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Adventures In Windows 7: Talonsoft Games
Sadly, my rather large collection of old Talonsoft wargames from the 1990's will not install under the 64-bit version. The startup.exe file is not compatible, regardless of compatibility mode. This is becoming a problem with nearly all my 1990s games, such as those from Lucas Arts and others.
While these Talonsoft games are old, I always enjoyed them because they are based on miniature gaming principles and became foundational for my current gaming interests. I played Shiloh to death, obsessed on Prairie Grove for some odd reason. I also enjoyed scouring thrift stores for them, usually paying only $1 each. Only a few months before my old system died last November, I bought a large stack of "new" Talonsoft titles off a fellow on TMP for only $1 each. I finally got Antietam and Gettysburg, which I always wanted. Plus Napoleonic, WWII, and modern warfare titles. None of them install. Quite depressing. (Ok, I lost only several dollars but that is not the point! :-)
The solution? I could have installed the 32-bit version of Win7 to avoid all these problems, but that wouldn't have been very forward thinking just to play some of my favorite old games. I'm assuming here that it would work on 32-bit.
The other solution is to rig together a cheaper box using less powerful (and cheaper) components, like less memory, slower processor, and weaker graphics card since older games don't need bleeding edge components. Then install Windows XP. So create an "XP box." I am considering this. Not just because my Talonsoft games don't work, but my favorite game of all time--SimCity 4--will not work with my GTS250 graphics card. You can't even begin to understand my obsession with that game! But that is another article for another day...
So bottom line is farewell to Talonsoft games for now. On a brighter note, I can still access all the OOB data on the disks. That always comes in handy for miniature games. Right? Ah nuts. Even that glimmer of optimism doesn't cut it. Dang, I loved those games!
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I loved the Talonsoft games as well. I got into them with a free demo of the Gettysburg game, which I later bought full version. I also really enjoyed the Antietam game and played it until my eyes bled and my wife threatened "consequences"!!ReplyDelete
Try looking into running a virtual system on your computer like Virtual PC from microsoft or VMWare Server from VMWare. You can get info and download Virtual PC from www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/ReplyDelete
Hope this Helps!
Forgot to put in the link for VMWare's player.ReplyDelete
It's a free download. You could run any legacy OS on this virual machine.
Thanks for the tip. I'll look into it.ReplyDelete
Lee, I know all too well about wifely "consequences." What gamer doesn't! :-)
If Windows 7 XP Mode does not work, I would definitely build an 'XP' box!ReplyDelete
- Rick DeeMay 7, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Were you able to get your games working.....have you tried this link?ReplyDelete
The startup files won't run under my 64bit version, which I feel was a mistake to install since nothing has really come out in 64bit and Win8 this fall will support 128bit. 64bit will be the forgotten step-child.ReplyDelete
Anyway, a solution I want to try when I have the time is to run VirtualBox, which should do the trick. If you try it, let me know how it turns out!


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A while back it seemed that everyone had something to say about the behavior of the men on that sinking Italian cruise ship. Depending on the agenda of the writer, the failure to adhere to "women and children first" was heralded as the fault of evil feminists, the beginning of the end of western civilization, or simply human nature.
At the time I wondered whether we'd see a similar analysis of the behavior of the female passengers and crew. This is only a single data point:
The body of Peruvian ship's waitress Erika Soria has been recovered from the wreck of the Concordia. It has been revealed that as the ship went down, and Captain Schettino was busy being one of the first off the ship, the young Peruvian waitress, working on her third cruise, stayed back to help dozens of passengers into the lifeboats. The last time rescued passengers saw her, she was giving her lifejacket to an elderly man.
Three cheers for decency, no matter where it is found.
On a somewhat related note, I was intrigued by this article about a culture where women have the upper hand in most things and men are fighting for equal rights under the law:
Mr Pariat, who ignored age-old customs by taking his father's surname is adamant that matriliny is breeding generations of Khasi men who fall short of their inherent potential, citing alcoholism and drug abuse among its negative side-effects.
"If you want to know how much the Khasis favour women just take a trip to the labour ward at the hospital," he says.
"If it's a girl, there will be great cheers from the family outside. If it's a boy, you will hear them mutter politely that, 'Whatever God gives us is quite all right.'"
Mr Pariat cites numerous examples of how his fellow brethren are being demoralised. These include a fascinating theory involving the way that gender in the local Khasi language reflects these basic cultural assumptions.
"A tree is masculine, but when it is turned into wood, it becomes feminine," he begins.
"The same is true of many of the nouns in our language. When something becomes useful, its gender becomes female.
"Matriliny breeds a culture of men who feel useless."
I talk to Patricia Mukkum, the well-respected editor of Shillong's daily newspaper. She assures me that her heritage is only one of the reasons why she has risen to the level she has and points out that the tradition of excluding women from the political decision making process is still very strong in their culture.
As a mother of children by three different Khasi fathers however, she is the first to admit that their societal anomaly has afforded her ample opportunities to be both a mother and a successful career woman.
Making reference to the routine problems facing women just over the border in West Bengal, Miss Mukkum is resolute.
"Our culture offers a very safe sanctuary for women," she declares.
I found the second bolded portion of the article particularly interesting as apparently, excluding women from the political sphere has not guaranteed equal treatment for men. As a side note, it would also appear that a society run by women is not the egalitarian utopia it is so often conjectured to be.
A lot of people's smug assumptions are confounded here.
Finally, not gender related (except in the sense that I suspect my amusement is somewhat enhanced by having two x chromosomes):
I'm a rational anarchist.
I'm a market anarchist.
I'm an anarcho-capitalist.
I'm a crypto-anarchic small-L left libertarian Republican.
Really, I just like blowing stuff up.
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The other way in which Meghalaya's system is different is that it is not the eldest son who inherits, but the youngest daughter. You can imagine how much that encourages infanticide on the behalf of previously-youngest daughter siblings; at least the 'eldest' system doesn't make it advantageous for the stronger older sibling to dispose of the weaker, younger one!
The Picts also passed inheritance to daughters; it seems to be the reason they no longer exist. The system can work in an isolated culture, but if it interbreeds with another culture the system fails. When they give daughters to sons of the other culture, their property goes with the daughters; but when their sons marry daughters from that culture, no property flows in. On the other side, the son inherits his father's property and his wife's, concentrating wealth and power. When one of the daughters goes to marry a son, nothing flows out with her.
The effect is similar (though slightly weaker) in cases of intermarriage with a culture where inheritance is divided, as in our culture. That Meghalaya's tribal system has survived in this way means that it is highly inbred, an effect which will either continue until it can't (in which case the culture will die); or will be obviated by intermarriage (in which case the culture will die).
That seems to be another case of natural law at work.
Posted by: Grim at January 30, 2012 02:17 PM
I will admit, one of the hardest parts of being a libertarian is having to listen to other libertarians. Or people who think they're libertarians (like the anarchists). Or people that OTHER people think are libertarians (like the anarchists).
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Councilmember Anita Bonds introduces TOPA Accessory Dwelling Unit Act of 2017
At this week's Council Legislative Session, At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds introduced the "TOPA Accessory Dwelling Unit Act of 2017," to help insure that the 1980 Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) is continuously used as an effective tool to address the District's affordability crisis of ever escalating housing costs.
Specifically, the Act will exempt owner-occupied, single family homes with accessory dwelling units from TOPA laws under narrow circumstances.
There must be two dwelling units in the housing accommodation, one of which must contain at least 2/3rd of the total square footage of the housing accommodation, and the larger dwelling unit must be occupied by the owner. The accessory dwelling unit must have all required building and occupancy permits and it must be identified at the District of Columbia Office of the Recorder of Deeds with a single square, suffix, and lot.
DC's TOPA law is an important tool that has been successful in preventing tenant displacement, maintaining affordable housing options, and promoting home ownership. The 1980 law was created to allow tenants to join together and purchase the housing accommodation to prevent displacement due to a sale, condo conversion or discontinuance of the unit. Single Family homes are seldom purchased by the tenant that resides in the accessory dwelling. Therefore, the law has been shown to have little practical benefit to these tenants.
In single-family homes with one accessory dwelling unit, some tenants have abused the spirit of the law by delaying the sale of the property for up to 6 months and demanding large amounts of money from the owner in exchange for not exercising the TOPA law. This practice has led to a growing cottage industry of "TOPA lawyers" and adds to the overall cost of a single family home sale which is passed to the buyer and decreases affordability. The Committee on Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization has reviewed all single-family home TOPA offers of the past several years and found that offers very rarely resulted in tenant purchases.
"Given the significant regulatory burden of potentially postponing a sale, and the very rare use of TOPA by tenants in single-family homes, and even likely rarer use of TOPA by tenants of accessory dwelling units, it is time to make a change," stated Councilmember Bonds at today's introduction of the Act. Adding, "I believe this bill strikes the appropriate regulatory balance by carving out a narrow exception to TOPA that applies only to single-family homes with accessory dwelling units under specific conditions."
The legislation was co- introduced by Chairman Phil Mendelson, Councilmembers Kenyan McDuffie, Jack Evans, Brandon Todd, David Grosso, Vincent C. Gray and co-sponsored by Councilmembers Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau.


