themes and a sickening use sexual assault makes this visual novel an early contender for Worst of 2016. The hole is so deep on this one, I cannot see a way for Unwonted to climb out of it in its current stage. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and see what the full product entails, but it's going to take one Hell of a miracle to save Sickness from the hellish pit the demo dug for it. JP3: OUT.


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Casals circa 1900
Casal's debut with the Lamoureux Orchestra in 1899 launched him on a touring career that would eventually make him famous around the world. He played the Saint-Saens concerto with Lamoureux in December of that year, again to rave reviews from the critics, and other cellists. In her book, The Great Cellists, Margaret Campbell quotes the French cellist Joseph Salmon who was at the performance: "...unbelievable!...Like listening to the work for the first time... Casals made it sound easy. We cellists were dumbfounded!" Casals became much admired by the Parisian public, and basked in the limelight. However, there must have been a tinge of bitterness, because Lamoureaux, his benefactor and sponsor now in a very real sense, died very shortly after this last concert with Casals, in January of 1900.
Though he soon became a world traveler, Casals called Paris "home," at least for a while. Paris was a beehive of artistic activity, full of wonderful writers, painters and musicians. Here Casals made friends with the likes of Degas, the painter; Henri Bergson, the philosopher; Ravel and Saint-Saens, the composers; and the musicians Ysaye, Thibaud and Cortot, with whom he made some justly famous early recordings.
Casals was busy performing, touring, and enjoying his friendships in Paris, but he also made it a point to find time to study other areas of knowledge, and to develop further his personal philosophy of life. He knew how to laugh and be happy, but he was essentially a serious-minded person. He thought deeply about himself, his career, and the meaning of life. According to Lillian Littlehales, writing in her book, Pablo Casals, he had an intense belief in the spiritual life of mankind, and "...his sensitive mind dwelt on religious and social questions to an almost dangerous degree." As so many young people do, and remember Casals was still a young man, he was swimming in deep waters, mentally. He even considered suicide. Littlehales also records that Casals found the writings of Karl Marx to be "a revelation." Politically and spiritually he became a "Socialist," and was determined to personally take a stand against the oppression of the common man by Fascism, or any other kind of tyranny. He eventually found his intellectual and spiritual footing, but these years of soul-searching and study were formative, and made a tremendous impact on the rest of his life, and eventually on the world at large. It was no accident that in 1958 it was Pablo Casals playing his cello on the floor of the General Assembly of the United Nations!
Copyright © 1996, 1997 Marshall C. St. John

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This is by my count British concert pianist James Brawn's sixth album for MSR Classics, and in that time he has become one of my favorite classical performers. His work never fails to impress and delight me, the present collection no exception.
As I said about Mr. Brawn the first time I heard him, "He's been winning awards since he was a child, teaching, and performing (mainly in New Zealand, Australia, and England) to great acclaim, and this new recording makes one understand his appeal. He is a consummate artist."
Mr. Brawn has subtitled the album "The Time Traveller and His Muse," which is also the title of many of his concert recitals. Certainly, with this collection he is a time traveller, indeed, as the selections on the program span some four centuries, from Domenico Scarlatti to George Gershwin. Brawn has arranged the tracks chronologically as follows.
Disc One:
1. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E major, K.380
2. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in C major, K.159 La Caccia
3. Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk I - Prelude in C major, BWV 846
4. Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk I - Prelude in C minor, BWV 847
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk I - Prelude in D major, BWV 850
6. Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk I - Prelude in E-flat minor, BWV 853
7. Johann Sebastian Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk I - Prelude in E major, BWV 854
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonata No.11 in A major, K.331 Rondo alla Turca
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia in D minor, K.397
10. Ludwig van Beethoven: Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor)
11. Franz Schubert: Moment Musicale No. 3 in F minor, D.780
12. Franz Schubert: Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, D.899
13. Frederic Chopin: Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28
14. Frederic Chopin: Étude No. 12 in C minor, Op. 25 Ocean
15. Frederic Chopin: Étude No. 3 in E major, Op. 10 La Tristesse
16. Frederic Chopin: Étude No. 1 in A-flat major, Op. 25 Aeolian Harp
17. Frederic Chopin: Étude No. 5 in G-flat major, Op. 10 Black Key
Disc Two:
1. Frederic Chopin: Prelude No. 15 in D-flat major, Op. 28 Raindrop
2. Frederic Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45
3. Franz Liszt: Consolation No. 3 in D-flat major, S.172
4. Johannes Brahms: Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 39, No. 15
5. Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo in A major, Op. 118, No. 2
6. Edvard Grieg: Arietta in E-flat major, Op. 12, No. 1
7. Alexander Scriabin: Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1
8. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
9. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12
10. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10
11. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in D major, Op. 23, No. 4
12. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G major, Op. 32, No. 5
13. Sergei Prokofiev: Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
14. George Gershwin: I Got Rhythm
I continue to marvel that everything Brawn touches turns to magic. I have yet to hear him play anything I didn't like, that didn't sound just the way I imagine the composer intended yet with the added merit of Brawn's personal touch. Brawn never distorts the music and never uses it to call attention to himself and his virtuosic skills, yet he is also able to make all of it his own, reveling in every nuance of phrasing, contrast, tempo, and dynamics.
Of course, that doesn't mean listeners won't have their favorites among the selections. Mine are probably just favorite pieces of music that I took pleasure in hearing anew and so well played. For instance, while I am not the biggest fan of the Scarlattis, the father Allessandro or the son Domenico recorded here, I have to admit the two pieces he plays make a good, dashing opening for the album, with Brawn providing a healthy splash of élan.
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Of course, it's always fun to hear Mozart's "Rondo alla Turca," yet Brawn doesn't overplay it to show off his skills. It's just as exciting played with care for the music rather than care for the thrills alone. Brawn's sensitive handling of the Fantasia that follows is exquisite in its subtle detail.
The only piece we get from Beethoven is the little bagatelle "Fur Elise." Along with the opening movement of the "Moonlight Sonata" it may be the composer's most familiar piece of solo piano music. I doubt that anyone hasn't heard it and wouldn't recognize it, so it isn't easy to bring anything to it that pianists before Brawn haven't already done. Nevertheless, it comes off as perfectly as one could imagine, filled with nostalgic remembrances and an ever-sweet charm.
And speaking of charm, whose music was ever more charming than Schubert's? Brawn approaches it with refinement, wit, and grace.
Then disc one ends (and disc two begins) with what I found the highlights of the album: the music of Chopin: preludes and études. Brawn seems to have a natural affinity for Chopin, and the snippets he provides only whetted my appetite for more of the same. If you find the playing of Rubinstein a tad too cold or distant or Pollini a bit too quick or calculated and other noted pianists a touch too sentimental or matter-of-fact or romanticized or whatever, you might find Brawn exactly what you want. His Chopin is big when it needs to be big, extrovert when necessary, gentle, passionate, delicate, brilliant, you name it as the occasion requires. One listen to the Etude No. 3, Op. 10 or the Prelude No. 15, Op. 28, and you may find them as meltingly beautiful and as perfectly executed as I did.
And so it goes. The Liszt is heavenly; the Brahms has a genuine lilt and lyricism without appearing excessively sad or melancholy for its own sake; the Grieg and Scriabin are flowing and melodic.
Which brings us to Rachmaninoff, the great twentieth-century pianist-composer who never quite left the nineteenth century behind. Brawn shows us that despite Rachmaninoff's reputation, he incorporated any number of modern elements in his style, particularly in the five preludes presented here. In fact, they never sound overtly "Romantic," except, perhaps, in their sometimes melodramatic underpinnings. In any case, Brawn pulls them off as well as anybody, with little or no exaggeration.
The program ends with Prokofiev and Gershwin, both of them providing the kind of zingers the album needs to close strong. The Gershwin, incidentally, Brawn plays in a transcription he first heard played by Jon Kimura Parker, another of my favorite pianists.
Now, Mr. Brawn: How about an entire album of Chopin? The nocturnes would be wonderful.
Producer Jeremy Hayes and engineer Ben Connellan recorded Mr. Brawn at Potton Hall, Suffolk, United Kingdom in August and November 2014. The piano sound, as before, is clean, clear, rich, and resonant. The venue provides just enough ambient bloom to make the instrument come alive and appear lifelike. The natural warmth provides a realistic-sounding response, as though the listener were actually in the room with the piano, albeit at a moderate distance. Transient response, dynamics, and frequency balance are exemplary as well, nothing too hard, too soft, too bright, or too edgy. In other words, excellent sound.
To listen to a brief excerpt from this album, click here:


