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New here,not new to Hockey. I have a Ton of game used items and need to make room. I'm looking to trade these for Calgary Flames game used or game issued jersey's or equipment. These jersey's are the "odd man out" type of deal and I'd like to move them. Prefer trades but will entertain cash offers. Can take more pics for anyone interested. Thanks!
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J.N Eberle Cie. GmbH, Augsburg, Germany, appointed Regal Steel Co., Warren, MI, as the sole distributor for its hardened and tempered precision spring steels in North America. Typical applications for J.N. Eberle's steels include saw tools, flat springs, and electronic and automotive parts. Regal Steel installed two additional precision slitting lines to process Eberle strip steel products, and also recently purchased an additional 27,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space adjacent to its existing facilities.
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ZIP files are extremely common for packing files meant for business, entertainment, and anything else you can imagine. If you have more than one file to send over the internet, it needs to be in a ZIP or even a RAR file. Messing around with ZIP files is easy on a PC, but what about your Android device?
If you're dealing with a stock Android, downloading a ZIP file won't be easy depending on your version of Android. However, on more recent versions of Android, downloading a ZIP file is as easy as tapping the file you want. Before I get into the opening of, or even downloading a ZIP file, let's go into what a ZIP file actually is.
What is a ZIP File?
A ZIP file is a lot like a folder, except in this case; it's compressed. A ZIP file can hold a large number of files inside of it, and can then be unzipped so you can get to the files inside. A ZIP file is much like a RAR file, and can be unpacked (or unzipped) the same way.
If you're concerned about opening RAR files, unpacking RAR files on Android is just as easy, if not easier. While I'm on concerns, not every ZIP file you open up is safe. Some ZIP files can contain malicious files, so always backup your important data before opening a ZIP file from a new source.
How Do I Download a ZIP File?
Starting the download process for a ZIP file only takes seconds, but depending on how big the file is; it can take minutes to download the file completely. On a more recent version of Android, you can just tap the file you want to download it.
However, on older versions, this might not be possible.
If you're running a version of Android that can't download ZIP files on its own, then you need to download an app that can do it for you. For that, there's File Downloader. You can download the app below for free, and then start using it as soon as possible.
File Downloader
The images on the download page provide step by step instructions on how to use the app. It's as easy as copying your download link, opening the app, and pasting it in the box.
Now that you know how to download a ZIP file, how do you open it? If you used File Downloader, you can see your ZIP file in your downloads, but you can't unzip it from there, can you?
To unzip one of these compressed files, you need another app. This can be a file manager, or an app specifically made for ZIP files. I'll go through some examples of each, and show you how to use them.
Method 1: ES File Explorer
ES File Explorer is one of the most well-known file explorers on Google Play, and it deserves its recognition. ES File Explorer can not only unzip your ZIP files, but it can additionally open the files inside. If you want to open ZIP files with ease, a file explorer is never a bad option to explore.
If you don't have it already, download ES File Explorer, there's a link for it below.
ES File Explorer
This is the free version of the app, but for what we're doing; you don't need Pro version features. If you still want to purchase the Pro version, you have the option to upgrade inside the app for $2.99 (or your regional equivalent).
Now that the app is installed, open it up and take a look around the main menu to familiarize yourself with the interface. When you're done with that, take a look at the magnifying glass on the top bar.
Tap the magnifying glass and search for the name of your downloaded ZIP file. Additionally, you can use the directory to search for it. If you can't remember the name, but can't use the directory, just search for ".zip" instead.
Once you've started your search, you'll see your ZIP file almost instantly.
There are two ways you can open a ZIP file in ES File Explorer:
- You can tap the file once to be taken to a new screen that displays the ZIP's contents.
- You can longpress the ZIP file, and then put in the command to extract the files somewhere else.
If you just tap the file, the new screen will look something like this:
I only have one file inside this ZIP, but don't worry, it doesn't matter how many files you have inside yours; you'll be able to see all of them.
If you're trying to extract your file(s) somewhere else, just long press the ZIP file you want to open, and then tap the three vertical dots in the top-right corner.
Now tap Extract to, and then choose where you want to extract your files. After you make the selections, your files will be ready to manage.
Since you're already in a file manager, you can use your unzipped files in any way you want, so you're all ready to go.
Method 2: File Commander
File Commander is another file explorer/manager, but the one that I prefer using instead of ES File Explorer. It may not claim the #1 spot in the Google Play Store over ES, but I feel like it's much easier to use and better for ZIP files.
If you don't believe me, why don't you give it a shot?
If you don't already have File Commander, you can download it here:
File Commander
Once the download and installation is finished, open the app and take in the sights for a moment to familiarize yourself with File Commander's user interface.
If you've downloaded the ZIP file you want to unzip, you can find it in your downloads tab of File Commander. I can see my ZIP with just a tap of the button.
But if you can't see your ZIP this way, make use of the search bar at the top of the screen to search for your ZIP file by name. If you can't remember the name, just search by ".zip" to find all of the ZIP files on your device.
Once you've found your file, all you need to do is tap it to access the files inside.
If you don't want to view the file(s) right there, you can also tap the three vertical dots to the side of any file(s) to open a new options menu. On this menu you can select "Extract to" so you can extract the file(s) to anywhere you want.
After you've extracted your files, they're ready to use at a moment's notice within your file manager.
Method 3: WinZip – Zip Unzip Tool
WinZip isn't much of a file manager, but it is the first app mentioned when unzipping comes up. If you don't want to deal with all the fluff of a file manager just to unzip some documents, WinZip is your ticket to a simple way to get your files.
In addition to unzipping, WinZip can ZIP files at the same time, making this app a handy package.
If you don't already have WinZip, now's the time to download it below.
WinZip – ZIP Unzip Tool
WinZip only has a free version available on the Google Play Store, but there isn't much need for a Pro version in the first place.
The menu for WinZip may seem a little confusing at first, since there's a distinct lack of immediately visible options.
But once you get the hang of navigating the app, it's one of my favorites to use for zipping and unzipping. At this point, you can either tap further into your storage or tap the horizontal bars on the left to open more options.
If your ZIP file(s) aren't on your SD card, then you'll want to tap the horizontal bars to open up different options.
Before we go any further, take a look at the options menu I mentioned in the previous step.
From here you can choose from a number of places to unzip files from. This even includes Google Drive and Dropbox. So if you have a ZIP file in your Dropbox or Drive that you need to unzip, you can do it from there directly.
I haven't found a way to access a search bar in my version of WinZip, but you can still explore every directory until you find where your ZIP file is. Currently, my ZIP is my Recent section because I've accessed it previously.
Each file in WinZip has an empty circle next to it. If you give the circle a tap, you'll select the file. You can do this to multiple files, or just one. If you do this to a ZIP file, you have the option to unzip it below. However, if you do this to an unzipped file, you can ZIP it, and any other files you select together.
For now, just tap Unzip once you've selected your zip file.
You're given a choice where you want your unzipped file(s) to end up, and your options are fairly vast. If you want to upload the file(s) directly to your Google Drive, or a Dropbox, you can.
Once you've done this, your files are all ready to use.
Method 4: AndroZip™ FREE File Manager
AndroZip is another unzipping tool that just focuses on what you want, unzipping files. The interface is simple to move around in, and your extracted files are automatically sent to AndroZip's extraction folder. You can find this folder in another file manager, or AndroZip itself to see your extracted files.
First things first, download AndroZip if you don't have it installed already.
AndroZip™ FREE File Manager
If you don't want to stick with the free version, a Pro version is available (for $2.99) in the recommended apps, and the app itself. However, for zipping and unzipping, the Pro version isn't required.
This app's interface may look dated, but it's thankfully very easy to use because of it. From the very start, to find your file(s), all you need to do is tap the three vertical dots in the top right.
From there, tap the Search option.
