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As they came back to Olaf's, Keston rewarded them for completing the bounty placed on the bandits. He also told the party to keep a lookout for a mercenary named Fulgrim. Fulgrim had been hired, but he stole from his company and made off to join the bandits. He would be easier to recognize as a human missing his left eye brow because he burned it off, and that Restov wanted him brought back alive. Svetlana also asked the party to bring back some moon radishes so that she could make some Moon Radish Soup for her husband. She pointed to a point 16 miles south as to where they are located. Also from the others in the Trading post, they had heard some rumors.
- <s>A trapper had been lost in the woods. He was ill-tempered and had not been seen for days.</s>
- The Stag Lord is the king of the bandits and is still at large.
- The amulet that the bandits carry, represents a cult to a hideous animal demon.
- <s>The Frog tribe in the east had began to move west to expand their territory and had closed down the East Sellin River, which was the main trade river in the east.</s>
The group decided to go south to get the moon radishes since they were relatively close. As they marched, they entered a somewhat swampy part of the forest and were attacked by some Boggards (seemingly the frog tribe of the east). The battle was short but they had killed Tawodi's horse. As they rode upon the radish patch, they found a group of kobolds sleeping off a lunch. Reshoy snuck up and stabbed one with his own spear, and turned and quickly dispatched 2 more with his greatsword. As Tawodi turned to finish off the last one, the beast from before (possibly a warg) crept up, but was spotted by Ullr. It quickly killed off Reshoy's horse, but with teamwork from all 3 adventurers, it went down. The party then grabbed some of the radishes and returned to Olaf's with them.


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It's hard to put into words how Tip Up Town USA has come to be the very description of winter fun and enjoyment for the whole family at Houghton Lake.
Thousands of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and neighboring residents return each year to see this largest Winter Festival in Michigan, held annually the last two weekends in January.
It all began in February 1951, when community minded persons realized that Houghton Lake, which produces great ice-fishing, was literally a 'Community on the Ice' each winter. Two local businessmen, Bob Sweet and Bob Carmen, conceived the idea of creating a little fun on the ice to relieve the long winter months, and by which they might attract more tourism to the area during the off season.
A nation-wide contest to name the 'Winter Festival' as it was then being called, drew more than 500 entries. The contest judges eventually chose 'Tip Up Town USA' as its name. Tip Up Town USA is now a Trademark of Houghton Lake Chamber of Commerce registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Electing Tip Up Town USA Mayors, Marshals, Queens and observing different political parties in action, has always created exciting community participants.
The campaigning of the candidates comes complete with speeches, bands, small parades and crazy costumes. Section 3 of the By Laws of TUT USA clearly states that 'the purpose of the village on the ice is to promote bigger lies, hilarity, tom foolery and good will.'
The earlier festivals were financed for the most part by the sale of advertising and listings in a program book. Starting in 1953, the sales of TUT USA badges, made of wood, for 50 cents, became a tradition that has continued through to this current year. However, the wooden badges have been replaced by badges now made of metal and selling for $6.00. The sale of these badges brings the greatest revenue to finance this event. Collecting these badges and acquiring the earlier 'wooden' badges had become quite a spreading hobby for young and old alike. The badge is necessary to participate in the FUN and GAMES.
Several weeks prior to the festival, a TUT Kick-off Program is held, where the candidates for Queen, Mayor and Marshal complete their many campaigns and exhibitions for office, followed by an election ballot.
A special 'Medallion' is manufactured each year and hidden somewhere in the local area on public access land. A contest is held to find it using special 'Clues' given out each day until the medallion is found. A prize is given to the clever person able to decipher the clues and successfully locate the medallion.
A Grand Parade opens the festival activities on Saturday of the first weekend at 10:00am. The Grand Parade travels east from the Houghton Lake Heights along M-55 and ends up at the TUT USA site, where clowns, games, contests, concessions, cavorting, demonstrations and aerial performances are part of the feverish activity.
A spectacular Fireworks display over the ice in front of the TUT USA site begins at dusk on both Saturday evenings of the festival.
Sunday mornings, a non-denominational Church Service is held at the TUT USA site to start off the day of family activities.
For more than 20 years, TUT USA has been acclaimed among the top ten festivals in the nation. In 1963, the United States Chamber of Commerce acclaimed it the seventh largest winter activity in the month of January in the United States.
Approximately 80,000 people turned out during the past festivals to enjoy the results of hundreds of hours work put in by individual volunteers and various community committees.

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Rachel "Bunny" Meyer - more commonly known as GRAV3YARDGIRL - rakes in more than £500,000 a year from her ventures in fashion vlogging. Perhaps it's time for a career change...
The 28-year-old self-declared "Swamp Queen" from Houston, Texas, currently boasts 2.9million YouTube subscribers, 835,417 Instagram followers, 392,000 Facebook Likes and 231,000 Twitter fans and all that influence has resulted in cold, hard cash.
With an estimated annual income of anywhere between £100,000 and £500,000, Rachel makes more mula in 12 months than us mere mortals can even dream of.
