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Again, am I missing something?
I also always play in "Iron Man" mode, that is Dead Party=game over. I also do not allow aggresive saves/reloads and never allow party or character editing. In MM9, I always keep the current game and 2 backups which are only used in the event of the frequesnt lockups that occur in that game.
What seems strange, though, is that the other MMs seemed magic-heavy, while MM9 seems just the opposite.
The other change is that with so few barrels\fountains, character creation is much more important. In the other ones, who cared since they'd all have stats over 100 shortly anyways?
I gotta agree that I liked the ironman part of the early Wiz games. Not only were you dead, but your disk was immediately altered, and you couldn't copy the disk! As a result, you had to be VERY careful as to what you did - no reloading!
There are also some spells that just don't work well, like Magic Mine, Eye of Leggib, and a few other.
See what you think!
Don't use it any more though since I found that a fully developed Assassin gets 10-15 hits with dual daggers (depending on Blade skill) and I use two of them now, my favorite party being GAAP. The Priest only casts Devine Intervention when needed.
OTOH, I can appreciate that you actually have to pay attention to what you do, and have a real strategy. You just can't blunder along and bash everything.
Same goes for money. Usually in MM you're as rich as Croesus by the time you hit L15! This time around I actually had to work to raise money to pay for the next round of training!
Now that I have GM merchant it's not a big problem, but that didn't happen overnight.
All in all, I wish they'd have used quite a number of the elements of MM9 in the earlier games.
I must say that I personally don't use it until then, but my viewpoint is well known - if anybody else wants to use it they have an absolute right to do so, and I'm not going to criticise even by implication.
If you want to call that cheating then I can say (since I don't use it offensively) that using magic intead of weapons is cheating.
And yes, the developers released the game with the bank "feature", and yes, as a result it's fair game to exploit, though I doubt anyone believes this was intentional on their part. It's just one more bug (out of many) that wasn't fixed when they rushed the game to the market when it should have been in beta testing.
Obviously, the ploy failed since that caused more problems than management had expected and they went bankrupt even faster.
If all that hadn't happened, maybe we would have MM10, 11, 12, etc. Who knows?
I guarantee you someone could buy the rights to M&M if they wanted to (and probably cheaply, since it ain't earning much for them now!) If they were to release a new game, it would be greeted with great enthusiasm by the fans of the series. But alas, that's like trying to develop a new denture cream - why bother going after a small (and shrinking) market, no matter how passionate they are about your product?
The bottom line is that, given the smaller (albeit dedicated) market for CRPGs, they simply take too much time and cost to develop. There's a much better return on games that are quicker, easier, and cheaper to develop, and find a greater audience among those whose idea of strategy is "if it moves, blow it up!". :-)
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Yes, I remember that day 12 years ago as well. It would be impossible not to remember that numbed out shock of watching the horror on tv and wondering what was going on. I wondered how in the world I was going to explain to my second grader what/why it happened when she got home. As it turned out all she wanted to know was if it could happen in our town. I lied and told her no. It made her feel better. As it turned out, a young woman from my hometown was one of the victims. I did not know her...but it goes to show that even a small communities were hit that day.
Anyway, I got good news today. I have a stray lymph node in my breast. Lymph nodes are not supposed to be up in the breast itself, so that is abnormal, but it's not cancer. I have to go back for a checkup in six months.
My mom got bad news from the ortho yesterday and has to go for an MRI on Friday. We'll know the results on Tuesday. We could be looking at a fracture, bone cyst, cancer, or a combination.
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The blogger "Many Tears Ago" posted Escaping Peninim which she has graciously allowed me to re-post. Many have questioned whether Meisels was also using his recruitment to further his abuse of girls as alleged in the RICO component of the court filings by parents seeking the return of their tuition deposits. Read this and decide for yourselves. I have heard similar stories about other students during the recruitment process.
Escaping Peninim
This is the story of a gorgeous Bais Yaakov girl who got accepted to Peninim seminary.
Oh, but then she got accepted to a seminary with a far better reputation. So she notified Rabbi Meisels of Peninim that she would not be attending. And he blew up! He called her school, her parents, her aunts, uncles, neighbors, and family Rabbonim attempting to convince them that Peninim was the best seminary for her in the hopes that they would reach out to her. When that did not work, he threatened her and her family that she would never get married. He threatened her younger sister's chances of getting into seminary and getting shidduchim.
Obviously, this just turned off the family and the girl even more. The girl went to the other seminary and pushed this unpleasant incident out of her mind.
Fast forward to this summer when the news broke about Meisels sexually abusing students in Peninim and his other 3 seminaries and this girl's family heard the news… they remembered how Meisels insisted she come to Peninim and would not let her go. At the time, it seemed very strange. No one could explain it. Now, it made sense. All the pieces fit together. He accepted her to his seminary because he thought she was "good prey" and when she didn't come, he could not handle losing a girl he almost had his hands on.
This is the sick mind of Meisels, the man running the seminaries that so many of our girls have been going to for years. The man trusted with the lives of girls at 4 seminaries for a full year, living overseas from their parents. A very sick twisted mind indeed.
If you or anyone you know had a similar experience or was abused by Meisels, I am willing to share your story on my blog anonymously. Please email me at *email@example.com.
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Game of Thrones Ascent is the long-awaited social game adaptation of the TV series of the same name, originally based on George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire. The game, which was developed by Disruptor Beam, is currently in open beta, meaning it is available for all Facebook players to try out.
It would have been very easy for Disruptor Beam to follow the approach Kabam took with its adaptation of The Hobbit and simply reskin the well-worn midcore social strategy game formula with a Game of Thrones theme, but thankfully that has not happened. Instead, Disruptor Beam has created a game that captures the atmosphere of the books and TV series admirably while providing gameplay that is both straightforward to understand yet possessing considerable depth.
In Game of Thrones Ascent, players are cast in the role of a custom character who can be male or female and named as they please. Over the course of the game's prologue, players become a noble, swear fealty to one of the iconic houses from the series, build up their holdings and begin to establish their own style of rulership over their domain.
Gameplay unfolds over several different components. On the main domain screen, players may access a variety of information about their character and the buildings within their holdings. They may also construct new buildings, which may subsequently be used to produce income of resources and soft currency, and these buildings may also be upgraded in a variety of ways to make them more efficient. Certain buildings are locked until the player reaches a particular level of experience, giving the game a good gradual sense of progression and growth.
The player is presented with quests to advance the story as they work their way through. Quests which the player can handle themselves are presented as a dialog between themselves and other characters. Making choices provides the player with rewards of currency and items, and often changes various character statistics. For example, making decisions which show the player values the wellbeing of their family will increase the "Family" stat; making decisions which favor "modern" values such as chivalry will increase the player's reputation slider towards the "New Ways" marker; and choosing options which favor forthrightness and honesty will increase the "Truthful" stat. In this way, the player has a very real sense of "role-playing" their character and establishing them as a personality rather than a collection of numbers.
Sometimes the player will need to send their "Sworn Swords" out on missions further afield. When this happens, the player may choose any of their hired Sworn Swords, equip them with items to improve their capabilities in battle, trade and/or intrigue, then choose how they are going to handle the situation in question. An estimation of how likely they are to succeed at the various actions is provided, and the Sworn Sword is then sent on their way to carry out the mission, which takes a period of real time to complete. When the mission is completed, the player is given a report as to how it went, and rewarded if it was successful. While these missions are still a fairly "hands off" affair, the fact that the player may choose one of a wide number of ways for the Sworn Sword to complete the task gives a much greater feeling of control and choice than many other similar titles.
The game's social features include the ability to add friends, visit their realms, send gifts and form pacts with them. Once the player has reached experience level 5, they are also able to send their Sworn Swords on missions that directly interact with other players for either good or ill, too. At no point is the player forced into playing with others, but the game is a slightly richer experience for working with (or against) their friends — there's also a light competitive element as players work to assert their dominance through earning a greater amount of the "Power" statistic, which effectively acts as the player's "score." At present, the social features seem a little limited in comparison to the excellent things the rest of the game is doing, but this is something which Disruptor Beam will be able to work on as the community expands and explores a greater proportion of the game as a whole. The game's reporting of "high scores" on Facebook's News Feed could also do with a bit of polishing up — at present the default message that "[x] beat [y]'s high score on Game of Thrones Ascent" isn't really in keeping with the nature of the game.
