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What is the difference between Subroutine and Function:
The Sub(routine) can NOT return a value. But a Function can return a value. If you want to call them then a Function can be called by it's name with variables in parenthesis and a Subroutine can be called only by writing it name with variables without parenthesis as explained below.
Subroutine (Sub) Syntax with Example:
Sub Add(x as integer, y as integer, z as integer)
z= x+y
End Sub
Calling Subroutine
Add x, y, z
when it will return result will be saved in z variable, so it has not returned anything.
when it will return result will be saved in z variable, so it has not returned anything.
Function Syntax with Example:
Function Add(x as integer, y as integer) as integer
add= x+y
End Function
Calling Function
T=Add( x, y)
when it will return result will be stored in 'T' variable. The function always returns a value so its value must be saved in some variable
More Explanation:
The easiest way to think of a sub vs a function is that a function can return a value and a sub cannot. A sub can be thought of as a small program that performs some action that is contained within the program. Subs can be used to update a cell or perform an import and calculation, but the result can't be returned to another sub or function. Another thing to note is that a sub (or macro) cannot be accessed directly by a cell reference. For example, when a cell is used to show today's date, =Today(), that formula is also a built-in function, not a sub.
A function is similar similar to a sub, except that a function can return a value. It may be easier to think of a function as similar to a formula in excel. You can provide the function the necessary inputs and the function returns the desired value. You can build a custom function for just about any action and then access that function from either a call from a macro, or a direct reference from a cell.


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August 12, 2013 | Last night, or this morning, rather, was supposed to be the peak of the Perseid meteor shower. Brave soothsayers predicted that there might be as many as one hundred per hour.
The Perseid meteor shower is so named because the meteors seem to originate in the constellation Perseus, right next door, astronomically speaking, to Cassiopeia and Pegasus. I've never been much good at constellations unless someone draws the lines in the sky, but what the heck? It seemed from all I read that if I just cast my gaze to the northeast I would be in the right ballpark.
The other caveat about the Perseids is that viewing would be best, so they said, in the very early morning, in the hours before dawn.
So, yesterday after brunch I came home and took a nice long nap, then packed up my star-gazing reclining chair, some warm clothes, a star chart (ever the optimist, I), and my untrusty Nikon D50. It didn't get me any pictures of the Aurora Borealis, but maybe in warmer temperatures....
Later, when I awoke at 12:45am, I dressed warmly and headed off to Joshua Tree National Park, where it is really, really dark, without the glow of city light pollution. En route to our favorite isolated location within the park, I noticed that every parking area along the road was filled with cars of hopeful meteor watchers.
(Actually I've never understood these people parking along the road like that — every car that passes by surely wreaks havoc with night vision.)
I set up along Geology Tour Road, a washboarded gravel road that pretty much goes nowhere except to something called Squaw Tank, although the map does show a dotted line Berdoo Canyon Road that appears to return to the Coachella Valley, in any case definitely not a night-time excursion.
My warm clothes quickly proved inadequate and I wrapped myself in a blanket that I keep in the car. That helped, for a while.
Meanwhile, I kept waiting for the vaunted shower to begin. Occasional meteors did, in fact, streak across the sky from time to time, but at a rate more like 1 per 20 minutes rather than 100 per hour.
I tolerated my disappointment and the cold for about two hours before I broke camp and headed home, encouraging Sophie to use the heater all the way.
The whole point of bringing along the camera was to see if I could get some night time-exposures that would perhaps show star tracks from the rotation of the earth below the sky. But once again I was foiled and frustrated. I could not get the remote control to open and close the shutter as it is supposedly capable of doing. Maybe the battery in the remote is dead, I surmised.
This morning I went back to the manual and found a section that explained that when you set the camera for remote control, that setting is only good for one minute by default! Who knew? Of course more than a minute had elapsed between setting up the camera and attempting to take the first picture! The manual helpfully showed that you can select other time limits if one minute is not enough for you: 5 min, 10 min, 15 min. Permanently is not a choice, nor is "until I turn the camera off" which would be reasonable.
The problem I had was that I absolutely could not find the corresponding setting in my camera! I looked at every menu choice, in vain. It turns out that there is another whole "advanced" menu hidden behind "CMS/Setup." "Advanced" would have fit in the same space. Would it have been so painful for the camera software engineers to drop what I suppose stands for Camera Management System?
All of which leaves me no closer to actually using the camera for long-exposure pictures than I was before.
One last thing: When you're setting the camera to use the remote control, the gray icon that appears on a gray background in the little display on the top of the camera is maybe half a millimeter high. How is anybody, even in broad daylight, supposed to be able to see that? Much less at night, even with a red LED light for illumination?
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Mom waited through 4 boys to finally get her girl! I'd say she's in love! And we are loving having her nearby to enjoy every moment with Kate!
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Mom waited through 4 boys to finally get her girl! I'd say she's in love! And we are loving having her nearby to enjoy every moment with Kate!
McGwire and Kael's 2010 visit
We had the awesome pleasure AGAIN to have our nephews here for a visit this summer. It was a great time and so fun for all of us adults to see the cousins reconnecting with each other. Kate, being the only girl was certainly getting more than her share of attention!! They leave today and we will miss them, but we look forward with great anticipation to next summer! Thanks boys for a great visit!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Being the Feet: What It Would be Like
The sun was hot that afternoon and yet as you stepped under the thatch roofed hut, the sun wasn't so bright. You had to squint your eyes to make out what was right in front of you and you gradually realized that what you were squinting at was a man. But this man was unlike any you had seen before. And as you attempted to communicate with him, you realized any attempt you made would be futile at best.
The hot temperature, the strange sights and smells, this man speaking in a language so radically different than your own, all had you wondering how you were going to begin to share God's love with this man and others like him. You were struggling to learn even the most basic of phrases in this tribal dialect and yet you knew that if you were going to make God's story clear to him, you were going to have to do far better than 'What is that?'
How is this seemingly impossible task going to be accomplished? How is this unreached man going to be reached?
I had the chance to coordinate this experience along with an incredibly gifted team of 8 others, to create this scenario for almost 1000 festival goers at Michigan's Big Ticket Festival in Gaylord MI in late June. From current NTBI staff and students to former students and missionaries on their way to the field, all of us worked together to create a tribal village setting in the middle of this festival attended by over 25000 people in two and a half days.
After creating that tension that each person who went through our experience felt, we presented them with options, opportunities to gain the Biblical worldview and training needed to accomplish this 'impossible' task.
We pray that the list of approximately 2500 un-reached people groups that we posted on the walls of our tent eventually becomes a shorter because of people heeding God's call and taking Him seriously.
That's how the impossible will be made possible.
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Summer Fun!
Thank you to Auntie Rebecca, Anna and Noah for a great day at their pool today! The kids had so much fun and that was because of you all!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
our little rock band!
So we watched the Mathew girls the other day and the kids all came upstairs telling us they wanted to put on a concert for us. Watch for yourself but I think we might be on to something here! ;)
Watch out, here she comes! She's a man eater!
Watch out boys. She means business! Dont' mess with this little girl, she'll tear you up! She's got teeth and she knows how to use them.
Today, even though Kate didn't get in the water, since we were going to the lake, I decided it was high time she sported her cute little bathing suit, given to us by my best friend Jolene (and Kallie too). I must say she resembles a sharpei puppy but, oh my word, she was cute! I also wanted to document her third tooth that came through the other day. The fourth is due any day now as are all the eye teeth! We don't do things slowly in our house! :O She is such a happy baby post months one and two and we are so thankful to have her in our family. This collage really captures her sweet personality but in the next two pictures, I'm posting you get to see what she's been working on should her two big brothers decide to turn on her and pick on her...
