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The story of the hapless Gyeon-woo (played by Cha Tae-Hyun) in the fall-of-your-seat Korean romantic hit movie "My Sassy Girl" continues in the highly-awaited sequel "My New Sassy Girl" where he is now married to an unpredictable tough woman played by Victoria Song.
In "My New Sassy Girl," Gyeon-woo has trouble forgetting his "old" sassy girl (Jun Ji-hyun), but soon reunites with his childhood love (Song). The "new" sassy girl, the only child of a rich family in China, returns to Korea to marry Gyeon-woo despite disapproval from her family. However, Gyeon-woo's married life with his new, but familiar sassy girl is tougher than he ever imagined. Directed by South Korean veteran Jo Geun-shik, "My New Sassy Girl" now explores the problems of the newly married couple.
Cha Tae-hyun who reprises his role shares that, "The new movie elaborates on the romance, and love can be blind, risky, and unpredictable theme. There's no change to the characters, except that Gyeon-woo was a student back then, and is now an office worker and a husband. The woman has changed, but her way of treating me hasn't changed at all. I loved the plot a lot. I think there will be a new trend of people following certain actions from the film as there was with the first film."
Victoria Song, a Chinese actress-singer, revealed in her previous interviews that she felt she had to live up to the expectations set by the actress in the first movie. "Jun Ji Hyun's effect on the movie is a big pressure for me," Victoria said. "However, this is a new step for me. I believe I have the strength to overcome the pressure."
Likewise, Cha has high hopes that the audience will still love the sequel despite changes in the lead female role. "Gyeon Woo' from 'My Sassy Girl' is a character I can't help but note as memorable. Even after all the characters I've played, it's a character who will forever be connected to my name. I was determined to not participate in the second movie, but because of my personal attachments, as well as my trust in director Jo Geun Shik, I'm just hoping that things will work out in the end," Cha admits.
Mark your calendars for one unforgettable funny romantic escapade when "My New Sassy Girl" opens June 1 in cinemas nationwide from Pioneer Films.


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Envy Book Review
Envy is an Empty Coffin novel by Gregg Olsen. It's about a pair of telepathic twin sisters who uncover the case of their friends death. Their names are Hayley and Taylor Ryan. Their friend is Katie. What they try to figure out if it was suicide or murder. I know the answer I'm just not telling you because I don't put spoilers in my book reviews. This is one of the very few mystery books that I have read. Most of the novels that I have read are romance. This time I wanted to try something different. Katie had very low self esteem and also engaged in self harm. Because of this many people assumed that her death was from suicide. One of the things that I didn't like about this story was how boring the twins personalities were. Even though Katie's "best friend" was quite a snob I still found her more entertaining to read about than Hayley and Taylor. I also found the twins powers hard to understand while I was reading about them. I didn't understand how they figured out what their powers were telling them because it was hard to connect to the situation. But the case itself was okay. It was a little predictable but it wasn't as predictable as Scooby Doo. But if you compare it to Law and Order, it's very predictable. I would give this book 2 stars out of 5.
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We knew it all along. Shopping may help you live longer.
OK, that's a bit simplistic. But a study released this week in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found that older men and women who shopped more frequently had lower mortality rates than those who shopped infrequently. Men even garnered a slight edge over women.
The study focused on 1,850 Taiwanese men and women ages 65 and older who lived independently at home. Study participants were categorized as never shopping or shopping less than once a week (48%); shopping once a week (13%); shopping two to four times a week (22%); and shopping every day (17%).
Shopping more frequently was linked with a number of variables, such as being male, being younger, dining with friends or neighbors, smoking, exercising often, using walking as a means of transportation -- and living longer. Shopping every day was linked with a reduced mortality risk of up to 28% for men and 23% for women.


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I just downloaded the OEM version but in the profile manager, I don't see the option to run an application after saving.
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Remember Razer's Switchblade UI that they used on their Blade gaming notebook? Well, the peripheral company has found a way to integrate it with a gaming grade keyboard, and has billed the result as the world's smartest keyboard. Meet the Razer Deathstalker Ultimate, the company's first Switchblade UI enabled keyboard. What makes the Deathstalker Ultimate is the Switchblade UI, which combines a small touchscreen LCD with fully customizable keys that allows gamers to fully customize the panel with 10 dynamic, adaptive tactile keys that can be used to bind commands, macros, skills and spells.
LCD panel below the keys is capable of two modes. The first setting displays critical in-game information, such as damage dealt and heals-per-second on the new Star Wars: The Old Republic Battle Logger application, or countdown timers that keep track of in-game events with the Razer Gamer Timer application. Razer has included several apps to work with the keyboard to start with, with more on the way. While Razer has pegged the price of the Deathstalker Ultimate at $249.99 (about Php 10603) in the US, there's no local pricing or availability yet for the Philippines.


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NEW YORK—A small, single-engine plane believed to have been piloted by New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle veered off course and slammed into a 50-story building on New York's ritzy Upper East Side Wednesday.
The bizarre crash killed Lidle and another occupant of the plane, reported to have been his flight instructor. The incident and its riveting images of a New York high-rise in flames, triggered a rush of hysteria about another terror attack and an inadvertent drill of U.S. preparedness.
The Yankee organization confirmed that the 34-year-old Lidle, a pilot for just eight months, was among the victims. Lidle had enmeshed himself in controversy following the Yankees' hasty exodus in the first round of this year's American League playoffs.
An enthusiastic amateur pilot, he had recently obtained a temporary certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration to operate the four-seat Cirrus Design Corp. SR20 aircraft in Lakeland, Fla. In a feature story in the New York Times last month, Lidle remembered that former Yankee captain Thurman Munson died while flying a plane in 1979, and bragged that his new plane was is equipped with a huge parachute. If something goes wrong, he said, "you pull that parachute and the whole plane goes down slowly."
The plane was flying through an eight-mile corridor over the East River where small aircraft and helicopters are allowed to fly up to an altitude of 1,100 feet, FAA officials said. Then it turned sharply westward and hit the building at about the 40th floor, witnesses said.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the plane took off from the airport in Teterboro, N.J., circled the Statue of Liberty and headed up the East River framing Manhattan in the moments before the crash.
Bloomberg said: "It's a pretty light plane, so not a lot of damage was done to the building." Despite video showing flames shooting from the upper floors, only the engine crashed into its million dollar condominiums. The rest of the plane fell to the street, the mayor said.
It was "lucky that it's not more than two people" dead, he added, attributing the break to an hour when few residents were home. He said two residents living where the plane hit were "sitting there, heard a noise, instantly glass breaking, metal coming in, and they ran to the door and out into the hall" to safety.
"They were a little bit shaken up," Bloomberg said.
