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According to Mystical Voodoo Astrology ,people born under this sign, minds will sore to high heights if they are place in an office that is equip with state of the arts technology.
In matters of love, they are tender and affectionate. They prefer their mates to dress conservatively. They love a quiet and clean person.
They are shy and often love to be alone with that special person. In matters of health. They should avoid spicy foods and eat more fruits and drink herbal teas. According to the powers of Voodoo Astrology,
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Your lucky numbers are 332,927,67,12,09 and your lucky days are Wednesday and Fridays Your lucky colors are Purple and Black.
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Fashion Week just won't be the same without Danish babe Freja Beha Erichsen, who consistently shuts down catwalks from New York to Paris, showing off her stellar street style in between. So, while we were sad to hear Erichsen has no plans to return to the runway next month, all of that heartache quickly turned to intrigue when we caught word that she's teaming up with Mother for a denim capsule collection. Yes, one of our favorite models is swapping out her heels for a sketchbook and some thread.
The collaboration, which is Erichsen's first venture into the design world, will feature a number of covetable, classic denim pieces, including skinny-fit jeans, moto pants, cutoff shorts, and chambray tops. Sales from the collection, made with Mother cofounders Lela Becker and Tim Kaeding, will also benefit the international medical humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders — because, yes, this model has got a lot more than just a beautiful face. Want in on Erichsen's design debut? You'll be able to find the looks at Nordstrom this fall, with prices falling between $145 and $300. (Style)


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So I'm really excited to show you today's quiet book - a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse book! Made by Kristen for her niece, this quiet book has a Mickey Mouse glove that you can lace, a flower page, a laundry page with a Mickey outfit, a Minnie outfit, and a Donald outfit, a shape and color matching page, a Minnie Mouse page with interchangeable bows, a cupcake counting page, a dog collar buckle page, and an Oh Toodles "I spy" page.
This is such a cute book and a great idea for a theme. Enjoy looking at all of Kristen's pages!
What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence.
Kristen; I have a serious case of wanderlust.
Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
I made this book for my 2 year old niece for Christmas.
What's your level of sewing experience?
What would you call the level between beginner and intermediate?
How long did it take you?
I tried not to let it get too out of control. It took about 3 weeks working between other projects.
Did you use any templates? Where can they be found?
She loves Mickey's clubhouse and I couldn't find anything like that so I put my own twist on other ideas. Some of the pages I followed the idea, some I made up, and one (the laundry page) completely copied other than what the clothes are. For the flower/laundry page I used Hardy Life: Quiet Book Pages, Pops and Podge: Quiet Book Page 4 - Do Some Laundry. The Minnie interchangeable bows are from here: Little Miss Stitcher: Minnie and Daisy.
How did you bind your quiet book?
For the cover I used this idea roughly: Girl Inspired: The End of the Quiet Book Sew-along.
What material are the pages made out of?
Just cotton fabric with felt between to make it more sturdy.
What other materials did you use?
Mostly just felt.
How much did all the supplies cost you?
About $10 for felt, zipper,velcro, and vinyl. I had everything else.
What's your favorite page? Why?
The Oh Toodles page, because I'm impressed that I could tie it into the theme.
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Forthcoming Exhibitions - Gallery 400Asma Kazmi, "Relation - Chute"
Relation-Chute attempts to change Kazmi's disassociated relationship with the image of pain by changing her proximity to pain and death. By documenting her training in an Islamic slaughter house she attempts to close the ever growing distance between the consumption of meat, religious observance, and the reality of death.
Frau Fiber, "Knock Off"
A methodical investigation into the human cost of the mass production and consumption of the apparel industry, Frau Fiber, artist, activist and former textile worker will open a Private Label garment production and retail facility, reconstructing garments originally produced off shore. Bringing the transparency of garment production into the open space of a storefront in downtown Chicago. Frau Fiber will perform the labor of garment construction: weaving, pattern making, cutting, and sewing of garments. The garments will be available for purchase, priced on a geographical sliding scale based on the wages paid a textile worker from locations around the world. Potential hours of operation: Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-6pm. Expected opening Spring 2008.
Justin Cooper, "Thread"
As a one-night performance and large-scale installation Thread explores the dichotomy between important issues in contemporary art practice: the temporary and the permanent; the abstract and the highly personal; the organic and inorganic.
Andy Roche, "Black Iron Vatican"
Roche's film-based project,
"Black Iron Vatican", combines the practice of radical Catholic "witnessing" with the youthful act of dropping out of reality and into music, fantasy and your own room. The exhibition will feature two interrelated films: one, a travelogue depicting Leftist Catholics on their way to a military location, and the other, a low budget sci-fi film. The project explores a space of failure and fantasy, between witnessing and ecstaticism.
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|Institute for Social Ecology - Rochester, Vermont
Bill and Mary Lloyd had vacationed with their family for years in Rochester, Vermont. The Institute for Social Ecology was looking for a place to develop an educational center for ecological studies. With students in classes on ecological and solar design, we developed plans for the Lloyd property. Students built models of the project and a gazebo on the property. Our office followed up with detailed drawing and coordinated permits for the project.


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Cold sores are a viral infection caused by the Herpes Simplex Virus-1. They are a recurring problem as the virus can lie dormant in our systems and reactivate when triggered. Here, our immune system expert Dr. Jen Tan shall address the causes and triggers of cold sores in order to provide you with the information you need to protect yourself against the infection.
Cold sores are small fluid filled blisters which appear on the face around the mouth. They affect approximately 20% of the UK population. Cold sore symptoms include tingling at the initial stage of infection and pain when the sore fully develops.
Cold sores are caused by the herpes family of viruses. They are a recurrent problem and the virus causing the problem can be triggered (re-activated) by a number of factors.
This page describes the causes and the triggers for cold sores. For other information, read more about cold sore symptoms and cold sore treatments.
Cold sores are caused by the Herpes Simplex Virus. There are two strains of this virus:
HSV-1 is the strain which causes cold sores and is carried by over 80% of the population. HSV-2 can also cause cold sores but this is extremely rare - this strain is mainly associated with genital herpes.
The first time a person comes into contact with HSV-1 is known as the primary infection. This can and often happens during childhood or during early teens and does not tend to cause any symptoms.
Following the primary infection, HSV-1 lies dormant or inactive in the body but has a habit of lying within or near to nerve cells. The cold sore virus can lie in this state for years or even decades, becoming active following an encounter with a 'trigger'.
