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Appendix 4 - The case against R.P. Hinks, and his reply
Letter to R. P. Hinks from E. J. Forsdyke.
8th November, 1938
R. P. Hinks, Esq.,
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Dear Hinks,
I enclose extracts from the Report of the Trustees' Board of Enquiry into the damage done to the Parthenon sculpture, which refer to your own part in this matter. They are in effect a charge of neglect of duty against you.
You should let me have your answer to the charge in writing before Saturday next, November 12th, in order that the Standing Committee may consider it with the Board of Enquiry's report. You should also be ready to appear before the Standing Committee at that time, in case they wish to examine your case further.
Yours sincerely,
E. J. Forsdyke
Director and Principal Librarian
Mr. R. P. Hinks
The portions of the Parthenon sculptures in question are three in number, namely, the Selene horse's head, the Helios group and the figure of Iris, all belonging to the East Pediment. On the 16th of September Mr. Pryce left the Museum on short holiday leave. The three pieces of sculpture were then in their proper places in the Elgin Room. Before he went away Mr. Pryce gave no instructions either to Mr. Hinks, who took charge in his absence, or to anyone else with regard to either moving the sculptures or cleaning them beyond a direction to Holcombe to prepare a mounting for the Iris figure which involved its removal from the pedestal. While Mr. Pryce was absent it came to the notice of the Director on the evening of Thursday, 22nd September, that tools had been used in the cleaning of the Parthenon sculptures. He instructed Mr. Hinks on the morning of 23rd September to see that improper methods were not being used. On Sunday, 25th September the Director happened to have occasion to pass through the basement of the Department. He was surprised to find there the Helios group in process of cleaning. On the bench he observed a number of copper tools and a piece of coarse carborundum, and from the appearance of the sculptures he at once saw that tools had been used on the sculptures. On Monday morning, 26th September, the Iris was found by Mr. Hinks to be undergoing similar treatment in an annex of the new Duveen Gallery, and the Selene horse's head in the Foreman Mason's workshop.
Although Holcombe denied that he had used any copper tool in cleaning the horse's head, which he dealt with himself personally, the Board are satisfied that copper tools were used by Holcombe and the labourers under him in cleaning all the three pieces of sculpture in question. Holcombe admitted that apart from the instruction to prepare a mounting for the Iris figure he had received no specific instructions from the Keeper or the Assistant Keeper either to remove or to clean the sculptures. He appears to have assumed that he was at liberty to proceed at his own hand with the process of removing and cleaning. He apparently had obtained some strips or rods of copper from the store and had fashioned those into tools of various shapes by flattening and sharpening the ends. He said that he had used similar tools on other occasions for cleaning marble and he apparently regarded himself as entitled to use them on the Parthenon sculptures. No effort was made to conceal them and they were lying exposed to full view on the bench when the Director first observed them.
While the damage to the sculptures was directly occasioned by the unauthorised actions of Holcombe, it is impossible to acquit the Keeper and the Assistant Keeper of serous dereliction of duty. Their main responsibility is the preservation and protection of the valuable works of art committed to their care. Nevertheless, owing to absence of direction and to inefficiency of supervision in the Department, Holcombe was able to remove the Helios group and the Selene horse's head, and to undertake the cleaning of all the three sculptures in question at his own hand without the knowledge of either the Keeper or the Assistant Keeper who was in charge of the Department at the time. This can only be taken as indicating a most unfortunate slackness and want of system in the administration of the Department.
As regards Mr. Hinks, who entered the employment of the Museum on 18th January, 1926 and was promoted to his present rank on 22nd June, 1936, the Board find that in his case there was serous dereliction of duty. He was in charge of the Department when Holcombe removed the sculptures in question and set about cleaning them and yet he was quite unaware either of their removal or of the starting of the cleaning process. If he had been maintaining proper supervision he could not have failed to be aware of what was happening. Yet it was not till after the Director had discovered the mischief that Mr. Hinks, for the first time during Mr. Pryce's absence, visited the masons' workshop. He failed to carry out at once the orders given to him by the Director and he did not indicate any realisation of the seriousness of the matter. Being interested in other sections of the Department he appears to have shown little concern as to the Parthenon sculptures which were under his charge while Mr. Pryce was on leave.
Mr. R. P. Hinks 11 November 1938
The Director has communicated to me the sections of the Report of the Trustees' Board of Enquiry into the damage done to the Parthenon sculpture, which refer to my own part in the matter; and has instructed me to make a statement regarding what is in effect a charge of neglect of duty against me.
In accordance with these instructions I beg leave to submit to the Standing Committee the following answer to the charge of serious dereliction of duty, in failing to maintain proper supervision of the workshops during the period when I was in charge of the Department, in failing to carry out at once the orders given to me by the Director to enquire into the conduct of the workshops, and in failing to indicate any realization of the seriousness of the situation discovered by the Director.
It appears to me that these charges may best be answered by a detailed account of the sequence of events during the time when the Department was in my care.
On 29 August last I returned to the Museum after five weeks' leave of absence, partly on official duty, in Northern Europe. From then until the Keeper went away on 16 September I was occupied in arranging and labelling the Bronze room, and in revising the Catalogue of Bronzes, as well as in dealing with my share in the general work of the Department which had accumulated during my absence abroad.
When I took charge of the Department on 16 September the political crisis was rapidly developing. I conceived it to be my first duty to make arrangements for the safeguarding of the immediately movable and especially fragile and precious objects in the Gold Ornament Room, the Terracotta Room, the Bronze Room, and the Vase Rooms. I instructed Mr. Robertson to take charge of the vases, and devoted myself to the gems and gold ornaments, the bronzes, and the terracottas. On looking into the departmental records, I found that the salvage-lists were insufficiently detailed and explicit; and I accordingly drew up new lists, with instructions where to find the appropriate keys and other equipment. I made out detailed directions for the salvage, in case of emergency, of the Gold Ornament Room; and I drew a plan of the Bronze Room, in order to show the sequence in which its contents were to be removed. I measured the cases in the Gold Ornament Room and the Bronze Room, in order to ascertain how many boxes would be needed for the storage of their contents. I made arrangements with the Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals to borrow surplus medal cabinets for the immediate disposal of the gold ornaments and gems; and I assembled in the Fourth Vase Room Annexe such packing cases as were forthwith available for the reception of the select bronzes. I also attended to the Keeper's correspondence, as well as my own, and other departmental affairs during the Keeper's absence.
