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THIS Morning's Alice Beer had viewers captivated on Tuesday's show when she welcomed them into the mud hut that serves as home to Kate and Alan Burrows.
Affectionately labelling them "the real life Dingles," fans of the ITV daytime show couldn't believe their eyes as the couple introduced them to their basic living standards.
Kate and Alan moved into their hobbit style hut after Kate's rare condition – Multiple Chemical Sensitivity – started to make her feel unwell.
Greeting Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, Alice said: "Good morning, they've got running water! They have a great big stream! And they've got plenty of mud!"
Once inside, Alice quizzed the couple on how they ate, washed and enjoyed themselves in their hut – which they built from wood, mud and turf.
Kate explained: "We cook on this caravan stove but we still shop in Sainsburys – we're like a normal couple."
Pointing to the bath, Kate explained: "We wash once a week on Sundays."
Alice looked on in disbelief and asked the couple if there was ever a smell, to which Kate replied: "We prefer a natural smell."
The couple - who have lived in the hut in Tarka Valley, near Chumleigh, Devon, for 19 months - get their water from the stream at the bottom of the hut and use a compost toilet.
Alice appeared to be taken with their back-to-basics lifestyle but changed her mind when Kate explained the pair watched Netflix in bed at night.
Alice said: "Isn't it meant to be the whole point is that you're getting away from life?"
Kate wasn't budging however and insisted that the small amount of online streaming the couple did do wasn't having an ill effect on her health.
Viewers expressed the shock at their simple life on Twitter and inundated This Morning with their opinions on Kate and Andrew's lifestyle.
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As a Spoonie myself, I spend a lot of time advocating for the chronic pain community. I speak with my care providers and teach them about my condition, I talk with my friends and family and try my best to express to them what life with constant pain is like. I write, man do I write, in hopes of reaching a wider audience and showing people how someone who looks so "normal" can be fighting such an epic fight.
The thing I ask for the most in all of these efforts is compassion and empathy for those who are living with invisible –and not so invisible- illnesses. I've been accosted by people in the parking lot because I don't "look sick". I've had family and friends fall away because they simply don't understand. I've had cousins comment on the medications I use and uncles say things about how I'm just "so old". Even the most loving people in my life make comments from time to time that remind me just how much they can never really understand this. When these things happen it's really easy for me to be hurt, to want to lash out and say "How dare you say that to me when you know what I'm going through?" but I'm not so sure that's the answer.
After I wrote November Was a Giant Waste I got a text message from my brother saying that he had read it and he offered some advice of sorts about not being too hard on myself when I don't get things done. He referred to times when he had unproductive days at work, or spent the day being lazy on the couch.
I was torn. Here is my brother who completes 30+ mile bike rides in the dead of Minnesota summers comparing his "lazy days" to my 10 day fatigue streak. They are not even close to the same thing. Unless his body straight up refused to hold its own weight thus resulting in an unproductive day or two, I don't think he knows what he is talking about. Believe me, I thought long and hard about telling him just that. (If he is reading this, he knows now anyway.) But I took a breath and considered his intentions and decided that it wasn't necessary for me to explain to him all the ways he couldn't understand what I was dealing with.
That wasn't the point.
The point was, with a compassionate heart my brother reached out to me to offer consolation in the only way he could. He tried his very best to put himself in my shoes, based on his own life experiences, in a means to connect with me and let me know I wasn't alone.
What more could I possibly ask of him?
The more I put myself (and my pain) out there in the world the more I find people respond with words of encouragement, articles on studies or religious babble about how this is all part of God's plan and more than half of it tends to sting a little when I get it. Often times it's something that isn't really related to my particular brand of pain or it's not something I would choose for myself. Sometimes it's downright ridiculous but the intent stays the same.
They are trying to be supportive.
So I breathe in the comfort and breathe out the desire to express, once again, how no one really understands this and I thank them for thinking of me. Whatever other opinion I have about the article or meme or quote I keep to myself or share with The Hubs because it's not really the point.
It's hard, really hard to wake up every day and have pain. There are days when you literally just want to give up and live in a hole, or maybe just quit life all together. I get it. The idea of doing this for the next 50 years stares me in the face at times and I have no idea how I will make it through. And no, no one will ever understand this the way that you do but please don't fault your support system for being healthy.
There are people who will say awful nasty things to you, and there are plenty more who will quietly sit by and judge what they can't see. Those people absolutely need to work on their empathy. But those people who are trying their very best, and at times fall short have earned themselves a free pass in my book. The next time you are confronted by a situation that stirs your "You don't get it" reflex consider their intentions first.

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The Hungarian Television and the rest of the official media proved once again that they are under the control of the global puppet masters and their local proxies by refusing to air the Jobbik campaign video. Officials argued that some of the catchwords in the video are carrying racist overtones; especially, the term "gypsy criminal". They said the term "gypsy criminal" can arouse racial hatred against a visible minority. The Hungarian Television cannot air political advertisements that violating ethnic or religious affiliations of certain groups of people or employ terms that can be used to humiliate minorities.
Officials also argued that the mosquito (bloodsucker) analogy in the advertisement denotes a kind of attitude in society that can be interpreted as an offence against certain people.
The advertisement uses the analogy of the insect to expose those dark forces that are responsible for the social and moral corruption of Hungarian society – political criminals, multinational corporations and gypsy criminals.
Jobbik spokesperson, Dóra Dúró rejected the official explanation by saying that the term "gypsy criminal" has no racial overtones; it is a legal expression (like white-collar criminal or blue-collar criminal, terms that are commonly used in the American justice system).
Jobbik campaign team released a censored version of the video by bleeping out the controversial terms. However, media officials said they wouldn't air this version either, because the original already circulating the Internet and the censored version could easily be linked to the original one with the controversial phrases intact.
(Note: As a protest, I made the campaign video post sticky; until the election day, the video stays as top post).
Jobbik campaign film that the Hungarian Television and the "official" media refused to airThursday, September 23, 2010
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Nice, but we don't speak hungarian and want to know more about this.
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Former Argyle winger Gregg Wylde has returned to the club.
The 26-year old Scotsman played for the Greens during the 2015-2016 season with his final game coming in the League Two play-off final defeat against AFC Wimbledon at Wembley.
In total Wylde made 51 appearances for Argyle before moving to Millwall in League One last summer where he struggled to cement a first-team place and a loan move to Northampton Town followed.
A groin injury restricted Wylde to just 12 games at the Sixfields stadium and was released by Millwall at the end of last season.
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Hopefully as our readers are aware we have the titled event on sale.
