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Plain olive with uneven white eyering and white wingbars. Males have red crown patch, but it's often hidden. Breeds in tall, dense conifer forests. Found in shrubby habitats, deciduous forests, parks, and suburbs during migration and winter. Gives off an energetic vibe as it moves extremely quickly and flicks its wings. Similar in plumage to Hutton's Vireo, but note tiny bill.
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PERTH, Australia - Australia will host two U.S. space surveillance systems as part of closer military ties agreed to Wednesday at a bilateral security summit.
The new cooperation on space is one of a string of enhanced engagements agreed on at an annual summit attended by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and their Australian counterparts.
The two militaries have agreed that Australia will operate a U.S. Air Force C-band ground-based radar system near the northwestern town of Exmouth.
Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith announced they also plan to relocate a Space Surveillance Telescope from New Mexico to an as-yet undecided location in Western Australia.
Panetta described the relocation as "a major leap forward in bilateral space cooperation."
Together the radar and telescope will provide accurate tracking and identification of objects in space such as satellites and debris. The radar will be delivered in 2014 at the site of a former U.S. Navy communications base.

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A newspaper in Pakistan this week disclosed the leaked details of a secret agreement between the Pakistani government and certain tribes that allows Al Qaeda-linked militants to remain in North Waziristan, a strategically important region that borders Afghanistan. The move is the latest in a series of negotiations that Western officials worry will strengthen militants.
The agreement, between the government and leading Waziristan tribes, is the first known to directly address the issue of Al Qaeda. The document was signed in February and the Pakistani English-language Daily Times divulged the specifics on Sunday.
In a copy of the agreement made available to Daily Times, Al Qaeda-linked militants have been allowed to live in North Waziristan as long as they pledge to remain peaceful. However, a basic demand of the accord is that all foreigners leave the area. The agreement, inked between the government and the Utmanzai tribes on February 17 to fight Taliban-linked militancy through support from the local population, states that no parallel government of suspected Taliban militants would be tolerated. The Utmanzai tribes have also agreed that there would be no attacks on security personnel or government employees and no target killings would be initiated.
The Long War Journal, a website that covers the "Global War on Terror," reports that the central government, for its part, will withdraw the Army, turn over security to local paramilitaries, and release imprisoned Taliban leaders and fighters.
The news belies the wishes of American officials. The Washington Post reported today that:
Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the al-Qaeda threat from Pakistan represents a "huge challenge" for the United States, but said Pakistan has been lacking in its execution of a strategy to eradicate the safe havens for terrorists and insurgents in the lawless region known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Mullen called on Pakistani authorities to enforce any deals they strike with tribal leaders in the FATA and to require not only the expulsion of al-Qaeda but also a halt to the flow of insurgents across the border into Afghanistan. However, Mullen predicted slow progress, citing Pakistan's complex tribal allegiances and sensitivities over sovereignty that have limited US military involvement in the region.
The report goes on to quote the new Pakistani ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, who says that any agreements reached between militants and the Pakistani government will insist that extremists not give haven to guerrilla fighters who would launch attacks on any of Pakistan's allies, including Afghanistan or the United States. However, the leaked agreement in North Waziristan does not appear to make this demand.
Regardless of such peace deals, the US is continuing to pressure Pakistani militants. Reuters reports that a pilotless US drone may have fired a missile into Pakistan on Tuesday, the fifth time the Americans have attacked targets inside Pakistan this year.
"There was an attack by a spy plane close to the Afghan border but we don't have information about casualties or damage," said the government official based in the region. He declined to be identified.
Neither U.S. nor Pakistani authorities usually confirm U.S. missile attacks on Pakistani territory, which would be an infringement of Pakistani sovereignty.
Wednesday, a US airstrike killed 11 Pakistani soldiers near the Afghan border, the sixth time Americans have attacked targets inside Pakistan this year and
the first such attack on Pakistani troops
Agence France-Presse
An Army statement quoting a spokesman said a paramilitary checkpost at Gora Prai in the Mohmand tribal agency was "destroyed by coalition forces in Afghanistan through aerial attack," killing 11 troops including an officer.
"The spokesman condemned this completely unprovoked and cowardly act on the FC (Frontier Corps) post and regretted the loss of precious lives of our soldiers," the statement said.
"He blamed the coalition forces for violent act and said that the incident had hit at the very basis of cooperation and sacrifice with which Pakistani soldiers are supporting the coalition in the war against terror," it said.
Pakistan had lodged a strong protest with the coalition, it said.
On Tuesday, the Indian daily the Economic Times, citing a new book by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, wrote that the US Central Intelligence Agency established a secret base in northern Pakistan in order to carry out drone strikes.
"On Jan 9, 2008, Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, and Gen. Michael Hayden, director of CIA, visited Islamabad where they discussed a plan to make operational a secret CIA base that could mount attacks on militants by drones armed with missiles," Rashid says in his book "Descent into Chaos."
The base was located in the restive Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a region considered a safe haven for Taliban and Al Quaeda cadres, The News [a Pakistan paper] Tuesday reported, quoting from the book.
Washington officials say that such measures are necessary because peace deals are ineffective. The Daily Times reports that
[S]uspected Taliban militants continue to blow up CD shops in Miranshah and target killings have continued despite the February 17 peace deal.
The interior adviser to the Prime Minister Rahman Malik said on Monday that the government has "scrapped" a recent peace deal with Taliban militants in the Swat valley area of the North West Frontier Province because of continued violence, according to Xinhua, China's official news agency. Pakistani authorities later denied that the peace agreements have been abandoned.
Moreover, a report this week by the RAND Corp., a US-based think tank, says that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate and Frontier Corps, which are to police North Waziristan according to the provisions of the agreement, "have failed to root out Afghan insurgent groups based in Pakistan, and, in some cases, individuals from these Pakistani organizations have provided direct assistance to such groups as the Taliban."


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Project by Lucrecia Bakir, Ana Luz Dardik, Chiara Gibertoni, Inés Lobos, Andrea Real & Florencia Romaniello
Starting with the patterns from the Burda magazine to tailor clothes, two parts of a single garment were selected and intersected three-dimensionally, e.g., torso and sleeve. The model in real scale was oversized and inflated with a turbine to create a space that the members of the team could occupy. Three aspects the project addresses were: connection of the parts, connection to the ground and materiality.
Close clothespins
Close circumference line IMaterial:
50 MC Nylon crystal (3 cm. wide)
Waste bag (1 cm. by 6 cm.)
Cubic meters of air: 30 m3
Square meters of membrane: 50 m2
Membrane grams: 30 gr. per 1 m2
Total: 1,500 gr
Turbine rent: $100 per day
Waste bag: $75 (100 bags)
New proposal:
The idea is to generate a new space in which the relationship between interior and exterior is maintained, and where the intersections of the sleeves and torso generate a path that can address the columns found in the selected space.