So how does she do it? By being - dare we say it? - somewhat annoying. But apparently annoying is what the viewing public wants so props for her to tapping into the market so succinctly.
The lesson from this is if you're borderline irritating with an interest in fashion and beauty, you too could pack in your desk job and make loads of money taking slefies and shooting monologues on your webcam.
Note to self: buy webcam.
However, Rachel isn't the only one making paper in a different kind of way. Let's not forget Mario Lavandeira - AKA Perez Hilton - started off on his own at a computer armed with a sharp tongue and access to Microsoft Paint. These days he allegedly makes £170,00 a month from his site.
While we wouldn't advise handing in your resignation just yet, it seems like this is the way to make big bucks in the brave new world of the internet.
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Regus, the serviced office group, said it had achieved a "complete turnaround" as it moved back into the black in the first half of this year.
The company, which rents out office space, reported a pre-tax profit of £13.9m for the first half, compared to a loss of £7.1m the year before.
Mark Dixon, chief executive, said: "We have been improving performance for about two years."
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2003 after expanding too quickly in the US.
"For the first time growth is coming from all geographic regions," Mr Dixon said, but adding he was "not happy" with the performance of the UK arm, which is now majority owned by private equity firm Alchemy.
Regus said total sales rose to £216m in the half from £124.9m the year before as like-for-like sales grew 9.3pc. Occupancy improved by four percentage points to 76pc across the group.
Mr Dixon said: "Demand is strong and we haven't put prices up, we're just giving less discounts." The company will add around 7,500 new work stations this year, which Mr Dixon said equated to a growth rate of around 10pc. "That should be a baseline for next year," he said.
Regus intends to introduce more flexibility into its cost base, by paying property owners more when the building is highly occupied and less when it is emptier.
"It's about maximising the margin," Mr Dixon said. The shares fell 8¼ to 101¾p.


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European Commission shines spotlight on Passport security
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Now a working party established by the European Commission to look at online authentication services has concluded that "a number of elements of the .net Passport system raise legal issues and require further consideration".
The working party has already questioned whether the Passport system breaks the European Union-US Safe Harbour agreement on data protection.
Because Passport collects personal information from consumers and allows them to sign in at any participating Website with a single name and password, there is concern that personal data could migrate beyond the control of computer users to other countries. This would contravene the trans-Atlantic deal.
Working party documents obtained by CW360.com said that further inquiries would be made into the "information given to the data subjects at the moment of collecting."
It added that EC experts would also consider:
- The value and quality of the consent given by data subjects and the extent to which they exercise their data protection rights
- Data protection rules applied by the websites affiliated to .net Passport
- The necessity and conditions of use of unique identifiers
- The proportionality and quality of data of the data collected and stored by .net Passport, which is transmitted to affiliated sites
- Associated security risks
The paper concluded that the working party should "assess where the European data protection principles are correctly complied with and, where appropriate, to identify elements of the systems that require changes".
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Welcome to Boom Beach: come with a plan or leave in defeat!
Fight the evil Blackguard with brains and brawn in this epic combat strategy game. Attack enemy bases to free enslaved islanders and unlock the secrets of this tropical paradise. Create a Task Force with players around the world to take on the enemy together. Scout, plan, then BOOM THE BEACH!
PLEASE NOTE! Boom Beach is free to download and play. However, some game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings.
- Play with millions of other players, raid hundreds of enemy bases for loot
- Battle for control of precious resources to upgrade your base against enemy attacks
- Explore a huge tropical archipelago and discover the mysterious power of the Life Crystals
- Face fearsome Blackguard Bosses and uncover their evil plans
- Join other players to form an unstoppable Task Force to take on co-op missions
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-Prototype Weapon - The Hot Pot! A devastating hidden Flamethrower
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Vodafone intros cheapest phone known to man
by Fudzilla staff on15 February 2010
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Just $15
Vodafone has announced what it's calling the cheapest mobile phone on the planet.
Dubbed Vodafone 150, the no thrills handset will cost just $15 and it will initially be aimed at developing markets, such as India, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Qatar, South Africa and Tanzania. The company also added Turkey to the list, although we really don't think this nation has much to do with third world countries, as it has 65 million mobile subscribers in a population of 72 million.
In order to make the $15 a reality, the Vodafone 150 will feature the most basic technologies, allowing rudimentary connectivity. It has a monochrome screen, lacks any form of internet connectivity or other advanced features. However, there will be a somewhat more advanced version, dubbed Vodafone 250. It features a colour screen and FM radio at just $20.
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Six hundred ninety-seven years ago today, just south of Scotland's Stirling Castle, King Robert the Bruce led roughly 8,000 desperate, war-weary Scots against an English army of nearly 20,000 seasoned, well-equipped soldiers in the most decisive battle of Scotland's War of Independence. All but four of England's nobles joined King Eward II to form the most massive army to ever assemble anywhere on the British island, before or since.