The game monetizes primarily through the sales of hard currency, which is used to buy very effective premium items that boost the player and their Sworn Swords' statistics considerably, making completing some missions much easier. Hard currency may also be used to purchase items that make real-time waits pass more quickly. Again, the game seems perfectly playable without spending any money, but it's likely that more difficult challenges — particularly those involving other, more powerful players — will require the more effective equipment only purchasable with premium currency.
On the whole, Game of Thrones is an excellent game that is nicely accessible to casual players, but which provides a considerable amount of depth that will appeal to players of hardcore standalone strategy games such as King of Dragon Pass. Unfortunately, a number of flaws mar the experience to a noticeable degree at present. This is perhaps to be expected with a title in open beta, but they impact the gameplay and enjoyment of the experience significantly.
Most notable is the speed — or rather lack thereof — at which the interface responds to the player's input. It can sometimes take up to ten seconds for a click to register and update the interface with new information. Sometimes the game gets confused if the player tries to do other things while waiting for a response — opening and closing windows without being asked to, switching screens inexplicably and on other occasions simply showing no evidence that the input has been acknowledged. I had to reload the game several times during the tutorial because the "Claim Rewards" buttons in the game's quest log simply refused to accept any player input whatsoever — they didn't even change the mouse cursor when hovered over. These issues persisted when tested on both Mac OS X and Windows 7 computers, in Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Despite these problems, though, there's very obviously a great deal of potential in Game of Thrones Ascent. For those who can deal with the interface's current idiosyncrasies, it's an excellent game that sets a fantastic example for other mid-to-hardcore developers — not to mention developers of games based on other licensed properties — to follow. For everyone else, it's one to check back on in a month or two when some of the more glaring faults have been ironed out — because once it works smoothly and quickly as intended, this will without a doubt be one of the better strategy games on Facebook.
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Once its teething troubles are ironed out, this will absolutely be one of the deepest games on Facebook. Until then, it's a good, but slightly frustrating experience.


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This year's session of the Colorado General Assembly was always going to be relatively low key after the fireworks of 2013 ignited by gun control, civil unions for same-sex couples and other divisive issues — and especially so after Democrats saw two senators recalled over the summer. Plus, it's an election year, and no one likes to provide grist for their opponents. But even if lawmakers hunkered down a bit, they still managed to pass a variety of significant bills on everything from education and child care to high-speed Internet and marijuana edibles. Here are some (but by no means all) of the winners and losers from the 2014 session.
Sen. Morgan Carroll. If the Senate president's goal was to avoid a repeat of last year's bitterly partisan session, she succeeded, although her party had much less running room after the recalls left it with a one-vote majority. But Carroll handled her new duties, by most accounts, with even-handed fairness and good cheer.
Sen. Steve King. Never mind the cost, the Grand Junction Republican was hell-bent on creating a state firefighting fleet — and thanks to an assist from the Senate president, managed to outmaneuver Gov. John Hickenlooper's office on the issue. One Capitol observer told us that when the next wildfire strikes, he expects to see "King's head sticking out the window of one of the new air tankers, his feathered hair blowing in the wind like an Appaloosa stallion's mane."
Rep. Carole Murray. The perennially effective Republican from Castle Rock once again scored several successes, notably on telecom reform and school finance.
Rep. Brian DelGrosso. A solid inaugural year as minority leader in which he demonstrated a capacity for bipartisanship and kept abreast of complex issues. And, against the odds, the Loveland Republican led a successful effort to reform the urban renewal process.
Rep. Angela Williams. The Denver Democrat showed a knack for handling such complicated measures as telecom reform and taxation of online sales.
Sen. Pat Steadman. He may not have been as highly visible as in 2013, but this Denver Democrat was still wielding lots of behind-the-scenes clout.
Sen. Jessie Ulibarri. His strong liberal instincts were tempered by a willingness to listen and compromise, and this Westminster Democrat wasn't afraid to take chances, either. His bill to avert litigation in condo construction was detested by leadership (and trial lawyers) and killed in short order, but it set him apart as someone willing to cut against the partisan grain.
Higher education. After a long drought, Colorado's colleges and universities got an infusion of $100 million in additional funding.
At-risk kids and parents. Despite an unprecedented campaign by the education establishment for the state to hand over additional school funding with no strings attached, at-risk students were guaranteed an extra $50 million for crucial programs while parents will be able to check how funding is divvied up down to the individual school.
Dogs and cats. If you were wondering whether qualified EMTs could assist a house pet at an accident scene, wonder no more. Thanks to legislation sponsored by Centennial Republican and dog-lover-without-peer David Balmer, the answer will soon be "yes."
Business. By the end of last year's session, business groups felt like they'd spent a round trading blows with Floyd Mayweather. But this year they were able to block or domesticate most threats, such as a proposed family and medical leave insurance program and a bill on workers' compensation. The business personal property tax break was boosted, too, if only to $15,000.
Uber and Lyft drivers. It's hard — really hard — to beat the taxi industry. It's harder still when the insurance industry and the Public Utilities Commission side with the cab companies. But "transportation network companies" did just that, and are now in Colorado to stay.
Vaccination opponents. Yes, they exist. Worse, they succeeded in killing a valiant effort led by Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, to try to educate parents on the importance of vaccinations. And did we mention that whooping cough is making a comeback?
Charter schools. Another step toward parity in funding.
Lower North Fork fire victims. Two years after the state itself ignited a fire that destroyed more than 4,000 acres and took three lives, it finally got around to compensating victims.
Motorists. They will enjoy at least one more year in which they can gab while driving after another bid to ban their cell-phone use died.
Georgetown. The former mining town is the sole Colorado community still operating under a territorial charter, which only the legislature can amend. So lawmakers were asked this year to streamline the charter as well as remove a number of outdated provisions, such as a requirement that town officials inspect whiskey barrels. Mission accomplished.
Rep. Crisanta Duran. The Denver Democrat seemed to lose control of a bill extending bar closing time, and withdrew it. Far more damaging, she got in a public squabble with Rep. Cheri Gerou, even threatening to file an ethics complaint against the Evergreen Republican. The chair of the Joint Budget Committee and House Appropriations should be able to rise above personal animosities.
Sen. Bernie Herpin. In a clumsy verbal sortie, the Colorado Springs Republican opened himself up to claims he was tone deaf to the suffering of victims of the Aurora theater shooting. It "was maybe a good thing he [suspect James Holmes] had a 100-round magazine because it jammed," Herpin said, explaining that "if he had instead had four, five, six 15-round magazines, no telling how much damage he could have done until a good guy showed up." Well, if you say so, senator. Meanwhile, Herpin's worthy attempt to strengthen Colorado's shield law to make it tougher to put reporters on the stand in Colorado suffered a premature death.
Sen. Andy Kerr. He sponsored a wholly political bill on abortion, allegedly to safeguard the procedure, that would have had no practical effect except to score points. But the Lakewood Democrat had to beat a hasty retreat under pressure from his own caucus after a public outcry led by Catholic Archbishop Samuel Aquila.
Rep. Jared Wright. The great thing about being trained as a cop is you really know how to take care of a gun. Of course, it helps if you first keep it in your possession. Wright, a Fruita Republican and former police officer there, left a loaded handgun in a black canvas bag in a committee hearing room in February where it was discovered by a startled colleague. But he did promise the governor he'd forgo toting the weapon in the Capitol in the future.
Rep. Mark Waller. This Colorado Springs Republican, a sharp and serious lawmaker, failed yet again to convince his colleagues of the sensible proposition that driving drunk multiple times should be a felony in this state. The anti-incarceration lobby proved, as it has in the past, to be the drunken driver's enabler — until death do us part.
Peaches and cantaloupes. When Rep. Angela Williams and a group of students sought to have the Palisades peach named as the official state fruit, melon supporters raced to the barricades. The predictable result: Neither got the honor.