Downstairs, in accordance with the Keeper's instructions, I superintended the work of Fisher and Brennan, who were engaged in mounting various pieces of sculpture. I also visited the Annexe of the new Elgin Room, to inspect the Iris from the East Pediment, whose base was to be measured for the cutting of a template, but no work was yet in progress. I noticed that some washing of the lower part of the figure had recently taken place; but as I had just been away for several weeks, and as I assumed that the cleaning of this figure, like that of the rest of the Parthenon sculpture, was contemplated before removal to the new room, I was not surprised to find that the work had been started. I did not observe any signs that unauthorized methods of cleaning had been used, nor were there then any tools or other materials laid out on the trestle on which the figure stood. I did not then pass through Holcombe's shop or the other basements, because I had received no instructions from the Keeper that any work was to be in progress there. In short, I did not spend as much time in the basement as I should have spent there in normal circumstances, because I judged that my first duty during these critical days was to superintend the safeguarding of the collections in the upper rooms, for which the Director had already issued general instructions.
On the afternoon of 23 September (not the morning of that day, as stated in the Report), I asked to see the Director on various matters of departmental business. He received me about 3.30 p.m. We discussed first the estimates for the printing of the Guide to the Department; then the redecoration of the Third Graeco-Roman Room; then the provision of packing cases and packing materials for the storage of the contents of the upper rooms in case of emergency, the Director giving me various instructions in connexion therewith. The Director then mentioned the cleaning of the Elgin marbles, and expressed concern at the appearance of some of the slabs of the frieze. He repeated the conviction of the Trustees that nothing but the method of cleaning invented by Dr. Plenderleith should be employed on the marbles, even if this did not achieve the degree of whiteness desired by Lord Duveen. He then expressed his own fear that unauthorized methods might already have been employed on the frieze, especially the use of metal scrapers and abrasives. He then instructed me to look into this matter.
On the morning of Saturday, 24 September, in accordance with the usual practice of the Department no washing or moving of sculpture was due to take place. Following the Director's instructions of the previous afternoon, I saw Holcombe in the Third Graeco-Roman Room, and ordered him to move and cover two pieces of sculpture by the doorway, before the builders arrived to take down the pediment which the Director had ordered to be removed; and also to detach a number of reliefs from the wall, in accordance with the Keeper's instructions, confirmed by the Director. I then examined the slabs of the frieze indicated by the Director; but although I noticed the whiteness of which the Director complained, I could not discover any evidence that unauthorized methods of cleaning had been used, and could form no opinion whether or not this degree of whiteness was obtainable by Dr. Plenderleith's method, unassisted by abrasion. As the political situation was by then becoming increasingly serious, I returned to the Office of the Department to make arrangements for the provision of boxes and packing materials of various kinds, also in accordance with the Director's instructions of the previous afternoon.
Immediately on reaching the Museum on Monday morning, 26 September I went down to Holcombe's shop in order to investigate the methods of cleaning in use. I found Holcombe washing the head of Selene's horse. When I came into the room, he was using Dr. Plenderleith's method in the approved way; but he had on the bench various copper tools, a piece of abrasive stone, and various tins of powdery substance. When I questioned him about the tools, he denied having used them on the head. I told him on no account to use them, and ordered him to remove from the bench the tins of powder and the abrasive stone. When I asked what the powder was, he replied evasively that he did not know, and that it was something left over from Pinker's time. My suspicions were then aroused, and I went at once to the Elgin Room Annexe, where I found two labourers washing the figure of Iris and using copper tools on the drapery, although Holcombe had told me the moment before that they were on their honour to use nothing but Dr. Plenderleith's method. I told them to stop work, and set out to report the matter at once to the Director. I met him by chance in the galleries. He then told me that he had given orders for all washing to be stopped; and when I returned at once to Holcombe's shop and the Elgin Ante-Room, I found that the Director's message had just arrived. I then wrote a letter containing an interim report to the Director; and asked the Keeper on the telephone to return at once.
On Tuesday, 27 September, the Keeper returned from leave, and I reported to him at once what had been happening, and asked him to see the Director immediately.
Meanwhile, the crisis had become acute; and Mr. Robertson and I completed our precautionary measures during the ensuing days. On Saturday, 1 October, the crisis being then over, I went away for a week's leave, returning to the Museum on Monday, 10 October.
During the ten days while I was in charge of the Department the risk of an immediate outbreak of war led me to decide what the most urgent need of the moment was to make all possible arrangements for the instant evacuation of the upper rooms on the outbreak of hostilities. No plans had been communicated to me for the safeguarding of the sculpture galleries, whereas the necessity for the clearing of the upper rooms was the subject of several orders from the Director's office. My answer, therefore, to the charge of neglect of duty must be that I believed that in these exceptional circumstances the first duty of the responsible officer irrespective of his specialist qualifications, was to devote himself to the safeguarding of the collections in the upper rooms, in accordance with the explicit instructions of the Director. This was my reason for devoting myself first and foremost to the most vulnerable part of the collection, and for paying less attention than I should have paid in normal conditions to the work in progress downstairs.
R. P. Hinks
Letter from Hinks to the Director
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
British Museum
London W.C.1. 8 December 1938
My dear Director,
I have given further careful thought to the charge of serious dereliction of duty in the Board of Enquiry's Interim Report on Damage done to the Parthenon Sculpture; and I wish to make a further statement in answer to that charge.
You will remember that I was absent from the Museum on sick leave from the end of September 1936 until the middle of March 1937, except for a short interval in December. On returning to duty, my first care was to make up as far as possible for the time lost during my illness by devoting myself principally to the tasks which the Keeper had entrusted to me: namely, the redecoration and rearrangement of the Bronze Room and the revision of the Catalogue of Bronzes.
During the Keeper's absence on subsequent occasions I attended to his instructions about the cleaning, repairing, and mounting of various pieces of sculpture. On no occasion did the Keeper instruct me to supervise the washing of the Parthenon sculpture; and I inferred from this - mistakenly, as I now see - that the routine which you had introduced was being followed and that the safeguards which you had devised were being maintained.
Events have unhappily shown that I should have given more general and more constant supervision to the work in progress in the masons' shops; and I wish to take this opportunity of expressing my profound regret for the damage which, through this failure of mine, was done to the Parthenon sculpture during the time when I had charge of the Department.
In view of the strictures upon my conduct in the Board of Enquiry's Interim Report, and the lack of confidence which they imply, I believe that the Trustees will expect me to tender my resignation; and I therefore beg that you will place my position unreservedly in their hands.
Yours sincerely,
R. P. Hinks


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Grrr - I accidentally hit Publish instead of Save a bit earlier today so if you read that version on a feed it was just the first few draft paragraphs. Oh and since I'm editorializing here - the snapshots below are all pilfered from the internet - not my own. One of these days I'm gonna set my screen/video capture stuff back up. But not today! And since this is a newer game I'll try to keep it spoiler-free, although that does handcuff me on a few things...
I just finished playing Bioshock Infinite on the PS3 and it was a fun game with a good story. Do I consider it worthy of the lofty 9.5-10 ratings that many critics are giving it? Well no, not quite that high for me personally - so if you're a huge rabid fan of the game you might think my minor criticisms are heresy. But hey just because I don't think it's a 10 doesn't mean I'm trashing it. Since when did an 8.4 rating for a well-received game become a bad thing?
