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**Bodhi Spa only offers Relaxation Massage. We do not offer Massage Therapy, nor do we have a Registered Massage Therapist. All Relaxation Services are completed by a licensed Aesthetician.
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Stress, muscle tension and lack of energy can all be addressed with a customized massage treatment.
After a thorough consultation, your massage therapist will provide you with the best combination of products, personalized Aveda aromas and massage techniques.
Massage treatments are recommended on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis to achieve and maintain optimal results. Your massage therapist will develop a comprehensive treatment plan designed to meet your individual needs and expectations.
90 minutes/$95
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Hot Stone Massage
The Hot Stone Massage is a 60 min & 90 min service that incorporates massage techniques with the use of warm stones. Instead of relying on the stones for the entire treatment, hands-on massage techniques are combined with the use of stones for greater benefit. Unlike many stone massages which can feel disjointed & noisy, this stone massage is designed to be smooth, quiet & effective.
You will receive a thorough consultation so the treatment will be customized to meet your needs & balance you. The Esthetician can easily customize the experience by using particular massage techniques on your most tense areas to achieve the results you desire.
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90mins- $105
Chakra Balancing Massage
The Chakra™ Balancing Massage is an innovative treatment that incorporates Aveda's Chakra™ Balancing Blend Aromas and focuses on the seven chakra centers in the body using a variety of massage techniques. The massage concludes with a guided meditation to help enhance the benefits of stress-relief, decreased muscular tension and increased energy.
60mins- $85
90mins- $105
Aroma Scalp Massage
Many guests say the scalp massage is their favorite part of a spa treatment. This massage helps relieve headaches, stress & anxiety while focusing on the scalp, neck, shoulders & arms! This scalp massage customized with an Aveda aroma made from pure flower and plant essences is a perfect enhancement to any massage, facial or body treatment.
15min add on- $25
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Welcome to our ninth Best Of edition -- the original and peerless annual publication that honors the best of what life has to offer here in the Pikes Peak region. As always, we have you, our faithful readers, to thank. More than 600 of you responded to our survey, and 10 diligent tallyers spent countless hours determining the winners. We offer the results here with our sincere congratulations.
Alongside features on dozens of the readers' poll winners, you've also find more than 50 Editor's Choice features, highlighting some of the quirkier favorites of our staff.
The talents of 11 writers made this issue possible. In alphabetical order, they are: Suzanne Becker, Noel Black, Cara DeGette, Kathryn Eastburn, Nancy Harley, John Hazlehurst, Adam Krefting, Joe Kuzma, MB Partlow, Tess Powers and Carrie Simison.
The skills of five photographers have brought these pages to life. They are: Sean Cayton, Diane Billot, Sunnie Sacks, Creighton Smith and Drew Wyeth.
And our gratitude goes to art director Kathy Conarro for the wickedly delicious illustrations that launch each section.
Thanks, again, to all who have helped make this issue a success.
-- Cara DeGette, editor
--Tess Powers, managing editor and Best Of coordinator

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Kasabian have announced that their new album For Crying Out Loud will be released on the 28th April.
The new Kasabian album will feature 12 tracks including the first single, 'You're In Love With A Psycho', which is out now.
Serge Pizzorno recently claimed that the album is about "saving guitar music from the abyss".
He informed Q Magazine: "I was listening to ESG and Talking Heads and in that kind of world, then it just took on a life of its own. I just wanted to make a guitar record that was relevant and important."
Kasabian have announced a UK and Ireland tour that will build up to the album's release. They headline Reading and Leeds Festival this summer.
The Record Press author is a little conflicted about Kasabian. I love the band and still remember the watershed moment when I clapped eyes and ears on the band for the first performing their first hit single Club Foot in 2004. It was one of those defining moments where you go "wow" – the previous time that had happened had come ten years earlier when I first saw the Oasis video for Live Forever.
Of course Kasabian were initially seen as natural bed fellows to Oasis both as guitar based band with attitude, but they quickly forged an identity in their own right.
Kasabian are the only band I have seen twice live – my reasons for being conflicted are very trivial. Basically it comes down to the East Midlands football rivalry!! Kasabian are Leicester City fans; I'm a Nottingham Forest fan. But the good news is that my love for music is greater than my love of football, so I easily overcame my parochial partisanship.
Lest we forget the energy and power of Kasabian, here is a top 5 best Kasabian songs –
Top 5 Best Kasabian songs
1) Club Foot ( No19 2004 )
2) Empire ( No9 2006 )
3) Shoot the Runner ( No17 2006 )
4) Cutt Off ( No8 2005 )
5) Fire ( No3 2009 )
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Leading High Performance Teams – New Findings from Google
A recent New York Times article described a major project at Google that studied team performance and success. This broad and deep look at both academic studies and internal data identified Psychological Safety, "a team climate characterized by interpersonal trust and mutual respect in which people are comfortable being themselves", as a critical factor in predicting high levels of team performance. Independent of differences in individual talent levels, teams in which members spoke in roughly the same proportion consistently outperformed those dominated by one or two star performers. Further, the best teams had high levels of empathy – the ability to read and be sensitive to the emotional states of other team members. So, a year plus of data analysis at Google led to what most good leaders have always known. In the highest performing teams, members all feel free to speak and are sensitive to the feelings and needs of others.
Interested in learning more, I checked out a blog post by Julia Rozovsky, People Analytics Manager at Google, that drilled more deeply into these findings. The Google research team identified a total of five dynamics that drive high performance far more than team makeup:
- Psychological Safety: Can we take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed?
- Dependability: Can we count on each other to do high quality work on time?
- Structure & clarity: Are goals, roles, and execution plans on our team clear?
- Meaning of work: Are we working on something that is personally important for each of us?
- Impact of work: Do we fundamentally believe that the work we're doing matters?
Although these findings are specific to Google, I believe that leaders of teams at any level could improve results and drive performance by creating a climate that supports these principles. What do you think?


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CETECOM, the approval partner for the automotive industry, exhibitS at the 2016 CAR 2 CAR Forum.
The 10th edition of the annual conference will take place on 26 and 27 October 2016 in the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire (United Kingdom).
CETECOM will exhibit to share the latest CAR 2 CAR information and developments as our comprehensive service portfolio includes Car2X, V2X, eCall, ERA-GLONASS, MirrorLink® and Smartphone Integration.
We are looking for to meeting you at the event next week.


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List Of Best Online Shopping Portals In India
Naming a Best Online Shopping Portal in India is as difficult task as naming the Best Businessman of the Year. A number of factors decide which one is the best. Starting from the design and simplicity of the online shopping site, to how products are branded and marketed online, to what offers and discounts are being offered and at what time of the year and what are the after sales services of the site. This is just an outline of how a certain online shopping portal can be termed as The Best.
If you go through various search engines, you will find a number of shopping portals circulating. Some of them are very famous ones like indiapalza, homeshop18, indiatimes shopping, ampee.com, humsurfer.com, metamindsindia.com, bumperoffers.com, futurebazar.com, naaptol.com and so on. All of these feature the best brands and companies in name of products they sell. These can include any category clothes, fashion and accessories, gift items, kitchenware, hardware, computers, mobile, technology, jewellery, cameras, laptops, MP3 players, camcorders, books, health and beauty, kids and toys, home appliances and so on.