While the Scots were outnumbered and far outmatched, a dramatic prelude to the battle illustrated differences between the opposing armies that would prove critical to its ultimate outcome.
Well-placed Scottish forces and strategically staged ambushes maneuvered the English into a dangerously cramped position: cavalry, pike men, bowmen, and infantry crowded awkwardly onto a rough carse pockmarked by steel traps and three-foot pits filled with stakes and covered by brush. The English were surrounded on three sides by the River Forth, the Bannock Burn, and treacherous marshy swamps, and on the fourth by an unusually enthusiastic Scottish Army.
Before the battle began, as the English moved into position on the carse, an English noble and long-time nemesis of Robert the Bruce spotted the king astride a small palfrey. King Robert was inspecting his troops, and not yet armored for battle. The Englishman, Henry de Bohun, was impulsive and hungry for glory, and caught up in the bickering among the English commanders for leadership positions on the field. De Bohun's ambition and his contempt for the Bruce overtook him. He broke formation and siezed the opportunity to kill the Scottish king himself. He intended to win the battle single-handedly before it even began, and earn his immortal place in the annals of English history.
Henry de Bohun couched his lance, lowered his visor, and spurred his mighty war horse toward King Robert. As he bore down on Robert, gaining speed, the king sat calmly astride his little palfrey holding only the battle axe that he had taken from its sheath. As de Bohun charged, the Scottish army froze in the horror of impending disaster.
The Englishman leveled his lance at the Bruce's chest and drove toward him. Just before the lance made contact with the Bruce's jacketed chest, the king turned his palfrey deftly aside, twisted his torso to avoid the blow, and lifted his battle axe high above his head. He brought the axe down with all of his considerable might, splitting de Bohun's helmeted head in two. De Bohun died instantly, to the ecstatic roar of the Scots.
The Scots were buoyed, and the English aghast. King Robert's calm defiance of superior power, and his stunning victory over it, set the tone for the rest of the battle.
This prelude to the battle of Bannockburn illustrates fundamental differences between the Scottish and English armies of the day. The English had always relied upon the heavy charge, superior weaponry, and brute force; the Scots had of necessity practiced patience, cunning, and agility. The English who arrived at Bannockburn that day were confident, fractious, and reckless. The Scots demonstrated patient resolve, and the keen awareness that this battle was crucial to their desperate bid for an elusive, cherished treasure: their freedom, too long gone.
The battle raged for two long days, and it won the Scots their freedom. Brilliant planning and battlefield tactics propelled them to decisive victory. The battered remnants of the English army retreated and fled to England, leaving behind them a proud new nation, bloodied, war-weary, and free.
Happy Anniversary, Scotland.
NOTE: Estimates of the sizes of the Scottish and English armies at Bannockburn vary widely, from as many as 100,000 English vs. 30,000 Scots (In Freedom's Cause: a Story of Wallace and Bruce, by George Alfred Henty), to the numbers I've used here (20,000 English vs. 5,500 Scots - from If Freedom Fail, by Moray McLaren.) In any event, by all accounts, the Scots were outnumbered by three or four to one.


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None of the Beatles are female. Neither are any of the Rolling Stones. Nor were any of the
bands that followed in their wake. Back in the 50s and 60s, rock and roll was played for women,
never by women. But, like so many other things, the 70s appear to have changed all that
for good. Rock is no longer exclusively male. There is a new royalty ruling today's record
charts that is led by artists with names like Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Carly Simon and
Joni Mitchell.
They are the Queens of Rock - shrewd, complex and talented businesswomen who have conquered a macho industry and made it work for them. They live in a world with a new morality. Sex, money and highs of every kind are abundant. Stability, companionship and the sanity of a balanced life are not.
But the Queens of Rock have come to symbolize a new culture and a new reality for the music
world - and perhaps for the rest of us as well. Their accounts of their men, their money and
their often tortuous times on the road provide a vivid picture of the staggeringly high stakes -
emotional and financial - involved in their lives.
Male rock figures face the same problems. But that's no longer news. What is news is how female rock stars are making an art of their life styles. Their songs, even the ones they don't write, have become part of their identities. We feel they're singing about themselves, telling us what it's like to be a woman in a man's game. No subject is taboo, not even the sexual double standard.
"...you're keepin' me going I know it's insane Cause I'll love you and lose again"
Linda Ronstadt, at 31, has built a successful career singing about being a loser in love.
"All I've done in my music is acknowledge that I've been hurt," Ronstadt admits. "I've been
crippled, but I'm still walking. Ever since I was 6 years old, I've been looking for the
perfect boyfriend. But I've wanted to be a singer since I was 2, and when it came right down
to it, I would never give up the singing for any old boyfriend."
When she tours, Ronstadt packs her troubles into a luxury trailer-bus equipped with five separate stereo systems and tapestried ceilings. The raven-haired, Arizona-born singer even hired a female traveling companion to "provide a feminine edge." In the past, Ronstadt found herself involved in all-night poker games with the boys. "I usually came home talking like a truck driver," she laments.
