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There is an ongoing debate, here in Australia, about what to do about people who arrive "illegally" by sea and claim to be asylum seekers. For Australians, exploring a family history can reveal many things. It can especially reveal previous unspoken matters concerning past traumas.
If you have an ancestor who was forced to leave somewhere in the hope of avoiding starvation, violence or even death, where did they go? How did they escape? How did they pay for their journeys? What happened to them afterwards?
My husband's maternal grandparents came to Australia probably because they were barred from entry to the United States in the 1920s. An archive document from Rome states that my husband's grandfather had been in the United States, perhaps before the First World War. Being an Italian, there was a likelihood that he hoped to spend a few years in the United States, earn some money and then return home. However, I have found no record of him in the Ellis Island database.
If he had been in the United States before the war, he had returned to his homeland to serve in the war itself. Born in the mid 1880s, he was described as a farm worker with socialist sympathies. His political views put his life at risk in the postwar years under Mussolini. The United States immigration policies after the First World War prevented many southern and eastern Europeans from escaping in that direction.
Many men from the Veneto region of northern Italy were in a similar situation. I have discovered a document listing all of those who arrived in Australia on the same ship as my husband's grandfather in the mid 1920s. Perhaps one of your relatives is listed there.


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There is a sense of urgency that surrounds the imperative to provide all children a quality education, and instructional leaders have an ethical responsibility to meet this obligation. This book explores the role of leadership as it relates to the elements of curriculum and instruction and examines contemporary global, national, state, and local challenges facing educational leaders. This book focuses on the intersection of research, theory, and practice.
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DSOGaming writes: "Epic Games impressed gamers back in 2012 when it showcased its latest game engine, Unreal Engine 4, with its Global Illumination support. The Elemental Tech Demo was a beauty to behold, however its latest version – which ran on Sony's PS4 – did not feature any of it. Naturally, a lot of PC gamers blamed consoles for not being powerful enough to run this end-all-be-all feature. And in an interview with GameTrailers, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney decided to shed some light on that matter."
In context: "We created a CGI trailer that can't be reproduced on an affordable machine. And, by affordable, we mean sub $4000."
Doesn't matter how good ur tech is, if u don't have talented people around to use it, and that's why i see epic as a failure in the future and it saddens me because gears is one of my fav franchise's but that's the industry . I see crytek becoming the new epic and epic closing shop and only leasing there license instead of developing games all of there key talent didn't leave for no reason .
ok, a good excuse, but a excuse after all.
@mmike855 you are not alone.. A teach demo should have gameplay next time to impress me and not some "this is what out engine can do if your game is set in a small land and only has 2 brainless characters ..
I like more the faces tech demos if you want a non gameplay tech demo.. that's where you can see how much better the new tech is.
IMO, to a non technical gamer such as myself, the PS4 version looked pretty close to the PC version. There were some differences. The PS4 version didn't have some of the particle effects. But I thought the PS4's lighting was brighter and made it look more crisp. Just my opinion. The lighting was the biggest differences. To be significantly cheaper than a high end PC, PS4 still holds it's own. There's diffinately not as big of a gap as with PC and PS3. This is good for PC actually. How many PC games had to be built on scalable engines that could also work on inferior consoles? The next consoles should mean that PC can finally achieve what it's really capable of because it doesn't have to scale down so far. For example, Battlefield 3, Far Cry 3, etc.


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Washington Trust partnered with the United Way of Rhode Island's Women's Leadership Council for a summer book drive that netted more than 4,000 children's books to benefit "Books Are Wings," a Rhode Island organization dedicated to ensuring that all children have books in their homes. Washington Trust collected books through the Bank's 18 Rhode Island branch offices, as well as at its operations center and corporate headquarters. The United Way of Rhode Island collected approximately 13,000 books during its summer book drive.
"Washington Trust was pleased to partner with and support the United Way in their efforts to improve children's literacy in Rhode Island," Joseph J. MarcAurele, Washington Trust chairman, president and CEO, said in a statement. "We thank our employees, customers, friends and neighbors, who generously donated 4,000 books, almost one-third of the total collected, to this state-wide literacy initiative."
All of the books collected will be distributed as part of Back to School Celebration RI in conjunction with Books Are Wings. The annual event, which provides children in-need with a backpack full of school supplies for the coming academic year, helps 16,000 local youth statewide. This year, children will have an opportunity to select a book of their choice to begin building their at-home library.


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Hi all,
After a looooooong time, here it is finally ...
... the new falcon 030 demo from Dune / Sector one / Cerebral Vortex / Arcadia Crew called "Bird to be alive"
It was first released at Sillyventure 2K17 and finished first in the falcon demo compo.
You can download it at : https://bitbucket.org/SectorOne/btba
(This repository is temporary thus you should not reference it on your website as a long term place for download.
Please duplicate the ZIP on your own website where possible).
A video is available here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgJkN5peFCI&t=3s
Code ................ : Thadoss / Dune
Code ................ : Splash / Sector one
Gfx and Design....... : Templeton / Cerebral Vortex
Design .............. : Xerus / Arcadia Crew
additional Gfx ...... : Mic / Dune (disco texture)
Music ............... : DMA-SC / Sector One
This demo should run well under hatari 2.0 or higher.
It has also been tested with success on accelerated falcon 060.
The first part (a bird is born) :
This part is running in high resolution. All the animations
are made with the 68030 when the DSP plays a MP2 soundtrack.
The second part (happy birthday, let's dance) :
Here, the demo runs in normal resolution, and the DSP is
computing all the 3D, env-mappings, movements, ...
The music is made of several loopable sequences, rescripted
as a complete track.
Greetings to all our friends in the Atari communauty
and to Grey for his wonderful SillyVenture


