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Sep 1st
Reverse-engineering H1N1:
I like how FishBot has a confirmation on the opt out request. "Are you *sure* you want me to stop smashing your face with a hammer?"
Waxen Kurt Cobain stars in Bizarro-world League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
Leafing through April 1997 Nintendo Power I grabbed from a box marked "free." Hey, here's a 6-page Super Metroid speed run guide!
Sep 2nd
Trying to do sound design; need to fix this headphone buzz. Maybe I could mix to complement the buzz and finalize by micing the headphones.
455 products tagged "WTF" on Amazon:
-- Inflatable toast! Tempting, but I'll wait for the jar of spreadable Nanobees.
Groove quantize is really playing hell with my sextuplets.
Sep 3rd
Viacom losing money on Rock Band due to the expense of peripherals:
So why do they keep selling new hardware versions?
@pnewnan Can't just be any stripe, though. You have to calibrate the width and color saturation, or the albedo will screw with your airflow.
-- Yoshi's Island is an amazingly happy game. How did the SNES hardware render this much happiness at full framerate?
Sep 4th
-- A week of information on Ron Gilbert's "DeathSpank." There's a nice LucasArts developer reunion video in there.
-- No natural force of evolution could've produced this. The whole time, he has to be thinking "I shouldn't be!"
Sep 5th
Woman in front of me shifted her head and my reptile brain interpreted it as a falling object. Almost tried to reach out and grab her.
-- Oh, they're sliding a new piece of the Bay Bridge this weekend. No wonder BART was so crowded on Friday.
Sep 6th
Rereading Alan W. Pollack's "Notes On" series in anticipation of The Beatles: Rock Band. My music theory is much more robust than last time.
Hah, "This Boy" shares a chord progression with "Yoshi's Island Athletic Theme."
Oh, not quite. I vi ii V vs. I V/ii ii V. For reference:
-- I think the solution here is clearly to use a globe.
-- Oh man, if you look at the sheet music for this, he's actually improvising heavily even on sight-read.
Sep 7th
"Would not all this attention to salt be inexplicable, unless [...]" MARK KURLANSKY PLEASE LERN 2 RITE.
I wonder whether Mr. Rickenbocker knew that his name was so similar to an existing guitar brand when he named the company after himself.
The Beatles: Rock Band nicked the unpause countdown from Guitar Hero. High-fives to Neversoft for a nick going in that direction!
Sep 8th
Multitasking towels:
PSA: Swine Flu attended PAX.
Sep 9th
You know how each individual Squirtle is also named Squirtle and can only say "squirtle"?
For anyone who didn't believe me about the brick-shaped 'fros:
Narcolepsy knows no borders:
Sep 10th
@thealawson It's this delicately-balanced set of values I fear losing most via the inevitable cognition-enhancing drugs and/or surgery.
Braid is $5 on Steam. This is one of those game that even lapsed gamers should still play. (Never-gamers will have a hard time with it.)
@thealawson I wouldn't call it your innards specifically. The balance is part of the human experience. Have you read A Deepness in the Sky?
Hups! My name shows up as "Jim Jrawford" on the backers list in the "Kind of Bloop" liner notes.
@thealawson I got your metaphor. Re ADITS, it's a big book and I don't know if you'd be into all of it, but life balance is a strong theme.
55 years after his death, Alan Turing gets an apology:
$260 for The Beatles Remastered? $300 for the mono boxed set? I bet the mono set wasn't even remastered. I bet it was only mastered once!
Also, here's something they don't want you to know: the redbook audio format doesn't support mono, so that mono boxed set? Actually stereo.
Sep 11th
@thealawson I know what you mean. In my case, being productive and relaxing are both very interior, and being social is a third leg of sorts
@thealawson Also, if I spill past even one tweet I feel I like I'm abusing the medium. But I don't usually go elsewhere until I hit three.
@fistfulofsand Didn't you get my link to "The 2009-2014 World Outlook for Frozen Meat Lasagna"?
@thealawson Man, Twitter sucks at discussion. Looking back at our conversation, I feel like I could only hint at the edges of what I meant.
How do you advertise low-budget 1980s sci-fi and horror movies to residents of Ghana?
Placebos are getting more effective, and pharmaceutical companies are struggling to keep up:
"The durndest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and then return and love some more and get a little lovin' right back."
Sep 12th
What's your morning ritual? Mine: roll out of bed, check email, make coffee, check RSS feeds, check work email.
Craig Timpany has been doing some fascinating game design prototypes based around spheres and gravity:
Goombas.org post: "The Psychological Ramifications of Sampling a Friend."
In case you needed convincing to take advantage of the $5 Braid deal this weekend:
-- "Forever is Composed of Nows."
Drawings of everybody in New York:
Sep 13th
Beatles outtakes/bootlegs always come in FLAC. Because you so need bit-perfect duplication on a recording that's 12 analog generations old.
Sep 14th
Put it in your yard in lieu of a guard dog:
Sep 15th
-- "An American flying hunter-killer robot assassin rebelled against its human controllers above Afghanistan on Sunday"
-- Man, remember when Activision was a brand associated with quality and innovation? (Hint: it was the early 1980s.)
Sep 16th
If you are making a game employing variable reinforcement schedules to reward compulsive play, you are doing evil. Yes, every CRPG counts.
Printing handcuff keys:
Sep 17th
Was I actually getting phantom stabbing pains simultaneously in my right ear and shoulder last night, keeping me awake, or did I dream that?
Ow! Nope, they were real. Unless this is still a dream, and you'd know that better than me.
Wonder if it's a spatial thing, like my proprioception is merging these body parts for purposes of pain because they're close to each other.
Telltale is giving away the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island on Talk Like a Pirate Day:
Sep 18th
How to photograph the Earth from space on a budget of $150:
Functional bionic arms for amputees:
Sep 19th
The sporadic shooting pain in my ear and shoulder has pretty much stopped, and I didn't have to do anything at all. Checkmate, medicine!
Sony is rebranding The Beatles Rock Band as a Singstar product:
That's *weird*! Like playing a Sonic game on a Nintendo.
Sep 20th
Hm. No more shooting pains in ear/shoulder, but now I'm getting them in the pinky that's been slightly crooked since a rat bit it in 2001.
@alyankovic Damn it, I had popcorn ready and everything.
The state of video game journalism circa 2009:
@pnewnan Try plotting a chart from before that article existed to now. I've been running linear regressions all day, and the trend is clear.
Sep 21st
-- Great marketing campaign. Might as well put up a sign: "You must be [this] pathetic to enjoy Ninja Gaiden Sigma."
Team Ninja's done this before. One of the DOA3 ads was of guys on a couch scrambling for pillows to hide their erections. This could be you!
Inferring friendship from mobile phone location data:
Man, my roommate keeps baking delicious treats and offering them to me. I'm trying to meet a calorie quota here!
- My analog synth tropism is flaring up again. I have software that's way more powerful; why do I need something tactile?
"The G?mb?c logo (2cm high) is engraved on both sides." -- Hey, this thing was supposed to be convex!
Sep 22nd
The Korg Kaossilator is only $150 on Amazon. Sold! One of these days I *am* just gonna have to get something with a bunch of knobs, though.
I say lots of UIs are the worst ever, but the Xbox 360 Media Center might actually be it. Can't even suss out how cursor manipulation works.
Ogg Vorbis files show up as videos, and error out when you hit play. Try to close the error, and it opens an unlabeled text input box.
And I could've used text input when trying to search! You can't use search with a controller; *that* interface explicitly requires a numpad.
The "pictures" section claims to contain 226 items, but all I can find is the empty directory structure of my MP3 folder and no pictures.
Oh, it *can* see the shared folders on my desktop PC. It just made me set up the Media Center service anyway, to prove to me who's boss.
Good thing I don't have Natal, or I'm sure it would've asked me to do the truffle shuffle too.
-- "Don?t leave unused code around because it might be useful someday. Even just sitting there, it?s costing you."
No surprise, retailers have a problem with the PSPgo.
Why help sell the razors when you aren't in on the blades?
Sep 23rd
-- The fun way to clean up stray files on your hard drive.
Sep 24th
Homemade ice cream is delicious. The inside of my mouth feels like I just ate a stick of butter.
It's looking more and more like the C++0x standardization team might have to change the preliminary name of their project.
Sep 25th
-- "Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it."
So I told my doctor about the ear/shoulder pain thing, and my proxy pain theory, and he said he had no fucking idea. In about as many words.
-- Latest fMRI results: the salmon is judging your social interactions as you grill it.
Sep 26th
Blowing up your one-line ASCII art, with Figlet:
Carl Sagan in song form:
-- Can't decide whether this being awesome adds life to the overt-autotune meme or shortens it.
I haven't seen the film, but this may be the finest documentary poster ever:
Bear Armor Guy is now designing a Halo suit for the Canadian military:
(Does the Canadian military know about this?)
You know how synths have show floor presets, awesome sounds, fun to play, but impossible to mix into music? The Kaossilator is *just* those.
New Smush tune, inspired by Monkey Island:
I don't feel like it's actually done, but I'm not sure where to go with it.
@thealawson It's not technically impossible, and I intend to do it. But they're designed to dominate the sonic space, not fit into a mix.
Sep 27th
-- Theory: the Half-Life 2 G-Man is metaphor for the game designer, guiding events while maintaining the facade for you.
Back from Folsom St. Fair. Tamer than led to believe. Awesome like Comic-Con is: subculture allowed to go wild because the normals are away.
All that bare skin meant lots of exposed pimples. I kept wanting to run up and say "hey, can I get that for you?"
Sep 28th
@RareLtd I got Blast Corps used, couldn't figure out how to reset the save. Long story short: Diamond Sands was the first level I finished.
"For years, I have made the joke about Richard Reid: 'Just be glad that he wasn't the underwear bomber.'" Joke's over:
-- If you're unfamiliar, The Protomen make albums that are essentially rock operas set in the Mega Man universe.
There's a guy on a walkie-talkie right outside my bedroom window. Nobody's ever back there, what's going on here?
I remember back when I lived on the second floor, a repair man knocking on the window while I was napping and asking me to close the blinds.
Walkie-talkie guy has gone into stealth mode. I still hear footsteps. I'm sure he's trying desperately to stifle a sneeze as we speak.
There aren't enough single-screen platformers around. After 1985, every platformer had to scroll the same way every game has to be 3D now.
Sep 29th
Bats don't have time to stop and drink:
Me: "svn revert shares-behind" SVN: "Skipped 'shares-behind'" Okay, um. But I didn't want you to skip it. I wanted you to not skip it.
Sep 30th
My 360 suicided, but it's *not* a red ring. Take that, Sony Defense Force!
Stuck in Zork? Like prog rock? It's your lucky day:
Decided to play Left 4 Dead twenty minutes ago. Steam is still updating. This is why people don't do PC gaming any more.
Hooray, the launcher finally launched. Now all I have to do is wait another 20 minutes for the game itself to update.
The high point of owning a Kaossilator has been watching my friends lose respect for lame techno acts. So worth it!
Goombas.org post on the parallel between BDSM and game design, awkwardly segued into experiential design decisions:
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I've been slacking on the blog front... Been a little slammed with the move. I'm shooting Josie Bissett again tomorrow. She landed a role in the new Melrose Place, so we're doing some promo shots of her. I adore working with her! More later.
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Well.. I've moved into my new place and have started to unpack all the boxes. What an overwhelming experience. I've told everyone if I ever move again I am leaving all!
Had a fantastic dinner with family and friends last night and now I'm back to work. I can't wait to share the Calvin Klein campaign. It's amazing!
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A little monkey business today! This is on the set today for an Olgivy gig. Charles and I just flew in from New York this morning to arrive at the prelight fully exhausted, but the monkey woke us up and got us going.
What an amazing few days it has been. I shot the Calvin Klein kids campaign yesterday and it was out of this world cool. Can't wait for it to launch!
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Welcome to Pocotaligo Kennel.
Boykin Puppies available. Rock n Creek Wilson X Pocotaligo's Sweep. Visit puppy page for information on these puppies whelped 11 Sep 2018.
Founded in 1986, Pocotaliago Kennel is one of the South's premier kennels specializing in the Boykin Spaniel breed..
Located in Sumter, SC, Kim Parkman can assist you with your training needs. Whether starting your puppy, gun dog basics or advanced training for performance events Pocotaligo Kennel is here for you and your dog.