The game takes place in the early 1900's and you are Booker Dewitt, a Pinkerton detective who has apparently done some shameful things and fallen on hard times. Booker has built up a large gambling debt to some bad people and at the beginning of the game you are directed to "bring us the girl, and wipe away the debt" - an imperative that is repeated throughout the game. So you are off to bring back (rescue? kidnap?) a girl named Elizabeth who you quickly learn is being held in a city called Columbia which floats in the sky. The girl turns out to have the power to open "tears" in the fabric of the universe and not only see into alternate timelines but also bring things over from them or pass through the tear itself to visit the alternate universe. The rest of the game deals with your efforts to take this girl out of Columbia while hordes of steampunkian loons are trying to kill you. And between firefights you struggle to piece together bits and pieces of this mysterious narrative as you go along.
Everyone knows I'm a sucker for game trailers so here is the TV spot that first grabbed my attention. None of this is actually in-game footage, but it actually does a great job of capturing the general feel of the game. I kinda like the song too - although I've never heard the whole thing.
The gameplay is virtually identical to what you experienced in the first Bioshock, so if you liked that one you should definitely like this one as well. If you never played the original Bioshock - well it's considered a classic and lucky for you it is included in the PS3 version of the game so you can play both of them for the price of one! Anyway, Infinite has the exact same kind of smooth FPS gunplay and same kind of genetic powers although this time they are derived from "vigors and salts" instead of "plasmids and eve" (six of one half-dozen of the other).
This makes for some pretty cool fights against large groups of baddies, but it does tend to get repetitive after a while as did the original Bioshock - one of my all-time favorites on the XBox 360 by the way. But of course you can level that criticism at most games, the key is whether or not the game can keep you from thinking "ok this is starting to get a little repetitive" and I did find myself saying that a few times here. Not a lot, as the story keeps things progressing pretty well, but a few times. There weren't any real boss-battles to speak of - mostly just hordes of small to medium-sized baddies. I think one or two bosses or maybe a cinematic set piece here and there would have helped break it up.
So the basic program is something like this.
A common criticism I have about these kinds of games is that even though you have a large variety of weapons and powers to use, there is often no real reason to vary your use of them. You could pretty much just grab a machine gun and use nothing else for the entire game. No real need for different guns, melee, vigors, etc. You don't even really need to use your vigors at all, a fact the game designers were apparently aware of as on multiple occasions when I'm mowing down enemies the message flashes on the screen "Don't forget to use your vigors!". The game should not have to tell me to not forget to use something I don't need to use - the game should find a way to make me need to use it. There were a few exceptions, but generally speaking I would've liked to have seen a little more situational need for a particular gun or power to mix it up a bit. I assume if I ratcheted up the difficulty the need for strategic use of weapons and vigors would increase, but even then is there any major reason to use "charge" instead of "devil's kiss" instead of "possession"? I pretty much just started using the vigors randomly so I could see what they all do.
Once you break her out of her prison, Elizabeth is at your side for almost the entire game. But you aren't forced to protect her - in fact she never even takes any damage whatsoever during fights. She pretty much just takes cover and throws you health, salts and ammo as you need them which is very useful. She can also open tears and bring things through like gun turrets that will fire at your enemies or cover you can hide behind - VERY useful! Unfortunately she can only open one tear at a time. And she continually finds money and other things lying around when you are just exploring and throws those to you as well if you want them (and why exactly would you turn down free money?). So she keeps you pretty well stocked in the essentials. And of course she also helps feed you bits of the narrative as you go along which is the key driving force in the game - even though she doesn't know the full story herself until the very end.
One cool gimmick is the system of roller-coaster like "skylines" set up around the city that allow you to ride them with a grappling hook that you obtain early in the game. This makes for some fun action during some of the fights, but unfortunately in most cases the skylines are isolated loops around particular buildings or small areas so again you can't really use them to explore the city you just loop around one small area during that part of the linear story. I think it would have been more fun if you could explore the whole city on them like you could on the trains of Infamous for example.
They completely did away with the hacking puzzle minigame that was used in the original Bioshock - and I kind of missed it. I've seen this kind of mini-game tactic employed in several games and I thought the original Bioshock implemented it extremely well. But in Infinite you "hacked" a mechanized gun by shooting it with the "possession" vigor and you opened locks by asking Elizabeth to pick the lock. The lockpicks are scattered everywhere so you never run out of them and thus that little mechanic felt like an unnecessary inclusion. I can only assume that the lockpicks are more sparsely available if you play through on a higher difficulty.
The story is both the strength of the game and also where I think it is most overrated. So forgive me if I sound a bit snarky here in places as I really did quite enjoy the tale but feel the need to take the unfettered universal praise down just a notch here.
The setting for the great majority of the game is Columbia, an impressive early 20th century American city that floats in the sky and is ruled by "The Prophet", who has some pretty rigid ideas about religion, patriotism, and race. There are some that are not down with his views so in addition to the native elite you also have to deal with the revolutionaries - but any moral distinction between the two factions is lost as it appears that they are all nutjobs and would very much enjoy killing you.
Columbia is populated with all sorts of technologically anachronistic devices. One of my favorite moments of the game is a small part at the very beginning when a jet-powered barge flies alongside you during a carnival and a barbershop quartet starts singing the Beach Boys' God Only Knows - not a big Beach Boys guy, but I've always been a sucker for harmony.
There are several different floating pieces to the city that make for cool environmental eye candy but you aren't really allowed to explore many of them so even though the setting has an open-world veneer it is in actuality quite linear. Which is OK by me as I usually find most so-called "open-world" games somewhat boring as they tend to lean far too much on meaningless tangential exploration to the detriment of the core story. Still, I found it a little disappointing at the beginning when I hurdled over a fenced edge into the sky to what should have been a fairly easy drop to a slightly lower floating building only to suddenly reappear back where I had jumped.
A minor thing that bugged me was that the vigors never really seemed to fit in for me in the context of this universe like they did in Rapture. In Rapture everyone was preoccupied with improving themselves to some sort of perfection through chemistry and technology so the practice of monkeying around with one's own DNA to gain bizarre powers seemed a sensible fit. But it just didn't seem to flow in Columbia. First of all, the vigors and salts and vending machines to strengthen them are located EVERYWHERE for the taking, but you rarely come across very many people other than you that use them. I suppose a bunch of racial supremecists would inherently believe their DNA is already superior and thus be hesitant to tinker with it, but it is made widely available and even happily given out for free with no apparent stigma at the carnival at the beginning of the game so that doesn't make sense. And wouldn't a lot of the downtrodden revolutionaries start juicing to kick some vigor ass themselves? It almost felt like the vigors were forced into use simply because Irrational Games knew they were a solid proven fighting mechanic for the franchise. Yeah I know - that's exactly why they are in there. And yeah they're pretty cool so fine, I'll accept the shaky vigors premise.