But, it's how she sings that counts, and Ronstadt's torchy, country-cured soprano has made
her the best-known woman in rock. She has sold more than 17 million albums to date, the last
five going platinum at an estimated gross of more than $60 million. The former Tucson debutante,
who began singing in 1969 (sic) with a group called the Stone Poneys, has paved the way for
dozens of other women in music, including Karla Bonoff, whose songs Ronstadt often records.
"When I first started," she recalls, "Maria Muldaur and I were the only women touring - freaks
as far as the rest of the world was concerned. Maria pulled me through some terrible times.
Being on the road is akin to violence. It's fast moving, and relationships are wrenched away."
To protect herself from the rough rigors of the road, Ronstadt hired super-manager-producer Peter Asher, who handles the dynamics between his client and her all-male band, other managers, promoters and the press. "He keeps them from moving in on me like a herd of barracudas until there's no flesh left on my bones."
As her record producer, Asher has also helped Ronstadt develop a distinct vocal style. He guided her to a musical world poles apart from the protest songs of the 60s, songs that she found hypocritical. "I'm known as a belter," says Ronstadt graciously. But she's more than that. The cutting edge of her voice removes any trace of ritual sentimentality from her country material. She never merely moans about being hurt by men ("I've been cheated, been mistreated... "), she bitches about it (" . . . when will I be loved?"). And her voice can be hard, even mean.
Ronstadt can be pretty mean when it comes to defending herself against those who infringe on her territory. The 5-foot, 2-inch rocker recently bought herself a modest-looking $325,000 house in Malibu. The place is a refuge from the road, not only for Ronstadt, but for her circle of friends, made up of L.A.'s musical elite (Jackson Browne, Andrew Gold and the Eagles). They have also helped Ronstadt solidify her musical image. "I won't step out of character," she says about her choice of songs. "I won't do things that aren't authentically me."
Above: Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson of Heart
complain about the lack of "any women to
relate to" on the road. Below: Linda Ronstadt
shares the concern.
|From the sound of things, the "authentic" Ronstadt is as troubled as ever by her
relationships with men. "Those are the things I like to express in my music," she insists.
Those are also the things drawing the most curiosity.
Ronstadt's romances get as much press as her concerts and include such diverse celebrities as Mick Jagger and California's bachelor governor, Jerry Brown. Comments Ronstadt: "I keep saying I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the papers. I'd be real busy."
Still, Ronstadt isn't doing much to counteract her image as rock's "hottest" act. Her onstage Cub Scout outfit, with hot pants and high heels, caused a sensation. But the "hooker streak" she recognizes in herself hasn't hurt her record sales or her loser-in-love image. On her new album, Ronstadt gently mocks that image in "Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me."
Sometimes, especially when she finishes a long tour, Ronstadt isn't laughing. "There aren't all these people down the hall anymore," she says almost wistfully. "The guys all go home to their old ladies and I go home to the dog."
"We love our lovin' But not like we love our freedom"Joni Mitchell, 34, is another rock queen who, like Ronstadt, chooses to "go home to the dog," if going home to someone else means artistic compromise. According to Ronstadt, "Joni is the first woman to match any man on his own terms as a songwriter, guitar player or as an incredibly magnetic human being." Women guitar players are rare in rock, but rarer still are artists with Mitchell's versatility. She started as a folk singer about 13 years ago, and since then has broadened her range to include jazz, reggae and rock.
Above all else, Mitchell is dedicated to her independence. At 19, she married cabaret performer Chuck Mitchell. It lasted about 18 months.
The most artistically complex of the rock queens, Mitchell was born in Alberta, Canada. Today, she divides her time between a cabin in Vancouver and her Los Angeles home.
Mitchell's first songs developed from her reactions to her failed marriage. "I can't go back there anymore," she wrote. In her songs, she was a "woman of heart and mind, with time on her hands, no child to raise." The urbanized poetry of Mitchell's lyrics is in contrast with her straight-out-of-the-prairies music, and perfectly traces the growth of the women's consciousness movement from its center, rather than its extremes. A whole generation came of age with Mitchell and such songs as "Chelsea Morning," "I Don't Know Where I Stand" and "Both Sides Now."
Mitchell found most of the material for her lyrics in her travels. "In a pure, anonymous encounter you find a world alive and full of character," she says. Along the way, she became involved with James Taylor, David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen and Graham Nash. "The rock-and-roll-industry is very incestuous," Mitchell explains, "and we have all been close at one time or another. A lot of beautiful music and a lot of beautiful times came from that. A lot of pain, too, because, inevitably, different relationships broke up."
Like Ronstadt, Mitchell is forced to go on the road - "stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song." She does it because financial success allows her the freedom to pick and choose, to go places where she can be anonymous. "Freedom is necessary for me in order to create," Mitchell insists. "The most important thing is to write in your own blood."