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HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF)- Coastal Carolina University Board of Trustees approved an initiative that will make its campus smoke and tobacco-free. This will include support programs and educational campaigns that will promote healthy living in general.
The University says deciding to go smoke free is a part of a new marketing campaign tentatively called 'Live Well CCU.' The smoke free campus will begin next school year, but when students return from the holiday break, they will begin to see changes. Officials are putting together a web site where students can get information on healthier lifestyles.
"Coastal's mission statement says that we are devoted to developing students that have a healthy lifestyle, so we already have it as a mission so we just thought it was the right time," says Bill Plate, the Associate V.P. of Communications.
The initiative follows national and state trends that show more and more institutions are going tobacco-free. Twenty higher education institutions in South Carolina, and more than 1,100 campuses nationally have adopted 100 percent smoke-free policies.
Beginning in January 2014, smoking cessation classes and other aids will be made available to all members of the CCU campus community. This Tobacco-Free Campus policy will go into effect at the beginning of the Fall 2014 semester.
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For too many years, people putting out gluten free products or cookbooks have been taking out the gluten but adding in a whole host of ingredients that we'd be better off without. Among those ingredients are simple carbs, starches, saturated fats, refined sugars, corn, soy, yeast, and dairy.
I've heard so many people tell me that they started gaining weight and/or spiking their blood sugar or having issues with inflammation while on a gluten-free diet. This should not be okay! Those with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity can and should be able to eat much healthier than what they're being offered.
If my goal had been simply to churn out yet another gluten free cookbook, I could have done that and become book number one thousand, two hundred and--you fill in the number. Instead, my focus has never been limited to simply removing gluten at the expense of nutrition, health and other food sensitivities. That's why my recipes never contain dairy, refined sugar, yeast or peanuts. I also avoid soy and corn.
Delightfully Free emphasizes nutrition and healthy eating. That's why my Garlic Cream Sauce is made from cauliflower and white beans, and my Chocolate Chip Cookies are made from almond meal, and why I have BBQ sauce made with natural sweeteners, not high fructose corn syrup, and why my Black Bean Brownies and Chocolate Cake are made with Black Beans which contain protein and fiber, which, in addition to its other benefits, helps keep blood sugar from spiking and adds protein.
My emphasis on healthy eating means you will never find artificial dyes or alcohol sugars in my recipes.
But, the best thing of all is that Delightfully Free contains recipes which the whole family will love, which means that you fix only one meal which benefits both the allergen sensitive and the allergen free people you care most about.That's why between the covers of Delightfully Free you'll find Lasagna, Chicken Enchilada Casserole, Pizzas, Pastas, Breakfast dishes, Muffins, Breads, Cookies, Cakes with 6 different frostings, soups, salads and 7 salad dressings--selections which are not simply gluten, dairy, yeast and refined sugar free, but healthy and nutritious as well.
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I hope you will consider Delightfully Free for your family's health and nutritional wellbeing. If you have any questions, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you decide to try Delightfully Free, you can purchase it right on this website and I will be honored to send you out a signed copy.
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The recently concluded 45th annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning (2011 Heckerling Conference) in Orlando, Fla. had a vibe unlike any other. The overarching dynamic, of course, was the massive changes to the estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax landscape brought about by The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010 (TRA 2010), which President Obama signed into law on Dec. 17, 2010. The techniques in the estate planner's toolbox all of a sudden require reexamination with the increased gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemptions unified at $5 million with a 35 percent maximum tax rate beginning in 2011 and the introduction of portability of lifetime exemption amounts between spouses for estate and gift (but not GST tax) purposes. And for those who may have thought that 2010 had already been confined to the history books, TRA 2010 retroactively restored the estate and GST tax systems as of Jan. 1, 2010 (subject to an "opt out" for 2010 decedents for purposes of the estate tax) and established a maximum tax rate of 35 percent, with the notable exception that GSTs occurring during 2010 are instead subject to a zero percent tax rate. But alas, permanence isn't to be found in the new law, as it's scheduled to sunset after Dec. 31, 2012.
So what were the principal themes that dominated the 2011 Heckerling conference?
Two-Year Patches: The New Norm
A number of speakers suggested that we may be looking at a series of legislative patches going forward, perhaps every two years. TRA 2010 expires after Dec. 31, 2012. That means that unless Congress takes further action, come Jan. 1, 2013 the tax laws that existed prior to the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA)—including the $1 million estate, gift and GST tax exemptions and the 55 percent top estate, gift and GST tax rates—come roaring back. None of the speakers expected that result to occur (other than perhaps temporarily subject to retroactive adjustment). The majority view was that $5 million exemptions (with indexing) and 35 percent tax rates may be with us for a while.
Estate Tax Repeal Still on the Horizon?
A few speakers—including Louis A. Mezzullo, a partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.—expressed the view that we may not have seen the last of federal estate and GST tax repeal. Rather, with a $5 million exemption, a 35 percent top rate and portability of the exemption between spouses, the estate tax now provides a dwindling amount of revenues. Combined with the strength and persistence of the lobby for repeal of the "death tax" that Yale Law School Professor Michael V. Graetz spoke on, and—depending upon what happens in the 2012 elections—it shouldn't be a shock if estate tax repeal occurs again in 2013. Accordingly, because we don't know what the future holds, planners should focus on flexibility in their estate planning documents to be able to adapt to various circumstances. The best way to accomplish such flexibility is to contemplate the use of disclaimers and to authorize an independent trustee to change the default terms of the instrument to adjust to potential changed circumstances.
Opportunity for Gifting and Leveraged Transfers
TRA 2010 maintained the lifetime gift tax exemption at $1 million in 2010, but increased it (beginning in 2011) to be "unified" with the amount of the estate tax applicable exclusion amount (for example, $5 million), with such amount to be indexed from 2010 beginning in 2012. This means that married couples, with gift splitting, can make transfers of up to $10 million per couple without having to pay any gift taxes. The speakers unanimously concurred that this paves the way for leveraging strategies that can transfer vast amounts of wealth outside the gross estate. In addition to outright gifts, the most favored approach was the use of grantor trusts. The primary example proposed posited a married couple that would transfer $10 million to a grantor trust as a "10 percent seed capital gift" and then sell $90 million of assets to such trust in a nontaxable transaction in exchange for a promissory note bearing interest at the applicable federal rate.1 The couple would continue to pay all of the income taxes on the grantor trust, further depleting their estates and allowing the property in the trust to compound tax-free.2
Recapture or "Clawback" Risk
There was considerable debate as to whether a material risk exists that clients who gift away $5 million during their lifetimes may later become subject to estate tax on such gifts if the estate tax applicable exclusion amount is later reduced below $5 million. As a number of speakers pointed out, the instructions to the Form 706 (the United States Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Return) suggest this result. The majority view of the speakers, however, was that it's unlikely that the Internal Revenue Service would punish taxpayers who gifted away $5 million during their lifetimes in reliance on current law exemptions that ceased to exist at their death.
Rescission to Undo Gifts in 2010
A number of speakers—including those on the excellent "Recent Developments" panel: Dennis I. Belcher, a partner at McGuireWoods LLP in Richmond, Va., Samuel A. Donaldson, associate dean and professor of law at of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and Beth Shapiro Kaufman, a member at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C.—addressed the issue of how one can undo a gift made in 2010 in excess of the $1 million gift tax exemption that produced gift taxes that wouldn't have been incurred had the client waited until 2011 to make such gift. The consensus was that, while this is ultimately a matter of state law, the ability to invoke rescission to undo a gift will generally be unavailable in many jurisdictions. This is because the client and the client's advisor weren't proceeding under any mistake of fact or law concerning the 2010 gift tax exemption amount. Rather, the client and the advisor simply guessed wrong about the law to be in effect in 2011. The better route to undo such a transfer would be through qualified disclaimers (provided that the gift hadn't yet been accepted by the donor within the guidelines set forth in the Internal Revenue Code Section 2518 regulations), or through what was sometimes described by the speakers as "self-help."