With Elizabeth's ability to open "tears" into other realities, a large part of the game deals with alternate universes. I'm a sucker for alternate reality/parallel universe stories. Always have been. A Marvel comic book called What If was one of my favorite comic books back in the day. It would chronicle a well-known comic book tale with one small difference, usually at a critical juncture in the timeline, which would inevitably spin the entire tale off into some completely different conclusion - usually with rather dire results. It was one of the few comic books of the time that often had a dark or hopeless ending instead of a feel-good one. Somehow that appealed to me.
Also one of my all-time favorite science fiction novels - well series of novels actually - is the Chronicles of Amber by Roger Zelazny. In it the royal family has the power to alter the reality they are in, not by entering a tear, but by taking a walk and mentally changing small details of their world as they go until they are in an entirely different world. Just a few weeks ago I watched Men In Black 3 - which featured an alien who could open tears of his own into alternate timelines very reminiscent of Elizabeth. The movie involves Agent J being caught in a villainous time-travel scheme and being forced to go back in time to stop it and save his partner Agent K from dying before they met. And even just last night I saw Looper, an alternate timeline-oriented movie which also has a number of parallels with the game. God help me I even enjoyed the Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher - officially the only movie I will ever watch that features him.
So why am I mentioning all this? One - to point out one reason I really enjoyed Bioshock Infinite - I love that kind of stuff. And two - to point out that time travel, alternate universes and time paradoxes have been the core of countless numbers of fanciful tales for a long time and so I feel like Infinite gets a little too much credit on its handling of that front. Still, the wheels may be well-worn but the ride is still exciting and smooth. The ending was particularly good. It was thought-provoking, and even emotion-provoking, rather than your typical final boss-battle. When it flicked to black I sat there quietly just watching the screen for a while absorbing what I had just seen. It was so good that it brought the entire story that led up to it together and bouyed it up to a considerably higher point than it had been for the duration of the game up to that point. Even if I did pretty much see it coming...
And the floating city thing? Well you can go all the way back to Gulliver's Travels for that one. And there have been several other SF/fantasy stories that have used that setting since then. So anyway, I'm not saying the game is cliche - in fact it might be LESS cliche than all the other FPS titles out there - I'm just saying that the fanciful aspect of it is not particularly groundbreaking in its creativity and I would assume that others that have read and seen the same kinds of books and movies that I have might feel similarly.
Finally, the game deals with some weighty themes like racism, revolution, fanaticism, religion and redemption. The conflicting juxtaposition of this seemingly idyllic Rockwellian community in the sky and the rampant racism and violence you soon encounter gives the tale a certain social gravitas that does add to its telling, but in my opinion also leads some reviewers to give it a little more credit than it deserves. To me the story handled those topics in such an over the top caricaturish manner that it seemed a bit amateurish - kind of reminded me of the juvenile sci-fi novels I used to get from RIF at school versus the more mature sci-fi novels intended for adults. The RIF books were a fun read, but the non-juvenile ones handled the storytelling in a more subtle and sophisticated manner. That kind of stuff has been the meat and potatoes for good science fiction for over a century - pick up some Huxley, Wells, Orwell, Heinlein. It brings to mind an episode of Frasier where Frasier and Niles had such fond childhood memories of a fine Shakespearean actor but when they met him again as adults and enticed him to act in a production of theirs they soon realized that his acting was overly exaggerated and melodramatic and they had simply not realized it in their youth. So to some degree I think Bioshock Infinite is that melodramatic Shakespearean actor and the gushing reviewers holding up 10's are the prepubescent Frasier and Niles.
So all that being said, yes it was a very good thought-provoking tale, but the reality is that the story itself, which is being praised as a brilliant masterpiece by most reviewers, would not be rated anywhere nearly as high if it had been presented in the more aged medium of film, and even less so in the grand elder media of a book. The bottom line is it is a good story for a video game. I enjoyed Infinite very much, but with the notable exception of the last hour or so I believe I still enjoyed the original Bioshock.
Graphics = Very good. Not muddy COD realism but more stylistic and colorful which is fine by me.
Sound = Excellent. Great music and sound effects. Some of the tunes during fights felt ripped from Wizard of Oz which fit the setting perfectly. The voice acting was also very strong.
Gameplay = Very good if you like Bioshock FPS play, although can get a little repetitive.
Story = Excellent. Although not as enthralling as some overly emotional reviewers have asserted.
My overall rating = 8.4
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Bioshock Infinite
Grrr - I accidentally hit Publish instead of Save a bit earlier today so if you read that version on a feed it was just the first few draft paragraphs. Oh and since I'm editorializing here - the snapshots below are all pilfered from the internet - not my own. One of these days I'm gonna set my screen/video capture stuff back up. But not today! And since this is a newer game I'll try to keep it spoiler-free, although that does handcuff me on a few things...
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- Fallguy40 said...
It's nice to see games make strides in storytelling. Even if this one doesn't quite live up to the praise, at least it's a step in the right direction as the industry matures.
Games like Bioshock, Mass Effect, and to a lesser extent Uncharted, show you can take the basic repetitive structure of a shooting game and wrap it up with a compelling story to make the sum greater than its parts.
- May 18, 2013 at 5:13 PM
- MadPlanet said...
Agreed Fallguy. More and more it seems that games are paying attention to the importance a strong story to the success of a modern-day game. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a brain-twisting innovative tale - a solid adventure with good character development can make for a fun game. And babes. Stories and babes.
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GwynethJones's curator insight, February 11, 2018 7:50 PM
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@alicekeeler ~ !!!! She's always so spot on!
Tina Jameson's curator insight, January 28, 2018 7:12 PM
Students may have heard of Fake News - opportunity to tie in with lessons on evaluating sources - the importance of been a critical reader, a detective who is prepared to check and challenge resources, and to establish the Trash and the Treasure of what they read.
Rachel Donovan's curator insight, June 3, 2018 7:38 AM
Sites to help students channel their investigating, analysing, evaluating, etc.
Nik Peachey's curator insight, October 16, 2017 8:21 AM
Some links to free tools and resources for writing development.
Nevermore Sithole's curator insight, November 9, 2017 1:42 AM
10 Tools & Resources for Developing Writing Skills
Dr. Theresa Kauffman's curator insight, September 4, 2017 7:19 PM
Share these with your students for improved engagement.
GwynethJones's curator insight, August 19, 2017 9:13 AM
I got this in the mail, too! Looks good! Thanks PBS!
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, June 26, 2017 12:42 PM
Excellent resource. Lots of great stuff out there.
António Leça Domingues's curator insight, June 27, 2017 5:13 AM
Sítios internet para vídeos educativos gratuitos.
