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"Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable." -- William Pollard
Innovation, an active process of introducing something "new" or "different," involves a commitment to looking at the world differently and making the conscious effort to change. The decision to implement a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system can be an innovative moment in gaining operational and intellectual control of your digital assets.
DAM brings with it great responsibility for how the organization's assets will be efficiently and effectively managed and is essential to growth. Any successful DAM implementation requires more than just new technology; DAM requires a foundation for digital strategy. Creating the whole DAM solution -- and connecting it throughout your ecosystem -- means that your digital assets can be part of this innovation by generating revenue, increasing efficiencies and enhancing your ability to meet new and emerging market opportunities for your users.
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old." -- Peter F. Drucker
Innovation Starts at Home
Every strategy needs a foundation -- that solid base upon which a structure rests and where meaning may be established. Many structures deserve attention and preparedness for the roadmap of work to be done when building the "House of DAM." More importantly, these structures should be reviewed and discussed long before any technology has been considered, let alone purchased. Technology should never lead the decision-making process for DAM -- the business sets the foundation for strategy first. Technology is important, and the vendor review and selection process is a critical step in this process, but that step must follow the business requirements and digital strategy.
DAM encompasses the management tasks and technological functionality designed to enhance the inventory, control and distribution of digital assets. Digital assets include rich media such as photographs, videos, graphics, logos, marketing collateral. While most systems are initially required to house the large variety of media, DAM must also consider workflow surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets for use and reuse in marketing or business operations. The metadata or descriptive information embedded in the asset adds these processes and increases the asset's value.
From IT staff to all users (past and present), keeping a record of what's happened to the assets and how they were used will help inspire others who seek to innovate for their future use. Expanding markets and complex supply chains for digital images demand constant updating, rethinking and redesign of DAM. Innovative thinking is required to keep apace with the change.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." -- Steve Jobs
Innovation Process
Drawing inspiration from Rod Collins' book, "Wiki Management: A Revolutionary New Model for a Rapidly Changing and Collaborative World," there are five fundamental phases to the innovation and change management process that have a direct impact on how digital assets and DAM are understood and managed within an organization:
1. Understand What's Most Important to Customers
Innovative leaders understand that the purpose of a business is to create customer value. The most effective organizations today are collaborative networks focused on delighting their customers.
The beginning of your DAM process must ask the question, "what's most important to your customers?" Customer / user value is a moving target influenced by many factors both inside and outside the organization. This Initial Picture of the values influencing consumer choices and the developments that might reshape future market behavior will collate observations from:
- Stakeholder Interviews
- Market Analyses
- Customer Segmentation Data
- Industry Trends
- Disruptive Developments
- Financial Analyses
- Winning Value Propositions
2. Aggregate and Leverage Collective Intelligence
The most effective organizations are those that have the capacity to quickly access and leverage their collective intelligence. An effective method to process the Initial Picture with your staff is in a Collective Intelligence Lab, where a microcosm of your organization is gathered to:
- Collectively process key information
- Work cross-functionally in small groups to think holistically and expansively about new and different ways to achieve better results
- Engage in innovative large group processes to identify the best solutions and their related requirements
This work results in an Innovation Portfolio, a strategic framework for proactively managing the growth of your company in a time of change whether that be for maintenance, incremental change, platform change or disruptive change.
3. Build Shared Understanding by Bringing Everyone Together in Open Conversations
People are more likely to enthusiastically implement what they create. Fostering co-creation can be achieved with Collaboration Work-Through and Iterative Check-In sessions. A Collaboration Work-Through is a facilitated meeting process that empowers a diverse group of individuals to:
- Quickly co-create a shared understanding of the key requirements for effective delivery
- Identify the key drivers of timely implementation
- Assure that everyone in the organization is on the right page at the start of critical strategic initiatives or operational projects
The Iterative Check-In is a customized cadence for gathering cross-functional teams and updating the shared understanding as changes occur both inside and outside the organization.
4. Focus on the Critical Few Performance Drivers
Information is power. An important part of effective change management design is making sure that people have the information they need to deliver extraordinary performance. In this phase a simple Focused Scorecard is created that serves as:
- A powerful frame of reference for everyone to independently gauge progress
- A communication tool to promote high engagement
- A mechanism for aligning the distributed work throughout the organization with what's most important to the success of your business
5. Hold People Accountable to Their Peers
Peer-to-peer networks are far more effective than top-down hierarchies to innovate and collaborate at te level needed to keep pace with a rapidly changing world. In this final phase, you need to create customized Peer Accountability Metrics that:
- Link individual compensation to collaborative action
- Provide incentives for innovative contributions
- Reward advancing business interests over individual interests
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared." -- J.K. Rowling
Building the Business Innovation Case for DAM
A focus on innovation can have many positive impacts on the DAM. Consider the following examples of what innovative effects a DAM may have on users and the organization as a whole:
- Support strategic organizational initiatives
- Serve as a resource to gauge changes in customer values
- Reduce costs
- Generate new revenue opportunities
- Provide better brand management
- Improve collaboration and streamline creative workflow or competitiveness
- Enable marketing agility and operational excellence
Brand and market position -- and the technologies to support brand success -- are essential to any organization's growth. In order to be successful, leadership will need (and want) to initiate and socialize an innovative process that starts slow and then works towards a bigger and larger end state. Ultimately, this can have direct influence in workflows -- from packaging to engineering to licensing to social media to focus groups -- with full realization of the DAM serving as the key repository, the single source of truth for your assets. Technology adoption can be overly complex and challenging at times, but that does not need to be the case.
In order to harness that potential power, the right people need to be enabled to make changes, create innovative opportunities with digital assets and align DAM with the strategic goals of the organization. Make sure this opportunity exists to stand back and ensure problems are being solved with this particular DAM solution.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." -- Albert Einstein
Innovation and Change
Technological innovation results in a constantly evolving business environment as data sharing transforms the organization. DAM is central to this change. Information and all its data and digital assets have become more available, accessible and in some ways more accountable in business. We live in a "big data" world with so much data at our discretion and under considerable scrutiny from our content creators, users and stakeholders alike. Our organizations need to be change with the times and not only this, but respond well and be comfortable with our solutions.
Digital Asset Innovation Drives Your Brand
Content is still king, and the ability to strategically set the foundation for the kingdom and take control of your digital assets with DAM is within your reach. The demand for digital assets used for the design, production and distribution of content is not only quantifiably high, but also qualifiably, due to its necessity and criticality in current business operations.