You can now search for the name of your ZIP file(s), or just search for ".zip" to find anything you're looking for.
Additionally, you can tap the Advanced button for extra search parameters if you can't find your file(s).
Once you've found your file(s), you can just give them a tap to see their contents. At that point, you can move the contents somewhere else, or just open them from here with another app.
When you try to open the unzipped files, you'll be asked what app you want to use. You can use any of the file managers I mentioned earlier, or any other app that you want instead.
Unzipping on Android has never been easier, and I'm not talking about jackets or pants. Zip files are used constantly in business and everyday life, right alongside RAR files that are just as easy to open on Android. With these apps under your control, you'll never be locked out of your files.
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The King of the Hammers is a combination of rock crawling and high-speed desert running, possibly the toughest automotive race int he United States. And this is what happens when things go wrong.
This multi-flip crash happened at qualifying Tuesday, and thankfully both driver Kevin Sacalas and co-driver Tim Carlson walked away from the wreckage.
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Swimming Ban Proposal
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I am writing in response to the proposal to ban swimming after certain hours. Specifically, I am very concerned with the latest discussion of keeping this ban in-line with Ocean City Beach Patrol hours.
As the wife of a local surfer, I know how much he looks forward to an early morning session before work or an evening session once the beach patrol is off-duty (as we all know surfing on the surfing beach is more often than not a nightmare in the summer). If there aren't waves, he'll still jump in to cool off after working outside all day, but that doesn't happen until after the patrol is gone because the typical work day isn't over until 5.
In the article last week, it states: "…the last four fatalities from drowning in the past four years occured [when beach patrol was off duty]." I would like to know the statistics, though, on the number of lives saved by surfers during the same time. Banning swimming (and therefore surfing) will only cause these numbers to rise.
I think I speak for all local families who have a surfer that this proposal is ridiculous. I certainly hope the Mayor and Council and beach patrol think this through before making a decision that will hurt local families and possibly cause more deaths.
Molli Carter
Selbyville, Del.
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The town of Ocean City faces difficult decisions related to reducing spending as they plan the 2009-2010 fiscal budget. All department heads need to trim down expenditures even at the cost of loss of services. I feel that the greatest cuts should come from that part of the budget where the greatest expenditures occur. In Ocean City that is employee salaries and related expenses.
The city has made a good start by initiating a hiring freeze. In addition, the city should begin a freeze on wages and promotions until the economy has recovered.
When I was in the work force in education, if the school boards were financially strapped, it was not uncommon for employees to forego wage, COLA, and fringe benefit increases for several successive years. We are planning our home budget too because we have had no increase in pension for a number of years.
Public Notice: I want to alert permanent resident home owners that it is necessary for you to file application for Homestead Tax Credit this year, even if you have filed in past years. Filing form is with your assessment paper.
John McDermott
Ocean City
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The officers and volunteers of the Worcester County Humane Society wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all those individuals and organizations who recently responded to our call for help.
As you know, the humane society was the victim of a recent burglary. Whomever the heartless individual was, he or she stripped us of all of our cat and dog food, litter, dog crates, cat carriers and other daily supplies, and this left us with nothing but an empty supply shed. Word of this burglary spread quickly throughout the community and resulted in an outpouring of donations (supplies, food and checks).
It is wonderful to know that so many people found it within their hearts to assist our organization, especially in these hard economic times, where each and every dollar is being stretched to make ends meet. We could not continue to help the many homeless animals in this area without the community support we have received.
Kenille Davies
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It also features most of Louis Vuitton's symbolic details such as its gold-toned LV turn-lock closure, which not only acts a security feature but also adds a luxurious touch. Aside from this, it also boasts of a removable nautical-inspired shoulder chain so you can easily transition it from hand carrying to effortless shoulder carrying.
Pair it over your black tight-hugging dress and with your black stilettos during galas nights and soirees and you'll look more elegant as ever. Looking inside, it features 1 inside flat pocket to keep your things organized.
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Recently, I was representing Business Insider at a journalism school career fair.
To be fair, I won't name the school. But it's an excellent journalism school.
I was there for four hours and I met 15 people, about half of whom were pre-scheduled to meet me. The rest were walk-ups.
What stuck out to me during those four hours?
Students had done almost no research on our company.
It's very easy to tell if someone knows Business Insider. All I have to do is ask any of these simple questions:
"So, what do you think of our site?"
"What articles on BI have you liked recently and why?"
"What do you think we're doing well, and what can we improve upon as a site?"
Too many of the answers I got were generic:
"I like that you cover lots of topics." (That's the most general statement I've ever heard. Every news site covers lots of topics.)
"I gravitate towards the business stories." (Quite obvious that the person knows we cover business from our name, but isn't sure what else we write about.)
"I think you guys are doing great. I can't think of anything I would improve upon off the top of my head." (Really? That's all you've got?)
So, my advice:
When interviewing at a Career Fair, you only have a few minutes to make a good impression. Do some research on the companies you're scheduled to meet with, or are thinking of approaching. Find out what they do, what you like about what they do, and what you think they could do better.
Businesses (especially websites like ours!) want to hire people who are passionate about working for THEM. Not just for any company.
For example, if you want a job at Business Insider, spend some time reading the site, get to know our tone, our headline style, what news we cover, how we cover it, and what makes us different from other business sites out there.
Trust me. The payoff will be worth it in the end.


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Rock and Roll vs. Censorship
Given the recent fervor over Russian feminist punk rock collective Pussy Riot's arrest and subsequent sentencing and incarceration after staging a performance art protest in a Russian Orthodox cathedral, the Rock Hall started thinking about how censorship has always been a hot button issue in rock and roll.
What's happening in Russia now is not terribly far removed from repressive reactions to the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s, and reactions to various other manifestations of the artform throughout its history.
Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich said this in her closing statement at the group's trial: "On the one hand, we expect a guilty verdict. Compared to the judicial machine, we are nobodies, and we have lost. On the other hand, we have won. The whole world now sees that the criminal case against us has been fabricated. The system cannot conceal the repressive nature of this trial."
The National Coalition Against Censorship (with thanks to Eric Nuzum) notes these milestones in the infamous history of music censorship. Many of these milestones are covered in the Museum's Don't Knock the Rock exhibit, a video-driven exhibit about the protests against rock and roll, from the Fifties to the present. Here's a look at some pivotal moments in censorship in America, from Congress enacting the Radio Act of Congress in 1927, which prohibited the use of obscene, indecent or profane language on the radio, to the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics.
1952: The Weavers, featuring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Pete Seeger, are blacklisted because of their leftist political beliefs. The group loses its recording contract and its popularity declines.
1955: 15,000 letters, mostly written by young adults, are sent to Chicago rock stations accusing them of playing "dirty" records. Newspaper editorials promise that the stations will censor themselves of all controversial music, especially rhythm and blues - in other words, "black" music.
1956: ABC radio bans from all of its network affiliates Billie Holiday's song "Love for Sale" because of its prostitution theme. "I Cover the Waterfront" is also banned.
1957: Elvis Presley performs onThe Ed Sullivan Show and is filmed only from the waist up because his dancing is deemed "indecent."
1958: The Mutual Broadcasting System drops all rock and roll records from its network music programs, calling it "distorted, monotonous, noisy music."
1959: Link Wray's instrumental classic "Rumble" is banned from radio stations across the U.S. – even though it has no lyrics. The title of the song is thought to be suggestive of teenage gang violence. When Wray performs on American Bandstand, Dick Clark introduces him but doesn't say the title of the song.
1964: Indiana Governor Matthew Welsh asks the State Broadcasters Association to ban the song "Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen because he considers it to be pornographic.
1965: Many radio stations refuse to play the Rolling Stones song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" because it is considered too suggestive.
