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June 30. 2014 12:36PM
Gubernatorial candidate Havenstein wins approval from Ballot Law Commission
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
CONCORD – Alton businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Walt Havenstein never gave up his New Hampshire domicile a majority of the Ballot Law Commission determined this morning.
On a split 3-2 decision, the commission upheld Secretary of State's decision to accept his filing to run for governor.
When he filed, Havenstein asked the Ballot Law Commission for a declaratory ruling on his residency to put the matter to rest.
Democrats had argued Maryland was Havenstein's primary residence until 2012 as he accepted property tax credits reserved for residents of that state.
During Monday's hearing, Havenstein's attorney, David Vicinanzo, argued Havenstein always intended to retain his New Hampshire residency although he lived a majority of each year in Maryland from 2007 to 2012 when he was the chief executive for two national defense contractors.
"The suggestion that to move temporarily to a fairly Spartan apartment would divest him of his domicile in New Hampshire is untenable and I argue unfair," Vicinanzo told the commission.
But the Democrat's attorney argued the framers of the state constitution intended for governors to live here and not somewhere else.
Greg Ahlgren said Havenstein's "honest intention (to retain his New Hampshire domicile) is well and good, but he wasn't here and that is what the people who fought and died in the American Revolution wanted, they wanted their governors here."
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Director General meets CILSS Executive Secretary in Dakar, Senegal
31 Octobr 2013, Dakar, Senegal - The Director General met today with CILSS Executive Secretary while attending the Sahel World Bank Forum.
The two principals discussed Resilience issues in the Sahel as well as the new AGIR Initiative to which FAO is actively participating.
Adoum thanked FAO for it support and called for more in the areas of statistics, capacity building, livestock census and water mapping.
The two discussed ways of supporting the four countries that joined CILSS Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo and Guinea and for which it is necessary to strengthen data collection and management. Adoum confirmed the possibility of those countries to fully play their role as food basket for the ECOWAS Region with Nigeria.
They also discussed the up-coming «Fair of Knowledge in the Sahel and West Africa» co-organised by FAO and CILSS in Ouagadougou next week where Sahel countries will share experience on tools and practices on resilience. The CILSS invited IGAD members to participate to the Share fair and bring the experience of the Horn of Africa.


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The case for/againt unnamed Hobbit heroes is a tricky one. From a background perspective, the 5 named heroes present during the War of the Ring/Scouring of the Shire are plenty to represent the uprising then. However, anybody who wishes to field a thematic horde led by Bandobras is stuck with the same named heroes who really shouldn't be around yet. Anybody looking to add some Hobbits to a Arnor force faces the same issue.
From a gaming point of view, however, the current number of heroes allows a horribly cheap horde (with incredible archery and a daunting number of rocks for that one turn), its only saving grace being the cap implemented by the limited number of heroes.
Yes it is weird to need merry and pipping et al to be able to make a Bandobras shire army, so an unnamed hero is a good idea.
But if you make the captain worse, like removing his armour or making him have less attacks, then he has to cost less too. And that makes the real problem of potential hobbit spam worse. It's almost like they need to be expensive to be little speed bumps for the army's size. Like goblin captains, who are 35-50 points and make the army stay reasonable sized.


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Bryan Singer back for X-Men: Apocalypse
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Bryan Singer is due to return to helm 'X-Men: Apocalypse', according to Simon Kinberg
Bryan Singer will direct 'X-Men: Apocalypse'.
The filmmaker is returning to helm the next chapter of the mutant superhero movie, despite being hit with two sexual abuse lawsuits in recent months.
Asked whether Singer would be back, producer Simon Kinberg told the Daily Beast: "That's the plan."
The follow-up film to current blockbuster 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' - which has made $302 million at the global box-office - is set to focus primarily on the younger generation of superheroes, including Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique and James McAvoy's Professor X, but will also feature the older characters like Sir Ian McKellen's Magneto.
Kinberg said: "It will focus primarily on the 'First Class' cast, but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too."
Singer strenuously denies claims he sexually abused two men when they were teenagers and Kinberg naturally refused to comment on the allegations.
The producer added: "Well, I don't really want to speak on anything outside the movie, but I believe Bryan created the template for the modern superhero movie.
"I remember where I was when I saw 'X-Men,' and I thought he redefined the way people made comic book films."
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In January of 2009, Andrea Carr was facing an unenviable challenge. She had just been diagnosed with arthritis and she was unable to continue in her job as a customer service representative at a call centre.
"Everything was crashing around me," she remembers. "I'm not working, I have no paycheque, you know? What's left?"
Just months later, as Carr fought to deal with her arthritis and stay positive, she discovered a new, unlikely passion in life.
"I had seen this advertisement for standup comedy classes and I thought about it for a year, but I [never had] the nerve to do it," said the Surrey woman.
But after her diagnosis, she enrolled in classes at the Lafflines Comedy Club in New Westminster and began learning the ropes of standup comedy. It was a revelatory moment for Carr, who despite her nerves took to the classes eagerly.
"The first day I was terrified," she said, noting her arthritis made it tough to climb up the flights of stairs to the class. But soon her aching bones were the farthest thing from her mind.