Simply stated, digital asset innovation drives your brand. To get your digital house in order, know what your internal business units and external partners need, and understand how you will need to deliver assets today -- and tomorrow -- across multiple channels and devices. Creative professionals and those in marketing, communications, operations and other areas require content as a cost of remaining competitive and delivering what the consumer wants.
The ability to provide assets of high value and quality in a timely basis is no longer a wish, it is the expectation. Using DAM effectively can deliver innovation through knowledge and measurable cost savings, time to market gains and greater brand voice consistency -- valuable and meaningful effects for your digital assets.
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The North West Air Ambulance charity is going to door to door in an attempt to raise money to keep the service going.
Volunteers spend months knocking on doors across Lancashire to sell memberships to a weekly lottery after admitting leafleting and emails didn't generate enough money.
Anyone, of any age, anywhere, may one day need our care and in the last year alone we flew 2,000 rescue missions throughout the region
The need is even greater in the last year with the life-saving service adding a third helicopter to its fleet, meaning it must find £6m a year to keep them in the air.
The charity is completely reliant on public donations to keep its helicopters and selling lottery memberships door-to-door raises over £2m every year.
And although 83,000 people are signed up to the North West lottery and hundreds of supporters hold fundraising events and thousands donate to the charity each year, the service admits it can only continue going while it has the support of the public.
Jenny Haskey, head of fundraising, said: "Anyone, of any age, anywhere, may one day need our care and in the last year alone we flew 2,000 rescue missions throughout the region.
"We are so grateful for the support of our community of fundraisers; without them, our charity would not be able to continue providing its urgent, life saving service to the 8 million people of the North West and its visitors each year."
The canvassers go door-to-door to every town and city in Lancashire throughout the year.
Since its launch in 1999, the North West Air Ambulance has flown more than 18,000 missions across the region.
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For more information on the North West Air Ambulance Charity or to donate, please visit www.nwaa.net or call 0800 587 4570.

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
FABBY: Salmon and Veggies on a Bamboo Basket Steamer
I made a salmon with veggies steamed in a bamboo steamer basket I always wanted to try and was curious about. I bought it while I was visiting my grands for Victoria's birthday, which I will post too one of these days. I always wanted to make something in this steamer, besides the fact that it's healthier, with Omega3, Fatty Acid and lighter all the way!! I thought of Marty, from A Stroll Thru Life, while cooking cause she always makes great and light recipes lately..it only takes 10 minutes to cook and it's way delish! It was fun to cook everything all at once and so fast too. Very interesting and fun, besides, now I understand why orientals are so thin!!
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45 comments:
- Pamela Gordon said...
Hi Fabby. Wow, I've heard of steaming food in these baskets but didn't know it cooked that fast. It looks so delicious and healthy. Thanks for sharing the cooking tips. Have a great day!
Hugs, Pamela
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- martinealison said...
Un très joli billet rempli de saveurs...
Je cuisine beaucoup de cette manière. La cuisine gastronomique, c'est délicieux aussi mais trop riche alors il ne faut pas trop en abuser...
Alors qu'en cuisinant ta recette aucune contre indication. Vraiment génial !
Je te fais de gros bisous et bon appétit bien sûr !
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- Linda Chapman said...
I have never used a steamer like this but will be looking for one soon! We have an international grocery store we like to shop for veggies and fresh fish. We call it 'The STINKY Store!' Bet they will have these steamers there.
We are going back to eating healthy low fat low calorie meals. Funny how weight LOST will come BACK when you quit eating so healthy!!
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- Linda said...
Hi Fabby. Happy 4th to you. Your salmon looks wonderful with the veggies. I have also used my bamboo steamer to cook salmon. XO Linda
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- Olive Cooper said...
We adore salmon Fabby and what a healthy way to cook it. thanks, olive
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- Linda (More Fun Less Laundry) said...
Hi Fabby, I have always been interested in trying one of these steamers, and you have taken the mystery out of it for me so now I can try it. I like using lemon to kill the smell of many things and this is another great way to ue that delicious citrus! Thanks for the ideas! Linda
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- xinex said...
Wow! I will have to try this, Fabby. Looks delish. I have to go on a diet cause I gained so much weight having so many guests and trips lately. I know I have a bamboo steamer somewhere that I haven't used. Happy 4th!...Christine
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
- Norma2 said...
Una receta muy saludable ideal para no aumentar e peso.
Cariños Fabby
- Wednesday, 04 July, 2012
Hello, dear Fabby. I loved your post tonight. I love salmon and veggies and this sure sounds delicious cooked in the bamboo steamer. I am going to try this very soon (as soon as I can find a bamboo steamer!) We have a small Oriental grocery store near our mall here that may have them. It is healthy cooking, for sure!
I never did get a chance to comment on your Fourth of July table-scape, so I also wanted to add that I thought you had done such a beautiful job of arranging the table for one of our favorite holidays...yes, the hot dogs and whole nine yards!!! LOL
Have a happy up-coming weekend.
Big hugs and love, Francy
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Elna said...
It look delicious.
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- LV said...
Wish I could have joined you far this feast. Nothing like a good serving of salmon.
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Pam~ Virginia Retro said...
That looks just wonderful! Next time I see a set of the steamer baskets for sale, I just might have to indulge!
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Priscilla said...
I used to use a bamboo steamer all the time back in the days of big house and family. I'm afraid there isn't any room for for such a large piece of equipment any longer. My late husband used to love to make pot stickers in one. Now that my girls are living elsewhere and I live alone, I still steam, but in a very small pot with an even smaller insert!
Your meal looks delicious and healthy. Here in the Northwest, salmon is plentiful, and affordable and often on the menu.
Lovely post, Fabby, as always.
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- chubskulit said...
Now I am hungry and you are to blame hahaha.
Thank you for joining Color Connection last week. Come and join this week, the linky is up now.
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Sarah said...
Healthy meal! This is one of my favorite meals to fix and eat. Thanks for the tips.
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- It's All Connected said...
You've inspired me to buy a bamboo steamer! Thanks. ~ Maureen
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- SavannahGranny said...
Fabby, Boy that looks great. I have never used one buy I have often wondered about them. I love and eat salmon at least once a week and this would be an extremely healthy to eat.
Thanks for sharing, Love to you, Ginger
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Schotzy said...
That salmon looks phenomenal. I never thought to steam it... great idea!
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- At The Picket Fence said...
Sounds delicious and so healthy! Thanks so much for sharing it at Inspiration Friday. You know we always love having you join us! :-)
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- NanaDiana said...
Soooo...Not only do you set a beautiful table you cook, too? Did you ever tell your hubby how lucky he is to have you?
My hubby would absolutely LOVE this meal! Thanks for sharing it here.
Blessings- I hope you are having a great week-xo Diana
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Johanna said...