"He's a lotus, that opens and closes Notice he won't always let me in. . . "Carly Simon, 32, views her life differently than either Ronstadt or Mitchell. Married to singer-songwriter James Taylor, 29, for five years and the mother of two small children, Simon has let her career take a back seat to her husband's. "Either I keep the record company happy and neglect my family," Simon explains, "or I put my family first - the sensible thing to do.
Simon, a self-described "no-good little brat from the upper East Side," was never hungry for a career. A Simon of the Simon & Schuster publishers, she was brought up with the trappings of wealth. Singing was just something she drifted into during the early 60s with her sister, Lucy. "I had been educated in a way that didn't have much space for women's opportunities except marriage," she says.
Despite her huge success with "You're So Vain" and the current "Nobody Does It Better," Simon rarely tours. In addition to her painful shyness and the time it takes away from her family, there are real competitive problems between the couple. "There have been moments of terrible friction based on who is higher on the charts," Simon admits. "We're jealous of each other and proud of each other at the same time. It's more comfortable if James is more successful than I am. Where we run into problems, and where I start complaining about being used and abused, comes from my own willingness to be subservient."
Simon and Taylor are loath to air their difficulties in public. But their relationship is sharply defined in their songs. One Simon lyric accuses: "However much I tell myself/that I'm strong and free and brave/I'm just another woman/raised to be a slave.
"In the beginning," adds Simon, "I wanted all my songs about James to be positive and then I thought, 'That's b---s---. You don't always have positive thoughts about the person you're living with.'"
Although Simon has never garnered the critical approval of a Ronstadt or Mitchell, her sensuous song stylings continue to sell strongly. The album art doesn't hurt either. The Playing Possum cover, showing Simon crawling sexily on the floor in a black slip, received better reviews than the record. That's another area of exploitation Simon promises to keep an eye on in the future.
For now, she's concentrating on
finding a way to combine her marriage
and her career. "My pipe dream," says
Simon, "is James and I traveling
around together in a much less high-powered scene. Just a kind of motor
"Rock on-gold dust woman Take your silver spoon, And dig yourgrave. . ."
Carly Simon may be content with her pipe dreams, but not Fleetwood Mac's souped-up Stevie Nicks. At 29, Nicks is one woman rocker who was always determined to make it.
Daughter of a retired Greyhound executive in Phoenix, Nicks dropped out of San Jose State College shortly before she was to graduate to join a rock band called Fritz. "Nobody in the band wanted me for a girlfriend. I was just too ambitious for them."
Nicks did meet the man she would
live with for the next six years. His
name was Lindsey Buckingham, now Fleetwood Mac's lead guitarist. The romance didn't develop
until Fritz flopped and the duo formed Buckingham Nicks. That's when Fleetwood heard one of
their tapes and asked them to join his group. The rest is rock history, with Mac's last album,
Rumours, selling a whopping eight million copies.
Nicks can take a lion's share of credit for the group's success. Her kittenish stage presence gave the group a much-needed jolt of sex appeal. Christine McVie, the other woman in the five-member band, was another asset, but her songs and stage manner lacked Nicks's off-the-wall punch. It's no wonder the group is worried about Nicks's recent vocal problems. If she were forced to cancel a tour because of illness, Fleetwood Mac could easily lose that particular chemical balance that has finally - after 10 years of only modest success - turned them into the top rock group.
The personal problems among the group were also turned to gold in Rumours, with everyone writing songs about their personal relationships. In "Dreams," Nicks sings of her breakup with Buckingham. She sums up the situation this way: "I couldn't be a comfort to Lindsey. Try working with your secretary in a raucous office and then come home with her at night. See how long you could stand her."
These days Nicks stays pretty much to herself, caring for her strained vocal chords and developing her craft. "In my position," she declares, "I could meet a lot of people just because of the band I'm in. Well, I don't want to meet anybody because of the band I'm in."
For Nicks, and for many other queens of rock, loneliness has become a fact of life to deal
with, but not to be defeated by. Some times are easier than others. Nicks refers to a latter
time: "I had been to the Rock Awards and we won Best Group and Best Album. Everybody was really
blissed out. We came home, my brother and I, in the back of this big, black limousine and I
was so lonely it scared me."
"Nobody knows your melancholy mind-little queen. . . "
There are other female rock stars on the way up who have had the path outlined for them by these four queens. Seattle's Heart, fronted by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, just had a million-selling album with a hit single, "Little Queen," and they tour incessantly.
"One of the hardest things," 24-year-old Ann says, "is that there are never any women to relate to. Sometimes it takes a girl to relate to another girl. I'm lucky I have my sister." Both Heart women are involved with co-workers in the band, Nancy with guitarist Roger Fisher and Ann with his brother Michael.
Godmother to the new wave's punk rock, Patti Smith, 31, sees no conflict between rocking hard and being feminine. "Mick Jagger proved you could do it years ago," she jokes. "But art transcends all that stuff, these new girls are more animal in their approach and the animal in you is where you get all your best work from."
Lita Ford, lead guitarist of the all-girl band The Runaways, puts it another way. "You don't have to have muscles to play a guitar."