A perfect Saturday
So today was the first Saturday in, I don't know, forever that we, as a family had a totally relaxing day. We took off with Mom and her friend (our freind too) Andrea (from Missouri) at about 9:30am and headed South to Clark Lake. We've been there before but today was just perfect. The weather was warm but not too hot. The water was warm, shallow enough for the boys to go out in and not be scared, and there were tons of shells in the water and boy did we collect shells! It was amazing! So we hung out there for the morning, just really chillin'! Then we had lunch at one of our favorite local joints called The Beach Bar. Great sandwiches, wraps, salads and their creamy tomato soup is to die for! After lunch, we headed home for naps, which didn't go so well, but we'll forget that part and skip on to the amazing dinner my hunny and I made: Grilled pork chops, corn off the cob and cous cous. A-MAZING! So tasty. Mom and Andrea hung out with us again for dinner and then our good friends, the Hobbs came over for dessert. The temp was perfect, great music playing, kids sleeping after a long fun day and great conversation. RELAXED. That's what I'll call it and long overdue, I must say!


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Anyone who knows me, knows I am NOT an athlete. Never have been; never will be. I have tried any number of fitness programs over the years -- Spa Lady, aerobics classes, weight lifting, mountain biking, swimming, Curves, yoga and, very briefly running. In the last couple of years, I have accepted that my fitness abilities are best suited to walking my two canine units, short-term yoga classes and the occasional adventure in virtual sports on the Wii.
Now, the reality is I am approaching 50 and I would really like to be around long enough to see my now teenaged daughter produce a grandchild or two (in the far, distant future). I also want to be healthy enough to spoil the said grandchild and return it to my dear daughter.
My elder sister who has ten more trips around the Sun than I do started doing 'hot' yoga about three years ago. Shortly thereafter she started proselytizing like a recently reborn Christian just back from an encounter weekend with Billy Graham. Like most of my family members, I rolled my eyes and figured she had clearly cooked her brain in the yoga class.
I had concluded several years ago that my view of exercise is like my view of sex and spirituality. It is a private matter and I am most comfortable pursuing it in privacy. I have never been into performance in any of these pursuits. Quite simply I like to sweat and to pray in private.
So, when I moved to Calgary several months ago I was surprised to discover my new residence is less than 10 minutes from a hot yoga studio that is affiliated with where my sister goes in Edmonton. Before I moved I had attended a yoga class and found that I was comfortable working on my flexibility and strength with a small class. Practice and not performance being the philosophy behind the class.
After several weeks of trying to find a yoga class near my house with a schedule I felt I could manage without driving myself crazy to rush home and get to class after work, I was slightly frustrated. At many studios (and particularly the ones in my neighbourhood), classes were run on a set schedule where it was necessary to commit to a specific time each week. Anyone with a child knows this is hard to maintain. Add to that I now have something that occasionally resembles a social life and things get dicey. How do I find a place where I can bend and twist on a regular enough basis to get some good out of it but that does not tie me to a schedule?
On a lark, I decided to check hot yoga studio's class format. Well, it is essentially set up with all classes being 'drop in'. It also featured a "$20 for all the sweating you can do in one week" introductory offer. Seemed like a good idea so I scoped out the class times and emailed my dear sister to get her advice on 'sweating with the yogis' etiquette.
Take a towel. Just like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- always have a towel and DON'T PANIC. Actually, two towels are the best idea. One large one to go on top of your yoga mat, which will get as slippery as an eel in a canola oil plant. Without a towel for traction, just standing upright on your mat is a challenge. A smaller, hand-size towel is good to have to wipe the rivers of sweat off your face during class. Both towels will be drenched by the time you are done.
Remove all make up before class. Seriously. This is not a time for vanity and not removing eye make up has a couple of undesirable outcomes. First, rather than giving you an attractive, doe-eyed look, the profuse sweating will result in a goofy raccoon-eyed appearance. Second (and more important), melted mascara and eye liner will be washed into your eyes by sweat. You will experience excruciating pain and you will cry.
When I arrived for my first venture into the land of sweaty bending, there were more than a few other people waiting for the class as well. I was comforted to see that while a few of them looked like refugees from a dance studio, there were more than a few who looked like normal (read "slightly fluffy") people.
Clothing choices ranged from the latest from Lulu Lemon to Costco brand yoga wear to t-shirts and shorts. Everyone carried a water bottle and the requisite towel or two.
After shedding my outer layer of sweatshirt and track pants, I eased my way out of the dressing room wearing yoga shorts and a top I'd picked up at Winners. Upon entering the yoga room, I found subdued lighting, a slightly rubbery floor and several people already quietly laying on their mats and relaxing. I found a spot near the back of the room and rolled my mat out lining it up with the stickers on the floor designed to keep rows straight.
As I rolled out my mat and covered it with a towel, I was surprised by the temperature in the room. Hot yoga is practiced in heat of between 35 and 45 degrees Celsius, or 100 and 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Perhaps my internal thermostat has gone wonky in my advancing years, but it did NOT feel terribly hot to me. In fact, given my druthers, I would gladly keep my house close to the temperature in the studio.
I am now several weeks into regular attendance at hot yoga. I can almost balance on one foot for more than a millisecond and there is a definite improvement in my flexibility.
Yes, I think I've found my 'sport'...it is non-competitive, calming and warm.


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I've always been lucky to have grown up with good friends. Even middle school, the three years that most people try to block out of their mind, was pretty enjoyable for me because I had a great group of friends. My friends changed as I was growing up, but for the most part, I always had at least one good friend I could count on. Now that I'm halfway around the world and haven't found any new friends, I have an even deeper appreciation for the friends I have, even if they are thousands of miles away.
Two of these amazing ladies I am privileged call some of my closest friends had birthdays this week. I love birthdays and I love my friends, so here's my little celebration of these two lovely ladies!
Somehow, amidst Michael Jackson and Farrah Faucett's deaths and the power outage in Charles de Gaulle airport on our arrival to Paris in the summer of 2009, I found this sassy, loud and always a bundle of fun. We survived power walking through the cobble stone streets of Paris with the most Parisian lady I have ever met (shoutout to Szcepsy Fierce) and I couldn't be more happy that JMU Study Abroad brought me one of my favorite Parisian wannabes (not unlike myself).
I remember hoping that I'd meet a friend or two in my study abroad program, but figured that since it was only six weeks long, we'd probably all go our separate ways when we returned to JMU. While that was true for a lot of people in our group, Sara is different. She's sassy and stubborn, but she's also one of the most caring people you'll ever meet. She has thousands of friends and, yet, she is somehow able to make you feel like you're the only one when you're with her. She's a huge Phillies and Eagles fan, which makes her okay in Mike's book, but she also has an awesome FIANCEE who is Mike's beer drinking soulmate. I'm pretty thankful for that study abroad trip for a multitude of reasons, but Sara is definitely number one.
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Bon anniversaire, Sara! Je t'aime mermy!
High school can be tough. Most of my friends from middle school ended up at different high schools, which meant a few years of navigating the halls of Kempsville, while trying to figure out how to fit in. I joined the yearbook staff my sophomore year to help me find a group to call my own. Not only did I find a group, I found this girl I am lucky enough to call one of my closest friends. Her determination and drive, as well as her sarcasm, made the late nights in yearbook worthwhile, as well as serve as a model for me as I navigated high school and college. She has been by my side since high school and I couldn't be more thankful. I'm so proud of what she has accomplished and I know that when I get back to the states, she'll definitely be my go-to dentist.