Hi Fabby,
I know this baskets from Chinese Dim Sum. But the way you cooked the salmon and vegetable is ingenial. Amazing, how quick this cooks. Thank you for introducing me with this interesting cooking way.
Best greetings, Johanna
- Thursday, 05 July, 2012
- Happier Than a Pig in Mud said...
Sounds like a very healthy meal and those steamer baskets look like they're fun to use-enjoy:@)
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Dolores said...
I'm so amazed that cooking like this is so quick, easy healthy and delicious looking.
Your meal is so inviting!!!!!
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
This looks like a meal I would love to have. We eat so much seafood when we are in Maine because all is fresh. I'm trying this!
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Leslie said...
Your salmon meal look delicious!!! I need to eat more steamed vegetables, but I'm in a rut of roasting everything, ha!
Thank you so much for visiting and for the sweet note you left about the dining room! I'm excited about all the meals and memories we'll make in there.
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- joy said...
It seems really delish. Maybe I try that one day! Dropping by from " Kids-e-connection.
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Leah H. said...
What a healthy meal, so yummy!
Visiting for Color Connection- hope you can stop by..
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Mom of A and a said...
Hi, coming over from the kids e-connection. Your dish looks absolutely delicious!
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Susie Jefferson said...
A great post, and great tip re the cleaning. I've always wanted to try a bamboo steamer, but had no idea what to really do with one - now, thanks to you, I do! Wonderful!
Happy Pink Saturday from a cold and raining UK.
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
First, thank you so much for your visit and for leaving such sweet comment!! Sometimes I wished that I could be teeny tiny and live in those mini homes myself, lol. Oh your dinner looks so delicious!! and the tablescape below gorgeous!
Wish you a wonderful weekend!! Hugs.
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Kathe said...
I had a steamer basket for years but never knew how to use it Fabby so I sold it at a garage sale. Seeing your delish meal I now wish I had kept it!
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- The Tablescaper said...
This looks great!
- The Tablescaper
- Friday, 06 July, 2012
- Aledia said...
Hello Fabby!
Wow, your meal looks delicious!! I have seen those bamboo steamers before and wondered how well they worked, Thank You for sharing!!
I hope you have a wonderful day!
Aledia @ Plum Perfect
- Saturday, 07 July, 2012
- Yvonne @ StoneGable said...
This looks delicious! I have never used a steamer... I would love to learn!
Please join me at StoneGable for ON THE MENU MONDAY, my weekly foodie/recipe/menu linky party going on now. Your yummy menu would be a welcomed addition!!!
- Sunday, 08 July, 2012
- Nellie's Cozy place said...
Wow, that looks wonderful.
Never thought of steaming fish in one of those baskets. Looks very appetizing! My hubby loves salmon,
not so true for me......unless it doesn't taste fishy......lol
Blessings, Nellie
- Monday, 09 July, 2012
- Kathleen said...
Looks good, Fabby. Great tip oncleaning the steamer!
- Monday, 09 July, 2012
- Alison @ The Polohouse said...
That looks amazing and to think it was all steamed?!!
I will have to find some of those wicker baskets. I think I had them years ago but never knew what to do with them!
I think I dried flowers with them?
Who knew!
So lucky to know you, Fabby.
- Monday, 09 July, 2012
- Carole said...
Looks fantastic and healthy too.
I found you on Stone Gable's On the Menu Monday. I have linked in bacon and scrambled egg rolls. Have a nice week.
- Monday, 09 July, 2012
- Brandi said...
Fabby, your meal looks so good. I have never tried cooking with a steam basket. I bet your salmon was really moist that way.
- Tuesday, 10 July, 2012
- Pattie @ Olla-Podrida said...
Your blog post reminded me that I have wanted one of these steamer baskets for a long time. I just happen to have a gift card and you've help me to decide just what I'm going to get. This looks delicious. Thanks for the encouragement and great recipe.
- Tuesday, 10 July, 2012
- Shug said...
hey girl...my first visit and I certainly enjoyed myself...glad I stopped by..
see ya soon
- Tuesday, 10 July, 2012
- Carole said...
Hey thank you so much for following Carole's Chatter. I am now following you, too!
Have a great week!
- Tuesday, 10 July, 2012
- Sherry said...
What a great meal! Thank you for joining me at Home Sweet Home!
- Wednesday, 11 July, 2012
- chubskulit said...
Looking at the salmon makes me drool hahaha.
Thank you for linking up to Color Connection. Come and join again this week, the linky is up now.
- Thursday, 12 July, 2012
Nice post! Can't wait for the next one. Keep stuff like this coming.Drapery cleaning new York
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I hope you have all been well. We have been busy with just 'stuff' really. Maddi with assignments and exams, which means mum is the support crew... more so than normal I mean! Helping with a bit of research, formating, late night editing, software troubleshooting... not to mention the delivery of stress relief techniques!
The Christmas parties and work functions have started already so, due to my newly rediscovered quest for fitness and regaining a body shape that does not resemble an orange.... guess who the designated driver and picker-uperer is? :)
Anyhow... no creativeness at all this past week or so! :(
And to make matters worse, I have some unbelieveably exciting news that I can't share yet!
So why am I here at all?
Well, I just wanted to show you my guy...
Actually, this was him at the end of last Movember ... and he's doing it again!
He and a group of workmates are all participating in Movember this year and their employer is matching every dollar raised! The aim of Movember is to raise vital funds and awareness for men's health, specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.
I must say, I don't mind the look of it... not sold on the texture though. :)
If anyone would like to make a donation to this worthy cause, then you can do so online here.
Thanks for stopping by .... I hope the next couple of days are spent making up for my recent enforced abstinence from creativity!!
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User Evaluation – System Usability Scale
In my last post I stated that I would attempt to gather more SUS forms before interpreting the results. Due to exams, I haven't gathered as many as I would have liked, but I do have enough to deduce some interesting results. In this post I will discuss the results and findings and see what I can do to correct where I've gone wrong or emphasize the points that seem to have been received well.
Most of the students I have been able to add to the list of testers are a few Computer Science people I know from abroad. Skype offered some tools to do these paper prototype sessons despite the distance. With this in mind, most of the results reflect the wishes and preferences of individuals with experience in computer science (apart from the history and drama students). Since the application is related to computer science only as an example, I naturally won't leave out the valuable feedback from those two students.Before going over the results, I will explain how the results of the SUS questionnaire should be interpreted and turned into a single number that is indicative of the application.