Nevertheless, most women in rock bands are singers rather than instrumentalists. One exception is Tina Weymouth, who got her job through boyfriend Chris Frantz, New York's Talking Heads drummer. "They wanted a 16-year-old boy, somebody without too many preconceptions. I understood everything they were doing theoretically and conceptually - the only difference was that I was a 23-year-old girl."
Debby Harry, 29, the blond bombshell in the black boots and dress who sings lead in Blondie, says, "You will undergo a tremendous amount of pressure but there's no choice, you have to stick with it."
Says Lita Ford: "I used to look up on the stage and see the bands and think, 'That looks
like so much fun!' And now, I get up there and - it is fun!" Since fun knows no gender,
today's rock generation may find its kids asking why only men played rock for so long.
Considering the diversity and talent of these Queens of Rock, that's going to be a
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The MI-24 Hind A Gunship came into service in the Soviet Military in 1976. It's introduction caused consternation amongst NATO forces as they had no comparable system in their arsenal. The AH-64A Apache gunship's devlopment was a direct consequence of the Hind's appearance in the Soviet order of battle.
Bigger than most other gunships, the bulky Hind carries a large weapon loudout of cannons, rockets and anti-tank missiles. The Hind is also able to carry up to 7 troops or 14 stretchers in the med-evac role.
The MI-24 Hind sacrifices maneuverability for speed and survivability. Whilst the Hind can take off and land vertically it is not able to hover and maneuver like other gunships and so is flown into combat more like a ground attack plane such as an A-10 Thunderbolt. The helicopter's large wings not only provide plenty of space for rockets and missiles but also provide some much needed lift for the heavy Hind. The Hind holds the world speed record for active military helicopters.
The initial 'A' model was quickly upgraded into the Hind-D. The Hind-D replaced the squared-off crew canopy with a distinctive 'bubble' design, improved armor, avionics and weapons systems. In later Hind-F models, the chin-mounted 12.7mm cannon pod was replaced with fuselage-mounted twin 30mm cannons - the result of lessons learned during the Afghanistan war where it was discovered that a larger caliber weapon than 12.7mm was required for air-to-ground attack missions.
The MI-24 Hind saw combat in Afghanistan where initial success was tempered by growing losses to man-portable anti-aircraft missiles such as US-supplied Stingers. The Hind-D was exported to several African nations where it has seen action in many a conflict there. Angolan Hind-D gunships fought against South African forces during the Angolan war of independance (1961-1989). They have also flown into combat in Sierra Leone during the civil war there. One MI-24 provided fire support to the British Special Forces mission, 'Operation Barras', in Sierra Leone, 2000.Russian Hinds have also fought with distinction in the Chechnya conflict.


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No new Kalimdor and Easter Kingdoms loading screens? "sob"
I'm sick of Blizzard claiming that the rep grinds are optional. For most players they'll be required to be competitive. to fill gear slots that you don't get drops for. Not to mention that Valor Points are worthless if you don't rep up with the factions.
What I would like them to address is the hideously slow rate at which you gain rep with Golden Lotus, which is required to reach Revered to even BEGIN Shado-Pan and August Celestials rep dailies. We all know it's a bullshit timesink mechanic, but I'd like them to own up to it and maybe realize how disgusted most beta players are with it.
I never heard of these icy veins guides are they any good/reliable?
I'd also argue that twist of fate is only superior to power infusion on fights like ultraxion, warlord and madness where raid damage sky rockets as the boss enters execute range. Procing it reliably with a damage ability (like a glyphed for instant cast holy fire), rather than trying to get a heal off on a low hp person before another healer. Otherwise as a healer you should know when high raid damage is about to happen and PI aiding in preventing anyone from getting that low in the first place.
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That was so unprofessional..."Guild Wars 2 will be released on 8/28/12, giving you something to do during all of the downtime."
Last edited by Sipalb; 2012-08-28 at 03:25 PM.
Putting GW2 on the front page is going to start a flame war... I doubt any GW2 fan site put up major announcements about wow...
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/7...e-syndication/ !
Either way, a decent amount of our visitors are going to give it a try, so it is relevant to post the launch date.
It is funny they had to address when Pandaran will be playable because so many people fail at reading.
I have uploaded well over 30 MB of data to wowhead, no clue how much data that actually is. I'll be happy to do it for WoWDB. But, what is the curse client? I use wowinterface.


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This colorful display shows tiny differences (or "anisotropies") in the cosmic microwave background over the entire sky. The average temperature is just 2.73 kelvins (2.73 degrees Celsius above absolute zero), and the temperature differences represented here span mere millionths of a degree. Red represents the warmest locations, while blue reveals the coldest spots. These tiny temperature variations map the structure of the early universe.