I can't wait for you to come and visit! Two months and counting!
I love you both and am so thankful for friends like you!


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How to Cool Off in the Summer
In checking with Wikepedia, I found that the origin of the first ice cube came when John Gorrie, an American physician and humanitarian, built a refrigerator in 1844. He wasn't trying to make ice cubes. His aim was to use the ice to lower the ambient room temperature. Evidently, the dominant idea at the time was that bad air quality caused disease. So in order to treat sickness, he wanted to drain the swamps and cool sickrooms.
The modern day ice cube tray is often flexible in order to easily remove the frozen cubes. Originally they were made of metal with a lever that raised the ice cubes from the tray, although these types can still be purchased. There are even motorized versions that are found in most automatic ice-making freezers.
Most ice cubes tend to be cubical in shape but there are trays available that can turn them into any shape you like including festive ones, animals and others.
According to Wikipedia, the first rubber ice cube tray was invented by Lloyd Groff Copeman in 1928. While walking through the woods in his rubber boots, he noticed that the ice flaked off rather than adhering to them. He ended up designing and then patenting different types of trays. The first flexible stainless steel, all-metal ice cube trays was created by Guy L. Tinkham in 1933.
Today, we can thank these gentlemen for helping make the ice cube something we just take for granted when we make a drink with ice.
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Ice cream is not a new delight. In fact the BBC reported that a frozen mixture of milk and rice was produced in China around 200 B.C. The Roman Emperor Nero (37-68 AD) had ice brought from the mountains and combined it with fruit. In fact in ancient Persia, snow would be saved in underground chambers and then made into a chilled food made with rose water and vermicelli. This dish was served to royalty during the summer months.
The Arabs however, were the first to use milk as the major ingredient in ice cream. They sweetened it with sugar instead of fruit and they actually perfected commercial production of this delicacy! By the 10th century ice cream could be found across the Arab world.
According to Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, in her History of Food, "the Chinese may be credited with inventing a device to make sorbets and ice cream. They poured a mixture of snow and saltpeter over the exteriors of containers filled with syrup, for, in the same way as salt raises the boiling-point of water, it lowers the freezing-point to below zero."
In 1533 Catherine de' Medici married the Duke of Orleans and she is said to have brought to France her Italian chefs who had recipes for flavored ices. One hundred years later, Charles I of England was so impressed with "frozen snow" that he offered his ice cream maker a lifetime pension in return for keeping the formula a secret. These may be stories that add to the mystery of ice cream, as there isn't any historical evidence to these legends.
You can find one of the first French recipes for ices from 1674 and by the 18th century ice cream recipes had made it to England and America. One of the first recipes was printed in Mrs. Mary Eales's Receipts in London in 1718.
The earliest reference to ice cream is included in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1744, and reprinted in a magazine in 1877. As well the 1751 edition of The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse features a recipe for ice cream.
Ice cream was first introduced to the United States by the Quaker colonists who brought their ice cream recipes with them. They sold ice cream at their shops in New York and other cities during the colonial era. It seems that Ben Franklin, George Washing and Thomas Jefferson were known to enjoy this treat. It has been reported that First Lady Dolly Madison served ice cream at her husband's inaugural ball in 1813.
Over the years since there has been made claims to who invented the ice cream machine although it is reported that around 1932, Augustus Jackson invented a superior technique to manufacture ice cream. But it was Nancy Johnson in 1843 that was granted the first U.S. patent for a hand cranked ice cream freezer.
It wasn't until the 20th century that cheap refrigeration made it possible for ice cream stores to flourish. Howard Johnson's restaurants advertised that they had 28 flavors of ice cream and then Baskin-Robbins starting advertising their 31 flavors. Today we have many well-known stores from Dairy Queen to Tastee-Feeze offering all sorts of flavors. You can even get ones that are dairy free and gluten free. Not an ice cream fan, then maybe you can try sherbet or sorbet made with ice and fruit!
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Remember when you were a kid one of your favorite treats was an icy cold popsicle on a hot summer's day? While you can still enjoy these treats as an adult with a little kick added!
Use your favorite juice such as pineapple, raspberry, strawberries, kiwi, mango or peach. All great summer fruits too. You can buy them already as juice or if you have a juicer make your own. I think juicing the fruit at home makes for a better, more flavorful popsicle.
Now for the kick! Using a flavored alcohol such as rum or vodka made from coconut, watermelon, lemon, raspberry, banana, melon, peach or tangerine will make your popsicles pop!
Just add three cups of your favorite juice to two ounces of alcohol. Make sure you don't add any more than two ounces of alcohol or your mixture won't freeze. If you like to "eat" your popsicle, try adding some chopped fruit to the mixture or even herbs like chopped mint or basil.
Pour the mixture into popsicle molds. Wait until the mixture has hardened a bit and then insert the popsicle sticks and freeze. Once they are frozen solid they are ready!
What could be better on a hot summer's day!
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In the 80's and 90's I voraciously devoured a lot of techno-thrillers. I had started real gaming (advancing beyond Risk and Yahtzee) with old AH stuff like Panzer Blitz and Squad Leader. I attribute my dad's collection of the Time/Life WW2 hardback series on our bookshelves as my kickstart for buying these games.
So in college I was studying History/PoliSci and German and my girlfriend (at the time) and her friends dragged from the library on a Friday to go see The Hunt for Red October. They disliked it and I was so entranced I stayed and watched it again. Yup, thanks to Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red October" I obsessed and threw my self headlong into the techno-thriller genre. In fact in college it influenced me enough to look at applying to the CIA and I had applied to join Naval Intelligence but a childhood accident precluded my being accepted. What could have been...no regrets at all for the path chosen, just a "what if..." in the life...
Anyway, I read Harold Coyle's "Team Yankee", Col. Ralph Peters "Red Army" and every Clancy book I could get my poor college hands on. This all happened in college so it was damn hard to find time between classes and working 30 hours a week to sneak these into my schedule, but damn if I did not devour them any chance I got.
So my love of techno thrillers lead to my leaving RPG's for a few years and instead gravitating to games like Harpoon, Third World War, and even TSR versions of Red Storm Rising and The Hunt for Red October. I bring this all up as Tom Clancy recently passed away and a great article on the Escpaist discusses Clancy's view/use/value of war gaming.
Yup he had his own RedStorm video game company, the Rainbow Six video games and such, but for me his gaming influence will always be in the realm/ importance of war games.
Given current real world situations: events unfolding in the Ukraine, what if Russia secures natural gas sales with China and they abandon the US dollar for trade? Iran is building a replica of a US carrier right now...and one has to wonder why? Israel is growing impatient with Iran and Russia's no longer going to support sanctions against Iran. I really miss a good techno-thriller writer who can capture the current world complexities that seem to be popping up all over, but I can't think of one that does it as well as Clancy did.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to Tom Clancy for some great stories, for inspiring a lot of great gaming back in the day.


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Soon it will be exactly 1 year from our first show in Pivka. On almost the same date we will have release party/picnic/benefit in the same club, called Cuza. After this show we will visit Switzerland and France for a few days. Also we have some more shows booked for this year.
We have also some big plans for 2010. In February we are doing Balkan tour with our beloved Sand creek massacre from Holland. Later the same year (probably in May or June) we will do a longer trip around the Europe. We will keep you updated. So like you see we would like to tour as much as possible and also we would like to record some new stuff.