As I stipulated in a previous post, the SUS consists of 10 questions that the users can give a rating of 1 to 5 on, 1 being a 'strongly disagree' and 5 being a 'strongly agree'. The questions are very general and aimed entirely at the usability, practicality and ease of use of the application being tested. Once the results have been gathered, those numbers need to be converted into a single number that will say something about the usability of the system. This is done in the following way:
- For odd items: Subtract one from the result.
- For even items: Subtract the result from 5.
- Now the values are between 0 and 4
- Add up the converted responses and multiply is by 2.5. Now the range of possible values will lie between 0 and 100.
It is important to note, however, that these numbers are not percentages. A result of 70 does not correspond to 70%, even though it is 70% of the maximum value. The average value one can achieve is 68, which means the application is average. Any higher means it is above average. A result of 80+ in this way represents an application that is far above average and has few problems that need tackling. Now that we know this, what was the resulting rank for my application so far?
The Results
For each user separately:
- 75
- 75
- 77.5
- 65
- 72.5
- 77,5
- 80
- 75
Which gives an average score of: 74.68
All-in-all, this is a good result. It signifies that most of the people who used it found it both useful and easily accessible. However, this wouldn't be a proper analysis if I didn't assess some things that clearly showed in the results. Also note that this score is still close to the average of 68 and not close enough to the 80.3 mark (which is generally interpreted as the point where people start recommending an application to other users).
Overall, the question that received the lowest marks was whether or not the functions of the system were well integrated. This is along the same lines as the feedback I had addressed previously. It seems that some functionality, primarily the Challenge Tracks, feel out of place or are simply not integrated well enough. I had also not adapted the paper prototype at all after the first results, so as not to polute later results with improvements that could have been made already. So, one of the other main concerns was how to make a new iteration, which was far too cumbersome and not easy to access. This led to lower scores on questions 8 and 9. The former questions whether or not the system was cumbersome, while the latter questions whether the tester felt confident using the system. The confusion caused by the misplacement of some of the UI elements, as well as the overly complicated layout at times, caused many of them to feel less confident and made the application feel sluggish. These matters will definitely need to be addressed in one of the next iterations of the application. A gamified application that feels sluggish and cumbersome will fall flat as those game elements will be unable to do what they are supposed to if attached to such a crippled application.
So, as I stated before, the results are positive, but it did reveal a few issues that need urgent attention. The main surprise to me came in the form of the answer to the very first question. Some of the users said that they would indeed consider using the system frequently, most notably the two that weren't Computer Science students. This leads me to believe, tentatively, that the application could serve its purpose in motivating students and seeing actual use.
In the next post I will discuss implementation decisions I have made and will be making and, after my exams have concluded, I will finally begin with implementing the application's first iteration.


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30 OCT 2004 - NEWS! I think I'll start with news on this page......
9 NOV 2004 - NEWS! A new section named LINKS has been made! No comics yet, though.....
10 NOV 2004 - NEWS! Got a domain name now! http://www.drauden.tk And Mortal Kombat page is up, with some Mortal History, images and other stuff....
18 NOV 2004 - NEWS! A new site on Links. http://www.freewebs.com./torb20 And tomorrow is a big day in Norway!
19 NOV 2004 - NEWS! Yes, you may have wondered why I said ''A big day in Norway''..... well, Deception finally reached PAL! I won't get it today, though. But to every Mortal Kombat fans with a PS2 or a X-BOX...... GET IT NOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!
16 DEC 2004 - NEWS! Ending of ''Ermac's Job'' is in the box, and the start poster of ''The Outworld Forces'' is also in the box! You thought I was dead, eh?
3 JAN 2005 - NEWS! Merry Christmas and have a happy new year! I have been a little lazy and I haven't made a comic for a while, but I have made my first fake and made a page named Fakes, so just pop yourself in and look.
4 JAN 2005 - NEWS! New fake made by me, but something was wrong with the file, so I hosted it first on ImageShack, then I got the link on my crappy site!
5 JAN 2005 - NEWS! The intro of ''The Outworld Forces'' can now be found in the Comicspot. And I will announce the total.... delete of the ''Ermac's Job'' serie. If you want to read just go to [{ombat's website, that you may find in the link page.
12 JAN 2005 - NEWS! Part one of ''Ouworld Forces'' has been created. Also I have deleted the whole ''Ermac's Job'', so if you want to read it, just go to The [{ombat Pavilion, which you will find in the Link section..
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1 MRS 2005 - NEWS! One new comic.... anyone on this site?
27 JAN 2006 - NEWS! Haha, You guys thought I died, ey? I was caught in the WoW trance, so... 5 new comics and 1 new fake! Enjoy! Merry christmas and a happy new year, by the way!
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Based on the book of short stories by Mary Higgins Clark, "MY GAL SUNDAY" follows the husband and wife crime solving duo of Sunday and Henry Parker. Parker, an ex-Vice President of the United States and Sunday, a legal aid lawyer are celebrating their first wedding anniversary when Parker assists Sunday in snaring a murderer and he takes a bullet in the arm in the process. As they later head off on a romantic weekend getaway, they are kidnapped and taken to a remote, abandoned farmhouse where the kidnapper demands the release of a dangerous, notorious former hit man. Both Parker and Sunday assume the ex-Vice President must be the target but as time ticks down and Parker becomes desperately ill from his untended wound, Sunday musters all her brilliant skills and bravado to confront and expose the kidnapper—realizing that she is his true target of vengeance. (Source: The Hallmark Channel)
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|you don't know haarp
in fact, there's a fair sized community who think that there are people who absolutely can do just that and that they want to use their powers for evil. [although, really, i can't think of how you could use the power to cause a massive landslide for good. i mean, even if you killed hitler 2.0, chances are you'd take thousands of innocent people, which might arguably make you the next hitler and defeat your supposedly noble purpose.] so this week's paranoid theory investigates: might these people be onto something? or is this strictly for the tinfoil hat set?
the theory ::
world governments, in particular the american government, have developed the technology to control the weather and to cause "natural" disasters, as well as some diseases and they are using it in soem pretty high profile ways.
the origin ::
have you heard of a rain dance? the plague of locusts? the hammer of thor? humans have clung to the belief that they had some measure of control of the weather since the dawn of time, and those who felt left out have been suspicious of those who seemed to have luck on their side.
more recently, a lot of attention has been directed towards the american project known as haarp: the high-frequency active aurora research project. started in 1993 and based in alaska, the research project's stated goal was to investigate the possibility that poking the earth's ionosphere with a laser pole could allow us to figure out when the sun was going to get all dyspeptic and belch in our general direction, because sun belches [or "solar flares" if you want to be all hoity-toity] have a tendency to disrupt our communications systems and cause a sort of instability our brains are programmed to fear.
although haarp was shut down in 2014, largely because no one wanted to bother to refit the facilities in order to meet standards imposed by the clean air act, rumours continue to swirl about its "real" purpose and how "shut down" it really is.
the believers ::
lots of them. venezuelan president hugo chavez linked it to the devastating 2013 earthquake in haïti. despite the fact that the money for the project was earmarked by alaska senator ted hughes [the guy who once described the internet as a series of tubes] in order to bring home the research bacon, the alaska state legislature wasn't sold on the story of what the project was doing and held their own hearings about it. former minnesota governor jesse ventura theorised that the project was actually a front for research into both weather and mind control [and was denied entry to the facility when he showed up to try to prove his point]. and award-winning physicist bernard eastlund claimed that haarp used technology he developed that was capable of modulating weather. nick begich jr., the son of a former united states congressman and the brother of a united states senator and a scientist himself, wrote a book, angels don't play this haarp, which is pretty much the bible of haarp-ist conspiracy.