Gov. John Hickenlooper. The fact that the session didn't end in finger-pointing and vitriol is a positive for a governor going into a re-election campaign. For that matter, he showed leadership on the budget and school finance, and his office helped coordinate telecom reform and flood recovery, among other things. But he was overly passive on several other issues, and the failure of the governor and lawmakers to reach a deal on oil and gas regulation to deflate a free-for-all over now-likely ballot issues was a serious setback.
House Speaker Mark Ferrandino. The Denver Democrat's wonkish knowledge of the budget held him again in good stead, while he also managed to get a bill passed revising how colleges and universities are funded. On the other hand, after a promising start and apparent wide support, his bill to ban photo radar cameras died in his own chamber with barely a whimper.
Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. These Second Amendment absolutists once again flexed their muscles, helping to kill a bill defining who is so dangerously mentally ill that he can be held temporarily against his will. However, the group's latest success only consolidates its reputation as a crackpot outfit straining to see threats to gun rights where none exist.


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So it's official – Black people are superhuman – they possess inconceivable abilities that give them super-duper powers beyond reason. Sounds crazy? Not according to a documented thesis that was recently published by Social Psychological and Personality Science. Based on the results of the research that was conducted, whites have a weird tendency to think that Blacks are capable of performing outside the realm of human capabilities. Black people are also apparently composed of "superhuman skin that is thick enough to withstand the pain of burning hot coals". And it doesn't end there. There is also a supernatural element that gives Blacks the strength to function like super heroes – so if God Forbid someone is stuck under a tank, a Black person is more likely to be able to lift the bugger up and save the day. Whites also assigned Blacks the ability to "read a person's mind by touching the person's head".
The present research provides the first systematic empirical investigation into superhumanization, the attribution of supernatural, extrasensory, and magical mental and physical qualities to humans. Five studies test and support the hypothesis that White Americans superhumanize Black people relative to White people. Studies 1–2b demonstrate this phenomenon at an implicit level, showing that Whites preferentially associate Blacks versus Whites with superhuman versus human words on an implicit association test and on a categorization task. Studies 3–4 demonstrate this phenomenon at an explicit level, showing that Whites preferentially attribute superhuman capacities to Blacks versus Whites, and Study 4 specifically shows that superhumanization of Blacks predicts denial of pain to Black versus White targets. Together, these studies demonstrate a novel and potentially detrimental process through which Whites perceive Blacks.
As disturbingly comical as these findings are, it is not all together surprising when you consider the stereotypes that have plagued Black men in particular when it comes to their physical attributes. The periods of slavery also helped to propel the notion that Black people could be subjected to inhuman treatment and bear it without breaking a sweat. That damaging sentiment is also responsible for the present climate that is rife with racial tensions due to the crippling number of young Black men being unfairly brutalized by a system that was designed to protect to them.
The researchers also pointed out that the "superhuman assignment" has also been applicable to Asians, who have always been deemed as superiority intelligent compared to other races.
Either way, the idea that words like "mystical", "magic" and "wizard" were associated with Blacks, is impressive yet frightfully damaging at the same time. It proves that the gap between Blacks and whites is consistently widening at a rapid pace.


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While some media companies are scratching their heads trying to find ways to become profitable and cut costs, (usually by laying people off), Vice is doing the opposite: enjoying an estimated value of $1 billion (with $100 million in revenue) and looking to expand into China.
A recent Forbes story details the company's rapid ascend and ambitious moves. What started out as a free magazine based in Montreal has transformed into a global media empire that chronicles hipster and youth culture, is headquartered in Brooklyn and employs 800 people in 34 countries. Interestingly enough, as Forbes suggests, it was web video content — the creative, ahead-of-the-curve type — that helped to set Vice apart from, well, your traditional media companies.
With that kind of foresight, China seems doable, especially with recent investment backing.
However, the big question remains. Will Vice's somewhat, uh, racy content mesh with Chinese conservatism?
The Atlantic Wire reports:
Vice, for one, says that they're not worried at all about the challenges of working in China. "VICE has already been successful in climbing the Great Firewall of China," a spokesperson told The Atlantic Wire. "Partnering with Intel to launch the successful Creator Project video platform there, as well as partnering with Dell to launch the Noisey music video platform. In addition VICE has established video content sharing agreements with local portals and outlets."
Of course, it also doesn't hurt that one of the company's top advisers and minority investors is Tom Freston, the former CEO of Viacom.


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When Frank book, Frankenstein: Agent of S.H.A.D.E. canceled by DC Comics, Frank depressed. But Frank knew Frank had other options, such as feature length movie telling Frank origin story from 20th Century Fox. Paul McGuigan attached to direct, and Harry Potter himself, Daniel Ratcliffe, set to play Igor.
Frank always thought to self while watching Harry Potter movies that Ratcliffe very cute and Frank would like to hug him until he die of asphyxiation or Frank accidentally rip arms off Daniel while playfully tossing him around like rag doll. Frank no know Frank's own strength.
But Frank upset to learn today that Frankenstein movie given release date of October 17, 2014. Come on, Hollywood. Just because Frank is monster Frank movie have to come out near Halloween? That monsterist!
Is no reason monster movie can no come out as summer blockbuster. Frank one of biggest stars of all time, enduring in the imaginations of popular fiction for 200 years. Why no put movie out in June? Why no put movie out during winter holidays?
Frank tell you why. It because monsters are typecast as "scary," so monsters always associated with degrading and insulting holiday, Halloween. On Halloween, people dress up like monsters and go around begging for candy, like all monsters no have job or skills to get own candy, and have rely on the support of non-monsters to get it. Is ridiculous. When Frank want candy, Frank break down door of candy store and scare all people away, then grab candy while destroying store in sugar-fueled rampage. Just like anyone else would do.
Frank glad that more people will learn about Frank story from movie, but Frank wish it not always one step forward, two step back with monster rights and equality. Frank hope someone at Fox reconsider this blatant bigotry and change movie release date to something less insulting.


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Still going to classes on a regular basis.
Wednesday night Mr. Mulligan taught. He decided to cover chokes. He hasn't done that in a while. I got better at some of them since I did them last.
There was one odd part about class. I had paired off with Serge. Serge likes teaching, whether he is the instructor for that evening or not. Rather than practicing what Mr. Mulligan was teaching for chokes he decided to do his own chokes. He asked me to choke him and rather than responding with Mr. Mulligan's taught response for that evening, he tried something else, which didn't work too well (he asked for real responses so I didn't just fall over for him). I was still on him. He very quickly and surprisingly jammed a finger at the base of my throat as a pressure point. He pushed on that spot hard for quite a while before he gave it up. For whatever reason I was able to ignore it and continued to choke the crap out of him (I didn't have a good choke set up or he would have been out, given the amount of time I was on him). I increased the choke by lifting him off the matt a bit to get his weight to help choke him. After a while he managed to get me off him and got on top of me MMA style.
I managed a nice bridge and I couldn't totally dislodge him. Nor could he get anywhere without letting me escape. He was spending all his effort keeping me in place while I twisted my hips one way or the other. When I decided I wasn't making any progress I just tapped him. His face was actually quite red with the effort. I didn't feel nearly as drained as he looked. He did however keep me from getting away.
Afterwards he told me that in a real fight he would just tear the throat out. Ok.... possible, but in a real fight given no choice I suppose I could have been striking or if necessary used his head as a bowling ball with my fingers in his various orifices. Seemed silly he even mentioned it. Of course we were being nice to each other. Aside from poking a few pressure points we were mostly just wrestling around. He showed me the position he was using to pin me down. There may be one weakness in the position that I saw. Seemed as though the groin wasn't protected. Again, not something I would attack with a partner in a class.
Although it wasn't my idea, I actually enjoyed the wrestling. It's nice to get it out of your system once in a great while. That being said, I don't particularly enjoy Serge's martial hard style of aikido. Before he came to us he had a ton of aikido training elsewhere. In all that time it appears as though he never attempted to learn other ways to practice. He's still stuck doing the style he showed up with. In my mind, this is a sign that he stopped learning a long time ago. It's not like his aikido isn't effective, it's just the wrong mind-set/philosophy for me.