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Selling Online – Ecommerce Shopping Cart Basics
An electronic shopping cart is simply a software program or code from a shopping cart provider that you can use on your website. This program or code allows visitors to select products and make purchases directly from you.
If you're selling anything online, you're considered part of the e-commerce business arena, and you absolutely need a cart.
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Looking and feeling good is always a big deal to women. They always want to look beautiful and to feel comfortable with their physical appearance. Women are even conscious about their private body parts and there are certain things that make them uncomfortable. One of them is having large or thick labia which are usually developed by working out, wearing tight jeans, and child birth.
There are varied reasons why women do not want large or thick labia. Aside from making them uncomfortable when wearing tight jeans, it can also bring them pain during sexual intercourse. It also makes them feel uncomfortable with daily activities and lessen their self-confidence.
Cosmetic labiaplasty was developed to reduce or reshape the female external genital structures such as the labia. Labiaplasty can be combined with other cosmetic surgeries and can be enhanced through liposuction.
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It would be difficult to come up with another example of nine yards of cloth which can compare with the fascinating and elegant Designer Saree. The Designer Sarees have been the most stylish as well as awe-inspiring type of the Indian Ladies Wear. Highly suited for almost very function and event as well as fully capable of enhancing the beauty of every woman, the Designer Sarees have caught the attention of ladies all over the world. Be it a festival, a family gathering or any lavish wedding ceremony, the Designer Sarees unfailingly make the women look prettier, elegant and smart. The Designer Sarees can indeed be termed as an experiment that could never go wrong.
The Designer Sarees have been the best and most suited outfit for the special occasions like Weddings. Lavish and over-the-top in many cases, the Indian weddings have been known for their larger-than-life extravaganza & lavish celebrations. Therefore, the Designer Sarees are the perfect choice for the ladies. The following points make the Designer Sarees a must-have for the Indian weddings:
Use of comfortable and elegant fabrics like silk, chiffon, georgette and cotton
Various specialized styles and designs for parties, weddings, get-togethers and normal wear
Prints and styles like floral prints, metallic prints, ethnic prints etc.
Detailed and intricate work like zari and appliqu work
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The Designer Sarees for the ladies as well as the Bridal Sarees for the brides are made with the single objective of grabbing all the attention of the guests at the wedding. The wedding day, being very special, demands an equally special outfit. Without a doubt, the Designer Sarees provide that special touch that can transform the wedding day into a memory that would stay pleasant for the rest of the life.
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Elsa Cosmetics is inspired by a friend's attempt at selling beauty products. She stopped doing it, but I thought I'd take the idea of 'what if she started an online cosmetics shop'. This is not meant to ever be an actual live website, but simply practice my design skills.
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- Latest from AP
- Pelosi urges Dems to back debt plan as crisis looms (SF Chronicle)
- House Passes Bill on Debt Ceiling (NY Times)
From AP:
The House has passed legislation designed to keep the government from defaulting on its debts. The measure also sets a course for reducing the federal deficit in the future.
The Senate, where support is stronger, is expected to take up the bill on Tuesday, the deadline for Congress to act before the government loses its ability to pay all its bills.
The 269-161 vote in the House came after Republican leaders spent the day urging recalcitrant conservatives to support the bill.
The bill would raise the debt ceiling by more than $2 trillion and cut federal spending by a similar amount over the next decade. A special congressional committee would be set up to consider entitlement and tax changes.
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- Live House coverage (C-SPAN)
- Live CNN coverage
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- Google News: Debt ceiling
- Twitter: Debt ceiling
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What's in the Bill?
- The Fine Print on the Debt Deal (Nate Silver, NY Times)
- Debt ceiling deal in one flow-chart (Ezra Klein, Washington Post)
- Full text of the bill
Selected analysis and opinion
- Can leaders find enough votes? (PBS NewsHour)
If members of Congress from both parties and in both chambers follow their leaders, the United States is all but assured of avoiding default thanks to a last-minute agreement reached with President Obama on Sunday
- Bipartisan deal, bipartisan opposition (AP)
The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise between President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a historic accomplishment of divided government, with all the disappointment that implies for the most ardent partisans inside the two major parties and out.
- Debt deal complicates liberals' support (Politico)
President Barack Obama's road to debt ceiling compromise runs right through the left wing of the Democratic Party. Much of the focus Sunday centered on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who must wrestle conservatives into line to pass the deal before Tuesday's default deadline. Yet team Obama quickly found out it is confronting an equally daunting sales jobs with a Democratic base embittered by compromise, ditched policy priorities and what many liberals view as an endless series of Obama capitulations. "If I were a Republican, this is a night to party," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, told MSNBC Sunday night.
- Will Proposed Debt Deal Cost Obama A Second Term? (Forbes)
If you look at the work of Yale economist, Ray C. Fair, it is pretty clear that anything that reduced economic growth in the nine months preceding the election is going to hurt politically...It is pretty clear that the government has run out of ideas for how to boost economic growth. But one thing that is certain to cut economic growth is a reduction in the amount of money that gets spent in the U.S. And the proposed debt deal reduces that spending by at least $2 trillion.
- Wake up GOP: Smashing system doesn't fix it (David Frum, CNN)
Let's hope that as America steps back from the brink, Republicans remember that it's their job to protect the system, not to smash the system in hopes of building something better from the ruins. That's how student radicals think -- not conservatives.
- The president Surrenders (Paul Krugman, NY Times)
For the deal itself, given the available information, is a disaster, and not just for President Obama and his party. It will damage an already depressed economy; it will probably make America's long-run deficit problem worse, not better; and most important, by demonstrating that raw extortion works and carries no political cost, it will take America a long way down the road to banana-republic status.
- The Diminished President (Ross Douthat, NY Times)
(T)he he president's approval ratings have been sinking steadily for weeks, hitting a George W. Bush-esque low of 40 percent in a recent Gallup survey. The voters incline toward Obama on the issues, still like him personally and consider the Republican opposition too extreme. But they are increasingly judging his presidency a failure anyway.
- Did Obama capitulate — or is this a cagey move? (Peter Wallsten and David Nakamura, Washington Post)
(F)or a White House eager to improve its standing with centrist independents who have been fleeing Obama, even a losing deal can be a winning strategy. Most important for the president, the agreement struck Sunday averted a government default — an outcome that probably would have hurt the U.S. economy and added to voters' frustrations with Obama's leadership.
- The myth of Obama's "blunders" and "weakness" (Glenn Greenwald, Salon)
Obama's so-called "bad negotiating" or "weakness" is actually "shrewd negotiation" because he's getting what he actually wants (which, shockingly, is not always the same as what he publicly says he wants). In this case, what he wants -- and has long wanted, as he's said repeatedly in public -- are drastic spending cuts. In other words, he's willing -- eager -- to impose the "pain" Cohn describes on those who can least afford to bear it so that he can run for re-election as a compromise-brokering, trans-partisan deficit cutter willing to "take considerable heat from his own party."
- Obama Defuses Default Bomb As Tea Party Changes Re-Election Landscape (It's All Politics, NPR)
Maybe Obama could get re-elected with a default under his belt. But it certainly would've increased the already considerable challenges facing him because of high unemployment, housing foreclosures and other spurs to economic anxiety.
- Democrats seem to end up on the short end of the deal (Washington Post)
(F)or weeks and months Republicans have warned Democrats they would only accept a deal that cut spending without raising taxes. And the deal that faces a final congressional vote Monday does exactly that. The deal includes $1 trillion in cuts over 10 years... (A)lthough the deal guarantees government will be shrunk, it merely leaves open the possibility of the kind of tax hikes on the wealthy that Democrats have demanded.