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Time for a pizza party!
This month marks the two-year anniversary of Bread Baking Day, so Zorra, the founder of BBD and this month's host, decided to throw a pizza party:
Since she asked us to pay special attention to the crust, I wanted to try making one with sourdough because that's what happens when you feel adventurous and still not quite over the excitement of making your very first loaf of sourdough.
Here we are:
The sourdough crust was topped simply with a bit of tomato sauce, monterey jack and fresh basil. You can see the crust got nice and puffy in spots (and it tasted great!) but the cheese separated at the high baking temperature (as high as your oven can go, until toppings get bubbly and crust is golden brown) so there were puddles of oil in places, which in turn made the basil turn dark. Next time, I'm going to remember to pick up some fresh mozzarella instead of resorting to whatever brick of cheese I have at home.
Did I mention the crust was delicious?
Still lots of room for improvement, but I like to think I've come a long way from heating up Boboli crusts for homemade pizza.
Update: the roundup has been posted!
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I'm sending this pizza (pie?) to Zorra of 1x umrühren bitte for BBD#21 and Susan at Wild Yeast for YeastSpotting.


text: This project is based on the book Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella by Tony Johnston. We used 1 inch wide paper strips and glued them together. We used clothespins to hold them together to dry while we were building. We experimented with both gluing them onto a piece of paper and also just hanging them up from the ceiling with no background paper. Another fun project that was pretty simple to do, if you used clothes pins... aka "art clamps".