Take care and see you around
Next shows:
28/10 - Pivka, Slovenia (release party)
29/10 - Biel, Switzerland
30/10 - Day off
31/10 - Toulouse, France (with Bokanovsky)
01/11 - Marseille, France (with Bokanovsky)
07/11 - Trieste, Italy (with Infarto Scheisse)
24/11 - Graz, Austria (with Unquiet)
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Press Releases Hokitika water supply upgrade proposal open for public consultation
A proposal for a Westland District Council / Westland Milk Products partnership to upgrade the Hokitika water supply opens for public submissions today (31 October, 2014).
The $5.1 million upgrade to the water supply will meet Westland Milk Products' growing demand for high quality water and give Hokitika an alternative intake in the event of an emergency.
The proposal is that Westland District Council brings forward the already planned upgrades in the current Ten Year Plan and raise a $5.1 million loan to fund these works. The costs will be recovered via Westland Milk Products' targeted water rates over a period of 5 years.
Westland Deputy Mayor Pauline Cox says, "Council has considered this proposal with great interest. Our view is that it will benefit Westland ratepayers and Westland District. There will be no cost to the ratepayers for this upgrade".
The proposal is open for submissions from 31 October 2014, which close at 4pm on 18 November 2014. Copies of the submissions form can be obtained from Westland District Council website (www.westlanddc.govt.nz) or a hard copy can be picked up from Council offices. Submissions can be made either online, or by using the printed submission form, which can be posted or delivered to Westland District Council offices at 36 Weld Street, Hokitika.
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Back in January, a group of us decided to go up to O'Reillys to camp for a couple of nights for a friend's birthday. Due to my blogging hiatus, I never really wrote about it, which is a shame because it was an awesome weekend and I have some cracking pictures that I should probably share with the cool people who follow this blog.
If you follow this blog religiously (LOL) then you've probably seen a blog mentioning O'Reillys before, because I went up there for a day just before my road trip in November. That trip included a short hike up to Moran Falls and then a bit of time feeding the rosellas, but being there over a couple of days allowed us to venture further into the mountains and do a few more bits and pieces.
We started the trip by going up the public-funded four-wheel drive track that takes around three hours to navigate. Be warned, this track is 4WD for a reason- you will not get up this thing in anything less than a SUV. Luckily, we had this fucker to travel up in…
It was an awesome drive up with plenty of spots to test the endurance of the car and with enough muddy puddles to paint the Jeep the true colour of a 4×4- brown. On top of that it also allowed us sneaky views like this one…
After the track, we spent the next few hours setting up camp, drinking and deciding what we were going to do. As I'd been up to Moran Falls before, I immediately wanted to show everyone the sights as it is to this day one of the most spectacular sights I've seen in all of Australia.
There was a bit of scepticism when we were hiking to the viewpoint, but I have to admit that I was feeling a little bit smug once we got there and everyone was blown away by this absolutely stunning bit of scenery. It made the walk back almost as satisfying as sitting on the top of the waterfall and watching everyone take in the views, relaxing and enjoying a beautiful few moments.
After getting chewed on by a fire ant and sleeping on what could only be described as Satan's idea of a sleeping spot, the next day offered a bit more adventure. We wanted to have a bit of fun, so we decided to do the flying fox up through the trees at the resort. Despite the fact that we had to walk up a five-hundred foot hill (maybe a slight exaggeration) to get to the starting point, it was definitely worth it- I think if you're going to do something like this, the higher you are the better anyway.
Walking back from the zipline was also pretty special, as we encountered a gorgeous sunset from the top of the mountains, and as soon as the sun went down the stars were out in force. I wish I had a good enough camera/the skills to use it to show you how many there were that night, but because of my limited technological savvy, you're just gonna have to take my word for it…it was insane!
It really was an awesome couple of days and although I'm telling you about what we did, it was the stuff we didn't do that really made the trip. There's nothing quite like sitting around a full Esky with some good friends just talking shit, drinking and having a laugh without any phone signal and just each other for company. I will remember those two days as being one of the most chilled out and easy experiences I've had since I've been here, and was one of the best escapes I've had from the real world in a long time.
Recently, as I've been moving more towards the final third of my visit, I've been thinking more and more about two things. One is how much I have realised I love and appreciate the part of the world I'm living in, but two, just how much of my own country that I haven't seen or visited. There are literally thousands of beautiful spots in the UK that I simply haven't ever had the motivation to visit, and being in Australia has made me realise that there are spots like this everywhere that are just waiting to be explored and enjoyed. These experiences in Australia have given me that realisation, that there is much more to do on weekends and holidays than getting pissed in a bar- I'd much rather be getting pissed on top of a mountain!
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ANACOCO HERO COMES HOME, SGT James Edward Martin
Schedule of Events
Questions call 337-239-0215 Village of Anacoco
Mayor or any Council member should be able to assist also
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Revised Schedule of Events.
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2016 Estimated time of arrival in Leesville between 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Remains will be brought from Houston to Lake Charles then up highway 171 directly to Jeane Funeral Home in Leesville.
Friday, Nov 18, 2016, procession will leave from Jeane's Funeral Home at 12:00 noon, going up highway 171 to Hornbeck, then back to Anacoco. In Anacoco, go down Cypress Street, then loop around the Anacoco schools, then to the First Baptist Church. Public visitation will be held from 2:00-9:00 p.m.
On Friday, businesses are asked to put messages on their signs and flags out, and everyone line the streets. If you would like to come to the Chamber office at 1309 North Fifth Street to park and stand by the highway, you are welcome to do so.
Saturday, Nov 19, 2016, service will be at 11:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church.
Graveside services to follow at Mitchell Cemetery.
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Daniel A. Mutchler, age 73, of Delta passed away peacefully Wednesday morning February 17, 2016 at his home. He was born in Toledo on August 26, 1942 to the late William and Mary Jane (Phillips) Mutchler. On July 8, 1967 he married Dolores Kalinowski in Toledo and they shared 48 happy years together.
Daniel was a lifelong farmer and member of Laborer's Local 500 and worked for them as a laborer for eighteen years. He also owned and operated Dan's Gun Shop and Dan's Produce and Ornamentals. Dan enjoyed collecting John Deere tractors and models. He also enjoyed photography, especially taking photographs of landscape and scenery. Most of all he was known for his social skills and storytelling.
Surviving is his wife, Dolores; brother, David Mutchler; sister-in-law, Cynthia (Mark) Waldmannstetter and nephews, Andy Mutchler, Joel Mutchler, Bill Benarth and Doug Waldmannstetter.
He was preceded in death by his parents, daughter, Mary Jane Mutchler and niece, Rachel Grajczyk.
Friends and family will be received from 2-6 PM on Sunday, February 21, 2016 at Barnes Funeral Chapel, 5825 St Hwy 109 in Delta. A funeral service celebrating Daniel's life will be held at 10:00 AM on Monday, February 22, 2016; at the Funeral Chapel. Pastor Eric Markovich will be officiating. Interment will take place following the service at Greenlawn cemetery in Delta.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be directed to the American Heart Association, American Diabetes Foundation or to a charity of the donor's choice. Online condolences may be sent to the family through our website at www.barnesfuneralchapel.com
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I've created a 'kit' which is being sent out to a range of people which consist of paper, tracing paper, a black felt tip and a list of questions. At the moment I've selected 10 people of all ages and career paths and they will be drawing responses to the questions and hopefully giving me a written response as well.
The questions are as follows:
- Describe your home – what does it look like?
- How are you cooking your dinner?
- How are you watching television?
- What is your mode of transport and where do you keep it?
- What are you/your children playing with?
- Describe your garden/outdoor space.
- What is the year 2500 like to live in?
- What can you see from your window?
Whatever I get back from these 10 people will hopefully give me the grounds to start developing some interesting ideas. I'm hoping that I can take their drawings and create 'blueprints' for each response. Where it goes from here will be decided upon once I receive the drawings. I might directly use their ideas, take inspiration from their drawings or even improve upon their drawings.