No flys on Mr. Mulligan last night. For one throw I purposely did not do the actual choke correctly because I wanted to feel the ukemi first. I wasn't sure that if I did the actual choke that I wouldn't get a finger or thumb stuck in the collar and injure something. This wouldn't be good as I have to type for my job. Mulligan noticed it immediately and called me on it. I explained to him that I was just felling the ukemi one time before I was willing to commit to a good attack. Once I took one though I knew that my fingers were safe and worked normally with my partner. Unusual class. No aching or anything the next day which means despite the screwing aroung Serge had us doing, I wasn't using much muscle.


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1820 Floyd County Kentucky Census
The 1820 Floyd County Census provides the names of many early settlers of Floyd, Perry, Letcher and Knott Counties. I have provided two different methods to access the data. The census is first presented with the names in the order in which they appear on the microfilmed record from which this was transcribed. Assuming that families were questioned in the order that their houses appeared, this method of research gives inferential information as to neighbors, family licks and possible in-laws. This method of determining relationships is not scientific, but gives clues as to possible relatives. I also offer the census alphabetically, for those who are looking for specific individuals.
The 1820 data lists only the name of the head of the household. Males residents are broken into six age ranges. Strangely, the female groupings include only five categories. Separate age groups are provided for slaves and free "colored people." I have not provided the latter data here, because the microfilm reader on which I copied the census, did not have large enough paper to copy the data. Slaves names were not provided, so unless one wants to know whether a head of household held slaves, how many, and their sex and ages, this data provides no genealogic information. Those names which are followed by 00000000000, indicate free black individuals. I personally own a roll of microfilm of this census, and will look up the age data for anyone who would like this information.
The head of household's name is followed by an 11 digit number, which summarizes the number of people in each age range. The ranges for males are: 1) <10, 2) <16, 3) 16-18, 4) <26, 5) 26-45, 6) >45. For females: 7) <10, 8) <16, 9) <25, 10) 25-45, 11) >45. Thus, 00100020100 would indicate one 16-18 year old male, 2 females under age 10, and one female age 16-25.
Several of the names are pure guesses, due to the poor quality of some parts of the page in the census. These are marked with an asterisk or otherwise designated. If you know the actual name please let me know and I will change the entry. This information is public record and many be used in any manner you so desire, within the regulations which the government places on such data. I hope this helps you find some missing links. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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AUSTIN — Tubby Smith was in good spirits while making a steep climb up a ramp inside the Erwin Center on Saturday afternoon. Seventeen hours earlier, he had watched his Minnesota team play its most inspired basketball since late February, breathing new life into Minnesota's season and Smith's tenure.
"Live to fight another day," Smith said, smiling.
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Much of the MInnesota fan base has soured on the Smith era. His substitution patterns have come under scrutiny. And his team has endured a precipitous fall since late January.
But if the 11th-seeded Golden Gophers beat third-seeded Florida on Sunday, athletic director Norwood Teague would likely have no choice but to bring Smith back for a seventh season.
Smith told USA TODAY Sports that he has been told nothing about his future. When asked about the uncertainty, he said, "I've got three or four years on my contract. I don't see anything uncertain about that. I really don't. … Number one, I don't pay much attention to any of it. I look out and see what we have been able to accomplish here."
What Smith has done is lead the Golden Gophers to three of their eight non-vacated NCAA tournament appearances. In beating UCLA on Friday, he gave them their first non-vacated NCAA tournament victory since 1990. It just so happened that Smith's most talented Minnesota team coincided with the Big Ten Conference being the strongest it has been in some time.
The job is a good one, but not necessarily a destination job for coaches. Gopher Radio Network analyst Spencer Tollackson, who played his last season at Minnesota during Smith's first year, said the job is no better than the ninth-best in the league based on challenges related to resources and support.
"Other than when Clem (Haskins) cheated his ass off, what have they done (before Smith)?" Tollackson said. "Maybe it's not the head coach. Maybe these problems are deeper. If they think just getting another guy in place is the answer, I think people are severely naïve."
In 1999, Haskins was implicated in a widespread academic fraud scandal involving the men's basketball program. The scandal stands as one of the worst in the history of college basketball.
As an example of the gulf between the Minnesota program and some of its peers, Tollackson said he recalls waiting for a flight to another Big Ten school in recent months when he saw a private jet land, a woman and two kids get off. Then out walked Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, Tollackson said, who went to see highly touted point guard Tyus Jones play before getting back on the plane in time to be home for dinner.
"Until Minnesota has that, it will be very difficult to compete," Tollackson said. "You hear about keeping up with the Joneses. If you don't, you have no shot at surviving."
Minnesota also wants a practice facility for men's basketball. The school is searching for a major donor to help move that forward.
"It is huge," Smith said. "It has always been a big concern for us. We need a lot of things, but that is one of them."
The expectations at Minnesota were raised in part because of the arrival of Smith, with his stature and résumé, which includes the 1998 national championship at Kentucky. Even Tollackson said that when he found out Smith would be his coach for a year, he figured Smith would have the Golden Gophers competing with Michigan State for Big Ten titles within five years.
This is a rich time for high school basketball talent in the state of Minnesota. Three of the top 50 players nationally hail from the state, including two — Jones and Rashad Vaughn — who are ranked among the top 10. But it may be difficult to pry them away from more marquee basketball programs.
And on the recruiting front in general terms, Smith also has the reputation of being unwilling to operate in gray areas that come with the sometimes murky recruiting world.
During a recent lengthy phone interview with USA TODAY Sports, when asked what advice he would give a young coach, Smith said: "You have to have patience. When you are patient, you don't take shortcuts. The pressure to win is right away. …
"And the expectations and the money they are paying you and the media is on you. Why are we paying you this? Well, let's go get somebody else. And schools that have money, they can pay a guy off, get another coach and start all over again. Coaches don't have a lot of shelf life when it comes to tenure."
When asked how precarious the coaching profession has become now, Florida coach Billy Donovan, the dean of SEC coaches, addressed the uncertainty surrounding both UCLA's Ben Howland and Smith.
"I don't know all the dynamics that go on inside another athletic department," Donovan said. "So is it something that is greater or bigger than winning or losing? I don't know.
"But if it's about the winning and losing part of it, to me, that is crazy. ... Because the job Ben Howland has done there — and we obviously played them twice in the Final Four — was great. They just won a Pac-12 championship. Tubby has won national championships. He is an outstanding coach. He has done it for a very, very long time."
And now Smith's future could hinge on Sunday's NCAA tournament game against Donovan's Gators.
"I'm never surprised with anything," Smith said. "In this business? Are you kidding me, I'm too old to be surprised anymore."


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THE Shoreham Herald has gone down in history, literally, with the burying of a time capsule.
A copy of last week's edition was among documents placed under the green at Crest Nicholson's Orchard Gate development in Upper Shoreham Road, Shoreham.
Malcolm Brett, chairman of Southlands League of Friends, wanted the history of the former workhouse and hospital site to be recorded and started the time capsule idea.
He placed in it a copy of the book Southlands Workhouse and Hospital, written by the Rev John White in 1990 and completed by Pat Marshall after he died.
"I thought it was the proper thing to do," explained Mr Brett. "They are going to put the site plans in as well. It will be nice to have them there as it gives a complete history of the site.
"This area is a significant part of Shoreham history. The gatehouse dates back to 1901 and there are still parts of the old refectory, too. They have done a wonderful restoration of that."
The central section of the old refectory had to be replaced, but Crest Nicholson copied the external features so the finished building looks similar.
Adur Council chairman Mike Menoza joined Mr Brett at the ceremony on Tuesday. He was the first to take up residence at Orchard Gate, exactly three years ago.
As well as the Shoreham Herald, a history of Seaside Hospital Radio, which was based at the site for 40 years, was put into the capsule.
Part of the workhouse buildings still standing used to be a ward where tramps were housed.
Mr Brett said: "We have lost so much of our history over the years, it is important to understand what went on here.
"There has been a lot of sadness and unhappiness on the site and hopefully, Crest Nicholson has brought a happy end for it."