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In my job I get to attend lots of meetings about agriculture — that's what I do. In several recent meetings, speakers have alluded to 'the age of America's farmers.' I wondered what that means.
A search of Google, or your Internet search vehicle of choice, will likely establish for you that the average chronological age of an American, whose income is derived more than 50 percent from producing, managing, or marketing agricultural products is 56-57 years old. What does that mean? And, is it accurate?
Statistics is something I had to memorize to pass in graduate school and economics, both micro and macro, are foreign languages I don't speak. So, I'm not likely the best candidate to judge the validity or the meaning of the age of the 'average' American farmer.
I can, however, make some observations from 30 or so years in the business of communicating agricultural information, and as any reasonable journalist would do, ask lots of questions about it.
Is having the owners of our food supply being experienced and mature a bad thing? If I was going in for open heart surgery, I would choose the 57-year-old surgeon over the 37-year-old surgeon every time — were that the only criteria given me to judge. Nothing against youth, I long for it every day.
I understand that growing crops and raising livestock are a bit different from open-heart surgery, but my point is given the often misplaced vigor and energy of youth (based on personal experience as a youth) versus the sage wisdom of age, it's clear in most things which option I would take.
It would be interesting to know the average age of American farmers who get 100 percent of their income from farming 1,000 acres or more. My bet is it would be a lot lower than 57 years. If for no other reason than inter-generational transfer of farms has gotten to be such a precise science, it is more profitable, and certainly more wise, to transfer ownership of farms to the next generation.
At the recent joint meeting of the North Carolina Corn, Soybean and Small Grain Producers Association, each association presented awards to top growers. I didn't ask anyone's age, and I'd lose money guessing age and weight, but I am pretty sure more of those winners were considerably less than 57 years old than more than 57 years old.
Maybe grain farmers are younger than other farmers. I was surprised at the number of youthful-looking farmers who were recognized for growing 60 and 70 bushels of soybeans and 200 bushels of corn per acre. Obviously, these youthful farmers knew what they were doing. I'm not ready to opt out for the more youthful heart surgeon just yet, but I do feel good about having plenty of soy oil and corn flakes to help me avoid needing a heart surgeon — young or old.
Likewise, at the recent Beltwide Cotton Conference, I had the opportunity to attend several grower panels — most of these guys and girls — sure looked to be less than the 57 years old. They talked about things like variable rate drip and aerial application of micronutrients and global positioning satellites for auto steering and precision planting. All of which left me feeling very comfortable that I would have plenty of cotton shirts and pants for the foreseeable future.
In seeking the age of American farmers, I found a couple of interesting facts about non-American farmers. In South Africa a higher percentage of farmers own Mercedes than do medical doctors. And, in Brazil more farmers (over 65 percent) drive farm and personal vehicles powered by something other than oil-based fuel.
Rather than worrying about the age of the American farmer, would we be better off trying to figure out how to combat the escalating price of everything associated with fossil fuel? Or, figure out how we can better compete in a global market with our farm products, so more of our farmers can own Mercedes?
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Updated 12/21/12
Is Smoke a Problem with Residential Backyard Burning in the Granite Bay Area?
For many years, citizens in the Granite Bay area have been concerned with smoke impacts from residential burning. As our population has increased, there are more homes on smaller lots with closer neighbors resulting in more smoke impacts. Numerous complaints have been filed with both the Air District and the South Placer Fire Protection District regarding nuisance smoke. This has decreased with the changes that took place in 2003.
Why Implement Changes in Granite Bay?
In March of 2002, the Air District made a presentation to the Granite Bay Municipal Advisory Committee (MAC) regarding smoke from residential backyard burning. As a result of this presentation, the MAC formed the Residential Burn Compromise Committee to determine the desire of the community and to recommend a compromise policy that would satisfy citizens on both sides of the issue (suburban and rural). Air District and Fire District staff worked with the Committee to provided technical support. The final report of the committee was presented and endorsed by the MAC in March 2003 with recommended changes in burn permit issuance, the burn hours and the burn season. These changes were implemented by both the Air District and the South Placer Fire District.
In April 2005 the Residential Burn Compromise Committee reconvened in order to review the burn hours. A recommendation to the MAC was made and approved to extend the burn hours for the month of May.
What Area is Affected by the Change and How is it Identified?
The changes affects residents who live in the 95746 and 95661 zip code areas.
When is the Burn Season?
The burning season begins the day when the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection's summer Burn Ban is lifted and ends June 15th.
Do I need a Burn Permit and Where Do I Get One?
Residents must obtain a year round burn permit from the South Placer Fire Protection District in order to burn. Burn permits are not required from the Air District for residential burning, however for NON-RESIDENTIAL burning please contact the Air District to obtain a burn permit or for burn permit information.
What Days Can I Burn?
Residential burning is allowed only during the first half of each month, from the 1st to the 15th, on those days that are authorized as burn days. There is no burning allowed on Easter or on federal holidays. The 16th through the end of each month are designated No Burn Days.
What are the Burn Hours?
Burning must be conducted between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. except for the month of May in which the burn hours are between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. There is no burning on Easter or on federal holidays. The 16th through the end of each month are designated No Burn Days.
How Do I Find out if its a Burn Day?
The Air District maintains a daily burn day message system that has a specific message for Granite Bay residents. Burning is allowed only on a permissive burn day.
On days when the fire danger is increased, the Air District works very closely with local fire officials to include their information in the burn day message.
What are the Different Drying Times for Vegetation?
Material and Size Required Drying Times
How are these Regulations Enforced?
The Placer County Air Pollution Control District works together with the South Placer Fire Protection District to enforce the burn regulations.
What about Non-Residential Burning?
All other open burning requires a year round Burn Permit from the Air District. This includes Agricultural Burning, Ditches, Levees and Roadways, and any burning for Land Development. Contact the Air District, at (530) 745-2330, if in doubt about the burning requirements.
How are the Burn Rules Enforced?
The Placer County Air Pollution Control District works together with the South Placer Fire Protection District to enforce burn regulations in the Granite Bay area.
Return to the Residential Allowable Burning webpage


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20 oz canned chickpeas
3 cloves garlic
4-5 chipotle chiles in adobo (with at least 1 teaspoon of a adobo)
juice of 1/2 lemon
3 tablespoons tahini
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
salt to taste
In a large saucepan, heat the chickpeas (in their liquid) until warm. Drain chickpeas, reserving liquid. Place chickpeas, tahini, chiles, garlic, garlic powder, cumin, olive oil, lemon juice, and salt into a blender or food processor. Blend on high until smooth, adding a few tablespoons of the reserved liquid to achieve a smooth texture. Sample and add more garlic, chiles, lemon or salt according to taste. Refrigerate overnight for best flavor.