Where it goes from here all depends upon the feedback from each person!


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Trustees who received royalty income from an oil and gas lease of property in California and who distributed a portion of that income to a Massachusetts beneficiary were not entitled under G. L. c. 62, Section 6 (a), to offset the trust's Massachusetts income tax by a credit reflecting the Massachusetts beneficiary's payment of California income tax. [207-208]
APPEAL from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board.
Alexander Whiteside (Howard S. Whiteside with him) for the plaintiffs.
Madeline Mirabito Becker, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Revenue.
WILKINS, J. The appellant trustees claim that under G. L. c. 62, Section 6 (a), they were entitled to a credit against the Massachusetts income taxes they paid on income distributed to a Massachusetts beneficiary because the beneficiary paid a tax to California on certain of the distributed income. The Commissioner of Revenue (commissioner) and the Appellate Tax Board (board) rejected this argument. We affirm the board's decision.
The appellants are trustees of a testamentary trust which has an interest in an oil and gas lease of property in California. During 1979, the trustees received royalty income from that investment. The trustees retained a portion of that income as trust principal, paid a California income tax on that portion, and were allowed a credit for that payment in determining the trust's Massachusetts income tax. The trustees made a distribution
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to a Massachusetts beneficiary of a portion of the California royalty income. The beneficiary paid a California income tax on the amount distributed to him. The trustees claimed a credit for the full amount of the Massachusetts tax imposed on the California royalty income (which was less than the total California income tax paid by the trust and the beneficiary). The commissioner made an additional assessment. The trustees filed an application for abatement which was denied, and the trustees appealed to the board. The dispute here concerns the trustees' right to offset the trust's Massachusetts income tax by a credit reflecting the Massachusetts beneficiary's payment of California income tax.
General Laws c. 62, Section 6 (a), as appearing in St. 1973, c. 723, Section 2, provides that "[a] credit shall be allowed against taxes imposed by this chapter to a resident for taxes due any other state . . . on acount of any item of Massachusetts gross income . . . ." This section does not state explicitly that a credit is allowed only as to taxes paid to another State by the taxpayer. The trustees argue that the beneficiary's income tax payment to California provides the trust with a credit beyond the credit for income tax paid to California by the trustees themselves. In effect, the trustees argue that the trust and the beneficiary should be treated as one for the purposes of determining the credit allowed to the trust for California income taxes paid. In spite of the trustees' contentions to the contrary, no regulation of the commissioner resolves the question in their favor.
This court has recognized the separate tax treatment that should be given to a trust and a beneficiary (or settlor) of that trust. In Dexter v. State Tax Comm'n, 350 Mass. 380 (1966), the trustees of a revocable inter vivos trust unsuccessfully sought to have their capital gains treated as income of the settlor, thus allowing the settlor to offset a capital loss against the trust's capital gain. This court noted that G. L. c. 62, Section 10, provided that a trust (established by a Massachusetts resident) should be assessed an income tax on its income and that the statute made no express provision for a deduction from, or credit against, trust gains by reason of a beneficiary's or settlor's
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losses and denied a deduction to the trustees. Id. at 385-386. "Any arguments that such a deduction or credit would be fair should appropriately be addressed to the Legislature. We must apply the statute as we find it and as it appears to have been applied for many years." Id. at 386. [Note 2] We follow the reasoning of the Dexter case, treating the trust and its beneficiaries as separate taxable entities. The trust in this case is not a "mere conduit." There is nothing contrary to this view in Commissioner of Revenue v. Plymouth Home Nat'l Bank, ante 66, 68 (1985), or in Springall v. Commissioner of Revenue, 391 Mass. 23 (1984), which involved the taxability of income distributed or to be distributed to trust beneficiaries. [Note 3]
Decision of the Appellate Tax Board affirmed.
[Note 1] Roland Gray, Jr.
[Note 2] In 1976, the Legislature did make changes in G. L. c. 62, Section 10. See St. 1976, c. 510, Section 1.
[Note 3] The right of the beneficiary in calculating his Massachusetts income tax to take a credit in some amount for the California income taxes he paid is not presented in this case.


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Sensing the solution
The NPL-run Sensors & Instrumentation programme in the Electronics, Sensors, Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network (ESP KTN) has been leading knowledge transfer in this field since 2006.
Sensing and instrumentation technology underpins UK business worth £120 billion per year. The potential impact of sensing technology is far-reaching and plays an essential role in addressing many of today's major global challenges.
The ESP KTN is at the heart of the UK's sensing community, bringing together industry and researchers to stimulate innovation in the development and deployment of sensors and instrumentation for better measurement and control.
KTNs are funded by the UK government's Technology Strategy Board to promote wealth creation through knowledge transfer in areas where the UK has the potential to exploit national and international markets. KTNs link the entire supply chain from academic research through to end-users, and provide a point of contact to local and national government. KTNs also provide information on funding sources, disseminate results from development activity and help broker consortia to bid for collaborative projects.
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For the UK sensing and instrumentation sector to continue growing it needs to share knowledge and increase its access to international markets.
Sharing information and stimulating innovation across such a large, diverse community (small to large businesses, academic institutions, research councils, government departments) is a huge knowledge transfer challenge.
The Solution
Through tried and tested knowledge transfer and innovation management methods, the NPL-managed Sensors & Instrumentation programme in the ESP KTN has been hugely successful in engaging with over 2,000 organisations within this community. This is over 90% of the market.
The KTN achieves this engagement through many activities: focused events, topical seminars and workshops, newsletters, one-to-one meetings, road-mapping and an active online community. The KTN also works closely with other KTNs and networks, including NPL's own Measurement Network, to extend its reach and provide networking opportunities to members outside their normal range of contacts.
The Impact
Between 2006-2010 the KTN helped secure funding of £97 million for its members. This works out at a ratio of public sector investment in the KTN to funding secured for members of 1:22.
In addition the KTN has published 46 technology roadmaps and reports which communicate developments and opportunities within the field. The KTN has also held over 150 knowledge transfer events which brought together members working in specific areas.
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Suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Situated just 4 miles north of the City Centre. Voted the "Most Desireable Place to Live on the North-side". (I'm sure that will attract many southsider jokes!!)
History of the area includes the Battle of Clontarf (1014) where the Vikings were defeated by Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland.
Clontarf is also home to a large bird sanctuary which is the closest sactuary to any capital city in the world.
The Irish sources for the battle include the following:
1. The Annals of Ulster. This, argues John Ryan, is the most reliable text. It is contemporary, and uses Meath and Armagh material. The facts of the entry are terse, but concur very well with other sources. Its importance lies in that the annalist does not seem to be concerned with creating myths either positive or negative, about the protagonists.
2. The Annals of Loch Ce. These annals, compiled and owned by Brian Mac Dermot in 1592 from material that probably was contemporary in 1014 opens with the battle of Clontarf. These annals are a Munster source and favour the Dal Cais, but even so, the fact that they include speeches and legendary episodes means that they have allowed subsequent historians to add colour to the otherwise brief comments of the Annals of Ulster.
3. The Annals of Innisfallen are surprisingly unhelpful, given that they were both contemporary and from Munster. Their entry for Clontarf is little more than a list of the slain dynasts.
4. Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh is a very interesting source, being a romantic lay with historical material. The battle of Clontarf gains very extensive treatment in the work, as the author is intending it to entertain the ears of the descendents of Brian Boruma. The writer seems to have been a contemporary of the events and includes some genuine historical material among the wealth of adjective. For example, in Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh it is said that the battle began at dawn and ended at sunset, and that the peak times of ebb and flow of the tides that day corresponded to the sun rising and setting. In 1867 Professor Haughton of TCD calculated the time of the full tides for Good Friday, 1014, and confirmed that they matched the times of sunrise and sunset. This indicates that some of the material in Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh is historically valuable.
5. The Annals of Clonmacnoise have a fairly lengthy and vivid description of the battle. However it is written in a spirit of glorification of Brian as a liberator against the Danes. This makes it quite unreliable, particularly with regard to the claimed treacherous role of Mael Seachlainn (which will be discussed later).
6. The Annals of the Four Masters has short entry which differs from other accounts in assigning a positive role to Mael Seachlainn.
Njal's Saga is a critical source from the Viking world. This is a thirteenth century saga but despite the distance from the events it describes, it independently confirms much of the information in the Annals of Ulster. A general point to note about historical value of the Icelandic saga's is, as Peter Sawyer puts it, that they "are not, however, entirely worthless, for the saga writers used and sometimes quote poetry of the Viking age. This skaldic verse, as it is called, was composed in Scandinavia from the second half of the ninth century and rather later in Iceland and much of it was remembered in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the sagas were being written." Finally Orkneyinga Saga gives a small mention to the battle which only adds a tiny detail about Earl Sigurd.
What, then, do these sources tell us about the battle of Clontarf?
On Good Friday, 1014, at dawn, when the tide was at its height, the two forces met in battle just to the north of Dublin, within sight of the city walls. One the one side was the Munster based high king Brian Boruma with his son Murchad and grandson Tordelbach. Mael Seachlinn, Brian's recent rival from the Southern Ui Neill, but now an ally, brought his forces. The many other Irish kings who owed Brian service were noticeable by their absence, particularly the Ui Choncobhar of Connacht. According to Njal's Saga, Ospak of Man brought 10 ships to serve Brian due to a rivalry with the Viking leader Brodir.
Brian's opponents were an alliance of the Dublin Ostmen with their neighbours, the Irish of Leinster, led by Maelmordha and two powerful contingents from the Vikings of the islands: jarl Sigurd the Stout from Orkney and jarl Brodir of Man.
The Vikings were noted for their armour, with nearly all the terser annal entries commenting on the breastplates or armour of the Vikings. The Vikings brought warriors encased in "polished, strong and triple-plated, glittering armour of refined iron, or of cool uncorroding brass" according to the more wordy Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh.
Drawn up in sections, the battle took place over the course of the day, until at dusk the Leinstermen and Vikings broke and those who fell back towards the sea were victims of a great slaughter. However losses on Brian's side were heavy also from the "counter-shock", with Brodir's men killing Brian himself. Murchad and Tordelbach also fell in the fighting along with a host of lesser nobles.
The losses by the Laigin and Viking forces are put at 6,000 by the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Loch Ce, at 6,600 by Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh. Brodir was captured and killed. Sigurd having seen two of his standard bearers fall, tucked away his raven banner against his body, and his death fulfilled the fatalistic Viking prophecy regarding the banner. Mael Morda, king of the Laigin was also killed.
This much is can be stated with some confidence, having at least two independent sources from the above as confirmation. The exact details of Brian's death are less certain as we are given different versions - some of which are clearly attempts to emphasise the saintliness of the high king.
One controversy that began very soon after the battle concerns the role of Mael Seachlinn and the warriors of Midhe. According to Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh the men of Midhe put a ditch between themselves and the enemy, deliberately holding back from the battle and letting Brian's army take the losses. On the opposite side are the Annals of the Four Masters, who say that "the forces of the Northmen were afterwards routed by dint of battling, bravery, and striking by Mealseachlainn, from the Tolka to Ath Claith."
Are we in a position to make a judgement between the view of Meal Seachlinn as a traitor or as the saviour of the battle? Unfortunately neither the Annals of Ulster or Njal's saga give any comment on the role of Mael Seachlinn - which in itself suggests that neither extreme may be the reality. A fact worth bearing in mind is that if there was one winner of the battle of Clontaft it was Mael Seachlin, who was able to regain the high kingship from the Dal Cais. The limited list of losses from the men of Midhe, in what was an extremely long and bloody contest does suggest that while their role may not have been treacherous, it was more limited than that of their allies. The more general controversy over the battle of Clontarf is not however in the details of the event, but rather in the significance of the battle. As early as 1528 writers were interpreting the battle as a great turning point in the struggle of Ireland against foreign invasion. In that year the Annals of Connacht describe Torrdelbach O'Brien son of Tadc as having been "the true heir of Brian Boromha mac Cinneidig in sustaining war against the Galls".
The 1867 editor of Cogadh Gaedhel Re Gallaibh points out however that "the Norsemen of Ireland were not seriously affected in their position by the victory of Clontarf. They retained their hold of the great seaports, and the Irish annals, for some years continue to record the usual amount of conflict between them and native tribes."
In 1920 Eoin mac Neill attempted to refute the view that Clontarf was not a national conflict of invaders against the Irish by reference to the Norse sagas. He argued that "the kingdom of Ireland was the prize which king Sigtrygg of Dublin offered to Earl Sigurd of the Orkneys. It was to win Ireland that the Norsemen came from distant Iceland and from Normandy..."
The problem with this argument, as John Ryan pointed out in 1938, is that the kingdom offered to Sigurd was in all likelihood not that of Ireland but Dublin. Although non-contemporary chronicles tended to exaggerate the status of the Viking leaders - making them rulers over York or even provinces of Denmark - the more reliable chronicles and Njal's Saga show that they were local jarls, of Orkney and Man. Their following would have been in the order of some 20 ships.
So, today, the consensus among historians has returned to a view that Clontarf should be seen best in the context of Irish politics - it was a battle brought about by a Leinster - Dublin alliance against the high kingship of Brian. Certainly this view fits with the pattern of Annal entries. It also avoids a crude division between the two sides along national lines that the participants would not have been conscious of. Irish warriors fought on both sides of the battle, as, in all likelihood did Vikings.
However, it is worth noting that Clontarf takes place at around the time that Viking influence reaches its peak. The following year an Anglo-Danish Empire is created by Knut's invasion of England. The Norse settlements in Normandy and Russia were thriving. Furthermore, the battle of Clontarf quickly became a source of legend for the Viking world, indicating that it was seen as a significant moment in their history. Again, there no other occasion when Viking forces gather as they did for the battle of Clontarf.
So a broad interpretation of the battle of Clontarf, while rejecting it as a simplistic national conflict, should nonetheless be willing to see the battle as providing a significant check to Viking ambitions in Ireland.
Sources in translation:
Annals of Ulster ed. Gearoid Mac Niocaill, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1983.
Annals of Loch Ce ed. Wm. M. Hennessy, Longman (London, 1871).
Annals of Connacht ed. A. M. Freeman, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1970.
Annals of Inisfallen, ed. Sean Mac Airt, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1951.
Annals of Clonmacnoise, trans. Coneel Mageoghagan, ed. Rev. D. Murphy, Dublin University Press, 1896.
Njal's Saga, trans. M. Magnusson and H. Palsson, Penguin (London, 1960).
Orkneyinga Saga, trans. H. Palsson and P. Edwards, Hogarth (London, 1978).
The War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill, J. H. Todd, trans and ed., Longman (London, 1867).
Secondary works:
T. M. Charles-Edwards, Irish warfare before 1100, in A Military History of Ireland ed. T. Bartlett and K. Jeffery, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1996) 26-52.