"It was fantastic. Because, you know, you're not thinking about doctors, you're not thinking [about] blood tests. I was thinking about laughter, and riding it."
For Carr, the experience of getting on stage and sharing her best jokes was a critical outlet.
"It was a great distraction and that's exactly what I needed," she said. "If I hadn't [had it] I probably would have been on anti-depressant pills."
As Carr honed her standup routine, she also started to make changes to her diet to help mitigate some of the symptoms of her arthritis. She began experimenting with raw foods, became a vegan, and was able to shed some of the weight that was putting pressure on her joints.
To this day, Carr continues to maintain a vegan diet with the protein-rich exception of fish. She also continues to be active, walking long distances with her dogs every day.
"I'm feeling really good. It comes and goes. If I have a stressful day there are certain things that can be triggers."
All told, Carr's health and happiness have improved since she first stepped up to the mike. She is no longer taking medication for her arthritis, citing the adjustments to her lifestyle as the reason for an overall reduction in symptoms. She also returned to school and now works as a teacher's assistant for students with special needs.
Through it all she has sustained her passion for performance as both a standup and sketch comedian.
"It feels absolutely incredible. You feel this great amount of energy coming from the audience; it just kind of crackles. It's like nothing else."


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Above average snowpack across the western United States and Canada, combined with a cooler and wetter than average spring have contributed to the highest water levels the Columbia River has seen in 15 years. In the Bonneville Pool - the section of river between The Dalles and Bonneville dams - the river is flowing at close to half a million cubic feet per second; while downstream of Bonneville, the river level as of Thursday at the I-5 bridge near Vancouver, Wash., was half an inch from flood stage.
What happens with water levels in the next few weeks will depend on what happens with the weather. If the Columbia basin doesn't see serious rain, and temperatures are close to average for this time of year, the river is expected to continue to rise slowly, peak not far from where it is now and head steadily back toward normal in July. If, however, warm and wet weather combine, especially in high elevations with extensive snowpack, the river could spike significantly higher and approach record levels that haven't been seen since 1996, when the Columbia was more than 11 feet over flood stage at Vancouver.
From Hood River, the most obvious sign of the high water is the missing sandbar, which is covered by about three feet of cloudy water.
"This is a very different year," said Chuck Orwig, senior hydrologist for the National Weather Service. "A lot of the higher-elevation snow across the basin has hardly been depleted; it's about a month behind. We're expecting the overall trend to remain upward into July."
"There's a tremendous amount of snow out there that's starting to melt," said Scott Clemens, Army Corps of Engineers. "Earlier this week there was rainfall in excess of 2.5 inches in Northeast Oregon and the Cascades, and the elevated levels we're seeing now are a result of that water making its way through the system."
Clemens said on Wednesday that The Dalles Dam was running at about 440,000 cfs and Boneville at 459,000 cfs. which is roughly the volume of water equivalent to submerging a football field ten feet deep in water every second. Corps officials caution that if warm weather patterns continue, flows may reach 480,000 cfs next week.
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and fish
In periods of extreme flow on the Columbia River, Bonneville Power Administration and the Army Corps of Engineers, among others, have a difficult balancing act to achieve. The energy generated from the series of dams up and down the river must match the demand on the grid, which is now interconnected throughout the west coast.
"From our perspective, all this water generates a lot of power," said Michael Milstein of Boneville Power Administration. "And that supply must match the demand at all times."
He explained that in addition to managing supply from dams, wind generators and thermal power sources, agencies must also pay close attention to water quality for the safety of fish and aquatic wildlife. Increased turbulence and churning of water from spillways increases dissolved gas levels in the water, which can be harmful or deadly for fish.
"Rising runoff has pushed dissolved gas levels at most of the eight federal dams on the Lower Snake and Columbia Rivers above 120 percent, exceeding Washington and Oregon water quality standards and threatening protected salmon and steelhead," BPA stated in a press release earlier this week. "Reducing hydroelectric generation in such circumstances would send more water through spillways and could push gas levels higher for longer periods, further endangering fish."
Milstein said that to address that conundrum, dams are running as much water as possible through their turbines to cut down on turbulence created by simply running water through spillways. The effect of that, though, means dams are generating a lot of power in a time when the demand isn't at a peak.
In a decision that took effect Wednesday morning, BPA acted to limit all coal, natural gas and other thermal generation to minimum levels required for grid stability and safety so as to allow the dams to run as much water as possible though turbines.
Milstein said coal was the first to go offline and wind energy was the last, and the reverse will apply when alternate forms of generation are able to come back online; which, he says, will be as soon as possible.
The decision didn't sit well with a group that represents wind energy interests.
"BPA tries to claim it would curtail wind generation instead of spilling water over its hydroelectric dams for environmental reasons," read a statement from the American Wind Energy Association. "Rather than being an environmental issue, the policy is a classic case of anti-competitive and discriminatory behavior by a utility with a conflict of interest … BPA, as the 'air traffic controller' for the Northwestern grid, is allowing some generators to operate while blocking others … BPA has not sufficiently pursued other measures before curtailing wind, despite its claim that curtailment is a last resort."