While the apartment was still in flames, the North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled fighter jets over several U.S. cities. The FAA barred flights within one mile of the crash site and 1,500 feet above.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff phoned New York Gov. George Pataki a little later, a Chertoff spokeswoman said, "and reinforced that there is no specific, credible intelligence suggesting an imminent threat to the homeland at this time."
FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere said the aircraft was operating under visual flight rules, meaning that the pilot was not required to be in touch with federal air traffic controllers. Under these conditions, pilots must assess themselves whether visibility is adequate.
According to the FAA, the skies were hazy and the cloud ceiling was at 1,800 feet at the time of the accident. Visibility was nine miles and the wind 13 knots.
Deborah Hersman, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, flew to New York to launch a full investigation.
Lidle, whom the Yankees acquired in a trade in July, had been embroiled this week in controversy with radio talk show hosts over comments he made after the Detroit Tigers needed only four games to oust them from the playoffs last week.
Lidle told the New York Daily News that "we got matched up with a team that, I think, was a little more ready to play than we were."
He suggested that the Yankees, who clinched their division early, might have been "in cruise control a little bit too much."
When he learned that a sports talk radio program had jumped on his remarks as a slam on Yankee Manager Joe Torre, Lidle took it upon himself to call into the "Mike and Mad Dog" radio show Monday on New York's WFAN Radio.
"You guys are taking a little bit of information and running with it and twisting it," he told hosts Mike Francesca and Chris Russo. "We have a first class team, first class manager."
Lidle told Francesca and Russo that he was "sitting here trying to enjoy my day in New York" when a friend alerted him to the radio show.
"First off, no Yankee fan should enjoy the day in New York," Russo told him. "The Yankees just got embarrassed. You got a manager who might get fired who's been there 11 years. If I'm a Yankee, now I'm in hiding. I'm not enjoying any day in New York."
"So I'm not allowed to enjoy this day in New York?" Lidle asked.
Russo shot back: "I don't know a Yankee fan who's enjoying the day to be honest with you."
"I want to win as much as anybody," Lidle said. "But what am I supposed to do, go cry in my apartment for the next two weeks?"
Lidle, a right-handed pitcher and Southern California native, had been married for nine years to the former Melanie Varela. They have a 6-year-old son, Christopher Taylor.
Since being picked up by the Minnesota Twins as an undrafted free agent, making his Major League debut in 1997, Lidle had played for the New York Mets, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinnati Reds and the Phillies.
Torre issued a statement calling Lidle's death "a terrible shock," and called Lidle "a good teammate and a great competitor."
Yankee captain Derek Jeter called Lidle "a great man" who was known as a baseball player, but was "more importantly, a husband and a father."
The plane crashed at 524 East 72nd Street, a 183-unit high-rise building known as the Belaire. Among the residents are Carol Higgins Clark, a mystery writer and the daughter of bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, and Rocky Aoki, founder of the Benihana steakhouse chain.
Julio Garcia, 33, who works at the Hi Top Cleaners a block away from the crash site, said he was inside the store when he heard the sound "of an airplane flying very low, then a bang like a car crash."
He went out onto the street, saw black smoke billowing from the building and "immediately thought of 9/11 and terrorism."
Students at the Lycee Francais on nearby 75th Street, which houses children from pre-K to 12th grade, learned of the crash over the Internet.
"Some of the sixth-graders started crying," figuring it was a terrorist attack, said Alex Tuchmuntz, 15.
(Rodriguez reported from New York; Gordon and Taylor from Washington. McClatchy correspondents Lisa Zagaroli, Margaret Talev and researcher Tish Wells also contributed to this report.)
(c) 2006, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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Magic's new Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) enables leveraging the cloud for fast code-free integration, expanding the company's suite of integration platforms.
Magic Software announced the expansion of its integration offering with its launch of Magic xpc, a hybrid integration platform as a service (iPaaS), enabling customers to accelerate digital transformation on the cloud, on-premises or on both.
The Magic xpc lightweight integration platform joins the company's flagship Magic xpi Integration Platform, which is ideal for organizations requiring robust on-premises or private cloud integration.
Magic xpc is powered by its out-of-the-box integration connectors for mainstream business applications, databases, protocols and tools for building custom integrations. Magic xpc's API-driven high productivity environment is designed to connect business applications, data sources and new touch-points—up to 85% faster, improving digital customer engagement while retaining seamless data sharing throughout the applications' life-cycles.
More and more enterprises prefer to integrate their applications using iPaaS. Gartner estimates that iPaaS market revenue will grow from $694.2 million in 2016 to $3.4 billion in 2021.*
Highlights for this Magic xpc release include:
- Fast implementation and code-free – In line with Magic Software's other easy-to-use, code-free platforms, Magic xpc is a modern integration platform with an intuitive and user-friendly interface, including walk-through screens, and a graphical data transformation and mapping designer, which can be used by IT pros, business analysts and integration specialists.
- Microservices-based – Magic's iPaaS platform was built using node.JS and docker technology, making it ideal to run, scale and maintain integration processes in the cloud, including IoT-, Mobile- and Chatbots-related integration projects.
- Robust monitoring and alerting capabilities – Magic xpc users can monitor their integration flows and create and manage alerts from a single interface.
- Multi-cloud – Built on top of open-source components with no cloud vendor lock-in, Magic xpc is available on both public and private AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud worldwide, and is ready for multi-cloud architectures.
Our expanded offering provides our customers and partners with a 100% native cloud solution powered by pre-defined connectors, an easy-to-use interface and an open, elastic and scalable architecture. Magic xpc's subscription-based, flexible pricing model enables organizations to embed integration management features directly into their products with a low cost, low risk entry points and a quick time to value,"
said Yuval Lavi, Vice President of Technology & Innovation at Magic Software.
We will continue to provide both our existing and new customers with advanced IT technologies coupled with strong encryption and security measures, empowering them with the technology to securely run their integrations anywhere they want."
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Sicily – the amazing and one of the most beautiful Islands in the South of Italy. The main attractions of Sicily – this is the blossoming almond trees, magnificent white beaches with one of the longest coastlines, warm mild climate throughout the year, citrus fruits and sea aromas, ancient architecture and a strange accent of local residents. The main cities of this Syracuse, Taormina, Catania and its capital – Palermo. When the island belonged to Greece, and in connection with this a lot on the island of Greek temples, preserved to our days. On the island there is an ancient monument – necropolis pantaliki, the tombs in the mountainous areas of the 13th century BC. Of course the most interesting place in Sicily – it is the active volcano mount Etna in the city of Catania, height 3329 meters. In Palermo is a beautiful Botanical garden with rare species of plants, the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Holy mother of God of the 12 century, the Royal Palace of the Normans and the old palatinskaya chapel of the 12th century the Byzantine mosaics. Interesting are the catacombs of the Capuchins – the exhibition with the mummies of the local nobility. The town of Corleone is located in 40 kilometres from Palermo and is known for "the godfather" of the Sicilian mafia. Taormina is considered the pearl of the island, there are many picturesque capes – Capo Taormina with a view to Giardini Naxos, the Cape of Capo Andrea and Sant'alessio, ancient towers of Badia Vecchio, naumahiya – the ruins of the old castle and half-ruined Ancient theater, acting and still under the open sky. Syracuse is the most ancient town on the island, it is remarkable that here lived and worked celebrity antiquity – mathematician Archimedes, Saint Methodius, father Comedy epikarm, the Holy Giuseppe, who wrote a lot of Church music.