[it also has some quasi-believers in both the european parliament and the russian military, who believe that researchers hadn't done sufficient research to assure them that untold evil wouldn't rain down in the wake of giving the atmosphere a giant laser enema. even the cbc and the history channel have done documentaries about the project that raise some questions.]
one of those believers is a little more interesting than the others, by the way, and i'll bet you can figure out which one it is.
the bad guys ::
the united states government- democrats and republicans. the military-industrial complex, in particular a massive defense contractor called raytheon, which has gradually gobbled up all the patents supposedly associated with the haarp project, and brought thousands of its own to the table. raytheon's motto is "customer success is our mission", which sounds like the usual load of corporate hooey, until you think a little harder about what it means to have a manufacturer of weapons and military infrastructure focused entirely on their customers' "success".
the evidence ::
remember how i said that one of "the believers" was a little more interesting than the others? did you guess it was the physicist, bernard eastlund?
dr. eastlund died in 2007, but his passion for physics burned strong until the end of his life. he claimed, in an npr panel discussion about building weapons for weather control, that three of his patents had been used in the development of haarp. no one in the government has verified or denied this, so we'll have to just call it "plausible" at the moment.
a little more unsettling is the final patent that he filed, shortly before his death, which contains a passage [viewable on his wikipedia page] that specifically mentions both weather modification and haarp.
while eastlund never came out and said that haarp was conducting research into weather control, or that the technology to do so had been developed, the presence of that patent is a pretty powerful indicator that there's something to the haarp rumours.
some have analysed haarp's activity in the times surrounding specific natural events [like hurricane katrina and the 2008 chinese earthquake] in an attempt to link haarp's activity to those events, but [as the author of the linked comparison readily admits], the density of the physics involved makes it impossible for the average person to work out if a correlation is possible.
there is documented proof that governments have previously attempted to build weapons that unleashed the awesome power of the earth and the elements upon their foes, so it's not like the theory itself is out to lunch.
the question of why a government would want to do this might even be answered in a u.s. department of defense press release from 2000 that emphasized their aim of "full spectrum dominance" in the military arena. and natural disasters have, sadly, been excellent financial opportunities for american contractors. those are two powerful sources of incentive.
but the fact is that the trail of crumbs doesn't lead anywhere. the cookie at the end is missing. the "full spectrum dominance" mission statement probably came off the table the second the two towers went down the following year, and eventually replaced with "we're not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea and we'd like to not get killed today".
the correlation between haarp activity and hurricanes or earthquakes isn't much more persuasive than my theory that i caused hurricane katrina by purchasing a map at the wrong time. it's very tempting to mistake coincidence with causality, but dangerous. there are lots of times when things appear to be related and are. and there are lots where they appear to be related and aren't.
even eastlund's patents, definitely the strongest argument in this conspiracy's arsenal, don't prove that the technology was developed, much less used, only that it was most likely investigated. not. the. same. thing. at all.
since it's been linked to all sorts of events, it's hard to avoid the feeling that haarp's "attacks" are perplexingly random. sometimes horrible things do happen to american enemies, but often, they're just disasters that befall some of the poorest areas of the world, like the earthquake in haïti or the tsunami in banda aceh, indonesia. in fact, such disasters can have the effect of destabilizing areas of the world that no one really wants destabilized [as began to happen in indonesia in the wake of the tsunami]. sure, you can argue that the military contractors are benefiting, but national governments [who still control the research] are incurring massive costs at the same time.
the likelihood :: 2/10
is the government looking into developing weather control technology? i'd be surprised if they weren't, at least to some extent. half the u.s. is in a severe drought.
has this technology been investigated as a potential weapon? sure, i'll bite. technology doesn't seem to be of much interest to anyone unless it can be used to prolong life or end life [with the creation of boners being a close third], so it's likely that the government tries to figure out how to use their research to do both.
however, that's a llloooooooooonnnnnngggg way off saying that the technology exists and that it's being used.
the conspiracy seems to become the victim of having reached too far: by blaming haarp or related technologies for earthquakes in china and iran, tornadoes in the united states, tsunamis in southeast asia and more, it's hard to imagine that there is a cohesive plan behind all of it.
the greater problem, of course, is that the vast majority of us can't even talk about this, because even the most basic science of a project like haarp is already over our heads. we could hear anything about this science and, as long as it sounded kind of plausible, we'd be fooled.
this falls into the "grains of truth" category of theory. there are a couple of things that should probably raise eyebrows, but there's not likely anything else.


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|Belgian Royal Palace Twitter
The exhibition features more than two hundred pieces relating to the sacred art and sacred texts of Rome, Mecca and Jerusalem in an examination of both the differences and similarities between Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
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The King and Queen seemed fascinated by the pieces displayed and listened with interest to the experts as their historical and religious significance was explained.
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Quite a number of people attended the museum to show support and see the King and Queen.
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The exhibition runs until 18th January 2015 and cultural events are also planned around Antwerp, including walks and lectures about the city's churches, synagogues and mosques. There is also a presentation of Jerusalem by the Berlin theatre company, which is described as "a portrait of a city" and explores the historic and ancient city from all aspects of life within.
