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Things We Love: Dragon Age II/
Storytelling has become a critical part of modern video games. RPGs (roleplaying games) tend to be the most story-driven titles out there, which appeal to me (Erin) as a writer.
I've played games that have left me in tears. Games with characters that I still think about years later. A few games I've played over and over again, because I can't get enough of the world and people who populate that game disc.
Sounds a lot like books we love, doesn't it?
Bioware is known for making games with great story and interesting characters. Both their Dragon Age and Mass Effect series (along with previous titles) allow the player to make their own character, who they control throughout the journey. The player is then joined by secondary characters who serve as the player's companions for the game's duration.
These secondary characters are their own people, with varying opinions that shape up as an "approval system" in the game mechanics. You make choices as the player – good, evil, merciful, badass, rude, kind – and the characters react. They have their own opinions and you can't please everyone, just like real life. This is also much like in a novel, where the protagonist's choices have consequences.
(Spoilers Ahead for Dragon Age II, be warned!)
Supporting Cast of Dragon Age II
Dragon Age II's relationship scale was based on Friendship or Rivalry. The main conflict of the story focused around the tensions between mages (wizards) and Templars (religious knights) who serve the Chantry (religious order). Mages can do great good, but are also tempted by demons – and when the demons win, people die. The Chantry controls the mages, and when a mage is suspected of consorting with a demon, they are killed – but extremists in the order see evil everywhere, and innocent mages suffer as a result.
The supporting cast have very strong opinions on the matter. The free mage Anders, who is actively fighting against mage oppression, will be angry if you do anything against mages – even if the mages are in the wrong. In contrast, the former slave Fenris, who was abused by a mage, will be in conflict with anything you do to help mages regardless of their innocence or crimes.
So what do you do? You can't please them both, and at points in the story your relationships with these two reach critical crossroads.
In the end of the game, you must choose between supporting the mages or the Chantry in an epic battle. Depending on which side you take support, you may be forced to kill certain companion characters if your views don't align with theirs.
There's a wider cast of characters as well, most of whom are less black and white than Fenris and Anders. Entire Wikipedia pages have been dedicated to how to manage these relationships when you play the game: Who do you bring on what quest if he want to be friends with one person, but a rival to another? Can you be friends with everyone despite their differing views? If you enter a romance with a character, is there a choice that will damage the relationship beyond repair, or can it be salvaged if you've made your case well enough along the way?
It really is a great study for character motivation. When you make a secondary character (or even your protagonist), think about what stances they take in the larger fight. What view will they never compromise, even if faced with an opposite truth? Is there a special person who can show them a side they never considered? What smaller nuances about the character are reflected in the conflict at large, even if that particular character doesn't have a direct stake in the bigger plot issues?
Dragon Age II asked these questions, and really got me thinking about how I can make the characters I create in my manuscripts just as compelling.
-- Erin


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Colt Brennan suffered a concussion early in the fourth quarter of Saturday's win
Nov. 11, 2007
College Football Recap: Week 11
HONOLULU (AP) - From the mood in the locker room, it was difficult to tell whether Hawaii had won or lost Saturday night. Perhaps it was both.
The Warriors were supposed to be celebrating after holding off rival Fresno State 37-30 to remain undefeated and keep their BCS hopes alive. The win was marred by the loss of quarterback Colt Brennan who suffered a concussion early in the fourth quarter.
Brennan tied the NCAA career mark for touchdown passes, throwing his 121st, before he was knocked out by a jarring hit that reverberated throughout Aloha Stadium.
"We're definitely happy to win. But around the locker room it was kind of dead knowing that one of our leaders, our brothers, went down," said Ryan Grice-Mullen, who broke the 1,000-yard receiving mark with his nine catches for 128 yards.
Hawaii (9-0, 6-0 Western Athletic Conference), which moved up a spot to No. 13 on Sunday, and No. 4 Kansas are the only remaining unbeaten teams. The Warriors are off to their best start since 1925. They have won 10 straight, and 19 of their last 20 games.
But it was Brennan who was on the mind of everyone in the locker room and the state.
"As soon as dude hit him and Colt went down, I knew it wasn't good," Grice-Mullen said. "Just looking at one of your family members go down like that, you forget about everything else."
Brennan was 28-of-39 for 396 yards and two touchdowns before he left with 11 minutes left in the game. He was flattened by linebacker Marcus Riley near the Bulldogs' sideline while scrambling on third-and-7.
Brennan laid motionless, face down in the FieldTurf as trainers from both teams came to his aid. The near-sellout crowd drew silent and teammates prayed on one knee as the game was halted for about five minutes. Brennan eventually stood up, wincing in pain and was helped off the field into the locker room.
"He showed a lot of heart by getting to his feet because we all knew he was out of it," Grice-Mullen said.
School officials believe Brennan suffered a mild concussion. He wasn't available after the game, but said in a statement that he was "looking forward to getting back on the field for next week's game."
Brennan was scheduled to be examined Sunday.
Hawaii will need Brennan as it closes out the regular season at Nevada before returning home to face No. 17 Boise State, which will determine the WAC champion, and Washington.
Warriors coach June Jones was confident his strong-arm QB would be back soon. He said Brennan was "fine."
"If you play football you're going to have concussions," he said. "I just talked to him. He's ready to play right now."
After a post-game visit, Bulldogs coach Pat Hill also gave Brennan a positive outlook. How did he know?
"Well, he recognized me," Hill said.
Brennan has thrown for 3,296 yards and 28 TDs this season.
"When you lose one guy, as big as Colt, that's a loss," Grice-Mullen said. "We're not going to lie and say, 'We're going to be A-OK.' The starting quarterback, our leader, a Heisman candidate - that's a big loss."
The Warriors know what they need to do, with just three games remaining.
"It's NFL playoff time," Jones said. "You lose, you're out."
Brennan's 5-yard TD toss to Davone Bess gave Hawaii a 31-7 lead and matched the mark set by Brigham Young's Ty Detmer in 1991. With the score, Brennan also tied Detmer's record for most touchdowns responsible for with 135.
The senior reached the milestone in his 34th game. It took Detmer 46 games to set the record.
On the third play of the game, Brennan threw a long pass over the middle to a wide-open Jason Rivers for a 67-yard score. Later in the first quarter, Brennan scored on a 3-yard run as the Warriors jumped to a 21-0 lead.
Brennan, who now owns or shares two dozen NCAA records, has thrown a touchdown in 34 straight games, one shy of the mark also held by Detmer.

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Drug or Alcohol Rehabilitation: In many cases it has actually been discovered that the culprit is addicted to drug or alcohol. If the offense is an outcome of this addiction prison time will probably do no great to you. Because case you may be sent out to the drug or alcohol inpatient rehabilitation centers instead of jail.
Then you'll learn how to enhance your lifestyle through behavioral adjustments. All the discomfort and suffering you withstood will be brought out and addressed. This process will set you up for what's can be found in your future and will assist you grow while in drug rehabilitation.
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JFW is rather pricey and the cost varies anywhere from $900.00 to over $1000.00. Thankfully there are companies such as Blindness and Visual Solutions (BVS) in Pennsylvania, and Department of inpatient rehab (DRS) in West Virginia, that help visually impaired individuals get these programs. For more details on JAWS for Windows (JFW), you can go to Freedom Scientifics' web site witch will be referenced at the end of this article.