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That night Alastor Moody was in high spirits. He had found a Specialist Healer who was an expert at Advanced Transfiguration. It had cost a lot of money, but he finally had his hand and leg back. They felt brand new, and it was the first time in a long while that he felt remotely normal since he lost his leg so many years ago. He opened the door to his house, and stepped inside. It felt great to walk again, apparating made him a bit too lazy. He picked up the daily prophet, and in it was some bullshit story about Voldemort terrorizing a muggle family in Italy. Voldemort was dead, and dead was bloody hell dead. Why didn�t the ministry believe Dumbledore as yet? Damn parchment pushers, put them in front of a bloodthirsty Vampire and let see them use their quills to defend themselves. They knew nothing of being there, and living through it all. Only few could really say they know what it means to stare death in the face, and charge head on without fear.
He smiled: Harry had done it. He had finished what Voldemort started, and he was so proud of him. Even though he knew he was off gallivanting about the place, Moody was sure that he could handle anything. He�ll be back when he�s good and ready. Everyone has his own path. Not taking anything for granted though, he checked and double-checked his locks and dark areas in his house, making sure no stray boggart or such snuck in while he was away. He was wearing muggle clothing, and he needed to feel at home once again. He stripped down to his pants, slightly wincing at the huge scar where the muggle doctors had patched up the sword wound he sustained fighting the Warlock. He took out everything from his pockets, and put them down nearby. Watching at the silver amulet that was amongst he things he had stashed in his jacket, he decided to put it on.
You never know. As he would tell any young Auror: always maintain Constant Vigilance. He lighted his pipe, and sat down his favourite chair, finally enjoying some peace and quiet.
Draco was in a bad mood. Crabbe and Goyle were avoiding him, the Slytherins were watching him funny, and he was actually missing riling Potter and his mudblood woman. The worse part was that Pansy was always underfoot, �unintentionally� bouncing into him while walking or brushing suggestively against him as he talked with other girls, giving everyone the impression that there was something between them. He�ll take out his frustration on the training pitch, those poor suckers were in for drills and more drills. Draco was leaving nothing to chance, that Trophy was theirs this year.
Hermione was getting frustrated. There seemed to be a general atmosphere of indifference to her efforts in reforming the DA. A lot of the previous members from the other houses thought it was a waste of time, Voldemort being defeated and all. Only few really listened to her reasoning that it was still very dangerous, some even went so far as to implicate that she was trying to somehow make herself feel better by continuing what Harry started, sort of like pathetic hero-worship. Only those who knew what it was like, basically the students who were in the ministry of magic for Sirius� rescue mission were totally behind her. Surprisingly, Cho was also very determined to continue training. So that meant only she, Ron, Neville, Ginny, Luna and Cho were wholeheartedly for the DA. Well so be it. If only the six of them were serious, that would be enough. She began extensive planning and organizing; when the first meeting would be held, and how to go about getting their new instructor instated. She sat down at the table in the common room and got to work.
There were many people walking around, all of them wizards, routinely going about their shopping at the Italian version of Diagon Alley. The vision zoomed throught the throngs of people, straight into a large building whose sign read � FLOO TRANSIT �. The picture here was completely different, there were wizards screaming and running in a panic, creating a clear space near the numerous fireplaces that were banked along the far end of the huge building. Inside the clearing he saw flashes of Remus, Tonks, and some other wizards battling a losing battle; a grand statue lumbering about then a huge fire erupted �all acoompanied by an intense haze of pain�.
�HARRY!!� a voice screamed.
Harry�s eyes snapped open. It was still dark. The only light in the room were two candles that were perched on top of the dinner table. He took a moment to re-orient himself, and he realized where he was. Kenna was on her knees next to him, worry all over her face.
�Harry, < thank god! You had me frightened out of my wits I didn�t know what to do you looked so pale and you were sweating and my skin was tingling and there�s a bump swelling on your forehead and.. > � she was babbling on in fluent Italian, frantically gesturing with the fingers.
Harry realized something was not right. �Shut up,� he ordered silently. He sprung up from the floor, his body tense. Kenna looked at him in a concerned expression.
�What is wro-�
�Shut up I said!� he hissed, his eyes darting around in the darkness. The lights from the candles extinguished, and Kenna felt the faint hairs on her arms tingling. Ske looked at Harry in amazement, his eyes now glowing blue, the air around him emanating a faint blue halo of light. �Get your shoes. We have to go, now!� he raised his hand and the sword of Godric Gryffindor jumped to its master�s command, landing with a smack in his palm. He grabbed his wand, and summoned his boots to him. �Accio!� He practically jumped into them, and grabbed Kenna�s hand as she hastily tried to put on her sandals.
�What-?� she said, being pulled roughly towards the door.
�Just do as I say. No time to explain!� he swung open the door and stood in the corridor, looking quickly to his left and right. To his right at one end was a ceiling to floor window, to his left was the elevator. He hastily pulled Kenna along behind him, but suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. She bounced off of him hard, and would have fallen if he did not have such a strong grip on her. Harry stood stock still for a millisecond, his senses tuning in to the large corridor and the few doors that were placed along the walls. Measuring the distance to the elevator doors at the end, they were about thirty feet away. Something was wrong with the shadows, something sinisterly familiar�.
It couldn�t be.... Fear began to creep into him, making his blood ran cold.
�Kenna, when I say run, run straight to the elevator. Do not stop. Understand?�
He felt more than heard her response as her hand was trembling with fear. He let go of her hand, and slowly handed her his wand behind him, moving ever so cautiously. He predicted it more than he actuallysaw it, and whipped out his blade in a flash of steel as a kodachi came whizzing towards his head. There was a loud clang as weapon hit weapon. Pointing the sword downwards and agled behind him, he dashed forward. As soon as he took that first step, once again Solidus� charm came alive.
As he charged down the hall, two shadows practically materialized out of the walls. The one on his left swiftly stepped into his path, the steel blade swiping downwards in a vertical slash. Throwing up his arms, Harry thrust his sword upwards, deflecting the strike. Seeing an opening, the other assasin slashed viciously from the other side- aiming for his neck. Harry dove forward in a roll, the horizontal slash off by mere centimeters. As he came out of his tumble he flashed the sword in his wake, shallowly cutting his opponent in his leg. He heard an amazed grunt of pain, then pivoted on his hunches to face his first assailant. The Hunter brought down his sword in the cramped space, using the confined area to his advantage. Sojiro had the upper ground, and there was nowhere to dodge the deadly blade. Harry brought the sword up quickly to defend his face, then angled his blade so the hunter�s sword defelected to the side. Rising inside of his attacker�s arm span, he brought up the hilt and struck him under the chin, at the same time blocking the other Hunter�s slash, the blade protecting his back. There was a spattering of blood as Sojiro staggered back from blow to his adam's apple, and Harry spun around- parrying away the sword inches from his spine.
�You�re good,� Heshin remarked, watching his brother steady himself.
With deadly accuracy- he doubled in speed and attacked. Harry barely had time to block, the blades crossed inbetween their faces. They were up close and personal in that fleeting moment, icy steel grey eyes boring into his glowing blue ones. The three combatants were side by side now, the first one swiftly recovering from his off balance stance, stabbing his weapon at Harry�s unprotected back.
Flow with their movements and do not go against the tide of battle. Drop your right elbow and step to the left, using the blade to parry his sword downwards. His chin would be exposed, but only to stun. The enemy has the advantage. Do not continue.
As the words came to him, he found himself actually doing it. Dropping his right arm, their crossed swords slid against each other, and Harry found balance by stepping once to the left. Sojiro�s blade took away a piece of the back of his shirt, missing him by centimetres. The three weapons met at a triad, the Sword of Gryffindor on the top. Seeing a slight moment of oppurtunity, Harry instinctively struck out with his left elbow, connecting with Heshin in his nose. He reeled back as blood began to flow. Sojrio flicked his wrist, and with uncanny speed, pivoted his weapon from beneath Harry�s and spun full roundhouse with a kick to his head, he leg delving into the shadow as he accomodated his own space in the cramped corridor.
Harry�s eyes widened at the leg flying at him from out of the shadows, and ducked. It swung above him, and he felt the slight breeze as his foot swiped the air. Taking the chance, he rose up inside of him, charging him in his gut with his shoulder, slamming him back into his shadow on the wall.