- Debt Deal Puts Off Hard Choices for Now (US News & World Report)
(W)hile Democrats and Republicans cheered their agreement, they seemed to disagree about what was in it. President Obama said the second wave of debt cuts could include revenue-boosting tax reform. "At this stage, everything will be on the table," Obama said. But House Speaker John Boehner insisted that tax increases were not, in fact, on the table. "It's all spending cuts," Boehner told Republican lawmakers in a conference call Sunday night. "The White House bid to raise taxes has been shut down." The discrepancy has to do with how the Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of legislation, which can sometimes turn a tax cut into a tax hike, at least on paper. The GOP said the deal will use current law as a baseline to estimate how much the legislation cuts the deficit--and the current law includes the expiration of the Bush tax cuts in 2012. If the committee makes any changes to the income tax code, it'll also likely have to resolve the expiring Bush tax cuts. So a small tax increase would count as a deficit-busting tax cut, because it would cancel the tax hike scheduled to go into effect at the end of 2012, or so Boehner's office argued.


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For example, take the weakness in Time Warner and CBS. "Both stocks have really gotten banged up, recently," Cramer said.
The declines would suggest that Time Warner and CBS have encountered some kind of business-related headwind.
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She seems happy eh?
I used a great tutorial from Vegbee and 8ish hours later (hard to judge between driving kids to functions and classes and having a toddler at your legs) this was the end result!
For my first real project of any magnitude, I'm alright with it. I know I can do better. I know the bottom seam is crooked, but I opted to forgo the bias tape or anything that would weigh it down more, so I folded it over. Maybe not the best choice for someone with my sewing skills.
Also, the butt is shorter than the front, even though she hardly has a butt, even with a diaper! I should shorten the front next time. (I know this photo looks like the exact opposite, it's just the way she's standing)
E makes Tyra Banks proud with her crazy angles. She probably needs to work on smiling with her eyes though.
This was quite a fun and frugal sewing project. I used 3 of S's work shirts that didn't quite fit him, cut them into strips and sewed those together, then cut them out using a template.
I could have actually done this with 2 shirts, but I liked the tricolor pattern and I had plenty of shirts to work with.
I was really moving right along, proud of myself for getting it mostly right and all the seams the right direction, etc, when this happened.
It took me forever to realize that anything was wrong, I wasted so so so much thread doing this. Don't even ask me how long it took to figure out what was happening. I'm a self taught noob, remember? S knows more about sewing than I do!
Total cost: FREE, however, I know my husband's shirt supply won't last, so thrift store bought this would be about $12 on a bad day. Yard sale bought? $3ish. I'm definitely going to make another one, but this time in my size. S has 4 or 5 green greyish shirts that will make a very lovely skirt!
(Oh, BTW, I was telling my mom about this and she freaked out, thinking I was using all of S's good work shirts lol)
Sale at Joanns
Joann's has all their fat quarters on sale for $0.99. I bought a few really gorgeous patterns and felt spoiled. I should keep better track of how much I'm spending on this crafting I started to save money 🙂
That's it for now. I'm going out with my mom to buy notions and velcro for her belly dance costume. Now that's another great story…


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I'm going to be a bit weird with the order and save Part 2 for another time to type up.
I'll jump ahead to Part 3 which is the present.
I'm currently a month out from the full Steam Release. Today I sent out a bunch of press emails to journalists and youtubers that I've spoken to before.
It's right in the middle of GDC, so I wouldn't be surprised if everyone is super busy right now. I had one reply back but they weren't able to commit to covering the game on launch day because of the volume of news they had.
I know I shouldn't get too bummed out, but I can feel that elation I had last week from checking off a bunch of tasks starting to slide away, and I can't seem to grab on to it.
Being an indie is a horrible roller coaster of emotions sometimes - it is super easy to slip really quickly into depression. It's happened to me countless times to the point where all of my energy gets sapped away and I'm unable to even get out of bed.
Another thing that I've allowed to get away from me lately is my physical health. I've been eating horribly for the past 3-4 months and I've dropped 5 days a week exercise down to 1-2 now.
Even though the launch is a month away, I can't afford to be too slack with my physical health. It's a vicious cycle really - the less healthy I am, the less energy I have, which means I will be that much more vulnerable to depression. It's a downwards spiral that could easily ruin more than just the game launch.
I have to buckle up and really look after myself from tomorrow onwards - both physically and mentally.
Back to the game. So from here on in, I've been waiting for a video editor to finish off the launch trailer, which I'll pass on to our music contractor guy who is currently at GDC. He says should comfortably have that all finished next week, which will mean it will be ready for the 2 week out press release.
That will be the crucial one as it will essentially be a "media bomb" where I go through a massive list of hundreds of youtubers, twitchers, press etc. Speaking of the list, it's about a year out of date, so I'll have to update it in the next week or so - oh boy no wonder no one else in the team likes to do marketing!
I feel like things are more or less on track with the marketing. I haven't really been looking at the game itself, so I pray that the other guys have that all in hand. I need to sit down with the team at some stage to look at the current status of the game itself. I'm going to dedicate an hour tomorrow to look at it when I'm at MOTAT.
Being the team leader is pretty cool sometimes, but often times I feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders. The pressure is far more intense than my most trying projects in IT.
Another challenge is thoroughly stifling any hope of the game become an immense success. It' pretty unlikely that will happen at all. Consciously, success to me would be making back all the money we spent to date. If we could compensate ourselves for all the time we've spent, then I would call that a massive success.
The problem we secretly have as game devs is that we sometimes allow a small speck of ourselves to secretly hope that the game will be the next Minecraft, DayZ, Undertale etc. Media always covers the massive hits, and conveniently ignores all the failures. I think we all subconsciously sometimes allow ourselves to thing "just maybe!".
But this is as unrealistic as it is dangerous. Firstly if we even let that small speck survive, we will be completely spiritually crushed if is anything less than a hit.
Secondly I see many of my fellow devs go all in financially to get their game out. If it is anything less than a hit then effectively they cannot sustain themselves which would mean effectively the team would need to look for full time jobs and break up.
I almost fell into these traps last year.
Financially, I went all in for more than a year, with the assumption that my wife would be able to sustain the household. That went horribly wrong and almost put us under which would have meant the game would have been collapsed.
During the Steam Early Access Release, even though I made an effort to dissuade anyone who said to me that the game might be a hit, subconsciously I allowed myself to entertain that thought. "What if" right? Wrong.
The game didn't do terribly - it actually did really well all things considered, but because I held on to that ridiculous spark of hope, I felt completely devastated.
It was unrealistic and stupid of me. I won't think that way at all for the Full Release - I'm going to keep my expectations firmly grounded. If we make a modest amount out of it then I will be really happy.
Plus the household is now set up so that I'm not betting the farm if the absolute worst happens, i.e. the game makes nothing at all.
If that does happen, then all we will do is wrap up the game and rock right into the next one we have planned. There will be no moping around.
This is a long term journey, and I won't forget that. I have to remind myself that I'm in this for the joy of making games, not to be rich. There are many easier ways of getting rich, but I wouldn't (didn't) enjoy it.