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The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry's research partnerships, with external researchers and organisations locally, nationally and across the world, are essential to the delivery of our internationally renowned medical, dental and biomedical research. We collaborate closely with NHS Hospital and Partnership Trusts across the South West and beyond, patient groups, healthcare providers, charities and commercial organisations including:
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust – Derriford Hospital
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has a well established reputation for high quality research and development and a strong record of recruitment into and conducting commercial and non-commercial clinical trials supported by dedicated research infrastructure.
The main acute hospital at Derriford, one of Europe's largest, is adjacent to the Peninsula Medical and Dental Schools and the Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine (ITSMed) at Plymouth Science Park.
Our close relationship with Hospital clinicians and staff facilitates enhanced interdisciplinary working and clinical collaboration providing the means to translate discoveries made into real benefits for patients.
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The Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC) is a partnership between the University of Plymouth, the University of Exeter and NHS organisations across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, established in 2008 and funded by the NIHR as part of a national network of 13 CLAHRCs.
The partnership supports and funds research with direct impact on patients' health and the way in which NHS care is delivered, conducting research based on questions from those directly affected: doctors, nurses, therapists and, importantly, patients. The partnership has been highly successful in utilising match funding to access support for our research projects from other sources and external partners.
South West Academic Health Sciences Network (SWAHSN)Part of a national network of 15 AHSNs, set up by NHS England to identify, adopt and disseminate innovative health and care, SWAHSN membership consists of clinical commissioning groups, mental health trusts, acute hospital trusts and academic institutions from across Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly.
Brain Tumour Research
We're one of only four universities in the UK working with the charity Brain Tumour Research to improve the treatment and outcomes of brain tumours.
They support academic and research staff, research students and research programmes at the University of Plymouth's Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence, led by Professor C. Oliver Hanemann, enabling the continued development of the Centre's internationally renowned investigation of low grade brain tumours.The Centre of Excellence is based at the University's flagship Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine (ITSMed)
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Public Health England (PHE) is an executive agency of the UK's Department of Health and Social Care, whose mission is 'to protect and improve the nation's health and to address inequalities'.
PHE supports research in the University of Plymouth's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Institute of Translational and Stratified Medicine (ITSMed), across biomedical and health services research through direct funding of research staff and students on a range of collaborative projects and in partnership on externally funded research.
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Alzheimer's Research UK is the UK's leading dementia research charity. The Charity supports 15 Centres of scientific excellence across the UK through its Research Network, including the Alzheimer's Research UK SW Network Centre, co-hosted by the University of Plymouth and the University of Exeter.
The SW Network Centre supports the provision of brand new opportunities for scientists to collaborate, share resources, attend scientific conferences, pursue innovative projects and enhance public engagement.
Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise (PDSE)
PDSE is a Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to improving oral health across the South West. They: run Dental Education Facilities in Plymouth, Truro and Exeter, where students from the University treat NHS patients; improve awareness of oral health in the wider community, focusing on groups such as schoolchildren, the elderly, parents, those with specific conditions, people with special needs substance abusers, the homeless, prisoners and; ensure access to dental care for all, but especially to those groups who may feel excluded from mainstream dentistry.
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Biovault is the UK's largest private tissue bank based on the Plymouth International Medical and Technology Park, close to both the University of Plymouth's Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. Partnered with the NHS and working with research specialists across the UK, Biovault is an accredited leader of best practice in the industry.
The company has strong research interests in the area of stem cell technology and is working closely with University partners to develop and accelerate innovation leading to new and improved techniques and/or products for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease.


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You're going to end up liking it, but not because it's better.
If you are like most people, you'll upgrade your subsidized phone every 2 years. In those 2 years, all top-of-the-line phones will become faster and prettier than whatever you have. If you decide to switch, you'll immediately see how much faster and prettier your new phone looks than your old phone and your irrational self will declare "This is better!" Except...
Somethings will be painful. You might lose all your apps. You might have to get used to a different UI. You might not be able to export your contacts. You might lose your unlimited data plan. There will be annoyances. But, these annoyances are the reason you will like your new phone more than the last one. It's not the faster, prettier. It's the pain. You'll have no choice but to deal with these things. Your brain will rewire neurons and adapt (like a good human brain) and you'll expend effort and energy to conquer these annoyances. And in short order (much less than 2 years), you will master them. And that's where you become attached.
The fancy new thing you got wasn't a new phone. It was a new skill. How to accept and work around the new annoyances. And you'll like it. Every time you dodge a pitfall, every time you become more efficient, your brain releases endorphins to strengthen the neural pathways. It feels good. And because those things you learned with your first phone are disused, the good and bad, they will become unrewarding and unimportant. You'll do this every day, or as often as you use your new phone.
Then one day, you're finally invested in the new phone. You like it and you can wrongly describe why. You've got synergy and efficiency and you've forgotten the pain on the path that brought you here.
And in 2 years, any numerical or feature superiority that might have factored into your decision to switch will be gone. Your phone will be mediocre again. But that's ok. You'll still like it. You now have a brain that likes it, warts and all.
So, just come back and reread this in 2 years. Because
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One of the key men behind Idaho's controversial overture to Chinese investors in 2007 agreed to pay back $5 million in investors' funds that the Securities and Exchange Commission said he misappropriated.
Boise miner and real estate developer Sima Muroff raised more than $140 million to create U.S. jobs through an immigrant-investor program that offered the possibility of residency in exchange for U.S. investment.
But in a settlement the SEC filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Boise, Muroff agreed to repay $5 million plus $800,000 in interest and a $2 million penalty. He neither admitted or denied the allegations in the complaint.
Beginning in 2010, when Muroff accompanied Idaho Gov. Butch Otter on a trade mission to China, he raised millions from Chinese investors to develop real estate in McCall and mines in Idaho and Montana. The more than 200 Chinese investors were to get green cards for making the investment under the federal EB-5 program. The EB stands for "employment-based."
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text: The US will begin profiling US-bound passengers to determine who should get extra screening [EPA] 'Intelligence-led' dataTravellers will be picked out according to how closely they match intelligence on potential terrorist threats. In depth Profile: The US counterterrorism bureaucracy Blogs: US air security shifts beyond borders A senior administration official, who spoke to reporters on condition of anonymity, said the new system would require travellers who match information about terrorism suspects, such as a physical description, partial name or travel pattern, to undergo additional screening."So it's much more tailored to what the intel is telling us, what the threat is telling us, as opposed to stopping all individuals of a particular nationality or all individuals using a particular passport," the official said. He described the measures being scrapped as a "blunt-force instrument". The names of terrorism suspects identified by the US government will continue to be included on security watch lists and no-fly lists as a part of airline security. The new policy affects US citizens, as well as travellers coming into the United States from abroad. The measures in force since January required that passengers travelling to the US from 14 countries be subjected to especially rigorous pre-flight screening. The US government implemented those security measures after a Nigerian man tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear on a flight to Detroit from Amsterdam on December 25, 2009. Questions have been raised about why Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was charged with trying to blow up the airliner, was not stopped before he got on the flight. 'No-fly' list The 14 countries were those on the US list of "state sponsors of terrorism" - Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria - as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and Yemen. The new measures will apply to US citizens, as well as foreigners travelling to America [AFP] Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Nigeria - US partners in the fight against al-Qaeda - were angered at being included on the list. Under the new measures, if there was information about an individual of interest coming from a particular Asian country who recently travelled to certain countries in the Middle East and was of a certain nationality and age range, that data would be compared with travellers to the United States at foreign airports. Anyone who fits the data could be subjected to additional screening procedures and pulled aside for questioning by airline or airport security officials. US officials have been consulting with countries and foreign carriers with direct flights to the United States about airline security, the administration official said. "It is designed to be much more tailored so that we don't stop everybody coming from a certain country, because that information is out, and if I'm a terrorist, the last thing I want to do then is send somebody with this passport, going that way," the official said. SOURCE: Agencies


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When selling your property, you clearly want the best price possible and be able to find a buyer in a timely manner.
