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Thursday, 2nd December, 2010, 09:00 PM #1
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[Arcane Row - Venza]The Mystic Pearl
One of the mysteries of En is the phenomenon known as Arcane Row. Whether it is a manifestation of the Other World with multiple entrances, a relic of some ancient culture or some other abstruse or unknown explanation one thing is true: Arcane Row appears in some fashion in nearly every major community on En.
Arcane Row is filled with an ever-changing array of shops and seemingly mad hawkers selling items exotic and magical, bizarre creatures, and strange apparati. The Row looks different in every city it appears in; in Venza, Arcane Row is approached either through the narrow Meraviglia Street lit by golden glasslights, or Glimmerweed Canal. Shoppers approaching from the canal are greeted by a two foot tall sandstone statue covered in flaking gold leaf and sporting a broad grin of razor sharp teeth. The landing opens up onto a courtyard floored with smooth paving stones and with an elaborately carved well-head in the center. A bewildering array of shops and stands are crammed cheek by jowl along every wall and in the courtyard.
While shops and hawkers fill every side of the Row the main attraction and seemingly the only constant in every manifestation of Arcane Row is:
The Mystic Pearl
Emporium of the Magical and Bizarre
A tiny storefront demarks the entrance to this store, unassumingly decorated with a collection of dusty oddities in a window of thick paneled glass. Great mottled eggs, a stuffed bird of brilliant hue, a rusty cauldron, and a massive snakeskin are among the bizarre items on display. To those in the know however all that is important is the mark upon the door, that of a golden lamp proclaiming this as a gateway to the premiere magic store on E'n...
Stepping inside you find yourself in a far large space than expected, infact you can see no end to the rows and rows of shelves all lined with fascinating, but seemingly useless items. Straight ahead you see an oval counter behind which an obese fellow possessed of a long lusterous black moustache - as if to make up for the lack of hair on his head - stands smiling in welcome. Almar Ben Shawari, Proprieter a brass plaque announces.
"Ah my friend! Welcome to the Mystic Pearl! How can I serve you this day? Please, look over my manifest and see which of my wonders might tickle your fancy and unburden your purse!"
The proprietor exclaims warmly, placing a series of beautifully illuminated lists before you proclaiming his wares.
Once you have decided upon what you want Almar Ben Shawari smiles hugely,
"Ah an excellent choice! I can see I deal with a person with an eye for quality! Let me see that will be..." He scrawls down the items you have selected on a small slateboard with each's price listed and a total below and shows it to you. Once you have paid, stroking his moustaches with satisfaction, he produces a small golden bell and calls, "Saleem bring out the order!"
Some minutes pass before a small swarthy boy wearing a mutinous expression appears from amidst the maze of shelving with your items in hand, or particularly heavy or bulky items floating on a translucent disk behind him.
"There you are, enjoy, enjoy. And please always remember the Pearl's money back guarantee - we guarantee we won't give you your money back! Please come again!"
(Note: all prices are 'each' even if not explicitly noted.)
Special materials items
Silvered Earthbreaker +1 (2520 gp)
Fire-forged steel longsword (615 gp)
Mithral chain shirt (1100 gp)
Mithral chain shirt, small (1100 gp)
Mithral rapier +1 (3020 gp)
Minor Magical Items
(x2) +1 Bracers of Armor (1000 gp)
(x2) +2 Bracers of Armor (4000 gp)
+3 Bracers of Armor (9000 gp)
+1 Shield, light wooden (1153 gp)
(x2) +1 Shield, Heavy Steel (1170 gp)
(x3) +1 Studded Leather armor (1175 gp)
+1 Shadow Armor (Studded Leather) (4925 gp)
+1 Amulet of Natural Armor (2000 gp)
(3x) +1 Ring of Protection (2000 gp)
+1 Bracers of Armor (1000gp)
(2x) +1 Cloak of Resistance (1000 gp)
+2 Cloak of Resistance (4000 gp)
(5) +1 Bolts, repeating crossbow (1031 gp)
+1 Light Crossbow (2335 gp)
+1 Heavy Crossbow (2350 gp)
+1 Composite Longbow +1 Str (2500 gp)
+1 Greatclub (2305 GP)
+1 Greatsword (2350 gp)
+1 Sap (2301 gp)
(2x) +1 Scimitar (2315 GP)
+1 Cold Iron Heavy Mace (4624 GP)
+2 Gauntlet, spiked (8305 gp)
+1 Heartseeker Dagger (8302 gp)
+1 Planar Shortsword (8310 gp)
+1 Mimetic Shortsword (8310 gp)
+1 Shock Flail (8308 gp)
+0 Amulet of Mighty Fists (Flaming) (4000 gp)
(x2) Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds (300 gp)
Potion of Purify Food and Drink (25 gp)
Potion of Resistance (25 gp)
Potion of Stabilize (25 gp)
Potion of Mage Armor (50 gp)
Potion of Oil of Magic Weapon (50 gp)
Potion of Rejuvenate Eidolon, Lesser (50 gp)
Potion of Shield of Faith +3 (CL 6) (300 gp)
Potion of Spider Climb (300 gp)
(x5) Potions of Levitate (300 gp)
Potion of Rope Trick (300 gp)
Potion of Gaseous Form (750 gp)
Elixir of Hiding (250 gp)
(x2) Scrolls of Floating Disk (25 gp)
Scroll of Hypnotism (25 gp)
Scroll of Moment of Greatness (25 gp)
(x5) Scroll of Undetectable Alignment (25 gp)
Scroll of Unseen Servant (25 gp)
Scroll of Spontaneous Immolation (150 gp)
Scroll of Prayer (375 gp)
Scroll of Tongues (375 gp)
Ring of Swimming (2500 gp)
Wand of Prestidigitation (34 charges) (255 gp)
Wand of Resistance (50 charges) (375 gp)
Wand of Chill Touch (15 charges) (225 gp)
Wand of Comprehend Language (26 charges) (390 gp)
Wand of Magic Missiles (10 charges) (150 gp)
Wand of Magic Missiles (25 charges) (375 gp)
Wand of Magic Missiles (45 charges) (675 gp)
Wand of Shield (42 charges) (630 gp)
Wand of Levitate (50 charges) (4500 gp)
Wand of Invisibility (50 charges) (4500 gp)
Wand of Bulls Strength (50 charges) (4500 gp)
Wand of Remove Curse (10 charges) (2250 gp)
Wand of Cure Light Wounds (13 charges) (195 gp)
Wand of Cure Light Wounds (Caster Level 4, 50 charges) (3000 gp)
Wand of Cure Light Wounds (Caster Level 5, 50 charges) (3750 gp)
Apprentice Cheating Gloves (2000 gp)
(x2) Bag of Holding (type I) (2500 gp)
Bracers of Archery, Lesser (5000 gp)
Brooch of Shielding (85 points) (1262.4 gp)
Cauldron of Brewing (2000 gp)
Circlet of Persuasion (4500 gp)
Cloak of the Elvenkind (2500 gp)
Dust of Tracelessness (250 gp)
(x2) Elixirs of Hiding (250 gp)
(x6) Elixirs of Love (150 gp)
Dust of dryness (850 gp)
Eyes of the Eagle (2500 gp)
(x2) Feather Step Boots (2000 gp)
(x2) Feather Token - anchor (50 gp ea.)
(x2) Feather Token - bird (300 gp ea.)