1966: In March, John Lennon comments that the Beatles are more popular with teens that Jesus Christ. The observation leads to Beatles-record burnings and bans from radio play around the country. The Beatles release their Yesterday and Today album with the "butcher cover" (featuring the Beatles sitting with pieces of meat and decapitated baby dolls). The record company quickly withdraws the record from stores and replaces it with an innocuous photo of the band.
1967: The producers of The Ed Sullivan Show request that Jim Morrison of the Doors change a line of the song "Light My Fire" from "girl, we couldn't get much higher" to something less suggestive of drug use. Morrison initially agrees, but during the live performance sings the original line. That same year, the show's producers also demand that the Rolling Stones change the lyrics to "Let's Spend the Night Together." As ordered, Mick Jagger sings "let's spend some time together."
1968: An El Paso, Texas, radio station bans all Bob Dylan records because "it is too difficult to understand the lyrics." The station management fears that the lyrics may contain politically objectionable or lewd messages. However, the station continues to play recordings of other artists covering Dylan's songs. During the National Democratic Convention, Chicago mayor Richard Daley orders local radio stations to stop playing the Rolling Stones' single "Street Fighting Man" in anticipation of rioting that occurred during the convention. The plan backfires, and airplay and sales of the single reach record-setting proportions in Chicago.
1971: Officials in Illinois release a list of popular music that contains drug references. The list includes the popular children's song "Puff the Magic Dragon" and the Beatles "Yellow Submarine."
1977: The Sex Pistols' "God Save the Queen" is banned not only by the BBC, but also by every independent radio station in the U.K., making it the "most heavily censored record in British history."
1981: The morals of Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah, are saved when radio stations ban Olivia Newton John's hit "Physical" because its sexual innuendoes are found to be "unsuitable" for their audiences.
1987: Heavy metal icon Ozzy Osborne is unsuccessfully sued by the parents of a 19 year- old who claimed their son committed suicide after listening to Osborne's song "Suicide Solution."
In California, Jello Biafra, leader of the punk group the Dead Kennedys is acquitted of distributing pornography. The case involves the artwork the H.R. Giger, featured on the band's Frankenchrist album. Copies of the album are seized and destroyed.
1990: Metal band Judas Priest is sued by the family of two young men. The families contend that "hidden" messages in the band's "Stained Class" record prompted the youngsters to beat and choke one of their mothers, walk around town exposing themselves and steal money.
Members of the rap group N.W.A. receive a letter from the F.B.I saying that the agency does not appreciate the song "F*ck tha Police." Law enforcement groups across the country agree.
2001: After the September 11 attacks, Clear Channel distributes a list of "lyrically questionable" songs to all of its radio stations. While some of the songs include references to airplanes, burning and death, John Lennon's "Imagine" and all Rage Against the Machine songs are also included.
2003: After a member of the Dixie Chicks says that she is embarrassed that President George W. Bush is from the group's home state of Texas, radio stations throughout the country refuse to play the group's music.
2012: The Sex Pistols revisit their controversial early days by turning down an invitation to perform at the Olympics' opening ceremony in July. Olympics' organizers suggest censoring the Pistols' 1977 song "Pretty Vacant," asking John Lydon not to pronounce the word "vacant" with his provocative emphasis on the final syllable.


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Furniture from this manufacturer is proudly made in America in Virginia and North Carolina. They are committed to manufacturing furniture in a responsible and environmentally friendly manner with sustainably harvested wood as a founder of the Sustainable Furnishings Council.
A rustic finish and solid wood planks at the center of the headboard and footboard lend character to this sleigh bed. Its knotty oak veneers and poplar solids in a distressed finish create an updated look for your master bedroom. Bring a casual feel to your surroundings with this sleigh bed.
The Whiskey Barrel Distressed Queen Sleigh Bed with Solid Wood Planks by Vaughan Bassett at Powell's Furniture and Mattress in the Fredericksburg, Richmond, Charlottesville, Virginia and Maryland area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
Fashionable rustic style that is Made in America makes the Whiskey Barrel master bedroom furniture collection a smart choice for your decor. Taking inspiration from the wood in the barrels used to aged whiskey in a distillery, the sleigh headboard features solid wood planks and the rest of the pieces are crafted by American craftsmen from knotty oak veneers and poplar solids in an aged gray/brown or dark roast finish with wire brushing and a distressing process.
The Whiskey Barrel collection is a great option if you are looking for Transitional furniture in the Fredericksburg, Richmond, Charlottesville, Virginia and Maryland area.
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With its classic iron styling and warm maple tops, Classic Forge tables offer an inviting addition to your decor.
Harlo has an air of sophistication married to a simple design to create that classic style. Whether your look is metro or retro, the clean lines of Harlo will enhance your surroundings.
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Give your skin the gift of nature's tropical bounty: Papaya, passion fruit and pineapple, coconut, macadamia and kukui nut, guava, honeysuckle, hibiscus, Hawaiian ginger - sounds good enough to eat! These nutrient rich fruits and nuts provide your skin with the same vitamins, minerals and antioxidants as they do the rest of you, to heal, soothe, tone and soften your skin. Take your skin to the tropics and come back feeling refreshed and relaxed!
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Physical Science: Session 6
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Below are common ideas children in grades K-6 have about this topic, compiled from research on children's ideas about science. Consider what evidence might refute this idea, and why a child would be likely to believe this? Once you've entered all your answers you can click "printable page" at the bottom of this form to print your answers. You can also click "see possible response" for any question to see one possible response from the series content advisors.
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It seemed as if it would be a perfectly ordinary occasion, that hot August day in 1959. Three generations of a large
Among the group were two cousins, Doug Whitney, who was 10, and Gary Reiswig, who was 19. Doug's mother and Gary's father were brother and sister. Doug does not remember any details of that day, but Gary says he can never forget it. His father, and some of his aunts and uncles, just did not seem right. They stared blankly. They were confused, smiling and nodding, even though it seemed as if they weren't really following the conversation.
Seeing them like that reminded Gary of what his grandfather had been like years before. In 1936, at the age of 53, his grandfather was driving with his grandmother and inexplicably steered into the path of a train. He survived, but his wife did not. Over the next decade, he grew more and more confused. By the time he died at 63, he was unable to speak, unable to care for himself, unable to find his way around his house. Now here were the first signs of what looked like the same condition in several of his children.
"We were looking at the grimness face to face," Gary says. "After that, we gradually stopped getting together."
It was the start of a long decline for Gary's father and his siblings. Their memories became worse, their judgment faltered, they were disoriented. Then one day in 1963, Gary, who was living in
Gary's mother wanted to keep his father's condition a secret and asked Gary to tell no one. But his uncle's wife, Aunt Ester
When Doug first heard the news, he hoped his mother, Mildred Whitney, might escape the terrible illness, and for a few years she seemed fine. But on Thanksgiving Day 1971, Mildred, who was then 50 and never used recipes, could not remember how to make her famous
That was the beginning of her precipitous fall. Five years later, after she lost her ability to walk, or speak, or recognize her own children, she died. In the end, 10 of those 14 brothers and sisters developed Alzheimer's, showing symptoms, on average, at around age 50. The family, once close, soon scattered, each descendant of the 14 privately finding a way to live with the possibility that he or she could be next.
More than five decades later, many of these relatives have come together to be part of a large international study of families who carry an Alzheimer's gene. The study, known as DIAN (for Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network), involves more than 260 people in the
Though as much as 99 percent of all Alzheimer's cases are not a result of a known genetic mutation, researchers have determined that the best place to find a treatment or cure for the disease is to study those who possess a mutation that causes it. It's a method that has worked for other diseases.
Alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in this country, and is the only disease among the 10 deadliest that cannot be prevented, slowed or cured. But DIAN investigators say that within a decade there could be a drug that staves off brain destruction and death.
This sense of optimism has been a long time coming. In 1901, a German psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer, first noted the disease when he described the case of a 51-year-old woman named Auguste Deter. "She sits on the bed with a helpless expression," Alzheimer wrote. "What is your name? Auguste. Your husband? Ah, my husband. She looks as if she didn't understand the question."