It is also important that the whole process is managed professionally and stress free. Many agents think the job is done as soon as they find a buyer. At Reid Estates we recognise that this is the very time that things could go wrong and both buyers and sellers could get a bit fraught if not kept up to date with the progress. Reid Estates manage the whole process keeping both parties solicitors moving forward.
Reid Estates specialise in selling property, we do not get involved with rental or have any other distractions, we just sell property.
That allows us to give our clients the time they deserve.
With our unique marketing techniques and professional service to both seller and potential buyer, we are able to find the best buyers quickly and manage the process through to completion.
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Higher Ed Marketing in the Gap Year
With enrollment in gap year programs up 23% since 2015, if your institution is overlooking this trend, then you may be missing a key contingent of prospective students. While the idea of a "year off" between high school and college is not new, what's different is the breadth of students the idea is attracting. An investigative report with Katie Couric finds that the gap year is "not just for rich kids anymore."
A USA Today article in 2008 foretold the growing acceptance—even embracing—of the gap year concept, as leaders identified the potential of the movement. David Hawkins, director of public policy and research at that time for the National Association for College Admission Counseling, said admissions counselors were seeing that "if properly vetted, these opportunities could actually help students succeed in college." Around that time, Princeton University formalized a "bridge year" program. Harvard University has been encouraging the practice "for decades" according to The New York Times.
Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year—and central to Katie Couric's report—has made it her life's mission not just to make gap years more common, but also to make them more accessible. With $10 million in fundraising, her organization can provide participant support, offering a "need-blind" admissions policy. Global Citizen Year is one of a plethora of organizations offering structured programs. A recent booklet from New Trier Township High School District identifies more than 75 organizations that offer formal programs emphasizing humanitarian service, adventure, and cross-cultural experience.
Students participating in gap year programs have described themselves—prior to the gap year—as "stuck," or lacking purpose, or aimlessly running an "academic racetrack."
Both gap year participants and leaders in higher education testify that students returning from a gap year are more mature in their preparation for college and have a greater sense of purpose about their education. This translates to higher graduation rates, too. According to Global Citizen Year, while one-third of college freshmen don't come back for a second year, 94 percent of their alums are on track to graduate in four years or less.
An article in Liason, "Gap Year: Keep them engaged and committed" outlines some important marketing principles for reaching gap year students.
Here are some practical ideas for how you might put these principles into practice:
Don't let students fall off your radar. Maintain data on high school students you know are taking a gap year (both in your database and counselor's notes). If you have a significant number of prospective students in a gap year, engage students through a targeted print and e-mail campaign. If it's a smaller number of students, this allows for a personal touch—notes and phone calls—from counselors.
Be there when they're looking for you. Since you likely won't have a complete list of gap year students, your school's website becomes even more important. A microsite devoted to the gap year is a good idea. This would include campus visit opportunities, financial aid, and more—all geared toward a gap year student, rather than a high school junior or senior.
Make the most of it. Highlight current students who took a gap year. Give them opportunities to share via blog post or video about how they integrated into the campus after a year off, as well as what they gained from their time away from school. Listen—and let's all learn from their experience.


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Supporting 64 simultaneous surveillance camera, the Geovision 94-RS20A-064 UVS Recording Server DVR is one of the most advanced DVR present in the market. It includes a system HDD of 500 GB and a provision for add on HDD.
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The DVR owes its fast processing capability to the advanced Intel i7 processor and the accompanying 8 GB RAM. The DVR is powered by embedded 64 bit Windows 7 Operating system. You can burn the desired footage on optical drives like Blue-rays and DVDs, with the help of the DVR burner incorporated in the system. With this facility, you can keep, carry and store a backup of footage as and when needed.
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The Rackmount chassis covering the DVR comes with a 20/8 Hot Swappable Bay. With a capacity to support 64 surveillance Network IP cameras simultaneously, the DVR also supports two monitors for watching live footage. The Geovision 94-RS08A-064 comes with a two years warranty.
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Review: Nokia E6 – 'E' is the new AceOctober 15, 2011
E6 is Nokia's latest E-series flagship. It comes as a direct successor to the E5, a replacement for the aged E71/E72 duo and a handy alternative to its elder brother E7.
E6 is one of the Symbian Anna duo revealed back in July, X7 being the other. If we're not wrong, Nokia was the one who created the whole new category of touch and type devices and then a smartphone like E6 to fill it. Surely there were phones of similar form already available in the market, but they didn't see as huge a success as that of the Nokians, and the E6 goes ahead to break all these records. E6 is the second E-series to run the latest Symbian^3 updated with Symbian Anna, which brings an improved, faster UI and a better web experience to Nokia smartphones. E7, the first Symbian^3 running E-series device, was more of a QWERTY added N8 (definitely minus the 12MP monster-cam), perfect for multimedia usage. Though the E7 had a full QWERTY, sliding it out every time to create mails and typing messages wasn't really feasible if you were moving in the fast lane (your views may differ). The E7 had its own class of being a portable desktop with its massive screen and keyboard. The earlier E-series phones without such slide-out keyboards were perfect for people constantly typing, but phones like the E5 were lagging in terms of software, with S60 3rd Edition as an OS. That's exactly where the E6 steps in to fill the gap. It brings the comfort of those old age E-series keyboards and the ease of a touch-screen together.
But does this new form give the E6 an upper hand? Read on to know whether it satisfies these criteria or not.
The first look is enough to tell anyone that it's the classic E-series device from Nokia. E6 retains its E-series instincts. The materials used to build it make sure that it'll stand apart from the crowd of cheap QWERTY phones. The battery cover on the back is made of steel, we've seen such backs with just E63 as an exception. The face has a metal strip running all around. It should also be noted that the front is made up of glossy material except for the keyboard. On our whole black E6 it looked just superb and gave it an executive look. Although this kind of material good, it is a big time finger print magnet. But it's been improved from earlier Nokians which the used same material, and fingerprints aren't a whole lot visible, even on black. The keyboard is also made of a very good quality material and not some cheap plastic. It mixes rather well with the glossy profile of front. The E6 is not really a classic, but in a good sense since it comes with touch-screen too. Whether the addition of it is worth or not, we'll discuss later.
Starting from the front, there's, to be exact, a 2.36" touch-screen. Just above it is the earpiece. Beside the earpiece there're front camera, ambient light and proximity sensors respectively. Below the display there's the navigation dock complete with four one-touch keys at your service. The only change Nokia has made to it is that they have removed the left and right softkeys, and those are now substituted by on-screen virtual soft-keys, although we felt the need of hardware back key for quicker navigation. At the center of the dock there's a five way d-pad which also has a 'breathing' light underneath it. Thankfully Nokia has still kept the calling keys physical.