Last week I visited the supplier Fraser Isle Spanner Crabs at Mooloolaba to get an insight on the beautiful produce we are introducing. Their passion is Spanner Crabs, they stick to completely sustainable practices, they stick to their quota, follow the seasons, release the littlies and the females.
I can't stress enough of my passion for eating against the main stream. With every kg of eye fillet there is a kg of cheek or tail or tongue that is IMHO as good as the fillet sometimes getting wasted. We at Taro's Ramen are all against that. The same situation exists with Fraser Isle. As they produce their succulent prized deshelled crab meat, most of the head meat is being dumped as fertiliser feed. In Japan, we cherish the meat as well as the head meat and I wanted to introduce the intense flavour that can be extracted from fresh crab head meat to my customers and maybe the general public and help the crabs get a bit more recognition for their robust contribution they can provide to the palate.
And to publicly state our message, where else is more appropriate than wandering cooks? They share the same ethics as we do and I saw it a natural course of things to present the 3rd artisan event at the edgy warm vibed venue.
If you are interested in the event, there are about 10 tickets left so please act quickly.
Taro's Ramen – Artisan Series – Spanner Crab Ramen
by Taro's Ramen
Sat. 22 July 2017
5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Hi, my name is Taro. I've been a foodie all my life but jumped into ramen 7 years ago. Just genuinely following my greedy instincts ever since, creating ramen with all sorts of ingredients traditional and off-centre. This time around, I got approached by a like minded crab fisherman, Jason from https://fraserislespannercrab.com. He told me about his passion of the pure taste of the fascinating creature being the local spanner crab, and the opportunity of utilizing parts of the crab that simply does not have a commercial value. History of ramen evolved exactly from this. Pork and chicken bones being utilized to make a hearty soup and filling up hungry folks. Jason and I got excited and I jumped right into it.
Tonkotsu Crab Soup. I will blend in the crab shells into a highly emulsified Tonkotsu soup. The delicate sweetness of the crab will be bound together with the richness of the pork bones. The aromatic oil is carefully made by slow cooking the head meat in olive oil at 120 degrees. The resulting bright red oil gives the ramen it's signature character.
Pork Charsiu. I will go for a simple salt and koji cured bangalow sweet pork charsiu with this one.
Noodles. Tonkotsu style noodles but will be broader to provide a bit more bite.
Tomato Crab Salsa. Use this to change the flavour at the middle of your meal. It will turn into a bisque type broth.
Apologies, (Allergy Warning), people who can not eat crustacean or pork can not be catered for in this event.
The event is family friendly and very accessible. Ticket is required only to pre-purchase your ramen, entry is free and open to anyone. Wandering Cooks will arrange a food vendor to sell other nibbles along with the wonderful bar focusing on local beers and wine.
Our Mission: To deliver the safest and the most delicious bowl of ramen ever to Australia. Taro trusts his sense and taste more than anything when it comes to selecting ingredients. Our ramen does not contain any MSG or preservatives and we only use the best natural ingredients. The produce that requires freshness is sought out locally and dry goods etc are gathered from personally trusted suppliers in Japan. Please enjoy the "real flavor" Taro has created by using the best ingredients and his best recipes.
Taro's Ramen – Artisan Series – Spanner Crab Ramen
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Upcreation is self-organization that brings forth an emergent level of complexity that encompasses, without destruction, the previous lower levels of organization. In the right circumstances, self-organization can often legitimately be called self-creation. Without an outside agent, the parts cohere into a new organization that brings forth an 'emergent' level or self not present before. Since the new emergent level of complexity encompasses, without destruction, the previous 'lower' levels of organization, I call this self-creation of higher levels 'upcreation.'
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This experience will be framed by bringing together different perspectives on complexity, change, design, leadership, self-directed learning and innovation, stimulating and equipping you to upCREATE, to tie together theories, processes, models, fellow participants' ideas, and facilitation in new and inspiring ways. During this week you will experience these perspectives so you can continue to weave them together following your upCreation Experience.
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Thanksgiving Eve Worship
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Give thanks on the eve of Thanksgiving with the community, Augustana's choirs and instrumental groups, Saint Paul Lutheran Church's community and choirs, and a message by Augustana's pastors. This night also concludes Augustana's Chili Challenge for Metro Caring. Bring as many cans of chili as you're able to add to the pile.
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Welcome to the start of academic year 2009-2010! It has been a summer full of leadership (or lack thereof) activity at the federal, state, and local levels. People have been working diligently to preserve or improve programs, to address social injustice, and to simply speak truth to power about the conditions in our society. What roles have social workers played in all this? What roles should we play?
I'll be posting regularly here, making comments on leadership issues, resources, actions. Looking forward to a challenging year of growth for us all.


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We've got a ton of ground to cover today, so I want to jump right into brewing with the new cards from Battle for Zendikar. Discussion on the blue cards can be found here, and green cards here.
There was originally an unfortunate error in Wednesday's article that did not list the Abzan Midrange deck in question. It has since been fixed; however, in case you missed it, here's the list in question:
Creatures (16)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (27)
Spells (13)
The planeswalkers are great. The lands are great.
Some astute readers pointed out that all of these cards are black and white (not to mention Ruinous Path and Transgress the Mind). Might it be time for an Orzhov comeback? Now that there are all kinds of lands we can use, there's a meaningful alternative to just splashing green for Siege Rhino.
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Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (26)
Spells (16)
This list, like its ancestor from PT Dublin, is a bit schizophrenic. It's got some cheap aggressive creatures, but it also uses them for defensive purposes, to try to bridge to the planeswalker component of the deck.
Silkwrap has improved a lot with the rotation. There is less incidental enchantment hate, now Courser and company are gone. There's also a lot of value to exiling small creatures right now, namely Hangarback Walker. Bile Blight is gone, and Ultimate Price isn't as good as it used to be. I'd totally be okay with playing more Silkwraps, but we have so many two-drops, we don't need to. We could even get away with not playing it, but it's nice when Knight of the White Orchid can be a three-drop and followed up with another two that same turn.
Mortuary Mire did not survive the transition, as tapped lands that don't make white are a nonbo with Knight of the White Orchid. Besides, most of this deck's threats are planeswalkers, anyway.
However, Blighted Fen is great! It's untapped land for the early and middle turns, but then later, can be cashed in for a powerful spell like effect. Having answers to Dragonlord Ojutai is great, but mainly it just lets us get away with playing enough land to consistently hit our mana early, without flooding out later. It's a little bit of a bummer that we can't use it to cash in our Hangarback Walker, making it basically the first card in the history of Magic to not combo with the ubiquitous two-drop.