Feather Token - fan (200 gp)
Feather Token - Swan Boat (450 gp)
Figurine of Wondrous Power (Silver Raven) (3800 gp)
(x2) Gloves of Reconnaissance, (2000 gp)
Hat of Disguise (1800 gp)
Ioun Stone, Clear Spindle (4000 gp)
Ioun Stone, Cracked Ruby Trillion (200 gp)
Minor Bag of Tricks (form of a Top Hat): Rabbit (weasel stats minus attach), Weasel, Turtle, Tiny Bird (Raven stats), Cat; 20% chance for each; (1100 gp)
Pearl of Power (level 1) (1000 gp)
Robe of Infinite Twine (1000 gp)
Sandals of Quick Reaction (4000 gp)
Shirt of Immolation (8000 gp)
Warpaint of the Terrible Visage (100 gp)
(x2) +2 Belt of Giant Strength (4000 gp)
(x3) +2 Belt of Incredible Dexterity (4000 gp)
+2 Headband of Alluring Charisma (4000 gp)
+2 Headband of Vast Intellect (4000 gp)
+2 Headband of Inspired Wisdom (4000 gp)
Shifter's Headband +2 Cha (4500 gp)
Medium Magical Items
Dagger of Doubling (10302 gp)
+2 Rapier, Ivory Handled (8320 gp)
+3 Slick, improved Armor (Banded mail) (24000 gp)
+2 Mithral Chain Shirt (5100 gp)
+4 Shield, heavy steel (16170 gp)
+4 Belt of Mighty Constitution (16000 gp)
+2 Belt of Physical Might (10000 gp)
Belt of Thunderous Charging (10000 gp)
Potion of Magic Fang, greater (750 gp)
Ring of Evasion (25000 gp)
Rod of Wonder (12000 gp)
Rod of Dissolution (2 charges) (6000 gp)
Scroll of Magic Circle Against Chaos (375 gp)
Scroll of Loathsome Veil (375 gp)
Scroll of Howling Agony (375 gp)
Scroll of Fleshworm Infestation (700 gp)
Scroll of Malicious Spite (700 gp)
Scroll of Summon Monster 4 (700 gp)
Staff of Charming (17600 gp)
Wand of Tree Shape (4500 gp)
Boots of Striding and Springing (5500 gp)
Cloak of Minor Displacement (24000 gp)
Drinking Horn of Bottomless Valor (24000 gp)
Figurine of Power, Bronze Griffon (10000 gp)
Mattock of the Titans (23348 gp)
Major Magical Items
Shifters Sorrow (12780 gp)
Staff of Enchantment (82000 gp)
Staff of Illusion (82000 gp)
Staff of Conjuration (82000 gp)
Wand of Major Image (11250 gp)
Manual of Gainful Exercise +3 (82500 gp)
Golem Manual, stone guardian (44000 gp)
Amulet of Mighty Fists +3 (45000 gp)
Purchasing Items not listed above
There is a 75% chance that items below a communitys base value will be able to be found and purchased (rolls of 76-100 indicate failure to find an item). If you are seeking multiple items of the same type you must roll for each in turn, the first failure means there are no more in stock. Items above that must be in the Mystic Pearls inventory or may be commissioned, see below. Base Values of communities that currently have access to Arcane Row are listed below.
Venza: 16,000 gp
Martna: 4,000 gp
Tritower: 2,000 gp
Diminishing oddsItems above the community's base value still have a chance of being stocked. This chance falls 5% for every 1,000 gp of value over the community's base. So, there is a 70% chance to find something of 17,000 gp value in Venza on down to 5% chance of finding something valued at 30,000 gp.
Commissioning Items
Items commissioned by a character have a special waiting time before they can be used in Living Pathfinder. The waiting time is triple the length of time required to craft the item. For example, if a +2 Cloak of Resistance was commissioned the player would need to wait 12 real life days before it would be usable in game, since it costs 4,000gp and each 1,000gp requires a day of crafting, assuming the character is able to reach a magic shop. This would mean an expensive item could take months to come, though in game it would likely still arrive faster than its craft time. To speed that process, a player can spend 1 DMC to bypass 60 real life days in the commissioning of an item. Commissioned items must be paid for in advance.
How to Use Arcane Row and the Mystic Pearl
Characters can only visit Arcane Row, commission an item, or pick up an item between adventures - barring DM permission. The player posts in this thread stating he buys an item from the inventory and deducts the cost from his gold total. If attempting to buy a magical item below the base value and not in the Pearls inventory (items above base value are not available unless in the inventory lists or by commission) the player will need to add the roll to his post. Please use ENWorlds dice roller. If successful, deduct the cost from your characters gold total. With commissioned items post when the item is commissioned and also when the time has passed and the character picks up the item.
Magic, masterwork and other unusual items can also be sold for full value here. When selling an item, post what it is and its cost. Add that cost to your characters wealth total. If there is an error a judge will contact you to get it corrected.
Note: Mundane equipment [pp. 142-143 Core (weapons), pg.151 Core (armor), pp. 158-159 Core (goods and services), pg.177 APG (weapons), pg.180 APG (armor), pg.182 APG (goods and services)] and masterwork versions of the above are available at all times. Items made of special materials and poisons (pg. 559 Core) are subject to the 75% rule.
A judge will update the inventory when necessary.
Last edited by Living PF Judge; Saturday, 12th September, 2015 at 07:49 AM. Reason: Updated inventory [Aura] 9/12/2015
Friday, 3rd December, 2010, 03:02 PM #2
A small gnomish woman is walking down a darkened alley only to turn a corner and find a closed slightly rusting steel gate within a broad stone arch before her. She was told by some merchants of Venza that the items she sought might be found this way. So with a shrug she unlatched the gate and moved through... with a brief feeling of disorientation she looks up to find she is elsewhere... A street of many different races all hocking some item or another.
She proceeds along looking and politely declining offers of many items from the seemingly mundane to rather exotic. She approaches a shop, The Mystic Pearl, and enters... She starts to look about for some new armors.
Zelena Adu is Searching for a...
Small Masterwork Chain Shirt (cost 250 gp)
Small Darkwood Heavy Wooden Shield (cost 257 gp)
Ioun Torch (Advanced Players Guide p 306) (NOT FOUND)
Last edited by Songdragon; Friday, 3rd December, 2010 at 03:21 PM. Reason: Added an item
Friday, 3rd December, 2010, 07:23 PM #3
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Fury walks the narrow Meraviglia Street dimly lit by golden glasslights held in delicate brasswork sconces. Someone must be doing well if they can light this alley with glasslights. He continues on, the swagger in his step growing less pronounced as he approaches the hub-bub of Arcane Row. He pushes through a gate and into chaos. Shopping at its finest! Fury grins and begins his explorations at a stall pushing what he thinks is fur cloaks until one takes a nip at his hand.
Quickly moving on he sees a woman of unearthly beauty arranging tiny bottles upon a velvet display...
Fury is looking for...
Potions of Cure Light Wounds (x2) -- not found
MW rapier (320 gp)
Though he doesn't find the healing magic he hoped for Fury is well-pleased with the fine but plainly crafted rapier that he finally found after what seemed hours of rooting through substandard weapons. Finished for the moment he makes his way out of Arcane Row and back to the Dunn Wright Inn.