Risking it, he let go of his two handed grip and with his right he grabbed the warlock�s close fitting outfit at the front of the neck, his fingers closing around in a tremendous grip.
�Kenna! Run NOW!
Kenna rook off full tilt towards them, narrowing her vision only to her objective- the elvator. There was a surge of power through Kenna�s body as she heard Harry�s grunt of effort. Lightning fast, he used the hold on his tunic to heave the bigger opponent off his feet and fling him across the hall into his brother. The other one realized that his brother was going to be pin him against the wall, and jumped backwards, the wall at his back. He planted his feet against it, and propelled himself over his falling comrade, catapulting over the both of them. The moonsault took him high over their heads, his body upside down right above Harry. It happened in such timing that by the next two strides Kenna had an instant of clear space to run through to the elevator doors. She ran underneath the flipping hunter, brushing past Harry as he flung the man against the wall.
Even in midair, Heshin swung at him, and Harry had to drop face first to avoid being skewered from above. Harry rolled towards the elevator doors and awkwardly got to his feet, putting a few strides between he and the two assassins. His back to the elevator, he studied the two warlocks as they once again slunk into the shadows, regrouping to counterattack. In a fluid motion, Harry sheathed his sword. Clasping his hands together and locking his fingers, his eyes bruned as he summoned the Infernus.
Kenna heard the strange demonic voice and glanced back, desperately pressing the button to open the elevator. Harry�s elbows were out to the sides, mescles tensing as he forced his palms together, channeling magic into the hallway. Kenna felt a drastic reduction in oxygen as the air was being swallowed up by the spell. A moment later, a flare of fire burst from the sides of his eyes. The hallway walls erupted in flames, shooting towards each other in a progessive motion, forcing the two hunters to turn tail and sprint away from the crushing wave of death. One was slightly injured though, and he was halfway covered in flames by the time they dove through the ceiling-high glass window at the opposite end. The two bodies flew out of the hallway, a huge tongue of fire spitting them out of the building, showering glass in the street many floors below. Kenna screamed as she saw the entire hallway explode out into the night- a huge wave of fire engulfing everything in front of Harry. His hair was billowing away from the heat, his clothes immediately turning black with soot.
she screamed. What in the world was he?
�Finite,� he said, and the flames gradually subsided. Turning, he pushed Kenna in the open elevator. Screams were coming from the other rooms, and lights began flicking on one by one, the little space beneath the doors alighting in succession down the hallway.
�Get inside!" he shouted, grabbing Kenna and shutting the elevator as they entered. The doors closed and seconds later, the elevator dinged, and they were back in the ground floor lobby. He held her hand tightly, and they both ran outside, spotting the motorbike parked across the street. Harry stopped abruptly. He was forgetting something very important. Taking his wand back from Kenna, he pointed it in the general direction of their suite, high above their heads.
�Accio Medallion!� he shouted. The medallion shifted erratically on the bathroom counter for a few seconds, the chain rattling as Harry�s charm caught hold. In the next second it flew through the bathroom door, through the bed and floor, bulleting its way through floors of concrete and steel, somehow managing to miss everyone who slept. Kenna saw piece of the exterior wall explode in a shower of dust and a projectile flew dangerously towards them, fast enough to kill. She shrieked, bending low and covered her head with her arms. Harry raised his hand, and it landed neatly unto his palm. He draped it over his head; and let it nestle warmly against his chest.
Sensing that there was still a threat, he looked down the road. The two hunters were running full tilt towards them, their weapons sheathed at their sides, hands ready on the hilt. Right now, he could not afford to fight because he had someone to protect. Looking down at the trembling girl at his side, he grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet.
�Let�s go,� he ordered. They ran across the street and Sirius� motorbike magically roared to life. He got on, and Kenna jumped behind him, clutching him tightly. �Hold on,� he said, and she gripped him even tighter. He spun around in a screech of tires, the sound of burning tires piercing the serene quiet of pre-dawn morning. The hunters were fast, and were catching up as Harry accelerated through the lower gears. The engine whined with high rpm as he kicked in the flight gear. Kenna screamed loudly at takeoff, but he couldn�t care about that now. They needed to get away from here, and fast. The Hunters were fading rapidly in the distance below them, their faces contorted in fury as they watched their prey soar into the night.
�He is an excellent fighter.�
�No matter. I have touched him; all his strengths and weaknesses are open to me now. I know where he is heading.�
The burnt brother raised an eyebrow in a silent question.
� The wizard hub at Rome.�
�He should be dead. Why is he alive?� Doholov shouted. The hunters bristled, they have never failed before, and the shame was eating inside of them. Keeping their eyes pointed low, they answered with steady determination.
�We know where he is headed, and have a plan to destroy him.�
�Plan? The plan was for you to kill him. What plan do you speak of now, wasting my time!�
�He has defeated our strongest, the Hunter Statham. We believe you underestimate this human. We will not fail this time, yet you must heed our plan carefully.� Heshin said it with a bit of steel in his voice, for a wizard to speak at him in such tones was unheard of. His honour was at stake, and that was the only reason he had to humiliate himself in front of the arrogant bastard. Doholov watched their body language, and decided it was better that he listen to their scheme. This was a fault the Dark Lord had; he did not listen to any one. That is why he is rotting away in ruins on some godforsaken rock in the middle of the Atlantic, while he was alive and well.
�Let me hear of your plan.�
Heshin nodded. Looking him directly in the face he began. � The Wizard Potter is an excellent fighter, his strength of will is augmented tenfold by this strange power he possesses. His response instincts are above normal human standard, and the weapon he uses is extremely powerful. We know he is headed to Bocelli Plaza, closest wizarding center relative to his latest location. It is in the heart of Rome.�
�Very well. How does that information help me?�
�There will be crowds, and in crowds his Elemental ability will be nullified. He will not dare risk hurting the innocent. His nobility and recklessness are his main weaknesses. We will lay a trap, and we shall have him. However, there is task that requires magic for our plan to be successful. We need one of your men who is an expert at illusionary magic: we shall inform him of what he needs to do.�
Doholov thoughtfully tugged on his beard. Fighters who were smart, and knew when to ask for assistance to further the overall cause were few and far between. These hunters were exceptional; they knew how to strategize as well. Excellent.
�Interesting.� He said, and nodded to their request. Now that was in motion, the Auror Moody and Dumbledore were next in line.
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Today's editorial: The governor gives lawmakers another chance to tax soda and let grocery stores sell wine. That will mean either hundreds of millions of dollars in sorely needed revenue, or a protracted fiscal crisis.
Why it's Governor Paterson, taking a less confrontational and entirely more reasonable tack with a state Legislature that can't quite pass a budget, even as its members are just a few months from standing before voters for re-election.
Let's see where that gets the governor in his quest to begin to bring fiscal order to a state with a deficit in excess of $9 billion.
It was with disappointment yet resignation earlier this month that we saw Mr. Paterson withdraw two very sound measures to generate some of the revenue the state so badly needs. One was a tax on soda, good, according to earlier estimates, for about $450 million in revenue the first year it was in effect and about $1 billion a year after that. The other was letting grocery stores, not just liquor stores, sell wine. That would mean, by various estimates, somewhere between $150 million and $300 million.
And now both measures are back, as they should be. Back, that is, in the form of overtures from the governor that we hope will mean a very different response from legislative leaders and back-benchers alike.
None of what Mr. Paterson has put before the Legislature for what's known in the hyperbolic language of state government as an extraordinary
session Wednesday comes in the all-too-familiar form of a package that must be accepted or rejected without modification. No talk, this time, of "take it or leave it," complete with threats of a government shutdown.
This is the way legislative deliberation is supposed to play out. Proposals can be considered one at a time, independently of one another. This is time for legislators to show a more responsible side.
Oh, there are similarities between taxing soda and making it easier to buy wine. Rejection of either costs the state money it can't afford to pass up, first of all. Support for either also requires standing up to the special interests who so often seem to be more in control of state government than its elected officials.
There's more work for the Legislature to do. It still has to approve a critical measure on which the governor has never wavered — cutting state spending enough to establish a $1.08 billion contingency fund in case federal Medicaid payments are reduced. Failure to address that would be nothing sort of fiscally reckless, even by New York standards.