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Mostly reflects what I recall after allowing for possible naps when I may have missed a whole discussion fragment I don't recognize ;-:). See one comment below. On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Larry Masinter wrote: >[...] > HTTP/1.0 was proposed as Best Current Practice but rejected by the > IESG because didn't describe people's view of what was 'best', and > thus it was an inappropriate status. > >[...] > * After some back and forth about a variety of options, the desire for > a stable core, and so on, the discussion led to the proposal that > HTTP/1.0 be re-written as an Informational RFC describing current > practice. > > However, 'current practice' does not mean that we should document > all 50 versions of content negotiation as practices, merely use the > core of the 1.0 document as it stands for the parts that are > specified, and note that other features are not implemented > consistently. >[...] > ================================================================ > After these discussions, the chairs presented the results of their > dinner planning session: > > - The HTTP/1.0 draft will be revised to become an 'informational RFC' > which describes common current practice. Paul Hoffman (maintainer of > the list of HTTP servers and their features) will help. Somehow I was under the impression that changes to the current 1.0 document were to be largely cosmetic to change the boiler plate to align with the informational status. What I see recorded here sounds like a major rewrite and that seems like an awful lot of effort for all of us. Find some verbage to describe it as commonly available interoperable current practice and perhaps allow some focused comment from current server/UA authors who feel they have a commonly used feature which has been missed. Then lets move on to 1.1 quickly! My sense is that 1.0 should be a document from which a workable server could be implemented and exoect to interoperate with user agents which existed circa Mar 1995 (or pick another date). Secondly, it will describe current usage for problem determination. Dave MorrisReceived on Friday, 8 December 1995 11:48:02 UTC
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Thad McCotter: Pooches Over People
Are you the sort of dog lover who feels the need to spend $350 on a stamped silver collar for your precious poochiekins? Don't worry: Thaddeus McCotter has got you covered. The Michigan Republican is using his seat in the U.S. Congress to push the


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Epitome of Ridiculousness: Feds Will Waste Hurricane Sandy Disaster Aid Money
In Washington, nothing is as it seems. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of President Obama's emergency spending request for Hurricane Sandy efforts is yet another example. Apparently, just $21.7 billion of the disaster aid request would be spent over the next 21 months. The remaining $38.7 billion – 64% of the total – would not be spent until Fiscal Year 2015 at the earliest.
This begs a couple of questions, not the least of which is why, if this is supposed to be emergency disaster aid, are funds not being spent until 22 months from today? Could it be because billions of dollars of spending go to wasteful, unnecessary programs that will not help disaster victims in any meaningful way?
As we noted yesterday, the answer to that question is a resounding yes. It comes as no surprise that the government is wasting billions of our tax dollars. When they stoop so low as to exploit this situation to fund politically favored projects and programs, that's also not surprising, but it should be alarming.
Rather than concretely helping hurricane victims rebuild and get on their feet, which would be a more proper manifestation of the federal government's role in our lives, they've taken it upon themselves to decide to spend our money to change the climate of our planet.
Remember, Heritage's Matt Mayer has pointed to a special report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which stated:
There is medium evidence and high agreement that long-term trends in normalized losses have not been attributed to natural or anthropogenic climate change… The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds true for flood losses.
Mayer translates this for us:
In layman's terms, the IPCC is stating that climate change is likely not the cause of hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
Maybe Obama and his friends should add this to their reading list. Then they should reconsider the billions of dollars they're blowing on global warming prevention programs. That'd be nice. It'd also be nice if the politicians were actually asked by the press to justify their spending request.


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Ray Brook has embraced a humanitarian mission that will see him bicycling tens of thousands of solitary miles in 50 states and 10 Canadian provinces before the end of 2001. Because he's 60 and plans to ride in a total of 60 states or provinces and visit 60 Rotary Clubs, he's nicknamed his bike trip "60 Cycle."
"When people hear about my mission, usually the first question is, 'Are you crazy or what?'" said Brook, who pedaled the Alaska leg of his journey Tuesday in Juneau.
His passion "comes from the fact that he has two lives to live." One is the life of his son and only child, Ron, who died of cystic fibrosis at age 26. "Doctors told us he would live to only 4 or 5, so my wife and I were glad to have him that long. But 26 isn't half a life, so I am going to fulfill his dreams as well as my own."
As he lay in his hospital bed, Ron was asked by doctors to describe his father in one word; he answered "healthy." This single word inspired Brook to become a role model in healthy living - hiking and cycling - and healthy giving.
Brook retired a year ago after being a sales manager for Proctor & Gamble for 35 years. He had visited Alaska previously on business trips, but decided the state is so big he would only bicycle in Juneau. He arrived Tuesday morning, borrowed wheels and a helmet from Downtown Rotary Club President Scott Fischer, owner of the Foggy Mountain Shop, and rode with Fischer to the Mendenhall Glacier and back.
Brook, a Rotarian from Mercer Island, Wash., spoke to the downtown club - the 35th on his tour - during a luncheon on Tuesday about his plan and the nonprofit corporation, SuMMit Seekers, he has founded as its umbrella.
Brook began his trip in Hawaii in January, riding 844 miles on the Big Island during a period of 10 days. He returned to Mercer Island to celebrate his 60th birthday Feb. 6 with his wife, Betty.