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This sim, Small Town Green is very quiet place and landscaped beautifully. You can find so many great places to take photo here and there. There are props you can use, such as benches and chairs. Also you can rez your own pose ball or props by joining the group for free. You can find group sign front of the white building with blue door shown in the first photo.
P.S. There are animals hidden around the sim. It would be fun to find and take photo with them.
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So, I bought an Epoque DCL20 wide angle lens in New York a week back and had the opportunity to take it for a dive last weekend. Before I bought it, I could find no information about its performance on the web so it was a bit of a gamble whether to buy or not.
These are my initial thoughts without having had much time to really conduct experiments.
The lens is not very big, it doesn't really add much to my Ikelite and strobe arm setup for my G7, it adds a few hundred grams but that's pretty much it. The thread is so large and well defined it is easy to screw the lens on the port under water, I don't think there is much risk of damaging the thread with clumsy thick gloves etc.
The lens magnifies about 0.56 x so the angle is quite wide. My G7 has a 35mm equivalent of a 35 mm lens so I get about 19mm focal length (in 35 mm) with the Epoque attached. This is wide enough for the Ikelite standard port to get in the way and the result is vignetting (probably lots). I therefore also purchased the replacement port from Ikelite which is about 10mm shorter than the original port. There is a small limitation in the amount of zooming in one can do with this port because the lens eventually hits the port, but this is beyond the zoom when one can still focus in macro mode so I can't imagine it would be missed by anyone.
Above water one gets a bit of a shock when attaching the lens and taking a shot.
The first photo was taken without the Epoque at 35 mm (equiv.) and the second photo was taken at the same setting with the Epoque mounted. There were a couple of things I noticed straight away that worried me quite a lot.
First, there is obviously the barrel distortion to take into account. I was wondering what this would look like when taking photos under water. Second, there is significant softness around the edges (actually gradient from fairly much the center). Third, there is still a bit of vignetting happening. One obvious thing I noticed was the fact that the Ikelite housing has a pretty shoddy make. The camera is not centred in the lens barrel and when I first got the housing I had to cut of a lot of the light masking foam around the lens. With the Epoque mounted I get big black vignetting parts on the left side of the barrel and nothing on the right side. I lose quite a bit here since it means I have to crop much more to get rid of the vignetting.
So what happens under water?
I am pleased to say that my concerns are largely invalid when the lens comes in the water. First, I wanted to see what the coverage would be and how much distortion there would be so I took a few maximum wide angle photos of different things.
The visibility of the day was not too bad, probably about 8 or so meter (~24 ft) but there was a lot of particles in the water. The first photo would have been taken at about 3m from Taso and one can see that there is a lot of coverage at that distance and the diver is well defined since the distance is quite short.
Also, there is little evident barrel distortion in the photo. I then took some photos at closer distance and also tried to take some close up with the Epoque still attached. There was little evident distortion even at closer distances but closeups were heavily affected by the wet lens.
In the closeup of the snail one can clearly see how much blurring there is of the photo surrounding the snail. It doesn't look too bad in this specific photo, but it canreally make things bad.
So, all in all, I am looking forward to playing around much more with the lens and get a better understanding of what it can do and where there are limitations.
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Preservation 101
Learning to preserve the harvest
Along with utilizing fresh and abundant produce from our gardens and farmers markets, the art of home preservation—via canning, fermentation and pickling—is building in popularity. While every trend can be cyclic, preserving the harvest is a return to tradition; remembering what has been lost for many of us.
There's nothing quite as wonderful as popping open a can of homemade tomato sauce that was carefully and lovingly preserved by you. It can transport you back to a summer garden on the coldest days in January. Here are some tips for the novice on preserving your garden's bounty.
Canning: The Basics
Whatever scary, intimidating thoughts about canning might creep up, simply let them go. There are many little things you must learn and consider before beginning the process, such as choosing a method, a recipe, how you'll go about sterilizing, and obtaining a few indispensable gadgets such as a magnetic canning-lid wand, which will magically protect both your hands and your sanity later. Preparatory work is necessary, and your time spent learning about the canning process is a gift that will give back to you (and your taste buds) tenfold, to carry along in your self-reliance pocket.
The water bath, pressure canner and canning steamer are different methods to get everything to the right temperature for the right amount of time and, ultimately, to seal the lid, allowing you to store canned goods at room temperature for months to come. When preparing acidic foods such as tomatoes, you'll need to carefully follow directions to keep potentially "bad" bacteria from turning the entire batch get-very-sick bad. Be sure to include a big roll of paper towels for wiping messy rims just prior to placing hot lids onto jars, and keeping drips and spills under control.
Before the frost hits in mid-October, tomatoes should still be abundant in most garden spaces. Blanching them in boiling water to loosen the skins—the messiest part of this experience—takes place before placing the tomatoes in a table-mounted food strainer, available at kitchen supply and IFA stores. The resulting purée becomes the perfect base for so many things. You can follow any number of recipes for tomato-based pasta sauces, but don't limit yourself. The tomato base can make a super tasty tomato-basil soup in a flash, or a batch of salsa, ketchup or barbeque sauce. The tomato jam recipe to the right is just "grown-up" ketchup that can be added to your chili beans in a slow-cooker, used as a marinade or, best of all, as a dipping sauce with crisp, pan-fried potatoes.
Ferment & Pickle
Once you understand the scope and variety of harvestable items you can ferment or pickle, the question "what can?" becomes what can't be preserved this way? "Have you ever tried pickling garlic?" barista Johnny Cooney asks at Caffe Expresso in Sugar House. He goes on, "My Grandma and I used to make this together, it takes time to peel all the garlic cloves, but it's so worth it."
Along with pickling garlic, beets, cukes, radishes, peppers and carrots can be as simple as preparing a brine and letting them marinate in the fridge. Fresh sauerkraut is essentially shredded and salted cabbage, which after being packed into a fermentation crock, is ready to eat in 5-14 days.
Roll Up Your Sleeves
Feeling a little overwhelmed with all the preservation possibilities? To get started, peruse the cooking section in a bookstore or library, search online for tutorial videos, find a neighbor or friend who cans, or call your grandma. Many of your options might depend on what is seasonally available, and you'll never learn until you do it. Create a new food-saving tradition this season, and you might never purchase another jar of store-bought tomato sauce again.
Suggested Food Preservation Resources:
Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike Bubel and Nancy Bubel
The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest: 150 Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables by Carol W. Costenbader
A Simple Jar of Jam: 180+ recipes and variations for jam using low sugar pectin by Robin J. Edmundson.
Salt Lake County Extension Office: Food Safety and Preservation: 385-468-4837
Taking fermentation to the next level, chef David Barboza, co-owner of Table X restaurant, explains his method of making kimchi, a traditional Korean side dish using salted and fermented vegetables.
How long have you been creating kimchi, and what is the most challenging part about making it?
I've been making kimchi for almost three years and developed a recipe that is vegan but can be easily manipulated to include fish sauce or beef jus. The most challenging part of developing my recipe has been finding the right amount of time to ferment the kimchi. Too short, and the sour flavor doesn't punch through like it should. Too long, and the vegetables become too soft and too sour. The lactic acid flavor takes over and the balance of the batch is compromised.
What are the key ingredients? What brings the heat to your kimchi?
Napa cabbage, Korean daikon (lobok) and coarse Korean sea salt. I make a flavored broth using konbu and dried mushrooms to bring complexity to the kimchi. For the heat, I use gochuharu, which is dried Korean chili flakes.
What complements kimchi and how is it served at Table X?
Kimchi is spicy and acidic, so fatty and rich preparations complement it very well. Even smoky flavors work well with the sharpness of the kimchi. It's finely chopped and presented as a salsa. We make rice chips with squid ink, which end up being jet black. The chips are garnished with sesame egg yolk gel, chipotle konbu dust and salted, dried beef tips that are grated over the chips.