Marriage of Convenience and Portability
Considerable attention was devoted to TRA 2010's portability provisions, which combine the applicable exclusion amounts of both spouses to prevent their waste if a poorer spouse predeceases a richer spouse without fully utilizing his $5 million exclusion amount.
TRA 2010 allows the executor of a deceased spouse's estate to transfer any unused estate tax exemption to the surviving spouse.3 As Prof. Donaldson humorously noted, it wouldn't be so far-fetched if some marriages were to occur solely to take advantage of a poorer spouse's $5 million applicable exclusion amount.
Credit Shelter Trusts vs. Portability
Portability will ensure a step-up in basis of the subject assets at the surviving spouse's death and may appeal to clients as a reason to avoid having to plan their estates. As the speakers emphasized, however, portability doesn't dispense with the need to use credit shelter trusts in estate planning. The following considerations support the use of credit shelter trusts, in lieu of relying on portability:
- There are substantial non-tax benefits from using trusts, including asset protection, asset management and restricting transfers of assets by a surviving spouse;
- The deceased spousal unused exclusion amount for portability purposes isn't indexed;
- The unused exclusion amount from a particular predeceased spouse will be lost if the surviving spouse remarries and survives his next spouse;
- With portability, growth in the assets isn't excluded from the gross estate of the surviving spouse—in contrast, growth in the assets of a credit shelter trust is excluded from the gross estate of the surviving spouse; and
- There's no portability of the GST tax exemption.
Step-Up in Basis for Property in the Credit Shelter Trust
The Heckerling speakers emphasized that estate planners who advise clients to fully fund their credit shelter trusts will need to consider techniques to achieve a step-up in basis of the assets held in the credit shelter trust. They discussed the following techniques at the conference:
- Include a broad distribution standard in favor of the surviving spouse in the credit shelter trust—such as in the best interests of the surviving spouse—so that additional property can be distributed to the surviving spouse that can qualify for the step-up in basis upon such spouse's death.
- Consider giving an independent trustee the ability to confer a testamentary general power of appointment upon the surviving spouse to produce estate tax inclusion equal to the unused exemption amount. That, however, could expose the independent trustee to fiduciary liability for his actions or inactions, so the governing instrument should include broad exoneration provisions.
- Consider including a formula provision in the will or trust conferring a testamentary general power of appointment upon the surviving spouse in an amount equal to the unused exemption amount. This eliminates the complexities that attend to giving an independent trustee distribution authority. The trade-off, however, is that it creates a real risk that assets will be diverted to individuals that the first spouse to die didn't want to benefit (such as another spouse or that spouse's children).
- If applicable state law permits the rule against perpetuities not to be anchored by reference to the date of creation of an instrument that confers a limited power of appointment, consider exercising such limited power of appointment to trigger estate tax inclusion (and therefore a step-up in basis) through an appointment in further trust that comports with the "Delaware tax trap" provisions of IRC Section 2041(a)(3).
Elect Out of Automatic Allocation of GST Tax Exemption
The speakers' most pervasive admonition was that taxpayers will generally need to elect out of the automatic allocation of GST tax exemption for 2010 GST transfers on a timely filed gift tax return. Taxpayers should take this action to prevent the GST tax exemption from being wasted on a transaction occurring during 2010 for which a zero percent GST tax rate applies.4 If, however, it's possible that further distributions may be made to great-grandchildren or their descendants from a trust to which a direct skip has been made in 2010, then—notwithstanding the zero percent GST tax rate in 2010—circumstances could still render the allocation of GST tax exemption to such trust advisable. That's because the application of the "move-down" rule of IRC Section 2653 will place the transferor one generation above the grandchildren (for instance, the children's generation) and thereby expose subsequent distributions or terminations in favor of great-grandchildren or their descendants to GST tax. If, however, the possibility of that occurring is remote, the planner should advise the client to elect out of the automatic allocation of GST tax exemption on 2010 GST transfers.
1. See Internal Revenue Code Section 1274(d); Revenue Ruling 85-13.
2. See Rev. Rul. 2004-64.
3. The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization and Job Creation Act of 2010, Section 303.
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Dr.Young,In having conversed with a few friends and one relative whom works in Pharmaceuticals, the topic of cure was discussed with HIV. I believe that it is possible but far far far far far off from coming into fruition. One of my friends happens to think that there is a cure but the political and money aspect of it is not allowing it to be released. And then the relative said "they have and will continue to make great medicines, but they won't make a cure, since it's the number one profitable disease for the pharmaceutical company". What are your thoughts on this since, you're the professional.
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Hello and thanks for posting.
I suppose the answer to your question depends on how one defines "far, far off".
IMHO, the field has made great strides towards cure- particularly in the setting of pediatric HIV, where I think it's now only an issue of social, political and financial will, rather than science or medications, that prevents us from curing, eliminating (did I say eliminate?) pediatric HIV- that's over a million souls every year. The same is probably true for acute HIV infection in adults.
With regards to a cure for people living with chronic HIV (the vast majority of those individuals currently living with HIV today), it's going to take a lot longer. Perhaps a far, far off time. While the results of Timothy Brown, and the Boston cases should certainly be a cause for celebration, it will take a considerable bit of time, luck and funding to translate these bone marrow transplantation strategies into something that can be done safely and cost-effectively for people who aren't balancing the risks/benefits of HIV and cancer.
I am not a conspiracy theorist in believing that it's a pharmaceutical industry secret or master plan not to have a cure- no more than I believe that the CIA planned 9/11. Probably HIV is a very difficult virus to cure because the beast lives, camouflaged in the chromosomes of human cells. It evolves very rapidly. These are features that make cure very challenging and orders of magnitude more difficult than, say, influenza or hepatitis C virus (by the way, we now do have cures for HCV- no conspiracy mastermind prevented that one from coming through the pipeline).
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Carl Glave, primarily our vehicle programmer, made much of this possible by implementing a generic, but powerful library of functions that eased the creation of common effects such as:
- Cubic lines, which lead to a relatively easy implementation of lightning
- Quad drawing a layer above the low-level PS2 draw modes
- Rings of quads, which easily led to generating programmatic, spherical geometry
- Quad chains for things like contrails
Other avenues for creativity opened as it became apparent that in order to actually improve upon the weapons from three highly successful Ratchet & Clank titles, the design and development of each weapon would have to be extremely collaborative. It's too bad that programmers get such a bad rap for being stereotypical, anti-social dungeon-dwellers, perpetually shrouded in darkness, when in reality, none of us would be able to do our best work in a bubble.
Some programmers choose to deal only with design documents, and some companies even enforce such models. At Insomniac, almost every detail is discussed and thought through carefully ... whether it's in a formal meeting, a chat over breakfast, or the dominating e-mail thread of the day.
Bouncing these ideas between artists, designers, programmers, and testers helps to ensure that by the time an idea gets down to implementation, it has gone through the necessary paces. Obviously, such a process requires a good deal of coordination, which could be placed on the project managers, but when the model is shouldered across the organization, fewer issues slip through the cracks and you end up with an amazing level of polish and quality in the game.
Now, some of my late nights are spent playtesting our public beta online. Playing against other people really helps me see where all the kinks are in the system and which weapons need more love. Between these final tweaks and the little extras on graphics, I think we'll have our best game on our hands. You can definitely look forward to the pwnage I will be serving online once the game ships.