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Imagine this situation: you're running a game of D&D, and your players arrive in a new place - a tavern, a market, whatever - and you happen to mention that one of the people hanging around the place is a dwarf. This dwarf has no special significance: you just came up with him on the spur of the moment, as the kind of person who might be in a place like this in D&D-land. But one of the PCs latches onto him. She asks questions about him. She goes over and talks to him. She wants to know what a dwarf like him is doing in a place like this.
At this point, you might have any number of brilliant ideas about how to work this dwarf into your campaign. But even if you don't, there are three options which are always available to you.
Option one is the path of least resistance. 'His name is, um, Dain Steelbeard. He's a blacksmith. He's short and muscular and he has a massive beard. He's in town to buy, um, mining equipment for his clan, who operate an iron mine up in the hills.' Anyone with even the most basic knowledge of traditional fantasy can come up with this stuff ad nauseam. It's boring and cliched, but it'll do until something more interesting comes along.
|If he isn't called Dain Steelbeard, I bet someone else in his clan is...
Option two is the path of free-association. 'His name is, um, Ronald Cakeman. He's a cat trainer who travels the land in search of designer shoes. His beard is dyed bright green and he's wearing a bowler hat. He's embroiled in a sordid bisexual love triangle with a centaur and a harpy and his sorrows have driven him to drink. And he rides around town on a yak.' Coming up with stuff like this is easy because it is meaningless random bullshit. It's more fun and colourful than yet another beer-loving, axe-swinging dwarf with a bad Scottish accent, but it's also more disruptive and less likely to cohere with the rest of the setting. Too much reliance on this sort of free association will quickly turn your game into surrealist nonsense.
Option three is the path of filler. 'His name is Dain the, um, Corpulent. He's really fat. He has bright green eyes and he works as a carpenter, repairing the local mill. And he hates mice.' This is the kind of stuff you can get off any one of a thousand 'random NPC traits' tables. Random detail about occupation. Random detail about appearance. Random detail about personality. Just enough to distinguish him from the next dwarf, but nothing that's actually particularly meaningful or interesting. After all, why should your players care that he has bright green eyes?
Now, there are all kinds of other, better things you might do with him as well, but these three options are always available as a kind of baseline minimum. You can always fall back on cliches or invent random nonsense or string together plausible but irrelevant details until they accumulate into something resembling a (rather boring) person. They are the most basic implements in the GM's toolbox.
I think it thus follows that, if an RPG supplement is worth reading (let alone buying), it has to give you more than that. The contents need to be something better than you could come up with, unaided, simply by following cliches and/or random madlibbing and/or coming up with irrelevant filler. Otherwise, how have they improved your game?
I say this because quite a lot of them don't. Like, they'll detail an orc tribe, in enormous detail... and it will all be exactly what you would expect from the words 'orc tribe'. They'll be fierce and warlike and brutal and love violence and live in a cave and have a thuggish chief who likes throwing his weight around and a creepy shaman who's always demanding more sacrifices and you could have thought of all that yourself. It boils down to 'this orc tribe is a tribe of orcs who look like orcs and think like orcs and act like orcs and fight like orcs'. Sometimes entire campaign settings will be like this, spending hundreds and hundreds of pages telling you that, yes, the not-Vikings sail around in longships and raid coastal settlements and the not-Egyptians build giant monuments to their dead Pharaohs and all the other stuff that you could have guessed just from being given the most basic overview of the world. There's no added value.
|Orcs who are angry violent savages? And fight with axes? My mind! It is blown!
Or else they'll take the filler route, and just fill their word-count with irrelevant detail. The headman of this village is tall and old and cheerful. The headman of that village has a long black beard and drinks too much. Maybe this isn't exactly what you would have come up with if you were inventing these NPCs out of whole cloth on the spur of the moment... but the chances are that if you had just made something up on the spot, then whatever you did come up with, possibly with the help of a random table or two, would have been just as good. What's the point of writing things down in full detail when a single 'random NPC quirks' table could have done the same job a hundred times over?
You've hopefully all read Zak's 'One More Idea' method for adventure writing, where you start off with something totally basic ('a room with three weak monsters, then a room with one big monster') and just keep going back over it, adding one more idea to each concept each time, until it's developed into something interesting enough to run: his example shows how adding just three ideas to each adventure element is enough to get you from a bare skeleton to a compellingly weird, densely interconnected scenario. But that only works if each idea is actually adding something worth having. If your first concept is 'dwarf'' and your next five ideas are 'loves gold', 'hates orcs', 'massive beard', 'expert blacksmith', and 'fights with an axe', then frankly you might as well have stopped with idea number one.
So this is where RPG books come in. They give you better material to work with. They are full of examples where the author added one more idea, and that idea was really good. Slumbering Ursine Dunes, for example, gave me neanderthal Cave Dwarves with flint hammers and stone-and-metal Robo-Dwarves with robotronic eyes and evil space elves who talk and dress like Ming the Merciless, and since reading it I have had that many more options available to me when thinking about what the random elves or dwarves hanging around my games might be like - options which aren't just the same old cliches, and which are likely to be much more powerfully imagined and conceptually coherent than whatever randomness I might ad-lib on the spur of the moment. Most RPG supplements, even pretty dull ones, will have at least one or two such ideas buried somewhere within them. But the really good ones will have stuff like this on almost every page.
This is what I think of as 'conceptual density', and it is, bar nothing, the single thing that I look for most in RPG materials. A weak book will take one moderately interesting idea - 'What if a bunch of kobolds started worshipping Cthulhu?' - and eke it out over ten, or twenty, or thirty pages, filling in all the gaps with either cliche material (kobolds doing either generic kobold stuff, generic Cthulhu cultist stuff, or a mixture of the two) or with the kind of random details which are no better or worse than the stuff you could have come up with on the spot. A good book will use that one idea as a kind of basket into which it proceeds to stuff as many other new ideas as possible. Think of the sheer number of ideas packed into, say, Qelong: war-torn fantasy Cambodia and animated stupas and a river which is a Naga and it's stirring in its sleep and its dreams are warping people into monsters and a magical device is leaking arcane radiation into the water and it collects in people's hands and the villagers cut people's hands off to be safe and those hands then animate and crawl around the countryside strangling people and and and and...
|and and and it's all going to fucking kill you, but at least getting eaten by a miles-long snake-river-goddess with four heads will be original...
I guess what I'm getting at is that, quite a lot of the time, I feel that a lot of the content in RPG supplements - especially adventure modules - is superfluous. 'Trolls raid nearby settlements, capturing villagers to sacrifice in an ancient stone circle in the hope of awakening their ancient monster-god' is a decent enough basis for an adventure. But if everything that follows is just pretty much exactly what your reader would have expected based on that description - trolls acting exactly like trolls normally do, villagers being cliched fantasy villagers, the monster-god being a gribbly tentacle beast straight out of Cthulhu Central Casting, and so on - then you might as well have left it as a one-line adventure prompt rather than writing a whole module about it. The extra page-count should be justified by its content: it should be full of stuff that is, on average, better than most people are going to be able to come up with on the spot.
My favourite RPG supplements are the ones in which the page count corresponds to the number of actual ideas, and thus maintain a very high level of conceptual density. One or two ideas in one or two pages is fine. Dozens of ideas in dozens of pages is fine. But a handful of ideas stretched out over dozens or hundreds of pages, Shadows Over Vathak style, is just wasting everyone's time.
Probably coming next: behemoth Pathfinder mega-campaign Rise of the Runelords distilled down into a single blog post!