Online Guide advises you to start with the overview in a city with a unique view of the Cathedral square in the Baroque style, not far from it is the Cathedral, in ancient times, the place was a beautiful Palace of Athens. The cave of Dionysius, this is a huge stone mountain, it is very much quarries. The cave got its name in honor of the God Dionysus, listening according to legend, the prisoners of the grotto, and once there was an ancient theater. Syracuse is still surrounded by fortifications, which since the 16th century were impregnable fortress. Sicily – it is a small universe, a huge cauldron, in which Ancient Rome and Greece "were together with the Byzantines, the Arabs and the Normans. In the end it turned out mixed "dish" of the masterpieces of ancient architecture, the sun, the warm sea, fragrance of rosemary and lavender, many legends and myths, in which it is difficult to believe, but which are true.


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Insane Car Reviewer Goes Off On A Subaru Loyale: 'Boring Cars Have To Exist'
After over a month of focusing solely on their Ford Falcon build, Regular Car Reviews is finally back with a new video focusing on the 1991 Subaru Loyale, a "dopey slow wagon" that is completely unremarkable in almost every way.
Of course, "almost" is an important distinction, since there are a couple of things Mr. Regular makes particular note of in the review, such as the selectable four-wheel drive, which is mounted on top of the shifter. While comparing it to Superman Returns, and stating that it's a conservative product that takes no risks, Mr. Regular does manage to single out one big positive for the Loyale's legacy: it was necessary. You don't get your crazy WRXs or STIs without these boring types of cars on the market to appeal to a wider base that keeps the brand afloat. He even calls out Chrysler, telling them to take note on how to keep a brand alive. It's a unique video, if nothing else, and you don't have to know much about cars to enjoy it, between the Pulp Fiction references and stories about that kid everyone knew in school who lost his virginity first (trust me, it's kinda-sorta-semi-relevant). It's good to have Mr. Regular back, even if he's as insane as he ever was. Watch the video below:
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A record 163.2 billion coupons were distributed nationwide last year, an increase of more than 20 billion over 1983 and nearly double the number made available in 1980, according to a recent survey conducted by the Nielsen Clearing House.
The number of coupons redeemed by consumers also rose at a rapid rate. Cost-conscious shoppers turned in 6.25 billion of the cents-off slips last year for a total savings of $2 billion.
In fact, coupons have become a pervasive part of American life. The study found that 79% of all those surveyed said that they used coupons.
People were selected at random to participate in the opinion survey and were interviewed by telephone. The questions were asked of whoever claimed to be the principal grocery shopper in the household.


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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
I have this acute feeling of déjà vu every time I walk by the Booth Theatre on West 45th Street. There, big as life, is a marquee that heralds Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. I know this isn't 1985; and yet, inside the Booth, time has stopped. Entertainment-deprived persons can once again revel in the divine Tomlin performing writer/director Jane Wagner's vintage grab bag of feel-good, mushy, vagina-loving, '80s characters, all of them spouting timeless wit and wisdom.
At age 61 (yes, 61!), Lily Tomlin has the agility of a woman half her age. Though The Search for Signs... must be grueling for Tomlin, she performs the piece as if it were a romp. The jumps and the near-somersaults are still here as she tumbles into a fistful of characters including the delightful Trudy, the punkish Angus Angst, and the exhaustive Lyn (who dominates Act Two with her own mini-drama).
For those who did not see The Search for Signs... during its legendary 1985 Broadway run, for which Tomlin won a Tony Award in the leading actress category, the play--and it is a play rather than a one woman show, even if Tomlin is the only soul we ever see on stage--is basically a travelogue of several woman and a couple of men as they course through life, occasionally bumping into one another. Act One is pretty much "the punk and Trudy show." Trudy is a nutty bag lady who talks to aliens about soup and art; as the aliens' tour guide here on Earth, she busies herself in pointing out the feckless wonders of universal creation. ("Going crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me," Trudy tells us as her shopping cart screeches along.) Soon enough, we're introduced to Agnes Angst, an adorably dysfunctional punk rocker. At one point, Agnes screeches "I don't mind it" while her hand flutters over a flame. She and Trudy are eventually joined by Chrissy and Kate and, before you know it, Tomlin has a crowd on stage.
Act Two is, more or less, a play within the play as the character Lyn goes about managing her yard sale, facing the world as a newly single woman after a lifetime of waterbeds, health foods, and geodesic domes. Her friends Edie and Marge complete this feminist triangle, and their story is ultimately moving, although it creaks every 10 or 15 minutes. Tomlin may be alone on stage, but she is ably supported by Ken Billington's lighting; drenching Ms. T. in colors and textures that give resonance to Wagner's words, these lights sing.
When a revival of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe was announced, the news took this reviewer very much by surprise. How was it possible that the gifted Jane Wagner hadn't written anything new for Tomlin that might be suitable for Broadway? Why a revival of a 15-year-old property? The original production had a healthy run in New York and toured everywhere, the published script made The New York Times best-seller list, and a movie was even made of the show. I thought: Jane and Lily, what's up? But history does have a tendency to repeat itself, and that's not always a bad thing. We are blessed that Lily Tomlin has dusted off her old marquee and schlepped it back to Broadway one more time.


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Pop-up reading room proves print is not dead, perhapsBy Jordan Melnick | June 19th, 2013 | 2 Comments
Books are nice, I think we would all agree, but in the age of the eBook and the iPad it's easy to glimpse a near future in which printed, hard-copy books go the way of the typewriter, relegated to dusty attics and museum collections of things we used to love. You may wax poetic, even indignant, in defending the value of a hold-it-in-your-hands-and-flip-the-pages-with-your-thumb book, but are you really going to take a stand for its value when you can curl up with a novel via the in-curvature of a pair of smart glasses?
Maybe you are. In fact, there is promising evidence here in Miami's cultural swamp (I say that, truly, as a compliment) that printed books may remain vital long after we're all wearing digitized undergarments. There's the annual Miami Book Fair International, which is preparing for its 29th edition, and there's the mobile library Bookleggers, which integrates book sharing and discovery into Miami nightlife. (Jam that concept into your next blockbuster, Michael Bay!)