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The time has come.. I purchased nails wheels! And the reason of that is because I have so many nailpolishes that if I want to color my nails I'm spending way too long just to pick out a color.
A nail wheel is a plastic wheel with superior fake-nails. Wheels are made for displaying nailpolishes. Store that sell nailpolish mostly have a nailwheel hanging next the polishes to show you the colors how they would look like outside the bottle. But nail wheels are not for stores and nailart-artists anymore. Any person who likes nail wheels can buy them nowadays online.
I bought mine on Ebay, I ordered 20 clear nailwheels for 11 dollars including shippingcosts. I ordered clear nailwheels, but I got white ones instead. I don't know why but I'm also glad with white colored wheels. Each wheels has 20 nails to display your nailpolish on.
I organized my nail wheels in colorcategories; Silver/glitter, red, pink 1, pink 2, blue, orange/peach, yellow, black/grey/white, purple, green and brown/nude -tone colors.
I numbered all the nails on the wheels, swatched every single color I own on the wheels with two coats and listed them on my laptop. This all took me 14 hours to do! I know, crazy right, but I'm glad I did because now choosing a nailpolish is so much easier than before.


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Good morning.
We are only a month away from moving to our new home now and my husband and I went shopping for paint colors yesterday. One of the things we had promised ourselves with our new home was that we were going to paint with eco-friendly, non toxic and VOC (Volatile organic compound)-free paints. So off we went to find such a marvel!
I had done a bit of research on them before, especially after posting about plants and the way they can help purify the air we breathe indoors, and was shocked by the amount of negative impact one can of traditional paint could have on your health and environment.
According to Eartheasy.com, there are many benefits to using non-toxic paints :
- Health : Reduced toxins benefit everyone, including those with allergies and chemical sensitivities.
- Environment : Reduces landfill, groundwater and ozone depleting contaminants.
- Effective : Low-VOC products perform well in terms of coverage, scrubability and hideability (covering flaws on previous coats).
- Water-Based : Easy cleanup with soap and warm water.
- Little or No Hazardous Fumes : Low odor during application; no odor once cured. No off-gassing. Painted areas can be occupied sooner, with no odor complaints.
- Not Deemed Hazardous Waste : Cleanup and disposal greatly simplified.
Their section on non-toxic paints is WELL WORTH A LOOK and offers a great and extensive list of Natural, Zero-VOC and Low-VOC options. The natural paints even included soy and milk protein based paints. I thought that was simply wonderful! Until I tried finding such brands here in Quebec and hitting my head to a wall. The only one that was anywhere near me was Benjamin Moore and up here, they are so expensive, I couldn't even imagine buying gallons over gallons. Plus they are in the low-VOC category and I wanted VOC-Free.
So back to square one, my husband and I headed to Home Depot and SURPRISE! We found one!
C.I.L. Dulux, a long standing paint manufacturer from Canada, has come out with their own line of 100% acrylic, VOC and solvent free paints that are eco-friendly and practically odor free. It also comes in eggshell and semi-gloss finishes. The best part is that, any color in their color swatches that is white-based (symbol W/B) can be made from this paint. Now, I understand that adding color pigments may compromise a bit of the "pureness" of the paint, but the solvents and VOCs will still not be there.
So I was pretty happy and cannot wait to start decorating our new home! I will keep you posted on the progress when the time comes.
Have you looked around for ways of reducing harmful materials in your home? Please share!