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Chess Informant - ISSUE 103Product Code: B0103INF
The Most Important Games from May-August 2008 Every volume of Chess Informant offers a selection of the best games played by the world's greatest chess players. Over 90% of the games are annotated by the players who played them. The classification code system facilitates the search by openings and variations, and the system of annotation signs and symbols is perfectly understandable to everyone. There are also the most interesting endings, combinations, studies, the ten best games and the ten most important theoretical novelties from the previous volume, tournament crosstables and thorough indexes of players and annotators. Chess Informant 103 brings a thoroughly refined selection of 918 annotated games (407 full games and 511 game fragments) from May - August 2008. Featured are games from La Habana, Sofia, Sarajevo, Bazna, Foros, Dortmund, Poikovsky, Biel, Paks, Sochi, Maniz - rapid, Warszawa, London, Moscow, Amsterdam, Montreal. As usual, the contributors are the world s best players. This volume also brings: * the voting for the ten best games from Chess Informant 103 * the voting for ten most important theoretical novelties from Chess Informant 102 * a theoretical survey in ECO format * the most interesting combinations and endings from recent tournament practice * studies, tournament standings and crosstables * and the best output of Peter Svidler. If you are a serious chess player, you can't afford to miss Chess Informant!
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It's that time of year again – Beach time! To me, almost nothing is more fun than a day (or ten) of blue skies, sun, and surf. While fun, beaches have their own set of hazards. But you can manage them by doing just a few things before you set-up the chairs and point the kids at the waves. Here's what to do:
Talk to the Guards
My first and best advice is to try to swim at beaches where there are lifeguards present. The United States Life Saving Association (USLA) estimates the chance of drowning on a guarded beach is 1 in 18,000,000. Even so, the same rules about close supervision still apply, the surf is a whole different kind of water and beach guards are trained to handle it.
Make sure to talk to the guards before hitting the waves. Even if you have tons of experience and you know what you're doing in the water, local guards usually know more and have been studying the waves on their beach. They can warn you against dangerous currents or rough water, clue you in to local hazards like jellyfish or other pesky critters. The point is to talk to the pros before you go and be as aware as you can of the conditions.
I once nonchalantly asked a lifeguard, "How's the water today?" – I wasn't expecting anything but a casual answer. "Good so long as you stay out of there," he said, pointing out two serious rip currents that I couldn't see from my vantage point. He had a much better view from his elevated chair than I did and could easily see the rip currents that I hadn't noticed.
Spot, Avoid, and Know How to Handle Rip Currents
All that water rolling in on the waves has to go back out. In certain conditions, that returning water is channeled into columns of seagoing water. That's what a rip current is. Sometimes they move slow enough to barely be detected. But given the right circumstances relating to waves and beach profile, they can develop into currents moving at speeds of up to 8 feet per second – faster than anyone could possibly swim. Ranging in size from just a few feet to hundreds of yards, their pull can be to just outside of the breaking waves to over a hundred yards from shore.
As with all risks, avoiding it altogether is best. Though not always visually detectable (Again, ask that guard) stronger rip currents can give off some telltale signs. Look at the water and you may see:
- An area of water through a surf zone that is a different color than the surrounding water
- A break in the incoming pattern of waves – creating a smooth patch of water*
- Seaweed or debris moving out through the surf zone
- Isolated turbulent and choppy water in the surf zone
*Many assume the calm water at the beach is the safest place to swim, but be aware that the safe looking water may just look that way.
If you are caught in a rip current, the primary thing to do is to stay calm and relax. Swim slowly and conservatively parallel to the shoreline or relax, practice your best float or treading water technique and let it carry you out past the breakers until it slacks. Signal towards shore for assistance by raising an arm or waving, but stay calm. Don't struggle against the current.
Contrary to myth – rip currents are not "undertow," a misleading term. They will not pull you under the water. So long as you can tread water or float you will be safe until you can escape the flow and head back. When you head back in, do so at an angle to the shoreline. Again, maintain a slow and relaxed pace until you reach the shore or assistance has arrived. If swimming at a guarded beach ─ and you should be ─ they will most likely have seen you and will be on their way out (or watching carefully).
(Discuss rip currents and how to deal with them with your children. In fact, make them read every page of www.ripcurrents.noaa.gov and write you a report!)
Buddy Rules Apply
No one, not even experienced and strong swimmers, should swim alone. If that is important in pools (and it is) then it's vital in open water. Personally, I don't advocate even knee-deep wades into the surf line if you're alone. In all but the most sloping and gentle beach, the bottom is a mystery at times and you can find yourself swimming when you didn't intend to – like in the video below:
Have you had a close call at the beach with rough water or a rip current? How did you handle it? Let us know in the comments below – and if you have any questions at all feel free to ask there too.
Stay tuned for Part II where we'll take on the sun, the sand, and things that sting. Until then, stay safe out there!
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November: Spiritual and Temporal Self-Reliance
"The power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves" (D&C 58:28).
The outlines in this unit will help the youth develop skills they will need to become spiritually self-reliant. They will also learn what it means to be temporally self-reliant. To overcome the temptations they face every day, they will need to have their own testimonies—they will not always be able to rely on the testimonies of others. You can help them learn how to find answers to gospel questions and gain their own testimonies of the truth. As they become self-reliant, they will be better prepared to serve and care for others in need.
Outlines to choose from this month:
- How can I become spiritually self-reliant?
- How can I find answers to my own gospel questions?
- How can I overcome doubt with faith?
- How can I learn to make my own decisions?
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ALLIANCE, Ohio - The Benedictine University football team saw its season come to an end on Saturday, falling 47-7 to the number two team in the nation, the University of Mount Union, in the opening round of the NCAA Division III Playoffs.
Benedictine received the opening kickoff and went three and out, but the defense forced a three and out on the first possession for Mount Union as well. Battling the strong wind in the first quarter, Benedictine set up Mount Union with a short field on consecutive possessions leading to the first two scores of the game.
Jeremy Murray finished a 38-yard drive with a two-yard rushing score, his first of three on the afternoon, to put Mount Union ahead 7-0 with 6:15 to play in the opening quarter. Murray's second score came with 1:18 remaining in the quarter, a three-yard dive, extending the margin to 14-0.
The host Purple Raiders continued to convert on third downs, extending their drive to start the second quarter and eventually resulting in a two-yard touchdown from Blair Skilliter which padded the lead to 20-0 with 12:10 left in the opening half.
John Borsellino ripped off a 52-yard run to set up Benedictine inside the Mount Union redzone, but the drive stalled when quarterback Matt Brown was sacked on fourth down at the 15. The 52-yard run was the longest of the year against Mount Union. Driving in the final minute of the half, Brown was picked off by Arthur Smith, who returned the interception 44 yards for a touchdown to stretch the advantage to 27-0 in a momentum changing play.
Murray fumbled on the second play of the second half and Andrew Taylor dove on top for the only Mount Union turnover. Benedictine used the turnover to create points, embarking on a 10-play 51-yard drive converting on two third downs and a fourth down to score their lone touchdown. Brown found Brandin Austin in the corner of the endzone for a three-yard score to pull within 27-7.
The Purple Raiders immediately answered with an eight-play drive, but missed the extra point as Benedictine outscored Mount Union 7-6 in the third quarter. Rushing touchdowns on both fourth quarter drives sealed the win for Mount Union.
In the defeat, Ben Lockton tied the single season school record for tackles for loss. Lockton made 23 stops behind the line this year. Benedictine became just the fourth team to run for 100 yards in a game against Mount Union, totaling 112 yards rushing. Borsellino ran for 79 yards on 15 carries while Austin snagged five passes for 45 yards. Borsellino also caught a 24-yard pass and amassed 149 yards on kickoff returns with five kick returns over 20 yards and a long of 33. The 79 yards rushing matched the most by an individual against Mount Union this year.
Mount Union (11-0), winners of 10 national titles, has won 57 consecutive games at home and outside of the neutral site National Championship game, has hosted 48 consecutive playoff games. The Purple Raiders will meet Centre College next week.
Benedictine's record setting season ends in the opening round of the playoffs for the second consecutive year. The Eagles, who are the first team in Northern Athletics Conference history to qualify for the playoffs in consecutive years (The first two appearances in school history), completed the season 7-4.
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Obituary: Billie andamp;#8216;Jeanneandamp;#8217; Chapman
August 30, 2012
Billie andamp;#8220;Jeanneandamp;#8221; Chapman passed on Sunday, August 26, 2012 at Regent Care Center in Reno, Nev.Jeanne was born in Magness, Arkansas to Alvis H. andamp; Dessie Brooks Elms.Jeanne was a member of the Naomi Rebekah Lodge #2 in Truckee and a ready volunteer for girls in International Order of the Rainbow Girls. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary and spent numerous hours volunteering for various community functions. Jeanne was appointed to a special task force by the Governor of the State of California and was instrumental in getting several laws passed for the conditions of care and treatment of the mentally handicapped. She was a leading voice in the creation of special education in the State of California.Jeanne was always sewing something, from doll clothes to covering furniture, she did it all. She was always busy with some sort of craft, or helping someone in need.Jeanne married Joseph Chapman Dec. 21, 1952.The Chapmans moved to Truckee from Sacramento in 1963. Jeanne moved to Reno in 2008.She is survived by her son, Michael Chapman (Diane) a missionary in Papua, New Guinea; daughter, Cheryl Peratrovich of Reno, Nev.; brothers Herluf Zahle Elms (Darla) of Leslie, Mo. and Max Elms (Sue Ann) of Earle, Ark.; grandchildren Joseph Chapman (Bekah), of Boise, Idaho; Jonathon Chapman (Kat), of Denver, Colo.; Michael McIntosh, of Medford, Ore.; Amanda Peratrovich and Corey Peratrovich, of Klawock, Alaska. She also has four great grandchildren (Alexander, Jamilyn, JG and Dexter) and many other nephews, nieces and relatives.She was preceded in death by her husband Joseph Chapman in 1991; daughter, Jeanne Lee Green-Chapman in 1992; sisters Alvanell Rodgers and Alice Lenell Elms.Friends are invited for a casual graveside service at Truckee Cemetery on Saturday September 1st at 1:00 p.m. A reception will follow in Sparks, Nevada.We ask that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to your local Hospice in her name.