Gideon and Sorin combo with each other a lot of different ways. Gideon's Allies make for a lot of bodies to pump with Sorin. Gideon as a 5/5 gains a lot of life from Sorin's lifelink ability. Gideon's emblem can make the the Vampires Sorin made into much bigger threats. Both are fantastic with Hangarback Walker!
Ob Nixilis makes us want to play a little more lifegain than usual, but Sorin, Seeker of the Way, Shambling Vent, and Scoured Barrens are all great options, so that's not hard. If we had more token-making, Blighted Steppe would not be out of the question.
I was working on a mono-black control deck, but found there's just not nearly enough reason to stay straight black. White would give us access to a great creatureland that does what we need, multiple powerful planeswalkers, and a better assortment of removal. Without Gray Merchant, why stay straight black? We might get to play with half a dozen colorless lands and a playset of Mortuary Mires, but that's about it; and that doesn't even play that nicely with Erebos's Titan.
Erebos's Titan does combo nicely with Grave Birthing, however. Sure, a lot of the time they will be able to exile a fetchland, but if we're just playing the Grave Birthing anyway (perhaps with Wasteland Strangler and Blight Herder), it's a play that will come up from time to time.
Most of the reason to play mono-black, I suppose, is to have consistent, untapped lands in the first two turns. This takes us towards Mono-Black Aggro:
Creatures (29)
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 4 Bloodsoaked Champion
- 4 Despoiler of Souls
- 4 Erebos's Titan
- 2 Fleshbag Marauder
- 4 Mardu Shadowspear
- 1 Silumgar Assassin
- 2 Thornbow Archer
- 4 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
Lands (24)
- 20 Swamp
- 4 Blighted Fen
Spells (7)
- 1
- 2 Reave Soul
- 4 Ruinous Path
- 2 Ultimate Price
- 3 Duress
- 2 Languish
- 2 Read the Bones
- 1 Reave Soul
- 4 Self-Inflicted Wound
- 1 Transgress the Mind
Bloodsoaked Champion is awesome, but having to play Mardu Shadowspear and Thornbow Archer is disappointing. At least they each deal two a turn, I guess.
Despoiler of Souls and Hangarback Walker make the two-slot a lot more exciting; and perhaps there should be less bad one-drops, more two-drops. Mardu Skullhunter, Sultai Emissary, and more Silumgar Assassins are all options.
The reason to play the deck, Drana is a very powerful card and much harder to kill than she would have been in the old format. If she connects even once, you are really doing it. Flying makes this easy, and first strike means her counters buff your team before they deal damage.
Another possible direction go with Drana is in G/B Elves. She may not be an Elf, herself, but she sure works great with big armies, and they appreciate a flier.
Creatures (33)
- 4 Dwynen's Elite
- 4 Elvish Visionary
- 2 Gilt-Leaf Winnower
- 3 Gnarlroot Trapper
- 4 Leaf Gilder
- 4 Shaman of the Pack
- 2 Sylvan Messenger
- 4 Thornbow Archer
- 4 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
- 1 Dwynen, Gilt-Leaf Daen
- 1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer
Lands (24)
Spells (4)
The manabase uses Smoldering Marsh and Cinder Glade to make Bloodstained Mire and Wooded Foothills capable of fixing both colors, following the rule that enemy-colored pairs should use fetchlands of the color they both share as an ally. Polluted Delta can't find green mana, and Windswept Heath can't find black mana.
Interestingly, a lot of Elves in Battle for Zendikar are also Allies. Drana is an Ally...
Creatures (32)
- 4 Beastcaller Savant
- 4 Dwynen's Elite
- 2 Grovetender Druids
- 4 Leaf Gilder
- 4 Shaman of the Pack
- 4 Skyrider Elf
- 2 Tajuru Stalwart
- 4 Tajuru Warcaller
- 4 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
Lands (24)
Spells (4)
Literally every single creature spell in this deck is an Elf, aside from Drana, which makes Shaman of the Pack an effective source of reach. However, there's also 24 Allies, making Tajuru Warcaller a lethal threat.
Remember, the Warcaller's ability powers up your entire team, not just your Allies. All by itself, it's 2/3rds of an Overrun, and if you untap with it, you will often get another +2/+2 or +4/+4, particularly since you can use Ally Encampment to bounce Beastcaller Savant for an extra trigger.
Ally Encampment helps ensure we can cast Drana on time, despite her double black cost, as well as supporting the Skyrider Elf splash and ensuring that Tajuru Stalwart is always fully pumped. It also gives us a way to cash in extra lands to generate some action.
A 3/4 for three is a very modest body in Constructed for a creature with no other abilities. It has both of the right types, but if we decide to not be crazy people that play zero removal spells, we should probably look to cut these.
Skyrider Elf, on the other hand, is a quality card, since a 2/2 flier for two is already not that far off, and it can also be a 3/3 flier for three, a 4/4 flier for four, and even a 5/5 flier for five (thanks to Ally Encampment and Beastcaller Savant); not to mention having both of the right creature types.
It's nice having so many flying threats, particularly with the Warcaller to power them up and Shaman of the Pack to finish our opponents off. A fun play to keep in mind is using Ally Encampment late, to bounce the 2/2 flier we played on turn 2, letting us recast it as a 5/5.
This one, I actually like, but realistically, we may need to cut these, as well. There are probably too many expensive cards in this list, and Grovetender Druid is probably the weakest of the bunch. I still want to find a home for this card, since I feel like it's better than people might guess. There's probably just too many four and five-cost token making options, though.
Unified Front is a serious pay-off, as four tokens for four mana is already totally reasonable (particularly when you play Drana), but when combined with Tajuru Warcaller, is typically an instant win from either side.
Turn 2 Leaf-Gilder
Turn 3 Shaman of the Pack
Turn 4 Unified Front
Turn 5 Tajuru Warcaller, attack for 21!
Turn 2: Leaf Gilder
Turn 3: Shaman of the Pack
Turn 4: Tajuru Warcaller
Turn 5: Unified Front, attack for 31!
That's right, if you ever get to cast Unified Front with a Warcaller on the battlefield, your entire team gets +8/+8! However, just dropping Warcaller and a second Ally in the same turn is a big game. Beastcaller Savant, in particular, is an excellent follow-up to Tajuru Warcaller if you have seven mana. Not only do you give your team +4/+4, the Savant has haste, so it gets to add three more damage to the table.
While the Beastcaller doesn't help cast Unified Front, it does everything else, and the haste is actually meaningful both for attacking and for letting us make two plays in a single turn. For instance, let's imagine we play a Leaf Gilder on turn 2, hoping to play Dwynen's Elite next turn. Our opponent Wild Slashes it--but we follow it up with a Beastcaller Savant into Dwynen's Elite that turn. That adds four more power to the table, but also sets up a 5/5 flying Skyrider Elf or Tajuru Elite next turn.