The QWERTY keyboard remains a novelty of the E-series here. The keyboard is unchanged from earlier E-series models; even the key size is same. The keys are still bubbled up. We should mention that for first timers or those with somewhat bigger thumbs the keys may feel smaller but their form will help you to get used to them quickly. One thing we've been complaining about is the placement of 'Ctrl' key, it's situated right at the bottom corner of the keyboard, which in our opinion was somewhat of an uncomfortable position. Placing it on the left corner would have made more sense because most users coming from desktops find the Ctrl key on the left side of the keyboard handier than the one on right side, but nonetheless the keyboard is well designed.
That's not the end of its face, just below the keyboard is the 'chin' of the E6. We felt it to be unusually bigger than necessary. Nokia could make it thinner and instead used a bigger display. There's a microphone placed on it which almost goes unnoticed.
The back of the E6 is like any other monoblock phone. As we said before, the battery cover is made of steel. There's nothing much on the back. 8MP (EDoF) camera, dual LED flash and loudspeaker all are kept together and that certain portion of the back is a little elevated than the rest of it. Placing the loudspeaker on the back isn't the very best choice. In most cases the sounds will be suppressed. Our preference would have been the top of the phone for loudspeakers on any day. There's a back lanyard too so you can tie a hand-strap to your phone.
The top of the phone has (from left) the memory card slot, 3.5mm jack and power button which also helps to switch profiles quickly. The charging socket is situated on the bottom.
With the E6, Nokia has decided to go with normal the Navi key instead of the optical Navi key seen on the E72 and we think it's a very good decision. The problem with the Navi key on the E72 was that the optical area was small and further it was limited by the frame around it, but you won't need anything because of the presence of touch screen. The one touch keys which have been a novelty of the E-series are also present. There's the usual home or menu key which upon long press brings up task manager. The other three keys, Calendar, Contacts and Messaging can be modified to open apps quickly rather than those assigned to them by default.
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I had planned to build a Hatz Biplane to use for giving rides in the EAA Young Eagles program. I thought kids should get a ride in something more like the barnstormers of the '20s flew. A friend of mine and co-worker, Leon Johenning, suggested that if I wanted a plane which looked like something from the '20s I should build the real thing, a WACO. Drawings were available for the Taperwing, so how much more work would it be to have the real deal? We along with our wives drove 8 hours west to attended the 1994 National WACO Club fly-in in Mount Vernon, Ohio hoping to learn about WACO's. It rained all weekend and only 3 planes attended. Leon wandered over to a nearby airport where a nice cabin WACO was for sale, since there wasn't much else happening. He convinced me to go look and it was lust at first sight. We had just sold our house so I had the money for a down payment and the credit to get a mortgage on the rest. After 360 hours of great fun I sold the VKS-7F to a fellow in Michigan who at the time ran Waco Classic in Battle Creek.
Before I sold the WACO I had attended the 1996 Vintage Chapter 3 Fly-in where I met Morton Lester. He picked numbers badly at the evening banquet so our table was last to get fed. As a result we had time to talk about airplanes and Young Eagles. I enjoyed giving rides in the WACO but still wanted an open cockpit late '20s sort of machine. I had been gathering drawings to build a Straight Wing WACO 10 for the purpose. Leon had been right all along it was as easy to build the real deal as the Hatz. Morton said he had a WACO 10 fuselage which might speed my project. I was delighted to just go take pictures and measurements but he was willing to part with it. Two weeks later we were on his doorstep with a trailer to move the fuselage home.
One look told me this was not a 10 but an older NINE. This was even better. We hauled it home May 18, 1996. It took several years to track the heirs of the last owner to get clear title. We're now rebuilding the plane and plan to use this blog to record what we learn and do through that process. We have also been gathering the records of all WACO NINEs ever registered with the fed's to learn more about the lives and times of these planes.
These are Morton's hangers and museum.
This is what we picked up. The fuselage was cut off by a fellow planning to make an airboat out of it. That's another story. From where he cut it off back everything except instruments is there. The headrest was added after 1929.
The last bay of the fuselage had a piece of fabric with eyelets and was laced on with what look like shoe laces. It looks like it reduced airflow through the fuselage and out the tail. The little things you discover when you have original parts.
We'll be posting only as we actually do things so don't expect daily updates, earning the money to pay for this takes priority.
Saturday, May 18, 1996
In the Beginning
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Bats are very good at doing what they shouldn't do: ignoring the books and turning up in the wrong habitat or behaving in an unexpected way. That's part of the charm of working with them. There's a constant chess game in which we try to stay one step ahead.
Usually these unexpected things turn up one at a time and mercifully they are outnumbered by "correct" behaviour. Recently however, I have done some hibernation surveys at a site where the bats seem to specialise in intriguing behaviour.
The site is a tunnel about 500m long, accessed via a small hole, high in the hills of southern Scotland. The tunnel was hewn by hand from the solid rock, in order to carry water from one valley to the next, for industrial use. On end has long since collapsed, but the other is still accessible to those who know where it is. Despite it being far from habitat likely to be used by foraging bats, it seems to be well-known to bats and is regularly used by Daubenton's Bats (Myotis daubentonii) and Natterer's Bats (Myotis nattereri).
The tunnel is small, mostly just high enough for me to stand up in (I'm just over 6 feet tall) and between one and two metres wide. As there are few crevices, the bats tend to tuck themselves into angles in the rock, meaning that it possible to be fairly confident that the majority of bats will be seen during a methodical survey. This is a rare luxury: in many hibernation sites it can usually be assumed that, for every bat seen, there are likely to be more out of sight.
Because of this, I thought it would be interesting to place some temperature dataloggers within the tunnel, to measure the temperature variation at different depths. The dataloggers were in place for four weeks, during which there was a warm spell, followed by several days of very cold weather, accompanied by snowfalls. Despite this, a datalogger just 7m from the entrance (C on the chart) showed a temperature variation of less than one degree either side of 4.5 degrees. A second logger 100m from the entrance (B on the chart) showed a steady temperature of 6 degrees, never varying more than a tenth of a degree. A third logger another 100m in (A on the chart) showed similar consistency around 7 degrees. Hardly surprising then that the tunnel suits the bats well.
Water runs along the floor of tunnel throughout, but never more than a few centimetres deep and I can be quite confident that it rarely rises above that height. Why? because last week I saw a Daubenton's bat tucked into an angle in the rock less than 30cm from the floor. I have rarely seen bats low on the walls of other hibernacula, but here they have been seen doing this several times.
In January this year I walked through the tunnel, noting the various Myotid bats. almost 250m from the entrance was an especially small bat. I had to look at it for a few moments before the evidence of my own eyes registered: it was a Pipistrelle. Why on earth a Pipistrelle had chosen to hibernate so deep in an upland underground site is beyond me! Normally Pipistrelles hibernate in conditions with far less consistent temperature and humidity. I would love to have known which Pipistrelle species it was, but without handling it, it was impossible to tell.
Undoubtedly my favourite oddity at this site was a Natterer's, which had found itself a small crevice. Perhaps the bat would prefer it if the site had more crevices for them to crawl into, as at other hibernacula, because this bat seems to have decided it wanted to be in the crevice come hell or high water. It had managed to get it's head in and no more and there it had settled down to hibernate. It had it's backside stuck in the air and it's wings akimbo, looking for all the world as though someone had hammered it in with a mallet...
Regular reader of this blog will have heard this many times by now, but please be aware that it is usually a criminal offence to enter a bat hibernaculum in the UK without a licence issued by one of the statutory nature conservation organisations (NE, SNH, CCW etc). It is also extremely dangerous to venture underground without training. Blundering about below ground in winter is a great way to harm both yourself and hibernating bats. Sorry, but my sympathies are with the latter! If you want to take part in these activities, join your local bat group. What are you waiting for?