Jan Swanepoel's curator insight, May 12, 2017 8:57 PM
This article features some of the most useful apps university students are encouraged to explore. The apps are into 10 categories, which for each category two apps are identified that go with it. A table is also included below the visual where links to the featured apps are found.
Robert Heyman's curator insight, May 24, 2017 5:44 AM
Great apps to be used by any students undertaking the quest for knowledge. Rescooped via Jan Swanpoel's curated collection.
Gabrielle's curator insight, May 24, 2017 3:27 PM
Great insight into useful apps I can use/unaware of.
Coconut Curator's curator insight, April 30, 2017 10:29 AM
This is a great list of some free to use image sources, particulalry useful for class web pages or wikis.
Vane García Aguilar's curator insight, May 4, 2017 7:23 AM
Save this link to get access to loads of images for your presentations or other purposes. Excellent list!
Ricard Garcia's curator insight, March 10, 2017 2:14 AM
Extremely useful tips for newcoming teachers embracing this methodology
Willem Kuypers's curator insight, March 14, 2017 6:06 AM
J'ai vraiment bien aimé l'article et les astuces qu'ils donner pour enseigner avec les tablettes.
GwynethJones's curator insight, February 19, 2017 12:19 PM
LOVE me some Google Form Templates & Ideas!
Melissa Molitor's curator insight, February 20, 2017 8:33 AM
The tools we use in our classroom should reflect the technology that they should be able to implement in their lives.
Viljenka Savli (http://www2.arnes.si/~sopvsavl/)'s curator insight, September 11, 2017 4:03 AM
useful tips and tricks for Google users
Jenny's curator insight, September 17, 2017 11:56 AM
Google Docs is one of the great apps I have explored during my learning experience. I remember that when I was at school, most of my teachers suggested us to start using it since it is very easy to use and manage. However, I did not have a computer and I did not like the idea of doing homeworks by the computer. To me, homeworks were better at hand, but through the years, I started becoming aware about the advantages of using this app.
In my school, there was an attempt to develop and enhance cooperative work since most of the parents were arguing that they did not want their children to do homeworks in others friends` houses, for them, it was better to start using the computer as a way to perform tasks with no moving from their home in their free time.
I really love this app because it facilitates the development of tasks , optimizes time and enhances the cooperation among partners .
It is significant to recognize that this great app is now taking place in different settings due to the features it provides. It is a powerful tool in academic scenarios because it promotes autonomy, cooperative work and responsibility.
Some years ago, it just provided the feature of sharing documents and editing some aspects of the text, but now that technology has settled into many contexts,google docs provide more features to correct, align and adjust the document.
Gust MEES's curator insight, August 6, 2017 6:35 AM
Augmented reality has the potential to revolutionize learning in primary and secondary schools more than any other technology has done in the recent past.
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Oskar Almazan's curator insight, July 5, 2017 4:22 PM
wide variety of digital textbooks covering various subject areas. These include : Art, Math, Music, Psychology, Science, Physics, Education, Chemistry, Computer Science, History, Language and Communications, Economics and many more.
Dr. Theresa Kauffman's curator insight, July 11, 2017 11:07 AM
Digital textbooks are such a wonderful tool for engaging students through technology. It is the world of their future and the more we can give learners experience using these tools, the better equipped they will be for tomorrow.
Willem Kuypers's curator insight, June 19, 2017 2:22 AM
Très bon post pour dire qu'il faut remplacer les recherches dans Google par des recherches plus spécifiques, et puis d'autres conseils en plus.
Oskar Almazan's curator insight, May 24, 2017 9:11 AM
Open educational resources (OER) are found in the public domain and can be used for free for teaching, learning, research, and other educational purposes. These materials can be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed. These "5R permissions" of OER allow you to not only access the materials and resources free of charge, but also to make them even better. Sounds good, right? But what's really out there, and why should you use these resources?
Helena Fonseca's comment, May 12, 2017 5:23 AM
With the new google forms that is so much easier!!! https://support.google.com/docs/answer/7032287?hl=en-BR&ref_topic=6063584
Dennis T OConnor's curator insight, April 17, 2017 4:56 PM
Essential to information literacy: spot the fake!
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Doesn't Benefit just have a knack for releasing catchy products? I certainly think so. Here's another one they've released recently. Benefit's Powder Pop combines the best selling Dandelion, Hoola and Dallas powders all in one box.
What I really love about this new and improved product is how convenient it is and it's not as bulky as it would be if you were to buy each product individually. It's really only a ½" tall so it will be much easier to fit into your makeup bag, where mine is safely tucked in. The actual product itself is not too small ( it's about 1¼" square) so your brush has a little bit of room to get in there and pick up some color if you choose not to use the enclosed brush. Now you can contour, blush and brighten all in one pop.


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Shattenkirk feeling fortunate after taking puck in the face
Avs rookie defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk was all smiles after practice today, about 40 hours after taking a puck between the eyes in Monday's 4-3 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings at the Pepsi Center. Shattenkirk was wearing his half-shield, or visor, but it was tilted up a bit and, without looking at the replay again, the trajectory of the defenseman's shot, or redirect from a player in front, sent the puck underneath the shield.
"(The eyes) were closed (in the morning), but once I wake up, they open up, once I start icing and stuff," Shattenkirk told me after practice. "I feel lucky, without a doubt. It could have been 10 times worse. Could have got it in the eye, could have got a concussion or a broken nose. The fact that none of those three things happened is pretty crazy."


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The new design isn't that bad in my opinion. Could be worse, could be better.I agree to point 1. Just try to make everyting work in ie6. As I already mentioned on 24ways, I'll constantly check ie6 when building, and solve problems on the fly. If you first build the whole site and check it in ie6 afterwards it'll take much more time to solve problems.


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District committees are another great way to get involved in the Anoka-Hennepin School District. These groups shape how we prepare students for life, and in many cases make official recommendations to the School Board.
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Link to the old: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5316
In this thread, you are free to discuss your feelings of unhappiness with Josh and the Limit Theory project at large. In the previous one, we ran into some problems, so I'm laying down ground rules now. Anyone that breaks any of these rules will be subject to a warning, and then a temporary ban - no matter who they are.
If you notice anyone breaking any of these rules, please report them (and optionally PM me) so that I can deal with it. I may not always be on top of the thread, but I'll always notice a PM or a report.
- If you have any unhappiness about Josh, the development cycle, or his lack of updates, post HERE. As long as this thread is open, do not make your own thread or it may be locked and/or deleted.
- Do not intentionally insult anyone else, either directly or indirectly. We know you're unhappy. That's what the thread is for. Being rude takes it too far. This echoes forum rule #1: Be polite.
- Do not try to get anyone to leave or stop expressing themselves as they choose. If you don't like the conversation here, or you feel it's too depressing, go somewhere else. We have plenty of topics here. Again: Trying to cheer someone up is fine. Telling them they shouldn't vent is not.