And now there's Pages & Spreads, "a meeting place for publishers, artists, retailers, and collectors dedicated to the production of books, catalogues, periodicals, and zines." The inaugural Pages & Spreads event, organized by graphic designers Edwin Beauchamp and Augusto Mendoza, who runs the blog Books Are Nice, will take place on Saturday, January 29, at Wynwood cafe Lester's, another local bastion of the printed page. Ahead of the event, the first in a planned series, I emailed a few questions to Beauchamp and Mendoza (denoted collectively below as P&S).
You describe the event as "a pop-up reading room of sorts" — can you elaborate on the Pages & Spreads concept and the experience you hope to create with the inaugural event?
P&S: Although the books and zines exhibited at Pages & Spreads will be for sale, what we strive for is the sharing of printed matter. We hope people come enjoy the selection!
What is your definition of a zine?
P&S: The definition of a zine is very open-ended as zines are an easy and inexpensive way to publish. Content tends to be specific to a particular topic.
Can you list a few of your favorite zines?
Mendoza: Some of my favorites come from Eric Elms, an artist based in Brooklyn. Also, Catalogue design studio from the UK.
Beauchamp: Some zines off the top of my head include qubik's void zine (UK), Lamar Abrams' Ferzan dr31 (Maryland), and Playground Magazine (UK)
Can you elaborate on why the sharing of printed, non-digital matter is an important end in itself?
P&S: Printed or digital, information is information. Some will argue that reading a book on your iPad is not rewarding, they like the feel of paper through their finger tips. Others like having 10,000 books readily available. The importance then lies on the preservation of the tradition. Print is dead, supposedly.
In your opinion as graphic designers and book lovers what is the importance/role of a printed object like a zine in the digital age and in the context of a local culture?
P&S: The importance is longevity. The digital sphere is ephemeral.
Why is longevity so valuable? What's wrong with ephemeral? And isn't cheaply printed matter like a zine ephemeral in its own right?
P&S: Longevity in terms of physicality to a certain extent. Books and zines won't last forever either. But longevity in how the information resonates in someone's mind is key. Digital news swiftly move from one topic to the next. You haven't finished one article, by the time there are 25 new ones. That's wonderful, but how much are we retaining? I can't put my hands on a PDF, while a stack of books lives with me. I'm bound to pay closer attention.
How did you curate/recruit the participants in this first event? Can you give us some background on any three of the participants?
P&S: This event is based on Miami publishers. We wanted to have as many publishers under one roof. So we invited University of Wynwood, which publishes Jai-Alai Magazine, Diet Gallery, which makes artist books, and Girls' Club Collection, which produces nice exhibition catalogs.
Will the printed works all be on sale at the event? Different prices for different publications? Please share more details on the buying/selling part of this.
P&S: Yes! It will work like a mini book fair. Each publisher or artist will have their own pricing.
This is the first in a planned series of Pages & Spreads events — overall what are you trying to achieve?
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Sunday, December 02, 2012
Flood Stories
It has been my privilege to hear a number of flood stories from various people I have run into since then. For whenever I describe what happened to us, the ones with whom I'm discussing will have their stories to tell. I never knew water leakage problems were so widespread. There must be a fascination with this type of problem that other difficult house situations do not exhibit. There is something about water and what it can do that goes deep into the human psyche and this has been manifested to me by this event.
I never watched the Phil Donahue show much. It was the precursor to Oprah Winfrey and earlier in the day so I only had the opportunity if sick or on vacation. One thing he said in one of those rare shows made a very big impression on me. He related why he was oriented toward communicating with women and what he admired about them. He said that if you have a group of women meeting together and one of them shows up with a cast on her leg, the other ladies will ask how it happened, how does she feel, what did the doctor say, ie. focus on the person with the cast. He said when a man with a cast joins a group of men, it will be a competition of each saying in essence, "you should hear what happened to me" or "I've got one better than that." Some of my acquaintances have been like that but others have been more empathetic. There are a couple of guys I know that if I were to tell them I had won a Nobel prize in Physics, they would have to top it with some story of theirs.
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- Len Hjalmarson said...
I don't know what to do first - tell you about our winter water break or ask how it has gone with your repairs ;) -- but these problems do really seem more common than one would hope. Thank God for insurance!
- Steve Allison said...
Yes, insurance is a wonderful thing. The repairs were finished in mid-Jan but the repair company has not yet received the final payment. It takes the paperwork a long time to be passed from the insuror to us to the mortgage company to the repair company to the mortgage company and back. The ordeal may benefit us in that we received all new floors. We are intending to move to Memphis to be closer to family and are hoping to place the house on the market soon. What's your story?
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Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Catching Up Again continued
13 comments:
- Sandie said...
What alovely day out, you'd not be wearing just your t shirts if it were this week!
Thanks for sharing your day.
Sandie xx
- 3 April 2012 at 23:03
- sharon young said...
Super pics, Julie, especially the pillar in the church, what great lighting.
Welcome to the mac club, you DH will never look back when he gets used to it, glad to help if I can with any probs.
- 4 April 2012 at 07:56
- ju-north said...
Some great memories there! Love the light on the stone
- 4 April 2012 at 08:05
- Heather said...
What a wonderful day out and such super photos. Beautiful work and displays at the NEC - those postcards are fun. Lovely to meet bloggy friends and the stonework pics are amazing. Thankyou for sharing it all with us.
- 4 April 2012 at 09:05
- Maggi said...
Lovely photos Julie. I really enjoyed my day out. Can't believe how different it is today - 4" of snow and still coming down heavily!!
Welcome to Macland
- 4 April 2012 at 09:15
- sandra wyman said...
Really enjoyed your visit to the show, especially as I managed to miss it this year - also the Lincoln visit!
- 4 April 2012 at 09:38
- Emma said...
It's all wonderful, specially the shapes on the cathedral! I think that guy from your previous post was playing the guitar the WHOLE time at the creative stitches show - such stamina!
- 4 April 2012 at 17:26
- liniecat said...
I didnt go to the show this time so lovely to see things from it, thanks. Loved that seaside themed piece too.
Thats an amazing pic of the stained glass colours spangled, gem like, on the pillars.
What a great day out and with such brill company too!( DH included )
- 4 April 2012 at 23:06
- sweetypie said...
sounds like you had a lovely day..
- 5 April 2012 at 00:32
- Dot said...
Hi Julie. As always your blog posts are a feast for the senses. Looks like you had the perfect day. Envious that you got to see lovely Linda again :). Downtown Abbey is one of my favorite shows. Thanks for sharing the close up of the dress. Gorgeous fabric!
Happy Easter to you and DH xx
- 7 April 2012 at 01:07
- pam said...
Sounds like you have been having good time out and about - the dress from Downton was beautiful - and I love the colour show on the pillars that was lovely.