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Feb 14, 2018 Update: This blog entry was posted Jan 10, over a month before the horrific Feb 14 Parkland Florida high school shooting of 17 students by a former student. Parkland is about 550 miles (over 8 hours) away from where where this school shooting drawing took place and the man who drew a school shooting image was not connected to the Parkland shooter. Gun violence in schools is horrific, but I still feel that an artist who draws a school shooting scene is not necessarily making a threat. It could have been drawn for his step son as a vision, as a warning, as something to avoid by staying aware and taking precautions.
There is currently an average of one school shooting every 2.5 days this year in the USA.
This is the 18th school shooting of 2018. We are seven weeks into the year. That means there's a school shooting every 2.5 days. There have been 30 mass shootings this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The attack on a Florida high school on Wednesday, is the eighth school shooting to result in injury or death so far this year, and the 18th incident involving gunfire in schools.
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The following bad drawing may put a man with scary face tatoos and poor grammar who drew it in prison for up to 15 years. Does that sound right? He wrote the word "Pew" three times and one must wonder, Florida, shouldn't each "pew" be considered a separate fellony?
A Florida man is charged with making a violent written threat after school officials found a rudimentary drawing of a gunman shooting people outside a burning school on a kid's homework, authorities said.
The man, Robert Paul Alexander Edwards, 33, of Mexico Beach, Fla., was arrested Friday on a charge of making a written threat to kill or do bodily injury, a second-degree felony, Gulf County Sheriff Mike Harrison said Monday.
Edwards is being held on $150,000 bond pending a Jan. 2 hearing in Gulf County Circuit Court. If he is convicted, he could face as long as 15 years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
Harrison said he had no reason to believe that Edwards intended to carry through on the implied threat, which staff found in the homework of a student at Port St. Joe Elementary School in the town of Port St. Joe.
But, he said, "Our country has been affected one too many times with horrific school tragedies. We take matters like this very seriously."
Robert Paul Alexander Edwards, of Mexico Beach, is facing multiple charges after staff at Port St. Hoe Elementary School contacted the school resource deputy about the picture, according to the sheriff's office. The drawing showed a school house on fire, a person running from the school on fire and several others standing in a line being shot by an individual.
The drawing also included two people on the ground in what appeared to be a pool of blood. The words, "Pew, Pew, Pew," were written next to the person with the gun.
We don't know all the details, but, while protecting kids is a very serious matter, considering this drawing a credible threat feels like a possible stupid waste of police resources. Why do people assume the worst? Witch hunts piss me off. For all you know the guy had a vision, a bad dream, and with this drawing was trying to warn the kid(s) about potential danger (not from himself) to the school.
How did they get him as the person doing the shooting from this terrible drawing? This could be laughed out of court easily. Imagine this: The defense attorney lines up a bunch of very different looking people including the suspect, all wearing bell bottoms, and has the jury compare them carefully to the stick figure shooter in the drawing. Reasonable doubt? See what I mean. It's not clear that he is holding a gun at the resolution we can see the drawing and it also seems that the "shooter" in the image is facing away from the kids and looking back over his shoulder.
To me this seems less like a threat and more like a political statement he was making about kid's attention spans. The words coming from a flaming stick figure fleeing the scene that say, "Ahhh! It boring!" are ignored by everyone.
If he didn't have those face tatoos, this might have gone another way, but he choose to make himself look scary. The root of it is that he is probably filled with unresolved fear or anger.
So, how many years should a man be put in prison for scary face tatoos? Life? We must think of the children. Our country has been through too much.
Another Side of the Story
Update: 1/31/2018. The artist has posted his side of the story on a GoFundMe page where he is attempting to raise bail. The statement there says in part:
The December 4th NY Times headline read: "Florida Man Charged With Drawing School Shooting on Student's Homework" Similar headlines with the same story appeared in most major news outlets and social media sites, as far away as the UK and the far east.
Rob was arrested In the small town of Port St. Joe, FL at his workplace by deputies who were almost apologetic when they picked him up. "Don't shoot the messenger," said one. When they told him that he was being arrested for a drawing on the corner of his step child's homework, he retorted with his famous quip "are you kidding me right now?" After being given time to gather his stuff and close up the shop, he was brought to the sheriff's office (unrestrained) and booked. He signed a written confession that he had indeed drawn the doodle assuming that it really wasn't a huge deal, and was told that he would appear before a judge in the a.m. and be out shortly thereafter.
But the following Saturday morning the judge set bail at $150K even after the sheriff's office said that they didn't consider Rob a threat or that he had any intention of carrying out the "threat" that they were charging him with. The public defender evidently put up little fuss at the bail hearing, since the entire local public defender's office subsequently recused themselves from defending his legal rights. He has been sitting in the county jail ever since.
Via GoFundMe
If the child in question was indeed his step-child, it seems even more ridiculous that he is in jail for a drawing.
Tattoo Prejudice?
Is this story really about prejudice, pre-judging based on a person's appearance?
A poll by Pew Research Center found that nearly 40 percent of people between the ages of 18 and 29 have tattoos. Even though tattoos have drastically increased in popularity, those with tattoos still feel stigmatized by the untattooed population. A study published in The Social Science Journal took a closer look at tattoo prejudice and found some pretty interesting concepts. …
A team of researchers questioned 196 tattooed and 257 non-tattooed college students. They found that having a tattoo, having tattooed friends, and having a tattooed family member was correlated with fewer stigmas against tattooed people. Reasons, such as the belief that tattoos involve major health risks and cause large amounts of pain, were most frequently referred to the reason stigmas were formed.
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Lesson: Choose Wisely and Be Lucky
People do still judge a book by its cover. If you decide to look like a rebel, eventually someone may assume you are a rebel, (or criminal,) despite your actual actions and intentions. For matters of appearance where you have a choice, you may want to seriously consider taking responsibility for knowing that. Life can be unfair. Manage your risks appropriately with good decisions.
No one wants to believe that bad things happen to good people, that any person could win the "now your life sucks lottery" even with a lifetime of positive actions and intentions. It is a depressing and/or stressful thought. Unless you believe babies are born with "original sin," however, history is filled with examples. We each spin the wheel and take our chance. Every day. Usually, you get a slightly positive or slightly negative day. On rare occasions you get a life changing strong positive event, like finding the love of your life. You might also spin and get a disaster.
That we help each other through chaos and tragedy is one of the best features of humanity.