Finally, more far-reaching proposals such as giving the State University of New York and City University of New York campuses more flexibility to set tuition rates can be considered as they should be — carefully and with the attention each deserves. Same for the governor's call for a cap on property taxes, at 4 percent a year or 120 percent of the consumer price index, whichever is less.
So, welcome back to Albany, legislators. Here's your chance to act appropriately and help ease a fiscal crisis. Yes, we're watching. And so are your constituents.


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Our newsletter went out to supporters just before Easter, and the response has been very encouraging, with donations flowing in.
The World Land Trust support continues to grow, with both individual supporters and also corporate support gathering momentum all the time. That is the really good news. The bad news is that land prices are rising dramatically almost everywhere. One of the driving forces for this is the demand for so-called green energy. Bio fuels are taking up more and more land, which in turn increases pressure on traditionally agricultural land, or forests which can be replaced with oil-palm, sugar or other biofuels.
In Paraguay ranching is displacing vast tracts of one of the last undisturbed wildernesses in the world. For short-term gain, the fragile ecosystems of the Gran Chaco are being converted to poor quality pasture, which in many cases will turn to desert in less than a decade. But the economics work -- land is cheap, the capital investment needed will be repaid very quickly -- and if it is a dustbowl in a few years time, who cares?
Buying land is not nearly as easy as it sounds. We have to have the money in hand before our partners can start negotiating. Fortunately, due to the generosity of one of our donors we now have a 'revolving fund' which we can use to make downpayments while we raise funds. But the more funds we have in hand, the more land we can buy. 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity, and the surest way of saving biodiversity (as our Patron Sir David Attenborough points out on our website) is to acquire large tracts of land.
The obvious conclusion is that the WLT's contribution to biodiversity is very real and very tangible. But is does rely on as much support as possible, from all possible sources. Waiting for governments to do something is not an option.


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The union representing workers on strike at mines owned by South Africa's three top gold producers said Thursday that the miners had rejected a package of pay rises and would continue their strike.
"The offer has been rejected by the members," said Lesiba Seshoka, spokesman for the National Union of Mine Workers, a body that he said represents the majority of workers on strike at mines owned by Gold Fields Ltd GFI, +0.00% AngloGold Ashanti Ltd (ANG.JO) and Harmony Gold Mining (HMS.JO).
But the Chamber of Mines, negotiating on behalf of the three mining companies, said it hadn't received word that NUM members had rejected the offer. Elize Strydom, a negotiator for the chamber, said she wasn't sure the offer had been clearly communicated to all of the striking workers.
"We can't communicate with our own employees," Ms. Strydom said. "We are determining from our side what needs to happen to properly communicate with our employees."
Mr. Seshoka, the spokesman for NUM--a branch of COSATU, the powerful union body allied to the ruling African National Congress--also said the chamber didn't have the capacity to reach workers directly.
"We are the people that represent the workers. If the chamber thinks not, and wants to take it there, let them try. I don't know whether they've got that capacity but as far as we are concerned we went to speak to the members and they said no."
The strikes have shut all seven of AngloGold's South African mines, which account for about a third of its total production. Chief Executive Mark Cutifani has said the company may permanently close some mines if the unrest continues. Two of Gold Fields' mines and one operated by Harmony are also closed due to the strike.
Strikes spread to the gold industry after first crippling the platinum sector, most visibly with a six-week-long strike at a mine owned by Lonmin PLC north of Johannesburg. Police opened fire on protesters at that mine in mid-August, killing 34 people.
Mining output rose 0.8% on the year in August despite the strikes, data showed Thursday, largely because the data measures refined mining products, not the kind mined at Lonmin's platinum mine.


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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Toni Doolen, an Oregon State University engineering professor who has been associate dean of the University Honors College since September 2010, was named by OSU to head the nationally recognized honors program.
Doolen succeeds Dan Arp, who recently was named dean of OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences.
The University Honors College has become a national model for honors programs. It has been a magnet for high-achieving students, particularly from Oregon high schools. The OSU program also draws some of the university's top faculty to teach the small, interactive classes, and to mentor students one-on-one during their thesis experience.
"The University Honors College has enjoyed great success and applications are at an all-time high," said Sabah Randhawa, OSU provost and executive vice president. "Toni Doolen has played a role in that recent success and she will help us continue the momentum as we seek to increase our enrollment of high-achieving students in the college and at OSU, and continue to improve the impact of the program on our teaching and learning environment."
Doolen has been on the faculty at Oregon State since 2001, and is a professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, where she also has been associate head for undergraduate programs.
Prior to joining the OSU faculty, she had a successful career in private industry, working as a process engineer, a manufacturing systems engineer, and a manager with Hewlett-Packard - with the Optical Communications Division in San Jose, Calif., and the Inkjet Supplies Business Unit in Corvallis.
She earned her Ph.D. in industrial and manufacturing engineering at OSU in 2001, just before joining the faculty. Doolen has two bachelor's degrees from Cornell University, and a master's degree from Stanford.
The University Honors College was established at Oregon State in 1995 by the Oregon State Board of Education. It enrolls about 800 students, many of whom were valedictorians or salutatorians at their high schools.
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Make a playlist of 8-12 songs fitting with the theme I give you (no more, no less please), each week I will pick a winner and put the winner and their playlist on the front page. Winners will be chosen sometime on Thursday (using central time for thursday) and a new theme will be given on Friday.
How I judge the playlists
1.How well the songs flow
2.Variety of songs if allowed by theme (as long as the theme isn't all classic rock songs or something that requires lack of variety)
3.A good introduction song (what I mean is it has to be a good opener, pick it as if it were a song to open a big show), doesn't necessarily have to always be open with a bang, but it has to open well.
4.A good ending song (similar to the introduction, needs to be a song that you would want to close a big show if you were determining song order), doesn't have to be a big bang close or nice subtle close, either or an inbetween can work, but needs to close well.
5.Quality of songs, now obviously this is opinionated, but make sure (at least in your mind) the songs have good quality and none of the songs would be something an average listener would want to skip.
Sites You May Use to Make a Playlist (any of them are fine for now, if I find later some aren't working well they are off or get a suggestion to add one I will) Remember all of these are limited to the sites libraries I would personally suggest use a site that uses Youtube as its library (it is much bigger)
Here is this weeks theme
Know it or not April is Internation Guitar month. Every song within the playlist must have a guitar being played in it, and at least 2 of the songs must have a guitar solo.
NOTE: If this contest gets fairly popular I may need to have some volunteers to help me judge it, but as of now I will judge it


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Though braising sounds like a time consuming effort, this recipe can be pulled off in less than 30 minutes. The mix of Mediterranean ingredients like anchovy, raisins, capers, Kalamata olives, pine nuts, and lemon lends tons of bright flavor and unexpected complexity without extra fat or calories.
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NO MATTER WHICH way you're driving on Interstate 95, you can't miss the billboard at exit 1.
On the south side of the sign, TNT Fireworks announces the grand opening of its new super-center in Delaware County, just off the Chichester Avenue exit. Northbound drivers get the sales pitch from competitor Spartan Fireworks: "We've got the good stuff."
But if you live in Pennsylvania, you might as well keep driving: That stuff's not for you.
Under state law, the three consumer-grade fireworks stores in southern Delaware County - a fourth has been proposed in Marcus Hook - cannot sell to Pennsylvania residents.
Instead, the stores set up near the border, peddling jumbo fountains, reloadable mortar kits and multishot finale cakes to residents of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland who can't buy fireworks in their home states.
With Independence Day 10 days away, the fireworks industry and its rapidly growing customer base remain subject to a confusing patchwork of laws under which fireworks can be legal to purchase in the same state in which they're illegal to ignite or possess.
"The whole thing's odd," said John Steinberg, a National Council on Fireworks Safety board member who has been hired to set off fireworks at events in Pottstown, York and elsewhere.
Pennsylvania and Maryland, for instance, essentially export the danger of amateur fireworks to each other, while still benefiting from the jobs and tax revenue that the stores generate. Both states prohibit their citizens from buying or possessing most fireworks without a permit, but allow licensed vendors such as TNT and Spartan to sell them to anyone from out of state.