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I am trying to install PrestaShop 126.96.36.199, and reach Step 3.
I enter database information, which tests okay, and I choose the second option: Full mode: includes 100+ additional modules and demo products (FREE too!).
I choose Next, and receive the error:
Error while inserting data in the database:
'CREATE TABLE `shop_county_zip_code` ( `id_county` INT NOT NULL , `from_zip_code` INT NOT NULL , `to_zip_code` INT NOT NULL , PRIMARY KEY ( `id_county` , `from_zip_code` , `to_zip_code` ) ) ENGINE='
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near \'\' at line 6(Error: : 1064)
This happens if I use either MyISAM, or InnoDB. Why is this happening?
This also happens if I drop all database tables, and try again in simple mode.
Is there a manual installation method?


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A list of Muppet sons who have fathers and mothers, both on screen and in books. In the case of long-running characters, the source listed is the character's first appearance.
Artie Springer
- Terri Springer, mother -- Dog City
Baby Bear
Bean Bunny
Cookie Monster
The Count
Donnie Dodo
Dr. Phil van Neuter
- Zelda Rose, mother --Muppets Tonight Episode 208
Emmet Otter
Fozzie Bear
- Emily Bear, mother -- The Muppet Show episode 216
Herry Monster
- Herry's Mother -- Sesame Street, "Herry's Family Song", Season 17
- Herry's Father -- Sesame Street, "Herry's Family Song", Season 17
Johnny Fiama
Junior Gorg
Kermit the Frog
Moosey Mouse
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Oscar the Grouch
- Oscar's Mom -- Sesame Street episodes, Sesame Street Stays Up Late
Roosevelt Franklin
Rowlf the Dog
- Tilly, mother -- The Mike Douglas Show
Timmy Twiddlebug
- Thomas Twiddlebug, father -- Sesame Street
- Tessie Twiddlebug, mother -- Sesame Street
Wrench Doozer
See also
- Muppet relatives for a complete listing of Muppet families
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NEC works out how to triple USB 3.0 speed
16Gb/s data transfers, anyone?
Think SuperSpeed USB 3.0's 4.8Gb/s data transfer speed is lightning fast? You're wrong, says NEC.
Today it said it had successfully demo'd a serial bus that it believes can hit 16Gb/s.
Like USB 3.0, NEC's technology sends data as a stream of binary 1s and 0s. NEC actually demonstrated a chip capable of maintain such a data rate, rather than a new bus per se, but it shows there's room for the likes of SuperSpeed - or its successor - to deliver even higher data-transfer speeds.
At high throughput rates, signals become distorted, especially over long cable lengths. Bus interface chips use 'adaptive equalisation' to correct the distortion, and they do this by splitting the signal into two and feeding one back onto the input signal. The snag: the higher the frequency, the quicker the chip has to perform the feedback operation to successfully reduce the distortion.
NEC said it gets around this problem by adding a delay tied to the data rate to the feedback waveform.
"This procedure greatly reduces the nearest-neighbor inter-bit interference in the signal waveform and thus successfully alleviates the issue of feedback-time constraint inherent in conventional equalisers," said NEC's boffins.
Suffice it to say, the physics is complicated, the maths more so, but it works.
All NEC needs do now, then, is wait for the bodies overseeing the specifications of standards like USB and PCI Express to license its technique and boost the bandwidth of their buses. ®
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Efforts to research and record your family history will in most cases be more successful if part of the story is already published in books. These books may include individual biographies, brief biographical sketches in history books on various communities, memoirs and family genealogy books.
During the 1800s and early 1900s, many volumes of community history were published, and most contained biographical sketches of individual citizens. Whether you find biosketchs about direct ancestors or about close relatives, you can find invaluable insights about your family members and their lives. Remember, though, that published works can have errors, just a census records and other sources do.
One example of the biographical narrative published as part of a community history is the story of Isaac Sharp and his wife Mary (Woolverton) Sharp of McNarlins Run, Waynesburgh, Greene County, Pennsylvania. The biosketch offers a look at Isaac and Mary's lives as well as their many children.
Unfortunately, it gives incorrect information about some of the daughters' spouses. In particular, daughter Rebecca married David Conger, not Ephriam Corwin. See the clarification, based on Conger genealogy records and family letters.
Still, to learn that Isaac's parents were Scotch-Irish, and that Isaac's own career was as a teacher and surveyor, adds immensely to the family story.
Another book that helped me, although with a different branch of the family, was I Was Born in America: The Memoirs of William George Bruce. William was the oldest brother of one of my great-grandfathers. Thus the sections of the book about his parents and about his and his siblings' childhoods in early day Milwaukee provide wonderful insights about my own ancestors.
To help me and others interested in this period of Milwaukee history, I created an index to this book of memoirs that mentions many well known people of Milwaukee in this era as well as family members. A fine genealogy Web site for Milwaukee — Links to the Past/Milwaukee — has posted that memoirs index online.
Fortunately, twelve chapters of his memoirs were published in the 1930s in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, from the Wisconsin Historical Society. And today, WHS has digitized its magazine back issues and put them online. Thus, I can reread his descriptions in Chapters I and II of growing up in the intensely German neighborhood just to the east of the Milwaukee River. Or view again the photograph of his parents, Augustus F. Bruce and Apollonia Becker Bruce, and read a bit of their story. All twelve chapters are listed on the William George Bruce Web page that I created.
You can use the WorldCat or world library catalogue to search for books about your family lines, and then you can use the free or low cost Interlibrary Loan Service to bring the volume to you for reading. Don't miss this great method for finding family for free.
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research ideas to help you find your family and ancestors for modest or no cost.


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At Dyersonline.com we offer a variety of transfer switches to fit your needs. Transfer switches allow you to automatically switch between your RV's onboard generator power and shore power provided by your campground. For maximum efficiency of your resources as well as ease of use; a transfer switch is essential.
Dyers online offers a wide variety of transfer switches to fit any application. We have units that range from as little as 20amps all the way up to 100 amps of current. We offer transfer switches from such well-known brands as ESCO, Parallax Power Supply, Progressive Dynamics, TRC and WFCO. There are several types of transfer switches.
The first is the basic transfer switch which simply monitors the power input and switches to a preset preferred power source when that power source is active. Otherwise the secondary power source will be used. These models provide the least expensive option for your transfer switch needs.
The next level of transfer switch is a transfer switch with surge protection. We offer several transfer switches from Surge Guard that offer surge protection. Based on the model these items can offer up to 3350 joules of surge protection. If you do not have another surge protection component in your power grid it is important to have a transfer switch with surge protection to ensure that all of the electronics in your RV are safe from any power surges generated from the campground power grid.
The final and most advanced transfer switch is the transfer switch with load shedding. This type of transfer switch allows you to supply two 20 amp power rails from one 20 amp power rail. This design is useful in reducing power costs, or when your campground power cannot supply more than 20 amps. Load shedding allows you to assign a less important virtual 20-amp rail that will automatically shut down when the other 20-amp rail is in use. This design can be used for less essential devices such as the water heater.
Lastly, we also offer a remote power monitor for the Surge Guard transfer switch. The remote power monitor allows you to see how much power is being supplied from the shore line as well as your RV's generator and to see if there are any issues with either power source.