- 7 April 2012 at 10:17
- Alex said...
Looks like you had a wonderful day in Lincoln! Most beautiful cathedral in the world, but I'm biased!!
- 10 April 2012 at 09:27
- Linda said...
Love your photos Julie!! Didn't we have a great day? Sunshine, art, friends, scenery ....and chocolate
Couldn't really wish for more :-)
I'd love to see the Downton Abbey dresses....lucky you.
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Sylvia Mojica Armed Bullied Son with BB Gun, Knife, Say Hartford Police
HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS/AP) Sylvia Mojica is facing charges for allegedly sending her 12-year-old son to school with a BB gun and a folding knife so he could protect himself from bullies.
Police say the 38-year-old Hartford mother has been charged with risk of injury to a minor. Administrators say her son now faces a suspension or even expulsion, and they are also investigating the bullying allegations.
Mojica allegedly gave her son the BB gun and knife last Friday, and the boy told school officials that he had the items in his backpack.
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The charges come the same day that the U.S. Department of Education issued new guidelines warning schools that tolerating harassment could put them in violation of federal anti-discrimination laws.
That move follows several high-profile cases of bullying in recent months. Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights, said the department was responding to what it senses as a growing problem within schools.
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Perdue Farms, Inc., a Perry, Ga. establishment, is recalling approximately 91,872 pounds of frozen chicken nugget products that may contain foreign materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
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According to Old Currency Values, the value of a 1953 $2 bill depends on its type, but they usually range in price from $2.50 to $15. The value of the bill is not just determined by its type but also by the signature combination on the bill itself.
Old Currency Values says that there are four types of 1953 red-print $2 bills: the 1953 Ivy Baker Priest and G.M. Humphrey; the 1953A Ivy Baker Priest and Robert B. Anderson; the 1953B Elizabeth Rudel Smith and C. Douglas Dillon; and the 1953C Kathryn O'Hay Grananhan and C. Douglas Dillon. The names on each type are the signatures found on those specific $2 bills.


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Agatha Christie, Crime Writer & Britain's First Female Surfer
Who would have thought that Agatha Christie, the famed murder mystery writer, would be the first female surfer in Britain?
In 1922, Christie and her husband Archie went on a trip to South Africa, where it's thought the Devon-born writer took up the sport.
"It was occasionally painful as you took a nosedive down into the sand, but on the whole it was an easy sport and great fun," she wrote.
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A Council worker, Duke Amachree, has lost his claim against Wandsworth Council for unfair dismissal and discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief following his dismissal for Gross Misconduct after more than 18 years service. The allegation was that he had suggested that a client with an incurable bowel condition should put her faith in God. The 30 year old client complained to the Council saying she was shocked and upset by the comments.
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The best pic taken of me in ages!
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
back from Florida
The best pic taken of me in ages!
8 comments:
- Janet said...
Hi Cynthia what an enriched life you have and are giving your little Rosebud! I know exactly what you mean about the old feelings where you were raised. I too have those for where I was from. Thank God~ness things change and theres Joy in the morning! That is a lovely pic of you too, xx
- 03 July, 2008
- Eva said...
That is a great picture of you, and I also like the one of the Sassy Behbeh, especially how Greg's all sighing in the background. We miss you guys...
- 03 July, 2008
- Carter said...
Looks like ya'll had a blast! Mmmmm....key lime pie. It's hard to find a good one of those in CA. Guess that's what happens when you leave the South?!
That's a great pic of you. Very contemplative, like there's lots on inside that brain!
Happy 4th to all of you-
- 03 July, 2008
- katarinas mama said...
Key lime pie and mojitos dockside? that's life alright! Love the Best Picture of You. Happy 4th!
- 04 July, 2008
- Jean said...
you are gorgeous!!!
Hey I got my copy of Beadwork for August and I used your sphinx beads in Vermeil in my Helen of Troy set and you must see it. I love it. All your creations inspire me.
- 05 July, 2008
- Cynthia Thornton said...
Thanks everybody!Y'all are so nice! Happy 4th!
I will look directly to see your creation, Jean, I know it will be marvelous!
- 06 July, 2008
I agree,you look stunning Cynthia!umm...and oh so tiny. (me jealous)
Im about to do the lemon juice fast for a few days. the one that ya'll turned me on to.
wish me luck =)
glad to hear the mercantile shows were a success. I'll pass the news along to mama bear.
- 06 July, 2008
- Andrew Thornton said...
I miss that SASSY BABY!
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Research Division 2004
The Research Division tends to be the least visible of the divisions, as it often deals in intangible aspects of the profession and the Association, since it oversees policies for the annual meeting, prizes, fellowships, and publications, and has a more general charge to promote historical scholarship. But over the past year this has produced a number of highly visible changes and activities.
One of the more significant changes in the life of the Association is the selection of a new editor for its flagship journal. We are quite pleased with the selection of Robert Schneider, who is currently professor and chair at Catholic University. He brings a strong scholarly record as a French historian, substantial administrative experience as a department chair, and a broad vision for the future growth and development of the journal. Schneider will take the helm this fall.
Mike Grossberg has set an extraordinarily high standard as editor of the AHR for the past nine years; but the search committee I chaired, the Research Division, and the AHA Council all felt that Schneider was someone who could build effectively on Mike's achievements.
The Research Division also engineered sweeping reforms of the annual meeting, which should begin to be evident at the 2006 annual meeting. We proposed these changes to Council after 18 months of review and consultation with members and other scholarly societies, with the hope that we could generate a more dynamic and intellectually stimulating meeting for members. Our surveys of AHA members, past program committee members, and other disciplinary societies revealed that we were fairly late in taking up the issue of meeting reform. Most of the other disciplinary societies of our size had instituted reforms over the past 15 years, and our members were nearly unanimous in voicing their enthusiasm for substantive reform.
With that as encouragement, the division substantially revised the guidelines for the annual meeting, to lay out a range of new session types and behaviors we hope to encourage. We have also encouraged the program committee and the membership to be more proactive in developing a broad and diverse range of sessions and topics for future annual meetings. To assist in these efforts, we continue to invite members to write to us about the interesting and innovative sessions they have attended or organized. The AHA has also committed additional staff support for the Program Committee.
We hope these reforms will result in an expansion of the size of the meeting, as well as the diversity of topics and presentation styles. The AHA staff is already exploring ways to increase the number of sessions at the annual meeting. Ideally, we want to promote a more inclusive annual meeting that will regularly attract a larger percentage of our members. As part of that effort, the new guidelines eliminate the ban on appearing in two successive annual meetings.