I think that's super important to keep perspective, I mean what I'm doing now is what I've dreamed of doing since I was 3 years old. I just have to remind myself continually that I'm living my dream! Wanting to be super rich is just greed on my part - I don't really need to be. If can make a living and have a roof over my head from doing this then that is real success!
If one day in future I do make some moderate amounts of money and have some semblance of success, I think it would enable me to help all the other indies around me (e.g. in The Arcade Auckland). I've always dreamed of empowering our indie dev community - there are so many amazing and deserving individuals around. It would be an honor to have the ability and credibility to help these amazing people.


text: I am a positive force to the people around me. My adventurous soul always leads me to exciting places and opportunities. Slopes of all shapes and sizes, but thumbs up to longer runs. Paddle boarding with a packed lunch and a dry bag with art supplies and a sketch book. Decorating bikes with a new paint job and a touch of Ray Ray (me). Classic rock oldies from "Over the Hills and Far Away" by Led Zeppelin to "September" by Earth, Wind, and Fire. Yoga with my grandma. Biking with my dog as if we're Dorothy and Toto on an adventure. All these experiences inspire uniquely uncommon ideas that provide the basis for both my traditional and graphical illustration in addition to ideas for improving gear towards mountain riders. Known for asking many questions to make sure I understand any problem given to me to solve. People tell me that I make them feel like family and remember my contagious smile years after they've met me.


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So Aldrius are you ever going to do Alliance and Horde like you did Forsaken and Night Elves?
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I'm actually stumped as to what I'd CHANGE mostly.
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You could sex up some of the Alliance units like the Knight by giving him a charge like ability.
Maybe make the dwarven tank like the Terran siege tank having a stationary anti unit aoe canon mode and then an anti building ramming mode, that would make it also take the role of the Mortar team.
Maybe a dwarven melee unit other than the Mountain King(which should stay a hero IMO).
Maybe have a Barracks that wil create human units, so maybe footmen knights and priests.
Then a dwarven structure that trains dwarven units, Mountaineers, dwarven melee unit, and gryphons.
And then a Tech Lab or something that creates gnomish and tech units, so maybe a Mage, a tank, and a robot or something.
Just some ideas.
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Well the changes I made weren't focused so much on races, but on gameplay with flavour changes where appropriate.
One thought I had was to add a Varian-type hero (probably be a dwarf in multiplayer). The berzerker.
Heroic Throw
The Berzerker throws his weapon at a target enemy, striking all enemies behind him in a line. (So like Shockwave I guess)
Heroic Charge
Berzerker pounces at a single target enemy unit. (Basically like Blink, but must be targeted to an enemy unit) Stunning all nearby enemies in the process for 3/5/8 seconds.
Heroic Aura
The Berzerker inspires all nearby friendly units. Increasing their... I'm not sure. The human's main theme is solid units with slow movement speed and lots of defensive-focus. I guess this could improve their damage and gives their attacks a slow-aspect. (That might be too strong, though.)
Ultimate is Avatar
The Berzerker channels the spirits of his ancestors, transforming him into a giant stone version of himself.
Paladin and Archmage would be relatively unchanged, except Devotion Aura would gain a movement speed boost, and the Paladin would ride a horse, while the Archmage would lose his horse.
Units at the Barracks would be the same. I think I'd probably give the Rifleman something. As it is, he's pretty much identical to the Archer/Blood Archer/Headhunter. So it'd probably be some sort of ability... but again, defensive focus. So... I dunno. Maybe 'bunker down' increases their attack damage but greatly reduces their movement speed. I think that could work. Knights having the charge ability could work really well. I can't think of who else would get that power.
Casters would be very similar, the human casters are pretty iconic. You'd have... lesse... draenei priest, I suppose. And a gnome mage. Or a draenei mage too, I dunno.
Abilities would be pretty close to the original. Heal, dispel magic, inner fire for the priest. Slow, Invisibility, Poly for the mage. I'd want to change it up a bit, but again, human casters are very iconic and I can't think of anything better.
Workshop... I'd probably get rid of Mortor Teams, make Siege Engines the primary siege unit for the humans. (In order to provide more racial diversity.) 'Siege Mode' would be a possibility, I suppose. Probably make it so that they had a mode for attacking buildings and a mode for attacking units, but both were mobile. Gyrocopter seems okay, not sure what I'd make the third unit, though. Probably some sort of support walker.
I'd also make the workshop INCREDIBLY gnomish and quirky in design I think. Then you have gryphons at the aviary, and I'm not sure what I'd change about them, so there you have it.
Sorry I didn't go through it unit by unit, I just couldn't really be bothered, I'll do Orcs sometime soon. I have a few more ideas for them I think. Humans are just really cohesive and sensible already I found.
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Also Varian might not even take a major role in the Alliance campaign, and Blizzard could always give him a custom class only used in the campaign.
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Well using Jaina as the new basis for the Archmage might help. Heck, just make the Sorceress its own hero class to fit things better if not. Warcraft could always use some options, and having multiple options for an 'Archmage' would.
As for a Warcraft 4, if they keep the Hero system I'd love to see some 'spec' options to promote diverse gameplay beyond what they have now. Give more hero options on top of the basic ones. Maybe you can choose race/class combos for your heros that give them different abilities. If you choose a Draenei Paladin, effectively a 'Vindicator', you get stronger Holy spells. If you choose a Dwarf Paladin, you get a bonus to Strength and Defense. Humans get a bonus to their auras and any command-type abilities (more effective Ressurection?)
Wargear like the way it's done in Dawn of War would be pretty cool too, to be able to kit out your heroes with class-specific gear that makes them more badass.
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Well from what I've gathered from Blizzard's moves in WoW I feel that WCIV, if it ever comes, will come with the current Alliance and Horde more or less intact.
The way I envision it is having several tiers of units, that is four or five as opposed to three as we have in Starcraft II. Basically we would get two super factions that have many more units then is ordinary for a RTS, basically each faction would have about two times as many units then a single faction has in SCII. Since the times of TFT WoW has added many iconic units in both factions, so I would like to showcase as many of those as possible to increase the difference between the factions.
I wrote this idea in more detail once, but since I think it was on the old suggestion forums which went the way of the dodo, it is sadly lost forever.
Another thing I remember writing about this is that I envision all Horde units being trained in common ground/magic/air/water training buildings while the Alliance units are trained from separate buildings for each subfaction/race, to exemplify the alliance part of the faction. Or vice versa depending on which faction is more unified at the time.
Now while I love to have more factions as to have more units and lore this just seems as the most logical conclusion of many decisions of Blizzard's in WoW.
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Separating some of the races would allow for a more coherent and focused visuals.
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Don't want a Warcraft 4 RTS. Would really like a single-player Warcraft RPG, something like Dragon Age or The Witcher.
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I would love a Skyrim-like Warcraft, based in Lordaeron of course!
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The same game could include a basic Orc prequel campaign on Draenor, unconnected to the Azeroth events. If the Orcs have such a proud martial heritage, surely they fought in at least SOME random wars before the daemon corruption. I loved how the Orc Act I for Beyond the Dark Portal was entirely a civil war between the Draenor clans. Just throw in some Ogres and Draenei, and make up a war that hasn't been described yet. It'd be a great chance to show the difference between the old "noble warrior" Orcs that are part of lore now and the "evil daemonic" Orcs of the original games.
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I had a cool idea involving the Alliance, the Forsaken, Horde and the Zandalari Empire, but, I can't write well enough to make it sound good.