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Technology is a wonderful thing, but it comes with a price: cybersecurity. Free Web browsers, social media sites and other digital services collect personal information like email addresses, phone numbers, place of employment, buying habits, mortgage data that is shared with advertisers. The availability of this information leaves us vulnerable to hackers. This white paper can help you learn more about what kind of personal data is typically collected, and how to secure your information online.
Global Knowledge instructor Mark Baugher discusses how to use System Center 2012 Configuration Manager to report on installed software on computers.
Experts agree that as long as there is data, there will be people trying to steal it. For every defense mechanism put in place, there is someone who will find a way to get around it. Constant vigilance, education of the workforce, and management support are all necessary to implement effective security policies. While a well-trained IT staff is key to protecting data, all employees must understand the importance of protecting company assets, including data.
Discover why healthcare organizations must take an immediate active role in securing their data. It is much more costly, monetarily as well as with regard to reputation, for an organization to react to a breach rather than plan for it.
Times are changing. Attacks are becoming much more sophisticated and hackers are exploiting human vulnerabilities to gain access to enterprise networks and private information. Employees and end users want to help protect your company's sensitive data, we just need to motivate them as to why they should care. By educating your employees on security best practices and current human vulnerabilities, you can take a step forward to ensuring you're not a part of the many organizations that are breached.


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Indias weather is extremely varied, something you must take into account when thinking about the best time to travel. The most influential feature of the Subcontinents climate is the wet season, or monsoon. This breaks on the Keralan coast at the end of May, working its way northeast across the country over the following month and a half. While it lasts, regular and prolonged downpours are interspersed with bursts of hot sunshine, and the pervasive humidity can be intense. At the height of the monsoon especially in the jungle regions of the northwest and the low-lying delta lands of Bengal flooding can severely disrupt communications, causing widespread destruction. In the Himalayan foothills, landslides are common, and entire valley systems can be cut off for weeks.
By September, the monsoon has largely receded from the north, but it takes another couple of months before the clouds disappear altogether from the far south. The east coast of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, and the south of Kerala, get a second drenching between October and December, when the northwest or retreating monsoon sweeps in from the Bay of Bengal. By December, however, most of the Subcontinent enjoys clear skies and relatively cool temperatures.
Mid-winter sees the most marked contrasts between the climates of north and south India. While Delhi, for example, may be ravaged by chill winds blowing off the snowfields of the Himalayas, the Tamil plains and coastal Kerala, more than 1000km south, still stew under fierce post-monsoon sunshine. As spring gathers pace, the centre of the Subcontinent starts to heat up again, and by late March thermometers nudge 33°C across most of the Gangetic Plains and Deccan plateau. Temperatures peak in May and early June, when anyone who can retreats to the hill stations. Above the baking Subcontinental land mass, hot air builds up and sucks in humidity from the southwest, causing the onset of the monsoon in late June, and bringing relief to millions of overheated Indians.
The best time to visit most of the country, therefore, is during the cool, dry season, between November and March. Delhi, Agra, Varanasi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are ideal at this time, and temperatures in Goa and central India remain comfortable. The heat of the south is never less than intense but it becomes stifling in May and June, so aim to be in Tamil Nadu and Kerala between January and March. From this time onwards, the Himalayas grow more accessible, and the trekking season reaches its peak in August and September while the rest of the Subcontinent is being soaked by the rains.
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Tonight's episode of MTV's The Ruins ended with a fight, a breakdown, and ultimately Tonya having to leave the show.
The episode began with the two douchebags known as Evan and Kenny being outright awful to a drunk Tonya. Once they get bored with Tonya, they decided to move on to Katie for whatever reason. Evan, Kenny and Johnny have become extremely annoying, mean and evil on these challenges. Quite frankly, I'm tired of seeing them on TV. Not sure why MTV keeps bringing them back every year.
The challenges have become rather boring and predictable. The same people come back every year, bully everyone, and win year after year. Here's to hoping these three will not be back on the next challenge.
So we get back to Tonya who admits she has a drinking problem, as well as other real life problems which includes a recent divorce. It's obvious to see she's a broken person who needs help, and not constant abuse/berating from the 3 douchebags. Tonya once again gets drunk, and decides to take her anger out on Veronica. She ends up hitting Veronica and going home. Evan decides to play hero and comfort Tonya, perhaps to make himself look better on TV.
Wes ends up being the voice of reason, and calls them out. After all, they did play a big role in Tonya's breakdown on the show. For some reason, Derrick tries to shut Wes down for speaking the truth. Clearly, no one is willing to stand up to the bullies, with the exception of Wes. The episode ended with Sarah defeating Katie, and Darrell defeating Danny.
Overall, with the exception of tonight's episode, this season has been a bit of a bore to me. It seems like a rerun of previous seasons. The same douchebags, the same bullies, and the same victims. And quite frankly, I can't stand to watch the Kenny/Evan/Johnny douche posse anymore. MTV needs a new formula.
The Myspace Pages of The Ruins cast members is below.
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Thinksound's Rain and slightly bassier Thunder earphones are made out of wood. That's their thing, but it's not the best thing about them. The best thing about them is that they're damn nice earbuds, for a reasonable price.
The Price Though their MSRPs are significantly higher, at $US100 and $US75, respectively, you can find the Rains for $US60 on Amazon, and the Thunders for about $US45.
The Difference To be honest, the only apparent difference between these two earbuds, aside from their slightly different shapes, is sound balance: The Rains are tuned for all-around listening, and the Thunders for heavier bass.
The first thing you'll notice about the Thinksounds is that, yes, they are made out of wood, and yes, that makes them beautiful. There's nothing about the design or shape that's particularly striking - if these were moulded from shiny plastic, they could even look tacky - but the finish, either in Black Chocolate or Red Cherry stain, looks and feels great. A headphone body is one of the only reasonable applications for wood in the gadget world, and to both your eyes and your fingers, the Thinksound are a treat. But who cares what they think; what about your ear holes?
Not knowing that they used to be made from the living flesh of a tree, the Rains have a rich sound, if not a spectacular one. The low end is healthy to the point that I'd hesitate to recommend the even bassier Thunders, and the midrange is well represented and clear even at high volumes. The highest notes, which are crucial to conveying strong presence in music, can sound a bit soft at times, but unless you've just been listing to a set of high-end Eymotics, you're not likely to notice. Which brings me to the core issue here: wood. How about that wood!
The Wood I could hazard a guess that wood is the reason the Thinksounds' sound soft at the high end, or that all the way down the equaliser, they sound warm, a favourite, and largely meaningless, word among audiophiles. I can credit wood with the near-total lack of cable noise (when the cord is jostled), and blame it for the earphones' sound isolation, which is only OK. I can posit that funnelling sound from the 9mm (and in the case of the Thunder, 10mm) drivers through wood instead of plastic would cause sound to reverberate differently. I could buy into Thinksound's claims that building headphones out of renewable natural materials is better for the environment than building them out of something else.
But since I can't actually test a plastic or metal version of the Rain or Thunder, and since I have absolutely no background in ecology or material science, I won't. I'll just say that, for the price, the Thinksound Rains hold their own against any other earphone, up to an including the , and that for any price, you're not going to find a set of earphones more attractive, or immediately distinctive.
So: should you wood? Sure you should. [Thinksound]
They're even prettier in real life than they look above
Balanced, clean, powerful sound, especially for the (street) price.
They're good for the environment, despite the fact that they're explicitly made from something that used to be alive, and now isn't. This is a plus if you want it to be, and causes no compromise.
The Thunders are a bit too bassy, so unless you like your music thumpier than most, stick with the slightly more expensive Rains.