The selection of a new editor and the reforms of the annual meeting were only the most visible activities of the division. We were also engaged in a number of other efforts as well. One of the more persistent problems we have had to deal with over the past year is the extension of institutional review board oversight over oral history. Institutional Review Boards were implemented to oversee abuses of human subjects by medical researchers, but over the past few years have expanded their authority to include any field that works with living human beings. This has become a significant problem for oral historians, as the methods they use bear little relation to the scientific techniques of the hard sciences, or even the survey and sampling techniques of the social sciences. We thought we had made a significant breakthrough in September 2003, when the head of the federal regulatory office that oversees these boards, agreed that oral history should usually be exempt from IRB oversight.
Unfortunately, that has had less effect than we had hoped. Since the policies that directly affect the lives of most historians are implemented at the local level, we have found that many college and university IRBs have been unmoved by the federal policy statement. And this problem has been exacerbated by mixed signals from the federal oversight office, which has offered some contradictory interpretations of the exemption. This fall, the AHA offices received almost weekly calls about problems with campus IRBs taking a hard line on the issue, and in some cases closing down research projects. In the coming year, the staff will undertake a more systematic survey and analysis of IRB policies at a wide range of colleges and universities and will present a detailed report in a spring 2005 issue of Perspectives. We also owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Linda Shopes and Don Ritchie, who have been pressing this issue despite a number of set backs.
We have also been actively engaged on perceived problems in publication of history scholarship. We have gathered and reported on the available data on publication in our field and its effects on tenure in the field. Unfortunately, the nature and extent of the problem seems to recede as we try to get a grip on it. The number of history titles being produced is near an all-time high. History departments reported that only a tiny number of their junior faculty failed to publish or receive tenure. And in our contacts with publishers, they all agreed that they were not selling as many copies as they would like, but offered widely disparate explanations for why that might be. We will continue to explore this issue in the coming months focusing particularly on Latin American history, an area in which some have argued that publication is especially difficult. We are very eager to hear from members who have perspectives to offer on this topic.
Members of the division were also quite troubled by reports that the peer review process at the National Endowment for the Humanities and other federal agencies were being undermined by particular agendas. We are working to develop a set of principles for peer review in history, to better articulate our concerns and frame our response to these issues. We hope to finalize that this coming spring.
Beyond these larger concerns, the division is also working on a number of other related projects. The staff is working with Columbia University Press to develop a plan for the future of the Gutenberg-e project, which is now in its final year of funding from the Mellon Foundation. They are also negotiating with Oxford University Press about creating a digital version of the AHA's Guide to Historical Literature.
In conclusion, let me thank the members of the division for their good efforts over the past year, particularly Larry Wolff and Victoria Harden who will be rotating off in the spring. I am also deeply indebted to the extraordinarily talented and dedicated AHA staff, especially Assistant Director Robert Townsend— and his research associate, Mériam Belli—whose tireless and creative efforts have been essential to our work over the past year.
Roy Rosenzweig (George Mason Univ.) is vice president of the Research Division.


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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Hope For Haiti
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Thank you so much, Cris! Your tile looks great (I am still working on mine...) I've been to Haiti 5 times in the past 14 months, working with children with disabilities and orphans. My next trip is scheduled for January 2 - 9, 2012 - we are starting a camp for children with disabilities!ReplyDelete
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Sunday, 23 March 2014
602 Commando Part 4
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This lot look the absolute business mate. The MAG gunner is particularly effective. Superb work and nice sculpts. Cheers, Rusty.ReplyDelete
Superb work Dougie. Looking forward to the battle report.ReplyDelete
Where are these models from please?ReplyDeleteReplies
Mike, they are the old Hotspur range from the 1980s, they're still available but now under the Combat Miniatures banner. the links below. DougieDelete
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At trial, the key oftentimes is getting complex issues that the parties have lived with for years to be comprehensible and memorable for juries whose understanding of the issues start from scratch and may only last for a couple of weeks.
The use of demonstrative evidence has progressed from a simple poster board drawing to animation showing accident scene recreations, all with an eye to making an impression on the collective jury's mind of what each advocate wants the jury to remember most. An homage, perhaps, to the saying that "A picture is worth a thousand words."
That may be fine when the point to emphasize can be reduced to one or a series of images, but it becomes more challenging when the point can only come across from oral testimony. Studies have shown that the brain dedicates approximately five times more space to remembering sound (echoic memory) than it does to what you see (iconic memory). The key word here is "remembering." The image can make complex concepts concrete and easier to understand, but the spoken word actually has a better chance of being remembered.
The good news is that there's a readily available technology that not only can combine the aural and visual, but complements it with reading comprehension. When video and synchronized text is combined in the form of closed captions, you get as close to the perfect world in information retention as possible in a trial setting (if you could have the witnesses sing their testimony to the tune of "Mairzy Doats" it would be even better).
If you're interested in learning more, contact your local NNRC Trial Presentation Expert and they'll be happy to give you a demonstration on how you can make sure that the jury not only hears what you said, but remembers it.


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Happy 22nd birthday boyfriend! This is my first time using my personal blog reaching out to anyone and making birthday wishes so feel special! I wish you have the best birthday as I am not there this year ago!! Well hopefully after this birthday I won't have to miss anymore since you will be moving to Ontario to live with me in half a year ! Wow crazy how it's so soon thinking back when we first started dating almost 2 years ago we were only talking about how and who should move since you live in BC.
I am really proud of myself for finding such an amazing boyfriend I mean it's hard to find "the one" in such a big pool. I know you are the one for me and I hope you think the same one too. And I thank the Lord for letting us be fated to meet 4.5 years ago back in July/2008.
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Renaissance or DBR is a strong period at our club. There are about a dozen of us at the club with renaissance armies and you will usually see a DBR game at club meetings. Most of our renaissance wargames had been in 15mm scale, but since 2006 many of us have also built up new 25mm armies. We have also tried a few games using late period DBM/DBMM armies (e.g. Hussites and Medieval Germans) using DBR rules. FOG-R (Field of Glory) has generated some interest, but as yet not many games have been played at the club.
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History of renaissance wargaming in NZ
The first ever renaissance wargames army
NICON North Island Convention
Nicon 2009 was held on Queen's Birthday weekend, May 30-31, in the Napier Boys' High School hall.
There were 8 players in the DBR competition. Scott won the prize for the best army, a vast horde (nearly 90ME) of Tlaxcalans (from The Assault Group) and Spanish (from Eureka Miniatures). Kelly again produced a beautiful army, the Ottoman Turks, and won the Best Sport award. His Turks were at the point of winning their first game but then lost two elements attacking the enemy baggage and the game ended in a mutual break!
Almost all games finished with clear wins (10-0 or 9-1), many well within the four hour time limit. Only three games ended with a draw; neither army having broken by the end of play. There was one quick and bloody mutual break.