- No discussion of lawsuits. That's not an attitude we want on this forum. If you're a backer and want your money back, you have two options: make a post in this thread and see if you can get someone else to buy your pledge (you probably can), or take it to the Kickstarter comments.
- Josh is not a scammer. This is not open for discussion. He may not have made the best choices so far, but his intentions are sincere.
Thanks for reading through, and I hope we can start this new thread off on the right foot (well... all things considered ). And remember, if you have any issues with my actions as a moderator, please PM me (or another mod) and I/they will discuss it with you.


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Singer Cee Lo Green showed off a slimmer frame when he kicked off his Las Vegas residency on Wednesday after shedding 27 pounds for the shows.
The "Forget You" hit maker is famed for his bulky frame, but he signed up as an ambassador for eDiets.com late last year in an effort to lose weight ahead of his Loberace concert series in Sin City.
Green used the company's meal delivery service to shed the pounds, and he showed off the results as he took to the stage for his Las Vegas debut on Wednesday.
In a post on his Twitter.com page, he writes, "I'm down 27 pounds just in time for Loberace to kick into full motion!! Thanks eDiets."


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Welcome to A Brand New DayHi friends I'm Lau Cedrus from Argentina and I have been playing on SL for a while..enjoy spending time with my friends, spinning at different clubs and I am a shopaholic as many of you. So I think it is time to show you different outfits and ways to combine them. I will also take pictures in different locations so you can appreciate the great sims around SL. I hope u like them, visit my blog often, follow me in Flickr and find it useful.


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Piotr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
I am a former top executive of a corporate in Poland who decided to go for a more creative challange then a well paid but boring executive job.
I've started a consulting company which works on the complex and innovative projects with large corporates. That way bridging the two worlds of large scale of a corporate and agility of a smaller company necessary for leading innovative projects.
The name of the company comes from two words INNovate and conNECT which is what the company wants to do connecting existing business with innovative approaches. The connect part is as well about having good working relationship with Clients employees thus connecting with them.
The logo should help convey this messages.
The company is about APPLICATION IN CLIENTS BUSINESS of innovative approaches and high tech. Client organisation are end-customer facing business like mobile telephone operators or large retailers.
The company will work with largest retail corporates like telcos, retail stores, banks, insurance etc. on Polish market and eventually European market.
Thus the logo should speak to executives and staff of such organisations on the country level. These are people still doing real business and not only "corporate politics".
Requirements for conotations conveyed :
professionalism, innovation, application not theory, tangible results,
care for customer, partnership in achieving results
These are buzz words a little but the end results I want :
people want to work with my company because :
- there are good results and professional dealings
- you work with people who care about working in a friendly manner and not along "cover your a... principle"
You CAN but DOESN'T HAVE TO incorporate Innovate and Connect words into the logo if it will help. You can use variants of the word if it makes sens (like innovative, connencting, connection etc.). In fact I am quite unsure which approach is better for the end result.
The name of the company still can be changed so if you have brilliant idea feel free to propose.
I was very happy with the results of my first contest on a very different subject. It is very rewarding seeing other people having a different view on the problem and turning it into visual idea which I can put into practice. I hope to see soon your creativity at large.
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Is it worth it to use frequent-flier points for upgrades?
You've crisscrossed the country, and the miles you've earned in your airline loyalty program are piling up.
So should you use those precious miles to kick back in first class? Or is it a better deal to keep saving them until you have enough for your dream vacation?
Those who spend a good part of their lives in the air say it depends on where you're going, what you're paying, and how easy or hard it'll be to claim your reward.
Frequent flier Nancy Ilk, for instance, usually saves her miles for a nice vacation. But when she took a marathon flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, she decided it was worth it to upgrade to a comfortable seat in business class.
"Stretch out ... eat, drink and enjoy the journey," says Ilk, a consultant who lives near Minneapolis. "Business class on a 747-400 ... is the best."
Jim Sherman, who's clocked roughly 15 million miles as a financial adviser and now a lender for senior housing and long-term care facilities, says figuring out the best way to use miles can be as taxing as earning them to begin with.
"It really depends on the route, time of year for certain routes, and your need (or) desire to be in the front," says Sherman who lives near Boston.
SURVEY: 73% of frequent fliers unsure of mileage totals
MORE: Change is in the air with frequent-flier rewards
When Sherman takes one of his frequent trips to Hawaii, he buys a seat in economy and then pays with miles and cash to move up to a premium cabin.
"Since Hawaii requires such high mileage for a full first-class ticket, I feel this is a great way to conserve miles yet fly first class on a highly desirable route," he says.
Sherman uses a different strategy if he's flying to London during the summer. "I find that it can make sense to use miles to purchase the ticket in its entirety," he says.
Passengers who want to use miles to upgrade to a premium cabin often need to be prepared to pay cash, as well. Co-payments can soar as high as $1,200 per person for some international round trips, says Gary Leff, co-founder of the frequent-flier community, MilePoint.com. However, US Airways will waive the co-payment on domestic flights for some members of its loyalty program, as will United .
Additionally, many airlines won't allow passengers traveling abroad to use their miles to upgrade if they've paid the cheapest coach fares. Alaska and Delta have a similar restriction on their domestic flights, Leff says.
Despite the potential fees and restrictions, a seat upgrade may be worth it if you have a long flight and a lot of work to get done, says Rebecca Carranza.
MORE: Sites aggregate frequent-flier points from several airlines
MORE: Delta frequent fliers fume about award availability
"There is no way you can get the computer out and actually write anything of importance in coach," says Carranza, an independent consultant in educational publishing who lives in Barrington, Ill. "Sometimes I can't even open my computer if the person in front of me has reclined the seat. So if it is a cross-country or foreign flight, I'll either use the points or buy extra coupons to upgrade."
George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog.com, says he only uses his miles for upgrades. He'll pay for a relatively cheap one-way ticket from Los Angeles to New York, for instance, and then use his miles — 15,000 to 17,500 depending on the carrier — to grab a seat in business class.
"Fares are so low if you buy at the right time that it makes no sense squandering (miles) on a low economy-class fare," he says. "Buy the economy-class seat, on which you'll earn miles, and upgrade."
If he'd paid for the premium perch up front, he says, it would likely have cost more than $2,000 each way — "far above my budget or expense report guideline."
Like many frequent travelers, Margaret Bowles notes that miles may not get you as far as they used to.
"It's hard to get award travel tickets for 25,000 miles these days, so I consider it to be a good use of my frequent-flier miles to upgrade," says Bowles, an attorney who lives in Winter Park, Colo. "I always use them for international flights, overnight flights or flights over four hours."