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Kicking off Love Data Week 2018, the Make Data Count (MDC) team is pleased to announce that the first iteration of our Code of Practice for Research Data Usage Metrics Release 1 has now been posted as a preprint.
Beginning in June, members from the MDC team and COUNTER began conversations around what a standard for data usage metrics may look like. By September we were able to release an initial draft outline for community feedback. Comments from the community and further drafting spurred discussions around how data are different than articles and where the code of practice for data needed to deviate from the COUNTER Code of Practice Release .....more


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A few weeks ago I planted some basil and chives in the lids to some mason jars. All you do is put a little soil in the lid, place the seeds in, add some water and screw the jar on. Wait a few weeks and your fresh herbs will grow. I keep mine on the window sill in the kitchen. They are still growing, but once they grow a bit taller I will be able to cut them as I need them.
There is nothing like fresh herbs to add to your recipes. I love being able to go to the garden or a herb garden pot and use my own herbs and vegies rather than getting them from the store. It is so convenient, and it come s at a great price tag.
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Could 'The Last Last Last Exorcism' Be In Our Future? A Third Film Is Being Discussed!
While there's still a bit of a wait fot The Last Exorcism Part II, which arrives in theaters March 1 from CBS Films, that doesn't mean that a third film is off the table! I just got off the phone with Ashley Bell who confirms that the second film leaves room for another potential sequel that they're hoping to make. I'll share my FULL interview with Bell next week (closer to the film's release), but I wanted to get this tidbit out to you a little early.
When asked if there were plans to make a third film, depending on how this one performs, she answered, "There's a wait and see approach, but yeah there have been [discussions]. There's a twist at the end [of Part 2] that is literally so shocking! I would love to step back into my Doc Martens for a third time."
In Part II, "Continuing where the first film left off, Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) is found alone and terrified in the woods. Back in the relative safety of civilization, Nell realizes that she can't remember entire portions of the previous months only that she is the last surviving member of her family. Just as Nell begins the difficult process of starting a new life, the evil force that once possessed her is back with other, unimaginably horrific plans that mean herlast exorcism was just the beginning."
Question – if they make this third film, what should the title be?


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Google helps you with privacy now and after you are gone
Google has recently announced My Account, which is a page where you can control much of what happens when you interact with Google - even if you don't have a Google Account. You can tell Google that certain types of advertising are of no interest to you - for example, I killed off sports and several other categories. There's a privacy checkup that quickly shows you everything related to Google accounts. There's a lot more - it will take you some time to go through it all, but it is time well spent.
I enabled automatic email response if I haven't logged in for three months. That can be set as long as 18 months if you wish.
Should your account become inactive, you can have Google notify up to ten people and optionally give each one access to your Google data such as email and photos.
With or without that, you can have all your Google data deleted after your account timeout.
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Whereas phospholipids mainly aggregate into two-dimensional aggregates, i.e., bilayers, other molecules aggregate into one dimensional aggregates, i.e., filaments or supramolecular polymers. Examples of proteins forming fibrous aggregates are actin, microtubules, and amyloids. Here we study such filament formation using two synthetic molecules, namely BTA's and OPV's. Both of these molecules can form one dimensional helical supramolecular polymers, where the helicity can be both left-handed and right-handed.
Achiral monomers will form aggregates of both helicities in equal amount, while chiral information in the monomers results in a preference for one helicity in the aggregates. We study both the thermodynamic equilibrium of these supramolecular polymerizations, for instance showing the important role of the monomer pool in chiral amplification, as well as the kinetics, where we for instance observed that not always the thermodynamically most stable aggregate is formed first.
Pathway complexity
A first example is the supramolecular polymerization of the S enantiomer of OPV. Two of such molecules can form a very stable dimer, which can be the building blocks of a supramolecular polymerization. In a very low concentration solution, these building blocks will be present as monomers. When the concentration is increased, these monomers start aggregating. Aggregates smaller than some critical size (the nucleus), are assumed to be still rather unstructured and as such less favorable than larger, nicely helical structured, aggregates. As a result this aggregation process is very cooperative, yielding long supramolecular polymers.
The aggregation process can be modeled using the following scheme, where two types of aggregates (P and M) can be formed, representing the right-handed and left-handed helical aggregates respectively. In this model, new dimers can be formed from two monomers and existing supramolecular polymers can grow or shrink by successive monomer additions and removals, where the rate constants may differ between the two aggregate types and between before and after reaching the critical nucleus size (n).
The kinetics of this model can then be solved by integrating the set of differential equations describing these reactions. The excess of material in aggregates with one helical sense over the material in aggregates with the other helical sense can then for instance be compared with experimentally measured circular dichroism data of these systems. In this way the competition between different aggregation pathways could be unravelled [Nature 481, 492-496 (2012)].
Stochastic simulation
Instead of using differential equatons, the supramolecular polymerization process could also be modeled stochastically, for instance using kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. In the case of a supramolecular polymerization of a single monomer type X, the current state of the system is given by the number of monomers and the numbers of polymers and their lengths. Given these numbers of monomers and polymers and the reaction rates, the probabilities of all possible reactions can be calculated. When we descibe the polymerization again as a monomer addition/removal process, the possible reactions are:
At each iteration of the simulation, the probabilities of all possible reactions are calculated and one reaction is selected proportional to these probabilities and is executed. After a reaction has been selected, products are stoichiometrically incremented, reactants are decremented and the time by which the system advances is determined by randomly drawing a number from an exponential distribution with as parameter the sum of all reaction propensities. An example of a simulation of a system containing only 60 molecules is shown in a movie that can be started by pressing the left most picture below.
The other two pictures link to movies of isodesmic (middle) and cooperative (right) supramolecular polymerization. The difference between the two is that in the isodesmic case the rate constants for all monomer additions/removals are the same, whereas in the cooperative case these are still the same for aggregates larger than the critical nucleus size, but smaller for those smaller than this nucleus size. As can be seen from the movies, in the isodesmic case many short polymers are formed, whereas in the cooperative case fewer, but longer, polymers are formed. These movies thus provide a very nice illustration of the influence of cooperativity on supramolecular polymer growth.
Chiral amplification
It becomes even more interesting when we have two types of monomers that can copolymerize in single aggregates. For instance, when we have two enantiomers of a chiral molecule, where one enantiomer (R) prefers the right-handed helicity aggregates (P) whereas the other enantiomer (S) prefers the left-handed helicity (M). Possible reactions are then:
The movie below on the left hand site shows what happens if the monomers have a very high preference for one type of helical sense. In that case the two monomer types hardly mix and the two monomer types behave more or less as two separate systems. If the penalty for mixing in the opposite helicty aggregates is however relatively small compared to the energy gain of being in an aggregate mixed polymers are being formed. As can be observed from the movie on the right hand site below, in this case the ratio between material ending up in P and M helicity is much larger than the ratio of R and S present, something that is called the Majority Rules principle of chiral amplification.
Another example of chiral amplification is the so called Sergeants and Soldiers effect. Like the left-hand figure below shows, achiral monomers (black) aggregate in aggregates of both types of helicity in equal mounts. As can be seen in the movie at the right-hand site below, when a small percentage of chiral (red) monomers is added, finally only one type of helicity aggregates remains.
More information on these simulations and an alternative approach to describe such chiral amplification, which is based on a mass balance approach, is available in [Nature Communications 2, 509 (2011)]
Another interesting example of reversible polymerization is the Fischer-Tropsch reaction, i.e., a heterogeneous catalytic reaction that converts synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen which can be derived from natural gas, coal, or biomass) into diesel quality liquid fuels. Taking the reversibility of the hydrocarbon chain growth into account using similar approaches as used for the supramolecular polymerizations, new insight into the behavior of this catalytic reaction is provided. This for instance not only shows that competition between reagent activation and product formation leads to a volcano-type dependence of the reaction rate on the reactivity of the catalyst surface, called the Sabatier principle. It also shows that the observed maximum in selectivity for longer hydrocarbon chains as a function of the reactivity of the catalyst surface can be explained by the reversibility of the chain growth [Angewandte Chemie 51, 9015 (2012)].
In follow-up studies we used the same microkinetics approach, based on quantum-chemical data of the relative stability of reaction intermediates and their corresponding elementary reaction rates, to gain further insight into the molecular mechanisms of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction. By solving the ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of the microkinetics models, without invoking any assumptions on particular rate controlling steps, we were able to discriminate between different possible molecular mechanistic models. This showed that not the CO insertion chain growth mechanism but the carbide chain growth mechanism is responsible for the chain growth in the Fischer-Tropsch reaction [ChemCatChem (2013)], and that kinetics operates within the so-called monomer formation kinetics limit, in which the activity is controlled by C-O bond activation that is the rate controlling step [J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 4488 (2013)]. Moreover, we were able to derive analytical formulae for the overall reaction rate as well as the selectivity for longer hydrocarbon chains of the different molecular mechanistic models. Direct integration of the ODEs furthermore allowed comparison with recent kinetic experiments on catalyst particle size dependence [Faraday Discuss. 162, 267-279 (2013)]. These insights are also important for the practical kinetics modeling of Fischer-Tropsch processes. A nice overview of all these new results and their implications for further study of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction are given in [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys (2013)].
If you have any further questions on this research, please contact Peter Hilbers, Bart Markvoort or Tom de Greef.