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Sunday, 5th December, 2010, 01:26 PM #4
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Pari and his great cat, his best friend Tagaiwi, stalk the crowded venues of Meraviglia street. As they walk, the little Gnome keeps up a steady whisper in Tagaiwi's ear - a long standing habit developed to keep the Tiger calm. "It's here somewhere, Tagaiwi. I know it is. Fury wouldn't steer us wrong. The Mystic Pearl, that was the name . . . Ah-ha! I knew he'd told us true!"
He steps through the gate to find a cozy little boutique, all sorts of items artfully arranged at just the right height for a Gnome to peruse them comfortably. His burnt orange eyes light in delight as he meanders through the displays. Each time a particularly fine piece catches his eye he exclaims excitedly. He roams the displays for almost an hour before a glint of green reveals itself from within a rack of clothing. He burrows in and pulls out an oddly crafted suit of armor. "Look, Tagaiwi! Just the thing for a pair of tree huggers like ourselves!"
On his way up to pay, Pari stops at a prominent display set just in front of the counter. On impulse, he indulges his Gnomish fascination with gadgets and grabs up a finely made backpack with lots of hooks, latches and straps. Once at the counter, however, he finds that he has the cash only for the armor. Looking mightily embarrassed, he returns the backpack to its display.
OOC: Waiting for approval of Adventurer's Armory before purchase of +1 Leaf Armor.
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Sunday, 9th January, 2011, 04:21 PM #5
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After arriving back in town, Syl quickly heads to the now famous magic shop. He looks in amazement at all the trinkets that were clearly out of his price range. He was headed for one department in particular--magical scrolls. Upon finding that section, he began reviewing them, looking for several in particular.
Syl is looking for scrolls of Beguiling Gift, Command, Comprehend Languages, Enlarge Person, Hypnotism, Ill Omen, Obscuring Mist, and Ray of Enfeeblement.
Monday, 10th January, 2011, 01:27 PM #6
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Borric Hawkins, Human Male Fighter
Borric walks into the shop and starts looking around for some good quality gear, "Oy, shopkeep! I want to see a fine crafted breastplate and some of your best crafted weapons." He takes a look to see if they have some of the items he is interested in.
He arranges the purchase of the masterwork breatplate and masterwork guisarme (Total cost for both, 659gp). He sells his old armor and some of his weapons while purchasing some regular quality ones as well.
After being disappointed about the selection, he commissions a masterwork flail, intending to trade for it later. (Commissioned 10 Jan 2011)
Borric Hawkins
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Sunday, 16th January, 2011, 07:55 PM #7
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Adding items sold from the Frog Hunt adventure to inventory.
MW morningstar (308 gp)
Potion of Longstrider (50 gp)
Scroll of Undetectable Alignment (25 gp)
Sunday, 16th January, 2011, 08:05 PM #8
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Adding items sold from the Buyer's Remorse adventure to inventory.
Cloak of Resistance +1 (1000gp)
Hand of the Mage (900gp)
Monday, 17th January, 2011, 03:08 PM #9
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Korey walks into the Pearl and quickly finds the weapon racks. Doubting he'll find what he's looking for, he begins examining the axes.
Ah, this War Axe is of dwarf make. Korey picks it up and starts examining the blade and balance.
OOC: Looking for a Master Work Dwarven War Axe
"Yes, Yes! This'll do nicely!"
Korey stingily counts out 330 gp and purchases a new MW Dwarven War Axe.
Thursday, 20th January, 2011, 03:40 AM #10
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Fester enters the mystic pearl under cover of darkness. His meager coin purse leads him to the stall that sells thrown weapons. Fester is certainly one who would prefer to attack his enemies from a distance. He examines the slings, but finds nothing that captures his fancy. Then he notices the darts.
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I was reading an article about this and I tried to log into it and no luck.
" GTA V Online - Can't access Stock Market
I just want to say that 10% of the players can not access the GTA Online Stock Market "Bawsaq". Making use of the stock market allows you the ability to make enough cash to buy the best cars, the best upgrades to those cars, the best houses with the best garages, tanks, armored cars, military vehicles, etc.
Although many players have their best guesses on how to get other's stock market working, none of the suggestions ever work, and these players end up quitting due to being left behind. This problem makes me think that possibly R* thinks they will sell more GTA cash for real money, but that truly would get expensive fast.
I have my online character logged in, but can not access the online stock market with any of my online characters; I have my RockStar Social Club account logged in; I have played from start to finish offline; I have completed the offline game that is connected to my online account; my offline characters have complete access to the online stock market; I have tried to access the stock market BAWSAQ at every possible real time of day and night;
I have come accross other issues where my offline characters are refused access to the online BAWSAQ, but since they already have stock, I am allowed to look at my owned stock and purchase more or sell some, which then grants my offline character full access again; my offline characters have over 1.2 billion dollars in stock; but still, my online characters can not access any part of the stock market BAWSAQ. Players are no longer allowed to share money with each other.
Anyway, I want to upgrade my existing GTA Online account to the new version on Steam, but I refuse to if this major game function is not available for my online characters 'still'.
I have reported this issue to RockStar three weeks ago, and they refuse to respond to my official help request. But they responded to my L.A. Noire bug report a month prior within 2 days.
If my post is deleted, I will post it as a negative review and advertise my review, until the issue is addressed.
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boxanata [has Grand Theft Auto V] Apr 2, 2015 @ 12:10am
Originally posted by Kamikazi Flyswatter of Godspeed:
I just want to say that 10% of the players can not access the GTA Online Stock Market "Bawsaq".
No one can access the Bawsaq stock market, because that feature was never added to GTA Online. Yes, it was planned, but it was never added."
Now, I know why; what a load of BS; you could have invested and made good money.
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1. What are the hours of the Archives?
The Archives are open
9, Monday - Friday, with the exception of holidays. Closed on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Holiday list.
2. Where is the Archives located and what is the telephone number?
The Archives is located at 548 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123. The telephone number is 215-685-9401.
3. Is there information on the Internet for the Archives?
The Archives home page contains contact information and other administrative info. It also contains links to the collections described in PHILS (Philadelphia Information Locator Service) that are located in the Archives. These links contain a wealth of information on the type of records located in the Archives, how to request them and how to search for them.
4. What types of records can I access directly at the Archives?
The Reading Room at the Archives has microfilm, paper and computer indices for direct access by customers. Microfilm readers and reader/printers are available for use. There is no fee for use of the readers. Use of the reader/printers is $.25 per 15 minutes and copies are $.75 per page.
Generally, Reading Room records include:
5. Does the Archives have birth, death and marriage records for outside of Philadelphia County?
The Archives maintains birth, death and marriage registrations for Philadelphia County only.
6. How do I request to view records at the Archives?
When you visit the Archives Reading Room, see the receptionist. You will be asked to sign in and fill out a Registration Slip on which you can request to view records. A Fee Schedule is displayed there. The Archives accepts cash and checks/money orders made out to "City of Philadelphia".
7. Do I need to schedule an appointment?
For extensive or complex research requests that require staff assistance and that also requires more time and in-depth assistance, we suggest that you contact us in advance of your visit to schedule an appointment. This will help us to service your needs more effectively.
We also ask that researchers submit their requests no later than 4:30 PM so that we can complete your request before closing.
Thank you for your cooperation and consideration.
8. How do I request copies of records?
You can make copies of records from microfilm in the Reading Room at the Archives for $.75 per page. You can also request copies of records ($1.00 per page, $2.00 minimum) while at the Archives. The Archives staff will assist.