Some elite fliers can get a complimentary bump-up to a premium cabin from their airlines. But Bob Bender, a consultant based in Lenexa, Kan., says redeeming your own miles gives you a better chance at actually landing a seat.
"You get put in a higher priority for the upgrade," says Bender, who adds that industry mergers that have shrunk the number of airlines has made a business- or first-class upgrade hard to get.
"Unless you are at the highest level of the (frequent-flier) program," he says, "the chances of getting an upgrade are slim unless you use your points, which puts you ahead of the other elite fliers."
MORE: 10 easy ways to keep frequent-flier miles from expiring
MORE: Extract some extra mileage from few frequent-flier points
Despite the changes in so many programs, some travelers still say nothing beats a free trip.
Mickey David, who lives in Woodlands, Texas, says he "would rather suffer in coach on business trips. Frequent-flier miles (are) for free vacations during the year with loved ones only."
And having a stash of miles is good in a pinch, such as when you have to hop a plane to get to a loved one, other frequent travelers say.
"As a father of five, all now adults, there's always some emergency," says Marc Ofte, an executive in the watch business who lives in Midlothian, Va.
He says he's only cashed in his miles for a seat upgrade once, on a trip to St. Kitts. Otherwise, he says, "Even on short notice, maybe especially so, it's nice to have the miles to deal with all the other people who want a piece of me."
Leff of MilePoint.com says his general rule of thumb is "miles are best used for pricey international travel, and for last-minute and pricey domestic trips."
But, he adds, "There's obviously no right answer to this. It depends on what you value and have time for," he says. "I say, earn more miles so you can do both."
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BRIDGEWATER, MA- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team placed third in their season-opening meet Saturday, the Michael Arsenault Memorial Relays, hosted by Bridgewater State at the Dr. Mary Jo Moriarty Pool.
The Corsairs were third in the four-team meet with 238 points. Colby-Sawyer finished first overall.
Winners for the Corsair women included the 400 medley relay team of seniors Meredith Maki (Holden, MA/Wachusett Regional HS) and Lindsay Days (Mattapoisett, MA/Bishop Stang HS), freshman Caroline Corcoran (West Boylston, MA/West Boylston HS) and junior Katelyn Kidney (Lynn, MA/Lynn Classical HS), who won in 4:23.35 and the 400 butterfly relay team of Corcoran, junior Abbey Prives (Wellesley, MA/Wellesley HS), Kidney and sophomore Ally McCarville (Stoneham, MA/Stoneham HS) in 4:47.33. For the men, victors included the 400 medley relay team of freshman Robert Braza (Attleboro, MA/ Attleboro HS), sophomore Phil Lowney (Mattapoisett, MA/Bishop Stang HS), sophomore Michael Gryss (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS), and senior Kevin Janofsky (Brookfield, CT/Brookfield HS), who were first in 4:06.50, the 4 x 100 individual medley team of Braza, Gryss, Janofsky and freshman Bryan Baranick (Assonet, MA/Apponequet HS), the 400 butterfly relay team of junior Julian Jiminian (Springfield, MA/Renaissance HS), sophomore Anthony Peixoto (New Bedford, MA/New Bedford HS), Gryss and Baranick, who were victorious in 4:18.87, and the 400 breaststroke relay team of junior David Geib (Hildesheim, Germany/Hermann Nohl HS), Peixoto, Lowney and Janofsky, who won in 4:55.56.
"We had great swims today," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Cathy Motta. The experience of a relay meet to kick off the season was great for the team.
The Corsairs will return to action when they visit Babson next Saturday.


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A trip around the mountain
The central focus of the Taranaki region is Mt Egmont. An area known for dairy farming, its beautiful gardens, arts, festivals, walks and surfing.
Motoring south on Route 3 through the Awakino River Gorge has always been one of our favourite drives especially as we reach the West Coast at Awakino ……… This time we hit it just right for the beginning of the whitebait season.
"You know we have to stop for a whitebait sandwich don't you," Paula said as we approached the town of Mokau. She was driving so there wasn't any question this once-upon-a-time Taranaki girl wouldn't stop but then I wasn't about to pass up the first of the season catch either. The local café didn't scrimp on filling the sandwiches with the tasty morsels either. Great way to enter the Taranaki region. There is a three-hour Mokau River Cruise that looks interesting but we haven't taken the time to enjoy it yet.
The ride along this part of the coast is one of the finest for an introduction to the West Coast shoreline. The population is light before you make the move up and over Mt. Messenger, the barrier that keeps this part of New Zealand less encumbered by people, before entering the southern side where you move into the quite active New Plymouth region.
A couple of great stopping spots for the camper along the way such as on the Tongaporutu River north of Mt. Messenger and the Onaero Camp that provides a beautiful beach and a well maintained camp ground. The river mouth and upstream had quite a few locals trying their luck at the whitebait run when we stopped.
The drive around Mt Taranaki provides an exciting experience for the first time explorer. Even though we have been there many times we still enjoy the ability to see the mountain in all its glory. The region is renowned for its gardens, the surfing and the many artists who live and work here plus many historical places of interest.
One of the most spectacular events is the annual Rhododendron Festival in late October-November. December through February brings visitors from all over to the to the Festival of Lights in the 52 hectare inner city Pukekura Park.
One of the top musical events in New Zealand the WOMAD (World of Music & Dance) Concert is a must. It will be in March usually with hundreds of artists performing from all over the world.
New Plymouth is an easy place for a visiting camper to find a place to park. You are welcome right on the waterfront by the beach. Our cats Chocolate and Sylvester have become known to a couple of the locals who, each time we get to the waterfront to park, come over to say hello and see how the two cats are. They even say hi to us.
When there you may get to see the annual Stone Carving Symposium right on the waterfront that draws artists from all over the world.
The Puke Ariki Museum downtown is well worth a visit. Plenty of shopping available and some of the best cafes in the country. McFarlane's is the local coffee roaster who provides a coffee we go out of our way to enjoy at their Elixer Café at 117 Devon Street.
A drive from New Plymouth toward Hawera along the Surf Highway is a must. It is a 105km route along the coast with great camp grounds at Oakura and Opunake. Oakura has become a hot spot to stop and visit the many galleries and artists of the region. In Opunake we try to arrange our day so we can go to the Sugar Juice Café that can boast good food, good coffee and great people. We always have a historical stop at the Opunake Camp Grounds where Paula spent summers during her school days.
Past Opunake, 29kms going south, you come to the town of Manaia (Bread Capital of New Zealand) where the Taranaki Country Music Hall of Fame is located. Here you can continue along Highway 45 where it ends in Hawera where the acclaimed Tawhiti Museum exhibits the historical days during the Maori/European land wars and/or take a left out of Manaia and visit Dawson Falls. One of the highlights of a visit up the slopes of Mt Taranaki.