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In part three of TechCrunch's interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, they discuss web browsers. Ballmer calls Chrome and Safari marketshare numbers a "rounding error," and takes note of the fact that Google is going to be calling both its OS and browser "Chrome," pointing out that in this modern era, "the notion of operating systems being independent of internet access and internet ability to render important things in the internet is kind of not a sensible concept." In other words, he thinks it's unfair to persecute Microsoft for tying IE to Windows. He discusses Firefox, and rags on Google's OS strategy, and finished up on an evaluation of the Netbook/MID market and how Microsoft intends to compete there.


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3. North American retailers made $22,430, while those in the UK had a monthly revenue of $19,223 per store.
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6. The average gross margin in retail is 50.96%
7. Beverage manufacturers typically have the highest margins (60.68%), followed by cosmetics stores (57.94%) and jewelry (56.80%)
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) Angel Cabrera won the Greenbrier Classic on Sunday for his first non-major victory on the PGA Tour, closing with his second straight 6-under 64 for a two-stroke victory over George McNeill.
Cabrera, the Argentine whose only other PGA Tour victories came in the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters, built a three-shot lead before making things interesting with a pair of late bogeys. He finished at 16-under 264.
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Disney stars don't stay young forever. Miley Cyrus may have won over teenie-bop hearts on The Disney Channel's Hannah Montana, but the now 20-year-old actress/singer is coming into her own, even if it means shocking a few conservatives. To that end, we've seen her sporting daisy dukes, twerking and sharing studio time with rappers. Peep some flicks of Miley all grown up.
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Lenten reflection: Week 3
By Rev. Kelly Demo, CFCA preacher
In the Gospel of John, we see Jesus entering the Temple in a fury of righteous anger at the unjust practices of Temple and driving out the money changers and vendors. He knew his fellow Jews had to pay to buy Temple sacrifices. Thus, a system of commerce had been established for Temple worship that would exclude the poor who could not pay to worship. (John 2:13-22)
At CFCA, we do not get involved in the politics of the countries or local areas where we work. However, just as Jesus became a voice for the poor and took on those who would keep them subjugated so, too, when poor find they have a voice (both personally and as a community), they discover the strength to take on the powers that keep them oppressed.
In Hyderabad, India, there is a CFCA community called Church Colony. It is about half a mile from the main road, so everyone walked that unpaved distance to catch a bus or get anywhere. The women in the CFCA mothers groups went to the local officials to demand that the city pave their "road" so vehicles could get to their community and walking would be easier. The local officials agreed. Then, the mothers asked the officials to pay their community members to do the construction, instead of outside laborers. Again, they agreed. So, Church Colony got a road as well as some temporary employment.
After some time, the women returned to the officials to say that the road was great, but they needed it to be well-lit at night for safety reasons. They got their lights.
The women then turned their attention to water. The community only had access to water a few hours a day, but the adjacent neighborhood (which is slightly better off) had water all day, every day. The women realized that, because of the way the local roads were laid out, people from the neighboring community often used the new road the women had petitioned for.
They organized a blockade of the road, aimed at people from the neighboring community and said that they would share the use of the road if the neighboring community would share its water. Now Church Colony has water all day, too.
Sometimes making changes in society requires righteous anger, marching, protesting and turning over tables, like Jesus did in the Temple. But not always. Creative community building, tapping into gifts of the individuals in the group, and a little non-violent opposition can go a long way toward changing opinions.
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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 26, 1909
A dance to raise funds for the maintenance of the reading room and gymnasium of the Boys' club was given Wednesday evening in the Gardner House.
From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 30, 1909
A heavy shower, Sunday afternoon, turned the layer of fine dust on Narragansett Avenue into a coating of slippery mud over the macadam, and that no accident happened to the many automobiles crossing the island, is fortunate. Those that had chains made out all right but others, not so equipped, did all kinds of stunts.
75 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 27, 1934
A Dutch treat clambake was held Sunday evening on the rocks at Beavertail by a large number of the members of the summer colony. An orchestra was in attendance and the bake was prepared by Andrew Lodkey.
From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 30, 1934
Previous to the meeting of the (school) committee, the committee was taken on a ride to Beavertail by Stephen J. Zweir in the new Wayne school bus recently purchased. This bus has a seating capacity of 38, as rated by the State Board of Public Roads, but more can be comfortably accommodated. Under the new State regulations, the bus has shatter-proof glass throughout and is further protected by wire window guards, emergency door in rear and fuel tank outside of the body. On the front and rear of the bus are the words "School Bus" and on the sides "Jamestown Schools."
50 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 25, 1959
The Jamestown Town Council last night, on recommendation of the Planning Board, refused the request of three Jamestown citizens to buy 24 acres of town-owned land in the Potter's Cove area to build a private marina. …The Planning Board said this is the same land site proposed for a state marina. The land involved is on the easterly side of East Shore Road. About half of it is farm land and half is marsh land.
From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 28, 1959
The president of Gulf Oil Corp., one of the world's largest, said in Providence last night that Commerce Oil Corp. has not abandoned its attempt to build a $50,000,000 refinery in Jamestown.