Of course, if we're going to be looking at token-based strategies, we certainly need Atarka Red as a foundation. A lot of people like lists along the lines of:
Creatures (17)
- 4 Abbot of Keral Keep
- 1 Goblin Heelcutter
- 4 Lightning Berserker
- 4 Monastery Swiftspear
- 4 Zurgo Bellstriker
Lands (21)
Spells (22)
- 4 Atarka's Command
- 1 Become Immense
- 4 Wild Slash
- 1 Arc Lightning
- 4 Dragon Fodder
- 4 Exquisite Firecraft
- 4 Hordeling Outburst
- 1 Goblin Heelcutter
- 3 Scab-Clan Berserker
- 3 Outpost Siege
- 2 Fiery Impulse
- 1 Arc Lightning
- 1 Boiling Earth
- 4 Roast
Maybe this approach is the right way, but it doesn't actually get to use any new cards in its maindeck at all, aside from Cinder Glade. The sideboard has very little, either.
Boiling Earth is not a slam-dunk replacement for Scouring Sands, and it might just be that all Arc Lightnings is better, since we're rarely going to have enough mana to use the awaken ability.
Even if you don't want to go all the way to R/G Landfall, you can incorporate a little bit of it easily.
Creatures (20)
- 4 Abbot of Keral Keep
- 4 Lightning Berserker
- 4 Makindi Sliderunner
- 4 Monastery Swiftspear
- 4 Zurgo Bellstriker
Lands (24)
Spells (16)
- 2 Akoum Firebird
- 2 Scab-Clan Berserker
- 2 Outpost Siege
- 2 Fiery Impulse
- 2 Arc Lightning
- 1 Boiling Earth
- 4 Roast
Atarka's Command has new meaning once you've got landfall cards like Retreat to Valakut, not to mention the power of playing a Looming Spires in the middle of combat.
Business lands like Looming Spires are a great way to get away with playing 23-26 land in aggro decks, rather than just 20-22. It's not just dealing one extra damage, since it will often allow a creature to get through that would not have otherwise been able to attack at all.
The Battle lands ensure that we can actually splash any color we want, not just the allied colors. For instance:
Creatures (23)
- 4 Abbot of Keral Keep
- 4 Akoum Firebird
- 4 Lightning Berserker
- 4 Makindi Sliderunner
- 4 Monastery Swiftspear
- 3 Zurgo Bellstriker
Lands (25)
Spells (12)
Akoum Firebird is a reasonably powerful card that matches up extremely effectively against Gideon, Ally of Zendikar and Ruinous Path, but poorly against Abzan Charm and Stasis Snare. You generally want to have the hope of bringing it back eventually, in order to run it, but that doesn't mean you need to hit six on six. When the game stalls out, it's a great way to keep your action going. It's also a great way to take advantage of Sword of the Animist (which we're using primarily to trigger landfall extra times).
If we add white, instead of black, we might end up with a full-on Boros deck, rather than just a R/w deck:
Creatures (20)
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 4 Abbot of Keral Keep
- 4 Monastery Swiftspear
- 2 Seeker of the Way
- 2 Wingmate Roc
- 2 Kytheon, Hero of Akros
- 2 Zurgo Bellstriker
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
Spells (12)
Once we start adding white cards, we might as well as Gideon, Ally of Zendikar, since it works so well with Hordeling Outburst. I went with Seeker of the Way over Soulfire Grand Master because of how little burn we're playing, but it's very easy to imagine wanting the Grand Masters as additional must-kill threats going long.
I have not included it here, but we could also build towards Knight of the White Orchid to trigger landfall. Makindi Sliderunner is fine, but we're probably more likely to use Knight of the White Orchid in green landfall decks since it can tutor up Canopy Vista. Green also has access to Scythe Leopard, Snapping Gnarlid, and Undergrowth Champion to make it more worth going to the trouble.
Speaking of Knight of the White Orchid...
There are actually a number of other "red" aggro strategies, aside from landfall and tokens. For instance, we can put the new devoid "mechanic" to work:
Creatures (32)
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 4 Dominator Drone
- 4 Dust Stalker
- 4 Forerunner of Slaughter
- 4 Kozilek's Sentinel
- 4 Nettle Drone
- 4 Sludge Crawler
- 4 Vile Aggregate
Lands (24)
Spells (4)
- 4 Molten Nursery
- 4 Wild Slash
- 2 Ruinous Path
- 2 Self-Inflicted Wound
- 3 Transgress the Mind
Once again, we can easily just come to our senses and add a few Murderous Cuts or Ruinous Paths. However, the main thing I wanted to test here are the "colorless matters" rewards. In addition to Ghostfire Blade and Tomb of the Spirit Dragon, we've got all kinds of new "devoid lords" from BFZ:
Nothing really too fancy here. The Eldrazi are apparently Slivers now, but with really weird numbers.
Dust Stalker hits pretty hard anyway, but putting it in a devoid deck takes away the "drawback."
Another possible approach to red aggro is to actually make black the base color instead.
Creatures (21)
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 4 Bloodsoaked Champion
- 3 Despoiler of Souls
- 4 Thunderbreak Regent
- 4 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
- 2 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
Lands (25)
Spells (14)
Black is a bit short on one-drops we actually want to play, but maybe if we go all the way up to Thunderbreak Regent and Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury, we won't care? I also just enjoy having more fliers to surround Drana with.
Drana is so hot with Hangarback Walker, but she's also quite decent with Despoiler of Souls and Bloodsoaked Champion. Most one and two-drops would trade with a lot of potential blockers, even with Drana's +1/+1 counter. These two, however, come back for more, making blocking a lose-lose proposition.
There are so many possible paths to explore with Dragon-based strategies. Dragons of Tarkir really was a powerful set.
Creatures (18)
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 4 Akoum Firebird
- 4 Flamewake Phoenix
- 4 Thunderbreak Regent
- 2 Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (27)
Spells (12)
- 1 Ashcloud Phoenix
- 3 Scab-Clan Berserker
- 2 Outpost Siege
- 3 Fiery Impulse
- 3 Roast
- 3 Seismic Rupture
I'm not sure there's enough reason to play Mono-Red, but there was a request for a Phoenix deck, and this one even made room for an Ashcloud Phoenix in the sideboard. I wonder if we're supposed to play Dragonmaster Outcast?
This one is a real hard one to call. I would guess that it's too low impact in the early turns for a deck like this, but I wonder if there's some kind of a U/R Control deck that uses it?