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Okay, I'm in the right mood:
Town Hall:
Peasant - Basic worker unit for the humans. Basically the same. Can be converted to militia at local town hall, can speed up building by working together.
Footman - Solid basic infantry. Has high armor, but relatively low damage. Can use the 'hold out' ability. Which reduces all ranged damage taken (magic including spells, and piercing) but slows the footmen down.
Rifleman - Solid basic artillery unit. Can use the defend ability, and has an upgrade which increases their range. The hold out ability for Rifleman is also available (shares a research) when using Hold Out, Riflemen are slowed, but their range and damage is increased.
Knight - Solid basic infantry. Has the charge upgrade, which increases their HP and allows them to charge into battle. Knights have about the same survivability as footmen, but are much faster and deal more damage. (But cost more of course)
Nexus of Cosmic Energy:
Draenei Priest:
Has the heal, dispel magic and inner fire abilities.
Draenei Mage:
Has the slow, invisiblity and polymorph abilities.
Like I said, I have no idea, and I think these are solid to begin with.
Fast moving aerial bomber. Good for scouting and are good aerial support for ground-based armies. Deal high damage at long range.
Siege Engine:
Powerful siege machine. Has two modes. Siege Mode, in which they have incredible defensive prowess and are mobile, also deal large amounts of damage to buildings at short range, but can only attack buildings. And Artillery mode. This allows the Siege Engine to attack units, but only units. Dealing long-range siege damage (in a sort of forked-lightning type effect) which slow the enemy. But they are immobile in this mode.
Powerful, slow moving walker. Has medium range. Launches a barrage of missiles that deal single-target damage.
Gryphon Aviary:
Gryphon Rider:
Powerful winged fighter. Good at assaulting entrenched positions and bombing the enemy.
Slow-moving, but powerful ranged attacker. Has Blizzard ability (which damages and slows attack rate), as well as Mass Teleport, Brilliance Aura and Time Warp. Mass Teleport now has three ranks. The first only teleports the Archmage to a target town hall. The second rank teleports him to a target friendly unit. The third teleports him and nearby friendly units to a target friendly unit. Time Warp creates a giant time bubble at a target location. Freezing all units in it in place.
Holy Light now works like Shockwave. Healing all friendly living units and damaging all enemy undead units in a straight-line. Like Light of the Dawn. Divine Shield works much the same, except instead of making the Paladin immune it creates a shield which can be attacked and broken through, and also protects him from all spells and effects. Devotion Aura is much the same except it increases movement speed as well as armor and is called Crusader Aura. Their ultimate is Redemption. This summons a spirit of redemption which will ressurect 6 nearby friendly dead guys, and heal all friendly units around the Paladin for 30 seconds. (This way you don't need to have actual dead for this to be useful.)
Mountain King (Varian is called something different, but has all the same abilities):
Iconic Dwarven warrior. Has the Mighty Throw ability, this chucks the Mountain King's weapon at an enemy, stunning them and dealing damage. Heroic Charge: The Dwarven Warrior leaps to the defense of a comrade, charging to a nearby allied unit, and stunning all enemy units around the target unit. Bash: Passive. Slows the attack rate and movement speed of every unit the Berzerker attacks. Avatar is their ultimate and it is the same.
Gnomish Tinkerer:
Ingenious gnome inventor. Has the Pocket Factory ability. This pocket factory summons slow-moving tinker robots. These robots are very weak offensively, but are quite sturdy. It also has the ability to create a ticking time bomb. This time bomb will be summoned at a target location, and after a set interval explode. His third ability is Engineering upgrade, increasing the rate the Pocket Factory summons goblins and reducing the time delay of time bomb, and enhancing their ultimate: Robo-gnome. Transforms the Gnome into a robot, which has increased armor and does more damage, particularly to buildings. (Okay, this is just a goblin tinkerer as a gnome, sueee me.)
Okay, I decided four heroes makes more sense. Maximum of three. I'll add an undead and Night Elf hero at the bottom.
The focus of Orcs is generally on UNBELIEVABLE destruction. Unlike the undead, who overwhelm their enemies with tricks and minions, the Orcs are focused on overwhelming their opponents through sheer brute force and fire power. If humanity is the immovable object, then the Horde is the unstoppable force.
Great Hall:
Peon: Builds stuff. Says 'work, work'. Can go into burrows to chuck spears at things.
Grunt: Powerful berzerker warrior. Can get the Berzerker Strength upgrade, which increases their attack rate and movement speed.
Headhunter: Powerful spear-thrower. Can get the Berzerk upgrade. This increases their attack rate and movement speed, but makes them take more damage.
Demolisher: Powerful long-range siege weapon. Has incredible destructive power, and has the burning earth upgrade. This upgrade can set fires to trees (starting a forest fire), and when it attacks units, begins to scorch the earth. Causing a powerful AoE ground effect.
Beast Cage:
Raider: Fast-moving raider. Slow-attack rate but powerful strikes. Has the Ensnare ability.
Kodo Beast: Has aura which increases the attack rate of nearby units.
Wyvern: Raider. Fast-moving, has poisoned tipped spears which deal increased damage over time. But does not stack. (Essentially you want to poison as many targets as possible and then fly away)
Troll Bat-rider: Benefits from the Scorched Earth upgrade of the Demolisher. Can suicide into enemy flying units dealing AoE damage. Very fast-moving. Also a good raider, but more vulnerable and longer range.
Spirit Lodge:
Same old Shaman. Powerful support warrior. Has lightning shield, cleansing wave, an ability that works like chain heal, except instead of healing, it dispels buffs from hit targets (can bounce from enemy to friend and back) this looks like water and of course Bloodlust.
Spirit Walker:
Tauren shaman. A spirit guide for his people. Is an effective scout and support unit. Has the basic spirit link spell. A small change is that you may target enemy units as well. And a percentage of any damage your units sustain will be transfered to the target unit. (Heroes are immune) Their second spell is transcendance. A target unit is banished and their movement speed is increased dramatically. Their final spell is spirit transfer. A target friendly unit is targeted, the Spirit Walker will transfer that unit's soul to himself and effectively become that unit for a time. Can be cancelled at any time, but costs a great deal of mana and has a cooldown.
Tauren Totem:
Tauren Marauder:
Incredibly powerful, massive melee fighters. Have the ability to strike a unit with their totems, sending out a powerful shockwave.
War Seer
With the establishment of Durotar as a nation, a new breed of younger, more eager shaman have arisen. Influenced by the legendary shamanism of Thrall and Drek'thar, but the war-like nature of Garrosh Hellscream, these shaman are warriors without peer. Using the elements as a weapon, they crush their enemies. Their first ability is a classic chain lightning. A bolt of lightning is sent from one enemy to another one of after the other. Their second ability is Earth Spike. A powerful earthen spike is thrust from the ground, impeding the movement of enemies. (Works basically like Force Field from StarCraft 2) Increased ranks of this ability reduce it's mana cost and cooldown. Their final two abilities are incinerate and cataclysm. Incinerate works much the same as the Fire Lord's version of the ability. It is autocast. With every attack a debuff is applied to an enemy, dealing more damage every time the shaman attacks. Eventually, when the enemy with this debuff is destroyed, they explode, damaging nearby enemies. Cataclysm is an incredibly powerful ability, an area is targeted, and on this area a lightning storm will begin, damaging units, eventually after a time, a massive earthquake will erupt from the ground, damaging buildings and slowing the movement speed of units, then a volcano will spout from the earth, spouting lava into the air. (So basically begins with hurricane, then turns into earthquake, and finally volcano.)