Rules governing acceptable attire for classroom wear (were) contained in a letter addressed to parents of Jamestown school children this week. … The rules prohibit dungarees, leotards or hoop-type skirts, cleats on shoes, any "distracting" clothing, also the use of lipstick, and "fad" style haircuts for boys.
25 years ago From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 28, 1984
Construction crews scheduled to put a new concrete deck on the Jamestown Bridge will be working around the clock to speed up the operation.
From the Newport Daily News, Aug. 31, 1984
If everything goes "smoothly" Jamestown may have ca- ble television in six months. "I think it will be done fairly quickly," Bruce Stevenson, a spokesman for the R.I. Division of Public Utilities, said today. The DPU regulates cable television in the state. Barring snags in the process, residents could begin tuning into MTV, ESPN or HBO in six months. (Rollins Cablevision was to be the provider.)
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Aug. 25, 1994
Although the town owns 115 separate parcels of land, only slightly more than a handful could be sold, to raise revenue for the town. "Most of the large lots have a legitimate government function," Town Planner George Meservey told the Town Council Monday.
Town officials are asking for proposals for the private management of the town-owned campground at Ft. Getty. Originally the Ft. Getty Committee recommended that the town continue to run the campground because members believed they would not be able to find a private operator willing to take on the task. The campground earns the town a profit of over $200,000 a year, enough to cover the parks and recreation department annual budget. But since then, the committee has learned of at least one resident who is interested in operating the campground, and wants to find out if there are others willing to submit proposals before deciding whether or not to stick with town management or make the operation private.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press, Aug. 26, 1999
As always, a new school year brings with it new names to memorize, new processes to try, new teachers to please and new standards to achieve. This year is no different as teachers and staff make last minute preparations to welcome 668 new and returning students to the Jamestown School on Wednesday. Six new teachers will make their mark on Jamestown students this year.


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In a new cloud security market report from TechNavio, Trend Micro was recognized as the market share leader.
TechNavio values the Global Cloud Security Software market at US$241 million for 2010 and expects it to reach US$963.4 million in 2014; growing at a CAGR of 41.4 percent.
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In recognition of the CCSD's wellness initiatives, Fort Johnson Middle School has implemented "Trackdown Thursdays" to encourage and support healthy lifestyles of its faculty and students.
Since the fall, all students, faculty and parents are encouraged to run or walk the track after school on Thursdays as teachers and parents have volunteered their time to supervise and join them for exercise.
Additionally, Trackdown Thursdays worked in conjunction with the Charleston Youth Marathon program. Many students have already logged over 25 miles walking or running on the track, and 14 participated in the recent Charleston Youth Marathon. A grant award will allow Trackdown Thursdays to expand by providing pedometers and additional fitness equipment around the track for students to use.


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LONDON (AP) — Britain's immigration minister has resigned over the illegal employment of a foreign cleaner, a major gaffe given the U.K. government's muscular clampdown on immigration of all kinds.
Cameron's Downing Street office said in a statement released Saturday afternoon that there was no indication that the minister, Mark Harper, knew the cleaner was working illegally but said the leader accepted the resignation "with regret." It also distributed Harper's resignation letter, in which he explained that he thought he had verified in 2007 that the unnamed cleaner's passport and documentation meant she could work in the U.K. legally.
But he said officials warned him Thursday that she was in fact in the country illegally, forcing his hand.
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A Visit to Fields Corner and Pho Le
By Margarita Martinez
Fields Corner in Dorchester really is the destination for Vietnamese cuisine in the greater Boston area. This neighborhood offers the widest and most concentrated selection of Vietnamese food throughout Boston, from places where Banh Mi is ordered at a counter to more formal restaurant experiences with table service. There are also Asian markets where all the ingredients for a Vietnamese meal can be found, including freshly baked baguettes, freshly caught fish, exotic fruits and vegetables, and the more esoteric banana flower fruit. I loved exploring the neighborhood with my terrific tour guide Pham Nam, the director of the community development corporation Viet-AID.
After our market visit, Nam took me to the Vietnamese American Community Center, which opened in Dorchester 11 years ago through the help of Viet-AID. It is the first Vietnamese American community center in the United States. The well-maintained facility houses classes for children and adults, including instruction in business, the Vietnamese language, ballroom dancing, and preschool. When I stopped by the community center the after-school program was in session. I was most taken by the fact that while the majority of children receiving after-school homework assistance or reading books from the center's library were of Vietnamese descent, it was still a multicultural group of children from the community. While one of Viet-AID's missions is to strengthen the Vietnamese community and preserve Vietnamese culture in the greater Boston area, another core value is to bolster the Fields Corner community as a whole by providing services and a safe space for all members of the Fields Corner community.
Nam also showed me evidence of the community's development efforts through the many newly constructed and under-construction buildings in the area. One newly renovated building holds the restaurant Pho Le. There are several Pho Le locations in the greater Boston area, including restaurants in Allston and Cambridge, but I must admit that my favorite Pho Le location is the one in Fields Corner. The interior and exterior are colorful and new and there are large windows with light pouring through them. The Pho Le designated parking lot across the street is also a big plus. At Pho Le, owner Duyen Le, a true gentleman, showed me how to make four of his recipes, three of which we feature on our show.