The virus is reactivated, leading to what scientists term the 'secondary infection' and the appearance of a cold sore. Hence, all cold sores are secondary infections. As the virus causes inflammation close to nerves, one of the most prominent cold sore symptoms, apart from the embarrassment of a prominent sore on the face, is pain.
There are many trigger factors known to cause a reactivation of the cold sore virus. These include:
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I have always loved the Gospel of John. For some reason, whenever I read it and compared it to the synoptic gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, it simply outshone them. I understood the Jesus in John's gospel in a way that I often didn't understand the the Jesus of the synoptics.
Form the very first chapter, I was hooked. Who couldn't be? I mean, read it:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
The story doesn't start with a relationship intrigue, or a census, or a long, boring genealogy . It starts at the beginning of the cosmos. The poetry of In him was life, and that life was the light of men....it simply speaks to me in a way that the synoptics don't.
While reading and learning about the formation of the New Testament, I learned something that began to bother me, The Gospel of John was written much later than the synoptics. In and of itself, being written decades later doesn't mean that a work is untrustworthy, but when the unique nature of the Gospel of John is compared to the synoptics, it becomes apparent that most of the material in John is nowhere to be found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Added to this new-to-me realization, was another idea, one that explained the synoptics in terms of their relation to each other, with Mark being written first and Matthew and Luke primarily consisting of appropriations of Mark, sometimes word for word. Matthew and Luke both used Mark and also added more to it, sometimes sharing material, and at other times containing material unique to themselves. That is the hypothesis shared by most biblical scholars at this point.
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None of this is groundbreaking information. I simply had never examined it before, or thought about what it meant. Although I had read all of the gospels more times than I could count, I had always done it through the lens of biblical inerrancy and the supposition that the gospels were all independently developed, eyewitness accounts of Jesus. When there were conflicts or contradictions, I assumed it was because they were written by different people, from different perspectives, which would naturally lead to slightly different perspectives.
One thing that never occurred to me is that early Christians would purposely tailor, or alter, the gospels to slant them in a particular way, or give support to developing theology. These were supposed to be historic, accurate documents inspired by God, so if something seemed unclear, or didn't quite fit, it was because the things Jesus said weren't applicable to that time but were somehow broader and meant for a future age.
I'd like to clarify at this point that I don't think that the gospels are pure fiction, or that the gospel writers intentionally attempted to mislead as much as they were trying to encourage the community of which they were a part, and shore up the faith of believers.
For numerous reasons I abandoned the idea of biblical inerrancy and that started a domino effect for me and for my faith, because I could no longer come to a position on anything by declaring a certain idea "biblical". Neither could I settle any questions I had with "because The Bible says so."
Once I started thinking of the process used to write the gospels and how each came to be , and what sort of audience they might have been written to, I began to see these differences everywhere, and every time I did....I would feel a deep pang in my heart.
I came across another one of those examples when I was looking for that passage about rewards in the here and now that I mentioned in my last post.
All three synoptic gospels contain the story of the rich young man who asks Jesus what he must do to obtain eternal life. After some conversation between the two of them, with the young man declaring how perfectly he has followed Mosaic Law, Jesus tells him to sell everything he has and give it to the poor. The rich young man goes away saddened at the prospect. After listening to the exchange between the rich young man and Jesus, Peter points out that the disciples have left everything behind to follow Jesus. Here's the passage in Mark:
Mark 10:28-31
28Peter said to him, "We have left everything to follow you!"
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31But many who are first will be last, and the last first."This passage has always troubled me because it doesn't seem hard to falsify. Did all of the disciples receive a hundred times as much in this present age? The rewards listed are tangible things, not merely abstract blessings such as peace, or joy. Jesus is promising that they are going to be repaid for their faithfulness to him now and in the age to come.
We don't really know what happened to all of the apostles, but most of the legends about their deaths end badly. They all wind up murdered/martyred by one group or another. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of physical reward in the here and now for them.
Tradition holds that Mark was written by Peter's interpreter, so maybe when this particular teaching was recorded, Peter's life--one which was filled with persecution--served as a caution that persecution was part of the deal.
When we get to this exchange in Luke we find the rewards are not specifically listed, though there is still the assurance that there will be rewards in the current age for those who have sacrificed relationships for the sake of the Kingdom. Material things seemed to have dropped out of the story.
Perhaps as time passed there was a need to revisit the passage and de-emphasize the idea of financial or material rewards:
Luke 18:28-30
28Peter said to him, "We have left all we had to follow you!"
29"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."
When we get to Matthew, the passage takes a sharp turn. Earthly rewards have completely disappeared. Instead, rewards have become subject to a condition, that of the renewal of all things, when Jesus sits on his glorious throne:
Matthew 19:27-30The "current age" aspect has been supplanted and replaced with a future age in which all will be rewarded. This makes even more sense in Matthew when we consider that most scholars consider that Matthew was written between 70-100 AD. By then the temple had been destroyed and the Jewish Revolt had been put down. It isn't unlikely to think that the author of Matthew was having to re-examine what Jesus might have meant by this saying, because everything going on in the material world certainly didn't seem very promising.
27Peter answered him, "We have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?"
28Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
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The market held its breath for much of the day today, waiting for the Federal Reserve to conclude its regularly scheduled full committee meeting. The meeting will be the first for Janet Yellen in her role as Fed chief. In this segment from Wednesday's Investor Beat, host Alison Southwick and Motley Fool analysts Bill Barker and Matt Argersinger look at what topics will dominate the press conference, and they also remind investors that while macro events such as the decisions of the Fed can have strange and unpredictable impacts on the market as a whole, Foolish individual investors focus on buying great companies, holding for the long run, and tuning out the noise.
Then, the guys take a look at some of the day's biggest movers on Wednesday's market. Shares of First Solar moved upward today, after the company raised guidance and announced a partnership with General Electric. Conversely, SolarCity fell on the news. KB Home is also up today, after announcing that revenue and net income were up for the quarter, the first quarterly profit since the housing meltdown. Oracle fell today, after missing analysts' expectations for the fourth quarter, possibly because of growing pressure from younger, more nimble competition. And WisdomTree Investments took a hit today, after a Citigroup analyst downgraded the ETF maker to "sell."
And finally, Matt and Bill each pick one stock they'll be watching closely in the week ahead. Matt takes a look at Yandex, the largest search engine in Russia, which has seen its shares get beaten down significantly as the conflict in Crimea continues, Matt discusses whether he's worried about the stock long-term. Meanwhile, Bill looks into Lennar Corp, and says that he's expecting it to beat its numbers based on the strength of other homebuilders that have reported earnings recently.