Unlike the wizened, skilled blademasters of old, these new brand of Blademasters are keen, aggressive killers. Instead of using Wind Walk to hide in the shadows like a ninja, the Blademaster has an ability called Bloodthirst. This ability increases the Blademaster's attack speed and movement speed, but also increases the amount of damage he takes. He also has a power called Bone Chilling Scream. The Blademaster screams, causing his enemies to shake with fear, reducing their movement speed and armor. His third ability is Cleaving Attack, rather than strategically striking a single target, these new blademasters attack in a cleave, striking an area of effect with each attack. Their final ability is bladestorm, which is the same as the classic Blademaster, spinning in a circle striking all nearby enemies.
Tauren Chieftan:
The Tauren Chieftans are a band of-- oh never mind. The Tauren Chieftan is an elite Tauren warrior. Leading his allies into battle, while the Blademaster is an engine of pure agression and destruction, the Chieftan is a much more focused warrior. Charging Bull: The Tauren Chieftan charges at a target enemy unit, striking them down and stunning them. War Stomp: The Tauren Chieftan smashes the ground, stunning all nearby enemy units. Endurance: The Tauren Chieftan's movement speed and health are increased. Reincarnation: Upon dying the Tauren Chieft will be resurrected.
Troll Voodoo Master:
The Troll Voodoo Masters are a sect of Darkspear Trolls formed by Chieftan Vol'jin. Combining the dark magic of the Troll Shadow Hunter with the shamanism of their Orcish allies, they try to maintain the ancient traditions of the Horde and their own tribe in the face of an ever changing world. Their first ability is Healing Wave. The Voodoo master unleashes a stream of water, which travels from one target to another, healing less with each volley. Their second ability is earthen imprisonment. A target enemy unit is trapped in dark earth. Voodoo Orb: Passive. The Voodoo Master summons a small ball of shadow energy. The Orb will follow the Voodoo master around and any attacks the Voodoo master makes the Orb will follow up with an attack of the same strength. The Big Bad Voodoo: All nearby friendly units are encased in dark magic, protecting them from x damage and increasing their attack power. This spell must be channeled, if the Voodoo Master is stunned, interrupted or killed then the effect is lost.
Had lots of ideas for the Orc heroes anyway, but I really don't know what I'd change about humans. I see them as a very defensive race, and I wasn't sure how to make that fun and interesting without making them too much like the other races. I wanted to remove a lot of the overlap as well. (So for example, no one but the Undead have any really strong summoning spells) I wanted to make Big Bad Voodoo more offensive, but I wasn't sure how to do that without just making it another 'increases damage/attack rate/etc.' thing. Gonna add one more hero to the Night Elf and Undead ranks as well.
"The Demons did their job well. You creatures are as reckless and bloodthirsty as they ever were."
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Maybe, we can have some races separately. Humans(who would be the ranged attackers and spellcasters) should be paired with Worgen(who would be the melee attackers and stealth users)as both races are highly versatile and it would be great to see them balancing magic and technology in a RTS game. Dwarves(who would be the frontliners) can be paired with Gnomes(tech like flying machines) and draenei(who would be the spellcasters). No need of high elves because they would be too similar to blood elves. Blood elves can be paired with the Forsaken and the Goblins. Night Elves should be completely a separate faction. Then Orcs can be paired with Trolls and Tauren. Also, Pandaren, like the Night Elves, should also be separate.
Separate implies that the faction can only build members of said race. Basically Humans(and Worgen) will be the jack-of all trades faction, Dwarves(and Gnome and Draenei) can be the tech-faction, Blood elves, Forsaken and Goblins can be similar to Undead from Warcraft 3, but this time,with Blood elf spellcasters, and since Forsaken do not have frost wryms, the Goblins can provide air units. Orcs(Trolls and Tauren) can be users of Brute force, with Orcs and Tauren doing the melee while Trolls do ranged attacks and spellcasting.
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Honestly, I would love if they did it like Civ5. I think Warcraft works best as a world, rather then just endless battles.
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I'd like to see the implementation of a Talent system and the inclusion of Quests or objective-driven goals.
The basic premise of this system is a point-based Tech Tree that gives you choice-driven bonuses to your army, similar to the current Talents system in WoW. These bonuses will help drive a style of gameplay that suits your army and hero composition, either to make up for a weakness or playing to your army's strengths. An example of Talents for Warcraft 3's Alliance faction:
Tier 1 Talents
Non-mounted Ground units gain 10% movement speed
Dwarven Units gain 25% splash damage for all attacks
Human Units gain 25% spell resistance, Defend also reflects magic damage
- Makes footmen and knights more durable against spells and aoe
Tier 2 Talents
Gain 'Brilliance Aura' for all heroes, Archmage gains Ice Barrier spell
- Can be taken if you want Brilliance sans Archmage, or to boost your Archmage gameplay
50% Armor value is added as Damage
- Promotes the use of Paladins, Priests and Armor Upgrades
Unlock Worgen Assassins, a fast-moving melee unit that deals slow-poison
- Good for worker harass, hero-killing or a supplement for a mobile army. Fills a certain role the Alliance lacks in their basic army lineup.
Just like Creeping became a core part of Warcraft 3's gameplay, Questing would be an extention of PvE gameplay within a PVP setting. Quests are non-repeatable objectives that will reward you with Talent points. An example of a quest:
Spend 500 wood
Build a Tier 2 building
Kill 10 creeps
Obtain a lvl 4 hero (Tier 2)
Kill a Champion creep (Tier 2)
Take an expansion (Tier 2)
Half of the quests will be guaranteed as a part of your core gameplay (spending 500 wood) while the other half is gained through actively pursuing them (killing champion creeps, taking an expansion). Since everyone has the same quests, you can slow down your opponent by stealing their creeps or killing their lumber-harvesters. The second tier of Talents are also unlocked by doing some of the harder quests, so it's a race to get to them as quickly as possible.
Quests and Talents will not necessarily put you in the lead or win you the game, but they are subtle advantages that help diversify gameplay and add an extra element of strategy.
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I'd want all the races to be separate.
It seems absurd they would not individually be able to hold their ground without the aid of allies. Any country in history which could only survive doing that... Doesn't survive now.
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In times of war however, you draw lines and gather allies. Look at WW2, every country was falling to the superior military forces of the Nazis UNTIL they allied together to fight the greater threat.
Most Wars (aside from civil wars and revolutions) involve more than two countries fighting each other. As cool as it could seem having individual armies break off into their own factions, I don't think the factions themselves have a strong enough identity compared to a mix. You'd have a lot of overlapping roles and filler units for each race that wouldn't have strong identities, like a 'dwarf magic caster', 'Orc ranged unit', 'Tauren worker'. Just my thoughts on the matter.
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I'd want shifting alliances, like fourth century BC Greece.
Oh! Extracubical thought! All the races have separate structures and units and are treated individually, but in any given battle the sides might be composed of any combination thereof. That is, the player would control a different lineup of factions for each mission. For one, perhaps you've got an army of Night Elves, Tauren, and Draenei teaming up against the Orcs and Trolls, but for the next mission you have the Draenei, Dwarves and Humans fighting against the Tauren, Trolls and Blood Elves. You have access to all the structures and resources available to your controlled factions and have to learn to synergize them in different ways. For multiplier, you could select three races or factions for your alliance before the match while your opponent does the same.