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First of all, Focus on the Family in and of itself is a HUGE resource. If you're not familiar with James Dobson, google him. He's written many really good books on family/parenting issues as well as the founder (I believe) of Focus on the Family. 95% of what I have heard him speak I typically agree with (morally, biblically, etc.) and he's an enjoyable speaker/writer. FOTF has a couple of podcasts that I download on iTunes for free and listen to on my ipod while I walk. They are such an encouragement to me as well as a good teacher. There is a podcast for marriage and one for parenting as well as an entire broadcast section of their website where you can find much more. They also have several newsletters that you can receive (email or paper) for free that focus on different age groups/issues (Parenting, Family, Marriage, Singles, Homosexual Issues, etc). And last but not least, they have an entire website devoted to reviews of tv, movies, games, etc. called Plugged In Online and do an awesome job, I think.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Some Things I Find Helpful
I guess you could call this a 'What Works For Me' post because lately there have been some resources that I've been utilizing and loving and I thought I'd share.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Start Now. Right There.
Ever since we returned from vacation last week, the weather has been nice enough to turn off the A/C and open the windows. For whatever reason, the wind hasn't been high enough to sound my wind chime on the front porch, at least not where I could hear it in my bedroom. Last night as I crawled into bed, for the first time in a long while I heard a tinkling of sound that flooded my mind with memories. After Randy and I first got married, I had yet to really begin and certainly finish my thesis for graduate school. So, through the fall and winter I battled with myself to buckle down and get things finished, all to the background music of my tinkling wind chime. Do you ever think of a day long past and then reflect on all the time that was spent (doing or not doing) on various things that didn't have to be? If I had started that project on that day, wouldn't I be finished by now? Or at least a whole lot further? Whereas now I have still yet to begin.
Next year, and only just (my birthday is Jan. 9), I will turn 30 and I guess its time to admit that I have learned a few things and made some life lesson mistakes in the last 3 decades. It seems like we put off the time when we can be considered someone to learn from, don't we? Well, I still live at home, or I'm not married yet or I don't have kids yet, etc., so I don't know as much as everyone else. I'm pretty sure that is some societal influence that doesn't hold much water. Sure, as you get older you learn more. That doesn't mean that there is nothing to be gained or learned in listening to someone who hasn't lived and done exactly what you have or more. I'm just sayin'.
Anyway, I have always longed for having everything 'together' before the next big thing. A fantasy of mine is to be completely organized before the next holiday, season, or chapter. Of course, that's silly. If you don't know that that is silly, consider it. You might grow by leaps and bounds overnight by accepting that fact. I think I did. I still want to clean my house before I really dive into anything else, but I've accepted the fact that I usually can't. Doesn't mean I don't clean my house, just means the world doesn't go on hold for my preference. What has been happening though is more things are getting done. Not sure if it was the 6 months of Lay-off Lessons or what, but ever since we returned from vacation I have been able to accomplish so much more than I have ever in my life. Seriously. I'm teaching piano and voice lessons. My house is consistently cleanER. I'm cooking more. I'm marking things off the list. I even cleaned out my inbox. Mostly its that I've gotten past the concept of 'I have to do this before I can do everything else'. Instead I just dive in where I'm at and get a whole lot more done because I'm not sitting around waiting for the perfect moment, circumstance or mood. And that makes me happy. Sort of like a personal goal or accomplishment that I never thought would be possible.
Of course, children change every routine ever created when they crash into the world, but the way I see it, the sooner I can accept that I just have to begin where I'm at, the easier transitioning to living with 'life changers' will be.
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Honestly, I'm done fighting with myself.. #sew #DIY
Every year I have the urge to make my Christmas gifts... sometimes things don't go as planned.. Most years I give up and decide on a second project last minute.. Yesterday (December 18!) I canned the whole "make" idea and went out to buy presents.. only to come back home, re-group, and re-design the "make" gifts last minute. Like really last minute... I had to pass these gifts out today.
So. Sew.
There is a problem with the internet these days.. there are tutorials all over and place.. but even though a lot of them look good, at close inspection, they're not. I should have known that the pattern I was admiring wouldn't work.. You're looking at someone who sews a lot of zippered pouches, (and pillows)... I've got the zipper down.. It's my most proud skill now.. so when I saw something in a tutorial that differed from my learned skills, that should have set off the alarm.. it didn't.. I was bamboozled by the number of hits on the post I was reading and the quality graphics.
After failed attempt at the pattern's instruction, I decided to make this one my own. I had already cut ALL of my fabric as the failed pattern specified.. I repositioned the stabilizer (the pattern called for the stabilizer to be sewn to the lining of the bag...not the outside... but I thought having a better shape was more important to the outside of the bag)... I trimmed the weird pattern pieces to a better shape and sewed all night. I think they look great..the recipients too, I am happy to report.
I had this moment when learning to paint..and I am happy (sort of..after the headache) to have this feeling while learning to sew now.. Knowing how to "fix" things is the best feeling ever..and you learn that feeling by making mistakes, and deviating from patterns that are presented to you. Sort of like a mechanic.. learning how things work. This is my 11th hour, cheerleading moment to you...if you're busily making gifts still... go with your gut... don't pull your hair out over a tutorial. You can do it.
BTW, I put little stocking stuffers in the bags... handmade soaps, note pads, pens, nail polish and various treats.. each monogrammed for the recipient. The interior of each bag is bright patterned fabric that coordinates with the zipper color. The Tru Embroidery software has become invaluable for this type of project.. I am happy I purchased it.


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A Rustic Table Setting
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Our constitutional rights are easily and routinely manipulated both in and out of the courtroom. But among the few fundamental rights that seemed unassailable, I thought that the right to an open and public trial was high on the list. As a practical matter, attempts to close the courtroom during a trial are rare; in fact, I've only argued this issue in one trial, and the judge agreed with me and kept the courtroom open to all comers. And the published decisions that I've read on this issue, at least to my memory, have been equally protective of this incredibly basic and important right. But the recent case of State v. Carpenter demonstrates just how wrong I was.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
"That's justice."
Attorney Dennis Melowski recently defended a female driver on a group of traffic cases, including a charge of operating while intoxicated, commonly known as drunk driving. The cases went to a bench trial, and the evidence showed that the arresting deputy had been "amorous" with the female defendant during the traffic stop. Also, it turned out that the deputy's squad camera worked fine for every traffic stop he made that evening, except—you guessed it—this one. But in the middle of the Deputy's testimony, the bench trial was adjourned for what turned out to be a two year delay. Here's what happened when the case finally made it back to court:
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Linda Van De Water: Poor Judge(ment)?
In November, 2010 I launched The Legal Watchdog specifically to criticize State v. DeVera, an unpublished case where a trial judge "created facts out of thin air (and contrary to the evidence) to justify sending an autistic defendant to prison." I wrote about this case, here, because while I've seen and read about bizarre sentences before, this one was beyond the pale. And, as it turns out, The Legal Watchdog was actually on to something bigger.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Individual rights and the meaningless liberal-conservative dichotomy
When I was in college, I thought the liberal-conservative dichotomy meant something. Back then, it was George H. W. Bush v. Michael Dukakis, and you pretty much knew where they stood—on everything. But, eventually, along came Bill Clinton—a democrat and supposed liberal—who took us through eight years of shrinking government, annual budget surpluses, and a declining national debt. To me, as a person with only a passing interest (if that) in government and politics, this whole liberal-conservative distinction didn't really make much sense—at least with regard to fiscal matters. And today, as a criminal defense lawyer, I find this artificial distinction to be completely useless, particularly with regard to the topic that matters most: individual constitutional rights.