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It is a pressing issue for some studying the Scriptures that on one hand we are given the message that we are not justified by our works and on the other hand that we must obey the commandments of God and do good works for which we will be judged. How are the two compatible?
The solution to this issue is found in the teaching of deification, which is the key to the gospel message. Deification means union with God which means not only connection with Him but also participating ourselves in the fullness of His life and existence. That is participating in His infinite and eternal life beyond our limited time/space existence. Once this is understood as the promise of God to man we can see why we are called to be perfect as He is perfect and holy as He is holy. That is we are called to live His righteousness which we know and do through obedience to His commandments. However, we also realise that we are unable of our own strength to achieve perfection because we are imperfect, which is why we confess ourselves as sinners. It is impossible for time/space creatures to transcend their condition with its limits and weaknesses by their own strength/energies. Thus, it is impossible to be justified by our works. Obedience to the Law in itself is incapable of saving us. Rather to transcend our condition we must be helped by God, He must give us to share in His energies that we may live as He does. That is we are saved by the grace of God, which sets us free from our limits to participate in His free eternal life. We are not saved by grace to escape from works but to participate in eternal works that transcend our own works. Why does not God just do this for us all and why must we still obey? Because to participate in the life of God means that we must both be unique persons and free. God cannot make us good only of Himself else it would deny our freedom and unique personhood and we would no longer be the ones participating nor would we be living as He lives freely. This is why we must have faith because in this we express our free will to live as God lives. Through faith we own God's life as our life by obedience and doing His will. This means that we truly share in His life freely of our own will and living His life with Him. He is the only one who is truly free and only by sharing in His freedom, by uniting to His will through obedience, do we also become truly free.
So, deification means that we must live the righteousness of God as our own but our own good works of themselves cannot save us because we cannot transcend our state of life without the grace of God.


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Maze Hill Pottery
Once upon a time there was a little railway station. It was a fine railway station, with wide sidings and a dear little ticket office who was his best friend. But one day a wicked old wizard came along and cast an evil spell, his greedy eye on the little station's land. The little station fought and fought but the wicked old wizard's magic was too strong.
The brave little station survived but at what cost? He had lost his lovely sidings and the wizard forced him to live with an ugly hovel instead of his beloved ticket office. Only the wave of a fairy godmother's magic wand and could save the little station's friend…
Maze Hill Pottery is a wonderful example of the kind of thing we can't afford to lose in Greenwich – a sweet little Victorian building turned into something that isn't an estate agent's office or a KFC rip-off. It's run by Lisa Hammond, an internationally-acclaimed artist whose stuff is not just beautiful, it's useful too. Each item is unique and although she does do some interesting 'art' pieces, most of her stuff is actually useable. Bowls and pots, cafetieres and casseroles, each is subtley different and has a practical purpose, rather than just an ornamental dust-trap function…
As I was walking past one day in December, I saw a postcard advertising an open studio day – just the sort of thing I can't resist. Even better, it was going to coincide with a rare kiln-opening. Apparently the thing takes several nail-biting days to cool properly – if she opens the door too quickly, the contents crack. She doesn't actually know how her latest pots will turn out for some time after she's fired it all up. And since she only fires up about once a month, a bad batch can represent a real problem.
What I found delightful was the surprise Lisa Hammond still has every time she opens a kiln. She can't be sure exactly how anything will look – I didn't realise just how inexact a science slips and glazes are. And that's what makes ceramics so exciting. As she examined each piece, it was clear that even things from the same batch will be different – so every item is unique. A good thing in this age of mass-production.
Lisa Hammond exhibits all over the world, and her wares can be purchased from exclusive stores in Tokyo (though of course you could just nip into the workshop if she's in there.) It's a terrific place to get presents (it solved the problem of what to get for the Phantom-Webmaster-who-has-everything) but they don't have to be just pottery. Lisa Hammond finds time to run classes and workshops too which would also make a good 'virtual' gift. I've never been to a class, but I'm tempted. They look great fun. There's loads about them and all manner of other interesting things about the place itself on the excellent website. I won't reinvent the (potter's) wheel here by repeating what can be found at http://www.greenwichgateway.com/mazehill/index.htm