It would be an ungodly bitch to balance, but what do we pay you for?
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Given how complex Alliance and Horde became since Warcraft 3 came out, I'd try customizable armies... Basically, Alliance and Horde have roles like infantry, artillery, cavalry, etc. with their own abilities. You then customize if you wanna human infantry (Footmen), dwarven artillery (Riflemen), night elf cavalry (Huntress)... These choices are made before you enter the map, actually.
This would just be just skins of course. You dwarf riflemen or night elf archer would be essentially the same with few mechanical variations. Maybe each race could have some special racial ability that come with their units (if you choose Night Elf units, for example, they have Shadowmeld, while Dwarven units may turn to stone to absorb damage for a short time, Trolls regenerate faster). A few units could have different bonuses per-race, like mages having a few different spells.
This way, someone could make his personal army an all-Draenei (Alliance) or all-Troll (Horde) army.
This would also allow Blizzard to make a campaign in which the units change depending on story. When you go to Quel'thalas you use mostly a Blood Elf army, for example. There could also be campaign-only units that are more unique, with their own special abilities.
I have no idea of what could be the other factions beyond Horde and Alliance, thought. Maybe we don't even need more than that.
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The amount of weight you can lose with Capsiplex depends on how regularly you use it as per the directions.
Its basic ingredient-Capsicum extract- can enable you to burn 270 calories each day.
Going by this average, you can very well expect to lose around 25 pounds in one year provided you use it regularly even though you may be a lazybone staying on the couch.
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As claimed by the manufacturers, you can lose around two pounds a week. Going by this number, you can lose 52 pounds of flesh in one year. And if you take proper diet- fat free, that is- and also take regular exercise, you can lose an additional 50 pounds per year. The total weight loss per year would, thus, be 100 pounds.
This goal, mind you, is not at all unrealistic. What is needed is trust, dedication, perseverance and regularity in taking Capsiplex pill, proper diet and regular exercise.
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Do not complicate the process of weight loss unnecessarily and why wait for some future time? There is no better time than now.


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Simple Pleasures
Here is a card I made to enter in a challenge at Stamp TV
It was a Sketch Challenge and I had a great time participating.
4.25 by 4.25 inch card
I used Gina K stamp set Spring has Sprung by Rupa Shevde. I stamped my image with Memento Tuxedo black ink onto Gina K Pure luxury, heavy weight card stock. colored my image with Prisma colored pencils, and used a blending stump and Odorless Mineral Spirits to blend with. I used Gina K patterned paper pack Sunshiny Day.This was a fun little card to make and I really enjoyed it!!
If you have any questions please feel free to leave me a comment and I will get right back with you
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Sam Beam, better known by his performace moniker Iron and Wine, is without a doubt one of the most influential modern American Folk artists to ever strum an acoustic guitar. His string of highly influential releases, starting in 2002 with his debut LP The Creek Drank The Cradle, led to an army of imitators and was the stepping stone for dozens of modern Folk artists to enter the semi-mainstream. His legendary "whisper Folk" sound perfectly evoked the feeling of listening to a light wind rustle a Georgian oaks branches as dogs barked in the distance.
Yet since Beam released his most successful album, the unforgettable Our Endless Numbered Days, in 2004, he has done everything in his power to completely abbandon the sound he pioneered and the sound that made him such a legend. When Beam dropped the truly incredible The Sheppards Dog on his unsuspecting fanbase, it was met with as vicious a reprisal as any album has ever received from a belegured fanbase. The Sheppards Dog was so massively different from anything Beam had done before: no longer was Beam strumming a guitar or banjo as he whispered poetry over the fleeting notes. Now, with a full band of musician, Beam went into a smokey, psychedelic Country Rock direction, and many of his long time fans were disgusted. Which of course was insane, as The Sheppards Dog was an adventerous masterpiece the likes of which has not been seen since(opinions are grand, no?).
Now four years later, Beam is back with Kiss Each Other Clean, and the neon-colored and LSD-influcence cover art was to many a grim foreshadowing of what was to come for Beam, who seemed to delight in angering his original fanbase. But the glory of Kiss Each Other Clean becomes evident from the first track: loaded with synth, electric guitars, layered vocals and keyboards, "Walking Far From Home" would seem to be yet another slap in the face to the old fans while high fiving those fans who embraced The Sheppards Dog. But it isn't. In fact, much of Kiss Each Other Clean is a synthesis of Beam's early work and his new, progressive style. "Walking Far From Home" is the perfect example of this: a soaring, high volume love-letter to the lo-fi solo folk of days gone by.
Throughout Kiss Each Other Clean we see this stark, beautiful contrast. One minute Beam is mastering soft rock with "Tree By The River," then returing to his solo Folk roots with "Glad Man Singing," right before upping the Funk to 11 with "Big Burned Hand." Beam no longer whispers his cryptic poetry however: his vocal strength is better than ever on this album, and no Beam's mild falsetto has the power and emotion that his earlier work was missing. Beam is never more haunting then on the final track, "Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me" as he declares "we will/become/become" to a crescendo of static, saxaphones and blaring electric guitars. This is not the Beam you discovered back in High School.
Despite an eternally grim chorus of detractors, Beam has easily shaken his past and embrace a future eterally bright with possibilites. No longer limited by his own innovation, Beam is free to explore whatever he wishes to explore, and we are all invited along on his journey. Consider me one of those ready to follow him to wherever his path takes him.
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Critical Linking: September 11th, 2013
Percent of U.S. adults who can't read: 14%
Just….man. Crap.
Exercise both your body and mind. You can now read while on a treadmill or an elliptical machine.
A hardware/software combo that moves the text on your tablet to match your eye movement while running. Kinda silly, kinda cool.
Turns out, tenured and tenure-track professors underperformed on both the inspiration and preparation fronts. Controlling for certain student characteristics, freshmen were actually about 7 percent more likely to take a second course in a given field if their first class was taught by an adjunct or non-tenure professor. They also tended to get higher grades in those future courses. Taking an intro class with a non-tenure track instructor increased a student's mark in their second class by between .06* and .12 grade points, depending on controls. The freshmen who got the biggest boost tended to be less academically qualified students, judged by SAT scores and such, in the hardest subjects.
One of the very weird side effects of tenure, which I've seen first-hand from both sides of the lectern.
Celebrated Russian author Leo Tolstoy's entire body of work – all 90 volumes – along with comprehensive biographical materials has been posted online and will be available for free, a descendant said Thursday.
90 volumes. Tolstoy apparently didn't suffer from writer's block.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Playing with Tiny Ice
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Love this simple activity too! We did something similar last year with star shaped ice. Where did you get that clear tray in the pic? Thanks for sharing at the Weekly Kid's Co-op!ReplyDelete
Ice play is such fun! I love these tiny cubes.ReplyDelete
What a great idea! I am always looking for new activities for my daughter--this is something that I think she will love!ReplyDelete
I'd love it if you link up at my Teaching Time for Toddlers post. (Feel free to link up as many posts of anything of yours that is relevant that you'd like!)
This is a good material for kids to practice ice carving sculpture. I tried playing with a tray like this one when I was a kid and I can say that it is really satisfying when I am done creating my mini sculptures.ReplyDelete
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With digital camcorders and video editing software falling in price all the time, do not need to Roman Polanski to make your own movies these days. Ulead VideoStudio has been at the forefront of the market for budget video software for some time and this latest version promises even more value for users seeking hard-up make videos, fix your home movies or produce documentaries about his life.