He taught me how to make a Vietnamese crepe with shrimp and pork called Banh Xeo, which is an example of the French influence on Vietnamese cuisine. The proper way to eat Banh Xeo is to roll the crepe up in a lettuce leaf with lots of fresh herbs and vegetables. It is a complete meal in one roll-up. Ever since my visit with Le I have been wrapping everything in lettuce leaves. Sliced sausages, chana masala, croquettes, you name it, I have wrapped it in a lettuce leaf in my home. Nothing beats that fresh crunch at a meal when biting though the leaf and rib of a big leaf of romaine, red leaf, or Boston lettuce to find layers of savory flavor within.
Obviously, Pho Le's namesake pho, or noodle soup, is extremely popular. The broths at Pho Le are out of this world. They are so flavorful, yet light and clear. There is a choice of ga (chicken) or bo (beef) broth for your pho and it is no small process to produce these broths. During my visit Le shared how to make the chicken broth, but he would not reveal his beef broth recipe. Every morning Le arrives very early to his Allston location and makes the broths from scratch. He then delivers them to his other locations before they start serving for the day. Talk about top secret! It's no wonder people keep coming back for his pho again and again, he makes his delicious broth recipes impossible to crack and produce at home.
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NCAA expands replay use in college basketball
Indianapolis, IN – The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel voted on Monday to expand the use of basketball replay, and women will now have to get the ball over the midcourt line in 10 seconds.
Ever since the first women's championship games in 1981-82, women were allowed to take as much time as necessary off the 30-second shot clock before crossing the midcourt line.
The panel approved replay to determine which team would gain possession on a ball that was deflected out of bounds when it involves at least two players.
Officials will also have the ability to use replay to determine if a shot was a 2 or 3-pointer, which would be reviewed at the next media timeout. In the last four minutes of regulation and the entire overtime, officials also can now go to a monitor to look for indisputable evidence to determine how many points should be awarded for a field goal.
The monitor will also be used to determine which player would be called for a foul when there is uncertainty after a call has been made.
Additionally, the panel approved to use the monitor to see if a flagrant foul has been committed when a player makes contact with the elbow above the shoulders.
The committee noted that personal fouls should be called consistently on defensive players who keep a hand or forearm on an opponent, or when a defensive player puts two hands on an opponent or uses an arm bar to impede the progress of an offensive player.


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I'll be blunt: I'm very dubious of the idea of feats that only modify specific spells (or extremely small groups of spells). The idea that you're ever going to be using that particular spell just that much that you can afford to spend a precious feat slot in it is, to me, a stretch. Having said that, if anyone can pull it off, it's the Super Geniuses, so let's take a look.
Part of their #1 With a Bullet Point series, 4 Feats for Spells that Raise the Dead is fairly self-explanatory in what it offers. Notwithstanding the ubiquitous series intro (explaining the idea of buying a short product with no "frills") and the OGL, what you have here is one page with four feats on it, designed to modify the roughly half-dozen spells that bring the dead back to life.
While I don't want to go too deeply into what these feats do (why would you buy the product otherwise), there's one that allows you to "swap out" spells for resurrection-type spells, one that allows the resurrected creature to come back with the answer to a specific question, one that allows the creature to "rewrite" some of its basic information (e.g. stats, age, etc.), and one that allows you to take on the negative level of a resurrected creature.
Overall, I'm not sure if I'm entirely convinced that these feats are worthwhile. The Super Geniuses clearly understand that when the versatility of a feat is so tightly restricted, its power needs to be greater; I'm just not sure that these necessarily live up to that. For example, a feat that lets you "swap out" for resurrection type spells seems like overkill…will you ever really need just THAT many resurrection spells in a single day? If you need one immediately, but don't want to prepare one, why not just go for a scroll? It doesn't seem like quite enough. Similarly, coming back to life with the equivalent of a commune spell seems like a flat-out waste of a feat; just cast commune!
Having said that, the other two feats do, to my mind, live up (resurrection pun!) to their potential. Being able to rewrite a resurrected character, at least to some degree, is the best of both worlds between getting to play your old character again and playing a new one. Similarly, being able to avoid a negative level is good, particularly if the other person is willing to take that particular hit for you.
Overall, while none of these feats are anywhere near being bad, to me only two out of four were truly worthwhile. Your mileage may vary, of course, but to me this has two winners and two near-misses. So a solid three out of five stars.
All right, though I think that by now, you know the drill, here's the chant: 3 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial/SRD, 1 page content, this time providing us with feats to modify spells that raise the dead, so let's check them out!
-Ferryman: If you're a preparing spellcaster, you can channel spells (à la spontaneous conversion) into raise dead-spells as long as the life-restring spell is of an equal spell-level or lower. If you're a spontaneous caster, you may add one bonus spell that restores life to your repertoire. Additionally, you may 1/day halve the costs of such a spell. I'm not comfortable with the prepared sponateous conversion – with the massive casting times and costs of the spell, I feel that this one might cheapen further the already cheap repercussions of death in the game, something I personally rather much avoid – death should have at least some gravity.