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911 - emergency responders in your ministry/
Do you have a plan in place in case of a medical emergency in your #KidsMinistry? Being prepared with an Emergency Responder Team is a really big deal that is often overlooked in churches.
It was a normal Sunday until a baby bit another baby above her upper lip. The injury broke thru the skin and was bleeding... A LOT! Since we needed to contact the parents ASAP, we called the media guys in the sanctuary to post the preassigned ID number for each of the babies involved. Then we said we needed medical assistance. Like... Do you know if there is a doctor or nurse on campus that can come and check this kid out?
Can you guess what happened? Since there was no system in place yet to alert a medical team that we needed assistance, the media person had posted the words, "A doctor or nurse is needed in the nursery." Next, the preassigned ID numbers of each child were posted on the screen. Can you see where this was going? We were in for a big surprise!
First of all, I saw the mom of the child who had been bitten. She was running down the long hallway towards me, screaming... "My baby! My baby!" as she ran out of her high heeled shoes as quickly as she could. Next I see the grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, aunts, uncles, etc of the baby that was "the biter" Next, there are church staff members running towards me... and of course, there are other people who are just coming along to see what's going on. Yes, it was an army of people. YIKES!
It all worked out in the end, and we learned a valuable lesson. We needed an Emergency Responder Team in place AND a way to contact them without everyone knowing what we were doing.
Some ideas for you: Build an #EmergencyResponderTeam at your church, consisting of doctors, nurses, firemen, etc that you can call on during an emergency. This way you can send a text for assistance should the need arise. Aside from texting them, you can choose a preassigned number to post on the media screen so they will know help is needed. If you choose this option, you will need to set some guidelines in place so you don't have a handful of emergency responders get up and rush toward your kids ministry environment... like I did :)
How about you? Do you have some comments about this? Have any ideas you would love to share with other church leaders about what to do in this kind of situation?
This is the third post in a series of how to have a secure environment for kids so their families can safely stop, drop off their kids, and run to worship service!
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Keeping Kids Safe - The Drop-Off
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Once medal dies are made, they are rather permanent. They last a long time. And once the initial issue of medals are struck from those dies there is always the possibility those same dies can be used to strike again. This is a decided advantage for award medals. But it may a disadvantage for other dies, as their very existence creates invitations to be struck at some later time.
There is a vast terminology for the reuse of dies. It involves several factors that determine the exact term. Factors such as authority, legality, type of manufacture, and intent of the issuer all bear consideration. Here are the six most used terms for reusing dies:
- Reissue. A second or repeated issue, after a lapse of time, by an authorized issuer, struck from original dies, and with only a slight change, if any, in form or price.
- Restrike. A numismatic item struck from original dies but at a later time than the original issue – coins struck in a year later than the date they bear, medals struck after an interval of time and regular issuing has ceased.
- Replica. A copy of a numismatic or medallic item, similar to but differing somewhat from the original piece.
- Reproduction. A copy of a medallic item made with or without authority from new models and dies or in a different media or composition, usually in poorer quality than the original item.
- Revision. A second or subsequent design replacing a prior design not considered satisfactory for further reproduction.
- Reworked. A die, design or model in which additional touching up is done after it has once been used or accepted.
The permanency of dies is exhibited by the fact some 400-year old dies of Papal medals have been resurrected to be used anew to strike fresh medals. Old dies tend to become brittle so care must be taken in their reuse. Also, old dies often exhibit sinking – the preferred term is sunken die since it happened in the past – where the striking surface becomes compacted, recessed, and uneven from long use.
Papal medals often exhibit these domed, uneven surfaces because they are struck over long periods of time. They are in demand to chronicle Papal portraits from centuries in the past.
The Paris Mint apparently never discards a die. It still has some that were created in the 1400s. It stores these on heavy mobile shelving that move on tracks like railroad tracks.
On occasion it has restruck selected early dies from their die vault for a series it calls "original dies" through their Le Club Francais de Medaille. Dies as early as mid 1600s have been struck obverse and reverse side-by-side in soft tin rectangular plates. Each piece is serially numbered in a series limited to 300 such strikes.
The soft tin is capable of obtaining an impression from the old and brittle dies, without fear of breaking. However, the tin is not a medium for creating permanent specimens. The tin is so soft a fingernail will dent it deeply; extreme care must be exercised in handling these pieces as anything heavier than a paper clip dropped on them – or dropping the item itself – will damage it extensively.
In normal custom the Paris Mint encourages world medallic artists to submit models in which it selects those to issue in medallic form. These are kept "in stock" and restruck whenever the previous press run has been exhausted. Only in the last decade have then added the actual year it was struck on the edge. But the term "Paris Mint restrike" is rampant among collectors of Paris Mint medals.
The disposition of dies is a major problem whenever a medal maker goes out of business or wishes to downsize. The present writer has been involved in several of these.
August C. Frank Company. This medallic firm in Philadelphia, founded 1894, was purchased by Don Schwartz September 11, 1972. The third generation owners wanted to keep part of the business (sprinkler manufacturing) but wanted to sell off the medal business. Schwartz contracted for the shipment of all the dies to Medallic Art's plant in Danbury.
The trucker emptied all the dies into 55-gallon drums and loaded these on his flat bed truck. He finished on a Friday and delivered the shipment on Monday. Unfortunately it snowed over the weekend. The open drums were filled with snow which melted and the drums contained water in addition to the metal dies.
I had the chore to inventory the dies. Fortunately, Medallic Art hired a retired August Frank employee, William Neithercott, to assist me. We commandeered the heat treating department, dumped out the water-soaked dies on the floor and picked up rusted dies, brushing off the rust until we could identify the design on the dies. We placed similar dies in cardboard boxes, until we could match obverse and reverse. We filled hundreds of cardboard boxes, mostly labeled with topical subjects of the die's design.
[Contact with an old-time August Frank employee did have some benefit. I interviewed him on several occasions to learn some interesting technology. One of which was how the Philadelphia Mint (and medal makers in Philadelphia) applied a patina to a medal to obtain the famed "mahogany finish" of the 19th century This was published in Robert Julian's book, Medals of the United States Mint, The First Century, page 35-36 in the Introduction.]
Note: Mahogany Finish is a double-heating process that was employed by the United States Mint and private medal makers in the Philadelphia area in the last half of the 19th century. It provided a deep, dark patina finish which ranged from chocolate brown to red-brown, It resembled mahogany wood, hence the name. To create such a desired color a medal was heated until cherry red, picked out of the fire with tongs, doused in cotton-seed oil, then covered with powdered red lead, which adhered to both sides. It was placed back in the fire for a second time for a prescribed time reaching the color desired.
Greenduck Company. This Chicago firm, founded 1906, got its name from its two founders, George G. Greenburg (formerly with Childs & Company) and Harvey Ducgheisel, choosing the name Greenduck as the first syllable of these two men's last names, intending it to be one word. However so many people used it as two words, it was adopted as two words by the company as well (date unknown).