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Fresh from group 1 glory for Gai Waterhouse, Sam Clipperton will combine with the champion trainer again at Newcastle's Beaumont track on Thursday.
Clipperton will ride Waterhouse filly Prompt Response, which will be a long odds-on favourite in the 1200-metre two-year-old maiden. Last Saturday, Clipperton piloted English to victory for Waterhouse in the Randwick All Aged Stakes.
Prompt Response, which will carry just 55 kilograms, has had three starts, all in Group company. She was a half-length from the winner, Concealer, when second in a Group 3 at Flemington in November. She was beaten two lengths in the Group 2 Rosehill Magic Night Stakes last month and a head in the Group 3 Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick on April 9.
Clipperton will ride another favourite, Nic's Vendetta, for Lower Belford trainer Todd Howlett in the 1350m class one handicap. Nic's Vendetta was narrowly beaten in his past two starts on the Beaumont track.
Clipperton will also be aboard Newcastle trainer Kris Lees' only starter, Second Obsession, at the meeting. He rode the mare, which is in the 2100m benchmark 64 handicap, when she was beaten a length at Hawkesbury three weeks ago.
"Prompt Response is obviously the best of my rides and she is so well weighted," Clipperton said. "I thought she went massive when a close second in the group race last start, she went down fighting. This filly will race in the first two or three.