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Linux computer vendor System76 announced this week that it will roll out a firmware update to disable Intel Management Engine on laptops sold in the past few years. Purism will also disable Intel Management Engine on computers it sells moving forward. Those two computer companies are pretty small players in the multi-billion dollar PC industry. …
... Intel's Management Engine is a hardware and software system designed to provide some remote management features. But it's come under criticism from privacy advocates, security researchers, and the free and open source software community.
That's because Intel Management Engine is basically a mystery. It's software that runs independently of a computer's operating system, which means that even if you wipe the OS, the Management Engine is still there. And there's no good way to know what it's doing.
The risks aren't just theoretical – Intel recently acknowledged a security vulnerability affecting nearly every PC that shipped with a 6th, 7th, or 8th-gen Intel Core processor. While the company is working with PC makers to roll out updates to patch that vulnerability, it wouldn't even exist if Intel hadn't bundled a feature many users don't need and won't use with its latest chips.
System76 are making a similar move:
System76 is one a handful of companies that sells computers that run Linux software out of the box. But like most PCs that have shipped with Intel's Core processors in the past few years, System76 laptops include Intel's Management Engine firmware. Intel recently confirmed a major security vulnerability affecting those chips and it's working with …
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Enough people wouldn't have a clue what generation CPU they have that it probably would have been more helpful to offer "nearly every PC sold since date".
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Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) hit an earnings homerun on Wednesday by revealing fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that blew away estimates thanks to robust underwriting revenue.
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Shares of the Wall Street heavyweight rallied about 2.5% on the news, easily outperforming shares of rival J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), which also reported better-than-anticipated results before the bell.
Goldman said it earned $2.89 billion, or $5.60 a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $1.01 billion, or $1.84 a share, a year earlier.
Expectations on Wall Street had been for much more modest bottom-line growth to just $3.78 a share.
Total revenue soared 53% to $9.24 billion, easily trumping consensus calls from analysts for just $7.91 billion.
"While economic conditions remained challenging for much of last year, the strengths of our business model and client franchise, coupled with our focus on disciplined management, delivered solid performance for our shareholders," CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.
Goldman's results were boosted by strong investment-banking revenue of $1.4 billion, which represents a 64% surge year-over-year and a 21% gain from the third quarter.
Equity underwriting revenue jumped 59% from the year before to $304 million, while debt underwriting more than doubled to $593 million
Net revenue in Goldman's institutional client services rallied 42% to $4.34 billion. Within that group, revenue from fixed income, currency and commodity trading climbed 50% from the year before. Equities revenue gained 36% to $2.3 billion.
In another sign of improving health, Goldman's annualized return on equity stood at a healthy 16.5% for the fourth quarter.
"The firm's strategic position provides a solid basis on which to grow and generate superior returns," Blankfein said.
While Goldman said its expenses were essentially unchanged at $22.96 billion in 2012, the ratio of compensation and benefits to net revenue for the year fell to 37.9% from 42.4% in 2011. Total compensation and benefits expenses rose 6% to $12.94 billion.
Goldman also continues to bolster its balance sheet as the company's Tier 1 capital ratio rose to 16.7% at the end of the fourth quarter, up from 15% at the end of the third quarter. On the other hand, global core excess liquidity dipped slightly to an average of $173 billion from an average of $175 billion in the third quarter.
Wall Street applauded the earnings beat from New York-based Goldman, driving its shares up 2.54% to $139.03 in premarket trading on Wednesday. Goldman's shares were already up 6.3% so far in 2013 and 37% over the past 12 months.
By comparison, Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), which is set to report results on Friday, has rallied 23% over the past year.