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We just put live a new exciting feature on BBC Programmes: programme aggregations powered by DBpedia. For example, you can look at:
- Programmes about adolescence
- Programmes about California
- Programmes about personal computers
- Programmes about collectables
- Programmes about Winnie Mandela
Of course, the RDF representations are linked up to DBpedia. Try loading adolescence in the Tabulator, for example - you will get an immediate mashup of BBC data, DBpedia data, and Freebase data. Or if you're not afraid of getting overloaded with data, try the California one.
One of the most interesting things about using web identifiers as tags for our programmes (apart from being able to automatically generate those aggregation pages, of course), is that we can use ancillary information about those tags to create new sorts of aggregations, and new visualisations of our data. We could for example plot all our Radio 3 programmes on a map, depending on the geolocation of the people associated to these programmes. Or we could create an aggregation of BBC programmes featuring artists living in the cities with the highest rainfall (why not?). And, of course, this will be a fantastic new source of data for the MusicBore! The possibilities are basically endless, and we are very excited about it!


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The beauty of the butterfly is very hard to capture and maintain a very sharp focus. This collection represents many, many hours of photographing them. While they are only offered in a square formant and printed on metal, we can print and mat them in as a conventional photo graph. Contact us for information if desired.
Listed are the most popular sizes for printed and matted photos as well as those printed on metal. Photos printed on metal do not require framing; they are ready to be hung as is. Photos are available in custom sizes to fit your requirement… up to four feet by eight feet. Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.


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This morning I'm working on a proposal for a Client that plans to host a luncheon in the Shelter at Loose Park. I developed the following sketch to help express my vision for the decor...
Whenever I'm planning an event, whether it be a birthday party, cocktail event or wedding, I find it so helpful to create a sketch like this. Not only does it help my Client understand my vision, it helps to ensure that the other vendors I'm working with are all on the same page and headed towards the same goal!
Here is the proposed menu... on this cold winter day, it is so fun to think of fresh spring menus!
Sandwiches wrapped in Parchment Paper :
*Croissants filled with Dijon Chicken Salad
*Roast Beef, Cheddar & Horseradish Sandwiches
Chinese Containers Packed with :
*Tomato, Pesto & Fresh Mozzarella Pasta Salad
*Creamy Dill Fingerling Potato Salad
Bountiful Platters of :
*Crudites with Fresh Spring Herb Dip
*Berries & Melon
Cupcakes :
Lemon with Vanilla Buttercream
Chocolate with Raspberry Buttercream


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Song and sausage king Jimmy Dean dies at 81
Jimmy Dean, the man whose name adorns a line of sausage meats and whose country novelty songs were mainstays of 1960s AM radio, has died at his Richmond-area home at the age of 81, according to a New York Times obituary. In his later years, he conducted an effort to secure state-song designation for "Virginia," a song he wrote with his wife, Donna, who survives him. Virginia never did choose a state song. "When politics enters," Dean told the Hook in 2007, "out goes reality."
Following his February election, Dean has been slated for posthumous induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October. A day before his June 21 funeral and burial, there will be a public visitation from noon to 8pm at Nelsen Funeral Home.
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Anyone remember the variety show he had on ABC back in the 70s? Maybe not as good as the Johhnny Cash show, but was okay.
And don't forget his hit song "PT 109" about the wartime exploits of John F. Kennedy.
I also believe he had a country music TV show out of Washington DC in the 50s.
I think of him more in connection with country music than with sausage.
Sorry, The Jimmy Dean show was from the mid 60s, not the 70s.
Biiiiiiiig Jooooooohn
Could not beat his meat.
I love to slam his ham. Slam is slang for eating fast you sick minded people.
Well at least we still have George Foreman to kick around. I guess Big George took over the Ron Popiel (sic) shtick for useless kitchen gadgets.
For years I never knew who Jimmy Dean was and just assumed he was some anonymous meat handler who parlayed his name into a household word.
Maybe the time is ripe for the launch of "Angel Eyes Sausage".
As I understand it, his final wishes were that his remains be ground into sausage so that everyone could enjoy Jimmy Dean one final time.
Among his many pursuits, Jimmy Dean tried his hand at the thespian arts and enjoyed a memorable role as kidnapped tycoon Willard Whyte in the James Bond adventure Diamonds are Forever (1971) starring Sean Connery. Dean essentially plays himself in this amusing performance.
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|Almon, Merritt, Eleanor (Nellie) Lamkin
Photo taken shortly before Merritt's death
The day started out routinely enough until I found the photograph. Writing on the back identifies the family as "Almon & Nellie Lamkin, son-Merritt." Who are these people? My husband knew and shared the following story:
Almon (b: 1873) and Eleanor (Nellie) (b: 1876) Lamkin lived in the house at the top of "Cutter Hill" on Shaffer Road, Newfield, NY, near my husband's family farm. In 1900 Almon and Nellie lived in Ithaca where Almon worked in a dry goods store. Their son Merritt was born that year. By 1910 the family lived in Newfield on a small farm.
|Almon, Nellie and Merritt Lamkin
abt 1910
Shaffer Road House, Newfield, NY
Courtesy, Diary of Minnie (Tompkins) Cutter
Enter the Cutter family: In the fall of 1939, shortly after their marriage, my husband's uncle and aunt, Paul and Minnie (Tompkins) Cutter moved into the Lamkin house to care for Almon, a widower, and to help farm the land. Paul and Minnie had a verbal understanding that when Almon passed away, the house and farm would become theirs.
When Almon died 8 January 1940, he left no will, nor anything written about the arrangement. Consequently, the only surviving relative, a nephew, Glenn Bellis of Rochester, was granted the letters of administration, and would not honor the verbal arrangement. The land was valued at $3,000. Paul and Minnie Cutter ended up purchasing the house and land using loans from family members and their local bank.
We then came upon this startling news about Merritt Lamkin:
"One Death, 5 Cases Paralysis; Merritt Lamkin of Newfield, 16, dies from Poliomyelitis – Four New Cases in Ithaca, One in Newfield, and One in Danby."
In September of 1916 the Ithaca area witnessed seven cases of infantile paralysis and those homes were quarantined: Catherine Fish, age 10; R. Goldsmith, 19, of NYC (Cornell University student); William Wray, age 6; and Campbell Chase, age 6.
Merritt Lamkin, age 16, Newfield died three days after onset of disease; Gertrude Nurmi, 2-1/2 years of Newfield has both legs partially paralyzed; Clifford Marion, age 3 of Slaterville Road has both legs and one arm paralyzed.
The Ithaca Board of Health decided the drastic measure of quarantine was necessary, and their limited knowledge of poliomyelitis was shared in the newspaper article. "It is not known just how the virus is transmitted from the infected to well individuals … there is no specific treatment known." From the article we imagined the panic as people grasped the enormity of the situation. Parents were told not to touch their children; dishes should be scalded, and scrupulous cleanliness should be maintained. Any children under the age of 16 entering Ithaca would be quarantined for two weeks.
Ithaca To Be Quarantined
City and Suburbs to be Put Under Strict Surveillance – Children less than 16 Barred – All Roads to be Policed
"Beginning at daylight tomorrow morning and continuing until further notice, the City of Ithaca and its immediate suburbs will be under strict quarantine to prevent the further spread of infantile paralysis. The quarantine will continue until further notice… Special officers will be on duty day and night at every highway entrance to the city and every railroad station. … Considering the proportion of population, the epidemic has become more widespread here than in New York City."
The Resolution
"Resolved, that all children under 16 years of age be prohibited from attending all public gatherings, including theaters, playgrounds, churches, schools and entertainments, until further notice. Any violation of this order is by state law a misdemeanor and punishable as such."[1]
Polio is an infectious viral disease that attacks the nerve cells, sometimes the central nervous system. In 1947 Jonas Salk started investigating the poliovirus. In 1953 he published his findings in The Journal of the American Medical Association and in April 1954 testing began with mass inoculation of school children.[2]
The question remains. How did this insidious disease spread, affecting young children in Ithaca, one Cornell student, as well as two children living miles from Ithaca and each other? Sounds like more research in my future.
[1] "Almon Lamkin," article, Ithaca Journal, 5 September 1916, p. 5, col. 3, [www.fultonhistory.com; 28 September 2013]
[2] A Science Odyssey, People and Discoveries; Salk produces polio vaccine 1952 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm52sa.html [Viewed 28 September 2013]