-Lore from Beyond the Pale: When raising a creature from the dead, you may ask a question the creature then replies once the deed is done. An awesome little modification to the base-spell.
-Rebirth: If you add some money and incense to your raise the dead-spell, your resurrection changes the target creature, enabling it to reassign attributes, change its age (between adulthood and max age) and even change its mystical name for arcane purposes. Per se a great re-boot spell, but also one that potentially wrecks a campaign setting: The ability to become more youthful and thus cheat the natural lifespan might make many a necromancer-justification and even lichdom rather absurd. A Great feat per se, but the age-problem needs to be nerfed in order to guarantee internal consistency in a setting.
-Selfless Resurrection: This feat enables you to take negative levels of the subject to be resurrected in its stead, disabling you rather long, but also adding the option of resurrecting people who've died of old age – though only with one final year to live. It's modifications like the latter that make this feat work in my opinion where Rebirth goes too far. Additionally, this feat stretches the length after which breath of life can be used.
Editing and formatting are top-notch, I didn't notice any glitches. Layout adheres to SGG's horizontal 3-column standard and the pdf has no bookmarks, but needs none at this length. All right, I've got to come clear: I'm not a big fan of raising the dead without quests and think that death in 3.X-derivates and PFRPG is far too cheap.
That being said, I can get behind some of the ideas presented in this pdf – Lore from beyond the Pale especially, but also the iconic selfless resurrection are awesome feats that greatly enhance the already cool scenes of resurrection. My favorite would be Rebirth, were it not for the potentially logic-breaking assumptions that this feat adds to a campaign, making undeath a rather stupid choice for all those mighty beings. And Ferryman…well. For a campaign in which PCs rise and fall continuously, this might be nice, but generally, I feel that it overtly cheapens an already much to cheap act that should retain at least some component of its iconicity. In the end, I can see that this pdf is not made for me, but its appeal remains apparent. Thus, I'll only fracture in the potential repercussions for the in-game logic the otherwise stellar rebirth-feat would entail. In the end, I'll thus arrive at a final verdict of 3.5 stars, rounded up to 4 for the purpose of this platform with the caveat that, if you don't mind campaign-world logic/ play in a game that handwaves resurrections, this might be 5 stars for you.
Endzeitgeist out.
Continuing the Summer of Bullets with another addition to the Bullet Point series, Owen brings us 4 Feats for Spells that Raise the Dead. Standard Bullet format with 3 pages, 3 column landscape orientation, and top notch editing. Each of the recent Bullet Points has targeted a specific spell and or group of spells, and this particular addition is no different, aiming straight for those various spells used to return life to the dead. Obviously, there are far to many of these spells (thanks to the immense amount of 3PP sources, lol) to list here, but I imagine you all get the idea. So lets go over them, see what we're getting this time.
Ferryman allows for characters who must prepare their spells to burn a spell they have prepared to instead cast a life restoring spell from their spell list (as long as level requirements are met). Have no fears, for the spontaneous casters, Owen's got you covered also, as well as throwing in a nice perk in regards to material components. Over all, this is a seriously cool feat, and is in my opinion the type of feat any support healer character should have in their arsenal of tricks. Well done!
Lore From Beyond the Pale covers an idea I have always loved from movies and books wherein a character returns from the dead...the information gained from being on the other side. Whereas it doesnt give you an open door to go nuts for gaining information (well played Owen), it does allow for one specific question to be asked at a specific time, with the form of the answer being up to the GM. Now, although the feat does not specifically state that the being being raised can/will not lie in answering, the implication is there, so a GM feeling like being "that guy" is still free to drop misinformation, as it is only an implication.
Rebirth offers up the ultimate in Fantasy Witness Protection, lol. You don't have to just raise the dead back to their old life, you can literally allow one being raised to "reform" themselves...new age, new name (even in regards to mystic purposes), redistribution of ability and skill points, the whole works. Now, I can see some folks thinking this is too much to put in the hands of players...but really, you get to the point that a player can bring the dead back to life, we're already talking about some pretty wicked power in their hands. And this, this has potential to allow a GM to pull off some pretty wicked things...go back to my opening line if you will, a Fantasy Witness Protection Program...OK, stop laughing, seriously...the PC's just finished totally trouncing your big bad evil dude, he's dead, a half year of planning down the drain, now what? Simple, raise his butt, give him a new face, a new name, and a whole new skill/feat set...with all of that desire for revenge...that's the type of potential that makes a feat really cool for some serious story affecting ability.
Selfless Resurrection is for those moments of true selfless sacrifice, allowing you to turn the casting of spells that restore life as a standard action, with the drawback of gaining a negative level. On top of that, you can take on the negative levels the creature you are raising should be getting...see why I referred to this as sacrifice? I can see several moments of deep role-play where such a feat would be an awesome thing in the hands of the right player, and I love that to use it costs the player so much. In addition, if used in conjunction with breath of life, the length of time that the dead can be in such a state and still be raised by you is determined by your Con bonus.