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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Downingtown as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Sewers — See Ch. 235.
[Adopted 4-9-1986 by Ord. No. 86-4]
Any party requesting a credit on the sewer bill must notify the Borough prior to the use of said water to fill or top off swimming pools, requesting that the water meter be read prior to and after the water has been used to determine the actual gallons used for said credit. The credit shall be the amount of water used between the readings mentioned above.
The fee for the reading of the water meter prior to and after the use of the water to fill or top off a swimming pool shall be $15 for the cost of the meter reading and the administration connected with the adjustment for said credit.


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Farley is rockin' again......
Everyone is knocked out around here but me.....so all I hear is snoring!!
I'm definitely enjoying my summer this year (first summer in two that I haven't had grad school)---so it's been nice to do what I want when I want....which hasn't been a lot of anything!!
I have definitely been thinking about creating new products!!! I have a couple of things I want to update for the coming year. Any suggestions about what you might want to see?
I would love to be able to meet all of my bloggy peeps in Vegas---but it's a no go....maybe one day!
Productivity---??? Teacher off for the summer??? Hmm....we shall see.
I'm in eastern NC and that little 'ole storm out there that is named Arthur is trying to show up on Thursday and Friday. So not sure how the 4th will turn out weather wise.......


text: It's been a while so we thought this would be a good time to give you a little update. Work on Sebring has been progressing slowly but very nicely. There's a new shot in our photo album : http://picasaweb.google.com/VirtuaLM.Simracing/Virtua_LMSebring#5533939720585854066 We do not have a release date so there is no need to ask.


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Dear Parents,
Each week there are students in charge of a current event. I have sent home a reminder with these students but I will also list them here.
Monday - Christina
Tuesday - Lucas
Wednesday - day 2, no current events
Thursday - Michael
Friday - no school
Here are some student friendly sites for Current Events.
Good News Daily
Science News for Kids
Time for Kids
This week is only a 4 day week and so there is only three nights of homework. By now, all students should be well on their way to completing their first tests of a variable related to the section and contest they chose. Monday will see students putting up their results and Tuesday is preparing for the second variable test. Each variable changed should have a minimum of 3 tests to make the data valid. All students should be keeping record of their test findings and putting it on a chart on their blog. I did forget to include the due date for the projects - May 31 is when students need to bring their Variables Olympics projects to school for the class competition where everyone particiaptes. The winners of these competitions will move on to the grade level competition next day.
Tuesday is our final trip to the MS for transition and students will be paired up with a current grade 6 student and there are various activities that need to be completed. We will have lunch with our buddies at the MS on Tuesday.
The next and final unit in math is on Probability, Ratios and Rates. This is kind of a neat unit where we look at what makes something fair and what are the chances of either winning or completing something. Later in the unit we will play games to determine if they are fair or not. We did one last week and it was determined that since it is completely luck, it must be fair since everyone has the same chance at luck. The parent letter for this unit was in the email sent home. You will get the final evaluation of the last unit in the Monday folders this week.
I had a number of people last week ask about the math assessment sheet. This is the form at the front of the final math assessment. Please remember that it is a complete assessment of the unit and not just the final test. We also grade the work from student journals, exit slips and some of the oral work we do in class. The problem solving is a combination of the exemplars and the open response that students do.
One thing I need to let everyone know is that it is time to prepare for final grading and reports. In order for me to do this it is now very important that work be completed on time. There is almost no room for me to give extensions any more as I have to get things graded and then I will begin final reports. Please see that everything that has deadlines be followed a closely as possible or it may not make it on your students report card. I thank-you in advance for this.
Our walk about is a go now with only one group without a parent helper. I am working on some arrangements for these girls and if nothing pans out then either Mrs. Lee or myself will go. I think students are really looking forward to this and so are a bunch of parents.
That is about it for the week. If you want to meet with me before the end of the year let me know or if you have questions please feel free to contact me. Have a great week.
Harold Daw