Sean Duffy, Ireland in the Middle Ages, Gill and Macmillan (Dublin, 1997).F. Engels, History of Ireland in Marx-Engels, Ireland and the Irish Question, Lawrence and Wishart (London, 1978) 263-283.
Eoin MacNeill, Phases of Irish History, M. H. Gill and Son (Dublin, 1920).
G. Jones, A history of the Vikings, Oxford University Press (Oxford, 1984).
Donncha O Corrain, Ireland before the Normans, Gill and Macmillan (Dublin, 1972).John Ryan, The battle of Clontarf, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquities of Ireland, 68, (1938).
P. H. Sawyer, The age of the Vikings, Edward Arnold Ltd. (London, 1971).
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Steve Fritz has been a student, basketball player, coach and administrator at St. Thomas for more than half a century and has up-close experience of the rivalry with St. John's.
"You knew during warmups they were going to start, they were going to roll up the baskets, take the balls," Fritz said. "Those were fun things. There's always been little things that are part of the rivalry and part of the charm of the whole game."
Not that there is genuine hatred between the two Catholic-based institutions.
"I don't think down deep. I have very good friends up there, but they know we want to win every time out, and they do, too. … There's a dislike in losing," he said.
That was always evident when the Tommies and Johnnies squared off on the football field. More people would flock to this game than any other on the schedule, but nowhere near what's happened in recent years with both schools running out nationally ranked teams.
Record-setting crowds at Clemens Stadium in Collegeville and gatherings twice the capacity of O'Shaughnessy Stadium in St. Paul have drawn national attention.
"Even though it was a great rivalry, and good teams, that you could ever imagine this would happen."
This being the first-ever football game at Target Field, which the Twins were itching to stage. The schedules finally aligned, and the game was set. Fritz and just about everyone else knew they'd sell a lot of seats, but they didn't think it would be this many
"When we got into this, I think we were hoping maybe we'd get 20,000," said Fritz, who noted that breaking the national attendance record for a Division III football game wasn't the intent.
Ticket sales are past the 34,000 mark less than two days before the game. That's nearly twice the crowd that's currently believed to be the D-III record.
"Can you imagine that? It should be such a great experience for the kids involved and everybody else, too."
St. John's already has said it won't give up a home football game at Clemens Stadium in Collegeville, site of some of the largest D-III crowds ever, most of them with St. Thomas on the other side of field.
"We'll review a lot of things after this is over," said Fritz. "The reality is, this has become a big event, and we are landlocked."
He's talking about O'Shaughnessy Stadium and the St. Thomas campus, tucked into its St. Paul neighborhood. The stadium, built in the 1940s, seats somewhere around 5,000, with portable bleachers brought in when the Johnnies comes to town. That more than doubles the capacity and strains the tight quarters of the stadium and campus.
"I don't know what our upper limit is," said Fritz. "If you have a regular basis where you have bigger numbers, we probably, maybe have to look at some other opportunities off-campus, too."
That could mean the new soccer stadium in St. Paul, or the Vikings' practice facility in Eagan. All that will have to wait until after Saturday's Target Field date, one of Minnesota's most anticipated football games in recent memory.


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Around Acryn and its outlying towns, retainers of Lady Esmeralda Graves, widely considered the most wealthy dowager in the city, have been placing the following notice.
'Missing: one small margushian water spaniel.
Answers to the name of Poopsie-kins.
Large reward offered for return. Volunteers of the utmost arcane and martial puissance required.
Expenses will be paid. No riffraff.'
Meanwhile, the observant in the city will have noticed groups of mages from the colleges making the rounds of the sigil inscribed obelisks that stand on the city's walls. The very observant will notice the occasional worried look on their faces.
The party are hired to extricate a small dog from a tree but events take a turn for the dramatic when the sky erupts into flames and series of arcane calamities slam into the city. Acryn's arcane defences hold firm until the last spell shatters them and a Magisterium sky fortress descends from the clouds in an attack of the College of the Stars.
Rushing to the college's aid the party find a Magisterium raid have stolen an ancient artefact from the vaults beneath the college, a mysterious brass cylinder that Harlon identifies as of Primal origin. After some strong words with Captain Hopkins the party give chase to the Magisterium, tracking them high into the Bluepeaks.
There they find an ancient necropolis, built in ancient in times in which a long dead priest of a forgotten god demands of the party their solemn oath that they will prevent any threat to what lies below and ensure nothing leaves the place they find. They make the oath upon their very bones, so there is some consternation when the rest of the party realise Harlon has snuck past unseen.
Deeper still the party delve and find that the ancient burial grounds conceal a greater mystery: the ancient primal city of Chuull. A vast city of brass within which are contained ancient wonders of the Primals and the civilisation built by the first of their descendants. More worrisome however is the army of Dragonborn that stand motionless in the city's streets, frozen in mid-combat. At the heart of the city stands a great machine, an engine within which burns green fire and which seems to be keeping the Dragonborn frozen.
The party meet the guardian of the city, a construct which calls itself the Living Flame and which leads them to respite within an ancient palace. There they find an ancient Dragonborn that calls itself Bhramavastra the Betrayer, unlike its fellows its conscious and claims to have been captured by the Primals before its kind invaded the city. It offers to help the party if they make it three promises, which seem to be keys to the mystic chains that contain it within the palace. Rowan, without consulting the rest of the party, makes the promises and frees the being in return for dark knowledge. Before it leaves it tells the party how to forge a second brass cylinder to allow them access to the heart of the engine.
The party move toward the engine and to their horror find the ancient Dragonborn army awakening as the engine screams. There is no doubt this is the work of the Magisterium. In the fight Rowan is slain, but his soul is captured by Gidner and bound to his bones by Harlon, suspending him between life and death.
Reaching the engine, the party make their way within and find the strange energies that empower it to be souls of nine Primals who sacrificed their lives to save the city and their children from the Dragonborn army, suspending the invaders forever within a dream. However, now the Magisterium, who the Primals claim are agents of an ancient foe, are attempting to destroy the engine and awaken the army.
Into the dream the party go, and there confront the Mistress of the spire of flesh, one of the arch-mages who rules the Magisterium, stopping the arcane ritual that threatens the engine. However, the day is not yet won and as the party leave the dream the Primals call to them, for the enemy of old comes and they need time to gather their strength to defend the city. As they speak the air fractures and the six-armed form of the Demiurge emerges from the rift, with hundreds of the Magisterium sentinels pouring after it. Strangely cowering behind it are men women and children, bowing in abeyance and each bearing the golden mark of the the Magisterium.
The party fight off the army, as Harlon leaps through the portal in an attempt to reach the throne of mana he spots beyond, and for a moment he sits upon it and is empowered as never before, but it is fleeting as the Demiurge causes the throne to dissolve into a vast cyclone of mana crystals. As Harlon battles the ancient sorcerer within the vortex, Jarred lays into it with his sword. To their horror they see that every blow that lands upon the creature is transferred to the cowering supplicants and as their attempts to strike it down fail it mocks them. It is then somewhat taken aback when Harlon teleports it and himself to his tower, while at same moment the Primals gather their power and convey the city and the party away.
As the Primals thank the party and offer to bestow a boon on each Rowan alone asks to go to Harlon's aid. He finds himself high atop Harlon's tower with the Demiurge and Harlon locked in an arcane standoff: an ancient Sorcerer of dark and terrible power and the greatest archmage of Acryn laying waste to the summit of Harlon's tower. Fighting his way through the maelstrom of fire and inky energy unleashed as the two Dragonborn attempt to annihilate each other with calamitous symbols of power Rowan drives Jarred's soul sword into the golden disc that floats behind the demiurge breaking the deadlock. The titanic explosion blasts the creature back and Harlon, out of mana, kicks the being off the tower. As it plummets it opens a portal to elsewhere, but Rowan lashes out with an arcane wound and with a scream the Dragonborn loses its concentration closing the portal before the last of its arms passes through, severing it.