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Census Bureau employees flown in/brought to your area from another region?Thursday, May 20th, 2010
During address canvassing operations in Fall 2009, MyTwoCensus learned that individuals were flown from North Carolina to New York and from Georgia to Florida to assist with 2010 Census operations. In the midst of the recession, when unemployment was ridiculously high and people could be hired very easily in ANY part of the USA, the Census Bureau felt it necessary to pay the travel costs, hotel expenses, per diem, salaries, and food costs of workers who were not working where they lived. MyTwoCensus has received anonymous tips that this wasteful practice is still taking place. Please let us know in the comments section if you know where and when this has occurred. Thanks!


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Ariz. man found dead had rattlesnakes in backpack
July 23, 2013 at 07:27 AM
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities are awaiting results of an autopsy report on the death of a man found with a backpack containing two state-protected rattlesnakes.
The Cochise County Sheriff's Office says 57-year-old Daniel Genaro's body was found in rugged terrain near Parker Canyon Lake.
The Sierra Vista Herald (http://bit.ly/16Jco7Q ) reports that the two ridgenosed rattlesnakes in the backpack were dead when Genaro's body was found Saturday. The snake is the state reptile of Arizona.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Carol Capas says the office will wait for autopsy results before determining whether further investigation is needed.
Capas says Genaro's family had reported him missing Friday and that he had a history of medical issues.
Arizona Game and Fish Department spokesman Mark Hart says trade in the snakes is illegal but that there is some poaching.
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|KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Royals have agreed to terms with reliever Aaron Crow on a $1.475 million, one-year deal that leaves Greg Holland as their only unsigned arbitration-eligible player.
The deal includes a $50,000 bonus if Crow is an All-Star, which he was in 2011. Crow had asked for $1.7 million and the Royals offered the same $1.28 million he made last year.
Crow went 7-5 with a 3.38 ERA in 57 games last season. The former first-round pick is 14-10 with a 3.19 ERA in his three-year career.
Holland, coming off his first All-Star appearance, asked for $5.2 million and the Royals offered $4.1 million. He made $539,000 last year, when he was 2-1 with a 1.21 ERA and 47 saves. Arbitration hearings begin this weekend and run through Feb. 21.