Between Feb. 16 and March 13, he rode from San Diego to Florida. He took a week off, then zig-zagged west on his custom-made titanium Serotta, arriving back in Mercer Island on Memorial Day. Next he pedaled from Seattle to San Diego.
His vision is "of a world where every child grows up with the opportunity to grow up and be what he can be." Brook said he was not speaking of "Third-World kids" necessarily, but of "kids right here in Juneau with emotionally absent parents." With 60 Cycle, he hopes to recruit Rotarians to become mentors to youths, "to show up and be there for them, to listen and given them unconditional acceptance."
Vision holds hands with purpose. SuMMit Seekers is dedicated to youth leadership education, and Brook is challenging Rotarians to become part of a global mentoring network. Details can be found on his Web site, summitseekers.org.
Rotary District 5010 Gov. Wanda Cooksey applauded Brook's plan, which fits in with the organization's theme, "Mankind is our business." "When we mentor and work with young people, we are doing mankind's business," Cooksey said.
During 60 Cycle, Brook is keeping a journal as the basis for a book. The journal concentrates on "stories of goodness and kindness." For example, on April 6 he telephoned his wife from a pay phone in the gathering dusk of Bradshaw, W.Va. Although Bradshaw doesn't have a motel, Betty wasn't in favor of his camping in the woods. As he hung up the phone, a police officer happened along.
"Would you know of any place in town I could stay?" Brook asked the officer. The officer took him to the city manager, who gave him a tour of city hall, and told him to bed down there and help himself to food in the kitchen. He also had a friendly chat with Bradshaw's pastor and two deacons.
"I call it spontaneity," he said. "I had a wonderful night's sleep."
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Woodgate Return?
Jean-Alain Boumsong is being linked with a move to Marseille as reports in the North East claim Graeme Souness would like to re-sign Jonathan Woodgate. I'm sure we would all 'like' to have Woody back, but where would the money come from?
Woodgate, who has been severely hampered by injuries in the Spanish capital, is reportedly an 'ambitious' target for the Toon. The major factor is that Freddy Shepherd is a big fan of the defender, and has said more than once that he would love to see him back at St James' Park.
It has been suggested that Woodgate and Albert Luque could swap clubs in a loan arrangement between the two clubs. But with Michael Owen out for months, Souness is going to need all the strikers he has on his books. Plus, Woodgate has always maintained his determination to prove himself at El Santiago Bernabeu.
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Special awards were presented last month, when the Pedro Menendez Model UN gathered for the annual dinner.
Stephen Giannelli received the The Chris Alkhoury - Bryan Byrd Award, the highest award given by the MHS Model United Nations.
This honor is presented to the member who most reflects the ideals and values of the Model United Nations at Menendez High School.
Up until this year, the winner was selected by advisor, John Miller, but this year, the winner was nominated and voted upon by members.
"It is far more fitting," said Miller, "that the members themselves select the one among them they feel most worthy, and Stephen is very worthy of this award. I look forward to his leadership in the coming year."
Dominic Mercurio, assistant advisor, presented The Courtney Bodor Award to senior Ari Newsome. The member receiving the Bodor award is selected by the advisors as their choice for the member whose great and consistent support of the Model UN contributed immensely to the success of the program.
Newsome will be attending Georgetown University in Washington DC next year.


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As a follow up on our last article Placing Your Blind or Stand, we wanted to place some emphasis on wind direction and how it can affect your hunting set up. Being a wildland firefighter I have learned a thing or two about wind currents. The wind much like the tide will ebb and flow. Recognizing these wind directions and their related times throughout the day will increase your chances of tagging a deer.
Morning and evening winds will most often be in different directions. Many places will experience an increase in wind intensity in the noon hours lasting on into the afternoon. In mountain regions the morning winds will be up slope and then down slope in the evening hours. As a hunter wanting the edge over your game of choice, you will need to observe these conditions for a period of several days to determine the normal wind flows for the location you are hunting.
Most new hunters make the mistake of either not observing these wind changes or they observe them and don't factor in other important weather events that may effect wind direction. You need to know what the weather is doing. Approaching fronts will change your wind direction drastically and suddenly. If you have chosen a location based on a wind direction but fail to observe an approaching front, you will find yourself sending scent in several directions throughout the day and alerting the game to your presence.
Break your hunting location down into smaller positions. Providing you have not already done this, you will need to determine the direction your game will be traveling for the morning and evening periods. Have one position for morning so that the wind is in your face, and then select another location to place the wind in your face during evening hours. Sometimes you may not observe much of a change at all. The wind change may be very subtle but more likely than not there will be a change of some measure. Once you have your games travel directions and wind patterns pinned down along with your set positions, you will have a greater chance at success.
When it comes to wind direction, as we said earlier weather fronts can have a huge impact on your hunting. Understanding the wind patterns before, during and after the passing of a weather front can, to a few, seem very complicated. In a later article we will try to break down what happens during the weather front, how it effects the wind direction, why it affects the wind direction and help you put a lid on how it can affect your hunting.
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