Creatures (13)
Lands (27)
Spells (20)
Of course, maybe it's supposed to be a sideboard card for decks that don't have good Wild Slash targets (ie, not Jace decks…)
An interesting consequence of using Smoldering Marsh and Sunken Hollow in our U/R deck is the ability to produce a third color of mana for Radiant Flames. That said, we could just add black and build Grixis Dragons, a strategy that didn't have a consistent enough manabase until BFZ:
Creatures (17)
- 3 Hangarback Walker
- 3 Icefall Regent
- 4 Thunderbreak Regent
- 2 Dragonlord Silumgar
- 4 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
- 1 Silumgar, the Drifting Death
Lands (27)
Spells (16)
The Battleland + fetchland interaction really makes a lot of shard-colored decks more attractive, even when they don't get any new maindeck spells. This isn't to say you can't still play the faction colors from Khans, but the manabases are a lot less appealing. For instance, here's a look at Mardu Dragons:
Creatures (18)
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 2 Butcher of the Horde
- 2 Flamewake Phoenix
- 4 Soulfire Grand Master
- 4 Thunderbreak Regent
- 2 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (26)
Spells (15)
We sure are playing a lot of painlands, but at least we get Shambling Vent. Interestingly, four of the five Khans color combinations have access to a creature-land. The only one missing out?
Creatures (18)
Lands (25)
Spells (17)
Jeskai has a lot of reasons to be into the color combination. Good mana is not one of them. It might be asking too much to play Silumgar's Scorn, but I sure like Counterspell...
Creatures (11)
Lands (27)
Spells (23)
Bant would have better mana than Jeskai by far anyway, but this list doesn't even play green cards, besides Dromoka, making Haven of the Spirit Dragon a meaningful fixer.
We discussed Scatter to the Winds and Stasis Snare earlier in the week, but I want to talk about Quarantine Field for just a moment.
Quarantine Field is a Banishing Light that costs an extra white mana, but effectively has kicker 2. For six mana, you get two Banishing Lights, for eight you get three, and so on. That may seem expensive, but you're just paying the one mana up front for the option, and then when you actually have enough mana, you get to put it to good use. In many ways, it's like a better Silence the Believers. Having one in your deck to Dig to also gives you some really nice options, going long. Just remember to try to avoid putting it in decks that rely on Ugin, the Spirit Dragon.
Depending on how risky we want to get, U/W Control gained another new victory condition that seems to be flying under the radar at the moment.
Emeria Shepherd may look relatively harmless, but she can take over the game completely, leaving opponents with little counterplay. Just remember to play her as an eight drop (before playing your eighth mana). After she resolves, play a fetchland, and you get to Regrowth a non-land permanent. Then, sacrifice the fetchland and put Ojutai or Dromoka directly into play from your graveyard. Now, they still have to kill Angel (or she's going to keep doing this), but you're also up a Dragon and a card in hand (possibly even the other copy of Emeria!)
Emeria works great with Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, letting you get back whatever you looted away earlier. Remember, she can also get back Stasis Snare and Silkwrap, if needed. If you moved away from the white enchantments and more towards Ugin, she can also get him back.
Creatures (16)
- 2 Emeria Shepherd
- 4 Knight of the White Orchid
- 2 Dragonlord Dromoka
- 4 Dragonlord Ojutai
- 4 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
Lands (26)
Spells (18)
Remember to find Prairie Stream with Knight of the White Orchid, and that Prairie Stream will trigger Emeria the good way since it counts as a Plains. Also, be careful not to play Canopy Vista on turn 1 if you want to be able to Silumgar's Scorn on turn 2.
While the above list doesn't make that great of use of Quarantine Field (Emeria can't get it back very effectively), the following list actually pushes Quarantine Field to the max:
Creatures (16)
Lands (25)
Spells (19)
Silkwrap, Stasis Snare, and Quarantine Field are an interesting way to fuel processors, such as Blight Herder. Now, even if they get destroyed, nothing comes back! Titan's Presence also exiles, which is important to remember against Hangarback Walker. Just don't reveal your own Hangarback, as the target would get -0/-0.
Quarantine Field is also hot with Shrine of the Forsaken Gods, Mage-Ring Network, Hedron Archive, and Knight of the White Orchid all adding to our mana beyond the norm. While there are no blue cards in this maindeck, it's such an easy splash, we might as well do it.
I'm just about out for the day, so let me know what cards or decks I missed this week, and I'll be back Monday. However, I do have one last brew I wanted to share on the day. It's a little… well… wacky, but maybe there's something to this concept or someone can find a way to build on it.
Creatures (20)
- 4 Chief of the Foundry
- 4 Hangarback Walker
- 4 Conduit of Ruin
- 4 Endless One
- 4 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (27)
Spells (9)
The concept here is to to play all colorless cards so that we get to play with 27 business lands. There is no question, this deck's manabase is going to outclass everyone else in the format by far. It's not just that you're never getting color-screwed, you've got 27 land so you're hitting your drops, while also having eight of them produce multiple mana and nineteen of them produce spell-like effects to ensure you aren't without options.
The problem, of course, is that we have to play with all colorless spells. We do have Titan's Presence and Ugin for removal, but that's a bit lean. We're also short on acceleration, even with Hedron Archive, Conduit of Ruin, Shrine of the Forsaken Gods, Mage-Ring Network, and Spawning Pool. I wonder if we can splash any two Allied colors, and support it with a manabase along the lines of:
1 Mountain
1 Forest
Obviously, it wouldn't be hard to add even more colored mana, whether by basics or possibly even by a Temur Banner! The point, however, is that there is a lot of room outside the box to construct manabases in the new format.
If you can dream it, if you can see it in your imagination, it might be possible; even if no one has ever seen anything like it, and even if people doubt it or think it's stupid. Always remember:
Brilliant ideas are stupid ideas that worked.


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The rise of online shopping has changed customer's buying patterns, threatening brick and mortar stores.
Customers have been turning to the internet to make purchases more frequently than ever.
"In 2014, shoppers in the U.S. spent over $320 billion on clothing, shoes, and accessories. By 2021, it's estimated more than $96 billion of the total retail industry will be spent online," Corra reports
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"About 190 million U.S. consumers—more than half the population—will shop online this year, according to Forrester Research, as reported by the Wall Street Journal." Fortune reports.
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Top Reasons Customers Shop Online
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No lines? No traffic? No problem.
Baby boomers, millennials, and generation x all have one thing in common: they like convenience when they shop.
- 43% of millennials prefer convenience the most.
- 37% of generation x prefer convenience second.
- Lastly, 34% of baby boomers prefer convenience.