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We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
–– Paul Dunbar
Some will argue that when lovers of literature reflect on the tapestry of words produced by famous scribes, the name Paul Laurence Dunbar is too infrequently mentioned.
Indeed, from time to time, many whose role is to pass on their knowledge and to keep history alive have had to remind the world of Dunbar's literary prowess. Perhaps, it might be due to his short earthly sojourn which lasted a mere 33 years.
Nevertheless, Dunbar has been described and is recognized as the first American poet to "handle Negro folk life with any degree of fullness".
Although Dunbar's life story begins and ends in Dayton, Ohio, the story of his literary work carries far beyond the confines of the city where he lived and died. As one of the first nationally known African-American writers, Dunbar's life reflects many of the larger historical trends of the country and the city in which he was raised.
Despite humble beginnings, Dunbar's short life produced a legacy of critically acclaimed literature that influenced writers of the Harlem Renaissance and continues to influence contemporary American literature into the 21st century.
Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio, on June 27, 1872. His parents Joshua Dunbar and Matilda Murphy Dunbar were married just six months earlier, on December 24, 1871. Both slaves prior to the Civil War, Joshua Dunbar escaped and eventually served in both the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Coloured Cavalry Regiment before eventually coming to Dayton. Matilda had been married previously and had had two sons from that relationship.
Following Paul's birth, relations between Joshua and Matilda were challenged by Joshua's difficulties in finding work and his growing alcoholism. Soon pregnant with Joshua's second child, Matilda eventually left her husband, taking her children and returning to live with her mother, where Matilda gave birth to a daughter, who died when she was two years old.
Matilda eventually divorced Joshua, who passed away in 1885 when Paul was 13 years old. Many of their experiences of slave and plantation life influenced Dunbar's later writings.
The relationship between Matilda and her son Paul was a strong one. Recognizing that Paul displayed an early talent with words, Matilda worked to ensure he received the best education possible.
His two older stepbrothers dropped out of school in order to find work and help support the family, but Matilda would not let the same thing happen to Paul. He attended the Tenth Street Elementary School in Dayton, and then continued his education by attending Central High School. At Central, he was the only African American in his class, of which Orville Wright was also a member.
During high school, Paul wrote and published poems in his school newspaper, eventually serving as editor, and was also an active member in the literary and debate societies. His poetry was also published in the local Dayton Herald, and Dunbar edited a new, but short-lived, African-American paper –– The Tattler –– which was printed by his classmate Wright.
Dunbar hoped his success in achieving a high school diploma and in publishing a number of his early poems would translate either into an opportunity to attend college or begin a career in journalism. He approached the Dayton Herald, which had published a number of his early works, but he was not able to secure employment on its staff.
In fact, Dunbar quickly discovered that job prospects for a well-educated young African American in Dayton were rather limited. Faced with decreasing funds, Dunbar eventually became an elevator operator in the Callahan Building, an office location in downtown Dayton.
He became known for his habit of reading and writing poetry in his free moments. During this time, Dunbar became acquainted with The Century and with the works of featured poets such as James Russell Lowell and James Whitcomb Riley. Dunbar's early poems, including A Banjo Song and The Ol' Tunes, reflect both the sentimentality and the colloquial patterns familiar to Riley's readers.
Based on the recommendation of one of his former teachers, Dunbar was invited to speak at the convention of the Western Association of Writers, which met in Dayton in 1892. Delivering a poetic address in what was noted as a resonant and beautiful voice, Dunbar impressed the audience so much that comments about his address were published in papers across the country, most notably in an article by poet James Newton Matthews.
The subsequent attention and interest in his work encouraged Dunbar to self-publish his first book of poetry –– Oak And Ivy in 1893. He sold the book for $1 to people riding in his elevator, eventually recovering his initial $125 investment.
Attending the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago later that year, Dunbar garnered the support of noted civil rights leader Frederick Douglass, who also provided Dunbar a job in the Haitian pavilion at the fair.
With support from Dr Henry Tobey, the distinguished superintendent of the Toledo (OH) State Hospital, Dunbar published his second work of poetry, Majors And Minors in 1896. Dr Tobey became Dunbar's greatest patron, offering emotional and financial support throughout his career, favours which Dunbar was eventually able to repay.
Dr Tobey also received an inscribed copy of every book Dunbar published. This second work marked the shift of Dunbar's acclaim from local to national in scope. The collection contained works in standard English (the Majors of the title) and in dialect (the Minor poems). It was these "minor" poems, however, which caught the interest of William Dean Howells, the editor of Harper's Weekly, who published a review of the book in the June 27, 1896 edition, coincidentally Dunbar's 24th birthday.
This particular issue of the magazine also featured a report on the nomination of William McKinley for the presidency, which markedly increased the circulation. Howells' lengthy review brought national attention, especially to Dunbar's poems of dialect, which Howells singled out for critical praise.
Poet James Whitcomb Riley wrote Dunbar to encourage him to continue writing. Dunbar's third book Lyrics Of Lowly Life combined the poems of his first two books and included a special introduction written by Howells. With new attention and ever-growing praise for his works, Dunbar began touring and delivering public readings around the United States. In 1897, Dunbar travelled to London to spend several months touring and reading in the English literary circles.
Upon his return to the United States, Dunbar worked briefly at the Library of Congress before leaving the position to continue his writing full-time. Serious health issues developed, however, as Dunbar suffered from several bouts of pneumonia. After a courtship of several years, mostly by letter, Dunbar eloped with Alice Ruth Moore, a fellow African-American literary figure successful in her own right, in March, 1898.
The following year Dunbar's health problems worsened, and he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Attempts to medicate with alcohol proved unsuccessful as a cure, and his subsequent alcoholism served to increase the troubled relationship between the Dunbars. Alice Moore Dunbar eventually left her husband in 1902, and although the couple never officially divorced, Alice refused any contact with Dunbar for the rest of his life. His health deteriorating, Dunbar returned home to Dayton and to his mother Matilda, spending the last three years of his life under her care.
Dunbar died on February 9, 1906, and was buried in nearby Woodland Cemetery.
During the final ten years of his life, Dunbar wrote prolifically, turning out poetry, short stories, novels, lyrics, and a variety of narrative works. Although only 33 when he died, his legacy, most notably his dialect poetry, influenced many writers of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Regarded as one of the leading African American writers of the 20th century, Dunbar and his work continue to fuel academic debates.
In recent years, new collections of his work have added more than 100 undiscovered or uncollected poetic and narrative works by Dunbar to the already large body of his writings. Taken in its entirety, Dunbar's extensive body of work provides a significant representation of African-American life at the turn of the 20th century.


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Friday, July 1, 2011
Byron Bay Writers Festival Giveaway
To celebrate our involvement in the festival, Inside History is giving away two 3 day [Friday-Saturday-Sunday] passes to the festival! Normally worth $215 each, they are free to one lucky Inside History follower and a friend.
All you need to do is TWEET this blog post and reference @insidehistory, or LIKE our page on Facebook, by 5pm (EST), Friday 8th July and you'll go into the draw, for the intelligent escape to Byron. Don't forget to tell your friends to like our page to increase your chances!
The festival had its beginnings in 1997, and has now grown to include a guest list of over one hundred writers in lectures, lunches, panels, launches and readings. The festival focuses on share though and the joy of writing, and aims to provide forum for discussion and the celebration of creativity. All in beautiful Byron Bay, on the New South Wales Far North Coast. A place special to us, as my husband grew up in the area, and his family were one of the first settlers there in the 1860s, near what is now Lennox Head.
The Byron Bay Writers' Festival is organised by the good people at the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre.
Follow the festival on twitter at @bbwritersfest and facebook at Byron Bay Writers Festival to get program, ticket and other updates or just because it looks nice!
Terms and conditions: Entrants need to tweet this blog post or like us on Facebook by 5pm (EST) Friday 8th July 2011, to go into the draw. For tweeps, remember to add @insidehistory so we can see your tweet! Prize does not include transport to the festival or accommodation while in Byron Bay. Entrants must be aged 18 and over. Prize is not redeemable for cash.
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Last day to enter! Comp closes at 5pm today - spread the word :)ReplyDelete
Spectacular blue watered beaches invite even the sun-shy to come out and explore Byron Bay. Naturally enough, there is an impressive range of luxury byron bay accommodation, including resorts, apartments and hotels. Just make sure you bring your swimming 'togs' so you don't miss out on a refreshing dip in the beautiful waters.ReplyDelete
I am sure that its gonna be a great event or festival that could result in more traffic towards Byron bay.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing such a nice blog with me, actually I found this while searching for Writer's Event in Byron Bay.ReplyDelete
All in beautiful Byron Bay, on the New South Wales Far North Coast. A place special to us all.ReplyDelete
Byron bay is very beautiful place for enjoy and fun.ReplyDelete