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Type: Heavy cruiser
Scale: Capital
-Length: 1,025.39m
-Beam: 286.5m
-Draught: 326.1m
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Crew: 350
-Gunners: 20
-Troops: 40
-Skeleton: 80/+10
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Cargo Capacity: 3,400 metric tons
Consumables: 1 year
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Hyperspace Jump Engines: Yes
Nav Computer: Yes (+1D Astrogation)
Maneuverability: 2D
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Crew: 1 (2)
Skill: Starship gunnery
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Fire Control: 3D
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-Atmosphere: 100-300/1.2/2.5km
Damage: 5D
Rate Of Fire: 3
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Crew: 2 (2) (bridge crew)
Skill: Capital ship gunnery
Scale: Capital
Fire Control: 2D
-Space: 3-10/20/40
-Atmosphere: 6-20/40/80km
Damage: 6D
Rate Of Fire: 1/2
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Location: Mounted along hull
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Skill: Capital starship gunnery
Scale: Capital
Fire Control: 3D
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Damage: 4D
Rate Of Fire: 2
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Scale: Capital
Fire Control: 3D
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-GRAVITY: This class of ship has no artificial gravity or rotating sections. The crew operate in zero-g. If they use the available straps to stay seated, they can operate with no penalties. Otherwise, they incur all the penalties for operating in zero-g.
-JUMP ENGINES: Instead of Hyperdrives, most ships in the Babylon 5 setting have Hypserspace Jump Engines. Instead of the ship instantly accelerating at faster than light speeds and be partially or fully in hyperspace in an instant, this drive opens an aperture, or "jumpgate", into Hyperspace. The ship enters Hyperspace and flies as though it were normal space, locking onto Hyperspace beacons that mark the destination to desired coordinates (though Hyperspace has conditions of its own that can cause hazards for ship travel). When a jumpgate is opened, the ship must still maneuver and fly into the aperture. This can leave an opening for the ship to be attacked before leaving the area (unlike Star Wars where a ship can leave immediately once the Hyperdrive is engaged). Instead of the ship's speed through Hyperspace being determined by the quality of the Hyperdrive, it is the ship's own flight speed that determines how fast it travels through Hyperspace. Also, Astrogation is used differently. Instead of doing calculations to plot Hyperspace coordinates, Astrogation is used to locate and lock on to Hyperspace beacons. If the signal from these beacons is ever lost, a ship could wind up lost in hyperspace forever.
Technical Capabilities
Like most Earth Alliance ships of the period, the Hyperion lacked the capability to generate artificial gravity, either through the use of rotating sections or the later, more advanced gravitic drive systems. Though rotating sections were within Earthforce's technical capabilities of the time, they greatly reduced a ship's speed and effectiveness. As such the crew had to operate in a completely zero gravity environment, requiring the use of seat straps and handholds to work effectively. In later years, ships such as the Clarkstown were seen upgraded with newer weaponry such as the 52mm cannon used on the Omega class Destroyer. Presumably as the Warlock class destroyer was able to generate a gravity field, this feature was added to the Hyperions as they were still operating in 2281.
Service History
Before the introduction of the Omega and Warlock-class destroyers, the Hyperion-class heavy cruisers served as Earth's front line warships, often supported by the heavily armed Nova-class dreadnought. Hyperion heavy cruisers made up a proportion of the fleet that was assembled for the Battle of the Line and though a great many were destroyed, the ones that survived continued to serve alongside their successors as the workhorses of the Earthforce fleet. Even though the design was far past its prime it continued to be in service as late as 2281.
Status: Active (as of 2281)
Affiliation: Earthforce
Class: Heavy Cruiser
Length: 1,025.39m
Beam: 286.5m
Draught: 326.1m
Crew: 350
Engines: 3 Beigie-Bryant 900A Particle Thrust Engines
Jump Capable: Yes
Gravity: No
-2 52mm Plasma Pulse Cannons
-2 40mm Plasma Pulse Cannons
-2 Phased Particle Cannons
-4 Pulse Discharge Cannons
-2 Thermo-nuclear Torpedo Tubes
Auxiliary Craft: 6 Starfurys or Thunderbolts
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While some people with an agenda may portray them as Tide Pod detergent kids to demean them and try to dim their voices, the majority of this generation of Gen Z'ers that I have had the pleasure to be around (including my grandchildren) are intelligent, articulate and eager to make positive changes in the world. Generation Z are the kids born starting in the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. From their earliest recollection, they were brought into a world haunted by terrorism.
These kids remind me a little of us baby boomers who were brought up in the Cold War era. We reminisce now that we had happy childhoods, but there was also that ever-present fear brought about by a Russian threat of nuclear war. Every child of my generation knew the locations of every bomb shelter within a 50-mile range of where we lived, and we prayed that we would have time to get there before we died of radiation poisoning or worse, burning to death. It was scary stuff for a child; I know, I was there.
Yet it is this very same group who are criticizing our youth of today and making them feel like their voices don't matter. Are our memories fading so fast that we don't remember that fear? Our threats were far away; the enemy on the other side of the world, and the threat was just a threat, a possibility. We didn't experience it personally. The threats our children are facing are up close and right here on their own turf. How much scarier is that?
Have we forgotten that as we became teenagers in the 1960's, how frustrated we were with our own government for throwing us into a war in Vietnam with no purpose? A war that would kill or maim the very kids we went to school with? We all knew of someone who had died, lost a limb, or whose mental stability would never be the same. But these young men valiantly fought, seeking to make the world a safer place.
These kids are fighting a battle too. To them it's a war zone battle, but with nothing to fight back with but words. And solidarity. It's an unpopular war and they've been treated with humiliation. They're kids, in danger of losing their lives, and they're facing more than one enemy. Enemies with guns and enemies who refuse to do anything about those guns; enemies in leadership positions that could.
Tide pods; just something tried by a select few. Our GenZ'ers make up for 26% of the 325.7 million people population of the entire United States. That's 84.7 million Gen Z'ers. According to the American Association for Poison Control Centers, 12,299 laundry detergent exposures were reported in 2017, and more than half of those reported were children 5 years old and younger (accidental exposures). That means approximately 6000 intentional cases of kids over 5 years old and if even 75% of those were high school age, the percentage is only .0059%. That doesn't sound like a rampant problem among high school students to me. Throughout the ages, there have been those select few who thrive on danger. We had them in our day too. Drag racing was one, or the game of "chicken" where two teenage boys would hop in their cars and barrel towards each other seeing which one would swerve first. But those select few who were stupid enough to try these things didn't define our generation. Neither should Tide Pods define theirs.
Because we don't fully understand the ways of this generation doesn't make it right to demean and demoralize them. Their shaved heads, their piercings, their ripped-up jeans. It's foreign stuff to me just as it is to you. But our parents didn't like the boy with the Beatles' haircut that we brought home. They didn't understand the music, the peace symbols nor the protest marches. We grew up with prejudices handed down by parents. Some of us overcame them; some did not. But for the most part, we turned out okay. These kids will too. They're fed up with fear-mongering; they're fed up with adults who don't seem to care; they're fed up with lawmakers too afraid to make decisions for fear of losing campaign funds. I'm fed up too. I may not understand these kids, but I like them. They're strong. They harbor hope, not hate. We could all learn from them. But we need to pull from our memory banks those hopes and dreams we had of changing the future and pass the torch on, even when we have reservations, to the ones who will live the future. We're in the declining years of ours. If we try to guide them with our wisdom instead of berating them, we will have a much greater influence on what they choose to do.
For those who still don't understand, maybe you don't have grandchildren. Maybe you don't have a granddaughter like mine who has a buzzed haircut, but who has a college grade point average most people could only ever dream of having; one whose biggest vice is studying her way through school to the point of exhaustion, but needs a slightly rebellious way of expressing herself through dress and appearance. Maybe you don't have one who dresses a little bit weird, but has a kind and giving heart, thinking of other people's feelings more than she thinks of her own. Maybe your children or grands look and act perfectly in ways that you approve of. I have one of those too; he's in seminary. But not all kids are like that. Does that mean we should love them less? I'm extremely proud of my granddaughters, as well as my grandson.
I'm happy to give them a chance to make right what we've done wrong. Maybe they won't succeed, but instead of sitting on their duffs complaining and doing nothing like a lot of us are doing, they're trying to make the world a safer place for kids. We should be doing that too instead of being so caught up in our love for guns that we can't see the fear that is consuming them.
Hug a kid today. Tell them you understand their frustrations; you've lived through frustrations of your own. Tell them that even if you don't agree with their agenda, you're willing to listen and that you're proud that they're standing up for their rights. All they want is a future free of fear.