You can request a search of records, including cost of a certificate copy, by mail. Submit a written request with as much detail as possible (i.e. exact names and exact month/year) along with a check or money order made out to "City of Philadelphia" and a self-addressed stamped envelope (Letter size 4-1/8" x 9-1/2") . See Questions 11 and 12 below for information on fees. Your request will be filled in six to eight weeks. Do not send cash.
9. How do I find out if you have the records I am looking for before I send in my request and payment?
Go to the Archives home page and follow the links to the records you are looking for. Details are provided about the dates and types of records located at the Archives. Helpful information and answers to FAQ's are also provided. If you still cannot find what you are looking for, call the Archives at 215-685-9401, or visit the Archives in person.
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Deaths after June 1915
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Marriage License Bureau
City Hall, Room 415
Broad & Market
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City Hall, Room 415
Broad & Market
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Broad & Market
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Passenger Lists
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Philadelphia, PA.
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Broad & Market
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Mortgages after Dec 31, 1963
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Broad & Market
|Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, PA.
If what you are looking for is not listed here, call the Archives at 215-685-9401 or go to the Archives home page for more information.
11. Can the Archives answer any questions I might have about Philadelphia and/or Philadelphia government services?
No, the Archives can only answer questions about the city government records that are part of its holdings.
12. If I need a birth, death or marriage certificate, what information do I need to provide?
The Archives needs the month and year of birth, death or marriage, along with the names of the parties. For birth records, the names of the parents are also required. Mailed requests for copies of certificates cost $10.00, which includes a simple search. In-person copies from microfilm reader/printers cost $1.00 per page, $2.00 minimum. If exact month and year are not known, or exact names are not known, provide the date range and name information and a search can be performed (see Question #13 below).
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The McMansion, that derisively nicknamed trophy home of suburban arrivistes, is different things to all people: the darling of building contractors, the forest-guzzling residential equivalent of the SUV to land preservationists.
Among American practitioners of the modern Gothic novel, the McMansion has rarely been rendered with the resplendent gloom of, say, Shirley Jackson's Hill House, or the majesterial melancholy of Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher. In his smashing followup to his formidable debut novel "Absolution," however, Patrick Flanery has fashioned a crumbling 21st-century manor that can hold its own among those authors' most sepulchral, ALLEGORICAL inspirations.
The trappings of "Fallen Land'' are pure old-school Hollywood. Imagine a housing development that evokes the splashy-cum-sinister Victorian fantasy of "Meet Me in St. Louis" and Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" and you have Dolores Woods, a Midwestern subdivision committed to a regressive aesthetic "in which the past was preferable and this country was at its greatest before it tried to tear itself apart in the middle of the nineteenth century." The community's pastiche array of gabled roofs and picket fences disguise the jerry-built nature of its construction: pop-up palaces whose yawning spaces and teetering infrastructure "terrify where they were meant to comfort," the American Dream turned nightmare.
The development's showpiece, classically enough, has been erected atop the site of tragic events from a darker epoch whose emotional undercurrents will haunt the home's new tenants, Julia and Nathaniel Noailles. The Noailles have relocated from Boston with their smart, idiosyncratic son Copley (named for the hotel address where he was conceived) in pursuit of snazzier positions: she with a university lab, he with a mega-corporation that powers virtually every private enterprise on earth, including the fascistic private school in which Copley is newly installed.
Nathaniel's job for the company's prison division — crafting an anti-rehabilitation system that encourages and exploits prisoner recidivism — links him ironically to his new home's former owner, Dolores Woods mastermind Paul Krovik, whose control-freak tendencies might have otherwise made him an ideal CEO for Nathaniel's corporation. As it is, Krovik is already in prison for a crime whose awful details we can only guess at, a smoldering mystery that infuses the largely flashback narrative with a queasy-making overlay of dread.
Krovik is paying the piper for a spiraling accumulation of transgressions reaching back to the inception of his housing development, built off the misfortunes of the property's lifelong inhabitant, Louise Washington. A slave descendent and career schoolteacher left in arrears upon the death of her husband, Louise has allowed herself to be bilked out of her farmland by Krovik and is left to watch helplessly as her family's fertile legacy is bulldozed into "Truman Show'' soullessness.
Louise takes cold comfort when Krovik's dream community falls victim to his own bad-faith dealings, shoddy construction, and paranoia. Sued by his tenants, abandoned by his wife and forced to sell his dream home at foreclosure, Krovik takes refuge in a bunker apartment he has constructed beneath the house and surfaces discreetly to terrorize the new owners with escalatingly perverse acts of mayhem.
Much like the two South African writers haunted by their memories of Apartheid in "Absolution," all of the principals in "Fallen Land" are damaged goods, traumatized by familial fissures or betrayals; even Louise (whose unswerving rectitude is the book's primary weakness) must wrestle with her grown daughter's failure of empathy. The chain of parent-child injuries would be almost unbearable without the surrogate bond that develops between Louise, whose fervent interior life prompts the author's most gorgeous prose, and Copley, whose quotidian private-school ordeal is one of the more disturbing post-Orwellian satires of organizational tyranny ever put to paper.
Unsettling as are the horrors that transpire at Copley's school and under the Noailles roof, there are moments when we wonder whether the author is pulling our legs. Subsidiary characters such as Nathaniel's boss and Copley's teachers are cartoons of bureaucratic miscreants, and there are so many in-your-face portents of disaster (dig the splattered ketchup) that it sometimes seems as if Flanery is doing a parody of a textbook foretelling techniques.
Still and yet, antagonists don't come any creepier than Krovik, who invisibly stalks Copley and his clueless parents like Boo Radley's evil twin. "He has no clear intention or purpose, no design he is conscious of trying to enact," writes Flanery of the builder's nerve-rattling emotional disconnect. "He simply found his body moving, followed it, and is waiting to see what it will do." When a character refers to Krovik's nautical skills, saying, "The man knows how to tie a knot," she could be describing the author. We follow "Fallen Land" on tenterhooks from fearsome opening to shuddery climax, waiting to see what it will do.Jan Stuart reviews fiction and is author of "The Nashville Chronicles: The Making of Robert Altman's Masterpiece.'' He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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On 25th November 2009, the 73rd Meeting of the IUCN Council admitted 18 new Members to join IUCN.
The Council, President, Director General and entire family of IUCN extend a very warm welcome to the new Members and look forward to their active involvement.
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The Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (CENN) is based in Georgia and active in Georgia, Azerbaijan and in Armenia. It aims to increase information exchange between NGOs, governments, international organisations and the general public in the field of environmental protection in the Caucus and to find ways for efficient collaboration. CENN supports organisations enrolled in its network through institutional capacity building, seminars and workshops, and also conducts lobbying on various environmental issues in the region.
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an international research and global knowledge institution committed to conserving forests and improving the livelihoods of people in the tropics, assists local communities and small farmers gain their rightful share of forest resources, while increasing the production and value of forest products. CIFOR's three research programmes address the needs of the rural poor as well as environmental concerns.
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The Foundation for the Development of National System of Protected Areas (FUNDESNAP) was established as a private foundation through a public-private partnership to manage trust funds and other donations with the aim of financing Bolivia's protected areas. FUNDESNAP is a private non-profit organisation with an elected Board of Directors, which represents donors, Protected Areas local communities, NGOs, the private sector and government.
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The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation promotes the sustainable and equitable management of natural resources. It encourages the implementation of innovative and ethical solutions in three main areas: climate change, biodiversity and water. The Foundation supports and develops initiatives of public and private organisations and companies, in the fields of research and studies, technological innovation and socially-aware practices. In order to stimulate and develop innovation, the Foundation supports scientific and technical monitoring at an international level.