Returning to Opunake Road from the Falls turn left toward Stratford. A left onto Pembroke Road will take you by the Patea River to East Egmont where you can find several picnic sites. In Stratford is the Taranaki Pioneer Museum with over fifty buildings showing life as it was during the early days. Coming back down the mountain return to Route 3 and on to Inglewood where the original MacFarlane's Café will provide you with top quality food and coffee.
Six kilometres, continuing along Route 3, you come to Egmont Village. Turn left on Egmont Road and head up the mountain to North Egmont where again you can stop and enjoy a picnic or a short walk. After Egmont Village you have completed the circle of Mt Taranaki with your return to New Plymouth. Along the way you will discover award winning beer breweries, wineries, Opunake soap, lavender farms and a macadamia nut orchard. There are a number of walks and heritage trails to enjoy also. There are over 300 kilometre of tracks in the National Park. With the mountain being the source of over fifty rivers the chance for a trout is also very good.
Another interesting and exciting trip in the area is to discover the Forgotten World Highway. This is a trip in itself that can be reached from the North on Route 4 at Taumarunui or from the Stratford end from the south. Be sure to have a full fuel tank, as it is a 155km excursion. This drive takes you through isolated areas of native bush and over several mountains where you can easily see the Tongariro National Park and its three volcanoes. You can also visit the North Island's highest waterfall, the 85 metre Mount Damper Falls off the Moki Forest Road.
Along the way one of the most interesting places to visit is the community of Whangamomona that became a "republic" in 1989. It has had a poodle and a goat for presidents. An annual "Republic Day" celebration has put the town on the map as tourists flock to enjoy their hospitality even though Thai the poodle had to stand down after an altercation with a Labrador and he began biting visitors. Typical politician when getting into power.
So the Taranaki region is a definite must to explore. The drives through the country are spectacular with Mt Taranaki dominating the scene.
For those of you who enjoy a walk be it short or real mountain climbing it is hard to find a better place. For those who enjoy museums and historical places plus the many events and special occasions on offer you must be sure to take the trip around the mighty mountain of Taranaki during your New Zealand travels.


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Pillar of Cloud three months on - The Infographic
From Al Jazeera.
Three months after the last major Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip, the "period of calm" is only "calm" for Israel.
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If you want to compare like with like, I guess it should say "rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel: 2, rocket attacks from Israel into Gaza: 0".
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It is unbecoming of a scientist to rely on Al-Jazeera, the known Muslim Brotherhood propaganda arm / HQ. You should make yourself familiar with the scientific method. You are being intellectually lazy, and that is not a good thing. Better be ignorant than believe in falsehoods and distorted half-truths.
Being intellectually lazy - I mean, you don't even ask a question, of those killed, how many of them were terrorists killed in action? Perhaps, all of them? Planting huge bombs on the border, to blow up the Israeli patrols on the other side, or shooting rockets into Israel, etc. How many of the "attacked" "fisherman" are in fact gunrunners for the terrorists? And if the Muslim Brotherhood HQ feed you this but say nothing of "fishermen" being killed, then what are those "attacks" that leave no one killed? Perhaps they are just routine inspections, to check for weapon smuggling? What is it that makes routine inspections into "attacks"? Why simple checkpoints are so "humiliating" for the touchy Arab soul? Is it the audacity of a Jewish People daring to defend themselves that drives the sensitive Arab psyche bonkers? You know that by Sharia Law a Jew hit by a Muslim has no right to hit back, and the punishment for hitting a Muslim is death for the Jew? Is that not the reason for the Muslim rage at the Jews daring to see themselves equal in worth as human beings, having the right to self-defense, as if they were equals of the Arabs? Hitting back?Post a Comment
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -
Greg Wells shot a solid 215, including a third-round 70, to finish in a tie for 14th-place at the 58th Annual Western Intercollegiate at Pasatiempo Golf Course in Santa Cruz, Calif. As a team, UC Santa Barbara finished 11th out of 15.
Wells shot 72 and 73 in the first two rounds before finishing strong with a 70 in the third round. Brian Six recorded a 221 to tie for 36th and Nick Telliard scored a 222 to tie for 41st. Michael Feuerstein and Jen-luc Burnier were the other two UCSB finishers, logging 225 and 227 respectively.
The University of Colorado shot an 852 to win the team title and Buffalo Kane Webber shot a 4-under par 206 to win the individual title.
UCSB returns to the course on Thursday, March 25, when it plays in the Cal Poly Invitational at the Cypress Ridge Golf Course in Arroyo Grande, Calif.


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GRINNELL, Iowa — Jack Taylor renewed his membership in the Century Club.
Taylor scored 109 points for Division III Grinnell College on Sunday, shooting 24-for-48 on 3-pointers in a 173-123 win over Crossroads. He poured in 53 during the first nine minutes of the second half.
The 5-foot-10 guard from Black River Falls, Wis., set an NCAA record for any level by scoring 138 points last Nov. 20 in a 179-104 win over Faith Baptist Bible College.
The only other player to score more than 109 in an NCAA game was Rio Grande's Clarence "Bevo" Francis, who had 113 against Hillsdale in 1954.
Against Crossroads College, in Rochester, Minn., Taylor was 35 of 70 overall from the field while playing only 29 minutes. He made 15 of 17 foul shots.
"Just like last year, I couldn't have done this without my teammates," Taylor said. "I give so much credit to them. This truly was a team effort. I'm thankful for the program and the people I have playing with me."
Taylor scored 71 points in the Pioneers' 144-99 victory Friday in the season opener against Finlandia.


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2014 Developer Salary Survey, May 13, 2014 Our survey of more than 2,200 U.S. developers shows salaries in a well-paid field are nudging up as the economy picks up steam.
The title of Software Engineer has little specific meaning except in Texas and a few other states, which require accreditation to use the descriptor. Elsewhere, it typically refers to a programmer with lead-developer kind of skills the person team members go to for advice. With the amount of pressure IT departments are under to create mobile apps, cloud apps, and handle big data, these higher skilled professionals should indeed see more compensation. Likewise test engineers, as testing has become considerably more complicated and better appreciated. Compensation has grown a total of 10% for testers during the last three years certainly a reflection of the wider understanding of the value they deliver.


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thats a good point! i'm a scientist too but specialized in electronics i still have a lot to learn with composites.Certeza wrote: This concept is widely known and very easily demonstrated. Take a piece of CF (like the referenced spreader bar for example) and try to bend it. As you suggest, it will be crazy strong. You will barely be able to bend it. But.... take out a sharp heavy object and give it a smack. CF cracks rather easily under sharp impact. This is because as soon as the epoxy (which is rather brittle) gets compromised, each fiber must act as an individual directional fiber. When glued into a bundle, the fibers are incredibly strong, but individually, the fibers aren't very strong at all.
Another concern with carbon fiber is when it breaks, it makes pretty nasty and sharp fibers coming out of the cracks.