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We were asked to read a couple of classic teen novels for this class. According to Oxford Dictionary Online classic is defined as "Judged over a period of time to be of the highest quality and outstanding of its kind". And so a classic novel is a novel that will stand the test of time. It's not just a fad, it truly resonates with many people and will do so over the course of many years. A teen classic novel will do just this but is written just for teens. I chose to read Looking for Alaska by John Green for this section of reading. It's one I've heard a lot about over the years but I'd never picked it up for some reason.
Looking for Alaska is about Miles. He's a teenage boy obsessed with the last words of famous people. He reads their biographies and loves it when their last words are included. When his parents ask him why he chose to go to boarding school, thinking it was because he didn't have many (if any) friends, and he tells them that it's because of Francois Robelais' last words: "I go to seek a Great Perhaps". This is what really grabbed my attention when I was reading the book. It got me wondering, do teens really think this way? Is John Green making teens appear more deep and philosophical than they truly are? And, if so, does that matter?
Miles ends up going to this boarding school and meets the first true friends he's ever had. His roommate, The Colonel, gives him the nickname, Pudge, and that's what we get to know him as. Pudge becomes infatuated with this girl, Alaska. She's moody, attractive, bold, smart, and has a boyfriend. Takumi is the funny one of the group and he also loves to rap. Much of the book is taken over by the witty and smart dialogue between this group of friends and their escapades on school grounds. They mess around a lot but they each seem to take their lives seriously. They seriously ponder the BIG questions about life and share their thoughts with each other. Adults are around but not immediately present. Pudge's parents are supportive and trust him. They don't hover but they're there if Pudge ever needs them. The teachers seem to care but they're mainly in the background. One does stand out as the protector of the students. They've nicknamed him The Eagle and at first he just seems like a disciplinarian but you start to realize that he truly cares about the kids who go to the school.
However, this novel does revolve around a tragedy. It is broken up into two parts, a Before and an After. Pudge starts to truly ponder what The Great Perhaps is in the After portion. He struggles with the reasons why certain choices are made and why such horrible things can happen to the people he loves. He and The Colonel must choose how to move on after such a life changing event happens.
John Green writes his teen characters as real as he can. They make stupid decisions, drink, do drugs, and have sex. But they're also smart, funny, emotionally vulnerable, strong, and fragile. He seems to write his characters in a way to draw real teens into a story. He really wants to connect with teens and help them feel as though they are not alone in anything that they go through. Sometimes his characters can be irritating and selfish but that's just how people (not just teens) can be sometimes.
The fact that John Green writes for teens in a way that isn't condescending or dumbing things down for them might be the reason he has such a faithful following. His brother, Hank, and he started the nerdfighters campaign. They wanted teens to truly feel accepted in a group where they could be themselves. There is no criteria to be a nerdfighter, you just need to want to be one.
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As is untypical of a league kick off Sunday in April, the Kendall over 30 A's (who have not been renamed 'Route' One Direction in honor of Keano's favorite boyband) were greeted by beautiful sunshine in Madison Park to begin the spring season against the recently promoted and modestly named International Allstars. Even stranger than the weather, to break with tradition, it seemed as if at least half the squad were not suffering from various Saturday night misadventures, apart from a certain Donegal man who was still wearing his Axel Rose outfit and couldn't stop going on about hanging out with 22 year old's in Tua Nua only hours earlier.
Some changes to the A's this year both off and on the field with Darren 'ACL' Skehan assuming the gaffer role for 2012, ably assisted by Dr. 'he doesn't look concussed from where I'm standing' Kilbride, and Dave, Nate and Uarlinton making their league debuts. However, the most amazing change was learning that Mike McCormack had mastered that new technological wonder device called 'De Compooter' over the winter and was able to get his registration printed to allow him to play under the new rules instituted by the league (rumors suggestted he had help from Barry though).
And so to the game. The opening period was competitive and physical with the referee allowing many of the Allstars robust tackles go unpunished. The A's weren't ruffled and started to carve out some opportunities with Uarlinton, the returning Ian 'Torres' Sinclair and Canny all going close. Though the A's had the majority of the possession, the Allstars were dangerous on the counter attack and but for a combination of Johno's trademark, make yourself big goalkeeping and inaccurate finishing, the Kendall could have been at least a couple of goals down against the run of play. The Kendall did continue to threaten at the other end, with Paul Garvey 's attacking forays almost resulting in a goal but at half time it was remained 0-0.
Daz called for more of the same in the second half and the lads started positively. The back 4 of Kieran, Mike, Nick and Kenny were spraying the ball around confidently. Derrick and Baz's direct running through the heart of the Allstars was causing all sorts of problems. Despite the Allstars conspiring to foul him at least 10 times with no card intervention from the referee, Derrick's influence on the midfield was clear. Numerous chances came and went with Donal and Ronan going close with headers from corners and Iano's low, well struck shot somehow pushed around the post by the impressive Allstars keeper.
The A's continued to own the second half but couldn't break the deadlock. Just as the game was looking to end in a stalemate, the Kendall got a free kick about 40 yards from goal. With players pilling forward, Kenny dropped a dangerous ball into the box with the hope that one of the lads would get a flick on. With the Allstars keeper rushing towards the ball, he completely misjudged the flight (apparently, he was looking at how big Daz's bum has got since he became gaffer) resulting in the ball sailing over his flailing arms and into the net. A fortuitous goal but one richly deserved for the pereniel player of the year and renowned toastmaster.
The final few minutes were safely closed out by the Kendall before the final whistle blew. A win, a great team performance, a clean sheet and no bookings. If Carlsberg did first games of the season, then…....we'd probably all be sh*tfaced by 6pm.
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After a long wait, Motorola has finally released details on the launch of its Droid Bionic smartphone. The device, which will come with Android and a 4.3-inch display,will be available to customers on Sept. 8 for $299.99 with a two-year contract with Verizon.
The device will be available exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers, which means those hoping to get their hands on the latest and greatest Motorola handset will need to head to that carrier's stores to get it.
The excitement surrounding the Droid Bionic is palpable. Since it was revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the device has been exciting consumers who have been looking for an Android-based device that could effectively compete against the iPhone 4. On paper, the Droid Bionic looks to be just what those folks had been hoping would come to stores.
But is that all that excitement warranted? Should consumers and even some enterprise users really get excited about the Droid Bionic?
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1. The Dual-core processor is important
With dual-core processors becoming all the rage in the mobile space, it's easy to overlook them. However, when one considers that Apple is currentlynot offering a dual-core processor in the iPhone 4, the Droid Bionic's 1GHz dual-core option becomes all the more appealing. With the processor along with 1GB of onboard RAM, consumers can expect to surf the Web, check email and open applications with ease.
2. The right OS version
The Android ecosystem has been criticized over the years for being too fragmented. Some people get devices running the latest OS version, while others are forced to wait an inordinate amount of time to get the latest release. The Droid Bionic will come with the latest version of Google's mobile platform, Android 2.3.4 "Gingerbread." That means Droid Bionic users will get the very best of what Android has to offer at this point. Although it might not be iOS 4 quality, it's quite close.
3. 4G Connectivity
As carriers continue to invest in their 4G networks, it's nice to know thatthe Droid Bionic is capitalizing on that. The device will allow users to connect to the Web via Verizon's high-speed network, which Motorola claims, will deliver download speeds of 5M bps to 12M bps. Considering the iPhone 4 can only connect to 3G, the Droid Bionic's 4G addition is quite welcome.
4. Design, design, design
Apple has shown that handset design matters immensely in today's mobile marketplace. The company's iPhone 4 offers an exceedingly slick design that folks around the world respond well to. But it's not alone. The Droid Bionic has a thin footprint and prominent 4.3-inch screen. It's by no means on the same level as the iPhone 4 in terms of design quality, but it's close. And in the mobile space, being close to the iPhone 4 in any way is a victory.