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Ampyra Legal Information Center
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes dalfampridine, a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis and sold as Ampyra, might cause seizures in users.
What Is Ampyra? When Is It Prescribed?
The American pharmaceutical company Acordia Therapeutics developed dalfampridine, and in January 2010, the FDA approved it as Ampyra to treat multiple sclerosis. Specifically, Ampyra improves patients' walking ability and speed, and doctors prescribe it in the form of oral tablets. Medical science is unsure how Ampyra works, but researchers believe that dalfampridine increases neural electrical conductivity, which allows for increased muscle movement.
Ampyra Might Cause Seizures
On July 23, 2012, the FDA issued a drug safety communication warning the public that Ampyra might cause seizures in users. According to postmarket adverse event reports, most Ampyra seizures occurred within the first few days of use and in patients who had no prior history of seizures or epilepsy. Because the body eliminates Ampyra via the kidneys, patients who have renal impairment conditions or whose kidney function is reduced due to age will eliminate the drug more slowly than users whose kidneys are working well. If the drug isn't eliminated from the body, users will have higher concentrations of dalfampridine in their blood, which might contribute to a higher likelihood of seizures.
The FDA updated the Ampyra label to include additional information on the drug's connection to seizures. A clinical trial found that people who took 15 mg of the drug were four times more likely to suffer a seizure than those who took only 10 mg. The agency added that physicians should test users' kidney function before initiating Ampyra treatment. Patients whose creatinine clearance levels are greater than 50 milliliters per minute are considered to have kidney impairment and should not take Ampyra.
Sometimes the following symptoms precede seizures:
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- Lightheadedness
- Tightening of the chest
- Experience of slow-motion phenomena
The FDA recommends that users who suffer an Ampyra seizure cease taking Ampyra and contact their physician promptly.
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Pineland Farms was back on May 24th. 50K is no joke and Pineland Farms is a pretty solid, hilly course. I had a great day and enjoyed my adventure. But since that race, I just haven't had much desire to run. So I haven't. Until today.
I jumped at the text invite to run with Meaghan. I was excited to venture into her "new" town (not so new anymore to her, but to me it is), try out her roads, and catch up. She took me on a great course, filled with steady rollers, covering a couple of towns. We also tried some new areas (for her), now that she had a guinea pig along for the exploration. With almost two weeks off from running, running/chatting/laughing our way through 10.3 miles was just what I needed. Guess I just need a little time to miss it. Simple as that.
And I'm already looking forward to running tomorrow!
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Anyway, some things:
-There are two new installments of Das Kolumne ready for your perusal 1) How to Write Erotic Fiction and 2) 5 1/2 Writers Under 11. Both are important and well-written.
-A story I wrote called The Frenchman is now available online over at The Barceonla Review.
-Oh, and also: THAT'S IT.


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By Paul McHugh
SEPT. 17, 2005 — When you go to a place and want to truly understand, it's good to speak with folks who've been living there for quite a while. In the case of Humboldt Bay, you can't do better than visiting with a few surviving members of the Wiyot Tribe.
After another gale forced a break in our sea kayak voyage from Oregon to San Francisco. I, Bo Barnes and John Weed had to stay holed up for almost four days on Woodley Island, in the Port of Eureka.
On one of those afternoons, we met up with Cheryl Seidner and her sister Leona Wilkinson of the Wiyots. No one is known to have dwelt in the Humboldt Bay region longer than their tribe.
"We have been here in Humboldt Bay for about 10,000 years," Wilkinson said, as she led us out to a sacred site on Indian Island, just offshore from Eureka. "Evidence takes us back at least 8,000 years."
During the last 200 years of that vast history, the trail turned rough for the Wiyots. Recently, their path has begun to smooth and straighten once more.
On earlier research trips to the North Coast, I met with Marnie Atkins, the tribe's cultural director, and Seidner, tribal chairwoman. They spoke of the tragic past of the place now called Indian Island. Wiyots knew it as their sacred village of Tuluwat.
This low bay island near the city of Eureka had been center of the Wiyot universe. But during this tribe's world-renewal ceremony in 1860, it became scene of a brutal massacre by a gang of settlers.
After, Tuluwat vanished under the piers, ways and structures of an industrial boatyard. Now, this place has been taken back into hands of the Wiyots. They are dismantling dilapidated structures and cleansing the land. They intend that a dance house once again will arise here.
After a silence of 150 years, Wiyot singing will echo again over waters of Humboldt Bay.
Survivors of a Massacre
"One baby survived the killing on that day," tribal chairwoman Seidner told me. "After the massacre, people of Eureka went out there. They found an old woman out on a mudflat, singing a mourning song. They found a little girl, a toddler, still alive. And under the body of a dead woman, they found a live baby, still attempting to nurse. That infant boy was the son of the headman, called Captain Jim, so he was named Jerry James.
"Jerry James was my mother's grandfather."
Seidner, 55, is a woman with flowing dark hair, a broad face, warm and lively eyes, and a direct, forthright manner. She's held the tribal chair for five two-year terms, and over the course of her tenure, regaining a tribal presence on the so-called Indian Island has been a major order of business.
"Here's what I want to do," Seidner explained. "Achieve major economic development. Finish this island project. See our language revive. And I want to bring back the dancing."
The Sacred Island of Tuluwat
In June 2004, wearing a white deerskin cape and traditional necklaces, Seidner sat in a redwood dugout canoe paddled near Tuluwat by boatmen descended from Wiyot, Yurok, Hupa, Maidu and Pit River bloodlines. In a ceremony, they took possession of 67 acres transferred to the tribe a month earlier by the Eureka city council's unanimous vote.
That land added to 1.5 acres of pivotal ground, bought from the boatyard owners by the tribe for $106,000 in 2000.
"When we paddled away from the island, I thought, 'Wow. We did it!' I knew we could. Until that moment, I at times was not quite believing it." Seidner said.
Related by language and blood to the Yuroks of Klamath River country to the north, several thousand Wiyots once dwelt in a territory ranging from south of the Eel River (itself named "Wiyot") north to the Mad River ("Batwat"). Central feature of the territory, of course was the bay ("Wiki"), which then sprawled over 27,000 acres (it's smaller now, due to infill).
Center of that center was Tuluwat.