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Adventures of The Vale
Welcome to 'Adventures of the Vale' our Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
This website is specifically for our campaign. To keep track of the story, to keep useful notes on and to give flavour to the world which we're in.
Have a look at the adventure log to remind yourself of what's happened. Look at the wiki to learn about the world. The site is a bit spares at the moment but will slowly grow with time.
I'll be asking for 1 person to volunteer to write us a summary of what happened after every game session and post it in the adventure log, so you'll all be part of creating the record of the story.
Also if anyone wants to write stuff to add any extra flavour to the world then they are more than welcome to. (e.g. journal entries from your character describing how they see the rest of the group, a story that your character tells the group around the camp fire one night, background for your character, etc)


text: 6-night Okavango Delta Budget Safari Posted on 28 January 2014 Tags:Botswana, camping, Okavango Delta, wildlife Departure date: 2017 Number of nights: 6 Package price: From R17 500 Enquire Now Mobile Group Safari Explore the beauty of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, renowned for its spectacular wildlife and stunning scenery. On this seven day mobile camping safari you will drive in 4×4's deep into Moremi Game Reserve and Khwai, discover the vast waterways of the Okavango Delta by mokoro, boat and game drives. Read 5 ways to experience the Okavango Delta The green season (November-April) is a fantastic time to visit Botswana with excellent bird life, plentiful game (including a high population of elephant) and predator sightings. The dry season (May-October) is also a great time to visit as wildlife is easier to spot and temperatures are milder. The safari is geared to private families or groups with a minimum of four people that have a keen interest in wildlife, game viewing and camping in the bush. Cost of Okavango Delta Budget Safari Package Low season (15 Nov-31 Mar 2017) R17 500 per person sharing High season (01 Apr-14 Nov 2017) R18 500 per person sharing * Minimum of x4 people required for a departure. Max of x12 pax. * x2 pax will be added to a list until x4 people have confirmed Package dates Throughout 2017 Package includes All camping equipment on safari Camp assistant/chef to do the back-up work Senior licensed professional guide Canvas tents (2×2 m) mosquito gauze on door and windows. Ground mattress with sleeping bag, 1 pillow, pillow case, sheets, blanket and bath towel Toiletries: (toilet paper only). Please remember to bring your toiletries with you. Shared shower (private portable shower filled on request with hot water by camp staff) Shared bush toilet (toilet seat over a pre-dug pit with ash to fill in as you go) Canvas basin- one per tent – filled with hot water every morning Meals around the campfire with table and directors chairs Tableware: table cloths & paper napkins, durable melamine crockery, cutlery Basic camping two course meals throughout Limited Bar: filtered/bottled water & cordials (clients will be taken to a shop before departure on safari to buy soft drinks and alcoholic beverages.) Guests could be asked to assist the guide or staff with occasional camp chores such as collecting firewood or water, packing up camp, etc Game drive vehicle pulls trailer with all camping equipment and the camp assistant/chef travel with clients Luggage space is restricted to approx 12 kg per person in soft bags where possible All park entry and camping fees Government taxes & levies Road levies Public liability Medical kit Limited reference library Package excludes International flights to and from Botswana Any transfers & excursions not specified Travel, cancellation & medical insurance Charter flights Private or en suite ablutions Extras: flash lights & batteries, thermos water bottle & mugs, hot water bottle in winter, plastic rain coats or umbrellas in summer. Please remember to bring your torch or head lamp. 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Day 3: Explore the Okavango Delta/Moremi Game Reserve on a morning game drive and afternoon mokoro trip 2-5pm – overnight camping Day 4: Drive from the Okavango Delta area to Khwai region of Moremi Game Reserve – overnight camping Day 5: Explore Moremi Khwai 4×4 game drives morning and afternoon – overnight camping Day 6: Explore Moremi Khwai on a morning mokoro trip and afternoon game drive – overnight camping Day 7: Road transfer from Khwai back to Maun for onward arrangements (3 hour drive) Notes The trip starts and ends in Maun, Botswama Clients must be available for pick up in Maun before midday Transport: open 4×4 Accommodation: camping Activities: 4×4 game drives, three hour boat cruise, PM mokoro trip and three hour mokoro in Sable Alley Khwai area. 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The Welcome Home Bogie and Bacall Project may be the most significant effort to release captive dolphins in the world. It is certainly one of the most cautious, scientific, and closely watched release projects in history. Bogie and Bacall are two bottlenose dolphins being cared for by a team of dedicated experts, in good health, eating live fish, and interacting with wild dolphins that may be their original community at an island site in Brevard County, Florida, very close to where they were captured for display. A Scientific Steering Committee is readying a release permit to be submitted to NMFS by mid May. Bogie aborted her fetus January 1st, but Bacall is expected to give birth in June or July. To maximize the calf's chance of survival, the team looks for a release ten months later. We must congratulate the many people who have dedicated their lives, money and reputations to Bogie and Bacall's future survival in the wild. Overcoming enormous problems, including a very cold winter, they all need our help to continue. This is about far more than Bogie and Bacall. These two captive dolphins are the focus of the future for captive-to-wild releases. There is an increasing need to successfully readapt "surplus" dolphins back to the wild, and there have been too many mistakes in the past.
You can be an enormous help to Bogie and Bacall, and all the readapted dolphins that will follow them. Everything now depends on funding, and yes, this is a most unusual appeal from CSI to all "Whales Alive!" readers: Help support Welcome Home Bogie and Bacall. To contribute or get detailed information please contact: Dolphin Alliance/Welcome Home Bogie and Bacall, POB 510273, Melbourne Beach, FL 32951.
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Discover the polished CONCORDE Hotel Singapore with COVERED Asia and MinistryforStyle.
Our favourite Sydney-based Fashion and Lifestyle blogger, Mandy for MinistryForStyle is back in Singapore. This time, she's checking-into the well located CONCORDE Hotel Singapore. From being just a short walk away from all major shopping malls along Singapore's major shopping precinct Orchard Road, to being offered a complimentary mobile phone on loan to use during your stay, Mandy joins the COVERED Asia team to uncover some of the best perks tourists would look for in a hotel.
Get the full story on what she got up to during her time in Singapore here!