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Beautiful! I haven't tried my bottle of Fantasy Fire yet--it's so tiny I want to wait until the perfect time, though when that is I'm not sure. :)ReplyDelete
I do own Clarins #230. Like many says, it does not hold up over the yrs - the color changes on it over time to be more orange. I don't have the UD polish but do have the Max Factor one. The latter is a lot like Clarins #230 - same size micro (nope beyond micro particles) - the color it leaves is a bit different from what my #230 was originally, but it's close.ReplyDelete
I'm afraid this one is not sold in my country :( Looks so pretty tho... Maybe I'll try to get it through ebay or online anyway ^_^ReplyDelete
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The Energy of January 7, 2015 will mark exactly one month, dear Ones, before you and the aggregate whole of the Legion of Light begin to serve in leadership of Mother Earth's Transition into the Fifth Dimension. It will not come with any kind of certificate, diploma, or an "official document" showing your credentials with God. It will not even bring any type of accolades for you except from your Brothers and Sisters of Light, who will be cheering you on! Rather, you will be demonstrating the Light and Love in your Heart and Soul in Unity with God! In doing so, you will become an activator and initiator for a new phase of Life with Light and Love in Mother Earth's Fifth Dimension!
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England fly-half Danny Cipriani has been charged with drink-driving, police have said.
The Sale Sharks player was unhurt in a collision between his Mercedes and a Toyota in the Chelsea area of west London shortly after 5am on June 1.
The 28-year-old was given a breath test and taken to a west London police station before being released on bail.
Scotland Yard confirmed he was charged on Thursday and will appear at West London Magistrates' Court on December 10.
There were no reports of any injuries following the crash involving Cipriani's black Mercedes C63 and a silver Toyota Prius.
The player, from West Wimbledon, joined Sale Sharks as a fly-half in 2010, two years after his England debut. However, he was left out of the squad for this year's World Cup amid a reported disagreement with attack coach Mike Catt.
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CONCEPTIONS OF PEACE span religions and culture, incorporating such values as security and harmony as well as justice and human dignity. Every major system of faith and belief, whether religious or secular in character, has in some way or other promised peace as an outcome of the implementation of its precepts.
While peace is undoubtedly one of the most universal and significant of human ideals, Raimon Panikkar describes it as "one of the few positive symbols having meaning for the whole of humanity" the ways that we think about peace are often diffuse and content-dependent. We profess to honour peace in the abstract--for example, within a framework of religious precepts and affirmations--while organizing our thoughts about life and politics around more mundane ends and objectives. Implicitly, we circumscribe the meaning of peace to accommodate a system of largely implicit beliefs about how the world works, about what power consists of, and about what is expedient. As a result, the peace ideal is either co-opted by competing value priorities or remains distant from our daily activities and experiences. The "ideal" becomes separated fro the "real," and peace becomes a pious invocation, a means to an end, or an empty term of rhetorical self-justification.
It is precisely a desire to bridge this gap between the "ideal" and the "real" that attracts students to the M.A. programme in International Peace and Conflict Resolution of American University's School of International Service. Each year, our programme brings together several dozen more bright and highly motivated individuals, many form overseas, to pursue a course of studies dedicated to what Gandhi referred to as "practical idealism." During the spring 2002 semester, it was my pleasure to facilitate the entry of just over twenty new students into the programme, within the context of a core course called "Peace Paradigms." The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the theoretical foundations of peace studies, through an intellectually and personally challenging exploration of five "paradigms" of peace, considered as intellectual and practical models for peacemaking based on different sets of explicit as well as implicit beliefs and assumptions. The course begins with consideration of approaches to peace premised on the exercise of coercive power (power politics), and then proceeds to paradigms for peace through international law and institutions (world order), peace through conflict resolution, peace through nonviolence, and peace through personal and community transformation. By the end of a semester of reading, writing, discussing, listening to guest speakers, and presenting creative projects, most students attest that they have learned a great deal not only about the history and development of thinking about peace, but also about their own deeply internalized beliefs and existential commitments.


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Today action with Freddie Mac (down over 20%) is just a repeat of the common pattern that we keep seeing since February: the stocks are taken away one by one into open field, put face against the wall and shot into the forehead. We'll see that a lot in the next couple of years.
November 20, 2007
Execution squadsPosted by theroxylandr under Economics, Investing
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8 Responses to "Execution squads"
November 20, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Well, I think the stocks will die twice. In the short-term, a quick shot (in the head). As usual, the bulls will rush in creating a snapback rally followed by a slow (and more painful death) once everyone realizes that problems are too big and that the rally was totally uncalled for.
Any thoughts?
November 20, 2007 at 4:43 pm
So that means all the bad news is out so it must be time to buy financials, right? At least that's what the financial news stations keep implying, so it must be true.
November 20, 2007 at 6:15 pm
For those investors who are underwater I am sure it feels like a killing. Still waiting for the FED emergency meeting and rate cut, these little sell offs certainly are just the tip of the ice berg.
November 21, 2007 at 9:50 am
If it is an open field, where did the wall come from?
November 21, 2007 at 1:15 pm
The wall is on the closed side of the open field.
November 21, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I just stumbled across this article by Brian Bloom
in which he revisits an article he wrote in 2004 with the most shivering prediction/premonition for NOV 19, 2007
November 21, 2007 at 8:45 pm
The wall is made of bones of the bulls that used to graze in the field.


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Road trip continues
The Portland Trail Blazers and the Houston Rockets have played two closely contested games this season, and they'll face off for a third time Friday night at the Toyota Center.
Matchup: Portland (25-24) vs. Houston Rockets (27-24)
Venue: Toyota Center
Time: 5:00 PM PT
Date: Friday, February 8, 2013
Portland took down the Rockets in their first two matchups, and they'll go for three straight after dropping a tough game to the Dallas Mavericks Wednesday night.
Game Notes/How They Match Up
The bottom few spots in the Western Conference Playoff race are wide open, and the Blazers and Rockets are two of the teams looking to sneak in. Both have rebuilt their rosters since last season, and both feel that they're talented enough to make that push and get in by the end of the year.The Rockets are a lot like the Dallas Mavericks, whom the Blazers just lost to, in the sense that offense is clearly the priority. The Blazers are the same way, but Houston is more extreme on both ends.
As one of the best scoring teams in the Association, Houston averages 105.8 points per game. Unfortunately for them, they're the fourth-worst team when it comes to points allowed, as they give up 102.9 points per contest.
Like the game against Dallas, this matchup has the potential to see a lot of points scored.
What to Watch: Portland
When it comes to the Blazers' plan of attack, the big question is, what can they do to slow down James Harden?
As big of a threat as Harden can be from deep range, he's proven this year that he's much more efficient when he puts his head down and attacks the basket. His jump shot has been a bit inconsistent, but his ability to isolate is a constant weapon.
Wesley Matthews will be given the bulk of the responsibility when it comes to Harden, but everybody else will have to do their part. If Harden gets into the lane, the Blazers' bigs have to be ready to step up.
How well Portland can contain Harden will have a direct impact on their success Friday night, as the Rockets' 2-guard is the team's leading scorer by a long shot.