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC Council) promotes sustainably managed forests through independent third party certification. The PEFC Council provides an assurance mechanism to purchasers of wood and paper products that they are promoting the sustainable management of forests. PEFC is a global umbrella organisation for the assessment of and mutual recognition of national forest certification schemes developed in a multi-stakeholder process. These national schemes build upon the inter-governmental processes for the promotion of sustainable forest management, a series of on-going mechanisms supported by 149 governments in the world covering 85% of the world's forest area.
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The Southern Africa Endogenous Development Programme (SAEDP) is an organisation of traditional institutions (Spirit Mediums, Chiefs and their rural communities) which collaborates with Universities. SAEDP works to enhance endogenous development (development from within) in Southern Africa, focusing on empowering rural communities to take control of their own development process, thus leading to increased bio-cultural diversity management, sustainable development and the reduction of environmental degradation. SAEDP is headquartered at the University of Zululand in South Africa.
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Through capacity building, the Strategic Development and Environment Monitoring Programs (PRODEMA) seeks to encourage positive change in society, the exercising of the rights and duties of citizens, the sustainable management of natural resources and a consultation process between the different stakeholders as a basis to achieve sustainable development. PRODEMA seeks to develop and strengthen the capacities of society, as well as the skills that will enable various actors to achieve environmental and socio-cultural change in the environment in which they live.
The Sur Futuro Foundation focuses on bringing about social and economic transformation to reduce the high levels of poverty and marginalisation of residents living in the southern region of the Dominican Republic. Their activities include work to support natural resources and agriculture (forestry management and sustainable agriculture) in addition to education and culture, community management, infrastructure, income generation and health.
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The best part of this paper is contained in Appendix II: Fiscal Multipliers-A Review of the Literature, and Appendix III: Five Case Studies of Fiscal Policy During Financial Crisis.
The conclusion I arrive at in reading these appendices is that during a financial crisis: [1] fixing the financial sector is of primary importance; and [2] fiscal policies may be marginally beneficial at best, and seriously detrimental at worst.
In the body of the paper, the authors draw several lessons from history.
[1] Successful resolution of the financial crisis is a precondition for achieving sustained growth.
Here, they give the example of Japan during the 1990s. Evidently, "fiscal actions following the bursting asset bubble failed to achieve sustained recovery because financial problems were allowed to fester."
In short, fiscal stimulus failed in Japan. But we don't really want to believe that fiscal stimulus doesn't work. It didn't work here because things were not set up to allow it to work. I wonder how one might modify an IS-LM model to formalize this notion?
But there are more examples. "Delaying interventions, as was also done in the US during the Hoover administration and during the S&L crisis, typically leads to a worsening of macroeconomic conditions, resulting in higher fiscal costs later on."
So I guess that if we wait too long, the fiscal multiplier now is severely negative. Not sure what to make of this (like, where does this show up in the IS-LM model?). And in any case, they have their history wrong: Hoover did in fact react quickly to the crisis (although many of his measures were frequently blocked by the Democrats-Roosevelt, in particular-and then later adopted wholesale by the Democrats). And even though "interventions" were evidently delayed during the S&L crisis, I seem to recall a fairly protacted spell of growth in the 1980s. Unimportant details, I suppose.
Ah yes, but there was the "prompt and sizeable support to the financial sector by the Korean authorities that limited the duration of the macroeconomic consequences thus limiting the need for other fiscal action."
Huh? The Korean government fixed the financial sector, thereby eliminating the need for future fiscal stimulus? So fiscal stimulus is not needed, if the financial sector is repaired. This is supposed to be taken as evidence that fiscal stimulus is needed?
[2] The solution to the financial crisis always precedes the solution to the macroeconomic crisis.
[3] A fiscal stimulus is highly useful (almost necessary) when the financial crisis spills over to the corporate and household sectors.
Not sure where this came from; they cite no examples (and indeed, the examples above seem to suggest otherwise).
[4] The fiscal response can have a larger effect on aggregate demand if its composition takes into account the specific features of the crisis.
In this regard, they note that the tax/transfer policies implemented early in the Nordic crisis did little to stimulate output. Sure, the Ricardian equivalence theorem at work. As for "evidence" as to how a different composition of expenditure might work, they make the following compelling statement: "In theory, public spending on goods and services has larger multiplier effects..."
I see. That would be the same theory (IS-LM) that has absolutely nothing to say about financial crisis?
And so, on the basis of this, the authors' conclusions are:
And so there you have it. The fiscal multiplier is greater than one. Unless, that is, the stimulus in question is any one of: not-in-time, small, short, undiversified, non-contingent, non-collective, and unsustainable.
The optimal fiscal package should be timely, large, lasting, diversified, contingent, collective, and sustainable: timely, because the need for action is immediate; large, because the current and expected decrease in private demand is exceptionally large; lasting because the downturn will last for some time; diversified because of the unusual degree of uncertainty associated with any single measure; contingent, because the need to reduce the perceived probability of another "Great Depression" requires a commitment to do more, if needed;collective, since each country that has fiscal space should contribute; and sustainable, so as not to lead to a debt
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The desire to act generously arrives like uninvited guest, unexpectedly, like a lightning bolt, in a mere moment. A gesture, a news story, a quotation in a book, a passing remark can change everything. For many, that moment is enough for generosity to move into their hearts and minds and become central to their lives.
This book will help readers open their hearts to the power of their own innate generosity, their desire to make a difference in the world, to help make someone's day a little brighter or their world a bit more secure. It will kindle a spark in readers' hearts that moves them into the sunshine of a more generous life. If one life is more generous, we all prosper. That is one of generosity's most wonderful qualities: it is utterly contagious.
Inspiring Generosity is an invitation to savor a sampling of the very best inspirations on the subject of generosity. It includes fourteen contemporary stories of "generosity heroes" whose lives have been transformed by the power of generosity. Sprinkled throughout these stories are writings, poems, and quotes from Shakespeare, Hafiz, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Wendell Berry, Sharon Olds, Naomi Shibab Nye, Donald Justice, Winston Churchill, Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., John Steinbeck, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, Seneca, Albert Schweitzer, Anne Frank, and many others.
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Motley Crue Footage From First Show of Las Vegas Residency Surfaces
Much has been made about Motley Crue's Las Vegas residency, the first of its kind in Sin City. The residency launched last night (Feb. 3) at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. It's such a landmark series of events that the mayor was compelled to christened yesterday "Motley Crue Day" in the band's honor. Most Crue fans would agree that Motley Crue Day should be an international holiday, right?
Fan-filmed footage from the first show of the residency has already surfaced online and while the audio isn't that great, you can certainly get a sense of what it was like to be a part of rock 'n' roll history. Remember, this is the first-ever hard rock residency in Vegas, as the band has committed to play four nights a week for the next three weeks.
You can check out the band tearing through the classic 'Too Fast for Love' and there's also footage of Tommy Lee's amazing drum roller coaster. Lee truly knows how to transform his kit into an instrument of fun. Playing inverted can't be easy, with all that blood rushing to your head and trying to remain coordinated while your body and kit are in motion, but Tommy Lee is no mere mortal. All we can do is watch in awe.
Only in Vegas, kids. Make that only in Vegas and only with the Crue.