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I'm waiting for the blossom to flower on the branches I cut from the garden for my Easter tree. I thought the process would be accelerated by bringing into the warm house, but no. I can't wait for the pretty pale pink flowers to open on the branches and compliment my crocheted eggs, bringing spring into our house and completing my display. I will have to wait, Mother Nature will work in her own time. I can appreciate that. I did buy some pussy-willow from the market today and added four sprigs to the display to add a bit more interest.
In the meantime I would really like to welcome my new followers who have joined recently. Thank you all for reading my nonsense and I hope I can keep you amused, informed and inspired by my musings and makes.
I do like to reply to any comments that are left by visiting your blogs or sending messages if possible. If I have missed any I do apologise, and please forgive me if it takes me a while to get back to you as having 4 children (well 5 if you include my husband) means I'm very busy and a bit forgetful ( I use this excuse for EVERYTHING!)
I will leave a reply right after the comment if no other way but I know this means you have to come back and visit again to read it ( sometimes there is a tick box as an option to follow further comments on the post by email notification, but I haven't a clue if mine has that option as some do, some don't)
But I appreciate your visit, enjoy your comments and love the new-found, positive and welcoming community I have discovered since starting this blog.
I do hope I can bring you some photos of my Easter tree as it is kinda pretty, even without the blossom ( but that will make it soooo much better)
but in the meantime....
.....choccy egg anyone???
'till next time....
PS visit the generous and amazing Sandra at her blog for the brilliant Easter basket tutorial I used to make my egg basket.
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A grudge match between Alan Pospiech ( South london Warlords ) and Dave Toone ( Gravesend Wargames club)
2000 points late Saxons using the War and Conquest rules
Pitched battle deployment VariableGame length
Alans Saxons (objective - Raid )
Daves Saxons (objective - Pitched battle )
I used 4 units of thegns deployed in the center with Sirmishers guarding my Right
dave used a mixture of Thegns and Ceorls with Skirmers and Mounted Thegns on his flanks
both armies had a King and two Eorls
The Early turns consisted of me advancing in the center slowly in Shieldwall
Dave moving quickly to close the ground .An early deployment error by me allowed Dave to
drive off both units of my skirmishers with his javelinmen and mounted Thegns
I manged to stem the damage to my right by rallying my one unit of skirmishers
this enabled me to slow the advance of his cavalry . Battle lines clashed in ther center as i elected to charge while Daves Saxons went into shieldwall both sides shooting both both and Javelins proved in effective.
The battle settled into the Normal Dark Age meatgrind with Daves ceorls proving to be more than a match for my Thegns and both Kings in the thick of the Shieldwall
Turns 4 and 5 saw the bettle quality of the Warlords Thegns start to tell against the Gravesend Ceorls
with me gaining 2 push and shove counters in each combat ,And one unit of Ceorls breaking and being destroyed from combat .
The game was to last until the end of turn 7 One last push by both sides was called for with neither being able to deliver the knockout blow .Daves General and unit of Ceorls fled and were cut down .
My unit of Thegns to my far right were caught between Daves cavalry to the rear and a unit of Thegns to the front after a brief but bloody fight they were killed were they stood .
Both sides realised that they wouldnt be able to complete their primary objectives so looked to withdraw units from the battle to try and win on Bragging Rights
when the dust settled and the crows feasting on the bodies of the Saxon dead a count up showed that both sides scored 75 points so honours even
a great game with a good set of rules


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Democrats led an epic sit-in (25 hours is nothing to sneeze at) on the House floor last June when House Speaker Paul Ryan refused to vote on gun control bills following the Pulse nightclub massacre.
Livestreams, tweets and other social media posts of the hours-long Democratic refusal to leave chambers spread all over the internet, but now Ryan is proposing a vote in January to bring in rules that fine anyone who uses electronic devices to photograph, film or broadcast from the House floor.
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July 10 - Megan Marshall , "A Biographer Grows Up: My Twenty Years with the Peabody Sisters"
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July 24 - Marion Meade
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Aug. 14 - Mitchell Owens , "Geegaws Begone: Elsie de Wolfe and the Birth of Modern Decoration"
Aug. 21 - Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker , "From Grand Central Terminal to the Ritz Carlton: Warren and Wetmore , Architects"
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Hubertus Stephan, the husband of Princess Tatiana of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was killed in an accident in his off-road vehicle. His two young sons, Wolf, 4 and Carl, 6, witnessed the accident, according to several German news reports.
Mr. Stephan was 47 years old.
The accident took place "on a steep slope," in Aurach near Kitzbühel, Austria at about 5 p.m., on May 10. Mr. Stephan had seen the danger of the off-road tour in advance and got his sons out of the car in time. He then drove his Mercedes down a wet meadow down a hill, where he lost control of his car. The car overturned several times and crashed into a tree.
Mr. Stephan suffered fatal injuries in the crash. His two sons were cared for by a crisis intervention team until their mother arrived.
Princess Tatiana of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 43, is one of two daughters of Prince Andreas and Princess Luise of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Prince Andreas's mother, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh's eldest sister. The Prince of Wales and Princess Tatjana are second cousins.
Princess Tatiana and Hubertus Stephan were married in Munich on October 9, 2010.
Mr. Stephan was the son of Thomas Friedrich Christian Stephan and Maria Johanna Denk. He was born at Gräfelfing on November 21, 1970.
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The art of writing dialogue is one many writers spend their lifetimes trying to perfect. Stilted dialogue will make editors cringe and your story less believable. Whether you are writing a screenplay where dialogue is instrumental, or you are writing a fiction novel, understanding how to make your dialogue snappy, believable, and compelling is paramount.
Step 1 – Get into your character's heads. In order to write believable dialogue, you must know where your characters are coming from. Do they speak with an accent? Have a particular way of speaking that makes them different? What kind of education and background do they have? What time period are they living in? Once you answer these questions, you will have a better feel for how each of your characters speaks.
Step 2 – Read the dialogue aloud. One of the secrets of great dialogue is reading aloud what you have written. If necessary, enlist the help of a friend to read another character's words aloud. If the dialogue sounds stiff, forced or weak, you will be able to tell immediately. Your dialogue should flow like a normal conversation between two people – and that is exactly what dialogue is at its heart.
Step 3 – Make it believable. If your characters are in the 16th century, having them speak with today's slang is not going to work. Research the time period for which you are writing and pay attention to the way people talked. You can find inspiration by reading novels from that time period.
The art of dialogue is one that some writers never master, mainly because they don't take the time to perfect their art. Every book is different and every character is different. However, by following these simple steps you can create outstanding dialogue.