Final thoughts on this one, I can't think of anything negative to say...period. I thought at first I was not going to be happy with only 4 feats, I did. But then I read them, and they each bring enough to the table that they justify there being only 4 in this Bullet Point. One of the better Bullet Points in my opinion, I am giving this a 6 star rating, rounding down to a 5 for the purposes of this forum.


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Pilgrim girls come up big at division meet
The Pilgrim girls' indoor track team made up for a tough regular season with a big showing in Saturday's Bayha Divisional Championship meet.
The Pats – who went 3-5 during the regular season – had six top-three finishes in the meet en route to 61 points and a third-place finish. Barrington won the meet with 82.5 points, while South Kingstown took second with 76. Toll Gate also competed and finished eighth with 29.5 points.
The Dwyer Divisional meet was also run on the same day, and Warwick Vets came in seventh place with 20 points.
But, as far as Warwick schools go, it was the Pats who stole the show.
Pilgrim excelled in the throwing events. In the shot put, standout Destinee Barrette took first place, while Maddison Caron finished fourth and Michelle Sanchez grabbed sixth. Caitlin Blanchard finished in seventh. In the weight throw, Barrette took second, Caron took third and Sanchez finished fourth.
Melanie Brunelle had a strong individual day, finishing second in the high jump and sixth in the 55 meter hurdles. Becca O'Donnell also placed in two separate events, taking third in the long jump and fourth in the 55 dash.
Other strong performances came from Natalie Tocco, who took third in the 3,000, Danika Wayss, who took sixth in the ,1500 and Chantavy Crespin, who grabbed seventh in the 600.
The Titans had some standout showings as well. Their top performer was sophomore Erika Pena, who took third in the 55 hurdles and fifth in the long jump. In the high jump, Maddie Thibeault took third place, while Abby Tillotson was sixth.
Nora Hall ran her way to a fourth-place finish in the 600, Jess Cawley finished fifth in the 1,500 and Heather Allstrom grabbed sixth place in the long jump. Allstrom also had a seventh-place finish in the 55 and Cawley had a seventh-place in the 1,000. As team, the Titans came in fourth in the 4x400 relay, and fifth in both the 4x800 and 4x200.
For the 'Canes, Amanda Graves had the highest finish of the day with a fourth-place in the 55 hurdles. Right behind her was teammate Katelyn Ravenell in fifth.
Vets also got a fifth-place from Bria McAloon in the weight throw, while Kayla Bourbon came in sixth in the same event. Carlie McPherson was sixth in the 1,000 and Kaitlyn Johnson was seventh in the 1,500. Angie Marks was seventh in the weight throw. As a team, the 'Canes were fifth in the 4x200 and sixth in the 4x400.
Toll Gate went 6-2 during the regular season and Vets went 5-4.


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Conservative activist Andrew Hemingway plans run for NH governorBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
January 29. 2014 10:53PM
CONCORD — Granite State Republicans will finally have a candidate for governor starting Thursday night.
Bristol high-tech entrepreneur and conservative activist Andrew Hemingway will announce his candidacy at an event in Manchester, a source close to Hemingway's fledgling campaign told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Hemingway, 31, will make the announcement at a "Solutions First" rally at The Yard Restaurant at 7 p.m., an event organized by a "Draft Hemingway" political action committee that organized about a month ago.
He is expected to file paperwork organizing a campaign committee on Friday.
Republicans have been without a candidate to take on Democratic incumbent Maggie Hassan as she seeks a second term.
Last year, two top potential contenders, state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley of Wolfeboro and state Sen. Andy Sanborn of Bedford, took themselves out of the discussion. Also, Manchester attorney Brad Cook considered running before deciding against it in November.
Hemingway, who is married and a father of two, is the former chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire and was state director for former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign during 2011, leading up to the January 2012 first-in-the-nation primary.
About two months ago he was approached to run by New Hampshire Republican National Committeewomen Juliana Bergeron.
Hemingway is expected to focus on a fiscally conservative agenda during his campaign.
According to the Draft Hemingway group, Hemingway is expected to discuss "how innovative, solution-based ideas will allow New Hampshire citizens to live free" at the Thursday night event.


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Jay Hoff, a schoolteacher from Florida, has re-created a 6- foot-by-6-foot replica of the scene from Return of the Jedi where Emperor Palpatine visits the newly recommissioned Death Star in order to inspect Darth Vader's progress.
Taking six months, consisting of 30,000 LEGO pieces and costing an estimated $2,300 to complete, the ambitious assembler pieced together this "most impressive" display for Science and Discovery day at his school, where students were asked to create their own builds and present them.
Time will tell if Mr. Hoff's next project will require him to "double his efforts" — but regardless the force is indeed strong with this one.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People whose doctors keep longer office hours may spend a little less on healthcare, a new study finds.
Using survey data from more than 30,700 Americans, researchers found that 36 percent said their doctor offered weekend and evening hours.
And over two years, those patients spent 10 percent less on medical care than people whose doctors stuck with traditional weekday hours - a difference of more than $1,000.
The reasons are not yet known, and it's possible that the longer hours "caused" the lower spending, according to lead researcher Dr. Anthony Jerant, of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento.