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Eternal Sonata - PS3
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Eternal Sonata for the PS3 features stunning graphics and an equally stunning Chopin soundtrack and follows imaginary dreams from the mind of Chopin on his deathbed.
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Eternal Sonata sounds too good to be true. It's crammed full of music, love and romance. Set in a beautiful fantasy world and, better still its also packed full of action with a battle system that continually keeps you alert.
Composer Frederic Chopin is on his death bed as the clock slowly ticks away, and the story takes place in his mind. But the real story is an alternative reality in his thoughts. His first friend is Polka, a loveable girl with magic pigtails. They are joined in their adventures by other companions such as street urchins Alegretto and Beat, and goat herder Viola and together with Prince Crescendo and Princess Serenade they unite against the evil ruler Count Waltz, who is turning the inhabitants of the town of Forte into addicts, hooked on some sort of mineral powder. Your job is to get them unaddicted by accumulating floral powder and healing cookies earned along the way.
The graphics are stunning, imaginative and beautifully suited o the storyline. The clothes are drawn in terrific detail, and interiors of the cottages are filled with meticulously designed decoration. Environments are spectacularly rendered on PlayStation 3, but all of this 2D art does curtail depth of view in 3D. The PS3 version does suffer from some odd, occasional frame rate hitches; a minor problem in context.
Music plays an important part and is as stunning as the visuals. The voice acting is solid enough. The gameplay matches the other aspects of the production. There are no random encounters, so you can see every monster. You will have to take part in some battles and some terrific boss fights. Eternal Sonata's battle system is an inventive mix of turn-based and real-time warfare and gets trickier as the game progresses.
First up is your action bar. Each character has a limited amount of time to complete his or her turn before it ends. But within that turn, you can move freely about the battlefield. Each action, whether an attack, a spell, or a simple movement reduces the bar even more. As your party level increases, the planning time you have decreases, special attacks deplete more of your meter.
If you're standing in the light, you have a different set of skills available to you than if you are standing in shadows, and these abilities may change depending on how close you are to your enemy. It gets complicated as your enemies behave in a similar manner. The same applies to weapons which are effective in the shadows than in the sun. There are many other features too numerous to describe here.
There is so much more to this game, I have not even mentioned the emotionally charged aspects of it. The whole thing has to be seen and heard to be believed.
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Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 2
Mark Buehrle won his major league-leading eighth game, Melky Cabrera and Jose Bautista homered on consecutive pitches, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 7-2 on Thursday for a three-game sweep.
Toronto improved to 8-2 in its last 10 games, while Boston lost its seventh straight. The Red Sox went 0-6 on their home stand, the first time since June 1994, when they also lost six in a row at Fenway Park, that they were winless on a homestand of at least six games.
Buehrle (8-1) allowed two runs in the first two innings and left after giving up seven hits and no walks with five strikeouts in seven innings. He retired 11 of his last 12 batters.


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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Story Telling Week
OK we have waited and waited and waited to see if Ann has ever learned anything since Wednesday (a month ago?). I check five or six times a day to no avail. So now it is time to get things moving again on this here blog. What we are going to do this week is everyone is going to tell a short story or anecdote, 1-3 paragraphs long, about some event in our childhood. If you don't have a story, make one up. We have too much lore in our family history to let it all slumber, so let's get to writing a few bits an pieces.
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Paulanna Y. "Pepper" Kirtley, 94, of Abilene, TX, and a former resident of Huntington, IN, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, at 2:30 a.m. at the Hendrick Medical Center, in Abilene, TX.
Mrs. Kirtley graduated from Huntington High School and attended Indiana-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, and Florida State University. She had served as co-publisher and editor of the Tri-County Truth for 35 years, retiring in 1981. She had also written a column for the Columbia City Post & Mail for several years.
A resident of Churubusco for more than 60 years, she was a member of the Churubusco United Methodist Church and had served as a church trustee, administrative board secretary, Chancel Choir member and adult Sunday school teacher. She had been a member of the Whitley County Art Guild, Woman's Cultural Club in Churubusco, Sigma Eta Fine Arts Sorority and People Preserving History. She had served as secretary of the Churubusco Chamber of Commerce and one the board of directors of the Churubusco Public Library. She received an honorary Lifetime Achievement Award from the Churubusco Chamber of Commerce in 1992 and was the Churubusco Turtle Days parade marshal in 1997.
She was born Dec. 14, 1918, in Rochester to Paul S. and Catherine Clarey Blacketor. She married James H. Kirtley on Sept. 3, 1942, in Lakeland, FL. Her husband preceded her in death on May 16, 1984.
Survivors include a daughter, Kathy Ann (Joseph) Aldridge, of Abilene, TX; a granddaughter, Alison (Neil) Sengupta, of Columbia, SC; and two great-grandchildren.
Calling is Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Sheets & Childs Funeral Home, 206 N. Main St., Churubusco. A service will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, at 11 a.m., with calling one hour prior to the service, at the Churubusco United Methodist Church. Rev. Corinne Boruff-Stucker will officiate. Interment will be at the Eel River Cemetery, near Churubusco.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Churubusco United Methodist Church, 750 N. Main St., Churubusco, IN 46723; or the Churubusco Public Library, 111 S. Mulberry St., Churubusco, IN 46723.