What to Watch: Houston
Alternatively, it's going to be interesting to see how Houston is able to slow down LaMarcus Alridge. The Blazers' big man is averaging an impressive 23 points and 11 rebounds over his last five games, and it's been clear that Houston has had trouble slowing him down so far this season.
In the first matchup, LaMarcus Alridge posted 27 points and 11 rebounds. To follow that up, he scored 29 points and grabbed six boards the next time they faced off.
At the power forward position, Patrick Patterson has shown that he can be a smart, physical player. The problem for Houston is that he hasn't been the best defender up to this point in his young career.
Double-teaming Aldridge appears to be the only way of slowing him down, so it will be interesting to see which players the Rockets leave open, should they go that route come Friday.
Key Matchup
Watching Wesley Matthews defend James Harden is always a treat for fans of good basketball, but this contest should focus on the two players down low who rarely receive the credit they deserve.
J.J. Hickson and Omer Asik have been the unsung heroes on their respective squads this season. Both players can be a threat to score in the right situation, but offense isn't where you expect them to thrive. Asik is the better low-post defender, but both can have a huge impact on the boards.
Keeping plays alive has been J.J. Hickson's specialty, and while he's going to have his hands full against the seven-footer, his energy and athleticism could propel him to success.
Injury Report
Portland: DAT-TO-DAY — Sasha Pavlovic, Ronnie Price, Nicolas Batum
Houston: DAY-TO-DAY — Jeremy Lin, Carlos Delfino
This is going to be a crucial matchup as we approach All-Star Weekend. A loss won't knock the Blazers out of the playoffs, but it will make their goal that much tougher to reach.
Blazers 90 – Rockets 98


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The health care provider uses a device called a transducer to make the images of your chest. The transducer sends out sound waves that bounce off your organs and other structures. The sound waves are too high-pitched for you to hear. The transducer then picks up the bounced sound waves. These are made into pictures of your organs.
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Title: The Witch Hunter
Author: Virginia Boecker
Series: The Witch Hunter, #1
Format: eARC kindly provided
by the publishers via Netgalley
for a review (Thank you!!)
Publishers: Hachette Children's Books
My rating: 4.5/ 5
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The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones in this riveting fantasy debut.
Your greatest enemy isn't what you fight, but what you fear.
Elizabeth Grey is one of the king's best witch hunters, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and doling out justice. But when she's accused of being a witch herself, Elizabeth is arrested and sentenced to burn at the stake.
Salvation comes from a man she thought was her enemy. Nicholas Perevil, the most powerful and dangerous wizard in the kingdom, offers her a deal: he will save her from execution if she can break the deadly curse that's been laid upon him.
But Nicholas and his followers know nothing of Elizabeth's witch hunting past--if they find out, the stake will be the least of her worries. And as she's thrust into the magical world of witches, ghosts, pirates, and one all-too-handsome healer, Elizabeth is forced to redefine her ideas of right and wrong, of friends and enemies, and of love and hate.
Virginia Boecker weaves a riveting tale of magic, betrayal, and sacrifice in this unforgettable fantasy debut.
-- As seen on Goodreads
My Thoughts
I had a pretty good idea that I'd enjoy The Witch Hunter, but there's always that little doubt at the back of my mind that insists on keeping my expectations under control. I've been bitten by the hype bug one too many times, and I'm learning to be a little cautious! I'm SO GLAD I can say I shouldn't have worried – I loved The Witch Hunter! I love when I get so caught up in a book that I can just relax and enjoy being swept away by a fabulous story.
The book is set in an alternative 16th century London after a deadly plague decimated the population. The plague was blamed on magic, and witchcraft is outlawed and those found participating or in possession of anything witchcraft related are burned alive at the stake. Elizabeth Grey, our MC and narrator, is one of the best witch hunters in Anglia, but she's been off her game recently and her fellow witch hunters, including her childhood friend Caleb, are beginning to notice. I will confess that The Witch Hunter and I had a bit of a shaky start. Elizabeth was a hard character to empathise with initially, and I think it was due to her crush on Caleb dominating much of the early chapters. This seems to be a standard theme in YA these days, and I was afraid things would go downhill from there. Thankfully, it didn't. Elizabeth is found with illegal contraceptive herbs, and is accused of being a witch. She's thrown in Fleet prison to awaiting her imminent execution, and her perception of the world begins to change when her greatest enemy is the one to help her escape from prison.
I loved how entertaining and captivating the story telling was. It's really moreish, and I kept trying to find excuses to squeeze in an extra ten minutes of reading whenever I could. The book is written in the first person, and we gain knowledge and figure things out at the same pace as Elizabeth, and while I could see a few things coming, I loved that nothing was dragged out unnecessarily. Once Elizabeth figured something out, we were off pursuing the answer and the plot zipped on ahead quickly. While the setting is 1558 London, the language used throughout the book is quite modern. Personally, I didn't mind this at all – I tend to find overly historically sounding books boring to read.
The dialogue and the interactions between the characters made me fall in love with the book. I loved how natural they seemed, and nothing felt scripted or forced. While it took me a while to connect with Elizabeth, I thought she was a really good character. She's a quick thinker and quite resourceful, and I enjoyed seeing the story unfold from her perspective. I feel both John and Elizabeth's characters worked best together, and some of their interactions were nothing short of adorable. The progression of their attraction felt natural, and while it only spanned a handful of weeks, it felt believable. I didn't feel the plot was dominated by the romance, either. I really liked how subtle it was, and I felt it complimented rather than detracted from the story. George and Fifer were easily my favourite characters, though. I always favour the humours ones, and George sort of reminded me of a drunk version of Puck from the Iron Fae series by Julie Kagawa. (You know how much I love Puck!!)
I really like that this book is wrapped up nicely – no cliff-hangers in sight, phew! – but the ending itself wasn't quite as explosive as I was imagining it to be. With all the build-up just before, I was expecting huge and epic things, and while I liked what happened… I had hoped for a bit MORE! Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed The Witch Hunter. It's a really fun and entertaining light fantasy read, and it's easily one of my favourite debuts of 2015!
*I received an eARC from Hachette Children's Books via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This didn't influence my opinion in any way.*


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The ban on gay children participating in the Boy Scouts program ended 2 years ago, but not unanimously - in that vote 61% of approximately 1,400 voting members of the BSA National council voted to end the ban barring gay youth from participating in the BSA program.
My bet is that in a few years, people will look back on this era and shake their heads in disbelief at the cruelty directed at these young kids and adults affected by such blatant ignorant discrimination.