As Seidner watched us from the shoulder of highway 255 – which touches down on Indian Island on its way out to the Samoa Peninsula – Wilkinson led me, Barnes and Chronicle photographer Mike Maloney down a muddy path which very few are now permitted to traverse. Due to the hazardous waste and jagged trash at the boatyard, it's considered too dangerous until cleanup is completed.
"We're almost done with that part," Wilkinson said, as she stepped gingerly around jagged metal, oil-soaked earth, a marine railway for hauling out boats. Wilkinson resembles her younger sister in many ways, but her hair is gray, and her directness is tempered by a dignified reserve.
"We had four barges of trash, each holding about three tons," she said. "The previous owners had even piled up old engine batteries to make a seawall."
There's one big metal shed left on the site, several rotting wooden shacks. They sit right atop a high, deep, wide shell mound or midden of shell fragments and Wiyot burial sites, the historic record of their long occupancy of the site.
"Several (woven basketry) skull caps washed up during the cleanup," Wilkinson said. "We'll rebury those at an appropriate time."
To Restore a Ceremonial Site
We stood at the edge of the mound, where the Wiyots plan to vibrate metal sheets into the ground, to halt tidal erosion. On nearby mudflats, tawny sandpipers, willets and other shorebirds probed for dinner.
"I like to stand out here sometimes, and imagine this all without the city lights," Wilkinson said. "I think of how it was, with all those dugout canoes coming over the bay, people dressed in their finest as they arrived for ceremonies."
The first two settler massacres of the Wiyot took place in 1852 and 1858. Next, early on the morning of February 26, 1860, a locally infamous brute (allegedly named Larrabee) and a few confederates rowed out to the island to attack the Wiyots with hatchets, clubs and knives. They didn't want gunfire to arouse sleeping Eureka citizens. Victims were mainly women and children; Wiyot men were away gathering food and supplies to bring to the festival. Two other villages, on the Eel River and on the bay's south spit, were also attacked at that very same day
Tuluwat had been sold out from under the Wiyots. A man named Gunther had "bought" it, from someone, just a few days earlier.
The Wiyots, never all that many to begin with, plummeted in numbers, along with their health and fortunes. By the end of 1860, there were less than 200 full-blooded Wiyot left; by 1910, fewer than 100. The last fluent speaker of the language died in 1962. Surviving tribal people were herded to Fort Humboldt, then off to distant reservations.
Yet always and in all ways, they sought to return home. The last corner available to them was Table Bluff, at the south end of the bay. Presently, there is a small reservation of 88 acres, and 465 people on tribal rolls.
Renewal of a Nearly Lost World
Where fate of Indian Island is concerned, today the citizens of Eureka have chosen not to sleep. Wilkinson expresses a great deal of gratitude to local oyster growers for contributing shells to stabilize the mound, a local seafood restaurant that underwrote cost of the trash barges, citizens who have contributed to the Tuluwat restoration fund and participated in annual memorial ceremonies.
She stood atop the midden at the center of Tuluwat.
"Everyone in the tribe has a different feeling about this," Wilkinson said. "But young people and the elders are all excited about coming out here again.
"When I'm here, it doesn't make me sad. This is where our family came from. It feels good to work here with family and friends, bringing it back. It will happen in my lifetime. A dance will take place here within three years. We have spoken with other tribes. They said, 'We will help you when you are ready.'"
California's North Coast offers some profound examples of resilience and hardiness.
Gray whales that migrate along a 10,000-mile loop offshore were reduced by whaling to 1,500 individuals or less. Protected by the Endangered Species Act, they have now rebounded to a mighty, spouting, yearly parade of 20,000 animals.
Ancient sequoias, coast redwood trees, if sawn down, often resurrect by sending up vivid green shoots, or "burl sprouts" from their root balls.
Now, among the resilient, number the Wiyot, as Tuluwat – like a Brigadoon for Native Americans – once more emerges from drifting bay mists.
A thing to bear in mind is that as they do that dance, it's a world renewal ceremony. So, resurrection of Tuluwat should be a sign of hope for all of us.
Regaining the Wiyot Way
Marnie Atkins, cultural director for Humboldt Bay's Wiyot Tribe, confronts a sizeable task. Simply put, the cultural resources available to her aren't abundant. No living, fluent Wiyot speakers remain. All that exists are old tapes of their speech and songs. Records or even tribal memories of Wiyot dances, rituals or stories may exist, but have not been located.
There are no full sets of "regalia" — elaborate outfits crafted of shell, bead, buckskin and feathers that North Coast tribes commonly used in ceremonies. (Possession of regalia also established tribal status and social potency for their holders.) Well, there may not be regalia near the Wiyots' Table Bluff reservation at the south end of the bay. But there is some in Washington D.C.
Potent emotions swept through Atkins as she found a historic dance skirt in a collection at the Smithsonian Institute. Finds like this may serve as a guide for her and other tribal members as they seek to re-create elements of their culture.
"There was an official event at Smithsonian's Native American Museum in September of 2004," Atkins relates. "I went with the idea that they could have something of ours in a collection. Or if not, something interesting to see that came from one of our neighboring tribes. It's always good to keep an eye.
"A person from the Native American Grave Repatriation department gave us a presentation. Then they held an open house. I had made an appointment to go into the collection and have a look.
"I was told they had no Wiyot artifacts. But I thought I recognized some baskets. Sure enough, they were Wiyot! And I felt there was something Wiyot on a shelf up higher. So I looked. And there was a dance skirt! A very sacred item.
"Honestly, I didn't find it. It found me. I believe it came back into our lives because of the land. Because we can now return to Tuluwat. That skirt was ready to be found. To come home and dance once again."
"From this, I knew things should go alright. Even if it takes us another 20 years. From this, we will be able to learn to build other ceremonial skirts again.
"I hope to negotiate with the museum. Some items there have been treated with pesticides. I don't think this one has. We'll offer to make them a replica to put in their collection. But this one, we'll say, has a spirit, a beautiful spirit. It feels pain now. It needs to come home, to be part of a ceremony, part of our culture once more."
— See all previous posts from the NORTH COAST SERIES
Ed. Note: Paul McHugh's North Coast Series first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and on S.F. Gate in 2005. The posts, edited and updated for this version, follow McHugh, John Weed and Bo Barnes on a 400-mile, sea kayak voyage along California's shore. The stories will be posted on CanoeKayak.com almost daily as they appeared 11 years ago, following the crew from their launch on September 6th through their paddle under the Golden Gate Bridge on October 5th.


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Perchance to dream.
It's what Emily Hope Morgan and Mark Smith do.