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I recently had an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Even though I was and still am certain that this was the right choice, abortion
is not an easy experience for anybody to go through. It is inevitable to suffer,
at least mildly, both physically and emotionally. However, I do have to say that
the staff at the clinic informed me about the procedure, the aftermath and all
the risks, did everything to make sure I wouldn't regret my decision and let me
know that I can postpone the procedure if I needed to think everything over again.
Throughout the procedure, a counselor was in the room to hold my hand and help
me relax and the care afterwards was excellent. Yes, abortion does have
an impact on every woman. But there are places who make it easier for you to deal
with it, before, during and after the procedure. I hope that none of you will
have to go through this experience, but if you do, please do your research and
make sure you find a place that will take good care of you. It makes a huge difference.
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With so many exciting new projects underway, we're happy to announce that Team Slover Linett is growing again. We're currently interviewing for two new research and assessment professionals: one research analyst and one research assistant. We've already received some great referrals and resumes, but if someone you know fits the bill, please point them in our direction. Here's the low-down on each of the open positions.
- Research analyst: We're looking for a well-trained, sharp-minded researcher who is equally comfortable with qualitative and quantitative methods and has outstanding methodological and communication skills. The research analyst will work on all aspects of our studies, from research design and data collection to analyzing and interpreting data, writing reports, and presenting findings. The ideal candidate will have an academic background in a relevant social science and professional experience in social research, evaluation, and assessment in our sectors (arts & culture and higher ed).
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Audio Engineering Technology is a dynamic academic discipline that prepares you for the world of multimedia. Our program in the College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture (CETA) spans the disciplines of electronics, acoustics, and music to prepare you for careers in the recording, music, sound, broadcast network, and multimedia industries. Electronics, both analog and digital, are a major component of the curriculum, so that our students and graduates are often knowledgeable enough to build recording and sound equipment.
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I understand why Persephone ate that handful of seeds while in the Underworld. Rich garnet explosions encased in hidden caverns, tart and sweet–totally worth half a year in the Underworld. It's always seemed to me a mysterious fruit, one that earned its place in stories as the fruit of seduction or of knowledge. As a kid, a friend's mom would give pomegranates to us as a snack, which I retrospecively think was brilliant as it got us to shut up for a bit as we hunted out all the seeds from the nooks and crannies. We might have been stained pink around the fingers and mouths by the end, but it was worth it.
Forever ago I came across a recipe for a Jack Rose and was stunned to learn that grenadine was not, in fact, supposed to be red flavored, but is actually supposed to be pomegranate based. As every grenadine recipe on the internet will tell you grenadine comes from the french word for pomegranate, grenade. Spiffy, right? What I'm trying to tell you is that Rose's Grenadine is a lie. It's high fructose corn syrup plus flavorings. Traditional grenadine is pomegranate juice plus sugar to form a syrup. Sounds pretty easy, right?
You have a few options when heading into your grenadine making enterprise. Fresh juice or store-bought and cold or hot process. I did a sort of mixture of the two since I macerated the seeds. I got the instructions from All The Marmalade and The Cocktail Chronicles. The result is this fresh, fruity syrup that's a rich and satisfying plummy color. Completely different than any commercial brand of grenadine you could find in a store and really just gorgeous. I would eat this by the spoonful if I wasn't so excited about making a real Shirley Temple. And adult drinks too. But who doesn't love a Shirley Temple?
Homemade Grenadine
- 1 or 2 pomegranates
- sugar
- water
Open a pomegranate and release the seeds any way you find convenient. I cut it in half and smack it with a spoon over a bowl. Another way to do this is breaking it into quarters and picking out the seeds under water. Whatever makes you happy and gets the bits out with the least amount of pith possible.
Toss the seeds with half their volume of granulated sugar (eg. 1 cup pomegranate=1/2 cup sugar). Cover the seed and sugar mixture loosely with saran wrap and then pound with a solid ladle, a hefty mug, or similar object until the seeds break and the mixture becomes pulpy. Leave the saran wrap over the bowl and put everything in the fridge to macerate overnight.
The next day, remove the bowl from the fridge and strain the mixture into a new bowl through a fine mesh sieve to separate all the juice from the seeds and pulp. Place the juice in a small saucepan, add 1/4c water, and bring to a bare simmer over medium-high heat. Simmer until all sugar is dissolved. Taste. If needed, add a little sugar. Let cool and bottle. Store in your fridge for up to a month. Never buy grenadine again.


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Hi there!
It's been awhile hasn't it? University (and other Games) has kept me swept away and totally busy. But now with a bit of spare time, I decided to proceed on with an older Project involving Coding the Battledromes.
So what are the progress? Well I decided to start over and use Unreal Engine this time... So there essentially hasn't been any much "progression" if you will since last time.
But of course! If you're still reading this, you'll probably want to see what's been done. I will just briefly go over each thing done.
So we begin with a relatively simple board - Two of my favorite "Dawn of Perim" units are the chosen fighters (rather than the random Velreth and Toxis).
Combat has not been inputted yet... However, the setup for an apprentice battle is more or less setup by the end of the day. With the following features being implemented during the Start-Up (I'll add more as I remember them)
- The Starting Player is Randomized
- Location Decks and Attack Decks are shuffled
- The Starting Player's Top Card of their Location Deck is flipped Up
- 2 Attack Cards are drawn for both players.
I know it isn't much (especially compared to how much I did in a day for Unity), but I did try for a cleaner code and spent most of my time bug squashing (ensuring little to 0 problems). And it's also more "exciting" for me to look at - compared to the plain blue background and 2 pictures.
Finally (although not totally relevant and very ugly due to my lack of experience in "art"), A scroller based on the cartoon/anime. This was more of a side-track thing. If I did want to pursue it, I'd probably actually get a friend of mine to help make me a spinner :p
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We were feeling a bit peckish, and thought we might try something new. We decided to give Silver Spoon a try. It is only now that I notice the "Johnson's" sign that used to be. Oh Don Piano....Oh Long Johnson. See this
Silver Spoon is conveniently located just across from the Court House, just in case you are due to appear before the bench.....
As you enter there is a flight of stairs leading to a bar area above the main floor. It will seat perhaps 14 people, some say intimate, some say small.
This bar overlooks the main floor dining room. It will seat about 32 people.
There is a small alcove off the entry, only room for 10 or so. We chose not to sit here. It just seemed too close.
I did check out the bathroom. There was a framed copy of the minutes of the Continental Congress of 1779. Although the document was barely legible it was a nice touch as far as decor goes.
There is also a chair, side table, lamp and mirror. I'm thinking "if you're using the toilet, who is using the chair?" It's a disturbing question.
This is the hallway leading back to the dining room. It is floored with Saltillo Tile. I know this is now considered passe, but I have always professed a penchant for Saltillo Tile, passe or de rigeur.
Part of the wall decor here included this montage of crosses. Since we are actually in the buckle of the Bible belt in South West Oklahoma this is very common. I approve!
I chose to have a Southwest Turkey Club Panini. It was filling.
ScooterChick went with the Tuna Melt Panini. She found it a little dry.
When they offered dessert and I inquired about the favorites, Pecan Pie Cheesecake was suggested. I have never heard of this delicacy and felt I must needs investigate further. You will also notice the manly cutlery. It's a bit of a "thing" with me, and I feel I should give credit where credit is due. It is certainly due here.
You will notice the absence of even crumbs upon the plate. How was it you ask? Asked and answered!
On the way home we stopped to fill up with gas for $2.89 / gal. Oh how I love the USA and her low gas prices. We will be heading up to Oklahoma City this weekend and prices are reported to be as low as $2.79 / gal. Whoopee!!
I did double check and find that gas in Vancouver has come down to $5.87 / gal.
Well, that's it for me. The bed beckons and I am loathe to disappoint....cheers!


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Army Eden!
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Monday, October 1, 2012
A Reckless Magick by Stephanie Burgis release day!
Kat's back for her third adventure, and as per usual, social disaster is following in her wake - When the Stephenson family travel to a grand country house on the Devon coast for Kat's sister Angeline's wedding, Kat is stalked by a dangerous magical enemy and finds everything she thought she knew about her late mother called into question. With smugglers, sabotage, tangled romance and plenty of magic activity at work, it's the job of Regency England's feistiest twelve year old to protect herself and her family from impending ruin.
Happy book birthday to A Reckless Magick! This is a brilliant series - make sure you get your hands on this soon!
Check out Stephanie Burgis's website: http://www.stephanieburgis.com/books/a-reckless-magick-stolen-magic/
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