Online retail can happen anywhere, depending on the customer's preference.
This makes a large impact on shopper's buying habits, of all ages.
Better Selection
Following behind convenience, "better selection" was chosen as a preference among all ages.
- 31% of generation x shoppers choose to shop online for a better selection of items.
- 29% of millennials and baby boomers think online shopping provides a better selection as well.
Shopping Online Saves Time
Online shopping happens swiftly, all by the click of a button.
Customers reported that they shop online due to this attribute.
- 16% of Millennials preferred this tool over the other generations.
- 14% of Generation X shoppers were shortly behind Millennials favoring this feature.
- Only 10% of Baby Boomers cared about saving time while shopping.
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Why People Shop In-Store
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Feel and Try on Products
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- 86% of generation x participants say that this is why they shop in-store.
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- 81% of millennials agreed.
"Looking at items" was reported to fall shortly behind this preference, with 13% of baby boomers emphasizing this feature the most.
Is Social Shopping Dead?
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- Baby boomers cared the most about this feature during in-store shopping, 13% of them, in fact.
- Generation x and Millennials were tied at 8%, having a preference toward social shopping.
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Men Vs. Female Customers
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The same categories presented its self during the comparison of online and in store shopping.
- 43% of men gravitated toward online shopping for convenience, whereas 38% of women agreed.
- Both men and women agree that trying on merchandise is important when deciding which platform to shop on.
- Only 2% of women enjoyed the social aspect of in store shopping, 6% of men enjoyed this more.
Men and women did not present many differences when comparing both shopping platforms.
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As the retail industry grows, customer's preferences shift.
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Many of the field boundaries in Louth are based on the 'Louth fence' which became popular in the mid-eighteenth century. It consisted of an earthen bank, faced with stone and planted with quicks (whitethorn). Here is a lovely example built with a herringbone pattern from Stonehouse, Mullary Civil Parish.
A field wall from Stonehouse


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Nearly 20 years after the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill sexual harassment affair, the number of workplace harassment cases is still rising. On the surface, this seems puzzling — awareness is up, but lawsuits brought over inappropriate and offensive workplace behavior continue to grow.
However, there are a few factors behind this "phenomenon," with two being key. First, there are no clear boundaries for what constitutes harassment, no one-size-fits-all standard, which leaves employers vulnerable to these types of lawsuits. And, the Internet/e-mail has created an environment ripe for harassment-type issues.
Several Mississippi labor/employment lawyers in Mississippi see no let-up in workplace harassment cases, but are encouraged that more companies are becoming proactive in preventing these issues from arising, and dealing with them promptly and appropriately. And, one University of Mississippi (UM) educator thinks that now, more than ever, workers have to put differences aside.
According to the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC), harassment charges are climbing. It reports 23,047 harassment cases were filed with the EEOC and state and local fair employment practices agencies around the country in fiscal year 1997. In fiscal year 2007, 27,112 cases were filed.
Discrimination complaints are likewise rising. In fiscal year 1997, 80,680 cases were filed, compared to 82,792 in 2007.
There are a number of factors feeding this rise in harassment/discrimination lawsuits, says Paula Graves Ardelean, a member of the Jackson-based law firm of Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC. One is the lack of specificity.
"There is still no clear line in what constitutes harassment," she says. "It depends upon what is called the 'totality of the circumstances.'"
She adds jokes, "innocent" flirtation — even conduct at an office party — may leave an employer vulnerable to liability. But, the judiciary is going to consider all of the circumstances surrounding the alleged inappropriate behavior when determining whether law has been broken.
One difficulty businesses face in adopting an internal anti-harassment policy is that it is impossible to spell out specifically every conduct or behavior that violates said policy.
Ardelean says training is extremely important, a point Susan Desmond, a shareholder with the law firm Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A., also based in Jackson, agrees with wholeheartedly. Desmond worries that the current economic slowdown may cause harm here.
"Training is key, and when the economy takes a downturn, a lot of times the training budget is the first to get cut," she says.
Both attorneys emphasize that businesses must also make sure their reporting and follow-up procedures are sound. Businesses should encourage employees to report incidents quickly for the good of the company, the alleged victim and even the accused.
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Perhaps lessons were learned from the Thomas-Hill case, at least in terms of sexual harassment. The number of these type cases held pretty much steady from 1997-2007 (24,728 in 1997, compared to 24,826 in 2007). Racial discrimination cases, too, held fairly even (29,199 in 1997, compared to 30,510 in 2007).
However, the number discrimination cases filed involving national origin and religion are up sharply. The number of national origin-related filings went from 6,712 in 1997 to 9,396 in 2007, and religious discrimination cases went from 1,709 to 2,880.
In both groups, there was a spike in 2002, which Desmond says can be attributed to the events of September 11, 2001.
"Post-9/11, we saw a tremendous increase in cases involving national origin," she says. Middle Easterners became the brunt of jokes, or worse. She adds that, sadly, a number of these complaints were from Middle Easterners who were not even Muslims.
According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Americans at least are equal opportunity discriminators. It found in 2005, anti-Semitic incidents reached their highest level in nine years.
Virtual harassment
Peyton Irby, also a shareholder with Watkins Ludlam, says the Internet has created a vehicle perfect for breeding harassment cases. E-mail and blogs have created another headache for employers, he says.
"Somehow, people feel that if they write in an e-mail, they are insulated," Irby says. "Because they just wrote in an e-mail or on a blog, and didn't actually say it, it's okay. Obviously, that is not the case."
Policing e-mails is difficult at best. Many businesses, especially smaller enterprises, simply do not have the time or the resources to properly monitor employees' e-mail practices. This leaves employers wide open for liability, Irby says.
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There has never been a time in the history of American business when employee cooperation and self-policing is more important than now. That is the view of Walter Davis, assistant professor of management at UM and a certified senior professional in human resources.
Davis says, "In the rapidly changing workplace, many employees now work in project teams, product development teams and even in leaderless production teams — groups that make their own decisions, such as hiring, firing, scheduling and ordering inventory. Instead of telling employees how to do their jobs, modern-day supervisors need to guide employees to learn and manage for themselves.
"As roles change in the workplace, we need a better understanding of how the relationships between supervisors and subordinates and between supervisors and their own co-workers are changing over time. Employees are working without direct supervision. To some extent they must invent their own jobs, manage themselves and determine what contributions they can make to an organization's success.
"More and more being effective in the workplace is going to be about not only developing technical skills, but also learning how to build relationships inside and outside the organization."
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Thirdspace — a company owned by Alcatel and Oracle — believes its copper wire-based multimedia services will allow telcos to claw back some of the income they are losing to cable and satellite companies.