Morgan and Smith are the founders and facilitators of Dream PC(USA), a Twitter-based prayer movement born out of the 220th General Assembly (2012). Both attended the Presbyterian Association of Musicians' (PAM) Worship and Music Conference — held at Montreat Conference Center June 23-28 — for the first time, seeking not only a break from the rigors of their seminary studies but inspiration for their current ministries.
Smith, a 20-year veteran of the IT industry, is a rising senior at Princeton Theological Seminary. Morgan, a 2013 PTS graduate, is seeking a call to ministry while serving as social media and marketing coordinator at Worship Times, which makes websites for ministries, including the Presbyterian Youth Triennium 2013.
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"I came home with my head full of ideas for creative worship and music with Watchung Avenue Presbyterian (North Plainfield, N.J.), my field education placement," Smith wrote in an email reflecting on the conference.
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On June 27, Morgan tweeted, "Our opening sentences come to us from the hymn, 'Dream On, Dream On,' which will be in new #pcusa hymnal Glory to God. 'Dream on, dream on, children of peace; till on earth God's kingdom come.'"
For Morgan, dreaming of Montreat also included the removal of financial barriers. "I am grateful for the scholarship I received," she said. "If I didn't have somebody to help me with the financial aspects of getting here, I wouldn't have been able to come."
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In an effort to reach out specifically to seminaries and seminarians, PAM designed and implemented a pilot program in 2013 called the Worship Fellows. This year, two worship fellows from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary attended the Montreat conference, shadowing leaders and taking classes to get a sense of what the conference offers to the larger church and to learn from doing worship.
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"I learned the behind-the-scenes thoughtfulness of liturgical dancers, and through singing some of the new songs from Glory to God, I realized how it will assist my church's worship," she wrote in an email. "(New Jersey's) Plainsboro Presbyterian Church (where I am a member and under care for ordination) has native speakers of several languages, all of which are included in Glory to God."
While it was PAM that provided Morgan with her "full ride" to the conference, it was Smith who offered her an actual ride as part of his carpool from New Jersey.
Smith, who is manager of the Princeton Ringers, a choir of PTS and Princeton University, had several reasons for attending the conference.
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Sorry for my extended absence as of late...things in my work and personal life got a bit out of control in the month of May, but I'm starting to feel more grounded, so expect to have me back commenting away and updating more regularly! That darn LIFE thing can be tricky from time to time...seems like some days it's all or nothing, right? But all good news on my end and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
So, how about we get back to our regularly scheduled Wednesday activities?
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world.
Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.
My thoughts: Perfectly creepy and unique!
The descriptions within this book made the town of Gentry, rotten soil and all, come to life in a very horrific way. Brenna does an excellent job of world building. She starts the reader off slow, endearing us to the main character, Mackie, who little by little, is drawn down into the murky magical depths of the world beneath the one we see, as he fights for his own life, as well as those of the people he's come to consider unlikely friends.
There aren't many books out there right now that truly have that fun creep-factor that keeps you awake at night, shivering from the thought of what the next page might hold. This book, for me, did just that. And the way the story grew creepier with each turn of the page was magic...it wasn't until near the very end that I realized just what a hold the book truly had on me.
I foolishly put it down a few chapters from the end, my eyes tired from an hour of reading and my day to day routine. But my mind wouldn't shut off. The town of Gentry called to me. Visions of creepy crawly things had me wide awake, staring at my bedside clock, willing myself to just forget about it, to close my eyes and get the rest I need, to finish it the next day.
But sleep wouldn't come. I HAD to know the end, HAD to know that everything was okay, that it would work out, even though part of me was terrified of what Brenna may do, how she was going to end it. So I did what most book-obsessed readers do. I CAVED.
With a sigh, I gave in, warned the husband that I couldn't sleep without finishing it, turned on the light, and read every last word. The many cups of coffee consumed hours later and the dark bags under my eyes from too little sleep were definitely worth it.
The uniqueness of this book is what I loved most and I would definitely recommend it.
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Recent power outages in the Village should remind us that unlike most communities, we have only one source of energy. It is a fragile source subject to cold temperatures and an ice storms. Single-digit temperatures causes our heat pumps to resort to the backup heat strips. That quadruples our power use causing the system to go down.
In December of 2000, we were out of power for five days. Many areas of the state were out for weeks. It was followed by single-digit temperatures and our home got down to the upper 40 degrees. Much of the time was spent dressed warmly and huddled near a small propane heater. Food was cooked outdoors on the grill. If there is an area wide ice storm, the Village has a major problem.
If 4,000 residents flee after the roads are open, that still leaves 10,000 people, many of them frail and elderly, in cold dark homes.
The solution is to extend natural gas lines into the Village. First to POA facilities that could be used for emergency shelters, and then to residential areas. There are natural gas heaters that work without electric power for homes. A small natural gas powered generator can keep a gas furnace, the refrigerator and a few lights on.
Costs and gasoline storage would be a problem for a generator required to run a heat pump. Our POA needs to talk to CenterPoint Energy about extending natural gas into the Village. A second source of energy is a necessity.
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As the sun starts peeking its head out, Wildwoods, New Jersey is starting to pick up again. The liveliest place on the coast, we're no stranger to good times—but with so much choice, it's sometimes hard to pick what to do! We've got you covered, with three of our favourite upcoming events.
Start your trip off by trying your luck at the tables! For price of admission, you get a full delicious meal and $50 in chips. Whether you want to draw for Blackjack, throw for Craps, or spin for Roulette, your game is here at our local casino night. Will you blow it all on a bad hand, or will you make out like Bond and bag the chips? Prizes will be given to those who break the bank! All proceeds go toward scholarships for local students. Learn more here.
With one vice out of the way, double up at the St. Patrick's Day parade! Toast the Irish with a Guinness in your green garb, and dance a jig to the fiddle and flute. There will be a full ceremony, a bagpipe troupe, and—if you know where to find it—plenty of beef stew and tankards full of ale! You may not have had any luck at Casino Royale, but tonight you're sure to be blessed with the Irish. Learn more here.
Once you're done with feasting, drinking, and gambling, you may feel like you need something—well we have that to, and it's a Health & Fitness Expo! Don't groan—we promise you're going to have a great time. If you're still remembering those New Years Resolutions you abandoned last month, this is a great chance to get back into the groove with information on the latest fitness equipment, fun physical activities, and the scoop on the newest diet breakthroughs. Learn more here.