Five years later, when Auguste Deter died, Alzheimer examined her brain. It was the color of sandpaper and the texture of
Pathologists now recognize that the particles are deposits of a protein fragment, beta amyloid, that accumulates in brains with Alzheimer's and is a hallmark of the disease. Alzheimer also noticed something else in Deter's brain. Inside her ruined brain cells were tangles: grotesquely twisted ropes of a protein now known as tau. They are not unique to Alzheimer's — they show up in the course of aging and in other degenerative brain diseases, including
There matters stood until the latter part of the 20th century. A leading Alzheimer's researcher, Paul Aisen of the
All anyone knew was that the disease followed a relentless path, starting with symptoms so subtle they could be dismissed as normal carelessness or inattentiveness. A person would forget what was just said, or miss an appointment, or maybe become confused driving home one day. Gradually those small memory lapses would progress until the person, now wearing a blank stare, would no longer recognize family members and would be unable to eat or use a bathroom. At autopsy, the brain would be ruined, shrunken and peppered with plaques.
Rudolph Tanzi, a professor of neurology and an Alzheimer's researcher at
But as molecular biology advanced, scientists realized that if they could study large families in whom the disease seemed to be inherited, they might be able to hunt down a gene that caused Alzheimer's and understand what it did. The difficulty was finding these families and persuading them to participate in the research. A breakthrough came in the late 1980s when a woman who lived in Nottingham,
In the English family, the pattern of inheritance seemed clear — the child of someone with the disease had a fifty-fifty chance of developing Alzheimer's — which meant that it was very likely that a gene was causing the disease. By comparing the DNA sequences of family members who developed Alzheimer's to the sequences of those who did not develop the disease, the researchers discovered that the family's disease was caused by a mutated gene on chromosome 21. Everyone in the family who had Alzheimer's had that mutated gene. No one who escaped the disease had the mutation. And all who inherited the mutated gene eventually got Alzheimer's. There were no exceptions.
"Sometimes in science, you generate the information and the data gradually," Alison Goate, who was a young geneticist in the research group, told me. "This was like, boom, a eureka moment." She says she remembers thinking, "I am the first person to see a cause of Alzheimer's disease."
During those years of slow scientific progress on Alzheimer's, Gary Reiswig made a series of decisions that reflected his fears. He'd been trained as a minister in a conservative arm of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but after his father died at 56, Gary, who was then 27, began questioning his calling. If he was going to get Alzheimer's in 10 or 20 years, was this the way he wanted to spend his remaining time?
He left the ministry, deeply upsetting his extended family. "Here was our golden boy, rejecting the faith," Gary says, referring to the way his family responded. "It was hard to go back to my hometown."
In 1970, he and his wife divorced, and in 1973 he remarried and faced another difficult decision. His new wife, Rita, wanted children. She knew when she married Gary that there was Alzheimer's disease in his family. "But somehow, it didn't seem exactly real until we started talking about having a child," Gary says. "There is a tremendous life force that drives people to love, make love and have children. You just can't overcome it." And because the risk to a hypothetical child was so far in the future, they were able to convince themselves that it wasn't truly real.
Their son was born in 1977. Meanwhile, Alzheimer's continued to cut a swath through Gary's family. His older sister lived on a farm in Oklahoma, and he and Rita visited her a couple of times a year. On one trip, when his sister was 43, Gary realized she was starting to show the same unmistakable symptoms of the disease he had seen in his father.
Gary was about to turn 40 in 1979 and was working as a city planner in
He found what he was hoping for when he saw an advertisement for an inn for sale in
Though the actual work was more complicated than Gary had anticipated, he found he knew the basics. He had learned to make business decisions by helping his father with the family farm, and he was good at dealing with people from working as a city planner. But all the while, as he managed the inn, Gary had his eye to a future when nothing would be easy, when "my duties could be shifted from complex to simple, mental to merely manual, if the situation demanded it."
Then, one day in 1986, he got a call from his aunt Ester May, who had made some life-changing decisions of her own. After watching her husband die, Ester May had made it a mission to find someone who might help the family. Eventually, her quest led her to Thomas
As soon as Ester May spoke to Bird, she got to work, calling family members and cajoling them to join the study. The consent forms said all data would be kept private, and as is typical in research, even if a gene were found, the participants would not be told if they had it. By taking part in the study they would be contributing to science. They would be doing it to benefit others in the future, not themselves.
Gary agreed to participate, and he went to his internist's office in East Hampton to have blood drawn and sent to Bird. He's not sure how many of his cousins also gave blood, but he estimates, from asking around, that about 30 did. Of his father's generation, 5 out of 14 gave blood — the rest were already dead from the disease.
Gary says he didn't need to persuade his brother and sister to participate. "By the time Dr. Bird's study began, my sister was already having symptoms," he says.
Then Gary put the study out of his mind while he continued on the path he had already set for himself — making use of the limited time he had to live his life before he might be overcome by the disease.
Doug approached the possibility of Alzheimer's differently, spending his life away from the family tragedies, only distantly aware of what was unfolding. At 18, Doug left home to join the Navy. He stayed in the military for 20 years, and for most of that time, he and his wife, Ione, were stationed around the world, visiting immediate family members a couple of times a year on all-too-brief
Doug is a taciturn man, not one to spill his emotions. Ione is the talker, ebullient and friendly, speaking for Doug in interviews, answering e-mails. She told me that the most difficult time for Doug was when Roger, the oldest of Doug's seven siblings, started showing signs of the disease when he was 48. (None of the others seem to have symptoms.) In 2001, Roger was deteriorating badly in a nursing home in Grove, Okla., and Doug flew there to be with him one last time. "It had been at least six months since Roger recognized anyone," Ione says. Doug spent the afternoon and evening with him. The next day, Roger died. He was 55 and left behind three children, one of whom was just a few weeks younger than Doug and Ione's son, Brian.
In 1995, four years after Alison Goate and her colleagues found the first Alzheimer's gene, two more genes were discovered. One was found by Bird's team using the blood from several families, including Gary and Doug's. Other research groups studying other families made similar discoveries. The three genes are on different chromosomes, and different families have different mutations in the genes, but in every case, the mutated gene leads to the same result: the brake that normally slows down the accumulation of beta amyloid, a toxic protein that forms plaques, no longer works. Beta amyloid piles up and sets the inexorable disease process in motion.
In the years since, researchers have theorized that when the brain makes too much beta amyloid, it creates a toxic environment — "a bad neighborhood," as some investigators put it. The beta amyloid clumps into hard plaques that form outside cells. Once brain cells are living in that bad neighborhood, the abnormal tangled strands of tau proteins show up inside, killing the cells from within.
The researchers have tended to focus on stopping beta amyloid from accumulating rather than stopping tau. Most beta amyloid drugs either stymie the enzymes that produce it or clear away the amyloid after it's made. But drug development is hard, and it has taken years for companies to find promising compounds and take them through the phases of preclinical testing.
Several years ago, the first large studies of these new drugs were carried out using people who already had Alzheimer's. Most of those initial studies are still under way, but a few have been completed, with disappointing results — despite the drugs, the disease continues unabated in these Alzheimer's patients.
Randall J. Bateman, director of the DIAN Therapeutic Trials Unit at
"Even something as effective as penicillin can fail unless it is administered properly," Bateman says. He predicts that in the future it will become clear that for Alzheimer's drugs to be effective, they would have to be given earlier.
"In Alzheimer's, we are coming to realize that it's more difficult to treat after there are symptoms," Bateman says. By then "extensive neuronal death has occurred." Tau has been destroying brain cells, and "the adult brain does not replace those lost neurons."