But that seems unlikely based on the results, Jerant said. One way longer office hours would cut spending would be to give patients an alternative to the emergency room. But fewer ER visits did not account for the lower spending here.
"It may be that extended hours is a marker for more cost-conscious practice overall — and this is what we think is the most likely explanation," Jerant said in an email.
In support of that, his team found that lower spending on prescriptions and office visits seemed to largely account for their results.
"So this suggests that cost-effective prescribing and care in general - less ordering of expensive office tests and expensive brand-name drugs - helped to 'explain' the relationship between extended hours and expenditures," Jerant said.
Why would doctors with longer office hours be more thrifty?
Jerant speculated that extended hours may be just one measure that some doctors are taking to offer more "patient-centered" care that is also cost-effective.
But this study cannot prove that is the case, Jerant pointed out. It was an observational study that looked at the relationship between office hours and spending — not the underlying reasons.
The findings, reported in the Annals of Family Medicine, are based on data from an annual government survey that asks U.S. adults about their healthcare use.
Jerant's team focused on 30,714 participants who had a regular source of care over two years. They found that people with access to extended office hours spent about $3,800 to $4,000 each year on all medical care.
That compared with almost $5,200 to $5,500 among people whose doctors did not have extended office hours.
The researchers accounted for other factors, like people' age, race, number of chronic health conditions and insurance coverage. And extended office hours remained linked to a 10 percent dip in healthcare spending.
"I think it is premature to use our study findings to suggest that extended hours themselves, if added by more primary care offices, would cut spending," Jerant said.
If longer hours are really just a "marker" of a practice's overall cost-cutting ways, then simply adding hours would be unlikely to make a dent in healthcare spending.
Jerant said more studies are needed to get at the reasons for the current findings.
If future research does show that longer office hours directly curb spending, it may be feasible for most primary care offices to keep the doors open longer, according to Jerant.
But with the added resources needed, it might not be "easy," he added.
SOURCE: bit.ly/Oqwalz Annals of Family Medicine, September/October 2012.


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Last June I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit the "Lost Gardens of Heligan" in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Last June I had the extraordinary opportunity to visit the "Lost Gardens of Heligan" in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
I was impressed by this garden which had been in existence since the 1800s. Having been told by a local that we must visit this garden, it was truly a stroke of luck that we happen to visit the garden.
By my standards this lovely garden rivaled even Kew Gardens in London. Though, by the end of the trip, I was homesick for the woodlands of the Ozarks.
"But why does he mention this garden?" you are probably asking yourself. "How can such a garden in the United Kingdom have an impact on Rolla gardeners?"
I present to you the cover photo of this week's column: "consider the cold frame."
To tell you the truth, despite the century-old amazing jungle like rhododendron forests at this garden, I was truly blown away by the perfectly restored Victorian style vegetable and fruit gardens, greenhouses, manure heated hotbed, and the topic of this article, the wonderful and useful cold frame.
What is a cold frame?
A cold frame is a small 3-foot-by-6-foot greenhouse without a heat source. Typically these paned glass covered wooden boxes are built over a garden bed to extend the growing season or are used to harden off seedlings in the spring.
Gardeners have been using cold frames for centuries. They are usually made of a three-sided wooden frame but bricks or concrete can be used. The roof is made of framed glass or clear polyethylene called "sash," is slanted at a rate of one inch per foot and is set up to face a south-southwestern direction.
These frames protect plants form the harsh conditions of the outdoors preventing rain, wind and cold air from damaging the crop. Typically the conditions within a cold frame can be 5-10 degrees warmer than air temperature around the outside the structure.
Many times, cold frames are placed on the south side of buildings to provide a northern windbreak. To provide more insulation, the cold frames are usually buried slightly below ground. Cold frames are hinged to allow for the proper ventilation on warm sunny spring days.
If constructing a cold frame yourself, try using cedar wood to increase the longevity of the structure. It is important to note that when constructing a cold frame, that the bed be well drained and level.
If you are interested in constructing a cold frame, the University of Missouri Extension has a guide, No. G6965 available through our website http://extension.missouri.edu.
When starting seeds indoors, cold frames can play a critical roll in the process of hardening off seedlings. Hardening off is the process of allowing seedlings to be gradually introduced to the outdoors elements before being directly planted outside.
Seedlings grown indoors have become accustomed to the filtered sunlight of a greenhouse or window and are not used to the fluctuating temperatures of spring nights in Missouri. This process of carrying flats of plants back and forth from a greenhouse or home to the outdoors can be time consuming, yet is an important process.
Before placing seedling transplants directly into the garden, cold frames can be used to prevent wind burn and sun scald before plants become adjusted to the elements without the hassle of back-and-forth transport.
Limiting changing temperature shock and sun scald of seedlings can be accomplished by gradually increasing the ventilation gap in the roof.
Getting a jump start on the planting season is another benefit of building cold frames.
Cool season vegetable crops and flowers can be started outdoors in early spring before being transplanted directly into your garden.
In planning your own vegetable garden at home, consider making this old world tradition an important part of your modern vegetable garden.