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Sporting Cristal goalkeeper Diego Penny is the laughing stock of Peruvian football this weekend, after he conceded a 35-yard howler in Saturday's 1-1 draw with UTC.
The 29-year-old was held solely responsible for Mauro Vila's long-range strike, after fumbling the opponent's speculative effort into his own net.
Penny's mistake proved to be rather costly for Sporting Cristal, who conceded ground in the title race at the top of the Peru Primeira Division table.
The 6ft 6in stopper actually had a spell playing in England with Burnley, but has now found worldwide fame following his latest embarrassing error.
Watch Diego Penny's terrible howler in the video below - with thanks to 101greatgoals.com for bringing it to our attention - and feel free to share your favourite football bloopers in the comment box provided!


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Ron Miller served as the executive producer on TRON.
He served in the US Army beginning in 1954 and following his service he played a single season as a tight end for the Los Angeles Rams professional football team. He was the president and CEO of Walt Disney Co. from 1980-1984. His credits include many fantastic Disney films including TRON and The Black Hole which is slated to be re-made by TRON: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski. He is probably best known for creating the Touchstone Pictures label which allowed Disney to release adult-oriented films along with their family fare.
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Preserved lemons are often described as one of the signature flavors of North African cooking, adding a salty, citrus note to pilafs, tagines, and stews. I haven't been to Morocco or Algeria or Tunisia (yet!), nor have I ever tasted preserved lemons, but the latter will change in a few weeks. That's when this quart jar of lemons, salt, and spices will come to maturity, and I'll pretend I'm sitting down for a bowl of lentil tagine with preserved lemons in Tangier or Casablanca. How's that for budget travel?
Organic lemons are preferred for this, because the peels are the ultimate ingredient, and that's where pesticides can concentrate in non-organic lemons. Some preserved lemon recipes call for nothing more than lemons and salt, and some include lots of spices and sweeteners. I took the middle path, with lemons, salt, and spices, but no sweetener.
After sterilizing a wide mouth quart jar and lid in boiling water, I filled the jar with layers of sea salt (a half cup!), quartered lemons, and spices including cardamom pods, cloves, star anise, a cinnamon stick, and black peppercorns. If this works out, I'll post the actual recipe in a few weeks...I don't want to lead anyone astray in the meantime :) After filling the jar with lemons, I squeezed the juice of the extra lemons into the jar, until all of the lemon quarters were submerged in lemon juice. I used about two pounds of lemons in total. Now I'm shaking the jar every day, to keep the salt and juice mixed. The pickled lemons are rinsed of much of the salt before eating, so don't be freaked out by that half cup of salt.
This is sort of a recipe in progress, so I'll be back in a few weeks with the results, and hopefully a fabulous Moroccan recipe to showcase these guys. Meanwhile...
Another cookbook winner, this is a take on the Pad See Ew from Vegan Yum Yum. The greens are yu choy, which is pretty close to Chinese broccoli. The rice noodles here are kind of interesting too - Thai noodles called "Rice Flake" on the package. They look like flat cut-up squares of dry spring roll wrapper, but when cooked they roll up into cylinders. I was entertained (it's winter), and the noodle tubes are nice vehicles for the sweet and spicy Pad See Ew sauce. Yu choy is harvested fairly young, so even the stems are pretty tender after a quick stir fry.


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Based on the famous story by Nikolai Gogol, "The Diary of a Madman" is now being performed by the Quintessence players at the Sedgwick Theater in My. Airy. Originally adapted for the stage by David Holman (1988), it is the story of Poprishchin, a lowly civil servant who writes compulsively to stave off madness.
Poprishchin is full of resentment. He hates his supervisor (whom he ridicules through use of a finger puppet). At the same time he fantasizes about a love relationship with Sophia, the daughter of the department manager. Inexorably, fantasies take over his life.
Director Alexander Burns creates an expressionistic set. The floor of the elevated garret room is strangely tilted to one side, eccentric like the personality of Poprishchin himself. But as the diarist deteriorates, men in white coats creep under the floor scaffolding between scenes and turn the stage.
As Poprishchin grows more disoriented, stage angles change at an increasing pace. He intercepts the private correspondence of Sophia's dogs. Later, he believes he is heir to the empty Spanish throne. Finally, the stage collapses altogether, and Poprishchin finds himself on the bare floor of an asylum ward.
The entire production is essentially visual. Inspired by an analogy to the desperate writers of our own blogosphere, director Burns has Poprishchin use a laptop. As the diarist looks into the monitor, two rear wall screens simultaneously show his face, eerily various and angled.
Daniel Frederick shines as Poprishchin. While Frederick's elocution is well inflected, his expressive physical presence is so magnified by stage screens that the spoken word feels secondary. Eye-catching costume changes (designer Jane Casanave) abet this transformation to the visual.
Some try to help the tormented man. Rachel Brodeur is comical and charming as Tuovi, a Finnish servant girl who attends to all the roomers. Tuovi tries to enlist Poprishchin in her efforts to learn Russian, and beyond that seems to like him. But the diarist only wants Sophia (also played by Brodeur), the girl he cannot have.
The apt incidental music of pianist Jamison Foreman also plays a role. Though insistently chordal, Foreman is careful never to crescendo in such a way as to parallel and encourage Poprishchin's descent into madness. But it all means nothing to the diarist.
Born in 1809, Gogol was a political conservative, yet much of his fiction seems to satirize Russia. Delusional as he is, Poprishchin bears witness in passing to objective wrongs -— the brutality of asylums, the pettiness of officialdom. It is tempting to view Gogol's madman as an unwitting critic of the regime.
But mostly he is just a madman. And in a playful way, this production also presents madness as a species of theatricality. As much as anything, Poprishchin comes across as a bad actor, a ham who has no understanding of his role in its proper relationship to the big show.
Quintessence is located in the Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave. "The Diary of a Madman" will run through March 10. Reservations at 1-877-238-5596.