Other diseases work the same way. In Parkinson's, for example, the substantia nigra — a small, black, crescent-shape group of brain cells that control movement — starts to die. But there are no symptoms until 70 to 90 percent of the substantia nigra is gone. No one has yet found a way to restore those missing cells.
In order to address this, Bateman says that the DIAN researchers will try to use drugs to stop the accretion of amyloid in people with the Alzheimer's gene who haven't yet shown symptoms. The study is building on others that followed middle-aged subjects for years, watching for early signs in the brains of those who eventually develop Alzheimer's.
One study in particular has been helpful. It's called ADNI (Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative), and it began in October 2004. ADNI includes 200 people whose memories are normal, 400 with mild memory problems that might be harbingers of Alzheimer's disease and 200 with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers regularly give these subjects memory tests and do brain imaging and other tests to watch for the progress of Alzheimer's. The study found that characteristic brain changes — shrinkage of the memory center, beta amyloid plaques, excessive synthesis of beta amyloid and tau — arise more than a decade before a person has symptoms.
The first phase of the DIAN study also looks at the progression of Alzheimer's in the brain, but using only subjects who are members of families with Alzheimer's genes. When these people join DIAN, Bateman and his colleagues test their memory and reasoning as well as administer spinal taps and scans to monitor changes in their brains. The researchers test the subjects every one to three years, and they have found that they can see troubling brain changes in people with the gene as many as 20 years before they would be expected to show symptoms based on their parent's age when the disease was first diagnosed. Given the results from DIAN and other studies, Bateman concluded that the ideal time to give an experimental drug is within 15 years of the suspected onset.
Before they could begin testing drugs on people with an Alzheimer's gene, though, the researchers had to solve a delicate problem. DIAN participants are aware that they have a fifty-fifty chance of possessing an Alzheimer's gene, and they know they can be tested and find out if they inherited it — but almost no one wants to know. The researchers can give the drugs only to people who have the gene, however. (You don't want to give a drug that affects the brain to healthy people.) If the study took only people with the gene, all those who were accepted would know that they had it. In order to avoid this problem, the DIAN researchers are inviting members of families with one of the mutated genes to join, regardless of whether the individuals know they possess the gene. Subjects won't know which group they are in, but the researchers will know, and they will assign those who don't have an Alzheimer's gene to the placebo group. The participants with the gene will be randomly assigned to receive one of three experimental drugs or a placebo. The researchers say that within two years, they will have an indication about whether any of the drugs are working.
Bateman explained that the next step in Alzheimer's research would be to study people who do not have the gene. The idea would be to look at, say, 70-year-olds who seem cognitively normal but who are at an age where Alzheimer's is increasingly likely. Those subjects would be given scans and other tests to see whether, despite the absence of symptoms, their brains showed changes consistent with the beginning of Alzheimer's. They would then be enrolled in a drug study. If the drug were to prevent the disease in these people, researchers predict that tests for beta amalyoid plaques might become a recommended preventive medical procedure. People might be tested at age 50 and periodically afterward. Anyone getting plaques would take the drug to prevent Alzheimer's disease.
In 1995, the same year that Bird discovered Gary's family's Alzheimer's gene, Gary made a discovery of his own. That August, his younger brother and his sister-in-law were visiting, and it was clear that his brother had Alzheimer's. He would become confused by the simplest things. That first morning, he tried to open a latched door, gave up, then tried to open a window, thinking it was a door. Gary was desolate seeing his brother's condition and could not help thinking that he could be next.
On the day that Gary's brother and his wife departed, Gary picked up
He got a copy of Science and turned to the article, which included a family tree with members who had the gene represented by black diamonds. Those who did not have the gene were represented by white diamonds.
It was scary even to look. Gary knew every person in that diagram, and he knew he was there too. Would he be a black diamond or a white one? He followed his family line, from his grandfather's generation to his father's — there were the 14 siblings — to his own. He saw his older sister, who had been given a diagnosis of Alzheimer's and was represented by a black diamond. He saw his younger brother, a black diamond. Bracketed between them was Gary. His diamond was white. He had prepared all his adult life for that gene. And by an incredible stroke of luck, he did not have it.
His first sensation, he told me, was "lightness, like a weight, a burden, had been lifted off my shoulders." For several hours he floated, elated by the news. Now his children did not have to worry that they would get it. His wife would not have to worry that she would be caring for Gary as he spiraled down into the chasm of the disease. He had spent his life preparing for an inheritance he had escaped.
Soon though, he moved from joy to sadness. "My feelings of happiness for myself and my children seemed to make light of what my siblings and family faced," Gary said.
A decade ago, Gary and Doug spoke briefly at a family reunion in Oklahoma City. It was the first time they had seen each other since that fateful picnic four decades earlier. Then in 2009, when Gary was in Seattle, meeting with Bird for a book he was writing about his family, "The Thousand Mile Stare," he decided to look up Doug and Ione. They talked, and last year Doug joined Phase 1 of the DIAN study, after learning about it from Gary. His testing took place at Washington University in St. Louis over three days in March.
First Doug was given a cognitive endurance course. The idea was to wear the brain out by taxing it with progressively harder tasks in order to see its limits. It's like giving someone a heart stress test, Bateman says, in which a person must run on a treadmill until exhaustion sets in. The goal is to get a base line reading. New studies are indicating that one of the first symptoms of Alzheimer's is progressively poorer performances on challenging cognitive and memory tests.
Some tasks were simple — name as many animals as you can in one minute. Others were harder. One was a test for working memory, in which the subject is shown simple arithmetic problems, like 7+5 = 12. In some, the answer is correct; in others, it is not. The subject presses a key on a computer to indicate whether the answer is right or wrong. As soon as one problem is completed, another pops up. After three or four problems, the subject is asked to type, from memory, the second number of each problem.
Doug found it exhausting. That afternoon, the testing continued with standard memory tests and questions for Ione about whether Doug has changed in his ability to handle finances or deal with daily events in his life. (The answer was no.) Then there was a test in which Ione was asked to recall something that happened in the prior week and something that happened in the prior month, in great detail. She was sent out of the room and Doug was called in and asked to recall the same event. (He performed well.) At the end of the first day, Doug was given an
The next morning, Bateman gave Doug a spinal tap to collect the fluid that bathes Doug's brain and spinal cord. After 10 minutes, Bateman held up a tube filled halfway with a clear, beige-tinged liquid. In it were proteins, including beta amyloid, that can reveal if Alzheimer's is on its way. The spinal tap was followed by more brain scans the next day, and then Doug and Ione went home.
After they returned to Port Orchard, Doug decided he wanted to know whether he carried the Alzheimer's gene. He and Ione thought he would be safe, Ione told me. They thought the cognitive tests had gone well, and Doug was in his early 60s. Most of his family members who had Alzheimer's got it when they were in their 50s.
Last year, on May 31, his 62nd birthday, Doug went to a lab to get his blood drawn. When the results came back in June, they were the last thing Doug and Ione expected: Doug had the mutated gene.
"The first reaction was shock," Ione said. The couple had gone through a tense period when Doug was in his late 40s and early 50s, and they kept waiting for him to start showing symptoms of the disease. Ione still remembers a couple of occasions when Doug lost his way on familiar routes.
"I thought: Oh, my gosh. This is it," she says. "It is so easy to get sucked into that constant fear." But as the years went by, they put the fear behind them.
Now it is back. "It's kind of like we went through this once already," Ione said. The fear is compounded by thoughts of their two children. Brian, their son, is 40, and is married with a 2-year-old daughter. Karen, their daughter, is 38 and unmarried. Like Doug, Karen decided she had to know and arranged to be tested. She does not have the gene.
That, Ione says, is the one bright spot in all this. Hearing the news about Karen made her realize how worried she was. "You feel like a rock was lifted from your chest. You didn't know the rock was there but now it's gone."