Also, bassist Nikki Sixx commented about the gig on the band's official Facebook page, posting the following note:
"Hello f---ers....First show is under our belts.First shows are always cool cause there not perfect and sometimes it feels like the band and crowd are surfing the chaos together...We had so much fun last night.....Back to rehearsal today to work on some more stuff were adding tonight..So excited...."


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Hacking. What an evocative – and suddenly a household – term.
Early the morning of Saturday, December 4, about 100 New York-area sustainable food advocates, all with big ideas, converged on a shared co-working office space in SoHo and spent the next twelve hours – hacking.
Now is a good time to better understand hacking, which generally refers to a re-configuring or re-programming of a system to function in ways not originally intended. And as we've seen in the news, like any resource, this can be used for good or ill. Hacking can refer to a modification of a program or device to provide access to features otherwise unavailable. But too frequently, hacking refers to criminal acts (identity theft, credit card fraud or other computer crimes).
Our day was of good hacking, with these new technologies organized as part of the International Open Data Hackathon, a very loosely connected pool of individuals and groups in 33 countries (and a virtual 'global' Random Hacks of Kindness) including 14 events in the US, locally hosted by Food+Tech Connect, Open Source Cities and GoJee. Through laughter-filled, hard-working thoughtful collaboration, we sought to bring many big ideas to life (one even addressed co-working spaces).
Why all the excitement in the food and tech communities at this time? Well, another term is worth noting: 'Semantic Web', which comprises a group of methods and technologies allowing machines to understand the meaning – or "semantics" – of information. The more computers can comprehend data, the more effectively data can be passed along, or integrated in contexts.
As this Semantic Web (sometimes called Web 3.0) emerges, the US government is currently in the vanguard of this new technology space. Largely ignored by the media, the Obama administration early on hired the first-ever Chief Information Officer of the US, Vivek Kundra. His team launched Data.gov, which hosts demonstrations and documents to help familiarize Data.gov users with this new technology. This in turn is encouraging citizens and developers to work with the government to create a new generation of 'linked data' mash ups. This vast well of fast-growing data benefits food, water and energy advocacy. (Drop a zipcode into the Environmental Protection Agency's 'My Environment' to get an idea of the value of available info; or check out the Department of Energy's 'Information Bridge,' a widget people can embed on their web or blog page for easy access to DOE documents and info.)
Growing up in Iowa near large areas of Amish communities, I was privilege to witnessing barns built in a day. So I could easily let this post be about the majesty of group collaboration and the patriotism of volunteer advocacy, but I'll trust that the results of this 'hackathon' will sufficiently inspire you.
Saturday's event began too early for many of us, including my colleague (and GRACE program director) Destin Joy Layne and me, who dragged our caffeinated best-selves to SoHo, and by 8:15 am, we had hit the ground running, reviewing the ideas and concepts that people had submitted to the event's wiki page in the days preceding the event. We broke into groups and began to work.
The group I worked on became a project we ended up calling WE MAKE FOOD, which sought to develop an application and directory of resources for small-batch, local food producers which would also provide a searchable directory of producers for consumers (and could compliment and interact with a number of existing resources, including the Eat Well Guide).
Our process was to break our team into smaller groups of specialized disciplines. One task was to gather useful resources, the other, to structure the site in a way that makes it easy to use. While our web developer peers built the tech foundation, we combined our varied professional expertise and knowledge of existing online resources (such as Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Science's excellent New York State Food Venture Center) and reached out to farm-to-table and nutrition experts in the field of small business food production.
After a lunch break sponsored by GRACE featuring 4food, and their creative sustainable cuisine, we dove back in (later enjoying delicious mid-afternoon snacks, thanks to Nichelle Stephens.
At 7pm, the groups began presenting the fruit of their labors. Of the concepts, several were in good enough shape for public demonstrations. Among them:
- CSA Tool
This app provides open data sources about Community Supported Agriculture by networking community centers, vacant lots, unused government buildings and co-working spaces.
- NYC Community Garden Map
This team created a gorgeous and informative interactive map that also supports a directory of resources for community gardens, and increases awareness of community gardens by residents. Check out their 'edible gardens info', which shows the percentage of NYC gardens that grow edible food. (Yes, that's per garden, not an average.)
The goal is to link consumers to buy 'shares' of whole animals directly from farmers. Check out the working demo, which features an elegant sliding scale allowing users to price by cut of meat.
This site uses aggregated USDA data to illustrate how the operating costs for milk producers vary regionally over time.
This app plans to allow you to search to find what you want to eat, when you want it – by menu item, not just type of cuisine. The example of the carnivores' difficulty of finding restaurants that serve grass-fed steak was described as reason for building the app.
If all the above wasn't enough, we also enjoyed a mid-day break – a talk from Dominic Difranzo of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute regarding his primary research in the Data.gov Wiki Project – about how huge amounts of data are being converted into Semantic formats. If you're following the Semantic Web development, you'll really like his talk, captured by Danielle Gould and viewable on her terrific Food+Tech Connect blog.
These fresh-hatched ideas are ready to continue to grow, thanks to the Semantic Web/Web 3.0 developments. They demonstrate that we can look forward to a freeing of human data far exceeding anything in human history.
Whether or not the media or history books will credit the Obama administration for the Open Government Initiative, the program will continue to inspire countless society-changing initiatives. And had you asked any of the attendees of the hackathon, you would have been told that organizers of the New York event (Danielle Gould, Marc Alt, Steve McGrath, Tian He) deserve credit, too.
By the time 8pm rolled around, no one was tired from a twelve-hour workday – everyone was too inspired – from hacking for a better world.


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Celebrating 50 years of computing at UNC-Chapel Hill
The official celebration was held March 18, 2010, 2 to 3:15 p.m. in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium at the FedEx Global Education Center. See the University Gazette article for more information. There's also an article in the Alumni Review. Videos from the event and more information is available at its.unc.edu/cio/cc@50.
The Univac 1105 was installed in Phillips Hall in August 1959, and the Computation Center was dedicated March 30, 1960. This site contains several photos of the 1105, the Computation Center dedication program (which describes the speed and capacity the $2,450,000 machine), a Timeline, history, and much, much more.
Interested folks are adding more information and memories that record the history of computing on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The current main source is four boxes of materials in the University Archives from the Computation Center, now Information Technology Services.
We invite you to register and join the content development effort, adding materials from other departments and your personal memories. You can add new content, add to the Timeline, add photos, and edit to add or correct information. Instructions for adding information and editing are provided in Help, which has a link in the blue bar on the top of each page. If you have any problems, click Contact us and let us know.
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After two vehicles cut off Cardoso's car, two unidentified assassins opened fire with AK-47 assault rifles, killing him instantly and seriously wounding his driver, according to local and international news reports.
The Mozambican government quickly condemned Cardoso's assassination and promised to carry out a full investigation.
Cardoso, 48, was an experienced investigative journalist who had become one of Mozambique's foremost media personalities. He was internationally acclaimed for his groundbreaking reporting on political corruption and organized crime in Mozambique, a country that is still recovering from a brutal, 17-year civil war.
Earlier in his career, Cardoso served as editor and later director of the Mozambique state news agency AIM, from which he resigned in 1989. Before founding Metical in 1998, Cardoso ran another independent fax newsletter, Mediafax, which he launched in 1992. He sympathized politically with the ruling FRELIMO party but often lambasted the government in his editorials.