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- Release Date of film : 1997-07-02
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- Tommy Lee Jones Character (Agent K)
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Decisions made recently by officials at the helm of two different agencies, both of which serve the public, will have a definite impact, but is the little guy being hurt in the process?
In Melrose, trustees of the Melrose Public Library and Library Director Dennis Kelley decided to charge a hefty fee — $150 for an individual; $200 for a family — to Saugus residents who would like to use the Melrose Library. Saugus closed the doors to its town library last week due to budget wrangling in that town — a sign on the door there this week says the library is "closed due to lack of funding."
Other library boards, like Melrose's, have reacted in kind to the news of the Saugus Library's closure: the Revere Library will allow Saugonians to come inside and read magazine and periodicals but not check out books or even use the computers; Wakefield, citing that town's standing policy, curtailed borrowing privileges to Saugus residents due to the closing of the library; Lynnfield, apparently being the most generous, will reportedly allow Saugus residents to use the library through July 1.
The Melrose Board of Library Trustees' decision to charge $150 or $200 for borrowing privileges to Saugus residents is hurtful to senior citizens and to children, especially as the latter prepare for summer vacation and reading lists assigned by teachers. Yes, Saugus should have stepped up to the plate and staffed and funded their library. No question there. And yes, Melrose Library trustees are correct in assigning a fee to Saugus residents as a way of showing just how expensive professional library services can be.
But $150 for an individual and $200 for a family? The fees seem exorbitant and instead of sending a strong message to Saugus officials who allowed their library to get into the financial mess it is in, the message on the door of the Melrose Library seems to be "Not Welcome" to Saugonians. Period.
In another case of hurting the little guy, this time at the state level, the Massachusetts Lottery Commission was wrong to have abruptly ended the "Instant Replay" anti-litter program used by civic groups to raise funds — and even more wrong to end the program without notification and a final "ticket turn-in" day.
Across the state, people like Karl Geller, director of Melrose's Temple Beth Shalom, used the Lottery's program as a fundraiser for good causes — in Geller's case, a $1 million capital improvement plan at the Temple. Geller, his wife Sandy, and numerous Temple members spent months collecting discarded, dirty lottery scratch tickets — 66,000, in fact — to be turned in at a Lottery redemption day where 25 discarded tickets would be redeemed for a $1 ticket.
Instead, the Lottery Commission cancelled the program because it was costing too much money. According to Beth Bresnahan, communications director for the Lottery Commission, the program receives $100,000 in funding from the Legislature, but the program alone was costing more than $1.5 million per year to operate.
Obviously, the Lottery Commission could not continue running the program with such losses but ending it suddenly, with no advance warning or notice and without a final ticket redemption day, was the wrong thing to do — and a public relations nightmare for the state agency.
But in the end, it's the little guys, in this case, the Temple members who slogged through snow and mud collecting littered tickets, who are bearing the hurt.


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A man was in severe pain after his penis made a "snapping sound" during sex.
The 32-year-old from New Delhi rushed straight to hospital where he found his manhood had gone black.
The medical term for the injury is called 'eggplant deformity' according to BMJ, who documented the case by All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
'Eggplant deformity' means he would have snapped one of two tubes called the corpora cavernosa, which is the length of the entire penis and causes the skin to go black all over.
According to the report, medical staff drained the blood and mended the tear.
The Metro newspaper reports that the BMJ report said: "Penile fracture occurs when an erect penis undergoes a blunt trauma during sexual intercourse or otherwise, bending the penile shaft and causing a tear/rupture of the tunica albuginea, and tracking of blood from cavernosal sinuses into the subcutaneous plane."


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Without a doubt the best thing about returning to my birthplace is spending time with family (and friends). After going an entire year without seeing my kin, it's been wonderful to cook, watch movies and laugh together. In documenting some of those times I've been reminded just what a ham my brother Christian is. Whenever I snap a pic he pulls an outrageous face, like in the photo seen above. Here are additional examples of his hamminess.
Update: A verbal illustration of Christian's hamminess popped up today, and I simply had to share. While walking our dogs the conversation somehow turned to the question of how to spend money after winning the lottery. Items at the top of my brother's to-buy list: a costume modeled on an assassin from a favourite video game, a tank and (quite randomly) an Egyptian headdress. That's how he rolls.