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Twilight Ascendant Council (sometimes just called "Twilight Ascendants") is a "council" boss encounter of Bastion of Twilight, a raid of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
Pre-encounter trashEdit
Before you enter the room of the Twilight Ascendants, the room will be full of elementals running all over the place. Dealing with them might be hard, the trick is to pull 2 mobs at the time; Fire + Water or Electricity + Arcane. Make sure the water adds are interrupted. Doing it this way the fire and water or electricity and arcane will make sure the shields disappear.
The ascendants include:
- Ice Feludius <Ascendant Lord>
- Fire Ignacious <Ascendant Lord>
- Air Arion <Ascendant Lord>
- Earth Terrastra <Ascendant Lord>
At phase 3 of fight, they combine into:
- [88+] Elementium Monstrosity
They are Twilight's Hammer members who have ascended and become elementals.
Abilities Edit
Phase One Edit
- Feludius
- [Heart of Ice]ω ϖ—An icy cold grips the target's heart, dealing increasing Frost damage every 2 sec (2,000/4,000/8,000 etc). Magic dispellable. If the target comes in contact with other allies, however, they are empowered with Frost energy. Frost Imbued players deal additional damage to Ignacious.
- [Hydro Lance]ω ϖ—Deals 45000 to 55000 Frost damage to a random target.
- [Water Bomb]ω ϖ—Inflicts 9750 to 10250 frost damage to enemies within 6 yards, applying the Waterlogged debuff.
- [Waterlogged]ω ϖ—Soaks an enemy with icy water, reducing movement speed by 25%. While soaked, enemies are susceptible to certain Frost-based attacks. Exposure to flame can remove this effect.
- [Glaciate]ω ϖ—Deals massive Frost damage to any nearby enemies, with damage decreasing with distance from the caster. Any enemies who are waterlogged will have the blood in their veins frozen.
- [Frozen Blood]ω ϖ—Freezes a waterlogged enemy solid, stunning and dealing 20000 Frost damage every 2 sec for 10 sec.
- Ignacious
- [Burning Blood]ω ϖ—Deals increasing Fire damage to an enemy every 2 sec (2,000/4,000/8,000 etc). Magic dispellable. Nearby allies are empowered with fire energy each tick however. Fire imbued players deal additional damage to Feludius.
- [Aegis of Flame]ω ϖ—Surrounds the caster with a radiant shield of flame, absorbing 1,000,000 damage and preventing spell interruption while active.
- [Flame Torrent]ω ϖ—Inflicts 36075 to 41925 Fire damage every 1 sec for 3 sec in a 18 yard cone in front of the caster.
- [Inferno Leap]ω ϖ—Leaps at an enemy, inflicting 23125 to 26875 Fire damage and knocking all nearby enemies away.
- [Inferno Rush]ω ϖ—Ignacious rushes back to his primary aggro target leaving a trail of flames. The flame trail will inflict 4625 to 5375 Fire damage every 0.5 sec and remove Waterlogged.
- [Rising Flames]ω ϖ—Cast immediately after Aegis of Flame. Deals increasing Fire damage to every player in the room over time until interrupted.
Phase Two Edit
- Arion
- [Call Winds]ω ϖ—Focuses and agitates the nearby air into a violent cyclone. Entering the Cyclone will cause 7,000 nature damage and give the player the swirling winds debuff which levitates the player into the air.
- [Lightning Rod]ω ϖ—Marks an enemy to attract electrical attacks. Arion will cast his Chain Lightning at this player.
- [Chain Lightning]ω ϖ—Fires a blast of lightning at enemies who have been attuned to attract electricity, dealing 9500 to 10500 Nature damage and bouncing to additional nearby targets.
- [Disperse]ω ϖ—The caster dissolves into swirling wind and materializes elsewhere in the room.
- [Lightning Blast]ω ϖ—Blasts an enemy with concentrated lightning, inflicting 72000 to 88000 Nature damage. Cast on Arion's tank immediately after Disperse.
- [Thundershock]ω ϖ—Deals 146250 to 153750 Nature damage to all nearby enemies. Less effective against grounded targets. More effective against airborne targets.
- Terrastra
- [Gravity Well]ω ϖ—Creates a Gravity Well that firmly connects nearby players to the earth, granting resistance to some powerful electrical attacks. Lasts 2 min or until another force lifts the target from the ground.
- [Gravity Core]ω ϖ—Applied on entering a Gravity Well. Crushes an enemy with intense gravitational force, inflicting 10000 Physical damage every 2sec for 10 sec. While the target is affected, the gravitational field periodically hinders the movement and actions of nearby allies.
- [Harden Skin]ω ϖ—The caster's skin hardens into solid rock, increasing Physical damage dealt by 100% and absorbing 50% of all damage taken, up to 650000. If the caster suffers enough damage, this barrier will shatter, grievously wounding the caster.
- [Eruption]ω ϖ—Fires a spike through the floor, impaling all targets within 4 yards, dealing 47125 to 52875 damage and knocking them up in the air. This attack ignores armor.
- [Quake]ω ϖ—Sends massive shockwaves through the earth, dealing 146250 to 153750 damage to all enemies who are in contact with the ground. More effective against (gravity well) grounded targets. (Note Priest levitate will NOT help you.)
Phase Three Edit
- Elementium Monstrosity
- [Lava Seed]ω ϖ—Showers the surrounding area with kernels of pure Flame energy, each of which erupts to deal 35000 to 45000 Fire damage to nearby enemies as Lava Plume
- [Liquid Ice]ω ϖ—The Monstrosity is preturnaturally cold, freezing the ground beneath it. The pools of ice will grow with continued exposure to the Monstrosity, dealing increasing Frost damage to enemies exposed to them. Essentially this ability is Defile from the Lich King but expands when the boss stands in it, rather than players.
- [Electric Instability]ω ϖ—Constant nature damage to random raid members, increasing in intensity the longer the Elementium Monstrosity is alive. Overloaded with raw lightning energy, the caster zaps nearby enemies for 5655 to 6345 Nature damage, chaining to nearby targets. Functions identically to Entropius' Negative Energy in Sunwell Plateau.
- [Gravity Crush]ω ϖ—Traps an enemy in a gravity bubble, lifting them off the ground and crushing them for 10% of their maximum health every 0.5 sec for 6 sec. When the effect ends, the target will be left to fall to the ground.
- Phase One
Engage the bosses with split teams of DPS. The DPS can be dedicated at first to bringing their specified bosses to low hp but at around 30% on either boss, switch and slow DPS to get them evenly to 25% or lower. When Ignacious casts Aegis of Flame, all DPS must switch to him and burn his shield down or the raid will take enormous AOE damage until wiped. Feludius casts a waterbomb technique that hits specified areas and give players the debuff Waterlogged. Waterlogged reduces your movement speed, but more importantly sets you up to be killed by Glaciate. If a player is hit by Glaciate and Waterlogged, they will trigger Frozen Blood and be a strain on the healers. When either boss reaches 25%, Phase Two begins.
- Phase Two
The rules of the first encounter still apply to these two bosses. Arion and Terrestra both cast a powerful spell that can be avoided but will kill anyone who doesn't handle the mechanics correctly. Cyclones and Gravity Wells will spawn across the room when engaging the bosses. As soon as the fight begins, wait for a Cyclone to be cast and run to it as soon as possible to gain the Levitate buff. Terrestra will always cast quake first and it will deal enormous damage to any players who aren't currently levitated by the cyclone buff. As soon as quake is cast, run to a nearby gravity well. Gravity Wells cause you to be grounded for when Arion casts Thundershock, the aerial version of Quake, striking anyone with the levitate buff. These bosses will never cast out of order and you have ample time to get the needed buff. Rinse and Repeat until one or both hit 25% health.
- Phase Three
The Elementium Monstrosity will have the combined HP of all four bosses in this phase. This is why lowering the HP of the prior encounters is extremely important. Save all major cooldowns for this phase as it is a DPS check. The boss will spawn over a pool of ice and must be kited out of it or it will expand similar to defile. Range dps must spread to avoid excess damage from Electric Instability. The boss will also cast Lava Seed that will drop all over the floor around the raid and must be avoided to save heals for Gravity Crush and tanks. Gravity Crush will do extreme damage to one raid member, heals must be focused on them for survival. Electric Instability will hit the whole raid and increase in damage over time, making this fight a DPS race from the second the phase starts. Manage to down the boss quickly before losing your raid and you'll have defeated the Twilight Ascendants.
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|Feludius, Ignacious, Arion and Terrastra
|Elementium Monstrosity
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EminenceGaming forums Eminence Gaming Twilight Ascendants tactics guide
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Skyforce Earn Split at Tulsa As Road Trip Ends
Earn is the operative word. In a stretch of five games over ten days since the start of January, the Skyforce had dropped the first four. The fifth was the best defensive effort for Sioux Falls in a long time and the reward was a 94-82 win over Tulsa at SpiritBank Event Center on Saturday snapping that four-game skid.
Early in the contest, Tulsa got a rhythm going with Reggie Williams leading the charge with 8 points in the first 12 minutes to take a 25-23 lead. From there the sledding got considerably tougher as both teams turned up the defensive intensity. There was a feel that a sequel to the 82-80 overtime slugfest in early December was in early production.
The visitors put the game away with a 15-0 burst early in the fourth quarter to put the game on ice. The lead briefly touched 23 for Sioux Falls (12-7) before a little relaxation set the stage for a Tulsa (5-15) rebuttal to set the final score.
Tulsa head coach Darko Rajakovic said in his pregame remarks in effect the game would come down to who wanted to win more. The motivation to snap a four game losing streak was enough for the Skyforce to break through on the road and win for the first time in Tulsa since December 5, 2012. Crucial to the effort for the Skyforce was holding Tulsa to 30-87 (35 percent) shooting from the floor. Computing only the two point shots taken, the 66ers were 17-55 (31 percent) plus a 60-54 Skyforce edge on the boards.
The aforementioned Reggie Williams did his part to fuel the 66ers attack with 24 points. The Skyforce got high output from Henry Walker with 19 points, 11 rebounds and 5 assists. Also deserving of honor were DeAndre Liggins (18 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists), Justin Hamilton (18 points, 7 rebounds 2 blocks), Anthony Mason, Jr. (14 points, 10 rebounds, 4 steals 3 assists) and Tre Kelley (14 points 7 assists, 5 rebounds).
Friday will mark the next chapter for both squads. Tulsa will head west to battle with Bakersfield while Sioux Falls will return home for their first ever meeting with the Delaware 87ers.