As a result, fireworks purchasers from Maryland can make the short drive to Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvanians can stock up in Maryland.
In Delaware and New Jersey, the sale of fireworks is illegal, but several shops are waiting on the other side of the border with crowd-pleasers such as the Aerial Rampage Shell Kit, 33-shot Pyro Pulverizer and 500-gram Mass Detonation.
'It's kind of stupid'
The laws are largely ineffective and send a mixed message to Fourth of July revelers - enabling any adult with a car to legally purchase fireworks, while at the same time criminalizing backyard displays.
"I can't think of one other consumer commodity that is federally regulated that is treated the way fireworks are," said Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, a trade group for the nearly $1 billion-a-year fireworks industry.
"It's kind of stupid," Delaware County Detective Scott Bireley said of the conflicting state laws.
Bireley, who investigates arsons and crimes involving explosives, said most of the serious fireworks-related injuries that are reported to his office around Independence Day are caused by bootleg M-80s, quarter sticks and other illegal explosives that aren't sold in stores.
Nationally, the use of backyard fireworks, most of which are imported from China, has doubled since 2000, Heckman said, while the number of reported fireworks-related injuries has decreased slightly. About 9,800 injuries were reported by hospitals in 2007, down from a high of 11,000 in 2000, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Given the widespread availability of fireworks, Heckman said, strict laws can be counterproductive if they force people to ignite them in a hurry to avoid being arrested or fined. Those consumers are less likely to take precautions, such as wearing safety glasses and setting up in an open, level field, Heckman said.
"In the areas that have a complete prohibition or ban on consumer fireworks, there is no effort by the state or community to put out a public-safety message," Heckman said.
Some states have loosened their restrictions in recent years, but New Jersey, for one, isn't budging from its hard-line approach, which has included staking out Pennsylvania fireworks dealers with undercover officers and busting border-hopping residents when they return to the Garden State.
"It's illegal for a reason," said New Jersey State Police spokesman Sgt. Stephen Jones. "The Fourth of July is a time when the emergency rooms are usually full of people who disobey those laws."
In 2006, then-New Jersey Attorney General Zulima Farber sued four retailers in Pennsylvania who sell fireworks to out-of-state residents. The suit was settled the following year when the companies agreed to include a paragraph in their ads and brochures stating that New Jersey law prohibits the transportation, possession and use of fireworks without a permit.
Yet business is still booming, as evidenced by the Jersey license plates that abound on the parking lots of Pennsylvania and Maryland stores.
"We will be watching for that activity this year," Jones warned.
Education stressed
Consumer fireworks - they're smaller than professional fireworks, but some pack quite a punch - can by dangerous when misused, Steinberg said, recalling an incident in Ohio in which a 3-year-old girl was severely burned when an aerial tube fell over. But he and other industry officials say that states would be better off teaching consumers how to avoid fires and injuries, rather than prosecuting amateur fireworks enthusiasts.
"Hopefully, there comes a day when we can sell to our own residents and educate people on fireworks safety and using them in a proper way," said Erik Gaughran, assistant manager of Phantom Fireworks, the 12,000-square-foot outlet that opened two months ago in Upland, Delaware County.
For several years, Michael Ianieri, 29, a Havertown carpenter, helped to run an under-the-radar amateur fireworks show that attracted more than 100 people to Havertown's Glendale Field on the Fourth of July. They never had an injury.
"You're dealing with explosives, and you've got to have respect for that," said Ianieri, who used to buy his goods in Maryland.
But, Ianieri said, Pennsylvania's law seems nonsensical. If consumer fireworks are so dangerous, he asked, why does the state permit vendors to sell them to the rest of the country?
"There is a hypocrisy there," he said, "but that's just how things are."
Steinberg said it's ironic that the laws are enforced primarily on a holiday when Americans are "celebrating how free they are."
"Remember," he said, "you are always free to do exactly what the government feels is appropriate for you to do - when, where and how they feel it's appropriate to do it."


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2013 Festival of Daegaya Experience will be held from April 11-14.
The Festival of Daegaya Experience is held every year to introduce the culture and history of Daegaya Kingdom (Great Gaya 42-562 CE). Visitors can participate in 43 different hands-on activities in 13 categories every day of the festival. Activities include an introduction to Daegaya cultural relics, walking along the Daegayasanseong Fortress Wall, experiencing the everyday lives of people of Daegaya, and making Daegaya accessories. The festival will also host performances such as Madanggek (Korean traditional outdoor performance) and gugak (traditional music) concerts.
In January, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism designated the Festival of Daegaya Experience as one of 42 premier 2013 Culture Tourism Festivals.
Activities are free, or cost 1,000-3,000 won to participate.
* Daegaya: One of the tribes of Gaya, a confederation of six tribes existed in Nakdonggang River basin from around 42 to 562 CE. Daegaya was located in present-day Goryeong-gun.
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Yoenis Cespedes hit a very short triple in the Red Sox 3-2 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in Boston on Tuesday night. Cespedes popped the ball up behind first, and 2nd baseman Kolten Wong was not able to make a diving catch. The ball glanced off his glove and rolled to the wall where right fielder Oscar Taveras and first baseman Matt Adams converged on the ball. Unfortunately, an overzealous Red Sox fan was there waiting to interfere.
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Porcelain Black Says Rock Music Is in Her Blood
Signed to Universal Republic in the US, Porcelain Black combines elements of pop, rap and rock in her bold style of songwriting. "My dad was a huge rock fan and the first concert he ever took me to was AC/DC," says the Michigan-born singer during a recent conversation with Noisecreep. "He's been such a huge influence on me. At this point, rock music is just part of me, it's in my blood."
Black will be joining Lil Wayne on his upcoming I Am Still Music tour this summer, but the road to success hasn't always been so smooth. "Before I landed my current record deal, I was doing a project called Porcelain and The Tramps," she says. "But it wasn't a band — it was just me [laughs]. It was along the lines of what I'm doing know, but perhaps a bit heavier. I was 18 years old. I moved to Los Angeles and then hooked up with a manager. The next thing I knew, I got signed and just concentrated on my music.
"During that time I got to work with a lot of talented people like Tommy Henriksen and Bobby Huff, but the label I was signed to wasn't feeling the material. I was writing stuff that was full of attitude with curse words and all that stuff. Meanwhile the label is saying to me that I needed to write more Avril Lavigne-y type of pop songs. I was like, 'Hell no!'"
Porcelain Black's fortune changed when Lady Gaga producer RedOne approached the singer about working with him.
"I guess someone had played my stuff for him and he loved it," says Black. "When we finally spoke, he told me that he totally got what my vision was and he wanted to work with me. Once we started working together, I changed my name to Porcelain Black."
Growing up, Black's family moved her around a lot. "It was weird because I grew up in 8 Mile and then Sterling Heights, which isn't a great area. But when my mom re-married, we moved to a place called Rochester which is a really rich area. By that time, I was in high school and all of a sudden I had to interact with all of these snotty rich kids. I was into rock music and all kinds of other stuff and they didn't get it. They would actually come up to me and say stuff like, 'You're a f—ing freak, what's your problem?' Then I would say, 'You're boring and fake, get away from me.' I just didn't let that nonsense keep me down. I knew that at a young age that being eccentric is a good thing. But yeah, what you see in the 'This is What Rock 'N' Roll Looks Like' video is pretty much what happened to me [laughs]."
As a teen, Black spent countless hours listening to her CD collection and watching MTV. "Trent Reznor was huge for me," she says. "I also looked up to Marilyn Manson, Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. I'm talking about obsessed [laughs]. Oh, I can't forget about Oasis and Hole. I played the hell out of 'What's the Story (Morning Glory)' when I was a kid. But at the same time I was also really into Britney Spears and pop music. I think there's something cool about adding a dance vibe to rock music. I don't want to make music for any specific type of person."
When Noisecreep asked Black about her dream collaboration, she didn't hesitate for a second. "I would love to work with a Billy Idol. I think he's such a badass motherf—er! I think we could totally do something cool together. I hope he ends up reading this [laughs]."
Pocelain Black will be releasing her debut album this summer.