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Grandpa attended Roosevelt High School in Des Moines Iowa from 1931 to 1935. His favorite subjects in high school were music and drama and was active in his school's musicals and plays, usually playing the lead role. One year, he and his vocal quartet won for most "excellent" performance in Des Moines high school music contest.
Outside of class, Grandpa played football on varsity. My uncle said he remembers Grandpa telling him how he made varsity. He only weighed 138 pounds but his coach put him in at tackle with the 2nd team to go up against the varsity defense. According to Grandpa, he got in and "put the starters to shame."
It didn't surprise me to find out he was on his school's speech and debate team. Grandpa, even in his old age, could talk someone to death. He was an excellent speaker and good storyteller, but his problem was he didn't know when to stop!
From an early age Grandpa had an amazing singing voice, which he began to prove in high school. He won numerous prizes for his vocal solos and one year he even won states. He says in his journal that after high school he wanted to "continue my music education [and] excel in vocal music." ….Which is what Grandpa did.


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While visiting family in Northwest Arkansas on Labor Day Weekend, we headed over to see the Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari in Gentry. There are all sorts of animals roaming the hills there, like emus, ostriches, zebras, lions and bears. It wasn't the easiest to take pictures, since you weren't supposed to roll down the car windows. But the camels seemed to be the ones happiest to be in pictures....
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This is another drawing of a Kalahari (San) dancer...this time a child dancer. I have always been fascinated with the sight of these people.
Watching them perform is always a breathtaking experience even though majority of the dance comprises stamping of the feet hard on the ground.
They always dress in simple yet natural way. Oft wearing beads made from Ostrich eggs and clothes from animal hides.
To read more about these people see my earlier post on Kalahari (San) bushmen of Botswana.
I did this drawing with charcoal and ink on 160g Canson Mi-Teintes paper. It is 8.25" x 11.75" (A4) and has been sprayed/covered with a protective layer of fixative to prevent smudging and is ready for framing.


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- found: Doctor Who, 1997:cover (Patrick Troughton)
- found: IMDb, Dec. 2, 2005(Patrick Troughton, b. Mar. 25, 1920; d. Mar. 28, 1987; actor)
- found: Internet Movie Database WWW site, May 18, 2015:(Patrick Troughton, actor ; b. Patrick George Troughton, March 25, 1920 in Mill Hill, London, England, UK ; d. March 28, 1987 (age 67) in Columbus, Georgia, USA)
- found: IMDb, May 30, 2017:(Patrick Troughton, actor ; b. March 25, 1920 in Mill Hill, London, England, UK ; d. March 28, 1987 (age 67) in Columbus, Georgia, USA ; birth name: Patrick George Troughton ; Patrick Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London and was educated at Mill Hill School. During World War II he served in the Royal Navy and after the war ended he joined the Old Vic and became a Shakespearean actor.)
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Convivial, festive, fun, social and welcoming, you can feel the excitement in the room the moment you enter Ugly American. A play on the misperception of the American traveler abroad, we wanted to create a space where we can be playfully tongue-in-cheek about that, while offering Gin Tonics, Amaro & and a diverse international wine list. Come here before or after dinner at The Foreigner, but come here.


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And no, not the bag they give you after you buy something from the boutique. Designer Jil Sander is selling a physical paper bag with her name on it for $290. In fashion we have officially run out of things to glamorify, so we have resorted to making your sixth grader's lunch 1,000 more times fabulous than that kid with the Hello Kitty lunch box.
Warning, this is not a test. Designer Jil Sander is selling a paper bag that retails for a whopping $290. We're pretty sure that even if we bought 1,000 average paper bags and foiled them with 24 carat gold, that they still wouldn't be worth the hefty sum that the German designer is expecting.
From her Fall 2012 Autumn/Winter Collection, Jil Sander has released the medium Vasari bag in brown. According to the product description, the bag has "a long rectangular silhouette and is crafted from coated paper, features the words 'Jil Sander' printed in black at the bottom of the front panel" and has "visible brown stitched seams at each side with two gold coloured metal eyelets at the bottom".
And apparently some people have run out of places to spend their money because the Vasari bag is currently sold out. So someone have one of those rich b*stards pack us up a lunchtime snack stat. With extra foie gras and caviar, please. Oh, and hold the lobster. Does anyone else see the irony in this?