Final scores:
1. Richard Foster German Protestant, Hesse-Kassel 1635 [29 points]
2. Philip Abela Early Tudor English with Maximilian allies 1513 [28]
3. John Way Japanese after 1542 [23]
4. Allen Yaxley Ming Chinese 1539 [21]
5. Andrew Bennetts Italian Wars French 1522 [19]
6. Scott Neilsen Tlaxcalans and Conquistadors 1521[17]
7. Rex Hurley Valois French 1525 [17]
8. Kelly Gay Ottoman Turks before 1595 [6]
Japanese v Ming Chinese
Valois French v German Protestants
Tudor English v Ottoman Turks
Tlaxcalans and Conquistadors v Italian Wars French
The Manawatu Duellists hosted Nicon 2008 at Massey University. As there was no DBR at Natcon this year, Nicon doubled as the National tournament.
There was a great variety of armies, and the 17th Century armies did rather better this year than last. Four players took naval elements, the most impressive being Grant's buccaneer squadron.
We experimented with a new rule:
"Shot (F) get a +1 vs enemy they move into contact with in their own turn".
The purpose of this was to give the Shot (F) a fighting chance and the players who use them some hope. It did encourage said players to try different armies but as it turned out there were no instances where the +1 had any significant impact on a game. It did, however, allow the Shot (F) to survive a little longer in hand to hand.
Final scores:
1. Richard Foster German Protestants Bohemian Revolt 1620, 335 points
2. Philip Abela Early Tudor English 1544, 332
3. Kelly Gay 30YW Swedes 1632, 327
4. Lawrence Antill German Catholics Eastern Imperial 1633, 232
5. Scott Neilson Omani Arabs 1518, 222
6. Grant Brown Buccaneers 1660, 221
7. Phil Gates Venetians 1506, 220
8. Allen Yaxley Knights of St John 1522, 220
9. Scott Gallagher Ukrainian Cossacks 1683, 111
10. John van den Hoeven Valois French 1536, 110
11. John Kerr ECW Royalists 1645, 110
Knights of St John v Ukrainian Cossacks
Thirty Years' War Swedish
Buccaneers v English Civil War Royalist
Knights of St John v Tudor English
Thirty Years' War German Catholics v Protestants
Ukrainian Cossacks v Valois French
Thirty Years' War Swedish v Omani Arabs
Nicon 2007 was held in Cambridge and like last year had a 25mm competition, this time attracting a field of 12 players (four returning from last year and eight new players) and some brand new armies also made their appearance.
Competition results:
1. Grant Brown Swiss Confederate, 232 points
2. Philip Abela Early Tudor English, 230
3. Danny Wrigley Scandinavian Union, 228
4. Richard Foster Scandinavian Union, 125
5. John Way Japanese, 122
6. John Conroy Later Polish, 122
7. Scott Gallagher Later Polish, 121
8. Andrew Hunter Manchu Chinese, 118
9. Patrick Conroy Ottoman Turk, 115
10. Allen Yaxley Russian Conscript, 110
11. John van den Hoven Transylvanian, 110
12. Mark Conroy Free Cossack, 9
Best Painted Army: Free Cossacks painted by Mark Conroy - a vast horde of fast pikes and fast shot defended by fixed obstacles, with clouds of LH (I) dashing around.
These are the armies as deployed for the first round games, or in a few cases just beginning the first bound with the customary move into the flanks. Click the image to see a larger version.
Japanese v Later Polish
Transylvanian v Swiss Confederate
Ottoman Turkish v Manchu Chinese
Later Polish v Scandinavian Union
Scandinavian Union v Russian Conscript
Early Tudor English v Free Cossack
The North Island Convention was held in New Plymouth on 3-4 June, 2006. A 25mm DBR competition was run, perhaps the first 25mm renaissance competition in NZ since the 1980s.
Results of the 2006 competition
Grant Brown - Swiss Confederate - 335 - 1st place
John Way (Umpire) - Japanese - 330
Andrew Hunter - Manchu - 222 - 2nd Place
Kelly Gay - Muslim Indian - 217
Philip Abela - Early Tudor - 114
Brent Senior Partridge - Moghul - 2
Here are the armies used at NICon 2006. Click the image to see a larger version.
Muslim Indian
Early Tudor English
Manchu Chinese
Below are some pictures from the NICon 2005 convention.
|Top left: Muslim Indians attacking Safavid Persian archers and cavalry.
|Top right: Muslim Indian cavalry with an elephant in support in combat with the German Catholic army.
|Lower left: The Royalist Army. Formerly Glen's army now under new management with Bryan from the South Auckland club.
|Lower right: Reiters in the service of the Russian army.
|Right: Another picture from NICon 2005. The Williamite Anglo-Dutch army. In the foreground Grenadiers and Dragoons advance over a hill. Figures by Lancashire Games, painted by Natholeon of Rotorua.
The annual South Pacific Championship has been contested annually since 2007 at major competions in New Zealand and Australia, including Natcons and IWF championships. In 2011 it was held at the IWF competition in Wellington, and will be in Australia next year.
South Pacific DBR championship
2007 Grant Brown (NZ) Safavid Persian (1591)
Siberian Tribes and Regency French in a DBR game.
South Pacific Championship DBR
Renaissance NATCON winners
1980 D. Richards 25mm, S. Sands 15mm
Auckland Wargames Club
For the first time in many years, there was a Renaissance competition in both 15mm and 25mm at Natcon 2010. Surprisingly enough, there was an Aztec army in both scales. The vast numbers of elements caused quite some consternation amongst their opponents, and the army of Grant Brown came 2nd in the 15mm competition. The 25mm army won the best painted army prize. On the left, in the 15mm comp, the Aztecs are taking on a Thirty Years War French army. Right, the 25mm Aztecs are crossing a river to attack Transylvanians.
A couple of pictures from Natcon 2006. On the left the Swiss pikes are advancing on Valois French cavalry who are rapidly trying to get out of the way. On the right, the Alwa (Christian Nubians of around 1500 AD), an army that bravely turned up to a renaissance competition without any gunpowder weapons at all.
In 2004 we hosted the first annual Push of Pike tournament. In the second tournament we introduced a theme period, the Thirty Years War and English Civil War. In subsequent years we have used various other themes, and had other open tournament in preparation for the Worlds the following year.
Push of Pike 2018 Open competition
Push of Pike 2016 English Civil War and Thirty Years War
Push of Pike 2015 Armies and Enemies of Charles V 1530-1556
Push of Pike 2014 Non-European armies 1494-1700
Push of Pike 2013 European armies 1540-1600
Push of Pike 2012 Armies 1650-1700
Push of Pike 2011 ECW and 30YW
Push of Pike 2010 Open competition
Push of Pike 2009 The Turkish Wars
Push of Pike 2008 The Wars of Religion
Push of Pike 2007 Armies of Africa and Asia
Push of Pike 2006 Early Wars
Push of Pike 2005 ECW and 30YW
Push of Pike 2004 Open competition
The prestigious trophy of the Push of Pike tournament, otherwise known as the PoP gun, photographed here on what appears to be a comfy chair. Oh no, not the comfy chair!