Back in the brass city Jarred and Gidner are thanked by the Primals who, in return for their aid, heal the wounds in Gidner's soul and teach Jarred the secret of their strange constructs. Gidner spends some time studying the great engine and determines that he might be able to free the primal souls within from their toil if he could replace it with the power of the Dreaming Ocean, but it would require a focus linked powerfully to the ocean to do so.
The pair leave to find the entire city has relocated to the south to a small island in the eastern ocean. As they leave they find their memories of its location fading, though with the understanding they could find their way back there if the need was great. They are picked up by a passing ship and pass by Thys, which appears to be overrun with Serradic forces.
In Harlon's tower, Rowan and Harlon recuperate. One night, Harlon is disturbed in his meditations by the sound of movement and finds that Rowan's bones have torn themselves free of their fleshy covering and are trying to escape the tower. It's not clear what they are trying to do and in the morning they return to their skin-prison. Rowan has no memory of the event…that can't be good.
For whatever reason -normally Wizards- your soul's connection to your body is no longer dependent on your body actually being alive, this eliminates the need for things like breathing, sleeping and eating. You can be reduced to 0 hits as normal and will fall over, but will not bleed out and will regenerate 1 hit at the end of the encounter. You can be executed as normal (this representing the the destruction of your body to the point where it is simply no longer functional, leaving your soul tied to a lump of useless flesh…a horrible fate). On the down side, being no longer alive, your flesh will begin to rot unless you take steps to prevent it doing so and normal people will not respond well to you.
DOMINATE - the target must obey the command you give them directly after using this call. It must be short and must have a definite success criteria (i.e. 'walk in a circle' will work, not 'walk in circles'), and must not be directly suicidal (i.e. Telling them to kneel down before you is fine, telling them to cut their own throat or not defend themselves is not). They must attempt to complete this task to the best of their ability until they succeed or until 30 seconds have passed, at which point the effect ends. If you attempt to call damage at them the effect also ends.
ENRAGE - the target must attack the nearest thing to them until they take damage.
With 10 seconds of concentration you reach inside yourself and excise one of your own emotions hurling it out into surrounding area like an infectious miasma. Every sentient being in the encounter begins to feel that emotion with incredible intensity. Conversely, you cease to feel that emotion for the rest of adventure (meaning you can only use this spell once per emotion per adventure).
This never has an effect in combat when the need to survive dampens emotions but out of combat may affect the way people behave, though the spell is not precise enough to predict how the effect manifests, or to dictate who or what the emotion is directed at(ie its a roleplay effect). Only once the effect ends at the end of the encounter will its victims become aware that they were subject to some sort of unnatural effect.
With a moments concentration you may take a fraction of your hatred for the victim of this spell and hurl it into their mind. This allows you call ENRAGE (they will attack the nearest person to them until they take damage) on them. Having given up some of your hatred for them you count as WEAKENED if you chose to attack them after this.
You focus your will and utter a single irresistible command to a victim allowing you to call DOMINATE at them. Doing so takes a heavy toll on your own strength of will however and every time you use this spell FEAR and REND calls affect you for 2 seconds longer for the rest of the adventure, you can reset this penalty by not using this spell for an entire encounter.
Once per adventure you may, with 60 seconds of uninterrupted concentration, transfer your mind into a vessel capable of holding a consciousness. If that vessel already has a consciousness within the spell will fail (I.e. transferring your mind into a dead body is fine but doing so into someone still bleeding out is not possible) but if not, your own mind leaps into the new vessel permanently, leaving your old body a mindless husk. Your physical abilities may be altered by your new form but GMs should always balance any with benefit with some downside, so that the overall effect is positive but with drawbacks.


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"It's 3am."
Solitude is an old friend, one who likes to open the doors in the hallways of my mind. Some doors lead to the past while others are no more than an empty canvas awaiting the strokes of a brush.
One or two lead nowhere. In fact, they are mirrors upon which I see today. This moment. Right now. 3am.
"Aren't you afraid?"
Jack Canfield once wrote: Everything you want is on the other side of fear. Fear evokes one of two responses. Fight or flight.
Too often I consider fleeing like one of my characters did. She drowned her fears in a bottle of vodka, and some grapefruit juice while she rode her personal roller coaster of a life. What I learned from her is what keeps me strong. At least, I'd like to think so.
"More than you know," I replied though I might have missed exactly what they thought I should fear.
"It's only four months at most. They'll be back and start over."
Sometimes the temptation to flee is too great and it keeps us from reaching our goals, whatever they may be. "I'm just really going to miss them."
"Yeah," they said, their expression guarded except for the ephemeral torn look in their eyes.
"Life is like one those mystery workouts in an elliptical. Just when your muscles stop burning and your breathing slowly becomes normal wheezing, the infernal machine raises the track and suddenly you're pushing, bearing down with everything you have to reach your goal."
They smiled. "So life is a work out?"
"Each time I feel I'm one step closer to getting us out of this, the slope becomes ridiculously steep. So much so that the light at the end of the tunnel is obscured."
"So you're afraid."
Fight or flight.
How easy would it be to let it all go? How easy would it be to shut down every link, delete every blog, forget all about getting a story out of my head and into a page?
"A choice you'll have to make."
"I will."
My once ideal sandcastle of a life succumbed to the tides of poor decisions. I built walls too close to the water, ignored its whims, and lamented my stupidity when only a perfectly flat surface without a trace of what once was showed me that zero is in fact a very real number.
Fight of flight.
I've rolled the boulders for the foundation of a new home away from the shores and up to the high ground. It's a painstakingly slow process I'm ill prepared to do at 38. I have three people (and a big-hearted dog) who depend on me, who have bravely hung their hopes on this dreamer, this slave to the muses in his mind. Despite the fact my ship is poorly moored with gossamer lines as storms approach, they see me as a lighthouse daring the waters to extinguish its light.
I wonder whether they know fear is my first thought each morning and the last, and most consuming one, each and every night.
Fight of flight, right?
Today, or rather yesterday, I took a step in an unexpected direction by returning to New England. Like the beginning of every human endeavor, only time will reveal a genius or a fool. Until then, I have to keep in mind that even the darkest of nights meets an end at dawn, and no rain falls forever. A second step has already followed.
Let fear and time know they've been served notice and the choice has already been made.
When I took that second step, I chose to fight.
Javier A. Robayo


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Below is the daily Bible reading I am doing for West Side Church of Christ. Feel free to follow along.
I personally do not claim to understand everything Jesus talks about in Scripture. Today's reading (Matthew 24) is one of those sections. Jesus describes what the end days will be like. For some these days look desperate. Jesus says that wickedness will increase, many will turn away from faith, love will grow cold, it will be dreadful for pregnant women and nursing mothers, nation will rise against nation, famines and earthquakes will take place, people will continue to marry and have children even as the flood waters come, and the list goes on and on. Jesus does not paint a happy picture.
Now some say we are living in that day. I do not know if I can agree or argue with that. I am not an eschatological (end times study) expert. But the picture Jesus paints at the end of this passage does provide comfort.
"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns."
Friends, the end is going to come sometime. What side do you want to be on when it happens? Jesus says it is good for the servant to be doing what is asked of him when that time comes. He also says that those who aren't will be thrown where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. We can stand confident that when the unknown hour approaches…when those dark days arise…that if we are in Christ, we will be on the side of hope, peace, and salvation.


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