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Great news first: I won a 50€ gift certificate! It was because of this photo below and the hair dye I used: Hermans professional, Bella Blue (and Patsy Purple). I can't wait to get more hair dye and have a rainbow on my head.
And now the not as I expected news: I had my pre-op appointment this morning to get my tubes closed, but I might not be able to get it done because of my endometriosis. I wanted to cry as I left the office. I've been waiting since the beginning of the year for this appointment and my endo has to go and screw it up. I've always disliked this totally silent, pain-free and symptomless partner of mine.
I can't remember what (how much endo) was found when I had my laprascopic surgery back in November 2009. But if there was a decent amount found and removed, I should now stay on hormonal birth control to help keep the endometriosis calm and at bay. I am using NuvaRing now, but I could switch to the Mirena IUD instead.
I'm now waiting again. The doctor has asked from the hospital for my surgery details. Once she gets that, she'll send me her final recommendation of how to proceed. I'm quite sure she'll recommend no surgery and to continue with the hormonal birth control.
Do you have any experience with the Mirena IUD that you're willing to share?
For more microposts, go visit Mel's post at Stirrup Queens.


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The Stela of King Djet – a Masterpiece of Egyptian Art
A lecture by Egyptologist and Author
Marianne Eaton-Krauss
The stela of King Djet, discovered well over a century ago at Abydos in Middle Egypt, is an iconic monument of the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt. It is not widely known today that the dating of the stela to the reign of the king whose name it bears was questioned at one time. And although illustrations of it continue to be featured nowadays in many books about ancient Egypt, contemporary commentary fails to notice significant aspects of the draftsman's design and of the techniques utilized by the sculptor responsible for its creation that will be discussed in the lecture. Comparison of what has been said about the stela in the past shows how approaches to Egyptian "artifacts" have changed over time. Additional topics addressed are the acrimony surrounding the stela's discovery and sale at auction as well as the iconography of the relief it bears, where it may have originally been erected, and its purpose.
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Where To Start with Vehicles and More
Know Your Options when You Have a Severely Damaged Vehicle
To be involved in a car accident is one thing that we people will encounter at some point in our lives and regardless if this is a small or a large, still, chances of having your car being damaged too much that it will not be advisable to bring it back on road will be possible. On a general note, if the damage made to the vehicle is just too much, what you will want to do then is to make sure that you will get the most out of it instead of having it fixed.
In the event that you are planning on selling it after the incident, then you are on the right track since we will be discussing more about the various things that you could choose to incorporate just so you will be able to get back on the road in the soonest means possible.
One of the things that you should do before you decide to purchase a new vehicle is to make sure that you will want to get as much out of the damaged vehicle and salvage everything you could prior purchasing a new one. Salvaging the vehicle will then help you pay less when getting a new vehicle since you could choose to add it up as a down payment to achieve a lesser monthly bill. The amount of money you will get from the scrap car buyer will significantly depend on a range of things and some of which include the severity of the damage, and the make and model of the vehicle, as well as the engine.
It also is possible for you to consider paying for repairs instead of sending it to a scrap car buyer. There will be a range of possible options that people should look into when they decide to have the car repaired instead as this is where the overall price of the repair will rely on and in case you could catch up with the expense, along with insurance, then there will be no harm aiming for such. While it is true that some choose to have it repaired instead of selling it to a scrap car buyer, this depends on the owner, really. It could be that the car has a sentimental value that you just can't afford to lose it to a scrap car buyer.
Do your research otherwise since there are other dealers you could find that offers a specific program for parts exchange and for cases just like this. Make sure though that you will want to carefully look into the details and the fine print just so you will be well aware of the ins and outs, as well as the things that you need to know about prior the processing of papers and whatnot.


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Vol. II Lehigh County Community College, Sept. 18, 1968 No.1
Students introdUuced to activitks-:- f DR. BE R RI ERA D D RES S E S C ROW DIN CO LON I A L CON V 0 CAT ION;
Approximately five hundred freshmen
provided the audience Monday for the
introductory address give by the Pres-ident
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College, Dr. John Berrier.
For the students the Orientation
ceremony, on Monday morning September
16, was the first introduction to ad-ministration
members and sophomore
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the faculty have been selected
not on ability alone. They
have a sincere interest in to-day's
young adults and are hope-ful
students who will consult
their advisors if they are
having any difficulties.
The new school year began for
students 8:00 a.m., Monday, Sept.
16 with Fleshman Orientation. At
this time, the freshmen received
their dinks, badges, and student
handbooks. The d'ay progressed
with orientation registration
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15 Mar Ballot Results
15 March 2018
10 new Fellows elected...
We've elected 10 new Fellows:
- Katie Meheux, BA, MA, PhD. Librarian (whose work at the UCL Institute of Archaeology Library Advising takes special interest in open access, digitisation, and research training, she is currently researching Vere Gordon Childe).
- Ian Shaw, BA, MA, PhD. Lecturer and researcher in Egyptian Archaeology (has researched and published on ancient Egyptian landscape, ethnicity, technology, innovation, material culture and urbanisation).
- Timothy Purbrick, BCom. Army Officer and Art Consultant (British Army officer responsible for delivering a Military Cultural Property Protection capability, ensuring cultural heritage issues inform the Army's approach to operations).
- Robin Densem, BA. Archaeologist (following his contribution to the creation of safeguards for archaeology in the 1970s and 80s has focused on the archaeology of London through his work at MoLAS and elsewhere).
- Peter Berridge, BA. Museum and Archaeology Consultant (former director of Colchester Museum, specialist in Mesolithic and Neolithic archaeology of the West Country, Wales and Essex).
- Mary E. Harlow, BA, PhD. Associate Professor of Ancient History (has published widely on the ancient life course, dress, textile production and dyestuffs).
- Visa Aleksis Immonen, MA, PhD. Professor of Archaeology (has made significant contribution to study of medieval material culture in the Nordic countries, especially Finland, on which he has published and lectured extensively).
- James Hodsdon, BA, PhD. Independent Scholar (with expertise in the history of Gloucestershire and its surrounding area, serves as General Editor of the Gloucestershire Record Series, Chairman of the Gloucestershire County History Trust and Chair of the VCH Advisory Board among other roles).
- Jonathan Benjamin, BA, PhD. Senior Lecturer (an international expert in early prehistory, and coastal and underwater archaeology, who had published widely and led Project SAMPHIRE, an award-winning marine heritage project).
- Graham Barker, BA, MA. Retired (Council Member of the Royal Numismatic Society, has published on the coinage of the Emperor Carausis and is a founder member of the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars).