The application certainly looks good on paper, with a series of new tools for working with HD, and a group of templates, video effects and filters, and capturing tools. There are three different packages with applications suite, catering to the different needs and skill levels, as Movie Wizard and DV to DVD Wizard. However, the main use, VideoStudio Editor, where all the action happens.
The program certainly has some decent editing functions, including an extended storyboard to view and order the scenes (next to the time line everywhere), another big scene preview window, title templates and text, audio tracks voice narration and a soundtrack, and built-in instrumental scores to fit the length of the movie. The user interface does not make it so bad a job in making all these features easy to avail, but still have the most virgin film producers a while to grasp the basics.
There is no doubt that with a little practice, you can evoke some decent looking creations in the package, but you will experience some setbacks along the way. The main problem with VideoStudio has always been pressure on system memory and unfortunately, this does not appear to have been adequately addressed in this release. Load times are cripplingly slow and unless you are using a NASA computer previewing complex edits can be a horrible experience, with audio clips and jumping and being frequently.
Other annoyances include the fact that you can move forward and backward in the preview window of the scene, and the ease of zoom in the timeline is not powerful enough. Interestingly, given its support for the new HD disc format, Ulead seems to have forgotten to include support for Blu-Ray as well. Another point to note is that several users have beaten Softonic technical support very poor, with many reports that your questions are answered consistently. Come on Ulead, if you're going to carry out a program which sometimes falls at least give the customer a little help to fix things.
Despite its flaws, VideoStudio has enough features to allow quite sophisticated moviemaking, and is fairly easy to use once you become familiar with the interface. However, if you are looking for reliability, then you probably would be better off looking at one of the other editing applications low cost as Adobe Premiere Elements or PowerDirector.
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Toshiba Hd A30Reviewing: Toshiba Hd A30 | Rating:
I feel like I should cry myself to sleep at night knowing that HD DVD has lost the format war. However, I do want to share with you that, if you can find a deal on this HD DVD player, you should take it.
My wife surprised me for Christmas and bought this for me after I had been laying (not so subtle) hints for months. The player is superb and present beautiful 1080p images from the HD DVD's. With HD DVD being discontinued I plan to hold onto mine and grab up all the deals I can on HD DVD's before buying a Blu Ray player. The features that are standard for this HD DVD player (picture in picture, ethernet port, web downloads) are features that will not reach Blu Ray until later this year, and the movies available look amazing. I mine hooked up to a 46 inch Samsung DLP and a JVC 5.1 surround system. It is awesome to finally be able to view movies that show off the true capability of my tv, and the clarity of the sound separation for the HD movies is nothing short of amazing.
This player also offer amazing upconversion of regular dvd's. I previously had a Sony player that I thought did a good job, but the Toshiba player outdoes the Sony in every way.
So, if you are in the market for an upconverting dvd player, I highly recommend this unit. I would also recommend this to anyone that can get it on the cheap along with some HD DVD's that will surely be discounted in the near future as Wal Mart, Target, and Amazon begin clearing their stock.


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Melbourne's hook turns can baffle even the most proficient of drivers and advanced of machines. So discovered German-based Mercedes-Benz engineer who is in charge of testing and validation, Jochen Haab, is conducting testing of automated driving systems on Australian roads to launch a 12 month program.
Haab heads up the brand's automated driving and active safety systems and is in Australia testing an E-Class that is fitted with software similar to what will appear in the next generation S-Class.
"It is crucial to collect data on the systems in different countries and conditions. Today I did my first hook turn, and I was glad to do it. It shows the challenge of autonomous driving, as it is not something that is on our radars [in Germany].
"It is all about data and getting experience – looking at real life situations, those coincidences, the moods of drivers and using that to verify our technology," said Haab, who was speaking at an invitation-only event at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) as part of its Melbourne Design Week program during March.
Haab is also using his time in Australia to assess and gather data on various systems such as speed limit adaption for cruise control and LED signage. The team of three engineers is collecting data that will help refine how the S-Class systems understand and react to the electric signs. "With the S-Class we will still have the chance to turn some little knobs."
Data-driven research
While his job includes time in different countries conducting testing, Haab is usually hard at work, along with 11,000 other engineers and specialists, at Mercedes-Benz's research and development facility for passenger cars, in Sindelfingen, Germany.
This R&D centre is attached to one of the company's biggest plants in the world, which manufacturers the E-Class, among others. This is an advantage, believes Haab: "production and design can learn from each other".
In testing a new generation, the R&D team alone will conduct at least two million kilometres of testing.
Autonomous driving evolution
Naturally, a discussion about automated driving leads to questions about autonomous cars.
While much of the technology is already available, a world of autonomous cars is "many decades" away, believes Haab.
"Cars are on an evolutionary path but there are two paths. One is automated driving – the technology is there – we, and others – have shown that it works. But we need to look at the business case. Full driverless alternatives are decades away but there will be some automation in some situations – that is only a few years away."
For now, Haab remains focused on gathering data on our Australian conditions – and perfecting his hook turn in Melbourne, of course.Words Lucy Siebert


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One Week into Michael's World Tour 2009
Michael Sampson - Currents
Wednesday saw a very short night with a red-eye to Milwaukee (arriving Wednesday morning at 5am), and then a very big fright with waking up in the hotel (I checked in at 6am) at 9.40am for a 10am start. It's Saturday night in London, and I'm half way into my World Tour for 2009. This first week has been nothing short of fantastic, and next week is lining up to be the same. Tuesday past I worked with a new client in Santa Monica, to discuss SharePoint for collaboration.


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On 22 March 2012 the Attorney General announced a Review of Australian Contract Law. Details of the review can be viewed here: http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Pages/ReviewofAustraliancontractlaw.aspx. Submissions were due by 20 July 2012 and have now been made public: http://www.ag.gov.au/Consultations/Pages/ReviewofAustraliancontractlaw.aspx View my submission here. Continue reading


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In what can only be described as a blatant attempt to shut down speech critical of police abuse, a self-identified Ohio LEO from the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio has recently attempted to convince a prosecutor in Greene County to file charges against a Facebook user over a seemingly frustrated comment posted during an online debate.
The cop named Todd J Turner who resides at 661 North Enon Rd. in Yellow Springs, Ohio posted a retaliatory rant about a Facebook comment made by a user named Chuck Montgomery. Montgomery shared a news article about another local cop who was placed on paid leave after posting a happy Facebook comment regarding the suicide of a local activist on the steps of the Ohio State House.
In his comment, Chuck Montgomery said, "If anyone in the area murders this cop, I will gladly throw a celebration in their honor and put money on their commissary books."
As a result, Turner contacted the Greene County Prosecutor's office claiming the comment is a threat against the life of a police officer and asking for charges to be filed against Montgomery. He also contacted Montgomery's employer calling for his firing.
As a result of Turner's efforts, local media outlets are now reporting that the Fairborn Police Department is investigating the comment as a threat against the racist cop who is actually on leave.
The original posts made by Turner are included below. While Turner condemns the racist comments made by Lee Cyr, he also calls for the prosecution of Montgomery, calling for his firing and even possible incarceration. Furthermore, the original comment left by Montgomery was edited and no longer exists.