The first thing Brian did was buy additional
Doug says little about how the devastating news affects him. He's continuing to work, planning to retire when he is 65. Then he figures he will do a lot of
He also wants to join the drug phase of DIAN. It is his one hope of staving off the inevitable, assuming he is placed in a group that is randomly assigned to take one of the experimental drugs.
But even if a drug ultimately proves effective, it will no doubt take time for Bateman and his team to figure out when best to give it and at what dose. It is quite unlikely that a cure will be found in the next few years.
As for Brian, if he does have the gene, perhaps science will come up with the right drug at the right time before his symptoms set in. And if his young daughter were to have it, too, researchers imagine that there will be a cure by the time she faces her own dire future. That is what they cling to, Ione says. "I'd never even heard the word 'Alzheimer's' until I was pregnant with Brian," she said. "And there was no hope at that point. If you had the gene, that was it." Meanwhile, she and Doug are going on with their lives. "We're just hanging in there. Life can be cruel."Continue reading the main story


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Analyzer houses for Petrom Refinery in Romania
Last December Electromach supplied 4 analyzer houses for the Petrom Petrobrazi refinery in Romania. The order had been obtained through the Romanian subsidiary of Stahl.
Analyzer House with HVAC & pressurization unit
The order contained 4 fully equipped containers suitable for analysis equipment, including the new ATEX certified HVAC & pressurization unit.
The demands for the containers were very strict regarding fire protection and insulation. Therefore, the container construction has been fully welded, with thick fire-resistant panels and painted with several protective coatings.
On & Offshore exhibition Gorinchem, March 27-29
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New Hand Lamp from STAHL for an amazing price!
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This year Electromach celebrates its 50th anniversary. Time to look back how it all began:
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Question: I paid $20,000 to a plastic surgeon for cosmetic surgery and backed out the night before the surgery due to being scared. The Dr. has not returned my money and I have called the office twice. Is it legal for him to keep it?
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Ex-Va. governor McDonnell: 'I did nothing illegal'
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife were indicted Tuesday on corruption charges after a monthslong federal investigation into gifts the Republican received from a political donor. (Jan. 21) AP
Ex-Va. governor McDonnell and his wife are charged with accepting gifts from a donor.
Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell said Tuesday he did "nothing illegal" and vowed to fight the federal government's "false allegations" that he and his wife improperly accepted gifts and loans from a political donor.
McDonnell addressed reporters in Richmond hours after he and his wife, Maureen, were indicted on 14 counts. The indictment alleges they accepted more than $135,000 in expensive clothing, trips, loans and other items from Jonnie Williams Sr., former CEO of Star Scientific, in exchange for the governor's assistance in helping the maker of dietary supplements.
"I believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side," McDonnell said, as his wife and two children stood next to him. "We will face these false allegations with strength and firm resolve."
McDonnell vowed to "use every available resource and advocate ... for as long as it takes to fight and prevail against these false allegations and the unjust overreach of the federal government."
The Republican, once touted as a potential presidential contender and running mate for Mitt Romney, has been out of office for only a few days. Virginia voters elected Democrat Terry McAuliffe to succeed McDonnell, who could not run for a consecutive term. McAuliffe was sworn in Jan. 11.
The indictment charges McDonnell and his wife with a wide array of official corruption. Among the charges: wire fraud, conspiracy and obtaining property under color of their official offices.
Maureen McDonnell was charged with obstructing the government's investigation. The former governor was also charged with making a false statement to a financial institution.
"Today's charges represent the Justice Department's continued commitment to rooting out public corruption at all levels of government," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman. "Ensuring that elected officials uphold the public's trust is one of our most critical responsibilities."
McDonnell last year repaid more than $120,000 to Williams, with interest, and apologized for bringing "embarrassment" to the state. In a written statement that he repeated before TV cameras, McDonnell insisted he did not break the law.
"I deeply regret accepting legal gifts and loans from Mr. Williams, all of which have been repaid with interest, and I have apologized for my poor judgment, for which I take full responsibility," McDonnell said. "However, I repeat emphatically that I did nothing illegal for Mr. Williams in exchange for what I believed was his personal generosity and friendship."
Prosecutors said the relationship began even before McDonnell took office in 2010.
In December 2009, Williams offered to buy Maureen McDonnell an expensive Oscar de la Renta dress to wear to her husband's inauguration. Maureen McDonnell ultimately rejected the dress after one of her husband's staffers expressed concern about the arrangement. She wrote in an e-mail at the time that the McDonnells were "broke and have an unconscionable amount in credit card debt already. This inaugural is killing us."
The indictment goes on to detail trips aboard a jet owned by Williams and private dinners at the governor's mansion in Richmond.
It also detailed a 2011 shopping trip in New York City in which Williams bought Maureen McDonnell clothing at Oscar de La Renta, Louis Vuitton and Bergdorf Goodman for her daughter's wedding and an anniversary party. In return, the documents say, Maureen McDonnell arranged for Williams to sit next to her husband at an event.
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Lincoln – Wednesday and Thursday mark the unofficial start of the 2013 football season, as representatives of all 12 Big Ten football programs are at the Hilton Chicago for Big Ten Media Day.
For Husker seniors Quincy Enunwa, Ciante Evans and Taylor Martinez and Head Coach Bo Pelini, the two days will feature interviews with local, regional and national media as a record-setting amount of credentials have been issued for the event.
Fans will have several ways to follow the Huskers on Wednesday. BTN and BTN2Go will have live coverage for five hours on Thursday beginning at 10 a.m. All 12 coaches as well as well as Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney will speak for 15 minutes each. Coach Pelini is scheduled for Noon (Central).
Players and coaches will also be doing interviews with BTN, Fox Sports and ESPN as well as with the BTN series The Journey, which begins its second season this October, as well as interviews with radio stations around the region, including Sports Nightly on Wednesday evening.
Evans will also participate in live chat with ESPN.com beginning from 11 to 11:15 a.m. and fans can submit their questions.
Thursday's events include a two-hour round table session with media, an autograph session and the 42nd annual kickoff luncheon, which is expected to draw a capacity crowd of nearly 1,800 fans.
To join the conversation on social media, follow the Huskers on Twitter (@Huskers.com), on Instragram (instagram.com/NebraskaHuskers) and on Facebook (Facebook.com/huskers). In addition, Huskers.com will feature video highlights from all of the activities in Chicago. Fans are also encouraged to follow the Big Ten's coverage on Twitter at B1GFootball and by using the hashtag #B1GMediaDay
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11:00 PM Tim Beckman (Illinois)
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This site has the advantage that we are already here, plus a built-in die-roller.
Play@Yog-sothoth is specifically focused on Call of Cthulhu, and I've gotten emails from like five people there that are interested.
At BRP Central I can post downloads for free, and we would be the only PbP on the site. That could be cool.
So I don't know, but I appreciate your input. The more help to decide the better.
Post the background whenever you are ready. In the meantime, I am reading up about Medieval Croatia.
Heh aye aye. I'll try and pound out my background tonight.
Oh, do you have a space open for my friend? I understand if you don't though.
We do have room. I have had several express interest, but no other commitments.
Check it out: We have another approved character...
Oh great, a character with a vendetta against magic users. We should get along just fine I still have a bit more money to spend and I wouldn't mind expanding my background a tad but thats most of him.