Thirdspace plans to deliver a range of services, including digital broadcast television and video-on-demand, over existing copper cables. Thirdspace representatives recently demonstrated the video-over-IP DSL service to Telecom, Clear and TelstraSaturn.
The company's services will enable telcos to become "full service providers", says South-East Asia key account director Tony Lau.
Based on a server "pod" incorporating Sun and SGI hardware, Oracle video server software and specially built components, the Thirdspace iTV (interactive TV) service is capable of providing television, video on demand, email and internet access through a standard TV and set-top box. Unlike most video-on-demand offerings, Thirdspace iTV allows the viewer to rewind, stop-frame and fast-forward like a video player.
Web pages are reformatted by the Thirdspace system to be readable at TV-viewing distance, and images cannot always be magnified correspondingly. Currently, the system does not support full Java and JavaScript, though this will come in the near future, says Thirdspace technical consultant Jon Mitchell.
The set-top box is a thinner client than other typical boxes — usually containing only video-client software and the web browser, Mitchell says. Everything else is done at the server.
One server pod can support up to 1000 users, he says, though the practical aspects of that support will depend on what each user is doing at the time.
Thirdspace also claims an advantage over other online video systems in the facility to tailor content to the user's personal taste, forewarning through its "electronic programme guide" of items of particular interest due to be broadcast.
The system is even capable of capturing such content and storing it for later viewing, so TV as well as video can be timeshifted. This, says Lau, should reduce the conflict between a "personalised" delivery and the group viewing role of the household TV screen.
Ironically, the pitch to Telecom comes just as it is finally dismantling the pole-mounted coaxial cables in Wellington erected for its own previous iTV venture FirstMedia. This was discontinued in 1998, with Telecom saying it realised there was more promise in DSL technology - but no equivalent DSL service has yet emerged. The $1m dismantling exercise is happening in response to Wellingtonians complaining about obstruction of their view. Auckland's FirstMedia cables are underground.
TelstraSaturn, of course, already has a successful TV, telephone and internet service over coaxial and fibre cable.The company is interested in seeing Thirdspace just as a pertinent industry development, as companies often do, says spokesman Quentin Bright; this signals no intention to use the technology.
"And we're not interested in DSL," he adds, reflecting the company's cable orientation. "We're interested in video over IP."


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…another award! Thank you to Beauty Blogger Goddess for the nomination!
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- I have no tattoos or piercings
- Even after a monstrous meal, I can still somehow manage to eat a dessert
- I dislike soda water
- I am a compulsive snacker
- For someone who is an international athlete, I absolutely despise running (especially the beep test)
- I can bend the top joint (by itself) on both of my pinky fingers
- On my 7th birthday I went bowling, and got a strike first ball (this was the first time I had gone bowling ever, to my memory), so 7 is sort of my lucky number.
So, this time I've nominated blogs that I've recently followed and love! I've only put 5, because in all honesty, this is the part that takes the longest! I'm terrible at this, I know. To my knowledge though, out of all the awards I've done, less than 5 of my nominations have actually gone and carried on an award.
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I love leg day! I love it so much I have two a week! One day I focus mainly on Olympic lifting: Squats, Deadlifts, Cleans, Snatches, Lunges, the other day I focus on isolated leg work found below. I feel this is a great way to maintain balance with your leg training, instead of getting bored with just the basics. Try these as body weight moves or hold dumbells for extra resistance!
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The Sacramento County District Attorney's Office has received an $185,500 "Sacramento County Forensic Laboratory Impairment Program" grant. The District Attorney's Laboratory of Forensic Services (LFS) will use these funds to purchase seven new breath alcohol testing devices and an instrument to analyze alcohol (gas) in blood samples. The grant will also fund the scientific support of a criminalist at DUI/Driver's License (DL) checkpoints conducted within the City of Sacramento.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Breath alcohol devices are used to test the blood alcohol content of drivers at DUI/DL checkpoints throughout Sacramento County. With the breath testing instrument onsite, law enforcement agencies can test drivers and process DUI suspects at the checkpoint rather than transporting the subjects to the jail for analysis. The time between transportation to the jail and the blood alcohol test can be as long as one hour. Because alcohol burns off at a rate of .02 percent per hour, this could be detrimental to the prosecution, particularly if the blood alcohol was .08 percent at the time the driver was stopped. The length of time for transportation to the jail could likely reduce the number of filings and guilty verdicts.
With this grant, a criminalist will provide scientific support at checkpoints in the City of Sacramento. Drivers who have an odor of alcohol, admit to alcohol consumption, or appear to be impaired, will be asked to perform a field sobriety test by an officer.
This grant will also fund the cost of seven new breath alcohol devices to replace seven older devices that are near the end of their lifespan. It will also fund the cost of a new Dual Column Headspace Gas Chromatograph instrument, which is the latest technology in analyzing alcohol (gas) in blood samples and replaces an older instrument that is presently located in the laboratory.
Data collected through this enforcement program will provide information on the prevalence of drivers with alcohol in their system and help shape future impairment programs and legislation to address alcohol-impaired driving.
District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert states, "This grant allows us to work with our law enforcement partners in an intensive enforcement effort to detect and arrest drivers under the influence of alcohol. This along with accurate, state-of-the-art testing devices will ensure the highest quality analysis of alcohol levels and the successful prosecution of these cases."
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Arlington Heights police received a report of criminal damage to vehicle parked in a driveway in the 700 block of West Techny. Police received a report that an unknown offender or offenders cut the wires leading to the anti-lock brake system on a silver 2008 Honda Civic EX. The repair costs were $563.
The crime is reported to have occurred between Friday, December 21, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. The crime was reported was reported on December 29, 2012.
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Well this my final week at the SMSA as a #BEintern. However, this did not prevent me from being excited for the week ahead. So bright and early on Tuesday morning I made my way to the office to the New Port which has been a daily routine for the past week as an intern. Luckily, my boss Captain Valmont saw me walking along the road towards the office and he offered me a ride. So I got to relax a bit before reaching office. Upon entering the New Port's gate I was greeted by a very loud and Creole like ambiance. Traditional songs and dances were being performed by a local band and their dancers to welcome the massive Costa neoRomantica in port (a cruise ship). The Port was engulfed by colors and smells from different stalls selling souvenirs and creole snacks, which was an offset from the daily hustle and bustle of cargoes being loaded and unloaded. Not forgetting the tour operators who were waiting for their guests to disembark, to whisk them away on excursions and sightseeing.