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Lafeline overviewWhatever your interests are, Lafeline has something for you. Though Lafeline might not have many well-known attractions, you don't need to venture far to visit Chateau de Montfand and Musee de la Vigne et du Terroir. You can take some time to discover the surrounding area and sights like Clock Tower and Musee de la Lithographie.
Where to stay in LafelineA welcoming city, Lafeline has a variety of hotels and other lodging options. You can shop as many as 12 deals for Lafeline accommodations on Hotels.com, some with discounts of up to 24%. Our room prices start at 29 USD per night and below you'll find the number of hotels by star rating in Lafeline as well as in the surrounding area:
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What to see around LafelineHere are some recommended places to see in the surrounding area:
- • Chateau de Montfand (4 mi/6.5 km from the city center)
- • Musee de la Vigne et du Terroir (6 mi/9.6 km from the city center)
- • Clock Tower (6 mi/9.6 km from the city center)
- • Musee de la Lithographie (6 mi/9.7 km from the city center)
- • Church of Saint Croix (6 mi/9.7 km from the city center)


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Saturday, 1st December 2012
Winter has now well and truly arrived with freezing conditions with a bit of sleet falling as I walked in from Whittlesford Station. Since my last visit, the 27ltr/1,760hp Rolls Royce Merlin 724-1C, V12, engine in the Old Flying Machine Company P-51 'Ferocious Frankie' has been removed. It'll probably be a couple of months before the replacement powerplant is installed as it only went off for refurbishment a couple of weeks ago. The P-40B that has been a temporary resident in hangar 3 with the OFMC, has now returned home to The Fighter Collection in hangar 2. The Ambassador is now sporting a pair of rudders and looking more complete. The only other notable change has been the Victor which is now back inside in the AirSpace restoration area. The move was achieved with the return of 'Christine' the big bright yellow Dennis-Mercury 20 ton Aircraft Tractor on loan from the Yorkshire Air Museum near York. She was sitting in Hangar 5 awaiting her return north.
Camera Used: Sony NEX-5N with a Sony 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 E & a Sony 10-18mm f4 OSS lens.
Tuesday, 4th December 2012
Winter maintenance on the Catalina and B-17 'Sally-B' is continuing with the 'Dummy' chin turret of the B-17 having been removed. DHC-1 Chipmunk 22A/(G-ARMG) was in residence with The Old Flying Machine Company and having what looked like its engine removed. The Historic Aircraft Collection Hawker Hurricane XIIa/Z5140/HA-C/(G-HURI) could remain at Duxford for a while now as it failed to sell at the Bonham's auction the day before. The VC-10 shot was a bit experiment as I was shooting into the sun and used the tail to block it out which gave me more or less a black silhouette. I then used a process called 'Fake HDR Using Blend Mode' to see how much detail I could retrieve from the dark shadows.
Thursday, 6th December 2012
Apart from a bit of snow left over from the day before, the only changes have been in Hangar 5 where some of the Lambeth exhibits have been repositioned with 'Ole Bill' the 1911 London bus having moved into Hangar 4.
Thursday, 13th December 2012
I was going to have a Friday visit but with the forecast for rain all day decided to take advantage of the sunshine and visit a day early. A good decision as the Mk 1A Spitfire arrived from Lambeth (Covered in 'IWM Museum Aircraft'). Apart from that it was just a question of staying warm as I wandered around looking for photo opportunities as not much else is happening with a wind down for the Christmas Break..
Saturday, 15th December 2012
With the prospect of a bit of sunshine and a mini-heatwave with the temperature in the high single figures, compared to the previous week freezing temperature's, I thought I'd take advantage of the weather conditions for an unplanned visit. Wasn't expecting much to be happening but there were quite a few GA types flying around and the owner of the bright yellow Texan decided to give it a spin after it had received it's Certificate of Airworthiness the day before.
Wednesday, 19th December 2012
With the dust having settled in the cockpit after its move from Lambeth, the anti-radiation 'Silver Duvet' around the cockpit of the Spitfire Mk.1 in hangar 5 had been removed with warning stickers in its place. TFC are slowly getting back to normal after clearing out the Museum storage buildings on the north side of Duxford, where they held their overflow stock & parts, and stacking the various engines and other bits and pieces on the shelves around their hangar. There was a bit of an aircraft shuffle around in Hangar 3 following an engine run on Tuesday of the HAC Nimrod, the engine was inhibited after that to protected it over the winter period, and the T9 two seat Spitfire flying on a private function.
Friday, 28th December 2012
123rd and last visit of the year. I was expecting it to be a reasonably quite day at Duxford but by lunchtime, the car park was nearly full. Fortunately I arrived when doors opened so managed to get a few people free shots. Taken with a 10-18mm lens at the 10mm wide angle setting so a bit of distortion in some of the airframes.


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And so it begins. A spicy season opener played out at Mexpipe earlier this week, with a cast of local chargers heeding the call.
Towards the tail end of last week, a system in the South Pacific rifled a solid SSW swell into Puerto Escondido, creating all you see throughout.
Lensman Edwin Morales was perched on the beach. He relays to MSW: "What a great start of the season it's been. We have had small swells pumping since February and March is looking a whole lot better.
"On March 6-7 we saw the first solid swell of the year and it was nothing but amazing starting from the small crowds and the flawless conditions both mornings. 8-10 foot waves in pristine conditions, was all we could ask for and the ocean delivered. The sand is already getting better and we are all looking forward to another epic season in puerto."


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The Huntington University men's basketball team came up short to host Goshen College, 90-84, on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
The Foresters, 4-5, 0-1 in Crossroads League play, found themselves in a manageable 50-46 hole at halftime, but went on to trail by as many as 13 points in the second half before cutting the deficit back down to single digits by the end buzzer.
Junior Mason Coverstone paced Huntington with 18 points. Seniors Mike Bush and Devon Merder both totaled 15 points, with Bush also passing out 11 assists. Junior Tyler Arens logged his fifth double-double of the year, tossing in 11 points while pulling down a game-high 13 rebounds. Sophomore Konner Platt rounded out the team's double-digit efforts with 10 points.
Despite Arens' big rebounding effort, the Foresters lost the battle of the boards, 47-37.
Huntington went 31 of 74 from the field for 41.9 percent. Coach Ty Platt's squad added 14 points at the free throw line in 22 attempts for 63.6 percent.
Goshen, 5-3, 1-0 in conference, got 19 points from Conner Funkhouser. Christian Grider chipped in 18 points and Billy Geschke added 13 points.
The Maple Leafs shot 45.6 percent from the field on 31 of 68 marksmanship and 83.3 percent at the charity stripe on 20 of 24 shooting.


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Cardamom Mountains 3 Days Trek
Ratanakiri is located a about 600 km north east of Phnom Penh. With a shared minivan, the trip takes about 8 hours. Ratanakiri is widely known for its colourful indigenous communities and trekking opportunities. If your next destination is Laos or Vietnam, or whether you are coming from there, or you like to travel the country, then trekking in Ratanakiri is a good choice.


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