William U. Watson, president, sold the company in 1962 to ERO Industries, Birmingham, England, which moved it from Chicago to Hernando, Mississippi. It was sold again in 1976 to Memphis businessman Elliot Sklar. Even after introducing new products, as casino tokens and Mardi Gras doubloons, the firm could not sustain further operations and went out of business 2004.
In the mid 1980s an agent of the firm contacted me. They wanted to dispose of a large segment of their dies. I devised a plan, submitted it to them, but the management took no action.
My plan was based to two premises: Every collector should own at least one pair of dies – to understand how coins and medals are made – and everyone who owns a die wants it struck in new items, often in a number of compositions.
I suggested offering selected sets of dies, at auction, with the proviso of having a small number, say no more than 20, of certain soft metal compositions up to maybe bronze. But never in the same composition of what it was originally issued. I wanted to maintain the integrity of the original issue whatever composition in which it was struck – I did not want to replicate existing specimens.
I assume the dies were scrapped when the firm went out of business in 2004.
The concept of copies – using existing dies or making new ones – is always suspicious. The intent is most important. Also to be considered is authorization, quality of workmanship, and how the copies are made: cast, struck, electrotype, or other. Below are listed 13 different kinds of copies, arranged somewhat in order of legality.
Deluxe Copy – Made with authority for sale to the recipient only in better materials or workmanship than the original (as a decoration prepared in a more precious metal – it was issued in silver, but the recipient may order it made in gold at his own expense).
Custom Copy – Made with authority for sale as a second or subsequent
copy (say for a second uniform) or to replace a lost original, or other official use; a custom order usually of one made by original maker and dies. Called replacement medal or sometimes jeweler's copy.
Reissue – Copy made with authority after lapse of time without change from original issue and reuse of original dies to strike a new piece or a new production run.
Revision – Copy made with authority and with a change of design no matter how minute, requiring retooling the original dies or creating entirely new copy dies. Such change might be a new date, new logo, change of sponsor's name, correct a design error, or similar reason.
Replica – Made with authority where a major portion of the previous design
is used to make a new coin or medal. Replication is the most common form of copy making. No unauthorized use here, and new dies or molds are used to make the new issue.
Collectors' Copy – Made with authority for sales primarily to collectors or public; these copies are usually electrotypes (as copies sold by museums of specimens in their collections).
Reproduction – Made without authority and reproduced in a new model or composition. A large gray area of legality.
Facsimile – Copy without authority, closely resembling the original and made by any method, as costume jewelry medals.
Private Copy – Made without authority for private use; these copies are usually cast in plaster or metal and if sold may be questionable status (study copies cast in plaster for scientific or scholarly study are certainly legal; private metal copies in off metal are a gray area, but copies the same as the original are outright forgeries).
Imitation – Copy made without authority and technically not illegal; usually of poor quality, or a souvenir status (to be given away), or play money (as child's play copies, or play coins).
Restrike – Copy made without authority from original dies at a later date (and often in deteriorated state, as struck from cracked or rusted dies).
Forgery – Copy made without authority and with intent to deceive.
Counterfeit – Copy made without authority and with intent to deceive and defraud both collectors and the public. Fake and spurious also denote a counterfeit status.
Study copies mentioned above have long history in the numismatic field. Copies made in plaster-of-Paris have been made by collectors and by museums. The American Numismatic Society formerly had a lady employee who made these for anyone for a fee. It is like a photograph, but in three dimensions. The British Museum employed one family – the Readys – who made electrotype copies of objects in their collections including rare coins, cast in copper! Over two generations, father and sons made more than 20,000 such copies.
Modern problems. The big problem today are copies from China. There are hundreds of such small manufacturers of copies in China, usually of coins with a value over $100. They make copy dies and use high grade metal to match existing coins. The quality is so close to originals that it is affecting the entire coin field.
In 1973 I found a belt-buckle at a flea market with an exact design from one of the Society of Medalists issues. It was made by the Bergamot Brass Works as I recall. I showed it to Bill Louth who wrote the company and stated that was a copyrighted design and the property of Medallic Art. The firm responded they had overlooked the copyright mark, and agreed to destroy the mold and all existing castings. Problem solved.
For medals, copies are not that severe a problem. At least not yet. In handling perhaps a quarter million medals over the last 60 years I estimate I have experienced less than ten serious medal copies. Most of these were copies of Inaugural Medals, one of Olympic medals, and one of the Society of Medalists designs made into a belt buckle.
For the web site of Medal Collectors of America I stated: "Fakes and copies [of medals] do exist, just as in coins. Copies of coins are made by crooks. Copies of medals are often made by museums for serious numismatists to study."


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In late April, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Ontario Minister of Finance Charles Sousa announced a 16-point Fair Housing Plan to cool the red-hot housing markets in Toronto and southwestern Ontario. A foreign buyers tax, vacant homes tax, and expanded rent control were the most notable measures introduced.
Just imagine Wynne and Sousa in front of a one way mirror with all the potential culprits lined up in front of them: offshore speculators, domestic investors, rental apartment owners, profit-seeking builders, absentee landlords, municipal planning departments, lazy mortgage underwriters, tax-avoiding property scalpers, land hoarding developers, double-ending realtors, a neglectful Canadian Revenue Agency, onerous real estate taxes, exorbitant development charges, organizers of the frenetic real estate seminars, rising employment, population growth, and higher incomes. With everyone whispering in their ears, telling them who is to blame and who isn't, the Ontario government pointed at a bunch of suspects, ignoring two of the biggest ones.
Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa, right, delivers the 2017 Ontario budget next to Premier Kathleen Wynne at Queen's Park in Toronto on Thursday April 27, 2017. (Photo: Nathan Denette/CP)
Real estate has often been one of the most speculative asset classes, and anecdotal evidence certainly points to more investor activity over the past year in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). A recent Realosophy report found there was a big increase in the number of new freehold homes being rented out by their owners. Long-term investors provide much-needed rental supply, which is a positive for any real estate market. However, short-term investors, especially highly leveraged ones keen on flipping a property in three to nine months add volatility to the market, unwanted risk, and the higher probability of a housing market correction. The government should have taken aim at domestic speculators, who likely comprise a much bigger share of the residential resale transactions than foreign buyers.
This would have been a positive step to prevent short-term speculation, but this measure has its limits because it is treating the symptom of the problem, not the actual problem. Speculators buy because prices are rising rapidly and they expect them to continue to rise, they don't buy in stagnant markets. So what caused prices to rise in the first place, and what else has happened over the past year to fuel the bigger boom.
One of the main reasons prices started to rise is a mismatch of supply and demand. Greater Toronto Area developers built 26 per cent less square footage in 2016 compared to 15 years earlier, as smaller condominiums capture a much larger share of total housing completions. Buyers in search of more generously-sized homes are bidding up centrally located properties, moving to the outer suburbs, or moving out of the GTA altogether. Areas like Kitchener, Niagara Falls, Peterborough, and Windsor, are all experiencing increased demand from prospective buyers leaving the GTA for more affordable housing.
It can't just be GTA ex-pats and speculation driving up these smaller communities in Ontario. The reason might just be something much more simple: more people. Statistics Canada estimates provincial population on a quarterly basis, and as of the end of Q1-2017, there were 219,000 more people in Ontario than a year earlier, more than the combined growth of Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. This massive increase represents the highest level of growth in 15 years, and is twice the level of absolute growth experienced 10 years ago.