When I said the ship is massive, it is MASSIVE. Words can't describe how big it is. neoRomantica has an overall length of 220m, with beam length of 30.8m and daft of 8.2m. She can accommodate 596 crew members and with 789 passenger cabins she has the capacity to take up to 1800 passengers (so you can imagine for yourself how big that ship is). As per usual Nathanielle and I were up to our habit of checking out massive ships in port. After that we left and went on with our task for the day, which was to accompany Terry to carry out for surveys vessels (one of our favorite things to do at SMSA).
Time for lunch slowly came and we were impatiently waiting to board the mother ship. Brigitte and some other SMSA employees accompanied us to have lunch aboard neoRomantica. Ralph from the Port Authority guided us to the entrance and security screenings were conducted then we began an 11 storey climb to the very top of the ship (thank goodness we took the elevator). As we stepped out of the elevator we didn't realise how high we were until we made our way out to the deck, from there we had a bird's eye view of everything from St Anne Island, the Old Port till up to the Trois Frères Mountain. By then we were all famished so we made our way to Il Giardino (a buffet restaurant on Deck 10) to indulge in an array of international dishes. Of course I went only for the Italian dishes, which makes sense as I was on an Italian Cruise Ship and being fresh out of Italy for holiday, so it was time to reminisce. All full and groggy we all took time to explore the upper deck of this massive beast. Surely, I'm going to miss the perks of being an intern at the SMSA.
I can firmly say that I have learned more than I could have ever known about the ocean and vessels from the #BEinternship. Well it's a once in a lifetime opportunity so I had to seize it. I have fallen in love with the ballast system on the large vessels, this fascinates and intrigues me. This is the system that keeps those big and heavy vessels (tankers, cargo ships, cruise ships etc…) from sinking. What can you say? I'm a ballast freak! Moreover, I have been so fortunate to board Seychelles Paradise, Seypec's smallest tanker. Impressed I am, by the effort of the company to keep their operation as "blue" as possible by using fuels in their tankers with the least amount of sulfur which does not pollute the sea environment as much as those with high sulfur content. Furthermore, the level of safety on Paradise is outstanding, especially in the engine and main engine room. Mechanisms in place ensure that the least amount of lives will be compromised in the event of an emergency on board.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone behind the success of the blue economy internship program. The British High Commission, Commonwealth Youth Council and also the hard workers behind the scene – Kalsey Belle, Angelique Pouponneau and anyone else involved. It has been a privilege to write for you and I hope you have enjoyed my blogs.
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The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (" the Commission") has received a significant number of enquiries relating to the position of Landsbanki Guernsey Limited (in administration) and a number of issues have been the subject of comment by the local media. On the 26 November 2008 the Guernsey Press published articles containing useful summary background information and which specifically addressed a number of misconceptions and misunderstandings that appear to have arisen.
We would refer anyone seeking information on the background to and current position of Landsbanki Guernsey Limited to the articles which we have attached. We would like to thank the Guernsey Press for providing us with a pdf copy of the articles for this purpose. In addition, the Commission anticipates that it will shortly be in a position to release (to the extent permissable having regard to confidentiality requirements) the conclusions of the independent inquiry into the issues affecting Northern Rock Guernsey Ltd and Landsbanki Guernsey Limited.


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Sunday, June 15, 2008
The right base and chase diameters for guns?
So I got my Smalltalk code for computing the weights of Dutch guns written and working, to a limited extent. One immediate issue that is really critical is how to choose appropriate chase and base diameters for a gun of a particular weight and shot weight. I am probably not using the correct terminology. My program needs the diameter of the gun at the muzzle end and the breech end. Both have rings that are of specific diameter. Naval guns generally flare to the muzzle, while army guns have a ring around the muzzle. The sizes determine how much metal is in the gun and there must have been design rules used by gun manufacturers that they had developed over time through experience and knowledge of what was common practice.
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Microsoft's Xbox One will launch just after midnight tonight, just days after Sony launched their latest gaming system, the PlayStation 4. One big difference between these two competitors is that the Xbox One is not only a gaming console; it's an innovative and futuristic complete entertainment system that's poised to hijack your living room.
Not only has Microsoft's Xbox One seen some early success with pre-orders, but consumers have already been lining up at some retailers as early as Wednesday. With this success so early on, Microsoft should easily match Sony's launch, which saw over a million PlayStation 4's being sold in their first 24 hours after the PS4 launch last week.
The Xbox One and the PS4 have very comparable specifications, as the Xbox One will ship with a faster CPU while the PS4 contains a faster graphics processing core and faster ram. The latest Xbox will sport a lightning fast 8-core CPU, coupled with 8 gigs of DDR RAM, an 853 MHz Radeon GPU and a 500 GB hard disk. In future, Microsoft has plans to integrate their system into the cloud, which would allow virtual upgrades to the hard disk space without having to purchase a new larger hard drive.
What casts the Xbox One ahead of the PS4, is that the system integrates into a consumer's television via an HDMI In and HDMI out. This innovative setup will allow some family members to play a game, while others can view live feeds such as Twitter and Facebook, and have other family members watching TV, all in a picture-in-picture view. This innovation is Microsoft's attempt at hijacking your living room by offering a complete entertainment system in one box, as their newest console is much more than just a gaming machine and blue-ray player.
The Xbox One will launch with a price of $499 and include a controller, headset/microphone, brick-sized power supply, and the newest Kinect 2 voice and motion-sensing control device. At the time of launch, 22 games will be available with a nice mix of choices and game styles, sure to satisfy any gaming enthusiast.
Including the much-improved Kinect 2, at first purchase, is a bold move for Microsoft, and really solidifies the Xbox One as an innovative and futuristic approach to entertainment. The Kinect 2 includes a much better motion-sensing and voice-control function than its predecessor and the functionality will be rooted much deeper into games.
The Kinect 2 will be able to recognize a multiple player scenario and automatically log multiple players into separate accounts simultaneously. It will differentiate voice commands from each user and respond to a player's requests based on their own preferences. Also improved, is its motion-sensing ability. The Kinect 2 will be capable of gauging a player's heart rate by sensing their pulse via their face, and operate in a much smaller room than the first version, a problem that plagued many gamers in the past.
The voice-commands have also been improved from the last version, which saw some challenges when gaming in a room with lot of background noise. What would normally take three or four button presses of the controller, can now be called up instantly using a single voice command.
A variety of streaming TV services are available, and what is not available through the console, can be accessed through the internal internet browser. The Kinect 2 will integrate with these services, providing the user with a programming guide and voice-activated control of what channel you're watching, as well as other TV functions.
Microsoft's bold new strategy, with the Xbox One, is set to cast every member of the family into the future. If they're successful, they will control and hijack the television in everyone's living room.
By Brent Matsalla