Wildwoods is known as a thrill-a-minute for a reason, so we hope these exuberant events will tide you over. And when you're ready to rest for the next day, you won't find a deeper sleep than in our very own hotel rooms. Book yours today. We look forward to your visit!
Summer may be long gone, but that doesn't mean there's no more fun to be had in beautiful Wildwood, NJ. Though it may be our gorgeous beaches and sun-soaked summer days that have made our corner of the coast famous, don't be fooled—Wildwood is home to unbeatable fun, all year round.
Here a few exciting highlights for the coming Months!
On the first day of November, head over to Wildwoods Convention Centre (just a quick trip from our cozy hotel) for a day of action-packed cheer fun. Attendees will witness cheerleading competitions at the recreational, school, college, open and all-star levels, all of which will be beautifully choreographed and performed on a 54' by 42' spring floor. A small admission fee will be charged at the door. Don't miss it!
On November 28, burn off all those Thanksgiving calories with Burn the Bird, an annual 5K run presented by the South Jersey Triathlon Club. Registration for this awesome event begins at 9:00am at the Wildwoods Sign (at Rio Grande and Ocean Avenues), just a short distance away from our hotel. Don't miss this awesome chance to work up a sweat and have fun doing it. More information can be found here!
While Easter seems like it was just yesterday, another Christmas is already just around the corner. In the Wildwood region there's no better way to get into the spirit of the season than attending the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse Christmas Tree Lighting. In addition to a dazzling tree lighting, this event will also feature live music, cookies, hot chocolate, and appearance by Santa Clause himself. The perfect event for guests traveling with children, it is not one to miss. The fun begins at 5:30 at Hereford Inlet Courtyard.
Yes, the coming of winter does not mean the fun is over in Wildwood. Book a room at our hotel today to discover all the fun that our famous coastline has to offer!
We look forward to welcoming you to town!
New Jersey is full of great culture, but our favourite has to be the theatre. If you're a theatre lover, you won't want to miss this curated picks, so the next time you're in town, get your stage glasses and your evening wear and come out to the show.
Start your month of theatre off with a little history lesson on one of the greatest performers of all time, Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer filled countless theatres in his day, and is still hailed as one of the greatest singers of all time. Held at the Hoboken Historical Museum, this exhibits celebrates the man in the centennial year of his birth, a birth which actually happened in Hoboken. Learn more here.
Once you've got your history down, it's time to take in a show that will go down in history as one of the greatest musicals of all time. This theatrical Caribbean adaptation of the Little Mermaid was awarded eight Tony nominations, including Best Musical, as it tells the touching and compelling story of true love from two different worlds—of course, love conquers all in the end, making this a joyous performance. Learn more here.
George Bernard Shaw, known for his timeless plays such as Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Candida, creates a beautiful chaos of class systems, gender differences, and other dividing issues that are still as relevant today as they were in the early 1900s. Taking place in a sprawling country estate, the play follows the "king of the undergarment industry" as he attempts to keep hold on a family teeming with ideologies. A play for the ages. Learn more here.
New Jersey's theatres are teeming with fabulous performances this August. Of course, you can be the star of your own show right in our family resort. With our premium amenities and outdoor swimming pool, you may never want to leave! Book your room today. We look forward to your visit!
Another summer is upon is in beautiful Wildwood Crest, and with it, a sprawling spectrum of exciting outdoor events are coming to town. From cars, to concerts, to kites, expect a little bit of everything along our beautiful beach over the coming month.
Here are a few upcoming highlights we think our guests might enjoy!
Spring Boardwalk Classic Car Show | May 7-10
For three days, on the second weekend of May, the bustling Wildwoods Boardwalk will come alive with dozens of cool, classic cars. It's the annual Spring Boardwalk Classic Car Show! The three day event unfurls along the boardwalk, and inside the Wildwoods Convention Center, which you'll find just a short trek down the beach from the fantastic amenities of our resort. For auto-enthusiasts, this is not one to miss!
Wildwoods International Kite Festival | May 22-25
On the weekend of May 22, the sky above Wildwood Crest will get even more beautiful—yes, it's possible—with a kaleidoscope of colorful kites. We're talking, of course, about the Wildwoods International Kite Festival, the largest festival of its kind in North America. The event, which will feature kite-making workshops and a whole lot of fun in the sun, goes down both in the convention center and on the adjacent beach. It's the perfect family event; just don't forget to wear plenty of sunscreen!
Gotta B Wildwoods Music Festival | May 30
What better way to close out a sunny month of May than with a little bit of live music. On the second last day of the month, head down to Fox Park on Ocean Avenue, between Burk and Montgomery Avenues, for Gotta B Wildwoods Music Festival, a new and better still, FREE family event. The fun runs from 11:00am to 8:00pm. Enjoy the show!
Wildwood Crest is abuzz with excitement all summer long, as evidenced by the packed schedule of events coming to town this May. All it takes to partake in this excitement is a room at our cozy, Oceanside resort. Book yours today!
People may think they know New Jersey; after all, much has been publicized through various media and entertainment portals on our lifestyles. But the truth is, New Jersey cannot be pigeon-holed, pegged, or even predicted. In fact, the only uniformity that can be found here is in that the residents are equally discordant in their lifestyles and interests! In Jersey, there is no event too small to celebrate, no manner too grandiose in which to do the celebrating, and no need to go looking for the party when it is always guaranteed to come to you. The fete awaits in Wildwood, so come join us at the diverting events:
Boardwalk Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show, Jan. 28th-Feb.1st: So amorous is the bond between man and canine, how many of us dog lovers find ourselves whispering sweet nothings of our pooches being 'the most perfect dog in the world' into their floppy ears on an almost daily basis? Now comes the time to really put this to the test at the Kennel Club Dog Show, comprised of Best of Breed competitions, Obedience and Rally trials, puppy showdowns, Police K-9 unit demonstrations and more! This will be the culmination in canine competition; a display of fine breeding, pedigree, slobbery kisses and wagging tails. Contests being every morning at 8am, and tickets are $8 for adults and $2 for children under 12.
Wildwoods Casino Night, Feb.21st: Let luck be a lady tonight! Though if more of a capricious and relentless shrew she ends up being, burrow your woes deep in the delectable dishes of the buffet at the Bolero Hotel Resort & Conference Center, host of this year's Wildwoods Casino Night! For a $25 admission price, attendees are given access to all playing tables, and $50 in chips that will hopefully evoke the chant 'winner, winner, chicken dinner!' by evenings end. Though if the opposite occurs and luck is not on your side, it is said that energy is never lost, only transferred…so think of what was contained in your now empty pockets as the energy flow to fill the minds of local students, as all proceeds earned will go toward educational scholarships.