One week before his death, Cardoso started a campaign against what he called the "gangster faction" in FRELIMO, which he accused of provoking recent political violence in the country. Metical had also been reporting aggressively on alleged wrongdoing at the Mozambique Commercial Bank (BCM), according to the London-based anti-censorship organization ARTICLE 19.
On the day of Cardoso's assassination, unknown attackers slashed the tongue of Radio Mozambique journalist Custadio Rafael for "speaking too much," according to news reports. Rafael had also been investigating the BCM scandal.
Local human rights groups, government officials, and opposition leaders all condemned the killing. Outside Mozambique, the U.S. State Department, the European Union, and several African nations denounced Cardoso's murder as a serious setback to press freedom in Mozambique.
On November 24, a group of 500 outraged local journalists and citizens marched from the headquarters of the Mozambican Journalists Union in downtown Maputo to the site of Cardoso's assassination in the suburb of Polana.
In March 2001, Mozambican authroities arrested Momade Abdul Satar, his brother Ayob Abdul Satar, and Vincente Ramaya, a local bank official, and charged them with ordering Cardoso's murder. Police also arrested three young men from the Maputo underworld alleged to have carried out the assassination. Both the Satars and Ramaya were involved in a money laundering scandal at BCM dating back to 1996, which Metical covered aggressively. Authorities said the Satars and their accomplices killed Cardoso because of Metical's coverage of that banking fraud.


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I am so excited to finally have this piece of evidence. But there is one problem. Why didn't I ever think to get his Indiana death certificate before now? For one I didn't know his date of death. I finally found it this spring when I finally ordered some FHL microfilm. But for some reason I never considered that he would have a state death certificate. I hate to say that I think it's because it wasn't online.
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I feel you with the not ordering because it's not online. That's great you got the info you needed! I hope that now I've realized I should be ordering my great grandmother's death certificate from the city of Detroit and not the state of Michigan that I will now receive it and find out (I hope!) the names of her parents.ReplyDelete
Great news, it is always wonderful to get the actual certificate with some additional information you can use. I see, it also shows where he was buried!ReplyDelete
I love the sound of tumbling bricks...even if it's only in my imagination! Congrats!ReplyDelete
Congratulations!! Not to worry about why you didn't make the request sooner; the important thing is that you did it and got wonderful results!!ReplyDelete
Congrats....I think I can see your smile over my computer screen.ReplyDelete
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James Patterson, in an unprecedented act of good will, is giving $1,000,000 to more than 50 indie bookstores.
It's a generous act.
It's also a misguided one.
Last year, Patterson committed another misguided act, buying an ad in the NYT asking who will save our books, our bookstores, and our libraries, and then suggesting the government needed to step in.
He was wrong, and I explained why in great detail.
I'm going to quote Patterson from the recent NYT article, and from things he said on NPR, and show why he's wrong once again.
Patterson: We're in a juncture right now where bookstores as we have known them are at risk. Libraries as we've known them are at risk, publishers are at risk, American literature is at risk, as we've known it, and getting kids reading is at risk.
Joe: I agree legacy bookstores are at risk. They're at risk because people are buying their books online, and in different formats than paper. That doesn't equate to books becoming extinct. It indicates a change in customer preference, both where people buy their reading material, and what format they buy it in.
Libraries, like Bibliotech in Texas, are able to directly meet the new demand. For the link-lazy, this is what Bibliotech is doing:
Provide all Bexar County residents the opportunity to access technology and its applications for the purposes of enhancing education and literacy, promoting reading as recreation and equipping residents of our community with necessary tools to thrive as citizens of the 21st century.
Through BiblioTech, residents of Bexar County will be able to access over 10,000 current titles through e-readers that they can check out to take home or read on the premises. Residents will also be able to use their own e-readers or tablets to access the collection.
BiblioTech currently has 600 e-readers, 200 pre-loaded enhanced e-readers for children, 48 computer stations, 10 laptops and 40 tablets to use on-site. Additional e-reading accommodations will be made for the visually impaired.
Am I the only one who wants to live in Bexar County?
So, no, I don't believe libraries are at risk. Nor do I believe American literature is at risk. Books are written by authors, who are able to self-publish. More American literature is available to readers than ever before.
Patterson: (Via CBS Good Morning) If we don't have good publishers, who is going to find the next Infinite Jest or To Kill a Mockingbird?
Joe: The readers, Jim. You know, the ones who have embraced those books and made them bestsellers.
Patterson: The government has stepped in to help banks, automobiles, anything where money is concerned, but nobody seems to care about books and our bookstores. And I'm telling you, American literature is in jeopardy.
Joe: Jim, once again you're conflating brick and mortar bookstores closing with books no longer being available. Amazon is a bookstore. Ebooks are books.
Asking the government to bail out a business model that is no longer attracting enough customers to support itself is just throwing taxpayer money away.
I like bookstores. I've visited over 1200 of them. I also liked record stores, and my 35mm camera, and renting VHS tapes. But I didn't call for the government to save Tower Records, Kodak, and Blockbuster when customers' preferences changed.
Books are still selling very well. Authors are doing well. Middlemen such as publishers and indie bookstores are no longer needed to fulfill the public need for books.
I understand that brick and mortar bookstores and publishers helped make you very rich. It's nice that you want to help them out. But stop confusing the trouble they're in with literature being in jeopardy. Literature is not in jeopardy. The way customers acquire literature is changing. That's all.
According to NPR, Patterson will give up to $15k to each store on his list.
Patterson: It ranges from Andover Bookstore, where a son and daughter wrote and their father hadn't had a raise since 1988. ... Children's Bookstore in Baltimore, they give books to schools and they want the kids to be able to keep the books. Book Passage out in California will do more book fairs with it. Little Shop of Stories down in Decatur, Ga., they're buying a bookmobile.
Joe: You're doing a nice thing, Jim. But is it a smart thing?
If a store has been having difficulty since 1988, $15k won't do much to help it. I don't want to be cruel, but perhaps it is time to pull the plug. No one owes anyone a living. My father was a small businessman who owned several shops. It was his dream, and his passion. Not all were profitable, and he closed the ones that weren't. That's how business works.
Giving books to schools is noble. I've donated a few thousand dollars to www.firstbook.org, giving books to children. But I also bought my grandchildren tablets for the holidays. Let them download the ebooks they want. Ebooks they'll own forever (unlike my childhood books, which were read to pieces).
And bookmobiles? Driving paper books around in a truck to sell to people sounds labor intensive and expensive. With a Kindle, there are no dead trees, no fossil fuels, a much bigger selection, and instant delivery.
Perhaps that's why ereaders far outnumber bookmobiles.
Again, I'm not trying to be mean here. But perhaps we should listen to what readers want, rather than romanticize the days of old.
Patterson: I just want to get people more aware and involved in what's going on here, which is that, with the advent of e-books, we either have a great opportunity or a great problem.
Joe: If you consider ebooks a problem and are truly concerned about the future of bookstores, you could always refuse to release your work in ebook format, Jim. I'm guessing you earn more on ebooks annually than the $1M you're giving to bookstores.
If you consider ebooks an opportunity, and want to help children learn to read, I bet www.firstbook.org would accept a donation of 100,000 Kindles from you, loaded with all of your children and YA work. I bet that will get kids reading.
Patterson: I'm rich; I don't need to sell more books. But I do think it's essential for kids to read more broadly. And people just need to go into bookstores more. It's not top of mind as much as it used to be.
Joe: Why do people need to go into bookstores more, Jim?