Player Name: Exarzun
Character Name: Gerontius son of Trascalissaeus, third of his name
Career: Scholar
Personality: Condescendingly polite
Birthplace: Byzantium
Language: Greek Religion: Roman Polytheism
Sex: Male Age: 34
STR (Strength): 11 -1 [Age Penalty] = 10
CON (Constitution): 10 -1 [Age Penalty] = 9
DEX (Dexterity): 12
INT (Intelligence): 17
POW (Power): 15
APP (Appeal): 9
SIZ (Size): 8
Heritage Modifiers: None
Charisma (APPx5): 55%
Damage Modifier: -1
Endurance (CONx4): 36%
Heart Score: 65
Hit Points (Max): 9 Current: 9
Magic Points (Max): 15 Current: 15
Major Wound: 5
Idea (INTx5): 85%
Know: 68%
Luck: 36 Pts
Magic Points (Max): 14 Current: 14
Movement Rate: 8 Current: 8
Accounting (10%):
Art ________ (05%):
Bargain (05%): 25%
Climb (40%): (w/armor: )
Conceal (15%): (w/armor: )
Craft ________ (05%):
Cthulhu Mythos (00%):
Dodge (DEX x2=24%): 49% (w/armor: )
Drive Horses (20%): 40%
Fast Talk (05%):
First Aid (30%):
Fist/Punch (50%):
Grapple (25%):
Head Butt (10%):
Hide (30-SIZE%): (w/armor: )
Insight (05%): 37%
Jump (25%): (w/armor: )
Kick (25%):
Listen (25% +20% for Clever):
Natural World (10%): 50%
Navigate (10%):
Occult (05%): 75%
Other Kingdom: Croatia (01%): 11%
Other Language (Latin) (01%): 50%
Own Kingdom (Byzantium) (20%): (30%)
Own Language: Gree (INT x5%): 85%
Persuade (15%): (48%)
Pilot Boat (01%):
Potions (01%):
Repair/Devise (20% +20% for Clever):
Ride (05%): (w/armor: )
Science (Alchamy) (01%): 60%
Sneak (DEX x2–SIZ%): (w/armor: )
Spot Hidden (25% +20% for Clever):
Status (15%): 45%
Swim (25%): (w/armor: )
Throw (25%):
Track (10%):
Write Language (Latin) (01%): 50%
Weapon Skills (no base %)
Polearm: 50%
Bow: +20% for Clever
Spells Known
Enthrall: Costs 2 magic points and d6 heart. Requires success on resistance table. Puts target into trance.
Weapon/ Attack % / Damage / Range / HP
Staff / 75% / 1d6-1 / - / 15
Small Dagger / 25%/ 1d4-1 / - / 20
Hit Location...Armor Type....Protection
x1 Head:
x2 L Arm:.......Cuirboulli..........5
x3 R Arm:.......Cuirboulli..........5
x4-8 Body:......Cuirboulli..........5
x9 L Leg:........Soft Leather......2
x0 R Leg:........Soft Leather......2
Armor Encumbrance: 17%
+Shield Encumbrance: 0%
+Helmet Encumbrance: 0%
-Strength: 10%
=Encumbrance Penalty: 7%
Background Story: Born to the intellectual elite of Byzantium Gerontius was raised wealthy. Private slaves tutored trained and raised him, and his early years were filled with luxury. From a young child he expressed a desire to learn, and quickly became familiar with the vast library's of the city, frequently disappearing for days into the deeper and deeper depths of those labyrinthine buildings. By the time he was sixteen he was set up to become the personal attendant to a high local official, from where he could raise to great power.
That is when his life took a turn for the worse. Political enemies of his family moved against them, and within several days every influential member was dead or exiled, and many children and lesser members suffered a similar fate. Gerontius almost suffered a similar fate, but was able to obtain a small position in one of the libraries, and was passed over as to insignificant to be a threat.
For six years he worked by day, and by night plied the depths of those great collections, pushing deeper and deeper into forgotten vaults, discovering long forgotten secrets. Finally, when he was twenty two he exacted his revenge. One by one, those who had ruined him and his family began to die. Simple deaths, mostly their throats cut in their sleep. It seemed that no amount of guards could prevent the death.
After his vendetta was fulfilled, Gerontius was at a loss of what to do. He spent several more years studying in secret, sure that his crimes would not be discovered, but finally they began to catch up with him, for he was not the only one in the great city to know of the occult. Strange voices began to pester him. Odd creatures began to flit through is periphery. Finally, one night, deep in the stacks of the royal library, a creature appeared from the depths of hell. He fled. By the next day he was off, driven away from the greatest city in the world and his home...
Parents and Siblings: Dead by assassin's hands.
Spouse and Children: None
Friends and Enemies: Friends - Few, Enemies - His old enemies from Byzantium.
Motivation: To become powerful enough to return home, and place himself back in his rightful position of power.
Notes: Subtracted 2 from APP to add 1 to INT. Chose Occult as final Career skill. 315 career Skill points, 170 Hobby points.
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Good news and bad news
I've got some good news and some bad news....
The good news is that I am ready to start playing when you are. I have an idea for how to integrate your character in with the rest of the group. I am going to start all of the characters out on solo adventures (just like I did with Jiangu). Your solo adventure will start in Constantinople, and the solo story will lead you to Croatia.
The bad news is that the forum is set up on another site- Yog-Sothoth.com. I know you preferred to keep it here at ORP.com. But I have gotten way more responses to my ad at YogSothoth than the ad I posted at ORP.
Here is the link: http://www.callofcthulhu.org.uk/view...86c287d32b45d1
Go ahead and post your character there. Make sure to conceal his religion!
I will post a solo thread with an intro post shortly.
Heh ok, sorry I didn't get to it, I actually had a ruff set up, it was pretty simple, just that he wandered around for a while working as a general scribe and discoverin stuff, and came into the king of croatia's service through reputation and his need of an educated man, but I'm down to work with whatever you got. I'll go make an acount n'stuff right now.
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The highest proportions of innovation co-operation were found in Cyprus (62% of all product and process innovative enterprises), Austria (51%), Slovenia (45%), Lithuania and Hungary (both 43%), and the lowest in Italy (12%), Malta (18%), Portugal (20%), Spain and Bulgaria (both 22%).
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I'd settle for some procedural alien voices, kinda like in the first Starfox game.
and just have subtitles generated by your ships translator.
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By Kellie Lambert McGuire
A group of Southington High School musicians recently landed on the winner's podium at the Berklee High School Jazz Festival in Boston, Mass.
The Southington High Jazz Ensemble placed third in the large ensemble category for the second year in a row at the competition earlier this month.
"We've been in the top four for five out of the last six years," said music teacher Jeff Shaw, director of the ensemble.
The Berklee High School Jazz Festival, sponsored by the Berklee College of Music and now in its forty fifth year, has grown from a small New England competition into one that features groups from all over the United States and beyond. More than 200 high school jazz ensembles were watched by more than 5,000 attendees at the March 2 event.
There are 24 student musicians in the local ensemble, which just happens to feature four sets of brothers: Ian and Julian Sherwood, Brett and Will Simms, Nate and Jarod Shurack and, Shaw's own two sons, Ted and Brett Shaw.
And the group is also mostly male. Only one female student – Rachel Klem – made the cut this year.
Students must audition for the jazz ensemble, which is an extra-curricular activity. The group meets weekly, on Thursday nights, to practice.
Jazz ensemble is a commitment, Shaw said.
"It's a lot more responsibility," he said. "The music is more difficult, and you need dedication, since they need to learn the music on their own."
Every year the group changes, and next year, several students will graduate – including half of the brother pairs.
"We have turnover," Shaw said. "But it gives other kids the opportunity. And we end up with a different set of strengths each year."
To hear the Southington High Jazz Ensemble's performance at this year's festival, visit festival.berkleejazz.org/festival-winners and find the link under "Large Ensemble, Class L1."
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Last week, we attended Monitoring Social Media– a conference run by Influence People, a social media event and training company. Among the speakers were Radian6 CEO, and representatives from Seesmic , eBay, and Google. We found Klout and Constant Contact to provide some interesting perspectives and case studies.
Klout may be best known as the free online site that spews out your twitter influencer score (average Klout score is 11, in case you were wondering). But Klout also works with the big guys on influencer targeting. Klout's thesis is that everybody is an influencer on some topic. Rather than focuse on the big guys, Klout focuses on the middle tail. Klout recently worked with Virgin America to help increase the buzz around the airline's new direct route between California to Toronto. Klout identified 570 influencers based on Virgin criteria, who were offered a free roundtrip flight to Toronto. Of these, 264 people "clicked" on the link and 120 booked the flight.