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K86 is a static sealing element designed to replace O-ring + back up ring combination.
• High operating pressures
• Interchangeable for o-ring and o-ring with back-up ring
• Can work under severe conditions
• No need for additional back-up ring
• High wear resistant
• No twisting problem on assembly
APPLICATIONAll the hydraulic applications that o-rings are being used.
Easily assembled by hand. It is very important that the assembly tools must be of soft material and have no sharp edges. Before installation the sealing element must be oiled with system oil.
K85 is a double acting cover seal for outer sealing. The diffculties faced during an o-ring assembly such as twisting , ripping was solved with this design.


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ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, February 2, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/ — The current members of Focus are Thijs van Leer, Pierre van der Linden, Menno Gootjes and Udo Pannekeet and they are pleased to announce the worldwide release of the new studio album, "Focus 11."
This is the band's first new studio album in just over 6 years and forms part of the build up to the band's forthcoming 50th Anniversary. The band is also just starting a world tour, in support of the album, which will be launched on Cruise to the Edge 2019.
The 11 track album has been released as a CD, gatefold coloured LP and Download on the band's own In And Out of Focus Records, via Cherry Red. The album features artwork by Roger Dean.
When asked about the album, Thijs van Leer responded with this poem:
Wow, my joy could not increase
To see this new release
It has Mazzel, Palindrome and Heaven
Plus a title track called Eleven
Both angelic and a beast
It's Focus, to say the least!
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text: Cape Town - Zanaco coach Mumamba Numba has revealed that Polokwane City have not made a formal approach for Salulani Phiri after the midfielder was linked with the South African club.Phiri has only just returned to training with his team-mates after a three month stint on the sidelines with a tendon injury.He sustained the knock in August in the 4-2 loss to Nkana in the FAZ Super League, which Zanaco lead with 68 points from 29 games."He was injured during the Nkana game and only resumed light training last week," Numba told Supersport.com."We haven't yet received any correspondence from the club so we are waiting for things to be formalised before we can say anything."Phiri, however, will not be ready in time for the clash against Green Eagles at the Sunset Stadium in Lusaka on Saturday.


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text: That would be Borderski's very own Alison Criscitiello. She's such a rockstar (er, icestar) that MIT's Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution showcased her adventures in science and the high mountains through a short movie and article. Our Pinnacle Peak climb, which Ali fearlessly led, is featured in both! "Sometimes you have to just try things," Ali says in the article, "even though you have no idea what the outcome is going to be." Borderski or bust!


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At about this time last year, the weather started to get sticky in Vancouver, and we were sweating it out, wondering when the baby would arrive. We'd told people we were going to adopt a baby boy from a local couple, and deep down everyone was nervous.
We'd started stocking up on baby goods. Bags of clothing, cloth diapers, a Moses basket (something I'd never see or heard of suddenly became my best friend), blankets, carriers, and all kinds of gear started magically appearing on our doorstep. I became obsessed with having newborn diapers and formula on-hand just in case. At the same time, we (meaning us and everyone we knew) were afraid of jinxing the process by getting overly ready. As a result, we had a small corner of a baby room setup, a few supplies on-hand, and bags flung in a corner.
We also met birth grama for the first time and went on a surreal movie & dinner double date with the birthparents >> Read Mama Bear
But what about Theo? How is he now, today, on his 11-month birthday? you ask.
In a nutshell, he's into everything. He can crack most child-proofing efforts, crawl under and around almost any barrier, squeeze himself through the narrowest passage imaginable to eat dirt out of my flower boxes or play with the recycling. He has thrown my pajamas in the toilet, unravelled multiple rolls of toilet papers, pulled the wires out of our stereo speakers, repeatedly knocked over plants (which were surrounded by chairs to block him out), thrown the CDS everywhere; rattled our panel curtains, spilled coffee down our white living room curtains, placed every cord we have in his mouth, emptied most drawers (which he can do while one of us is getting dressed), and cupboards. He almost broke our CD/DVD player but I managed to rescue it just in time.
He's still biting hard on our feet, necks, legs, you name it. He greets most people by attempting to tackle and /or biting them, and then sticking his fingers in their eyes, nose or mouth – smiling the entire time. It's all very impressive given he still only has six teeth. That said, are are working on taming his biting/poking/tackle habit.
I recall feeling a bit smug last month that we had a mysterious superhero in our midst who I'll call Suuuuuper-Eater! Sadly, his alter-ego Random-Whenever-The-Heck-I-Feel-Like-It-Eater emerged recently, and meals are a bit trickier. Our go-to foods (the one's he'll eat every single time) are: yogurt with maple syrup, Anjou pears, watermelon, white rice, butternut squash, baby crackers, toast with butter and scrambled egg. Ice cream, I found out tonight an his month-early 1-year-birthday party, is also a big hit (shocker!).
In cases of extreme hunger, he'll eat bbq'd chicken, asparagus, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, fusilli with tomato sauce, and the most recent big winner was a pork rib that he gnawed on for about 20 minutes. If he's not interested; however, he simply sticks his tongue out and let's the food roll down his front.
Speechwise, he's added Yea Yea Yea, Hey and Ha to his existing repertoire of babababa, bap, bap, bap, dadadada, mamamama and pfffffttttt…..
He still solid on the night-time sleep-front, going down for somewhere between 10 and 12 hours straight, with occasional early wakeups but consistently down by 7-7:30 pm. He naps for and hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon. Lately, he's been laughing softly and making cooing noises in his crib for 10-15 minutes after we put him down.
The biggest thrills for me are that he can clap on command, which is utterly charming, and the other day, he waved back at a man operating a digger.