"Unfriendly cover and four enemy units within 150 paces" we used to say to each other, "Twelve @ four is 24 casualties". Ah, that was wargaming. Renaissance wargaming began in New Zealand in the 1970s using the WRG rules written by George Gush, but was not played at the North Shore club at that time. The original Gush rules covered the period 1490-1660, and the second edition (published 1979) extended the period to 1420-1700. At the time of publication the WRG ancient rules did not cover the late medieval period. The rules employed the same game mechanisms as the WRG ancient rules of the time, with unit orders, simultaneous movement, charts of weapon factors and tactical factors to calculate casualties, and numerous reaction tests to determine unit morale. The 2nd ed. had some innovations in wargames rules, including provision for religious contingents, baggage train and rules for looting.
Following the publication of J.F. Guilmartin's book Gunpowder and Galleys, WRG published a small booklet in 1978 with rules for 16th century naval warfare. It had just seven pages of rules. I know of no games played locally with this rulebook, but who knows, it may yet catch on.
In the early '80s (probably 1981 or '82) a set of renaissance rules was produced in NZ by R.D.C. Publications (Michael Anastasiadis & Richard Mason). It was based around the WRG rule mechanisms, but designed to be faster playing. It was accompanied by an extensive set of 105 army lists for the period 1420-1660, with good coverage of Africa and Asia as well as European armies. They included a few armies missing from the current DBR lists, including the Teutonic Knights and the German peasants' revolt. The RDC rules were used at the 1986 Natcon in Wellington (where the rules were published), although the WRG 2nd ed rules were in use again by the time of the '88 Natcon.
For a few years, maybe only a year or two, in the late eighties or early nineties renaissance was played using a variant of the then current WRG 7th edition ancient rules. These renaissance modifications to the Ancient rules were used in the 15mm Renaissance competition in the 1992 Nicon in New Plymouth. Many of the army lists were taken from the late medieval army lists including such wonderful troop types as double-armed Venetians with handguns and halberds. Turkish archers had a great time shooting at shieldless enemies! There was at least one competition held on the North Shore - from memory it might have been a Nicon or 'Fire & Sword' convention held at the old Akoranga Rd venue. Shortly afterwards DBA and DBM were on the scene, and 7th edition was abandoned for both ancients and renaissance.
The renaissance period has been played on the North Shore since the first release of the DBR De Bellis Renationis rules in 1995. The DBR rules cover the historical period 1494 to 1700. As there was some dissatisfaction with the published points system a revised set of army points values was devised for use in New Zealand games in 1996, and was used at Natcon in 1997. A revised version of DBR v1.1 came out in 1997, and the NZ points revisions were then updated taking into account the changed rules.
The second edition of DBR was published early in 2004. A new NZ revision of the points values for DBR version 2 has been used in several conventions since 2005 and is widely used in non-competition games as well.
DBR was first played at Natcon in 1996 in Hamilton. Previous national competitions were played using the Gush rules. DBR has also been played at several other NZ conventions including Battlecry in 1998, ValleyCon, and a one-off renaissance tournament attracting about ten players, held at the Auckland Wargaming Club in (if I remember correctly) 1997. The 2007 NZ Natcon was the first of the annual South Pacific Championships. This will be held in New Zealand and Australia in alternating years.
Most of the DBR competitions have attracted only small numbers of entrants, usually somewhere between 6-12 players. Because of the small numbers of entries, a few competition were cancelled for lack of interest. This in part led to the idea of a dedicated DBR tournament, Push of Pike, which has been hosted by the North Shore club annually since 2004.
The Principles of War rule system also has a renaissance rulebook and with army lists. A few games of it have been played in the several Auckland clubs and perhaps elsewhere as well.
In the 'eighties Mikes Models were producing several ranges of renaissance figures in 15mm, including the Ottoman Turks pictured here. These models were distributed locally, and there were a lot of armies built up with them. There are still several old Mikes Models armies around, attractively painted and still to be seen in action on the table. The FreiKorps ranges (Thirty Years' War, English Civil Wars, Tudor English and Irish wars) have also been distributed in New Zealand, and a number of armies built from those ranges are also to be seen.
Many of the current 15mm renaissance armies in use are made up of figures from Essex Miniatures extensive ranges, covering everything from late medieval to Eighteenth Century periods. Many of those were new ranges released at the time of the new DBR rules and lists. The two pike blocks illustrated here are from Essex Miniatures (with a few Minifigs arquebusiers on the flanks of the formation). The front two ranks of the Spanish (on the right hand side) are double-based, with both ranks of figures at the back of the base, to allow for the length of the horizontal pike. The landsknechts' centre ranks are double based as a convenience for moving elements, and to allow space for the colour parties in the middle of the pike block. You could almost call them doppelsoldners.
There is a wide variety of figure manufacturers represented in the new 25mm armies being fielded. This includes not only traditional historical manufacturers but also some of Games Workshop's "Empire" and "Brettonian" figures being adapted for armies of the Italian Wars period.
"Some time in 1614 the young prince of Spain, later King Philip IV, received a spectacular present: a complete set of toy soldiers made of wood. It included infantry regiments and cavalry companies with their various banners, weapons and equipment; horses and cannon for the artillery; the distinctive shops and tents of the armourers, sutlers and other camp followers; and special materials to construct artificial lakes, forests and pontoon bridges. There was even a toy castle for the 'army' to besiege. This, the first child's 'war-game' known in Europe, reproduced in replica the most famous army of its day: the Army of Flanders, maintained by Spain in the Low Countries.
A special pamphlet printed in Spanish and Latin accompanied the toy because its designer, Alberto Struzzi, intended to educate as well as amuse. 'This army will be no less useful than entertaining,' Struzzi informed the prince. 'From it one may observe the expenditure which is necessary if a king is to emerge victorious, and how if money (which is the sinews of war) fails, the prince's intentions cannot be achieved.' ... Alas, the model army perished in a fire in the royal palace in Madrid in 1884."
Geoffrey Parker. The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road 1567-1659: The Logistics of Spanish Victory and Defeat in the Low Countries' Wars. Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2004. p.1
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So, to kick off the spring of 2010 I decided to do a giveaway photoshoot to a mother and her child(ren) -a "Mommy & me" session. The winner will receive photoshoot time upto 3 hrs and a DVD of the images.
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The winner will be selected and announced on April 18th. The photoshoot will be on April 25th. Make sure you are available for this date when you apply.
And remember, your a mother's child too. So get your mothers to apply. This contest is for all mothers…children can be little ones or adults!