According to Klout, the campaign resulted in 2,087 outside contributors who spoke about the campaign even though they weren't offered the flight directly. This in return resulted in 41 million potential impressions and 1.9 million true reach (impressions) according to Klout. (The calculations were reached by adding up each member's network.)
Constant Contact, a once gold-standard in email marketing, has since expanded into the social media world with additional products, and has refocused to address the needs of small businesses. We think this is a smart move for Constant Contact: Most small businesses today lack the tools to use the social web effectively. They don't have the time and resources needed to conduct marketing efforts, and there is no real consolidated, comprehensive social media marketing solution designed (and priced) for small businesses.
In a research conducted by Constant Contact, 63% of the small businesses they interviewed said Word of Mouth (WOM) and referrals marketing are the best indicators of growth for their business. To help drive WOM results, Constant Contact is focusing on supplementing the physical responses of audiences (clicks, fanning, following) with emotional responses (likes, shares, retweets, mentions, and user reviews). Their research shows that by adding a social-sharing tool bar, they were able to increase exposure of content by 60% across audiences—a good result for those small businesses fighting for attention in the inbox.
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Glassware puts glimmer in Schmidt's eye
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Donovan Schmidt can talk for hours about Depression era glassware. It is something that caught his interest 25 years ago and continues to inspire his collecting spirit, so much so that he just completed a 1,800-square-foot shed on his rural Goessel yard, part of which will house his new glassware sale cases.
"The new building will also house my old tractors and my '57 Ford," he said. "But the main reason we built it is so I can showcase my glassware and a few other antiques for sale."
Schmidt said he enjoys the buying and selling process with his glassware collection hobby.
"We go to glassware association shows and sales all over the United States," he said. "I have over 760 sets of Depression-era creamer and sugar sets but I am still searching for all 158 patterns."
Schmidt shared his glassware knowledge with Lifelong Learning participants this spring in Hillsboro. He also speaks at various conventions and trade shows, including a meeting this Thursday of the Wichita Glass Grazers.
"I'm going to be talking about the Federal Glass Company," he said. "They were one of several glassware companies that went from handmade products to mass production in the 1930s and turned out 10,000 to 15,000 pieces of glass in a 24-hour period."
Schmidt is not sure exactly how many Depression-era glass pieces make up his collection, but with 28 companies and 158 different patterns made, he is always on the lookout for more.
A special set of three-tiered glass shelves take center stage in his basement where creamer and sugar bowls in every imaginable shade glimmer in special lighting.
"I can tell without even picking them up if they are original pieces or not," Schmidt said. "There are a lot of reproductions showing up on the marketplace, and you have to be careful not to get misled."
Schmidt said the Depression-era glassware he collects was made between 1929 and 1940.
"The economy went bad and people couldn't afford the fancy glass anymore," he said. "The factories had to come up with something else or go broke."
Schmidt said innovative factories developed a mold process by which they heated the glass up to very high temperatures and poured it in molds.
The result was thousands of affordable plates, cups, pitchers, saucers, and creamer and sugar sets.
"Back in those days, you could literally get six glass pitchers in a box for something like $1.75 each; and that is on the high side," he said. "My mother had a whole set of pink glassware, and that might be what got me started to begin with."
Schmidt said he was told at two years old he pulled a tablecloth off a table that held his mother's pink glassware. Much of it broke. But she put the remaining pieces in storage for safekeeping.
"I became interested in refinishing furniture somewhere along the way," Schmidt said. "When I finished a nice cabinet, I wondered what to put in it, and I remembered my mother's pink American Sweetheart glass collection."
Schmidt located the remaining pieces of the collection, and over the next 25 years searched for, purchased, and traded for the remaining pieces.
"I now have the complete set," he said. "The small pitcher was the hardest to come by. I found one at a trade show last year but the seller wanted $1,200 for it."
Schmidt was able to negotiate a trade for the pitcher to complete the set.
"I really enjoy the negotiating part of it," he said. "I love to talk with people about the pieces and share my knowledge."
Schmidt said he was not sure when he would get his new antique store I in his shed open, but he was willing to talk shop with anyone.
"I specialized in the creamer and sugar sets because there was no way I could collect everything," he said. "But I find the entire industry just fascinating."
Schmidt and his wife, Delores, are members of the Wichita Glass Grazers and the National Depression Glass Association. They plan to attend the national glass convention in July in Wellington.
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I had to run out to the grocery store this morning for some milk. While in the dairy section I decided to pick up some yogurt. My family is normally a Yoplait Light family . . . have you tried the Boston Creme pie? Awesome flavor but it has 15g of sugar and 20g carbs.
I saw this and got really excited. This Fiber One yogurt is endorsed by Hungry Girl!
And, it isn't packed with sugar. You can't really read it but the nutritional information is as follow:
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This burrito has 300 calories (not bad for a lunch), 6g of fiber and 10g of protein. It definitely has a higher carb content because of the beans but it is so filling that I really don't even have a desire to snack all afternoon.
These burritos are more expensive than other frozen foods but I found them at Wal-Mart last week for $2.38. Not a bad price for a lunch.


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FANTASY BASEBALL: Stuffing the all-star fantasy ballot box
In the spirit of voting for next month's all-star game, I would like to cast my ballot for who I think should be the starting fantasy player at each position.
We're selecting one team, and combining the American and National leagues. We don't need two teams as the fantasy all-star game isn't real, much like the actual all-star game. Regardless of what Bud Selig says.
1B: Chris Davis (.336, 27 HR, 69 RBIs, 52 R): Much like the Rangers, I gave up on Davis a while ago. I owned him a few times and he always failed to deliver. He fell off my radar and, much like the Orioles, someone else in my league gave him a shot. And much the O's, they couldn't be happier.
2B: Dustin Pedroia (.309, 4 HR, 41 RBIs, 46 R, 10 SB): This was a coin flip over Everth Cabrera (.305, 4 HR, 24 RBIs, 37 R, 31 SB), but Pedey is faring slightly better in average and runs, plus has 17 more RBIs to make up for the 21 less SB.
3B: Miguel Cabrera (.368, 20 HR, 74 RBIs, 56 R): No explanation needed.
SS: Jean Segura (.336, 11 HR, 31 RBIs, 22 SB): What a breakout season. He's another guy I owned last year and not this year. Segura has come back to Earth a little bit lately, but his numbers are still outstanding.
C: Yadier Molina (.364, 5 HR, 41 RBIs, 33 R): Molina is widely considered the best defensive catcher in baseball. His offensive output this year is just as impressive. His power isn't overwhelming, but a .364 average is Piazza in his prime.
OF: Carlos Gonzalez (.303, 21 HR, 57 RBIs, 59 R, 13 SB); Mike Trout (.313, 12 HR, 44 RBIs, 53 R, 16 SB); Adam Jones (.302, 15 HR, 55 RBIs, 53 R, 9 SB): CarGo is the top-ranked fantasy player who's not Miggy or Crush Davis. He's been great for years now and this season's numbers are ahead of his averages. He's missed an average of 26 games per year the last three seasons. He's only missed three this year.
Trout has managed to be a disappointment in 2013. That's a tough criticism for the th-ranked fantasy player and a guy with those numbers. But for every person who had the first pick in their draft and went with Trout over Miggy, you regret it now. Just a little, but you still regret it.
Jones is making the leap to superstar. Finishing the season with a .300/30 HR/100 RBIs/100 R/20 SB line is well within reach.
DH: Paul Goldschmidt (.306, 19 HR, 65 RBIs, 49 R, 6 SB): As long as we just have one team, I'll take my DH from the NL.
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