At the Biscayne Resort on the Wildwood Crest, we know there is no shortage of things to do along our bustling shore. So we direct our focus on your comfort and rejuvenation, and we do so by ensuring with care that your every need is overseen. Book with us today and experience the blissful, replenishing effect of relaxation.
There are a few great events taking place in our town celebrating the spookiest time of year: Halloween. But that's not all. If you're staying in Widldwood this fall, there are plenty of events and festivals going on about town. Check out our town's full event calendar here and don't miss a few of these upcoming highlights listed below!
Greater Wildwood Elks Halloween Haunted House: Oct. 31
Okay Trick-or-treaters, get ready to meet your match at the Wildwood Elks Halloween Haunted House! Located at 109 W. 1 Ave in North Wildwood, from 5-8pm enter this spooky house if you dare! For more information, contact 609.729.2170.
North Wildwood Halloween Trunk or Treat and Block Party : Oct. 31
Decorate the car and bring the entire family to this brand new event for 2014! The idea of this event is to get into costume, drive the family out to Olde New Jersey Avenue between 2nd and Chestnut Avenue, and trick-or-treat out of the trunks of cars. Both car decorations and the kids costumes will be judged and awarded prizes at the end of the night. For more information and registration, call 609-522-2955.
Jersey Shore Beach 'n Boat Fishing Tournament: Nov 1
Reel in the big one this year at the Jersey Shore Beach 'n Boat Fishing Tournament taking place in Wildwood and the surrounding area. This statewide fishing derby brings out anglers of all skill levels to compete for cash prizes. Prizes are awarded for the largest catches and all proceeds go to the Fisheries Conservation Trust. For more information and how to participate call 609-423-4002.
Welcome to the Biscayne Family Resort in beautiful Wildwood New Jersey. Our hotel is your best choice for family friendly and comfortable accommodations in Wildwood. Book your stay with us today!
With over 550 critters representing over 250 species, the Cape May County Zoo offers free admission to their zoo for everyone. The zoo is supported by the non-profit organization Cape May County Zoological Society. This society continuously strives to maintain the zoo for conservation purposes and for the enjoyment of the community. To help keep the zoo alive they are always accepting donations and encourage you to become a "ZooFriend."
From animals like the Bennett's Wallaby to the Iberian Ribbed Newt, visitors can be sure to find a favourite in the vast array of flora and fauna. Just last September a baby female giraffe was born to a dam and sire and now roams the grounds of the zoo in her herd. The birth of this calf is the first in over a decade at the Cape May County Zoo.
The Zoo also offers a series of events to the public including their popular Night Walks where visitors can enter the zoo after hours for an additional fee and observe the animals after dark. Also coming up is their Scales and Slime day on August 5th where guests can check out the many amphibians and reptiles as well as make some gooey slime.
The Cape May County Zoo is a family affair, and they encourage anyone to come out and see the splendid wildlife. Putting conservation above all else, their skilled staff and zookeepers give the utmost care to their creatures and hope the community can benefit from their efforts.
Just a 20 minute car ride away The Biscayne Family Resort is the ideal place to visit Wildwood Crest New Jersey and plan a trip to the renowned Cape May County Zoo. With our ocean front location and charming accommodations we promise a relaxing vacation stay. Contact us now for the best rates guaranteed.
Are you travelling to the east coast for the summer? If so, make sure to bring the family and visit New Jersey's famous Wildwood County!
1) White Sand Beaches and Boardwalk
White Sand Beaches
Step in to Wildwood's very own white sandy beaches and join in the fun under the sun! Wildwood's spacious beaches stretch for 5 miles and are packed with endless beach activities such as boogie boarding, surfing, jet skiing, power boating, jet skiing, sailing, kayaking and whale watching.
Just overlooking the stunning beaches is the award-winning 2 mile Boardwalk filled with unique shops, water parks, one of a kind restaurants, live entertainment, and many more! Take a stroll by or hop on the tram car to the world renowned Wildwood Boardwalk and explore what the wooden way has to offer!
2) Spring Boardwalk Classic Car Show
Calling all car fanatics from all over the world! From Friday, May 10th and Saturday, May 11th from 8:30 am to 3 pm on the Wildwood Spring Boardwalk Car Show will be showcasing car models from 2003 and older on the renowned Wildwoods Boardwalk. The 'Boardwalk Top 40' will be exhibited on Saturday at 5pm and at sundown, stay a bit longer for the drive-in movie at Fox Park (weather permitting). On Sunday, don't forget to join the awards ceremony 9 a.m. inside the Wildwoods Convention Center for trophies and cash prizes!
Do you own a car that you would like for everyone to see at the show? Registration now at the Imperial 500.
3) George F Boyer Historical Museum
Get the chance to look back in time at Wildwood's George F. Boyer Historical Museum! For 50 years, the museum has preserved precious, antique items that withstood the test of time and is now being displayed for spectators to enjoy. Take a peek at the enriching collection of photographs and artifacts dating all the way back from the late 1800's to the 50's and 60's! Visit today to learn about Wildwood's distinctive history and don't forget to check out the gift shop on your way out for your very own Wildwood memorabilia to take home!
4) Wildwood's Water Parks
Splash Zone Water Park
Visit Wildwood's Splash Zone Water Park for excitement and family fun! The water park offers a selection of thrilling slides! If you are not the daredevil type, no problem! Splash Zone offers the Rivy River that runs through the park for a gentle, smooth sailing.
Morey's Piers' Ocean Oasis Waterpark and Beach Club
Choose to explore the newest six-lane water slide, Wipeout and the exhilarating Cliff Dive slide or sit back and relax at a private family cabana! In addition, Bonsai Beach is complete with water jets, climbing ropes and slides for kids to enjoy!
Morey's Piers' Raging Waters Waterpark
Enter in the shipwreck-inspired water park and explore attractions with the family such as River Adventure, Shotgun Falls, and Raging Waters' two kiddie play areas Shipwreck Shoals, and Camp Kidastrophe!
The Biscayne Family Resort in Wildwood, NJ is delighted to provide family-friendly service to accommodate families who are visiting Wildwood! We offer two to three bedroom suites that can house up to 8 guests, wide kitchens and living facilities in each room to make you feel right at home. Our friendly staff is more than happy to answer your questions, so don't hesitate book your stay with us today!


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In Imperial Assult you have attack and damage dice all in one dice, but why not try to do a game system using lots of diffrent type of dices....