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I did some experiments with your BrushEditorTool and I'm not sure how it's meant to be used... If I understand it right, it's not meant to do anything as is it now, right? It's just the base for a better editor system but the existing tools need to be adapted, right?If you're going to be stepping back and approaching the work with a Lite version based on the current editor, it may be a good time to present something I'd been working on as you may have a use for it there.
Basically, rather than needing separate, full, custom gui controls for each editor, we'd approach it from the single world editor that then enables a tool class that intercepts the inputs to operate.
https://github.com/Areloch/Torque3D/tre ... oolTesting
So this would allow to call existing tools function from within a single WorldEditorGui instead of having to switch the EditorGui just so it can receive the brush call. It sound like a good idea but I would need more informations about how they should be use before I can do anything with it. Anyway, I don't want to put pressure on you about that, I just want to clarify how the BrushTool should be used.
I'm currently giving another development rush on TorqueLab and tought it might be used to unify the MeshRoadEditor and DecalRoadEditor. I will work on something by simply switch the EditorGui depending of what type of road is selected and later I might just switch to the BrushTool once I figured how it work.


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Aggregation rumination
Cross posted from http://www.olds.ac.uk/development-blog/aggregationrumination:
I've been thinking about Martin Hawksey's excellent post "Show me your aggregation architecture and I'll show you mine". Martin surveys some 14 MOOCs (or, to be precise, cMOOCs) and compares their aggregation mechanisms. Theoretically, MOOCs are about making connections between learners' independent journeys, and synergising the resources and insights they bring. If you have hundreds of participants or more – that needs some machinery to make it happen.There's a wide range of social technologies in the bag (flickr, twitter, facebook, lots of google groups) but only two RSS aggregators stand out: FeedWordPress and gRSShopper. The first is a wordpress plugin, so obviously only works if you choose wordpress as your platform (and have your own installation, rather than a wordpress.com or institutional one). The second requires root access to a web server. The sourceforge page cites 4 downloads, so I suspect its used mainly by its creators.Martin seems to suggests we need a robust aggregation technology for MOOCs, and I agree. I'd also like to suggest the kind of activity it needs to support:Nomination: you run a MOOC, I participate. I want to propose a feed for you to aggregate. you can accept the feed automatically, manually, or by public vote (e.g. it has 3 people to speak for it).Aggregation: harvest the posts from a large group of feeds and display them in a way that I can easily sift through and find the stuff I'm interested. e.g., let me navigate by tags / keywords / most liked.Curation: I want to select items from aggregator brought in, and compose a new item from them. Storify style.Correlation: I want to find and display links between items. "Joe says A, Ann says B. But Ali links the two in a surprising way."And – I want it all with zero install. Ideally, as a platform independent embeddable component.