As I have mentioned in years past, I have 2 sons, one gay and one straight. Both were Boy Scouts from first grade on (well Cub Scouts in their younger years, Boy Scouts in their older years). Both boys achieved their Eagle Scout, the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program, an honor not many boys hang in there long enough to attain.
I am grateful to see progress happen, but sad to think that anyone could have thought a ban on children was ever something God would have sanctioned. But then again, religion has been used over the millennia to justify cruel and hurtful things done unto others, so nothing new here.
UPDATE: There is an exemption for troops organized by religious organizations.


text: Things to do on sunny days in Wales The sun's shining. Places like the Pembrokeshire coast are way sunnier than London (we get 1,700 hours of sunshine a year, compared with London's 1,460). And we've got tons of things to on sunny days outdoors in Wales. A Bala Lake Windsurfing on Bala Lake, Gwynedd, Snowdonia The largest natural lake in Wales is the ideal place to cool off on a sunny day. There's a steam railway along the shores, and the full monty of watersports on the lake itself, whose 1km width makes it a favourite for sponsored swims. More activities near Bala B Skomer Island Skomer Island Pembrokeshire's offshore islands are bird sanctuaries of world importance, and a clifftop picnic on Skomer, among the wild flowers, with thousands of sea birds wheeling overhead, while seals bask on the rocks below, is a fabulous experience. More attractions near Skomer Island C Cruise a canal Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal, Talybont-on-Usk The impossibly pretty Monmouthshire & Brecon canal runs for 35 miles along the edge of the Brecon Beacons. There are several boat hire fleets along the way, from which you can hire a day boat or canoe and enjoy a memorable potter (at a top speed of 4mph…). More attractions near Brecon D Cycling at Coed y Brenin Coed y Brenin Mountain Biking Centre, Snowdonia The mountain biking in Wales is world-class, and here's where it all started, in the wooded hills of Snowdonia. You don't have to be a Lycra-clad warrior to enjoy it, though: there are easy trails that are specifically designed for families and beginners to make a gentle start. More activities near Coed-y-Brenin E Kite feeding Red Kite, Gigrin Farm, Brecon Beacons The red kite is now so common over Mid Wales that they're a constant presence in the skies. But seeing them en masse – several hundred at a time, at a kite-feeding centre like Gigrin Farm - is still one of the most awesome sights that British nature has to offer. More attractions near Rhayader F Dyffryn Gardens Dyffryn Gardens, Glamorgan by fillbee For a good run-around and a picnic in glorious garden surroundings, Dyffryn Gardens is hard to beat. The National Trust's newest Welsh acquisition has gardens and an arboretum with just the right kind of nooks, hidey-holes and water features that children love. More attractions in and around Cardiff G National Botanic Garden of Wales National Botanic Garden, Carmarthenshire The huge greenhouse at the Garden's heart looks like a spaceship has crashed into the Towy Valley, and there are always events to appeal to kids: Pond Dipping Mondays, Going Green Tuesdays, Time Travelling Wednesdays, Creepy Crawly Thursdays … you get the picture. It's stunningly beautiful, too. More attractions in Carmarthenshire H Skiing at Pembrey Skiing at Pembrey Country Park, Carmarthenshire The sun's out, so let's go skiing. Makes sense, right? The slope at Pembrey Country Park is one of many things to do on a sunny day, including crazy golf, train rides, adventure play, horse riding, nature trails and a whopping eight-mile dune-backed beach. More attractions near Pembrey I Powis Castle Powis Castle, Mid Wales Quite apart from the classy stately-home-and-garden thing, the National Trust has devised lots of child-friendly activities here: wilderness walks, ranger trails, treasure hunts, and games on the croquet lawn. Rolling down the grassy slopes, while saying 'Wheee!', is also strongly encouraged. More attractions near Welshpool C Snowdon Mountain Railway Snowdon Mountain Railway, Gwynedd, Snowdonia by Alex Meacock, Camera Drone UK Heading along two major viaducts via a waterfall and an ancient forest, this journey to the peak of Snowdon takes on volcanic rock and sea, ending at a visitor centre with marvellous views across Snowdonia. Exorcise the ghosts of run-of-the-mill train trips on one of the most spectacular journeys you'll take. More attractions near Llanberis Enjoy this? Share it with friends Related items Wild winter in the north Ravens, choughs, baby seals – and hundreds of thousands of wintering birds. Mountaineering for kids Climbing a Welsh mountain can be perfectly safe for kids, if you follow a few simple rules. Spring & summer wildlife Spring and summer is the perfect time to see grey seals, dolphins and colourful seabirds. Autumn & winter wildlife Discover the birds and wildlife that make Wales their home for autumn and winter. Quirky heritage sites Wales has masses of eccentric attractions. We've an odd feeling you're going to like them. It's a living thing Children can make history at one of our brilliant living history museums.


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A South Carolina woman was charged by Fayetteville Police with making false statements in a Sept. 10 incident that occurred at the home of her boyfriend in Fayetteville. The woman told officers her boyfriend had raped her but was later arrested for making false statements during an interview with female detectives.
Fayetteville Police spokesman Steve Crawshaw said 40-year-old Angella Caprice Miller, of Hopkins, S.C., was charged with making false statements and writings after an incident that police reports said involved her boyfriend, a Fayetteville resident.
Crawshaw said police at 1:20 p.m. were dispatched on a 911 domestic call made by the boyfriend, asking for an officer to come to his residence. Upon his arrival and as he was walking up to the open garage door the officer heard people talking inside the home, Crawshaw said. The officer paused to listen to the conversation and heard Miller saying that when the police arrive she would, "tell them you raped me," said Crawshaw.
The man in response replied, "Whatever. I just want you to get your things and leave," reports said.
The officer reported that at this point the two began arguing with raised voices. That is when the officer stepped in, Crawshaw said.
Upon questioning the two, Miller said they had been arguing because the boyfriend had other plans and wanted her to leave, reports said.
The police report noted that Miller began making comments saying she did not want to say what the boyfriend had done to her, implying a sexual assault, officers said. At that point the officer asked if Miller was saying she had been raped, Crawshaw said. Miller responded by saying that she "did not want to get him in trouble," according to reports.
The officer asked again if she had been raped and received no reply. A short time later Miller called the officer over and said she could not let the boyfriend get away with this and that she wanted to press charges because he raped her, reports said.
The woman subsequently told the officer she had spoken with a family member and did not want to get the boyfriend in trouble and did not want to press charges, according to reports.
Miller was asked by officers to come to the police department where she could meet with two females detectives. As a result of that interview Miller was charged with making false statements and writings. Crawshaw said the charge resulted from a significant number of conflicts in her statements in relation to the story she told officers.