I love booksellers. I thanked thousands of them, by name, in the acknowledgements of my novel Dirty Martini. I've been to a bookseller's wedding. I've gotten more than my fair share of booksellers drunk.
Sometimes, when you love someone, you need to let them go. Life support can be crueler than just allowing nature to take its course.
With the advent of tablets and ereading devices, there is effectively a bookstore in every person's home. And those who can't afford ereaders can borrow them from libraries. Ebooks are cheaper, easier to read (backlights and adjustable fonts), are delivered instantly without having to travel anywhere, and a much wider selection is available on Kindle than in even the largest brick and mortar bookstore.
I tried, years ago, to help booksellers, showing them a plan on how to compete. Not one took me up on my offer.
I've mailed signed books to bookstores, for free. I've signed thousands of bookplates for bookstores. I've signed used books and galleys for booksellers (which they can sell by don't earn me any royalties). But those days are in the past, and nostalgia isn't a good enough reason to invest in an archaic technology.
You're a generous guy, and your heart is in the right place, but you aren't going to change customers' buying preferences by throwing a bit of money around. Bookstores won't be saved by your $1M, or by a government bail out. They'll continue to exist only if customers continue to support them. And customers are voting with their wallets.
If I were a cynical man, I'd believe this offer of yours is a PR stunt. $1M is a nice, large number, but you reportedly make over $90M a year, so this isn't straining you financially. So you make this donation, get a lot of press, and both publishers and bookstores love you for it, while you slyly resuscitate the meme that ebooks and self-publishing and Amazon are bad--zombie talking points that further the legacy agenda. As a former ad man, you know how publicity works. And at the end of your CBS piece, you hawked your newest novel. I bet all those bookstores you're helping will be selling more of your backlist than ever before. You've certainly incentivized them to.
Maybe that isn't the point, and you truly are worried about the state of American literature. But you mistakenly believe indie bookstores are somehow the guardians of it.
They aren't. Good books, and good authors, will survive without bookstores. In fact, more than ever before are thriving in this new environment.
Your agenda is wrong, Jim. If your main concern was getting kids to read, and making sure American literature survives, there are much better ways to spend $1M. Like gifting Kindles to needy kids, or running your own book club or imprint. I believe these are just flowery talking points for your ultimate agenda, which is to make sure paper continues to remain the dominant format for your books.
See, you have a huge advantage over me in paper. Your books are available everywhere, often heavily discounted. You don't want to lose that advantage, because on Amazon, you and I have the same amount of shelf space. Naturally you want the status quo to continue, because it has made you wealthy. Of course you want as many outlets for your work to exist as possible.
Because if more and more bookstores close, and more and more readers switch to ebooks, all of that shelf space real estate you once owned becomes worthless. If spending $1M and doing a media tour helps bookstores stay around a bit longer, you're directly helping yourself.
There's nothing wrong with that. But let's tell it like it is, and drop the "save literature" and "it's for the children" talking points.
BTW, I predicted this in 2011. One day, Jim, you will be self-publishing your new release as a $2.99 ebook. The bookstores that still exist might complain, but when they're no longer a viable revenue stream for you, you'll go where the money is. Like any smart businessman does. Of course, that will also mean abandoning your publisher, but that's fodder for another blog post.
You can't stop technology. You can't change customer preference. And you're not going to get caught on the losing side of a revolution.
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What is your opinion of the boycott of the Oscars by black actors?
For me, I don't get it. Why does a black HAVE to be included? Maybe there just was not any that were worthy of a nomination this year.
It just makes me nuts that just because someone is black that they should be nominated. A strong and Oscar worthy performance should get you nominated. NOT THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN
And the "I didn't do shit, I'm just black Oscar goes to" ........ To satisfy the PC pussies the Academy should give everyone a "Participation Oscar."
As an aside, currently the statuettes are all one color. A definite lack of diversity.
If you could reason with Liberals there wouldn't be any.
I'm so over the racism crap in this country.....all I hear now is "blah blah blah" I just don't care....and its nobodies fault but theirs
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Tri Fly Fitness is a brand new concept myself and my partner Emma have created. It's a combination of Yoga, Dance Fitness and Aerial Circus. We use a fabric swing attached to the ceiling to perform exercises using gravity.
here are two clips that give you some sort of idea of what we do:
here is the template for the design of our website and the colours we will be using:
We are young, fresh and funky and would like our style to reflect that. Its fun, exciting fitness!
We chose the name TRI FLY FITNESS as what we do is like flying and tri is a play on words like try to fly. It also encompasses the three (tri) genres of fitness we want to target – Fitness/Dance – Yoga – Aerial Circus
Our target market is the existing fitness industry. We are looking to attract men and women between the ages of 16-60. These people are cool and funky. They like trying some thing new and go to fitness classes already. This will also be targeted at the yoga and circus industries who tend to be a little hippy and spiritual. How ever we could like to reflect all three industries.
We would like a logo and a basic letter head and business card, but the logo is the most importanat.
Here is the colours of the site:
The Logo;
It needs to show what we do. I have attached some pictures of people in positions in the swing. What I do not want is a silhouette of this, this is just and idea. I would like some sort of design to show flying in a swing, perhaps with wings, pilot wings or arms out in the flying position, it really is up to you. Think flying, yoga, Circus, Fitness upside down or in the superman position and a swing.
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Tri Fly Fitness
Web: http://www.triflyfitness.com
Email: email@example.com
Telephone: 07796906256
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Joshua Tree spider species named for U2's Bono
JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — It appeared Bono and arachnids didn't mix when his "Spider-Man" musical had a rough Broadway run, but that didn't keep a biologist from naming an actual spider species after the U2 singer.
Jason Bond of Alabama's Auburn University has identified 33 new species of trapdoor spider, including three of them in the California desert at Joshua Tree National Park. The park's namesake is featured in the title and cover of U2's 1987 album, "The Joshua Tree."
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports that Bond named two of the spiders after Indian tribes and one, A. bonoi, after Bono.
Bond has named other spider species after Angelina Jolie, Cesar Chavez and Stephen Colbert.
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The Colors and original concept for the design are mine (from a character concept by Jack Norris). The Inks are by Jesse Justice, and the original pencils are Denise Jones.
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PBS has yet to air the fourth season of "Downton Abbey," but already has announced that its biggest hit ever will be back for a fifth season.
The British series, which recently completed its fourth season on Britain's ITV network, has become an international phenomenon and a huge hit for PBS. Earlier this year, more than 24 million viewers watched Season 3 in the U.S., making it the most-watched drama in PBS history.
Season 4 (trailer above) debuts on PBS's "Masterpiece" at 8 p.m. CST Jan. 5.
"As American audiences ready themselves for the January 5th premiere of Season 4, our devoted 'Downton' fans will rest easy knowing that a fifth season is on the way," "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton said in a release.
For the uninitiated, "Downton Abbey" tells the story of the aristocratic Crawley family and its "below stairs" staff living in the family's country estate called Downton Abbey. It's set during the early 20th century, when war, new attitudes, and political/social upheaval changed the British class system forever.
"Like millions of other Downton fans, I can't wait to see what's next for the Crawley family," said Paula Kerger, president and CEO of PBS. "PBS is proud to be the home of this extraordinarily entertaining series, and, along with our stations, we look forward to sharing Season 5 with U.S. audiences."
Written and created by Julian Fellowes, "Downton Abbey" has won Golden Globe and Emmy awards since debuting in 2010.
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