It will take a while for developers to ramp up supply in response to the need to house all these extra residents. In Toronto, where the bulk of new supply is high-rise units (which can take three to four years to build), it may not be until 2020 that this demand translates into built product ready to be occupied.
Until we see supply match demand, and house price inflation stabilize, we'll continue to see speculators in the market. Ontario added 80,000 more residents in the first quarter of 2017 (218,893) than the same quarter a year earlier (138,926), and those 16 measure won't be able to address the massively expanded need for housing.
When the cause of high prices is the result of something you want to occur, meaning Ontario is a very desirable place to live and move to, the solution is that much more difficult.
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Have you ever wondered what happens to stage invaders at gigs? First of all, they are checked by the security men to make sure they are fit and healthy, then they are cleaned thoroughly, dropped down a chute, sent through a meat-mincer and turned into the hotdogs sold in the foyer of the concert venue.
This was my pitch to U2 for a video to accompany their single Elevation. The band were incredibly friendly and laughed at my pitch, but it was the wrong kind of laugh. It was the "ho ho ho – no way, José" kind of laugh, which is understandable, but a shame. I really thought this idea was a winner. You've got shots of the band performing, crowds going wild, and an action-packed Sweeney Todd-style subplot to keep viewers glued from start to finish. Oh well, at least I got to meet Bono!
I love music and I love film-making, so being a music video director is the best of both worlds. The process of making a video is quite simple: the record company send you, and several other directors, a track. They often give you a brief that will nearly always include the phrases: "the band must look cool . . . we want something edgy . . . stylish . . . and if possible have a never-seen-before trick". Blah blah blah. Best to ignore the brief. Just listen to the music and try to come up with an idea that captures why you love that song.
Although I really enjoy the process of coming up with ideas, getting the right one is often like pulling teeth. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, it arrives like a special delivery and I'm done in a flash. This happened with the video for Fatboy Slim's Right Here, Right Now. The history of evolution from big jellyfish-like bag to big fat guy. Bingo! And Badly Drawn Boy's Spitting in the Wind: Joan Collins sings the song in a bathtub, then Damon Gough appears and has to cheer her up. "Put the kettle on – I've cracked it!" And Help the Aged by Pulp was also a simple concept: Jarvis rides a stairlift to heaven. He really liked the idea and it came together well.
However, after Help the Aged, Pulp released a track called This Is Hardcore. I thought it was mind-blowingly good. I had to make the video. The piano plays. We open in a seedy alleyway on a stormy night. A male sex doll lies deflated in the gutter. The music builds as the howling wind inflates the doll. The doll rises to its feet and puts on a jacket, trousers and glasses it finds in a bin. And, as the vocal starts, the doll turns into a rain-soaked Jarvis Cocker. While Jarvis sings, the alleyway opens up into a Busby Berkeley-style dance routine with inflatable female dolls . . .
Unfortunately, I spent so long bashing my head against things to come up with this idea, they were already working with another director by the time I submitted it.
When I came to make my first feature film, 2005's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, it was a chance to run riot visually. But some of my favourite ideas never made it into the final film. There was a character who was going to act like an alien lollipop lady on a busy but smoky planet (his eyes would have been added in post-production), and a banana-shaped creature riding on the back of a mouse horse. I even shot an entire chase sequence where you only saw the legs of different aliens, as Arthur Dent (the film's pyjama-wearing hero) ran around in his slippers; it was a cheap, funny way to have a lot of aliens in a scene.
My big mistake was creating extra scenes for these ideas rather than weaving them into the action. That is why they were cut from the final film. I honestly feel as if I let those ideas down. They coulda been contenders but I ruined it for them by being, well, a bit rubbish.
Hammer & Tongs, the production company I set up with Dominic Leung and Nick Goldsmith the week after we left art school in 1993, has now made more than 70 music videos, a lot of commercials and two feature films, the other being 2007's Son of Rambow, about two boys who make a homemade Rambo movie. While putting together a compilation of our best videos, short films and home movies, I came across sketchbooks containing my forgotten ideas. For every video we completed, at least five didn't make it – and I can't help thinking some of our best work is still sitting in sketchbooks.
Although I'm very proud of the ideas we brought to life, I'm just as proud of the ones that got away. I once had the pleasure of pitching an idea to Kanye West by phone. He was at an airport and I really enjoyed our call, as it was continually interrupted by people passing him by and telling him how much they loved him. Somehow, he was able to thank them and still remain completely focused on my pitch, for his song Flashing Lights.
"It's not so much a story as lots of vignettes that go with the music," I said. "First, you are being given a piggy back by a bear, then there is some walking luggage, which is x-rayed to reveal a skeleton. Then we go underwater and find tiny organisms glowing and flashing in time with the music, and then your head is being carried by a plane and there's this woman with really bending legs and . . . " At this point, I heard one of the cabin crew say: "Mr West, this plane is about to take off." Up into the air went Kanye West. And that was the last I heard from him.
Elf relief for the White Stripes
I made a sketch of the World Trade Centre for the 1998 Radiohead song No Surprises. The idea was to have someone at every one of its windows and choreograph them all to turn the lights on, to create patterns in time with the music. It would be like the twin towers talking to each other at night, twinkling in time along with the melody. It could have been done digitally, but I was sure it would be better to do it for real. What an idiot.
Sometimes I see the video that I lost out to and experience some guilty schadenfreude in it being worse than my idea, but in this case the director, Grant Gee, made a video for Radiohead that will go down as an all-time classic, with Thom Yorke singing as water rises around his face. Damn.
The White Stripes, meanwhile, are a director's dream: amazing music and a killer band always up for something different. When I heard their song Blue Orchid, I thought the idea was obvious: "One of Santa's little helpers gets so stressed out with his colossal workload he has to spend time in the elf relief room. This is a padded room where an elf can lose his mind to the White Stripes performing their song." OK, the idea does seem stupid now, but at the time I was convinced it was video gold.
And Jamiroquai! Surely the little fellow will love this idea, involving lots of sliding around: "JK is on a skateboard in the middle of Manhattan and his centre of gravity is dictated by the angle of the camera and . . ." Nope.
Well, what about Coldplay then? I could change the characters, relocate it to the desert, and pitch it for their song The Scientist. No way, José.
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Rainy Days is an exciting story driven map for the first person shooter Crysis. It thrusts players into an exciting story driven mod with teamfights and rain scenario. Our dream was to build a map like it existed in our fantasy, it was a hard way but I think in a few months we are going to release it :D
A testmap I created at the beginning of the planning phase of Wreckage. Edit, copy or use it for whatever you want. (Not playable ingame!)
About one and a half year ago I decided to stop the development of "Cherokee" which should be the third part of my Rainy Days trilogy. As you can see Wreckage is the real successor now. After a few months I noticed that Cherokee wasn't the I want to build so I cancelled it and started with Wreckage.
It isn't playable ingame, there is no ai navigation, no scripts, only the environment with a few enemies.
If you want to use the map or parts of it for your own creation, just grab what you want (with Wreckage in your credits).
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If I load this map via console "map reduz" Im under water and if I get to the surface of the water Im in the middle of nowhere.I see no land nothing only water.
The map is only useable in the editor.
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Watching these tennis balls being made is oddly satisfying
This fascinating video below shows the crazy amount of steps that it takes to make something as simple as a tennis ball. Not only does it require a vast assortment of machinery, as you might expect, but it also takes an army of fast-working humans.
And for some reason, we can't stop watching.
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