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Note: At times I will need to source other companies to provide these quick disconnects to you. Don't be alarmed if they look a little different than the QDs that are in the photos and are a different brand.
I know this is an expensive upgrade in comparison to the cost of the Ryobi pressure washers, but I'm telling you, this will completely transform your user experience. I have bought and tried dozens of hoses. I don't think the hoses from Amazon, Flexzilla, and others are enough of an upgrade to waste your time.
The Ryobis come with a 1/4" hose. In all my testing, I measured no difference in output in either pressure or flow with this 3/8" hose even with the 100' hose length.
These hoses will come with the appropriate quick disconnects needed for your Ryobi pressure washer. They will be taped and torqued ready for use.
*You will need either a 3/8" stainless male plug for your aftermarket gun or M22 female to 3/8" plug for the Ryobi supplied gun. This is not included with this hose.
Note: QUICK DISCONNECTS DON'T HAVE A PUBLISHED WARRANTY. These are wear and tear items. All QDs are available a la carte here. I would recommend having some back-ups for when they wear out.
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The Making of International Trade Policy
NGOs, Agenda-Setting and the WTO
Hannah Murphy
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Hannah Murphy
Taking into account the empirical reality of the increasing number of NGOs actively engaged with international trade policy issues and the WTO, this book has sought to shed light on the roles undertaken by reformer NGOs in the international trade regime. I found that while NGOs do not 'restructure' states' interests as suggested by constructivist scholars, neither are they 'servants of state policy' (Haufler 1995: 108). NGOs undertake important roles, independently of states, at the agenda-setting phase of the international trade policy process, though their campaign activities inevitably assist various member states that possess complementary objectives. Specifically, through their international campaigns, NGOs publicize neglected trade-related issues; persuade other relevant actors to support their positions; boost the resources of developing member states; and highlight normative rationales for policy positions. NGOs achieve all of this despite their exclusion from the WTO decisionmaking arena. This study has thus found that NGOs certainly do matter in international trade politics, as they do in international politics more generally. In examining the literature on NGOs and the WTO, as well as scholarship on NGOs in international politics more generally (see Chapter 2), I found that the major concerns revolve around the potential of NGOs to rectify the WTO's democratic and legitimacy deficits and the role of NGOs in creating and disseminating normative ideas and values. For example, sympathy for the causes of many NGOs, especially in the areas of human rights and environmental protection, has led constructivist scholars to focus on demonstrating that normative ideas and...
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What awaits you on Netflix in 2018?
Netflix brings on visions of binge viewing sessions for compulsive couch potatoes. Every episode must be viewed in glorious full high definition on a flat panel television, a connected tablet, or a large screen smartphone. Take your pick! Netflix lovers can be militant individualists or workaday human beings coping with the daily grind. And relaxing on the couch late in the evenings. Television is under attack as more viewers cut the cord and migrate to Netflix in search of more variety and choice in their viewing habits. The Netflix blitz includes thousands of films and television shows including Hollywood classics, new releases, family-friendly viewing fare, and adult-only content for $7.99 per month.
The Truman Show
An old favorite of movie lovers, this film is coming back to Netflix early in 2018. Fans and viewers can relax and unwind as they follow the everyman (played by Jim Carrey) playing an unwitting star of an '90s era reality show. This cinematic production can leave viewers stumped as it portrays the growing media intrusion into the lives of ordinary citizens.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Coming to Netflix in late 2018, this production marks the first television show from the legendary directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. This television anthology plays along the lines of a 'western' movie. It is partly being filmed in New Mexico. The series is expected to narrate six tales about the American frontier. Stars include James Franco, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, Willie Watson, and Ralph Ineson.
Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 2
This web television series features an ex-convict armed with super-human strength and unbreakable skin. Mike Colter plays the starring role in the second season of this Netflix original. The protagonist fights crime and criminals in this production and is based on a Marvel Comics character.
Mindhunter: Season 2
Netflix has commissioned a second season of this crime drama television series. Created by Joe Penhall, the series is executive produced by Penhall, David Fincher, and Charlize Theron. Based on a true story, this FBI thriller is should have fans and viewers riveted to their screens. Season 2 sees Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) continue their many investigations into the minds of serial killers.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 2
Netflix is bringing the second season of this show based on an adaptation of the bestselling children's book in 2018. Starring Neil Patrick Harris, the second season will premiere on March 30. The lead character, Count Olaf, plays the evil uncle of three orphans who stop at nothing to steal their inheritance. Critics have praised the show as "entertaining and addictive."
Love: Season 3
This acclaimed comedy series, directed by Judd Apatow, returns to Netflix for a brand new season in 2018. The third season debuts on March 9 and stars Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust. Netflix viewers around the world "have laughed, cringed, and cried with Mickey and Gus" as they followed the journey over the two seasons. However, the upcoming third season of Love will be its last.