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Me too. In fact, why don't we keep the moratorium in place until after the elections in November?
Please forgive me I am new here...Can we honestly and freely discuss religious matters when US politics are totally forbidden. I understand the need to stay focused on religion -- But the United States is the most diverse relgious country in the entire world and this aspect of our national character does spill over into politics.For example:There is a brewing scandal among Roman Catholics as to John Kerry and other Democratic Party leaders who still present themselves for Holy Communion in Roman Catholic Churches even though they should not -- are we forbidden to discuss or mention this?President Bush is an Evangelical whose religious perspective has been the focus of much national media attention -- are we forbidden to discuss or mention this?Homosexuals are being married legally in Mass. -- are we forbidden to discus or mention this?And of course abortion there is the issue of legal abortion in the U.S......Although I understand and appreciate the desire to eliminate blatant political speach here...can we really expect to insulate ourselves from political issues in the U.S. that are also related to faith and religion?Again please forgive me if I am speaking out of turn...but in my short experience here I think the tension level might also be reduced some if we could eliminate discussions regarding jurisdictional issues in the U.S. -- encouraging us instead to focus on what unites Orthodox Christinas rather than what divides us for a period of time. This would fit nicely with Pentecost too I think.Again I apologize if I am being too forward...these are just my thoughts.
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Can we reconsider the permission for "Former Republic of Yugoslavia"-n politics??
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The only 3 maps used will be Classic, British Isles and Random.
Tournament Format
Each match in the tournament will be like an episode of the game show. Unfortunately the format of the series competition does not lend itself to a CC tournament, so instead it will be a 16-player random bracket.
All rounds (Round 1, Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Final) will follow the same format:
Batch 1 - 4 Letters games and 1 Numbers game
Batch 2 - 4 Letters games and 1 Numbers game
Batch 3 - 3 Letters games, 1 Numbers game and 1 Conundrum
Letters games are played on Classic
Numbers games are played on British Isles
Conundrums are played on Random Map
Scoring is as follows:
In each match, the player with the most points from the 15 games will go through to the next round.
If there is a tie, there will be 1 more Conundrum (1 game on Random Map) to decide the winner.
Reserve Policy
In Round 1, any no-shows will be replaced by a reserve (all games must be joined with 3 invitations). In all other rounds, any no-shows will be replaced by the highest-scoring player who lost in the previous round.
For this purpose, any points from tie-break extra conundrums will not count.
The Future of the Tournament
As long as it is successful, I plan to repeat this tournament. Therefore, if we reach 8 tournaments, the winner of each tournament will be invited to the Countdown Championship of Champions "Grand Finale" to compete for a General Achievement Medal.


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7:30 pm
This Old House "Bedford Project, Part 6 of 16" Host Kevin O'Connor arrives to find the new family addition framed up and sheathed using something fairly new - a coated OSB product that has the properties of a house wrap built in. Building science expert Joe Lstiburek explains why he thinks the sheathing board, when properly installed with taped seams, beats traditional methods of keeping air and water out of a building. Inside, Kevin finds general contractor Tom Silva and a major discovery - a cast iron pipe that was run several years ago straight through two structural beams in the kitchen. D
8:00 pm
American Woodshop "Wall Clocks" Turned finials and posts set these apart from all other designs. D
8:30 pm
Around The House with Matt and Shari "Exterior Details" Today's show concentrates on exterior details with a discussion of shutters, window boxes, door knobs, and lighting. Then, Matt has a cool ladder platform project for those tricky high exterior projects. Last, they'll be painting and decorating clay pots to add color to a home exterior. D
9:00 pm
Sewing with Nancy "Serger Workshop, Part 1" Learn serger basics and make samples of the most used serger stitches in this workbook style class. Serger expert Pam Mahshie joins Nancy to teach you how to serge knit seams, chain stitch patchwork, serge wrapped corners, serge decorative edges, and more-all in a serger workshop you can attend in the comfort of your home. Test drive a Cording Foot and an Elastic Foot for your serger using an easy 3- or 4-thread overlock stitch. D
9:30 pm
Best of Simply Painting: Across Europe "Atlantic Ocean Scene" Off the coast of Clare, in the late evening sun, Frank demonstrates the finer points of creating an Atlantic seascape. D
10:00 pm
Simply Ming "Julio Bermejo & Cooking with Spirits" We all love cooking with wine but how about using spirits? On this week's episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming shows how as he cooks with tequila. He'll be joined by longtime friend, Julio Bermejo, the tequila master at Tommy's in San Francisco. Looking for inspiration Julio and Ming explore amazing food stalls at the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market before heading back to Tommy's to cook on the fly. D
10:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "San Diego: Giant Squid, Milanese Style" Lidia shares her memories of San Diego with viewers and heads out to do some more fishing with Esca's Dave Pasternack. Joined by Del Posto's Mark Ladner, Lidia makes a Giant Squid Milanese, Stuffed Mushrooms, and Spinach Salad. D
11:00 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Asf Fue: II" This episode is the second segment of the four-part review and covers the time Raquel spent in Argentina.G
11:30 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Asf Fue: III" This episode is the third segment of the four-part review of the series and features highlights from Raquel's trip to Puerto Rico.G


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Getting access to C bindings from Scheme requires that the C code be
compiled and linked in with the Scheme 48 virtual machine and that the
relevant shared bindings be created.
The Scheme 48 makefile has rules for compiling and linking external code
and for specifying initialization functions that should be called on
There are three
Makefile variables that control which external modules are
included in the executable for the virtual machine (
EXTERNAL_OBJECTS lists the object files to be included in
EXTERNAL_FLAGS is a list of
ld flags to be used when
scheme48vm, and
EXTERNAL_INITIALIZERS is a list of C procedures to be called
on startup.
The procedures listed in
EXTERNAL_INITIALIZERS should take no
arguments and have a return type of
After changing the definitions of any of these variables you should
make scheme48vm to rebuild the virtual machine.
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Did the white bits look like rice? That's usually tape worms.
The bigger bit of white could be a worm that hasn't developed completely yet.
msvette2u wrote:Tapes look like little grains of rice, or that's what they say, but to me they look like little rectangular things - usually they are moving, you'll see them stretching and moving around. They are "segmented".
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In a final meeting of scientists, engineers, technicians and officials, NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) received the final "Ready to Go!" from all teams. GLAST is scheduled to launch on a United Launch Alliance's Delta II Heavy rocket with a launch window from 11:45 a.m. - 1:40 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 11.
You can read more about GLAST at its official website. More info from Physics World can be found here.
Edit: Update - GLAST was successfully launched!
Photo credit: NASA/ULA