I decided to try to make my own set of game dice with different motifs on them, to make the game more quick and easy to play.
But first I need a new name for my new game....
A quick look on the internet and I found out that it looks like there are no one using the name:
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My attack dice.... two hit symbols on each dice = 33% chanse of a hit with one attack dices.
My damage dice.... The number of dice you roll depends on the typ of weapon you use... big gun lots of dice :)
White defence dice and black armour dice.
This is all for now but i will show you more in a later post, hope you all like it soo far...
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Technical Training during Open Group Session
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2012 3v3 Tournament Camps
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CFC U-13 Girls
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2012 College Signing
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Sweden's Megascavenger have returned with an oddity of a collaboration album, and I don't say that lightly. Nearly every song on the disc has a guest vocalist, even though Rogga Johansson is perfectly capable of doing this on his own as The Plateaus Of Leng displayed. Since there are so many collaborations here, it might be best to do a brief overview of the rather short (it's only half an hour), but intriguing experience. The first track, "Rotting Domain" features Fleshcrawl's Sven Gross in addition to what reminds me of a Fear Factory level of industrial death mayhem, just without the influence of clean vocals. Gross has a rather common vocal approach for death metal, which sounds like a veritable meat grinder of grain and gravel. Dave Ingram (Hail Of Bullets, Echelon) stops by for "The Machine That Turns Humans Into Slop" as we're introduced to the sounds of clanging anvils (more bands should really use the sound the sound of clanging anvils) as well as some samples. It's still death metal though, so don't let the electronic samples frighten you. Next we have Jocke Svensson (Entrails) taking the mic for "Dead City" which is actually a few seconds longer than most of the bite sized clusters of death that you'll find here. It doesn't really go too far out of it's territory and sounds just like a classic death metal disc. Aside from some slight electronic sections, it's another day at the office. Now the record might sound a little too basic aside from the industrial elements, at least for the first half – but I really like what was done with "As The Last Day Has Passed" which features Loch Vostok's Teddy Moller on vocals. But it's not the industrial element, or even Moller's vocal work (it is pretty great) that affects me, it's that damn sorrowful melody that plays throughout the whole thing. This is the kind of riff that we might expect from a band like Anathema or Katatonia, so it's interesting to hear it used here. It makes for a track that just isn't interested in sounding like many of the death metal sloggers on here, allowing for some needed variety.
The next cut "The Hell That Is This World" features Kam Lee (Mantas, The Grotesquery) on vocals, but oddly has more of an electronic influence than some of the other pieces have had. The electronic influence is very thick here, and a reverberating node seems to make up a large part of the performance as a whole. Electronic drumming opens up our next track, "Dead, Rotting and Exposed" by which Brynjar Helgetun (Crypticus) is featured. The industrial elements are pushed even further on this track, which is starting to make for a record that seems to be more industrial death than death metal, and that is fine with me. It's different, for starters. Sinister's Andrie Kloosterwaard is featured on the shortest track here, "Steel Through Flesh Extravaganza" which jumps from death metal into electronic drum and bass (DNB) territory rather quickly quickly. The final cut, "The Harrowing Of Hell" also features Kam Lee on vocals as a much different style of song approaches. This isn't death metal, it's a sort of industrial Goth metal that you wouldn't expect from Rogga or Lee. Some death metal fans will shit themselves over this in disgust, but chances are that if you've made it this far, you're going to accept this as well. Perhaps Lee's clean vocal approach isn't perfect, but it does manage to do what it set out to, regardless of what others will think. There's a long outro here in the form of the title track, but it's not really what you'd classify as a song. It's technically a revolting electronic atmosphere, replete with a demonic vocal that sounds like what a trash compactor might if it had been given sentience, fused with a horde of other appliances and decided to take out it's revenge against the humans.
Simply put, As Dystopia Beckons might not be Megascavenger's strongest record, but it shows more signs of experimentation, which even break the death metal barrier completely in some instances. It's definitely what I'd consider to be a decent performance, especially if you're looking for something that sounds both familiar and a little different than the majority of records you'll hear from the many guest vocalists and even Rogga himself. I'd recommend listening to a few tracks before you decide to pick it up, as the material here might not be as suitable for everyone and my colleague noted that he thought the album's production was quite raw and not to his liking. I didn't notice this issue personally, but you might, so I've included it in this review.
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Mel Watt Has Signaled a Major Housing-Policy Shift
Rep. Mel Watt won't be sworn in as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency until Monday, but he has already sent a clear signal of the coming shift in direction from his predecessor Edward DeMarco, the agency's acting director for the past four years.
Last month, Mr. Watt announced that he would immediately delay a series of loan-fee hikes, announced in December by the FHFA, once he was sworn in as the agency's director on Jan. 6. The FHFA had announced those fee hikes on the eve of Mr. Watt's confirmation by the U.S. Senate, and the increases provoked strong industry blowback after more details were released by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac one week later.
Mr. Watt's announcement signals that access to mortgage credit is likely to ride shotgun ahead of other competing policy goals, such as reducing the firms' footprint in housing markets, a top priority of the FHFA in recent years. Mr. DeMarco has often been called the most powerful man in housing through his role overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-supported mortgage companies that backstop around half of all U.S. home loans. Consequently, Mr. Watt's confirmation as the FHFA's director could presage the largest potential shift in housing policy since the companies were taken over by the government in 2008. Here's a deeper look at what's going on:
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On December 16th, 2014, 2 Chainz debuted his new jeans collaboration with PRPS Jeans at the A Ma Maniere clothing store in Atlanta. With the jeans they come in Black. Blue and Gray, with one style having 2 chains hanging from the jean pocket, plus all displays a large 'X' in the front of them. The reason as stated by 2 Chainz, "That's where I want the strippers to sit". With his new collection of jeans, 2 Chainz set to take the term, "X marks the spot" to another level. For the jean collection, 2 Chainz and PRPS personally choose out the cloth, style and look of all jeans to make sure to each pair is truly something personal to the southside rapper himself.
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STIHL is an international power tools and chainsaw company - but their recent ad campaign is both clever, and eye opening. Their campaign called Get Real. Get Outside. encourages you to take advantage of some good old-fashioned fun, and to put down the social networking and mobile devices.
I'm a big fan of social media (obviously), but I am also a big proponent of finding a life balance. Nothing is worse than a couple on a date on their phones, or choosing to watch television instead of having quality interaction with family members.
More ad examples from STIHL after the jump.